From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat May 7 07:16:32 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED84313EA3B; Sat, 7 May 2011 07:16:31 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 8574413EA2A; Sat, 7 May 2011 07:16:28 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110507071628.8574413EA2A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 7 May 2011 07:16:28 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.1 Humanist at 24: Chuck Bush 1948-2011 X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 1. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 07 May 2011 08:12:27 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Humanist at 24: Chuck Bush 1948-2011 Today Humanist begins its 25th, quarter-century year. In usual and generously imprecise human terms, we could say that a generation has passed and that we're on to the next one. I certainly get that sense from encountering whole collections of writings on the digital humanities, not just published but some time ago, that I knew nothing about until accidentially encountering them. This at first is shocking because I am always on the prowl. But as my friend Harold Short remarked a few days ago, our divergences of ideas, views, opinions, organizations and everything else are signs of vigour. It's what happens to fields that succeed. Perhaps they go to seed, but then those seeds, some of them, germinate and sprout and grow. Those of us who think we have *said it* just have to accept that it is (because we are) a living thing which mutates, has babies and that argues with itself. In the latest thing I am writing I've been dealing with a book review that sharply levels the charge of disunity of opinion at a branch of our field, arguings that the lack of consensus is a sure sign of failure. What's got me going is the author's evident need to think that computing is all about coming up with the correct answer (which unsurprisingly he thinks should turn out to agree rather closely with received knowledge about the subject). After all, we've given the field he has put in the dock 30 or more years to come up with the goods, and all we get are more questions! What's much, much more difficult to accept than our comfortably small subculture spinning out of our control is that with the passing of a generation people pass. We can say, as Gregory Bateson once did, that room needs to be made for the next generation, not just or even primarily in the physical sense. (Bateson was such a man that he may well have said this or thought it on his deathbed.) Ideas and their expressions turn into prisons needing to be torn down and remade. And so on and so forth. There are many other comforting thoughts which we can have that, I suppose, all come down to the cycle of nature in one form or another. "But old age should burn and rage at close of day". "And I am dumb to tell the lover's tomb" anything at all. So I remember Chuck Bush, who died on 13 April, for who he was. As far as I can recall he was there, at the International Conference on Computing in the Humanities (ICCH) in 1987, in Columbia, South Carolina, when I started in the then small community and after which, from inspiration at the event, Humanist began. He was then as friendly, stalwart and faithful as he remained throughout the following years. Solid as a rock, until suddenly he wasn't. With news of his death various things have been done and others are planned. The official online memorial is at aurora-22360.tributes.com/show/Charles--Chuck--Bush-91259514. I have made desultory effort to collect remembrances of Chuck in addition to the brief expressions which flooded the internal ACH Executive list. Here are two. "He was a good man", Steve Ramsay wrote on 14 April, and like Steve "I will miss his kindly bearing and his good sense. He will be dearly missed." Harold sent me "one general and one specific observation about Chuck": > The general one is to do with the way he combined thoughtfulness and > good humour. He had a way of blinking that always seemed to me a > sure sign he was thinking - i.e. he had listened to what you had to > say and he was reflecting on it, a trait one might wish for in all > one's colleagues. So many times in Committee meetings, where I often > encountered him of course in the last few years, his would be the > calm voice that suggested it might be a good idea to move our > discussion in a different direction, or added some significant point > in support of an argument. > > But perhaps his greatest gift was in putting forward his point of > view or telling you things in indirect or subtle ways. I remember an > occasion when I was well on the way to making a very public gaffe > over confusing Fred Bloggs and Fred Smith; realising this, Chuck did > not say 'don't be an idiot, you surely mean Fred Bloggs'. What he > said was: 'we should find a way to involve Fred Smith in our new > initiative X, don't you think?' It was very subtly done, but saved > me both immediate and later public embarrassment. Not many people > have that gift! Simple gifts. Farewell, Chuck. Happy birthday, Humanist. Yours, WM -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat May 7 07:52:17 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D3FF13EF67; Sat, 7 May 2011 07:52:17 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 991C513EF58; Sat, 7 May 2011 07:52:14 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110507075214.991C513EF58@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 7 May 2011 07:52:14 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.2 in denial X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 2. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 6 May 2011 21:50:26 +1000 From: Desmond Schmidt Subject: RE: [Humanist] 24.926 in denial In-Reply-To: <20110506045258.9E76313E587@woodward.joyent.us> "Electronic philology is not only a way to make things faster and inventories more accurate. It is not just a tool. It is also, more deeply, a change in our attitude." (F.A. Marcos Marin, 1998, in New Media and the Humanities: Research and Applications ed. D. Fiormonte and J. Usher, 2001, p.19) In spite of the attitude we take, whether for historical reasons, or because the situation demands it, to regard the computer as "just a tool", the fact remains that the addition of the tool to the task always changes the task. Even the example Willard gave of the mainframe computer that they all regarded as just a tool because it was kept in a separate room and didn't much interact with them, changed forever their methods of working and the sort of things they could do. The tendency for you to call something "just a tool" might be inversely proportional to your degree of interaction with 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 Mon May 9 07:21:56 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA42113F768; Mon, 9 May 2011 07:21:55 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 7B35A13F758; Mon, 9 May 2011 07:21:52 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110509072152.7B35A13F758@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 9 May 2011 07:21:52 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.3 in denial X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 3. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: James Smith (135) Subject: Re: [Humanist] Re: 24.926 in denial [2] From: del thomas Ph D (70) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.926 in denial --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 8 May 2011 11:08:33 -0400 From: James Smith Subject: Re: [Humanist] Re: 24.926 in denial In-Reply-To: <4DC38749.8020601@mccarty.org.uk> - Just a Tool - My impression is that many people see the computer as a tool in this sense. It's there behind the scenes, but not an integral part of any argument. People tend to hide any electronic assistance just as people tend not to cite the actual resource they use, instead citing the paper copy in the library that they accessed indirectly through some electronic means. What might change if Google announced it might remove Google Scholar if there weren't any significant documented use in the citation indices? These practices of eliding the electronic are dangerous because they create a facade that hides what actually happened to produce the reported results. The computer is just a tool, but so is a paintbrush. No one dismisses a painter's art just because it was done with a paintbrush, even though you can produce some good art with just fingers and paint. At the same time, I can't pick up a paintbrush and produce art. I haven't had enough practice. Coloring by number doesn't make art. The current crop of tools act like the color by number painting. There are simple buttons to push and slots for information. There's a lot of handholding because the users aren't expected to be proficient in computation, any more than I'm expected to be proficient in painting. The results are useful, but they don't capture anything of the researcher using the tool. Instead, they capture arguments made by the tool builder on how humanities should be computed. Does the tool user understand and agree with these arguments? Not every paintbrush needs the training of an artist. I don't need to have years of experience in order to paint the side of a house. Nor do I need to have years of experience to use the computer to write an email or use a word processor. Humanists aren't interested in the broad strokes that paint a house, but in the details that create art. The computer is just a tool, but it's different than most tools. It's malleable. It's a medium like clay that takes on the shape of the artist. We should mold the computer to our will to answer our research questions. We shouldn't mold ourselves to the computer and change our research questions so that the computer can help. Right now, I fear that we are using the computer like a hammer. We know it can do something well, so we turn everything else into a nail. The computer has no free will. It can't do anything we don't tell it to do. If we do nothing but stare at the computer all day, it will stare back. It will win any blinking contest unless the power goes out or some piece of hardware fails. This is an important point, because anything the computer does is a result of a decision by the researcher. If those decisions are hidden because the computational aspects of the research are hidden, then the reader can't know what actually happened to produce the reported results. These decisions are the electronic equivalent of an editorial statement in a scholarly edition. How trusted is a scholarly edition in which there is no explanation of the decisions made by the editor? Why should the digital equivalent be an exception? - Imprinting - The idea of imprinting is fundamental to the issues facing digital humanities. Imagine someone had grown up reading only graphic novels. There are pictures on every page with a little text. Everything is immediate and visual. After they've been reading these for twenty years, give them their first text-only novel. What might happen? I imagine they'd start looking for the panels they were used to. They'd also understand that left to right, top to bottom isn't the only way to scan a page, so they'd be looking for hints on how to approach the page. They might expect information on the page to be two-dimensional and feel that there was something missing because the text was only one-dimensional. Would it be obvious that the sentence that got cut off at the right side of the page continued from the left on the next line? Is the gutter always dividing? If this person were a student in a college-level literature course, would they be able to pass by saying that they simply couldn't deal with a text-only interface to the story but needed a graphical interface instead? Would they be considered literate? The analogy isn't perfect. Graphic novels are much richer than any current GUI on the market. Text-only novels have deeper arguments than anything in a CLI. But we are in a time when most people have only dealt with the graphic novel view of the computer while they really need to be at the text novel reading level to take advantage of the full power available. The difficulty is getting them to realize that the GUI isn't the only realistic option. - Provocation - One last thing that is on my mind in this vein. A useful model for the brain is one in which generation and constraint are separate processes. The result is that we do what we don't choose not to do. We can't do what isn't generated, and what we don't filter out ends up getting through. This can be seen in the problems writers have when they try to write and edit simultaneously. It leads to writer's block. This also means that a drunk person probably doesn't do anything that doesn't come from their deep personality. The result is that the writing that is produced with a typewriter and the writing that is produced with a computer should be different. The typewriter makes editing expensive. The computer makes it cheap. I have to work hard to turn off the editing side of my brain when I'm drafting a novel on a computer. The important takeaway for digital humanities though is that the computer is an agent of provocation. It's generative, like modern art. It's up to us to apply the constraints using our expert judgement. -- Jim On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 1:29 AM, Willard McCarty < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > I asked about "just a tool" meaning Wendell's first, dismissive sense, > illustrated by his first example, > > > "I don't think social media are properly a subject of humanistic >> criticism. The computer is just a tool." >> > implying, as he said, that > > it is therefore of less interest or importance, as if >> tools were not significant. It relies on a non sequitur: because the >> computer is a tool, what we do with it -- and what we can do only with >> it -- is outside the scope of humanistic inquiry. >> > > [snip] > > Let me put to you an historical thesis, and invite you to throw stuff at > it. The thesis is that a long time ago, before some of those here were part > of discussions like this, scholars encountered mainframe computing (slow, > huge, expensive, noisy, inaccessible except through intermediaries etc), and > when they met computing in this physical form they and what became the > digital humanities were, as ethologists say, "imprinted". Perhaps one could > claim that urban, middle-class culture as a whole was imprinted in this way, > since for 20 years or more it was bombarded with the mainframe image of > computing. Ever after that encounter, despite how much the hardware and > software have changed, we have tended to think of computing as a one way > trip from button-pushing to result-getting, as a problem-solving exercise. > Now I don't mean that this is the *only* way we think, esp not consciously, > rather that this discreditable idea of computing remains a significant > impediment to what we do and how we think. > > [snip] > So what do you think? > > Yours, > WM > -- > Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's > College London; Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western > Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); > Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); > www.mccarty.org.uk/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 08 May 2011 11:46:18 -0400 From: del thomas Ph D Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.926 in denial In-Reply-To: <20110506045258.9E76313E587@woodward.joyent.us> There are tools with in tools. Such as OS and apps in addition to different add on "plug ins." So the "just a tool" constantly evolves and expands. For example, there are computers that use fuzzy logic and may control everything from our homes to traffic to calculations in space and more. But in some way most of them have the quality that Thoreau suggests: "Men have become the tools of their tools." Or as suggested sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. I see the consequences while just a tool as increasing the destination orientation at the expense of the journey. Is it a problem that more and more of us are limited to the view of the bottom line/ answer even when the my no longer exist and don't know how "things" work? Del _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 9 07:23:02 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id E20CE13F7D9; Mon, 9 May 2011 07:23:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 8ABC313F7AF; Mon, 9 May 2011 07:22:58 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110509072258.8ABC313F7AF@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 9 May 2011 07:22:58 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.4 PhD studentships in Ireland X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 4. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 09 May 2011 08:15:14 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Digital Arts and Humanities (DAH) Four-Year PhD studentships > Date: Sun, 8 May 2011 17:06:49 +0100 > From: Poul Holm Call for applications: Digital Arts and Humanities (DAH) Four-Year PhD Studentships DAH is a full-time four year inter-disciplinary structured PhD programme designed to enable students to carry out research in the arts and humanities at the highest level, using new media and computer technologies. The programme is funded by the Higher Education Authority under its Programme for Research in Third Level Institutions, Cycle 5 and is co-ordinated with an all-Irish university consortium: Trinity College Dublin; National University of Ireland, Galway; National University of Ireland, Maynooth and University College Cork. The programme includes additional teaching contributions from Queen's University Belfast, University of Ulster and the Royal Irish Academy and from its industrial partners, Google, IBM, and Intel. The consortium invites applications for a number of four-year doctoral studentships in Digital Arts and Humanities (see below for links on the scholarships available in individual institutions). The studentships come with a stipend of 16,000 euro per year. Fees for Irish and EU citizens are fully covered; for information on fees relating to non-EU citizens, please contact the relevant contact person in each institution. High-calibre candidates holding, or expecting to receive, a first-class or upper second-class honours degree in an appropriate discipline, are encouraged to apply. Candidates will choose to enter the programme within either the ARTS or the HUMANITIES strands. All PhD programmes are by research thesis. The taught modules will provide you with technical and theoretical skills relevant for digital reearch. In both strands students are required to complete core, training, and career development modules, including main modules shared across the consortium and others institutionally-based. Applications must be sent directly to your preferred institution. Trinity College Dublin studentships are available for the Schools of Drama, Film and Music, English, Histories and Humanities, Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies, Linguistic, Speech and Communications Sciences, Religions, Theology and Ecumenics, and the Department of Philosophy. For further information, see http://www.tcd.ie/longroomhub/Fellowships/ Applications should be made online at the Postgraduate Application Centre: www.pac.ie/tcd / http://www.pac.ie/tcd%20/ Course reference code: TRB23. The deadline for applications is 18 May 2011. National University of Ireland Galway studentships are available in the Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities & Social Sciences (www.nuigalway.ie/mooreinstitute) and the Huston School of Film & Digital Media (www.filmschool.ie). Applications may be made at http://www.nuigalway.ie/courses/research-postgraduate-programmes/structured-phd/digital-arts-humanities.html National University of Ireland Maynooth students will participate in a collaborative Structured Phd Programme with co-registration in An Foras Feasa and a participating academic department (English, History, Music, Media Studies, Celtic Studies, Modern Languages, or Philosophy). For details of the application process, see: http://www.learndigitalhumanities.ie/courses/postgrad/digital-arts-and-humanities-phd University College Cork students will work chiefly with staff in History, English and Music, and will receive their degree through a multidisciplinary Study Board on Digital Arts and Humanities within the College of Arts, Celtic Studies, Social Sciences. For information contact b.dooley@ucc.ie . Prof Poul Holm Academic Director Trinity Long Room Hub Trinity College Dublin Ireland Tel: +353 1 896 8490 Mobile: +353 (0)876 188 039 Fax: +353 1 896 4220 http://www.tcd.ie/longroomhub Trinity Long Room Hub is the Trinity College Arts and Humanities Research Institute To register for our biannual newsletter, BeSpoke, please visit www.tcd.ie/longroomhub/newsletter/ http://www.tcd.ie/longroomhub/newsletter/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 9 07:34:08 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7399413F987; Mon, 9 May 2011 07:34:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id EE42013F97F; Mon, 9 May 2011 07:34:05 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110509073405.EE42013F97F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 9 May 2011 07:34:05 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.5 events: several & diverse X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 5. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Berry D.M." (34) Subject: Digital Shakespeare Monday 16 May 2011 (Workshop) [2] From: Elisabeth Andre (37) Subject: cfp: Interactive Digital Storytelling - ICIDS 2011 [3] From: "Summerfield, Michelle" (37) Subject: CMCI Symsposium: Cultural consumers and copyright, 19 May 2011 [4] From: Simon Dixon (18) Subject: London Digital Humanities Group: Academic Journals in the DigitalWorld - 19 May [5] From: Willard McCarty (21) Subject: Visualisations and Simulations --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 8 May 2011 11:17:15 +0100 From: "Berry D.M." Subject: Digital Shakespeare Monday 16 May 2011 (Workshop) Digital Shakespeare Monday 16 May 2011 Workshop and Talks SWANSEA UNIVERSITY 4th floor SmallTalk Room, Faraday Building Organised by Dr. David M. Berry and Dr. Tom Cheesman Few dispute that digital technology is fundamentally changing the way in which we engage in the research process. Indeed, it is becoming more and more evident that research is increasingly being mediated through digital technology. Many argue that this mediation is slowly beginning to change what it means to undertake research, affecting both the epistemologies and ontologies that underlie a research programme (sometimes conceptualised as 'close' versus 'distant' reading, see Moretti 2000). Of course, this development is variable depending on disciplines and research agenda, with some more reliant on digital technology than others, but it is rare to find an academic today who had no access to digital technology as part of the research activity and there remains fewer means for the non-digital scholar to undertake research in the modern university (see JAH 2008). Not to mention the ubiquity of email, Google searches and bibliographic databases which become increasingly crucial as more of the worlds libraries are scanned and placed online. These, of course, also produce their own specific problems, such as huge quantities of articles, texts and data suddenly available at the researcher's fingertips, indeed, "It is now quite clear that historians will have to grapple with abundance, not scarcity. Several million books have been digitized...and nearly every day we are confronted with a new digital historical resource of almost unimaginable size" (JAH 2008). In this workshop we will look at how we might use the new digital tools of text aggregation, processing and information or data visualisation to provide the ways of looking at and thinking about Shakespeare. From making data patterns, to narrativising through algorithms and visualisation we aim to examine how these approaches and methods can assist in undertaking humanities research into textual materials.  Programme 11.30-12.00     Registration (4th floor SmallTalk Room, Faraday Building) 12 noon:        Introduction and Welcome (David Berry) 12.15-12.50:    The Swansea VVV Project: Visualising Version Variation (Tom Cheesman) 13.00-13.45:    Understanding through Visualisation (Stephan Thiel, Potsdam) 13.45-14.00:    Coffee Break 14.00-14.30:    Shakespeare in Arabic (Sameh Hanna, Salford) 14.30-15.00:    Visualising Textual Corpora (Geng Zhao, Swansea University) 15.15-16.15:    Computational Information Design  (Stephan Thiel, Potsdam) 16.15:  Reflections on the workshop (Tom Cheesman, Robert S. Laramee) 16.45:  Ends     There is no charge for the workshop but as space is limited please email d.m.berry@Swansea.ac.uk if you are interested in attending. http://www.delightedbeauty.org/ Funded by the Research Institute for Arts and Humanities (RIAH) --- Dr David M. Berry Department of Political and Cultural Studies School of Arts and Humanities Swansea University. Swansea SA2 8PP Wales, UK Tel: x2633 Web: http://www.swansea.ac.uk/staff/academic/ArtsHumanities/berryd/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 8 May 2011 08:37:06 +0100 From: Elisabeth Andre Subject: cfp: Interactive Digital Storytelling - ICIDS 2011 ICIDS 2011:The International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling *** ICIDS 2011: Call for Papers *** The Fourth International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling November 28 - December 1, 2011: Vancouver, Canada http://icids2011.wp.rpi.edu/ Submission Deadline: June 24, 2011 ICIDS is the premier international conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling (IDS), bringing together researchers from a wide variety of fields to share novel techniques, present recent results, and exchange new ideas. Having been hosted successfully in Europe for the past three years, ICIDS 2011 marks the conference's first venture to an entirely new continent: North America. Enabled by the advent of interactive digital media, Interactive Digital Storytelling redefines the experience of narrative by allowing its audience to actively participate in the story. As such, IDS offers interesting new possibilities for games, training, and learning, through the enriching of virtual characters with intelligent behavior, the collaboration of humans and machines in the creative process, and the combination of narrative knowledge and user activity into novel, interactive artefacts. IDS draws on many aspects of Computer Science, and specifically on research in Artificial Intelligence and Virtual/Mixed Reality; topics include multi-agent systems, natural language generation and understanding, player modelling, narrative intelligence, drama management, cognitive robotics, and smart graphics. Furthermore, IDS is inherently an multidisciplinary field. 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 are needed, and novel concepts from theoretical work in the Humanities and interactive art are important to incorporate as well. We welcome research papers and demonstrations -- including interactive narrative art -- presenting new scientific results, innovative technologies, case studies, creative insights, 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. [...] --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 9 May 2011 08:02:25 +0100 From: "Summerfield, Michelle" Subject: CMCI Symsposium: Cultural consumers and copyright, 19 May 2011 Culture, Media & Creative Industries (CMCI) symposium: Cultural consumers and copyright Date: Thursday, 19 May 2011 Time: 1-6pm Venue: K2.31 (2nd floor, King's Building), Strand Campus, King's College London This symposium aims to broaden the scope of copyright discussion by bringing in cultural consumers' perspectives. The papers question how copyright policy/law understands cultural consumers and their consumption practices, how cultural consumers perceive copyright and its protection/infringement and whether copyright law's conceptual dichotomies between idea and expression and between production and consumption can be sustainable. The tension around copyright protection is also identified from the context of global inequality of music production and consumption capacities. In addition, the current copyright protection term is critically examined from both the producers' and consumers' stance. The symposium, involving researchers from law, cultural sociology, media studies and creative industries research, presents an exciting, interdisciplinary space for re-thinking copyright. The event is hosted by Culture, Media & Creative Industries (CMCI), King's College London. Not only researchers/students but also policy makers, cultural practitioners and members of the general public are welcome. 1.00-1.10 Introduction 1.10-1.45 (including Q&A) Viewing cultural consumers through the lens of copyright law Dr Tanya Aplin, Law, King's College London Copyright law characterizes cultural consumers according to their status as either 'individual' or 'institutional' consumers, 'digital' versus 'analogue' consumers, 'legitimate' users versus 'pirates', or 'commercial' versus 'non-commercial' users. Copyright owners, in particular, argue that digital consumers, 'pirates' and commercial users pose the greatest threat to the copyright system, whereas many scholars, educational institutions and cultural repositories argue that copyright law is failing 'institutional', 'legitimate' and 'non-commercial' users and treating them unfairly. This paper will examine these different categories of consumers/users and the concerns that relate to each of them. 1.45-2.20 Cultural consumers' alternative ethics: A case study of anime fansubbing Dr Hye-Kyung Lee, CMCI, King's College London By investigating 'anime fansubbing', this paper discusses copyright and its infringement from the consumers' perspective. Anime fansubbing is a media fandom where avid anime (Japanese animation) fans copy anime, translate Japanese to another language, subtitle and release a subtitled version on the Internet to share it with other fans, without permission from the copyright holder. The case study of English fansubbing (fansubbing in English) of anime finds that this activity has been informed by fansubbers' own ethics that intend to help to grow the US anime industry by respecting US publishers' licenses and self-regulating fansubbed anime. However, the existing ethics have been increasingly challenged under the advancement of digital fansubbing, the rise of peer-to-peer distribution and the globalisation of fansubbing production and consumption. The case study demonstrates that the idea of copyright is contingent and open to cultural consumers' own understanding and interpretation. This paper will be published in Creative Industries Journal 3(3) in 2011. 2.20-2.55 Consumer uproar or net activism? The "pirate" movement in Sweden Dr Jonas Andersson, Culture and Communications, Södertörn University, Sweden >From a perspective influenced by actor-network theory and media ecology, I will discuss the agential specificities found in file-sharing as an activity and historical phenomenon. I will problematise the links between file-sharing and activism, taking the Swedish file-sharing debate as my primary example. Some relevant terms that I will discuss are visibility, measurability, agency, and the ontological presumptions of what the internet infrastructure is, and the political dispute over what it ought to be. Shared metaphors and views of the digital infrastructure are central to my analysis: What does our use of terms like 'downloading,' 'sharing,' 'seeding,' 'leeching,' and 'piracy' entail? How useful is it to compare file-sharing with gift cultures? Where does the perspectival horizon lie in digital networks? When individual agency is shown to be diffracted, where does that leave personal responsibility, and what does that mean for regulatory policies? I hope to raise several fertile questions like this, and some tentative answers as well. 2.55-3.30 Tea & Coffee at CMCI Workroom 3.30-4.05 4'33", or how the idea-expression dichotomy collapses when you listen to music Professor Barry Shank, Comparative Studies, Ohio State University, US and Dr Jason Toynbee, Media Studies, Open University The idea-expression dichotomy (IED) lies at the heart of copyright. According to it, the idea in a work is not copyrightable whereas expression of that idea is. As a result ideas can circulate freely and so benefit consumers, yet incentive is maintained for creators to go on creating. Copyright, in other words, finds a righteous balance in the dichotomous nature of symbolic works. However we argue that the IED is invalid on ontological grounds. Through an examination of 4'33" by John Cage, and the efforts to protect the copyright of this piece on the part of publisher CF Peters we demonstrate how the dichotomy collapses. The expression cannot be distinguished from the idea. Then, using 4'33" as a fulcrum point, we go on to explore the dichotomy in other cases such as sampling and Muzak. The IED breaks down here as well, revealing copyright to be nothing more than a species of the commodity form. 4.05-4.40 Can Western consumers really help development by buying 'world music'? Professor Andy Pratt, CMCI, King's College London This paper discusses the wider issues via a case study of music production web in Senegal and follows the tentacles of global production that spread back to Europe, and return profits there. The paper reflects upon the tensions between intellectual property rights in the cultural economy and global development. Does the current system of IPR serve the developing world, or does it serve to keep it in its place? Even within normative legal solutions, is enforcement, effective or wise? 4.40-5.15 Opening up back-catalogues through copyright term reversion: Why we need a coalition of artists and consumers Professor Martin Kretschmer, Centre for IP Policy & Management, Bournemouth University Copyright law awards exclusive rights that now often last more than 100 years (life + 70 years). Typically, these rights are transferred to third parties who accumulate back-catalogues of rights. A large percentage of works in these back-catalogues are not available for social and commercial innovation. We have reliable indicators of the scale of the problem. Studies conducted in the United States at the time of the constitutional challenge to the Copyright Term Extension Act (Eldred v. Ashcroft, 2002) found that only 2.3% of in copyright books and 6.8% of in copyright films released pre-1946 remained commercially available. A study for the Library of Congress on the reissues of U.S. sound recordings found that of a random sample of 1521 records issued between 1890 and 1964, only 14 percent were available from rights owners. A European Commission study has estimated "conservatively" that for 13% of the total number of books in copyright, the owner is unknown (i.e. they could not be reissued even if the will was there). This paper advocates copyright term reversion as a tool for opening up back-catalogues. Under the proposal, copyright will only be assignable for an initial term of 10 years, after which it will fall back to the creator. 5.15-5.25 Break 5.25-5.45 Panel discussion/further Q&A There is a symposium registration fee of £10 (the concession fee for students is £5). Please book a place in advance by sending a registration form (available at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/cmci/events/index.aspx) and a cheque (Payee: King's College London) to c/o Michelle Summerfield, CMCI, King's College London, Strand, WC2R 2LS. The venue is located on the second floor of the King's Building, Strand Campus of King's College London. Please ask at reception for directions. For a map please see http://www.kcl.ac.uk/about/campuses/strand.html. For further information please contact Michelle Summerfield at michelle.summerfield@kcl.ac.uk or Dr Hye-Kyung Lee (hk.lee@kcl.ac.uk). --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 8 May 2011 14:47:10 +0100 From: Simon Dixon Subject: London Digital Humanities Group: Academic Journals in the DigitalWorld - 19 May In-Reply-To: The next meeting of the London Digital Humanities Group will take place at Dr Williams's Library, 14 Gordon Square, London, WC1H 0AR on Thursday 19 May at 5pm. The meeting will take the form of a panel discussion on the topic of 'The Future of Academic Journals in the Digital World'. Speakers will be Ian Rowlands (Professor of Information Science, UCL), and Victoria Bates and Thomas Beaumont (University of Exeter). Ian Rowlands is a founding member of the UCL Centre for Publishing and the CIBER research group. His research interests include scholarly communication, bibliometrics and journal publishing. Victoria Bates and Thomas Beaumont are co-founders of Ex-Historia, an online journal published by postgraduate history students at the University of Exeter. It publishes original, refereed articles and book reviews by postgraduate students on any historical topic. Victoria and Thomas will discuss how the online nature of Ex-Historia has both assisted and created challenges for its development. Despite being ostensibly a journal with a very traditional format, it has been fundamentally shaped by being online and open access. They will address how an e-journal for postgraduates can provide valuable publishing opportunities with widespread distribution, as well as being produced at a low cost. However, there are limitations to the online format, particularly with regard to permanency and the perception of the professionalism of such journals (by potential contributors and within the publishing industry). Victoria and Thomas will also address the future direction of Ex-Historia, and online journals in general, by considering how e-journals can use their online formats to be more innovative or interactive than traditional journals. Dr Williams's Library is located in Gordon Square a short walk from UCL and the British Library. For directions see http://www.dwlib.co.uk/dwlib/visiting.html. All are welcome to attend. All are welcome. To confirm attendance or for further information please contact s.dixon@qmul.ac.uk The London Digital Humanities Group is supported by Queen Mary, University of London. -- Dr Simon Dixon Postdoctoral Research Fellow Dissenting Academies Project Dr Williams's Centre for Dissenting Studies Department of English and Drama Queen Mary, University of London http://www.english.qmul.ac.uk/drwilliams/people/sdixon.html http://qmul.academia.edu/SimonDixon/About ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________ --[5]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 09 May 2011 08:30:39 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Visualisations and Simulations In-Reply-To: My attention has been drawn to an article in The Observer highlighting the POCOS project (http://www.pocos.org/), "Preservation of Complex Visual Objects Symposia". The first symposium, "Visualisations and Simulations", is to be held 16-17 June, in the Anatomy Theatre & Museum, King's College London, organised by the King's Visualisation Lab based at the Department of Digital Humanities. The two-day symposium on Visualisations and Simulations will provide a forum for participants to review and discuss the latest developments in the field, witness real-life case studies, and engage in networking activities. The symposium will promote discussion of the following key topics: --Intellectual “Transparency” In 3D Cultural Heritage Models --The role of Virtual Museums --Preservation of Mixed Reality Representations of Heritage Sites Yours, WM -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue May 10 06:36:55 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08ADB14050F; Tue, 10 May 2011 06:36:55 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C4EB01404F6; Tue, 10 May 2011 06:36:51 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110510063651.C4EB01404F6@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 06:36:51 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.6 in denial (& on tools) X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 6. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: James Rovira (75) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.3 in denial [2] From: "Michael S. Hart" (11) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.3 in denial [3] From: John Savage (16) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.926 in denial [4] From: Laval Hunsucker (46) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.3 in denial [5] From: David Golumbia (35) Subject: two notes on tools [6] From: Jascha Kessler (287) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.3 in denial --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 9 May 2011 09:27:53 -0400 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.3 in denial In-Reply-To: <20110509072152.7B35A13F758@woodward.joyent.us> Follow up on "just a tool"-- What I think we need to avoid: -Uncritically making a fetish of the "new." "New" is not a judgment of value. Value judgments are only possible when goals are articulated. Depending upon one's goals, something that is new could be counterproductive. -Making a fetish of the new is usually carried out without any historical awareness -- but we don't know what is truly "new" without this awareness. -Failing to recognize that a computer is a different thing and its use has different meanings depending upon the task being performed. Therefore, a computer may be "just a tool" when performing some tasks but much more than that when performing others. If I'm producing a plain text document, the printed output is substantially the same as that of a manual typewriter. Compare a person who types a document for publication on a manual typewriter and then mails this manuscript to a publisher to one who uses a word processing program and emails it to the publisher: isn't it possible for the final, printed product to look exactly the same in both cases? What difference did the computer make in this case? I would say a difference in time. -Assuming that a difference in time is always more that merely quantitative. I agree that performing tasks at higher speeds -can- result in a qualitative difference, but we need to make this argument on a case by case basis. -So I think we should avoid generalities on both sides: both the generality that a computer is "just a tool" and the generality that a computer is "more than just a tool." I would also like us to consider a slightly different context for the phrase, "the computer is just a tool." Whenever someone says something like this, they are usually responding to what they perceive as a bloated claim about the computer. What I think is going on at times is that the person making the perceived bloating claim is thinking of some uses while the person denying that claim is thinking of other uses. We also need to ask ourselves -- a computer is "just a tool" compared to what? I think what is implicitly being juxtaposed against the concept of tool is the concept of a machine. The difference between a tool and a machine is that a tool is completely dependent upon the immediate agency of its user while a machine can run on its own, and thus act somewhat unpredictably. Once we think in terms of a tool vs. machine dichotomy it becomes a bit more obvious that a computer can be either depending upon the use to which it is put. A word processing program is a tool with occasional machine qualities that can be enabled or disabled at various levels. But clearly the computer is also a machine in other ways. No one gets angry with a hammer for hitting our thumb, because a hammer is just a tool. It just sits there and does nothing until we pick it up. If we get angry when we hit our thumbs with a hammer, we do so because we feel stupid for hitting ourselves, and because we are in pain. But we do get angry with our computers for "acting on their own," so to speak, even though they do not cause us physical pain. The last question is of the effect of the use of computers upon human consciousness. Again, I think that there are more affirmations than reasoned, critical arguments here. Of course even just the use of tools affects the user, but monkeys use tools and have remained monkeys for as long as they have existed. Again, we shouldn't assume that -- or how -- the use of either machine or tool affects human consciousness, but make reasoned arguments based upon evidence. Most of what I've read about the difference between hypertext and print indicates to me that we're not so much going forward as returning to the assumptions guiding manuscript culture. The real difference here is not between print and hypertext, but between hypertext and manuscripts, when the manuscript is one of many copies of a now-unstable original that no longer exists (as in the case of the Bible), and when the manuscript is accompanied by images -- when even the text itself becomes a visual element, as in the elaborately drawn initial letters at the beginning of a book or chapter. I also think that we need to remember that the computer was invented without the use of computers, so is still very much dependent upon pre-computing era paradigms. Most of the hundreds of millions of computer users use it for functions still very much reliant upon printed text, such as email, text messages, social networking, blogs, etc. Files and folders and cabinets are physical objects that now indicate different kinds of relationships among "objects" within a computing system. We developed the higher order thinking capable of producing computers because of printed text in the form of both language and numbers. We will lose that capability if we lose printed text. Jim R --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 9 May 2011 07:31:35 -0700 (PDT) From: "Michael S. Hart" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.3 in denial In-Reply-To: <20110509072152.7B35A13F758@woodward.joyent.us> The analogy of computer as tool to paintbrush as tool might be better if changed to digital camera as tool. Michael S. Hart Founder Project Gutenberg, Inventor of eBooks Co-Founder The World eBook Fair FIVE MILLION FREE eBOOKS! July 4 through August 4 @ http://worldebookfair.org --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 9 May 2011 10:43:04 -0400 From: John Savage Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.926 in denial In-Reply-To: <20110506045258.9E76313E587@woodward.joyent.us> On May 6, 2011, at 12:52 AM, Jascha Kessler wrote > Cant resist: in the Bronx decades ago you could call an incompetent, > moronical kid a "tool." Jascha, Let me assure you that "tool" is still used that way here in the Bronx although the anecdotal evidence points to a shift toward a more narrow usage centered on the romantically incompetent and moronical. These days one is most likely to overhear something like this: "you're really dating him? Ugh. He's such a *tool*." In a more serious response to Willard's original query, though, I myself often assert that the computer is just a tool. I do this in the face of the technophobia that still runs rampant on university campuses as an assurance that computers are not magical, mystical, or scary, and that one is unlikely to break a computer simply by using it. Saying that a computer is "just a tool" is for me a necessary corrective to the fear and fetishization I encounter on a daily basis. My assertion that a computer is /simply|just|only|merely/ a tool is not an ontological statement about the nature of the work done with the computer--of course tools may change the work; that goes without saying--but a statement about the electromechanical nature and general reliability and stability of the device itself. A computer is a complicated tool, but it is a tool (perhaps "just a device" would be more accurate, but it lacks pithiness) and as with other complicated devices one ought to respect its complexity but not fear it. One does not refuse to drive because one is not an automotive engineer. One does not hesitate to heat coffee with microwave radiation because one is not a physicist. Nor should one fear to use a computer because one is not a computer scientist. It's just a tool. You can't hurt it. It won't hurt you. Go ahead and click the mouse button as hard as you want; it won't break. Best, --jay --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jay Savage, Ph.D. Director of Faculty Technology Services Instructional Technology Academic Computing Fordham University | Fordham IT jsavage@fordham.edu "I never trust anyone who's more excited about success than about doing the thing they want to be successful at." --Randall Munroe --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 9 May 2011 09:38:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Laval Hunsucker Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.3 in denial In-Reply-To: <20110509072152.7B35A13F758@woodward.joyent.us> James Smith wrote in the "in denial" thread : > People tend to hide any electronic assistance just > as people tend not to cite the actual resource they > use, instead citing the paper copy in the library that > they accessed indirectly through some electronic > means. *If* in fact the library still even offers that paper copy -- something that's becoming less and less the case. > What might change if Google announced it might > remove Google Scholar if there weren't any significant > documented use in the citation indices? Fortunately the library characteristically has better / more reliable ways of locating, verifying and accessing the electronic copy than those offered by Google Scholar, at least when it comes to the library's purchased content. ( See now e.g. Péter Jacsó in _Online information review_ for February 2011, p. 154-160 ; Amy Hoseth in _Charleston advisor_ for January 2011, p.36-39 ; etc. etc.) Isn't it to be hoped that GS's current popularity due to ease and speed of use ( as well as perhaps a measure of researcher laziness ? ) won't drive the better [ but of course for the institution more expensive ] approaches out of the market as it were ? What we can depend on Google doing is, naturally, to go its own way as it at any moment itself sees fit. As you suggest, Google can pull Google Scholar any time it chooses, and if it did it would for doing so be accountable only to its shareholders. Anyway, this question of the version behind a citation is nowadays a tricky and problematical one, and in any case an unresolved one. In spite of the DOI System and things such as the APA's "Retrieved from ..." rules. It'd be nice if such an issue got a bit more coordinated attention. Scholars should be concerned, I'd think. At any rate : very good that you raised these points, if only in passing. - Laval Hunsucker Breukelen, Nederland 9 May 2011 --[5]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 9 May 2011 13:27:10 -0400 From: David Golumbia Subject: two notes on tools In-Reply-To: <20110509072152.7B35A13F758@woodward.joyent.us> 1. the most common context in which i hear the sentence, "after all, the computer is just a tool," is in response to my mentioning something negative about the use of computers in the world, typically lifted directly from mainstream centrist news coverage (things like Stuxnet, "Quants" in the Wall Street crisis, "predator drones"), i have crossed the line from "inherently good thing computers do for us, like transforming everything" to saying "we must pay attention to what actually happens with computers." Then i will be told, in a tone veering between condescension and lecture, that "the computer is just a tool. it all depends on what humans do with it." There is nothing at all inherent in the computational form; there is no need to worry that there might be formal or entailed connections between what the computer itself is, and its sequelae in the world. "The computer is just a tool, like a toaster." 1a. if a student asks about (or asserts) this earnestly in class, i will answer: "toasters and guns are both analog tools. their use depends on what their users make of them. does that mean they are the same thing, or equally dangerous? what does it mean to say 'toasters and guns are just tools and their use depends on what people do with them'?" If i am feeling chipper i might add: "you can kill somebody with a toaster, but it's easier with a gun, and you'd be hard pressed to make a good piece of toast with an ak-47") 2. The computer is by definition, not just A tool. the computer is THE tool. it is the UNIVERSAL tool. with it, any other tool that can be formalized can be simulated. there is no other tool of which this can be said (because if it could be said, then that tool would also be the universal tool: this is where Turing meets Godel). every computer is formally equivalent to every other computer. this is exactly (not "sort of," not "approximately") the quality that is not found in any other tool. a toaster cannot simulate a car unless it is part of a giant toaster-filled transistor, etc. That is Turing's discovery. That is why we are here today. The phrase "just a tool" is applicable to computers less than to any any other tool in existence. It is the sui generis nature of the universal machine that is the very phenomenon we are trying to understand as we deploy it. -- David Golumbia dgolumbia@gmail.com --[6]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 9 May 2011 21:04:01 -0700 From: Jascha Kessler Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.3 in denial In-Reply-To: <20110509072152.7B35A13F758@woodward.joyent.us> I find the comments posted lately increasingly arcane. I suppose everyone is different, and each relates to work and tools idiosyncratically. I am amazed that I wrote a Ph.D. in three months on my wife's little Smith Corona portable [which was her dowry gift to me, apart from her ability to earn a living for us both in those desert years of the grad school]. Wrote, but also typed, of course. Later on, I changed to electric machines, Olympia and then IBM, the latter afforded cheaply by my mother who worked for a major hospital in NYC, and got them on the cheap side. The last one I had was that incredible IBM Selectric, with 5 pages of "memory," that required retyping for every emendation. Terrific! But that 2100$ was wasted, when my wife was encouraged to try an Apple I, then II by a son at Stanford, a computer engineer in the making. She could type and correct a dozen pages! O my! I had my Selectric. Then there was the advent of the Mac Plus with 60 kb of memory! My son was a freshman at Stanford; there was a lottery for cheap Mac Plus the first year; and as it turned out I waited a year because he drew 2500, and that was the number of Frosh in his class. I snatched that machine [he had mainframe Suns to work his magic on], and actually produced a 25 page paper to deliver in Budapest in two weeks! and no retyping page by page. At that moment IBM threw in the towel and came to collect my 2100 Selectric for 600$ rebate, because they saw the bytes biting into the wall: MENE MENE TEKEL UPHARSIN. How many kings have taken the plunge to nowhere since that year! In short, I dont understand complaints [Smith?] about writing/editing hangups. As a writer for near on 70 years, I am aware that in writing, even a letter, I go immediately into automatic trance mode, and transpose words heard in my head, or spoken in my head through my fingers. With age, the fingers betray me increasingly, but fixing the myriad typoseis not hard, what with the red underline that Word and other apps immediately apply. Writing really is a form of speech, and what makes speech fluent and apt is all the more aided by this "tool," which in extreme age may be provided by speaking to the computer. After all, Henry James, and others, walked about talking their work to stenographers, and their later works, like them or not, are what one would get with a dictation computer, a living voice, boring as it can be. I deplore this business of the "scholar" and the categories, and all that wearing of costumes and epaulettes. We must get on with our work, learn to speak our thoughts into words that we can see, and which can be heard immediately, if we wish, or heard first and rendered seeable,and remember, as I do, the travails suffered in 7th grade, merely learning how to set type from a big case into a handheld metal tray to make a line of words. And Mark Twain's financial disaster in supporting the invention of a mechanical typesetter. Good lord, we must run with this damn thing as fast as we can, faster than any gingerbread man... What is the written word but a representation, 2nd hand of speech, and speech a projection of thought, and or thoughtlessness, which is our media noise today.... Jascha Kessler -- Jascha Kessler Professor of English & Modern Literature, UCLA Telephone/Facsimile: 310.393.4648 www.jfkessler.com www.xlibris.com _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue May 10 06:37:50 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5326C140547; Tue, 10 May 2011 06:37:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 67ACD14053A; Tue, 10 May 2011 06:37:47 +0000 (GMT) Subject: 25.7 professorship at HUMlab, Umeå From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110510063747.67ACD14053A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 06:37:47 +0000 (GMT) X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 7. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 9 May 2011 14:11:04 +0200 From: Cecilia Lindhe Subject: Professor of Humanities and Information Technology / WallenbergChair in Digital Humanities Dear all, HUMlab, Umeå University, Sweden now invites applications for the following position: Professor of Humanities and Information Technology / Wallenberg Chair in Digital Humanities. HUMlab is an internationally established platform for the humanities, culture and information technology, in a process of rapid expansion. Here, research, development and education are conducted in a dynamic studio environment. Activities at HUMlab comprise several external projects, both national and international, a range of international workshops and conferences, artistic installations, and many visits. HUMlab is engaged in the development of digital humanities internationally, and now further strengthens its profile through creating a Chair in Digital Humanities. This position will be called the ”Wallenberg Chair in Digital Humanities” in accordance with the granted application made to the Marcus and Amalia Wallenberg Minnesfond Foundation. For more details please visit this site: http://www8.umu.se/umu/aktuellt/arkiv/lediga_tjanster/311-432-11.html For more information about HUMlab, please see the HUMlab Blog (http://blog.humlab.umu.se http://blog.humlab.umu.se/ ) and our seminar archive (http://stream.humlab.umu.se). Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions (contact details below) Best wishes Cecilia Lindhé Assistant Director/research fellow HUMlab Umeå University +46 90 786 9096 cecilia.lindhe@humlab.umu.se _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue May 10 06:38:21 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39E0214058C; Tue, 10 May 2011 06:38:21 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id EDC7114057C; Tue, 10 May 2011 06:38:18 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20110510063818.EDC7114057C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 06:38:18 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.8 affordance strength? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 8. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 9 May 2011 18:24:57 +0100 From: Alejandro Giacometti Subject: Research Study on the Affordance Strength Model Hi All, We are currently running a research study on testing the Affordance Strength Model for evaluating web interfaces. We need some participants. The survey takes about 10 minutes, and it involves performing a simple online task and answering some questions about the task. There is no expertise required to perform the task. Earn some research Karma! http://bit.ly/exPDmD If you are in a generous mood, please forward this message to your colleagues, students, etc. Regards Alejandro ----------------------------------------------------------------- Alejandro Giacometti Doctoral Research Student Dept. of Medical Physics & Bioengineering Dept. of Information Studies Malet Place Engineering Building University College London London, WC1E 6BT, UK +44 7 838 562 819 +1 978 253 4289 alejandro.giacometti.09@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 Tue May 10 06:40:36 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66B16140603; Tue, 10 May 2011 06:40:36 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id F140B1405EE; Tue, 10 May 2011 06:40:32 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110510064032.F140B1405EE@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 06:40:32 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.9 events: Oxford Summer School; Solomonoff conference X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 9. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Dianne Nguyen (42) Subject: CFP - Solomonoff 85th Memorial Conference - Extended Deadline 16 June2011 [2] From: James Cummings (54) Subject: Oxford Digital Humanities Summer School July 25-29th --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 9 May 2011 18:29:56 +1000 From: Dianne Nguyen Subject: CFP - Solomonoff 85th Memorial Conference - Extended Deadline 16 June2011 Solomonoff 85th Memorial Conference http://www.Solomonoff85thMemorial.monash.edu/ http://www.solomonoff85thmemorial.monash.edu/ Proceedings of this multi-disciplinary conference will be published by Springer in the prestigious LNAI (LNCS) series Deadline extended to 16 June 2011 ******************************************************************************************** Dear Colleague You are cordially invited to submit a paper and participate at Solomonoff 85th Memorial Conference which, will be held in Melbourne, Australia, between 30 November - 2 December 2011 with the possibility of a tutorial/workshop being organised on the 29th November 2011. This multi-disciplinary Conference will be run back to back with the AI 2011 Conference in Perth, Australia. This is a multi-disciplinary conference based on the wide range of applications of work related to or inspired by that of Ray Solomonoff. The contributions sought for this conference include, but are not restricted to, the following:- Statistical inference and prediction, Econometrics *(including time series and panel data)*, in Principle proofs of financial market inefficiency, Theories of (quantifying) intelligence and new forms of *(universal)*intelligence test *(for robotic, terrestrial and extra-terrestrial life)*, the Singularity http://world.std.com/~rjs/timesc.pdf (or infinity point http://world.std.com/~rjs/timesc.pdf ), Philosophy of science, the Problem of induction, Evolutionary (tree) models in biology and linguistics, Geography, Climate modelling and bush-fire detection, Environmental science, Image processing, Spectral analysis, Engineering, Artificial intelligence, Machine learning, Statistics and Philosophy, Mathematics, Linguistics, Computer science, Data mining, Bioinformatics, Computational intelligence, Computational science, Life sciences, Physics, Knowledge discovery, Ethics, Computational biology, Computational linguistics, Collective intelligence, structure and computing connectivity of random nets, effect of Heisenberg's principle on channel capacity, Arguments that entropy is not the arrow of time, and etc. See also Ray Solomonoff's Publications http://world.std.com/~rjs/pubs.html (and his http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~dld/RaySolomonoffNewYorkTimesObituaryWedn13Jan2010.pdf obituary http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/10/science/10solomonoff.html ). [...] I look forward to receiving your valuable paper contribution and attendance at the Conference. David Dowe General Chairman --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 09 May 2011 18:04:47 +0100 From: James Cummings Subject: Oxford Digital Humanities Summer School July 25-29th This is a reminder that we are running a comprehensive 5 day Summer School in Digital Humanities this summer. It takes place from July 25th-29th, at Oxford University Computing Services and Wolfson College. The summer school introduces a range of digital research components to researchers, project managers, research assistants, or students working on any kind of project concerned with the creation or management of digital data for the humanities. Please visit http://digital.humanities.ox.ac.uk/DHSS2011/ for details. The summer school is a collaboration for Digital.Humanities@Oxford between Oxford University Computing Services (OUCS),Oxford e-Research Centre (OERC), e-Research South, and Wolfson College Digital Research Cluster, under the direction of Sebastian Rahtz and Dr James Cummings at OUCS. The programme will consist of: • Two parallel streams of morning practical sessions using the well-equipped It teaching facilities at OUCS • Two parallel streams of afternoon workshops at Wolfson College concentrating on techniques and best practice • Guest lectures from Digital Humanities experts about their research projects Our guest plenary speakers for this year include: David De Roure, Professor of e-Science at OeRC Jeni Tennison, UK eGov guru John Coleman, Director of the Phonetics Laboratory Min Chen, Professor of Visualization at OeRC Ray Siemens, Canada Research Chair in Humanities Computing and Professor of English at the University of Victoria Topics include: • Best practice for digital linguistic corpora • Building queryable document-based websites • Creating community collections and digital outreach • Creating digital texts in XML using the TEI • Working with maps • Critical apparatus and digital genetic editions in TEI • Database design for humanities projects • Digital Images for the Humanities • Digital library technologies and best practice • Getting funding: quality, impact, sustainability. • Introduction to copyright and open licensing • Introduction to document/project modelling • Introduction to XML databases • Managing Digital Humanities Projects • Practical RDF modelling and conversion • Publishing XML files using XSLT • RDF querying and visualization • TEI for linking text and facsimiles • Tools for analyzing linguistic corpora • Visualization using jQuery • Working with audio files -- Dr James Cummings, InfoDev, Computing Services, University of Oxford _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed May 11 05:33:12 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E3A813FF03; Wed, 11 May 2011 05:33:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 942BC13FEF2; Wed, 11 May 2011 05:33:09 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110511053309.942BC13FEF2@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 05:33:09 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.10 events: posters at the 'zoo X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 10. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 14:37:59 -0400 From: Dot Porter Subject: Digital poster session at Kalamazoo For those of you attending the International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, MI, this week: The Medieval Academy of America's Digital Initiatives Advisory Board and Digital Medievalist have co-organized a poster session and reception, scheduled for Friday evening at 7pm in Fetzer 1035. The complete list of participants is below. Hope to see you there! ***** Julian Hendrix and Richard Pollard (UCLA), "Reconstructing the libraries of Carolingian Reichenau and St. Gall" Joshua Westgard (U. Tennessee), Demonstration of Bede Manuscripts Database James Ginther (Saint Louis University), Demonstration of T-PEN Eleonora Litta Modignani Picozzi (King's College London), Early English Laws and Gascon Rolls Daniel O'Connell (American Cusanus Society), Demonstration of the Cusanus-Portal Dot Porter (Indiana University), Demonstration of TILE (Text Image Linking Environment) Grant Simpson (Indiana University), "Proactive Preservation: What Every (Digital) Medievalist Should Know" Debra Lacoste (Wilfrid Laurier University), Cantus Database Demonstration Adam Oberlin (University of Minnesota) "XHS: eXtensible Handschrift - A Proposal for Open Source Manuscript Editing Software." Richard Harris (U. of Saskatchewan), Concordance to the Proverbs and Proverbial Materials in the Old Icelandic Sagas Kate Helsen (U. of Toronto), The Optical Neume Recognition Project Michael Drout (Wheaton College), Lexomics group from Wheaton College -- *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Dot Porter (MA, MSLS) Digital Medievalist, Digital Librarian Email: dot.porter@gmail.com *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed May 11 06:00:48 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id C31853925F; Wed, 11 May 2011 06:00:47 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 24BEF39250; Wed, 11 May 2011 06:00:39 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110511060039.24BEF39250@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 06:00:39 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.11 desert island discs? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 11. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 06:57:36 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: desert island discs One of my favourite radio programmes is Desert Island Discs, broadcast on BBC Radio 4. When it was first aired, on 27 January 1942, it was described as, > a programme in which a well-known person is asked the question, if > you were to be cast away alone on a desert island, which eight > gramophone records would you choose to have with you, assuming of > course, that you had a gramophone and an inexhaustible supply of > needles The choices have not in the nearly 70 years of its history converged on any canonical list of the best. They tell you in each case much about the person interviewed. They remind you of things you have forgotten, and put you in mind of others you somehow didn't know. But moving (as it were) in the opposite direction from this constantly expanding cultural cosmos is also a sense of a cosmos, not a chaos, not a miscellaneous jumble, or if that, then *a* jumble which itself is just as it should be. Especially if one listens to the programme on a dark, gray Saturday afternoon in a northern hemispheric winter, or via the Internet from the other side of the world. So my question: what creations relating to the digital humanities would you take with you to that desert island? What articles and books? What gizmos, presuming an inexhaustible supply of power to run them? And if your list is too short, then what orders would you put in, now in advance of your exile, for that which you would take with you if only it existed? (For more on the programme, see www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/desert-island-discs.) Yours, WM -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu May 12 05:49:40 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id D05521428F0; Thu, 12 May 2011 05:49:39 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id F00091428DD; Thu, 12 May 2011 05:49:30 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110512054930.F00091428DD@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 05:49:30 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.12 desert island discs X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 12. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Martin Holmes (16) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.11 desert island discs? [2] From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (7) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.11 desert island discs? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 08:32:36 -0700 From: Martin Holmes Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.11 desert island discs? In-Reply-To: <20110511060039.24BEF39250@woodward.joyent.us> On 11-05-10 11:00 PM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: desert island discs > So my question: what creations relating to the digital humanities would > you take with you to that desert island? What articles and books? What > gizmos, presuming an inexhaustible supply of power to run them? No gizmos at all. They could only be expected to last a few months to a couple of years, even with inexhaustible power, and they'd inevitably get full of sand. I'd rather have my book inscribed on durable pigskin. It would probably be Middlemarch. Cheers, Martin -- Martin Holmes University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre (mholmes@uvic.ca) --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 15:23:17 -0400 (EDT) From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.11 desert island discs? In-Reply-To: <20110511060039.24BEF39250@woodward.joyent.us> I would welcome the solitude offered by the desert island to further explore the Dartmouth Dante Project. http://dante.dartmouth.edu/about.php The Dartmouth Dante Project (DDP) is a searchable full-text database containing more than seventy commentaries on Dante's Divine Comedy - the Commedia. Many ways to search and manifold discoveries to be made in this wonderful resource. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 12 05:50:36 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06C44142933; Thu, 12 May 2011 05:50:36 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id EA8E7142926; Thu, 12 May 2011 05:50:29 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110512055029.EA8E7142926@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 05:50:29 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.13 cfp: Digital Medievalist X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 13. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 11:42:25 +0200 From: Malte Rehbein Subject: CfP: Volume 7 of the Digital Medievalist Journal Call for Papers: Volume 7 of the Digital Medievalist Journal With the publication of volume 6 and a forthcoming special issue on the 2010 MARGOT conference, Digital Medievalist is now accepting papers for volume 7 of its on-line, refereed journal. We are asking for contributions of original research and scholarship that meet the mission statement of Digital Medievalist. Contributions should concern topics likely to be of interest to medievalists working with digital media, though they need not be exclusively medieval in focus. This includes notes on technological topics (markup and stylesheets, algorithms, tools and software, etc.), commentary pieces discussing developments in the field, bibliographic and review articles, and project reports. All contributions will be reviewed by authorities in humanities computing prior to publication. Journal submissions or enquiries should be emailed to: editors@digitalmedievalist.org Submissions guidelines are available at http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/journal/1.1/submission/ With this forthcoming volume, we are re-establishing our "rolling issue" policy which means that contributions will be published as soon as they are ready for publication without firm deadlines. To allow inclusion in volume 7, however, submission before end of August 2011 is recommended. Digital Medievalist is an international web-based Community of Practice for medievalists working with digital media. Established in 2003, the project helps medievalists by providing a network for technical collaboration and instruction, exchange of expertise, and the development of best practice. The project operates an electronic mailing list and discussion forum, on-line refereed journal, news server for announcements and calls for papers, a wiki and FAQ. It also organises conference sessions at international medieval and humanities computing congresses. It is an elected organization and has developed some governing bylaws. The Digital Medievalist Project is overseen by an eight-member executive of medievalists with considerable experience in the use of digital media in the study of medieval topics. See our website at http://www.digitalmedievalist.org for more information. Malte Rehbein (Editor-In-Chief), Peter A. Stokes and Dan O'Donnell (Associate Editors), Rebecca Welzenbach (Reviews Editor) -- Dr. Malte Rehbein Universität Würzburg Zentrum für digitale Edition / Lehrstuhl für Computerphilologie und Neuere Deutsche Literaturgeschichte Philosophiegebäude 8/E/14 Am Hubland 97074 Würzburg fon +49.(0)931.31.88773 email malte.rehbein@uni-wuerzburg.de web http://www.denkstaette.de IDE: http://www.i-d-e.de Digital Medievalist: http://www.digitalmedievalist.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 12 05:56:47 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 356A5142A13; Thu, 12 May 2011 05:56:47 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 76F07142A0A; Thu, 12 May 2011 05:56:42 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110512055642.76F07142A0A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 05:56:42 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.14 events: London Seminar; DH2011; cognition X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 14. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Glen Worthey (49) Subject: David Rumsey to open DH2011 [2] From: Willard McCarty (32) Subject: London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship 2011-12 [3] From: Nathaniel Bobbitt (73) Subject: FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS: INTEGRATING COMPUTATION & COGNITION ON BIOLOGICAL GROUNDS --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 21:50:24 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship 2011-12 CALL FOR SEMINARS 2011-12 London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship (tinyurl.com/LondonSeminar/) Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, (www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/ddh/index.aspx) & Centre for Digital Humanities, University College London, (www.ucl.ac.uk/dh/) The London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship invites seminars for the 2011-12 academic year, October through May. Seminars may be on any aspect of digital textual studies, whether literary, linguistic, philological, lexicographic, historical, cultural or otherwise. Seminars are held in the facilities of the Institute of English Studies, Institute of Advanced Study, University of London, Thursday evenings once per month. The London Seminar focuses on the ways in which the digital medium remakes the relationship of readers, writers, scholars, technical practitioners and designers to the manuscript and printed book. Its discussions are intended to inform public debate and policy as well as to stimulate research and provide a broad forum in which to present its results. Although the forum is primarily for those working in textual and literary studies, history of the book, humanities computing and related fields, its mandate is to address and involve an audience of non-specialists. Wherever possible the issues it raises are meant to engage all those who are interested in a digital future for the book. Please contact the co-convenor, Professor Willard McCarty (willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk), to discuss the possibilities. -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 13:29:27 -0700 From: Glen Worthey Subject: David Rumsey to open DH2011 We are thrilled to announce that the DH2011 opening keynote will be given by David Rumsey, a renowned collector of historical maps, digital librarian, online publisher, builder, and philanthropist. Rumsey's lecture at 6:00 p.m. on Sunday, June 19, in Dinkelspiel Auditorium on the Stanford University campus, is free and open to the public. Rumsey's lecture is titled/Reading Historical Maps Digitally: How Spatial Technologies Can Enable Close, Distant and Dynamic Interpretations/and here is its abstract: Maps are dense, complex information systems arranged spatially. While they share similarities with other visual artifacts, their uniqueness as spatially arranged visual information both allows for and demands special digital approaches to understand and reuse their content. Georeferencing, vectorization, virtual reality, image databases, and GIS-related tools all work to unite our eyes, minds, and computers in new ways that can make historical maps more valuable and accessible to humanists concerned with place and space over time. Rumsey will explore the tools and techniques that have implications for the ways digital humanists approach visual information. ******** David Rumsey's collection of more than 150,000 maps is one of the largest private map collections in the United States, and herecently announced his intention to donate it to the Stanford University Libraries http://news.stanford.edu/news/2009/february4/oldmaps-020409.html for long-term preservation and scholarly access. With his growing online collection of more than 26,000 maps, available to all in high resolution and with expert cataloging, Rumsey is one of the most visible and important modern distributors of historical treasures for the common good, a pioneer Internet philanthropist, and a public Internet intellectual. Visit the David Rumsey Map Collection online athttp://www.davidrumsey.com/. With his experimental approaches to GIS and historic maps, his innovative use of virtual worlds for purveyance of serious scholarly materials, and his outspoken and concrete actions toward the building of a real public digital library, David Rumsey is a rare and exemplary figure of antiquarian in the digital world, and entrepeneur in the academy. Please join us for what is sure to be a stimulating and stunning opener for DH2011. ******** Registration for DH2011 is open and waiting for you at https://dh2011.stanford.edu/?page_id=311. Looking forward to seeing you all at Stanford in just about 40 days, Glen Worthey & Matthew Jockers your local hosts -- Glen Worthey, Digital Humanities Librarian Humanities Digital Information Service Stanford University Libraries (ph) +1-650-213-6759; (f) +1-650-723-9383 --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 14:55:58 -0700 From: Nathaniel Bobbitt Subject: FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS: INTEGRATING COMPUTATION & COGNITION ON BIOLOGICAL GROUNDS We invite submissions to the Springer journal Cognitive Computation for a special issue on Pointing at Boundaries: Integrating Computation and Cognition on Biological Grounds. The submission deadline is May 16, 2011. ===================== FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS ===================== Spurred by the advancement in synthetic biology (Gibson et al., 2010) at the J. Craig Venter Research Institute the editors of Cognitive Computation Journal (Springer Publishers) invite submissions to a special issue on biological substrates as a computational diaphragm. This topic leads to further research questions on computation and the bio-signals produced by living organisms. We anticipate submissions will contribute to the identification of a new breed of technologies: 1.) bio- computing applications (synthetic biology); 2.) chemical/microbial induced biological configurations; 3.) enhancing cognition and animal models; and 4.) neuroengineering sensory circuits and clinical/biomedical research. This special issue will provide a forum for interdisciplinary discussion that points towards the next step in cognition and computing through the excitability of biological substrates. The integration of computation and cognition on biological grounds has the prospect of pointing at a boundary system that is excitable, configurable, and manipulated within the framework of living organisms and their biological substrates. The next step in the development of natural computing hinges upon the development of biological substrates as a computational diaphragm. Authors are invited to submit unpublished research, original position papers, or literature reviews that address challenges unique to bio-inspired computation. Relevant areas of investigation and expertise include, but are not limited to: • synthetic biology, systematic biology, soft-computing• computation theory (membrane, natural, quantum, or evolutionary) • bio-nanotechnology, computational biology, computational linguistics • medical informatics (decision making, medical diagnostics, catastrophic disease research) • underlying spatial and self-modulating aspects of biological substrates (sRNA, siRNA, proteomics) • bio-optics: quorum sensing, bio-markers, molecular probes • neurobiology, gene regulation, neural circuits • pharmaceutical and biomedical cellular delivery systems • chemical ecology, interfacing with aliphatic odors (GPCR encoding) • neural signal transduction, neurotransmitters • neuroimaging, neuroanatomy, neurophysiology • mirror neurons, neuropsychology, theory of mind, simulation theory • swarm intelligence, theory of intelligence, consciousness • hierarchical temporal memory, heterogenous logic • neuroplasticity, learning, memory • “games with purpose” or collaborative task experimentation • bayesian biomedical techniques (clinical studies, morphological data, in vitro embryo selection) • translational cognition for decision support in critical care environments • soft-computing research and control of unknown diseases • “molecule to man” decision support in individualized e-health • biomedical informatics and pharmacogenomics • animal behavior, transgenics models • developmental biology, embryology • linguistic or philosophic barriers to bio-computing • cladistics, detecting and overcoming systematic errors in genome-scale phylogenies This special issue places into perspective computation and cognition from a post-genome viewpoint. Since the Human Genome Project recent discovieries suggest a bio-computation that specifies a more complex mechanisms along a multi-scale. Where a micro-meso-macro feedback occurs as a systemic self-organization with non-linear dynamics. Participation in this project proposes to advance the break with the "dogma" of one gene producing only one class of protein, assumed in the classic Monod-Changeux-Jacob model of the "Operon." Without the idea of a DNA "program" determining the phenotype of living systems the incubation of bio-computing may gain strides through experimental literature on "small RNAs" (sRNA) interfering with gene expression and protein production. Through the manipulation of biological substrates emerges the prospect to identify recipes for combinatorial, multidimensional, and topological organizations with a dynamics that escape conventional spatial or temporal-spatial representation. A biological substrate represents a self-contained symbolic and logical neighborhood. This special issue is expected to appear in JUN 2012. Post submissions at: http://www.editorialmanager.com/cogn/ Co-Editors Alfredo Pereira Jr., Eduardo Massad, Nathaniel Bobbitt bobbittn@cwu.edu Important Dates--------------------- Submission of full paper (to be received by): MAY 16, 2011 First notification of acceptance: AUG. 15, 2011 Submission of revised papers: OCT 15, 2011 Final notification to the authors: JAN 15, 2011 Submission of final/camera-ready papers: FEB 15, 2012 http://www.springer.com/biomed/neuroscience/journal/12559?detailsPage=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 Fri May 13 05:16:07 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id E298B14280F; Fri, 13 May 2011 05:16:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 5E7A61427FD; Fri, 13 May 2011 05:16:04 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110513051604.5E7A61427FD@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 13 May 2011 05:16:04 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.15 new on WWW: 155 billion American English words X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 15. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 17:11:06 -0600 From: Mark Davies Subject: 155 *billion* (155,000,000,000) word corpus of American English (Apologies for cross-postings) We’re pleased to announce a new corpus -- the Google Books (American English) corpus: http://googlebooks.byu.edu/. This corpus is based on the American English portion of the Google Books data (see http://ngrams.googlelabs.com and especially http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/datasets). It contains 155 *billion* words (155,000,000,000) in more than 1.3 million books from the 1810s-2000s (including 62 billion words from just 1980-2009). The corpus has most of the functionality of the other corpora from http://corpus.byu.edu (e.g. COCA, COHA, and our interface to the BNC), including: searching by part of speech, wildcards, and lemma (and thus advanced syntactic searches), synonyms, collocate searches, frequency by decade (tables listing each individual string, or charts for total frequency), comparisons of two historical periods (e.g. collocates of "women" or "music" in the 1800s and the 1900s), and more. This American English corpus is just one of seven Google Books-based corpora that we hope to create in the next year or two (contingent on funding, which we are applying for in June 2011). If funded, the other corpora will include British English, English from the 1500s-1700s, and corpora of Spanish, French, and German (see the listing at http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/datasets). Each of these corpora will be based on at least 50 billion words of data, and they should represent a nice addition to existing resources. The Google Books (American English) corpus is freely-available at http://googlebooks.byu.edu, and we hope that it is of value to you in your research and teaching. Best, Mark Davies ============================================ Mark Davies Professor of (Corpus) Linguistics Brigham Young University (phone) 801-422-9168 / (fax) 801-422-0906 Web: http://davies-linguistics.byu.edu ** Corpus design and use // Linguistic databases ** ** Historical linguistics // Language variation ** ** English, Spanish, and Portuguese ** ============================================ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat May 14 05:23:02 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 628281438DC; Sat, 14 May 2011 05:23:02 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 7472D1438C7; Sat, 14 May 2011 05:22:59 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110514052259.7472D1438C7@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 14 May 2011 05:22:59 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.16 job at UCLA; studentship at Leicester X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 16. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Rugg, Annelie" (7) Subject: Job posting at UCLA Center for Digital Humanities [2] From: Barbara Bordalejo (4) Subject: Fwd: PhD funding: School of English, University of Leicester, UK --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 May 2011 11:32:20 -0700 From: "Rugg, Annelie" Subject: Job posting at UCLA Center for Digital Humanities Greetings! The UCLA Center for Digital Humanities has an opening for an Instructional Technology Coordinator that may be of interest to you or someone you know. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me about the position. A direct link to the job listing is below: http://hr.mycareer.ucla.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=58038 Sincerely, Annelie Rugg, Ph.D. Director/Humanities CIO || UCLA Center for Digital Humanities 310.903.7691 || annelie@humnet.ucla.edu --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 May 2011 23:02:12 +0100 From: Barbara Bordalejo Subject: Fwd: PhD funding: School of English, University of Leicester, UK PhD funding: School of English, University of Leicester, UK A PhD fee-waiver scholarship in the School of English at the University of Leicester is available for a research student. PhD proposals should be in the area Restoration and Early Eighteenth-Century Literature, or The History of the Book in the Early Modern Period. The award is for a student registering in October 2011 and covers fees up to £3,732 (the equivalent of Home/EU fees) for 3 years. Only new PhD students are eligible. The financial package covers full-time Home/EU fees only, but international and part-time students are encouraged to apply. Successful international students would themselves pay the difference between the Home/EU fee award and the international fee. Details can be found at http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/english/postgraduate/funding Posted by John Hinks on behalf of Dr Kate Loveman, School of English, kjl18@le.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 Sat May 14 05:24:47 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DE7F14393D; Sat, 14 May 2011 05:24:47 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 60965143936; Sat, 14 May 2011 05:24:45 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110514052445.60965143936@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 14 May 2011 05:24:45 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.17 publications: GIS; Fluxus Reader X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 17. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Willard McCarty (7) Subject: Fluxus Reader online [2] From: Shawn Day (16) Subject: Irish Initiatives in Digital Humanities and GIS --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 May 2011 08:53:43 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Fluxus Reader online Dear colleagues, Some here will be very glad for the online publication of The Fluxus Reader, edited by Ken Friedman (Swinburne School of Design), at http://hdl.handle.net/1959.3/42234. For a description of Fluxus see the Wikipedia entry. Yours, WM --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 May 2011 08:02:14 +0100 From: Shawn Day Subject: Irish Initiatives in Digital Humanities and GIS This recently published article may be of interest to those involved in the application of spatial methodologies to literary studies: Abstract Machine – Geographical Information Systems (GIS) for literary and cultural studies: ‘Mapping Kavanagh’ Charles Travis, Research Associate, Trinity Long Room Hub International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing. Volume 4, Page 17-37 Drawing upon previous theoretical and practical work in historical and qualitative applications of Geographical Information Systems (GIS), this paper, in Giles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's terminology, conceptualizes GIS as ‘an abstract machine’ which plays a ‘piloting role’ which does not ‘function to represent’ something real, but rather ‘constructs a real which is yet to come.’ To illustrate this digital humanities mapping methodology, the essay examines Irish writer Patrick Kavanagh's novel The Green Fool (1938) and epic poem The Great Hunger (1942) and their respective contrasting topophilic and topophobic renderings of landscape, identity and sense of place under the lens M.M. Bakhtin's ‘Historical Poetics’ (chronotope) to illuminate GIS's ability to engage in spatio-discursive visualization and analysis. The conceptualizations and practices discussed in this paper reconsider GIS software/hardware/techniques as a means to engage subjects of concern to literary and cultural studies commensurate with the recent strong interest in the geographical and spatial dimensions of these cognate areas. For Access to Journal Article: http://www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/ijhac.2011.0005 --- Shawn Day --- Digital Humanities Observatory (RIA), --- Regus Pembroke House, 28 - 30 Pembroke Street Upper, Dublin 2 IRELAND --- 53.335373,-6.254219 --- Tel: +353 1 2342441 --- s.day@dho.ie --- http://dho.ie -- A Project of the Royal Irish Academy -- The Royal Irish Academy is subject to the Freedom of Information Acts 1997 & 2003 and is compliant with the provisions of the Data Protection Acts 1998 & 2003. For further information see our website www.ria.ie _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 14 05:27:54 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17144143A24; Sat, 14 May 2011 05:27:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 3EA0E143A11; Sat, 14 May 2011 05:27:51 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110514052751.3EA0E143A11@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 14 May 2011 05:27:51 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.18 events: eSocial Science; centerNet X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 18. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Ray Siemens (2) Subject: FW: [Centernet] centerNet/CHCI Conference [2] From: I-CHASS (44) Subject: Networking eSocial Science Call for Papers --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 May 2011 09:18:45 -0700 From: Ray Siemens Subject: FW: [Centernet] centerNet/CHCI Conference Dear all, A reminder that HUMANITIES (DOT) NET: CURRENTS IN THE DIGITAL HUMANITIES, the first joint conference of centerNet and CHCI will be taking place on June 15 at the University of Toronto's Jackman Humanities Institute. The conference will feature plenary speakers John Unsworth (Illinois) and Brian Cantwell Smith (Toronto), panels on Digital Disciplines and Digital Publics, a roundtable discussion on the role of funders and programs that go beyond the academy, and opportunities for discussion. A small registration fee of $25US will cover the direct costs. Schedule information can be found via the CHCI website, http://chcinetwork.org http://chcinetwork.org/ . In addition, CHCI invites all centerNet members to join their international membership group for their 2011 Annual Meeting, Cities Humanities Archives, on 13-14 June 2011, at the same location. Registration for the CHCI Annual Meeting is $75US per organization plus a $40US fee for the Meeting dinner on the evening of Monday 13 June. The $25US registration fee for the CHCI/centerNet meeting is waived for anyone attending the CHCI meeting. Complete information on both programs can be found at the CHCI website, http://chcinetwork.org http://chcinetwork.org/ , including travel and lodging information, and an online registration form. We hope to see you there! Best, Neil -- Neil Fraistat Professor of English & Director Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) University of Maryland 301-405-5896 or 301-314-7111 (fax) http://www.mith.umd.edu/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 May 2011 20:24:19 +0100 From: I-CHASS Subject: Networking eSocial Science Call for Papers The 2011 eSocial Science conference, “Networking eSocial Science,” invites papers, workshops, and exhibits addressing the following traditional and conference-related themes. The conference will be hosted by the Institute for Computing in Humanities, Arts, and Social Science from September 6-8, 2011 at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Special sessions and workshops at the conference will be devoted to networking eSocial Science. Traditional themes: * Studies using eSocial Science methods and data * Case studies of social science research methods, applications, and practices enabled by cyberinfrastructures and tools * Benefits and challenges of large-scale, distributed, collaborative, and interdisciplinary research facilitated by cyberinfrastructure * New cyberinfrastructure and tools for sociological data integration, sharing, access management and security, data analysis, and curation * New cyberinfrastructure and tools for enabling news sources of data and new methods for data collection * Ethical issues, challenges, and solutions raised by cyberinfrastructure for the collection, integration, sharing, and analysis of personal, social, economic, and other data such as medical records or genomics * Case studies of socio-technical issues in the design and development of e-Research methods, technologies, and tools, including usability issues and solutions Conference themes: * Research on networks using eSocial Science methods * Reports on network tools applicable to eSocial Science * Case studies of existing networks in eSocial Science * Proposals for building networks among eSocial Science investigators, centers, and interested organizations Types of proposals Submissions will be accepted in one of four categories: 1. poster presentations; 2. short papers; 3. full papers; and 4. panel sessions. For all types of submission, please prepare a 750-1000 word abstract describing the research to be presented. Short papers will be given a strict ten-minute time limit for presentations. Full papers will be allocated 20 minutes for presentation and 10 minutes for questions. For panels, the organizer should describe the panel topic and include the names and university, organization, or company of all speakers. Deadlines and submission instructions Electronic submissions will be accepted from May 16, 2011 until 11:59PM CST on Thursday, June 30, 2011. Potential presenters are encouraged to submit proposals as soon as possible because reviews of submissions will begin on Wednesday, June 15, 2011. Invitations to participate will be issued no later than Friday, July 15, 2011. To make a submission, please visit the submission page of the conference website: http://www.ichass.illinois.edu/esocialscience. Criteria for acceptance are: * The “innovative” nature of the proposal; * The proposal’s relevancy to global issues in technological inquiry; * The proposal’s argument in relation to a grand challenge; * The qualifications of the presenter(s). Awards Awards for best papers by senior scholars and by students will be presented. * * * Founded in 2004 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, I-CHASS charts new ground in high-performance computing and the humanities, arts, and social sciences by creating both learning environments and spaces for digital discovery. I-CHASS presents path-breaking research, computational resources, collaborative tools, and educational programming to showcase the future of the humanities, arts, and social sciences. For more information on I-CHASS, please visit: http://www.ichass.illinois.edu _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun May 15 07:12:41 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7ECC4143290; Sun, 15 May 2011 07:12:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0543614327E; Sun, 15 May 2011 07:12:37 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110515071238.0543614327E@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 15 May 2011 07:12:37 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.19 job at Maryland X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 19. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 14 May 2011 08:22:32 -0400 From: Matthew Kirschenbaum Subject: job at Maryland: Assoc. Dir. Digital Cultures and Creativity program In-Reply-To: Digital Cultures and Creativity Associate Director The College of Arts and Humanities at the University of Maryland invites applications for the position of Associate Director of Digital Cultures and Creativity, a new living/learning program for first- and second-year undergraduate students. Designed for the highly motivated 21st century student who was born into a world of windows and the web, Digital Cultures and Creativity (DCC) provides an innovative curriculum and a residential learning community that combines art, imagination, and global citizenship with new media and new technologies. Depending on individual interest, DCC students pursue activities as varied as digital music and video production, digital art, computer game design, creative electronic writing, virtual worlds, and developing online communities. DCC is housed within the Honors College and sponsored primarily by the College of Arts and Humanities (ARHU), with co-sponsorship from the iSchool, the Department of Computer Science, and the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH). The University of Maryland is a “Top 20” ranked major public research university, located in the Washington DC/ Baltimore metroplex, five miles from the District of Columbia, with its concentrated cultural, artistic, research, and public policy resources. As the flagship university, the University of Maryland’s academic programs are sought after as partners for a wide variety of initiatives with such cultural institutions as the Smithsonian, the National Gallery of Art, the Library of Congress, the Folger Shakespeare Library, and the galleries and theatres of the nation’s capital. The position is initially for 3 years with possibility of renewal. Appointment is to the faculty rank of lecturer. Salary: $55,000 plus benefits. This is a 12-month appointment and some evening and weekend work will be expected on an as-needed basis. An appropriate terminal degree in hand is required. Academic work must include a significant focus on digital research, scholarship, and/or creative practice and further research activity and professional development are expected. Experience teaching and/or advising at the college-level required. Must have extensive knowledge and use of digital technologies in the classroom. Excellent organization and communication skills required. Position Description and Duties: Teaching and Advising The Associate Director will staff one course per semester in the program, such as Introduction to Digital Cultures and Creativity, History of Machine-Encoded Creative Expression, Research Practicum, or a new course designed with DCC staff. The Associate Director will also devote significant time to advising and counseling individual students, including their transition from the program to a regular major. Administrative Responsibilities Admissions: Coordinate and implement programming at all stages of the annual recruitment cycle, including open houses, information sessions, etc. Serve as the primary contact person for prospective students and their families during the recruitment cycle. Play a primary role in the selection of students for the incoming class, which includes serving on the general Honors College admissions committee. Work with Resident Life, Honors College, College of Arts and Humanities and other campus units in the development of recruitment materials and publicity for DCC. Programming and Planning: Design and implement DCC co-curricular programming and special events with the director and DCC fellows. Management: Supervise program interns, teaching assistants; supervise, with the director, all graduate assistants. General Administration: Work with scheduling officers in ARHU and Honors College to develop each semester’s course offerings and to approve selected Honors (HONR) courses for the DCC citation. Attend administrative meetings across the campus, including Undergraduate Program Director’s group meetings in ARHU and Resident Life Living-Learning Program directors meetings. Process basic financial paperwork, including reimbursement and simple procurement (e.g., ordering office supplies, printing orders, copy machine program, etc.) For best consideration, interested candidates should apply by June 15. It is expected that the appointment will begin August 1, 2011. Please send a letter of application detailing scholarly/creative work and teaching experience and interests; a CV; names and contact information of three references; and an URL to samples of research or creative activity to Professor Hasan Elahi, Director of Digital Cultures and Creativity Program via e-mail at helahi@umd. edu. Electronic submissions preferred. Hard copy applications can be sent to Professor Elahi at Department of Art, 1211E Art/Sociology Building, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742-1311. The University of Maryland is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. Women and minorities are strongly encouraged to apply. -- _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 15 07:16:31 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6D66143340; Sun, 15 May 2011 07:16:31 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1D4C914332F; Sun, 15 May 2011 07:16:29 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110515071629.1D4C914332F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 15 May 2011 07:16:29 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.20 PhD studentship at Wales X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 20. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Humanist Discussion Group (90) Subject: [2] From: Willard McCarty (36) Subject: PhD studentship in Digital Humanities at University of Wales --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: Humanist Discussion Group Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 19. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 14 May 2011 08:22:32 -0400 From: Matthew Kirschenbaum Subject: job at Maryland: Assoc. Dir. Digital Cultures and Creativity program In-Reply-To: Digital Cultures and Creativity Associate Director The College of Arts and Humanities at the University of Maryland invites applications for the position of Associate Director of Digital Cultures and Creativity, a new living/learning program for first- and second-year undergraduate students. Designed for the highly motivated 21st century student who was born into a world of windows and the web, Digital Cultures and Creativity (DCC) provides an innovative curriculum and a residential learning community that combines art, imagination, and global citizenship with new media and new technologies. Depending on individual interest, DCC students pursue activities as varied as digital music and video production, digital art, computer game design, creative electronic writing, virtual worlds, and developing online communities. DCC is housed within the Honors College and sponsored primarily by the College of Arts and Humanities (ARHU), with co-sponsorship from the iSchool, the Department of Computer Science, and the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH). The University of Maryland is a “Top 20” ranked major public research university, located in the Washington DC/ Baltimore metroplex, five miles from the District of Columbia, with its concentrated cultural, artistic, research, and public policy resources. As the flagship university, the University of Maryland’s academic programs are sought after as partners for a wide variety of initiatives with such cultural institutions as the Smithsonian, the National Gallery of Art, the Library of Congress, the Folger Shakespeare Library, and the galleries and theatres of the nation’s capital. The position is initially for 3 years with possibility of renewal. Appointment is to the faculty rank of lecturer. Salary: $55,000 plus benefits. This is a 12-month appointment and some evening and weekend work will be expected on an as-needed basis. An appropriate terminal degree in hand is required. Academic work must include a significant focus on digital research, scholarship, and/or creative practice and further research activity and professional development are expected. Experience teaching and/or advising at the college-level required. Must have extensive knowledge and use of digital technologies in the classroom. Excellent organization and communication skills required. Position Description and Duties: Teaching and Advising The Associate Director will staff one course per semester in the program, such as Introduction to Digital Cultures and Creativity, History of Machine-Encoded Creative Expression, Research Practicum, or a new course designed with DCC staff. The Associate Director will also devote significant time to advising and counseling individual students, including their transition from the program to a regular major. Administrative Responsibilities Admissions: Coordinate and implement programming at all stages of the annual recruitment cycle, including open houses, information sessions, etc. Serve as the primary contact person for prospective students and their families during the recruitment cycle. Play a primary role in the selection of students for the incoming class, which includes serving on the general Honors College admissions committee. Work with Resident Life, Honors College, College of Arts and Humanities and other campus units in the development of recruitment materials and publicity for DCC. Programming and Planning: Design and implement DCC co-curricular programming and special events with the director and DCC fellows. Management: Supervise program interns, teaching assistants; supervise, with the director, all graduate assistants. General Administration: Work with scheduling officers in ARHU and Honors College to develop each semester’s course offerings and to approve selected Honors (HONR) courses for the DCC citation. Attend administrative meetings across the campus, including Undergraduate Program Director’s group meetings in ARHU and Resident Life Living-Learning Program directors meetings. Process basic financial paperwork, including reimbursement and simple procurement (e.g., ordering office supplies, printing orders, copy machine program, etc.) For best consideration, interested candidates should apply by June 15. It is expected that the appointment will begin August 1, 2011. Please send a letter of application detailing scholarly/creative work and teaching experience and interests; a CV; names and contact information of three references; and an URL to samples of research or creative activity to Professor Hasan Elahi, Director of Digital Cultures and Creativity Program via e-mail at helahi@umd. edu. Electronic submissions preferred. Hard copy applications can be sent to Professor Elahi at Department of Art, 1211E Art/Sociology Building, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742-1311. The University of Maryland is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. Women and minorities are strongly encouraged to apply. -- --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 15 May 2011 08:15:35 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: PhD studentship in Digital Humanities at University of Wales > Subject: PhD studentship in Digital Humanities at University of Wales > Date: Sat, 14 May 2011 17:33:02 +0100 > From: Lorna M. Hughes Dear Humanists, Three PhD Scholarships at the University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies The University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies is located in Aberystwyth, adjacent to the National Library of Wales. It is a dedicated research centre which carries out team-based projects on the languages, literatures, culture and history of Wales and the other Celtic countries. It is currently running projects in the following areas: the early history of the Celtic languages, medieval Welsh poetry, Romanticism in Wales 1750-1900, the place-names of Wales, the correspondence of Edward Lhwyd, and stained glass in Wales. The Centre also houses the University of Wales Dictionary Unit. For further information on the work of the Centre see http://www.wales.ac.uk/cawcs The Centre will be taking postgraduate students for the first time in autumn 2011 Students will be supervised by scholars of international renown, and will work alongside postdoctoral fellows in a supportive environment with excellent research facilities. Three PhD scholarships are offered for 2011 entry. Each scholarship is for a period of three years, and will cover living expenses (currently £13,590 per annum), full-time UK/EU fees and up to £1,000 per annum for research expenses. Applications are invited from students wishing to work in any of the Centre’s research areas. One of the three scholarships is specifically for work on digital humanities in Celtic Studies (in collaboration with the Chair of Digital Collections at the National Library of Wales, Professor Lorna Hughes). Applicants are expected to have a first class or upper-second class degree in a relevant subject. Enquiries may be made to the Director of Postgraduate Studies, Dr David Parsons, D.Parsons@wales.ac.uk, or to Professor Lorna Hughes lorna.hughes@llgc.org.uk Application forms are available online at: http://www.wales.ac.uk/cawcs Closing date for applications: 10 June 2011 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun May 15 07:17:59 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05CAC1433B0; Sun, 15 May 2011 07:17:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id BA50814339A; Sun, 15 May 2011 07:17:56 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110515071756.BA50814339A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 15 May 2011 07:17:56 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.21 events: other minds X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 21. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 14 May 2011 07:54:07 +0100 From: Nicole Bremkens Subject: Interdisciplinary Conference Announcement Interdisciplinary Conference Understanding Other Minds Embodied Interaction and Higher-Order Reasoning September 20-21, 2011 A cooperation between the BMBF project OTHER MINDS (Bochum/Cologne) & Mindlab and Gnosis Research Center (Aarhus) Venue: LWL-Universitätsklinik Alexandrinenstraße 1-3 44780 Bochum Germany Contact and Registration: Bochum.Conference@rub.de Home: http://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/philosophy/otherminds-bochum/index.html Call for Posters Please submit an abstract (approx. 200 words) by August 1, 2011 to Bochum.Conference@gmail.com We accept poster submission on mindreading and interaction, mindreading and psychopathology, mindreading and emotions, as well as mindreading and models from all disciplines. 1st Day, 20th September Section: Interaction and Mindreading 9.15-9.30 Registration and Poster Hanging 09.30-10.05 John Michael (Aarhus) and Soren Overgaard (Copenhagen) Taking interaction seriously – but not too seriously 10.05-10.40 Bert Timmermans (Cologne) Towards a second-person neuroscience 10.40-11.15 Birgit Knudson (MPI Nijmegen) Infants’ appreciation of others’ beliefs in interpersonal interactions 11.15-11.30 Commentary Leon de Bruin (Bochum) 11.30-12.00 Coffee Break Section: Psychopathology and Mindreading 12.00-12.35 Anika Fiebich (Bochum) Three levels of intersubjectivity: cognitive interrelations and disorders 12.35-13.10 Antonia Hamilton (Nottingham) Beyond mirror neurons: responding to and understanding others 13.10-13.45 Christine Heinisch (Bochum) Recognizing and generation of emotional expressions in Schizophrenia 13.45-14.00 Commentary Leonhard Schilbach (Cologne) 14.00-15.00 Lunch Break 15.00-16.00 Poster-Session Special Event: Controversies in the Cognitive Sciences How useful is fMRI in psychiatry? 16.00-16.20 Introduction Joshua Skewes 16.20-16.50 Max Coltheart (Sidney) 16.50-17.20 Kai Vogeley (Cologne) 17.20-18.00 General Discussion 19.00 Conference Dinner 2nd Day, 21th September Section: Emotions and Mindreading 09.30-10.05 Joel Krueger (Copenhagen) Shared Emotions and Social Understanding 10.05-10.40 Anna Welpinghus (Bochum) Emotion recognition as pattern recognition 10.40-11.15 Marielle Stel (Tilburg) Effects of mimicry and facial feedback processes in understanding others’ emotions 11.15-11.30 Commentary Tobias Schlicht (Bochum) 11.30-12.00 Coffee Break Section: Alternative Approaches to Mindreading 12.00-12.45 Albert Newen (Bochum) Understanding Others: The Person Model Theory 12.45-13.30 Dan Hutto (Hertfordshire) Folk Psychology: Sticking to the High Road 13.30-14.15 Commentary Andreas Roepstorff (Aarhus) and General Discussion -- Ruhr-Universität Bochum Institut für Philosophie II Sekretariat Prof. Newen GA 3/153 44801 Bochum Tel.: 0234/32-28339 Fax: 0234/32-14963 Email: nicole.bremkens@rub.de sekretariat-newen@rub.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 Mon May 16 05:24:49 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7AC88144D5C; Mon, 16 May 2011 05:24:49 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E46E4144D46; Mon, 16 May 2011 05:24:46 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110516052446.E46E4144D46@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 05:24:46 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.22 in denial X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 22. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 15 May 2011 12:52:24 +0200 From: procchi@luiss.it Subject: on tool Recently I read: The car is a tool, The motorcycle is a tool, Radio is a tool TV is a tool …. The computer is a tool Everything you want to use as a tool is a tool. Obviously one learns how to use the object that he/she will adopt, and attends a course. Concepts are unnecessary to such a course which delivers operational contents. However if you change your mind and mean to discover the how and the why of your tool, if you like to examine the root-causes of this instrument, the principles that embody this implement, you attend university lessons that will improve your knowledge and will make you better conscious of your professional actions. As an example the driving school teaches the layman to drive a car, if he likes to be aware of the combustion engine the layman attends lessons on thermodynamics and rises the level of knowledge in motoring. This is not the case of computers. Thousands of operators deliver courses that are operational however if you like to go deep into computing, universities do not offer satisfactory lessons, they are unable to enhance your culture in the field, they do not broaden your view over technology. The reason is easy: theoretical researches on the principles of computing are stuck to the pole since decades. Despite great emphasis and presupposition experts refer to theoretical models alien to a number of modern digital solutions, they cite authors who lived more than fifty years ago, they assume as exhaustive theories that cover narrow areas. Humanists are sensitive to cultural values and should not ignore the current state of the art. I quote the recent debate “What is computing? What is information?” hosted by the ACM Ubiquity (http://ubiquity.acm.org/symposia.cfm) Best Paolo Rocchi Docent Emeritus IBM via Shangai 53, 00144 Roma Professor LUISS University via Alberoni 7, 00198 Roma _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 17 05:19:02 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0263E144964; Tue, 17 May 2011 05:19:02 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1CC15144954; Tue, 17 May 2011 05:18:59 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110517051859.1CC15144954@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 05:18:59 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.23 in denial X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 23. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 10:54:47 -0700 From: Jascha Kessler Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.22 in denial In-Reply-To: <20110516052446.E46E4144D46@woodward.joyent.us> While I am happy to agree with Prof. Rocchi — in the abstract, of course — the understanding of even the most primitive of tools, say the principles of finding the right flint, slate, obsidian, the chipping and making of a spearpoint, a knife for dissection of the mammoth, another flint for a spark for a cooking fire...all those aspects of feeding, the culturing of my tribe, and children, whether I am woman or man, is already divided into the tool-makers, and users, who need not know how to chip, or even hunt, if the hunters go out. On the other hand, Rocchi's concern re those who might want to know how to make gasoline, after refining crude oil, after drilling for it, after hunting for it, after studying geology at university, and so on back, might be useless tomorrow. I recommend Lem's haunting novel, FIASCO. S. Lem was both an engineer and highly-cultivated European style Humanist. I wont go further with that novel here, because it has to be read, to be felt, felt to be contemplated, contemplated to be understood, and understood to make my argument about denial/acceptance; ignorance/knowledge, etc. All the understanding of anything whatever is as nothing to the newborn child, who will, one way or another grow up the same primitive being whose bones may or may lie in the vicinity of the earliest cave-dwelling painters of hunting magic, if that is what those image are. Jascha Kessler On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 10:24 PM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 22. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Sun, 15 May 2011 12:52:24 +0200 > From: procchi@luiss.it > Subject: on tool > > > Recently I read: > The car is a tool, > The motorcycle is a tool, > Radio is a tool > TV is a tool > …. > The computer is a tool > > Everything you want to use as a tool is a tool. > > Obviously one learns how to use the object that he/she will adopt, and > attends a course. Concepts are unnecessary to such a course which delivers > operational contents. However if you change your mind and mean to discover > the how and the why of your tool, if you like to examine the root-causes of > this instrument, the principles that embody this implement, you attend > university lessons that will improve your knowledge and will make you better > conscious of your professional actions. As an example the driving school > teaches the layman to drive a car, if he likes to be aware of the combustion > engine the layman attends lessons on thermodynamics and rises the level of > knowledge in motoring. > > This is not the case of computers. > > Thousands of operators deliver courses that are operational however if you > like to go deep into computing, universities do not offer satisfactory > lessons, they are unable to enhance your culture in the field, they do not > broaden your view over technology. > > The reason is easy: theoretical researches on the principles of computing > are stuck to the pole since decades. Despite great emphasis and > presupposition experts refer to theoretical models alien to a number of > modern digital solutions, they cite authors who lived more than fifty years > ago, they assume as exhaustive theories that cover narrow areas. Humanists > are sensitive to cultural values and should not ignore the current state of > the art. I quote the recent debate “What is computing? What is information?” > hosted by the ACM Ubiquity (http://ubiquity.acm.org/symposia.cfm) > > Best > Paolo Rocchi > > Docent Emeritus > IBM > via Shangai 53, 00144 Roma > > Professor > LUISS University > via Alberoni 7, 00198 Roma -- Jascha Kessler Professor of English & Modern Literature, UCLA Telephone/Facsimile: 310.393.4648 www.jfkessler.com www.xlibris.com _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue May 17 05:21:12 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 065C0144A89; Tue, 17 May 2011 05:21:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 55DED144A5A; Tue, 17 May 2011 05:21:07 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110517052107.55DED144A5A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 05:21:07 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.24 job at BYU X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 24. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 11:53:23 -0600 From: Jarom McDonald Subject: job at Brigham Young University The Humanities Technology and Research Support Center at Brigham Young University is seeking to hire an assistant research professor whose responsibilities will include program director of the Computers in the Humanities (CHum) program and digital humanities research consultant. CHum is an academic program currently offering a minor in Humanities Computing and courses on the use of digital technologies in humanities disciplines. The ideal candidate for the position should be able to manage all aspects of developing, coordinating, and assessing a university academic program and also to contribute to the Center's broader goals of integrating digital humanities into the College curricula and faculty research through both conceptual and applied technical consultation. The position to be filled is a full-time professional faculty position with possible continuing faculty status (BYU’s equivalent of “tenure”). Summary of Responsibilities Plan, organize, and direct the Computers in the Humanities (CHum) program Teach courses in the CHum program and mentor students seeking a CHum minor Evaluate and assess CHum program curricula, course curricula, and instructor activity, focusing especially on keeping abreast of current trends in digital humanities scholarship and appropriate pedagogy, of emerging technology tools, software, and skills, and of evolving student needs and expectations Consult with college faculty on digital humanities research projects and inquiries Assist in coordinating student support of approved digital humanities projects Summary of Qualifications PhD strongly preferred, though highly experienced M.A. candidates may apply Experience in and strong understanding of college-level pedagogical vision, planning, and assessment Knowledge of and experience in curriculum development and instructor training Good knowledge of the digital humanities and the problems faced in this emerging discipline Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively and to communicate well with both students and faculty from a variety of disciplines and a number of different career paths Significant experience with and understanding of fundamental web technologies (HTTP/HTML5/CSS3/Javascript), as well as strong experience in one or more of the following programming languages: PHP, Perl, Python, Java, C derivitaves, or other major language Fluency in a foreign language a plus To apply for this position, please see full job description and complete the application online at https://yjobs.byu.edu. (Posting # 110216) Brigham Young University, an equal opportunity employer, does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, age, national origin, veteran status, or against qualified individuals with disabilities. All faculty are required to abide by the university’s honor code and dress and grooming standards. Preference is given to qualified candidates who are members in good standing of the affiliated church, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 17 05:23:07 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B788144B26; Tue, 17 May 2011 05:23:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 3EF55144B1A; Tue, 17 May 2011 05:23:05 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110517052305.3EF55144B1A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 05:23:05 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.25 new publications for Kindle and online X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 25. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 11:49:26 -0500 (CDT) From: Alan Corre Subject: Publication In-Reply-To: <304856462.212261.1305564522253.JavaMail.root@mail11.pantherlink.uwm.edu> I am pleased to announce that I have published on Kindle my translation with introduction and explanatory materials of Josef Klausner's: מה לעשות‪?‬ המשבר בספרות העברית (What should be done? The Crisis in Hebrew Literature) Search for it as "what should be done the crisis". If you do not have a Kindle or compatible item, you will be able to see it for free by July 1 on my website https://pantherfile.uwm.edu/corre/www > New This remarkable document was published just a century ago in Kraków to beg for the revivification of Hebrew by contributing a ruble a year to societies trying to achieve this goal; at the same time he marshaled arguments against using Yiddish or other European languages as the language of the Jewish people. At that time there were no native speakers of Hebrew. Compare that with today when most public libraries in the country have numerous English *translations* from Hebrew of novels by contemporary writers like David Grossman, and poets like Amichai. Reminder: My edition of *The Jews' Synagogue* by J. Buxtorf is still available on Kindle. Also: Icon Programming for Humanists free online at http://unicon.org/books/humanist.pdf or The softbound print edition may be ordered at http://unicon.org/books/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 17 05:24:24 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDDAC144B58; Tue, 17 May 2011 05:24:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 00764144B49; Tue, 17 May 2011 05:24:20 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110517052421.00764144B49@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 05:24:20 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.26 events: cfp for Digital Averroes Research Environment (DARE) X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 26. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 12:51:22 +0200 From: Florian Willems Subject: Last CFP: DARE Conference, Cologne, October 25-28 Dear Colleagues, please find attached the second and last call for papers for the First International DARE Conference at the University of Cologne, October 25-28, 2011. If your paper is accepted, the Thomas-Insitute, with generous help from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) and the Nordrhein-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Künste, will cover travel and accommodation expenses for the speakers. Best, Florian Willems. 2nd Call for Papers *Extended Deadline: May 23rd, 2011* In Cordoba more than 800 years ago, Ibn Rushd or – as the Latin scholars called him – Averroes was working on his commentaries on Aristotle, Galen, Ptolemy, and Alghazel, composing and constantly revising his treatises on Philosophy, Medicine, Astronomy, Islamic Law, and Theology. The preserved manuscripts bear witness to the Transformationof Averroes’s works, starting with his own efforts to rewrite them. Their Translation from the original Arabic to Latin and Hebrew and their manuscript Transmission have resulted in a highly convoluted body of texts. The multiple attempts to establish a satisfactory Edition of Averroes’s works - begun during the Renaissance and recommenced with the onset of historical scholarship in the late 19th century - have indeed produced a number of remarkable critical editions and studies. On the whole, however, they made the textual tradition even more complex – not to say complicated. This is the moment for Cologne, the moment for a fresh attempt at tackling the described complexity by means of the digital medium. The Digital Averroes Research Environment (DARE), initiated by the Thomas-Institut in 2010 and funded by the German Research Foundation, intends to provide all the means for studying Averroes, while at the same time offering a platform to discuss and annotate the texts. The planned conference constitutes the first possibility to explore this web-based repository of digital texts, metadata, manuscript images, and corresponding tools designed to document and make accessible the whole range of testimonies of Averroes’s works – from manuscripts and incunabula to critical editions, and including the Latin, Arabic and Hebrew traditions. At the same time, the conference provides an opportunity for the International Averroes Commission to hold a meeting and to discuss strategies for future research, especially concerning the critical edition of Averroes’s works, Corpus Commentariorum Averrois in Aristotelem. Philological issues: Whoever starts to study a text by Averroes is immediately confronted with at least three types of difficulties: First, there are Averroes’s changes of position from one work to another. Secondly, traces of massive rewriting have been detected in virtually every work of Averroes. Thus, one and the same text often exists in two or more versions and may contain several passages that date back to different periods of Averroes’s intellectual career and which have not necessarily been harmonized completely. Thirdly, the historical hazards of reception, translation and transmission have led to a situation where a full picture of Averroes’s thought cannot be gained from the Arabic originals only because too many of these are lost or represent a different – sometimes earlier and less extensive – version than the extant Hebrew and Latin translations. All these difficulties combine to create, in some cases, almost inextricable problems where the translator’s vocabulary, the variant readings, the parallel passages in other works extant in other languages and the changing position of Averroes himself have to be taken into account, or rather: each of these stumbling blocks has to be circumvented with the aid of the others. The conference aims at advancing further into the mesh of these interconnected problems thus shedding new light on the genesis of the Corpus Averroicum. Technical issues: DARE involves not only problems of mass digitization, deep archival storage, metadata and manuscript mark-up, but also the quite unique case of the different language traditions and the semantic connections of different origins in Averroes’s works. A major question is how scholars could be able to track these connections between traditions, origins, and raw data, on which editions are based, with the aid of the electronic corpus and tools. We will explore the field of collaborative, distributed research environments and basic text work, semantic connections and technologies, as well as interface design and visualization of content, and look at long-term archival strategies and the problems of collaborative work in the age of copyright. From Cordoba to Cologne – After nearly two years of work on a digital edition and research platform for the study of Averroes we as members of the DARE group would like to enter into a broad discussion with the International Averroes and Digital Humanities community. As indicated, the starting-point of the presented papers should be philological, technical or transdisciplinary: a route of transmission, a particularity of translation, a new technology in digital philology... -- Florian Willems M.A. DARE - Digital Averroes Research Environment Thomas-Institut Universität zu Köln / University of Cologne Universitätsstraße 22 50 923 Köln / Cologne, Germany Tel. +49 - (0)221 - 470 2985 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 17 05:33:15 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34144144F68; Tue, 17 May 2011 05:33:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 3FB80144F27; Tue, 17 May 2011 05:33:12 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110517053312.3FB80144F27@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 05:33:12 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.27 hiatus X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 27. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 06:29:51 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: hiatus Dear colleagues, Humanist will fall silent for the next few days, probably until the weekend, while its Editor changes hemispheres (geological, that is), rematerialises (metaphorically, that is) and gets himself reconnected. Stay tuned. Please do not adjust your set. And keep your curiosities coming. Yours, WM -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue May 17 05:35:17 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83F22144036; Tue, 17 May 2011 05:35:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 2D363144025; Tue, 17 May 2011 05:35:13 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110517053513.2D363144025@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 05:35:13 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.28 new on WWW: D-Lib for May/June X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 28. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 17:46:56 +0100 From: Bonnie Wilson Subject: [Dlib-subscribers] The May/June 2011 issue of D-Lib Magazine is nowavailable Greetings: The May/June 2011 issue of D-Lib Magazine (http://www.dlib.org/) is now available. This issue contains four articles, several short pieces in the 'In Brief' column, excerpts from recent press releases, and news of upcoming conferences and other items of interest in 'Clips and Pointers'. This month, D-Lib features the the American-Rails.com web site, courtesy of Adam Burns. The articles include: Institutional Repositories and Digital Preservation: Assessing Current Practices at Research Libraries Article by Yuan Li, University of Syracuse and Meghan Banach, University of Massachusetts Amherst Building an Institutional Discovery Layer for Virtual Research Collections Article by Malcolm Wolski, Joanna Richardson and Robyn Rebollo, Griffith University, Australia Model-Oriented Scientific Research Reports Article by Robert Allen, Drexel University JPEG 2000 for Long-term Preservation: JP2 as a Preservation Format Article by Johan van der Knijff, KB / National Library of the Netherlands D-Lib Magazine has mirror sites at the following locations: UKOLN, University of Bath, Bath, England http://mirrored.ukoln.ac.uk/lis-journals/dlib/ The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia http://dlib.anu.edu.au/ State Library of Lower Saxony and the University Library of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany http://webdoc.sub.gwdg.de/edoc/aw/d-lib/ Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan http://dlib.ejournal.ascc.net/ BN - National Library of Portugal, Portugal http://purl.pt/302/1 (If the mirror site closest to you is not displaying the May/June 2011 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 D-Lib Magazine _______________________________________________ DLib-Subscribers mailing list DLib-Subscribers@dlib.org http://www.dlib.org/mailman/listinfo/dlib-subscribers ______________________________________________________________________ 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 May 17 05:41:28 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 483E21442CD; Tue, 17 May 2011 05:41:28 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id F027D1442B9; Tue, 17 May 2011 05:41:25 +0000 (GMT) Subject: 25.29 events: digital humanities in Göttingen; digital classics in London From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110517054125.F027D1442B9@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 05:41:25 +0000 (GMT) X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 29. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Felix Lohmeier (34) Subject: Digital Humanities Festakt am 12. und 13. Juli 2011 in Göttingen [2] From: Willard McCarty (60) Subject: Digital Classicist Seminar, Summer 2011 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 14:09:02 +0100 From: Felix Lohmeier Subject: Digital Humanities Festakt am 12. und 13. Juli 2011 in Göttingen Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren, liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen, zu unserem Digital Humanities Festakt am 12. und 13. Juli 2011 möchten wir Sie herzlich nach Göttingen einladen. Anlässe sind die Eröffnung des Göttingen Centre for Digital Humanities (GCDH) und die Vorstellung der produktionsreifen Version 1.0 von TextGrid. Wir stellen verschiedene Initiativen vor, die die Forschung und Lehre durch neue Forschungsinfrastrukturen, den Einsatz digitaler Methoden in den Geistes-, Sozial- und Kulturwissenschaften sowie die Vernetzung auf lokaler, nationaler und europäischer Ebene unterstützen. Die Vorhaben, deren Umsetzung auch vom Wissenschaftsrat jüngst empfohlen wurde, verfolgen wir - sowohl auf regionaler Ebene an der Universität Göttingen -> Nds.-MWK-Projekt Digital Humanities, - auf nationaler Ebene -> BMBF-Projekt TextGrid - als auch auf internationaler Ebene -> EU-Projekt DARIAH. Für den 12. Juli ist ein Festakt in der Paulinerkirche im Historischen Gebäude der SUB Göttingen mit zahlreichen Gästen aus Politik und Wissenschaft geplant, u.a. der niedersächsischen Wissenschaftsministerin Prof. Johanna Wanka (angefragt), Universitätspräsidentin Prof. Dr. Ulrike Beisiegel, Stiftungsratsvorsitzender Dr. Wilhelm Krull, Dr. Haim Gertner vom EU-Projekt European Holocaust Research Infrastructure und Dr. Tobias Blanke vom King's College London. Auf dem Göttinger "Roten Sofa" werden Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler über Erfahrungen, Chancen und Schwierigkeiten der Digital Humanities diskutieren. Am 13. Juli wird das von zehn Verbundpartnern getragene BMBF-geförderte Projekt TextGrid Schulungen zu seiner Virtuellen Forschungsumgebung sowie weiterführende Workshops zum Thema Digital Humanities anbieten. Bitte melden Sie sich über unsere Internet-Seite www.textgrid.de/festakt zu der Veranstaltung an (Anmeldeschluss: 31. Mai). Wir freuen uns über Ihr Interesse und auf Ihre Teilnahme. Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Prof. Dr. Norbert Lossau (Direktor der SUB Göttingen) Prof. Dr. Gerhard Lauer (Vorstandsvorsitzender des GCDH) --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 06:39:36 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Digital Classicist Seminar, Summer 2011 Institute of Classical Studies Digital Classicist Seminar, Summer 2011 Fridays at 16:30 in Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU June 3 Kathryn Piquette and Charles Crowther (Oxford), Developing a Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) System for Inscription Documentation in Museum Collections and the Field: Case studies on ancient Egyptian and Classical material June 10 David Scott and Mike Jackson (Edinburgh University), Supporting Productive Queries for Research (SPQR): Aggregating Classical Datasets with Linked Data June 17 Charlotte Roueché and Charlotte Tupman (King's College London), Sharing Ancient Wisdoms: developing structures for charting textual transfer June 24 Alessandro Vatri (Oxford University), HdtDep: a treebank and search engine for Greek word order study July 1 Agiatis Benardou (Digital Curation Unit, R.C. “Athena”), Classical Studies facing digital research infrastructures: From practice to requirements July 8 Timothy Hill (New York University), Semantics and Semantic Constructs in Cultural Comparison: The Case of Late Antiquity July 15 Elton Barker (Open University) & Leif Isaksen (Southampton), Mine the GAP: Finding ancient places in the Google Books corpus July 22 Sandra Blakely (Emory), Modeling the mysteries: GIS technology, network models, and the cult of the Great Gods of Samothrace July 29 Marco Büchler (Leipzig), Bringing Modern Spell Checking Approaches to Ancient Texts: Automatized Suggestions for Incomplete Words August 5 Daniel Pett (British Museum), The Portable Antiquities Scheme: a tool for studying the Ancient landscape of England and Wales August 12 Valentina Asciutti & Stuart Dunn (King's College London), Digital diasporas: remaking cultural heritage in cyberspace ALL WELCOME The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments. For more information please contact Gabriel.Bodard@kcl.ac.uk, Stuart.Dunn@kcl.ac.uk or S.Mahony@ucl.ac.uk, or see the seminar website at http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2011.html -- Dr Gabriel BODARD (Research Associate in Digital Epigraphy) Department of Digital Humanities King's College London 26-29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL Email: gabriel.bodard@kcl.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 1388 Fax: +44 (0)20 7848 2980 http://www.digitalclassicist.org/ http://www.currentepigraphy.org/ -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue May 17 05:51:08 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7A3314443B; Tue, 17 May 2011 05:51:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D325914442B; Tue, 17 May 2011 05:51:05 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110517055105.D325914442B@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 05:51:05 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.30 events: cfp for Knowledge/Culture/Social Change X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 30. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 09:07:23 +0000 From: Reena Dobson Subject: Call for Papers - Knowledge/Culture/Social Change International Conference - 7-9 November 2011 CALL FOR PAPERS Knowledge/Culture/Social Change International Conference 7-9 November 2011 Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, Australia http://www.uws.edu.au/ccr/kcsc The humanities and social sciences today struggle to come to terms with the explosion of knowledge in increasingly complex, diverse and networked societies. Which forms of knowledge work best for managing, challenging or engaging with rapid social change? Do new kinds of information play an increasing role in economic and social management? Do these changes raise questions about what ?knowledge? is, or is to become? What are the new rules for engagement between academic and other knowledge practices and institutions? This conference will bring together theorists and practitioners from a range of backgrounds and knowledge institutions to debate these questions in relation to the following themes: * Shifting knowledge maps. Discipline boundaries are increasingly permeable within the humanities and social sciences and across these and the natural and physical sciences. Yet it often proves difficult to connect these new knowledge maps both within academia and across sectors (university / government; public / private; NGO / university / government, etc.). Knowledge engagement is more problematic, just as it is becoming more important and desirable. How are these problems best addressed? * Knowledge and globalisation. Processes of globalisation undermine the relevance of purely national knowledge frameworks, while the hegemony of Western knowledge systems is challenged on many fronts: the increasing influence of Asia; the resurgent interest in indigenous and community knowledges; and the competing perspectives of multiple modernities. How can the relations between these multiple knowledge practices best be engaged with? * A (Post)humanities? The nature / culture dualism is under challenge from a diverse range of knowledges (ecological, post-rational, feminist, animal studies, etc). These interventions engage the global predicament presented by climate change, blurring the boundaries between natural and social environments, while medical and nano technologies radically restructure our sense of the boundaries and constituents of personhood. How can we now best understand our entanglements with the more-than-human? * Digital knowledge practices. New electronic and digital technologies are rapidly changing the mechanisms and speeds of knowledge flows with profound consequences for intellectual property and the practices of knowledge institutions, while also enabling new ways of knowing that significantly challenge older relations of knowledge production. How can our practices respond to these new knowledge possibilities? * Knowledge and governance. New kinds of data ? quantitative and qualitative ? and methods and techniques of visualisation play an increasingly important role in economic and social management, while science / arts divisions are undermined by new kinds of art / science practice. Knowledge institutions and technologies play new roles in processes of social and cultural change; e.g. archives, museums, science centres, statistical and other data banks. In what ways do these new knowledge practices actively intervene and shape social life? KEYNOTE SPEAKERS ---------------- * Dawn Casey, Director, Powerhouse Museum; Chair, Indigenous Business Australia. Title: Museums, Conflicting Cultures and the Politics of Knowing * Dipesh Chakrabarty, Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor of History, South Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago. Title: The Human after Climate Change * Penny Harvey, Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester; a Director in the ESRC Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change. Title: Surface Dramas, Knowledge Gaps and Scalar Shifts: Infrastructural Engineering in Sacred Spaces * Bruno Latour, Scientific Director, Professor and Vice President for Research, Sciences-Po [via videolink]. Title: Social Theory, Tarde, and the Web * Nikolas Rose, James Martin White Professor of Sociology, London School of Economics; Director, BIOS Centre for the Study of Bioscience, Biomedicine, Biotechnology and Society. Title: The Human Sciences in the Century of Biology PAPER AND PANEL PROPOSALS ------------------------- Paper and panel proposals addressing the conference themes are invited. Proposals spanning one or more themes are especially welcome. * Individual paper proposals (200-300 words) * Panel proposals (200 words for the panel concept and 200-300 words on each panel paper) Please visit the following URL to submit your abstract: https://www.conferenceonline.com/index.cfm?page=booking&object=abstract&forceHB=1&id=203 The deadline for abstract submissions is Friday 3 June 2011. ORGANISING COMMITTEE CONTACTS ----------------------------- Tony Bennett: t.bennett@uws.edu.au Bob Hodge: b.hodge@uws.edu.au Kay Anderson: k.anderson@uws.edu.au Sonja van Wichelen: s.vanwichelen@uws.edu.au Administrative contact - Reena Dobson: r.dobson@uws.edu.au CONFERENCE WEBSITE ------------------ Please visit the conference website regularly for updates: http://www.uws.edu.au/ccr/kcsc _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 18 06:03:42 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B463145B6B; Wed, 18 May 2011 06:03:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 21524145B53; Wed, 18 May 2011 06:03:37 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110518060337.21524145B53@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 06:03:37 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.31 in denial X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 31. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: James Rovira (39) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.23 in denial [2] From: del thomas Ph D (105) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.23 in denial --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 09:22:36 -0400 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.23 in denial In-Reply-To: <20110517051859.1CC15144954@woodward.joyent.us> Plato's discussion of the difference between the users of a technology and the producers of it in Book X of the Republic may also be of interest here: That there are three arts which are concerned with all things: one which uses, another which makes, a third which imitates them? Yes. And the excellence or beauty or truth of every structure, animate or inanimate, and of every action of man, is relative to the use for which nature or the artist has intended them. True. Then the user of them must have the greatest experience of them, and he must indicate to the maker the good or bad qualities which develop themselves in use; for example, the flute-player will tell the flute-maker which of his flutes is satisfactory to the performer; he will tell him how he ought to make them, and the other will attend to his instructions? Of course. The one knows and therefore speaks with authority about the goodness and badness of flutes, while the other, confiding in him, will do what he is told by him? True. The instrument is the same, but about the excellence or badness of it the maker will only attain to a correct belief; and this he will gain from him who knows, by talking to him and being compelled to hear what he has to say, whereas the user will have knowledge? http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/republic.11.x.html The parallel does not completely hold up, as computer "makers" are also among the most proficient computer "users," but this difference may make for an interesting point of discussion about the ways in which a computer is so very different as a tool. Jim R > While I am happy to agree with Prof. Rocchi — in the abstract, of course — > the understanding of even the most primitive of tools, say the principles of > finding the right flint, slate, obsidian, the chipping and making of a > spearpoint, a knife for dissection of the mammoth, another flint for a spark > for a cooking fire...all those aspects of feeding, the culturing of my > tribe, and children, whether I am woman or man, is already divided into the > tool-makers, and users, who need not know how to chip, or even hunt, if the > hunters go out. > --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 09:52:52 -0400 From: del thomas Ph D Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.23 in denial In-Reply-To: <20110517051859.1CC15144954@woodward.joyent.us> When it comes to the simplest tools such as the inclined plane we are all at some time the builder and or user. But perhaps more of a concern "Men have become the tools of their tools."Henry David Thoreau. Del _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 18 06:04:51 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1053E145BCA; Wed, 18 May 2011 06:04:51 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C1098145BB8; Wed, 18 May 2011 06:04:46 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110518060446.C1098145BB8@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 06:04:46 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.32 new on WWW: Stellenbibliographie zum Parzival Wolframs von Eschenbach X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 32. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 14:56:41 +0100 From: "Yeandle, David" Subject: Line-by-line Bibliographical Database of Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival > Subject: Line-by-line Bibliographical Database of Wolfram von Eschenbach’s Parzival > Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 11:18:47 +0100 > From: Yeandle, David Dear Colleagues, I should like to draw your attention to the fact that the Line-by-line Bibliographical Database of Wolfram von Eschenbach’s Parzival for the years 1753-2004, which was produced at King’s College London from 1997 to 2008, funded mainly by the AHRC, is now freely available online at: http://wolfram.lexcoll.net/ The Stellenbibliographie zum Parzival Wolframs von Eschenbach (SBP) is a multifaceted work that can be used in a variety of ways. In addition to its principal function as a bibliography to each line of Parzival (available on two levels of detail and including references to the topic of comment to be found), it contains thematic indices; indices of authors and titles; of types, language, and dates of works; and a full lemmatized concordance of the text of Parzival, linked to the dictionaries of the University of Trier. There is also a lemmatized index of work titles. Additionally, the full text of the notes from the edition of Bartsch (revised Marti) is included in the SBP alongside the text of the Parzival. This provides the user with a preliminary orientation concerning the meaning of the Middle High German text. There is a detailed description of the functions of the SBP in German, together with a less detailed description in English. Since the SBP is such a complex work, it was necessary to opt for one language for the interface, and logically this had to be German, as most of the secondary literature is in German and a proper understanding of the poem can only be had from the Middle High German original. It is hoped nevertheless that the SBP can be used by non-German speaking scholars by means of the shorter introduction in English. Please forward this email to any who might be interested in the work. Best wishes, David Yeandle -- Professor David N. Yeandle, M.A., Ph.D. (Cantab.) Email david.yeandle@kcl.ac.uk Telephone 01480 301737 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 18 06:05:26 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 149CE145C15; Wed, 18 May 2011 06:05:26 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0D4E4145BFD; Wed, 18 May 2011 06:05:21 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110518060522.0D4E4145BFD@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 06:05:21 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.33 events: closing keynote DH2011 X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 33. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 08:49:26 -0700 From: Jockers Matthew Subject: DH 2011 Closing Keynote We are very pleased to announce that the closing keynote for DH2011 will feature Erez Lieberman-Aiden and Jean-Baptiste Michel, lead authors of “Quantitative Analysis of Culture Using Millions of Digitized Books” published in Science (2010). Lieberman-Aiden and Michel are also the key researchers behind the Google n-grams viewer. Erez Lieberman Aiden is a fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows and Visiting Faculty at Google. His research spans many disciplines and has won numerous awards, including recognition for one of the top 20 “Biotech Breakthroughs that will Change Medicine”, by Popular Mechanics; the Lemelson-MIT prize for the best student inventor at MIT; the American Physical Society’s Award for the Best Doctoral Dissertation in Biological Physics; and membership in Technology Review’s 2009 TR35, recognizing the top 35 innovators under 35. His last three papers – two with JB Michel – have all appeared on the cover of Nature and Science. Jean-Baptiste Michel is FQEB Fellow at Harvard and Visiting Faculty at Google. With Erez Lieberman Aiden, he founded the Cultural Observatory at Harvard, where their team develops quantitative approaches to the humanities and social sciences. Jean-Baptiste is an Engineer of Ecole Polytechnique, and received an MS in Applied Math and a PhD in Systems Biology from Harvard. -- Matthew Jockers Stanford University http://www.stanford.edu/~mjockers _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu May 19 22:25:11 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2C901485A1; Thu, 19 May 2011 22:25:11 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A8D50148596; Thu, 19 May 2011 22:25:08 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110519222508.A8D50148596@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 22:25:08 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.34 in denial X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 34. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 10:01:37 -0300 From: Matt Huculak Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.31 in denial In-Reply-To: <20110518060337.21524145B53@woodward.joyent.us> I think we are forgetting an important part of the human/tool relationship in this discussion (and I apologize if I missed a thread in which this is discussed): in practical terms, we tend to become _emotionally_ involved with our tools so that they no longer represent some "thing", rather they become "our thing" and extensions of our imaginations. It's a form of pathetic fallacy of tool-use. This is important because we actually become attached and involved with our computers and computing systems (I am a mac person, and I ridiculously feel pity for Windows users, for example...though a bit insecure around Unix and Linux administrators). Apple has built an empire making people forget that they are using tools. Their products produce the illusion of being extensions of the human body and imagination. This is very intoxicating to the user. I bring this up because the biggest problem in the Humanities right now is that not enough humanists know how to code, and thus we do not have a proper sample of what humanists actually _want_ to do when it comes to computing. I've been really impressed with the Scholars' Lab "Spatial Humanities" site which seeks to instruct users on how to create their own maps (http://spatial.scholarslab.org/). That is, the tool gets out of the way and individual scholars are allowed to let their imagination play with a technology which promises to reveal new and interesting ways of reading our texts. I think our theoretical discussions might change when we observe how humanists actually start using actually existing technology as extensions of their own selves and imaginations (just look at the excitement surround GIS right now--I guarantee scholarship will be turned to the "spatial" for the next few years simply because it has become easy to engage in this type of mapping activity). For the teaching/researching public, "is it a tool" is not a question that is meaningful; "what can I do with it" and "how can I make it mine" is. Dr. J. Matthew Huculak Academic Postdoctoral Fellow, Dalhousie University, Editing Modernism in Canada Webmaster & Consulting Trustee to the Executive Board, Modernist Studies Association http://msa.press.jhu.edu/ http://editingmodernism.ca/ http://matthuculak.com/ @jmhuculak _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 19 22:25:58 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DEF4148600; Thu, 19 May 2011 22:25:58 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id AAC7A1485EF; Thu, 19 May 2011 22:25:56 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110519222556.AAC7A1485EF@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 22:25:56 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.35 jobs at the New York Public Library X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 35. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 14:58:51 -0400 From: Doug Reside Subject: Two jobs at NYPL All, We are seeking two digital humanities developers for projects at NYPL. Apply here: https://jobs-nypl.icims.com/jobs/search?ss=1&searchKeyword=Labs&searchLocation=&searchCategory=11045 Descriptions below. Doug ------------ Front-End Web Developer/Designer, NYPL Labs Overview: The New York Public Library seeks a talented web designer/developer to join the Library's new research and development unit, NYPL Labs. We are looking for someone who is willing to experiment, able to build, test and debug in rapid iterations, and excited to join the intellectual life of NYPL and the wider digital humanities and creative tech community. Work will be situated in midtown Manhattan within NYPL's larger web group, but will focused on projects that break new ground in digital humanities research and/or facilitate new forms of networked participation in library activity. Projects may range from building crowdsourcing tools for enhancing library collections, rethinking established genres such as archival finding aids, or developing multi-modal (potentially cross-institutional) digital archives of special collections material. Some projects will be proof-of-concept prototypes aimed at hatching ideas that might eventually be applied more broadly across the library, others will be fully realized applications that become staple resources in the NYPL web environment. All will place you at the intersection of scholarly, library and technological innovation taking place at one of the world' greatest public research institutions, tapped into one of the worlds largest and most creatively dynamic urban populations. External Responsibilities: We are seeking a developer who can: Build and design attractive and intuitive web application interfaces. Work with our User Experience Designers to adapt existing and create new software-based solutions to support the needs of our patrons. Explore new platforms and architectures for NYPL services and content. Keep up to date with the latest trends in both web technology and digital libraries/digital humanities, and participate in a community of fellow practitioners. Perform other related duties as required Qualifications: Bachelor's degree in Web Development, Computer Science, Digital Design, or a related field (or equivalent experience). Expert level HTML and CSS skills. Excellent knowledge of Javascript, including frameworks and techniques such as AJAX, JQuery and/or Prototype. Demonstrated experience working with dynamic content in template-driven web frameworks such as Ruby on Rails, Drupal, etc. Knowledge of source code/version control software, test driven development, and Agile processes area major plus. Strong interpersonal, oral and written communication skills, including demonstrated ability to work well collaboratively or independently. Ability to take initative and meet deadlines. Position will report to the web development team of the NYPL Strategy Office, under the Senior Manager for Wen Initiatives, and will work closely day to day with the Manager of NYPL Labs. ---------------------------------------------------------- Web Applications Developer, NYPL Labs Position Description: Overview: The New York Public Library seeks a talented web applications developer to join the Library's new research and development unit, NYPL Labs. We are looking for someone who is willing to experiment, able to build, test and debug in rapid iterations, and excited to join the intellectual life of NYPL and the wider digital humanities and creative tech community. Work will be situated in midtown Manhattan within NYPL's larger web group, but will be focused on projects that break new ground in digital humanities research and/or facilitate new forms of networked participation in library activity. Projects may range from building crowdsourcing tools for enhancing library collections, rethinking established genres such as archival finding aids, or developing multi-modal (potentially cross-institutional) digital archives of special collections material.Some projects will be proof-of-concept prototypes aimed at hatching ideas that might eventually be applied more broadly across the Library. Others will be fully realized applications that become staple resources in the NYPL web environment. All will place you at the intersection of scholarly, library and technological innovation taking place at one of the worlds great public research institutions. Tapped into one of the worlds largest and most creatively dynamic urban populations. Responsibilities: We are seeking a developer who can: Design and implement scalable, optimized, database-driven web applications using server and client-side techniques. Work with our User Experience Designers to adapt existing and create new software-based solutions to support the needs of our patrons. Specify and build APIs, data feeds and other ways of interacting with NYPL content beyond web-based interfaces. Explore new platforms and architectures for NYPL services and content. Keep up to date with the latest trends in both web technology and digital libraries/digital humanities, and participate in a community of fellow practitioners. Perform other related duties as required Qualifications: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or a related field (or equivalent experience). Excellent knowledge of databased-driven web development using PHP and Javascript. Demonstrated experience working with web-based content management systems, including familiarity with database programming (MySQL preferred), user accounts and session management. Preferred or desired experience in Ruby on Rails or other MVC framework. Preferred or desired experience with Drupal or equivalent CMS. Experience with front-end development (CSS, XHTML, JQuery, etc.) preferred. Knowledge of source code/version control software, test-driven development, and Agile processes are a major plus. Strong interpersonal, oral and written communication skills, including demonstrated ability to work collaboratively or independently. Ability to take initiative and meet deadlines. Position will report to web development team of the NYPL Strategy Office, under the Senior Manager for Web Initiatives, and will work closely day to day with Manager of NYPL Labs. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 19 22:27:04 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF2CC14863E; Thu, 19 May 2011 22:27:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id DF8E414862F; Thu, 19 May 2011 22:27:00 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110519222700.DF8E414862F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 22:27:00 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.36 new on WWW: correspondence X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 36. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 08:45:53 +0200 From: Edward Vanhoutte Subject: DALF release: digital edition of correspondence material concerning the journal 'Van Nu en Straks' In-Reply-To: <20110518060446.C1098145BB8@woodward.joyent.us> The Centre for Scholarly Editing and Document Studies of the Royal Academy of Dutch Language and Literature is proud to present its first release through the Digital Archive of Letters in Flanders (DALF), the 'Van Nu en Straks Brieven': http://vnsbrieven.org . This fully eXist-driven web interface allows users to browse, search, view, and export the encoded letters or custom selections of letters in various formats: XHTML, XML, PDF. The letters can be visualized as reading text, diplomatic transcription, or XML source view, and facsimiles are offered where available. Most of these 1500 letters are in Dutch (180 are in French), and all of them deal with the Flemish literary journal 'Van Nu en Straks' (1893-1901). The encoding of the letters follows the DALF Guidelines for the Description and Encoding of Modern Correspondence Material (see http://www.kantl.be/ctb/project/dalf/ ), a customization of the TEI P4 Guidelines. So far, all information in the edition is in Dutch. An English version of the edition interface is available at http://vnsbrieven.org/VNS/?lang=en . Ron Van den Branden Bert Van Raemdonck Edward Vanhoutte -- ================ Edward Vanhoutte Coordinator Onderzoek& Publicaties Director of Research& Publications Centrum voor Teksteditie en Bronnenstudie - CTB (KANTL) Centre for Scholarly Editing and Document Studies Koninklijke Academie voor Nederlandse Taal- en Letterkunde Royal Academy of Dutch Language and Literature Koningstraat 18 | b-9000 Gent | Belgium email: edward.vanhoutte@kantl.be tel: +32 9 265 93 51 | fax: +32 9 265 93 49 http://ctb.kantl.be/ http://ctb.kantl.be/vanhoutte/ http://ctb.kantl.be/staff/edward.htm Editor-in-Chief LLC. The Journal of Digital Scholarship in the Humanities: http://llc.oxfordjournals.org Managing Editor | Redactiesecretaris Verslagen& Mededelingen KANTL: http://www.verslagenenmededelingen.be Anton van Wilderode. 'De moerbeitoppen ruischten. Documentaire varianteneditie met een kroniek van de genese door Edward Vanhoutte.' Gent: KANTL, 2010. 784 pp. - ill. ISBN 978-90-72474-82-7. € 45. Gebonden hardback uitvoering. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 19 22:27:58 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DCE8148685; Thu, 19 May 2011 22:27:58 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B476A148675; Thu, 19 May 2011 22:27:55 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20110519222755.B476A148675@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 22:27:55 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.37 projects: Libraries as places of research X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 37. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 08:40:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Laval Hunsucker Subject: Support for 'libraries as places of research' In-Reply-To: <20110503050723.006BE13AC06@woodward.joyent.us> This press release, issued yesterday, may well be of interest to some persons here. Some interesting stuff being funded, largely in the Humanities area ( notice that, toward the bottom, there's a link to a list of the projects concerned, with brief descriptions ) : http://www.dfg.de/service/presse/pressemitteilungen/2011/pressemitteilung_nr_20/index.html - Laval Hunsucker Breukelen, Nederland 19 March 2011 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri May 20 20:36:17 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED5D91484FC; Fri, 20 May 2011 20:36:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D7AD61484EA; Fri, 20 May 2011 20:36:13 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20110520203613.D7AD61484EA@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 20:36:13 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.38 in denial X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 38. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 09:00:25 -0400 From: Haines Brown Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.34 in denial In-Reply-To: <20110519222508.A8D50148596@woodward.joyent.us> > Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 10:01:37 -0300 > From: Matt Huculak > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.31 in denial > In-Reply-To: <20110518060337.21524145B53@woodward.joyent.us> > > > I think we are forgetting an important part of the human/tool > relationship in this discussion (and I apologize if I missed a > thread in which this is discussed): in practical terms, we tend to > become _emotionally_ involved with our tools so that they no longer > represent some "thing", rather they become "our thing" and > extensions of our imaginations. It's a form of pathetic fallacy of > tool-use. I regret not having followed the thread closely, but this message caught my eye. I assume the pathetic fallacy is the attribution of human mental modalities to inanimate objects. I'm not much drawn to the reductionism of neuroscience or to the explicit or implicit dualism of its alternatives, but the former does make clear that emotion is a connection of the brainstem with the body and is the motivator of action. Since tool use involves action, emotion is always involved. There's also the pleasure of an endorphin reward for having manipulated the world to meet one's needs. True, the message spoke of an emotional attachment to a tool rather than from its use, but it makes sense that if we get a chemical high from the use of a tool and if a tool enhances our powers in the world, we would become rather attached to it, as we do to other physical objects such as our home or environs. If a tool is a material object that enhances my powers to act on the world, why not see it as a material extension of self? The real issue here is whether an effect embodies the (mental) properties of its cause, or is the effect only constrained and enabled by those properties? More specifically, some people (although not I) see intentionality as the cause of our actions, and the result of our action is a material embodiment of a mental modality. However, that it expresses our intentions does not mean the object has intentionality. One can approach this issue in philosophical or in economic terms. There's an old Hegelian notion that by acting on the world it becomes a material expression or objectification of self. If this only means a causal interaction of entities such as self-other or mind-body, the point rings hollow and perhaps gets close to a pathetic fallacy (exactly what about self becomes embedded in the world?). There are alternatives (a non-reductionist processual superposition being my favorite). The tool is the primary interface with our world, and if that relation is the precondition for our development as human beings and enhances our powers to actualizes the world's possibilities, the tool is critically important to us. Should we not become emotionally attached to it because of its enlargement of self? This hardly attributes the properties of mind to a tool. The other side of this coin is economic. I assume that any action is simultaneously creative and conservative because any action draws on real possibilities in the world to produce a new state of affairs, and at the same time it is constrained by existing structures, which are thought of as the past state of affairs. Given this assumption, because a tool by itself can only frame existing structures, it is intrinsically conservative of value. Put in old fashioned terms, the tool therefore cannot itself create new value (a "surplus value" beyond the value of existing structures). Economic value over and above existing value can only be an actualization of the world's real possibilities by the person using the tool and aware of the world's possibilities, and the tool is a means for the development of self through the actualization of these real possibilities. This is contrary to a common belief of economists that technology itself is the source of new value. This would make tools creative, which indeed would be a pathetic fallacy. Haines Brown _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri May 20 20:36:48 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33179148539; Fri, 20 May 2011 20:36:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 4AFE0148524; Fri, 20 May 2011 20:36:46 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110520203646.4AFE0148524@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 20:36:46 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.39 zoom in on ancient Rome, or what? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 39. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 08:32:53 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: zoom in on ancient Rome See http://www.reading.ac.uk/about/newsandevents/releases/PR355783.aspx on a project from the University of Reading (UK). Comments on what such a thing (or better, what the human-machine interaction in this case) has to do with history and historiography would be welcome. Or perhaps what's happening here should not be hauled up before the judge and asked for evidence of value to the study of ancient Rome but read for what it has to tell us about something we'd like to be able to do but don't quite yet know how to do it. Ideally, from the perspective of an historian, what sorts of questions could be addressed in anything like this zooming in? What if the technology were (as I think people say) immersive? Less the animated cartoon-version, more the experience of being there and enacting Rome? What questions should we be asking? Yours, WM -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri May 20 20:37:54 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF7A41485C1; Fri, 20 May 2011 20:37:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B509014858F; Fri, 20 May 2011 20:37:50 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110520203750.B509014858F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 20:37:50 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.40 more correspondence: Carl Maria von Weber X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 40. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 11:13:51 +0200 From: Peter Stadler Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.36 new on WWW: correspondence In-Reply-To: <20110519222700.DF8E414862F@woodward.joyent.us> Congratulations to Edward, Ron and Bert for their release of the "Van Nu en Straks Brieven"! Let me add the annoncement of our own correspondence project www.weber-gesamtausgabe.de ("Complete Works of Carl Maria von Weber") >From a technical point of view it's quite similar: eXist-driven, TEI-based, different views for the user (facsimile, xml, html). Please note that the website reflects the current state of work and is not at all a complete edition yet -- neither in a technical sense nor with regards to content or language localisations. (We'll keep you updated about the progress on our website.) We hope that you show eager interest in this edition and are looking forward to any comments (critical as well as encouraging ones!) All the best from Detmold, Germany Peter Stadler and Joachim Veit -- Peter Stadler Carl-Maria-von-Weber-Gesamtausgabe Arbeitsstelle Detmold Gartenstr. 20 D-32756 Detmold Tel. +49 5231 975-665 Fax: +49 5231 975-668 stadler at weber-gesamtausgabe.de www.weber-gesamtausgabe.de _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun May 22 20:21:46 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id F40AB1491F0; Sun, 22 May 2011 20:21:45 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 3FEDD1491DD; Sun, 22 May 2011 20:21:41 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110522202141.3FEDD1491DD@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 22 May 2011 20:21:41 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.41 in denial X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 41. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 13:47:50 -0700 From: Jascha Kessler Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.38 in denial In-Reply-To: <20110520203613.D7AD61484EA@woodward.joyent.us> To tie a knot at the end of this thread, and make simpler Haines Brown's last paragraphs, the term that has not appeared yet might the one that used to be used to characterize the species that does all these things, writing up pathetic fallacies included. Viz., it used be that we called ourselves, or one thinker called us: Homo faber. This name for us all encompasses a lot of what has been sent out on this thread from the first. The details in the narrow case of the silicon cavetto that holds and sends electrons are aspects of ourselves. By the way, a neat obit for Mr. Jones appeared in yesterday's LA Times, Mr Jones of Bell Labs, a Canadian from Nova Scotia who with a colleague invented the digital means of making silicon something that could do all these things. His life makes a fine story. An hour's brainstorming one afternoon with colleague Smith, and the deed was done. Wonderful to contemplate. He was 85; so all this is current stuff for us. As for the tool, that may from the first sharpened flint be attributed to what was once called: Homo ludens. Jascha Kessler -- Jascha Kessler Professor of English & Modern Literature, UCLA Telephone/Facsimile: 310.393.4648 www.jfkessler.com www.xlibris.com _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue May 24 23:17:56 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AD7D14B32E; Tue, 24 May 2011 23:17:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 8013314B31C; Tue, 24 May 2011 23:17:52 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110524231752.8013314B31C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 23:17:52 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.42 in denial X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 42. 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] 25.41 in denial [2] From: Todd Lawson (50) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.41 in denial --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 May 2011 16:45:53 -0400 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.41 in denial In-Reply-To: <20110522202141.3FEDD1491DD@woodward.joyent.us> Whether we are Homo Faber or Homo Ludens is not defined by the tools that we use, but by the attitude toward those tools that we have. The first sharpened flint was produced by Homo Faber. A man who sharpens a flint in the middle of a jungle or desert or other kind of wilderness today in order to hunt for food -- in order to survive -- is Homo Faber. A member of an industrialized society sharpening a flint is usually Homo Faber. The flint is still the flint, though. The man makes the tool in every sense of the word long before the tool can begin to make the man. Jim R --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 10:20:14 -0400 From: Todd Lawson Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.41 in denial In-Reply-To: <20110522202141.3FEDD1491DD@woodward.joyent.us> Homo Ludens: The very name is like a bell! In the ludic mode most things can be a [?mere] tool, it would seem. But that doesn't mean we should not use them anyway. A language, after all, is both instrument and music. Can't computers also be seen as raising the same kinds of questions about category/ies? Todd Lawson _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 24 23:18:49 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id DAE6214B3AC; Tue, 24 May 2011 23:18:49 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id CED1A14B39D; Tue, 24 May 2011 23:18:45 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110524231845.CED1A14B39D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 23:18:45 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.43 job: Asst Director, MITH X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 43. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 12:40:35 -0400 From: Matthew Kirschenbaum Subject: job at Maryland: Assistant Director at MITH ASSISTANT DIRECTOR (position #115754) The Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) is a renowned and rapidly growing research center that is helping to transform the humanities in an era of new media and global information. We’re looking for an Assistant Director to help initiate and manage our projects, someone who will deepen the expertise of our interdisciplinary team of humanities researchers and developers and who will contribute to a creative, high-energy, and team-oriented environment. 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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: "oxfordjournals-mailer@alerts.stanford.edu" (63) Subject: Lit Linguist Computing Table of Contents for June 2011; Vol. 26,No. 2 [2] From: RAM-Verlag (32) Subject: Studies in Quantitative Linguistics 10: " The Lambda Structure ofTexts" --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 08:28:15 +0100 From: "oxfordjournals-mailer@alerts.stanford.edu" Subject: Lit Linguist Computing Table of Contents for June 2011; Vol. 26,No. 2 Literary and Linguistic Computing Table of Contents Alert A new issue of Literary and Linguistic Computing is available online: June 2011; Vol. 26, No. 2 URL: http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/content/vol26/issue2/index.dtl?etoc ---------------------------------------------------------------- Original Articles ---------------------------------------------------------------- Yoko Iyeiri, Michiko Yaguchi, and Yasumasa Baba Principal component analysis of turn-initial words in spoken interactions Defeng Li, Chunling Zhang, and Kanglong Liu Translation Style and Ideology: a Corpus-assisted Analysis of two English Translations of Hongloumeng Tanja Saily, Terttu Nevalainen, and Harri Siirtola Variation in noun and pronoun frequencies in a sociohistorical corpus of English ---------------------------------------------------------------- Editorial ---------------------------------------------------------------- Stuart Dunn Introduction to the Special Section on Digital Objects: digital objects, digital humanities--Questions, Processes, and Outputs Mona Hess, Francesca Simon Millar, Stuart Robson, Sally MacDonald, Graeme Were, and Ian Brown Well Connected to Your Digital Object? 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The book is available as Printed edition: EUR 45.00 plus PP CD edition: EUR 20.00 plus PP Internet (download PDF-file): 15.00 EUR. If you have any questions,do not hesitate to contact me. Jutta Richter For: RAM-Verlag RAM-Verlag Jutta Richter-Altmann Medienverlag Stüttinghauser Ringstr. 44 58515 Lüdenscheid Germany Tel.: +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 Tue May 24 23:26:12 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A92014B61F; Tue, 24 May 2011 23:26:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E3E2E14B60D; Tue, 24 May 2011 23:26:08 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110524232608.E3E2E14B60D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 23:26:08 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.45 events: preservation; interdisciplinarity; culture; digital humanities X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 45. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Leo Konstantelos (52) Subject: Preservation Of Complex Digital Objects Symposia (POCOS): Registrationnow open for Visualisations and Simulations [2] From: Reena Dobson (37) Subject: Reminder: Call for Papers - Knowledge/Culture/Social Change International Conference [3] From: Kaja Marczewska (5) Subject: CFP: InterTexts: A conference on interdisciplinarity (Durham, UK,23rd September 2011) [4] From: Simon Dixon (19) Subject: London Digital Humanities Group: Following the Money - 2 June 2011 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 16:41:25 +0100 From: Leo Konstantelos Subject: Preservation Of Complex Digital Objects Symposia (POCOS): Registrationnow open for Visualisations and Simulations POCOS Symposium on Visualisations and Simulations Date: 16-17 June 2011 Venue: Anatomy Theatre & Museum, King's College London Cost: Free (£10 donation towards lunch and refreshments) == Dear Colleagues you are cordially invited to attend the first in a series of three symposia organised by the POCOS project (http://www.pocos.org). The popular use of three dimensional models for visually representing information in archaeology, historic buildings, cultural heritage organisations, and academic research has created new challenges for managing and preserving such material. Successful preservation of 3D models depends on a number of parameters, including identification of file formats, specification of technical characteristics and standardisation of metadata models. Furthermore, accurate interpretation of 3D models depends on the persistence of the software used to create, render and display the deriving products. The two-day symposium on Visualisations and Simulations will provide a forum for participants to review and discuss the latest developments in the field, witness real-life case studies, and engage in networking activities. The symposium will promote discussion of the following key topics: * Intellectual "Transparency" In 3D Cultural Heritage Models * The role of Virtual Museums * Preservation of Mixed Reality Representations of Heritage Sites The symposium is organised by the King's Visualisation Lab (KVL) based at the Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London. Places at the symposium are limited and should be booked in advance. To find out more information and to register for this event, please visit: http://www.pocos.org/index.php/pocos-symposia/simulations-and-visualisations We look forward to seeing you in London! Kind Regards, The POCOS Team -- Website: http://www.pocos.org General queries: info@pocos.org Registration queries: registration@pocos.org Symposium queries: event1@pocos.org Preservation Of Complex Objects Symposia (POCOS) has been funded by the JISC Information Environment Programme 2009-11 -- Dr Leo Konstantelos Principal Investigator, POCOS HATII Preservation Research Officer 11 University Gardens University of Glasgow Glasgow G12 8QH Skype: l.konstantelos T: +44 (0)141 330 7133 E: L.Konstantelos@hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk W: http://www.hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 10:15:50 +0000 From: Reena Dobson Subject: Reminder: Call for Papers - Knowledge/Culture/Social Change International Conference Knowledge / Culture / Social Change Centre for Cultural Research University of Western Sydney 7-9 November 2011 The humanities and social sciences today struggle to come to terms with the explosion of knowledge in increasingly complex, diverse and networked societies. Which forms of knowledge work best for managing, challenging or engaging with rapid social change? Do new kinds of information play an increasing role in economic and social management? Do these changes raise questions about what 'knowledge' is, or is to become? What are the new rules for engagement between academic and other knowledge practices and institutions? This conference will bring together theorists and practitioners from a range of backgrounds and knowledge institutions to debate these questions in relation to the following themes: Shifting knowledge maps. Discipline boundaries are increasingly permeable within the humanities and social sciences and across these and the natural and physical sciences. Yet it often proves difficult to connect these new knowledge maps both within academia and across sectors (university/government; public/private; NGO/university/government, etc.). Knowledge engagement is more problematic, just as it is becoming more important and desirable. How are these problems best addressed? Knowledge and globalisation. Processes of globalisation undermine the relevance of purely national knowledge frameworks, while the hegemony of Western knowledge systems is challenged on many fronts: the increasing influence of Asia; the resurgent interest in indigenous and community knowledges; and the competing perspectives of multiple modernities. How can the relations between these multiple knowledge practices best be engaged with? A (Post)humanities? The nature/culture dualism is under challenge from a diverse range of knowledges (ecological, post-rational, feminist, animal studies, etc). These interventions engage the global predicament presented by climate change, blurring the boundaries between natural and social environments, while medical and nano technologies radically restructure our sense of the boundaries and constituents of personhood. How can we now best understand our entanglements with the more-than-human? Digital knowledge practices. New electronic and digital technologies are rapidly changing the mechanisms and speeds of knowledge flows with profound consequences for intellectual property and the practices of knowledge institutions, while also enabling new ways of knowing that significantly challenge older relations of knowledge production. How can our practices respond to these new knowledge possibilities? Knowledge and governance. New kinds of data - quantitative and qualitative - and methods and techniques of visualisation play an increasingly important role in economic and social management, while science/arts divisions are undermined by new kinds of art/science practice. Knowledge institutions and technologies play new roles in processes of social and cultural change; e.g. archives, museums, science centres, statistical and other data banks. In what ways do these new knowledge practices actively intervene and shape social life? Keynote Speakers Dawn Casey, Director, Powerhouse Museum; Chair, Indigenous Business Australia. Museums, Conflicting Cultures and the Politics of Knowing. Dipesh Chakrabarty, Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor of History, South Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago. The Human after Climate Change. Penny Harvey, Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester; a Director in the ESRC Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change. Surface Dramas, Knowledge Gaps and Scalar Shifts: Infrastructural Engineering in Sacred Spaces. Bruno Latour, Scientific Director, Professor and Vice President for Research, Sciences-Po. Social Theory, Tarde, and the Web [via videolink]. Nikolas Rose, James Martin White Professor of Sociology, London School of Economics; Director, BIOS Centre for the Study of Bioscience, Biomedicine, Biotechnology and Society. The Human Sciences in the Century of Biology. Paper and Panel Proposals Paper and panel proposals addressing the conference themes are invited. Proposals spanning one or more themes are especially welcome. - Individual paper proposals (200-300 words) - Panel proposals (200 words for the panel concept and 200-300 words on each panel paper) Please see https://www.conferenceonline.com/index.cfm?page=booking&object=abstract&forceHB=1&id=203 to submit your abstract, or visit the following URL: https://www.conferenceonline.com/index.cfm?page=booking&object=abstract&forceHB=1&id=203 The deadline for abstract submissions is Friday 3 June 2011. Organising Committee Contacts Tony Bennett t.bennett@uws.edu.au Bob Hodge b.hodge@uws.edu.au Kay Anderson k.anderson@uws.edu.au Sonja van Wichelen s.vanwichelen@uws.edu.au Administrative contact: Reena Dobson r.dobson@uws.edu.au Conference Website Please visit the conference website regularly for updates: http://www.uws.edu.au/ccr/kcsc --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 10:04:51 +0100 From: Kaja Marczewska Subject: CFP: InterTexts: A conference on interdisciplinarity (Durham, UK,23rd September 2011) Call for papers: InterTexts – a one-day conference on interdisciplinarity Durham University, Durham, UK Friday, 23rd September 2011 Abstract submission deadline: 10th June 2011 The tradition of working across disciplinary boundaries has a long history: literature and visual arts, literature and philosophy, literature and psychology, all feature prominently in the field of literary studies. At present, when humanities face escalating funding challenges and a constant requirement to justify and validate the research carried out, literary scholars increasingly look at other disciplines, expanding their field of inquiry and contributing to a proliferation of research in areas such as literature and law, literature and science, literature and medicine, literature and ecology. This conference aims to give postgraduate and early career researchers working on interdisciplinary projects an opportunity to present their work and contribute to the discussion on the developments of interdisciplinary research within literary studies. Alongside traditional panels, we will be offering workshops that deal with practical issues, resources and challenges of conducting interdisciplinary research within one of the five interdisciplinary fields at the core of the conference (Literature and Law, Literature and Science, Medical Humanities, Literature and Visual Arts and Literature and Music). We invite papers focusing on any issue within one of the following interdisciplinary fields: Literature and Law Literature and Science Medical Humanities Literature and Visual Arts Literature and Music. We also welcome proposals discussing challenges and demands of conducting interdisciplinary research. These could include, but are not limited to: proliferation of interdisciplinary research, the value of interdisciplinarity, the future of interdisciplinarity, traditional humanities vs. interdisciplinary research, implications of interdisciplinarity for literary scholarship, traditional methodologies and interdisciplinary research, interdisciplinarity and canonisation or how, if at all, do we define canons within interdisciplinary fields. Authors of selected proposals will be invited to submit an extended version of their paper for consideration by the editorial board of Durham’s Postgraduate English journal. The papers will be considered for publication in the special issue of the journal focusing on interdisciplinarity, celebrating ten years of the journal, and coinciding with the launch of its new website. Please send 250-300 word abstracts proposing 20 minute papers to Kaja Marczewska (kaja.marczewska@durham.ac.uk) by 10th June 2011. Notifications of acceptance, together with more information about Postgraduate English publication opportunities will be sent by 17th June 2011. *** Enquiries: kaja.marczewska@durham.ac.uk Website: intertexts.wordpress.com --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 09:42:05 +0100 From: Simon Dixon Subject: London Digital Humanities Group: Following the Money - 2 June 2011 In-Reply-To: The next meeting of the London Digital Humanities Group will take place at Dr Williams's Library, 14 Gordon Square, London, WC1H 0AR on Thursday 2 June at 5pm. The meeting will take the form of a panel discussion on the topic of: 'Following the Money: Funding Digital Humanities Projects in a Period of Austerity'. Speakers will be Ann Hughes (Professor of Early Modern History at Keele and Director of the Research Institute for the Humanities), John Morrill (Professor of British and Irish History, Cambridge) and Alastair Dunning (Programme Manager, Digitisation, JISC). All are welcome to attend. Dr Williams's Library is located in Gordon Square a short walk from UCL and the British Library. For directions see http://www.dwlib.co.uk/dwlib/visiting.html. To confirm attendance or for further information please contact s.dixon@qmul.ac.uk The London Digital Humanities Group is supported by Queen Mary, University of London. -- Dr Simon Dixon Postdoctoral Research Fellow Dissenting Academies Project Dr Williams's Centre for Dissenting Studies Department of English and Drama Queen Mary, University of London http://www.english.qmul.ac.uk/drwilliams/people/sdixon.html http://qmul.academia.edu/SimonDixon/About _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 25 21:36:15 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6115D14B7DC; Wed, 25 May 2011 21:36:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 2A88914B7BB; Wed, 25 May 2011 21:36:05 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20110525213605.2A88914B7BB@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 21:36:05 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.46 jobs: Doegen Records Web Project (Dublin) X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 46. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 18:29:50 +0100 From: Shawn Day Subject: Doegen Records Web Project Seeks 2 Interns Doegen Records Web Project Seeks 2 Interns The Doegen Records Web Project are offering 2 postgraduate internships for the translation from Irish into English of transcripts of the original dialect recordings (Connacht, Munster and Ulster Irish). Based in the Royal Irish Academy library, the Doegen Project is transferring 212 recordings of native Irish speech from each of the four provinces to the web. These recordings were made by Dr Wilhelm Doegen, Director of the Lautabteilung, Preussische Staatsbibliothek, Berlin, during the period 1928-31, under a Department of Education initiative, which was organised and administered by the Academy. The collection comprises versions of stories, songs, prayers and other miscellaneous items. The RIA now invites applications for the fixed-term contract positions with the Doegen Web Project. Details and instructions for applying are available at: http://ria.ie/our-work/about/vacancies.aspx --- Shawn Day --- Digital Humanities Observatory (RIA) --- Regus House, 30 Pembroke Street Upper --- Dublin 2 --- IRELAND --- +353 1 234 2441 --- day.shawn@gmail.com _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed May 25 21:37:58 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 908F014B91E; Wed, 25 May 2011 21:37:58 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id CAD1314B906; Wed, 25 May 2011 21:37:53 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110525213753.CAD1314B906@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 21:37:53 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.47 limits of mediation? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 47. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 07:34:35 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: mediation I've been asked what I think about "the digital mediation of knowledge" in the disciplines of the humanities. My first reaction to this is to be troubled by the word "mediation", picking up on the sense given in the OED as 2.a, > Agency or action as an intermediary; the state or fact of serving as > an intermediate agent, a means of action, or a medium of > transmission; instrumentality. Understood in this way, mediation seems immediately to prejudice the case quite unhelpfully, by starting us off thinking in information-theoretic terms of senders, receivers and transmission between them. (I do not deny that the information-theoretic model is useful -- our devices, including the one I am using at the moment, prove usefulness -- only that this usefulness is limited.) And this returns me to the question that has recently had considerable traction here, namely about tools, esp considered phenomenologically. I am thinking that "mediation" and "just a tool" are very close cousins. I am wondering now, who has most illuminatingly gagged on "mediation", as I seem to be doing? For whom has the problem most interestingly been problematic? What do we think about this? I suspect that I am thinking in a rather elementary way about this matter, so elementary, beginner's observations would be welcome, at least by me. If someone has nailed this question dead then I want to know all about that nail, but I suspect that this is one of those gifts that keeps on giving. Help with this will be most welcome. Yours, WM -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu May 26 22:50:21 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 736B514C6F7; Thu, 26 May 2011 22:50:21 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C634814C6E7; Thu, 26 May 2011 22:50:17 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110526225017.C634814C6E7@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 22:50:17 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.48 job for archivist at the RCAHMS X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 48. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 11:09:03 +0100 From: Shawn Day Subject: Job Vacancy: Digital Archivist at RCAHMS, Edinburgh Digital Archivist position, Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland ----- RCAHMS is looking to recruit a Digital Archivist (£27,750 to £33,974, Permanent) to lead the development of a Trusted Digital Repository for the organisation. This is an exciting opportunity which will allow the successful candidate to find innovative solutions to the digital preservation challenges faced by RCAHMS as well as working with the organisation's interesting and diverse collections relating to the historic and built enviornment of Scotland. Further details and application instructions are available on the RCAHMS website: http://www.rcahms.gov.uk/digital-archivist.html Posted on behalf of Kirsty Lingstadt, Collections Operational Manager kirsty.lingstadt@rcahms.gov.uk +44 (0)131 651 6725 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 26 22:53:30 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0C3414C831; Thu, 26 May 2011 22:53:30 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 5B2F014C823; Thu, 26 May 2011 22:53:27 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110526225327.5B2F014C823@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 22:53:27 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.49 limits of mediation X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 49. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Todd Lawson (60) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.47 limits of mediation? [2] From: Laval Hunsucker (22) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.47 limits of mediation? [3] From: Stefan Gradmann (86) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.47 limits of mediation? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 10:24:17 -0400 From: Todd Lawson Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.47 limits of mediation? In-Reply-To: <20110525213753.CAD1314B906@woodward.joyent.us> Dare one recall that now vintage Canadian notion: the medium is the message? On May 25, 2011, at 5:37 PM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 47. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 07:34:35 +1000 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: mediation > > I've been asked what I think about "the digital mediation of knowledge" > in the disciplines of the humanities. My first reaction to this is to be > troubled by the word "mediation", picking up on the sense given in the > OED as 2.a, > >> Agency or action as an intermediary; the state or fact of serving as >> an intermediate agent, a means of action, or a medium of >> transmission; instrumentality. > > Understood in this way, mediation seems immediately to prejudice the > case quite unhelpfully, by starting us off thinking in > information-theoretic terms of senders, receivers and transmission > between them. (I do not deny that the information-theoretic model is > useful -- our devices, including the one I am using at the moment, prove > usefulness -- only that this usefulness is limited.) And this returns me > to the question that has recently had considerable traction here, namely > about tools, esp considered phenomenologically. I am thinking that > "mediation" and "just a tool" are very close cousins. > > I am wondering now, who has most illuminatingly gagged on > "mediation", as I seem to be doing? For whom has the problem most > interestingly been problematic? What do we think about this? > > I suspect that I am thinking in a rather elementary way about this > matter, so elementary, beginner's observations would be welcome, at > least by me. If someone has nailed this question dead then I want to > know all about that nail, but I suspect that this is one of those gifts > that keeps on giving. > > Help with this will be most welcome. > > Yours, > WM > -- > Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's > College London; Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western > Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); > Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 10:25:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Laval Hunsucker Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.47 limits of mediation? In-Reply-To: <20110525213753.CAD1314B906@woodward.joyent.us> Willard, you wrote : > I am wondering now, who has most illuminatingly gagged > on "mediation", as I seem to be doing? > . . . > but I suspect that this is one of those gifts that keeps on > giving. So do I. But anyway, though I'm pretty ignorant in this area, the names of Andre Leroi-Gourhan and Bernard Stiegler come to mind. And I saw by chance a possibly relevant article in last year's _Aquinas : rivista internazionale di filosofia_ ( 53.1, p.39-63 ) : Flavia Silli's "Le basi neurofisiologiche dell’ epistemologia intersoggettiva e la categoria esistenziale della testimonianza". Sorry I can't be of more help ( but surely someone else here can ). - Laval Hunsucker Breukelen, Nederland --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 00:27:57 +0200 From: Stefan Gradmann Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.47 limits of mediation? In-Reply-To: <20110525213753.CAD1314B906@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Willard, 'mediation' is indeed a doomed term, and as a professor in Library and Information Science I know what I'm talking about: for centuries libraries have been defining themselves as mediators, providing access to printed information with their catalogues containing the pointers to the individual bits of information, the documents. They have tried to transpose this business model inherited from the Gutenberg galaxis into the Turing galaxis with OPACs and the notion of digital 'collections' they would again provide access to. Today, these libraries are facing a rapid erosion of this mediation model, and this erosion is mainly caused by the WWW, where the very notion of 'mediating' access to resources doesn't make much sense and likewise terms like 'catalog' or 'collection' are increasingly emptied metaphors. This erosion is accelerated with the extension of the web both in syntax (RDF and linked data) and in scope (from a web of 'documents' to a web containing representations of almost everything that can be referred to in a denotating statement). And finally, the very concept of a document the whole mediation approach was built around is being deconstructed itself in the information and knowledge architecture of the linked data web. I could make similar statements putting on my hat as president of DGI, the German Association of Information Science and Practice, which was built around the paradigm of mediating information for quite some time and currently experiences the complete erosion of this professional profile of information brokering. This probably is somewhere between a beginner's observation and nailing the question dead :) Best -- Stefan Gradmann _____________________________________________________________ Prof. Dr. Stefan Gradmann Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Berlin School of Library and Information Science Sitz: Dorothenstrasse 26 Post: Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin Tel.: +49 30 2093-4481 Fax : +49 30 2093-4335 GSM : +49 170 8352623 e-mail: stefan.gradmann@ibi.hu-berlin.de _____________________________________________________________ Je est un autre. (Arthur Rimbaud, Lettres du Voyant) _____________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu May 26 22:55:35 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AF0014C8DD; Thu, 26 May 2011 22:55:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 3AC2A14C8C7; Thu, 26 May 2011 22:55:32 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110526225532.3AC2A14C8C7@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 22:55:32 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.50 cfp: commentary on leaks X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 50. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 14:39:41 +0100 From: Jacob Johanssen Subject: CFP Reminder Wikileaks: Journalism, Politics and Ethics Just a quick reminder of the call for papers below. Thanks! In 2010, WikiLeaks released U.S. embassy diplomatic cables (creating what some already refer to as the ‘Cablegate’ affair), as well as classified reports and top secret footage extracted from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. These unprecedented developments ignited a lively international debate involving politicians, journalists and members of the public, raising questions and concerns about Wikileaks’ short and long term political, legal, ethical and logistical effects. On the one hand, Wikileaks shocked the international diplomatic community and brought up issues of national security and censorship. Simultaneously, media experts started exploring what Wikileaks might mean for (the future of) journalism and how it might change the role of the Internet in news reporting. Wikileaks also brought to the table issues concerning the boundaries of digital journalism and raised questions about how news reporting is done in an age of digital communications, particularly in what the functions of ‘whistleblowers’ and online leaks are concerned. Cyborg Subjects (www.cyborgsubjects.org) takes great pleasure and active interest in placing these issues at the core of its next project. We invite all interested authors to send full-length articles (3000 words maximum), short commentaries (500-800 words), interviews or book reviews (1000-1500 words) to submissions@cyborgsubjects.org . Artworks, Videos, Performances, etc. related to the topic are also very welcome. Contributions may wish to report, comment on or review theoretical and empirical insights into topics such as the following (and beyond): •What is the relationship between the most recent Wikileaks and the recent uprisings in the Arab world? •Why has Wikileaks provoked such a huge amount of controversy and international reaction? • What are the main legal and ethical issues raised by Wikileaks? •Wikileaks: freedom of speech and the right to information. Where is the line drawn? Does this line even exist? • Wikileaks: privacy, online data protection and national security. • What are the implications of Wikileaks for the study and conceptualizing of new media journalism and political communication? • Is Wikileaks a journalistic organization? • Can Wikileaks be considered investigative journalism? • How does Wikileaks challenge traditional journalistic standards? • What type of media activism is served by Wikileaks? • What is the role of ‘whistleblowers’ in Wikileaks (e.g. the case of Bradley Manning)? • What are the policy implications of the extrajudicial tactics deployed to censor Wikileaks? • What does the collaboration between WikiLeaks and traditional newspapers have to say about the future of mass media technologies? • How is Wikileaks’ editor in chief, Julian Assange, significant as a public figure? How, and by whom is he being ‘sanctified’ or ‘demonized’? • What is significant (feminist, post-feminist and/or non-feminist discussions welcome) about Julian Assange's accusations of rape, in the midst of the WikiLeaks international scandal? • How can researchers (ethically) deal with data published by WikiLeaks? • How ‘unexpected’ were the insights revealed by Wikileaks? Do they defy, or merely confirm public expectations of what goes on behind political façades? We invite all those interested to send their full contribution (including a 150-200 word abstract) to submissions@cyborgsubjects.org, by June 6, 2011. Contributors are free to use any reference style systems (e.g., APA, Harvard etc), as long as they are consistent in how they cite their sources throughout the article, and use endnotes, rather than footnotes, for citations. Cyborg Subjects offers a radical and new review system. We believe that knowledge should be free and that the process of knowledge production should not be obfuscated by the less transparent, “knowledge is power” peer review system associated with traditional academic journals. Therefore, submitted articles will be published as they come in and reviews will be posted as comments. Authors are asked to engage in the ensuing discussion and to comment on the review, as well as on other individuals’ (potential) reactions to the article. Feel free to visit www.cyborgsubjects.org to find out more! You can also find us on Facebook (http://fb.com/cyborgsubjects) and Twitter ( http://twitter.com/cyborgsubjects). _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 28 01:21:30 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03B9414DAD0; Sat, 28 May 2011 01:21:30 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 8BE9E14DAC6; Sat, 28 May 2011 01:21:27 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110528012127.8BE9E14DAC6@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 28 May 2011 01:21:27 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.51 job at UCL X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 51. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 14:41:18 +0100 From: Claire Warwick Subject: Lectureship in Digital Information Studies Dear Humanists, I hope you will be interested to hear that UCL Department of Information Studies is advertising another new lectureship, this time in Digital Information Studies. Further information can be found at: http://bit.ly/heb6p The brief is deliberately broad as we are interested in someone who can contribute to our research and teaching in more than one disciplinary area within DIS. We are also particularly interested in people with experience of PhD supervision. Please feel free to email me with any informal enquiries you may have. Claire (Acting Head of Department: UCL Information 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 Sat May 28 01:22:46 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2918314DB35; Sat, 28 May 2011 01:22:46 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E4F4514DB2A; Sat, 28 May 2011 01:22:42 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110528012242.E4F4514DB2A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 28 May 2011 01:22:42 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.52 events: DH2011; NZ e-research X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 52. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Willard McCarty (42) Subject: NZ eResearch [2] From: Glen Worthey (26) Subject: DH2011: Early Registration Closing Soon! --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 22:07:27 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: NZ eResearch NZ eResearch Symposium 2011 Thursday 30 June – Friday 1 July University of Otago, Dunedin www.eresearch.org.nz/nzers2011 NZ eResearch Symposium 2011 will be held at The University of Otago, Dunedin on Thursday 30 June – Friday 1 July 2011. Please mark these dates in your calendar and start making arrangements. eResearch encompasses all of the research computing that supports a research community. It crosses research disciplines, from the humanities and social sciences, physical and biological sciences, to math and engineering. It includes the computing and software platforms that connect equipment, data, and other computing resources with people, along with collections management, platforms to run experiments, and advanced collaboration tools. eResearch communities thrive on deep engagement with researchers, and aim to support the formation and operation of effective digitally-supported research communities. Our NZ eResearch Symposium is a broad forum for NZ's research sector and nascent eResearch community. This is an opportunity to meet leaders of eResearch initiatives within NZ and internationally, and to hear about emerging practice, and to share experiences. Further details including a call for contributors will be available shortly. Forward to a Friend If you know of anyone that may be interested in the NZ eResearch Symposium, please feel free to forward this information. Organisers General Chair: Nick Jones, University of Auckland Programme Chair: Mik Black, University of Otago Host: Russell Butson, University of Otago If you would like more information on any aspect of this conference, please contact the Conference Organiser: Conference organisers of NZ eResearch Symposium: Paardekooper and Associates phone: +64 4 562 8259 fax: +64 4 562 8269 email: eresearch@paardekooper.co.nz www: www.eresearch.org.nz/nzers2011 -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 18:07:30 -0700 From: Glen Worthey Subject: DH2011: Early Registration Closing Soon! DH2011: Early Registration Closing Soon! Have you registered for DH2011 at Stanford yet? Early registration will close on June 1,2011 --- just a little over two weeks before the conference begins. https://dh2011.stanford.edu/?registration You can continue to register right up until conference time, and even on-site --- but all bets are off after June 1: your favorite workshops and tutorials are beginning to fill up --- in fact, a few of them are already full. Or there might be no more seats on the magic bus headed for the post-Conference excursion of your California dreams. Finally, we'll need to raise the registration rates just a little to compensate for the last-minute menu tweaking and tee-shirt tie-dying and what have you. We'll try to go easy on this --- we're Californians; we're easy-going by nature --- and we might even be able give everyone a day or two leeway. But please help us out by registering soon. We want to be sure there's enough of everything to go around. Glen & Matt DH2011 local hosts P.S. In case you need any more convincing, we've just posted the complete DH2011 Book of Abstracts on the conference website. It's a stunning compilation of the collected work and thought of the DH community, and promises an outstanding academic program. It's linked at the bottom of the "Schedule" page of our site, at _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun May 29 20:40:09 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0245214EB38; Sun, 29 May 2011 20:40:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 69BF414EB2E; Sun, 29 May 2011 20:40:05 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110529204005.69BF414EB2E@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 29 May 2011 20:40:05 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.54 events: art & technology X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 54. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 29 May 2011 19:07:28 +0100 From: roy ascott Subject: Art and Technology in the post-biological era CALL FOR PAPERS Consciousness Reframed [East]: art and technology in the post-biological era (CR [E] 2011): Transcultural Tendencies | Transmedial Transactions. Abstracts Deadline June 5th. The global impulse in new media art brings together a wide range of theories and practices from old and new societies, established and speculative philosophies, and traditional and emergent technologies, into new conjunctions and configurations. This syncretic process is producing transformative notions of place and presence, private and social, mind and machine. At the interface of sensibilities and systems, all that is solid melts into air. These issues form the background to the conference of artists, scholars, scientists, and engineers that will constitute Consciousness Reframed at SIVA, convened by Professor Hu, Vice Dean of SIVA and co-directed by Professor Roy Ascott, Founding President of the Planetary Collegium, University of Plymouth. The Consciousness Reframed conference series was founded by Roy Ascott in 1997. Consciousness Reframed is a forum for trans-disciplinary inquiry into art, science, technology, and consciousness, drawing upon the expertise and insights of artists, designers, architects, performers, musicians, writers, scientists, and scholars, from many countries. Consciousness Reframed conferences have taken place in Australia Austria, China, Germany, and the United Kingdom. Venue: Shanghai Institute of Visual Art, Fudan University, China (in conjunction with the Planetary Collegium, University of Plymouth Uk). August 26 ­ 27, 2011 http://www.siva.edu.cn/renda/node6813/english/u1a1728638.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 Sun May 29 20:43:01 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id A77A614EBD6; Sun, 29 May 2011 20:43:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 2D7EB14EBC6; Sun, 29 May 2011 20:42:58 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110529204258.2D7EB14EBC6@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 29 May 2011 20:42:58 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.55 call for submissions: location services X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 55. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 29 May 2011 10:24:18 +1000 From: Katina Michael Subject: Final Call for Papers "Social and Behavioural Implications of Location Services" in JLBS Call for Papers on the Theme of the “Social and Behavioural Implications of Location Services.” This special issue in the Journal of Location Based Services is guest edited by Katina Michael from the University of Wollongong and MG Michael, Australia. Broadly the issue looks for original empirical work in the following subject areas: Mobility, Monitoring, Tracking, Surveillance, Sousveillance, Uberveillance, Ubiquity, Public Space vs. Private Space, Human Activity Reporting, GPS Navigation, Location Data Loggers, RFID, RFID Implants, Obtrusive Technology, Unobtrusive Technology, GIS, 3G Smart Phones, Applications, Service Quality, Reliability, Accuracy, Location Based Social Networking, Travel Mates, Tourism, Pervasive Health Monitoring, Alzheimer’s Disease- Wander Alerts, ANPR, Social Implications, Privacy, Information Privacy, Locational Privacy, Trust, Security, Intellectual Property, Data Collection, Disclosure, Behaviour al Implications, Human Factors, Relationships, Friends, Act of ‘unfriending’, Family, Strangers, Social Networks, Mental Health Issues, Virtual vs Physical World, Ethical Issues, Consent, Opt-in, Warrants, Attitudes, Perceptions, Scenarios, eObservation, Geotagging, Insurance, Law Enforcement, National Security, Emergencies. The Author guidelines can be found here: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/17489725. Submissions: 15th June 2011 Reviewer Decision: 15 July 2011 Final CRC: 30 July 2011 Publication: Year end 2011 Please submit your complete manuscript for consideration to katina@uow.edu.au Katina Michael Associate Professor School of Information Systems and Technology University of Wollongong, Australia http://ro.uow.edu.au/kmichael _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 1 21:06:57 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECA731503DF; Wed, 1 Jun 2011 21:06:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B33661503A1; Wed, 1 Jun 2011 21:06:44 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110601210644.B33661503A1@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2011 21:06:44 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.56 Australasian DH; spectral imaging X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 56. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Dr. Adrian S. Wisnicki" (19) Subject: David Livingstone Spectral Imaging Project [2] From: Craig Bellamy (38) Subject: Australasian Association for Digital Humanities (aaDH) --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 29 May 2011 16:59:20 -0700 (PDT) From: "Dr. Adrian S. Wisnicki" Subject: David Livingstone Spectral Imaging Project Dear Colleagues, I attach an announcement for the David Livingstone Spectral Imaging Project (http://livingstone.library.ucla.edu/), which may be of interest to some members of this listserv. The project is a collaborative, international effort to use spectral imaging technology and digital publishing to make available a series of faded, illegible texts produced by the famous Victorian explorer when stranded without ink or writing paper in Central Africa. Best, Dr. Adrian S. Wisnicki Honorary Research Fellow Department of English and Humanities Birkbeck College, University of London Project Director The David Livingstone Spectral Imaging Project A project funded by grants from the British Academy and the US National Endowment for the Humanities *** Transatlantic Project Retrieves Rare Livingstone Manuscripts For 140 years, rare manuscripts crucial to our understanding of the last years of the celebrated Victorian explorer and abolitionist David Livingstone in Africa were inaccessible due to their fragility and near-indecipherable script. Now a pioneering transatlantic collaboration among scholars from Birkbeck College (University of London), U.S. imaging scientists, and British and American cultural institutions has begun to make these manuscripts available online, starting with the publication of the revised edition of Livingstone’s Letter from Bambarre (http://livingstone.library.ucla.edu/) by Livingstone Online and the UCLA Digital Library Program. The transatlantic collaboration is among the first to apply multispectral imaging--a preservation technology previously used to recover erased writing in medieval palimpsests--to restore the text of a nineteenth-century British manuscript. The revised critical edition (2011, orig. 2010) of Livingstone’s 1871 letter to his close friend and future editor Horace Waller includes a full transcription of the text, detailed critical notes, an extensive bibliography, an overview of spectral imaging, and a selection of spectral images processed to enhance both text and topographical features. In February 1871, while searching for the source of the Nile, Livingstone was in ill health, low on supplies, and living in extreme environmental conditions--a virtual prisoner in Bambarre, a village in what is now the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He had also run out of paper and would shortly run out of ink. As a result, when he decided to write to Waller, Livingstone improvised. He used pages torn from a proof copy of the Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society to describe his thoughts on the slave trade, the prospects for commerce and Christianity in the African interior, and relationships of the lake and rivers in Central Africa. Livingstone’s expedient might have provided a short-term solution, but today the letter--and similar documents produced by Livingstone at the time--present serious obstacles to the researcher. The letter’s pages are yellowed and brittle, and Livingstone’s ink has bled through the paper, in effect creating two layers of superimposed text. The improvised ink used for other documents, such as Livingstone’s diary, has faded to the point of invisibility. The problem is also compounded by Livingstone’s method of writing, which weaves an unsteady course around the margins of the page before it meanders vertically across the horizontal print of the Proceedings. With unintended irony, the letter’s disorienting text visually captures Livingstone’s frail mental and physical state. The imaging and formal publication of Livingstone’s letter to Waller--from the private collection of the distinguished American photographer Peter Beard--concludes the first phase of an 18-month project to produce a critical edition and spectral image database of the diary and letters Livingstone wrote in the year before his famous meeting with Henry Morton Stanley in late 1871. The project is funded by the U.S. National Endowment for the Humanities and the British Academy. The diary and letters, except for the letter from Peter Beard’s collection, are held at the David Livingstone Centre in Blantyre, Scotland and the National Library of Scotland. The two organisations are collaborating with a team of academics and scientists--known as the David Livingstone Spectral Imaging Project--in order to bring these texts to the light of day. The full results of this project will eventually be made available through a unique partnership between the UCLA Library (http://www.library.ucla.edu/) and Livingstone Online (http://www.livingstoneonline.ucl.ac.uk/), the main digital resource for Livingstone’s writings. For further details contact the Project Director, Dr. Adrian S. Wisnicki (awisnicki@yahoo.com). --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 10:47:52 +1000 From: Craig Bellamy Subject: Australasian Association for Digital Humanities (aaDH) We are pleased to announce the Australasian Association for Digital Humanities (aaDH), http://aa-dh.org/. The formation of the Association is the outcome of a workshop, sponsored by the Australian Academy of the Humanities, held on 22 March 2011 at the Australian National University . The workshop brought together 40 leading researchers, project directors and sector representatives to plan for the establishment of an Australasian professional association. Two international guests, Professor Ray Siemens (Canada Research Chair in Humanities Computing at Victoria University) and Dr Patrik Svensson (Director of HUMlab, the digital research centre at Umeå University, Sweden) gave keynote lectures that positioned Australasian digital humanities research in a global context. The Association was formed to strengthen the digital humanities research community in our region and to work with other international associations within the field. The professional association will act to support and extend links between digital humanities researchers, improve professional development opportunities and provide international leverage for local projects and initiatives. We will hold our Annual General Meeting at the 'Sustainable data from digital research: Humanities perspectives on digital scholarship' at the University of Melbourne, 12-14th December. http://paradisec.org.au/2011Conf.html In the first year we will develop a sustainable membership model for the association; in the interim please subscribe to our email list to keep up-to-date with events and opportunities. Kind regards, (for the interim committee) Dr Paul Arthur, ANU, Chair Professor Jane Hunter, UQ, Vice Chair Dr Craig Bellamy, VeRSI, Secretary Dr Katherine Bode, ANU Professor Hugh Craig, University of Newcastle Dr Ian Johnson, University of Sydney Mr Gavan McCarthy, University of Melbourne, Dr Sydney Shep, Victoria University Wellington, New Zealand Dr Tim Sherratt, National Museum of Australia Professor Deb Verhoeven, Deakin University, Melbourne _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Jun 1 21:10:16 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19C8A15063F; Wed, 1 Jun 2011 21:10:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id EA27A150632; Wed, 1 Jun 2011 21:10:03 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110601211003.EA27A150632@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2011 21:10:03 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.57 events: classics; publishing; digital libraries X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 57. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Marlies Olensky" (67) Subject: TPDL 2011 - Registration open - Early Bird until June 27, 2011 [2] From: "Vetch, Paul" (15) Subject: Symposium on open access publishing in the arts and humanities [3] From: "Mahony, Simon" (43) Subject: Digital Classicist & Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 2011 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 13:18:41 +0200 From: "Marlies Olensky" Subject: TPDL 2011 - Registration open - Early Bird until June 27, 2011 Please excuse cross-posting -------------------------------------------------------------------------- REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN! International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries 2011 September 25-29, 2011 | Berlin, Germany -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL) has been the leading European scientific forum on digital libraries for 14 years. For the 15th year the conference was renamed into: International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Registration fees Early / Normal --------------- Conference Full 500 Single day (Mon/Tue) 180 Single day (Wed) 90 Tutorials 130 Workshops Full day 170 Half day 85 Early / Student ---------------- Conference Full 350 Single day (Mon/Tue) 110 Single day (Wed) 55 Tutorials 100 Workshops Full day 140 Half day 70 Doctoral Consortium 55 All fees are in EUR. The late registration fees can be found on the website. In order to provide the highest possible flexibility for attending different workshops during TPDL, we offer the option to book half-days of the workshops. Please note that you need to book at least two half-days. Please register via http://tinyurl.com/RegistrationTPDL2011 Early Bird registration: until June 27, 2011 Late registration: until September 9, 2011 If you encounter any technical problems during your registration please contact: service@wiwex.net For all other enquiries please contact: info.tpdl2011@hu-berlin.de -------------------------------------------------------------------------- General Chair Stefan Gradmann, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany Programme Co-Chairs Carlo Meghini, ISTI-CNR, Italy Heiko Schuldt, University of Basel, Switzerland Local Organising Chair Marlies Olensky, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TPDL 2011 - International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (formerly ECDL) Main conference: September 26-28, 2011 Tutorials, Workshops: September 25, 29, 2011 Venue: Erwin Schrödinger-Zentrum Adlershof, Berlin, Germany Conference Website: http://www.tpdl2011.org Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/TPDL2011 Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/TPDL2011 Linkedin: http://events.linkedin.com/TPDL-2011-International-Conference/pub/504696 Xing: http://www.xing.com/events/international-conference-theory-practice-digital-libraries-2011-633977 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 21:20:43 +0100 From: "Vetch, Paul" Subject: Symposium on open access publishing in the arts and humanities In-Reply-To: <4284512A647C6747AFF7DE36399FAFB70AFBE0BE@MAIL.universe.lon.ac.uk> Open Access Publishing in the Arts and Humanities Friday, July 15th 2011 A symposium at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, in association with SAS-Space This symposium brings together academics, journal editors, publishers, librarians, funding bodies and repository practitioners to consider issues of particular concern in the arts and humanities. It will examine the economic and public policy aspects of humanities OA, as well as the different modes in which OA is currently delivered for scholars in the humanities. Confirmed speakers include Professor Shearer West (AHRC), Neil Jacobs (JISC), Dr Paul Ayris (Director of Library Services, UCL) and Tessa Harvey (Wiley-Blackwell). There will also be presentations on OA journals produced by commercial publishers and on campus, and from specialist humanities repositories, including SAS-Space. The conference is free to attend, with lunch provided. For further details, and to reserve a place, please contact Dr Peter Webster (Peter.Webster@sas.ac.uk ) A provisional programme is available at: http://sas-space.blogspot.com/2011/05/conference-open-access-publishing-in.html Dr Peter Webster SAS-Space Manager School of Advanced Study, University of London Peter.Webster@sas.ac.uk My SAS-Space: http://tinyurl.com/sas-space-peterwebster The University of London is an exempt charity in England and Wales and a charity registered in Scotland (reg. no. SC041194 --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2011 16:47:30 +0100 From: "Mahony, Simon" Subject: Digital Classicist & Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 2011 In-Reply-To: <4284512A647C6747AFF7DE36399FAFB70AFBE0BE@MAIL.universe.lon.ac.uk> This message was originally submitted by simon.mahony@KCL.AC.UK to the humanist list at LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU. If you simply forward it back to the list, using a mail command that generates "Resent-" fields (ask your local user support or consult the documentation of your mail program if in doubt), it will be distributed and the explanations you are now reading will be removed automatically. If on the other hand you edit the contributions you receive into a digest, you will have to remove this paragraph manually. Finally, you should be able to contact the author of this message by using the normal "reply" function of your mail program. ----------------- Message requiring your approval (44 lines) ------------------ Friday June 3rd at 16:30 Room 37, Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU Kathryn Piquette & Charles Crowther (Oxford) Developing a Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) System for Inscription Documentation in Museum Collections and the Field: Case studies on ancient Egyptian and Classical material ALL WELCOME Ancient documentary scholars face a range of challenges in obtaining accurate physical documentation to support both decipherment and study of the processes of writing. In this seminar we present results from a joint Southampton-Oxford AHRC-funded project designed to address these issues through the application of Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) technologies. Through case studies of Egyptian and Classical material captured using a custom lighting-dome system and highlight-based RTI, we demonstrate how RTI is able to overcome challenges of image lighting as well as providing a more reflexive environment for observation and processes of ‘looking at’ inscribed surfaces. The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments. For more information please contact Gabriel.Bodard@kcl.ac.uk, Stuart.Dunn@kcl.ac.uk, S.Mahony@ucl.ac.uk, or see the seminar website at http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2011.html -- ----------------------------------------------------------- Simon Mahony Student Support Manager Department of War Studies, e-Learning Programme Room K7.05, 7th Floor, South Range King's College London WC2R 2LS http://www.kcl.ac.uk/wimw _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 2 22:37:02 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA1E5151A01; Thu, 2 Jun 2011 22:37:02 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 6BB091519F1; Thu, 2 Jun 2011 22:36:59 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110602223659.6BB091519F1@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2011 22:36:59 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.58 metadata schemas for time-based media? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 58. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2011 12:28:43 +1000 From: Adrian Miles Subject: Video Archival Question hi all I am involved in a research project where we have digitised a collection of videos related to circus performance. The aim is to a) build an archive of these, and b) build a social video site that provides access and reuse of this material in a variety of ways. My question, what metadata schemas are in use/matter around video and time based media? I am aware of 1. the SMPTE-RA metadata registry (http://www.smpte-ra.org/mdd/) 2. NINCH Guide to Best Practice (Audio/Video Capture and Management) http://www.nyu.edu/its/humanities//ninchguide/VII/ 3. discussion document "Building a National Strategy for Digital Preservation, Issues in Digital Media Archiving" http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub106/video.html 4. Archival Formats for Video Digitization (ethnographic point of view really) http://emeld.org/school/classroom/video/archive.html The problem is not what codecs/datrates/formats, but specifically metadata requirements, so that interoperability of the archive with other archives is possible (if this is on the roadmap). I've looked, but have not found a lot that relates to videos (and Dublin Core is currently being recommended). Any pointers on current best practice, things I've missed? an appropriate closing Adrian Miles about.me/vogmae _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 2 22:39:53 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7DB9151B4E; Thu, 2 Jun 2011 22:39:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E251D151B3D; Thu, 2 Jun 2011 22:39:49 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110602223949.E251D151B3D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2011 22:39:49 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.59 new on WWW: free pdfs of NAP books X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 59. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2011 16:01:07 +0100 From: National Academies Press Subject: All PDF Books Free to Download As of June 2, 2011, all PDF versions of books published by the National Academies Press (NAP) will be downloadable free of charge to anyone. This includes our current catalog of more than 4,000 books plus future reports published by NAP (www.nap.edu).* Free access to our online content supports the mission of NAP--publisher for the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine, and National Research Council--to improve government decision making and public policy, increase public education and understanding, and promote the acquisition and dissemination of knowledge in matters involving science, engineering, technology, and health. In 1994, we began offering free content online. 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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, 1 Jun 2011 12:05:15 +0100 From: FedCSIS General Chairs Subject: FedCSIS 2011 - Final CfP FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS 2011 Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS) Szczecin, Poland, September 18-21, 2011 http://www.fedcsis.org Organized by the Polish Information Processing Society in cooperation with IEEE Region 8, Gesellschaft fur Informatik, Asociacion de Tecnicos de Informatica, and sponsored by Intel Proceedings published in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library (additional post-publications as determined by the FedCSIS Events) [...] _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Jun 3 22:35:57 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id A66F0152638; Fri, 3 Jun 2011 22:35:57 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 23FC1152630; Fri, 3 Jun 2011 22:35:56 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110603223556.23FC1152630@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2011 22:35:56 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.61 metadata for time-based media X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 61. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2011 00:55:54 +0200 From: Øyvind Eide?= Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.58 metadata schemas for time-based media? In-Reply-To: <20110602223659.6BB091519F1@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Adrian Miles, If you see circus performances as intangible cultural heritage, as I think you should, a connection to the museum community may be in place. An ontology for museum and cultural heritage information is developed by ICOM-CIDOC into an ISO standard, namely the Conceptual Reference Model (CIDOC-CRM, ISO 21127:2006). An OWL implementation of CIDOC-CRM is developed at the Friedrich- Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in cooperation with several other institutions: http://erlangen-crm.org/ There have been some work in using CIDOC-CRM in theatre documentation, I would guess this is not too far away from the circus...? If this is of interest to you, please get in touch and I will put you in connection with the right people. Kind regards, Øyvind Eide Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London Unit for Digital Documentation, University of Oslo Den 3. juni. 2011 kl. 00.36 skrev Humanist Discussion Group: > Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2011 12:28:43 +1000 > From: Adrian Miles > Subject: Video Archival Question > > > hi all > > I am involved in a research project where we have digitised a > collection of > videos related to circus performance. The aim is to a) build an > archive of > these, and b) build a social video site that provides access and > reuse of > this material in a variety of ways. > > My question, what metadata schemas are in use/matter around video > and time > based media? > > I am aware of > 1. the SMPTE-RA metadata registry (http://www.smpte-ra.org/mdd/) > 2. NINCH Guide to Best Practice (Audio/Video Capture and Management) > http://www.nyu.edu/its/humanities//ninchguide/VII/ > 3. discussion document "Building a National Strategy for Digital > Preservation, Issues in Digital Media Archiving" > http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub106/video.html > 4. Archival Formats for Video Digitization (ethnographic point of view > really) http://emeld.org/school/classroom/video/archive.html > > The problem is not what codecs/datrates/formats, but specifically > metadata > requirements, so that interoperability of the archive with other > archives is > possible (if this is on the roadmap). I've looked, but have not > found a lot > that relates to videos (and Dublin Core is currently being > recommended). Any > pointers on current best practice, things I've missed? > > an appropriate closing > Adrian Miles > about.me/vogmae _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 3 22:36:44 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA09715267D; Fri, 3 Jun 2011 22:36:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0E8E515266D; Fri, 3 Jun 2011 22:36:41 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110603223641.0E8E515266D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2011 22:36:41 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.62 where to announce an online journal? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 62. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2011 18:16:38 -0600 From: Mark Winokur Subject: What venues to announce new online journal? Dear Colleagues: I'm starting a new online Humanities journal, and I'm compiling a list of journals, blogs, forums, email lists, and other places to announce the first issue. Any help? Thank you. Mark Winokur _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 3 22:37:54 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id B30D51526BD; Fri, 3 Jun 2011 22:37:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 789F91526B3; Fri, 3 Jun 2011 22:37:52 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110603223752.789F91526B3@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2011 22:37:52 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.63 events: workshops at Brown; ACH Annual General Meeting X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 63. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Julia Flanders (42) Subject: Digital Humanities Workshops at Brown University [2] From: Julia Flanders (27) Subject: ACH Annual General Meeting: June 20, 2011, Stanford University --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2011 09:52:30 -0400 From: Julia Flanders Subject: Digital Humanities Workshops at Brown University Registration is now open for the Brown University Women Writers Project's summer and fall workshops on topics in TEI and digital humanities: http://www.wwp.brown.edu/outreach/seminars/ These workshops are aimed at humanities faculty, librarians, students, and anyone interested in getting a strong introduction to digital humanities concepts, methods, and tools. Each workshop combines hands- on practice with discussion and lectures, and participants are encouraged to work with their own project materials. These small group events offer an opportunity to learn about other digital projects as well as to master important methods and concepts in an exploratory setting. More information, including detailed workshop descriptions and registration information, can be found at http://www.wwp.brown.edu/outreach/seminars/ . Students and members of the TEI consortium receive a 33% discount on registration. All workshops are held at Brown University. Space is limited so please register early. July 20-22, 2011 Introduction to XSLT for Digital Humanities Syd Bauman and David Birnbaum $450 ($300 for students and TEI members) August 29-31, 2011 Introduction to TEI Customization Julia Flanders and Syd Bauman $450 ($300 for students and TEI members) September 26-28, 2011 Introduction to Text Encoding and Contextual Information with TEI Julia Flanders and Syd Bauman $450 ($300 for students and TEI members) December 5-7, 2011 Introduction to Manuscript Encoding with TEI Julia Flanders and Syd Bauman $450 ($300 for students and TEI members) We hope to see you in Providence! best wishes, Julia Julia Flanders Director, Women Writers Project Center for Digital Initiatives, Brown University Library http://www.wwp.brown.edu http://library.brown.edu/cds/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2011 16:56:53 -0400 From: Julia Flanders Subject: ACH Annual General Meeting: June 20, 2011, Stanford University The officers and executive council of the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) invite all ACH members and interested individuals to attend our Annual General Meeting, which will be held on Monday, June 20th, at noon on the campus of Stanford University. The ACH AGM will coincide with the first lunch break of the Digital Humanities conference. Lunch will be provided. The agenda for the meeting is as follows: 1. ACH business and announcements (including the introduction of new officers); 2. Our popular "jobs slam," a fast-paced lightning round in which job seekers have an opportunity to introduce themselves to their digital humanities colleagues and potential employers (or be introduced by a mentor) -- and people with jobs to announce can share their good news. (To participate, please contact Stéfan Sinclair, sgs@mcmaster.ca.) 3. Open discussion of two questions: "Should the ACH consider a change in name, to represent our community better?" and "What might we do to promote graduate students' and under-funded ACH members' access to DH-related events, particularly on years when the annual conference is being held in Europe?" Stay tuned for more information about the jobs slam and other ACH- organized events and programs at this summer's DH conference! -- and please plan to join us on June 20th. Best wishes, Julia Flanders, ACH President Bethany Nowviskie, ACH Vice-President _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 4 20:03:10 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA1A6151851; Sat, 4 Jun 2011 20:03:10 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 6BBBA15183F; Sat, 4 Jun 2011 20:03:07 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110604200307.6BBBA15183F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2011 20:03:07 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.64 where to announce an online journal X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 64. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Ernesto Priego (52) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.62 where to announce an online journal? [2] From: Marin Dacos (37) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.62 where to announce an online journal? [3] From: peter jones (25) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.62 where to announce an online journal? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2011 15:38:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Ernesto Priego Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.62 where to announce an online journal? In-Reply-To: <20110603223641.0E8E515266D@woodward.joyent.us> > I'm starting a new online Humanities journal, and I'm > compiling a list > of journals, blogs, forums, email lists, and other places > to announce > the first issue. Any help? On Twitter. Ernesto --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2011 07:01:48 +0200 From: Marin Dacos Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.62 where to announce an online journal? In-Reply-To: <20110603223641.0E8E515266D@woodward.joyent.us> You can use Calenda to publish your call for papers. Calenda is the most known French calendar for human and social sciences. It is going international. To publish a Call for paper in Calenda, you just have to fill the form. http://calenda.revues.org/suggerer.php The form is only in French, by now, but we welcome suggestions in English, Italian, Spanish, Portugese, German, Arabic, and so on. A new version of Calenda is on its way and will be completly translated in several languages. Hope it helps, Marin Dacos -- Marin Dacos Directeur - Centre pour l'édition électronique ouverte Director - Centre for Open Electronic Publishing OpenEdition Freemium, l'avenir du libre accès - http://www.openedition.org/8873 OpenEdition *Freemium* is the future of Open Access - http://www.openedition.org Alertes et abonnements sur nos trois plateformes : http://search.openedition.org/indexalert.php?&a=description CNRS - EHESS - Université de Provence - Université d'Avignon 3, place Victor Hugo, Case n°86, 13331 Marseille Cedex 3 Tél : 04 13 55 03 40 Tél. direct : 04 13 55 03 39 Fax : 04 13 55 03 41 Skype : marin.dacos - Gmail video chat : marin.dacos@gmail.com Twitter : @marind marin.dacos@revues.org http://www.revues.org - http://cleo.cnrs.fr http://leo.hypotheses.org - http://cleoradar.hypotheses.org http://blog.homo-numericus.net --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2011 13:20:40 +0100 (BST) From: peter jones Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.62 where to announce an online journal? In-Reply-To: <20110603223641.0E8E515266D@woodward.joyent.us> I would be pleased to assist Mark. There is an eclectic mix of items on "Welcome to the QUAD": http://hodges-model.blogspot.com/ - health, nursing, informatics, education, socio-technical, journals .... Also interested in conferences on related themes especially for 2012... I've a sociology/humanities listing here: http://www.p-jones.demon.co.uk/links3.htm - which could also list your journal. [I'm seeking subscribers & followers for my blog, been 'stuck' on 460 for ages.] Best wishes with your project. Peter ------ Peter Jones http://hodges-model.blogspot.com/ Hodges' Health Career - Care Domains - Model http://www.p-jones.demon.co.uk/ h2cm: help2Cmore - help-2-listen - help-2-care http://twitter.com/h2cm _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 4 20:04:47 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C35B1518BB; Sat, 4 Jun 2011 20:04:47 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id EB6A11518A2; Sat, 4 Jun 2011 20:04:43 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20110604200443.EB6A11518A2@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2011 20:04:43 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.65 metadata for time-based media X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 65. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2011 09:54:55 -0400 (EDT) From: Deena Engel Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.61 metadata for time-based media In-Reply-To: <20110603223556.23FC1152630@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Adrian Miles, With respect to capturing metadata on time-based media, you might find both information and community through the Electronic Media Group wiki of the American Institute for conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (http://www.conservation-wiki.com/index.php?title=Electronic_Media) as well as the U.s. Library of Congress project, PREMIS (http://www.loc.gov/standards/premis/) Regards, Deena Engel New York 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 Jun 5 23:17:35 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06896153E7A; Sun, 5 Jun 2011 23:17:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 79538153E6B; Sun, 5 Jun 2011 23:17:27 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110605231727.79538153E6B@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2011 23:17:27 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.66 where to announce an online journal X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 66. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2011 05:22:08 +0100 From: "Clark, Stephen" Subject: RE: [Humanist] 25.64 where to announce an online journal In-Reply-To: <20110604200307.6BBBA15183F@woodward.joyent.us> If the journal is to include philosophical work then it can be announced on Philos-L, which is the principal elist for philosophy (5000+ members in 57+ countries). See http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html To have mail posted there either join the list and post it yourself (better by email than using the webpage, which has a tendency to distort the format of the post), or else send it direct to me, at srlclark@liv.ac.uk with a request that I forward it. Stephen Clark Prof Stephen R.L.Clark Emeritus Professor, Dept of Philosophy, University of Liverpool Honorary Research Fellow, Dept of Theology, University of Bristol Associate Editor, British Journal for the History of Philosophy http://www.liv.ac.uk/info/staff/A639849 http://pcwww.liv.ac.uk/~srlclark/srlc.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 Sun Jun 5 23:18:38 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF2B2153F03; Sun, 5 Jun 2011 23:18:37 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D31CB153EFC; Sun, 5 Jun 2011 23:18:31 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110605231831.D31CB153EFC@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2011 23:18:31 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.67 PhD studentship X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 67. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2011 10:07:13 +0100 From: Charlotte Roueche Subject: un appel d’offre à candidature pour un contrat doctoral > Sujet: APPEL D'OFFRE Er-TIM ALIENTO à diffuser > Date : Thu, 2 Jun 2011 08:16:12 +0200 > De : Sabetay et Marie Christine Varol > Chers collègues, faites circuler cet appel d’offre (en France et à > l’étranger) afin que nous puissions trouver de bons candidats. > > Marie-Christine Bornes Varol > > De : DRED-INALCO [mailto:dred@inalco.fr] > Envoyé : mardi 31 mai 2011 16:27 > À : DRED INALCO > Objet : TR: APPEL D'OFFRE - CONTRAT DOCTORAL INALCO > > Bonjour, > > Veuillez trouver ci-joint un appel d’offre à candidature pour un > contrat doctoral : > > Titre de la recherche : MÉTHODES ET OUTILS DE LA FOUILLE DE TEXTES > MULTILINGUES POUR LES HUMANITÉS NUMÉRIQUES. > > Domaine : Sémantique, linguistique de corpus, TAL, e-humanities > Lieux : INALCO-Recherche, Paris. > Equipes d'Accueil : Equipe de recherche en Textes, Informatique, > Multilinguisme (ERTIM) en collaboration avec d’autres unités de > recherche de > l’INALCO > > Pour plus de renseignement, se reporter à la page : > http://www.inalco.fr/ina_gabarit_rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=2356 > > MERCI DE DIFFUSER LARGEMENT > > > > --------------------------------------- > INALCO - http://www.inalco.fr/ http://www.inalco.fr/ > Direction de la recherche et de l'école doctorale > 49 bis avenue de la belle Gabrielle > 75012 - Paris > Tél : 01 80 51 95 02 > Fax : 01 80 51 95 49 ---------------------------- Professor Charlotte Roueché Director, Centre for Hellenic Studies King's College London WC2R 2LS direct tel. + 44 20.7848 2515 fax + 44 20.7848 2545 charlotte.roueche@kcl.ac.uk http://www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/depts/bmgs/staff/roueche.html _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Jun 5 23:19:40 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id C95C2153F71; Sun, 5 Jun 2011 23:19:40 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 418AD153F60; Sun, 5 Jun 2011 23:19:37 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110605231937.418AD153F60@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2011 23:19:37 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.68 metadata models? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 68. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2011 22:57:02 +0200 From: Dolores Romero Subject: Metadata Models for Language and Literature Learning Objects Dear colleagues, With respect to metadata models, we would be pleased if somebody could send us some references about Metadata Models for Languages and Literatures Learning Objects. We have found many general models, but no specific ones for our research interest (Filology). Dolores Romero Universidad Complutense https://portal.ucm.es/web/masteres-filologia/master-en-literatura-espanola. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Jun 5 23:20:56 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62B27153FD0; Sun, 5 Jun 2011 23:20:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 7D35C153FBF; Sun, 5 Jun 2011 23:20:44 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110605232044.7D35C153FBF@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2011 23:20:44 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.69 events: Wikipedia trifft Altertum X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 69. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2011 14:32:07 -0700 From: Laval Hunsucker Subject: Antiquity and Wikipedia Some of you may find this upcoming event ( which I only bring up here because, excuse me if I'm mistaken, I believe it has not yet been mentioned on this or related lists ) to be of some interest : "Wikipedia trifft Altertum - 10./11. Juni 2011, Universität Göttingen" See : http://www.dainst.org/en/event/wikipedia-trifft-altertum?ft=all The program can be found at : http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_trifft_Altertum/Programm - Laval Hunsucker Breukelen, Nederland _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Jun 7 20:33:48 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0208F15502F; Tue, 7 Jun 2011 20:33:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id BDF7215501E; Tue, 7 Jun 2011 20:33:43 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110607203343.BDF7215501E@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2011 20:33:43 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.70 metadata for time-based media X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 70. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2011 16:34:59 +0100 From: Virginia Knight Subject: metadata schemas for time-based media? My colleagues at JISC Digital Media have produced an article 'Metadata and Digital Video': http://www.jiscdigitalmedia.ac.uk/movingimages/advice/metadata-and-digital-video which may be helpful. Virginia Knight -- Dr. Virginia Knight, Senior Technical Researcher Institute for Learning and Research Technology Tel: +44 (0)117 331 4369 Fax: +44 (0)117 331 4396 University of Bristol, 8-10 Berkeley Square, Bristol BS8 1HH Virginia.Knight@bristol.ac.uk Official homepage: http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/aboutus/staff?search=cmvhk Personal homepage: http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/~cmvhk/virginia.html ILRT homepage: http://www.ilrt.bristol.ac.uk _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 7 20:35:59 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2859D1550B3; Tue, 7 Jun 2011 20:35:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B20C11550AB; Tue, 7 Jun 2011 20:35:55 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110607203555.B20C11550AB@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2011 20:35:55 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.71 jobs at Maynooth (Ireland) X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 71. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2011 10:39:36 +0100 From: "John G. Keating" Subject: NAVR Research Positions at NUI Maynooth NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, MAYNOOTH NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR REGIONAL AND SPATIAL ANALYSIS (NIRSA)/ AN FORAS FEASA The National Audio-Visual Repository (NAVR) The NAVR research consortium is comprised of the Royal Irish Academy (RIA), Dublin Institute of Technology, NUI Galway, NUI Maynooth and Trinity College Dublin. It brings together leading researchers in the humanities and social sciences, library services and high-end computing, drawing on national research and graduate training programmes and structures such as the Irish Social Sciences Platform (ISSP), Humanities Serving Irish Society (HSIS), the Trinity Centre for High Performance Computing (TCHPC) and the Digital Humanities Observatory (DHO). The NAVR will build a single, unified, accessible and sustainable Trusted Digital Repository (TDR) and access repository for the humanities and qualitative social sciences in Ireland with common data and metadata standards, formats, access rights, and research tools. It will consolidate and make accessible social sciences, arts and cultural data, collections and audio-visual archives. It will: Form a centralised resource to ensure that all future digitisation, archiving and qualitative research projects are NAVR compliant; --Allow new constituencies to interact with digitisation activities and datasets created by key national cultural organisations, opening these up to a wider public, including schools; --Concentrate research resources and add value to funded outputs by promoting innovative secondary, longitudinal and comparative analysis of existing data and make important datasets available for innovative analysis; --Build Ireland’s capacity to interface with similar developing EU research infrastructures (e.g. DARIAH, CLARIN, CESSSDA, Europeana), creating opportunities to leverage significant EU funding for future developments in this area. The NAVR is funded through Cycle 5 of the Programme for Research in Third Level Institutions administered by the HEA and co-funded under the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). - Policy Manager in the National Audio-Visual Repository, Four Year Contract Post (http://www.publicjobs.ie/publicjobs/en/star/goToJobDetails.do?id=1412) - Software Engineer in the National Audio-Visual Repository, Two Year Contract and Four Year Contract - Two Posts (http://www.publicjobs.ie/publicjobs/en/star/goToJobDetails.do?id=1432) - Requirements Analyst in the National Audio-Visual Repository, Two Year Contract Post (http://www.publicjobs.ie/publicjobs/en/star/goToJobDetails.do?id=1396) The National University of Ireland Maynooth Following two centuries of internationally renowned scholarly activity on the Maynooth campus the National University of Ireland, Maynooth was established under the 1997 Universities Act as an autonomous member of the federal structure known as the National University of Ireland. It is located on a pleasant university campus in Ireland’s only university town 20km west of Dublin, and has recently undergone a major phase of expansion in research, teaching and service facilities. The spacious campus is laid out in its own extensive grounds in rural surroundings, and is divided between an older complex of fine nineteenth century buildings and a modern complex of teaching, research, accommodation, and support facilities. The University has over 8,000 students; around 10% are from overseas. The student and faculty bodies are drawn from all over Ireland and from more than 50 countries. This diversity makes NUI Maynooth an exciting multi-cultural learning community. The University has a long tradition of international contacts, working with a large number of prestigious higher education institutions around the world in teaching and research collaborations. We actively participate in the ERASMUS exchange programme, and other Inter-University Co-operation programmes (ICPs), and use the European Community Course Credit Transfer System (ECTS). Dr. John G. Keating Associate Director An Foras Feasa: The Institute for Research in Irish Historical and Cultural Traditions National University of Ireland, Maynooth Maynooth, Co. Kildare, IRELAND Email: john.keating@nuim.ie Tel: +353 1 708 3854 FAX: +353 1 708 4797 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Jun 7 20:39:19 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57A66155180; Tue, 7 Jun 2011 20:39:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 89D65155179; Tue, 7 Jun 2011 20:39:16 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110607203916.89D65155179@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2011 20:39:16 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.72 events: cultural heritage (NZ); preservation (UK) X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 72. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Baker, Drew" (8) Subject: REMINDER: Preservation of Complex Digital Objects Symposium (POCOS) 16-17th July King's College London [2] From: Willard Mccarty (13) Subject: FW: CFP National Digital Forum 2011 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2011 10:46:02 +0100 From: "Baker, Drew" Subject: REMINDER: Preservation of Complex Digital Objects Symposium (POCOS) 16-17th July King's College London Dear colleagues, Registration for the POCOS symposium at King’s on 16-17th June will be closing at the end of the week, if you were planning to attend please register at the POCOS website, we do have a few places still reserved for KCL staff but these will be reallocated next week. Even if you are only peripherally interested in the long term preservation of complex digital objects we have an impressive line up of presentations and delegates from very diverse disciplines. The project website can be found at http://www.pocos.org/ And registration at http://www.pocos.org/index.php/registration If you use the priority code KCL then it will help me with some of the administration Best wishes Drew Baker Department of Digital Humanities --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2011 23:16:30 +0000 From: Willard Mccarty Subject: FW: CFP National Digital Forum 2011 In-Reply-To: Hi All, CFP is currently open for the National Digital Forum (NDF) - New Zealand, November 2011. NDF is a coalition of libraries, archives, museums, galleries, government departments and other organisations and individuals working to get New Zealand’s culture and heritage online and accessible to all. The annual NDF conference is an opportunity for members and others interested in the culture, heritage, research and digital creation sectors to showcase all that is most exciting in our sector at the moment, and discuss the issues and opportunities that are shaping our future. http://ndf.natlib.govt.nz/about/2011-conference.htm Regards, Sally Sally Leggo | Digital Content Officer Centre for Cultural Research | University of Western Sydney Locked Bag 1797 Penrith NSW 2751 P: 9685 9524 | F: 9685 9610 E: s.leggo@uws.edu.au | W: http://uws.edu.au/ccr Twitter: www.twitter.com/ccr_uws The University of Western Sydney has received the highest ranking for research quality in Cultural Studies (Excellence in Research for Australia 2010) _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Jun 8 21:16:15 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDFD2155C86; Wed, 8 Jun 2011 21:16:14 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 2A55B155C3B; Wed, 8 Jun 2011 21:16:03 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110608211604.2A55B155C3B@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2011 21:16:03 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.73 digital projects? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 73. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2011 21:21:36 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: digital projects Dear colleagues, I am looking around for notable research projects that exemplify the best of what's going on in the digital humanities these days. The purpose of the collection I hope to assemble is to give colleagues here, at Western Sydney, examples with which to think about what might be done in the area we're calling "digital cultural research". Projects with a particular focus on contemporary social situations and problems would be most relevant as far as subject matter is concerned, but I do not want to exclude any notable for the methods they use just because they are concerned with, say, ancient Sumer. So, if you would, nominate what you think is most worth looking at for whatever reason. And please do not exclude projects of your own! All suggestions made here in response to this query will be published on Humanist. Many thanks for your suggestions. Yours, WM -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Jun 8 21:19:11 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50796155E42; Wed, 8 Jun 2011 21:19:11 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B3E04155E11; Wed, 8 Jun 2011 21:19:02 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110608211902.B3E04155E11@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2011 21:19:02 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.74 new publications: history; text-encoding; humanities & arts X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 74. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Mylonas, Elli" (27) Subject: CFP: Writing History in the Digital Age [2] From: Susan Schreibman (44) Subject: launch of inaugural issue of the Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative [3] From: Roderick Coover (26) Subject: New Book in Digital Humanities and Arts --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2011 23:20:35 -0400 From: "Mylonas, Elli" Subject: CFP: Writing History in the Digital Age CALL FOR IDEAS & ESSAYS: Writing History in the Digital Age http://writinghistory.trincoll.edu Has the digital revolution transformed how we write about the past -- or not? Have new technologies changed our essential work-craft as scholars, and the ways in which we think, author, and publish? Does the digital age have broader implications for individual writing processes, or for the historical profession at large? Explore these questions in Writing History in the Digital Age, a born-digital, open-review edited volume, under contract with the University of Michigan Press for the Digital Humanities Series of its digitalculturebooks imprint. Learn more at: http://writinghistory.trincoll.edu We invite you to contribute in the following ways: - Post your one-paragraph theme and discuss other ideas by June 30th, 2011. - Submit a full draft of your essay and bibliography by August 15th, 2011. - Comment on essays, with invited experts, during the open review in Fall 2011. Pending final selections, revisions, and approval by the Press, the volume will be published in traditional print and open-access digital versions. We welcome innovative essays that incorporate first-person perspectives, collaborative authorship, and links to online source materials. But each essay, at its core, must address our central theme on digital technology and historical writing. Read more about essay ideas, post your own, and join the discussion at our website above. Co-editors: Jack Dougherty (Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, USA) and Kristen Nawrotzki (University of Education, Heidelberg, Germany) --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2011 18:26:41 +0100 From: Susan Schreibman Subject: launch of inaugural issue of the Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative On behalf of the editors of the Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative (jTEI), I am delighted to announce the publication of the first issue of this new peer-reviewed publication: http://jtei.revues.org/ This issue, guest edited by Syd Bauman, Kevin Hawkins, and Malte Rehbein, contains selected papers presented at the 2008 and 2009 conferences and members' meetings: - John Unsworth - Computational Work with Very Large Text Collections: Interoperability, Sustainability, and the TEI - Tanya Clement - Knowledge Representation and Digital Scholarly Editions in Theory and Practice - Thomas Schmidt - A TEI-based Approach to Standardising Spoken Language Transcription - Lynne Siemens, Ray Siemens, Hefeng (Eddie) Wen, Cara Leitch, Dot Porter, Liam Sherriff, Karin Armstrong, and Melanie Chernyk - ‘The Apex of Hipster XML GeekDOM’: TEI-encoded Dylan and Understanding the Scope of an Evolving Community of Practice The journal is published by the TEI Consortium on Revues.org (http://www.revues.org/6438?lang=en) the web platform for journals and book collections of Cléo, the French Centre for Open Electronic Publishing (http://cleo.cnrs.fr/). jTEI's home is at http://jtei.revues.org/ where you can find information about the journal as well as links to the journal's administrative website http://journal.tei-c.org/, which is used for managing the submission, review, and editing process. I hope you enjoy reading this issue. Please consider contributing to the journal by submitting articles for future issues. We also welcome ideas for special issues. Susan Schreibman Editor-in-Chief Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative -- Susan Schreibman, PhD Long Room Hub Senior Lecturer in Digital Humanities School of English Trinity College Dublin Dublin 2, Ireland email: susan.schreibman@tcd.ie phone: +353 1 896 3694 fax: +353 1 671 7114 check out the new MPhil in Digital Humanities at TCD http://www.tcd.ie/English/postgraduate/digital-humanities/ --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2011 14:01:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Roderick Coover Subject: New Book in Digital Humanities and Arts Announcing the publication of a new book in digital humanities and arts: SWITCHING CODES: THINKING THROUGH DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY IN THE HUMANITIES AND THE ARTS Edited by Thomas Bartscherer and Roderick Coover University of Chicago Press, 2011 Half a century into the digital era, the profound impact of information technology on intellectual and cultural life is universally acknowledged but still poorly understood. The sheer complexity of the technology coupled with the rapid pace of change makes it increasingly difficult to establish common ground and to promote thoughtful discussion. Responding to this challenge, Switching Codes brings together leading American and European scholars, scientists, and artists—including Charles Bernstein, Ian Foster, Bruno Latour, Alan Liu, and Richard Powers—to consider how the precipitous growth of digital information and its associated technologies are transforming the ways we think and act. Employing a wide range of forms, including essay, dialogue, short fiction, and game design, this book aims to model and foster discussion between IT specialists, who typically have scant training in the humanities or traditional arts, and scholars and artists, who often understand little about the technologies that are so radically transforming their fields. Switching Codes will be an indispensable volume for anyone seeking to understand the impact of digital technology on contemporary culture, including scientists, educators, policymakers, and artists, alike. 448 pages | 40 halftones, 4 line drawings | 6 x 9 | © 2011 URL: http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/S/bo6027946.html _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Jun 8 21:20:35 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FF10155F35; Wed, 8 Jun 2011 21:20:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 198FD155EF8; Wed, 8 Jun 2011 21:20:21 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110608212022.198FD155EF8@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2011 21:20:21 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.75 growth of Humanist X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 75. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2011 07:12:55 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: growth of Humanist Only a few here will know that every year I give a report on Humanist to the committees of the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH), the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing and now to the umbrella organization, the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO). Anyhow, this gives me the opportunity to take a look at gross figures of membership and number of messages per year. On this occasion, just prior to the Digital Humanities conference at Stanford, I was pleased to be able to report the most messages exchanged on Humanist since records began (926, up 7 from the previous high, in 1996-7), and the highest number of members, 1645, up 127 from the previous year. This morning, however, I received the greatest number of applications to join that I've ever seen in one day, 11. The total membership is now at 1658. Given the population of the world these are not huge numbers. But given the number of ways in which digital humanists and interpretative social scientists can communicate now, it seems quite remarkable to me. So, on this early Sydney morning, promising a most beautiful winter day, I thought I'd pass some professional cheer around. Mazel tov! All the best. Yours, WM -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Jun 8 21:22:29 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63FD215508F; Wed, 8 Jun 2011 21:22:29 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 8112C15507F; Wed, 8 Jun 2011 21:22:18 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110608212218.8112C15507F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2011 21:22:18 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.76 events: semantic archives; libraries X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 76. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Doug Reside (31) Subject: NYPL Event: Digital Humanities and the Future of Libraries [2] From: "Steffen Hennicke" (87) Subject: 2nd CfP - Workshop on Semantic Digital Archives --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2011 19:03:08 -0400 From: Doug Reside Subject: NYPL Event: Digital Humanities and the Future of Libraries A conversation in honor of Dr. Paul LeClerc with: Kari Kraus, Jon Orwant, Dot Porter and Doug Reside Presented by NYPL Labs Thursday, June 16, 2011, 4 p.m. Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, South Court Auditorium http://www.nypl.org/events/programs/2011/06/16/digital-humanities-and-future-libraries Since the early days of the field, Digital Humanities practitioners have frequently found allies and collaborators in librarians and archivists. Many early digital humanities projects centered around organizing and making accessible information--two activities at the core of the mission of almost every library. Perhaps for this reason, many of the largest digital humanities centers are physically situated in and often at least partially funded by University libraries. Nonetheless, the field has traditionally been led (with a few notable exceptions) by faculty from humanities departments rather than by library staff, and libraries have tended to isolate digital humanities centers as somewhat quarantined departments separate from the daily work of the institution. However, as both digital humanities and librarianship develop in the 21st century, there are indications that these walls of separation are beginning to erode. In this panel discussion, NYPL Digital Curator for the Performing Arts, Doug Reside, and three digital humanists from very different backgrounds will discuss the future of libraries and the digital humanities and how these two related, but as yet mostly separate fields, may (or may not) finally converge. This event is held in honor of outgoing NYPL President Dr. Paul LeClerc, whose vision and passionate advocacy have advanced the frontiers of digital humanities innovation at the Library. The event is sponsored by NYPL Labs, a collaborative team of librarians, curators and technologists developing new ideas and tools for digital research. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2011 19:42:50 +0200 From: "Steffen Hennicke" Subject: 2nd CfP - Workshop on Semantic Digital Archives CALL FOR PAPERS ************************** International Workshop on "Semantic Digital Archives - sustainable long-term curation perspectives of Cultural Heritage" to be held as part of the 15th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL). 29.09.2011 in Berlin http://sda2011.dke-research.de -------------------------------------------------------------------------- OBJECTIVES: The Semantic Digital Archives Workshop aims at promoting and discussing sophisticated knowledge representation and knowledge management solutions specifically designed for improving Archival Information Systems. Over the past couple of decades, digitally created content has come to permeate all aspects of our lives and the life cycle of these objects is increasingly exclusively digital. Therefore, sustainable long-term curation perspectives for our digital cultural heritage are essential. Digital content poses many socio-cultural and technological challenges which create obstacles to long-term or indefinite preservation. Changing technologies and shifting user communities as well as the increasing complexity of digital content being enriched with software and multimedia attachments are only a few examples. Dealing with these challenges is the central theme of the workshop. This full day workshop is an exciting opportunity for collaboration and cross-fertilization between the Digital Libraries, the Digital Archives and the Semantic Web community. It specifically encourages closer dialogue between the technical oriented communities and researchers from the (digital) humanities and social sciences as well as cultural heritage institutions. TOPICS OF INTEREST: We intend to have an open discussion on topics related to the general subject of Semantic Digital Archives. The following list of topics is meant as an initial guide. Hence, we welcome contributions that focus on, but are not limited to: * ontologies and linked data for digital archives and digital libraries, e.g. semantic extensions of common knowledge models of the digital archiving and digital libraries domain, e.g. METS, EAD, PREMIS, ... * ontologies and (semantic) web services implementing the OAIS standard * theoretical and practical archiving frameworks extending or replacing the OAIS standard * logical theories for digital archives * implementations and evaluations of digital archives * semantic or logical provenance models for digital archives or digital libraries * information integration/semantic ingest (e.g. from digital libraries) * trust for ingest and data security/integrity check for long-term storage of archival records * semantic search and semantic information retrieval in digital archives and digital libraries * visualization and exploration of digital content (stored or to be stored in a digital archive) * semantic extensions of emulation/virtualization methodologies tailored for digital archives * migration strategies based on semantic (web) technologies * semantic long-term storage and hardware organization tailored for AIS * (empirical) studies evaluating end-user needs and its evolution as well as information seeking behaviour of end-user needs and its evolution * knowledge evolution SUBMISSION DETAILS: Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research papers related to the aforementioned topics. We invite: * regular papers (10 to 12 pages) * short papers (4 to 6 pages) All submissions are required to be in pdf format. Long and short paper submissions should be in the Springer's LNCS format. Submissions are to be made via the submission web site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sda2011 Submissions will be reviewed by the three members of the Program Committee. All papers accepted at the Semantic Digital Archives Workshop must be presented during the Workshop by a SDA Workshop registered participant. All papers will be published in workshop proceedings, which will be available as a separate publication after the Workshop IMPORTANT DATES: * Deadline for Submissions: 30 June 2011 * Acceptance Notification: 30. July 2011 * Camera-ready Papers: 20. August 2011 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE & PROGRAM COMMITTEE: The Organizing Committee members and the Program Committee members are mentioned at: http://sda2011.dke-research.de/index.php/committees FURTHER DETAILS: http://sda2011.dke-research.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 Jun 9 20:34:54 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A5A01561C3; Thu, 9 Jun 2011 20:34:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 229DA1561B7; Thu, 9 Jun 2011 20:34:52 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110609203452.229DA1561B7@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 20:34:52 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.77 digital projects X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 77. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Leif Isaksen (75) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.73 digital projects? [2] From: Kathie Gossett (58) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.73 digital projects? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 09:56:19 +0100 From: Leif Isaksen Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.73 digital projects? In-Reply-To: <20110608211604.2A55B155C3B@woodward.joyent.us> G'day Willard First, a big congratulations to Humanist - it's great to see you going so strong after all these years. Antiquist salutes you! :-) For me some of the most interesting research starting to come out is in terms of content co-creation. Obviously there's been ground-breaking work in crowdsourcing already (you know who you are ;-) ) and museums have been working in this area too, thanks to their public remit (It is now one of the main themes at DISH http://www.dish2011.nl/). Where I think we might reach a real tipping point, however is in creating virtuous cycles by balancing the motivations of different stakeholder (esp. researchers & targeted public interest groups) and using mobile media to help embed it in people's everyday lives. It's a little too early to say for sure what will work (and I'm sure there will be failures along the way) but I'm keeping an eye on projects such as http://heritagecrowd.org/ and http://billiongraves.com/ Wether or not they've got the balance quite right yet, I think we can all learn a lot from their experience. Obviously my funders would never forgive me if I didn't say that Pelagios (http://pelagios-project.blogspot.com) was also doing some pretty exciting work to spatially interconnect resources between archaeology, classics and digital libraries but I'll let you and others be the judge of that ;-) Best Leif On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 10:16 PM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: >                  Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 73. >         Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London >                       www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist >                Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > >        Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2011 21:21:36 +1000 >        From: Willard McCarty >        Subject: digital projects > > Dear colleagues, > > I am looking around for notable research projects that exemplify the > best of what's going on in the digital humanities these days. The > purpose of the collection I hope to assemble is to give colleagues here, > at Western Sydney, examples with which to think about what might be done > in the area we're calling "digital cultural research". Projects with a > particular focus on contemporary social situations and problems would be > most relevant as far as subject matter is concerned, but I do not want > to exclude any notable for the methods they use just because they are > concerned with, say, ancient Sumer. So, if you would, nominate what you > think is most worth looking at for whatever reason. And please do not > exclude projects of your own! > > All suggestions made here in response to this query will be published on > Humanist. > > Many thanks for your suggestions. > > Yours, > WM > -- > Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's > College London; Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western > Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); > Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 13:41:21 -0400 From: Kathie Gossett Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.73 digital projects? In-Reply-To: <20110608211604.2A55B155C3B@woodward.joyent.us> There is a project at Michigan State that might be of interest to you: Archive 2.0: Imagining the Michigan State University Israelite Samaritan Scroll Collection as the Foundation for a Thriving Social Network. The description of the project can be found here: http://wide.msu.edu/special/archive/. I believe they are still in the process of actually building the archive, but I'm sure any of the PIs would be happy to provide more information about the status of the project. Kathie _______________________________ Kathie Gossett, PhD Asst. Professor of Writing, Rhetoric & New Media Co-Director, CeME Lab Department of English Old Dominion University (757) 683-5818 kgossett@odu.edu www.kathiegossett.com ceme.digitalodu.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 9 20:36:03 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DAF1156252; Thu, 9 Jun 2011 20:36:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A0F0D15623E; Thu, 9 Jun 2011 20:36:00 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110609203600.A0F0D15623E@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 20:36:00 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.78 growth of Humanist X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 78. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Postles, David A. (Dr.)" (5) Subject: RE: [Humanist] 25.75 growth of Humanist [2] From: "Joe Raben" (44) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.75 growth of Humanist --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 19:49:12 +0100 From: "Postles, David A. (Dr.)" Subject: RE: [Humanist] 25.75 growth of Humanist In-Reply-To: <20110608212022.198FD155EF8@woodward.joyent.us> Highly commendable. Thank you for sharing. Good wishes to all participants. DP --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 15:03:13 -0400 From: "Joe Raben" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.75 growth of Humanist In-Reply-To: <20110608212022.198FD155EF8@woodward.joyent.us> Congratulations, Willard! _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 9 20:38:40 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58C1D15637F; Thu, 9 Jun 2011 20:38:40 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 2F9B7156376; Thu, 9 Jun 2011 20:38:36 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110609203836.2F9B7156376@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 20:38:36 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.79 jobs: outreach librarian (Michigan); studentship, anthropology (Oxford) X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 79. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "McCollough, Aaron" (36) Subject: Job Posting at Univ. of Michigan [2] From: David Zeitlyn (41) Subject: Fully funded AHRC 3-year Studentship in visual anthropology at Oxford --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 16:15:09 -0400 From: "McCollough, Aaron" Subject: Job Posting at Univ. of Michigan Text Creation Partnership Project Outreach Librarian The University of Michigan Library and Oxford University Library have collaborated for several years with three corporate partners, ProQuest Information and Learning, Readex-Newsbank and Gale Cengage Learning, in an international effort to create structurally marked-up full-text transcriptions of early English and American printed books, dating from 1475 to 1800, on behalf of a large and growing academic consortium, the Text Creation Partnership (TCP) http://www.lib.umich.edu/tcp/. About 48,000 texts have been produced so far, towards a goal of 80,000, representing a substantial portion of the nearly 300,000 books contained in the subscription databases from which they are transcribed: Early English Books Online (EEBO), Evans Early American Imprints, and Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO). ProQuest, Readex, and Gale supply the page images; Michigan and Oxford oversee the keying and SGML/XML tagging; and the partner libraries own the resulting corpus. This is arguably the largest and most significant full-text project of its kind undertaken to date, not least in that it is being done under terms that reflect the needs and values of libraries and scholars. Through 2014, the primary focus of the TCP is to produce around 44,000 texts for a second phase of the EEBO-TCP partnership (the first phase, which ended in 2009, produced around 25,000 texts). The Text Creation Partnership Project Outreach Librarian will be appointed as a Librarian (or equivalent professional classification) at the University Library and will work under the supervision of the Associate University Librarian for Publishing. The Outreach Librarian will be housed in the MPublishing division at the University of Michigan Library and will interact with a wide range of staff throughout the Library system. The University of Michigan is a national leader in digital library development and the Project Outreach Librarian will be working with skilled digital library and electronic publishing specialists as well as leading collection, service, and processing librarians at Michigan, Oxford, ProQuest, and the libraries funding and supporting the project. THIS IS A THREE YEAR TERM-LIMITED APPOINTMENT with possibilities for extension. The Project Outreach Librarian is eligible for all the benefits available to employees at the University of Michigan. Responsibilities Communication and Marketing: (40%) - develop and implement plans for disseminating information about the TCP project, via print, web-based and personal communication, to potential TCP funding partners as well as to existing partner libraries and their patrons, both students and faculty, worldwide. The goal is to make libraries aware of the project, its significance for research and pedagogy, and the beneficial licensing terms that result from its cooperative structure. The marketing components of this position include significant follow-up and communication with potential partners, as well as presenting about the project and its significance at academic and library professional association meetings. Facilitation of scholarship: (30%) - serve as the voice of, and liaison with, the scholarly user community as regards the composition of the corpus, the development of tools associated with it, and its practical application to research and instruction. Oversee usability studies of the corpus, changes in its interface design, and the preparation of documentation and instruction, with a view toward improving both its potential for sophisticated research and its ease of use for students. Requires a thorough understanding of the corpus and its connections to related digital corpora, as well as a broad view of its possible uses in widely diverse fields. Project Administration: (30%) - maintain close communication with and provide support for the AUL for Publishing, production coordinator, and international TCP Executive Committee. Work closely with the Library Finance Office to monitor the budget and partner invoicing process. Communicate regularly with colleagues at Oxford and other interested parties. To reinforce these activities, the TCP Project Outreach Librarian will be encouraged to use the collections and resources of the University of Michigan to better understand how the TCP project will fit into the overall collection and service efforts of research libraries, and their interaction with campus scholars in support of research and instruction. Qualifications Required: * ALA-accredited Master’s Degree, or an equivalent combination of a relevant advanced degree and a minimum of two years of work experience in 1) a research library or archive, 2) scholarly publishing, or 3) university teaching. * Significant undergraduate or graduate study in an aspect of British history, English language or literature, or western civilization. * Demonstrated facility with scholarly electronic resources, and experience in the development of Web resources. * Excellent oral and written communication skills as evidenced in part by a record of scholarly publication and conference presentation. * Demonstrated ability to work effectively with culturally diverse faculty, students, and staff. Desired: * Knowledge of research library collection development strategies and the impact of digitization on collection development and use. * Familiarity with structured electronic text and the use of textual analysis systems for the study of history, politics, philosophy, history of science, religion, literature, law, and/or linguistics. * Knowledge of markup standards and production systems for digital library creation. * Familiarity with the market for digital resources in the humanities. * Knowledge of scholarly communication patterns in the humanities. Benefits, Rank and Salary It is anticipated the position will be filled at the Assistant Librarian or Associate Librarian level. Final rank and salary are dependent on experience and qualifications. Librarians receive 24 days of vacation a year, 15 days of sick leave a year with provisions for extended benefits, as well as opportunities for professional development and travel. Further information regarding benefits can be found at http://benefits.umich.edu/benefitgroups/faculty.html. Retirement Options: TIAA-CREF and Fidelity Investments options available. Application Process Email a cover letter and CV as attachments to libhumres@umich.edu addressed to: Jane Havens Head of Library Human Resources 404 Hatcher Graduate Library North University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1190 For further information, call 734-764-2546 between 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., Monday-Friday. Application Deadline Review of applications will begin on June 15, 2011 and will continue until the position is filled. The University of Michigan is a non-discriminatory, affirmative action employer. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2011 17:12:12 +0100 From: David Zeitlyn Subject: Fully funded AHRC 3-year Studentship in visual anthropology at Oxford AHRC 3-year DPhil collaborative studentship to be held in the SCHOOL OF ANTHROPOLOGY & MUSEUM ETHNOGRAPHY, University of Oxford (in collaboration with the Royal Anthropological Institute ) Following the award of an AHRC collaborative studentship to Professor David Zeitlyn (ISCA) and Dr Chris Morton (Pitt Rivers Museum) for 'Responses to archival images in UK and Nigeria', a 3-year fully funded AHRC studentship will be available to the best-qualified candidate. The successful candidate will be expected to carry out research for a doctorate in anthropology on the reception of images from the RAI archive in Nigeria and in the Nigerian diaspora in the UK, supervised jointly by Professor David Zeitlyn and Dr Chris Morton. The student will scan and prepare an exhibition of early photographs from the RAI archives and then study its reception in UK and Nigeria. Candidates should be able to demonstrate an interest in the study of photography and a commitment to ethnographic fieldwork in Nigeria and the UK. They should have a good Master's degree and/or first degree in anthropology, Museum Studies or African Studies.* *See http://www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/prospective-students/funding/ahrc/ for more information* *best wishes davidz -- David Zeitlyn, Professor of Social Anthropology (research) Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, 51 Banbury Road, Oxford, OX2 6PF, UK http://www.isca.ox.ac.uk/about-us/staff/academic/professor-david-zeitlyn/ http://users.ox.ac.uk/~wolf2728/ http://about.me/david.zeitlyn _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 9 20:41:47 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5E8615644F; Thu, 9 Jun 2011 20:41:47 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 11F74156445; Thu, 9 Jun 2011 20:41:44 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110609204144.11F74156445@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 20:41:44 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.80 events: Digital Classicist 10 June (London) X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 80. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2011 22:56:00 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Digital Classicist & Institute of Classical Studies Seminar Friday June 10th at 16:30 Room 37, Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU David Scott & Mike Jackson (Edinburgh) 'Aggregating Classical Datasets with Linked Data' ALL WELCOME The SPQR project (http://spqr.cerch.kcl.ac.uk) is investigating the integration of heterogeneous datasets relating to Classical antiquity via Semantic Web and Linked Data technologies to produce an intuitive way for researchers to explore the data. EpiDoc XML (including the Inscriptions of Aphrodisias and Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania) has been converted into Linked Data. In addition to relationships arising from shared properties of the objects, such as the materials from which they are made, there are links to external resources such as the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places. A user evaluation by classicists at KCL of the tools and techniques used is under way. The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments. For more information please contact Gabriel.Bodard@kcl.ac.uk, Stuart.Dunn@kcl.ac.uk, S.Mahony@ucl.ac.uk, or see the seminar website at http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2011.html -- Simon Mahony Student Support Manager Department of War Studies, e-Learning Programme Room K7.05, 7th Floor, South Range King's College London WC2R 2LS http://www.kcl.ac.uk/wimw _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 11 20:42:47 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 558FF158FAF; Sat, 11 Jun 2011 20:42:47 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 7EB9A158F9D; Sat, 11 Jun 2011 20:42:42 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110611204242.7EB9A158F9D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2011 20:42:42 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.81 thanks for the help X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 81. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 13:49:37 -0600 From: Mark Winokur Subject: Thank you for announcement venues Just a brief thanks to everyone all of whose terrific suggestions I'll be using for my journal announcement. All the Best, Mark Winokur _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 11 20:44:32 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00078158018; Sat, 11 Jun 2011 20:44:31 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 539C3158004; Sat, 11 Jun 2011 20:44:28 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110611204428.539C3158004@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2011 20:44:28 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.82 digital projects X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 82. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 16:54:07 +0200 From: maurizio lana Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.73 digital projects? In-Reply-To: <20110608211604.2A55B155C3B@woodward.joyent.us> Hello Willard, Here at Reed College, staff in the library and IT department have been collaborating with faculty members in various departments on a diverse array of digital humanities projects. The collections can be viewed at Reed Digital Collections http://cdm.reed.edu/ . Best, -- Joanna Burgess Digital Assets Librarian Reed College Library 503-517-7629 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 11 20:47:44 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59922158074; Sat, 11 Jun 2011 20:47:44 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1C28B158065; Sat, 11 Jun 2011 20:47:41 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110611204741.1C28B158065@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2011 20:47:41 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.83 list of modern surnames? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 83. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 19:28:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Bob Blair Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.80 events: Digital Classicist 10 June (London) In-Reply-To: <20110609204144.11F74156445@woodward.joyent.us> I'm glad for the reference to GeoNames (http://www.geonames.org/). On a different subject: is there an extensive list of modern surnames (say, from 1500 forward)? I have a project to create an hyperlinked index of the 1904 Dictionary of National Biography. Part of the challenge is to spell-check the names. The few lists I have found are narrow in scope. Bob Blair _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Jun 11 20:49:29 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1CE11580BF; Sat, 11 Jun 2011 20:49:29 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 9024E1580B6; Sat, 11 Jun 2011 20:49:27 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110611204927.9024E1580B6@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2011 20:49:27 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.84 events: identities in American lit X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 84. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2011 22:47:09 +0100 From: Kaja Marczewska Subject: CFP: Performing Identities in American Literature, Durham, Uk,September 10th 2011 CALL FOR PAPERS “Through me many long dumb voices”: Performing Identities in American Literature Department of English Studies, University of Durham September 10th 2011 Performing Identities in American Literature seeks to explore the ways in which American identity is defined, enacted and contested in texts from the sixteenth century up to the present day. Tapping into the influential, yet highly contradictory visions of identity which have dominated the modern field of American Studies, in which multiculturalist and pluralist critiques of a unified national sensibility are set against the “indifference to difference” of an increasing cosmopolitanism (Michaels, 2004), the event invites fresh discussion of the identities contained and performed beneath the umbrella term “democracy”. By expanding a consideration of the performative beyond the more obviously dramatic aspects of text, we aim to provide a forum for debating the role played by the theatrical dimensions of the imaginary within American literary identities, highlighting the staging of belonging and exclusion that has shaped writers’ responses for more than four centuries. In the interest of broadening the scope of discussion, we invite abstract submissions for papers of between 20 and 40 minutes in length. Presentations are welcomed in a variety of formats, from single and joint papers to lecture performances and works-in-progress. Topics may include, but are by no means limited to: • Patriotism and anti-patriotism: narratives of belonging and exclusion • Migration, immigration and inward expatriation • Propaganda and nationalism/exceptionalism • Staging the past: re-writing history as literature • Issues of authenticity: difficulties inherent in enacting race/class/nation • “Textualising” the body and bodily experience • Metatextuality and self-reflexive performativity • The evolving identity and cultural mythology of the American writer • Multiplicity and cosmopolitanism: new directions for American literature Please submit your name, institutional affiliation and abstract of up to 300 words to PerformingAmerica@gmail.com by the deadline of July 31st 2011. Further information and updates can be found at the symposium website: PerformingAmerica.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 Sat Jun 11 21:41:19 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA5A215860D; Sat, 11 Jun 2011 21:41:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 3B1671585FE; Sat, 11 Jun 2011 21:41:15 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110611214115.3B1671585FE@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2011 21:41:15 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.85 historical reflection? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 85. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2011 07:20:29 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: historical reflection? This is a very broad, perhaps foolishly unanswerable question, perhaps not. It is this: what triggers historical reflection? When do we pause in our anticipations of what is to come to look back on what has been? Personally this is, I'm sure, an interesting thing to ponder, also neurologically, as a question of long-term memory. But what about the accumulation of institutional, professional, disciplinary memory? When, for example, did people in English studies or Anthropology first stop worrying about establishing their discipline and start to wonder about its history? This can, of course, overlap with the personal history of the founders, e.g. in the case of English studies at Cambridge, with E. M. W. Tillyard's The Muse Unchained (1958), published 4 years before his death. But I suspect there's more than an old person's ruminatory inclinations involved here. Specific cases of historical reflection pioneered by mid-career academics would help. Are there other ways in which this could be picked apart? Has anyone studied the phenomenon? As far as I know the relationship between memory and historiography is a relatively recent thing, begun by Paul Fussell, in The Great War and Modern Memory (1975). The historiographical problem of memory is bound up with the debate over whether recent history can be called history, or more intelligently, how recent history is properly done. But, I'd suppose, the inclination to think historically is common to both. I'd like to know more about that. Many thanks for any leads. Yours, WM -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Jun 12 20:06:16 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24408158BEB; Sun, 12 Jun 2011 20:06:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 192CC158BD7; Sun, 12 Jun 2011 20:06:05 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110612200605.192CC158BD7@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2011 20:06:05 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.86 historical reflection X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 86. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Todd Lawson (57) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.85 historical reflection? [2] From: Mark Winokur (58) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.85 historical reflection? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2011 12:50:20 -0400 From: Todd Lawson Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.85 historical reflection? In-Reply-To: <20110611214115.3B1671585FE@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Willard The question-if I follow you- is controversial in Jewish studies and Islamic Studies because so much is said to depend on memory. A key book here is B Gerhardsson, Memory and Manuscript (Copenhagen 1964) which is on Jewish and Christian history & historiography. Prodigious memory is also a positive historiographical principle in islamic traditional histories and one which has also become controversial in recent decades. This would relate to the "narratological" role of memory and not the iconic or "art of memory(e.g. Yates)" role as found in Bruno and others memory theatres. But crisscossing seems inevitable. A related question is: how can we judge how people "felt" the passage of time? Was a century in 100 CE as long or as short as a century is today? We know time does speed up in certain circumstances, but does the 20th century bring with it a distinctive version or notion of the passing of historical time? One assumes it does (can time be the same after photography is just one immediate problem that arises). The Invention of Tradition seems also relevant here. Todd Lawson On Jun 11, 2011, at 5:41 PM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 85. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2011 07:20:29 +1000 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: historical reflection? > > This is a very broad, perhaps foolishly unanswerable question, perhaps > not. It is this: what triggers historical reflection? When do we pause > in our anticipations of what is to come to look back on what has been? > Personally this is, I'm sure, an interesting thing to ponder, also > neurologically, as a question of long-term memory. But what about the > accumulation of institutional, professional, disciplinary memory? When, > for example, did people in English studies or Anthropology first stop > worrying about establishing their discipline and start to wonder about > its history? This can, of course, overlap with the personal history of > the founders, e.g. in the case of English studies at Cambridge, with E. > M. W. Tillyard's The Muse Unchained (1958), published 4 years before his > death. But I suspect there's more than an old person's ruminatory > inclinations involved here. Specific cases of historical reflection > pioneered by mid-career academics would help. Are there other ways in > which this could be picked apart? Has anyone studied the phenomenon? > > As far as I know the relationship between memory and historiography is a > relatively recent thing, begun by Paul Fussell, in The Great War and > Modern Memory (1975). The historiographical problem of memory is bound > up with the debate over whether recent history can be called history, or > more intelligently, how recent history is properly done. But, I'd > suppose, the inclination to think historically is common to both. I'd > like to know more about that. > > Many thanks for any leads. > > Yours, > WM > -- > Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's > College London; Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western > Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); > Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2011 12:25:06 -0600 From: Mark Winokur Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.85 historical reflection? In-Reply-To: <20110611214115.3B1671585FE@woodward.joyent.us> So far from thinking this foolish, I believe it to be a terrific graduate or faculty seminar topic. I might at least begin with these texts: Habermas on "Modernism: an Incomplete Project," who believes that we become reflective about what we do from the get-go as a way of distinguishing our own moment as special and different from what came before. Then there is that line of romantic philosophy/poetry that understands reflection on the past as possible only after the activity -- the object of reflection -- is past. For Marxists like Fredric Jameson or Louis Althusser, history is perhaps best defined as the process of selective forgetting. Institutions remember what they need to remember in order to ensure their own survival. As for academics thinking about academia, here are some suggestive titles: Hollinger, /Humanities and the Dynamics of Inclusion since World War II /Bledstein, /The Culture of Professionalism/ Graff, /Professing Literature/ Ohmann, /English in America: A Radical View of the Profession/ Best, 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 Sun Jun 12 20:07:38 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85064158C6A; Sun, 12 Jun 2011 20:07:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 4DE16158C37; Sun, 12 Jun 2011 20:07:34 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20110612200734.4DE16158C37@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2011 20:07:34 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.87 list of modern surnames X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 87. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2011 14:39:03 -0700 From: "Karl Grossner" Subject: RE: [Humanist] 25.83 list of modern surnames? In-Reply-To: <20110611204741.1C28B158065@woodward.joyent.us> The Center for Advanced Spatial Analysis at UCL (CASA, http://www.casa.ucl.ac.uk) have been working on surnames for a number of years, both for GB and globally: http://gbnames.publicprofiler.org/ http://worldnames.publicprofiler.org/ ____________________________ Karl Grossner Center for Spatial Studies University of California, Santa Barbara _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 13 02:40:51 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9AD8715791F; Mon, 13 Jun 2011 02:40:51 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B322D157905; Mon, 13 Jun 2011 02:40:34 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110613024034.B322D157905@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 02:40:34 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.89 Order of Australia for John Burrows X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 89. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 12:39:18 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: John Burrows, AM Professor John Burrows (Newcastle, NSW) has been named in the Queen's Birthday Honours List as Member of the Order of Australia, "For service to education in the fields of computational stylistics and English literature as an academic and researcher." (See http://www.itsanhonour.gov.au/honours/awards/medals/member_order_australia.cfm for information about the award.) The timing couldn't be better: a symposium in his honour, "Language Individuation", is taking place early next month in Newcastle; see http://www.newcastle.edu.au/school/hss/research/groups/cllc/2011-symposium.html for more about it. Congratulations, John! Yours, WM -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Jun 13 20:07:47 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id A621E159DFF; Mon, 13 Jun 2011 20:07:46 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 57DDE159DD0; Mon, 13 Jun 2011 20:07:41 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110613200741.57DDE159DD0@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 20:07:41 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.90 digital projects X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 90. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 13:46:07 +0200 From: Claire Clivaz Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.73 digital projects? In-Reply-To: <20110608211604.2A55B155C3B@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Willard, I share with pleasure what is going on at the University of Lausanne and in Switzerland. - First of all, Humanties have now a permanent website with diverse informations: www.infoclio.ch - At the University of Lausanne, an interdisciplinary team of researchers is leading a plateform called «Humanités Digitales@Unil», that has begun in march 2011 and will continue during the all year. We are the first Swiss University to consider the topic as such. All information there: www.unil.ch/digitalera2011 Welcome to our international meeting on the 23-25th of August: «From Ancient Manuscripts to the Digital Era: Readings and Literacies» - Several institutions will support the firs Swiss THATCamp on the 11th-12th Novembre 2011 in Lausanne - A PhD student in Lausanne has got a one-year grant to go to Beirouth. She's learning Arabic and try to study the emergence of an hybrid digital scholarship about the Arabic and Greek New Testament manuscripts. Indeed, one can notice the emergence of a beyond Western boundaries scholarship on this topic, with islamic websites studying the Greek New Testament manuscripts, and diverse surprising new scholarly phenomenon. - The Swiss National Found begins to receive projects on Digital Humanities: their main difficulty is to found «experts». Every established scholar has now the same profile: to be involved in one field and to discover progressively the DH field... Kind greetings from Lausanne! Claire Clivaz Le 8 juin 2011 à 23:16, Humanist Discussion Group a écrit : > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 73. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2011 21:21:36 +1000 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: digital projects > > Dear colleagues, > > I am looking around for notable research projects that exemplify the > best of what's going on in the digital humanities these days. The > purpose of the collection I hope to assemble is to give colleagues here, > at Western Sydney, examples with which to think about what might be done > in the area we're calling "digital cultural research". Projects with a > particular focus on contemporary social situations and problems would be > most relevant as far as subject matter is concerned, but I do not want > to exclude any notable for the methods they use just because they are > concerned with, say, ancient Sumer. So, if you would, nominate what you > think is most worth looking at for whatever reason. And please do not > exclude projects of your own! > > All suggestions made here in response to this query will be published on > Humanist. > > Many thanks for your suggestions. > > Yours, > WM > -- > Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's > College London; Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western > Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); > Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Jun 13 20:08:55 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFE25159E9B; Mon, 13 Jun 2011 20:08:55 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 78690159E88; Mon, 13 Jun 2011 20:08:51 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110613200851.78690159E88@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 20:08:51 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.91 historical reflection X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 91. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 04:41:37 -0700 (PDT) From: Laval Hunsucker Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.86 historical reflection In-Reply-To: <20110612200605.192CC158BD7@woodward.joyent.us> Willard, you wrote : > Many thanks for any leads. It's not entirely clear to me what you're after, but -- restricting myself to my own former territory of ancient studies -- it occurs to me that something like the following fairly recent stuff could just possibly be of some interest to you in this connection : Lin Foxhall, Hans-Joachim Gehrke, Nino Luraghi (ed.), Intentional history : spinning time in ancient Greece, 2010 Dušan Borić (ed.), Archaeology and memory, 2010 Mercourios Georgiadis, Chrysanthi Gallou (ed.), The past in the past : the significance of memory and tradition in the transmission of culture, 2009 and further perhaps : Jan Assmann, Das kulturelle Gedächtnis : Schrift, Erinnerung und politische Identität in frühen Hochkulturen, 6. Aufl. 2007 Katharine Hodgkin, Susannah Radstone (ed.), Memory, history, nation : contested pasts, 2006 - Laval Hunsucker Antwerpen, België _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 13 20:09:43 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2374159EEB; Mon, 13 Jun 2011 20:09:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 777C5159ED1; Mon, 13 Jun 2011 20:09:39 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20110613200939.777C5159ED1@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 20:09:39 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.92 accessibility? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 92. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 09:45:28 -0400 From: "WILLIAMS, GEORGE" Subject: Accessibility and digital humanities: A 5-minute survey My collaborators and I are currently gathering information about issues of disability, accessibility, and digital humanities resources. As part of that effort, we invite you to complete this survey. https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?hl=en&formkey=dHBmZXRvekhBMDlxMjlzcy1NdXZlU2c6MQ#gid=0 We will use this information to inform our future project plans. As a survey participant you may remain anonymous, or you may share your name, affiliation, and contact information at the bottom of the form. If you have any questions or comments, please contact me at gwilliams@uscupstate.edu Thank you! Yours, --George ___________________________ George H. Williams Assistant Professor of English, USC Upstate Office: HPAC 213 Office hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays from 2:00-4:00 and by appointment. ProfHacker editor and writer: http://ProfHacker.com Braille and braille literacy: http://BrailleSC.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 13 20:11:03 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id C760E159F7E; Mon, 13 Jun 2011 20:11:02 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B4EE1159F4F; Mon, 13 Jun 2011 20:10:56 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110613201056.B4EE1159F4F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 20:10:56 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.93 Order of Australia for John Burrows X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 93. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2011 22:12:58 -0500 From: "Unsworth, John M" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.89 Order of Australia for John Burrows In-Reply-To: <20110613024034.B322D157905@woodward.joyent.us> What a wonderful honor, for a wonderful man. John On Jun 12, 2011, at 9:40 PM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 89. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 12:39:18 +1000 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: John Burrows, AM > > Professor John Burrows (Newcastle, NSW) has been named in the Queen's > Birthday Honours List as Member of the Order of Australia, "For service > to education in the fields of computational stylistics and English > literature as an academic and researcher." (See > http://www.itsanhonour.gov.au/honours/awards/medals/member_order_australia.cfm > for information about the award.) The timing couldn't be better: a > symposium in his honour, "Language Individuation", is taking place early > next month in Newcastle; see > http://www.newcastle.edu.au/school/hss/research/groups/cllc/2011-symposium.html > for more about it. > > Congratulations, John! > > Yours, > WM > -- > Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's > College London; Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western > Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); > Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Jun 13 20:13:14 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A285159088; Mon, 13 Jun 2011 20:13:14 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 71C0C159056; Mon, 13 Jun 2011 20:13:06 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110613201306.71C0C159056@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 20:13:06 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.94 events: literacy and education X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 94. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2011 23:51:07 +0200 From: "Totosy de Zepetnek, Steven" Subject: steven totosy re: conference announcement Abstracts are invited for presentation in the international conference "Literacy and Society, Culture, Media, & Education" held at Ghent University 9-11 February 2012 http://www.literacyconference2012.ugent.be . The conference is conceived to offer a forum of discussion about digitality in/of society, culture (incl. literature and the other arts), and education. In an age of digitality and mass media, perceptions and practices of culture, cultural production and consumption, and thus also education and pedagogy -- from elementary to higher education from epistemological questions, classroom practices, and application (including technology), as well as institutional structures -- are undergoing rapid changes and debate. The impact of digitality thus results in the necessity of and demand for new perspectives on literacy(ies). Participants in the conference explore theories, practices, and applications for the study of the interrelations of digitality and contemporary society, culture, and pedagogy. Papers are presented in the thematic sections of 1) Media and Society, 2) Media and Culture, and 3) Media and Education. Abstracts of 300 words with a 150-word bioprofile are invited by 30 September 2011 to Geert Vandermeersche at geert.vandermeersche@ugent.be . Presentations are 20 minutes in length followed by 10 minutes of discussion. Selected papers from the conference are planned to be published in the peer-reviewed and AHCI indexed humanities and social sciences quarterly CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb (ISSN 1481-4374). Limited funding is available to graduate student participants. steven totosy de zepetnek ph.d. professor http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweblibrary/totosycv editor, clcweb: comparative literature and culture http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb/ clcweb@purdue.edu series editor, purdue books in comparative cultural studies http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweblibrary/seriespurdueccs & http://www.thepress.purdue.edu/comparativeculturalstudies.html _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 15 21:56:39 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5696D15BEF9; Wed, 15 Jun 2011 21:56:39 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 324DC15BEE3; Wed, 15 Jun 2011 21:56:36 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110615215636.324DC15BEE3@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 21:56:36 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.95 historical reflection X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 95. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 10:14:02 +0200 From: Øyvind Eide Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.85 historical reflection? In-Reply-To: <20110611214115.3B1671585FE@woodward.joyent.us> Den 11. juni. 2011 kl. 23.41 skrev Humanist Discussion Group: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 85. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2011 07:20:29 +1000 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: historical reflection? > > This is a very broad, perhaps foolishly unanswerable question, perhaps > not. It is this: what triggers historical reflection? When do we pause > in our anticipations of what is to come to look back on what has been? > Personally this is, I'm sure, an interesting thing to ponder, also > neurologically, as a question of long-term memory. But what about the > accumulation of institutional, professional, disciplinary memory? > When, > for example, did people in English studies or Anthropology first stop > worrying about establishing their discipline and start to wonder about > its history? This can, of course, overlap with the personal history of > the founders, e.g. in the case of English studies at Cambridge, with > E. > M. W. Tillyard's The Muse Unchained (1958), published 4 years before > his > death. But I suspect there's more than an old person's ruminatory > inclinations involved here. Specific cases of historical reflection > pioneered by mid-career academics would help. Are there other ways in > which this could be picked apart? Has anyone studied the phenomenon? A colleague of mine worked in a mechanical workshop in the 1970s. Two of the employees had been working there for a long time, one from the autumn of 1942, the other from the spring of 1943. Most of the talk between them was about the months before the second one started. There is a potential power in knowing the stories. This is seen in a wide variety of cultures, including modern academic ones. If not before, stories will naturally become important when new people are included in the environment. Maybe more so in egalitarian cultures where the elders have relatively less visible status? Is there any research based evidence of variation of the importance in knowing stories connected to other cultural factors? > > As far as I know the relationship between memory and historiography > is a > relatively recent thing, begun by Paul Fussell, in The Great War and > Modern Memory (1975). The historiographical problem of memory is bound > up with the debate over whether recent history can be called > history, or > more intelligently, how recent history is properly done. But, I'd > suppose, the inclination to think historically is common to both. I'd > like to know more about that. Kind regards, Øyvind Eide Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London Unit for Digital Documentation, University of Oslo _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Jun 15 21:58:37 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E93E15BF7B; Wed, 15 Jun 2011 21:58:37 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 27D4715BF5C; Wed, 15 Jun 2011 21:58:32 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110615215832.27D4715BF5C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 21:58:32 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.96 infringements? journal editing software? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 96. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "John Ford" (20) Subject: Collaborative Journal Editing Software -- Recommendations? [2] From: "John G. Keating" (16) Subject: So, have you infringed any patents today? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 13:20:49 -0400 From: "John Ford" Subject: Collaborative Journal Editing Software -- Recommendations? I am working with a new group of fellow editors to launch a journal that focuses on business data analytics and related research. We are geographically dispersed and could use a good platform to support review of articles, sharing of information, and layout of the journal for printing/web publishing. Does anyone have experience with such a collaborative environment you could recommend for our use? We are new to this task, so no suggestion is too basic. All advice is welcome. Thanks! John -- John M. Ford, Ph.D. Senior Research Psychologist Office of Policy and Evaluation U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board john.ford@mspb.gov / johnf@us.net --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 10:20:28 +0100 From: "John G. Keating" Subject: So, have you infringed any patents today? Dear Humanist readers, So … have you infringed any patents today? Given the recent Apple and Nokia news (and especially Nokia's announcement that it has over 10,000 patent families in it's portfolio) on the conclusion of their patent disputes, I've been revisiting my notes on software patents, and web patents in particular. I'm particularly interested in whether new Digital Humanities tools and methods, necessary for the advancement of our field of study, actually infringe on software or web patents. For example, it is fairly standard practice in our community to encode "things" using XML and deliver the user the best possible engagement with those things using whatever device they chose to utilise at the moment of thing-engagement. Our generalised approach is to optimise content for the best engagement experience, and in my research group we focus on dynamic and adaptive software delivery appropriate to user activity. Oops, maybe we should think again about what we do! The US Supreme Court recently unanimously ruled against Microsoft Corp in its appeal of a record $290 million jury verdict for infringing Toronto-based i4i's patent. The patent in question related to a "Method and system for dynamically adapting the layout of a document to an output device" (US Patent: 7,251,778; Hill et al., July 31, 2007). Basically, it deals with a layout manager polling an output device to discover its capabilities, and then using CSS to control the display of HTML! This one is interesting as it is not unlike the dynamic selection of an XSLT document to control the generation of XML to control the display in some device or other, which I'm sure has been presented whenever the DH community get together! How any of us have thought about the possibility of generating patents from our work? Or, more importantly, when disseminating novel inventions, have any of us actually considered whether we may be infringing existing patents? I would be most interested in your thoughts, opinions, concerns on the issue. Best, John. Dr. John G. Keating Associate Director An Foras Feasa: The Institute for Research in Irish Historical and Cultural Traditions National University of Ireland, Maynooth Maynooth, Co. 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 Jun 15 21:59:52 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 705A715B01E; Wed, 15 Jun 2011 21:59:52 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 2993615B007; Wed, 15 Jun 2011 21:59:50 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110615215950.2993615B007@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 21:59:50 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.97 MPhil at Trinity Dublin: reduced fees! X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 97. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 12:09:12 +0100 From: Shawn Day Subject: Reduced fees and Bursaries for the MPhil in Digital Humanities and Culture The School of English, Trinity College Dublin, is delighted to announce that the Masters in Digital Humanities and Culture has qualified for Skills Conversion Funding sponsored by the Higher Education Authority under the National Development Plan. Under this scheme EU students fees are set at €2750 for both full and part time options for the 2011-12 academic year. Although the initial deadline has passed, we are still accepting applications from suitably qualified students. For more information about the MPhil please see: http://www.tcd.ie/English/postgraduate/digitalhumanities.php I am also very pleased to report that three bursaries will be available for 2011-2012. In support of this new MPhil, the Department of the Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, and the National Library of Ireland are this year offering a limited number of bursaries (valued at €3,333 each) to be set against fees. Successful EU applicants to the programme who accept the offer of a place will then be considered for the award of a bursary. Those chosen for the award will be required to confirm that they will do their internship module in the National Library. -- Susan Schreibman, PhD Long Room Hub Senior Lecturer in Digital Humanities School of English Trinity College Dublin Dublin 2, Ireland email: susan.schreibman@tcd.ie phone: +353 1 896 3694 fax: +353 1 671 7114 check out the new MPhil in Digital Humanities at TCD http://www.tcd.ie/English/postgraduate/digital-humanities/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Jun 15 22:02:06 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA7B115B155; Wed, 15 Jun 2011 22:02:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id BBACE15B149; Wed, 15 Jun 2011 22:02:02 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110615220202.BBACE15B149@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 22:02:02 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.98 events: jobs at DH2011; Sharing Ancient Wisdoms seminar X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 98. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Bodard, Gabriel" (33) Subject: Sharing Ancient Wisdoms (seminar: Roueché & Tupman, KCL) [2] From: Stéfan_Sinclair (36) Subject: ACH Jobs Slam (and related activities) --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 16:25:14 +0100 From: "Bodard, Gabriel" Subject: Sharing Ancient Wisdoms (seminar: Roueché & Tupman, KCL) Digital Classicist & Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 2011 Friday June 17th at 16:30 Room 37, Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU Charlotte Roueché & Charlotte Tupman (KCL) Sharing Ancient Wisdoms: developing structures for charting textual transfer ALL WELCOME SAWS uses digital technologies to analyse wisdom literatures in Greek and Arabic. Throughout Antiquity and the Middle Ages collections of wise sayings (gnomologia) were circulated as a response to the cost and inaccessibility of full texts. These moral and philosophical anthologies formed a crucial route by which ideas of reasonable behaviour were disseminated over the course of centuries. We are publishing gnomologia using TEI XML and developing a series of explanatory links in RDF between sections of collections, their source texts, and texts which drew upon them. This paper discusses challenges in publishing and linking these texts. The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments. For more information please contact Gabriel.Bodard@kcl.ac.uk, Stuart.Dunn@kcl.ac.uk, S.Mahony@ucl.ac.uk, or see the seminar website at http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2011.html -- Dr Gabriel BODARD (Research Associate in Digital Epigraphy) Department of Digital Humanities King's College London 26-29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL Email: gabriel.bodard@kcl.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 1388 Fax: +44 (0)20 7848 2980 http://www.digitalclassicist.org/ http://www.currentepigraphy.org/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 14:25:29 +0100 From: Stéfan_Sinclair Subject: ACH Jobs Slam (and related activities) Dear all, The ACH will again be organizing a Jobs Slam during its annual general meeting at the DH2011 Conference in Stanford. The meeting is Monday June 20th at noon in the SIEPR Building, Room 130. The Jobs Slam is a lively event and a chance for employers to get the word out about upcoming jobs as well as for prospective employees to introduce themselves to everyone present. If you have a current DH-related job posting or anticipate one in the next few months, please send me a message with the following information: * your name, affiliation and basic contact information * basic information about the job (title, affiliation, duration, etc.) * a link to other information, if available If you are on the job market or anticipate being so in the next few months, please send me a message with the following: * your name, affiliation and basic contact information * basic information about your qualifications & area of expertise Purveyors and seekers of jobs will each have up to 30 seconds to present. Please come join us for this exciting match-making event! Also a quick reminder about the ACH Mentoring programme: if you will be at Stanford and would like us to help connect you with a mentor, please send me a note. We will also be organizing our annual Mentoring Mixer – more details on that soon. If you're interested in any or all of the above, please email me (sgs at the domain mcmaster.ca) or send a tweet (@sgsinclair). We hope to hear from you! On behalf of the ACH Jobs & Mentoring Committee, Stéfan Sinclair & Matthew Jockers -- 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 16 21:39:42 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D3C215C02C; Thu, 16 Jun 2011 21:39:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id AF2CD15C01C; Thu, 16 Jun 2011 21:39:36 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110616213936.AF2CD15C01C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 21:39:36 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.99 patent infringements X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 99. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 23:20:11 +0100 From: Ron Healy Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.96 patent infringements? In-Reply-To: <20110615215832.27D4715BF5C@woodward.joyent.us> John re: the ruling against Microsoft for patent infringement. It's obviously a really big question and - it seems - it may actually mean that the entire Web (as it now stands) infringes the patent referred to. If also seems that the future of the web, in terms of standards, will split between patented and proprietary, on the one extreme, and open and unprotected on the other. Maybe that's over-dramatic, maybe not. On another note, how can Universities teach Computer Science students (let alone DH students) the basic skills they need to develop for the Web if that allows them to use device polling to dynamically deliver content? I haven't read the judgement nor the patent (I probably will, I find it curious, I just haven't had the time) but if it specifically refers to web devices.... well, that doesn't limit if to browsers.... On the other hand, if it specifically only refers to HTML and CSS, does that exclude HTML5, XML, JavaScript polling etc? There's a rather large cat among the pigeons, I think... Ron > > Dear Humanist readers, > > So … have you infringed any patents today? > > Given the recent Apple and Nokia news (and especially Nokia's announcement that it has over 10,000 patent families in it's portfolio) on the conclusion of their patent disputes, I've been revisiting my notes on software patents, and web patents in particular. I'm particularly interested in whether new Digital Humanities tools and methods, necessary for the advancement of our field of study, actually infringe on software or web patents. > > For example, it is fairly standard practice in our community to encode "things" using XML and deliver the user the best possible engagement with those things using whatever device they chose to utilise at the moment of thing-engagement. Our generalised approach is to optimise content for the best engagement experience, and in my research group we focus on dynamic and adaptive software delivery appropriate to user activity. > > Oops, maybe we should think again about what we do! > > The US Supreme Court recently unanimously ruled against Microsoft Corp in its appeal of a record $290 million jury verdict for infringing Toronto-based i4i's patent. The patent in question related to a "Method and system for dynamically adapting the layout of a document to an output device" (US Patent: 7,251,778; Hill et al., July 31, 2007). Basically, it deals with a layout manager polling an output device to discover its capabilities, and then using CSS to control the display of HTML! This one is interesting as it is not unlike the dynamic selection of an XSLT document to control the generation of XML to control the display in some device or other, which I'm sure has been presented whenever the DH community get together! > > How any of us have thought about the possibility of generating patents from our work? Or, more importantly, when disseminating novel inventions, have any of us actually considered whether we may be infringing existing patents? I would be most interested in your thoughts, opinions, concerns on the issue. > > Best, John. > > Dr. John G. Keating > Associate Director > An Foras Feasa: The Institute for Research in Irish Historical and Cultural Traditions > National University of Ireland, Maynooth > Maynooth, Co. Kildare, IRELAND > > Email: john.keating@nuim.ie > Tel: +353 1 708 3854 > FAX: +353 1 708 4797 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Jun 16 21:40:32 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0454515C07F; Thu, 16 Jun 2011 21:40:31 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 3965215C067; Thu, 16 Jun 2011 21:40:24 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110616214024.3965215C067@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 21:40:24 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.100 journal editing software X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 100. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Kathie Gossett (21) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.96 infringements? journal editing software? [2] From: Stephen Miller (3) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.96 infringements? journal editing software? [3] From: "Acord, Sophia Krzys" (20) Subject: RE: [Humanist] 25.96 infringements? journal editing software? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 20:26:52 -0400 From: Kathie Gossett Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.96 infringements? journal editing software? In-Reply-To: <20110615215832.27D4715BF5C@woodward.joyent.us> John, Have you looked at Open Journal Systems (http://pkp.sfu.ca/?q=3Dojs) by = the Public Knowledge Project at Simon Fraser University? It is used = primarily by journals to publish online content, but it has a really = robust back-end that can be used separately from the front-end web = publishing. It has messaging and version control built in. It's strength = is print-style publications--it doesn't work all that well for = multimedia editing, but that doesn't sound like it would be an issue for = your group. (I am currently working on an NEH funded project to build a = plugin for OJS that will improve it's multimedia editing capabilities.)=20= Kathie _______________________________ Kathie Gossett, PhD Asst. Professor of Writing, Rhetoric & New Media Co-Director, CeME Lab Department of English Old Dominion University (757) 683-5818 kgossett@odu.edu www.kathiegossett.com ceme.digitalodu.com --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 11:26:58 +0200 From: Stephen Miller Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.96 infringements? journal editing software? In-Reply-To: <20110615215832.27D4715BF5C@woodward.joyent.us> Open Journal Systems http://pkp.sfu.ca/?q=ojs Stephen Miller --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 08:19:00 -0400 From: "Acord, Sophia Krzys" Subject: RE: [Humanist] 25.96 infringements? journal editing software? In-Reply-To: <20110615215832.27D4715BF5C@woodward.joyent.us> Dear John, I've been using Open Journal Systems (from the Public Knowledge Project) to create, manage, and publish a refereed journal for three years now, and have only good feedback to report: http://pkp.sfu.ca/?q=ojs If you'd like to see how it works in implementation, our journal is Music in Arts in Action (MAiA): http://musicandartsinaction.net. I'd be happy to talk off-list as well if you have any questions. Regards, Sophia ----- Sophia Krzys Acord, Ph.D. Associate Director, Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Criminology & Law College of Arts and Sciences 200 Walker Hall P.O. Box 118030 University of Florida Gainesville, FL 32611 tel (352)392-0796 fax (352)392-5378 skacord@ufl.edu http://www.humanities.ufl.edu/ **************************************************************** 2011 Grimes Conference - Haiti's Challenges: Rebuilding Lives & Nation in the Earthquake's Aftermath _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 16 21:43:04 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5541415C10C; Thu, 16 Jun 2011 21:43:04 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C7CAA15C103; Thu, 16 Jun 2011 21:43:00 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110616214300.C7CAA15C103@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 21:43:00 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.101 memory, historiography & the digital humanities X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 101. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 03:49:30 +0000 From: Teresa Swist-Swirski Subject: Memory, historiography and the digital humanities Dear all, I would like to share a number of links that hope to spark further discussion and thought regarding 'memory' and 'historiography'. The Memory Studies Journal: http://mss.sagepub.com/content/current Lucas Bietti is researching shared and distributed memories; his blog http://www.collectivememory.net/ has a myriad of interesting links, including: Research Centers and Projects * Body Memory. University of Heidelberg * Memory and The Brain. The Brain from Top to Bottom. Canadian Institute of Neurosciences, Mental Health and Addiction * Augmented Memories: Design, Memory and Interaction. Elise van den Hoven (Einhoven University of Technology) http://www.elisevandenhoven.com/ * Conversational remembering. Discourse & Rhetoric Group, Loughborough University * The Future is Here: Memory and the Machine. Baycrest Centre, Toronto * Danish Network of Cultural Memory Studies http://memory.au.dk/ * Digital Memories * Memory at War. Cultural Dynamics in Poland, Russia and Ukraine * Working Memory Forum. Lancaster University * Historical Justice and Memory Network. Institute for Social Research, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne * MRG Structure of Memory. Ruhr University Bochum * Sir Frederic Bartlett Archive. University of Cambridge * Centre for Research in Memory, Narrative and Histories * Grupo de Investigación en Psicología Social. Basque Country University http://www.ehu.es/pswparod/in_articulos.asp * Family Narratives Lab, Emory University * Memory, Social Cognition and Communication (Gerald Echterhoff's lab website) http://geraldechterhoff.com/ * Memory & memorialization: representing trauma and war (CNRS-NYU) * Memories for Life http://www.memoriesforlife.org/ * Centro di Studi Interdisciplinare su Memorie e Traumi Culturali * Narrative and Memory Research Group http://www2.hud.ac.uk/hhs/nme/ * Languages of Emotions: Emotion, violence and memory in coping with civil wars. A cultural comparison * Centre of Media, Memory and Community * Constructing Remembrance * Center on Autobiographical Memory Research * Sonderforschungsbereich 434 Erinnerungskulturen * Luce Program in Individual and Collective Memory * Socially Distributed Remembering. John Sutton (Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science) http://www.phil.mq.edu.au/staff/jsutton/ * Center for the Study of History and Memory at Indiana Univeristy * Centre for the Study of Cultural Memory * Dynamics of cultural remembrance * Center for Interdisciplinary Memory Research Regarding historiography, I came across a wonderful blog entitled 'Issues in Digital History': http://www.michaeljkramer.net/issuesindigitalhistory/blog/?page_id=2 Here is an excerpt: Digital Historiography Friday, May 6th, 2011 How might we digitize not only the past itself, but also conversations and debates about the past? As I watch my students develop their interpretive digital history projects on the Berkeley Folk Festival and the American folk music revival of the postwar decades, I am increasingly struck by the question of how the digital might present historiographical material. Which is to say, how might we best present existing arguments, interpretations, evidence bases, debates, and schools of thought in online form. In the traditional analytic essay, there is an age-old and very effective structure for offering a summary of the historical conversation up to date, but the digital proposes intriguing new ways of dramatizing not only the past but also the study of the past, not only new evidence, but also the ongoing conversations about to which that evidence might be applied to produce new insight. How, the question becomes, might we productively digitize historiography as well as history? The blog has a range of links relating to digital history... · Links: Institutes, Centers, Consortia * Archives and Public History Digital, NYU http://aphdigital.org/ * Digital History, University of Nebraska-Lincoln * HASTAC, Humanities Arts Sciences Technology Advanced Collaboratory http://www.hastac.org * Institute for Multimedia Literacy, University of Southern California http://iml.usc.edu/ * Kansas University Center for Digital Scholarship * Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities, University of Maryland http://mith.umd.edu/ * Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, George Mason University http://chnm.gmu.edu/ * Scholars' Lab, University of Virginia Library * Spatial History Project, Stanford University * Virginia Center for Digital History * Virginia Tech Digital History Reader I would be interested in hearing from you about any other digital humanities research projects which connect with the themes of memory and historiography. Regards, Teresa Swirski Research Assistant, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney Email: T.Swist-Swirski@uws.edu.au, Phone: (02) 9685 9668 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 16 21:44:06 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6782C15C154; Thu, 16 Jun 2011 21:44:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B350715C140; Thu, 16 Jun 2011 21:44:03 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110616214403.B350715C140@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 21:44:03 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.102 new on WWW: Institutional Repository Bibliography 4 X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 102. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 00:17:06 +0100 From: "Charles W. Bailey, Jr." Subject: Institutional Repository Bibliography, Version 4 Version four of the Institutional Repository Bibliography is now available from Digital Scholarship. This selective bibliography presents over 500 articles, books, technical reports, and other scholarly textual sources that are useful in understanding institutional repositories (see the scope note for details). All included works are in English. It is available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License. http://digital-scholarship.org/irb/irb.html The bibliography has the following sections (all sections have been updated except "3 Multiple-Institution Repositories"): 1 General 2 Country and Regional Surveys 3 Multiple-Institution Repositories 4 Specific Institutional Repositories 5 Digital Preservation 6 Library Issues 7 Metadata 8 Institutional Open Access Mandates and Policies 9 R&D Projects 10 Research Studies 11 Software 12 Electronic Theses and Dissertations Appendix A. Related Bibliographies Appendix B. About the Author Translate (oversatta, oversette, prelozit, traducir, traduire, tradurre, traduzir, or ubersetzen): http://digital-scholarship.org/announce/irb_en_4.htm -- Best Regards, Charles Charles W. Bailey, Jr. Publisher, Digital Scholarship http://digital-scholarship.org/ A Look Back at 22 Years as an Open Access Publisher http://digital-scholarship.org/cwb/22/22years.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 Jun 16 21:44:51 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34DE215C1A1; Thu, 16 Jun 2011 21:44:51 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 7613115C192; Thu, 16 Jun 2011 21:44:49 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110616214449.7613115C192@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 21:44:49 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.103 events: Alan Liu at DH2011 X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 103. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 15:45:17 -0500 From: Katherine L Walter Subject: Alan Liu to speak at DH2011 In-Reply-To: References: centerNet is pleased to announce that Alan Liu, Chair and Professor of English at University of Santa Barbara, known for Voice of the Shuttle, The Laws of Cool, Local Transcendence: Essays on Postmodern Historicism and the Database, and now for his work on 4Humanities, will be the centerNet luncheon speaker at the Digital Humanities 2011 conference on Wed, June 22nd. His presentation is "4Humanities: The Digital Humanities Community & Humanities Advocacy." More information about Liu is available at http:// liu.english.ucsb.edu. Details about the location and schedule for the lunch meeting are posted on the Digital Humanities 2013 web site. We hope that you can join us. Thanks, Katherine Walter ********************* Katherine L. Walter Co-Director, Center for Digital Research in the Humanities Professor and Chair, Digital Initiatives & Special Collections University of Nebraska-Lincoln 319 Love Library Lincoln, NE 68588-4100 kwalter1@unl.edu (402) 472-3939 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Jun 17 20:45:59 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68FE015D407; Fri, 17 Jun 2011 20:45:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 953BA15D3F4; Fri, 17 Jun 2011 20:45:56 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110617204556.953BA15D3F4@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 20:45:56 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.104 journal editing software X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 104. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 22:42:24 -0700 From: "O'Donnell, Dan" Subject: RE: Suspicious URL:[Humanist] 25.100 journal editing software I have to say that my experience with OJS is less good than some others here appear to have had. I find it a relatively heavy system with surprising lacuna in what I would have thought to be essential features. Unless the system I inherited is set up wrong, for example, its email handling capabilities seem odd. It logs out bound messages only. And at the crucial moment when you want to convert from contributors' word processor files to HTML or PDF or similar, you are left to your own devices: the instructions are to go convert them using your own software and then upload the result. It seems to me if I need a system like OJS, that would be a basic functionality. Finally a look at the code for the published HTML suggests an odd approach. It seems to drop the whole html file into its own html frame. Meaning you end up with the html root of your uploaded file appearing as a child of their html:body tag. At Digital medievalist we handle correspondence and article management using a mediawiki install and word - xml - html using oxgarage and xslt. I can't say OJS adds much to that system. But it does seem to remove flexibility. But as I say, maybe our instance is set up wrongly or something. Daniel Paul O'Donnell, PhD Professor of English University of Lethbridge Sent from my Android phone using big thumbs on small keys. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 17 20:46:35 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D6F815D448; Fri, 17 Jun 2011 20:46:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C7C0115D437; Fri, 17 Jun 2011 20:46:32 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20110617204632.C7C0115D437@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 20:46:32 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.105 patent infringements X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 105. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 10:23:12 +0100 From: Richard Lewis Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.99 patent infringements In-Reply-To: <20110616213936.AF2CD15C01C@woodward.joyent.us> At Wed, 15 Jun 2011 23:20:11 +0100, Ron Healy wrote: > > On another note, how can Universities teach Computer Science > students (let alone DH students) the basic skills they need to > develop for the Web if that allows them to use device polling to > dynamically deliver content? So if we could find at least one textbook which describes implementing some kind of content negotiation mechanism based on the User-Agent header in an HTTP request, or that describes selecting a CSS stylesheet based on this header or some other test of client device type (such as using JavaScript to test which non-standard or incorrect DOM features the client provides), and this book was published before the patent, would that not render the patent void on the grounds that prior art existed? Best, Richard -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Richard Lewis ISMS, Computing Goldsmiths, University of London Tel: +44 (0)20 7078 5134 Skype: richardjlewis JID: ironchicken@jabber.earth.li http://www.richardlewis.me.uk/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Jun 17 20:47:13 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EE6415D497; Fri, 17 Jun 2011 20:47:13 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 9F06B15D487; Fri, 17 Jun 2011 20:47:10 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110617204710.9F06B15D487@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 20:47:10 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.106 job at King's College London X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 106. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 13:01:31 +0100 From: "Hedges, Mark" Subject: Research Associate vacancy at King's College London, Centre fore-Research Research Associate at King's College London, Centre for e-Research The Centre for e-Research is seeking a Research Associate with strong technical and software development skills to work on e-research projects at the Centre. These projects may result in case studies, proofs of concept and pilots as well as in software for operational service, so the post offers an exciting opportunity to contribute both to the development of the digital and research infrastructure at King's and its collaborators, and to more exploratory development of innovative ideas solutions using cutting edge approaches. The post-holder will be expected to publish the results of research undertaken in relevant journals. Some current and past projects may be found at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/iss/cerch/projects/. Approximately 75% of the post-holder's work (on average over the 2 years of the appointment) will be dedicated to the SAWS (Sharing Ancient Wisdoms) project, an EU-funded international collaboration that is exploring ways of exploiting the digital environment for creating, publishing and interacting with selected digital collections of manuscripts and texts, specifically Greek and Arabic “wisdom literature”. These anthologies of wise or useful sayings were widely circulated throughout antiquity and the middle ages, and they raise particular challenges at a technical and information modelling level due to the complex network of interrelationships among them and among their component parts. The SAWS project requires an imaginative research associate capable of researching, devising and developing innovative methodologies and tools for creating these complex resources, for expressing relationships between them, and for publishing, visualising and exploring them. The remaining 25% will be spent on other projects at the Centre, depending on ongoing requirements and the interests of the appointee. The candidate will preferably have an education in information science or computer science, or a humanities degree with a strong technical component. Due to the exploratory nature of the work, the role will require problem-solving ability and a high degree of initiative, as well as flexibility and a keenness to learn. Knowledge of Java, web development technologies (e.g. XML, Django, Ajax) and web service technologies is essential. Experience of linked data/semantic web technologies (e.g. RDF, OWL), and of other programming languages (e.g. Python, Ruby), would be an advantage. This is a full-time position, initially for a period of 24 months. Salary for the position will be at an appropriate point of Grade 6, currently £33,193 to £39,185 per annum (inclusive of a £2,323 London allowance). Benefits include a contributory final salary pension scheme, subsidised gym membership and 27 days of annual leave, 4 college closure days, plus public holidays. For more details and an application pack please see http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/pertra/vacancy/external/pers_detail.php?jobindex=10378. Alternatively, please email strand-recruitment@kcl.ac.uk. All correspondence should clearly state the job title and reference number G6/QLJ/408/11-JT. For an informal discussion of the post please contact Mark Hedges on mark.hedges@kcl.ac.uk, or 020 7848 1970. The closing date is: 12 July 2011 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Jun 17 20:47:48 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id D644815D4D6; Fri, 17 Jun 2011 20:47:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B205415D4C1; Fri, 17 Jun 2011 20:47:46 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110617204746.B205415D4C1@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 20:47:46 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.107 nominations for Busa Prize X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 107. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 05:51:59 -0700 From: Jockers Matthew Subject: Busa Prize--Nominations The Roberto Busa Award is a joint award of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC) and the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH). It is given every three years to honor outstanding scholarly achievement in humanities computing. The Award is named after Roberto Busa, SJ, who is regarded by many as the founder of the field of humanities computing. The first award was given to Father Busa himself in 1998. The 2001 prize was awarded to John Burrows, 2004 to Susan Hockey, 2007 to Wilhelm Ott, and 2010 to Joe Raben. The next Busa Award will be given at the DH conference in 2013. The Award Committee now invites nominations. Nominations may be made by anyone with an interest in humanities computing and neither nominee nor nominator need be a member of ALLC or ACH. Nominators should give some account of the nominee’s work and the reasons it is felt to be an outstanding contribution to the field. A list of bibliographic references to the nominee’s work is desirable. Nominators are welcome to resubmit updated versions of unsuccessful nominations submitted in previous years. The recipient of the award receives 1000 GBP and is expected to give a keynote or plenary lecture (on a topic of their choice) at the annual Digital Humanities conference. ADHO will host the recipient as a guest of honor for the conference at which the Prize is awarded and the lecture given—this means that all travel, accommodation and subsistence costs of the Prize recipient will be paid by the Association. Nominations should be emailed to Matthew L. Jockers (Chair of the 2013 Busa Award Committee) mjockers@stanford.edu no later than September 1, 2011. The winner of the Award will be announced at the 2012 meeting and awarded at the 2013 meeting. More information about the award can be found on the ADHO web site: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/awards/BusaPrize -- Matthew Jockers Stanford University http://www.stanford.edu/~mjockers _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Jun 18 21:46:42 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76A9215EFEE; Sat, 18 Jun 2011 21:46:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C496D15EFDF; Sat, 18 Jun 2011 21:46:39 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110618214639.C496D15EFDF@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2011 21:46:39 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.108 journal editing software X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 108. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 23:12:06 -0700 From: Martin Holmes Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.104 journal editing software In-Reply-To: <20110617204556.953BA15D3F4@woodward.joyent.us> On 11-06-17 01:45 PM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 22:42:24 -0700 From: "O'Donnell, > Dan" Subject: RE: Suspicious URL:[Humanist] > 25.100 journal editing software > > > I have to say that my experience with OJS is less good than some > others here appear to have had. OJS is good at some things, and apparently not really interested in others. In my personal opinion, it has suffered greatly from its frankly admirable but definitely frustrating determination to support old platforms (MySQL 4 and suffers PHP 4). This arises out of a desire not to abandon the large user-base it has acquired in third world countries and other contexts in which new hardware is hard to come by. But it does limit the ability of the platform to advance and innovate. The OJS folks have also steered clear of any serious attempt to create a publishing workflow of the kind we might wish to see (TEI to XHTML, TEI to XSL:FO to PDF, etc,). Having written a couple of those systems over the years, I can attest to the virtual impossibility of creating a generic set of stylesheets that will work for anything but a very specialized, known subset of e.g. TEI. You just can't create something that could handle the range of stuff that's likely to be uploaded -- DocBook, NLM 2.3, NLM 3.0, TEI in all its possible flavours for born-digital documents, DHQ, etc., and that's just the XML -- so they just leave it up to you to create the PDFs or whatever. However, I do agree that the way HTML files are presented (in frames, in an HTML structure which is wildly invalid) leaves a lot to be desired. But what OJS does take on, it seems to do well -- I think the article review handling is pretty good, for example. 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 18 21:48:09 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E1E115E030; Sat, 18 Jun 2011 21:48:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 49A8115E028; Sat, 18 Jun 2011 21:48:06 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110618214806.49A8115E028@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2011 21:48:06 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.109 patent infringements X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 109. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Ron Healy (22) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.105 patent infringements [2] From: Desmond Schmidt (24) Subject: RE: [Humanist] 25.105 patent infringements --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 23:29:39 +0100 From: Ron Healy Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.105 patent infringements In-Reply-To: <20110617204632.C7C0115D437@woodward.joyent.us> Richard I would presume you would be correct that a textbook that suggests a method of dynamically selecting and delivering HTML / CSS combinations based on polling a device would render the patent void. However, I would have thought that a patent would not have been issued if such a thing was common enough 'prior art' to appear in a textbook. Of course, I could be wrong. Often am ;-) Ron > Ron Healy wrote: >> >> On another note, how can Universities teach Computer Science >> students (let alone DH students) the basic skills they need to >> develop for the Web if that allows them to use device polling to >> dynamically deliver content? > > So if we could find at least one textbook which describes implementing > some kind of content negotiation mechanism based on the User-Agent > header in an HTTP request, or that describes selecting a CSS > stylesheet based on this header or some other test of client device > type (such as using JavaScript to test which non-standard or incorrect > DOM features the client provides), and this book was published before > the patent, would that not render the patent void on the grounds that > prior art existed? > > Best, > Richard --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2011 09:28:59 +1000 From: Desmond Schmidt Subject: RE: [Humanist] 25.105 patent infringements In-Reply-To: <20110617204632.C7C0115D437@woodward.joyent.us> According to wikipatents, US Patent: 7,251,778, as quoted in the original posting on this thread as being "the patent in question", is in fact owned by Microsoft Corporation (http://www.wikipatents.com/US-Patent-7251778/method-and-system-for-dynamically-adapting-the-layout-of-a-document-to) not i4i. According to i4i the patent behind the case against Microsoft was actually US Patent 5,787,449 (http://www.i4ilp.com/), from 1998, which describes, alarmingly, a method for doing standoff markup and selecting from a menu of available formats, and editing those formats separately from the text. I admit to being confused, and have no idea why the '778 patent, which patents the operations you describe below, is associated with the case, if at all. If anyone can enlighten us, I would appreciate it. Standoff markup is a technique widely used in corpus linguistics and would appear also to be covered by i4i's patent. It is also a technique published by corpus linguists from at least 1995, as mentioned by McKelvie, Brew and Thompson in CHum 31, 1998, p.372 when they refer to the MULTEXT system. Dr Desmond Schmidt Information Security Institute Faculty of Science and Technology Queensland University of Technology (07)3138-9509 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 18 21:49:04 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4518E15E092; Sat, 18 Jun 2011 21:49:04 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0D88A15E084; Sat, 18 Jun 2011 21:49:02 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110618214902.0D88A15E084@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2011 21:49:02 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.110 new publication: Journal of Scholarly Publishing 42.4 X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 110. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 18:27:07 +0100 From: UTP Journals Subject: Now Available Online - Journal of Scholarly Publishing 42, 4 July2011 Now available at Journal of Scholarly Publishing Online Journal of Scholarly Publishing Volume 42, Number 4, July 2011 is now available at http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/u330r0h17p64/. This issue contains: Sustaining Scholarly Publishing: New Business Models for University Presses Lynne Withey, Steve Cohn, Ellen Faran, et al. Within the scholarly communications ecosystem, scholarly publishers are a keystone species. University presses—as well as academic societies, research institutions, and other scholarly publishers—strive to fulfil our mission of ‘making public the fruits of scholarly research’ as effectively as possible within that ecosystem. While that mission has remained constant, in recent years the landscape in which we carry out this mission has altered dramatically. The expertise residing within university presses can help the scholarly enterprise prosper in both influence and impact as it moves ever more fully digital. However, the simple product-sales models of the twentieth century, devised when information was scarce and expensive, are clearly inappropriate for the twenty-first-century scholarly ecosystem. This report (a) identifies elements of the current scholarly publishing systems that are worth protecting and retaining throughout this and future periods of transition; (b) explores business models of existing projects that hold promise; (c) outlines the characteristics of effective business models; (d) addresses the challenges of the transitional period we are entering; and (e) arrives at recommendations that might allow us to sustain high-quality scholarship at a time when the fundamental expectations of publishing are changing. http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/j530v15n96q53057/?p=babbe5d834154f68b7b67cb4fe49365c&pi=0 DOI: 10.3138/jsp.42.4.397 Manuscript Makeovers Robert Brown This study is a rhetorical analysis of revisions made to the introductions of dissertations successfully transformed into monographs. The author compares parallel passages taken from six dissertation–book pairs representing a cross-section of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. He interprets changes from dissertation to book with reference to the body of literature written for aspiring book authors by experienced scholarly editors. The author's objective is to put their editorial advice on an empirical footing by illustrating it with these texts ‘grown in the wild.’ His hope is that junior scholars will find the analysis instructive when they turn a revisionary eye on their own dissertations and that scholarly editors will find it useful when they prepare publishing workshops for junior faculty and graduate students. http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/hv32478706634nu7/?p=babbe5d834154f68b7b67cb4fe49365c&pi=1 DOI: 10.3138/jsp.42.4.442 On the Global Impact of Selected Social-Policy Publishers in More Than 100 Countries Arno Tausch This article evaluates the international performance of twenty-one major international social-science book publishers according to nineteen quality criteria. The companies chosen publish almost 19 per cent of titles worldwide on such critical political economy issues as dependency theory and world systems theory, as well as 7 per cent of all titles on globalization, the world system, or the European Union, and all have been important outlets in the past, especially for writers outside North America. The author applies parametric and non-parametric social-science indicator construction in the tradition of Almas Heshmati to arrive at a performance ranking for the twenty-one companies based on the nineteen criteria. http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/h0540050x445w465/?p=babbe5d834154f68b7b67cb4fe49365c&pi=2 DOI: 10.3138/jsp.42.4.476 Subject and Historiographic Characteristics of Library History Anne L. Buchanan, Jean-Pierre V.M. Hérubel Library history per se has evolved from a highly specialized scholarly endeavour to a field open to a wider range of subjects and orientations. This discussion examines the library history bibliographies officially compiled for the American Library Association's Library History Round Table, the official and professional association for the history of libraries. The bibliographies for the years 2005 to 2009 were examined for type of publication and subject orientation and examined visually for content. The recent state of library history is discussed in terms of disciplinary orientations and methodological perspectives as well as to ascertain various intellectual vectors that library history is exhibiting. 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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 Jun 2011 10:42:29 -0700 From: Jockers Matthew Subject: Busa Prize--Nominations Correction In adapting some boiler-plate language from the last call for nominations, I failed to acknowledge that the Society for Digital Humanities/Société pour l'étude des médias interactifs (SDH-SEMI) has joined the Alliance of DH Organizations and is thus a further sponsor of the Busa Award. My apologies for the oversight. -- Matthew Jockers Stanford University http://www.stanford.edu/~mjockers _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Jun 19 19:57:21 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id B67E415E506; Sun, 19 Jun 2011 19:57:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 200DE15E4F6; Sun, 19 Jun 2011 19:57:17 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110619195717.200DE15E4F6@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2011 19:57:17 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.112 patent infringements X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 112. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2011 01:13:27 +0100 From: D.Allington Subject: RE: [Humanist] 25.109 patent infringements In-Reply-To: <20110618214806.49A8115E028@woodward.joyent.us> > From: Ron Healy >However, I >would have thought that a patent would not have been issued if > such a thing was common enough 'prior art' to appear in a textbook. That's what I too would have thought. But in the light of Bedrock's East Texas win against Google, I think it may be idealistic! That said, I wonder how sustainable the practice of patenting software processes will actually prove to be. Hopefully, not very. Daniel Dr Daniel Allington Lecturer in English Language Studies and Applied Linguistics Centre for Language and Communication The Open University +44 (0) 1908 332 914 http://open.academia.edu/DanielAllington -- The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 000391), an exempt charity in England & Wales and a charity registered in Scotland (SC 038302). _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Jun 19 20:00:34 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id F09C115E5B2; Sun, 19 Jun 2011 20:00:33 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 6554715E5A4; Sun, 19 Jun 2011 20:00:20 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110619200020.6554715E5A4@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2011 20:00:20 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.113 events: language and speech X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 113. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2011 16:21:01 +0100 From: Carlos Martin-Vide Subject: SSLST 2011: 2nd announcement 2011 INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL IN LANGUAGE AND SPEECH TECHNOLOGIES (SSLST 2011) (formerly International PhD School in Language and Speech Technologies) Tarragona, Spain, August 29 – September 2, 2011 Organized by: Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC) Rovira i Virgili University http://grammars.grlmc.com/sslst2011/ ****************************************** AIM: SSLST 2011 offers a broad and intensive series of lectures on language and speech technologies at different levels. The students choose their preferred courses according to their interests and background. Instructors are top names in their respective fields. The School intends to help students initiate their career in research. 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Catalunya, 35 43002 Tarragona, Spain Phone: +34-977-559543 Fax: +34-977-558386 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 20 20:31:59 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 854BF15FFDA; Mon, 20 Jun 2011 20:31:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 4C4FE15FFCD; Mon, 20 Jun 2011 20:31:48 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110620203148.4C4FE15FFCD@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 20:31:45 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.114 patent infringements X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 114. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2011 23:00:51 +0100 From: Ron Healy Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.112 patent infringements In-Reply-To: <20110619195717.200DE15E4F6@woodward.joyent.us> >> From: Ron Healy >> I would have thought that a patent would not have been issued if >> such a thing was common enough 'prior art' to appear in a textbook. > > I wonder how sustainable the practice of patenting software processes will actually prove to be. Hopefully, not very. > > Dr Daniel Allington > Lecturer in English Language Studies and Applied Linguistics > Centre for Language and Communication I've been thinking a lot about the issues raised by this whole mess. I really think there's a very big problem on the (digital) horizon unless there's a sort of 'truce' on the subject of patents that have been routinely submitted over the last 2 decades 'just in case' and, in the future, a lot more care taken to ensure that any patent applications submitted are actually for new things that don't automatically include or preclude things not yet invented, defined, produced. I'm not sure if that's even possible - limited patents - but if it doesn't get sorted, I would hazard a guess that we're going to hear about more and more cases where someone has come up with a new technique or developed a new platform or technology based on some patent that was issued for something that is infringed even though the original patent couldn't possibly have foreseen the 'new' use. Not sure if that makes sense but there are so many hundreds of thousands of patents filed that it's almost a certainty that much of what we do, and will do in the future, will infringe on *something*. The EU is looking at the issue of 'patent thickets' because they stifle innovation. Hopefully there's a solution to this because that last thing anyone needs in the 'developed' world is a reluctance to innovate... Regards Ron _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 20 20:34:46 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2CE115F0A7; Mon, 20 Jun 2011 20:34:46 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id DCCA215F089; Mon, 20 Jun 2011 20:34:39 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110620203439.DCCA215F089@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 20:34:39 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.115 postdoc at Oxford for sociolinguist X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 115. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 14:22:05 +0100 From: David Zeitlyn Subject: 2 year postdoc for sociolinguist (KTP position) Apologies for cross posting Sociolinguist (KTP Associate) SCHOOL OF ANTHROPOLOGY, Oxford Grade 7: Salary £29,099 p.a. As a result of funding from the Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) Directorate and Aurix Limited an exciting position for a Sociolinguist (KTP Associate) is now available. The successful candidate will be based at Aurix Limited, Malvern, Worcestershire for the two-year project, which will involve providing the company with knowledge and expertise in aspects of sociolinguistics and conversational analysis, in order to generate new audio mining products and patents. Candidates will need a PhD in linguistics, computational linguistics, sociolinguistics or sociology (conversation analysis) and previous experience of undertaking research on linguistic data. Candidates will need the ability to manage large data sets and have good time-management skills. This is a full-time position which is fixed-term for two years. Applications for this vacancy are to be made online. To apply for this role and for further details, including a job description and person specification, please click on the link below: https://www.recruit.ox.ac.uk/pls/hrisliverecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.jobspec?p_id=100421 Only applications received before midday on Monday 18 July 2011 can be considered. You will be required to upload a supporting statement and CV as part of your online application. Interviews will be in Malvern, probably on 25 July. -- David Zeitlyn, Professor of Social Anthropology (research) Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, 51 Banbury Road, Oxford, OX2 6PF, UK http://www.isca.ox.ac.uk/about-us/staff/academic/professor-david-zeitlyn/ http://users.ox.ac.uk/~wolf2728/ http://about.me/david.zeitlyn _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 20 20:35:47 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C9BF15F113; Mon, 20 Jun 2011 20:35:47 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id DB16B15F105; Mon, 20 Jun 2011 20:35:37 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110620203537.DB16B15F105@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 20:35:37 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.116 new book: Switching Codes X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 116. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 12:03:27 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: new book I have in my hands a newly published book that so far has rewarded the reading: Bartscherer, Thomas and Roderick Coover, eds. 2011. Switching Codes: Thinking Through Digital Technology in the Humanities and the Arts. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Below is the table of contents. Read it tonight! Yours, WM ----- I. Research, Sense, Structure How Computation Changes Research Ian Foster We Digital Sensemakers Mark Stefik Scholarsource: A Digital Infrastructure for the Humanities. Paolo D’Iorio and Michele Barbera Responses “We Will Really Know” Alan Liu On Scholarship Graham White II. Ontology, Semantic Web, Creativity Switching Partners: Dancing with the Ontological Engineers. Werner Ceusters and Barry Smith The Semantic Web from the Bottom Up. James Hendler Logical Induction, Machine Learning, and Human Creativity. Jean-Gabriel Ganascia Responses Relating Modes of Thought William J. Clancey Intelligence and the Limits of Codes Albert Borgmann III. Panorama, Interactivity, Embodiment The Digital Panorama and Cinemascapes. Roderick Coover Re-place: The Embodiment of Virtual Space. 218 Jeffrey Shaw, Sarah Kenderdine, and Roderick Coover Response Rewiring Culture, the Brain, and Digital Media Vibeke Sorensen IV. Re/presentations: Language and Facsimile Electronic Linguistics. George Quasha in dialogue with Gary Hill The Migration of the Aura, or How to Explore the Original through Its Facsimiles. Bruno Latour and Adam Lowe Responses The Truth in Versions Charles Bernstein Pamphlets, Paintings, and Programs: Faithful Reproduction and Untidy Generativity in the Physical and Digital Domains Judith Donath Epilogue: Enquire within upon everything Richard Powers -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Jun 21 20:48:31 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D079160A1C; Tue, 21 Jun 2011 20:48:31 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 8FAB81609BB; Tue, 21 Jun 2011 20:48:27 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110621204827.8FAB81609BB@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 20:48:27 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.117 patent infringements X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 117. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 08:25:37 +1000 From: Desmond Schmidt Subject: RE: [Humanist] 25.114 patent infringements In-Reply-To: <20110620203148.4C4FE15FFCD@woodward.joyent.us> I broadly agree with what you are saying, that the current situation with software patents in the US at least is a mess. However, I'm not sure I entirely agree with the idea that they 'stifle innovation'. One could argue that in fact they promote it. The problem is that angel investors will be reluctant to commit investment funds to new software startups unless they can guarantee that the innovations of their supported company will be their intellectual property. So this works at the very start of commercial innovation, and to take it away would simply cause the stream of innovative commercial ideas to dry up. I don't know what the solution is, but you need to think about it from both sides. Hopefully, the commercial guys will leave us free software developers alone, unless by our innovation we start to take away their business. Dr Desmond Schmidt Information Security Institute Faculty of Science and Technology Queensland University of Technology (07)3138-9509 ________________________________________ From: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org [humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org] On Behalf Of Humanist Discussion Group [willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk] Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2011 6:31 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 Jun 21 20:50:07 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50DA0160BC5; Tue, 21 Jun 2011 20:50:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 87AAD160B15; Tue, 21 Jun 2011 20:50:02 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110621205002.87AAD160B15@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 20:50:02 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.118 ACH-ALLC/ALLC-ACH abstracts? symbols for measuring? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 118. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: maurizio lana (27) Subject: symbols for measure units in late latin texts [2] From: "Unsworth, John M" (6) Subject: ACH/ALLC or ALLC/ACH abstracts --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 23:04:47 +0200 From: maurizio lana Subject: symbols for measure units in late latin texts dear colleagues, i would like to get your advice about a matter regarding characters, glyphs, fonts and Unicode. in printed late-latin texts symbols do appear representing measurement units (you can see a list of them at http://www.tulliana.eu/documenti/ measure%20units.doc). the problem is that - as far as i can know - no single font contains all of those characters. some of them are found in Cardo by d. perry, some other in Alphabetum by j.j. marcos, some other elsewhere, and some of them do not appear in any font i know. so some questions arise about: 1) how to represent those 'signs' in a digital text; 2) what to do in order to get the glyph corresponding to the missing characters; 3) what to do in order to have 1 single font containing all those symbols (creating an ad-hoc font? expanding one of the existing fonts?) 4) what to do in order to have Unicode-compliant character codes for the now non-existent characters the solution of getting the missing characters from many different fonts is not viable as it requires that the scholar interested to those texts loads many different fonts in order use 1 or 2 or 5 characters from each of them. with many thanks to everyone ! maurizio ------- Maurizio Lana - ricercatore Università del Piemonte Orientale, Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici, via Manzoni 8, 13100 Vercelli - tel. +39 347 7370925 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 17:32:00 -0500 From: "Unsworth, John M" Subject: ACH/ALLC or ALLC/ACH abstracts Hello, I'm working with a small group that's putting conference abstracts for the Digital Humanities conferences online, in searchable form. You can see the current state of that at: http://209.20.69.206:8080/dh-abstracts/search If anyone out there has ACH/ALLC conference abstracts from 1989 (the first joint conference of ACH and ALLC, held at Toronto) through 1995 (Santa Barbara) please let me know. The other conferences in that period were held in Arizona, Oxford, Washington DC, and Paris. I'm hoping for machine-readable text, but I will settle for print, and if you send me print I will send it back unharmed. Thanks, John Unsworth _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Jun 21 20:52:02 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 038E4160EA4; Tue, 21 Jun 2011 20:52:02 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0DB35160E93; Tue, 21 Jun 2011 20:51:59 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110621205159.0DB35160E93@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 20:51:59 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.119 cfp: modern linguistics X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 119. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 10:41:24 +0100 From: "Open J. Mod. Liguistics" Subject: cfp: Open Journal of Modern Linguistics Dear Colleagues, As you may already know that Open Journal of Modern Linguistics has now been formally launched and already received a lot of attention worldwide. Open Journal of Modern Linguistics is a peer-reviewed and open access journal, publishing original research papers, reports, reviews and commentaries in all areas of modern linguistics online as well as in print . Main Scope * Applied linguistics * Clinical linguistics * Developmental linguistics * Historical linguistics * Linguistic typology * Psycholinguistics * Stylistics * Biolinguistics * Computational linguistics * Evolutionary linguistics * Language geography * Neurolinguistics * Sociolinguistics You are cordially invited to submit your papers to this international journal. We aim to ensure the turnaround time to be less than six months. With your support, we believe that it will soon become an international leading journal. For more information, please visit the journal homepage: www.scirp.org/Journal/ojml . Yours sincerely, Tian Huang Editorial Office of OJML Email: ojml@scirp.org Open Journal of Modern Linguistics www.scirp.org/Journal/ojml _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 21 20:53:01 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20586160F17; Tue, 21 Jun 2011 20:53:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0D311160F00; Tue, 21 Jun 2011 20:52:58 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110621205258.0D311160F00@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 20:52:58 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.120 report from the ACH at DH2011 X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 120. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 10:53:46 -0700 From: Stéfan_Sinclair Subject: Report from ACH Annual General Meeting at Stanford Dear Colleagues, This is intended as a brief report on the ACH Annual General Meeting that took place during the Digital Humanities 2011 conference at Stanford. The first notable aspect of the meeting was the astounding attendance: there were over 80 people present. In the past years the meeting has shifted from reporting the deliberations of the Executive Council (not always the most compelling content) to a summary of key points and a more open format of discussion and community-focused initiatives. We began the meeting by recognizing the passing away of our friend and colleague Chuck Bush, who was the ACH Treasurer and served on its executive council for more than 20 years (see http://ach.org/charles-douglas-bush-1948-2011). New members of the Executive Council were welcomed and outgoing members were thanked. A warm and sustained ovation was reserved for Julia Flanders, outgoing President extraordinaire. Next we launched into the annual ACH Jobs Slam, a chance for prospective employees to introduce themselves (Ed Finn and Molly Des Jardin) as well as an encouraging range of job opportunities: * Mellon Postdocs at Emory: http://bit.ly/disc-postdoc * Research Professorship at BYU: http://bit.ly/jWu6EI * Lecturer in Digital Information Studies at UCL: http://bit.ly/hFCaRH * Assoc. Library Director of Digital Initiatives at McGill: http://bit.ly/kcD1gz * Digital Humanities Academic Administrator at UCLA: http://bit.ly/iCQI4g * Web Developers at NYPL: http://bit.ly/mRGKA0 We also pointed to two very useful lists of jobs: http://www.arts-humanities.net/jobs and http://www.hastac.org/forum/23 Finally, we reminded everyone of the ongoing ACH mentoring programme http://ach.org/mentoring We encourage thesis supervisors who have students finishing and looking for DH-oriented jobs to contact the Mentoring committee. Following the Jobs Slam we covered some new and ongoing initiatives. In particular: * the ACH has a completely revamped website! http://ach.org/ * we invited everyone to express interest to get involved in ACH committees * we discussed the success of DHAnswers and invited colleagues to contribute http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/ Finally, we had two open discussion topics. The first was regarding a possible name change for ACH. The Executive Council recognizes that "Association of Computers and the Humanities" may not be as expressive of contemporary digital humanities scholarship and teaching as it might be. Some present pointed out the danger that the title may keep new people away. However, the overwhelming tenor of the discussion was that a change would present several logistical challenges and there was a certain attachment to the historical context that the ACH represents (much like the anachronistic sounding Association for Computing Machinery). Moreover, using the acronym ACH somewhat masks the details anyway. Second, we discussed possibilities for the ACH to partner with local events to provide more continuous and more regional support and presence for the ACH constituency. A whole range of suggestions were offered and the ACH Exec will try experimenting with some of them and report back about this next year. Thanks to all who were present and contributed! [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 Jun 21 20:56:43 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C2B4160120; Tue, 21 Jun 2011 20:56:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 6148E160109; Tue, 21 Jun 2011 20:56:40 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110621205640.6148E160109@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 20:56:40 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.121 events: philosophy; libraries X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 121. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Charles Ess (30) Subject: IACAP'11 - program available - registration closing soon [2] From: "Marlies Olensky" (80) Subject: TPDL 2011 - Programme online - Early Bird extended to July 11, 2011 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 08:19:12 +0000 From: Charles Ess Subject: IACAP'11 - program available - registration closing soon Colleagues, On behalf of the organizing committee and IACAP (International Association for Computing and Philosophy), I'm pleased to announce that the schedule of conference events and presentations for IACAP'11 (the 25th anniversary conference of the Computing and Philosophy conferences) is now available on the conference website: http://www.iacap.org/conferences/iacap11/ Papers are arranged in 10 tracks, exploring the conference theme, "The Computational Turn: Past, Presents, Futures?² through a wide range of perspectives, themes, and disciplines. Five keynote speakers complete the program: please see the website for titles, abstracts, and speaker bios. IACAP'11 will take place on the campus of Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, July 4-6, 2011. Deadline date for registrations is 26. June. Additional information regarding transportation, restaurants, etc. is also now available. Please pass along to potentially interested colleagues and students. We look forward to welcoming our speakers, presenters, and conference participants to Aarhus to celebrate 25 years of "the computational turn." Best regards, charles ess Institut for Informations- og Medievidenskab Helsingforsgade 14 8200 Århus N. Denmark mail: tel: (+45) 8942 9250 Professor, Philosophy and Religion Drury University, Springfield, Missouri 65802 USA Exemplary persons seek harmony, not sameness. -- Analects 13.23 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 13:27:06 +0200 From: "Marlies Olensky" Subject: TPDL 2011 - Programme online - Early Bird extended to July 11, 2011 International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries 2011 September 25-29, 2011 | Berlin, Germany The European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL) has been the leading European scientific forum on digital libraries for 14 years. For the 15th year the conference was renamed into: International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries. PROGRAMME ONLINE The conference programme of TPDL 2011 is now online and can be viewed at http://tinyurl.com/ProgrammeOverview. EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION The Early Bird Registration was extended to July 11, 2011. Registration fees Early / Normal --------------- Conference Full 500 Single day (Mon/Tue) 180 Single day (Wed) 90 Tutorials 130 Workshops Full day 170 Half day 85 Early / Student ---------------- Conference Full 350 Single day (Mon/Tue) 110 Single day (Wed) 55 Tutorials 100 Workshops Full day 140 Half day 70 Doctoral Consortium 55 All fees are in EUR. The late registration fees can be found on the website. In order to provide the highest possible flexibility for attending different workshops during TPDL, we offer the option to book half-days of the workshops. Please note that you need to book at least two half-days. Please register via http://tinyurl.com/RegistrationTPDL2011 Early Bird registration: until July 11, 2011 Late registration: until September 9, 2011 If you encounter any technical problems during your registration please contact: service@wiwex.net For all other enquiries please contact: info.tpdl2011@hu-berlin.de WORKSHOP 2 CANCELED ------------------- Please note the Workshop 2: A DC-SAM1 Workshop: Research and Best Practices in Linking Scientific Metadata was canceled. TUTORIAL 2 FULL DAY ------------------- The organisers of Tutorial 2 "Lifting the Fog: How distributed cloud-based collaboration can unlock regional cultural heritage to build a robust shared information space" have decided to make their tutorial full day instead of half day. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- General Chair Stefan Gradmann, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany Programme Co-Chairs Carlo Meghini, ISTI-CNR, Italy Heiko Schuldt, University of Basel, Switzerland Local Organising Chair Marlies Olensky, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TPDL 2011 - International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (formerly ECDL) Main conference: September 26-28, 2011 Tutorials, Workshops: September 25, 29, 2011 Venue: Erwin Schrödinger-Zentrum Adlershof, Berlin, Germany Conference Website: http://www.tpdl2011.org Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/TPDL2011 Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/TPDL2011 Linkedin: http://events.linkedin.com/TPDL-2011-International-Conference/pub/504696 Xing: http://www.xing.com/events/international-conference-theory-practice-digital-libraries-2011-633977 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 22 20:00:28 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7854E161CBC; Wed, 22 Jun 2011 20:00:28 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 7D1A2161CA9; Wed, 22 Jun 2011 20:00:23 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110622200023.7D1A2161CA9@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 20:00:23 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.122 patent infringements X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 122. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Ron Healy (8) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.117 patent infringements [2] From: D.Allington (38) Subject: RE: [Humanist] 25.117 patent infringements --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 22:46:53 +0100 From: Ron Healy Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.117 patent infringements In-Reply-To: <20110621204827.8FAB81609BB@woodward.joyent.us> Hi Dr Schmidt Regarding: "...I'm not sure I entirely agree with the idea that they 'stifle innovation'. One could argue that in fact they promote it. " I agree with that. I wasn't suggesting that Patents themselves stifle innovation. I'm aware that they help give investors something to hang on to. I'm currently working on something that shouldn't really be patented - possibly very easy to circumvent - but that we're being advised to submit a Patent for anyway, for exactly that reason. However, 'patent thickets' (huge collections of patents that are a nightmare to wade through) and patents that pre-emptively protect against future (undefined and unpredicted) developments, often for completely unrelated things, are definitely increasingly difficult to deal with. More interestingly, I'm concerned that Academic research that leads to publications for MSc / PhD (or whatever) could also be infringing on patents submitted some time ago in some other area for some other purpose. Imagine if we had to do patent searches before publishing a paper? In fact, before writing it? I just believe patents should be quite specific and a good deal more limited in scope. Regards Ron --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 09:59:34 +0100 From: D.Allington Subject: RE: [Humanist] 25.117 patent infringements In-Reply-To: <20110621204827.8FAB81609BB@woodward.joyent.us> I agree that there's a need for caution before throwing regulations away. But it seems to me that the patent system is not being used to protect innovation in software. Instead, people are speculatively patenting ideas that seem like they might be useful (or, worse, are already being used), then waiting a few years to see whom they can sue for infringement. And while it might not be too bad if the 'commercial guys' just sued each other and left the free and open source communities alone, there's no mechanism to ensure that this will happen. Many big commercial companies already see FOSS developers as a threat. And given the lack of resources possessed by most FOSS developers, patents could be the ideal way for the 'commercial guys' to take them out. Consider the Bedrock vs Google case. Bedrock and Google are both commercial companies, but I believe that the infringing code is in the Linux kernel of the Android OS. I don't think that Android can be the only Linux distro to use the code - what will happen to the FOSS community if Bedrock (which holds the patent even though it is in no sense the inventor) goes on to sue every Linux distributor? In the short term, I think we'd better pray that Google crushes Bedrock on appeal. That's not a long term solution, though. Getting back to the problem with angel investors - yes, they may be reluctant to commit funds to startups that don't hold patents to their own innovations. But can the average startup afford to employ someone to go through every last bit of code it uses, checking whether it might be considered to infringe somebody else's patent? And won't the profitability of startups take a big hit if they have to pay royalties on ever increasing numbers of patents? (Most of whose holders will be big commercial companies.) And what if a situation arises where startups routinely get sued to a cinder by patent squatters like Bedrock - won't that lead to even greater reluctance on the part of investors? It seems to me that copyright already provides too much protection for intellectual property (and not only in the software industry). Why does the world need software patents too? Anyway, this is why I signed the Stop Software Patents European petition (http://stopsoftwarepatents.eu/). But I think there must be a more effective campaigning tool than a petition. Perhaps that is also something to discuss. Daniel Dr Daniel Allington Lecturer in English Language Studies and Applied Linguistics Centre for Language and Communication The Open University +44 (0) 1908 332 914 http://open.academia.edu/DanielAllington -- The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 000391), an exempt charity in England & Wales and a charity registered in Scotland (SC 038302). _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 22 20:02:54 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC363161D6D; Wed, 22 Jun 2011 20:02:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id DD8B8161D59; Wed, 22 Jun 2011 20:02:49 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110622200249.DD8B8161D59@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 20:02:49 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.123 new publications: alternative jobs; journal mining; African CS X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 123. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Nowviskie, Bethany (bpn2f)" (17) Subject: announcing #Alt-Academy, an edited collection [2] From: AJMCSR Special Review (12) Subject: Call for Papers (2011 Special Review Announcement) [3] From: Laval Hunsucker (9) Subject: New report on journal article mining --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 13:45:21 +0000 From: "Nowviskie, Bethany (bpn2f)" Subject: announcing #Alt-Academy, an edited collection I'm very pleased to announce today's release of #Alt-Academy, an open-access collection of essays, dialogues, and personal narratives on the subject of alternative academic careers for humanities scholars: http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/alt-ac/ Initial contributors include Willard McCarty, Julia Flanders, Anne Whisnant, Rafael Alvarado, Julie Meloni, Lisa Spiro, Doug Reside, Tanya Clement, Hugh Cayless, Tom Scheinfeldt, Amanda Gailey, Dot Porter, Joe Gilbert, Wayne Graham, Eric Johnson, Dorothea Salo, Sheila Brennan, Jeremy Boggs, Sharon Leon, Brian Croxall, Arno Bosse, Miranda Swanson, Joanne Berens, Amanda Watson, Patricia Hswe, Amanda French, Christa Williford, Suzanne Fischer, Patrick Murray-John, Vika Zafrin, Shana Kimball, and James Cummings. Gardner Campbell and Tim Powell will provide invited commentary in the coming weeks, and the project's general editor is Bethany Nowviskie. As a MediaCommons project, #Alt-Academy takes a grass-roots, bottom-up, publish-then-filter approach to community-building and networked scholarly communication around the theme of unconventional or alternative ("#alt-ac") careers. 24 essays and other contributions by 33 authors are currently available under a Creative Commons license. See our "Welcome" and "How It Works" pages to learn how you can comment, contribute, or volunteer to edit an #Alt-Academy cluster. * WHAT IS #ALT-AC? * #Alt-Academy was created by and for people with deep training and experience in the humanities, working or seeking employment — generally off the tenure track, but within the academic orbit — in universities and colleges, or allied knowledge and cultural heritage institutions such as museums, libraries, academic presses, historical societies, and governmental humanities organizations. The work of such institutions is enriched and enabled by capable "alternative academics." Although they are rarely conventionally-employed as faculty members, the people contributing to #Alt-Academy maintain a research (or R&D) and publication profiles and bring their methodological and theoretical training to bear every day on problem sets of great importance to higher education. For some, keeping their considerable talents within the academy can be more difficult than making a switch to private-sector careers. Class divisions among faculty and staff are profound, and the suspicion or (worse) condescension with which so-called “failed academics” are met can be disheartening. For all that, these authors love their work. Many on the #alt-ac track describe the satisfaction of making teams (and systems, and programs) work, of solving problems and making or enabling breakthroughs in research and scholarship in their disciplines, and of contributing to and experiencing the life of the mind in ways they did not imagine when they entered grad school. The #Alt-Academy site is for them, for their academic partners and institutional leaders, and for the next generation of hybrid humanities scholars — people who are building skills and experience in precisely those areas of the academy that are most in flux, and most in need of guidance and attention by sensitive, capable, imaginative, and well-informed scholar-practitioners. Bethany Nowviskie, MA Ed, Ph.D Director, Digital Research & Scholarship, UVA Library Associate Director, Scholarly Communication Institute Vice President, Association for Computers & the Humanities http://lib.virginia.edu/scholarslab/ ● http://uvasci.org/ ● http://ach.org/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 14:20:46 +0000 From: AJMCSR Special Review Subject: Call for Papers (2011 Special Review Announcement) African Journal of Mathematics and Computer Science Research www.academicjournals.org/AJMCSR http://www.academicjournals.org/AJMCSR Dear Colleague, The African Journal of Mathematics and Computer Science Research wishes to invite scientists and researchers in all areas of Mathematics and Computer Science to submit review articles for the 2011 December Special (ANNIVERSARY) Review Issue. The articles in the African Journal of Mathematics and Computer Science Research December Special Review Issues continue to be our most accessed, downloaded and sought after papers. The reviews, commentaries and perspectives should be in the author's area of research or specialization. Kindly see the instruction for authors designed for submission guidelines (http://www.academicjournals.org/ajmcsr/Instruction.htm). Prospective authors should submit their review manuscripts to ajmcsrspecialreview@academicjournals.org on or before 15th October, 2011. We also welcome the submission of regular articles. Best regards, Associate Professor Kai-Long Hsiao Editor, African Journal of Mathematics and Computer Science Research (AJMCSR) http://www.academicjournals.org/ajmcsr --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 09:38:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Laval Hunsucker Subject: New report on journal article mining In-Reply-To: <20110621205258.0D311160F00@woodward.joyent.us> The availability of this report was just announced on a library discussion list, and I thought that it would be of interest also to various persons here. It emphasizes that humanities is one of the "new areas" involved : http://www.publishingresearch.net/documents/PRCSmitJAMreport20June2011VersionofRecord.pdf   - Laval Hunsucker   Breukelen, Nederland _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Jun 22 20:05:07 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18C67161E25; Wed, 22 Jun 2011 20:05:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B73BE161E13; Wed, 22 Jun 2011 20:05:03 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110622200503.B73BE161E13@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 20:05:03 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.124 events: culture; classics X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 124. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Bentkowska-Kafel, Anna" (31) Subject: CFP Deadline extended - CHArt Annual Conference 2011 - The Challenge of Ubiquity in Digital Culture [2] From: "Dunn, Stuart" (25) Subject: Digital Classicist & Institute of Classical Studies Seminar --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 22:35:02 +0100 From: "Bentkowska-Kafel, Anna" Subject: CFP Deadline extended - CHArt Annual Conference 2011 - TheChallenge of Ubiquity in Digital Culture With apologies for cross-posting. Please forward to anyone who might be interested. Please note the deadline extension to 1 July 2011. THE CHALLENGE OF UBIQUITY IN DIGITAL CULTURE Computers and the History of Art (CHArt) 27th Annual Conference, Thursday 17th and Friday 18th November 2011, London venue to be confirmed www.chart.ac.uk Utopian hopes for the ubiquity of digital and networked technologies leading to a more transparent and democratic society are being met by expressions of concern about their implications for art. Nicholas Bourriaud has observed that such technologies can bring about a 'collective desire to create new areas of conviviality and introduce new types of transaction with regard to the cultural object'. However, others perceive an imminent threat, characterised by such terms as a digital 'deluge' or 'oblivion’. CHArt is interested to examine critically both positive views and apocalyptic concerns about the implications of the widespread merger of telecommunications and computer technology in society for art, its history and practice. We are looking for papers that engage with issues including, but not limited to: The implications of the ubiquity of digital and network technologies for evaluating what constitutes an original work of art and the originality of its creator(s). What effects have these technologies had on valuing art in terms of its aesthetic quality? What impact have real-time technologies had for the creation, ownership and distribution of culture? What are the impacts of the widespread proliferation and use of such technologies on curatorial practice and the processes of selecting, preserving and enabling access to art? How have they affected both the content and methods of teaching the history and practice of art? Are other disciplines and areas of society affected by art mediated by real-time technologies? How? We are particularly interested in work that engages with such questions and extends beyond simply understanding digital and network technologies as transparent conduits of data and information. CHArt encourages proposals addressing complex artefacts that, in Friedrich Kittler's words, 'determine our situation'. Contributions are welcomed from all sections of the CHArt community on the intersection between art and art history and semantic web developments; cloud computing; data mining; screen scraping; crowd sourcing; mashups; and freely available sites that enable data and images to be stored and accessed. CHArt seeks papers from art historians, artists, architects and architectural theorists and historians, curators, conservators, computing scientists, scientists, cultural and media theorists, archivists, technologists, educationalists and philosophers. Postgraduate students are encouraged to submit a proposal. CHArt is able to offer assistance with the conference fees for up to three student delegates. Priority will be given to students whose papers are accepted for presentation. An application form and proof of university enrolment will be required. For further details about the Helene Roberts Bursary please email anna.bentkowska@kcl.ac.uk. Submissions should be in the form of a 300-400 word synopsis of the proposed paper with brief biographical information (no more than 200 words) of presenter/s, and should be emailed to chart@kcl.ac.uk by Friday July 1st 2011. Notification of paper acceptance: 1 September 2011 Submission of papers: 17 October 2011 ---- Dr Anna Bentkowska-Kafel Department of Digital Humanities King's College London 26-29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL Tel: +44(0)20 7848 1421 anna.bentkowska@kcl.ac.uk http://bentkowska.wordpress.com/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 09:49:38 +0100 From: "Dunn, Stuart" Subject: Digital Classicist & Institute of Classical Studies Seminar Digital Classicist & Institute of Classical Studies Seminar Friday June 24th at 16:30 Court Room, Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU Alessandro Vatri (Oxford) HdtDep: a treebank and search engine for Greek word order study ALL WELCOME HdtDep is a treebank and search engine based on the first book of Herodotus’ Histories. The structure of the sentences has been parsed applying a modified version of Mel’cuk’s dependency syntax, and has been encoded in an XML database. The search engine allows searching for precise dependency patterns involving specific grammatical categories or lexemes in exact sequences, and can easily be programmed through a user friendly graphic interface. This tool is especially designed for classicists and linguists investigating Greek word order—hence the choice of Herodotus’ prose as linguistic material—but can also be useful for teachers and language learners. The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments. For more information please contact Gabriel.Bodard@kcl.ac.uk, Stuart.Dunn@kcl.ac.uk, S.Mahony@ucl.ac.uk, or see the seminar website at http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2011.html ----------------------- 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 Thu Jun 23 20:52:06 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 979CD162E92; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 20:52:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 8EEF1162E82; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 20:52:00 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110623205200.8EEF1162E82@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 20:52:00 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.125 if not digital... X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 125. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 20:00:22 -0700 (PDT) From: Bob Blair Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.116 new book: Switching Codes In-Reply-To: <20110620203537.DB16B15F105@woodward.joyent.us> Not available electronically: not interested. --- On Mon, 6/20/11, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > From: Humanist Discussion Group > Subject: [Humanist] 25.116 new book: Switching Codes > To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > Date: Monday, June 20, 2011, 1:35 PM >           >        Humanist Discussion Group, > Vol. 25, No. 116. >          Centre for Computing > in the Humanities, King's College London >                 [...] > > I have in my hands a newly published book that so far has > rewarded the > reading: > > Bartscherer, Thomas and Roderick Coover, eds. 2011. > Switching Codes: > Thinking Through Digital Technology in the Humanities and > the Arts. > Chicago: University of Chicago Press. > > Below is the table of contents. > > Read it tonight! > > Yours, > WM [...] _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Jun 23 20:58:36 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50484162026; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 20:58:36 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id CF60F16201E; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 20:58:32 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110623205832.CF60F16201E@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 20:58:32 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.126 MA/PhD awards at Swansea; job at Illinois X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 126. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: David Berry (34) Subject: Swansea AHRC funded MA/PhD awards [2] From: "Green, Harriett E" (23) Subject: Job opening at University of Illinois: Digital HumanitiesSpecialist - Extended --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 16:36:44 +0200 From: David Berry Subject: Swansea AHRC funded MA/PhD awards In-Reply-To: <20110622200503.B73BE161E13@woodward.joyent.us> Swansea University's College of Arts and Humanities (COAH) is pleased to announce two AHRC awards under a new Block Grant Partnership: - One fully-funded MA award in Film and Television Studies (2011 96 2012) - One fully-funded Doctoral Award in Film and Television Studies (2012 96 2013) We strongly welcome applicants interested in applying innovative digital approaches to the study of Film and Television from either a digital humanities or digital media background. For example, understanding film/television as software, the digital remediation of traditional media forms, film/television in the infinite archive, the digital 'folding' of film, new digital narratives and storylines, software takes command/software studies approaches to film, and the 'softwarization' of culture, particularly in relation to film and television. The closing date for applications is 15 July 2011. For information about the awards, please see: http://www.swan.ac.uk/artsandhumanities/newscentre/latestnewsandevents/ahr cstudentshipawards.php For application forms and more information contact: COAHGradCentrePGRAdmissions@swansea.ac.uk Telephone: +44(0)1792 295926. --- Dr. David M. Berry Department of Political and Cultural Studies Room JC015 James Callaghan Building Swansea University Singleton Campus Swansea SA2 8PP Tel: 01792 602633 http://www.swan.ac.uk/staff/academic/ArtsHumanities/berryd/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 10:01:46 -0500 From: "Green, Harriett E" Subject: Job opening at University of Illinois: Digital HumanitiesSpecialist - Extended In-Reply-To: <20110622200503.B73BE161E13@woodward.joyent.us> Digital Humanities Specialist 100% Academic Professional Position University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign Library Duties and Responsibilities: The University of Illinois Library conducts a variety of activities in support of digital humanities scholarship, including creation, delivery, curation and preservation of a wide variety of types of digital assets and tools. Reporting to the Technical Architect for Repositories and Scholarly Communication, the Digital Humanities Specialist will assist with the planning, implementation and ongoing production of these digital collections and scholarly initiatives, with particular emphasis on project design, digitization workflows, and content and delivery systems. The successful candidate will work across a number of humanities and Special Collections units and will be part of a team of IT personnel that develops and delivers repository and scholarly communication services. Examples of ongoing projects include a robust newspaper digitization program and a "triple-decker" nineteenth-century American novel digital conversion project, utilizing content management systems such as Olive, Archon, CONTENTdm, and locally developed databases. In addition, the successful candidate will contribute to the work of the Scholarly Commons in helping to articulate the relationship between new technologies and humanities scholarship to the community of humanists; in advising teaching faculty on the creation of digital objects and providing technical support for use of analytical tools; and in serving as an agent between content providers and the Library's repository. This position is expected to evolve in tandem with the Library's strategic goals and to experiment with new ways of supporting and enhancing the teaching, research and service missions of the University. The scope and responsibilities will shift in accordance with priorities established by the AUL for Information Technology Planning and Policy in consultation with IT staff and digital humanities stakeholders. As an Academic Professional employee, the Digital Humanities Specialist is expected to use "investigation time" to pursue areas of his or her interest, not directly in support of an immediate program need, in accordance with the University Library's policy on Investigation Time for Academic Professional Employees. Some investigations that originate in this manner may evolve into regular work assignments or production activities. [link to policy] Qualifications: Required: Bachelor's degree in an Information Technology field, such as Library and Information Science or Computer Science, and two years of experience working in a related field; knowledge of or experience with one or more of the following technologies: XML, XML Schema, XSLT, Dynamic HTML; experience in a library setting working with metadata encoded in one or more of the following schemas: MARC, MODS, METS, EAD, TEI, Dublin Core; experience with common digital image formats such as JPEG, JPEG 2000, TIFF, PNG, and GIF; experience writing and implementing Web scripts such as Perl, PHP, ASP, Ruby, Python, or VB Script; the ability to work independently as well as collaboratively in a team environment; excellent organizational skills and a demonstrable ability to manage multiple priorities; the ability to remain conversant with newly evolving technologies; effective oral and written communication skills. Preferred: Master's degree in Computer Science or Library and Information Science or related information technology field; background or degree in a humanities discipline; knowledge of relational database design principles and SQL; experience with newspaper digitization or other humanities digitization program; experience writing web applications using CSS, XSLT or JavaScript; ability to program interactive, database-driven web applications; experience in a library IT unit or working with library-specific applications; experience in planning and implementing programs or services; experience working with digital conversion vendors; knowledge of or experience with digital preservation strategies; experience in writing grant proposals. Environment: The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library is a leader in the delivery of user services, and active programs in information, instructional, access, and scholarly services help the Library to maintain its place at the intellectual heart of the campus. The Library also holds one of the preeminent research collections in the world, encompassing more than 12 million volumes and a total of more than 23 million items. The Library is committed to maintaining the strongest collections and service programs possible, and to engaging in research, development, and scholarly practice - all of which support the University's missions of teaching, research, and public engagement. The Library employs approximately 100 faculty members, and more than 300 academic professionals, staff, and graduate assistants. For more information, see: http://www.library.illinois.edu/ The Library consists of more than 30 departmental libraries located across campus, as well as an array of central public, technical, and administrative service units. The Library also encompasses a variety of virtual service points and "embedded librarian" programs. Salary and Rank: Salary and rank commensurate with credentials and experience. This is full-time academic professional position. Terms of Appointment: Twelve-month appointment; 24 annual vacation days; 11 annual paid holidays; 12 annual sick-leave days (cumulative), plus an additional 13 sick-leave days (non-cumulative) available, if needed, each year; health insurance requiring a small co-payment is provided to employee (with the option to purchase coverage for spouse and dependents); required participation in State Universities Retirement System (SURS) (8% of annual salary is withheld and is refundable upon termination), with several options for participation in additional retirement plans; newly-hired employees are covered by the Medicare portion of Social Security and are subject to its deduction. Campus and Community: Chartered in 1867, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is a comprehensive, public, land-grant university (Doctoral/Research University - Extensive) ranked among the best in the world, including "Top 20" programs in fields such as Engineering, Fine Arts, Business, and Library & Information Science, among others . Its faculty and staff provide undergraduate and graduate education in more than 150 fields of study, conduct theoretical and applied research, and provide service to the state, the nation, and the world. It employs 3,000 faculty members serving 31,000 undergraduate and 11,000 graduate and professional students; approximately 25% of faculty receive campus-wide recognition each year for excellence in teaching. For more information, see: http://illinois.edu/about/about.html The University is located in the twin cities of Champaign and Urbana, which have a combined population of 100,000 and are situated approximately 140 miles south of Chicago, 120 miles west of Indianapolis, and 170 miles northeast of St. Louis. The University and its surrounding communities offer a cultural and recreational environment ideally suited to the work of a major research institution and its members. For more information, see: http://illinois.edu/about/community/community.html To Apply: https://jobs.illinois.edu/ Attach letter of application and complete resume, including names, addresses, telephone numbers, and e-mail addresses of three (3) references. to: Cindy Kelly, Head, Library Human Resources, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1408 W. Gregory Drive, Urbana, IL 61801. For questions, please call: 217-333-8169. Deadline: In order to ensure full consideration, applications and nominations must be received by **JULY 11, 2011.** THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS IS AN AFFIRMATIVE ACTION/EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER Harriett Green English and Digital Humanities Librarian Assistant Professor of Library Administration University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 225 Main Library, MC-522 1408 W. Gregory Drive Urbana, Illinois 61801 green19@illinois.edu | 217-333-4942 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 23 21:00:09 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13DB216211C; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 21:00:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A530F162109; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 20:59:57 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110623205957.A530F162109@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 20:59:57 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.127 cfp: virtual worlds X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 127. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 06:52:03 +0100 From: jeremy hunsinger Subject: [Catac] cfp: cultures in virtual worlds Cultures in virtual worlds A special issue of the New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia Guest-edited by Jeremy Hunsinger and Adrienne Massanari Virtual worlds (VW) embody cultures, their artefacts, and their praxes; these new and old spaces of imagination and transformation allow humans to interact in spatial dimensions. Within these spaces, culture manifests with the creation, representation, and circulation of meaningful experiences. But virtual worlds are not novel in that regard, nor should we make the mistake to assume that they are novel in themselves. Virtual experiences have been around in some respect for hundreds of years, and virtual worlds based in information technology have existed for at least 40 years. The current generation of virtual worlds, with roots over four decades old in studies of virtual reality, computer supported cooperative work (CSCW), sociology, cultural studies, and related topics, provide for rich and occasionally immersive environments where people become enculturated within the world sometimes as richly as the rest of their everyday lives. We seek research that encounters and investigates cultures in virtual worlds in its plurality and in its richness. To that end, we invite papers covering the breadth of the topic of cultures in and of virtual worlds. Some possible areas/approaches of inquiry: 1. How culture of virtual worlds affect relationships 2. VW interfaces and culture/s 3. Hidden subcultures/communities in virtual worlds 4. Ages and VW cultures 5. Emic and etic experiences of virtual worlds 6. Producing VW cultures 7. Traditional cultural/critical studies inquiries of VWs 8. Transnational or cosmopolitan cultures in/of VWs While all forms of scholarship and research are welcome, we prefer theoretically and empirically grounded studies. We seek a Special Issue that exemplifies methodological pluralism and scholarly diversity. The use of visual evidence and representations is also encouraged. We especially seek pieces that investigate virtual worlds that have received little scholarly attention. Submission guidelines This special issue is Guest-Edited by Jeremy Hunsinger (Virginia Tech) and Adrienne Massanari (Loyola University Chicago). Queries regarding the Special Issue should be directed to them at jhuns@vt.edu and amassanari@luc.edu. The Guest-Editors welcome contributions from both new researchers and those who are more well-established. Submitted manuscripts will be subject to peer review. Length of papers will vary as per disciplinary expectations, but we encourage articles of around 7000 words (longer articles may be possible, if warranted). Short discussion papers of around 3000 words on relevant subjects are also welcomed as 'Technical Notes'. Detailed author submission guidelines are available online at http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/journal.asp?issn=1361-4568&linktype=44. Papers must be submitted via the journal’s online submissions system: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tham Please indicate that your submission is for the Special Issue on Culture in Virtual Worlds. The special issue will be published in summer 2012. Important dates: November 11, 2011 Paper submission deadline February 10, 2012 Author notification May 5, 2012 Final copy due Summer 2012 Publication Jeremy Hunsinger Center for Digital Discourse and Culture Virginia Tech Words are things; and a small drop of ink, falling like dew upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think. --Byron _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Jun 23 21:01:48 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB1AA1621CC; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 21:01:47 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 9B244162186; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 21:01:42 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110623210142.9B244162186@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 21:01:42 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.128 events: supporting DH; markup X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 128. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Christiane Fritze Subject: cfp: SDH 2011 Supporting the Digital Humanities, 17/18 Nov 2011 Copenhagen [2] From: Tommie Usdin (23) Subject: Late Breaking News added to Balisage 2011 Program --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 10:41:52 +0200 From: Christiane Fritze Subject: cfp: SDH 2011 Supporting the Digital Humanities, 17/18 Nov 2011Copenhagen First call for papers *SDH 2011 Supporting the Digital Humanities: Answering the unaskable* 17-18 November, Copenhagen Following the first successful SDH conference in Vienna in 2010, the CLARIN and DARIAH initiatives have decided to jointly organise the second SDH conference in Copenhagen, Denmark in November 2011. The conference venue will be at the University of Copenhagen, a participant in both CLARIN and DARIAH. Digital technologies have the potential to transform the types of research questions that we ask in the Humanities, and to allow us to address traditional questions in new and exciting ways, but ultimately they will also allow us to answer questions that we were not even aware we could ask, hence the title of this conference. How can digital humanities help us not just to find the answers to our research questions more quickly and more easily, but also to formulate research questions we would never have been able to ask without access to large quantities of digital data and sophisticated tools for their analysis? Supporting the Digital Humanities will be a forum for the discussion of these innovations, and of the ways in which these new forms of research can be facilitated and supported. CLARIN and DARIAH are creating European research infrastructures for the humanities and related disciplines. SDH2011 aims to bring together infrastructure providers and users from the communities involved with the two infrastructure initiatives. The conference will consist of a number of topical sessions where providers and users will present and discuss results, obstacles and opportunities for digitally-supported humanities research. Participants are encouraged to engage with honest assessments of the intellectual problems and practical barriers in an open and constructive atmosphere. The first SDH conference in 2010 gave a broad and multi-facetted presentation of the domains of interest to CLARIN and DARIAH. This time we have chosen a somewhat more focussed approach, focussing on two major themes, but not excluding other themes of interest for the humanities. The two themes are: • Sound and movement – music, spoken word, dance and theatre • Text and things – text, and the relationship between text and material artefacts, such as manuscript, stone or other carriers of text Submissions are invited for individual papers and posters, as well as panels. Focus should be on tools and methods for the analysis of digital data rather than on digitisation processes themselves, both from the provider and from the user perspective. We want to pay special attention to inspiring showcases that demonstrate the innovative power of digital methods in the humanities. *Some important dates:* July 15, 2011: Submission of suggestion for panels July 24, 2011: Submission of abstracts (4 pages) August 15, 2011: Notification on panel proposals September 15, 2011: Author notification October 15, 2011: Final version of papers for publication (8 pages). November 17-18: Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark *Programme committee:* Bente Maegaard, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Steven Krauwer, Utrecht University, Netherlands Helen Bailey, University of Bedfordshire, UK Tim Crawford, Goldsmith’s University of London, UK Matthew Driscoll, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Neil Fraistat, University of Maryland, United States Erhard Hinrichs, Tübingen University, Germany Fotis Jannidis, Würzburg University, Germany Helen Katsiadakis, Academy of Athens, Greece Krister Lindén, Helsinki University, Finland Heike Neuroth, Göttingen State and University Library, Germany Laurent Romary, INRIA, France Nina Vodopivec, Institute for Contemporary History, Ljubljana, Slovenia Peter Wittenburg, MPI, Netherlands/Germany Martin Wynne, Oxford University, UK Christiane Fritze on behalf of the DCO -- DARIAH-EU Coordination Office Georg-August-Universitaet Goettingen Goettingen Centre for Digital Humanities Papendiek 14 37073 Goettingen Germany phone: +49 551 39 9061 mail: dariah-dco@dariah.eu www: http://www.dariah.eu --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 12:54:11 -0400 From: Tommie Usdin Subject: Late Breaking News added to Balisage 2011 Program Balisage 2011 Program Finalized When the regular (peer-reviewed) part of the Balisage 2011 program was scheduled, a few slots were reserved for presentation of "Late breaking" material. These presentations have now been selected and added to the program. Topics added include: - XQuery and SparQL - XQuery and XSLT - the Logical Form of a Metadata Record - Why is XML a pain to produce? - XML Serialization of C# and Java Objects - testing XSLT in continuous integration - dealing with markup without using words - REST for document resource nodes - tagging journal article supplemental materials - using 15 year old SGML documents in current software The program already included talks about DITA, XSLT, generic microformats, XML Ebooks, JSON, multiple hrefs, XML editors, markup overlap, encryption of XML documents, and XML Interoperability, among others. Now it is a real must for anyone who thinks deeply about markup. Balisage is the XML Geek-fest; the annual gathering of people who design markup and markup-based applications; who develop XML specifications, standards, and tools; the people who read and write, books about publishing technologies in general and XML in particular; and super-users of XML and related technologies. You can read about the Balisage 2011 conference at http://www.balisage.net. Schedule At A Glance: http://www.balisage.net/2011/At-A-Glance.html Detailed program: http://www.balisage.net/2011/Program.html ====================================================================== Balisage: The Markup Conference 2011 mailto:info@balisage.net August 2-5, 2011 http://www.balisage.net Symposium on Document-Oriented XML Montreal, Canada August 1, 2011 ====================================================================== _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Jun 25 21:08:55 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5083E164039; Sat, 25 Jun 2011 21:08:55 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 92CF816402F; Sat, 25 Jun 2011 21:08:52 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110625210852.92CF816402F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2011 21:08:52 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.129 critical apparatus? parameters for a new media institute? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 129. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Mark Winokur (30) Subject: Please engage in blog dialogue for founding of Digital/New Mediainstitute [2] From: Marc Shepherd (9) Subject: Origin of Critical Apparatus Format --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 15:20:17 -0600 From: Mark Winokur Subject: Please engage in blog dialogue for founding of Digital/New Mediainstitute Dear New/Digital Media Colleagues: Blog on New Media Institute Formation at the University of Colorado, Boulder Your input would be gratefully appreciated on the formation of an as-yet-do-be-defined school, college, or institute of Information and/or New Media studies at The University of Colorado at Boulder. A few New Media scholars have created a blog for crowdsourcing ideas for this new initiative at http://www.dighuman.com/. At the moment the administration is open both to LARGE scholarly and pedagogical ideas for this new entity, and to ideas about the structure of this entity. A number of new-media scholars and artists at the University of Colorado have co-signed a draft of a white paper outlining a possible form this institution might take. Most of these people are part of the official decision-making process. We have been assured that some real money will be devoted to this project, so that we are allowed to think big. And, because the parameters of this new institute are so undefined, controversy is very welcome. I should stress that this blog is unofficial: it is not sanctioned by the university. This leaves room, we hope, for a broader discussion than might be possible under a university-moderated site. Put differently, the blog is not answerable to regents, provosts, and presidents. Here again is the URL for the blog: http://www.dighuman.com/ The registration process is open to all. Please sign up and engage in the conversation. Best, Dr. Mark Winokur University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80209 mark.winokur@colorado.edu --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2011 13:44:55 +0100 From: Marc Shepherd Subject: Origin of Critical Apparatus Format What is the origin of the standard format of the critical apparatus, namely, to introduce each note with the lemma and a right bracket? I know it goes at least as far back as Lewis Theobald’s edition of Shakespeare, but as Theobald gave no explanation, he must have assumed his readers would be familiar with this convention. Is anyone credited with having devised this system? How far back was it used? -- Marc Shepherd New York, NY _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 25 21:10:53 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89BE01640B0; Sat, 25 Jun 2011 21:10:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 6A6B1164091; Sat, 25 Jun 2011 21:10:49 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110625211049.6A6B1164091@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2011 21:10:49 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.130 if not digital? but it is! X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 130. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Mats Dahlström" (46) Subject: Sv: [Humanist] 25.125 if not digital... [2] From: John Levin (37) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.125 if not digital... [3] From: Stephen Woodruff (21) Subject: digital edition of "Switching Codes:.." --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2011 01:46:28 +0200 From: "Mats Dahlström" Subject: Sv: [Humanist] 25.125 if not digital... In-Reply-To: <20110623205200.8EEF1162E82@woodward.joyent.us> It is indeed available electronically. I just read it as an e-.book on a subscription basis through Dawsonera >>> Humanist Discussion Group den 23 juni 2011 22:52 >>> Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 125. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 20:00:22 -0700 (PDT) From: Bob Blair Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.116 new book: Switching Codes In-Reply-To: <20110620203537.DB16B15F105@woodward.joyent.us> Not available electronically: not interested. --- On Mon, 6/20/11, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > From: Humanist Discussion Group > Subject: [Humanist] 25.116 new book: Switching Codes > To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > Date: Monday, June 20, 2011, 1:35 PM > > Humanist Discussion Group, > Vol. 25, No. 116. > Centre for Computing > in the Humanities, King's College London > [...] > > I have in my hands a newly published book that so far has > rewarded the > reading: > > Bartscherer, Thomas and Roderick Coover, eds. 2011. > Switching Codes: > Thinking Through Digital Technology in the Humanities and > the Arts. > Chicago: University of Chicago Press. > > Below is the table of contents. > > Read it tonight! > > Yours, > WM [...] --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2011 01:15:33 +0100 From: John Levin Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.125 if not digital... In-Reply-To: <20110623205200.8EEF1162E82@woodward.joyent.us> Just for fun, I'm going to take issue with this: On 23/06/2011 21:52, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > > Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 20:00:22 -0700 (PDT) > From: Bob Blair > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.116 new book: Switching Codes > In-Reply-To:<20110620203537.DB16B15F105@woodward.joyent.us> > > > Not available electronically: not interested. > > --- On Mon, 6/20/11, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: >> >> I have in my hands a newly published book that so far has >> rewarded the >> reading: >> >> Bartscherer, Thomas and Roderick Coover, eds. 2011. >> Switching Codes: >> Thinking Through Digital Technology in the Humanities and >> the Arts. I think you mean: not available under a free license, to reproduce at will, to share, to be able to discuss with people. Because there's all sorts of 'electronic' stuff that is laughable expensive*, unavailable to non-"accredited" scholars, can't be found in second-hand bookshops for a couple of quid, and won't even take being dog eared. Analogue vs digital is tedious stuff. Freedom versus bondage is worth going to war over. John * example: $34 for a journal article ( http://www.jstor.org/pss/2638385 ) ? Books cost less than that! -- John Levin http://www.anterotesis.com johnlevin@joindiaspora.com http://twitter.com/anterotesis --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2011 10:25:15 +0100 From: Stephen Woodruff Subject: digital edition of "Switching Codes:.." In-Reply-To: <20110623205200.8EEF1162E82@woodward.joyent.us> http://www.ebooks.com/686265/switching-codes/bartscherer-thomas-ed--coover-roderick-ed/ "The sheer complexity of the technology coupled with the rapid pace of change makes it increasingly difficult to establish common ground and to promote thoughtful discussion." justified! SWW Humanities Advanced Technology & Information Institute 11 University Gardens University of Glasgow Glasgow G12 8QQ Scotland/UK _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Jun 25 21:11:41 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id D85E81640FB; Sat, 25 Jun 2011 21:11:40 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 6ABCB1640EC; Sat, 25 Jun 2011 21:11:36 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110625211136.6ABCB1640EC@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2011 21:11:36 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.131 new digital research series X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 131. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2011 21:40:54 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: digital research series Digital Research in the Arts and Humanities (Ashgate) Series Editors: Marilyn Deegan is Emeritus Professor and Honorary Research Fellow at King's College London. Lorna Hughes is University of Wales Chair in Digital Collections, National Library of Wales. Andrew Prescott is Chair of Digital Humanities, King’s College, London, UK. Harold Short is Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London, UK. Digital technologies are increasingly important to arts and humanities research, expanding the horizons of research methods in all aspects of data capture, investigation, analysis, modelling, presentation and dissemination. This important series covers a wide range of disciplines with each volume focusing on a particular field, identifying the ways in which technology impacts on specific subjects. The series provides an authoritative reflection of the 'state of the art' in the application of computing and technology. Each book is critical reading for experts in digital humanities and technology issues, and will also be of wider interest to all scholars working in humanities and arts research. For the current nine titles in the series and call for additional proposals, see http://www.ashgate.com/digitalresearch. -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Jun 26 19:49:08 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56119165F2F; Sun, 26 Jun 2011 19:49:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 434E7165F1D; Sun, 26 Jun 2011 19:49:05 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110626194905.434E7165F1D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2011 19:49:05 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.132 if digital X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 132. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Willard McCarty (25) Subject: in digital form? free? [2] From: Bob Blair (2) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.130 if not digital? but it is! --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2011 07:29:33 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: in digital form? free? In discussions about the digital availability of commercially published books I am torn. As a researcher constantly hungry for good ideas (which unsurprisingly are not always to be found in books with interesting titles), I want the stuff now, downloadable, preferably free -- and will (I admit this, Your Honour) get it wherever, whenever I can. As a reader I want the codex book too, since reading on an iPad or similar is still a poor approximation -- better than nothing at all, but still poor. As an author I want above everything else to communicate, and so I really care only for the channel(s) that will do this best. These are almost always the commercial/university press ones, since the folks that run those presses do tend to know what they are doing, and mostly do it very well. As an author I care not a fig for the politics of publishing. I've reached under the bed, grabbed my machine-gun and run off to the wars too, only to find it's a rather more complex war than I had imagined. I've found I have family members on all sides. The peace I'd like to see negotiated would be this: cheap digital edition of each book that comes free with the purchase of the book. What do you think? Yours, WM -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2011 20:35:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Bob Blair Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.130 if not digital? but it is! In-Reply-To: <20110625211049.6A6B1164091@woodward.joyent.us> Thanks for the reference to Dawsonera. I wasn't aware of it. After reading the FAQ I find lots of things not to like about it, but I'm glad to know of it. Bob Blair _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Jun 27 19:35:45 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id C36A216511D; Mon, 27 Jun 2011 19:35:44 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 6539916510F; Mon, 27 Jun 2011 19:35:38 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110627193538.6539916510F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 19:35:38 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.133 if digital X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 133. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Patrick Durusau (35) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.132 if digital [2] From: Mícheál Mac an Airchinnigh (10) Subject: Subject: in digital form? free? [3] From: "Totosy de Zepetnek, Steven" (10) Subject: totosy Re: [Humanist] 25.132 if digital [4] From: Ernesto Priego (11) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.132 if digital [5] From: Dennis Moser (4) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.132 if digital --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2011 16:13:01 -0400 From: Patrick Durusau Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.132 if digital In-Reply-To: <20110626194905.434E7165F1D@woodward.joyent.us> Willard, Willard McCarty writes: > As > an author I want above everything else to communicate, and so I really > care only for the channel(s) that will do this best. These are almost > always the commercial/university press ones, since the folks that run > those presses do tend to know what they are doing, and mostly do it very > well. As an author I care not a fig for the politics of publishing. > Having worked for a consortium press once upon a time, I am curious about your statement: "the folks that run those presses tend to know what they are doing, and mostly do it very well." What do you see "the folks that run those presses" doing well? I have encountered volumes that must have satisfied a publisher's LaTeX template but were not "edited" in any meaningful sense of the word. Or series titles that were "camera-ready" copy which repeated the same typos in introductions, volume after volume. Perhaps as a service to the community the Humanist could host a list of commercial/university presses and Humanist members could post known vanity or poorly edited titles for each one. With space for comments/discussion. Hope you are at the start of a great week! Patrick -- Patrick Durusau patrick@durusau.net Chair, V1 - US TAG to JTC 1/SC 34 Convener, JTC 1/SC 34/WG 3 (Topic Maps) Editor, OpenDocument Format TC (OASIS), Project Editor ISO/IEC 26300 Co-Editor, ISO/IEC 13250-1, 13250-5 (Topic Maps) Another Word For It (blog): http://tm.durusau.net Homepage: http://www.durusau.net Twitter: patrickDurusau --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2011 21:27:40 +0100 From: Mícheál Mac an Airchinnigh Subject: Subject: in digital form? free? In-Reply-To: <20110626194905.434E7165F1D@woodward.joyent.us> 2011-06-26 Hi Willard! You said: "I want the codex book too, since reading on an iPad or similar is still a poor approximation -- better than nothing at all, but still poor. Take a look at "The Waste Land" app for iPad2... http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/jun/12/ts-eliot-waste-land-ipad-app :) Best regards Mícheál --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2011 16:30:56 -0400 From: "Totosy de Zepetnek, Steven" Subject: totosy Re: [Humanist] 25.132 if digital In-Reply-To: <20110626194905.434E7165F1D@woodward.joyent.us> indeed, the finances of academic publishing are dire and as we know there is a stream of discussion about this; nevertheless, i side with open-access publishing and it is good that there are a few university publishers -- such as purdue -- who understand that an open-access journal brings brand recognition and it is more often than not increases the sale of print books rather than decreases it; as to what to do with books: methinks it should be parallel, i.e., both pdf for download and print copy and many presses do so: what is odd, however, is that many-a-press sells the pdf of the print copy for little less than the print copy and that is the problem: they would make more money if they would sell the pdf of the book for a fraction of the print copy (the latter of which would be bought by libraries anyway: we know that personal purchases of any academic book is less than minimal...); best, steven totosy steven totosy de zepetnek phd professor http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweblibrary/totosycv editor, clcweb: comparative literature and culture http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb series editor, purdue books in comparative cultural studies http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweblibrary/seriespurdueccs & http://www.thepress.purdue.edu/series/comparative-cultural-studies 8 sunset road, winchester, massachusetts 01890 usa 781-729-1680 --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2011 14:06:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Ernesto Priego Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.132 if digital In-Reply-To: <20110626194905.434E7165F1D@woodward.joyent.us> --- On Sun, 26/6/11, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > The peace I'd like to see negotiated would be this: cheap digital edition > of each book that comes free with the purchase of the book. What do you think? Yes. That's indeed the model that some (maybe now many) record labels have embraced. Last year In 2008 I bought the Singles Box by the Smiths: a numbered limited edition with the first 10 seven-inch singles in original picture bags, with 2 seven-inch rarities (and the records came with the original writing on the vinyl's matrix, which made them cult objects when they originally came out), badges and a poster. So I bought the beautiful limited and numbered edition box, a tactile object, with a certificate saying I own box number 09987. And I got a code that allowed me to download all the tracks from the box set as MPs. I do love the 'codex', tactile book as much as I love vinyl records. I pay for those. Digital versions I want for convenience. If I buy the object, I expect the files for free. Ernesto --[5]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 06:53:41 -0500 (CDT) From: Dennis Moser Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.132 if digital In-Reply-To: <20110626194905.434E7165F1D@woodward.joyent.us> Willard has digitally invoked the Ghost of Panizzi . . . "I want a poor student to have the same means of indulging his learned curiosity, of following his rational pursuits, of consulting the same authorities, of fathoming the most intricate inquiry as the richest man in the kingdom, as far as books go, and I contend that the Government is bound to give him the most liberal and unlimited assistance in this respect." Sir Antonio Genesio Maria Panizzi Best, Dennis _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 27 19:36:48 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E65C165189; Mon, 27 Jun 2011 19:36:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 51A6C165172; Mon, 27 Jun 2011 19:36:36 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110627193636.51A6C165172@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 19:36:36 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.134 events: social media X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 134. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2011 23:07:10 -0700 From: Merlyna Lim Subject: Fwd: CFP International Conference on Social Media Culture FYI. > Call for Paper > > International Conference on Social Media Culture: >  Political, Economic, Social, and Journalistic Challenges > > Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, University of Atma Jaya > Yogyakarta invites practitioners, scholars and graduate students across >  disciplines to our International Conference on “Social Media Cultures: >  Political, Economic, Social, and Journalistic Challenges.” The > conference will be held on 22 September 2011 at the University of Atma > Jaya Yogyakarta. > > > Background > > Now, we live in the social media era. Facebook and Twitter are popular > among higher classes and older users; also growing among other public. > Facebook and Twitter have been becoming the most important channels for >  changing information paths. Through Twitter, people organize themselves >  in several protests and activities. > > The use of social network tools leads to social changes in everyday > life, politics, education and other fields. The emergence of online > social networks has changed the way information circulates within the > country, creating more awareness, actions and changes. > > This conference is dedicated to providing opportunities for scholars >  and practitioners to share their knowledge and to get involved in > discourse on social media uses and their implications on politics, > economy, social, and journalism, as well as the challenges they bring. > All relevant academic and multidisciplinary perspectives in the area of >  social media culture are welcomed. > > We invite contributors from all disciplines to submit competitive > abstracts for paper presentation at this conference. Abstracts should > revolve around one of the topics indicated below, describing original > work and/or research papers. We also encourage other varieties related > to New Media. > > Suggested topics include, but are not restricted to, the following: > > a. A new democratization? How social media change political cultures? > > b. Social media in corporate communication. > > c. Closing the digital divide: How social are social media? > > d. User generated content: Obstacle or benefit to journalism? > > Abstract Submissions > > Abstracts should be between 300-500 words. Language of both abstracts > and papers is English. The abstract will be peer-reviewed. Required > format of submission is in word format and please include the author > name when saving the document. Include the presenter’s name, > institutional affiliation, a brief biographical note, email and postal > address into a separate file/paper. All documents must be emailed to > Yohanes Widodo, at ywidodo@staff.uajy.ac.id. > > Relevant Dates to be considered > > Deadline for abstract submissions: July 30, 2011 > > Notification of accepted abstracts: August 15, 2011 > > Deadline for full papers: September 10, 2011 > > For registration and further information about the conference, please visit our website http://fisip.uajy.ac.id/ic2011 > _______________________________________________ > International Association for Media and Communication Research - http://iamcr.org > Announcements mailing list > > Join IAMCR | http://iamcr.org/about-iamcr/membership/join-iamcr-mainmenu-237 > > Follow IAMCR's updates on Twitter | http://twitter.com/IAMCRtweets > Visit IAMCR's Facebook Page | http://www.facebook.com/iamcr.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 27 19:47:18 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 126491654B5; Mon, 27 Jun 2011 19:47:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 943251654A8; Mon, 27 Jun 2011 19:47:15 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110627194715.943251654A8@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 19:47:15 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.135 new publication: gender in science X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 135. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2011 05:46:17 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 36.2 (June 2011) Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 36.2 (June 2011) 1. Why Gender should be a Priority for our Attention in Science Pollitzer, Elizabeth 101-102(2) 2. Understanding Gender: Some Implications for Science and Technology Hearn, Jeff; Husu, Liisa 103-113(11) 3. Scientific (E)quality Rice, Curt 114-124(11) 4. An Innovative Appraisal of a CV Tarrach, Rolf 125-132(8) 5. The Gendered Construction of Scientific Excellence Rees, Teresa 133-145(13) 6. The role of gender in team collaboration and performance Bear, Julia B; Woolley, Anita Williams 146-153(8) 7. Interdisciplinary Approaches to Achieving Gendered Innovations in Science, Medicine, and Engineering Schiebinger, Londa; Schraudner, Martina 154-167(14) 8. De-Gendering Neuro-Images: Contingencies in the Construction of Visualization Technologies and Their Use for Establishing Sex-Differences Schinzel, Britta 168-179(12) 9. Incorporating Gender and Sex Dimensions in Medical Research Holdcroft, Anita; Snidvongs, Saowarat; Berkley, Karen J 180-192(13) 10. Gender Issues in Determining the Service and Research Agenda for Pregnancy and Birth Care: the Case of Home Birth in the Netherlands Buitendijk, Simone 193-202(10) 11. Review Samuel, Sajay 203-206(4) 12. Errata 207-207(1) -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Jun 28 21:39:53 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6BB4166160; Tue, 28 Jun 2011 21:39:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 30CCB16614E; Tue, 28 Jun 2011 21:39:49 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20110628213949.30CCB16614E@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2011 21:39:49 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.136 if digital X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 136. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2011 22:05:12 +0100 From: Ron Healy Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.132 if digital In-Reply-To: <20110626194905.434E7165F1D@woodward.joyent.us> Willard Re: "The peace I'd like to see negotiated would be this: cheap digital edition of each book that comes free with the purchase of the book. What do you think?" I think that's not a million miles away from what most readers want. It's a side-issue of a technology I'm involved in developing at NUI Maynooth in Ireland. The project is primarily in relation to audio but has applications to protected e-books sold as a complement to physical books. Ideally, purchase of a physical book, particularly academic or specialis books, or those on subscription or bought through an online provider, should be easy to 'tie up' with an individually unique e-copy Ron _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 28 21:40:52 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 427241662BF; Tue, 28 Jun 2011 21:40:52 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A397916624C; Tue, 28 Jun 2011 21:40:42 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20110628214042.A397916624C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2011 21:40:42 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.137 job at UCLA X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 137. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 14:08:21 -0700 From: "Rugg, Annelie" Subject: Position at UCLA in digital humanities Dear colleagues, I am pleased to share information about an open position at UCLA for a Digital Humanities Program Coordinator and Research Technology Consultant. I would appreciate if you would share this information with anyone you think may be interested. We are accepting applications online, as directed in the announcement below, through August 22nd. Regards, Annelie Rugg, Ph.D. Director/Humanities CIO || UCLA Center for Digital Humanities 310.903.7691 || annelie@humnet.ucla.edu UCLA College - Division of Humanities - Digital Humanities ACADEMIC ADMINISTRATOR (Salary Range $54,192 - $78,660; Level and salary range commensurate with qualifications) The University of California, Los Angeles, invites applications for the position of Academic Administrator as the Digital Humanities Program Coordinator and Research Technology Consultant. Reporting to the Chair of the Digital Humanities Program, the Program Coordinator is responsible for developing courses and teaching in the Digital Humanities program, advising undergraduate and graduate students, and overseeing a variety of faculty research and student support initiatives. The Coordinator will work closely with the Digital Humanities Chair and affiliated faculty to schedule and plan course offerings, place students in mentorships and/or apprenticeships, perform project management duties for those students and their related, faculty-sponsored research projects, recruit and advise students, and collaborate with Centers and Institutes at UCLA, including, but not limited to, the Center for Digital Humanities (CDH), the Digital Library Program, the Institute for Digital Research and Education, the Experiential Technologies Center, and the Office of Instructional Development. The Coordinator will contribute research technology expertise to CDH initiatives, and will serve as a key CDH liaison with the Digital Humanities program. The successful candidate must have a demonstrated ability to work collaboratively across disciplines and facilitate broad-based humanities research and teaching projects, which are cooperative ventures between humanists, technologists, scientists, and designers. Administrative experience working with humanities faculty, technology staff, and funding agencies is highly desirable. The successful candidate must have a PhD, preferably in a Humanities discipline. For more information, please visit: http:///www.digitalhumanities.ucla.edu http://www.digitalhumanities.ucla.edu/ Initial screening of applications will be on August 22, 2011, although we will accept applications on a rolling basis until the position is filled. For the full job description and to apply, please go to: http://www.cdh.ucla.edu/resources/job-openings.html UCLA is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. Women and minorities are especially encouraged to apply. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 28 21:43:07 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA1811663EE; Tue, 28 Jun 2011 21:43:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 2B0E5166398; Tue, 28 Jun 2011 21:43:01 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110628214301.2B0E5166398@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2011 21:43:01 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.138 events: HASTAC; TEI; knowledge representation X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 138. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Prof. Arienne M. Dwyer" (21) Subject: Reminder: KU Knowledge Representation abstracts (30 June) [2] From: Martin Mueller (54) Subject: TEI Conference and Members Meeting 2012: Request for proposals [3] From: hastac-web@duke.edu (41) Subject: New Deadline for 2011 HASTAC Conference Proposals! --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 16:19:32 -0500 From: "Prof. Arienne M. Dwyer" Subject: Reminder: KU Knowledge Representation abstracts (30 June) Dear all, The University of Kansas is putting on a one-day 24 September conference on Knowledge Representation (defined broadly), for which **paper and/or poster abstracts are due this Thursday, June 30**. The conference keynote speaker is Michael Sperberg-McQueen (Black Mesa Technologies, formerly W3Consortium). The conference is preceded by a BootCamp (sept 22) and a THATCamp unconference (sept 23). All events are completely free, and open to the public. Registration is required, and space at some events is filling up quickly. Details available at http://idrh.ku.edu/2011conference/ To submit an abstract directly, go to http://linguistlist.org/confcustom/customhome.cfm?Emeetingid=0402J8465876425A408040441 We welcome any and all humanists (again, broadly defined) to join us in September. Best wishes, Arienne -- Arienne M. Dwyer Co-Director, Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities Associate Professor, Linguistic Anthropology University of Kansas --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 18:03:08 -0500 From: Martin Mueller Subject: TEI Conference and Members Meeting 2012: Request for proposals In-Reply-To: <20110627194715.943251654A8@woodward.joyent.us> With the usual apologies for cross-posting, I would like to solicit proposals for the 2012 meeting of the Text Encoding Initiative, which, according to current patterns of rotation, should be held in North America. The request for proposals is posted at http://sourceforge.net/apps/wordpress/tei/2010/11/28/request-for-proposals- tei-conference-and-members-meeting-2012/ For your convenience I replicate it below. Sincerely Martin Mueller Chair, TEI Board of Directors Request for Proposals: TEI Conference and Members Meeting, 2012The TEI Conference and Members¹ Meeting takes place every year, usually in late October or early November. As far as possible, the venue alternates between Europe and North America. Previous hosts have included the University of Würzburg Centre for Digital Editing (2011), the University of Zadar (2010), the University of Michigan Libraries (2009), King¹s College London (2008), and the University of Victoria (2006). The format of the event is not fixed, but generally keeps the following pattern: * 2 or 3 days of pre-conference workshops * 3 days of conference sessions, keynote lectures, poster sessions, and meetings of TEI Special Interest Groups The Annual General Meeting for members of the TEI Consortium is also held during the event. Accounts are presented and election results declared at this AGM, which is open to the public. The three days of the main conference normally take place between the Thursday and Saturday of the week of the conference. The pre-conference workshops may vary in length from a single morning or afternoon to a full two days. Attendance at the conference has varied between about 70 and 200, to some extent depending on location, but 100 is the usual average attendance. The TEI Consortium will subsidize a share of the direct costs incurred in running the event, up to a maximum of US$5200. Bids should include a budget indicating the level of additional funding anticipated and its likely source (local institutions, commercial sponsorship etc.) The TEI normally charges and retains a small attendance fee, in the region of $100 to covers its own overheads to ensure that it is able to underwrite the cost of future conferences. Bids for the 2012 conference must be received no later than 1 September 2011. Institutions considering making a proposal are requested to contact the chair of the TEI Board (martinmueller@northwestern.edu) as soon as possible to discuss their proposal. Completed bids should include the following information: * The name of the institution(s) making the bid and a list of proposed members of the local organising team * The name, address, email, and telephone number of a contact person * A brief description of the facilities available for the event (rooms, equipment, technical support, food) * A preliminary budget In submitting bids, local organisers are strongly encouraged to be creative: the TEI meeting is an expression of the TEI community in all its diversity and should be seen as an opportunity to showcase local interests and strengths. Bids will be reviewed by the TEI board deuring September, and a decision taken in time to announce the venue at the 2011 Meeting in Wurzburg. --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2011 13:08:10 -0400 From: hastac-web@duke.edu Subject: New Deadline for 2011 HASTAC Conference Proposals! In-Reply-To: <20110627194715.943251654A8@woodward.joyent.us> Due to enthusiastic response to our 2011 HASTAC Conference CFP, and due to conflicts with summer travels and holidays, we have decided to reschedule the deadline to *September 15, 2011*. The University of Michigan will be hosting the 2011 annual HASTAC Conference face-to-face on its Ann Arbor campus December 2 and 3. We invite proposals for presentations on the general theme of Digital Scholarly Communication. Deadline for submission is *September 15, 2011*. Proposals can be submitted here: http://tinyurl.com/HASTAC2011-Proposal [1] We seek topics which may range over but need not be restricted to, the role of digital technologies in: * Reformulating scholarly projects and products. (This might include questions of narration and argumentation, evidence and epistemology, interactivity, and/or text/visual presentation.) * Re-mapping the routes through which scholarly products circulate. * Expanding the digital arts to include the humanities and vice versa. * Reshaping the global system of knowledge production in the humanities in terms of access, circulation, exchange and equity within the global north and between the global north and south. * Generating new kinds of research and teaching partnerships. Topics may also include: * Copyright challenges and strategies for digital scholarly communication. * Web design and digitization of archives for multiple and different constituencies (local communities, global peers). * New forms of research, digitally based, in the humanities. The middle part of the day on both December 2 and 3 will be given over to concurrent sessions. People may present in any of three formats: * An individual five-minute “lightening” talk or ten-minute lecture-style presentation, with or without technology (e.g., PPT, Prezi) * A panel on a common theme with short presentations to allow for discussion time, with or without technology * A poster project or demo for conversation in a digital display area (e.g., YouTube or other presentation format uploaded to conference website; laptop-based video on a continuous loop, slidecast, interactive website; print poster board) Presenters will have the option of pre-circulating materials on the website before and during the conference. Information on an Unconference event for December 1 forthcoming). Deadline for submission is *September 15, 2011*. Proposals can be submitted here: http://tinyurl.com/HASTAC2011-Proposal [2] [1] http://tinyurl.com/HASTAC2011-Proposal [2] http://tinyurl.com/HASTAC2011-Proposal _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 29 22:41:12 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC29B1670DC; Wed, 29 Jun 2011 22:41:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 6B90D1670CD; Wed, 29 Jun 2011 22:41:08 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110629224108.6B90D1670CD@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2011 22:41:08 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.139 if digital X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 139. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2011 07:50:34 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: about tied-down e-books Whatever publishers may come up with, I don't think any e-book requiring a special reader or visible only through dedicated software has much of a chance, certainly not with me. Give the near-universality and relative flexibility of pdf, I'd think that a pdf version of a printed book would be the way to go. I want something that can slip around between my laptop and my iPad, that lives comfortably with the many other pdfs I have (in the GBs), that is searchable and can be indexed by the laptop system software and requires no special fuss of any kind. Until that happens I'll continue to acquire pdfs by whatever means possible -- but again not for reading except when I must (I want the codex for that function), rather for searching. Unreasonable? Yours, WM -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Jun 29 22:43:28 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF3F01671B0; Wed, 29 Jun 2011 22:43:28 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id DCF6516719D; Wed, 29 Jun 2011 22:43:24 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110629224324.DCF6516719D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2011 22:43:24 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.140 events: classics; XSLT; social media X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 140. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Katrin Weller (125) Subject: Call for Papers: Social Media and Web Science [2] From: Julia Flanders (41) Subject: XSLT workshop at Brown: registration closing soon [3] From: "Mahony, Simon" (42) Subject: Classical Studies facing digital research infrastructures (seminar) --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2011 06:21:03 +0200 From: Katrin Weller Subject: Call for Papers: Social Media and Web Science For those of you who speak German, the following conference call may be of interest. There also is a "European Afternoon" as a sub-workshop for an english-speaking audience (see more infos on that here: http://www.dgi-info.de/CfP2012DGI-Konferenz_GB.aspx) *Apologies for cross-posting* Call for Papers: ----------------------------------------------- DGI-KONFERENZ 2012 SOCIAL MEDIA UND WEB SCIENCE Das Web als Lebensraum ----------------------------------------------- 2. DGI Konferenz, 64. DGI Jahrestagung Düsseldorf, 22. und 23. März 2012 Vollständiger Call for Papers: http://www.dgi-info.de/OnlineTagung.aspx Twitter Hashtag: #dgi2012 Das noch immer wachsende Angebot an Social Media und Social Software hat längst dazu geführt, dass sich immer mehr Bereiche des täglichen Lebens (auch) ins World Wide Web verlagern. Das Web ist damit weit mehr als ein technisches Hilfsmittel zur Arbeitserleichterung für bestimmte Berufsfelder oder spezialisierte Informationsbedarfe. Es ist Nachrichtenmedium, Bibliothek und Nachschlagewerk, Schreibtisch, Shoppingcenter, Stammtisch, Familienfotoalbum, Reiseführer, Geldautomat und vieles mehr. Die DGI lädt daher zur interdisziplinären Fachdiskussion ein: Führungs- und Fachkräfte, Strategen, Entwickler, Information Professionals, Wissensmanager, Studierende und Wissenschaftler aus den Bereichen Informationswissenschaft, Bibliothekswissenschaft, Dokumentationswissenschaft und Informatik sowie aus angrenzenden und komplementären Themenbereichen z.B. aus Rechtswissenschaft, Wirtschaftswissenschaft, Sozial- und Geisteswissenschaften sowie Mitglieder aus Forschungseinrichtungen, aus der Wirtschaft, aus der Verwaltung und aus dem Bildungswesen sind aufgerufen, ihre aktuelle Position und neue Erkenntnisse vorzustellen und zu diskutieren. Insbesondere freuen wir uns über die Einreichung von Originalbeiträgen zu folgenden thematischen Aspekten: SOCIAL MEDIA * Kollaborative und kollektive Informationsdienste (z.B. Social Bookmarking, Social Networking, Wikis, Mash-Ups, virtuelle Kollaboratorien) * Information Retrieval im Social Web / Social Search * Wissensrepräsentation im Social Web (z.B. Social Tagging) * Social Semantic Web * Social Software Use Cases & Policies (z.B. im Unternehmen, in Forschung und Lehre, in Bibliotheken) * Enterprise 2.0: Wissensmanagement im Social Web oder der Einsatz von Social Software im Wissensmanagement * Social Analytics, Metriken zur Vermessung von Sozialen Netzwerken und Social Software * Marktforschung und Trendmonitoring, Erfolgsmessung von Social Media * Identitätsmanagement und Reputation im Social Web * Communities of Practice und Nutzernetzwerke * Werbung im Social Web, Web-Ökonomie * Netzwerkökonomie des Web * Neue Geschäftsmodelle im Social Web (z.B. App Economy), Anpassung traditioneller Angebote an neue Nutzeranforderungen * Linked Data und Open Data im Social Web WEB SCIENCE * Kommunikation und Kommunikationsformen im Web (z.B. Blogs, Microblogging) * Informationskompetenz und Didaktik der Informationswissenschaft * Messung von Informationsverhalten * Informationsverhalten und Informationsbedürfnisse spezieller Zielgruppen * Visualisierung von Daten- und Nutzerstrukturen und Informationen * Wissenschaft und Internet: eScience, Digital Humanities, digitale Wissenschaft, Wissenschaftskommunikation * eLearning * Serious Games und Online-Spiele (z.B. browser-based Games) * (digitale) Bibliotheken * Digital Divide, Zugang zu Web-Informationen, Accessibility, Usability * Emotionen im Web * Rechtliche Aspekte im (Social) Web (z.B. Zugangsrechte, Urheberrechte) * Vertrauen und Privatsphäre im Web * Cybercrime und Gefahren im Web * eGovernment & eGovernance & eDemocracy * eActivism & eProtest (z.B. Guttenplag-Wiki, Wikileaks) * Informationspolitik * Crowdsourcing (z.B. in der Politik, in der Wissenschaft, in Unternehmen) * Informationsgesellschaft * Mobiles Web und Location Based Services * Webometrie * Interdisziplinäre Ansätze zur Erforschung des WWW, beispielsweise unter Berücksichtigung der folgenden Disziplinen: Informatik, Sozial- und Geisteswissenschaften, Wirtschaftswissenschaft, Politikwissenschaft, Rechtswissenschaft, Linguistik, Psychologie. VORSCHLÄGE FÜR BEITRÄGE Originalbeiträge in deutscher oder englischer Sprache können über das Konferenztool Easychair (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dgi2012) eingereicht werden. Unterschieden werden die folgenden Beitragsformen: 1. Wissenschaftliche Langbeiträge: max. 36.000 Zeichen inklusive Leerzeichen (wissenschaftlicher Aufbau der Arbeit, Zitierapparat im APA-Zitationsstil, Darstellung durchgeführter Forschungsprojekte und ausführliche Ergebnispräsentation). 2. Praxisorientierte Kurzbeiträge: max. 18.000 Zeichen inklusive Leerzeichen (Erfahrungsberichte, Fallbeispiele aus Anwendungsumgebungen/Case Studies, innovative Ansätze und Lösungen im Bereich der Konferenzthemen). 3. Posterbeiträge: max. 6.000 Zeichen inklusive Leerzeichen (Darstellung aktuellster Forschungsergebnisse oder Work in Progress). Akzeptierte Beiträge werden als Vorträge (in deutscher Sprache) bzw. als Poster bei der DGI Konferenz 2012 vorgestellt und im begleitenden Tagungsband veröffentlicht. Studierende und Auszubildende sind herzlich eingeladen, ihre Arbeiten in einer der drei Beitragsformen einzureichen. Die besten Beiträge von Studierenden oder Auszubildenden werden zudem mit einem Nachwuchspreis (gesponsort von Elsevier) ausgezeichnet. TERMINE Einreichung von wissenschaftlichen Langbeiträgen: 31.08.2011 Einreichung von praxisorientierten Kurzbeiträgen: 15.09.2011 Einreichung von Posterbeiträgen: 15.10.2011 Benachrichtigung über die Annahme: 21.11.2011 Einreichung der druckfertigen (überarbeiteten) Version: 21.12.2011 VERANSTALTER DGI Deutsche Gesellschaft für Informationswissenschaft und Informationspraxis e.V. Windmühlstraße 3 60329 Frankfurt am Main Telefon 069 430313 Telefax 069 4909096 E-Mail: mail@dgi-info.de Internet: www.dgi-info.de Ansprechpartner: Nadja Strein (Leiterin der DGI-Geschäftsstelle) PROGRAMMKOMITEE Wissenschaftliche Leitung: Katrin Weller & Isabella Peters Praxisbeiträge: Sonja Gust von Loh Nachwuchs-Beiträge: Kathrin Knautz Begutachtungsverfahren: Tobias Siebenlist --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2011 10:19:12 -0400 From: Julia Flanders Subject: XSLT workshop at Brown: registration closing soon Registration is still open for the WWP's upcoming XSLT workshop: July 20-22, 2011 Introduction to XSLT for Digital Humanities Syd Bauman and David Birnbaum $450 ($300 for students and TEI members) Registration deadline: July 9, 2011 And we have a few more workshops coming up as well: August 29-31, 2011 Introduction to TEI Customization Julia Flanders and Syd Bauman $450 ($300 for students and TEI members) Registration deadline: August 18, 2011 September 26-28, 2011 Introduction to Text Encoding and Contextual Information with TEI Julia Flanders and Syd Bauman $450 ($300 for students and TEI members) Registration deadline: September 15, 2011 December 5-7, 2011 Introduction to Manuscript Encoding with TEI Julia Flanders and Syd Bauman $450 ($300 for students and TEI members) Registration deadline: November 22, 2011 These workshops are aimed at humanities faculty, librarians, students, and anyone interested in getting a strong introduction to digital humanities concepts, methods, and tools. Each workshop combines hands- on practice with discussion and lectures, and participants are encouraged to work with their own project materials. These small group events offer an opportunity to learn about other digital projects as well as to master important methods and concepts in an exploratory setting. More information, including detailed workshop descriptions and registration information, can be found at http://www.wwp.brown.edu/outreach/seminars/ . All workshops are held at Brown University. We hope to see you in Providence! best wishes, Julia Julia Flanders Director, Women Writers Project Center for Digital Initiatives, Brown University Library http://www.wwp.brown.edu http://library.brown.edu/cds/ --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2011 19:42:09 +0100 From: "Mahony, Simon" Subject: Classical Studies facing digital research infrastructures (seminar) Digital Classicist & Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 2011 Friday July 1st at 16:30 Court Room, Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU Agiatis Benardou (Digital Curation Unit, R.C. “Athena”) Classical Studies facing digital research infrastructures: From practice to requirements ALL WELCOME In the context of Preparing DARIAH, the DCU engaged in a research programme consisting partly of an empirical study of scholarly research activity. The study involved 24 interviews, and the largest groups of interviewees included archaeologists, historians and classicists. What emerged was the diversity in the evidence and sources associated with Classical Studies nowadays. Classicists indicated that in addition to text-based research they also use objects, sites, and other historical-cultural material. This challenges earlier perceptions that Classicists only employ strictly linguistic/textual methods of research. Moreover, it indicates the evolving nature of Classics as an increasingly hybridized, thematic, and multi-methodological interdiscipline. The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments. For more information please contact Gabriel.Bodard@kcl.ac.uk, Stuart.Dunn@kcl.ac.uk, S.Mahony@ucl.ac.uk, or see the seminar website at http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2011.html -- Simon Mahony Student Support Manager Department of War Studies, e-Learning Programme Room K7.05, 7th Floor, South Range King's College London WC2R 2LS http://www.kcl.ac.uk/wimw _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 30 21:34:02 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C8411680A6; Thu, 30 Jun 2011 21:34:02 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1578B16808C; Thu, 30 Jun 2011 21:33:58 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110630213358.1578B16808C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 21:33:58 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.141 if digital X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 141. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: James Rovira (17) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.139 if digital [2] From: "Postles, David A. (Dr.)" (8) Subject: RE: [Humanist] 25.139 if digital [3] From: Ron Healy (24) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.139 if digital [4] From: D.Allington (18) Subject: RE: [Humanist] 25.139 if digital --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2011 18:51:21 -0400 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.139 if digital In-Reply-To: <20110629224108.6B90D1670CD@woodward.joyent.us> No, not at all. I've been trying to think through an earlier incarnation of this question of yours but haven't been able to very successfully. I prefer physical books for some kind of work and electronic texts for others. I think I prefer the physical book to the ebook upon first reading. Part of my memory of the text involves a spatial or geographic relationship between the ideas as well as a conceptual one. For that relationship to develop, I need a physical text. The ebook is too ephemeral. Pages only really exist one page at a time. I think once I'm thoroughly familiar with a work I prefer ebooks for certain types of work, especially keyword searching and related functions. Jim R > Until that happens I'll continue to acquire pdfs by whatever means possible -- but > again not for reading except when I must (I want the codex for that > function), rather for searching. > > Unreasonable? --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 08:35:14 +0100 From: "Postles, David A. (Dr.)" Subject: RE: [Humanist] 25.139 if digital In-Reply-To: <20110629224108.6B90D1670CD@woodward.joyent.us> Actually, I prefer the ascii text version from Gutenberg so that I can use the concordance capabilities of the Linux cli. Secondly, I wonder about the current fascination with tablets, even with Android 3. Dave Postles http://www.historicalresources.myzen.co.uk http://www.thehungersite.com --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 09:38:24 +0100 From: Ron Healy Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.139 if digital In-Reply-To: <20110629224108.6B90D1670CD@woodward.joyent.us> Willard Re: "Whatever publishers may come up with, I don't think any e-book requiring a special reader or visible only through dedicated software has much of a chance" I think the distinction needs to be made here between proprietary 'locked out' types of software and open-access software. I realise this might seem a bit pedantic but PDFs require special software just as any other file type does. It just so happens that they're ubiquitous and most devices now open them. It wasn't always the case. Try opening one when Adobe Reader or something similar is not installed. In answer to your point about cross-device, always available access, that's what browsers do very well, these days. So, to take your position and swing it 180 degrees position.... you are not interested in eBooks that require special software and you want to be able to interact with them in clearly defined ways, doing the sort of thing you can do on the web (eg search, copy etc). So, you prefer PDFs, for which you need dedicated software to access your (Adobe Reader) documents and/or can access them from anywhere on any device using a web-browser (even if the file is stored locally) to enable search, copy etc. It sees that's what you had in mind ;-) Regards Ron --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 11:11:26 +0100 From: D.Allington Subject: RE: [Humanist] 25.139 if digital In-Reply-To: <20110629224108.6B90D1670CD@woodward.joyent.us> I agree with pretty much everything you've said, Willard, but I'd like to raise a couple of issues with pdf. >From my point of view, the first problem with pdf for this purpose is the very feature that has been the secret of its success so far. This is that wherever you display it, it looks the same. Great if you're publishing a document that you want people to print out. But for viewing onscreen, that means a lack of flexibility. When reading on a relatively large screen, I want a line width and font size like a printed book. When reading on a relatively small screen, I want a narrower line width - but not necessarily a smaller font size. That flexibility is the very thing that pdf was designed to eliminate. The other problem with pdf is that it makes text scraping more difficult, since so much formatting information is coded into the file. Okay, this can all be stripped out. But given my previous point, there may be no particular advantage having it there in the first place. What made me reflect on this was my university library's policy of buying ebooks not as well as but instead of printed books - part of a plan to reduce physical stocks by 80% over the next few years. I find the ebooks very difficult to read, partly because - whether they are in pdf or some weird format that can only be viewed through the publisher's website - they preserve the layout of the print edition, which doesn't always suit the hardware I'm trying to view them on. Ejournals do this too, of course (pdfs again!), which is why I usually print them out if I'm going to read them all the way through. It would be a terrible waste to do that with a whole ebook, and in any case I'm usually prevented from doing so, since the publisher doesn't want unpaid-for copies of its books floating around on A4 paper. I am of course ignoring the fact that the pdfs generally look nicer - provided they've been well designed and typeset. Now, this is something I actually care about. I've worked in design, my primary discipline is book history, and I have the deepest respect for typographers. The trouble is, these pre-formatted ebooks that my library is buying are so inconvenient to use that all the benefits of visual design are cancelled out. So the solution I would advocate is something like Willard's: physical books should be sold with an ebook edition on the side. The physical book should be designed and typeset to be attractive to and readable by humans. However, the ebook should be in whatever format gives the most flexibility and compatibility, losing the benefits of good visual design but enabling the file to be read and used in as wide a variety of ways as possible, as conveniently as possible. The obvious candidates would by HTML and XML, though as we all know, the most flexible and compatible file type of all is plain text. Yes, plain text is ugly. But the reader can view it in just about anything, from Firefox to Emacs, enabling him or her to change the line width, the font size, and the typeface at will. It's also really well suited to the technologies used by visually impaired readers. And of course, it's very easy to process. Best wishes Daniel Dr Daniel Allington Lecturer in English Language Studies and Applied Linguistics Centre for Language and Communication The Open University +44 (0) 1908 332 914 http://open.academia.edu/DanielAllington _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 30 21:34:54 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8384616814E; Thu, 30 Jun 2011 21:34:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E7328168135; Thu, 30 Jun 2011 21:34:51 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110630213451.E7328168135@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 21:34:51 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.142 events: networking eSocial Science X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 142. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 17:22:59 +0100 From: I-CHASS Subject: Networking eSocial Science Call for Papers- Submission DeadlineExtended until July 10, 2011 The 2011 eSocial Science conference, “Networking eSocial Science,” invites papers, workshops, and exhibits addressing the following traditional and conference-related themes. The conference will be hosted by the Institute for Computing in Humanities, Arts, and Social Science from September 6-8, 2011 at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Special sessions and workshops at the conference will be devoted to networking eSocial Science. Traditional themes: * Studies using eSocial Science methods and data * Case studies of social science research methods, applications, and practices enabled by cyberinfrastructures and tools * Benefits and challenges of large-scale, distributed, collaborative, and interdisciplinary research facilitated by cyberinfrastructure * New cyberinfrastructure and tools for sociological data integration, sharing, access management and security, data analysis, and curation * New cyberinfrastructure and tools for enabling news sources of data and new methods for data collection * Ethical issues, challenges, and solutions raised by cyberinfrastructure for the collection, integration, sharing, and analysis of personal, social, economic, and other data such as medical records or genomics * Case studies of socio-technical issues in the design and development of e-Research methods, technologies, and tools, including usability issues and solutions Conference themes: * Research on networks using eSocial Science methods * Reports on network tools applicable to eSocial Science * Case studies of existing networks in eSocial Science * Proposals for building networks among eSocial Science investigators, centers, and interested organizations Types of proposals Submissions will be accepted in one of four categories: 1. poster presentations; 2. short papers; 3. full papers; and 4. panel sessions. For all types of submission, please prepare a 750-1000 word abstract describing the research to be presented. Short papers will be given a strict ten-minute time limit for presentations. Full papers will be allocated 20 minutes for presentation and 10 minutes for questions. For panels, the organizer should describe the panel topic and include the names and university, organization, or company of all speakers. Deadlines and submission instructions Electronic submissions will be accepted from May 16, 2011 until 11:59PM CST on Friday, July 10, 2011. Potential presenters are encouraged to submit proposals as soon as possible because reviews of submissions will begin on Wednesday, June 15, 2011. Invitations to participate will be issued no later than Friday, July 22, 2011. To make a submission, please visit the submission page of the conference website: http://www.ichass.illinois.edu/esocialscience. Criteria for acceptance are: * The “innovative” nature of the proposal; * The proposal’s relevancy to global issues in technological inquiry; * The proposal’s argument in relation to a grand challenge; * The qualifications of the presenter(s). Awards Awards for best papers by senior scholars and by students will be presented. * * * Founded in 2004 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, I-CHASS charts new ground in high-performance computing and the humanities, arts, and social sciences by creating both learning environments and spaces for digital discovery. I-CHASS presents path-breaking research, computational resources, collaborative tools, and educational programming to showcase the future of the humanities, arts, and social sciences. For more information on I-CHASS, please visit: http://www.ichass.illinois.edu _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Jul 1 23:30:36 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0139C165298; Fri, 1 Jul 2011 23:30:36 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 13EC8165283; Fri, 1 Jul 2011 23:30:30 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110701233030.13EC8165283@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2011 23:30:30 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.143 events: semantic archives; empathic bodies & moral brains X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 143. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Willard McCarty (32) Subject: Empathic Bodies, Moral Brains, Complex Science [2] From: "Steffen Hennicke" (122) Subject: Workshop "Semantic Digital Archives" Deadline Extended to 15. July2011 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2011 08:36:03 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Empathic Bodies, Moral Brains, Complex Science Empathic Bodies, Moral Brains, Complex Science: Bridging the Gap between the Sciences and the Humanities INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF HUMANISTIC STUDIES (UTRECHT) 15 SEPTEMBER 2011 This conference explores critical humanistic perspectives on the changing relations between the sciences and the humanities. It builds on two pillars in an attempt to bridge the long standing gap between them from both sides. The first pillar is provided by new ethical perspectives that have emerged within scientific fields such as primatology, neurobiology and evolutionary theory. The second pillar is provided by new, complexity-sensitive forms of scientific modelling that include rather than exclude ethical questions as an integral part of scientific enquiry. Internationally-renowned scholars Frans de Waal (Emory University, US), and Paul Cilliers (University of Stellenbosch, South Africa) will highlight the ethical relevance of their scientific work in primatology and complexity theory. Their key notes will be followed by six workshops on conceptual and practical questions flowing from the attempt to bridge the gap between the sciences and the humanities from both sides. DATE Thursday 15 September, 2011 TIME 9.30 -17 h. PLACE Pieterskerk, Pieterskerkhof Utrecht (morning); University of Humanistic Studies (afternoon) COST €90 (students €35) FURTHER INFORMATION AND REGISTRATION www.uvh.nl -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2011 12:53:46 +0200 From: "Steffen Hennicke" Subject: Workshop "Semantic Digital Archives" Deadline Extended to 15. July2011 Workshop on "Semantic Digital Archives" DEADLINE EXTENDED to *15. July 2011* (see Important Dates below) CALL FOR PAPERS ************************** International Workshop on "Semantic Digital Archives - sustainable long-term curation perspectives of Cultural Heritage" to be held as part of the 15th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL). 29.09.2011 in Berlin http://sda2011.dke-research.de OBJECTIVES: The Semantic Digital Archives Workshop aims at promoting and discussing sophisticated knowledge representation and knowledge management solutions specifically designed for improving Archival Information Systems. Over the past couple of decades, digitally created content has come to permeate all aspects of our lives and the life cycle of these objects is increasingly exclusively digital. Therefore, sustainable long-term curation perspectives for our digital cultural heritage are essential. Digital content poses many socio-cultural and technological challenges which create obstacles to long-term or indefinite preservation. Changing technologies and shifting user communities as well as the increasing complexity of digital content being enriched with software and multimedia attachments are only a few examples. Dealing with these challenges is the central theme of the workshop. This full day workshop is an exciting opportunity for collaboration and cross-fertilization between the Digital Libraries, the Digital Archives and the Semantic Web community. It specifically encourages closer dialogue between the technical oriented communities and researchers from the (digital) humanities and social sciences as well as cultural heritage institutions. TOPICS OF INTEREST: We intend to have an open discussion on topics related to the general subject of Semantic Digital Archives. The following list of topics is meant as an initial guide. Hence, we welcome contributions that focus on, but are not limited to: * ontologies and linked data for digital archives and digital libraries, e.g. semantic extensions of common knowledge models of the digital archiving and digital libraries domain, e.g. METS, EAD, PREMIS, ... * ontologies and (semantic) web services implementing the OAIS standard * theoretical and practical archiving frameworks extending or replacing the OAIS standard * logical theories for digital archives * implementations and evaluations of digital archives * semantic or logical provenance models for digital archives or digital libraries * information integration/semantic ingest (e.g. from digital libraries) * trust for ingest and data security/integrity check for long-term storage of archival records * semantic search and semantic information retrieval in digital archives and digital libraries * visualization and exploration of digital content (stored or to be stored in a digital archive) * semantic extensions of emulation/virtualization methodologies tailored for digital archives * migration strategies based on semantic (web) technologies * semantic long-term storage and hardware organization tailored for AIS * (empirical) studies evaluating end-user needs and its evolution as well as information seeking behaviour of end-user needs and its evolution * knowledge evolution SUBMISSION DETAILS: Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research papers related to the aforementioned topics. We invite: * regular papers (10 to 12 pages) * short papers (4 to 6 pages) All submissions are required to be in pdf format. Long and short paper submissions should be in the Springer's LNCS format. Submissions are to be made via the submission web site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sda2011 Submissions will be reviewed by the three members of the Program Committee. All papers accepted at the Semantic Digital Archives Workshop must be presented during the Workshop by a SDA Workshop registered participant. All papers will be published in workshop proceedings, which will be available as a separate publication after the Workshop IMPORTANT DATES: * Deadline for Submissions: 15 July 2011 * Acceptance Notification: 12. August 2011 * Camera-ready Papers: 26. August 2011 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE & PROGRAM COMMITTEE: The Organizing Committee members and the Program Committee members are mentioned at: http://sda2011.dke-research.de/index.php/committees FURTHER DETAILS: http://sda2011.dke-research.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 Jul 2 01:42:10 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7914816656D; Sat, 2 Jul 2011 01:42:10 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 3AFAB16654F; Sat, 2 Jul 2011 01:42:06 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110702014206.3AFAB16654F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2011 01:42:06 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.144 call for applications: DHQ Reviews Editor X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 144. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2011 21:36:17 -0400 From: Julia Flanders Subject: Call for applications: DHQ Reviews Editor Call for applications: Reviews Editor, Digital Humanities Quarterly DHQ is seeking one or more new Reviews Editors to recruit and oversee reviews of all forms of digital humanities publication. The Reviews Editors work as a team to solicit and edit reviews of books, software tools, digital publications, and other appropriate reviewable content. The goal is to cultivate an active, international group of reviewers who can cover the full range of DH-related topics and publications in multiple languages. You are: a wide reader, passionate about some area of digital humanities, interested in helping to shape the field, able to work as part of a geographically distributed team. We are: an open-access online journal of digital humanities, published by the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations at http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/. We publish a wide range of material on all areas of digital humanities research and practice. Although the journal is currently published almost entirely in English, we are interested in reviewing DH publications from all languages. To apply, please send email to DHQ@brown.edu with the following information: 1. Background: who are you and what do you do? 2. What do you think makes for a good book, site, or software review? 3. In what geographic or linguistic areas could you cultivate a pool of reviewers? How would you go about cultivating such a pool? 4. With what research domain(s) within the DH research community are you most closely connected? 5. What is the realistic time commitment you could make to this role? How would it fit in with your other activities? best wishes, Julia Julia Flanders Editor-in-chief, DHQ Brown University Center for Digital 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 Wed Jul 6 20:27:34 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01E7016E736; Wed, 6 Jul 2011 20:27:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id CF8A416E723; Wed, 6 Jul 2011 20:27:28 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110706202728.CF8A416E723@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2011 20:27:28 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.145 job at Illinois-Bloomington X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 145. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2011 12:53:34 -0400 From: Dot Porter Subject: Science-oriented digital publishing/data management position at IUBloomington [Note: in the USA "eScience" tends to be more narrowly defined than in the UK, and this position is intended to work within the area of "hard" sciences.] Seeking energetic, innovative, and service-oriented individual for newly created position of E-Science Librarian. Reporting to Head of IUScholarWorks Department: actively participates in university-wide initiatives to develop and design policies, sustainable services, and infrastructure to enable faculty and students to preserve and make available their research data; partners with internal units (such as Digital Library Program and IU Science Libraries) and external units (such as Vice Provost for Research, UITS Research Technologies and Data to Insight Center) to develop data-publishing model that leverages IUScholarWorks ( http://scholarworks.iu.edu/) and other library services in support of data management and preservation; assists faculty with development of data management plans for grant applications; serves as active member of IUScholarWorks Department, contributing to departmental initiatives and leading specific projects; working closely with science librarians, incorporates support for data management and preservation into library services; maintains close engagement with issues relating to scholarly communications such as copyright, open access, and data management and preservation. Qualifications: Required: ALA accredited master's degree in library or information science or related degree; proven ability to effectively lead, manage, and deliver on multiple projects; demonstrated subject knowledge and experience in sciences; demonstrated knowledge of issues and technical challenges related to use and archiving of digital data; proven familiarity with applications that support data preservation, curation and management; experience with institutional or subject repository systems. Preferred: second advanced degree in science discipline; experience with one or more of following web technologies: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Perl, Java; with DSpace, Fedora, or other repository software; with XML, XSLT, and relational databases; at least three years of experience as a professional librarian. For complete copy of posting, additional required and preferred qualifications, salary and benefit information: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/index.php?pageId=1410 (or http://www.indiana.edu/~vpfaa/prospective_faculty/employment.shtml and scroll down). To apply: Review of applications begins August 15. Position remains open until filled. Send letter of application, professional vita, names/addresses/telephone numbers of four references to: Jennifer Chaffin, Director of Human Resources, Libraries Human Resources, Herman B Wells Library 201B, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405; phone: 812-855-8196; fax: 812-855-2576; e-mail: libpers@indiana.edu. For more information about Indiana University Bloomington, go to http://www.iub.edu. * Indiana University is an equal opportunity / affirmative action employer*. Indiana University has a strong commitment to principles of diversity and in that spirit seeks a broad spectrum of candidates including women, minorities, and persons with disabilities. -- *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Dot Porter (MA, MSLS) Digital Medievalist, Digital Librarian Email: dot.porter@gmail.com *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Jul 6 20:28:50 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7042616E7B2; Wed, 6 Jul 2011 20:28:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 4BA3116E79F; Wed, 6 Jul 2011 20:28:46 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20110706202846.4BA3116E79F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2011 20:28:46 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.146 research using MONK? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 146. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2011 20:50:22 +0000 From: "Green, Harriett E" Subject: Survey on use of MONK in research Dear Colleagues, I am requesting your help with a research project that assesses the use of MONK, a web-based text mining software now hosted by the University of Illinois Library: https://monk.library.illinois.edu. This study is being conducted by Harriett Green, English and Digital Humanities Librarian at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IRB #11357. The research will be conducted via an IRB-approved anonymous research survey that will take approximately 20 minutes to complete. If you have used or reviewed MONK in any way and would like to participate, please click on the following URL to read the informed consent statement and proceed to the survey: https://illinois.edu/sb/sec/6379572 I anticipate that the data gathered in this survey will reveal how humanities scholars use MONK in their research, and ultimately may provide insights into the role of MONK and similar text mining tools in text analysis and literary research. Thank you in advance for your participation and please let me know if you have any questions. Best, Harriett Green English and Digital Humanities Librarian Assistant Professor of Library Administration University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 225 Main Library, MC-522 1408 W. Gregory Drive Urbana, Illinois 61801 green19@illinois.edu | 217-333-4942 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 6 20:29:55 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0552916E82A; Wed, 6 Jul 2011 20:29:55 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 3DE1C16E815; Wed, 6 Jul 2011 20:29:49 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110706202949.3DE1C16E815@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2011 20:29:49 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.147 the Intelligent Archive X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 147. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2011 06:25:46 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: the Intelligent Archive Intelligent Archive Budgerigar Version http://www.newcastle.edu.au/school/hss/research/groups/cllc/intelligent-archive.html The Intelligent Archive program is a Java based piece of software used for text analysis within the University of Newcastle’s Centre for Literary and Linguistic Computing (CLLC). The software is used in various different ways by the Centre researchers who are focusing on different aspects of text analysis. The typical CLLC project involves preparing a set of texts for computational stylistics operations, with the ultimate purpose of determining authorship of a disputed literary work, or analysing the style of a work or group of works. The IA serves these projects by organising sets of texts and making word counts which can be exported for analysis in an external spreadsheet or statistics program. It is an interface to an archive of texts, and incorporates a range of counting functionalities which can be determined by the user, hence is an 'intelligent archive'. While most text-processing programs focus on more linguistic outputs, such as concordances, or lists of the commonest collocates of a given word, the IA's primary function is more statistical, centred on producing frequency counts of words. The Intelligent Archive Budgerigar software currently provides the following core facilities: -- Management of individual texts of different formats within a virtual library or repository -- Management of text sets, which are user-created groups of these texts -- Word frequency analysis on individual texts, tagged sections within texts, text sets, contiguous block segments of a specified size within texts, etc. The IA is available free of charge from the website cited above. -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Jul 6 20:43:10 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id EACF916EAFA; Wed, 6 Jul 2011 20:43:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B3AB216EAF0; Wed, 6 Jul 2011 20:43:03 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110706204303.B3AB216EAF0@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2011 20:43:03 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.148 events: semantics in culture; digital libraries; DH in Lausanne X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 148. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Marlies Olensky" (69) Subject: TPDL 2011 - Last call for Early Bird Registration (July 11, 2011) [2] From: "Bodard, Gabriel" (45) Subject: Semantics and Semantic Constructs in Cultural Comparison (seminar) [3] From: Claire Clivaz (7) Subject: Switzerland welcomes the Digital Era in August and November --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2011 12:57:12 +0200 From: "Marlies Olensky" Subject: TPDL 2011 - Last call for Early Bird Registration (July 11, 2011) Please excuse cross-posting -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Early Bird Registration still until July 11, 2011 International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries 2011 September 25-29, 2011 | Berlin, Germany -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL) has been the leading European scientific forum on digital libraries for 14 years. For the 15th year the conference was renamed into: International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- There are only a few days left to benefit from the early bird rates. Make sure to register until July 11, 2011 - end of business - for TPDL 2011 in Berlin! Registration fees Early / Normal --------------- Conference Full 500 Single day (Mon/Tue) 180 Single day (Wed) 90 Tutorials 130 Workshops Full day 170 Half day 85 Early / Student ---------------- Conference Full 350 Single day (Mon/Tue) 110 Single day (Wed) 55 Tutorials 100 Workshops Full day 140 Half day 70 Doctoral Consortium 55 All fees are in EUR. The late registration fees can be found on the website. In order to provide the highest possible flexibility for attending different workshops during TPDL, we offer the option to book half-days of the workshops. Please note that you need to book at least two half-days. Please register via http://tinyurl.com/RegistrationTPDL2011 Early Bird registration: until July 11, 2011 Late registration: until September 9, 2011 If you encounter any technical problems during your registration please contact: service@wiwex.net For all other enquiries please contact: info.tpdl2011@hu-berlin.de -------------------------------------------------------------------------- General Chair Stefan Gradmann, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany Programme Co-Chairs Carlo Meghini, ISTI-CNR, Italy Heiko Schuldt, University of Basel, Switzerland Local Organising Chair Marlies Olensky, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TPDL 2011 - International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (formerly ECDL) Main conference: September 26-28, 2011 Tutorials, Workshops: September 25, 29, 2011 Venue: Erwin Schrödinger-Zentrum Adlershof, Berlin, Germany Conference Website: http://www.tpdl2011.org Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/TPDL2011 Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/TPDL2011 Linkedin: http://events.linkedin.com/TPDL-2011-International-Conference/pub/504696 Xing: http://www.xing.com/events/international-conference-theory-practice-digital-libraries-2011-633977 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2011 12:39:51 +0100 From: "Bodard, Gabriel" Subject: Semantics and Semantic Constructs in Cultural Comparison (seminar) This message was originally submitted by gabriel.bodard@KCL.AC.UK to the humanist list at LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU. If you simply forward it back to the list, using a mail command that generates "Resent-" fields (ask your local user support or consult the documentation of your mail program if in doubt), it will be distributed and the explanations you are now reading will be removed automatically. If on the other hand you edit the contributions you receive into a digest, you will have to remove this paragraph manually. Finally, you should be able to contact the author of this message by using the normal "reply" function of your mail program. ----------------- Message requiring your approval (45 lines) ------------------ Digital Classicist & Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 2011 Friday July 8th at 16:30 Court Room, Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU Timothy Hill (New York University) Semantics and Semantic Constructs in Cultural Comparison: The Case of Late Antiquity ALL WELCOME As increasing numbers of historical datasets are made available online, the question of how best to mediate among them becomes more pressing. But the standard computational approach to such mediation–the creation of a unifying framework ʻoverʼ the datasets–is problematic in the context of historiography: often, for historians, the question of overarching ʻframeʼ is itself the point at issue. This paper explores, with particular reference to Late Antique urban culture, the potential for electronic tools to free the historian from this reflexive bind, and facilitate an ʻexperimentalʼ research approach to history, as advocated by e.g. Marcel Detienne and other classicist anthropologists. The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments. For more information please contact Gabriel.Bodard@kcl.ac.uk, Stuart.Dunn@kcl.ac.uk, S.Mahony@ucl.ac.uk, or see the seminar website at http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2011.html -- Dr Gabriel BODARD (Research Associate in Digital Epigraphy) Department of Digital Humanities King's College London 26-29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL Email: gabriel.bodard@kcl.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 1388 Fax: +44 (0)20 7848 2980 http://www.digitalclassicist.org/ http://www.currentepigraphy.org/ --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2011 16:59:29 +0200 From: Claire Clivaz Subject: Switzerland welcomes the Digital Era in August and November Dear List, It is a pleasure to announce to you and to welcome you at our August meeting in Lausanne (CH): "From Ancient Manuscripts to the Digital Era: Readings and Literacies", 23-25 August 2011. 12 plenary lectures and 40 contributions will offer a unique transdisciplinary event for Classics, Antiquity, New Testament and Early Christian Literature, Modern History, English Literature, French Literature, Humanities and Computing. The lecture by Christian Vandendorpe on "Reflections on the Present Shift in Reading" will notably be an event, in this meeting where English, American and French digital cultures are crossing. A great public night, with academic and artistic performances, will bring to a wider audience what happens right now in the "Digital Humanities" world. On the 11th and 12th November 2011, the University of Lausanne will next welcome the first THATCamp of Switzerland, with an opening lecture by Willard McCarty on the emergence of this new expression, the "Digital Humanities". Milles Kelly (CHMN, USA), Pierre Mounier et Marin Dacos (CLEO, Paris), Jakob Krameritsch et Martin Geisteiner (Vienna), Frédéric Clavert (Luxembourg) will also be present. The manifestation will show that all Switzerland is now entered in the Digital Era, since it is organized by several Swiss institutions: infoclio.ch, Hist.net, Histoire et Informatique, in collaboration with the Swiss Archives, the Basler Historisches Seminar and the E-learning in Zurich. A bunch of scholars are involved in the preparation of these two manifestations. To forget nobody, the signature of this message is simply: "The Swiss Digital Humanities Team" _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Jul 7 22:22:19 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B52C16F156; Thu, 7 Jul 2011 22:22:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 8AE6616F142; Thu, 7 Jul 2011 22:22:16 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110707222216.8AE6616F142@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2011 22:22:16 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.149 jobs at Indiana-Bloomington; Victoria; Minnesota X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 149. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Dot Porter (104) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.145 job at Illinois-Bloomington [2] From: Ray Siemens (13) Subject: [SDH/SEMI Members] FW: Sessional Lecturer required for Fall 2011:Technology & Society at the University of Victoria [3] From: Laval Hunsucker (27) Subject: Unusual and interesting opportunity --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2011 16:31:25 -0400 From: Dot Porter Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.145 job at Illinois-Bloomington In-Reply-To: <20110706202728.CF8A416E723@woodward.joyent.us> Indiana University! Not Illinois! Indiana! On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 4:27 PM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 145. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2011 12:53:34 -0400 > From: Dot Porter > Subject: Science-oriented digital publishing/data management > position at IUBloomington > > > [Note: in the USA "eScience" tends to be more narrowly defined than in the > UK, and this position is intended to work within the area of "hard" > sciences.] > > Seeking energetic, innovative, and service-oriented individual for newly > created position of E-Science Librarian. > > Reporting to Head of IUScholarWorks Department: actively participates in > university-wide initiatives to develop and design policies, sustainable > services, and infrastructure to enable faculty and students to preserve and > make available their research data; partners with internal units (such as > Digital Library Program and IU Science Libraries) and external units (such > as Vice Provost for Research, UITS Research Technologies and Data to > Insight > Center) to develop data-publishing model that leverages IUScholarWorks ( > http://scholarworks.iu.edu/) and other library services in support of data > management and preservation; assists faculty with development of data > management plans for grant applications; serves as active member of > IUScholarWorks Department, contributing to departmental initiatives and > leading specific projects; working closely with science librarians, > incorporates support for data management and preservation into library > services; maintains close engagement with issues relating to scholarly > communications such as copyright, open access, and data management and > preservation. > > Qualifications: Required: ALA accredited master's degree in library or > information science or related degree; proven ability to effectively lead, > manage, and deliver on multiple projects; demonstrated subject knowledge > and > experience in sciences; demonstrated knowledge of issues and technical > challenges related to use and archiving of digital data; proven familiarity > with applications that support data preservation, curation and management; > experience with institutional or subject repository systems. > > Preferred: second advanced degree in science discipline; experience with > one or more of following web technologies: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, > Perl, > Java; with DSpace, Fedora, or other repository software; with XML, XSLT, > and > relational databases; at least three years of experience as a professional > librarian. > > For complete copy of posting, additional required and preferred > qualifications, salary and benefit information: > http://www.libraries.iub.edu/index.php?pageId=1410 (or > http://www.indiana.edu/~vpfaa/prospective_faculty/employment.shtml and > scroll down). > > To apply: Review of applications begins August 15. Position remains open > until filled. Send letter of application, professional vita, > names/addresses/telephone numbers of four references to: Jennifer Chaffin, > Director of Human Resources, Libraries Human Resources, Herman B Wells > Library 201B, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405; phone: > 812-855-8196; > fax: 812-855-2576; e-mail: libpers@indiana.edu. > > For more information about Indiana University Bloomington, go to > http://www.iub.edu. * > > Indiana University is an equal opportunity / affirmative action employer*. > Indiana University has a strong commitment to principles of diversity and > in > that spirit seeks a broad spectrum of candidates including women, > minorities, and persons with disabilities. > > -- > *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* > Dot Porter (MA, MSLS) > Digital Medievalist, Digital Librarian > Email: dot.porter@gmail.com > *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2011 13:10:35 +0100 From: Ray Siemens Subject: [SDH/SEMI Members] FW: Sessional Lecturer required for Fall 2011:Technology & Society at the University of Victoria In-Reply-To: <20110706202728.CF8A416E723@woodward.joyent.us> Technology and Society Minor Program seeks Sessional Lecturer for TS 300 Appointment within CUPE 4163 (Component 3) The Technology and Society Minor Program is an interdisciplinary minor program spanning the Faculties of the Social Sciences, Humanities, Education, Engineering, Fine Arts, and Human and Social Development. Applications are sought for the position of Sessional Lecturer for the Fall term of 2011 to teach Technology and Society 300. Please submit a brief letter of application, a CV, and the names of three references by email to Dr. Bradley Bryan, Director, Technology and Society Minor Program (techsoc@uvic.ca), no later than July 15, 2011. A decision will be made no later than July 31, 2011. The covering letter should indicate the candidate’s plans and expectations for the course. The ideal candidate would be able to blend the theory and practice of technology, providing a production-based course to students that fostered critical awareness of the human engagement with technology. Preference will be given to an individual with a broad range of theoretical, critical, and practical skills in using a variety of technologies. The course is 1.5 units and is offered for 3 lecture hours per week. Half of the time is spent working in the computer lab. The position reports to the Director of the Technology and Society Program, and is within CUPE 4163 Component 3. For more information on the program and its courses and electives, please visit http://web.uvic.ca/~techsoc/. In all appointments, preference will be given to those with a completed or nearly complete PhD in a relevant field and a combination of expertise and experience appropriate to the courses concerned. The University of Victoria is an equity employer and encourages applications from women, persons with disabilities, visible minorities, and aboriginal peoples, people of all sexual orientations and genders, and others who may contribute to the further diversification of the University. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, in accordance with Canadian Immigration requirements, Canadian and permanent residents will be given priority. The University of Victoria reserves the right to fill additional teaching assignments from the pool of applicants for this posting. --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2011 08:14:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Laval Hunsucker Subject: Unusual and interesting opportunity In-Reply-To: <20110706202728.CF8A416E723@woodward.joyent.us> It seemed to me that this two-year position is too noteworthy ( "online tools to engage a distributed volunteer community of "citizen papyrologists" in transcribing a large number of papyrus texts written in ancient Greek" ;  "The web interface is already under development at Oxford" ;  "efforts to apply computational algorithms" ;  "in association with the School of Physics and Astronomy", etc. ) *not* to mention on this list, where some of those listening may after all even want to consider applying : "Post-Doctoral Associate in Papyrology" -- See advertisement at : http://www.physics.umn.edu/about/news/jobs/3461/Post-Doctoral_Associate_in_Papyrology.html or http://www.postdocjobs.com/jobs/jobdetail.php?jobid=1073174 or http://www.universityjobs.com/jobs/jobdetail.php?jobid=1073174 The opening *was* announced today on the "Papy" list, but not on appropriate more general lists, so far as I noticed. On that list ( which I believe no longer has a publicly available archive ), by the way, there's an additional note to the effect that "Exceptional candidates who are ABD [ All But Dissertation - LH ] with a completion date in the near future will also be considered; these candidates would be appointed as Research Specialists and MUST APPLY FOR THAT POSITION, not the post-doctoral position.", and "Application link for candidates who have not yet completed the doctorate: https://employment.umn.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=95746". - Laval Hunsucker   Breukelen, Nederland _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Jul 7 22:23:42 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1F3F16F1ED; Thu, 7 Jul 2011 22:23:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A215816F1D4; Thu, 7 Jul 2011 22:23:39 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110707222339.A215816F1D4@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2011 22:23:39 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.150 new entries in Lexicons of Early Modern English X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 150. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2011 14:07:30 +0100 From: UTP Journals Subject: New entries in Lexicons of Early Modern English Lexicons of Early Modern English (LEME) - http://leme.library.utoronto.ca/ “Firstly, I want to say what an extraordinary and wonderful resource the LEME is. It is invaluable to the academic community who work on these periods and the ways in which you have developed in from the EMDD are formidable. Thank you!” (Charlotte Scott, researcher and LEME user) Locating historical references and accessing manuscripts can be difficult with countless hours spent searching for a single text for the sparsest of contributions to your research. Lexicons of Early Modern English is a growing historical database offering scholars unprecedented access to early books and manuscripts documenting the growth and development of the English language. With more than 580,000 word-entries from 175 monolingual, bilingual, and polyglot dictionaries, glossaries, and linguistic treatises, encyclopedic and other lexical works from the beginning of printing in England in 1702, as well as tools updated annually, LEME http://www.utpjournals.com/leme/leme.html sets the standard for modern linguistic research on the English language. Use Modern Techniques to Research Early Modern English! § 175 Searchable lexicons § 121 Fully analyzed lexicons § 581 527 Total word entries § 361 178 Fully analyzed word entries § 60 891 Total English modern headwords Recently added to LEME http://www.utpjournals.com/leme/leme.html John Ray's A Collection of English Words not Generally Used (London, 1674), a group of specialized glossaries with 2,128 word-entries. They explain dialectal words, southern and northern, words for fishes and birds, and terms of art in mining. Coming soon to LEME http://www.utpjournals.com/leme/leme.html Peter Levins' Manipulus Vocabulorum (London, 1570), a dictionary of 8,940 English-Latin word-entries, organized by English rhyme-endings (with accentuation). This analyzed text owes much to Huloet (added in 2009) and replaces the simple transcription now in the LEME database. John Rider's Bibliotheca Scholastica, an English-Latin dictionary first published by the University of Oxford in 1589. Catholicon Anglicum (ca. 1475), an English-Latin dictionary from Lord Monson's manuscript, reconstructed from a 19th-century Early English Text Society edition. The earliest such lexicon surviving in the language holding some 7,180 word-entries, distinguishes itself by the extensive use of Latin synonyms in explanations. There are two versions of LEME, a public one and a licensed one. The public version of LEME allows anyone, anywhere, to do simple searches on the multilingual lexical database. 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It provides exciting research opportunities for linguistic historians through the following powerful features: § Searchable word-entries (simple, wildcard, Boolean, and proximity) § Documentary period database of more than 10,000 works from the Early Modern era § Large primary bibliography of more than 1,000 early works known to include lexical information § Browseable page-by-page transcriptions of lexical works § A selection list of editorially lemmatized headwords unique to each lexical text § Continually updated new dictionaries, glossaries, and tools each year For more information, please contact 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/leme http://leme.library.utoronto.ca/ UTP Journals on Facebook and twitter www.facebook.com/utpjournals www.twitter.com/utpjournals Join us for advance notice of tables of contents of forthcoming issues, author and editor commentaries and insights, calls for papers and advice on publishing in our journals. 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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 Jul 7 22:24:43 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B21516F241; Thu, 7 Jul 2011 22:24:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 7484716F232; Thu, 7 Jul 2011 22:24:40 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110707222440.7484716F232@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2011 22:24:40 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.151 textual editing infrastructure and tools X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 151. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2011 22:27:19 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Humanities Research Infrastructure and Tools Humanities Research Infrastructure and Tools, Centre for Textual Studies and Digital Humanities, Loyola University Chicago (http://www.ctsdh.luc.edu/?q=node/24) HRIT (Humanities Research Infrastructure and Tools) is a project supported by a Digital Startup grant from the NEH, with a research team led by Peter Shillingsburg. Its purpose is to build an open-source, collaborative, robust environment in which to aggregate, link or cross-reference, edit, and share vetted primary documentary texts--along with their scholarly enhancements, analyses, and commentaries, in the form of markup, annotation, keyword tagging, etc. It's based on a secure and integrated merged document, the CorText, which contains multiple variants of a given work and is amenable to standoff markup. The initial tools to be integrated into this environment include the standoff-markup Collaborative Tagging Tool (CaTT) that will enable humanist scholars to create sophisticated scholarly electronic editions and archives in a collaborative environment. The result will be an ecology consisting of the infrastructure, a group of initial on-line tools, and a model vetting system. For more see the URL above. -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Jul 7 22:25:27 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6324116F2A6; Thu, 7 Jul 2011 22:25:27 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E0C6D16F286; Thu, 7 Jul 2011 22:25:23 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110707222523.E0C6D16F286@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2011 22:25:23 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.152 events: models of narrative X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 152. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2011 16:38:10 -0400 From: Mark Finlayson Subject: Call for Papers: 2012 Workshop on Computational Models of Narrative Please distribute to all interested parties: First Call for Papers: ---------------------- International Workshop on ================================= Computational Models of Narrative ================================= May 20-22, 2012, Istanbul, Turkey ----------------------------------------------- Submissions Due: *Friday, February 24, 2012* ----------------------------------------------- http://narrative.csail.mit.edu/ws12 Workshop Aims ------------- Narratives are ubiquitous in human experience. It is clear that, to fully understand and explain human intelligence, beliefs, and behaviors, we will have to understand why narrative is universal and explain the function it serves. The aim of this workshop series is to address key, fundamental questions about narrative, using computational techniques, so to advance our understanding of cognition, culture, and society. Special Focus: Shared Resources ------------------------------- The computational study narrative does not yet have carefully constructed shared resources and corpora that can catalyze the way forward. This meeting will not only be an appropriate venue for papers addressing fundamental topics and questions regarding narrative, but also those papers which focus on the identification, collection, and construction of *shared resources and corpora* that facilitate the computational modeling of narrative. Papers should focus on issues fundamental to computational modeling and scientific understanding, or issues related to building shared resources to advance the field. A technological application or motivation is not required. Illustrative Topics and Questions --------------------------------- * What kinds of shared resources are required for the computational study of narrative? * What content and modalities should be put in a "Story Bank" at formal representations should be used? * What shared resources are available, or how can already-extant resources be adapted to common needs? * What makes narrative different from a list of events or facts? What is special that makes something a narrative? * What are the details of the relationship between narrative and common sense? * How are narratives indexed and retrieved? Is there a "universal" scheme for encoding episodes? * What impact do the purpose, function, and genre of a narrative have on its form and content? * What comprises the set of possible narrative arcs? Is there such a set? How many possible story lines are there? * Are there systematic differences in the formal properties of narratives from different cultures? * What are appropriate representations for narrative? What representations underlie the extraction of narrative schemas? * How should we evaluate computational models of narrative? Additional Information ---------------------- We will likely have funding available to award travel grants to authors who have papers at the workshop, but would otherwise be unable to attend because of financial constraints. Also in preparation is an arrangement with a noted international journal for a special issue featuring expanded versions of the best papers from the workshop. Organizing Committee -------------------- Mark A. Finlayson, MIT, USA Pablo Gervas, UCM, Spain Deniz Yuret, Koc University, Turkey Floris Bex, Dundee, UK Questions should be directed to: narrative-ws12@csail.mit.edu _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Jul 9 22:53:47 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0677170A95; Sat, 9 Jul 2011 22:53:46 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D673B170A80; Sat, 9 Jul 2011 22:53:42 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110709225342.D673B170A80@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2011 22:53:42 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.153 a Big Tent? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 153. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2011 08:51:41 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: the Big Tent hypothesis From time to time I run into people who argue in one way or another that certain kinds of research and/or researchers belong in the digital humanities and others don't. This might be considered a sign of health, or at least of conformity to other disciplines (whose gatekeeping functions tend to be quite robust). It might just be considered what we call human nature. But it seems to me that for a field that by its own nature interrelates to all others in the interpretative and documentary disciplines, excluding people explicitly by type or implicitly by requiring certain kinds of disciplinary behaviour is counter-productive. For example, must a person who self-identifies with the digital humanities conform to any of the following? 1. has a PhD (a) in a humanities subject or (b) in computer science; 2. works in an academic department; 3. works collaboratively; 4. is technically competent (e.g. in one or more programming languages); etc etc I can think of colleagues whose work we value who do not conform to any of the above, or who fail some of these criteria. And so my question: is there *any* criterion you can think of? If so, what is it? Application of related criteria by individual reviewers of papers for the Digital Humanities conference has caused problems in the past, when someone whose primary training is in one discipline reads a paper by someone with a very different background. As Editor of an interdisciplinary studies journal I frequently encounter difficulties of this sort. Indeed I have concluded that anyone who writes for a truly interdisciplinary journal faces quite a problem in satisfying the range of potential readers: not just all the experts but also those who want a peek into a subject in which they have not been trained. On the other hand I would think that the Big Tent hypothesis (i.e. "come one, come all") runs into trouble when we try to strengthen the field by insisting on suitably qualified participants in it. But then, what is strength? When I first started in the field, then mostly called "computing in the humanities", a sometimes fierce debate raged over whether we should be exclusionary, and thus toughen up, or be relaxed and open, and so acquire greater numbers. I think it's fair to say we went for the latter. Would anyone disagree that this was a bad choice? What do you think? Comments? Yours, WM -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Jul 9 22:54:34 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB38F170B22; Sat, 9 Jul 2011 22:54:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A3AE0170B08; Sat, 9 Jul 2011 22:54:31 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110709225431.A3AE0170B08@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2011 22:54:31 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.154 Switzerland and DH X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 154. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2011 08:16:09 +0200 From: Claire Clivaz Subject: Switzerland and DH: websites Dear List, I have forwarded a message on two DH events in Switzerland on 6 July, but the hyperlinks disappeared in the process. So the websites are: - www.unil.ch/digitalera2011 : «From Ancient Manuscripts to the Digital Era: Readings and Literacies», 23-25 August (Lausanne, CH); complete program online, in English and French - www.switzerland2011.thatcamp.org/ : first THATCamp in Switzerland, 11-12 Novembre 2011 (Lausanne, CH) Claire Clivaz, Lausanne _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Jul 9 22:55:25 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12AA1170B88; Sat, 9 Jul 2011 22:55:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 4C881170B79; Sat, 9 Jul 2011 22:55:21 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110709225521.4C881170B79@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2011 22:55:21 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.155 wiki and event: music information retrieval X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 155. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2011 16:50:49 -0500 From: "J. Stephen Downie" Subject: 2011 Music Information Retrieval Evaluation eXchange (MIREX) Dear Music IR Friends and Colleagues: The 2011 Music Information Retrieval Evaluation eXchange (MIREX) wiki is up and running. This will be the seventh iteration of MIREX. We are looking forward to the most rewarding MIREX yet. Over the past six years MIREX has evaluated over 1050 MIR algorithm runs on a wide variety of music-related tasks. The MIREX wiki outlines proposed tasks for MIREX 2011. Of course, if you and some colleagues wish to propose some new tasks, and you have some data for us to use, please feel free to set up at task page on the wiki. In keeping with MIREX tradition, if we have three folks involved in a task, we will run that task. The 2011 MIREX Wiki Page: http://www.music-ir.org/mirex/wiki/2011 Because of robo-spam, most of you will need to make new accounts on the 2011 wiki. Accounts will need to be verified by one of the MIREX team so be patient with us if we fall a bit behind in validating the accounts. The MIREX plenary and poster sessions will be convened on Thursday, 26 August 2011 as part of the 12th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval(ISMIR) in Miami, Florida, from August 24th to 28th, 2011 (http://ismir2011.ismir.net/). We have two sets of submission deadlines this year. A) Tasks with a 26 August 2011 deadline: 1. Audio Classification (Train/Test) Tasks 2. Audio Music Similarity and Retrieval 3. Symbolic Melodic Similarity B) Tasks with a 2 September 2011 deadline: 1. All remaining MIREX 2011 tasks. If you have general questions, feel free to post them to the EvalFest list [1]. Specific problem requests can be made to the MIREX team via . Remember, MIREX is all about community involvement; so, get involved! Cheers, J. Stephen Downie on behalf of the MIREX team. 1. The EvalFest list is the official communications list for MIREX. Subscription information at: https://mail.lis.illinois.edu/mailman/listinfo/evalfest. -- ********************************************************** "Research funding makes the world a better place" ********************************************************** J. Stephen Downie, PhD Associate Professor, Graduate School of Library and Information Science; and, Center Affiliate, National Center for Supercomputing Applications University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign [Vox/Voicemail] (217) 649-3839 NEMA Project Home: http://nema.lis.uiuc.edu _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Jul 9 23:23:08 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 277B2170FF9; Sat, 9 Jul 2011 23:23:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id F0D18170FEC; Sat, 9 Jul 2011 23:23:05 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110709232305.F0D18170FEC@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2011 23:23:05 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.156 manuscripts online? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 156. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2011 09:21:34 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Manuscripts Online? Dear colleagues, The following questionnaire has come to me via Professor John Thompson, School of English, Queen's University Belfast (J.Thompson@qub.ac.uk). Please circulate it to anyone whose responses might be helpful to the project. Yours, WM ----- Manuscripts Online: Written Culture from 1100 to 1500 Manuscripts Online is a new project that aims to enable federated searching of transcriptions, editions, catalogue descriptions, and calendars of primary texts in English, Latin, French, Welsh etc from or relevant to the British Isles, 1100-1500, on the model of Connected Histories for 1500-1900 (http://www.connectedhistories.org/). The service will be hosted by the University of Sheffield Humanities Research Institute. The specification of the service and a bid for funding are currently being drafted. 1. Would you use such a service? YES [go to question 2] NO [go to question 5] 2. What existing online digitised resources would you like to see included? 3. What digitised datasets that are currently offline would you like to see included? 4. What printed resources would you would like to see digitised and included? 5. Any other comments? 6. Please provide your name, institution, and email address: Thank you! Please send responses to Professor John Thompson, School of English, Queen's University Belfast (J.Thompson@qub.ac.uk). -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Jul 10 20:20:13 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id D37691712EA; Sun, 10 Jul 2011 20:20:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id CF2D51712D6; Sun, 10 Jul 2011 20:20:05 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110710202005.CF2D51712D6@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2011 20:20:05 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.157 a Big Tent X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 157. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Bob Blair (125) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.153 a Big Tent? [2] From: Doug Reside (96) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.153 a Big Tent? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2011 19:28:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Bob Blair Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.153 a Big Tent? In-Reply-To: <20110709225342.D673B170A80@woodward.joyent.us> >When I first started in the field, then mostly called >"computing in the humanities", a sometimes fierce debate raged over >whether we should be exclusionary, and thus toughen up, or be relaxed >and open, and so acquire greater numbers. I think it's fair to say we >went for the latter. Would anyone disagree that this was a bad choice? I doubt whether exclusivity could have resulted in "toughening up" in this field unless "tough" means "limited in scope". There were (and still are, I think) too many potentially valuable backgrounds, skills and points of view that would be rejected by even the coarsest filter. The main factor that makes "big tent" the right policy is the nature of the computational side of the discipline. As revered as academic figure like Donald Knuth and Edsger Dijkstra are, the most rigorous and useful work in computation remains in the realm of creative engineering, where talented individuals can and do make significant contributions without academic credentials. Bob Blair --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2011 23:43:15 -0400 From: Doug Reside Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.153 a Big Tent? In-Reply-To: <20110709225342.D673B170A80@woodward.joyent.us> It's not so much that I want to keep anyone out of anything, but I would like to imagine that there is a community of people who are programmers who use their skills to pursue their own research questions in the humanities, and it's useful to have a reserved term to describe this bunch so that you can find collaborators and know what conferences to go to. In the first half of the last decade it seemed like a large number of these sorts of scholars had starting calling themselves Digital Humanists. Then (and in the years before under different names) this group of scholars lived on the margins and sat at the geek table--always worried that the tenure committees would let them into the prom (because, in the U.S. anyway, mostly they didn't). Then a bunch of grant money was discovered to be stuck to some gum under the geek table just when times got really tough for the cool kids, and all the cool kids came on over. At first it seemed like things might start to get really good, but then it turned out the cool kids didn't want to talk to the geeks in their own language or about the things they found interesting. So, I think some of the resistance comes from the geeks who feel like saying, "Um, glad you want to sit with us now, but we were actually talking about the best computer vision algorithms to recognize scribal hands, and we'd really like to get back to it if you don't mind." Doug On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 6:53 PM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: >                 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 153. >         Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London >                       www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist >                Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > >        Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2011 08:51:41 +1000 >        From: Willard McCarty >        Subject: the Big Tent hypothesis > >  From time to time I run into people who argue in one way or another > that certain kinds of research and/or researchers belong in the digital > humanities and others don't. This might be considered a sign of health, > or at least of conformity to other disciplines (whose gatekeeping > functions tend to be quite robust). It might just be considered what we > call human nature. But it seems to me that for a field that by its own > nature interrelates to all others in the interpretative and documentary > disciplines, excluding people explicitly by type or implicitly by > requiring certain kinds of disciplinary behaviour is counter-productive. > For example, must a person who self-identifies with the digital > humanities conform to any of the following? > > 1. has a PhD (a) in a humanities subject or (b) in computer science; > 2. works in an academic department; > 3. works collaboratively; > 4. is technically competent (e.g. in one or more programming languages); > etc etc > > I can think of colleagues whose work we value who do not conform to any > of the above, or who fail some of these criteria. And so my question: is > there *any* criterion you can think of? If so, what is it? > > Application of related criteria by individual reviewers of papers for > the Digital Humanities conference has caused problems in the past, when > someone whose primary training is in one discipline reads a paper by > someone with a very different background. As Editor of an > interdisciplinary studies journal I frequently encounter difficulties of > this sort. Indeed I have concluded that anyone who writes for a truly > interdisciplinary journal faces quite a problem in satisfying the range > of potential readers: not just all the experts but also those who want a > peek into a subject in which they have not been trained. > > On the other hand I would think that the Big Tent hypothesis (i.e. "come > one, come all") runs into trouble when we try to strengthen the field by > insisting on suitably qualified participants in it. But then, what is > strength? When I first started in the field, then mostly called > "computing in the humanities", a sometimes fierce debate raged over > whether we should be exclusionary, and thus toughen up, or be relaxed > and open, and so acquire greater numbers. I think it's fair to say we > went for the latter. Would anyone disagree that this was a bad choice? > > What do you think? Comments? > > Yours, > WM > > -- > Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's > College London; Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western > Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); > Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Jul 10 20:21:04 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A84617137C; Sun, 10 Jul 2011 20:21:04 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 88739171369; Sun, 10 Jul 2011 20:20:57 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110710202057.88739171369@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2011 20:20:57 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.158 job at UCL X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 158. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2011 15:01:15 +0100 From: Claire Warwick Subject: Research Manager job at UCLDH UCL Centre for Digital Humanities is looking for someone do be our Research Manager. Please do not let the title of the job confuse you, this is intended to be an alt-ac post, it's just that this grade of post has to be described as a Senior Research Associate. It should be ideal for someone who would like to oversee the day to day running of UCLDH's research and help us plan, cost and write new research bids and maintain and enlarge our network of contacts within and outside UCL. Full details of the post are at http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/ACW365/senior-research-associate/. Please feel free to email me with informal enquiries. Claire -- Claire Warwick MA, MPhil, PhD Director: UCL Centre for Digital Humanities _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Jul 10 20:25:06 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 351FF171500; Sun, 10 Jul 2011 20:25:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 5BB331714EC; Sun, 10 Jul 2011 20:24:55 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110710202455.5BB331714EC@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2011 20:24:55 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.159 projects in French? author of a phrase? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 159. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Willard McCarty (15) Subject: a useful phrase, but by whom? [2] From: "Nicolas DEVILEZ [531126]" (39) Subject: RE: projects in French --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2011 09:55:21 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: a useful phrase, but by whom? I've just been at a wonderful conference in Newcastle, "Language Individuation", held in honour of John Burrows. During the conference he argued for the exploratory power of what he called "a multiplicity of weak markers", or perhaps better, "a multiplicity of weak discriminators", rather than one strong discriminator, i.e. that author A wrote novel X rather than author B. Burrows remembers hearing this phrase from someone else, or reading it somewhere, but cannot recall where or by whom. Would anyone here have a clue? It's clear from what may be found online that the idea is found in molecular biology and biochemistry. I would very much like to know of a biologist who makes this sort of generalisation. Any pointers? Many thanks. Yours, WM -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2011 08:23:17 +0000 From: "Nicolas DEVILEZ [531126]" Subject: RE: projects in French In-Reply-To: <4E16241C.4040100@mccarty.org.uk> Title: PhD Projects about French Translations of The Monk by Matthew Gregory Lewis. Dear Sir/Madam, My name is Nicolas Devilez and I'm a PhD student in the University of Mons, Belgium. I'm currently working on the following topic: "Diachronic comparison of the French translations of M.G. Lewis's The Monk". I would like to know if other PhD students are working on a similar project at the moment. Please contact me at: devilez.nicolas(a)hotmail.com if you work on such a project or if you know someone who does. Best regards, Nicolas Devilez _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 11 23:19:41 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7979F172F9B; Mon, 11 Jul 2011 23:19:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 40168172F87; Mon, 11 Jul 2011 23:19:38 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110711231938.40168172F87@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 23:19:38 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.160 multiplicity of weak markers X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 160. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Geoffrey C. Bowker" (50) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.159 projects in French? author of a phrase? [2] From: Willard McCarty (19) Subject: "weak markers" [3] From: Laval Hunsucker (13) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.159 projects in French? author of a phrase? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2011 14:35:27 -0700 From: "Geoffrey C. Bowker" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.159 projects in French? author of a phrase? Hi folks, Here's a few other origins - Granovetter's strength of weak ties (leading to seven degrees of Kevin Bacon) and the waekness/strength of weak signals (Diana Vaughn in her book on the Challenger disaster, and her earlier work on divorce). Hope this helps, geof Geoffrey C. Bowker Professor and Senior Scholar in Cyberscholarship Sixth Floor, Information Sciences Building 135 North Bellefield Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15260. ph. 412-624-9315 email: gbowker@pitt.edu web: http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~gbowker On 7/10/2011 1:24 PM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 159. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > [1] From: Willard McCarty (15) > Subject: a useful phrase, but by whom? > > [2] From: "Nicolas DEVILEZ [531126]" (39) > Subject: RE: projects in French > > > --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2011 09:55:21 +1000 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: a useful phrase, but by whom? > > I've just been at a wonderful conference in Newcastle, "Language > Individuation", held in honour of John Burrows. During the conference he > argued for the exploratory power of what he called "a multiplicity of > weak markers", or perhaps better, "a multiplicity of weak > discriminators", rather than one strong discriminator, i.e. that author > A wrote novel X rather than author B. Burrows remembers hearing this > phrase from someone else, or reading it somewhere, but cannot recall > where or by whom. Would anyone here have a clue? > > It's clear from what may be found online that the idea is found in molecular > biology and biochemistry. I would very much like to know of a biologist > who makes this sort of generalisation. Any pointers? > > Many thanks. > > Yours, > WM --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 14:42:31 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: "weak markers" In a private reply to my question about "a multiplicity of weak markers", Joe Raben asks, > Can you go a little further into this? What is the goal of discovering > these weak markers? The goal is to identify authors of works whose authorship is unknown or disputed. But the argument in favour of relying on many weak markers rather than few or one strong one is worth drawing attention to once more. One of the great problems with computational stylistics, I gather, is the demand that statistical tests deliver strong or unambiguous results, i.e. from a single strong indicator of authorship or at most a very few strong ones. But what we observe in the best work is not such results, rather the assembly of many markers none of which is a clear indicator of who wrote the piece in question. The fact that arguments of this form tend to turn up in molecular biology intrigues me because it suggests the possibility of strong analogies to be made between how living systems conduct themselves and how the human kind writes. Comments? Yours, WM --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 04:42:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Laval Hunsucker Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.159 projects in French? author of a phrase? In-Reply-To: <20110710202455.5BB331714EC@woodward.joyent.us> You ask : > I would very much like to know of a biologist who makes > this sort of generalisation. Any pointers? Might it help to have a look at something like : Han-Yu Chuang et al., "A decade of systems biology", in _Annual review of cell and developmental Biology_ 26 (2010), p.721-744 [ which also has 124 references ] ?   - Laval Hunsucker    Breukelen, Nederland   ( *not* a biologist ) _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 11 23:25:18 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2ED391720A5; Mon, 11 Jul 2011 23:25:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id DB23517209E; Mon, 11 Jul 2011 23:25:15 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110711232515.DB23517209E@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 23:25:15 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.161 a Big Tent X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 161. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 01:39:57 +1000 From: "David L. Hoover" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.153 a Big Tent? In-Reply-To: <20110709225342.D673B170A80@woodward.joyent.us> I've been thinking about this problem for some time as well, and also wondering whether all the recent hype about "the digital" will turn out to be mainly beneficial or mainly harmful. It is good to see my literature colleagues finally paying attention, but some of them seem to think that theorizing about the nature and import of "the digital" is what's valuable and needed. Unfortunately, some will do this without harming (or mentioning) any facts in the process, and without learning much of anything about the computational tools and processes that are required by "the digital." Some will also go blithely along doing naive work uninformed by 25 years of published research because that research does not appear in the journals they read. As to your list of possible requirements, I agree that none of them quite makes it. That is, you don't need a PhD to be a digital humanist, certainly not in a humanities subject or computer science. It's quite possible to have a degree (or part of one) in any subject and become a digital humanist. You also don't need to work in an academic department. Ask the many excellent digital humanists who work in IT or libraries. If by "works collaboratively," you mean works in a team with other people, I don't think that's necessary either. Many of us have done digital humanities projects without consulting anyone else, let alone collaborating. Finally, I'd actually prefer to have the term reserved for the technically competent, though perhaps not so narrowly as programming languages. Yet, in an intensely collaborative digital humanities project, one of the partners may not quite qualify on this score, and I wouldn't want to exclude them. The problem with the big tent in DH abstract review is a very serious one. Many of us have been surprised and baffled by one or more of our reviews for the conference, and excellent papers are sometimes rejected because of one ignorant reading. The other drawback of the big tent is that many of the conference papers may end up seeming irrelevant to a sizable group of the attendees. In spite of all the problems, however, I think we need to keep the tent big and keep looking for better ways to deal with the problems. On 7/10/2011 8:53 AM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 153. > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2011 08:51:41 +1000 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: the Big Tent hypothesis > > From time to time I run into people who argue in one way or another > that certain kinds of research and/or researchers belong in the digital > humanities and others don't. This might be considered a sign of health, > or at least of conformity to other disciplines (whose gatekeeping > functions tend to be quite robust). It might just be considered what we > call human nature. But it seems to me that for a field that by its own > nature interrelates to all others in the interpretative and documentary > disciplines, excluding people explicitly by type or implicitly by > requiring certain kinds of disciplinary behaviour is counter-productive. > For example, must a person who self-identifies with the digital > humanities conform to any of the following? > > 1. has a PhD (a) in a humanities subject or (b) in computer science; > 2. works in an academic department; > 3. works collaboratively; > 4. is technically competent (e.g. in one or more programming languages); > etc etc > > I can think of colleagues whose work we value who do not conform to any > of the above, or who fail some of these criteria. And so my question: is > there *any* criterion you can think of? If so, what is it? > > Application of related criteria by individual reviewers of papers for > the Digital Humanities conference has caused problems in the past, when > someone whose primary training is in one discipline reads a paper by > someone with a very different background. As Editor of an > interdisciplinary studies journal I frequently encounter difficulties of > this sort. Indeed I have concluded that anyone who writes for a truly > interdisciplinary journal faces quite a problem in satisfying the range > of potential readers: not just all the experts but also those who want a > peek into a subject in which they have not been trained. > > On the other hand I would think that the Big Tent hypothesis (i.e. "come > one, come all") runs into trouble when we try to strengthen the field by > insisting on suitably qualified participants in it. But then, what is > strength? When I first started in the field, then mostly called > "computing in the humanities", a sometimes fierce debate raged over > whether we should be exclusionary, and thus toughen up, or be relaxed > and open, and so acquire greater numbers. I think it's fair to say we > went for the latter. Would anyone disagree that this was a bad choice? > > What do you think? Comments? > > Yours, > WM > -- David L. Hoover, Professor of English, NYU 212-998-8832 https://files.nyu.edu/dh3/public/ Most of her friends had an anxious, haggard look, . . . Basil Ransom wondered who they all were; he had a general idea they were mediums, communists, vegetarians. -- Henry James, The Bostonians (1886) _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Jul 11 23:27:06 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59F831720FF; Mon, 11 Jul 2011 23:27:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 9B3161720F0; Mon, 11 Jul 2011 23:27:03 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110711232703.9B3161720F0@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 23:27:03 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.162 a Big Tent (2 of) X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 162. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Doug Reside (96) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.153 a Big Tent? [2] From: Bob Blair (125) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.153 a Big Tent? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2011 23:43:15 -0400 From: Doug Reside Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.153 a Big Tent? In-Reply-To: <20110709225342.D673B170A80@woodward.joyent.us> It's not so much that I want to keep anyone out of anything, but I would like to imagine that there is a community of people who are programmers who use their skills to pursue their own research questions in the humanities, and it's useful to have a reserved term to describe this bunch so that you can find collaborators and know what conferences to go to. In the first half of the last decade it seemed like a large number of these sorts of scholars had starting calling themselves Digital Humanists. Then (and in the years before under different names) this group of scholars lived on the margins and sat at the geek table--always worried that the tenure committees would let them into the prom (because, in the U.S. anyway, mostly they didn't). Then a bunch of grant money was discovered to be stuck to some gum under the geek table just when times got really tough for the cool kids, and all the cool kids came on over. At first it seemed like things might start to get really good, but then it turned out the cool kids didn't want to talk to the geeks in their own language or about the things they found interesting. So, I think some of the resistance comes from the geeks who feel like saying, "Um, glad you want to sit with us now, but we were actually talking about the best computer vision algorithms to recognize scribal hands, and we'd really like to get back to it if you don't mind." Doug --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2011 19:28:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Bob Blair Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.153 a Big Tent? In-Reply-To: <20110709225342.D673B170A80@woodward.joyent.us> >When I first started in the field, then mostly called >"computing in the humanities", a sometimes fierce debate raged over >whether we should be exclusionary, and thus toughen up, or be relaxed >and open, and so acquire greater numbers. I think it's fair to say we >went for the latter. Would anyone disagree that this was a bad choice? I doubt whether exclusivity could have resulted in "toughening up" in this field unless "tough" means "limited in scope". There were (and still are, I think) too many potentially valuable backgrounds, skills and points of view that would be rejected by even the coarsest filter. The main factor that makes "big tent" the right policy is the nature of the computational side of the discipline. As revered as academic figure like Donald Knuth and Edsger Dijkstra are, the most rigorous and useful work in computation remains in the realm of creative engineering, where talented individuals can and do make significant contributions without academic credentials. Bob Blair _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Jul 11 23:27:50 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7648172144; Mon, 11 Jul 2011 23:27:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 3E4FF172135; Mon, 11 Jul 2011 23:27:47 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20110711232747.3E4FF172135@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 23:27:47 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.163 job at NUI Galway X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 163. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 03:39:06 +0100 From: Sean Ryder Subject: Job at NUI Galway Applications are invited for a fixed-term (3-year) appointment as University Fellow (Teaching and Research) in English at the National University of Ireland, Galway, with an expertise in digital humanities. The appointee will teach into the general curriculum of English, but will also play a central role in the development of digital humanities teaching and research at the university. Further details about this and other vacancies in English at NUI Galway may be found at: http://www.publicjobs.ie/publicjobs/en/star/goToJobDetails.do?id=1580 ---------- Professor Sean Ryder Chair of English School of Humanities NUI Galway Tel +353-91-493009 Fax +353-91-524102 sean.ryder@nuigalway.ie _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Jul 12 20:17:10 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98459172F04; Tue, 12 Jul 2011 20:17:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 67B2F172EED; Tue, 12 Jul 2011 20:17:03 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110712201704.67B2F172EED@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 20:17:03 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.164 a Big Tent X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 164. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Matthew Kirschenbaum (31) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.161 a Big Tent [2] From: Desmond Schmidt (24) Subject: RE: [Humanist] 25.162 a Big Tent (2 of) --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 20:09:28 -0400 From: Matthew Kirschenbaum Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.161 a Big Tent In-Reply-To: <20110711232515.DB23517209E@woodward.joyent.us> Okay, I'll bite. ;-) Some quick points by way of reply to recent posts, in no particular order: Did the halcyon days when the propeller heads sat around the whiteboard sketching algorithms far from the maddening jabber of the black turtleneck crowd ever *really* exist? I'm not so sure that they did. I think we might be projecting our own version of a David Lodge tall tale. I'd like to hear from those who were there, or think they were. Pots of money didn't just "appear" on a table somewhere. They got there as the result of actions and agency, and, as I've argued elsewhere, the messy material particulars that inevitably attend institution building (http://mkirschenbaum.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/ade-final.pdf). To think otherwise is to trivialize a lot of the backroom labor (undertaken by a lot of different hands, both with and without premeditation) that has resulted in making DH into what the Chronicle of Higher Ed assures us is the "next big thing." There's undoubtedly bad theorizing, just as there is bad programming. Likewise, there are (it's rumored) those who go about the business of critiquing theory unencumbered by much real contact with it, even as there are those (we know, we know) who blithely do the same for computation and "the digital." So what? If that's really the biggest problem we can set before ourselves I'd say we are a blessed and happy bunch indeed. Matt -- Matthew Kirschenbaum Associate Professor of English Associate Director, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) University of Maryland 301-405-8505 or 301-314-7111 (fax) http://mkirschenbaum.net and @mkirschenbaum on Twitter --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 16:15:30 +1000 From: Desmond Schmidt Subject: RE: [Humanist] 25.162 a Big Tent (2 of) In-Reply-To: <20110711232703.9B3161720F0@woodward.joyent.us> In listening to this debate I have wondered from the start: a) why would you even want to restrict membership of 'digital humanities', and b) how would you actually do it? The answer to b) seems to be up to the people offering jobs in the field. If you read enough of these advertisements there seems to be a growing call for doubly-qualified people. But I suspect there's not enough of those to go around. My answer to a) is that I think the great variety in backgrounds you find in DH is actually its strength. Collaboration is encouraged by the inability of acting alone. I find that listening to others with different viewpoints to mine often enriches what I am doing, and (I hope) vice versa. So I don't see why we should restrict membership to any particular class of scholar. Peddling DH projects as new technology (I presume that is what Doug is referring to below) is inevitably part of the process of getting scientific grant money. In Australia at least a digital edition can only be funded by the ARC if it is 'innovative'. >Then a bunch of grant money was discovered to be stuck to some gum >under the geek table just when times got really tough for the cool >kids, and all the cool kids came on over. Desmond Schmidt Information Security Institute Faculty of Science and Technology Queensland University of Technology _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Jul 12 20:18:42 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id C33C2172FD8; Tue, 12 Jul 2011 20:18:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id BED93172F9D; Tue, 12 Jul 2011 20:18:34 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110712201834.BED93172F9D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 20:18:34 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.165 jobs (in the plural!) X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 165. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Pip Willcox" (24) Subject: EEBO-TCP post advertised [2] From: "Lorna M. Hughes" (27) Subject: PhD studentship in digital humanities at the University of Wales/NLW [3] From: Shawn Day (70) Subject: Digital Humanities Opportunities --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 15:25:50 +0100 From: "Pip Willcox" Subject: EEBO-TCP post advertised In-Reply-To: <4E0B37D4.3030401@oucs.ox.ac.uk> Apologies for cross-posting. EEBO-TCP at Oxford is advertising a post for a digital editor. For more details, please see: https://www.recruit.ox.ac.uk. Text Encoding Reviewer Bodleian Libraries, Oxford Digital Library, Osney One, Oxford Grade 7: £29,099 - £35,788 p.a. The Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership (EEBO-TCP) is seeking a Text Encoding Reviewer to carry out quality assurance of electronic texts created from digital image files of early printed books. You must be educated to degree level, be IT literate, have excellent proofreading skills, a demonstrable interest in the literature and history of the period 1473-1700, and an awareness of the issues involved in the mark-up of electronic texts. Some knowledge of XML and experience of XML editing software is desirable. Only applications received before midday on Wednesday 3 August 2011 can be considered. Interviews will be held on Tuesday 16 August 2011. You will be required to upload a supporting statement as part of your online application. Pip Willcox Bodleian Digital Library Systems and Services | University of Oxford Osney One, Oxford OX2 0EW e: pip.willcox@bodleian.ox.ac.uk | t: +44 (0) 1865 280026 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 17:50:30 +0100 From: "Lorna M. Hughes" Subject: PhD studentship in digital humanities at the University of Wales/NLW In-Reply-To: <4E0B37D4.3030401@oucs.ox.ac.uk> Dear Humanists, The deadline for applications for the PhD in Digital Humanities at the University of Wales has been extended to Monday 18th July. The studentship is offered in conjunction with the National Library of Wales Research Programme in Digital Collections. Both are based in Aberystwyth, and successful applicants will join a community of research postgraduates working on the digital humanities. Applications can be based on research around any of the digital collections of Wales (www.llgc.org.uk). Applicants are encouraged to contact Professor Lorna Hughes (lorna.hughes@llgc.org) for more information. An application pack is available at: http://www.wales.ac.uk/en/CentreforAdvancedWelshCelticStudies/PostgraduateStudy/PostgraduateStudy.aspx best, Lorna -- Professor Lorna M. Hughes University of Wales Chair in Digital Collections Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru National Library of Wales Lorna.Hughes@llgc.org.uk Ffôn / Phone 01970 632 499 http://www.llgc.org.uk/ --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 10:18:38 +0100 From: Shawn Day Subject: Digital Humanities Opportunities In-Reply-To: <4E0B37D4.3030401@oucs.ox.ac.uk> Position 1: UCL Centre for Digital Humanities is looking for someone do be our Research Manager. Please do not let the title of the job confuse you, this is intended to be an alt-ac post, it's just that this grade of post has to be described as a Senior Research Associate. It should be ideal for someone who would like to oversee the day to day running of UCLDH's research and help us plan, cost and write new research bids and maintain and enlarge our network of contacts within and outside UCL. Full details of the post are at http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/ACW365/senior-research-associate/. Please feel free to email me with informal enquiries. Claire -- Claire Warwick MA, MPhil, PhD Director: UCL Centre for Digital Humanities Positions 2 & 3: 1.2. Two posts at Strathclyde https://soolin.mis.strath.ac.uk/vacancies/control/vacancyMenu i) One year lectureship : Experience of teaching and examining at post-graduate level, and research or teaching interests in one or more of the following: Literary Linguistics; Digital Humanities; Renaissance Studies; or Experimental Literature, are highly desirable. CLOSING DATE 29 July 2011. Further particulars at: http://www.mis.strath.ac.uk/Personnel/open/592011.htm ii) One year RA post -A Research Assistant is sought to work with Dr Jonathan Hope on a major digital humanities project ‘Visualizing English Print from c. 1470 to 1800’ funded by the Mellon Foundation and undertaken in collaboration with the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Folger Shakespeare Library (Washington, DC). This is an exciting opportunity to join a major international collaborative project seeking to establish tools and protocols which we believe will set the agenda for humanities study over the next ten years. Educated to a minimum of 2:1 Honours Degree in a relevant subject, you will have experience in one or more of the following areas: computational linguistics; corpus linguistics, linguistics, computing; and/or pre-1800 literature. You will have an ability to plan and organise your own workload to meet strict deadlines, with minimum supervision, and you will be able to work independently or as part of a team. You will have excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to present complex information in an accessible way to a range of audiences and you will have excellent interpersonal skills, with the ability to listen, engage and persuade others. Applicants must be available to start work in early September 2011, and must be prepared to travel to Wisconsin for training and project planning. A relevant PhD and specialised experience in computational linguistics, corpus linguistics, or historical sociolinguistics is highly desirable, as is programming ability and an interest in the creation of metadata or semantic tagging. Closing date: 29 July 2011; Further particulars at: http://www.mis.strath.ac.uk/Personnel/open/r392011.htm --- Shawn Day --- Digital Humanities Observatory (RIA), --- Regus Pembroke House, --- 28 - 30 Pembroke Street Upper --- Dublin 2 IRELAND --- about.me/shawnday --- Tel: 00 353 1 2342441 --- Mob: 353 083 002 4264 --- s.day@ria.ie (mailto:s.day@ria.ie) --- http://dho.ie (http://dho.ie/) --- DHO:Discovery, our new website to discover and explore Irish cultural artefacts is now online at http://discovery.dho.ie _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Jul 12 20:21:09 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 496D717206E; Tue, 12 Jul 2011 20:21:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0C004172063; Tue, 12 Jul 2011 20:20:59 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110712202059.0C004172063@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 20:20:58 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.166 events: epigraphy; database design; translation X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 166. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Венцислав_Жечев_(Ven (67) Subject: First CfP: Third Joint EM+/CNGL Workshop (JEC2011) 'Bringing MT tothe User: Research Meets Translators' [2] From: Markus_Krötzsch (127) Subject: PODS 2012: database principles + new multi-disciplinary topics [3] From: "Tupman, Charlotte" (39) Subject: [DIGITALCLASSICIST] EpiDoc Training Workshop --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 07:32:30 +0200 From: "Венцислав_Жечев_(Ven Subject: First CfP: Third Joint EM+/CNGL Workshop (JEC2011) 'Bringing MT tothe User: Research Meets Translators' CALL FOR PAPERS “Bringing MT to the User: Research Meets Translators” Third Joint EM+/CNGL Workshop (JEC 2011) http://web.me.com/emcnglworkshop/JEC2011 The EuroMatrixPlus Project (http://www.euromatrixplus.eu), the Centre for Next Generation Localisation (CNGL) (http://cngl.ie), the Directorate-General for Translation (DGT, European Commission) (http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/translation) and Autodesk (http://www.autodesk.ch) are co-organising the Third Joint EM+/CNGL Workshop (JEC 2011), entitled “Bringing MT to the User: Research Meets Translators”. The JEC 2011 workshop will be hosted by the Directorate General for Translation (DGT) (http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/translation) in Luxembourg on October 14th, 2011. In keeping with previous JECs, the format of the workshop is highly interactive with research paper presentations, invited talks and a panel discussion. Premise: Recent years have seen a revolution in MT triggered by the emergence of statistical approaches and improvements in translation quality. MT (rule-based, statistical and hybrid) is now available for many languages for free (on the Web) or for a fee and MT technologies are making strong inroads into the corporate localisation and translation industries as well as large public and administrative organisations dealing with multi-lingual content. Open-source MT solutions are competing with proprietary products. Increasing numbers of (professional) translators are post-editing TM/MT output. MT is a reality for internet users accessing and gisting content which is not available in their native language. At the same time, there has been a degree of disconnect between mainstream academic research and conferences on MT, often (and rightly so) focusing on algorithms to improve translation quality, and many of the important practical issues that need to be addressed to make MT maximally useful in real translation and localisation workflows, with human translators and users in general. Objectives: JEC 2011 brings together translators, users, academic and industrial MT researchers and developers to discuss issues that are most important in real world industrial settings and applications involving MT, but currently under-represented in research circles. Call for Research Papers: We solicit full research papers with industry, academic and/or user background to highlight real-world issues that need to be tackled by new research and recent advancements that improve translation quality, as well as novel and successful methods for the integration of machine translation with translation memories, localisation workflows, human translators and users. Papers should present clearly identifiable problem statements, research methodologies, measurable outcomes and evaluation. Papers are reviewed anonymously. Papers should follow the submission guidelines listed on the workshop website (http://web.me.com/emcnglworkshop/JEC2011/Call_for_Papers.html), with the maximum length being 10 pages in A4 format, including references. Please, do not include your name in the paper text and avoid overt self-references to facilitate the blind review process. If a paper is accepted, at least one author will have to register for JEC 2011 and travel to Luxembourg to present the paper. Workshop proceedings will be made available in hard-copy by DGT, and will be available for download on the JEC 2011 website. Publication of selected revised and expanded papers from JEC 2010 and JEC 2011 in journal or book form is currently under negotiation. Topics include but are not limited to: • Human Factors and MT • Introducing MT into large organisations • MT and language technologies for SMEs • MT/TM in Localisation/Translation and Content Management Workflows • MT/TM Combinations • Post-Editing Support for MT • MT and Monolingual Post-Editing • Smart Learning from Post-Edits • Interactive MT • MT Confidence Scores and Post-Editing Effort • Training Data for MT: Size, Domain and Quality • Data Cleanup and Preparation for MT • Meta-Data Mark-Up/Annotation and MT • Terminology and MT • Interoperability and Localisation/Translation Workflows • Standards and Localisation/Translation Workflows • MT Evaluation • Costing/Pricing MT • MT for Free/for a Fee • Rule-Based, Statistical and Hybrid MT • Linguistic resources for MT • Computing Resources for MT • MT in the Cloud • MT and the Crowd • MT, Games, Video and TV Localisation • (Machine) Translation in Context • Social Aspects of (Machine) Translation: Access to Information as a Human Right Deadlines (all 23:59 GMT -11): 15th August: Submission deadline for papers 12th September: Announcement for submitted papers 30th September: Camera-ready deadline for accepted papers 14th October: Workshop takes place at DGT in Luxembourg Workshop Chair: Ventsislav Zhechev (Autodesk) Workshop Senior PC: Ventsislav Zhechev (Autodesk) Andreas Eisele (DGT) Philipp Koehn (Univ. of Edinburgh) Josef van Genabith, Declan Groves (CNGL) Program Committee: Submitted papers will be reviewed by a joint industry–academia committee. Industry members: Pedro L. Diez-Orzas (Linguaserve), Tony O’Dowd (Xcelerator), Marc Dymetman (XRCE), Andreas Eisele (DGT of the EC), Daniel Grasmick (Lucy Software), Will Lewis (Microsoft), Yanjun Ma (Baidu), Spyridon Pilos (DGT of the EC), Johann Roturier (Symantec), Ventsislav Zhechev (Autodesk) Academic members: Michael Carl (CBS, Denmark), Jinhua Du (Xi’ian Univ. of Technology), Josef van Genabith (CNGL, EM+), Declan Groves (CNGL), Philipp Koehn (EM+), Philippe Langlais (University of Montreal), Alon Lavie (CMU), Ruslan Mitkov (RIILP, UK), Lucia Specia (RIILP, UK), Eiichiro Sumita (NICT, Japan), John Tinsley (CNGL, PLuTO), Hans Uszkoreit (DFKI, Germany), David Vilar (DFKI, Germany), Martin Volk (UZH, Switzerland) For inquiries please contact Dr. Ventsislav Zhechev at emcnglworkshop@me.com For up-to-date information, please visit http://web.me.com/emcnglworkshop/JEC2011 For information about the First Joint EM+/CNGL Workshop, please visit http://www.euromatrixplus.eu/cngl2009 For information about the Second Joint EM+/CNGL Workshop, please visit http://web.me.com/emcnglworkshop/JEC2010 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 16:11:24 +0100 From: Markus_Krötzsch Subject: PODS 2012: database principles + new multi-disciplinary topics For 2012, PODS (the 31st ACM SIGMOD-SIGACT-SIGART Symposium on Principles of Databases) will invite papers on five multi-disciplinary topic areas that might be of special interest to this list. Of course, foundational database research remains the core topic of the symposium. Submission is in November 2011. Below is the preliminary call for papers. Apologies for cross-posting. == PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS == 31st ACM SIGMOD-SIGACT-SIGART Symposium on PRINCIPLES OF DATABASE SYSTEMS (PODS 2012) May 21-May 23 2012, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA http://www.sigmod.org/2012/ The PODS symposium series, held in conjunction with the SIGMOD conference series, provides a premier annual forum for the communication of new advances in the theoretical foundations of database systems. For the 31st edition, original research papers providing new insights in the specification, design, or implementation of data-management tools are called for. Topics of Interest Topics that fit the interests of the symposium include the following (as they pertain to databases): * languages for semi-structured data; search query languages; * distributed and parallel aspects of databases; * dynamic aspects of databases; * incompleteness, inconsistency, and uncertainty in databases; * schema and query extraction; data integration; data exchange; * provenance; workflows; metadata management; meta-querying; * data mining and machine learning techniques for databases; * constraints; privacy and security; Web services; * automatic verification of database-driven systems; * model theory, logics, algebras and computational complexity; * data modeling; data structures and algorithms for data management; * design, semantics, and optimization of query and database languages; * domain-specific databases (multi-media, scientific, spatial, temporal, text). In addition, we especially welcome papers addressing *emerging database environments and applications*. An External Review Committee will assist the Core PC (listed further below) in reviewing papers in the following multi-disciplinary areas of particular interest to this edition of PODS. -- Querying and Mining of Unstructured Data: Anhai Doan (Kosmix & U. Wisconsin), Aristides Gionis (Yahoo! Labs), Djoerd Hiemstra (Twente), Stefano Leonardi (University of Rome La Sapienza), Evimaria Terzi (Boston University) -- Web Services, Web Programming and Data-Centric Workflow: Wil van der Aalst (Eindhoven), Anders Møller (Aarhus), Farouk Toumani (ISIMA), David Walker (Princeton), Karsten Wolf (Rostock) -- Learning of Data Models and Queries: Deepak Agarwal (Yahoo! Labs), James Cussens (York U.), Amol Deshpande (U. Maryland), Kristian Kersting (Fraunhofer Institute IAIS, U. Bonn) -- Cloud Computing and Next-generation Distributed Query Processing: Shivnath Babu (Duke), Phillip Gibbons (Intel Labs), Monica Lam (Stanford), Boon Thau Loo (U. Penn), Volker Markl (TU Berlin) -- Semantic, Linked, Networked, and Crowdsourced Data: Panos Ipeirotis (NYU), David Karger (MIT), Carsten Lutz (Bremen), Boris Motik (Oxford) Important Dates: Abstract submission: 20 November 2011 Manuscript submission: 27 November 2011 Notification: 15 February 2012 Submission Guidelines Submitted papers should be at most twelve pages, including bibliography, using reasonable page layout and font size of at least 9pt (note that the SIGMOD style file does not have to be followed). Additional details may be included in an appendix, which, however, will be read at the discretion of the PC. Papers longer than twelve pages (excluding the appendix) or in font size smaller than 9pt risk rejection without consideration of their merits. The submission process will be through the website. Note that, unlike the SIGMOD conference, PODS does not use double-blind reviewing, and therefore PODS submissions should be eponymous (i.e., the names and affiliations of authors should be listed on the paper). The results must be unpublished and not submitted elsewhere, including the formal proceedings of other symposia or workshops. Authors of an accepted paper will be expected to sign copyright release forms, and one author is expected to present it at the conference. Best Paper Award: An award will be given to the best submission, as judged by the PC. Best Student Paper Award: There will also be an award for the best submission, as judged by the PC, written exclusively by a student or students. An author is considered as a student if at the time of submission, the author is enrolled in a program at a university or institution leading to a doctoral/master's/bachelor's degree. Organization: PODS General Chair: Maurizio Lenzereni (University of Rome La Sapienza) PODS Program Chair: Michael Benedikt (Oxford) Proceedings & Publicity Chair: Markus Krötzsch (Oxford) Core Program Committee: Mikhail Atallah (Purdue) Toon Calders (Eindhoven) Diego Calvanese (Free U. Bolzano) James Cheney (Edinburgh) Graham Cormode (AT&T Labs) Alin Deutsch (UC San Diego) Gianluigi Greco (Calabria) T.J. Green (UC Davis) Martin Grohe (HU Berlin) Marc Gyssens (Hasselt) T.S. Jayram (IBM Almaden & IBM India) Daniel Kifer (Penn State) Phokion Kolaitis (UC Santa Cruz & IBM Almaden) Rasmus Pagh (Copenhagen) Luc Segoufin (INRIA Cachan) Pierre Senellart (Telecom ParisTech) Sophie Tison (Lille) Victor Vianu (UC San Diego) David Woodruff (IBM Almaden) SIGMOD/PODS Webpage: http://www.sigmod.org/2012/ -- Dr. Markus Krötzsch Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford Room 306, Parks Road, OX1 3QD Oxford, United Kingdom +44 (0)1865 283529 http://korrekt.org/ --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 13:45:43 +0100 From: "Tupman, Charlotte" Subject: [DIGITALCLASSICIST] EpiDoc Training Workshop EpiDoc Training Workshop 5-8 September 2011 Institute of Classical Studies, Senate House, London An EpiDoc training workshop will be offered by the Department of Digital Humanities, King’s College London, and the Institute for Classical Studies in September this year. The workshop is free of charge and open to all, but spaces are limited and registration as soon as possible is essential. This workshop is an introduction to the use of EpiDoc, an XML schema for the encoding and publication of inscriptions, papyri and other documentary Classical texts. Participants will study the use of EpiDoc markup to record the distinctions expressed by the Leiden Conventions and traditional critical editions, and some of the issues in translating between EpiDoc and the major epigraphic and papyrological databases. They will also be given hands-on experience in the use of the Papyrological Editor tool implemented by the Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri, which facilitates the authoring EpiDoc XML via a ‘tags-free’ interface. The course is targeted at scholars of epigraphy and papyrology (from advanced graduate students to professors) with an interest and willingness to learn some of the hands-on technical aspects necessary to run a digital project. Knowledge of Greek and/or Latin, the Leiden Conventions and the distinctions expressed by them, and the kinds of data that need to be recorded by philologists and ancient historians, will be assumed. No particular technical expertise is required. Places on the EpiDoc training week are limited so if you are interested in attending the workshop or have any questions, please contact charlotte.tupman@kcl.ac.uk and gabriel.bodard@kcl.ac.uk as soon as possible with a brief statement of qualifications and interest. -- Dr. Charlotte Tupman Research Associate Department of Digital Humanities King's College London 26-29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 7145 www.kcl.ac.uk/ddh _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Jul 13 20:44:58 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86C6D173F11; Wed, 13 Jul 2011 20:44:57 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 38297173F07; Wed, 13 Jul 2011 20:44:51 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110713204451.38297173F07@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 20:44:51 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.167 a Big Tent X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 167. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Willard McCarty (30) Subject: what I saw [2] From: John Laudun (10) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.164 a Big Tent [3] From: Ernesto Priego (68) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.164 a Big Tent --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 06:34:53 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: what I saw Ok, I'll bite Matt Kirschenbaum's bite. He's right. What I saw (admittedly rather late, in the mid 1980s) was humanists trecking over to the local computing centre with their curiosities and strange projects, sometimes finding, eventually, sympathetic people, then configured as techies, who had interesting backgrounds and open imaginations. Note that at that time the techies, thus configured, were institutionally disallowed from making first moves. Except for the computer scientists involved, they were service people. I also recall one or two imaginative computer scientists who got involved, but at the time they were held in place by the overpowering gravitational field exerted by their rapidly expanding and very wealthy discipline. Fr Busa's account, in "The Annals of Humanities Computing", CHum 14 (1980): 83-90, has him making the first moves toward the other side in 1949, from northern Italy eventually to Thomas J Watson, Sr.'s office in New York. Watson was of course institutionally allowed to do whatever he wanted, so here's a case of the scholar making the first move. Later IBM became quite active, e.g. in the 1964 conference on Literary Data Processing. The fact that computers were then hulking mainframes that had to live where techies (tenured and otherwise) worked seems to suggest that the natural thing to happen was for scholars to make the pilgrimage and request an audience. Yours, WM -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 15:55:46 -0500 From: John Laudun Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.164 a Big Tent I fear I have nothing to add to the larger debate, since I probably seem like some newcomer/interloper -- though I pursued my own interests in digital media and in limited forms of computation for years and years without knowing there was such a thing as humanities computing/the digital humanities, but I did want to note my complete indebtedness to Matthew Kirschenbaum for his post. I especially wanted to plussity plus this: > There's undoubtedly bad theorizing, just as there is bad programming. > Likewise, there are (it's rumored) those who go about the business of > critiquing theory unencumbered by much real contact with it, even as > there are those (we know, we know) who blithely do the same for > computation and "the digital." So what? If that's really the biggest > problem we can set before ourselves I'd say we are a blessed and happy > bunch indeed. Matt (And Yung-Hsing Wu says to tell you, Matt, "Hello.") --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 02:15:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Ernesto Priego Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.164 a Big Tent In-Reply-To: <20110712201704.67B2F172EED@woodward.joyent.us> Hello, Speaking of the 'big tent'... this morning I found out Theodore Roszak died, aged 77. New York Times obituary: http://nyti.ms/pbynXV Maybe now it would be a good time to revisit his classic 'From Satori to Silicon Valley'. Here: http://library.stanford.edu/mac/primary/docs/satori/index.html I suppose many won't call this kind of work 'digital humanities'. I do. Best, Ernesto http://about.me/ernestopriego _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 13 21:01:44 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2562173447; Wed, 13 Jul 2011 21:01:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id F422F173435; Wed, 13 Jul 2011 21:01:35 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110713210135.F422F173435@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 21:01:35 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.168 democratizing? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 168. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 08:00:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Laval Hunsucker Subject: Democratizing the humanities through DH In-Reply-To: <20110429054919.B75029AA07@woodward.joyent.us> Fellow list-followers, When I today ran across the following sentence ( It concerns Gregory Crane, and appears on a Perseus website page, as well as, I see now, in various blurbs for conferences etc. ) : "His current research focuses on "computational humanities" and how this new field can help to democratize information without compromising intellectual rigor." ( and of course mindful at the same time of all of Willard's past ruminations via this list ), I kind of got to wondering : To what extent, and in what way, is democratization a ( the ? ) mission or raison d'être of, or an essential/important aspect of or element in,  the academic field of Digital Humanities ? I'm talking about democratizing the humanities, or perhaps humanities scholarship and research. I confess that I'm not at all sure what GC exactly means by "to democratize information". I apologize in advance if this is a question which has already been posed ( and discussed ? ) here in the past. I had a quick look in the archive but didn't find any such discussion. Any comments on this ?  Thanks. - Laval Hunsucker   Breukelen, Nederland _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Jul 13 21:02:44 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D706173535; Wed, 13 Jul 2011 21:02:44 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 122B6173529; Wed, 13 Jul 2011 21:02:40 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110713210240.122B6173529@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 21:02:40 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.169 cfp: on Asian culture & globalisation X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 169. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 18:25:42 -0400 From: "Totosy de Zepetnek, Steven" Subject: "Asian Culture(s) and Globalization" [On querying whether the following cfp for a forthcoming publication was within the scope of Humanist's interests, I was informed that that "because of the journal's aims & scope it is self-understood that matters digital in the humanities are part of the journal's publishing program", and that it is meant to contain some articles relating to the digital humanities. But I point this out not merely to reassure you that Humanist is somewhat selective, rather more to note an instance of digital concerns passing from a prominently advertised feature to an assumption. --WM] Papers are invited for publication in a special issue entitled "Asian Culture(s) and Globalization" -- edited by I-Chun Wang (National Sun Yat-sen U) -- of CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb (ISSN 1481-4374). A humanities and social sciences quarterly published since 1999 by Purdue University Press, the journal is peer-reviewed, in full-text, in open-access, and ISI-AHCI, MLA, Scopus, etc., indexed. "Asian Culture(s) and Globalization" is not concerned with East meeting West; rather, it pays attention to aspects of Asian culture(s) in transformation owing to the impact of globalization. During the past thirty years, scholars and critics have noticed the transformation of Asian culture(s), its resistant voices, and the redefinition of local cultures. As the largest and most populous continent, Asia is home to a large number of languages and cultures: Chinese, Indian, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Pacific Islanders, etc., contributions of cultural products and thought represent a significant part of today's global culture. Authors of the issue discuss redefined regional cultures in the context of globalization in the fields of literature, education, music, urban studies, cinema, gender studies, sociology, history, and related fields in the context of comparative cultural studies. Papers are 6000-7000 words in length and in the MLA parenthetical sources and works cited format (but no footnotes or end notes): for the style guide of the journal consult http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweblibrary/clcwebstyleguide . Deadline of submissions is 31 May 2012 to I-Chun Wang at icwang@faculty.nsysu.edu.tw _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 13 21:03:36 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 012D21735CA; Wed, 13 Jul 2011 21:03:36 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 5D4BA1735BA; Wed, 13 Jul 2011 21:03:30 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110713210330.5D4BA1735BA@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 21:03:30 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.170 events: digital history X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 170. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 04:33:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Laval Hunsucker Subject: Upcoming conference -- digital history In-Reply-To: <20110429054919.B75029AA07@woodward.joyent.us> I don't think that this upcoming event has yet been mentioned on this list ( please excuse me if I'm wrong ), though it will surely be of interest to many persons here, I should imagine : ".hist 2011 – Geschichte im digitalen Wandel" Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Hauptgebäude, 14. September 2011 – 15. September 2011 The homepage of the conference is at http://www2.hu-berlin.de/historisches-forschungsnetz/tagung/index.php?conference=hist2011&schedConf=hist11 and there one can find also a link to the conference program, as well as to registration information [ deadline for early booking discount :  14 August ], etc.  Looks most interesting, to me. - Laval Hunsucker   Breukelen, Nederland _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Jul 14 20:06:49 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8878F17523F; Thu, 14 Jul 2011 20:06:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 8EB1617522F; Thu, 14 Jul 2011 20:06:38 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110714200638.8EB1617522F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 20:06:38 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.171 a Big Tent & a People's Park X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 171. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: David Golumbia (25) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.164 a Big Tent [2] From: Leif Isaksen (101) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.168 democratizing? [3] From: David Sewell (44) Subject: Re: [Humanist] what I saw --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 17:35:12 -0400 From: David Golumbia Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.164 a Big Tent In-Reply-To: <20110712201704.67B2F172EED@woodward.joyent.us> On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 4:17 PM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > > > --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 16:15:30 +1000 > From: Desmond Schmidt > Subject: RE: [Humanist] 25.162 a Big Tent (2 of) > In-Reply-To: <20110711232703.9B3161720F0@woodward.joyent.us> > > > In listening to this debate I have wondered from the start: > a) why would you even want to restrict membership of 'digital humanities', > and > b) how would you actually do it? > roflol! oh wait. on the off chance that these are serious questions: would you like the 250-word, the 1000-word, the 10000-word, or the novel version? i've got em all. in public i'll offer only the one word version: money (and lots of it) (yeah that's five words) -- David Golumbia dgolumbia@gmail.com --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 10:57:26 +0100 From: Leif Isaksen Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.168 democratizing? In-Reply-To: <20110713210135.F422F173435@woodward.joyent.us> Hi Laval I am in no way claiming to represent what Greg may have meant and equally ignorant of the manner in which Willard has ruminated upon the issue in the past but i think it's a really interesting one so wanted to pitch in my two cents/pence: In some ways the question takes us straight back to the Big Tent discussion because it's impossible to ask without pegging out some kind of definition of terms. My view is that Digital Humanities is essentially Humanities Computing extended to include the InterWeb (or, if you will, they stand in a similar relationship to 'ICT' & 'IT' with all the ambiguity and vagueness that implies). 'Democratization' I take in this context to be the deliberate intention to make Humanities materials available to the general public (nationally and globally) as well as an implicit assumption that said public also has a valuable role to play in the Humanities process other than simply giving us the cash which is our inherent birthright. ;-) The distinction is important because I don't think it has historically ever been a role of Humanities Computing to 'democratize' the Humanities, or at least no more than any other branch of the field. Arguably, it is even less concerned with 'democratization' because the technology and skills required are, if anything, even less accessible than a decent reference library and the ability to read. In contrast, Digital Humanities, or at least the Web elements of it, are deeply involved in this issue for the simple reason that the Web really only does two things well - global search and access. This is not to say that Web technologies can't be used for other purposes, but it doesn't tend do them as well or better than other technologies (it's like writing letters on a printing press). The revolutions in commerce, journalism, politics and social interaction are all to do with 'democratization' (i.e. enormous demographic expansions of the sector), not the Web technologies themselves. Of course, just because Web technologies work this way, doesn't mean that we have any obligation to use them or concern ourselves with 'democratization'. i.e. I don't think any ethical position derives from this fact. On the other hand I think it raises some very significant questions for those who _are_ working in this space, namely that if they are not concerned with 'democratization' they are either suffering from massive under-imagination of the possibilities, or using the wrong tools for the job. Or of course they might be just plain terrified of the revolution or being sneered at by elitest peers. Whatever the reason, I think Digital Humanities, for all its pioneering claims, has a long way to go before we start approach the revolutions mentioned above, although the experience of the last decade suggests it can be travelled very quickly under certain circumstances. The question I'd leave us with is this: assuming a 'democratic' revolution does come to the Humanities (a 'Humanities Spring?'), and I think the sensible money has to be on the chance that it will, is it going to be led by the corporations or the academics? Best Leif On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 10:01 PM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: >                 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 168. >         Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London >                       www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist >                Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > >        Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 08:00:25 -0700 (PDT) >        From: Laval Hunsucker >        Subject: Democratizing the humanities through DH >        In-Reply-To: <20110429054919.B75029AA07@woodward.joyent.us> > > Fellow list-followers, > > When I today ran across the following sentence ( It concerns > Gregory Crane, and appears on a Perseus website page, as > well as, I see now, in various blurbs for conferences etc. ) : > > "His current research focuses on "computational humanities" > and how this new field can help to democratize information > without compromising intellectual rigor." > > ( and of course mindful at the same time of all of Willard's > past ruminations via this list ), I kind of got to wondering : > To what extent, and in what way, is democratization a ( the ? ) > mission or raison d'être of, or an essential/important aspect > of or element in,  the academic field of Digital Humanities ? > I'm talking about democratizing the humanities, or perhaps > humanities scholarship and research. I confess that I'm not > at all sure what GC exactly means by "to democratize > information". > > I apologize in advance if this is a question which has already > been posed ( and discussed ? ) here in the past. I had a quick > look in the archive but didn't find any such discussion. > > Any comments on this ?  Thanks. > > > - Laval Hunsucker >   Breukelen, Nederland > > > > _______________________________________________ > List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php > Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 10:08:09 -0400 (EDT) From: David Sewell Subject: Re: [Humanist] what I saw In-Reply-To: <20110713204451.38297173F07@woodward.joyent.us> On Wed, 13 Jul 2011, Willard McCarty wrote: > Ok, I'll bite Matt Kirschenbaum's bite. He's right. What I saw > (admittedly rather late, in the mid 1980s) was humanists trecking over > to the local computing centre with their curiosities and strange > projects, sometimes finding, eventually, sympathetic people, then configured > as techies, who had interesting backgrounds and open imaginations. Note > that at that time the techies, thus configured, were institutionally > disallowed from making first moves. Except for the computer scientists > involved, they were service people. I would second Willard's observation and note my own indebtedness during the 1980s to professional staff at university computer centers who were imaginative enough to meet curious people from humanities departments more than halfway. For example, in 1980 or '81, staff at the University of California, San Diego, computing center decided they could leverage their new Unix timesharing system by creating a simple menu-driven front-end that would enable administrative staff at the university to use the full array of Unix word processing and typesetting facilities for memos and suchlike. Somebody got the inspired idea of letting graduate students and faculty have accounts so they could use the system for dissertations, papers, and communication. The result was a minor flowering of humanities grad students doing things with Unix that no one had quite expected. I was a grad student in the Literature Department, where the pioneering fellow student who learned about the accounts and evangelized the rest of us was Mary Ann Buckles, who ended up getting hooked by Colossal Cave Adventure (standard on BSD Unix) and becoming the first person to write a dissertation on interactive fiction. For my part, once I discovered the command "cd /" and the online manpages, I was hooked by the operating system, the text processing utilities, and the ability to tinker with NROFF/TROFF macros to format my dissertation just the way I wanted. I was a fairly constant pilgrim to the consulting offices at the computer center, where the Unix consultants seemed to enjoy the novelty of acolytes from a new population and were unfailingly patient and helpful. A few years later I had similar experiences with IT staff at the University of Rochester. I'm sure that folks at lots of other institutions had similar experiences and share my gratitude for the openness of the computer center staffs to new missions. DS -- David Sewell, Editorial and Technical Manager ROTUNDA, The University of Virginia Press PO Box 400314, Charlottesville, VA 22904-4314 USA Email: dsewell@virginia.edu Tel: +1 434 924 9973 Web: http://rotunda.upress.virginia.edu/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Jul 14 20:07:33 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88732175290; Thu, 14 Jul 2011 20:07:33 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1635C17527C; Thu, 14 Jul 2011 20:07:27 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110714200727.1635C17527C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 20:07:27 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.172 events: ancient places in Google Books X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 172. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 16:51:05 +0100 From: "Bodard, Gabriel" Subject: Seminar: Finding ancient places in the Google Books corpus Digital Classicist & Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 2011 Friday July 15th at 16:30 Court Room, Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU Elton Barker (Open University) & Leif Isaksen (Southampton) Mine the GAP: Finding ancient places in the Google Books corpus ALL WELCOME Due to Google’s digitization programme, the information now available is unprecedented: but what exactly is there, and how can it be used? The Google Ancient Places (GAP) project investigates a means of facilitating the discovery of data that is of interest to scholars working on the ancient world, and experiments with ways of making use of the results. This paper sets out the work on which GAP is based, discusses our approach to finding ancient places in books, and showcases some examples of use, in particular the visualization of places in GoogleMaps alongside the actual text. The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments. For more information please contact Gabriel.Bodard@kcl.ac.uk, Stuart.Dunn@kcl.ac.uk or S.Mahony@ucl.ac.uk, or see the seminar website at http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2011.html -- Dr Gabriel BODARD (Research Associate in Digital Epigraphy) Department of Digital Humanities King's College London 26-29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL Email: gabriel.bodard@kcl.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 1388 Fax: +44 (0)20 7848 2980 http://www.digitalclassicist.org/ http://www.currentepigraphy.org/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Jul 16 23:01:54 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74D4D177C1D; Sat, 16 Jul 2011 23:01:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E5BBF177C0B; Sat, 16 Jul 2011 23:01:49 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20110716230149.E5BBF177C0B@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2011 23:01:49 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.173 job at Oxford X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 173. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2011 16:23:13 +0100 From: "Deegan, Marilyn" Subject: job opportunity EEBO-TCP > From: Pip Willcox [mailto:Pip.Willcox@bodleian.ox.ac.uk] > Sent: 12 July 2011 15:28 Apologies for cross-posting. EEBO-TCP at Oxford is advertising a post for a digital editor. For more details, please see: https://www.recruit.ox.ac.uk. Text Encoding Reviewer Bodleian Libraries, Oxford Digital Library, Osney One, Oxford Grade 7: =A329,099 - =A335,788 p.a. The Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership (EEBO-TCP) is seeking a Text Encoding Reviewer to carry out quality assurance of electronic texts created from digital image files of early printed books. You must be educated to degree level, be IT literate, have excellent proofreading skills, a demonstrable interest in the literature and history of the period 1473-1700, and an awareness of the issues involved in the mark-up of electronic texts. Some knowledge of XML and experience of XML editing software is desirable.=20 Only applications received before midday on Wednesday 3 August 2011 can be considered. Interviews will be held on Tuesday 16 August 2011. You will be required to upload a supporting statement as part of your online application. Pip Willcox Bodleian Digital Library Systems and Services | University of Oxford Osney One, Oxford OX2 0EW e: pip.willcox@bodleian.ox.ac.uk | t: +44 (0) 1865 280026 Marilyn Deegan Emeritus Professor Department of Digital Humanities King's College London 26-29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL Email: marilyn.deegan@kcl.ac.uk _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Jul 16 23:03:44 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28351177C82; Sat, 16 Jul 2011 23:03:44 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id CF50B177C70; Sat, 16 Jul 2011 23:03:40 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110716230340.CF50B177C70@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2011 23:03:40 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.174 publications: Computability; D-Lib for July/August X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 174. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Bonnie Wilson (55) Subject: [Dlib-subscribers] The July/August 2011 issue of D-Lib Magazine isnow available [2] From: S Barry Cooper (82) Subject: COMPUTABILITY - The Journal of the Association CiE --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2011 19:05:51 +0100 From: Bonnie Wilson Subject: [Dlib-subscribers] The July/August 2011 issue of D-Lib Magazine isnow available Greetings: The July/August 2011 issue of D-Lib Magazine (http://www.dlib.org/) is now available. This issue contains four articles, two conference reports, several short pieces in the 'In Brief' column, excerpts from recent press releases, and news of upcoming conferences and other items of interest in 'Clips and Pointers'. This month, D-Lib features the New York Philharmonic Digital Archives web site. The articles include: Services for Academic Libraries in the New Era Article by Michalis Gerolimos, Alexander Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki, Greece and Rania Konsta, Ionian University, Corfu Digital Librarianship & Social Media: the Digital Library as Conversation Facilitator Article by Robert A. Schrier, Syracuse University Building a Sustainable Institutional Repository Article by Chenying Li, Mingjie Han, Chongyang Hong, Yan Wang, Yanqing Xu and Chunning Cheng, China Agricultural University Library Music to My Ears: The New York Philharmonic Digital Archives Article by Cynthia Tobar, City University of New York The conference reports are: Report on the 2011 Inaugural United States Electronic Theses and Dissertations Association (USETDA) Conference Conference Report by James RW MacDonald, University of Northern British Columbia Open Repositories 2011: Community Meet-up in the "Live Music Capital of the World" Conference Report by Carol Minton Morris, DuraSpace --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2011 03:03:50 +0100 From: S Barry Cooper Subject: COMPUTABILITY - The Journal of the Association CiE COMPUTABILITY The Journal of the Association CiE Now Accepting Submissions! First volume to be published in 2012 as part of the celebrations of the Alan Turing Year http://www.computability.de/journal/ ____________________________ Aims and Scope Computability is the journal of the Association Computability in Europe and it is published by IOS Press in Amsterdam. The journal Computability is a peer reviewed international journal that is devoted to publishing original research of highest quality, which is centered around the topic of computability. The subject is understood from a multidisciplinary perspective, recapturing the spirit of Alan Turing (1912-1954) by linking theoretical and real-world concerns from computer science, mathematics, biology, physics, computational neuroscience, history and the philosophy of computing. Editor-in-Chief Vasco Brattka (Cape Town, South Africa) Managing Editors Paola Bonizzoni (Milan, Italy) S. Barry Cooper (Leeds, UK) Benedikt Loewe (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Elvira Mayordomo (Zaragoza, Spain) Editorial Board Samson Abramsky (Oxford, UK) Manindra Agrawal (Kanpur, India) Eric Allender (Piscataway, USA) Jeremy Avigad (Pittsburgh, USA) Arnold Beckmann (Swansea, UK) Olivier Bournez (Palaiseau, France) Alessandra Carbone (Paris, France) Karine Chemla (Paris, France) Bruno Codenotti (Pisa, Italy) Stephen A. Cook (Toronto, Canada) Anuj Dawar (Cambridge, UK) Rodney G. Downey (Wellington, New Zealand) Natasha Jonoska (Tampa, USA) Ulrich Kohlenbach (Darmstadt, Germany) Russell Miller (New York, USA) Andrei Morozov (Novosibirsk, Russia) Prakash Panangaden (Montreal, Canada) Frank Stephan (Singapore) Vlatko Vedral (Oxford, UK) Rineke Verbrugge (Groningen, The Netherlands) Ning Zhong (Cincinnati, USA) Submission Guidelines The journal Computability invites submission of full papers of highest quality on all research topics related to computability. Computability accepts only submissions of original research papers that have not been published previously and that are not currently submitted elsewhere. Full versions of papers that have already been published in conference proceedings are eligible only if the conference version is clearly cited and the full version enhances the conference version significantly. Authors are requested to submit PDF manuscripts electronically via the online submission system. Authors can indicate non-binding wishes regarding Editorial Board Members who should handle their submission. Final versions of accepted papers have to be prepared using the journal style file and they need to be submitted together with all source files. Authors submitting a manuscript do so on the understanding that they have read and agreed to the terms of the IOS Press Author Copyright Agreement and that all persons listed as authors have given their approval for the submission of the paper. http://www.computability.de/journal/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Jul 18 20:38:20 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD2D317CCF7; Mon, 18 Jul 2011 20:38:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C774917CCE4; Mon, 18 Jul 2011 20:38:12 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110718203812.C774917CCE4@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 20:38:12 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.175 reading? best work? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 175. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (15) Subject: Pleasures of Reading [2] From: Willard McCarty (18) Subject: best of current? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 12:28:50 -0400 (EDT) From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca Subject: Pleasures of Reading In-Reply-To: <20110716230340.CF50B177C70@woodward.joyent.us> Willard, I wonder if you or the subscribers to Humanist have had a chance to dip into Alan Jacobs's meditation _The Pleasures of Reading in the Age of Distraction_ (Oxford, 2011). He makes some very nuanced and intelligent observations about reading and technological affordances. He devotes a little space to e-readers and comments that the lack of stylus with current models constrains note taking (making if difficult to both underdine or circle text and provide a marginal annotation). I found myself imagining software that translates the affordances of pencil & codex into the combination of cursor and layer (similiar to illustation and digitial imaging software). Would the more consumer savvy subscribers to Humanist have any thoughts about the current state and future of annotation software for e-readers? Francois Lachance http://berneval.blogspot.com/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 06:32:39 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: best of current? In-Reply-To: <20110716230340.CF50B177C70@woodward.joyent.us> There are certainly areas of the digital humanities where, as one applicant to our PhD programme recently put it, nothing much has changed in the last many years. Her remark has prompted me to wonder in which areas of our field the most exciting and challenging work is going on now? I don't mean where the smoke and mirrors are to be found -- where wild claims are being made that in sober moments don't hold up to critical inspection. ("Look, I can put on a fox's head and fly through the air to this island!!!!") These are interesting for many reasons, it is true. But I want to know what you think would hold up to to critical inspection from all sides. What should we go to the wall for? Nominations please. Yours, WM -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Jul 18 20:41:40 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CECA17CDFC; Mon, 18 Jul 2011 20:41:40 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C91BF17CDED; Mon, 18 Jul 2011 20:41:32 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110718204132.C91BF17CDED@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 20:41:32 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.176 events: libraries; networked humanities X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 176. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Secretariat@isast.org" (146) Subject: First Call of Proposals, 4th QQML2012, Limerick, Ireland [2] From: Arianna Ciula (14) Subject: ESF/COST "Networked Humanities: Art History on the Web" - conference proceedings --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 02:38:42 +0300 From: "Secretariat@isast.org" Subject: First Call of Proposals, 4th QQML2012, Limerick, Ireland We invite you to submit a paper /abstract /poster /workshop to the 4th Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries International Conference (QQML2012), 22 - 25 May 2012, Limerick, Ireland. Deadline for Abstract submission October 30, 2011. First Call of Proposals QQML2012 Dear Colleagues, It is our great pleasure to announce the 4th Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries International Conference (QQML2012) at 22 - 25 May 2012, Limerick, Ireland. Since 2009 QQML has provided an excellent framework for the presentation of new trends and developments in every aspect of Library and Information Science, Technology, Applications and Research. The 4th QQML2012 was scheduled during the previous 3rd QQML2011 Conference. It was also decided that the 5th QQML 2013 International Conference will be organized in Rome, Italy. QQML2009, QQML2010 and QQML2011 were successful events both from the number and quality of the presentations and from the post conference publications in Journals and Books. QQML2012 will continue and expand the related topics. Papers are invited for this international conference. The conference will consider, but not be limited to, the following indicative themes: Advocacy, networking and influencing: methodologies for building the evidence base in library and information services (LIS) Balanced Scorecard tools in libraries Bibliometrics Change of Libraries and the Managerial Techniques Conceptual and Organizational Perspectives of Knowledge Communication, Copyright and licensing Data mining Development and Assessment of Digital Repositories Development of new metrics Digital archives Digital preservation Digitization Distance learning and the role of the library E-Books E-Learning and the contribution of the libraries, archives and museums E-research E-science Electronic publishing Financial Management for Excellence Human resources management Information and Knowledge Services Information literacy: Information sharing, Democracy and lifelong learning Information retrieval Innovative management Institutional repositories Intercultural management Knowledge Based Systems and their Applications Knowledge management concept and technology, Knowledge mining Libraries and shared services Library Cooperation: Problems and Challenges at the beginning of the 21st century Library management and marketing Library statistics Measuring information literacy effectiveness Metadata creation New means of selecting, collecting, organizing, and distributing digital content Ontologies Open Access and Open Source Operational information systems Performance Measurement and Competitiveness Publishing Models, Processes and Systems Qualitative and Quantitative methodologies Re-engineering change in higher education Resource development policy Scholarly Information and the new communication technologies Semantics Semantics Web Software Strategic management Team building and management Technology in the Communication: an interactive tool for development Technology transfer and Innovation in library management Theoretical models of information media User education Special Sessions - Workshops You may send proposals for Special Sessions (4-6 papers) or Workshops (more than 2 sessions) including the title and a brief description at: secretariat@isast.org or from the electronic submission at the web page: http://www.isast.org/abstractpaperregister.html You may also send Abstracts/Papers to be included in the following sessions, to new sessions or as contributed papers at the web page: http://www.isast.org/abstractpaperregister.html Contributions may be realized through one of the following ways a. structured abstracts (not exceeding 500 words) and presentation; b. full papers (not exceeding 7,000 words); c. posters (not exceeding 2,500 words); d. visual presentations (Pecha kucha). These presentations consist of exactly 20 slides, each of which is displayed for 20 seconds. Total presentation time is precisely 6 minutes 40 seconds and so it is important to use the transition feature in PowerPoint to time your presentation exactly. In all the above cases at least one of the authors ought to be registered in the conference. Abstracts and full papers should be submitted electronically within the timetable provided in the web page: http://www.isast.org/importantdates.html http://www.isast.org/importantdates.html The abstracts and full papers should be in compliance to the author guidelines: http://www.isast.org/abstractpaperregister.html All abstracts will be published in the Conference Book of Abstracts and in the website of the Conference. The papers of the conference will be published in the website of the conference, after the permission of the author(s). Student submissions The Conference offers Postgraduate students and PhD Candidates a Competition opportunity. Students who submit to the conference could take part to the competition, by submitting only one paper to the competition. Students who enter to the competition have to participate to the conference and register before. The papers will be judged by a scientific committee on the significance of the research theme, the research methodology, the description of the results and the organization of the presentation. Professors and Supervisors are encouraged to organize conference sessions of Postgraduate theses and dissertations. Please direct any questions regarding the QQML 2012 Conference and Student Research Competition to: the secretariat of the conference at: secretariat@isast.org On behalf of the Conference Committee Dr. Anthi Katsirikou, Conference Co-Chair University of Piraeus Library Director Head, European Documentation Center Board Member of the Greek Association of Librarians and Information Professionals anthi@asmda.com Jerald Cavanagh BSc Econ, MSc, MA, Local Committee Co-Chair Institute Librarian Limerick Institute of Technology Limerick, Rep of Ireland e-Mail: jerald.cavanagh@lit.ie Padraig Kirby BA (Hons) HdipLIS, Local Committee Co-Chair Acting Senior Library Assistant The Library Limerick Institute of Technology Moylish Park Limerick, Republic of Ireland Padraig.Kirby@lit.ie --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 09:25:22 +0200 From: Arianna Ciula Subject: ESF/COST "Networked Humanities: Art History on the Web" -conference proceedings Dear all, selected proceedings of the ESF/COST high level research conference "Networked Humanities: Art History on the Web conference" are now published at http://www.kunstgeschichte-ejournal.net/view/event/Networked_Humanities.html Best regards, Arianna == Dr. Arianna Ciula Science Officer for the Humanities European Science Foundation 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 19 20:30:16 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96FE01814AB; Tue, 19 Jul 2011 20:30:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 27940181494; Tue, 19 Jul 2011 20:30:11 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110719203011.27940181494@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 20:30:11 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.177 musical improvisation? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 177. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 12:20:43 +0000 From: Anna Jordanous Subject: Survey on musical improvisation computer systems Hello all, As part of my research into musical improvisation computer systems, I am running a short (15-25 mins) online survey and would much appreciate your input. The survey involves listening to music produced by some of these systems: 12 x 30-second extracts. You will be asked how typical and valuable you think these extracts are as examples of musical improvisation, based on their _musical_content_, rather than the recording/sound quality, or their computer-generated origins. Here is the link: http://edu.surveygizmo.com/s3/592582/Computer-systems-that-improvise-music I do hope that you will be able to help me with this research. If you have any comments or questions, do feel free to get in touch with me. Thank you in advance. Regards, Anna PS Apologies for any cross-posting. Please pass this message onto other people if you feel they would be interested in taking part in the survey. ------ Anna Jordanous Doctoral Researcher: "Evaluating Computational Creativity" and Associate Tutor School of Informatics University of Sussex http://www.informatics.sussex.ac.uk/users/akj20 +44 1273 872589 a.k.jordanous@sussex.ac.uk _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Jul 19 20:31:13 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B11518152F; Tue, 19 Jul 2011 20:31:13 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 90ACB18151F; Tue, 19 Jul 2011 20:31:07 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110719203107.90ACB18151F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 20:31:07 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.178 a doctoral rite of passage X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 178. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2011 06:03:21 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: A rite of passage to an intellectual adulthood Many here, I think, will find the following worth the click and time spent reading: Damon Horowitz, "From Technologist to Philosopher: Why you should quit your technology job and get a PhD in the humanities", Chronicle of Higher Education, 19 July 2011, http://chronicle.com/article/From-Technologist-to/128231/. The link was sent to me by someone who wants to do exactly what Horowitz describes. Yours, WM -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Jul 23 22:24:49 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48DA5186F91; Sat, 23 Jul 2011 22:24:49 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 38594186F81; Sat, 23 Jul 2011 22:24:43 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110723222444.38594186F81@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2011 22:24:43 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.179 rite of passage X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 179. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: { brad brace } (58) Subject: Future of the Humanities [2] From: Alan Corre (7) Subject: A rite of passage to an intellectual adulthood --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 13:48:21 -0700 (PDT) From: { brad brace } Subject: Future of the Humanities In-Reply-To: <4E2554910200003C0001AEE6@gwgwia.donau-uni.ac.at> buy-now, it's an obviously exclusive, pointedly calculated, dismal, tired and insular discussion that somehow sadly shuffles "the deadly futures" of increasingly indebted/desperate privileged artworld acolytes who are compelled to repay by recycling received collegial/corporate diatribes... not unlike treacherously asking interrelated corrupt institutions such as illegitimate States whether they have any future: who will continue to profit and at what repercussive-peril for the populace (?) and what can it now mean to cling to the bandied, hollowed refrain of "we the people..." /:b ============= PROXY Gallery http://bit.ly/proxygallery global islands project: http://bbrace.net/id.html "We fill the craters left by the bombs And once again we sing And once again we sow Because life never surrenders." -- anonymous Vietnamese poem "Nothing can be said about the sea." -- Mr Selvam, Akkrapattai, India 2004 "... for every star-driven enterprise there are corollary benefits for those who support it and keep their mouths shut." -- John Young, NYC 2010 "Shikata ga nai -- There's nothing we can do about it." -- Japanese tsunami survivors, 2011 { brad brace } <<<<< bbrace@eskimo.com >>>> ~finger for pgp --- bbs: brad brace sound --- --- http://69.64.229.114:8000 --- --- http://bradbrace.net/undisclosed.html --- . 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SKYPE | bbbrace | registered linux user #323978 ~> I am not a victim coercion is natural I am a messenger freedom is artifical /:b --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 19:13:17 -0500 (CDT) From: Alan Corre Subject: A rite of passage to an intellectual adulthood In-Reply-To: <275103570.71137.1311119551427.JavaMail.root@mail11.pantherlink.uwm.edu> This article in praise of higher studies in the Humanities is well-written and interesting, but one must bear in mind that the author had already rendered himself comfortably off by means of technology before he indulged his taste for the humanities. The problem with getting a Ph.D in a humanities subject these days, even from a prestigious university, is: what do you do with it when you have it? The chances of landing a university job are quite remote, and so many colleges these days are offering few tenure-track positions, but prefer to offer short-term jobs which carry little security or opportunities. You could, of course, go on to study to be a physician--medical schools are said to favor candidates with humanistic degrees--but consider the enormous length of the total study time for Ph.D, M.D., and being saddled with a huge debt, followed by an honorable profession that offers rather modest financial rewards these days. When I get my accounting from my health insurance company, I am often shocked at how little they pay the doctors who do such wonderful things for me and my wife. I got a Ph.D from Penn in Linguistics in 1963 after thrilling studies with Zellig Harris, an outstanding and self-effacing genius, who is only just beginning to be recognized. (MIT Press just published a wonderful study of him by Robert Barsky. Warmly recommended.) At that time I was promptly offered a job in Hebrew Studies, which I followed happily for 30 years until I retired. After I accepted the position, I was offered an interview at Western Reserve which probably would have taken my career on a different track, but I turned down the interview, because I was already committed. How many new Ph.Ds would love an experience like that today! But unfortunately it rarely happens. There are no easy answers to this problem. But I do deplore the tendency of universities to offer short-term dead-end jobs to well qualified candidates. Our civilization deserves better. Alan D. Corré Emeritus Professor of Hebrew Studies University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee https://pantherfile.uwm.edu/corre/www _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 23 22:27:43 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 129F8186035; Sat, 23 Jul 2011 22:27:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 56CAC186026; Sat, 23 Jul 2011 22:27:37 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110723222737.56CAC186026@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2011 22:27:37 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.180 jobs at Bates, Washington X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 180. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Michael Hanrahan (27) Subject: Job Posting: Manager of Humanities Computing (Bates College) [2] From: Shawn Day ( ) Subject: Fwd: DH Job at Washington U in St Louis --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 15:07:14 -0400 From: Michael Hanrahan Subject: Job Posting: Manager of Humanities Computing (Bates College) Bates College seeks a Manager of Humanities Computing. The successful candidate will consult and collaborate with faculty in the development and support of sustainable curricular and research projects based on an informed understanding of current and emerging technologies appropriate to the humanities. As a member of the Curricular and Research Computing group, the Manager of Humanities Computing will contribute to the provision of technology services, user support, and computing resources to meet the academic needs of the faculty and students at Bates. Duties will include the oversight and management a faculty computing facility dedicated to research and development in the digital humanities, with particular attention to interdisciplinary studies and non-English languages and literatures. Qualifications include substantive post-graduate experience in a humanities discipline, experience using technology in teaching and scholarship (in a non-English or historical language or literature especially desirable), and a keen understanding of current projects and trends in the digital humanities. We invite applications for this position from qualified persons who share Bates’ strong commitment to the liberal arts, diversity and nondiscrimination. For a full position description and to apply, visit: http://goo.gl/wmylu Bates does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national or ethnic origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression, marital or parental status, age, or disability, in the recruitment and admission of its students, in the administration of its educational policies and programs, or in the recruitment and employment of its faculty and staff. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 07:13:43 +0100 From: Shawn Day Subject: Fwd: DH Job at Washington U in St Louis Dear List, I wanted to draw your attention to a job opening in a Digital Humanities center at Washington U in St Louis. The job's the assistant director, & details are at: http://bit.ly/asst-dir-hdw TEI experience is a highly valued credential. Please feel free to pass along, & to direct any questions my way (it's my old gig). Thanks, Perry -- Perry Trolard Assistant Director Humanities Digital Workshop Arts & Sciences Computing http://hdw.artsci.wustl.edu Washington University in Saint Louis Campus Box 1160 One Brookings Drive Saint Louis MO 63130 (314) 935-8806 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 23 22:30:07 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DE891860C8; Sat, 23 Jul 2011 22:30:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A87BA1860C0; Sat, 23 Jul 2011 22:30:01 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110723223001.A87BA1860C0@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2011 22:30:01 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.181 publications: Marx in communcations; reinventing history X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 181. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Noiret, Serge" (58) Subject: Historians and Informatics. Reinventing a Profession [2] From: Christian Fuchs (191) Subject: [Catac] CfP: Marx is Back - The Importance of Marxist Theory andResearch for Critical Communication Studies Today --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 08:32:21 -0700 From: "Noiret, Serge" Subject: Historians and Informatics. Reinventing a Profession Dear all, Just to inform digital historians and humanists about the recent publication by the French School in Rome: Les historiens et l'informatique. Un métier à réinventer, Essays collected by Jean-Philippe Genet and Andrea Zorzi, Rome: Ecole Française de Rome, 2011, (Collection de l'Ecole Française de Rome, 444), ISBN : 978-2-7283-0904-7, (Actes du Congrès ATHIS VII organisé par L'Ecole française de Rome avec le concours de l'ANR, Rome, 4-6 décembre 2008), see http://www.publications.efrome.it/opencms/opencms/menu/novita/index.html?locale=it. Essays are in French and Italian. Full index of the book included to this email. Best regards Serge Noiret ----------------------------------------------------------------- History Information Specialist, (Ph.D.) The Library - European University Institute Badia Fiesolana, Via dei Roccettini 9 50014 SAN DOMENICO (FI) - Italy Tel.: +39-0554685-348 ~ Fax +39-0554685-283 [serge.noiret@eui.eu] - Skype: sese57 CV: http://www.eui.eu/Personal/Staff/Noiret/noiret.html -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Do you use the EUI History Department's portal EHPS ? ----- TABLE DES MATIÈRES Pages Jean-Philippe GENET, Avant-propos . VII-IX Jean-Philippe GENET, Introduction . 1-9 Anna Maria TAMMARO, Bibliografia digitale co-laboratorio : verso l’infrastruttura globale per gli studi umanistici . 11-27 Gino RONCAGLIA, e-Book ed ipertesti : un incontro possibile? . 29-43 Stefanio VITALI, Vent’anni dopo : come il computer e la rete hanno cambiato gli archivi. Un bilancio critico . 45-71 Michele ANSANI e Antonella GHIGNOLI, Testi digitali : nuovi media e documenti medievali . 73-86 Pierre BAUDUIN et Catherine JACQUEMARD, Les pratiques de l’édition en ligne : expériences et questionnement. 87-108 Rolando MINUTI, Insegnare storia al tempo del web 2.0 : considerazioni su esperienze e problemi aperti . 109-123 Paul BERTRAND et Christophe JACOBS, «Digital Humanities » et critique historique documentaire : «digital» ou «critical turn»? . 125-139 Christine DUCOURTIEUX et Marc SMITH, L’expérience de Ménestrel : douze ans dans l’internet médiéval . 141-156 Aude MAIREY, Quelles perspectives pour la textométrie des états de langues passés? . 157-170 Julien ALERINI et Stéphane LAMASSÉ , Données et statistiques : l’avenir du travail en ligne pour l’historien . 171-187 François GILIGNY, Informatique et archéologie : une révolution tranquille? . 189-198 Jean-Luc ARNAUD, Nouvelles méthodes, nouveaux usages de la cartographie et de l’analyse spatiale en histoire. 199-220 350 TABLE DES MATIÈRES Pages Margherita AZZARI, Geographic Information Systems and Science. Stato dell’arte, sfide future . 221-234 Serge NOIRET, Y a-t-il une histoire numérique 2.0? . 235-288 Philippe RYGIEL, De quoi le web est-il l’archive? . 289-308 Jean-Michel DALLE, Internet est-il un aléthiomètre? . 309-318 Andrea ZORZI, Conclusioni: fare storia 2.0 . 319-330 Résumés des articles . 331-337 Index . 339-347 Table des matières . 349-350 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 10:49:47 +0100 From: Christian Fuchs Subject: CfP: Marx is Back - The Importance of Marxist Theory and Research for Critical Communication Studies Today Marx is Back: The Importance of Marxist Theory and Research for Critical Communication Studies Today 
 Call for Papers for a Special Issue of tripleC – Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society.
 Edited by Christian Fuchs and Vincent Mosco

 http://fuchs.uti.at/wp-content/uploads/CfP_Marx_tripleC.pdf For inquiries, please contact the two editors. In light of the global capitalist crisis, there is renewed interest in Karl Marx’s works and in concepts like class, exploitation and surplus value. Slavoj Žižek argues that the antagonisms of contemporary capitalism in the context of the ecological crisis, the massive expansion of intellectual property, biogenetics, new forms of apartheid and growing world poverty show that we still need the Marxian notion of class. He concludes that there is an urgent need to renew Marxism and to defend its lost causes in order to render problematic capitalism as the only alternative (Žižek 2008, 6) and the new forms of a soft capitalism that promise, and in its rhetoric makes use of, ideals like participation, self-organization, and co-operation, without realizing them. Žižek (2010, chapter 3) argues that the global capitalistcrisis clearly demonstrates the need to return to the critique of political economy. Göran Therborn suggests that the “new constellations of power and new possibilities of resistance” in the 21st century require retaining the “Marxian idea that human emancipation from exploitation, oppression, discrimination and the inevitable linkage between privilege and misery can only come from struggle by the exploited and disadvantaged themselves” (Therborn 2008, 61). Eric Hobsbawm (2011, 12f) insists that for understanding the global dimension of contemporary capitalism, its contradictions and crises, and the persistence of socio-economic inequality, we “must ask Marx’s questions” (13). 

 This special issue will publish articles that address the importance of Karl Marx’s works for Critical Media and Communication Studies, what it means to ask Marx’s questions in 21st century informational capitalism, how Marxian theory can be used for critically analyzing and transforming media and communication today, and what the implications of the revival of the interest in Marx are for the field of Media and Communication Studies. 
 Questions that can be explored in contributions include, but are not limited to:

 * What is Marxist Media and Communication Studies? Why is it needed today? What are the main assumptions, legacies, tasks, methods and categories of Marxist Media and Communication Studies and how do they relate to Karl Marx’s theory? What are the different types of Marxist Media/Communication Studies, how do they differ, what are their commonalities?
 * What is the role of Karl Marx’s theory in different fields, subfields and approaches of Media and Communication Studies? How have the role, status, and importance of Marx’s theory for Media and Communication Studies evolved historically, especially since the 1960s? * In addition to his work as a theorist and activist, Marx was a practicing journalist throughout his career. What can we learn from his journalism about the practice of journalism today, about journalism theory, journalism education and alternative media?
* What have been the structural conditions, limits and problems for conducting Marxian-inspired Media and Communication Research and for carrying out university teaching in the era of neoliberalism? What are actual or potential effects of the new capitalist crisis on these conditions?

* What is the relevance of Marxian thinking in an age of capitalist crisis for analyzing the role of media and communication in society?
 * How can the Marxian notions of class, class struggle, surplus value, exploitation, commodity/commodification, alienation, globalization, labour, capitalism, militarism and war, ideology/ideology critique, fetishism, and communism best be used for analyzing, transforming and criticizing the role of media, knowledge production and communication in contemporary capitalism?
 * How are media, communication, and information addressed in Marx’s work? * What are commonalities and differences between contemporary approaches in the interpretation of Marx’s analyses of media, communication, knowledge, knowledge labour and technology?
 * What is the role of dialectical philosophy and dialectical analysis as epistemological and methodological tools for Marxian-inspired Media and Communication Studies?
 * What were central assumptions of Marx about media, communication, information, knowledge production, culture and how can these insights be used today for the critical analysis of capitalism? * What is the relevance of Marx’s work for an understanding of social media?
 * Which of Marx’s works can best be used today to theorize media and communication? Why and how? 
* Terry Eagleton (2011) demonstrates that the 10 most common held prejudices against Marx are wrong. What prejudices against Marx can be found in Media and Communication Studies today? What have been the consequences of such prejudices? How can they best be contested? Are there continuities and/or discontinuities of prejudices against Marx in light of the new capitalist crisis? 
All contributions shall genuinely deal with Karl Marx’s original works and discuss their relevance for contemporary Critical Media/Communication Studies.
 Eagleton Terry. 2011. Why Marx was right. London: Yale University Press. Hobsbawm, Eric. 2011. How to change the world. Marx and Marxism 1840-2011. London: Little, Brown. Therborn, Göran. 2008. From Marxism to post-Marxism? London: Verso. Žižek, Slavoj. 2008. In defense of lost causes. London: Verso. Žižek, Slavoj. 2010. Living in the end times. London: Verso. 
 Editors 

Christian Fuchs is chair professor for Media and Communication Studies at Uppsala University’s Department of Informatics and Media. He is editor of the journal tripleC – Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society. His areas of interest are: Critical Theory, Social Theory, Media & Society, Critical Political Economy of Media/Communication, Critical Information Society Studies, Critical Internet Studies. He is author of the books “Foundations of Critical Media and Information Studies” (Routledge 2011) and “Internet and Society: Social Theory in the Information Age” (Routledge 2008, paperback 2011). He is co-editor of the collected volume “The Internet and Surveillance. The Challenges of Web 2.0 and Social Media” (Routledge 2011, together with Kees Boersma, Anders Albrechtslund, Marisol Sandoval). He is currently writing a book presenting a critical theory of social media. http://fuchs.uti.at 

 Vincent Mosco is professor emeritus of sociology at Queen's University and formerly Canada Research Chair in Communication and Society. Dr. Mosco is the author of numerous books on communication, technology, and society. His most recent include Getting the Message: Communications Workers and Global Value Chains (co-edited with Catherine McKercher and Ursula Huws, Merlin, 2010), The Political Economy of Communication, second edition (Sage, 2009), The Laboring of Communication: Will Knowledge Workers of the World Unite (co-authored with Catherine McKercher, Lexington Books, 2008), Knowledge Workers in the Information Society (co-edited with Catherine McKercher, Lexington Books, 2007), and The Digital Sublime: Myth, Power, and Cyberspace (MIT Press, 2004). He is currently writing a book on the relevance of Karl Marx for communication research today.

 Publication Schedule and Submission

 Structured Abstracts for potential contributions shall be submitted to both editors (christian.fuchs@im.uu.se, moscov@mac.com) per e-mail until September 30th, 2011 (submission deadline). The authors of accepted abstracts will be invited to write full papers that are due five months after the feedback from the editors. Full papers must then be submitted to tripleC. Please do not instantly submit full papers, but only structured abstracts to the editors.
The abstracts should have a maximum of 1 200 words and should be structured by dealing separately with each of the following five dimensions: 
 1) Purpose and main questions of the paper
 2) Description of the way taken for answering the posed questions
 3) Relevance of the topic in relation to the CfP 
4) Main expected outcomes and new insights of the paper
 5) Contribution to the engagement with Marx’s works and to Marxian-inspired Media and Communication Studies

 Journal 

tripleC (cognition, communication, co-operation): Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society, http://www.triple-c.se 

 Focus and Scope: Critical Media-/Information-/ Communication-/Internet-/Information Society-Studies
 tripleC provides a forum to discuss the challenges humanity is facing today. It publishes contributions that focus on critical studies of media, information, communication, culture, digital media, social media and the Internet in the information society. The journal’s focus is especially on critical studies and it asks contributors to reflect about normative, political, ethical and critical implications of their research. 

Indexing: Scopus, EBSCOHost Communication and Mass Media Complete, Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) 
 Open Access: tripleC is an open access journal that publishes articles online and does not charge authors or readers. It uses a Creative Commons license (Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License) that allows reproduction of published articles for non-commercial purposes (without changes of the content and only with naming the author). Creative Commons publishing poses a viable alternative to commercial academic publishing that is dominated by big corporate publishing houses. -- Prof. Christian Fuchs Chair in Media and Communication Studies Department of Informatics and Media Uppsala University Kyrkogårdsgatan 10 Box 513 751 20 Uppsala Sweden christian.fuchs@im.uu.se Tel +46 (0) 18 471 1019 http://fuchs.uti.at http://www.im.uu.se NetPolitics Blog: http://fuchs.uti.at/blog Editor of tripleC: http://www.triple-c.se Book "Foundations of Critical Media and Information Studies" (Routledge 2011) Book "Internet and Society" (Paperback, Routledge 2010) _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Jul 23 22:33:30 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 058131861CF; Sat, 23 Jul 2011 22:33:30 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id BF6B21861C8; Sat, 23 Jul 2011 22:33:26 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110723223326.BF6B21861C8@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2011 22:33:26 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.182 linking text & image; DH at Trier X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 182. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Laval Hunsucker (7) Subject: News from Trier [2] From: Dot Porter (33) Subject: Text-Image Linking Environment 1.0 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2011 07:54:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Laval Hunsucker Subject: News from Trier In-Reply-To: <20110323061956.4FA0C11EE71@woodward.joyent.us> This "Pressemitteilung", issued today 20 July, entitled "Uni Trier baut ihre Führungsrolle in Digital Humanities aus", seems worth mentioning here : http://www.idw-online.de/pages/de/news433896   - Laval Hunsucker  Antwerpen, België --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 14:11:22 -0400 From: Dot Porter Subject: Text-Image Linking Environment 1.0 In-Reply-To: The TILE team is pleased to announce the release of version 1.0. The Text-Image Linking Environment (TILE) is a web-based tool for creating and editing image-based electronic editions and digital archives of humanities texts. See http://mith.info/tile/ for more. This version of TILE includes: - Import/export of TEI P5, and the ability to easily create custom data importers - Improved workflow and accuracy using the Auto Line Recognizer (ALR) - An improved API for plugin developers - Enhancements and bug fixes to TILE’s interface - Detailed release notes for more information A MITH-hosted sandbox version of TILE allows you to test the tool online without installing it on your machine. We encourage users to download a copy to install on their own servers to customize the tool. Users can import their own data into the software, or get started by playing with pre-loaded data of Algernon Swinburne’s poem Anactoria, provided by John Walsh at Indiana University. The development of TILE has been supported by an NEH Preservation and Access Grant, and it is a collaboration between the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (Dave Lester, Grant Dickie, Jim Smith, Doug Reside) and Indiana University (Dot Porter, John Walsh, Jeffrey Mudge, Tim Bowman). We’d love to hear how you are using TILE, and what questions or suggestions you have, either in blog comments or on the TILE forums. [Please note that there is a workshop on TILE being offered at the TEI Member's Meeting at the University of Würzburg, Germany, 10-16 October - http://www.zde.uni-wuerzburg.de/tei_mm_2011/] -- *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Dot Porter (MA, MSLS) Digital Medievalist, Digital Librarian Email: dot.porter@gmail.com *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Jul 23 22:39:25 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2338F1862CD; Sat, 23 Jul 2011 22:39:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 80B841862BC; Sat, 23 Jul 2011 22:39:20 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110723223920.80B841862BC@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2011 22:39:20 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.183 events: DH support; evolutionary computation; DH and CS X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 183. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Juan Romero (106) Subject: evoStar 2012 First Call for Papers [2] From: Arno Bosse (51) Subject: Call for Papers: 2011 Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities andComputing Science [3] From: Christiane Fritze Subject: 3rd call: SDH 2011 Supporting the Digital Humanities, 17/18 Nov2011 Copenhagen --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2011 13:09:37 +0200 From: Juan Romero Subject: evoStar 2012 First Call for Papers evostar 2012 First Call for Papers evostar - the main european events on evolutionary computation eurogp, evocop, evobio, evomusart and evoapplications 11-13 april 2011 - malaga, spain http://www.evostar.org ABOUT EVO* The evo* event comprises the premier co-located conferences in the field of Evolutionary Computing: eurogp, evocop, evobio, evomusart and evoapplications. In 2012, the evo* will take place at the Malaga, Spain. Featuring the latest in theoretical and applied research, evo* topics include recent genetic programming challenges, evolutionary and other meta-heuristic approaches for combinatorial optimization, evolutionary algorithms, machine learning and data mining techniques in the biosciences, in numerical optimization, in music and art domains, in image analysis and signal processing, in hardware optimization and in a wide range of applications to scientific, industrial, financial and other real-world problems. The proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. EVO* EVENTS eurogp 15th European Conference on Genetic Programming evocop 12th European Conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization evobio 10th European Conference on Evolutionary Computation, Machine Learning and Data Mining in Computational Biology evomusart 1st International Conference and 10th European Event on Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired Music, Sound, Art and Design evoapplications - European Conference on the Applications of Evolutionary Computation evocomnet Track on nature-inspired techniques for telecommunication networks and other parallel and distributed systems evocomplex Track on algorithms and complex systems evofin Track on evolutionary and natural computation in finance and economics evogames Track on bio-inspired algorithms in games evohot Track on bio-inspired heuristics for design automation evoiasp Track on evolutionary computation in image analysis and signal processing evonum Track bio-inspired algorithms for continuous parameter optimisation evopar Track on parallel and distributed Infrastructures evorisk Track on computational intelligence for risk management, security and defence applications evostim Track on nature-inspired techniques in scheduling, planning and timetabling evostoc Track on evolutionary algorithms in stochastic and dynamic environments evotranslog Track on evolutionary computation in transportation and logistics EVO* SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS Submissions must be original and not published elsewhere. The submissions will be peer reviewed by at least three members of the program committee. The authors of accepted papers will have to improve their paper on the basis of the reviewers' comments and will be asked to send a camera ready version of their manuscripts. At least one author of each accepted work has to register for the conference and attend the conference and present the work. The reviewing process will be double-blind, please omit information about the authors in the submitted paper. Submit your manuscript in Springer LNCS format. The submission deadline is 30 november 2011. The other submission details are conference specific. Please follow the instructions and links bellow. eurogp: submission link: http://myreview.csregistry.org/eurogp12/ page limit: 12 pages evocop: submission link: http://myreview.csregistry.org/evocop12/ page limit: 12 pages evobio: submission link: http://myreview.csregistry.org/evobio12/ evobio is interested in papers in three major areas: 1. Full research articles (maximum 12 pages) 2. System Demonstrations (maximum 8 pages) 3. Short reports (maximum 8 pages) 4. Abstracts (maximum 4 pages) evomusart: submission link: http://myreview.csregistry.org/evomusart12/ page limit: 12 pages evoapplications: submission link: http://myreview.csregistry.org/evoapps12/ page limit: 10 pages IMPORTANT DATES submission deadline: 30 november 2011 notification to authors: 14 january 2012 camera-ready deadline: 5 february 2012 evo* event: 11-13 april 2012 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION evostar website: http://www.evostar.org evo* coordinator jennifer willies local chair mario giacobini publicity chair penousal machado --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 16:09:45 +0200 From: Arno Bosse Subject: Call for Papers: 2011 Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computing Science Dear colleagues, I'd like to draw your attention to the Call for Papers for the 2011 Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science (http://chicagocolloquium.org) which will be held on November 19-21 at Loyola University Chicago. The deadline for submissions is September 15th, 2011. The Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science (DHCS) brings together researchers and scholars in the humanities and computer science to examine the current state of digital humanities as a field of intellectual inquiry and to identify and explore new directions and perspectives for future research. Here is a brief look at the three most recent conferences in the DHCS series, which celebrates its sixth year in 2011: -- DHCS 2008 (University of Chicago) focused on “Making Sense” - an exploration of how meaning is created and apprehended at the transition from the digital to the analog. -- DHCS 2009 (IIT) focused on computational methods in digital humanities, including computational stylistics, text analytics, and visualization. -- DHCS 2010 (Northwestern) focused on “Working with Digital Data: Collaborate, Curate, Analyze, Annotate.” With broad agency support for and continued cross-disciplinary interest in “digging into data” as well as cyberinfrastructure and collaboration, this year’s DHCS will continue to focus on these and related topics of interest to the community, with a formal colloquium theme to be unveiled as the program is finalized. We invite submissions from scholars, researchers, practitioners (independent scholars and industry), librarians, technologists, and students, on all topics that intersect current theory and practice in the humanities and computer science. This year’s DHCS is sponsored by Loyola University Chicago (Center for Textual Studies and Digital Humanities and College of Arts and Sciences), University of Chicago (Humanities Division, Computation Institute, Information Technology Services, and the University Library), Northwestern University, and Illinois Institute of Technology (College of Sciences and Letters). For links to past programs of colloquia publications, please visit: http://chicagocolloquium.org --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2011 11:49:47 +0200 From: Christiane Fritze Subject: 3rd call: SDH 2011 Supporting the Digital Humanities, 17/18 Nov2011 Copenhagen *Third call for papers – Extended deadline to August 1!* *SDH 2011 Supporting Digital Humanities: Answering the unaskable* 17-18 November, Copenhagen Following up on the success of the first SDH conference, held in Vienna in 2010, the CLARIN and DARIAH initiatives have decided to jointly organise the second SDH conference, to be held in November 2011 at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, a participant in both CLARIN and DARIAH. Digital technologies have the potential to transform the types of research questions that we ask in the Humanities, allowing us both to address traditional questions in new and exciting ways but also to answer questions that we were not even aware we could ask – hence the title of this conference. How can digital humanities help us not just to find the answers to our research questions more quickly and more easily, but also to formulate research questions we would never have been able to ask without access to large quantities of digital data and sophisticated tools for their analysis? Supporting Digital Humanities will be a forum for the discussion of these innovations, and of the ways in which these new forms of research can be facilitated and supported. CLARIN and DARIAH are creating European research infrastructures for the humanities and related disciplines. SDH2011 aims to bring together infrastructure providers and users from the communities involved in these two infrastructure initiatives. The conference will consist of a number of topical sessions where providers and users will present and discuss results, obstacles and opportunities for digitally-supported humanities research. Participants are encouraged to engage with honest assessments of the intellectual problems and practical barriers in an open and constructive atmosphere. The first SDH conference in 2010 gave a broad and multi-facetted presentation of the domains of interest to CLARIN and DARIAH. This time we have chosen a somewhat more focussed approach, concentrating on two major themes, but not excluding other themes of interest for the humanities. The two themes are: • Sound and movement – music, spoken word, dance and theatre • Texts and things – texts, and the relationship between texts and material artefacts, such as manuscripts, stone or other carriers of texts Submissions are invited for individual papers and posters, as well as panels. Focus should be on tools and methods for the analysis of digital data rather than on digitisation processes themselves, both from the provider and from the user perspective. We want to pay special attention to inspiring showcases that demonstrate the innovative power of digital methods in the humanities. *Some important dates* July 15, 2011: Submission of suggestion for panels August 1, 2011: Submission of abstracts (1,000-1,500 words) August 15, 2011: Notification on panel proposals September 15, 2011: Author notification October 15, 2011: Final version of papers for publication (8 pages). November 17-18: Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark *Submission of abstracts* SDH2011 uses the EasyChair conference system, accessible at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sdh2011 You will need to log in in order to make a submission. If you already have an EasyChair account, you have to use that one. Otherwise you will need to create an account by signing up. To do so, simply follow the instructions on the EasyChair website. *Guidelines for authors* Guidelines for authors are available at the conference website http://cst.ku.dk/sdh2011/ *Programme committee* Bente Maegaard, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Steven Krauwer, Utrecht University, Netherlands Helen Bailey, University of Bedfordshire, UK Tim Crawford, Goldsmith’s University of London, UK Matthew James Driscoll, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Neil Fraistat, University of Maryland, United States Erhard Hinrichs, Tübingen University, Germany Fotis Jannidis, Würzburg University, Germany Helen Katsiadakis, Academy of Athens, Greece Krister Lindén, Helsinki University, Finland Heike Neuroth, Göttingen State and University Library, Germany Laurent Romary, INRIA, France Nina Vodopivec, Institute for Contemporary History, Ljubljana, Slovenia Peter Wittenburg, MPI, Netherlands/Germany Martin Wynne, Oxford University, UK *Conference website* http://cst.ku.dk/sdh2011/ *Contact* bmaegaard@hum.ku.dk Best regards, Christiane Fritze on behalf of the DARIAH-EU Coordination Office -- Christiane Fritze Joint Secretary General DARIAH-EU Coordination Office Georg-August-Universitaet Goettingen Goettingen Centre for Digital Humanities Papendiek 14 37073 Goettingen Germany phone: +49 551 39 9061 fax: +49 551 39 3856 mail: cfritze@gcdh.de web: http://www.gcdh.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 Sun Jul 24 19:56:16 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91516187047; Sun, 24 Jul 2011 19:56:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 8276B187034; Sun, 24 Jul 2011 19:56:08 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110724195608.8276B187034@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2011 19:56:08 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.184 the Big Tent X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 184. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2011 13:32:27 +0100 (BST) From: peter jones Subject: Re: [Humanist] the Big Tent hypothesis In-Reply-To: <20110711232703.9B3161720F0@woodward.joyent.us> I wonder if I might provide an example of sorts....? Sorry if this reads as a CV but I think it may inform thought on the 'tent', its capacity and the number of entrances (too many of the latter it will blow away; too few - not enough light...). As a full-time community mental health nurse I've been interested in IT / informatics since the 1980s (ZX81, BBC micro, PC... Mac). In the 90s I completed a part-time BA(Hons) Computing & Philosophy [2.1]. In 1987-8 I learned of Hodges' model - a conceptual framework and was smitten by the prospect of combining: * models of nursing; * Hodges' model; * computer graphics (visualization in the social sciences); * programming; * health records and nurse education.A chronology (must update) is here: http://www.p-jones.demon.co.uk/chron.htm In 2006 I completed a PG (Dip). COPE psychosocial education, still hoping to pursue to further study. In Oct 2006 I attended an Ideas Factory 5 day event (26 people). At the time I was on a three year secondment to my organization's engagement with the (Nat. Programme for IT) this event gave me insight into the mechanics and significance (stakes!) of research ideas generation and funding. 2008 - present: amid personal change I am full-time clinical but maintain a blog (since April 2006): http://hodges-model.blogspot.com/ - which includes a bibliography and 'studies' trying to formulate a research question (MSc.) that might combine: * Hodges' model as a conceptual space. * Establishing content types to support Hodges model using Drupal the content management system. * Using Ruby to develop a 'language' for Hodges' model and reflect upon nursing's values.In this way I might then be 'suitably qualified'. Perhaps a role for the digital humanities community is recognise (hence this discussion!) the extent of the actual and prospective community and provide some form of mentoring support. In addition to my health care profession I describe myself as an 'independent scholar'. Given pressures in the public sector I have 5 days unpaid leave this year to pursue my interests (e.g. last Thursday, Univ. of Westminster Public 2.0). I wonder about reducing my hours to further my professional and academic interests. I hope these thoughts help.... Peter Jones http://hodges-model.blogspot.com/ Hodges' Health Career - Care Domains - Model http://www.p-jones.demon.co.uk/ h2cm: help2Cmore - help-2-listen - help-2-care http://twitter.com/h2cm ________________________________ From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sent: Tue, 12 July, 2011 0:27:03 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 24 19:58:12 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 088381870C1; Sun, 24 Jul 2011 19:58:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id F0BF11870BA; Sun, 24 Jul 2011 19:58:09 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110724195809.F0BF11870BA@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2011 19:58:09 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.185 PhD studentship at PATRIMA X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 185. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2011 08:49:02 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Doctoral opportunity *** Attachments: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1311461354_2011-07-23_willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk_12636.2.doc -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Doctoral opportunity > Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 09:58:42 +0100 > From: Prescott, Andrew Laboratoire d’excellence PATRIMA Centre d’histoire culturelle des sociétés contemporaines de l’Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin Bibliothèque nationale de France Appel à candidature pour un contrat doctoral Date limite : 10 septembre 2011 Le Laboratoire d’excellence PATRIMA (www.patrima.org) met au concours un contrat doctoral (3 ans) en littérature contemporaine et patrimoine. Rattaché au Centre d’histoire culturelle des sociétés contemporaines (CHCSC), bénéficiant du partenariat de la Bibliothèque nationale de France, le doctorant contribuera, par sa thèse, au programme scientifique de PATRIMA et travaillera sous la direction d’Evanghelia Stead, professeur de littérature comparée à l’Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin (CHCSC). Sujet de thèse : Innovations littéraires et graphiques dans les revues littéraires et artistiques (1880-1914). Questions de conservation et de numérisation Les revues littéraires et artistiques constituent un domaine de création innovant et un extraordinaire laboratoire d’expérimentation pour les avant-gardes littéraires et artistiques à partir des années 1880 en Europe, comme le confirment des recherches récentes, menées à l’échelle nationale , ou européenne , et qui privilégient l’interdisciplinarité. Ces travaux mettent au premier plan – aux côtés de l’approche traditionnelle des textes, des idées, et des acteurs – la matérialité, les réalisations typographiques et iconographiques, et les réseaux des relations entre revues d’une part, galeries, salles de spectacles et expositions, de l’autre. Ils tendent à favoriser, parmi les différentes approches, celle de l’histoire culturelle , dans une perspective désireuse de restituer la place historique (éditoriale, littéraire, artistique) des périodiques vus comme des tremplins de création, mais aussi leur valeur d’échange en tant qu’intermédiaires privilégiés entre les lettres et les arts, et des supports au capital intellectuel et artistique nouveau. Le secteur, c’est un fait, bénéficie d’un regain d’intérêt de la recherche collective ces dix dernières années. Il gagnerait à être étayé par des travaux doctoraux d’envergure, entre l’Université et la BnF, qui envisageraient conjointement ces innovations et la question de la patrimonialisation de ces corpus très diversifiés, requérant une fine approche qualitative. Des choix anciens de conservation de ces périodiques ont laissé de côté des éléments et des pages qui contribuent pourtant de manière centrale à leur identité. Leur numérisation, lancée au tout début du projet Gallica de la BnF, pose un certain nombre de problèmes et ouvre plusieurs pistes de recherche et de questionnement. Pour prendre un exemple, la numérisation de revues phares comme La Plume, La Revue blanche, L’Ermitage a été menée non pas à partir des originaux, mais à partir des reprint Slatkine, réalisés à une époque où l’on ne se souciait guère de l’aspect graphique et matériel des périodiques. D’autres numérisations (par exemple celle du célèbre Yellow Book) n’a pas fait place à la couleur, pourtant essentielle, et affichée dès le titre. Une comparaison entre la numérisation disponible sur Gallica et celle mise en ligne par Ryerson University < http://www.archive.org/details/yellowapril189401uoft> confronte l’usager à deux supports sensiblement différents, celui de Gallica étant le moins fidèle. Il en résulte souvent une uniformisation des publications. Elles sont souvent privées de leurs couvertures, ou pourvues de couvertures ultérieures, privées des pages inaugurales ou publicitaires. Ces dernières servent de tremplin à la création et à l’innovation, mais constituent aussi un témoignage historique irremplaçable des relations entre périodiques au niveau national et international. La transmission en noir et blanc d’un patrimoine polychrome, jouant de nombreux formats, incluant des estampes et des inserts, qui entrent en dialogue avec les contenus de chaque numéro et influent sur les choix éditoriaux, pose également problème. S’ils rendent la lecture et l’accès bien plus aisés que par le passé, dans leur forme actuelle, les corpus numérisés et/ou diversement conservés transmettent une image opacifiée d’un corpus extraordinairement pluriel et inventif. D’autres revues, en attente de numérisation, pourraient suivre la même voie sans une réflexion fine et adéquate. La question de la conservation y est évidemment liée. La thèse projetée se pencherait sur ces questions. Elle chercherait d’une part, à cerner de manière à la fois synthétique et diversifiée les innovations graphiques et typographiques en relation avec le contenu littéraire, artistique et idéologique, et les choix éditoriaux d’un corpus de périodiques choisi à bon escient. Elle envisagerait d’autre part le type de conservation et de numérisation apte à mieux rendre compte de ce type de corpus et des problèmes qu’il pose. Dans la perspective envisagée ici, on recommanderait : 1) qu’elle adresse les débuts de ce phénomène foisonnant (avant 1900) du fait du nombre restreint de travaux existants, et de leur nature souvent uniquement littéraire (dans une perspective majoritairement monographique et d’idées). Il s’agirait au contraire d’envisager les périodiques choisis comme des ensembles performants et de comparer les pratiques entre elles. 2) qu’elle procède de manière interdisciplinaire en associant des attentes et des considérations littéraires à une approche sensible aux supports, aux images, à la typographie, et ouvrant sur l’histoire culturelle. Il s’agirait de prendre en compte la valeur d’échange des périodiques entre le monde des lettres et celui des arts, et de les relier à la modernité sociale et culturelle. Cette approche interdisciplinaire gagnerait à être comparée, adressant non pas seulement des périodiques français, mais également ceux qui leur seraient liés dans une autre aire culturelle européenne. 3) qu’elle adresse en parallèle les questions de conservation et de numérisation des périodiques choisis, en élaborant un protocole d’approche et en comparaison avec le type de conservation et de numérisation lancé par d’autres serveurs et/ou institutions. Procédure de candidature Le candidat adressera une lettre de motivation et un CV qui seront adressées, avant le 10 septembre 2011 à evanghelia.stead@uvsq.fr et helene.humbert@uvsq.fr. Le contrat prendra effet courant octobre 2011. Professor Andrew Prescott Department of Digital Humanities King's College London 28-29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/ddh/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Jul 24 19:58:59 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id E39F818710C; Sun, 24 Jul 2011 19:58:58 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 65A1B1870FC; Sun, 24 Jul 2011 19:58:51 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110724195851.65A1B1870FC@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2011 19:58:51 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.186 cfp: science and performance X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 186. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2011 10:06:27 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: cfp: ISR on science and performance Call for papers: “Experiments in Theatre: New Directions in Science and Performance” Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr‐journal.org) Scope and Aims In 2002, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews published a special number on Theatre and Science that became the springboard for key debates that have helped to shape and define the field. Since then, several new books and dozens of articles have significantly expanded the scholarship on theatre and science, while a steady flow of new work for the stage has shown that the interactions between science and theatre continue to surprise, delight, and provoke audiences and readers around the world. Now, a decade on from that seminal 2002 issue, we are seeking contributions of articles of approximately 6,000 words on theatre and science that signal important new developments, directions, and explorations in this ever-expanding field. The editors are seeking a cross-section of both established and emerging scholars and practitioners to contribute to this special number. Contributions might explore such issues as: --How has the field evolved and expanded away from the focus on text-based “science plays” like Stoppard’s Arcadia, Wertenbaker’s After Darwin, and Frayn’s Copenhagen to a greater emphasis on performance in its broadest sense, through such diverse practitioners as Complicite (A Disappearing Number), Punchdrunk (Faust), Athletes of the Heart (Yerma’s Eggs), and Clod Ensemble (Performing Medicine)? --How do theatre and scientific experimentation intersect and cross-fertilize each other? --How has theatre engaged with relatively recent scientific findings and debates, such as those relating to climate change and global warming? -- How do science and technology contribute to innovation in theatrical representation, particularly as digitization and “new media” have generated new kinds of performance? -- Is there a poetics of scientific representation within the theatre? -- Is there an ethical dimension to the theatrical representation of science? Is ‘bad science’ ever justifiable in the theatre? -- Theatre and science beyond the Anglophone and Western traditions. • All contributions will be peer-reviewed. • Articles may contain black-and-white illustrations (for which authors should seek any necessary permissions). • Articles should not exceed a maximum length of 6000 words. • For details about format see guidelines: www.maney.co.uk/journals/notes/isr Please send expressions of interest to by 30 October 2011 to the guest editors as listed below Schedule 30 October 2011: declare intention to contribute (title & abstract) July 2012: submit first version October/November 2012: reviewers’ comments & decision returned to authors July 2013: final version due to the publisher December 2013: issue published as ISR Editors Dr Kirsten Shepherd-Barr (University Lecturer in Modern Drama, University of Oxford), kirsten.shepherd-barr@ell.ox.ac.uk Dr Carina Bartleet (Senior Lecturer in Drama, Oxford Brookes University), c.e.bartleet@brookes.ac.uk -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Jul 25 19:49:54 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCABB188798; Mon, 25 Jul 2011 19:49:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 6055B188784; Mon, 25 Jul 2011 19:49:47 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20110725194948.6055B188784@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 19:49:47 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.187 job at Illinois X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 187. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 11:51:39 -0500 From: "Reilly, Maeve J" Subject: Senior Research Programmer job at Illinois Feel free to distribute widely. The following Senior Research Programmer position has just been posted at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign In order to receive full consideration, please submit applications by August 3, 2011. PLEASE SEE https://jobs.illinois.edu/default.cfm?page=job&jobID=8424 FOR FULL JOB POSTING, which includes further details on preferred skills and important application instructions. ---------------- Senior Research Programmer FUNCTION: The Graduate School of Library and Information Science (http://www.lis.illinois.edu) seeks to fill a 100% FTE, 12-month, Academic Professional position as a Senior Research Programmer to support the School's growing research computing needs. The Senior Research Programmer provides professional programming, analysis, maintenance and technical research infrastructure support for GSLIS research projects and proposals. The Senior Research Programmer reports to the GSLIS Associate Dean for Research (ADR), and works closely with GSLIS faculty, research scientists and graduate students, as well as with other GSLIS and University units such as CITES, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NSCA), the Illinois Informatics Institute (I3), and with GSLIS Research Services and GSLIS Core IT. General Responsibilities: * Provides analysis, software development and maintenance support for research projects and proposals. * Consults and provides technical solutions for faculty research projects and proposals. * Provides hardware system planning and support. * Makes key contributions to the design, development and management of a GSLIS shared research software infrastructure. * Leads analysis and strategic planning for GSLIS research computing. * Works with the ADR and with Research Services to coordinate, liaise and integrate with GSLIS IT, University IT and with external entities. * Stays current with industry technology and trends. Requirements: * Strong background in variety of programming/scripting languages, including Java and at least one of C++, Perl, Eclipse IDE, MySQL, Python, PHP * Experience with design and development of rapid prototypes * Experience with the UNIX/LINUX operating system * Demonstrated ability to handle large-scale, data-intensive computing challenges * Ability to bridge between diverse research needs and technical solutions * Experience with application trouble-shooting, quality assurance testing * Strong writing and communication skills * Scheduling flexibility is needed to meet researcher needs and deadlines * Undergraduate degree * Minimum three years of programming experience, showing increasing responsibilities Preferred Skills/Abilities: * Familiarity/interest in LIS research areas, including data mining, information retrieval, social network analysis, natural language processing * Experience working in a team environment * Experience researching, configuring and deploying open-source software * Familiarity with academic environment, ability to work closely with faculty * Familiarity with University of Illinois IT environment * Good project management skills with demonstrated ability to use standard methods for organizing, securing and managing resources for research projects * Undergraduate degree or higher in Computer Science or related field * Five years or more programming experience Illinois is an Affirmative Action /Equal Opportunity Employer and welcomes individuals with diverse backgrounds, experiences, and ideas who embrace and value diversity and inclusivity. 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Maeve Reilly Research and communications coordinator Graduate School of Library and Information Science University of Illinois mjreilly@illinois.edu (217) 244-7316 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 25 19:52:30 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77029188842; Mon, 25 Jul 2011 19:52:30 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A5D46188830; Mon, 25 Jul 2011 19:52:20 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20110725195220.A5D46188830@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 19:52:20 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.188 MA in Digital Sociology X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 188. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 15:02:08 +0100 From: Richard Lewis Subject: Digital Sociology MA Programme ANNOUNCEMENT OF MASTERS PROGRAMME Please disseminate the following announcement of a new MA programme to anyone who may be interested or in a position to disseminate further. MA in Digital Sociology Centre for Creative and Social Technology Goldsmiths' College, University of London The new MA/MSc in Digital Sociology builds on Goldsmiths' leading position in creative research and analysis. The programme combines practice-based technical skills with social methods and sociological thinking to enable graduates to play leading roles in the emerging field of digital sociology. Graduates will learn to assess, use and develop new research instruments for the collection, analysis and presentation of social data in relation to sociological problems. The MA/MSc in Digital Sociology is a collaborative programme taught across the Sociology and Computing Departments, and is based in the centre for Creative and Social Technology (CAST). As part of this new research centre, students will have access to state of the art facilities and emergent creative and social technologies. The MA in Digital Sociology enables students to develop the critical thinking, research skills and digital techniques that are crucial for cutting-edge social research. The MA teaches the practice-based technological skills and the sociological competencies required to become a Digital Sociologist who is able to create, analyse and interact with contemporary digital theory, methods and techniques. Best, Richard Lewis -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Richard Lewis ISMS, Computing Goldsmiths, University of London Tel: +44 (0)20 7078 5134 Skype: richardjlewis JID: ironchicken@jabber.earth.li http://www.richardlewis.me.uk/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Jul 25 19:53:57 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54F54188885; Mon, 25 Jul 2011 19:53:57 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 504C2188875; Mon, 25 Jul 2011 19:53:50 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20110725195350.504C2188875@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 19:53:50 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.189 events: TEI customization X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 189. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 09:56:36 -0400 From: Julia Flanders Subject: TEI customization workshop at Brown: space still available Ever wondered how the sausage is made? Space is still available for the WWP's upcoming workshop on TEI customization: August 29-31, 2011 Introduction to TEI Customization Julia Flanders and Syd Bauman $450 ($300 for students and TEI members) Registration deadline: August 18, 2011 For those who may be on the fence, TEI customization is really the master key for planning a successful TEI project. You'll come away with a more expert perspective on the TEI as a language, and new confidence in building and managing your own TEI schemas. No matter how well we advertise, this is likely to be a small and motivated group, so it should be a fun event. We have a few more workshops coming up as well: September 26-28, 2011 Introduction to Text Encoding and Contextual Information with TEI Julia Flanders and Syd Bauman $450 ($300 for students and TEI members) Registration deadline: September 15, 2011 December 5-7, 2011 Introduction to Manuscript Encoding with TEI Julia Flanders and Syd Bauman $450 ($300 for students and TEI members) Registration deadline: November 22, 2011 These workshops are aimed at humanities faculty, librarians, students, and anyone interested in getting a strong introduction to digital humanities concepts, methods, and tools. Each workshop combines hands- on practice with discussion and lectures, and participants are encouraged to work with their own project materials. These small group events offer an opportunity to learn about other digital projects as well as to master important methods and concepts in an exploratory setting. More information, including detailed workshop descriptions and registration information, can be found at http://www.wwp.brown.edu/outreach/seminars/. All workshops are held at Brown University. We hope to see you in Providence! best wishes, Julia Julia Flanders Director, Women Writers Project Center for Digital Initiatives, Brown University Library http://www.wwp.brown.edu http://library.brown.edu/cds/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Jul 26 20:50:10 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5767618A570; Tue, 26 Jul 2011 20:50:10 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 852F718A566; Tue, 26 Jul 2011 20:50:01 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110726205001.852F718A566@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 20:50:01 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.190 TEI: clean, unclean & document interchange? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 190. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 12:04:16 +1000 From: Desmond Schmidt Subject: RE: [Humanist] 25.189 events: TEI customization In-Reply-To: <20110725195350.504C2188875@woodward.joyent.us> This post raises a point I have been wondering about for some time. According to the description at http://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p4-doc/html/MD.html customizations may be "clean" or "unclean". "Clean" means that all the documents defined by the customized schema are also TEI documents. But even in this case elements selected by group A that are not selected by group B or vice versa won't be usable by any software developed by either group, unless they both support (in the general case) the entire TEI schema. In the "unclean" case, when the document-sets defined by the two groups only intersect, the problem is obviously exacerbated. So how does this promote document interchange, particularly if "TEI customization is really the master key for planning a successful TEI project", which seems to imply that customization is the norm rather than the exception? Dr Desmond SchmidtInformation Security Institute Faculty of Science and Technology Queensland University of Technology (07)3138-9509 ________________________________________ From: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org [humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org] On Behalf Of Humanist Discussion Group [willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk] Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2011 5:53 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 Jul 26 20:52:46 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF3AA18A617; Tue, 26 Jul 2011 20:52:44 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 82FF218A602; Tue, 26 Jul 2011 20:52:37 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110726205237.82FF218A602@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 20:52:37 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.191 online: text-analysis software; critical edn of Dioscorus X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 191. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Giulia Sarullo (11) Subject: [DIGITALCLASSICIST] Software for syntactical analysis [2] From: Clement Kuehn (11) Subject: Critical Edition now online --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 00:27:15 +0200 From: Giulia Sarullo Subject: [DIGITALCLASSICIST] Software for syntactical analysis Dear all, A colleague of mine is working on a research project involving the analysis of the frequency of certain syntactical structures in Italian and English novels, such as subject-verb-complement structures, or the frequency of adverbs ending in a specific suffix and their position in the sentence. Does anyone know any software that could be useful to the purpose? I know that this subject may be a little far from the main interests of the people reading this list, but I thought it could be worth a try. Thank you in advance, Giulia --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 16:57:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Clement Kuehn Subject: Critical Edition now online Dear Colleagues, The poems by Dioscorus of Aphrodito (c. 520-585) are the oldest manuscripts written by the hand of a known poet (with corrections and revisions). One hundred years ago, Jean Maspero published the first collection of his Greek poems: Un dernier poète grec d'Égypte (Revue des études grecques 24: 426-481). To celebrate the centennial, we are beginning to make available online the new Critical Edition. One poem is in place for your preview. www.ByzantineEgypt.com For iPad users and others, volume 1, part 1, of the edition can be downloaded as a pdf file from the Home page and viewed on your pdf reader. For a biography of the poet, see: www.ByzantineEgypt.org Respectfully, Clement Kuehn _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 26 20:57:40 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2D5418A831; Tue, 26 Jul 2011 20:57:39 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 8AB6F18A81C; Tue, 26 Jul 2011 20:57:31 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110726205731.8AB6F18A81C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 20:57:31 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.192 threat to the NEH (U.S.) X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 192. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 14:57:32 +0100 From: Daniel Pitti Subject: Humanities Action Alert Update: Rep. Huelskamp (R-KS) Offers Amendment to Eliminate NEH funding > From: Jessica Irons > > Date: Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 6:30 PM > Subject: Humanities Action Alert Update: Rep. Huelskamp (R-KS) Offers Amendment to Eliminate NEH funding Dear Colleague: This afternoon, the U.S. House of Representatives began debating the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies spending bill (H.R. 2584). In last week’s action alert, I mentioned that amendments could be offered on the floor that would further reduce funding for the National Endowment for the Humanities beyond the $135 million in FY 2012 funding approved by the Appropriations Committee (a $19.7 million, or 13% cut from the current year). Just hours ago, Rep. Tim Huelskamp (R-KS) offered an amendment to reduce funding in the Interior bill by $3 billion in various accounts, including $1.9 billion in EPA spending, as well as complete elimination of the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Endowment for the Arts (among other programs). The Huelskamp amendment failed by voice vote, but a recorded vote was requested, and is expected to take place tonight. Even if the current measure fails, additional amendments to weaken funding for NEH may be offered during this week’s floor consideration of the FY12 Interior bill. If you have not already done so, please email your Representative and ask him/her to: * Oppose any amendments to eliminate or further cut NEH funding in the FY12 Interior bill (H.R. 2584) * Speak on the floor in support of the humanities and the benefits that NEH provides your community If you would prefer to call the office directly, you can do so through the Capitol Switchboard at (202) 224-3121. Earlier today, the Congressional Humanities Caucus Co-Chairs, Reps. David Price (D-NC) and Tom Petri (R-WI), issued a Dear Colleague letter urging Members to oppose the Huelskamp amendment. Reps. Price and Petri are still planning to lead a bipartisan “strike the last word” effort to protect NEH and provide Members an opportunity to join their colleagues on the House floor to speak in support of the humanities. The timing of this effort is likely to coincide with the reading of the bill portion that references NEH funding (expected within the next 1-2 days). Thank you for taking action. We will continue to post updates as new information becomes available. Sincerely, Jessica Jones Irons Executive Director National Humanities Alliance National Humanities Alliance 21 Dupont Circle NW | Suite 800 | Washington, DC 20036 www.nhalliance.org -- 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/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 26 21:01:39 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6162E18A96E; Tue, 26 Jul 2011 21:01:39 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 20DEB18A964; Tue, 26 Jul 2011 21:01:31 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110726210131.20DEB18A964@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 21:01:31 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.193 events: inspirational biology; digital palaeography X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 193. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Brookes, Stewart" (27) Subject: cfp: 'Digital Methods and Resources for Palaeography and Manuscript Studies' (Kalamazoo 2012)... [2] From: Juan Romero (89) Subject: cfp: EvoMUSART2012: 1st International Conference and 10th European Event on Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired Music, Sound, Art and Design --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 17:04:08 +0100 From: "Brookes, Stewart" Subject: cfp: 'Digital Methods and Resources for Palaeography and Manuscript Studies' (Kalamazoo 2012)... Dear all, I hope that the following will be of interest to those on this list. Call for Papers: 'Digital Methods and Resources for Palaeography and Manuscript Studies' at the 47th International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo, Michigan (10th May-13th May 2012) The digital environment offers exciting ways of enhancing and extending the traditional methodologies used in palaeographical and manuscript research. The aim of this session is to present developments in the field, explore the limits of digital and computational-based approaches, and share methodologies across projects that overlap or complement each other. Papers of 20 minutes in length are invited on any relevant aspect of digital methods and resources for palaeography and manuscript studies. Please submit abstracts (max. 300 words) and the Congress Participant Information Form (http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions/index.html#PIF) to digipal [at] kcl.ac.uk. The deadline for receipt of submissions is 15th September 2011. Notice of acceptance will be sent by 1st October 2011. -- Dr Stewart J Brookes Research Associate Digital Resource for Palaeography Department of Digital Humanities King's College London Visit our blog: http://digipal.eu/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 12:57:26 +0200 From: Juan Romero Subject: cfp: EvoMUSART2012: 1st International Conference and 10th European Event on Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired Music, Sound, Art and Design FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS evomusart 2012 1st International Conference and 10th European Event on Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired Music, Sound, Art and Design 11-13 April 2012, Malaga, Spain Part of evo* 2012 evo*: http://www.evostar.org evomusart: http://www.evostar.org/2012/call-for-contributions/evomusart/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- evomusart 2012 is the tenth European event on Evolutionary Music and Art. Following the success of previous events and the importance of the field of evolutionary and biologically inspired music, sound, art and design, evomusart has became a evo* conference with independent proceedings. Thus, evomusart 2012 is the tenth European Event on Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired Music, Sound, Art and Design and the first conference on the field. The use of biologically inspired techniques for the development of artistic systems is a recent, exciting and significant area of research. There is a growing interest in the application of these techniques in fields such as: visual art and music generation, analysis, and interpretation; sound synthesis; architecture; video; poetry; design; and other creative tasks. The main goal of evomusart 2012 is to bring together researchers who are using biologically inspired computer techniques for artistic tasks, providing the opportunity to promote, present and discuss ongoing work in the area. The event will be held from 11-13 April, 2012 in Malaga, Spain as part of the evostar event. Accepted papers will be presented orally at the event and included in the evomusart proceedings, published by Springer Verlag in a dedicated volume of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Topics of interest ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The papers should concern the use of biologically inspired computer techniques - e.g. Evolutionary Computation, Artificial Life, Artificial Neural Networks, Swarm Intelligence, other artificial intelligence techniques. - 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 - Biologically Inspired Design and Art - Systems that create drawings, images, animations, sculptures, poetry, text, designs, webpages, buildings, etc.; - Biologically Inspired Sound and Music - Systems that create musical pieces, sounds, instruments, voices, sound effects, sound analysis, etc.; - Robotic Based Evolutionary Art and Music; - Other related artificial intelligence or generative techniques - in the fields of Computer Music, Computer Art; --Theory - Computational Aesthetics, Experimental Aesthetics; o Emotional Response, Surprise, Novelty; - Representation techniques; - Surveys of the current state-of-the-art in the area; identification of weaknesses and strengths; comparative analysis and classification; - Validation methodologies; - Studies on the applicability of these techniques to related areas; - New models designed to promote the creative potential of biologically inspired computation; --Computer Aided Creativity and computational creativity - Systems in which biologically inspired computation is used to promote the creativity of a human user; - New ways of integrating the user in the evolutionary cycle; - Analysis and evaluation of: the artistic potential of biologically inspired art and music; the artistic processes inherent to these approaches; the resulting artifacts; - Collaborative distributed artificial art environments; --Automation - Techniques for automatic fitness assignment; - Systems in which an analysis or interpretation of the artworks is used in conjunction with biologically inspired techniques to produce novel objects; - Systems that resort to biologically inspired computation to perform the analysis of image, music, sound, sculpture, or some other types of artistic object; ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submission: 30 November 2011 Conference: 11-13 April 2012 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Additional information and submission details ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submit your manuscript, at most 12 A4 pages long, in Springer LNCS format (instructions downloadable from http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,5-164-2-72376-0,00.html) no later than November 30, 2011 to site http://myreview.csregistry.org/evomusart12 The reviewing process will be double-blind, please omit information about the authors in the submitted paper. [...] _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Jul 26 21:19:25 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87A1218AE6E; Tue, 26 Jul 2011 21:19:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 28C9D18AE64; Tue, 26 Jul 2011 21:19:17 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110726211917.28C9D18AE64@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 21:19:17 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.194 the impact of impact? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 194. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 07:18:05 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: the impact of impact In an attempt to puzzle out how to talk about the future of our subject I have engaged in a struggle with the whole idea of technological determinism, esp under the guise of the now pervasive metaphor of "impact". I've done rather a lot of trawling for intelligent writings about this metaphor and its implications but come up with disappointingly little. I am wondering if anyone here could help. The best article I have found is: John Law and John Whittaker, "On the malleability of people and computers: Why the PC is not a projectile", Proceedings of the third ACM-SIGOIS conference on Office Automation Systems (New York: ACM, 1986). Others are: John R. Pannabecker, "Technological Impacts and Determinism in Technology Education: Alternate Metaphors from Social Constructivism", Journal of Technology Education 3.1 (Fall 1991); Stephen Petrina, "Questioning the language that we use: A reaction to Pannabecker's Critique of the technological impact metaphor", Journal of Technology Education 4.1 (Fall 1992); Giuseppe Mantovani, "Beyond the 'impact' metaphor: The mutual shaping of psychological theory and Internet development", Towards CyberPsychology: Mind, Cognitions and Society in the Internet Age (Amsterdam: IOS Press, 2003). I would be most grateful for pointers to additional items specifically about this metaphor and its implications. I have sufficient material on technological determinism more generally. Many thanks. Yours, WM -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Jul 27 20:23:38 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id DAF6018B8F3; Wed, 27 Jul 2011 20:23:37 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 560AE18B8D3; Wed, 27 Jul 2011 20:23:19 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110727202320.560AE18B8D3@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 20:23:19 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.195 text-analysis software X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 195. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Tom Salyers (39) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.191 online: text-analysis software;critical edn of Dioscorus [2] From: Thomas Crombez (28) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.191 online: text-analysis software;critical edn of Dioscorus [3] From: Anna Jordanous (25) Subject: Re: Humanist Digest, Vol 34, Issue 17 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 14:20:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom Salyers Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.191 online: text-analysis software;critical edn of Dioscorus Dear Giulia, I'm not currently aware of any software that collects and quantifies that kind of data, but I'd be very interested in knowing if you find any, since my PhD thesis research involves the collection of very similar syntactic information in Elizabethan drama. I'm a few months away from writing my own software to do it, but I'd appreciate any time-saving adaptations of existing software I can make. Thanks in advance! -- Tom Salyers ----- Original Message ----- > From: Humanist Discussion Group > To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > Cc: > Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2011 9:52 PM > Subject: [Humanist] 25.191 online: text-analysis software; critical edn of Dioscorus > >                  Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 191. >          Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London >                        www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist >                 Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ >         Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 00:27:15 +0200 >         From: Giulia Sarullo >         Subject: [DIGITALCLASSICIST] Software for syntactical analysis > > > Dear all, > > A colleague of mine is working on a research project involving the > analysis of the frequency of certain syntactical structures in Italian > and English novels, such as subject-verb-complement structures, or the > frequency of adverbs ending in a specific suffix and their position in > the sentence. > Does anyone know any software that could be useful to the purpose? > > I know that this subject may be a little far from the main interests of > the people reading this list, but I thought it could be worth a try. > > Thank you in advance, > > Giulia --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 11:34:41 +0200 From: Thomas Crombez Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.191 online: text-analysis software;critical edn of Dioscorus In-Reply-To: <20110726205237.82FF218A602@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Giulia you will need a good automatic parser to do this. I'm sure there must be Italian departments of computational linguistics that will have something like that lying around, and probably they will be glad to explain how it works, too. Also, be sure to have a look at the NLTK open-source package. It features a lot of linguistic tools, and may already have that what your colleague needs. Best Thomas Crombez University of Antwerp --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 12:24:15 +0000 From: Anna Jordanous Subject: Re: Humanist Digest, Vol 34, Issue 17 In-Reply-To: Dear Giulia Sandra Deshors has done some interesting work analysing how "may" and "can" are used by non-native speakers of English. She works with the analytical tool R (www.r-project.org) and uses a method called behavioral profiles. I believe she has looked at French-English and Chinese-English. Her work is online at https://sites.google.com/site/sandracdeshors/ Your colleague may also find Stefan Th. Gries's work useful: http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/faculty/stgries/ Anna _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 27 20:30:43 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A48618BAE3; Wed, 27 Jul 2011 20:30:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0F4CC18BAD3; Wed, 27 Jul 2011 20:30:30 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110727203031.0F4CC18BAD3@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 20:30:30 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.196 MONK in research? DH within CS? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 196. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Green, Harriett E" (16) Subject: Reminder: Survey on use of MONK in research [2] From: Willard McCarty (12) Subject: DH as itself in CS? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 15:16:48 +0000 From: "Green, Harriett E" Subject: Reminder: Survey on use of MONK in research Dear Colleagues, This is just a brief reminder about my research survey about MONK (https://monk.library.illinois.edu/). The survey will close on August 20th. If you have used or viewed MONK in any way, please take a few minutes to complete this survey: https://illinois.edu/sb/sec/6379572 Thank you in advance for your participation, and please let me know if you have questions. Best, Harriett Green English and Digital Humanities Librarian Assistant Professor of Library Administration University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 225 Main Library, MC-522 1408 W. Gregory Drive Urbana, Illinois 61801 green19@illinois.edu | 217-333-4942 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 06:27:34 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: DH as itself in CS? Does anyone here know of a digital humanities group, operating as such, embedded in a department of computer science? If so, what might we learn from such a group about the interrelations between these two disciplines? Is such an embedding good for both the digital humanities and computer science? Yours, WM -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Jul 27 20:32:20 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 121AB18BB43; Wed, 27 Jul 2011 20:32:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 782C718BB31; Wed, 27 Jul 2011 20:32:11 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110727203211.782C718BB31@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 20:32:11 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.197 events: TEI; MT X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 197. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Susan Schreibman (14) Subject: TEI Members Meeting and Conference 2011 [2] From: Nicola Bertoldi (17) Subject: MT Marathon: Third Call for Participation --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 08:13:01 +0100 From: Susan Schreibman Subject: TEI Members Meeting and Conference 2011 We invite you to the 2011 Annual Conference and Members' Meeting of the Text Encoding Initiative which will be held at the University of Wuerzburg, Germany, 10-16 October. The theme of this years' conference is "Philology in the Digital Age". The academic program features keynote lectures, parallel sessions of papers, posters and micropapers and is accompanied by workshops, tutorials, meetings of the Special Interest Groups and excursions. Keynote lectures will be given by Edward Vanhoutte (Gent): "So You Think You Can Edit? The Masterchef Edition" and Andrea Rapp (Darmstadt): "From text technology to cultural technology: the role of the TEI in Virtual Research Environments". The full program is available on the conference website where you can also register online and find information about travel and lodging. Conference website: http://www.zde.uni-wuerzburg.de/tei_mm_2011/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 15:10:56 +0000 From: Nicola Bertoldi Subject: MT Marathon: Third Call for Participation CALL FOR PARTICIPATION The Machine Translation Marathon 2011 is the sixth in a series of events promoted by EuroMatrix and EuroMatrixPlus, which are EU research projects on Machine Translation. The Sixth MT Marathon, organised by the HLT Research Unit of Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK), will take place 5-10 September 2011 in Trento, Italy. The EuroMatrixPlus consortium invites researchers, developers, students and users of machine translation for participation. Participants can attend the MT Marathon in several ways: * Attend lectures and labs: these range from beginners tutorials to showcase talks by leading researchers. Everybody can learn or strengthen their knowledge! * Attend technical talks about open-source tools for MT. * Take part in a project team to help develop an open-source tool for MT. Where: Fondazione Bruno Kessler, IRST, Povo, Trento, Italy When: September 5-10, 2011 How: On-line Registration Fee: Attendance is free of charge, but limited. For more information and online registration please go to http://mtmarathon2011.fbk.eu http://mtmarathon2011.fbk.eu/ Best regards, The 6th MT Marathon organisation 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 Thu Jul 28 20:45:04 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6829818C882; Thu, 28 Jul 2011 20:45:04 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 59D0418C865; Thu, 28 Jul 2011 20:44:56 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110728204456.59D0418C865@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 20:44:56 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.198 text-analysis software X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 198. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 20:28:32 +0200 From: maurizio lana Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.191 online: text-analysis software; critical edn of Dioscorus In-Reply-To: <20110726205237.82FF218A602@woodward.joyent.us> Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 191. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Giulia Sarullo (11) Subject: [DIGITALCLASSICIST] Software for syntactical analysis A colleague of mine is working on a research project involving the analysis of the frequency of certain syntactical structures in Italian and English novels, such as subject-verb-complement structures, or the frequency of adverbs ending in a specific suffix and their position in the sentence. Does anyone know any software that could be useful to the purpose? I know that this subject may be a little far from the main interests of the people reading this list, but I thought it could be worth a try. don't know of any software doing that 'simply'. the fact is that you need a morpho and syntactical analysis before being able to search for"subject-verb- complement" which is very simple to say but very difficult to accomplish. so i suggest to parse the text with an italian morphological parser and have it writing - for every word in the source - in 1 file the lemmata sequence, in 1 other file the analyses sequence (but: what do youo do when the parser reads "pesca"? or "legge"? or "rosa"? an interactively operating parser would require a very big amount of time to be operated); and - after that - analyzing the analyses sequences (noun-adjective-verb-noun were the final noun could very probably be a complement to the verb; the more so because you'll have some indication about prepositions). maurizio -- La Repubblica promuove lo sviluppo della cultura e la ricerca scientifica e tecnica. La Repubblica detta le norme generali sull'istruzione ed istituisce scuole statali per tutti gli ordini e gradi. (Costituzione della Repubblica Italiana, art. 9 e 33) ------- il mio corso di informatica umanistica: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85JsyJw2zuw ------- Maurizio Lana - ricercatore Università del Piemonte Orientale, Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici, via Manzoni 8, 13100 Vercelli - tel. +39 347 7370925 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Jul 28 20:47:06 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id A311318C937; Thu, 28 Jul 2011 20:47:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 631A718C925; Thu, 28 Jul 2011 20:47:01 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110728204701.631A718C925@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 20:47:01 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.199 TEI: clean, unclean & document interchange X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 199. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 10:15:45 +0200 From: Torsten Schassan Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.190 TEI: clean, unclean & document interchange? In-Reply-To: <20110726205001.852F718A566@woodward.joyent.us> > "Clean" means that all the documents defined by > the customized schema are also TEI documents. But even in this case elements > selected by group A that are not selected by group B or vice versa won't be > usable by any software developed by either group, unless they both support > (in the general case) the entire TEI schema. Wouldn't one expect that both group A and B select the same elements (aka modules) if dealing with the same kind of materials? Thus I would expect that at least for the same kind of materials there should be interoperable TEI documents? > So how does this promote document interchange, > particularly if "TEI customization is really the master key for planning a > successful TEI project", which seems to imply that customization is the norm > rather than the exception? If TEI customisation is carried out as constraint of existing elements and/or attributes, e.g. allowing less elements or proposing attribute values, document interchange is always possible from the more general "customisation", which is the full TEI schema. On the other hand I would dare say that if you were in need of new elements or attributes because of some project necessities it would be better to try to introduce these in the general TEI by proposing them through feature requests rather than to "really" customise your schema? This would lead to "TEI customisation" instead of customising locally the TEI schema? Best, Torsten -- Torsten Schassan Digitale Editionen Abteilung Handschriften und Sondersammlungen Herzog August Bibliothek, Postfach 1364, D-38299 Wolfenbuettel Tel.: +49-5331-808-130 (Fax -165), schassan {at} hab.de http://www.hab.de/forschung/projekte/europeana-regia.htm 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 Thu Jul 28 20:48:10 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0E8118C9DC; Thu, 28 Jul 2011 20:48:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 3BF3C18C9B7; Thu, 28 Jul 2011 20:48:03 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110728204803.3BF3C18C9B7@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 20:48:03 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.200 TEI: clean etc (continued) X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 200. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 13:02:11 -0400 From: Wendell Piez Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.190 TEI: clean, unclean & document interchange? In-Reply-To: <20110726205001.852F718A566@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Desmond, Of course, I do not write for the TEI, with which I have only a friendly association. But I think it's fair to say your post puts a finger in a hornet's nest of which TEI practitioners are only too aware. I think a short answer is that customization does not promote interchange; nor is it, in and by itself, intended to. Schema customization is helpful (and arguably necessary) for the success of a TEI project for entirely different reasons having primarily to do with tagging discipline. And while tagging discipline may not help for interchange, without it no interchange is practical whatever the schema may be -- or even possible, except in a very weak definition of "interchange". (Note also that while fostering interchange may be a goal of TEI, it need not be a paramount goal, or even a goal at all, of any given TEI project. And TEI must promote the goals of its "clients" or participants if it is to promote its own, even if they are sometimes at odds. The world is filled with such paradoxes.) For a different perspective on these issues, see Syd Bauman's paper in this year's Balisage Proceedings, a preliminary version of which can be found here: http://balisage.net/Proceedings/vol7/html/Bauman01/BalisageVol7-Bauman01.html Best regards, Wendell On 7/26/2011 4:50 PM, Desmond Schmidt wrote: > This post raises a point I have been wondering about for some time. > > According to the description at > http://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p4-doc/html/MD.html customizations may > be "clean" or "unclean". "Clean" means that all the documents defined by > the customized schema are also TEI documents. But even in this case elements > selected by group A that are not selected by group B or vice versa won't be > usable by any software developed by either group, unless they both support > (in the general case) the entire TEI schema. In the "unclean" case, when the > document-sets defined by the two groups only intersect, the problem is > obviously exacerbated. So how does this promote document interchange, > particularly if "TEI customization is really the master key for planning a > successful TEI project", which seems to imply that customization is the norm > rather than the exception? > > Dr Desmond SchmidtInformation Security Institute > Faculty of Science and Technology > Queensland University of Technology > (07)3138-9509 -- ====================================================================== 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 Thu Jul 28 20:51:21 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FA5D18CB02; Thu, 28 Jul 2011 20:51:21 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B834418CAEF; Thu, 28 Jul 2011 20:51:14 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110728205114.B834418CAEF@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 20:51:14 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.201 DH within CS X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 201. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 09:25:38 -0500 From: Laura Mandell Subject: DH within CS? Dear Willard and Humanist List: Hello, yes-- the Center for the Study of Digital Libraries at Texas A&M University, directed by Rick Furuta, is a great example of a CS group devoted to DH concerns: http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/node/6 Here the focus is on libraries, but they are digital libraries--large, digitized archives. I'm finding the CSDL an invaluable partner in launching the IDHMC (http://liberalarts.tamu.edu/html/news-mandell-appointed-as-director-initiative-for-digital-humanities--media--and-cult.html). Best, Laura ---- Laura Mandell Director, Initiative for Digital Humanities, Media, and Culture Professor, English Texas A&M University MS 4227 College Station, TX 77843-4227 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 28 20:53:13 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDC5A18CBF2; Thu, 28 Jul 2011 20:53:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 6DBC518CBE8; Thu, 28 Jul 2011 20:53:07 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110728205307.6DBC518CBE8@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 20:53:07 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.202 NEH awards for DH institutes X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 202. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2011 06:38:27 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: awards to 5 new Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities National Endowment for the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities July 2011 The Office of Digital Humanities is happy to announce five new awards from our Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities program from our February, 2011 deadline. These awards are part of a larger slate of 249 grants announced today [27 July] by the NEH. Awards are to Brown (Taking TEI Further: Teaching and Publication), Indiana (Spatial Narratives and Deep Maps: Explorations in Advanced Geo-spatial Technologies and the Spatial Humanities), NYU (Linked Ancient World Data Institute), Tufts (Working with Text in a Digital Age) and UCLA (Digital Cultural Mapping: Transformative Scholarship and Teaching in the Geospatial Humanities). See http://www.neh.gov/ODH/ODHUpdate/tabid/108/EntryId/165/Announcing-5-New-Institutes-for-Advanced-Topics-in-the-Digital-Humanities-July-2011.aspx for the specifics. -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Jul 29 22:56:54 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF18D18E1EA; Fri, 29 Jul 2011 22:56:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0F22F18E1D7; Fri, 29 Jul 2011 22:56:50 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110729225650.0F22F18E1D7@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2011 22:56:49 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.203 TEI: clean, unclean &c X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 203. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2011 20:15:27 +1000 From: Desmond Schmidt Subject: RE: [Humanist] 25.200 TEI: clean etc (continued) In-Reply-To: <20110728204803.3BF3C18C9B7@woodward.joyent.us> Hi Wendell, this was a very useful link to Syd's paper. What he appears to say here is that interoperability of TEI documents is an unrealistic goal. And even TEI document interchange requires discipline and good documentation to work properly. While agreeing with this, I prefer to think of TEI as a kind of ontology: a set of tags that describe certain textual phenomena, rather than as an interchange or interoperability format. If we need to seek functional interoperability we need to look for it at another level, or in another way, not in a prescribed set of variably expressive tags. Dr Desmond Schmidt Information Security Institute Faculty of Science and Technology Queensland University of Technology _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Jul 29 23:02:30 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14F0618E2B3; Fri, 29 Jul 2011 23:02:30 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 79CC018E2A2; Fri, 29 Jul 2011 23:02:25 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110729230225.79CC018E2A2@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2011 23:02:25 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.204 text-analysis software & news X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 204. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Wolfgang Kotowski (94) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.198 text-analysis software [2] From: "centrostudicomparati@libero.it" (145) Subject: R: [Humanist] 25.195 text-analysis software [3] From: Willard McCarty (12) Subject: The Jargon of the Novel, Computed --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 14:54:52 -0600 From: Wolfgang Kotowski Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.198 text-analysis software In-Reply-To: <20110728204456.59D0418C865@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Maurizo Lana, try R (http://cran.r-project.org/index.html ). Both tasks are easy with it. How to do it explains Gries in a brilliant way: http://www.amazon.com/Quantitative-Corpus-Linguistics-Practical-Introduction/dp/0415962706/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1311886448&sr=8-2 Good luck! - Wolfgang Kotowski __________________ Wolfgang Kotowski, M.A. Chair of Marketing and Market Research University of Zurich Department of Business Administration Plattenstrasse 14 CH-8032 Zurich Switzerland _______________ Phone: +41 44 634 9201 Fax: +41 44 634 2940 Email: wolfgang.kotowski@business.uzh.ch Home: http://www.market-research.uzh.ch SSRN: http://ssrn.com/author=%201320542 _______________ University of Zurich: http://www.uzh.ch Institute for Betriebswirtschaftslehre: http://www.business.uzh.ch --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2011 11:10:34 +0200 (CEST) From: "centrostudicomparati@libero.it" Subject: R: [Humanist] 25.195 text-analysis software In-Reply-To: <20110728204456.59D0418C865@woodward.joyent.us> Un lavoro di buon livello, benché a mi avviso ancora sommario, sulla sintassi latina lo stanno conducendo nel centro http://centridiricerca.unicatt. it/circse_index.html); è consultabile a http://itreebank.marginalia.it/ . Guidelines (criteri guida) per l'annotazione sono elencati al sito http: //daphne.perseus.tufts.edu/docs/guidelinespdf . Auguri Francesco Stella --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2011 08:43:27 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: The Jargon of the Novel, Computed In-Reply-To: <20110728204456.59D0418C865@woodward.joyent.us> > Subject: NYTimes.com: The Jargon of the Novel, Computed > Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2011 16:49:43 -0400 > From: kenfriedman@groupwise.swin.edu.au *BOOKS * | July 31, 2011 *The Mechanic Muse: The Jargon of the Novel, Computed http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/31/books/review/the-mechanic-muse-the-jargon-of-the-novel-computed.html?emc=eta1 * By BEN ZIMMER We like to think modern fiction is free from the artificial stylistic pretensions of the past. But computer analysis reveals that linguistictics unique to fiction writing endure. [...] _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 1 20:27:09 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BA411936CC; Mon, 1 Aug 2011 20:27:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 48B711936C2; Mon, 1 Aug 2011 20:27:00 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110801202700.48B711936C2@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2011 20:27:00 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.205 the subtle changes? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 205. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2011 06:22:13 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: the subtle changes Computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum, famously author of Eliza, in "On the impact of the computer on society", Science NS 176.4305 (May 1972), wrote that, > the direct societal effects of any pervasive new technology are as > nothing compared to its much more subtle and ultimately much more > important side effects. (p. 609) Surveying the cultural effects of the sciences, Weizenbaum thought that in concert with them the computer was helping to bring about "a crisis in the mental life of our civilization". As extreme as his pronouncement may seem to be, I think there's a strong argument in favour that survives those Cold War days. Apart from that, however, I am interested in knowing what you think are the big changes in store for us that tend to escape our notice because they appear technically or theoretically uninteresting. For example, how about the effects of large-scale accumulation of online resources? Ignore for the sake of argument all the interesting problems of how these are best accessed and presented online or, for example, what text-analysis software the texts require, or what markup problems they present. Consider, if you will, simply the masses of stuff. What does it mean for scholarship to have all this to hand? Does the TLG have anything to teach us here? Perseus? Yours, WM -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Aug 2 20:21:01 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 209AF18CD18; Tue, 2 Aug 2011 20:21:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 108EF18CCF9; Tue, 2 Aug 2011 20:20:59 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110802202059.108EF18CCF9@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2011 20:20:59 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.206 subtle changes (and not so subtle) X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 206. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2011 04:51:27 +0200 (CEST) From: marjorie.burghart@free.fr Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.205 the subtle changes? In-Reply-To: <20110801202700.48B711936C2@woodward.joyent.us> > Consider, if you will, simply the masses of stuff. What does it mean > for scholarship to have all this to hand? Does the TLG have anything > to teach us here? Perseus? Sometimes, I feel that having all this to hand means, for scholarship, an insidious decline. Consider a 19th century Medieval Studies student. To get a grip on the texts he was studying, the merry fellow needed to be, say, as familiar with the Lombard's Sentences as any medieval Parisian student, know his Latin Bible, and in a word, have the same cultural references as the world he was studying. He had to become acquainted with the very culture of the medieval writers, what really shaped their thought, not just the ideas and sketches, but a strong knowledge, carefully commited to memory - again like any medieval scholar before him. Consider a 21th century Medieval Studies student. To get a grip on the texts he/she is studying, the merry fellow *needs* exactly the same thing as the former one. But he/she does not *have* to make the same effort, he/she does not *have* to make the same efforts, acquire the same level of familiarity with the medieval cultural background, and make the same use of his/her memory. What we gain in instant access to references, easy identification of obscure far-fetched sources, etc., I am afraid we lose it in true erudition and connivence with the culture of the ancient worlds. This is not, of course, true of all scholars, but there's a dangerous temptation here, especially at a time when young scholars are expected to master a wider range of skills. Searchable and browsable masses of texts allows us to have an idle, even random and unplanned access to source texts, and to make "discoveries" (this author used that unexpected other one as a source, for instance) at a much lower work cost. It allows us to spare a precious time and effort. But where do we put this spared time and effort? And what skills might we lose, out of "uselessness", in the process? Best wishes, Marjorie PS: I am, of course, reacting here as a (grumpy) historian - linguistics does not follow the same path, given how profoundly this discipline has been reshaped / defined by the availability of huge masses of digital texts. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 2 20:23:04 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9536F18CDC9; Tue, 2 Aug 2011 20:23:04 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B9CC618CDB7; Tue, 2 Aug 2011 20:23:02 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110802202302.B9CC618CDB7@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2011 20:23:02 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.207 events: logic, language, information X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 207. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2011 23:02:25 +0100 From: Carlos Areces Subject: NASSLLI 2012: Call for Course and Workshop Proposals - EXTENDEDDEADLINE NASSLLI 2012 North American Summer School in Logic, Language and Information 2012 http://nasslli2012.com/ June 18-22, University of Texas at Austin 2nd CALL for COURSE and WORKSHOP PROPOSALS The fifth NASSLLI (after previous editions at Stanford University, Indiana University and UCLA) will be hosted at the University of Texas at Austin, on June 18 - 22, 2012. The summer school, loosely modeled on the long- running ESSLLI series in Europe, will consist of a number of courses and workshops, selected on the basis of the proposals. By default, courses and workshops meet for 90 minutes on each of five days. Proposals are invited that present interdisciplinary work between the areas of logic, linguistics, computer science, cognitive science, philosophy and artificial intelligence, though work in just one area is within the scope of the summer school if it can be applied in other fields. Examples of possible topics would include e.g. logics for communication, computational semantics, game theory (for logic, language and/or computation), dynamic semantics, modal logics, linear logic, machine learning techniques, statistical language models, and automated theorem proving. We encourage potential course or workshop contributors to check out previous programs at: * http://www.linguistics.ucla.edu/nasslli04/program.html * http://www.stanford.edu/group/nasslli/ * http://www.indiana.edu/~nasslli/2003/program.html * http://www.indiana.edu/~nasslli/ Courses and workshops should aim to be accessible to an interdisciplinary, graduate level audience. Courses may certainly focus on a single area, but lecturers should then include introductory background, try to avoid specialized notation that cannot be applied more widely, and spend time on the question of how the topic is relevant to other fields. A workshop can be more accessible if its program is bracketed by broader-audience talks that introduce and summarize the week's presentations. Associated Workshops/Conferences: In addition to courses and workshops taking place during the main NASSLLI five day session, NASSLLI welcomes proposals for 1-3 day workshops or conferences hosted on campus immediately before or after the summer school, thus on the weekends of June 15-17 and June 23-25 2012. Previous such associated meetings have included the Dynamic Epistemic Logic Workshop, the Mathematics of Language conference, and the Theoretical Aspects of Reasoning About Knowledge (TARK) conference. [...] _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Aug 3 20:23:04 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DA05198B24; Wed, 3 Aug 2011 20:23:04 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id CE9A0198B14; Wed, 3 Aug 2011 20:23:02 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110803202302.CE9A0198B14@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2011 20:23:02 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.208 subtle changes (and not so subtle) X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 208. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2011 13:31:09 +0100 From: Leif Isaksen Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.206 subtle changes (and not so subtle) In-Reply-To: <20110802202059.108EF18CCF9@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Marjorie I'm rather grateful for you bringing this up because I think it is a quite commonly held view while also believing that it is profoundly wrong for a number of reasons. I hope you will forgive me laying them out in order to, respectfully, provoke debate. - first of all I think we need to clearly distinguish between capability and scholarship. In a world with wide access to resources it is both possible to have narrow and focussed scholarship as well as wide-ranging overviews (and mixes of the two). In a world with limited access only narrow and focussed scholarship is possible. What people choose to do is of course an important issue (which you raise) but having a cjoice must surely be a better state of affairs than no choice at all. - 'masses of stuff' is of course an an entirely relative phrase. No-one in their right mind would today claim that 10th Century Toledo, the invention of the printing press, or the development of academic journals has had a deleterious effect on scholarship, but the thing that connects them is that their fundamental role was to produce 'masses of the stuff'. It's hard to see why the rise of the Web is qualitatively different form these earlier developments. - The most intuitive, but insidious, argument is that back the (g)olden days the material we had access to was 'good' and we are now swimming in garbage. This seems patently false. Not only was it of highly varying quality, the stuff people had access to was entirely arbitrary depending on the library facilities available to them. The merry fellows of Paris (and London and Oxford and Cambridge) may be better catered for. Those anywhere else were definitely not. That scarcity in turn tends to have made them largely the preserve of those wealthy enough to afford to study in such places which is not, in and of itself, conducive to a meritocratic academy. And if the new stuff really is so bad why do people complain about not having access to post-1900 Google Books when (almost) everything before then really is now freely available? - ultimately, and I think this is what I feel most passionately about - if we are concerned about the quality of scholarship we should focus our criticism on that. Bad workmen blame their tools. In the digital humanities it seems we blame other people's. I am the first person to concede that much drivel has been written based on superficial readings of source material and misunderstood technology. No doubt I've contributed to that torrent myself from time to time. But it was ever thus. Arguing that by limiting scholars to only reading 'the right books' we can make them better academics seems to put the cart before the horse. Surely it is the ability to judge what good material is that makes one a good scholar? In the rush to respond between email triage and a skype meeting I've probably judged the tone of this email all wrong so I do hope I've not have caused offence, but I think the idea that the level of scholarship is declining and that access to resources is to blame cannot go unchallenged. With all best wishes Leif On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 9:20 PM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > >                 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 206. >            Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London >                       www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist >                Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > >        Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2011 04:51:27 +0200 (CEST) >        From: marjorie.burghart@free.fr >        Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.205 the subtle changes? >        In-Reply-To: <20110801202700.48B711936C2@woodward.joyent.us> > > >> Consider, if you will, simply the masses of stuff. What does it mean >> for scholarship to have all this to hand? Does the TLG have anything >> to teach us here? Perseus? > > Sometimes, I feel that having all this to hand means, for scholarship, an insidious decline. > > Consider a 19th century Medieval Studies student. To get a grip on the texts he was studying, the merry fellow needed to be, say, as familiar with the Lombard's Sentences as any medieval Parisian student, know his Latin Bible, and in a word, have the same cultural references as the world he was studying. He had to become acquainted with the very culture of the medieval writers, what really shaped their thought, not just the ideas and sketches, but a strong knowledge, carefully commited to memory - again like any medieval scholar before him. > > Consider a 21th century Medieval Studies student. To get a grip on the texts he/she is studying, the merry fellow *needs* exactly the same thing as the former one. But he/she does not *have* to make the same effort, he/she does not *have* to make the same efforts, acquire the same level of familiarity with  the medieval cultural background, and make the same use of his/her memory. > > What we gain in instant access to references, easy identification of obscure far-fetched sources, etc., I am afraid we lose it in true erudition and connivence with the culture of the ancient worlds. This is not, of course, true of all scholars, but there's a dangerous temptation here, especially at a time when young scholars are expected to master a wider range of skills. > > Searchable and browsable masses of texts allows us to have an idle, even random and unplanned access to source texts, and to make "discoveries" (this author used that unexpected other one as a source, for instance) at a much lower work cost. It allows us to spare a precious time and effort. > > But where do we put this spared time and effort? And what skills might we lose, out of "uselessness", in the process? > > Best wishes, > Marjorie > PS: I am, of course, reacting here as a (grumpy) historian - linguistics does not follow the same path, given how profoundly this discipline has been reshaped / defined by the availability of huge masses of digital texts. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 3 20:24:02 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87085198B82; Wed, 3 Aug 2011 20:24:02 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 6D0F7198B73; Wed, 3 Aug 2011 20:24:00 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110803202400.6D0F7198B73@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2011 20:24:00 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.209 PhD in Digital Arts & Humanities at Galway X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 209. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2011 12:17:18 +0100 From: Shawn Day Subject: Second Call for Applications NUI Galway Structured PhD programme in Digital Arts & Humanities (DAH) A second round for applications has been issued for the Structured PhD programme in Digital Arts & Humanities (DAH). There is one Scholarship available in the Humanities stream of the programme (led by the Moore Institute) and two in the Arts stream (led by the Huston School of Film & Digital Media). I would appreciate if you could circulate the information to potential candidates in your area. A full prospectus on the programme is attached and is also available at http://www.nuigalway.ie/courses/research-postgraduate-programmes/structured-phd/digital-arts-humanities.html . As a reminder, DAH is a full-time four year inter-disciplinary structured PhD programme funded by the Higher Education Authority under its Programme for Research in Third Level Institutions, Cycle 5. The PhD programme is co-ordinated with an all-Irish university consortium: National University of Ireland, Galway; Trinity College Dublin; University College Cork; and National University of Ireland, Maynooth and includes additional teaching contributions by Queen's University Belfast; University of Ulster and the Royal Irish Academy and by its industrial partners, Google, IBM, and Intel. DAH is a field of study, research, teaching, and invention at the intersection of computing and information management with the arts and humanities, and is designed to enable students to carry out research in the arts and humanities at the highest level using new media and computer technologies. The closing date for receipt of applications is Monday, August 15. If you have any questions, please let me know. Regards Nicholas Allen Academic Director Moore Institute nicholas.allen@nuigalway.ie _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Aug 3 20:27:04 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 704B6198C6B; Wed, 3 Aug 2011 20:27:04 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 3458D198C5C; Wed, 3 Aug 2011 20:27:02 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110803202702.3458D198C5C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2011 20:27:02 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.210 events: TEI; palaeography; cultural histories X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 210. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Susan Brown (102) Subject: CFP: Cultural Histories: Emergent Theories, Methods,and the Digital Turn [2] From: Shawn Day (18) Subject: TEI Members Meeting and Conference 2011 [3] From: "Brookes, Stewart" (51) Subject: 'Digital Resources for Palaeography' Symposium: 5th September 2011... --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2011 23:16:22 -0400 From: Susan Brown Subject: CFP: Cultural Histories: Emergent Theories, Methods,and the Digital Turn Dear colleagues, Please find below a CFP for a conference next spring that I hope some of you will find it of interest. Please feel free to circulate to others. All the best, Susan Brown Cultural Histories: Emergent Theories, Methods, and the Digital Turn Organized by TransCanada Institute & Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory University of Guelph March 2 - 4, 2012 Keynotes: Alan Liu (University of California, Santa Barbara) Steven High (Concordia) In both history and literary studies, critical theory and the cultural turn have called into question the role of narratives and metanarratives of teleology and causation, and of monological or hegemonic voices in scholarly constructions of the past. Be it a reading of the problems of the past with an eye to possibilities in the future, a genealogical analysis of the remains of the past, cultural ethnography channeled through archives, or a critical rendering of a discipline's formation, historical projects help us understand ourselves and the sites we inhabit at the same time that they can cause ruptures and discontinuities that unmoor familiar regimes of truth and the instrumental and rational models that produce them. Writing cultural history has been progressively challenged by a range of intellectual developments since the latter part of the twentieth-century. Critical theory and the cultural turn have called into question the roles of narratives and metanarratives, of teleology and causation, and of monological or hegemonic voices in scholarly constructions of the past. The contemporary accelerated pace of change, the ephemerality of eventful experience, and the relentless remediation of representations of events in the age of digital information networks present new kinds of challenges in relating the present to events of the recent past. The shift towards digital scholarship further complicates historical projects by offering a much larger potential "archive" of sources and new tools for scholarly engagement. The current fascination with the archive and its application to uncommensurable referents itself points to a sea change in how we engage with, attempt to access, and inscribe the past. Digital tools offer the chance to engage with the past using evidence on a much larger scale, as well as different modes of representation than those possible with print media. Yet engaging with the potential and perils of digital media requires dialogue with "analog" debates over how to engage in cultural history. This conference aims to bring together literary scholars and historians to discuss the impact of recent theoretical and methodological developments in our fields and think of new directions. This interdisciplinary conference is jointly sponsored by the TransCanada Institute (www.transcanada.ca) and the Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory /Le Collaboratoire scientifique des Écrits du Canada (www.cwrc.ca) to foster debate on new modes and methods of history and historiography, especially those employed or theorized by cultural historians, literary historians, and critics. Examples of topics or questions to be considered: -- Historiography, historicism, and epistemic shifts -- Cultural histories in the context of post/colonialism, diasporas, minoritized communities, and globalization -- Writing about mega events (e.g., Olympics, G20 protests) -- The writing of histories of literature, text technologies, and modes of cultural production -- Digital interfaces for historical argument -- Historicizing critical concepts, or institutional and/or disciplinary formations -- Genres of cultural histories (e.g., literary history, chronicle, biography) -- The histories of cities, of space, or place -- Non-positivist histories, or speculative histories -- Cultural histories of crisis and/or trauma, truth or reconciliation commissions -- Activist historiography -- Archives as sources, as textual constructs, as problems -- Digital archive structures and their implications for cultural history -- Histories of the ephemeral, the popular, or the representative We invite proposals of no more than 300 words for twenty-minute papers or panel proposals of three or more papers (nontraditional formats such as 10-minute position papers or project demonstrations are welcome). Organizing Committee: Susan Brown and Smaro Kamboureli (University of Guelph), co-chairs; Catherine Carstairs (University of Guelph); Paul Hjartarson (University of Alberta); Katherine McLeod (Postdoctoral fellow, TransCanada Institute). Deadline for abstracts: September 30, 2011 Notification of acceptance: October 30, 2011 Submission address: transcan@uoguelph.ca, or Cultural Histories Conference, TransCanada Institute, 9 University Avenue East, University of Guelph, ON, Canada, N1G 1M8 A pdf version of this cfp is available at http://www.cwrc.ca ____________________________________________________________________ Susan Brown Director, Orlando Project; Project Leader, Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory Professor Visiting Professor School of English and Theatre Studies English and Film Studies University of Guelph University of Alberta Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1 Canada Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2E5 519-824-4120 x53266 (office) 780-862-0155 519-766-0844 (fax) sbrown@uoguelph.ca susan.brown@ualberta.ca http://orlando.cambridge.org http://www.ualberta.ca/ORLANDO --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2011 11:26:22 +0100 From: Shawn Day Subject: TEI Members Meeting and Conference 2011 In-Reply-To: <4E2FBAD9.30905@gmail.com> We invite you to the 2011 Annual Conference and Members' Meeting of the Text Encoding Initiative which will be held at the University of Wuerzburg, Germany, 10-16 October. The theme of this years' conference is "Philology in the Digital Age". The academic program features keynote lectures, parallel sessions of papers, posters and micropapers and is accompanied by workshops, tutorials, meetings of the Special Interest Groups and excursions. Keynote lectures will be given by Edward Vanhoutte (Gent): "So You Think You Can Edit? The Masterchef Edition" and Andrea Rapp (Darmstadt): "From text technology to cultural technology: the role of the TEI in Virtual Research Environments". The full program is available on the conference website where you can also register online and find information about travel and lodging. Conference website: http://www.zde.uni-wuerzburg.de/tei_mm_2011/ --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2011 12:21:08 +0100 From: "Brookes, Stewart" Subject: 'Digital Resources for Palaeography' Symposium: 5th September 2011... In-Reply-To: <4E2FBAD9.30905@gmail.com> 'Digital Resources for Palaeography' Symposium -------- Monday 5th September 2011, 9.30am-5.30pm King's College London, Council Room, Strand WC2R 2LS The 'Digital Resource for Palaeography' (http://digipal.eu) at the Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, is delighted to announce that registration is now open for our one-day symposium on digital resources for palaeography. Attendance is free and open to all, but places are limited and so registration is essential. ----------- Registering ----------- To register, email your details as you would like them to appear on your name badge to digipal [at] kcl.ac.uk http://kcl.ac.uk/ by Monday 22nd August 2011. Refreshments and a sandwich-style lunch will be provided, so do let us know if you are vegetarian. A flyer is available from http://digipal.eu/blogs/news/registration -------- Speakers -------- Elaine Treharne (Florida State University), 'A Site for Sore Eyes: Digital, Visual and Haptic Manuscript Studies' Peter Stokes (King's College London), 'DigiPal in Theory' Stewart Brookes (King's College London), 'DigiPal in Practice' Wim Van-Mierlo (University of London), 'How to Work with Modern Manuscripts in a Digital Environment — Some Desiderata' Franck Le Bourgeois (Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon), 'Overview of Image Analysis Technologies' Erik Kwakkel (Leiden University), 'The Digital Eye of the Paleographer: Using Databases to Identify Scribes and Date their Handwriting' John McEwan and Elizabeth New (Aberystwyth University), 'The Seals in Medieval Wales Project: Towards a New Standard in Digital Sigillography' Els De Paermentier (Ghent University), 'Diplomata Belgica: Towards a More Creative and Comparative Palaeographical Research on Medieval Charters' James Brusuelas (University of Oxford) and John Wallin (Middle Tennessee State University), 'The Papyrologist in the Shell' Ben Outhwaite and Huw Jones (Cambridge University Library), 'Navigating Cambridge's Digital Library: the Cairo Genizah and Beyond' Closing discussion with Michelle Brown (University of London), Donald Scragg (University of Manchester) and Marc Smith (École Nationale des Chartes) Hope to see you there, Stewart -- Dr Stewart J Brookes Research Associate Digital Resource for Palaeography Department of Digital Humanities King's College London Blog: http://digipal.eu/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Aug 4 20:17:50 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id B426719B568; Thu, 4 Aug 2011 20:17:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0BD1F19B518; Thu, 4 Aug 2011 20:17:49 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110804201749.0BD1F19B518@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2011 20:17:49 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.211 subtle and not so subtle changes X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 211. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2011 23:50:03 +0200 (CEST) From: marjorie.burghart@free.fr Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.208 subtle changes (and not so subtle) In-Reply-To: <2086304139.1364021312408165093.JavaMail.root@zimbra3-e1.priv.proxad.net> Dear Leif, Thanks for taking the time and trouble to answer my grumpy email :) Actually, I can see how my email could be interpreted in a quite radical way, but I happen to agree with most of your points, and I'm particularly sorry if I came out as thinking that "back in the (g)olden days the material we had access to was 'good' and we are now swimming in garbage", because it's not my views at all. The point I was lamely trying to make was mainly about what I feel is a major shift in our relationship with our own memory, as scholars. The amount and nature of the things we have to commit to memory is changing - at least that's how I perceive it. This is probably not, BTW, particular to scholarship, and is just one aspect of a global evolution in our societies. You mentioned 10th Century Toledo, the invention of the printing press, or the development of academic journals as phenomena producing "masses of stuff" - right. But what I am interested in, here, is not the process of producing texts or data 'en masse', but the way the existence of those masses changes the way we process knowledge to produce scholarship. I do think that we should not neglect the impact of the way we use our memory on scholarship. Having committed to one's memory the same knowledge a medieval scholar had, for instance, cannot be without impact on one's scholarship. Just as being able to query masses of texts going far beyond the capacity of anyone's memory also has an impact. The shift is happening, and it's a given, not something for us to approve or disapprove, just to observe, and maybe reflect upon. Medieval scholars reflected a lot on their use of memory, and I believe we should give it more attention. Best wishes, Marjorie ----- Mail Original ----- De: "Humanist Discussion Group" À: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Envoyé: Mercredi 3 Août 2011 22h23:02 GMT +01:00 Amsterdam / Berlin / Berne / Rome / Stockholm / Vienne Objet: [Humanist] 25.208 subtle changes (and not so subtle) Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 208. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2011 13:31:09 +0100 From: Leif Isaksen Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.206 subtle changes (and not so subtle) In-Reply-To: <20110802202059.108EF18CCF9@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Marjorie I'm rather grateful for you bringing this up because I think it is a quite commonly held view while also believing that it is profoundly wrong for a number of reasons. I hope you will forgive me laying them out in order to, respectfully, provoke debate. - first of all I think we need to clearly distinguish between capability and scholarship. In a world with wide access to resources it is both possible to have narrow and focussed scholarship as well as wide-ranging overviews (and mixes of the two). In a world with limited access only narrow and focussed scholarship is possible. What people choose to do is of course an important issue (which you raise) but having a cjoice must surely be a better state of affairs than no choice at all. - 'masses of stuff' is of course an an entirely relative phrase. No-one in their right mind would today claim that 10th Century Toledo, the invention of the printing press, or the development of academic journals has had a deleterious effect on scholarship, but the thing that connects them is that their fundamental role was to produce 'masses of the stuff'. It's hard to see why the rise of the Web is qualitatively different form these earlier developments. - The most intuitive, but insidious, argument is that back the (g)olden days the material we had access to was 'good' and we are now swimming in garbage. This seems patently false. Not only was it of highly varying quality, the stuff people had access to was entirely arbitrary depending on the library facilities available to them. The merry fellows of Paris (and London and Oxford and Cambridge) may be better catered for. Those anywhere else were definitely not. That scarcity in turn tends to have made them largely the preserve of those wealthy enough to afford to study in such places which is not, in and of itself, conducive to a meritocratic academy. And if the new stuff really is so bad why do people complain about not having access to post-1900 Google Books when (almost) everything before then really is now freely available? - ultimately, and I think this is what I feel most passionately about - if we are concerned about the quality of scholarship we should focus our criticism on that. Bad workmen blame their tools. In the digital humanities it seems we blame other people's. I am the first person to concede that much drivel has been written based on superficial readings of source material and misunderstood technology. No doubt I've contributed to that torrent myself from time to time. But it was ever thus. Arguing that by limiting scholars to only reading 'the right books' we can make them better academics seems to put the cart before the horse. Surely it is the ability to judge what good material is that makes one a good scholar? In the rush to respond between email triage and a skype meeting I've probably judged the tone of this email all wrong so I do hope I've not have caused offence, but I think the idea that the level of scholarship is declining and that access to resources is to blame cannot go unchallenged. With all best wishes Leif _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 4 20:18:27 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 508B319B805; Thu, 4 Aug 2011 20:18:27 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 3ABF619B731; Thu, 4 Aug 2011 20:18:25 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110804201825.3ABF619B731@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2011 20:18:25 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.212 call for nominations: ACH Exec X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 212. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2011 10:57:02 -0400 From: Dot Porter Subject: Call for ACH Executive Council Nominations The Association for Computers and the Humanities invites nominations for this year's elections. We are electing a president, vice-president, and three Executive Council members, and seek candidates for all these offices who want to advance the field of digital humanities by helping to run the ACH. Together with other officers, these are the people who form the ACH's policies, decide how the ACH will spend its funds, and oversee its activities. They meet for an annual council meeting at the Digital Humanities conference every year, and hold discussions during the rest of the year by email and occasional phone conferences. Candidates must be (or be willing to become) members of the ACH and must commit to attending the council meetings at the Digital Humanities conference. The president and vice-president serve two-year terms; council members serve four-year terms. Candidates are expected to be active members of the digital humanities community. But these are not roles reserved to those in very senior positions: graduate students have often served on the council, and commitment to the organization and to the field have usually counted for more with the membership than job titles. Nominations should be sent to ach-nominations@digitalhumanities.org by September 15. They should include an email address for the nominee. A brief biographical statement will also be needed for the ballot but need not be included with the nomination. You are warmly encouraged to nominate yourself if you are interested. Please note that per the bylaws each nominee needs two nominations to be considered for inclusion on the ballot. The nominations committee shall determine the final slate of candidates to stand for election for the available positions. For more information on the responsibilities and obligations of ACH officers, see http://www.ach.org/constitution#Bylaws Current officers of the ACH are listed at http://www.ach.org/officers Many thanks, ACH Nominations Committee Julia Flanders Neil Fraistat Dot Porter (chair) Brian Pytlik Zillig Bill Turkel -- *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Dot Porter (MA, MSLS) Digital Medievalist, Digital Librarian Email: dot.porter@gmail.com *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Aug 4 20:19:15 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24DC719BEAB; Thu, 4 Aug 2011 20:19:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 75B1B19BEA4; Thu, 4 Aug 2011 20:19:14 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110804201914.75B1B19BEA4@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2011 20:19:14 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.213 Beckett Digital Manuscript Project X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 213. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2011 10:11:54 +0100 From: Van Hulle Dirk Subject: the Beckett Digitial Manuscript Project We are delighted to announce the launch of the Beckett Digital Manuscript Project, a collaboration between the Centre for Manuscript Genetics (University of Antwerp), the Beckett International Foundation (University of Reading) and the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (University of Texas at Austin). The project is supported by the Estate of Samuel Beckett, and is published by the University Press of Antwerp. The purpose of the Beckett Digital Manuscript Project is to reunite the manuscripts of Samuel Beckett’s works in a digital way, and to facilitate genetic research: the project brings together digital facsimiles of documents that are now preserved in different holding libraries, and adds transcriptions of Beckett’s manuscripts, tools for bilingual and genetic version comparison, and a search engine. The project also enhances the preservation of Beckett’s manuscripts. The BDMP consists of two parts: (a) a digital archive of Samuel Beckett’s manuscripts (www.beckettarchive.org http://www.beckettarchive.org/ ), organized in research modules. Each of these modules comprises digital facsimiles and transcriptions of all the extant manuscripts pertaining to an individual text, or in the case of shorter texts, a group of texts. (b) a series of print volumes analyzing the genesis of the texts contained in the corresponding electronic environment. The editorial schedule of the BDMP envisages the publication of one module per year, and will run to 2037. The first electronic module, which comprises Stirrings Still / Soubresautes and ‘comment dire / what is the word’, edited by Dirk Van Hulle, and the corresponding volume The Making of Stirrings Still / Soubresauts and ‘comment dire’ / ‘what is the word’ (Brussels: ASP/University Press Antwerp, 2011, ISBN: 9789054879121) are now available. See www.beckettarchive.org http://www.beckettarchive.org/ for details. The BDMP is a collaborative research project, undertaken by and for the scholarly Beckett community; we invite colleagues to participate and to comment on the project. The project relies on subscriptions (individual and institutional) by the community to ensure its continuation and successful completion. Should you have any comments or queries, please don’t hesitate to contact the project directors. Dirk Van Hulle (University of Antwerp – dirk.vanhulle@ua.ac.be) Mark Nixon (University of Reading – m.nixon@reading.ac.uk) _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Aug 4 20:19:57 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id B114119A49B; Thu, 4 Aug 2011 20:19:57 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 5F6A219A48C; Thu, 4 Aug 2011 20:19:56 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110804201956.5F6A219A48C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2011 20:19:56 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.214 events: Text Camp X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 214. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2011 10:41:41 -0400 From: Dot Porter Subject: Text Camp 2011 Posted to Humanist at the request of James Harriman-Smith ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: James Harriman-Smith > Date: Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 10:37 AM > Subject: Text Camp 2011 I write to bring the Open Knowledge Foundation's Text Camp 2011 to your attention, as I believe it will be of interest to many of your member organisations. The event is due to take place on Saturday 13th August and hopes to bring together lots of people interested in the overlap between literature, technology, and openness. More details are available at http://textcamp2011.**eventbrite.com http://textcamp2011.eventbrite.com/ , including the chance to reserve (free) tickets. The event itself can be followed on twitter using #tcamp11. Best wishes, James Harriman-Smith -- James Harriman-Smith Open Literature Working Group Coordinator Open Knowledge Foundation http://okfn.org/members/jameshs Skype: james.harriman.smith -- *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Dot Porter (MA, MSLS) Digital Medievalist, Digital Librarian Email: dot.porter@gmail.com *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Aug 4 20:45:52 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F93C19C65A; Thu, 4 Aug 2011 20:45:52 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id CEFC319C64B; Thu, 4 Aug 2011 20:45:50 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20110804204550.CEFC319C64B@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2011 20:45:50 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.215 events: Getting Started (MLA 2012) X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 215. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2011 15:27:12 -0500 From: Ryan Cordell Subject: MLA Workshop: Getting Started in Digital Humanities with DHCommons This workshop isn't really pitched at the experienced digital humanists of this list (though some will be on the workshop's panel of experts), but if you have colleagues who are interested in getting started in the digital humanities, you might encourage them to apply to DHCommons' preconvention workshop at MLA 2012 in Seattle. The event will be cosponsored by NITLE and the Texas A&M Initiative for Digital Humanities, Media, and Culture. Representatives from a range of prominent DH projects and centers will be on hand for training and consultation. The full announcement is below. Thanks, Ryan Cordell Assistant Professor of English | St. Norbert College | ryan.cordell@snc.edu | twitter: @ryancordell MLA Workshop: Getting Started in Digital Humanities with DHCommons Thursday, 5 January 2012, 8:30-11:30 am Digital methodologies and new media are changing the landscape of research and teaching in modern languages and literatures. Scholars can now computationally analyze entire corpora of texts or preserve and share materials through digital archives. Students can engage in authentic applied research linking text to place, or study Shakespeare in a virtual Globe Theater. In the face of all the digital humanities buzz--from the MLA to the New York Times to Twitter--where can scholars interested in the field turn to get started? This three-hour preconvention workshop welcomes language and literature scholars who wish to learn about, start, or join digital scholarly projects for research and/or teaching. Representatives of major digital humanities projects and initiatives will share their expertise on project design, available resources and opportunities, lead small-group training sessions on technologies and skills to help participants get started, and be available for follow-up one-on-one consultations later in the day. Experts will come from projects such as the Walt Whitman Archive, Blake Archive, Romantic Circles, Civil War Washington, NINES, 18th Connect, centerNet, the History Engine, Hypercities, and Spatial Humanities. Participants will leave with a plan for getting started in the digital humanities and a resource for connecting to scholars and projects in their disciplines. When and where: This workshop will be held 8:30 - 11:30 a.m. on the first day of the MLA Convention (Thursday, January 5th, 2012). Panelists will hold one-on-one counseling sessions with participants after the workshop. Sponsors: The workshop is co-sponsored by the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education (NITLE) and the Texas A&M Initiative for Digital Humanities, Media, and Culture. Organizers: Rebecca Davis (NITLE), Lisa Spiro (NITLE), Laura Mandell (Texas A&M University), Ryan Cordell (St. Norbert College), and Quinn Dombrowski (University of Chicago) The workshop will serve as the launch of the Digital Humanities Commons (DHCommons), a new registry designed to match innovative scholars with opportunities for collaboration and expertise, and increase the community of participants engaged with established digital projects, initiatives, and centers. Application Process Scholars must apply in advance for the workshop by either 1) outlining a digital project they would like to undertake or 2) suggesting the type of project on which they would be interested in collaborating. This collaboration may include developing curriculum or pedagogical approaches to the use of the project. The workshop aims to help new digital humanists find exciting work; thus, applications will not require scholars to have a fully-developed project idea. Small group training sessions will be determined by the needs of accepted participants. Apply below. Application and Deadlines Visit http://dhcommons.org/mla2012 and fill out the application. Review of applications will begin on September 15. The review board will consider applications and accept participants on a rolling basis until the workshop is full. Those whose applications were received by September 15 will be notified by September 30. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Aug 5 21:41:58 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 193D519E1D2; Fri, 5 Aug 2011 21:41:58 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 3568019E1C2; Fri, 5 Aug 2011 21:41:56 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110805214156.3568019E1C2@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2011 21:41:56 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.216 subtle and not so subtle changes X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 216. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2011 10:06:44 +0100 From: Leif Isaksen Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.211 subtle and not so subtle changes In-Reply-To: <20110804201749.0BD1F19B518@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Marjorie thanks for such a great response to what was on my part probably a rather ill-mannered tirade (and not the only one I wrote that day either. Must have been the weather :-S). Suffice to say I'm fully in agreement with you - I'm certainly convinced that the way we memorize things is changing and I feel it as much in myself as in observations of others. I also agree that this is something worthy of reflection on. FWIW the most interesting thing I've read on the topic lately is the work of Betsy Sparrow, recently published in Science, on Transactive Memory. I must confess to not having read the full article yet, just other people's synopses, of which this seems to be a good one: http://www.contemplativecomputing.org/2011/07/internet-use-and-transactive-memory.html The basic observation is that human memory seems designed to optimise over information overload by storing memories of where to access/obtain information rather than the information itself. The pre-digital example they give is of delegating memory to one's partner (asking one's husband about baseball for example [real example given. Not mine!]). This seems intuitively correct to me although it seems they now have the stats to back it up. The really interesting thing to me, however, is that this is an optimisation problem and only determined through some kind of subconcious inductive process. As just one example - I always to forget to check the code I need to pick up prereserved tickets at the train station because I know it's in my email on my phone. But my phone always takes 5 mins to reconnect to the web when I get out of the metro and I'm always arriving about 5.5 minutes before the train leaves. You'd think I'd learn but somehow I don't :-S The other cautionary tale is that it took me 15 mins to remember where I'd read the article cited above (searching via Google of course and thinking it was 'Transactional Memory' which is something entirely different). One last thought before I desist in taking up too many Humanist column inches: I also feel that the Humanities has a special angle on this one because, in trying to discover what it is to be Human (which is what I believe our ultimate, and ultimately futile, task to be), the questions we ask (and the way we approach them) are at least as interesting as any answers we may come up with. Consequentially, these subtle shifts in our very mental fabric are neither welcome nor unwelcome so much as a fascinating new facet for our discipline to explore. OK, enough from me. Thanks again for your thoughtful (and and entirely un-grumpy) response Best wishes Leif PS This might also be of interest for those with the time to follow: http://www.guardian.co.uk/higher-education-network/blog/2011/aug/03/academic-research-digital-online-technology > > Dear Leif, > > Thanks for taking the time and trouble to answer my grumpy email :) > Actually, I can see how my email could be interpreted in a quite radical way, but I happen to agree with most of your points, and I'm particularly sorry if I came out as thinking that "back in the (g)olden days the material we had access to was 'good' and we are now swimming in garbage", because it's not my views at all. > > The point I was lamely trying to make was mainly about what I feel is a major shift in our relationship with our own memory, as scholars. The amount and nature of the things we have to commit to memory is changing - at least that's how I perceive it. This is probably not, BTW, particular to scholarship, and is just one aspect of a global evolution in our societies. > You mentioned 10th Century Toledo, the invention of the printing press, or the development of academic journals as phenomena producing "masses of stuff" - right. But what I am interested in, here, is not the process of producing texts or data 'en masse', but the way the existence of those masses changes the way we process knowledge to produce scholarship. > I do think that we should not neglect the impact of the way we use our memory on scholarship. Having committed to one's memory the same knowledge a medieval scholar had, for instance, cannot be without impact on one's scholarship. Just as being able to query masses of texts going far beyond the capacity of anyone's memory also has an impact. The shift is happening, and it's a given, not something for us to approve or disapprove, just to observe, and maybe reflect upon. > > Medieval scholars reflected a lot on their use of memory, and I believe we should give it more attention. > > Best wishes, Marjorie _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 7 20:51:08 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C0831A17D0; Sun, 7 Aug 2011 20:51:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B704D1A17C2; Sun, 7 Aug 2011 20:51:06 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110807205106.B704D1A17C2@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2011 20:51:06 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.217 digital preservation? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 217. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2011 06:31:21 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: digital preservation > We have to stop thinking about how to save data only after it’s no > longer needed, as when an author donates her papers to an archive. > Instead, we must look for ways to continuously maintain and improve it. > In other words, we must stop preserving digital material and start > curating it." Kari Kraus, "When data disappears", New York Times, > 6 August 2011, http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/07/opinion/sunday/ > when-data-disappears.html?_r=2&ref=opinion Really? I recall a point made by John von Neumann, that in thinking about digital automata we should consider how human beings do the job, at least insofar as the basic physical constraints of size and capacity. How do we cope with the experiences of a lifetime -- all of what is perceived, thought, remembered? (For a wonderful reflection on this, see Steven Rose, "Memories are made of this", in A. S. Byatt and Harriet Harvey Wood, Memory: An Anthology (London: Vintage, 2009).) What are we thinking of when we talk about preservation or curation? Some big tank without limit? Library shelves that go on forever, with a perfectly efficient book-fetcher, or sometimes serendipitous, sometimes impish, sometimes truculent and unccooperative assistant? Let's drag whatever metaphors are inside these discussions out into the open and consider them. Let's ask, what are we likening our preservation/curation project to? Do the analogies hold? What in the end (which never comes) are we left with but ourselves? Yours, WM -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Aug 7 20:51:37 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60D3A1A182B; Sun, 7 Aug 2011 20:51:37 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 9DD0C1A181C; Sun, 7 Aug 2011 20:51:35 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110807205135.9DD0C1A181C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2011 20:51:35 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.218 cfp: Experiments in Theatre X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 218. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 06 Aug 2011 10:54:26 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: cfp: Experiments in Theatre Call for papers: “Experiments in Theatre: New Directions in Science and Performance” Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr‐journal.org) Scope and Aims In 2002, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews published a special number on Theatre and Science that became the springboard for key debates that have helped to shape and define the field. Since then, several new books and dozens of articles have significantly expanded the scholarship on theatre and science, while a steady flow of new work for the stage has shown that the interactions between science and theatre continue to surprise, delight, and provoke audiences and readers around the world. Now, a decade on from that seminal 2002 issue, we are seeking contributions of articles of approximately 6,000 words on theatre and science that signal important new developments, directions, and explorations in this ever-expanding field. The editors are seeking a cross-section of both established and emerging scholars and practitioners to contribute to this special number. Contributions might explore such issues as: --How has the field evolved and expanded away from the focus on text-based “science plays” like Stoppard’s Arcadia, Wertenbaker’s After Darwin, and Frayn’s Copenhagen to a greater emphasis on performance in its broadest sense, through such diverse practitioners as Complicite (A Disappearing Number), Punchdrunk (Faust), Athletes of the Heart (Yerma’s Eggs), and Clod Ensemble (Performing Medicine)? --How do theatre and scientific experimentation intersect and cross-fertilize each other? --How has theatre engaged with relatively recent scientific findings and debates, such as those relating to climate change and global warming? -- How do science and technology contribute to innovation in theatrical representation, particularly as digitization and “new media” have generated new kinds of performance? -- Is there a poetics of scientific representation within the theatre? -- Is there an ethical dimension to the theatrical representation of science? Is ‘bad science’ ever justifiable in the theatre? -- Theatre and science beyond the Anglophone and Western traditions. • All contributions will be peer-reviewed. • Articles may contain black-and-white illustrations (for which authors should seek any necessary permissions). • Articles should not exceed a maximum length of 6000 words. • For details about format see guidelines: www.maney.co.uk/journals/notes/isr Please send expressions of interest to by 30 October 2011 to the guest editors as listed below Schedule 30 October 2011: declare intention to contribute (title & abstract) July 2012: submit first version October/November 2012: reviewers’ comments & decision returned to authors July 2013: final version due to the publisher December 2013: issue published as ISR Editors Dr Kirsten Shepherd-Barr (University Lecturer in Modern Drama, University of Oxford), kirsten.shepherd-barr@ell.ox.ac.uk Dr Carina Bartleet (Senior Lecturer in Drama, Oxford Brookes University), c.e.bartleet@brookes.ac.uk -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Aug 8 20:00:47 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37E431A24DF; Mon, 8 Aug 2011 20:00:47 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 7D9541A24CF; Mon, 8 Aug 2011 20:00:45 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110808200045.7D9541A24CF@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2011 20:00:45 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.219 digital preservation X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 219. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2011 02:22:30 -0500 From: amsler@cs.utexas.edu Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.217 digital preservation? In-Reply-To: <20110807205106.B704D1A17C2@woodward.joyent.us> The real problem is that writing done on a computer erases old drafts as they are revised. Authors would have to somewhat self-consciously save versions of their manuscripts so that future scholars will have intermediate knowledge of the work's revisions. Admittedly, Microsoft Word (and probably other editors) do retain previous edits of text (accessible through 'undoing' the edits) such that a *.doc file might be a tool for scholarly examination as digitally preserving the author's revisions (and typing errors); but if the file from which the book is printed is not preserved something could be lost. As the technology gets more sophisticated, and the same digital document is edited by multiple parties (author, proofchecker, editor, printer) every change might only exist in the one electronic file as opposed to on marked-up paper copies. Because computer storage will continue to get cheaper and more voluminous as time progresses, storage cost shouldn't be a problem though. I believe it was Arthur C. Clarke who posited that at some point in the future we will all walk around with a computer that will record everything we say, is said to us, read, write, or see so we'll have complete access to our lives in its encrypted memory. It would be nice to imagine what it would be like if we had such a record of, say, Leonardo da Vinci's life as a recording---even if it was proscribed from viewing for 100 years after the person's death. The thing I have trouble with is the part about the person when they were alive deciding that their whole life was worthy of such a complete digital record. I.e., those who did think that way might not be the people we most want to know about; and those we most want to know about might shun the attention to any but their final finished works. What is probably new is that we are likely to be flooded with the collective ephemeral writings of massive numbers of people. The Library of Congress collection of public tweets, for example. Or the YouTube videos of countless everyday events of people. Perhap somewhere in there the tweets of historic figures of tomorrow reside? The future will be different in that we'll be able to study whole societies through their ordinary population's writings. Massive text archives of everything everybody emailed/tweeted about the minutia of daily life, like when the toast fell on the floor and how they felt about that; but perhaps also why tomorrow's Pulitzer Prize winners decided to go into writing or what they thought about when writing their winning texts. Will future scholars think of the era before computer recordings as we think of pre-history. It does seem more likely that in the future we'll have massive amounts of data about some people; just maybe not about the people we want to know about the most. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 8 20:01:30 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 861E81A2CED; Mon, 8 Aug 2011 20:01:30 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 9AEDB1A2CE6; Mon, 8 Aug 2011 20:01:29 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110808200129.9AEDB1A2CE6@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2011 20:01:29 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.220 professorship at Trier X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 220. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2011 05:57:49 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: professorship at Trier The Faculty of Language, Literature and Media Studies at the University of Trier, Germany, wishes to fill the position of a Professorship of Digital Humanities (W 2 pay grade as per BBesG) at the next possible opportunity. The incumbent will combine research and teaching in Digital Humanities with an emphasis on Philology, particularly Textual Studies and Cultural-historical research. They must also be willing to take on a management role in the Trier Centre for Digital Humanities. Candidates should have interdisciplinary research expertise at the interface of Philology and Computer Science (for example, Semantic Web concepts, Philological data modelling and / or Virtual Research Environments, particularly as applied to Digital Lexicography, Editorial Phi-lology and Primary sources) as well as relevant experience in the acquisition and implementa-tion of research projects and funding proposals. Experience of teaching and substantial know-ledge of the planning and development of modularized teaching programmes (in order to im-plement an MA in Digital Humanities) as well as in the area of further education is essential. Excellent knowledge of English as well as knowledge of further modern European languages is required, as is a sound knowledge of the National and European Digital Humanities re-search landscape. The willingness to cooperate with the Field of Computational Linguistics is expected. The conditions of the post are set out in § 49 HochSchG. In particular, teaching ability and outstanding scientific achievements are required. The State of Rhineland-Palatinate and the University of Trier support a concept of extensive student supervision and expect its teaching staff to maintain a high profile. Disabled applicants of appropriate suitibility will be given preferential consideration. The University of Trier is committed to increasing the number of female faculty members in its ranks and encourages women to apply for this position. Applications including a CV, academic transcripts, references, a list of previous courses taught and five publications that the candidate considers to be their most important should be sent to the Dean of Faculty II of Universität Trier, Prof. Ulrich Port, 54286 Trier, by 9.16.2011. We ask you not to submit application documents in folders or envelopes and also as non-certified copies only as documents will not be returned but will be destroyed upon completion of the selection process. http://www.uni-trier.de/fileadmin/organisation/ABT3/Stellen_Professoren/P8_11_W2_Professur_FBII_Digital_Humanities.engl_01.pdf ----------------- Univ.-Prof. Dr. Claudine Moulin Universität Trier Fachbereich II/ Germanistik und Trier Center for Digital Humanities D-54286 Trier Tel. + 49 651 201-2305 + 49 651 201-2321 (Sekretariat Germanistik) + 49 651 201-3377 (Sekretariat Trier Center for Digital Humanities) Homepage: http://www.uni-trier.de/index.php?id=7626 www.woerterbuchnetz.de www.kompetenzzentrum.uni-trier.de -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Aug 8 20:02:08 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 062261A300F; Mon, 8 Aug 2011 20:02:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 8D6281A24C6; Mon, 8 Aug 2011 20:02:05 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110808200205.8D6281A24C6@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2011 20:02:05 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.221 cfp: Doctor Virtualis 12 X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 221. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2011 15:51:45 +0200 From: "Massimo Parodi" Subject: Doctor Virtualis 12 - Call for paper Doctor Virtualis, journal of History of medieval philosophy, is edited by a research group of the Università degli Studi di Milano, on paper and online (http://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/DoctorVirtualis). We are mainly interested both in the relationships between medieval and modern-contemporary thought and in the possible analogies between present and medieval themes. For the number 12 the editorial staff decided to explore a particular aspect of the relationship between the West and Islam in the Middle Ages: starting from the theme of the journey to heaven, common to both the traditions, we plan to analyze the possible relationship, for example, between the journey of the Prophet Muhammad (Mi'raj) and Dante's Divine Comedy, taking into account the long historical debate aroused by the work of Asin Palacios. It will be possible to expand the field of interest to the theme of "mystical journey" as an archetype of the relationship between Islamic East and West, taking into account the reading of the history of Islamic philosophy proposed by Corbin. It would then be useful to consider the theme of "translatio studii" and the literary exchanges between the Arab and Latin world, by taking into account the journey of texts and works through the Mediterranean and by analyzing the places where interchange and cultural and linguistic contamination took place. Doctor Virtualis 12 will contain some papers provided by the journal editors and concerning: the most recent developments in the historiographical debate on the work of Asin Palacios and with the hypothesis of a direct influence of the Islamic tradition on Dante's Divine Comedy; the mystical journey to the East, through the study of Avicenna’s earthly travel, his works and his imagined journey towards the “East of the soul"; the relationship between Dante and Islamic philosophy and, in order to analyze the journey of the texts and works, the literary contaminations between the Arab and Latin world. In this framework we call for 5 papers on the following themes: 1. - What were the reactions of Arab intellectuals to Asin Palacio’s historiographical assumptions about a direct influence on the Islamic mystical tradition of Dante's Divine Comedy? - How to include these reactions in the context of the Arab contemporary historiography on the cultural relations between the Arab world and Latin in the Middle Ages? - Which aspects of Mediterranean cultural interchanges Arab scholars are concentrated in, and in what perspective? 2. - Introduction to Islamic tradition of Mi'raj through the religious and literary sources - Peculiarities of Mi'raj Islamic and of the afterlife visited by the Prophet Muhammad 3. - The theme of the otherworldly travel as a topos common to the two religious traditions (Christian and Islamic) - Comparison and possible influences of the Islamic tradition on the West - In addition to the trip of the bodies in the afterlife, it is considered the journey of the souls through mystical experiences: which common themes between the Islamic world and the West? 4. - In addition to the debate on the influence of Dante's Divine Comedy in Islamic eschatology, how did the Islamic philosophy (Avicenna, Averroes, etc.) on the thought of Dante? - Through which channels and which readings Dante came into contact with the Arab tradition of thought? 5. - What image of Islam emerges from Dante's Divine Comedy? - Is it possible to make a comparison with other works (beyond those of apologetics itself) that convey a certain image of Islam in the West? - The Orientalist view of the Arab-Islamic world, as described by Edward Said, is already present in medieval works? In which form? deadlines September 2011 title and abstract, not less than 4000 characters, to Doctor Virtualis October 2011 acceptance from DV April 2012 final paper due to DV July 2012 peer review from DV Send to: massimo.parodi@unimi.it, francesca.forte@unimi.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 Mon Aug 8 20:02:34 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBB1C1A3065; Mon, 8 Aug 2011 20:02:33 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B6B451A3057; Mon, 8 Aug 2011 20:02:31 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110808200231.B6B451A3057@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2011 20:02:31 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.222 events: translation X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 222. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2011 16:14:40 +0400 From: Ventsislav Zhechev Subject: FINAL CfP: Third Joint EM+/CNGL Workshop (JEC2011) 'Bringing MT to the User: Research Meets Translators' ======================================== FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– “Bringing MT to the User: Research Meets Translators” Third Joint EM+/CNGL Workshop (JEC 2011) http://web.me.com/emcnglworkshop/JEC2011 –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– The EuroMatrixPlus Project (http://www.euromatrixplus.eu), the Centre for Next Generation Localisation (CNGL) (http://cngl.ie), the Directorate-General for Translation (DGT, European Commission) (http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/translation) and Autodesk (http://www.autodesk.ch) are co-organising the Third Joint EM+/CNGL Workshop (JEC 2011), entitled “Bringing MT to the User: Research Meets Translators”. The JEC 2011 workshop will be hosted by the Directorate General for Translation (DGT) (http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/translation) in Luxembourg on October 14th, 2011. In keeping with previous JECs, the format of the workshop is highly interactive with research paper presentations, invited talks and a panel discussion. Premise: Recent years have seen a revolution in MT triggered by the emergence of statistical approaches and improvements in translation quality. MT (rule-based, statistical and hybrid) is now available for many languages for free (on the Web) or for a fee and MT technologies are making strong inroads into the corporate localisation and translation industries as well as large public and administrative organisations dealing with multi-lingual content. Open-source MT solutions are competing with proprietary products. Increasing numbers of (professional) translators are post-editing TM/MT output. MT is a reality for internet users accessing and gisting content which is not available in their native language. At the same time, there has been a degree of disconnect between mainstream academic research and conferences on MT, often (and rightly so) focusing on algorithms to improve translation quality, and many of the important practical issues that need to be addressed to make MT maximally useful in real translation and localisation workflows, with human translators and users in general. Objectives: JEC 2011 brings together translators, users, academic and industrial MT researchers and developers to discuss issues that are most important in real world industrial settings and applications involving MT, but currently under-represented in research circles. Call for Research Papers: We solicit full research papers with industry, academic and/or user background to highlight real-world issues that need to be tackled by new research and recent advancements that improve translation quality, as well as novel and successful methods for the integration of machine translation with translation memories, localisation workflows, human translators and users. Papers should present clearly identifiable problem statements, research methodologies, measurable outcomes and evaluation. Papers are reviewed anonymously. Papers should follow the submission guidelines listed on the workshop website (http://web.me.com/emcnglworkshop/JEC2011/Call_for_Papers.html), with the maximum length being 10 pages in A4 format, including references. Please, do not include your name in the paper text and avoid overt self-references to facilitate the blind review process. If a paper is accepted, at least one author will have to register for JEC 2011 and travel to Luxembourg to present the paper. Workshop proceedings will be made available in hard-copy by DGT, and will be available for download on the JEC 2011 website. Publication of selected revised and expanded papers from JEC 2010 and JEC 2011 in journal or book form is currently under negotiation. Topics include but are not limited to: • Human Factors and MT • Introducing MT into large organisations • MT and language technologies for SMEs • MT/TM in Localisation/Translation and Content Management Workflows • MT/TM Combinations • Post-Editing Support for MT • MT and Monolingual Post-Editing • Smart Learning from Post-Edits • Interactive MT • MT Confidence Scores and Post-Editing Effort • Training Data for MT: Size, Domain and Quality • Data Cleanup and Preparation for MT • Meta-Data Mark-Up/Annotation and MT • Terminology and MT • Interoperability and Localisation/Translation Workflows • Standards and Localisation/Translation Workflows • MT Evaluation • Costing/Pricing MT • MT for Free/for a Fee • Rule-Based, Statistical and Hybrid MT • Linguistic resources for MT • Computing Resources for MT • MT in the Cloud • MT and the Crowd • MT, Games, Video and TV Localisation • (Machine) Translation in Context • Social Aspects of (Machine) Translation: Access to Information as a Human Right Deadlines (all 23:59 GMT -11): 15th August: Submission deadline for papers 12th September: Announcement for submitted papers 30th September: Camera-ready deadline for accepted papers 14th October: Workshop takes place at DGT in Luxembourg Submission URL: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jec2011 Workshop Chair: Ventsislav Zhechev (Autodesk) Workshop Senior PC: Ventsislav Zhechev (Autodesk) Andreas Eisele (DGT) Philipp Koehn (Univ. of Edinburgh) Josef van Genabith, Declan Groves (CNGL) Program Committee: Submitted papers will be reviewed by a joint industry–academia committee. Industry members: Pedro L. Diez-Orzas (Linguaserve), Tony O’Dowd (Xcelerator), Marc Dymetman (XRCE), Andreas Eisele (DGT of the EC), Daniel Grasmick (Lucy Software), Michael Jellinghaus (EU Parliament), Will Lewis (Microsoft), Yanjun Ma (Baidu), Spyridon Pilos (DGT of the EC), Alexandros Poulis (EU Parliament), Johann Roturier (Symantec), Andy Way (Applied Language Solutions), Zoran Zakic (DGT of the EC), Ventsislav Zhechev (Autodesk) Academic members: Michael Carl (CBS, Denmark), Jinhua Du (Xi’ian Univ. of Technology), Josef van Genabith (CNGL, EM+), Declan Groves (CNGL), Philipp Koehn (EM+), Philippe Langlais (University of Montreal), Alon Lavie (CMU), Ruslan Mitkov (RIILP, UK), Michel Simard (NCR, Canada), Lucia Specia (RIILP, UK), Eiichiro Sumita (NICT, Japan), John Tinsley (CNGL, PLuTO), Hans Uszkoreit (DFKI, Germany), David Vilar (DFKI, Germany), Martin Volk (UZH, Switzerland) For inquiries please contact Dr. Ventsislav Zhechev at emcnglworkshop@me.com For up-to-date information, please visit http://web.me.com/emcnglworkshop/JEC2011 For information about the First Joint EM+/CNGL Workshop, please visit http://www.euromatrixplus.eu/cngl2009 For information about the Second Joint EM+/CNGL Workshop, please visit http://web.me.com/emcnglworkshop/JEC2010 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 9 20:45:26 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 371E51A4E50; Tue, 9 Aug 2011 20:45:26 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D74FC1A4E47; Tue, 9 Aug 2011 20:45:24 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20110809204524.D74FC1A4E47@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2011 20:45:24 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.223 job at UCLA X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 223. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2011 13:11:18 -0700 From: "Rugg, Annelie" Subject: Open position at UCLA: Digital Humanities Program Coordinator Greetings to all! As you may know, UCLA recently launched its Digital Humanities undergraduate minor and graduate certificate program. We are currently searching for a Digital Humanities Program Coordinator and Research Technology Consultant. The position requires a PhD and is a mix of teaching, administration, and research consultation in the Digital Humanities. There is also the possibility of an adjunct professorship appointment in a relevant department. The call for applications is appended below, and we would appreciate your help in circulating it to anyone who you think may be interested in applying. If you have any questions, please contact the chair of the search committee, Professor Todd Presner (presner@ucla.edu). Review of applications will begin on August 22nd. Very sincerely, Annelie Annelie Rugg, Ph.D. Director/Humanities CIO || UCLA Center for Digital Humanities 310.903.7691 || annelie@humnet.ucla.edu http://www.cdh.ucla.edu UCLA College - Division of Humanities - Digital Humanities ACADEMIC ADMINISTRATOR (Salary Range $54,192 - $78,660; Level and salary range commensurate with qualifications) The University of California, Los Angeles, invites applications for the position of Academic Administrator as the Digital Humanities Program Coordinator and Research Technology Consultant. Reporting to the Chair of the Digital Humanities Program, the Program Coordinator is responsible for developing courses and teaching in the Digital Humanities program, advising undergraduate and graduate students, and overseeing a variety of faculty research and student support initiatives. The Coordinator will work closely with the Digital Humanities Chair and affiliated faculty to schedule and plan course offerings, place students in mentorships and/or apprenticeships, perform project management duties for those students and their related, faculty-sponsored research projects, recruit and advise students, and collaborate with Centers and Institutes at UCLA, including, but not limited to, the Center for Digital Humanities (CDH), the Digital Library Program, the Institute for Digital Research and Education, the Experiential Technologies Center, and the Office of Instructional Development. The Coordinator will contribute research technology expertise to CDH initiatives, and will serve as a key CDH liaison with the Digital Humanities program. The successful candidate must have a demonstrated ability to work collaboratively across disciplines and facilitate broad-based humanitiesresearch and teaching projects, which are cooperative ventures between humanists, technologists, scientists, and designers. Administrative experience working with humanities faculty, technology staff, and funding agencies is highly desirable. The successful candidate must have a PhD, preferably in a Humanities discipline. For more information, please visit: http:///www.digitalhumanities.ucla.edu http://www.digitalhumanities.ucla.edu/ Initial screening of applications will be on August 22, 2011, although we will accept applications on a rolling basis until the position is filled. For the full job description and to apply, please go to: http://www.cdh.ucla.edu/resources/job-openings.html UCLA is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. Women and minorities are especially encouraged to apply. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 9 20:47:53 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D64F1A501B; Tue, 9 Aug 2011 20:47:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 53F8D1A5014; Tue, 9 Aug 2011 20:47:51 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110809204751.53F8D1A5014@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2011 20:47:51 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.224 digital curation? freedom? 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Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Shawn Day (44) Subject: Reminder and deadline extension: Digital Curation Survey [2] From: Willard McCarty (19) Subject: freedom? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2011 14:02:55 +0100 From: Shawn Day Subject: Reminder and deadline extension: Digital Curation Survey Dear Colleagues, In July we invited the community to take part in a survey on training needs of staff in the field of digital preservation and digital curation within Europe and internationally. The survey is carried out by Goettingen State and University Library, Germany, on behalf of “Digital Curator Vocational Education Europe” (DigCurV). We would like to thank the many respondents who have complied with our request so far. To give all interested parties the opportunity to participate, we have extended the deadline until 26th August. DigCurV is a project funded by the European Commission’s Leonardo da Vinci programme and brings together organisations from Europe, Canada and the USA. Ireland is linked to the project through the participation of Trinity College Dublin. DigCurV (www.digcur-education.org) aims to address the availability of vocational training and education in digital preservation and curation by developing a curriculum and an international framework for training, as a response to the growing demand for staff with the skills and competences needed for the long-term management of digital collections in cultural institutions. We are currently carrying out research to survey and analyse both the existing training opportunities and training needs in the sector to inform the development of the curriculum. We are inviting managers, curators and experts in digital preservation to take part in this survey of training needs. Your input will really help inform the curriculum framework and we greatly appreciate your time in assisting with this research. The survey is online at http://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/544426/DigCurV-Survey-on-Training-Needs and will take you about 15 minutes to complete. Thank you very much for your assistance! Yours sincerely, Claudia Engelhardt and Stefan Strathmann If you have any questions about the survey, please contact: Claudia Engelhardt or Stefan Strathmann Research and Development Department (RDD) Goettingen State and University Library Georg August Universitaet Goettingen Germany claudia.engelhardt@sub.uni-goettingen.de or strathmann@sub.uni-goettingen.de If you have questions about the project, please contact: Katie McCadden Research Assistant Long Room Hub Trinity College Dublin Phone: +353 01 896 4470 E-mail: katietmccadden@gmail.com The DigCurV training needs survey is anonymous. Respondents will not be identified in the results, which will only used for the purpose of the survey or future research on digital preservation-training related topics; it will be treated as confidential according to the German Federal Data Protection Act (Bundesdatenschutzgesetz/BDSG). --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 06:44:21 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: freedom? "Information wants to be free" (attributed to Stuart Brand, for which see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_wants_to_be_free). Really? What is this (personified) information that we want to be running about unrestrained? Consider not only the use of Blackberry Messenger in the London riots but also the posting of misinformation, such as a photo of a burning building supposedly in London but actually in China, in order to create more mischief. (Or consider my saying this without proper documentation that it has even happened.) What is our role, then, in bringing critical discussion of what we mean by "free" to the deployment of our technologies? What role does cultural analysis and critique have among our kind? Comments? Yours, WM -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Aug 9 20:49:03 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AF1B1A509F; Tue, 9 Aug 2011 20:49:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 01B351A5094; Tue, 9 Aug 2011 20:49:00 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110809204901.01B351A5094@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2011 20:49:00 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.225 events: digital diasporas X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 225. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2011 18:55:47 +0100 From: "Bodard, Gabriel" Subject: Seminar: Digital diasporas: remaking cultural heritagein cyberspace Digital Classicist & Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 2011 Friday August 12th at 16:30 Room 37, Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU Valentina Asciutti & Stuart Dunn (KCL) Digital diasporas: remaking cultural heritage in cyberspace ALL WELCOME Throughout history, artefacts have been removed from their original location by a series of processes, leaving a fragmented picture of the material past. Geospatial and visualization technologies give us the opportunity to visualize and conceptualize the histories of such dispersed heritage, recording findspot, current location and physical and interpretive stages that went between. Using examples including Romano-British verse inscriptions and geographic data gathered on Hadrian’s Wall, we will show a database of different types of cultural heritage objects with multiple location fields. Using a combination of quantitative GIS and KML-based views of the data, we will illustrate how the history of artefacts can be traced through both time and location. The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments. For more information please contact Gabriel.Bodard@kcl.ac.uk, Stuart.Dunn@kcl.ac.uk, S.Mahony@ucl.ac.uk, or see the seminar website at http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2011.html -- Dr Gabriel BODARD (Research Associate in Digital Epigraphy) Department of Digital Humanities King's College London 26-29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL Email: gabriel.bodard@kcl.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 1388 Fax: +44 (0)20 7848 2980 http://www.digitalclassicist.org/ http://www.currentepigraphy.org/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Aug 10 22:47:29 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1C781A7F71; Wed, 10 Aug 2011 22:47:29 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 5AAB71A7F5D; Wed, 10 Aug 2011 22:47:27 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110810224727.5AAB71A7F5D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 22:47:27 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.226 hiatus 12-21 August X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 226. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2011 08:41:55 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: hiatus Humanist will be inactive from 12 to 21 August. During that time you are welcome to send messages to Humanist itself, but they won't be processed until I re-emerge into the world of digital communications after a time utterly out of touch. If you do not see your posting soon after 21 August, please let me know. Anything sent to me directly will by that time be buried in a huge pile of e-mail so may get lost. So, please send again if you don't hear from me. All the best. Yours, WM -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Aug 10 22:47:48 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A6901A7FD4; Wed, 10 Aug 2011 22:47:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B1C031A7FC1; Wed, 10 Aug 2011 22:47:45 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20110810224745.B1C031A7FC1@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 22:47:45 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.227 freedom X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 227. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2011 17:44:43 -0400 From: David Golumbia Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.224 digital curation? freedom? In-Reply-To: <20110809204751.53F8D1A5014@woodward.joyent.us> Hi Willard, As I've long droned on to anyone who will listen (few will), Brand was actually making a very smart observation that is not at all the one promoters of the slogan seem to think. To whit (from the very Wikipedia page you cite): On the one hand information wants to be expensive, because it's so valuable. > The right information in the right place just changes your life. On the > other hand, information wants to be free, because the cost of getting it out > is getting lower and lower all the time. So you have these two fighting > against each other. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_wants_to_be_free#cite_note-clarke-3 > This is correct, of course. Its reconfiguration into a mysterious techno-determinative statement of metaphysical purpose strikes me as very telling. Furthermore its extrication from this context allows "free" to sound like the Stallman-esque "free as in freedom," when it is clear Brand means money--the non-Stallmanesque "free as in free beer." These are not the same, but you wouldn't want to talk about that too much in public. Yes, you can easily get into arguments with free-info maniacs (who even have an offensive name for themselves based on an outdated term for the developmentally disabled which I will omit here) where, by citing the original statement made by the brilliant man who said it, one can be accused of betraying the cause, having no idea how computers work, being "opposed" to open source, and of many of the other evils of the world. Along these lines in particular, the British rioters (so unlike some recent European anti-austerity rioters) remind me of a recent "hero of freedom" (named Swartz) whom we are told we must champion for having the sterling bravery to violate the rules of his own doctoral institution, of JSTOR, of the written law, of agreed-upon social policies, of his own repeated word, and of respectful civil behavior, in his effort to prove that academic research should be absolutely free (to translate: has no value whatsoever) and that publishers should have no power to control the interfaces of their (non-profit!) products, a position for which I can find no responsible justification. That is not freedom as I understand it; it is, on the contrary, destruction. David On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 4:47 PM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > > [2] From: Willard McCarty > (19) > Subject: freedom? > > > > --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 06:44:21 +1000 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: freedom? > > "Information wants to be free" (attributed to Stuart Brand, for which > see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_wants_to_be_free). > > Really? What is this (personified) information that we want to be > running about unrestrained? Consider not only the use of Blackberry > Messenger in the London riots but also the posting of misinformation, > such as a photo of a burning building supposedly in London but actually > in China, in order to create more mischief. (Or consider my saying this > without proper documentation that it has even happened.) What is our > role, then, in bringing critical discussion of what we mean by "free" to > the deployment of our technologies? What role does cultural analysis and > critique have among our kind? > > Comments? > > Yours, > WM > -- > Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's > College London; Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western > Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); > Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); > www.mccarty.org.uk/ -- 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 Wed Aug 10 22:48:15 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FC4B1A7481; Wed, 10 Aug 2011 22:48:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id AEC8B1A5DE8; Wed, 10 Aug 2011 22:48:13 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110810224813.AEC8B1A5DE8@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 22:48:13 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.228 job at Oxford X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 228. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 11:44:15 +0100 From: James Cummings Subject: Job: Research Associate - Digital Humanities at Oxford - NetworkSupport (12 month contract) Some of you may know someone interested in a 12 month Research Associate position at Digital.Humanities@Oxford: === Research Associate - Digital Humanities at Oxford - Network Support (12 month contract) Grade: 7 Salary: £29,099 - £35,788 pa Closing date: Monday 29th August '11, 12.00pm For further details, see http://www.oerc.ox.ac.uk/jobs/research-associate-digital-humanities-at-oxford-network-support === -James -- Dr James Cummings, InfoDev, Computing Services, University of Oxford _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Aug 10 22:49:04 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84E6B1A786A; Wed, 10 Aug 2011 22:49:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id EC3A71A77B8; Wed, 10 Aug 2011 22:49:00 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110810224900.EC3A71A77B8@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 22:49:00 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.229 saying one thing meaning another? accuracy of double keying? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 229. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Willard McCarty (27) Subject: saying other than we mean [2] From: Christian Thomas (22) Subject: Verifying the Accuracy of Double Keying - any studies? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 09:12:49 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: saying other than we mean "Lost in translation: emergency staff don't listen properly". Julie Robotham, The Sydney Morning Herald, 10 August 2011, page 1. In response to the allegation from which the title of this front-page article was derived, Diana Slade, professor of applied linguistics, University of Technology Sydney (who did a study of emergency-room interchanges), said, among other things, > What people think they are saying is very different from what they > actually say. I'm not being critical at all of the doctors and > nurses. It's a system issue. Actually, I would think, it's in the nature of human communication to say other than what one means. As one palaeobiologist has recently argued, without the ability to deceive we would not have evolved as we did. But in the specific case cited in this morning's paper, this would seem a research project for digital discourse analysis to tackle: how do people in fact say that they are feeling bad in a particular part of the body or in a particular way? Clinical diagnosticians learn to read illness from patients' words, but I suspect that their knowledge of how to do this is tacit. Surely an enormously complex problem, but a fascinating one. Comments? Yours, WM -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 14:02:32 +0200 From: Christian Thomas Subject: Verifying the Accuracy of Double Keying - any studies? Dear colleagues, as staff member of the Deutsches Textarchiv (www.deutschestextarchiv.de), I would be interested in studies on the accuracy of double keying, esp. in large full text, tei/xml annotated corpora. Service providers advertise accuracy rates of 99.+%, has anyone ever questioned this on an empirical basis? I have found various musings on OCR accuracy and on how to improve results here, but nothing similar on double keying. I would be grateful for any hints. Thanks in advance, all the best Christian Thomas -- Christian Thomas Deutsches Textarchiv Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften Jägerstr. 22/23 10117 Berlin Raum: 359 Tel.: +49 (0)30 20370 523 E-Mail: thomas@bbaw.de http://www.deutschestextarchiv.de/ -- _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Aug 10 22:49:26 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB2571A8037; Wed, 10 Aug 2011 22:49:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 061971A8030; Wed, 10 Aug 2011 22:49:25 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110810224925.061971A8030@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 22:49:25 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.230 on preservation practices X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 230. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 17:42:00 +0100 From: Simone Hutchinson Subject: Paper by Ben Fino-Radin on the preservation practices of a digital art archive I thought this may interest some of the list seeing as it concerns an online art archive: http://rhizome.org/editorial/2011/aug/5/keeping-it-online/ Introductory sentences read: "Today I am pleased to announce the publication of a paper that documents the past, present, and future preservation practices of Rhizome's archive, the ArtBase. This paper is the synthesis of years of research conducted by Rhizome and other leaders of digital preservation, in and outside of art institutions. What follows is an attempt to summarize a few key points." (By Ben Fino-Radin on Rhizome.org) From Simone Hutchinson. Also at: s.hutchinson.2@research.gla.ac.uk PhD Candidate English Literature School of Critical Studies University of Glasgow Glasgow G12 8QQ Scotland _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 10 22:51:35 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id E00F41A8193; Wed, 10 Aug 2011 22:51:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 8A5861A8184; Wed, 10 Aug 2011 22:51:34 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110810225134.8A5861A8184@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 22:51:34 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.231 events: modelling; communication X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 231. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Isabelle F Peschard (19) Subject: Workshop on modelling [2] From: Willard McCarty (91) Subject: Updated call for proposals: HASTAC 2011 Conference: Digital Scholarly Communication --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2011 15:24:49 +0100 From: Isabelle F Peschard Subject: Workshop on modelling WORKSHOP: The Experimental Side of Modeling (3) September, 16-17, 2011 San Francisco State University Friday 16th Morning Ronald Giere (U Minnesota) “Models of experiments” Jennan Ismael (U Arizona) “Models and modality” Afternoon Deborah Mayo (Virginia Tech) “How experiment gets a life of its own ” Eric Winsberg (U South Florida) 'Values and Uncertainty in the Predictions of Global Climate Models" Saturday 17th Morning Paul Teller (UC Davis) “The concept of measurement precision” Alison Wylie (U Washington) “Evidential reasoning: experimental archaeology and archeological modeling” Afternoon: Joint symposium with BayFAP Seppo Poutanen (U Turku) “Critical realism and post-structural feminism—The difficult path to mutual understanding Respondent: Ásta Sveinsdottir (SFSU) Abstracts are available on the workshop webpage: http://www.isabellepeschard.org/WORKSHOP-2011.HTML Attendance is free, but please register: contact Isabelle Peschard --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2011 06:11:19 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Updated call for proposals: HASTAC 2011 Conference: Digital Scholarly Communication -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Updated call for proposals: HASTAC 2011 Conference: Digital Scholarly Communication > Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 17:49:14 +0000 > From: HASTAC Call for proposals: HASTAC 2011 Conference: Digital Scholarly Communication--UPDATED!! What will a dissertation or monograph look like (or sound like) in 20 years? With new forms of digital scholarship evolving, how can credit be given for projects that are non-traditional? How will university presses and libraries publish and archive new and evolving forms of scholarship? The creation and sharing of new academic knowledge in the 21st century is pushing the boundaries of traditional systems of scholarship. Our question to a diverse audience from both within and beyond the academy is: What next? How do we adapt our systems, practices, and institutions to the creation, display, communication, presentation, dissemination, and organization of 21st century digital scholarship? Librarians, PhD students, junior scholars, faculty up for tenure, archivists, Masters students, multimedia artists, publishers, school teachers, technology designers, innovators, digital humanists at any stage in their careers -- all have a stake in how we re-imagine digital scholarly communication. HASTAC 2011 invites you to join this lively discussion of digital scholarly communication in the 21st century. Where:Institute for the Humanities http://cts.vresp.com/c/?HASTAC/2ea28f8980/d1e6c4e85c/e585f44567 , University of Michigan-Ann Arbor When: December 2-3, 2011 What: A face-to-face Conference and unConference*, featuring both traditional and non-traditional forms of scholarship, including panels, keynotes, lightening talks, posters, a digital demo space and gallery(the *unConference will take place December 1) Registration:Corporate: $300 Academics: $150 Students: $75 Proposals: Deadline for submission is September 15, 2011. To submit proposals, visit: http://tinyurl.com/HASTAC2011-Proposal ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Submit proposals for presentations, posters or demos that explore the following range of topics, including but not limited to: * Reformulating scholarly projects and products for different audiences * Reconsidering questions of narration and argumentation, evidence and epistemology, interactivity, and/or text/visual presentation * Re-mapping the routes through which scholarly products circulate and recirculate * Expanding the digital and new media arts to include the humanities and vice versa * Reshaping the global system of knowledge production in the humanities, including access, circulation, exchange and equity both within the global north and between the global north and south * Generating new kinds of research, modes of teaching, and partnerships * Expanding new forms of dissertations and theses * Copyright challenges and strategies for digital scholarly communication * Web design and digitization of archives for multiple and different constituencies (local communities, global peers) * New forms of digitally based humanities research. Presentations may include the following formats: * Individual five-minute “lightening” talks or ten-minute lecture-style presentations, with or without technology (e.g., PPT, Prezi) * Panels featuring a common theme with short presentations , followed by discussion, with or without technology * Posters or demos displayed digitally (e.g., YouTube or other presentation format uploaded to the conference website; laptop-based video on a continuous loop, slidecast, interactive website; print poster board, etc.) (Presenters will have the option of pre-circulating materials on the website before and during the conference.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ HASTAC 2011 highlights: * Keynotes by Siva Vaidhyanathan (The Googlization of Everything), Dan Cohen (Open Access and Crowd Sourcing), Josh Greenberg (Public Digital Display), Dan Atkins (Cyber-infrastructure), and Cathy Davidson (co-founder of HASTAC and author of Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work and Learn) * A digital projection by Paul Kaiser and the Open Ended Group with text by Merce Cunningham * A 2-hour tour of the renown UM Digital Commons with top music technology and 3D labs, ending with two screenings of 3D work by the Open Ended Group * A world premiere of the Open Ended Group’s piece commissioned by the Institute for the Humanities’ Mary Kidder fellowship, based on 12,000 images shot in the Packard Building in Detroit * HASTAC 2011 unConference* *Information on the HASTAC unConference event for December 1 forthcoming Deadline for submission is September 15, 2011. Proposals can be submitted at this URL: http://tinyurl.com/HASTAC2011-Proposal [...] _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 11 00:23:33 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 980DF1A8057; Thu, 11 Aug 2011 00:23:33 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 97B651A8047; Thu, 11 Aug 2011 00:23:31 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110811002331.97B651A8047@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2011 00:23:31 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.232 Roberto Busa, SJ, 1913-2011 X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 232. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2011 10:22:09 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Roberto Busa 1913-2011 My sad duty this morning is to announce the death of Roberto Busa, SJ, on 8 August at the age of 98. See http://tinyurl.com/3ne2aj6 (in English) and http://tinyurl.com/3qhu6bg (in Italian) for more. My thanks to Sarah Schmidt for letting me know. Reflections on the man and his great contributions to all that we do will be welcome but will have to wait until Humanist reawakens later this month. Yours, WM -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Aug 20 02:48:00 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0DC21B7ECB; Sat, 20 Aug 2011 02:47:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A48D71B7EBC; Sat, 20 Aug 2011 02:47:57 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110820024757.A48D71B7EBC@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2011 02:47:57 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.233 new publications: Wikileaks; Google Books bib; JEP 14.1 X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 233. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Jacob Johanssen (15) Subject: Cyborg Subjects #1 on Wikileaks now live! [2] From: Rebecca Welzenbach (43) Subject: JEP 14.1 available online [3] From: "Charles W. Bailey, Jr." Subject: Google Books Bibliography, Version 7 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2011 22:05:45 +0100 From: Jacob Johanssen Subject: Cyborg Subjects #1 on Wikileaks now live! Wikileaks: Journalism, Politics and Ethics We are happy to anounce the launch of the first volume of "Cyborg Subjects: Discoures on Digital Culture"! Papers and essays on "Wikileaks: Journalism, Politics and Ethics" are now online available at www.cyborgsubjects.org "Cyborg Subjects" offers a radical and new review system. We believe that knowledge should be free and that the process of knowledge production should not be obfuscated by the less transparent, “knowledge is power” peer review system associated with traditional academic journals. Therefore, all reviews are posted as comments by the members of our editorial board. Everyone is encouraged to engage in the ensuing discussion and to comment on the review, as well as on other individuals’ (potential) reactions to the article. Feel free to visit www.cyborgsubjects.org to find out more! You can also find us on Facebook (http://fb.com/cyborgsubjects) and Twitter (http://twitter.com/cyborgsubjects). --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 19:52:44 +0100 From: Rebecca Welzenbach Subject: JEP 14.1 available online Dear subscribers, I'm pleased to announce that JEP 14.1 has now been published. This issue is guest-edited by Kevin Hawkins, head of digital publishing production at the University of Michigan Library, and focuses on the theme of standards in the publishing industry. The new issue features seven contributions related to the theme of standards, as well as a book review by John Warren and a follow-up to an article published in volume 13,"The Short-Term Influence of Free Digital Versions of Books on Print Sales" (http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/3336451.0013.101), by John Hilton III and David Wiley. The new issue is available at http://www.journalofelectronicpublishing.org/. Please check it out, and share widely! The contents of the new issue are as follows: * A Note from the Guest Editor, Kevin S. Hawkins (http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/3336451.0014.101) * The Value of Standards in Electronic Content Distribution: Reflections on the Adoption of NISO Standards, Todd Carpenter (http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/3336451.0014.102) * Why Standardization Efforts Fail, Carl F. Cargill (http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/3336451.0014.103) * 'More What You'd Call 'Guidelines' Than Actual Rules' : Variation in the Use of Standards, Sheila M. Morrissey (http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/3336451.0014.104) * Why Create a Customization of a Standard? An ACS Case Study, Dan O'Brien, Jeff Fisher, and D.J. Haines (http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/3336451.0014.105) * NISO Z39.96 The Journal Article Tag Suite (JATS): What Happened to the NLM DTDs?, Jeff Beck (http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/3336451.0014.106) * Fighting Complexity in EPUB 3: Modularization and Delegation, Keith Fahlgren (http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/3336451.0014.107) * Identifier and Metadata Standards for e-Commerce—Responding to Reality in 2011, Mark Bide (http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/3336451.0014.108) * Free E-Books and Print Sales, John Hilton III and David Wiley (http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/3336451.0014.109) * Summit or Abyss, John Warren (http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/3336451.0014.110) Best wishes, Rebecca Welzenbach, Managing Editor, JEP --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2011 23:21:53 +0100 From: "Charles W. Bailey, Jr." Subject: Google Books Bibliography, Version 7 Digital Scholarship has released version 7 of the Google Books Bibliography, which presents over 325 selected English-language articles and other works that are useful in understanding Google Books. It primarily focuses on the evolution of Google Books and the legal, library, and social issues associated with it, especially the Google Book Settlement. To better show the development Google Books, it is now organized by year of publication. It primarily includes journal articles, e-prints, magazine articles, and newspaper articles. This version expands coverage of law review articles and legal e-prints. Where possible, links are provided to works that are freely available on the Internet. http://digital-scholarship.org/gbsb/gbsb.htm The following recent Digital Scholarship publications may also be of interest: o Digital Curation and Preservation Bibliography 2010. Presents over 500 English-language works. http://bit.ly/hPJwm0 o Institutional Repository Bibliography, Version 4. Presents over 500 English-language works. http://bit.ly/B0Xsf o Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography 2010. Presents over 3,800 English-language works. http://bit.ly/ekSPYj Translate (oversatta, oversette, prelozit, traducir, traduire, tradurre, traduzir, or ubersetzen): http://bit.ly/qbMYkS -- Best Regards, Charles Charles W. Bailey, Jr. Publisher, Digital Scholarship http://bit.ly/ffWu9D ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Aug 20 02:48:32 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA04C1B7F09; Sat, 20 Aug 2011 02:48:32 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 7B4321B7EFA; Sat, 20 Aug 2011 02:48:31 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110820024831.7B4321B7EFA@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2011 02:48:31 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.234 discussion for developers X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 234. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2011 13:48:00 -0400 From: Joe Ryan Subject: List for DH developers Do you work in digital humanities in a role focused significantly on software, infrastructure, tool deployment and/or development? Do you create new representations of humanities research? Are you interested in meeting your colleagues and sharing information about how they work within their organizations, favorite tools, interesting data sources, and neighboring concerns? If so, you are invited to join the brand new dh_developers list. Sign up and introduce yourself today: http://lists.unc.edu/read/all_forums/subscribe?name=dh_developers _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 20 02:49:01 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20B591B7F46; Sat, 20 Aug 2011 02:49:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C77691B7F3E; Sat, 20 Aug 2011 02:48:59 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110820024859.C77691B7F3E@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2011 02:48:59 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.235 cognitive chip design X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 235. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2011 17:31:20 +0100 From: James Leonard Subject: Researchers Assist IBM in Cognitive Computer ChipDesign UC Merced Researchers Assist IBM in Cognitive Computer Chip Design Innovative new design is modeled on nervous systems, creating computers that can learn through experience, find correlations, create hypotheses and remember outcomes. http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/35251.wss MERCED, Calif. — A team of researchers led by IBM, including a pair of professors from the University of California, Merced, unveiled today a new generation of experimental computer chips designed to emulate the brain’s abilities for perception, action and cognition. The result could be processors that use much less power and far less space than those found in today’s computers. UC Merced professors Chris Kello and Stefano Carpin have been and will continue heading up one aspect of the project — designing and implementing virtual environments to test these revolutionary new systems. The building blocks of cognitive computers, these cores are expected to learn through experiences, find correlations, create hypotheses and remember and learn from the outcomes, mimicking the brain’s structural and synaptic plasticity. The goal of the project is to create a system that not only analyzes complex information from multiple sensory inputs at once, but also automatically rewires itself as it interacts with its environment — all while approaching the remarkable power and size efficiency of the human brain. To get there will require research that incorporates principles from nanoscience, neuroscience, computer science and cognitive science. “This project represents interdisciplinary research at its finest,” said Kello, a cognitive scientist in UC Merced’s School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts. “For decades, scientists and engineers have worked on theories of cognition and intelligent algorithms without taking seriously the basic fact that human intelligence is supported by brains that weigh about 3 pounds and consume about 20 watts of power. By contrast, today’s supercomputers weigh tons and consume megawatts of power.” UC Merced recently received a grant for Phase 2 of the project — known as Systems of Neuromorphic Adaptive Plastic Scalable Electronics, or SyNAPSE — as part of $21 million in new funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to the IBM team. Phases 0 and 1 have been successfully completed, and the first two prototype chips have already been fabricated and are undergoing testing. Dharmendra Modha, project leader for IBM Research, said future applications of the technology could include traffic lights that can integrate sights, sounds and smells and flag unsafe intersections before disaster happens, or cognitive co-processors that would allow servers, laptops, tablets and phones to better interact with their environments. The UC Merced work involves creating virtual environments in which to test this technology without the costs or complications of testing them in the real world. “We are developing a high-fidelity simulation environment to test this new technology,” said Carpin, a computer scientist in the School of Engineering. “This effort builds upon our numerous years of experience in this area, and we are proud that UC Merced is playing an important role in this project.” CONTACT: James Leonard, UC Merced Office of Communications Office: 209-228-4406 | Cell: 209-681-1061 | Email: jleonard3@ucmerced.edu _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Aug 20 02:49:32 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA1841B7FB6; Sat, 20 Aug 2011 02:49:32 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C2E911B7FAE; Sat, 20 Aug 2011 02:49:31 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110820024931.C2E911B7FAE@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2011 02:49:31 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.236 events: translation; public knowledge X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 236. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Rubina Vock" (14) Subject: PKP Conference 2011 - Program Available [2] From: Ventsislav Zhechev (69) Subject: cfp: Third Joint EM+/CNGL Workshop (JEC2011): Bringing MT to the User: Research Meets Translators' --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2011 10:45:15 +0200 From: "Rubina Vock" Subject: PKP Conference 2011 - Program Available The Public Knowledge Project is pleased to announce that, in partnership with the Freie Universität Berlin, the Third International PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference will be held from September 26 - 28, 2011 in Berlin, Germany: http://www.pkp2011.de The theme for the conference is "Building and Sustaining Alternative Scholarly Publishing Projects Around the World". The program for the conference is now available, including lists of sessions and plenary speakers: http://pkp.sfu.ca/ocs/pkp/index.php/pkp2011/index/pages/view/schedule In addition, the conference will again host a "hackfest", where groups of software developers, managers, and users come together to plan, design, and develop a new feature for OJS, OCS, or OHS over the two days of the conference. More information is available on the web site: http://pkp.sfu.ca/ocs/pkp/index.php/pkp2011/index/pages/view/hackfest This is the first time that the PKP Conference is being held outside of Vancouver, Canada, and we look forward to meeting more members of the growing, international PKP user community. Please register at: http://pkp.sfu.ca/ocs/pkp/index.php/pkp2011/pkp2011/schedConf/registration We hope to see you there! Your PKP 2011 conference team --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2011 17:39:25 +0200 From: Ventsislav Zhechev Subject: cfp: Third Joint EM+/CNGL Workshop (JEC2011): Bringing MT to the User: Research Meets Translators' ======================================== FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS DEADLINE EXTENSION –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– “Bringing MT to the User: Research Meets Translators” Third Joint EM+/CNGL Workshop (JEC 2011) http://web.me.com/emcnglworkshop/JEC2011 –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– The EuroMatrixPlus Project (http://www.euromatrixplus.eu), the Centre for Next Generation Localisation (CNGL) (http://cngl.ie), the Directorate-General for Translation (DGT, European Commission) (http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/translation) and Autodesk (http://www.autodesk.ch) are co-organising the Third Joint EM+/CNGL Workshop (JEC 2011), entitled “Bringing MT to the User: Research Meets Translators”. The JEC 2011 workshop will be hosted by the Directorate General for Translation (DGT) (http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/translation) in Luxembourg on October 14th, 2011. In keeping with previous JECs, the format of the workshop is highly interactive with research paper presentations, invited talks and a panel discussion. Premise: Recent years have seen a revolution in MT triggered by the emergence of statistical approaches and improvements in translation quality. MT (rule-based, statistical and hybrid) is now available for many languages for free (on the Web) or for a fee and MT technologies are making strong inroads into the corporate localisation and translation industries as well as large public and administrative organisations dealing with multi-lingual content. Open-source MT solutions are competing with proprietary products. Increasing numbers of (professional) translators are post-editing TM/MT output. MT is a reality for internet users accessing and gisting content which is not available in their native language. At the same time, there has been a degree of disconnect between mainstream academic research and conferences on MT, often (and rightly so) focusing on algorithms to improve translation quality, and many of the important practical issues that need to be addressed to make MT maximally useful in real translation and localisation workflows, with human translators and users in general. Objectives: JEC 2011 brings together translators, users, academic and industrial MT researchers and developers to discuss issues that are most important in real world industrial settings and applications involving MT, but currently under-represented in research circles. Call for Research Papers: We solicit full research papers with industry, academic and/or user background to highlight real-world issues that need to be tackled by new research and recent advancements that improve translation quality, as well as novel and successful methods for the integration of machine translation with translation memories, localisation workflows, human translators and users. Papers should present clearly identifiable problem statements, research methodologies, measurable outcomes and evaluation. Papers are reviewed anonymously. Papers should follow the submission guidelines listed on the workshop website (http://web.me.com/emcnglworkshop/JEC2011/Call_for_Papers.html), with the maximum length being 10 pages in A4 format, including references. Please, do not include your name in the paper text and avoid overt self-references to facilitate the blind review process. If a paper is accepted, at least one author will have to register for JEC 2011 and travel to Luxembourg to present the paper. Workshop proceedings will be made available in hard-copy by DGT, and will be available for download on the JEC 2011 website. Publication of selected revised and expanded papers from JEC 2010 and JEC 2011 in journal or book form is currently under negotiation. Topics include but are not limited to: • Human Factors and MT • Introducing MT into large organisations • MT and language technologies for SMEs • MT/TM in Localisation/Translation and Content Management Workflows • MT/TM Combinations • Post-Editing Support for MT • MT and Monolingual Post-Editing • Smart Learning from Post-Edits • Interactive MT • MT Confidence Scores and Post-Editing Effort • Training Data for MT: Size, Domain and Quality • Data Cleanup and Preparation for MT • Meta-Data Mark-Up/Annotation and MT • Terminology and MT • Interoperability and Localisation/Translation Workflows • Standards and Localisation/Translation Workflows • MT Evaluation • Costing/Pricing MT • MT for Free/for a Fee • Rule-Based, Statistical and Hybrid MT • Linguistic resources for MT • Computing Resources for MT • MT in the Cloud • MT and the Crowd • MT, Games, Video and TV Localisation • (Machine) Translation in Context • Social Aspects of (Machine) Translation: Access to Information as a Human Right Deadlines (all 23:59 GMT -11): 21th August: Submission deadline for papers (EXTENDED DEADLINE) 12th September: Announcement for submitted papers 30th September: Camera-ready deadline for accepted papers 14th October: Workshop takes place at DGT in Luxembourg Submission URL: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jec2011 Workshop Chair: Ventsislav Zhechev (Autodesk) Workshop Senior PC: Ventsislav Zhechev (Autodesk) Andreas Eisele (DGT) Philipp Koehn (Univ. of Edinburgh) Josef van Genabith, Declan Groves (CNGL) Program Committee: Submitted papers will be reviewed by a joint industry–academia committee. Industry members: Pedro L. Diez-Orzas (Linguaserve), Tony O’Dowd (Xcelerator), Marc Dymetman (XRCE), Andreas Eisele (DGT of the EC), Daniel Grasmick (Lucy Software), Michael Jellinghaus (EU Parliament), Will Lewis (Microsoft), Yanjun Ma (Baidu), Spyridon Pilos (DGT of the EC), Alexandros Poulis (EU Parliament), Johann Roturier (Symantec), Andy Way (Applied Language Solutions), Zoran Zakic (DGT of the EC), Ventsislav Zhechev (Autodesk) Academic members: Michael Carl (CBS, Denmark), Jinhua Du (Xi’ian Univ. of Technology), Josef van Genabith (CNGL, EM+), Declan Groves (CNGL), Philipp Koehn (EM+), Philippe Langlais (University of Montreal), Alon Lavie (CMU), Ruslan Mitkov (RIILP, UK), Michel Simard (NCR, Canada), Lucia Specia (RIILP, UK), Eiichiro Sumita (NICT, Japan), John Tinsley (CNGL, PLuTO), Hans Uszkoreit (DFKI, Germany), David Vilar (DFKI, Germany), Martin Volk (UZH, Switzerland) For inquiries please contact Dr. Ventsislav Zhechev at emcnglworkshop@me.com For up-to-date information, please visit http://web.me.com/emcnglworkshop/JEC2011 For information about the First Joint EM+/CNGL Workshop, please visit http://www.euromatrixplus.eu/cngl2009 For information about the Second Joint EM+/CNGL Workshop, please visit http://web.me.com/emcnglworkshop/JEC2010 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 23 03:31:27 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB9011BAF50; Tue, 23 Aug 2011 03:31:27 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 3FA361BAB9C; Tue, 23 Aug 2011 03:31:25 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110823033125.3FA361BAB9C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 03:31:25 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.237 Busa Award final call; fellowships at Stanford Humanities Center X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 237. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Jockers Matthew (13) Subject: BUSA AWARD: Final Notice [2] From: Robert Barrick (23) Subject: Stanford Humanities Center Fellowship Opportunities 2012-13 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 13:29:37 -0700 From: Jockers Matthew Subject: BUSA AWARD: Final Notice Friends, To my June 17th Call for Nominations, I have received but one reply. Please send nominations by September 1, 2011 to me at mjockers@stanford.edu Details Below: The Roberto Busa Award is given every three years to honor outstanding scholarly achievement in humanities computing. The Award is named after Roberto Busa, SJ, who is regarded by many as the founder of the field of humanities computing. The first award was given to Father Busa himself in 1998. The 2001 prize was awarded to John Burrows, 2004 to Susan Hockey, 2007 to Wilhelm Ott, and 2010 to Joe Raben. The next Busa Award will be given at the DH conference in 2013. The Award Committee now invites nominations. Nominations may be made by anyone with an interest in humanities computing and neither nominee nor nominator need be a member of ALLC or ACH. Nominators should give some account of the nominee’s work and the reasons it is felt to be an outstanding contribution to the field. A list of bibliographic references to the nominee’s work is desirable. Nominators are welcome to resubmit updated versions of unsuccessful nominations submitted in previous years. The recipient of the award receives 1000 GBP and is expected to give a keynote or plenary lecture (on a topic of their choice) at the annual Digital Humanities conference. ADHO will host the recipient as a guest of honor for the conference at which the Prize is awarded and the lecture given—this means that all travel, accommodation and subsistence costs of the Prize recipient will be paid by the Association. Nominations should be emailed to Matthew L. Jockers (Chair of the 2013 Busa Award Committee) mjockers@stanford.edu no later than September 1, 2011. The winner of the Award will be announced at the 2012 meeting and awarded at the 2013 meeting. More information about the award can be found on the ADHO web site: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/awards/BusaPrize -- Matthew Jockers Stanford University http://www.stanford.edu/~mjockers --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 23:10:31 +0100 From: Robert Barrick Subject: Stanford Humanities Center Fellowship Opportunities 2012-13 Announcement of Faculty Fellowships at the Stanford Humanities Center External Faculty Fellowships The Stanford Humanities Center provides a collegial environment for faculty who are undertaking innovative projects in the humanities and humanistic social sciences. Fellows participate in the intellectual life of the Humanities Center and the broader Stanford community, sharing ideas and work in progress with a diverse cohort of scholars and benefitting from a wide variety of campus resources. Fellowship term: September 2012 – June 2013 Application deadline: October 3, 2011 Eligibility Applicants must have a PhD and should be at least three years beyond receipt of the degree by the start of the fellowship term. The Center is open to projects employing information technology in humanities research. For full eligibility requirements, see http://shc.stanford.edu/fellowships/non-stanford-faculty How to Apply Detailed instructions and a link to the online application are available at: http://shc.stanford.edu External Faculty inquiries: shc-fellowships@stanford.edu ___ Arts Practitioner/Writer Fellowship The Stanford Humanities Center and the Stanford Institute for Creativity and the Arts (SiCa) are collaborating to offer one year-long fellowship to an arts practitioner who is also a writer, scholar, or critic pursuing a research project in the arts. The recipient will be in residence with other fellows at the Humanities Center. Fellowship term: September 2012 - June 2013 Application deadline: October 3, 2011 Eligibility Applicants must demonstrate professional accomplishment as arts practitioners and as critics or scholars. Fellowships will be awarded on the basis of a scholarly or critical project in the arts and not on the basis of art production. For more information, please see http://shc.stanford.edu/fellowships/arts How to Apply Detailed instructions and a link to the online application are available at: http://shc.stanford.edu Arts inquiries: sica@stanford.edu _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Aug 23 03:34:09 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5EAB1B97BA; Tue, 23 Aug 2011 03:34:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 3F00B1B9799; Tue, 23 Aug 2011 03:34:06 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20110823033406.3F00B1B9799@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 03:34:06 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.238 cfp: Asian perspective on social & ethical aspects of new tech X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 238. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2011 12:58:16 +0700 From: Soraj Hongladarom Subject: Call for Papers - Special Issue of Nanoethics *Call for Papers* *Social and Ethical Aspects of New and Emerging Technologies from an Asian Perspective* Guest editor: Dr. Soraj Hongladarom, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok. The journal *NanoEthics: Ethics for Technologies that Converge at the Nanoscale*, published by Springer in the Netherlands, is planning a special issue for August 2012 on social and ethical aspects of new and emerging technologies from an Asian perspective. These technologies include nanotechnology, synthetic biology, neuroscience and information and communication technology. The perspective could be religious, cultural or related to problems unique to or especially important in, the Asian context. Advances in nanotechnology naturally call for a sustained investigation on how the technology is related to its socio-cultural and normative contexts. Such investigation is inherently interdisciplinary and touches upon the ethical, sociological, legal, and other issues. Public attitudes toward the technology can have a tremendous impact on how the technology is carried forward and even on the direction of technological research and development itself. Furthermore, as Asia and other developing, non-Western regions are also embracing the technology, a sustained look at the ethical, cultural and social implications of nanotechnology in these regions would be very interesting. In addition, the added cultural dimensions present a set of challenges in itself, not least among which is how the ethical problems incurred by nanotechnology are shaped up by the cultural contexts and what kind of responses are there that arise from within the cultural roots and traditions of Asia as well as other non-western regions. Papers are being called for a special issue of *Nanoethics* that address the issues outlined above. The following topics are suggested for the issue, though the list is not exhaustive: - Nanotechnology for development - Religious perspectives on nanotechnology - Human enhancement in Asian context - Nanotechnology policy in Asia - Nanotechnology policy in the developing world - Privacy in Asian culture - Issues in neuroethics through Asian perspectives In fact, any contributions on any ethical and social aspects of these new technologies relevant to Asia or other non-western economies are welcome. All papers will be double-blind refereed. Important dates: - 29 August 2011: Call for Papers issued - 15 October: Last day for notifying Guest Editor of intention to submit - 15 February 2012: Papers due - March-April: Review process - May-July: Revisions where necessary - 15 July 2012: Final revised papers due - August 2012: Special issue published Submission procedure: Papers should be submitted online at http://www.springer.com/social+sciences/applied+ethics/journal/11569 Instructions for authors can also be found here. Guest editor details: Dr. Soraj Hongladarom Department of Philosophy Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University Bangkok 10330, Thailand Tel. +66 (0) 2218 4756; Fax +66 (0) 2218 4755 Director, Center for Ethics of Science and Technology Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University Email: hsoraj@chula.ac.th http://www.stc.arts.chula.ac.th/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Aug 23 03:34:50 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 090931BA72D; Tue, 23 Aug 2011 03:34:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 6711B1BA6BA; Tue, 23 Aug 2011 03:34:47 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110823033447.6711B1BA6BA@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 03:34:47 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.239 events: preservation of complex objects X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 239. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 18:05:57 +0100 From: Leonidas Konstantelos Subject: Preservation Of Complex Digital Objects Symposia (POCOS):Registration now open for Software Art event *** Apologies for crossposting *** Preservation Of Complex Objects Symposia (POCOS) We are pleased to announce the 2nd POCOS Symposium on Preservation of Software Art 11-12 October 2011, The Lighthouse, Glasgow, UK Organised by the Humanities Advanced Technology & Information Institute (HATII) at the University of Glasgow, UK. Online registration: http://www.pocos.org/index.php/registration Symposium Fee: Free + £10 donation for refreshments (payable at the event) Preservation of software art presents challenges in many fronts, including complex interdependencies between objects; time-based and interactive properties; and diversity in the technologies and practices used for development. This exciting two-day symposium will provide a forum for participants to discuss these challenges, review and debate the latest developments in the field, witness real-life case studies, and engage in networking activities. The symposium will promote discussion on such topics as: • Implications and advances in preserving software art • Issues of ephemerality • Significant properties for software art • Software art as performance • Legal and Ethical issues in collecting, curating and preserving software art • Interpretation and Documentation Keynote Speakers: • Richard Rinehart - Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University, USA • Simon Biggs - Edinburgh College of Art, UK Presenters include: • Vicky Isley and Paul Smith - boredomresearch / NCCA, Bournemouth University, UK • Michael Takeo Magruder - King's Visualisation Lab, King's College London, UK • Perla Innocenti - History of Art, University of Glasgow, UK • Leo Konstantelos - HATII, University of Glasgow, UK The programme also includes break-out sessions for participants to discuss key topics in preservation of Software Art. For more information, please visit the POCOS page at: http://www.pocos.org/index.php/pocos-symposia/software-art Download the brochure at: http://pocos.org/images/pub_material/leaflet_software_art.pdf Bookings are now open at the project website – however, space is limited so please book early. A waiting list will be maintained once the symposium is fully booked in case of late cancellations. We look forward to welcoming you at the event! Preservation Of Complex Objects Symposia (POCOS) has been funded by the JISC Information Environment Programme 2009-11 -- Dr Leo Konstantelos Principal Investigator, POCOS HATII Preservation Research Officer 11 University Gardens University of Glasgow Glasgow G12 8QH Skype: l.konstantelos T: +44 (0)141 330 7133 E: L.Konstantelos@hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk W: http://www.hatii.arts.gla.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 24 03:48:34 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id C15AF19EF93; Wed, 24 Aug 2011 03:48:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 2585E19EF80; Wed, 24 Aug 2011 03:48:33 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110824034833.2585E19EF80@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 03:48:33 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.240 on digital palaeography X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 240. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 13:07:33 +0100 From: Shawn Day Subject: Report on DIGITAL PALAEOGRAPHY: ESF EXPLORATORY WORKSHOP Dáibhí Ó Cróinín, National University of Ireland, Galway has kindly provided the following summary of the ESF Exploratory Workshop on Digital Paleography. Hopefully readers of this list will find it of interest. Thanks Dáibhí for talking the time to prepare this and for generously sharing it. Digital Palaeography: ESF Exploratory Workshop Würzburg (Germany) 20-22 July, 2011 Dr Malte Rehbein (Lehrstuhl für Computerphilologie d. Universität Würzburg and formerly of the Moore Institute, NUI Galway) was the convenor of a recent conference, funded under the European Science Foundation’s Exploratory Workshop Scheme, and held at the University of Würzburg. Bringing together 24 researchers from 9 countries, its purpose was to explore the potential application to manuscript palaeography of the newer digital technologies, such as automated OCR, metrical analysis, quantitative methods, and forensic (incl. DNA) analysis and imaging techniques, and the likely implications of these scientific methodologies for the ‘traditional’ art/science of palaeography. The ‘traditional’ perspective was provided by Dr Eef Overgaauw (Keeper of Manuscripts at the Staatsbibliothek Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin), in a Keynote paper entitled ‘Palaeography: Old Questions and New Technology’. Rejecting the notion that there was a current ‘crisis’ in the field, he offered an elegant and entertaining overview of research in manuscript studies and the problems raised — and in most cases still unanswered — by ‘traditional’ methods (e.g., how to accurately date and locate medieval manuscripts on the basis of script alone). It is, he stated, a moot point whether the new technologies can really resolve some or all of the burning questions. He argued that, even where quantitative or numerical methodologies were applied, there would still be the requirement for manuscript expertise (he used the word connoisseurship) in order to make the most of the new data & to interpret them correctly. The Keynote talk was followed by a series of presentations under the headings of ‘Enhancing Palaeography’, ‘Crossing the Disciplines’, and ‘The Digital World’, with survey talks by Stewart Brookes (King’s College London) on ’Digital Resources for Palaeography, Manuscripts & Diplomatic’ (with reference to http://www.digipal.eu (http://digipal.eu)), and Wendy Scase (Birmingham), ‘New Methodologies for Effective Exploitation of Digital Manuscript Corpora’ (with ref., e.g., to the Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies (http://www.arts.manchester.ac.uk/mancass/C11 database and the Manuscripts of the West-Midlands (http://www.hrionline.ac.uk/mwm, which is A Catalogue of Vernacular Manuscript Books 
of the English West Midlands, c. 1300 - c. 1475). Specific collections were discussed by Paola Errani (Cesena), ‘Parchment and Scribes in the Malatestian Scriptorium’, which reported on the the development of methods to measure and compare the thickness of vellum in contemporary codices, to see whether recognisable (‘signature’) techniques in the preparation of the writing-material might be found. A similar study of a distinct corpus of manuscripts was described by Lior Wolf (Tel Aviv), ‘Identifying Join Candidates in the Cairo Genizah (see http://www.genizah.org.). He was able to report that their methodology has successfully matched up previously unrecognised pages and manuscript sections from the famous 19th-c. Cairo discovery of medieval Hebrew codices. Timothy Stinson (North Carolina) spoke on ’DNA Analysis and the Study of Medieval Parchment Books’, while Torsten Schaßan (Wolfenbüttel) spoke on ‘OCR for Manuscripts and Early Prints’. This linked up neatly with the paper, ‘Spatial Exploration Tools in the graphem Project’ by Matthieu Exbrayat (Orléans) (see http://www.univ-orleans.fr), which described how the individual pen-strokes of scripts have been analysed and compared with a view to identifying identical hands in different manuscripts. Melanie Gau and Robert Sablatnig (Vienna) spoke about ‘Investigation of Historic Documents with Focus on Automated Layout and Character Analysis’, which described their analysis of the sensational finds of Glagolitic (Old Church Slavonic) manuscripts in the monastery of Mount Sinai. As in the case of the Cairo Genizah codices in Hebrew, the Mt Sinai Glagolitic codices lend themselves more readily to OCR analysis because of the nature of the script itself (individual letters, not ligatured or otherwise joined together, as in European medieval minuscule MSS). The technique used would presumably not be quite so effective with other, more cursive, Glagolitic MSS, such as the so-called ‘Freising Monuments’ (see J. Pogacnik (ed.), Freisinger Denkmäler — Brizinski spomeniki — Monumenta Frisingensia (1968), but does offer possibilities for the analysis of late antique and medieval bookhands (capitalis, uncial, half-uncial, e.g., the Book of Kells). A more philosophical talk was given by Ségolène Tarte (Oxford) on ‘Interpreting Ancient Documents: of Avatars, Uncertainty, and Knowledge Creation’, which was an elegant exposition, from the point of view of a papyrologist (with experience also of the Vindolanda fragments) of the philosophical and existential challenges faced by all who encounter the older written relics of the past. Other contributions were made by Natasha Golob (Ljubljana) on digital techniques for analysing late medieval manuscript decoration, Marc Smith (Paris), on script analysis, Dominique Stutzmann (Paris IRHT), and Holger Essler (Würzburg), and there was a valuable open workshop, utilising digital images of Oxford manuscripts, presided over by Dr Peter Stokes (King’s College London). Other scholars were in attendance as observers. The entire proceedings were graced by the benign presence of the ESF Rapporteur, Prof. Claudine Moulin (Trier), herself a noted expert on manuscript dry-point glosses. It is intended that all the Workshop presentations will be made available shortly on a dedicated website. In the meantime, interested persons can contact Dr Rehbein and view the pre-conference literature at: malte.rehbein@uni-wuerzburg.de (mailto:malte.rehbein@uni-wuerzburg.de). The conference was a good indication of how things have moved on (relatively rapidly) from the Munich Conference of 2009 on the same topic (see http://tinyurl.com/38pfmk3) and the Helsinki Digital Imaging of Ancient Textual Heritage conference of 2010, and even more so since the publication of articles such as Knut Kleve & Ivar Fonnes, ‘Lacunology: on the use of computer methods in papyrology’, Symbolae Osloenses 56 (1981) 157-79, or P. F. Beinema & A. J. Geurts, ‘Computer-supported codicography of medieval manuscripts’, Ontsluiting van middeleeuwse handschriften in de Nederlanden, Verslag van studiedagen gehouden te Nijmegen, 30-31 maart 1984 (Nijmegen 1987) 223-35. One plea made and supported by many at the Würzburg Workshop was that Digital Palaeography should take active steps to become part of the Digital Medievalist Community (see http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/); whether that time has come — or whether Digital Palaeography still needs to establish itself as a stand-alone discipline —remains to be seen. In the meantime, hovering (unspoken and unmentioned) over the entire event was the spirit of Prof. Bernhard Bischoff, doyen of Medieval Latin Palaeography in the last half-century, who remarked famously, in the Introduction to his book, Paläographie des römischen Altertums und des abendländischen Mittelalters (Berlin 1979: French transl. 1985; Engl;. transl. 1990): ‘Palaeographical work, of course, goes on. In our own time international co-operation undertakes to solve fundamental problems. Tools are being created which will provide palaeographers with reliable assistance and ease their work. With the aid of technological advances palaeography, which is an art of seeing and comprehending, is in the process of becoming an art of measurement’. The statement (characteristically gnomic in its formulation) was not altogether intended by Bischoff as a positive one. I think the Würzburg Workshop might have given him reason to be more sanguine about the future of Digital Palaeography. Dáibhí Ó Cróinín, National University of Ireland, Galway. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Aug 24 03:49:22 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C21719EF23; Wed, 24 Aug 2011 03:49:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 14A6119EDE9; Wed, 24 Aug 2011 03:49:20 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110824034920.14A6119EDE9@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 03:49:20 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.241 new publication: Human IT 11.1 X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 241. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 10:03:18 +0200 From: "Mats Dahlström" Subject: Human IT 11.1 Dear all, A new issue (vol.11, #1) of the digital humanities journal Human IT is now available at: http://etjanst.hb.se/bhs/ith/1-11/ The four articles (three of which are peer reviewed) cover computer-mediated information sharing in rural communities; mobile phone design and text-messaging; the blog as a writing tool from a historical-comparative perspective; and the integration of communication technology in everyday leisure activities. Table of contents: * Editorial http://etjanst.hb.se/bhs/ith/1-11/#editorial * Antonio Díaz Andrade & Cathy Urquhart The Role of Social Connectors in Seeking Computer-mediated Information in Rural Societies [Refereed section] http://etjanst.hb.se/bhs/ith/1-11/adacu.htm * Vimala Balakrishnan & Paul H.P. Yeow Determining the Predictors and a Cross-gender Analysis for Messaging Satisfaction [Open section] http://etjanst.hb.se/bhs/ith/1-11/vbpy.htm * Ruth Grüters Blogg - et arkiv for skriving og refleksjon [= Blog - an archive for writing and reflection] [Refereed section] http://etjanst.hb.se/bhs/ith/1-11/rg.htm * Anna-Malin Karlsson Online Outdoor: Technological, Discursive and Textual Transformations of the Activity of Skating [Refereed section] http://etjanst.hb.se/bhs/ith/1-11/amk.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 of Borås. For more information, please contact human.it [at] hb.se or visit our web site: http://etjanst.hb.se/bhs/ith/humanit-eng.htm Best wishes, Mats Dahlström and Jonas Söderholm, editors ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Mats Dahlström, associate professor Swedish School of Library and Information Science UC Borås / University of Gothenburg, Sweden Mats dot Dahlstrom at hb dot se ; +46 33 435 44 21 ; http://www.adm.hb.se/~mad/ ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Aug 24 03:50:40 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D39119F0EB; Wed, 24 Aug 2011 03:50:40 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1574519F0D1; Wed, 24 Aug 2011 03:50:38 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110824035038.1574519F0D1@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 03:50:38 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.242 events: Semantic MediaWiki X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 242. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 16:50:09 +0100 From: "Ashton, Anna" Subject: Semantic MediaWiki workshop and lecture, 26 September 2011 Please see details below of a workshop and lecture organised by the Centre for e-Research, all are welcome: Semantic MediaWiki: a tool for collaborative databases Monday 26th September 2011 In association with Judaica Europeana the British Library, and the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI) project 15:30 - 17:00, Anatomy Museum WORKSHOP: Semantic MediaWiki: a practical workshop Led by Yaron Koren 18:00, Anatomy Lecture Theatre, followed by refreshments LECTURE: The Judaica Europeana Haskala (Jewish Enlightenment) database With an introduction by Lena Stanley Clamp, Director, European Association for Jewish Culture. There will also be a short introduction to the EU-funded EHRI Project by Tobias Blanke (www.ehri-project.eu). Part of the Centre for e-Research Seminar Series. For more information and to register to attend, see: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/innovation/groups/cerch/events/seminars/semanticmediawiki.aspx Anatomy Theatre and Museum, King's College London 6th floor, King's Building, Strand Campus, London WC2R 2LS ___ Anna Ashton Communications Manager Centre for e-Research King's College London 26-29 Drury Lane London, WC2B 5RL Email: anna.ashton@kcl.ac.uk Tel: 020 7848 2689 Fax: 020 7848 1989 http://www.kcl.ac.uk/cerch Follow us on Twitter @KingsCeRch _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 25 06:20:58 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9CEC1B4097; Thu, 25 Aug 2011 06:20:58 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 6CFB21B408C; Thu, 25 Aug 2011 06:20:57 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110825062057.6CFB21B408C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 06:20:57 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.243 call for nominations: ACH Exec X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 243. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 22:16:56 -0400 From: Dot Porter Subject: Second Call for Nominations to the ACH Executive Council The Association for Computers and the Humanities invites nominations for this year's elections. We are electing a president, vice-president, and three Executive Council members, and seek candidates for all these offices who want to advance the field of digital humanities by helping to run the ACH. Together with other officers, these are the people who form the ACH's policies, decide how the ACH will spend its funds, and oversee its activities. They meet for an annual council meeting at the Digital Humanities conference every year, and hold discussions during the rest of the year by email and occasional phone conferences. Candidates must be (or be willing to become) members of the ACH and must commit to attending the council meetings at the Digital Humanities conference. The president and vice-president serve two-year terms; council members serve four-year terms. Candidates are expected to be active members of the digital humanities community. But these are not roles reserved to those in very senior positions: graduate students have often served on the council, and commitment to the organization and to the field have usually counted for more with the membership than job titles. Nominations should be sent to ach-nominations@digitalhumanities.org by September 15. They should include an email address for the nominee. A brief biographical statement will also be needed for the ballot but need not be included with the nomination. You are warmly encouraged to nominate yourself if you are interested. Please note that per the bylaws each nominee needs two nominations to be considered for inclusion on the ballot. The nominations committee shall determine the final slate of candidates to stand for election for the available positions. For more information on the responsibilities and obligations of ACHofficers, see http://www.ach.org/constitution#Bylaws Current officers of the ACH are listed at http://www.ach.org/officers Many thanks, ACH Nominations Committee Julia Flanders Neil Fraistat Dot Porter (chair) Brian Pytlik Zillig Bill Turkel -- *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Dot Porter (MA, MSLS) Digital Medievalist, Digital Librarian Email: dot.porter@gmail.com *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Aug 25 06:22:44 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39DE11B4110; Thu, 25 Aug 2011 06:22:44 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 643001B4104; Thu, 25 Aug 2011 06:22:42 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20110825062242.643001B4104@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 06:22:42 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.244 Downie new Assoc Dean, GSLIS (Illinois) X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 244. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 12:32:01 -0500 From: "Reilly, Maeve J" Subject: Downie named associate dean for research at GSLIS Illinois Professor J. Stephen Downie has been named associate dean for research at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, replacing Professor Allen Renear, who is stepping down to pursue further research activities. Downie will coordinate all aspects of research at GSLIS including working closely with faculty on research plans, overseeing GSLIS research centers, and facilitating the development of GSLIS research strategy. In addition to his administrative duties, Downie teaches courses in library science, digital libraries and multimedia. He conducts research in design and evaluation of music information retrieval systems, digital libraries, and digital humanities. Dr. Downie joined the GSLIS faculty in 1998. He received his Ph.D. in library and information science in 1999 from the University of Western Ontario. He was instrumental in founding the International Society for Music Information Retrieval, and serves now as president. In recent years, he has garnered more than $1.8 million in research funding. These funded projects include Structural Analysis of Large Amounts of Music Information (SALAMI), from the National Science Foundation, and The Networked Environment for Music Analysis (NEMA), from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Downie's position began on August 16. "At GSLIS, research is a very important part of what we do and who we are: it's one important way that we contribute to making the world a better place, and it's also about a third of our budget every year. In order to provide the best support possible for faculty and students engaged in research, GSLIS created an associate dean for research (ADR) three years ago. We were very fortunate to have Allen Renear serve as our first ADR: he brought years of administrative experience to the job, he assembled an extremely effective staff, and with them he developed services that produced an immediate and significant increase in GSLIS research activity. Now that Allen's decided to step down as ADR, I'm grateful to Stephen Downie for agreeing to step up to that role. Stephen has considerable experience in building research communities, he's very familiar with some of our key external funding agencies, and he is a committed believer in the value of all kinds of research. His energy, experience, and enthusiasm are already highly valued at GSLIS, and they are sure to be key assets in his new administrative role," said Dean John Unsworth. Downie will be aided on the Research Services staff by Maeve Reilly, who takes the role of research services coordinator, replacing Janet Eke, who will move to research services coordinator at the Center for Informatics in Science and Scholarship (CIRSS). Both will be involved in project planning and proposal development, including general planning, cost-sharing, research resources development, and providing assistance with university policies and procedures. Maeve Reilly Research Services Coordinator Graduate School of Library and Information Science University of Illinois Rm 219 LIS 501 E. Daniel Champaign, IL 61820 mjreilly@illinois.edu (217) 244-7316 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 26 05:47:08 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72AD11BE8A0; Fri, 26 Aug 2011 05:47:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 14C6F1BE1AF; Fri, 26 Aug 2011 05:47:06 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110826054706.14C6F1BE1AF@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2011 05:47:06 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.245 where does the problem lie? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 245. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2011 06:39:07 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: where the problem lies One of the consequences of trying to think historically about our subject is to raise the question of why certain ideas we know to be wrong and can see to be holding us back nevertheless refuse to go away despite persuasive arguments to the contrary. Let me give you two examples. 1. Technological determinism, or Machines make history In his great book Television: Technology and cultural form (1974), Raymond Williams began as follows: > people often speak of a new world, a new society, a new phase of > history, being created – ‘brought about’ – by this or that new > technology. Most of us know what is generally implied when such > things are said. But this may be the central difficulty: that we have > got so used to statements of this general kind, in our most ordinary > discussions, that we can fail to realise their specific meanings…. > For behind all such statements lie some of the most difficult and > most unresolved historical and philosophical questions. Yet the > questions are not posed by the statements; indeed they are ordinarily > masked by them. (1) It seems to me that his response to the problem nailed it: > the reality of determination is the setting of limits and the > exertion of pressures, within which variable social practices are > profoundly affected but never necessarily controlled. (133) This seems so obvious that one is strongly inclined to regard technological determinism as on the same level of intelligence as any other of the silly doctrines that people rope themselves to in times of doubt. But as Sally Wyatt sensibly remarks in “Technological Determinism is Dead; Long Live Technological Determinism”, The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies, pp. 165-80 (2008), the doctrine persists nevertheless. So we have to figure out not why it is stupifying as well as stupid (which is obvious) but specifically what about it gives it such staying power, and more importantly, how we can root out the virus that triggers the diseased reaction. (2) Getting a message across In 1948 Claude Shannon proposed an mathematical scheme for engineering successful transmission of signals from sender to receiver despite the inevitable noise of any communications channel. In 1949 Warren Weaver wrote a popular article in Scientific American to explain the scheme. Weaver begins by asking, “How do men communicate, one with another?”, lists several means familiar to his readers – telephone, radio, written and printed word, a nod, a wink and so forth. He considers the common problems of getting a message across, and then he turns to the technical problems and the model itself. Thus Weaver in effect reduces the human situation to a diagrammatic understanding that passes into mathematical form, picks up both the world-changing potential for widespread application and the authority of the science it invokes, then returns to ordinary discourse as an answer to his initial question: This is how men communicate, one with another. As people in Communication Studies will know quite well, the Shannon-Weaver model became hugely popular, gradually ran into trouble (e.g. from Marshall McLuhan) and has been argued down for applications beyond engineering, it would seem, definitively. For example, in a 1995 government report, Global Communications: Opportunities for Trade and Aid, the authors note that “Despite a long history, [the Shannon-Weaver] model is less useful today, given the convergence of information and communication technology and an interactive multimedia environment in which communication no longer takes place in a linear fashion”. It goes on to identify “The somewhat passive notions of ‘message’, ‘sender’, and ‘receiver’” as thoroughly problematic. Again, however, the Shannon-Weaver model remains curiously adhesive, especially in how we treat our artificially intelligent machines, as if they were or could only be information kiosks. Why is it, when in most of our waking hours, in conversations with each other, we know this model to be beyond its depth, do we persist in acting as if it were adequate? Comments? Yours, WM -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Aug 26 05:48:48 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDC741BF7A5; Fri, 26 Aug 2011 05:48:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 186E61BF79C; Fri, 26 Aug 2011 05:48:47 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110826054847.186E61BF79C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2011 05:48:47 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.246 welcome to 13! X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 246. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2011 06:41:57 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: a welcome bunch A few weeks ago I welcomed 11 new members to Humanist and flagged the event as marking the largest number to have joined at one time in Humanist's 25-year history. This morning I found 13 applications accumulated since yesterday. The pace is picking up! Humanist now has 1732 members. Yours, WM -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Aug 26 05:49:39 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D3B51BF80E; Fri, 26 Aug 2011 05:49:39 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 2042C1BF7FE; Fri, 26 Aug 2011 05:49:38 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110826054938.2042C1BF7FE@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2011 05:49:38 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.247 events: Dublin Core at The Hague X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 247. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 15:15:01 +0200 From: Seth van Hooland Subject: DC2011 - Tutorials DUBLIN CORE TUTORIALS at the Hague ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DC-2011 Pre-conference Tutorials TUTORIAL ABSTRACTS: http://dcevents.dublincore.org/index.php/IntConf/index/pages/view/tutorial s-2011#taylor DATE: 21 September 2011 TIME: 9:00 - 17:00 PLACE: National Library of the Netherlands, The Hague REGISTRATION: http://dcevents.dublincore.org/index.php/IntConf/index/pages/view/registra tion-2011 [Registration is available for this special day-long session only or for the full conference] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- We are writing to invite you to participate in Dublin Core tutorials planned for DC-2011 at The Hague. The pre-conference tutorials are intended as a forum for managers of structured data vocabularies as well as researches and practitioners working on metadata management and controlled vocabularies. The following four tutorials are programmed: Tutorial Title: An Introduction to Dublin Core Presenter: Stephanie Taylor Abstract: This tutorial will provide a basic introduction to the Dublin Core (DC) metadata set, starting with a brief overview of how and why DC began and how it has developed to the present day. Simple DC and Qualified DC will be explained, with practical examples of real-life usage to illustrate the application of DC in different working environments. The tutorial will have a 'hands on' approach, giving participants an opportunity to explore the elements through group work and to use both Simple and Qualified DC to describe objects. Tutorial Title: Even More Dublin Core Presenter: Emma Tonkin Abstract: Dublin Core, like many things in life, is many things to many people. This tutorial starts by taking a quick tour through the conceptual landscape of the DCMI. We then move on to practical exploration, demonstrating the role of Dublin Core as a helpful Swiss Army knife in a well-stocked metadata toolbox. Using the vocabularies, schemas, concepts and processes behind Dublin Core97such as the Singapore Framework, we work through practical examples of: describing a set of resources; developing an application profile for a given purpose; building metadata records on the basis of a newly constructed application profile; and marking up web-based data with microformats. Finally, the tutorial takes a look at how Dublin Core fits in with the world of Linked Data. Tutorial Title: SKOS (Simple Knowledge Organization System) Presenter: Antoine Isaac Abstract: SKOS is a data model to represent and network knowledge organization systems (thesauri, classification systems, etc) in RDF. SKOS is meant to be as easy of use as possible, fitting existing practices while keeping general enough to fit a high number of use cases and KOS configurations. In this tutorial, an introduction to the various features of SKOS will be given, illustrating how they can be used to represent existing KOS data. The tutorial will present how the vision of leveraging existing KOS on the web of data is being adopted in a number of projects, in the Cultural Heritage sector and beyond. Available tooling and methods for creating and publishing SKOS as well as porting legacy KOS data to SKOS will also be discussed. Tutorial Title: From Dublin Core to Linked Data" Presenter: Paul Hermans Abstract: In this tutorial we will learn in a concrete way how to migrate an XML/HTML encoded Dublin Core metadata application to a linked data version hereof. We cover all the needed steps to: define the identifiers (URI's) of the resources choose the right models, vocabularies generate links to different datasets convert to the needed representations (RDF/XML, turtle, HTML) and publish the data as dereferenceable linked data. We will also address also some FAQ's: reusing vocabularies or building your own, SKOS (concepts) or OWL (classes), how to model temporal constraints, how to apply closed world constraints. In closing, we give an overview of the tools and technologies which can be used. If travel is not an option for any of you, remote participation may be possible through IRC. Please note that early-bird registration ends on 5 September. We very much hope some or all of you may be able to attend what we expect to be a very useful event. Cordially, Muriel Foulonneau, Henri Tudor Research Centre Stuart Sutton, University of Washington Seth van Hooland, 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 Sat Aug 27 05:36:07 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73A9F1958EC; Sat, 27 Aug 2011 05:36:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B9B491958D7; Sat, 27 Aug 2011 05:36:05 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110827053605.B9B491958D7@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2011 05:36:05 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.248 jobs in grammar engineering X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 248. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2011 11:46:35 +0100 From: Wintner Shuly Subject: Research Positions in Grammar Engineering Research Positions in Grammar Engineering Computational Linguistics Group, University of Haifa, Israel http://cl.haifa.ac.il/ For an externally-funded research project, led by PIs Nurit Melnik and Shuly Wintner, and titled "Grammar Engineering and Collaborative Grammar Development", we are looking for highly-talented, highly-motivated research assistants at the doctoral and post-doctoral levels. The main objective of the project is to develop mechanisms for grammar engineering that will facilitate collaborative grammar development for a single grammar but, more importantly, for a set of grammars developed in parallel. Such mechanisms must support various aspects of grammar engineering, including facilities for modularization, abstraction and information encapsulation. The framework is based on typed unification grammars, and is aimed to support the development of large-scale HPSG grammars. The ideal candidate should: - have a solid background in computer science, with excellent programming skills - be acquainted with state-of-the-art software engineering methodologies - be familiar with contemporary syntactic theories, ideally HPSG - be creative, innovative and hard-working - be able to work independently - possess excellent communication skills, both oral and written (in English). Post-doctoral scholarships require a PhD in hand (or about to be conferred). They are for one year, with very likely extension to a second (and maybe a third) year. Candidates should demonstrate a promising track record of publications. Doctoral scholarships require a Masters degree in Computer Science or a closely-related area. They are for three to four years. To apply, please e-mail an updated CV, with the names and contact details of at least three references, to Shuly Wintner (shuly@cs.haifa.ac.il). Further documentation (e.g., transcripts of previous studies) may be needed at a later stage. For any inquiries on these positions please contact Shuly Wintner by e-mail. Some information on post-doctoral research at the University of Haifa is available here: http://postdoc.haifa.ac.il/Pages/post.aspx Information on graduate studies is available here: http://graduate.haifa.ac.il/index.php?lang=en Applications received before October 1st will receive primary consideration. Work should ideally start as soon as possible afterwards. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 27 05:37:25 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F38F19596A; Sat, 27 Aug 2011 05:37:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 60643195958; Sat, 27 Aug 2011 05:37:23 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110827053723.60643195958@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2011 05:37:23 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.249 events: semantic technology X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 249. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2011 15:52:37 +0100 From: shenghui wang Subject: First Call for Tutorials: The Joint International SemanticTechnology Conference (JIST 2011) * CALL FOR TUTORIALS * The Joint International Semantic Technology Conference (JIST 2011) * * http://www.jist-conference.org/ * * *******Deadline: 15 Sept, 2011****** * * * December 4-7, 2011 * Hangzhou, China * ************************************************************************ The Joint International Semantic Technology Conference (JIST) is a regional federation of Semantic Web related conferences. The mission of JIST is to bring together researchers in disciplines related to the semantic technology from across the Asia-Pacific Region. JIST 2011 incorporates the Asian Semantic Web Conference 2011 (ASWC 2011) and Chinese Semantic Web Conference 2011 (CSWC 2011). Besides the main technical programme, JIST will host a number of tutorials on topics related to the general theme of the conference. We welcome submissions of tutorial proposals on all major topics related to semantic technologies, including, but not limited to those covered by the main conference: - Applications of the Semantic Web - Management of Semantic Web Data - Ontology and Reasoning - Social Semantic Web - user Interfaces to the Semantic Web JIST tutorials may be either for a full day or for a half day, but the rationale for the choice needs to be explained in the proposal. Tutorials may focus entirely on theoretical aspects; however, we encourage organisers to incorporate hands-on sessions where appropriate. Finally, we expect proposers to consider tutorials as educational events first, therefore they should plan to provide the attendees with a comprehensive introduction to the state-of-the-art in the tutorial’s topic before moving on to cover specific approaches in more depth. * Important Dates - Proposal submission: 15 September, 2011 - Notification of acceptance: 22 September 2011 - Tutorial date(s) at the conference: 4-5 December 2011 * Submission Guidelines Tutorial proposals should not exceed 5 pages and should contain the following information: - Title - Abstract (200 words maximum) - Justification for the tutorial, including timeliness and relevance to JIST 2011 - Tutorial description (aims, target audience, presentation method, technical requirements) - Outline of the tutorial content and schedule - Information on presenters (name, affiliation, expertise, experience in teaching and in tutorial presentation) Proposals should be submitted as a single PDF file by email to the Tutorial Chairs: - Shenghui Wang shenghui.wang (at) wur.nl - Ming Zhang mzhang (at) net.pku.edu.cn _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 29 05:18:00 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id B478B198CF0; Mon, 29 Aug 2011 05:18:00 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 4E52D198CDB; Mon, 29 Aug 2011 05:17:58 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110829051758.4E52D198CDB@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 05:17:58 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.250 events: scholarly communication (HASTAC 2011) X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 250. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2011 17:55:18 +0100 From: I-CHASS Subject: Call for Proposals | HASTAC 2011 Conference The University of Michigan will be hosting the 2011 annual HASTAC Conference on its Ann Arbor campus December 1-3, 2011 on the general theme of Digital Scholarly Communication. Please submit proposals for presentations, posters or demos that explore the following range of topics, including but not limited to: * Reformulating scholarly projects and products for different audiences * Reconsidering questions of narration and argumentation, evidence and epistemology, interactivity, and/or text/visual presentation * Re-mapping the routes through which scholarly products circulate and recirculate * Expanding the digital and new media arts to include the humanities and vice versa * Reshaping the global system of knowledge production in the humanities, including access, circulation, exchange and equity both within the global north and between the global north and south * Generating new kinds of research, modes of teaching, and partnerships * Expanding new forms of dissertations and theses * Copyright challenges and strategies for digital scholarly communication * Web design and digitization of archives for multiple and different constituencies (local communities, global peers) * New forms of digitally based humanities research. For more information: http://hastac2011.org/proposals/ * * * Founded in 2004 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, I-CHASS charts new ground in high-performance computing and the humanities, arts, and social sciences by creating both learning environments and spaces for digital discovery. I-CHASS presents path-breaking research, computational resources, collaborative tools, and educational programming to showcase the future of the humanities, arts, and social sciences. For more information on I-CHASS, please visit: http://www.ichass.illinois.edu _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Aug 30 05:14:07 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id A66F019FAC1; Tue, 30 Aug 2011 05:14:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1E78C19FAAE; Tue, 30 Aug 2011 05:14:06 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110830051406.1E78C19FAAE@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 05:14:06 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.251 job at Oxford X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 251. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 11:27:27 +0100 From: Andrew Prescott Subject: New Research Associate post - Digital Humanities at Oxford In-Reply-To: <1E74325F1E320E4FAAEB051976822A0D38FBE20BC1@CMS03.campus.gla.ac.uk> >From: David Robey [david.robey@wolfson.ox.ac.uk] >Sent: 10 August 2011 10:19 >To: digitalhumanities@maillist.ox.ac.uk >Cc: Kay Sutton >Subject: [dh@o] New Research Associate post - Digital Humanities at Oxford I am delighted to announce that the OeRC has received a Fell Fund award to develop network support for the digital humanities at Oxford in conjunction with the digital.humanities@oxford website. Details of the related Research Associate post are given below. Please draw this to the attention of potential applicants. Research Associate - Digital Humanities at Oxford - Network Support (12 month contract) Grade: 7 Salary: £29,099 - £35,788 pa Closing date: Monday 29th August '11, 12.00pm For further details, see http://www.oerc.ox.ac.uk/jobs/research-associate-digital-humanities-at-oxf ord-network-support David Robey Arts and Humanities Consultant Oxford e-Research Centre tel 01865 847140 fax 01865 374544 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 31 05:29:39 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21FBB19B0B6; Wed, 31 Aug 2011 05:29:39 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 8DFF019B0A1; Wed, 31 Aug 2011 05:29:36 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20110831052936.8DFF019B0A1@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 05:29:36 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.252 where the problem lies X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============0042309724==" Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org --===============0042309724== Content-Type: text/plain Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 252. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 12:56:53 -0600 From: Mark Winokur Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.245 where does the problem lie? In-Reply-To: <20110826054706.14C6F1BE1AF@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Willard: First, thanks for the Williams excerpt. I often forget how important he is in thinking about Digital Humanities. But, with respect, I don't understand him to be completely negating the "technological determinism" argument, but to complicate both that argument and the argument that technology is simply a social "symptom." Here is his articulation of a sort of radical middle way: "Such an interpretation would differ from technological determinism in that it would restore /intention/ to the process of research and development. The technology would be seen, that is to say, as being looked for and developed with certain purposes and practices already in mind. At the same time the interpretation would differ from symptomatic technology in that these purposes and practices would be seen as /direct/: as known social needs, purposes and practices to which the technology is not marginal but central." (P. 7 of the Routledge Classics edition.) Best, Mark On 8/25/2011 11:47 PM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 245. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2011 06:39:07 +0100 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: where the problem lies > > One of the consequences of trying to think historically about our > subject is to raise the question of why certain ideas we know to be > wrong and can see to be holding us back nevertheless refuse to go away > despite persuasive arguments to the contrary. Let me give you two examples. > > 1. Technological determinism, or Machines make history > > In his great book Television: Technology and cultural form (1974), > Raymond Williams began as follows: > >> people often speak of a new world, a new society, a new phase of >> history, being created – ‘brought about’ – by this or that new >> technology. Most of us know what is generally implied when such >> things are said. But this may be the central difficulty: that we have >> got so used to statements of this general kind, in our most ordinary >> discussions, that we can fail to realise their specific meanings…. >> For behind all such statements lie some of the most difficult and >> most unresolved historical and philosophical questions. Yet the >> questions are not posed by the statements; indeed they are ordinarily >> masked by them. (1) > It seems to me that his response to the problem nailed it: > >> the reality of determination is the setting of limits and the >> exertion of pressures, within which variable social practices are >> profoundly affected but never necessarily controlled. (133) > This seems so obvious that one is strongly inclined to regard > technological determinism as on the same level of intelligence as any > other of the silly doctrines that people rope themselves to in times of > doubt. But as Sally Wyatt sensibly remarks in “Technological Determinism > is Dead; Long Live Technological Determinism”, The Handbook of Science > and Technology Studies, pp. 165-80 (2008), the doctrine persists > nevertheless. So we have to figure out not why it is stupifying as well > as stupid (which is obvious) but specifically what about it gives it > such staying power, and more importantly, how we can root out the virus > that triggers the diseased reaction. > > (2) Getting a message across > > In 1948 Claude Shannon proposed an mathematical scheme for engineering > successful transmission of signals from sender to receiver despite the > inevitable noise of any communications channel. In 1949 Warren Weaver > wrote a popular article in Scientific American to explain the scheme. > Weaver begins by asking, “How do men communicate, one with another?”, > lists several means familiar to his readers – telephone, radio, written > and printed word, a nod, a wink and so forth. He considers the common > problems of getting a message across, and then he turns to the technical > problems and the model itself. Thus Weaver in effect reduces the human > situation to a diagrammatic understanding that passes into mathematical > form, picks up both the world-changing potential for widespread > application and the authority of the science it invokes, then returns to > ordinary discourse as an answer to his initial question: This is how men > communicate, one with another. > > As people in Communication Studies will know quite well, the > Shannon-Weaver model became hugely popular, gradually ran into trouble > (e.g. from Marshall McLuhan) and has been argued down for applications > beyond engineering, it would seem, definitively. For example, in a 1995 > government report, Global Communications: Opportunities for Trade and > Aid, the authors note that “Despite a long history, [the Shannon-Weaver] > model is less useful today, given the convergence of information and > communication technology and an interactive multimedia environment in > which communication no longer takes place in a linear fashion”. It goes > on to identify “The somewhat passive notions of ‘message’, ‘sender’, and > ‘receiver’” as thoroughly problematic. > > Again, however, the Shannon-Weaver model remains curiously adhesive, > especially in how we treat our artificially intelligent machines, as if > they were or could only be information kiosks. Why is it, when in most > of our waking hours, in conversations with each other, we know this > model to be beyond its depth, do we persist in acting as if it were > adequate? > > Comments? > > Yours, > WM --===============0042309724== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php --===============0042309724==-- From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Aug 31 05:30:27 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EFE019B4E8; Wed, 31 Aug 2011 05:30:27 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 412F319B41D; Wed, 31 Aug 2011 05:30:25 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110831053025.412F319B41D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 05:30:25 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.253 job at Alberta X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 253. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 09:28:53 -0600 From: mwynne@ualberta.ca Subject: Tenure/Tenure-track job in Engaged Learning The Faculty of Extension of the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada is currently recruiting for a tenure or tenure-track position in Engaged Learning. The Faculty of Extension offers approximately 30 credentials to 10,000 learners, including a Master of Arts in Communications and Technology degree, a graduate certificate in community-based research and evaluation, as well as post-baccalaureate and non-credit certificates. The successful candidate will possess a Ph.D or Ed.D in lifelong learning, transformative education, knowledge mobilization, continuing professional education, higher education, educational administration, forms of community-based learning, or other related field. Candidates must have a background in adult learning theory, foundations of adult education or adult teaching methods and must be familiar with face-to-face, blended, and on-line learning environments. The deadline for applications is Monday, October 31, 2011. The complete posting is available at http://www.careers.ualberta.ca/Competition/A101114671/. Maryanne Wynne Manager, City-Region Studies Centre Faculty of Extension, University of Alberta 2-184 Enterprise Square – 10230 Jasper Avenue Edmonton, AB T5J 4P6 Tel: 780-492-8444 Cell: 780-887-6317 Fax: 780-492-0627 www.crsc.ualberta.ca _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Aug 31 05:31:11 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2DCB19B5F7; Wed, 31 Aug 2011 05:31:10 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 915A119B5E4; Wed, 31 Aug 2011 05:31:09 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110831053109.915A119B5E4@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 05:31:09 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.254 events: public knowledge; historical documents X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 254. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Rubina Vock" (28) Subject: cfp: Public Knowledge Project Conference [2] From: Marco Büchler (71) Subject: Historische Dokumente auf dem Weg zum digitalen Volltext --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 16:28:02 +0200 From: "Rubina Vock" Subject: cfp: Public Knowledge Project Conference Public Knowledge Project Conference Dear all, Today we would like to draw your attention to the upcoming PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference 2011 which will take place in just about one month from now. The Third International PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference will be held from September 26 - 28, 2011 at Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany, organized by the Public Knowledge Project, in partnership with Freie Universitaet Berlin and Simon Fraser University Library. Registration is still possible and there are still a few places available. To register for the conference please visit: http://pkp.sfu.ca/ocs/pkp/index.php/pkp2011/pkp2011/schedConf/registration Please note that registration will close September 19, 2011. The PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference 2011 will be a place where stakeholders from the publishing community from all over the world will gather to discuss the potentials and challenges of alternative publishing models and free access to scientific knowledge. The conference will present innovations in technology developments and activities from open access initiatives from various countries and scientific disciplines. In addition, workshops provide the opportunity to learn about current developments in online publishing in a first hand and practical manner. Participants coming from more than 30 countries from around the word have registered already - making this years conference a truly international gathering. We are looking forward to spending three days with you in Berlin packed with talks, plenary sessions, workshops and a hackfest, and of course lively discussions among the participants. For more information about the different events during the conference please see our conference schedule: http://pkp.sfu.ca/ocs/pkp/index.php/pkp2011/index/pages/view/schedule We very much hope to see you in Berlin soon! Yours truly, PKP 2011 Conference Organizing Team For general information please also visit our conference website: www.pkp2011.de About us: The Public Knowledge Project (PKP) is a research and development initiative which has developed free open source software such as Open Journal Systems (OJS), Open Conference Systems (OCS) and Open Monograph Press (OMP) in order to increase access to knowledge, improve management, and reduce publishing costs. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 21:51:50 +0200 From: Marco Büchler Subject: Historische Dokumente auf dem Weg zum digitalen Volltext „Historische Dokumente auf dem Weg zum digitalen Volltext“ – Turning Historical Documents into Digital Full Texts The Munich DigitiZation Center (MDZ)of the Bavarian State Library invites you to Munich on Tuesday 11 October and Wednesday 12 October, 2011, for two conferences under the shared title “Historische Dokumente auf dem Weg zum digitalen Volltext – TurningHistorical Documents into Digital Full Texts”. Starting from different viewpoints, both events will focus on using OCR to create digital full texts. You can attend either event separately, or both together. *Please note: **both conferences are German-speaking only!* October 11^th – Results of OCR Research: IMPACT Demo Day Jointly organised by the Munich DigitiZation Center of the Bavarian State Library and the Austrian National Library, this Demo Day willpresent research results and tools from the EU-funded IMPACT Project (IMProving ACcess to Text). It will focus on the challenges involved in creating searchable full text from historical documents, and show the tools and solutions created by IMPACT to resolve these challenges. It will also detail how project outputs will be made available once the project ends (December 2011). The event is open to anyone, but is mainly aimed at representatives from libraries, museums and archives. October 12^th – Insights from Practical Experience: OCR, Full Texts and Forms of Presentation Digitisation projects can't just present digital images anymore. Userexpectations are increasing steadily, and mobile devices and other technological forms of interaction bring their own challenges with them. Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and searchable full text are therefore becoming more important. This has consequences for the entire project workflow - from its initial scoping and the choice of hardware, to the presentation of the results online. All of these challenges will be discussed at the conference. Theday will focus on the results of a number of full-text digitisation projects, detailing the particular issues presented by different types of source material. OCR software solutions will be compared, along with a number of post-capture processing tools and techniques, including crowdsourcing to improve OCR. “Insights from Practical Experience: OCR, Full Texts and Forms of Presentation”is free of charge, thanks to our sponsors: Abbyy Europe, ARPA Data, Image Access, Treventus Mechatronics and Zeutschel. For more information about the programme and registration, please visit:: _http://www.muenchener-digitalisierungszentrum.de/~lza/impact/index.html?c=info&l=en http://www.muenchener-digitalisierungszentrum.de/%7Elza/impact/index.html?c=info&l=en _ The deadline for registration is September 25^th. Please remember, the events will be *German-speaking only*. Contact details: Munich DigitiZation Center(MDZ) Digital Library Bavarian State Library Fedor Bochow / Mark-Oliver Fischer Ludwigstrasse16 80539 Munich Germany mdz[at]bsb-muenchen.de Tel. +49 (0) 89 28638 2295 oder +49 (0) 89 28638 2890 Fax +49 (0) 89 28638 2672 _http://www.muenchener-digitalisierungszentrum.de_ _http://www.bsb-muenchen.de_ Mit freundlichen Grüssen Marco Büchler -- Marco Büchler Natural Language Processing Group Department of Computer Science University of Leipzig Johannisgasse 26 04109 Leipzig, Germany Room : 0-17 Phone : 0341 / 97-32257 eMail : mbuechler@e-humanities.net Web : http://www.asv.informatik.uni-leipzig.de lt _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Sep 1 05:14:30 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id BAB8F19FE8D; Thu, 1 Sep 2011 05:14:29 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 5A15A19FE75; Thu, 1 Sep 2011 05:14:27 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110901051427.5A15A19FE75@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2011 05:14:27 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.255 discovery of a language? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 255. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 17:59:29 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: discovery of a language In an interview conducted by Bernard J. Baars and published in his The Cognitive Revolution in Psychology (1986), the cognitive psychologist George Miller recounts his initial ambition to work toward a scientific psychology. As a result he was attracted to mathematics. "Then I learned that anything you can do with an equation you can do with a computer, plus a lot more", he says. "So computer programs begin to look like the language in which you should formulate your theory" (217). The excitement of this discovery comes out very strongly in the book he wrote with Eugene Galanter and Karl Pribram, Plans and the Structure of Behavior (1960) -- the excitement of someone who has been full of thoughts he could not express, who suddenly finds a language in which to express them. My question is this: has anyone studied such discoveries? What I am after is to understand the qualities of a "language" (i.e. in the broader sense) which give it that adequacy to answer to thoughts that, so to speak, have been hammering on the door but could not get in until the language presented itself. Is there a leap of faith of a kind, an act of commitment to the language, to go with it wherever it leads? Are such languages and the inchoate thoughts to which they give speech related somehow before they encounter each other? Is this phenomenon related to the sudden popularity of certain words or expressions? I am asking because I want to know whether it is fruitful for us to struggle toward a way to talk about problems in the humanities that bridges the gulf between what we now call programming languages and what we now know as critical theories, e.g. about literature. Comments? I apologise for the vagueness. Perhaps someone will know the question I should be asking! Yours,WM -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Sep 1 05:16:58 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 604E619FFA7; Thu, 1 Sep 2011 05:16:58 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 4838619FF93; Thu, 1 Sep 2011 05:16:56 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110901051656.4838619FF93@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2011 05:16:56 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.256 events: Chicago Colloquium on DH & CS X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 256. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 10:54:25 +0200 From: Arno Bosse Subject: 2nd and final CFP for the 6th Annual Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science The Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science November 19-21, 2011 Loyola University Chicago – Chicago, Illinois, USA Submission Deadline: September 15, 2011 http://chicagocolloquium.org The Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science (DHCS) brings together researchers and scholars in the humanities and computer science to examine the current state of digital humanities as a field of intellectual inquiry and to identify and explore new directions and perspectives for future research. Here is a brief look at the three most recent conferences in the DHCS series, which celebrates its sixth year running in 2011. • DHCS 2008 (University of Chicago) focused on “Making Sense” – an exploration of how meaning is created and apprehended at the transition from the digital to the analog. • DHCS 2009 (IIT) focused on computational methods in digital humanities, including computational stylistics, text analytics, and visualization. • DHCS 2010 (Northwestern) focused on “Working with Digital Data: Collaborate, Curate, Analyze, Annotate.” With broad agency support for and continued cross-disciplinary interest in “digging into data” as well as cyberinfrastructure and collaboration, this year’s DHCS will continue to focus on these and related topics of interest to the community, with a formal colloquium theme to be unveiled as the program is finalized. We invite submissions from scholars, researchers, practitioners (independent scholars and industry), librarians, technologists, and students, on all topics that intersect current theory and practice in the humanities and computer science. This year’s DHCS is sponsored by Loyola University Chicago, The University of Chicago, Northwestern University, and the Illinois Institute of Technology. Location and Venue Description Loyola University Chicago Water Tower Campus 820 N. Michigan Avenue Chicago, IL 60640 The conference will be held at Loyola University Chicago at its Water Tower Campus. Located near the Magnificent Mile and the historic Water Tower, the venue offers convenient access to excellent hotels and restaurants, not to mention ample opportunities for sightseeing and shopping. The time frame for the conference coincides with the annual unveiling of the holiday lights and delightful walks on the Magnificent Mile–the last chance before Chicago’s winter arrives in full force. Keynote Speakers We’ve tentatively confirmed our two keynote speakers for DHCS 2011: Barbara Maria Stafford (http://barbaramariastafford.com/) is the Distinguished University Visiting Professor at Georgia Institute of Technology. Her work has consistently explored the intersections between the visual arts and the physical and biological sciences from the early modern to the contemporary era. Her current research charts the revolutionary ways the neurosciences are changing our views of the human and animal sensorium, shaping our fundamental assumptions about perception, sensation, emotion, mental imagery, and subjectivity. Stafford’s most recent book is Echo Objects: The Cognitive Work of Images, University of Chicago Press, 2007. Nick Montfort (http://nickm.com/) is associate professor of digital media at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Montfort has collaborated on the blog Grand Text Auto, the sticker novel Implementation, and 2002: A Palindrome Story. He writes poems, text generators, and interactive fiction such as Book and Volume and Ad Verbum. Most recently, he has published Riddle & Bind (Spineless Books, 2010) and together with Ian Bogost, Racing the Beam: The Atari Video Computer System (MIT Press, 2009). Montfort also wrote Twisty Little Passages: An Approach to Interactive Fiction (MIT Press, 2003) and co-edited The Electronic Literature Collection Volume 1 (ELO, 2006) and The New Media Reader (MIT Press, 2003). Co-Chairs • George K. Thiruvathukal, Computer Science, Loyola University Chicago, http://www.thiruvathukal.com • Steven E. Jones, English, Loyola University Chicago, http://stevenejones.org/ Program Committee • Shlomo Argamon, Computer Science, Illinois Institute of Technology, http://www.iit.edu/csl/cs/faculty/argamon_shlomo.shtml • Arno Bosse, Comparative Literature, University of Chicago • Helma Dik, Classics, University of Chicago, http://classics.uchicago.edu/faculty/dik • Doug Downey, Computer Science, Northwestern University, http://www.cs.northwestern.edu/~ddowney/ • William L. Honig, Computer Science, Loyola University Chicago, http://people.cs.luc.edu/whonig • Konstantin Läufer, Computer Science, Loyola University Chicago, http://laufer.cs.luc.edu • Peter Leonard, Humanities Research Computing, University of Chicago, http://home.uchicago.edu/psleonar/ • Catherine Mardikes, University Library, University of Chicago • Mark Olsen, ARTFL Project, University of Chicago, http://artfl-project.uchicago.edu/ • Ioan Raicu, Computer Science, Illinois Institute of Technology, http://www.cs.iit.edu/~iraicu/ • Claire Stewart, University Library, Northwestern University, http://www.library.northwestern.edu/directory/claire-stewart Journal of the Chicago DHCS Colloquium Select papers and posters accepted at DHCS are published in the Journal of the Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science (JDHCS). Please visit http://jdhcs.uchicago.edu to view the full text of presentations from these colloquia. Preliminary Colloquium Schedule The formal DHCS colloquium program runs Saturday November 19 (afternoon), Sunday, November 20 (all day), and Monday, November 21 (ending mid-afternoon) and will consist of four, 1-1/2 hour paper panels and two, two-hour poster sessions as well as three keynotes. Pre-conference birds of a feather and tutorials will occur on Saturday, November 19, in the afternoon. Generous time has been set aside for questions and follow-up discussions after each panel and in the schedule breaks. There are no plans for parallel sessions. For further details, please see the conference website. Registration Fee Attendance for DHCS 2011 is free. All conference participants, however, will be required to register in advance. Details to follow as the conference program is finalized. Submission Format We welcome submissions that are either extended abstracts or full papers (8-page maximum, please) in PDF format. We welcome submissions for: Paper presentations (15 and 30 minute presentations) Posters Software demonstrations Performances Pre-conference tutorials/workshops/seminars, and Pre-conference “birds of a feather” meetings This year, we are using the EasyChair software to handle all submissions. http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dhcs2011 The instructions are simple: Register yourself (you will add co-authors later) Confirm the registration e-mail. Make sure you go back to the main link and sign in. Create a “New Submission”. Fill in all appropriate sections. Don’t forget to Upload Paper at the end of the form. Submissions will only be accepted at the EasyChair URL above. Should you run into problems, please contact George K. Thiruvathukal at gkt+dhcs@cs.luc.edu. (The +dhcs is optional but will help to prioritize your e-mail.) Graduate Student Travel Fund A limited number of bursaries are available to assist graduate students who are presenting at the colloquium with their travel and accommodation expenses. More information about the application process will be available shortly at the Chicago Colloquium web site. Important Dates Deadline for Submissions: September 15 Notification of Acceptance: October 1 Full Program Announcement: October 15 Registration: October 1-November 15 (on-site will also be possible) Colloquium: Sunday, November 20 – Monday, November 21, 2011 Contact Info Please email gkt+dhcs@cs.luc.edu Conference Hash Tag: #dhcs2011 -------------------------- Posted on behalf of the Chicago DHCS 2011 co-chairs, Prof. George K. Thiruvathukal, Computer Science, Loyola University Chicago and Prof. Steven E. Jones, English, Loyola University Chicago. Please note the deadline for submissions is September 15th. Arno Bosse (DHCS 2011 Program Committee) Research and Development Department Göttingen State and University Library Georg-August-Universität Göttingen 37073 Göttingen Germany _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Sep 2 05:58:15 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id D618E1A00FA; Fri, 2 Sep 2011 05:58:14 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id AC4FB1A00E7; Fri, 2 Sep 2011 05:58:12 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110902055812.AC4FB1A00E7@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2011 05:58:12 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.257 what humanities texts? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 257. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2011 19:58:49 -0400 From: Patrick Durusau Subject: What humanities texts should every computer science major know? Greetings! I ran across: What every computer science major should know http://matt.might.net/articles/what-cs-majors-should-know/ by Matthew Might, Asst. Prof. at University of Utah. Made me wonder, what humanities texts should every computer scientist know? If I had to pick one, it would be the Leningrad Codex as an exemplar of textual complexity, annotation, and reference. I would not require knowing it in its entirety but at least the major outlines of its complexity. (I don't know of a general purpose work that summarizes its complexity.) What would you suggest and perhaps just as importantly, why? Hope everyone is having a great day! Patrick -- Patrick Durusau patrick@durusau.net Chair, V1 - US TAG to JTC 1/SC 34 Convener, JTC 1/SC 34/WG 3 (Topic Maps) Editor, OpenDocument Format TC (OASIS), Project Editor ISO/IEC 26300 Co-Editor, ISO/IEC 13250-1, 13250-5 (Topic Maps) Another Word For It (blog): http://tm.durusau.net Homepage: http://www.durusau.net Twitter: patrickDurusau _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Sep 2 06:01:54 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85C331A059B; Fri, 2 Sep 2011 06:01:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id AA9D51A058B; Fri, 2 Sep 2011 06:01:52 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110902060152.AA9D51A058B@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2011 06:01:52 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.258 events: design; digital libraries X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 258. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Marlies Olensky" (69) Subject: TPDL 2011 online registration still open until Sept 9, 2011! [2] From: "Philipp Boehm" (55) Subject: Design Research Conference in Chicago --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2011 15:19:15 +0200 From: "Marlies Olensky" Subject: TPDL 2011 online registration still open until Sept 9, 2011! TPDL 2011 online registration still open until Sept 9, 2011! International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries 2011 September 25-29, 2011 | Berlin, Germany -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL) has been the leading European scientific forum on digital libraries for 14 years. For the 15th year the conference was renamed into: International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- There are only a few days left to register online for this year's TPDL conference! Please register via: http://tinyurl.com/RegistrationTPDL2011 After Sept 9, 2011 you will still be able to attend TPDL 2011 and register on-site. Please be aware of higher on-site fees. The Programme can be viewed here: http://tinyurl.com/ProgrammeOverview [...] For all other enquiries please contact: info.tpdl2011@hu-berlin.de -------------------------------------------------------------------------- General Chair Stefan Gradmann, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany Programme Co-Chairs Carlo Meghini, ISTI-CNR, Italy Heiko Schuldt, University of Basel, Switzerland Local Organising Chair Marlies Olensky, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TPDL 2011 - International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (formerly ECDL) Main conference: September 26-28, 2011 Tutorials, Workshops: September 25, 29, 2011 Venue: Erwin Schrödinger-Zentrum Adlershof, Berlin, Germany Conference Website: http://www.tpdl2011.org Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/TPDL2011 Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/TPDL2011 Linkedin: http://events.linkedin.com/TPDL-2011-International-Conference/pub/504696 Xing: http://www.xing.com/events/international-conference-theory-practice-digital-libraries-2011-633977 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2011 11:15:39 -0500 From: "Philipp Boehm" Subject: Design Research Conference in Chicago We would love to announce this year’s DRCx (IIT Institute of Design – 10th Design Research Conference) taking place in Chicago between October 24th – 26th, 2011. DRCx (http://www.designresearchconference.com/) focuses on the effects of emerging technology on industry practices and the changing role of design research in the corporate world. The conference will be packed with dense multifaceted talks about user research and user data; including new ways to gather, process, analyze and present it. We will see the contrast of traditional and cutting edge approaches used in fieldwork today, hear about distinct methods and dive right into a few case studies to explore and share some of the current developments in the field. You can expect to meet industry thought leaders, practitioners from the corporate and consultancy realm and executives interested in the world of design research. The two days of the main program will cover: - Big Picture: The cultural effects of technology on current practice - Data gathering: New methods for conducting research and the utilization of open source data - Data processing: Qualitative and quantitative research; the role of design research methods in the age of analytics - Hand-off: Packaging data to extend its lifespan and the effects of research on corporate culture On Monday afternoon the conference program starts with a set of exciting workshops to immerse yourself in one of the conference topics. Pick your favorite one and get to know a great group of like-minded people while you tap into firsthand knowledge from your workshop facilitator before our speakers capture your attention and the conference buzz starts up. Throughout the conference you will be able to get an update/overview of industry practices, meet industry leaders, learn how other companies have benefited from design research and how to integrate or align it to your own needs. The roster for DRCx includes speakers http://drc.id.iit.edu/?page_id=97 such as: Luis Arnal | President and CEO of in/situm Genevieve Bell | Intel Nate Bolt | President of Bolt/Peters Todd Cherkasky | Sapient USA Ron Halverson | Founder and President of Halverson Group Bryan Williams | IDEO John Tolva | CTO for the City of Chicago For further information please visit http://www.designresearchconference.com www.designresearchconference.com or write to drc@id.iit.edu Early bird registration will remain open through September 12 th , so don’t forget to sign up soon! _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 3 06:51:08 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id E54551A993F; Sat, 3 Sep 2011 06:51:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 837271A992E; Sat, 3 Sep 2011 06:51:06 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110903065106.837271A992E@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2011 06:51:06 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.259 discovery of a language X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 259. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2011 20:56:19 -0500 From: amsler@cs.utexas.edu Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.255 discovery of a language? In-Reply-To: <20110901051427.5A15A19FE75@woodward.joyent.us> Marvin Minsky was, I believe, the person to first advocate that artificial intelligence researchers need not be trying to implement computer models of psychological theories, but instead, should be telling psychologists how cognitive processes could work. The reasoning was much the same that led George Miller to his observation. A scientific 'theory' in psychology was up until that point based upon experimental evidence gathered by testing human beings or animals. It was limited because biological systems are very complex and hard to tease apart their operational principles. Computer programs, on the other hand, are vastly simpler and completely constructed from steps we understand. We can vary EVERYTHING about how a program works. The timing, the delays, the magnitude of a response, what it changes, what inputs are observed, how much they change things, etc. The magnitude of this capability to 'design' a 'mental ability' as though it was just a collection of LOGO blocks was irresistible to those who could master it. For the first time one could not only run experiments on one's subjects; but one could actually build one's subject's minds on which to experiment. Was it valid to dismiss traditional psychology? Didn't we lose the real world when artificial constructs were created and we ran experiments on them? I most emphatically say we did not. Not any more than we had deluded ourselves into thnking we 'understood' the biological brain because experiments were thought to explain how it actually worked. After all, all an experiment provides is evidence waiting to be disproved in whole or part by another subsequent more subtle experiment. Psychology's past is a cratered battlefield with disproved theories whose advocates were sure they had at last understood how biological brains worked. The record of success is hardly sufficient to claim that other methodologies aren't valid. (Aviation is a example often cited as evidence that man's effort to understand how to build flying machines based on flapping wings or the use of feathers wasn't exactly the path to success). So. What does this all portend for the digital humanities. Well, for one, it does mean that the path to duplicating the ability of humanist critics may be open. If a program can be written to predict the appreciation of literature by human readers it may tell us something about the value of works few have yet read. How interesting would it be, for example, to have a program that without any prompting, could be fed the literary works of the past and would provide as output an assessment of their merits as contributing to knowledge and literature. Tuning it until its outputs matched history would be enlightening. What programming languages can do is allow the precise determination of how much of what we appreciate in text can be determined from discrete measurable properties of text. Computer programs, being without subjective decision-making ability, may finally be able answer questions such as how much each of the factors in literature affect the outcome. Lexical and grammatical choices can be ruled in or out by designing programs that consider them or do not. Is 'inspiring' text quantifiable? Can the pivotal literary events that changed the world be predicted from the past's books? Can we make similar predictions about contemporary or future works that haven't yet changed the world? Are scientific revolutions based on the ideas in seminal works or on their author's literary skills in presenting those ideas; or both? Can we create clever monkeys using typewriters to actually write literature indistinguishable from human author's works (or has that already been done pseudonymously and we just don't know that Author X is a machine :-) (Sorry about that last one...) I should note that I'm a computational linguist (Actually a 'computational lexicologist'), though I've also dabbled in fields such as citation analysis; and am not a psychologist nor a literary scholar; so my perceptions are those of an outsider to those fields. Quoting Humanist Discussion Group : > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 255. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 17:59:29 +0100 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: discovery of a language > > > In an interview conducted by Bernard J. Baars and published in his The > Cognitive Revolution in Psychology (1986), the cognitive psychologist > George Miller recounts his initial ambition to work toward a scientific > psychology. As a result he was attracted to mathematics. "Then I learned > that anything you can do with an equation you can do with a computer, > plus a lot more", he says. "So computer programs begin to look like the > language in which you should formulate your theory" (217). The > excitement of this discovery comes out very strongly in the book he > wrote with Eugene Galanter and Karl Pribram, Plans and the Structure of > Behavior (1960) -- the excitement of someone who has been full of > thoughts he could not express, who suddenly finds a language in which > to express them. > > My question is this: has anyone studied such discoveries? What I am after is > to understand the qualities of a "language" (i.e. in the broader sense) > which give it that adequacy to answer to thoughts that, so to speak, have > been hammering on the door but could not get in until the language presented > itself. Is there a leap of faith of a kind, an act of commitment to the > language, to go with it wherever it leads? Are such languages and the > inchoate thoughts to which they give speech related somehow before they > encounter each other? Is this phenomenon related to the sudden popularity of > certain words or expressions? > > I am asking because I want to know whether it is fruitful for us to struggle > toward a way to talk about problems in the humanities that bridges the gulf > between what we now call programming languages and what we now know as > critical theories, e.g. about literature. > > Comments? > > I apologise for the vagueness. Perhaps someone will know the question I > should be asking! > > Yours,WM > > -- > Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's > College London; Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western > Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); > Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Sep 3 06:52:03 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1A661A99C1; Sat, 3 Sep 2011 06:52:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 3C5B11A99AE; Sat, 3 Sep 2011 06:52:02 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110903065202.3C5B11A99AE@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2011 06:52:02 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.260 humanities texts X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 260. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2011 11:22:11 +0100 From: "Postles, David A. (Dr.)" Subject: RE: [Humanist] 25.257 what humanities texts? In-Reply-To: <20110902055812.AC4FB1A00E7@woodward.joyent.us> Just two comments on http://matt.might.net/articles/what-cs-majors-should-know/ for humanists: * please remember that PowerPoint is just one (proprietary) presentation application - there are ones which are equally good in OpenOffice or, preferably, LibreOffice; and * yes, LaTeX is brilliant, but for humanists it can be much better approached through either LyX or Kile (my preference is the former, now in v 2.0). -- Dave Postles http://www.historicalresources.myzen.co.uk http://www.thehungersite.com http://www.clockwise2.co.uk/ http://www.lendwithcare.org/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Sep 3 06:52:33 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id B330E1A9A03; Sat, 3 Sep 2011 06:52:33 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 21D6D1A99EE; Sat, 3 Sep 2011 06:52:32 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110903065232.21D6D1A99EE@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2011 06:52:32 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.261 futures of the TEI? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 261. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2011 07:54:45 -0500 From: "Unsworth, John M" Subject: Future of the TEI Greetings, As interim chair of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI), I have posted the following question on the TEI-L list, on Twitter (with the hashtag #teifuture), and now on Humanist: "TEI community: what do you think is the most important thing for TEI to do in the next two to three years?" I'd be interested in hearing from anyone with an opinion on the matter. Thanks, John _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Sep 3 06:54:28 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BC3F1A9A89; Sat, 3 Sep 2011 06:54:28 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 34F761A9A77; Sat, 3 Sep 2011 06:54:26 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110903065426.34F761A9A77@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2011 06:54:26 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.262 events: Interedition Bootcamp X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 262. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2011 10:46:20 +0200 From: Joris van Zundert Subject: Interedition 8th Bootcamp === CALL FOR PARTICIPATION === Interedition 8th Bootcamp: 7 October - 11 October 2011 ----------------------------------------------------- == ABOUT INTEREDITION == Interedition (http://www.interedition.eu) is a COST (http://www.cost.eu) funded Action whose objective is to further the interoperability of tools in digital scholarship. Interedition is raising the awareness of the importance of interoperability as a major driver for sustainability for tools and data in the field of digital scholarship. This activity takes two forms: firstly, meetings in which researchers in digital scholarship can network their knowledge of tools and avenues towards their interoperability; secondly, the development of proof-of-concept implementations of interoperable tools. These proof-of-concept tools are the focus of Interedition's periodic bootcamps, which offer the open source development community in the humanities opportunities to meet, network, and exchange knowledge. == THE BOOTCAMP == Interedition is inviting all interested to participate in the upcoming Development Bootcamp, which will take place from 7 October to 11 October 2011 at the Universität Würzburg, coinciding with the start of the TEI-meeting (http://www.zde.uni-wuerzburg.de/tei_mm_2011/) which also takes place there. We hope thus to offer a good occasion for members of both groups to confer on the subject of interoperability. As special Think Tank for this is foreseen on 12 October, for which seperate bursaried may be acquired. The bootcamp and think tank are organized through the kind efforts of: - Fotis Jannidis (Universität Würzburg) - Malte Rehbein (Universität Würzburg) - Gregor Middell (Universität Würzburg) - Susan Schrebman (Trinity College Dublin) == OBJECTIVES == The primary objective of the bootcamp is the development of prototypes for interoperable 'microservice' tools for textual scholarship and digital editions. Interedition's working group 3 has identified transcription and annotation of physical textual sources one of the pivotal scholarly tasks involved with creating digital editions. At the 2010 München bootcamp in less than 5 minutes more than 18 transcription & annotation related tool development projects were identified. Non of these is adhereing to any machine to machine protocol or format for interchange. All results of high quality scholarly work on transcribing and commenting within these data silos are therefor locked in and hadrly (re)useable for further scholarly processing and analysis. Interedition wants to inspire an open source development movement around this problem of interoperabilty and invites anyone who can make a hands on contribution to a prototype distributed reference implementation of an interoperable model for text. We aim to have the participants returning to their local projects with a shared idea on how to approach text resource exchange, and GUI and back end tools to show for it. Suggested goals for the bootcamp are both models and proof of concept implementations for the following use cases: ** Use Case 1 ** ** Resource discovery & Highly granular text addressing/markup ** A text repository hosts a set of marked-up texts, possibly organized in different subsets (collections). Clients access the repository via RESTful protocols, particularly via the AtomPub protocol in order to get notified about newly created or recently modified texts in the repository and/or about certain layers of markup applied to them. The client could filter those feeds based on the text collection or markup/annotation type of interest. The Atom feeds' content is constructed dynamically based on customized queries against the repositories' content and would thus augment established standards for resource discovery that usually operate on the level of curated metadata (e.g. OAI-PMH). Automatized dissemination of transcribed texts in a decentralized, loosely coupled network of repositories is thus facilitated in a manner comparable to the way in which the blogosphere functions. ** Use Case 2 ** ** Text source exchange ** Use case: Texts can be replicated between repository installations and/or other datastores. The exchange includes the textual content as well as any chosen set of markup/ annotation layers associated with the text. Markup is allowed to overlap arbitrarily in the repositories own model while lossless transformation of text and markup information into XML-based encodings provides for the integration with existing tool chains. Interoperability and data interchange is thus facilitated. ** Use Case 3 ** ** Transcription & Annotation workflow ** Texts can be marked-up with several independent annotation layers such that a collaborative transcription and annotation workflow becomes feasible. For example an editor could start by transcribing a text with a minimal set of markup applied. A tool for language recognition listens for new texts in the repository and as soon as the editor submit the transcript, the tool adds annotations to it identifying the language(s) present in the transcript. Then a language-specific POS tagger, listening for repository events of added language annotations processes the transcript further by adding part-of-speech tagging. Later on automatic name entity recognition might be applied to the tagged transcript and finally another editor is notified (via an Atom feed or via e-mail), that the automatically tagged transcripts is ready to be reviewed. FEEL CHALLENGED? Come and code! BURSARIES COST Action IS0704 'Interedition' is offering bursaries to early stage researchers (< Ph.D. + 10 years) and developers that want to join the bootcamp. The bursaries will consist of an 100 Euro per diem allowance and will cover travel expenses fully (limitations apply). HOW TO APPLY If you are interested in participating in the bootcamp, please send an email to joris.van.zundert-AT-huygens.knaw.nl by **25 September 2011**. You don't need an intricate motivation, but please state your affiliation, and add a very short (certainly not more than 200 words) description of your current or related development work in digital humanities. If you partook in an earlier Interedition bootcamp, you may refer to the motiviation you provided at the time. Please note that if you do join the bootcamp, some formal paperwork will be necessary to get you the bursary - but until now all participants passed that test with flying colors. PROGRAM Friday 7 October - Introduction of participants - Introduction the principles of microservices - Introduction to the Gothenburg and Palo Alto models for distributed solutions - Challenge - Planning Game Saturday 8 October - Hacking Sunday 9 October - Hacking - Social event Monday 10 October - Hacking Monday 11 October - Hacking - Presentation & discussion of results - Write up - Drinks ADDITIONAL INFORMATION If you require more information --e.g. you want to join, but are wondering about specific requirements, different arrangements, etc. etc.-- please don't hesitate to use the email address provided above. Or join us on IRC at #interedition. -- Joris van Zundert Chair COST Action IS0704 'Interedition' Researcher & Developer Digital and Computational Humanities Huygens ING - Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences Contact information at http://www.huygens.knaw.nl/en/vanzundert/ Apologies for possible cross posting! _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 4 07:08:22 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF6971A9CE2; Sun, 4 Sep 2011 07:08:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 3FC261A9C6D; Sun, 4 Sep 2011 07:08:21 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110904070821.3FC261A9C6D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2011 07:08:21 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.263 where the problem lies X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 263. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2011 17:21:01 -0500 (CDT) From: Clai Rice Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.245 where does the problem lie? In-Reply-To: <20110826054706.14C6F1BE1AF@woodward.joyent.us> Willard wrote: > One of the consequences of trying to think historically about our > subject is to raise the question of why certain ideas we know to be > wrong and can see to be holding us back nevertheless refuse to go away > despite persuasive arguments to the contrary. Let me give you two examples. One standard answer to Willard's second example is cognitive metaphor: > (2) Getting a message across Lakoff and Johnson call this the "conduit metaphor," and its tenacity is one of the things their proposal of cognitive metaphor is supposed to explain. Subsequent research, especially by Ray Gibbs, Jr., in the general paradigm of embodiment has supported the idea that everyday actions like walking, estimating distances, throwing, can affect our understanding of abstractions that are couched in terms of such basic behaviors. Complexes of metaphors, such as the conduit metaphor, that successfully reduce complex actions into manageable components are overdetermined by their grounding in our everyday experiences. For most of the language we experience every day, or for most of our usual meta-linguistic needs, the conduit metaphor works sufficiently. Remember that Reddy, who first recognized the problem, discovered the metaphor while examining comments by teachers on student essays. He pointed out the many shortcomings of the metaphor for its purposes, especially in unfortunate inferences it made easily available to both students and graders, but it nonetheless gets most of the immediate job done effectively. Perhaps what is unsatisfactory about the "cognitive metaphor" explanation is that it does not translate into readily applicable antidotes. One can choose to police one's language (and that of others) for the offending metaphors, but that does not substitute a better or equally accessible expression in place of the bad one. And after all, our meta-linguistic needs are not likely to cease, so a substitute metaphorical complex is what is called for. The difficulty of inventing such conceptions might be the main lesson of Lakoff's own unsuccessful foray into political advisement. Creating common sense is a tall order. More interesting is Willard's first example. > 1. Technological determinism, or Machines make history I think one principle in action relates to the way we compress causal complexity in narrative. Fauconnier and Turner, in chapter 5 of The Way We Think, give many examples of just such compression. The goal of understanding globally a long or diffuse series of events is in conflict with an account that highlights the many events that contribute to the eventual "result." One cannot expect a sentence to function as a book. For most purposes, a shortened, simplified account will suffice. In this case, though, I think we might be on our way to some sort of effective substitution. A notion of diffuse causality has become more pervasive within all sorts of discourses, though resistance remains great, as in the global warming discourse. The idea that I'm melting the polar ice caps by driving to work, an idea ridiculous on its face, is slowly being replaced in some quarters by the 'think globally, act locally' mentality, which successfully thematizes exactly the conflict between global understanding and detailed analysis that forms the barrier to more useful expression. In both cases, the processes of blending and conceptual metaphor contribute to a form of understanding that is highly effective in everyday decision making. The forms of speaking become entrenched by repetition, which makes them resistant to change. As long as common-sense formulations remain useful for everyday activities they are unlikely to release their hold on our speech or thought. Clai Rice _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Sep 4 07:09:38 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D1931A2763; Sun, 4 Sep 2011 07:09:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 2D1C11A01F0; Sun, 4 Sep 2011 07:09:36 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110904070936.2D1C11A01F0@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2011 07:09:36 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.264 Bootcamp's lossless overlapping markup? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 264. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2011 08:30:48 +1000 From: Desmond Schmidt Subject: RE: [Humanist] 25.262 events: Interedition Bootcamp In-Reply-To: <20110903065426.34F761A9A77@woodward.joyent.us> Hi Joris, I would like clarification please of this bit from your posting about Interedition: "The exchange includes the textual content as well as any chosen set of markup/ annotation layers associated with the text. Markup is allowed to overlap arbitrarily in the repositories own model while lossless transformation of text and markup information into XML-based encodings provides for the integration with existing tool chains. Interoperability and data interchange is thus facilitated." In particular "Markup is allowed to overlap arbitrarily .. while lossless transformation of text and markup..." seems contradictory. I would have thought that truly arbitrary overlapping markup couldn't be converted without some loss of information into rigidly tree-structured XML. I can only guess you are using some form of standoff markup combined with annotations. If that's true then two markup sets can't be combined in the one text simultaneously and tags in a single set can't normally overlap. So, please clarify. regards Dr Desmond Schmidt Information Security Institute Faculty of Science and Technology Queensland University of Technology (07)3138-9509 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 4 07:10:53 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 194BD1A5101; Sun, 4 Sep 2011 07:10:52 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 991C71A4CAF; Sun, 4 Sep 2011 07:10:51 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110904071051.991C71A4CAF@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2011 07:10:51 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.265 events: workshop at Reading 16/9 X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 265. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2011 18:04:12 +0000 From: Tiziana Mancinelli Subject: Digital Humanities Workshop - 16 September Dear all we are very happy to invite you all to the first workshop in Digital Humanities to be held at the University of Reading on September 16. Inscriptions are still open but there are limited places, so please contact us as soon as possible in case you are interested in attending. Specific details are enclosed below and are also available at http://www.dhatreading.org.uk A poster with details on the event is also available for download at http://www.dhatreading.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/DH_workshop.pdf Best wishes, Tiziana Mancinelli ********************************************************** 16 September 2011 - Digital Humanities workshop G09, The Seminar Room – Old Whiteknights House - University of Reading Drawing together scholars and students involved in digital and computer-assisted research, this one-day workshop intends to promote discussion, collaborations and support to digital research and teaching across the humanities. By focusing on digital editions, this workshop will discuss the effects of new media in the humanities. It will explore the multi-level interactions of the new technologies with the humanities and the methodologies and approaches involved. The day will open with an introductory session on how to plan and organise large projects in the Digital Humanities. It will be followed by a presentation of TEI (an encoding method for machine-readable texts, applicable to the humanities, social sciences and linguistics) and by a discussion of specific encoding methods for marking up manuscripts, transcriptions and editions of manuscript materials. A roundtable will conclude the proceedings, presenting the work of PhD students and early career researchers who are actively engaged in the use of the Digital Humanities and computing disciplines in their research. Topics: * Introduction to Digital Humanities * Introduction to TEI * Introduction to digital editions * Managing Projects in the Digital Humanities * Computer modelling * Manuscripts in the Digital Age Programme - http://www.dhatreading.org.uk/programme/ Download the flyer DH Workshop - http://www.dhatreading.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/DH_workshop.pdf Registration - http://www.dhatreading.org.uk/register/ Standard fees: £ 10 Student and unemployed: free Fees include lunch and tea/coffee breaks Closing date for registration: September 7th For any questions or additional information please contact us at info@dhatreading.org.uk Follow us on twitter: DHatReading Follow us on facebook: DH at Reading _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Sep 5 03:51:31 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3E351A93AB; Mon, 5 Sep 2011 03:51:31 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 30E691A93A2; Mon, 5 Sep 2011 03:51:30 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110905035130.30E691A93A2@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2011 03:51:30 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.266 Bootcamp's lossless overlapping markup X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 266. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2011 14:20:33 +0200 From: Gregor Middell Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.264 Bootcamp's lossless overlapping markup? In-Reply-To: <20110904070936.2D1C11A01F0@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Desmond, dear all, thank you for your interest in Interedition's call for participation in the upcoming bootcamp on online transcription tools. Am 04.09.2011 um 09:09 schrieb Humanist Discussion Group: > > Hi Joris, I allow myself to answer on Joris' behalf as some of the use cases in the call were drafted by me, which includes the sloppy reference to the problem of overlapping markup. First of all please be aware that Interedition's main objective is not the development of feature-complete software but to facilitate the contact between creators of tools for textual scholarship and to promote collaboration. In this context the given use case scenarios were meant to illustrate what they currently are from a technical perspective: challenges for software developers who are engaged in the development of scalable and interoperable tools for online transcription and digital editions. We did not intend to claim that we have complete solutions for any of these scenarios already while we are very much aware how important (and often contested) questions about proper models of markup are. With that disclaimer out of the way I would like to add some details to the call, specifically what prototypes Interedition already can and will offer to support the creation of tools in the aforementioned area including the support for models of marked-up text that go beyond "rigidly tree-structured XML". > > I would like clarification please of this bit from your posting about Interedition: > > […] > > In particular "Markup is allowed to overlap arbitrarily .. while lossless > transformation of text and markup..." seems contradictory. I would have > thought that truly arbitrary overlapping markup couldn't be converted > without some loss of information into rigidly tree-structured XML. I can > only guess you are using some form of standoff markup combined with > annotations. If that's true then two markup sets can't be combined in the > one text simultaneously and tags in a single set can't normally overlap. > So, please clarify. I have developed two prototypes with the following features as possible input to the bootcamp: 1.) A Java-based text model implementation, which - is inspired by Piez'/ Tennison's Layered Markup and Annotation Language (LMNL) [1], Nicol's Core Range Algebra [2] and Sperberg-McQueen's/Huitfeldt's GODDAG model [3] - supports text-range-based markup via standoff annotations with key/value data - persists the model to a (relational) database (MySQL and H2 are current options, Graph-DB support is in the making) - has a simple predicate-based query API - has an event-oriented API for streaming possibly larger texts including associated markup - imports XML documents by transforming XML elements into range annotations - makes the XML import configurable via e. g. choice of included/excluded portions of the source, support for non-hierarchical XML tagging like milestone-based tagging (CLIX etc.) or TEI-P5-specific notations like @spanTo - exports annotated texts to XML documents by optionally filtering the set of applied annotations and constructing hierarchical markup based on non-overlapping annotations and/or generating milestone-based markup for (possibly) overlapping ones 2.) A Java-based web application implementing a text repository based on the given text model, which - exposes all its functionality via RESTful APIs - uses XML and JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) as data formats (programming language agnostic) - implements the AtomPub protocol for the creation, modification and dissemination of marked-up texts including their markup/annotation layers - needs a lot more work to turn into a real, easy-to-use repository solution ;) You can check out the source code of these prototypes from Interedition's github repository at https://github.com/interedition/microservices specifically https://github.com/interedition/microservices/tree/master/text https://github.com/interedition/microservices/tree/master/text-repository There is not much documentation yet, but I am happy to provide more information to anybody interested, either via e-mail or - ideally - at the bootcamp in Würzburg. Apologies for the long post, best regards, Gregor [1] http://www.piez.org/wendell/LMNL/lmnl-page.html [2] Gavin Thomas Nicol: Core Range Algebra. Toward a Formal Model of Markup. Extreme Markup Languages Conference, Montréal, Québec August 6–9, 2002. [3] C.M. Sperberg-McQueen, C. Huitfeldt. GODDAG: A Data Structure for Overlapping Hierarchies. Lecture Notes In Computer Science. Springer. 2004. -- Gregor Middell Universität Würzburg, Lehrstuhl für Computerphilologie Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, Digitale Faustedition e-mail: gregor.middell@uni-wuerzburg.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 Sep 6 05:36:35 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id C152C1ABCD3; Tue, 6 Sep 2011 05:36:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id AD31D1ABC9F; Tue, 6 Sep 2011 05:36:31 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110906053631.AD31D1ABC9F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2011 05:36:31 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.267 connections & collaboration: humanities & sciences? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 267. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2011 12:04:27 -0600 From: Mark Winokur Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.259 discovery of a language In-Reply-To: <20110903065106.837271A992E@woodward.joyent.us> Hi, All: These questions have probably been treated endlessly, but I haven't seen them at least since I joined the discussion: 1. What are some interesting texts for discussing scholarly interdisciplinarity (rather than pedagogy), especially between the Humanities and Computer Science? 2. What, in your opinion, are the most interesting contemporary examples (within the last five years) of scholarly digital collaboration between the two cultures: Humanities and Science and/or Engineering? Best, Mark On 9/3/2011 12:51 AM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 259. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2011 20:56:19 -0500 > From: amsler@cs.utexas.edu > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.255 discovery of a language? > In-Reply-To:<20110901051427.5A15A19FE75@woodward.joyent.us> > > > Marvin Minsky was, I believe, the person to first advocate that > artificial intelligence researchers need not be trying to implement > computer models of psychological theories, but instead, should be > telling psychologists how cognitive processes could work. The > reasoning was much the same that led George Miller to his observation. > A scientific 'theory' in psychology was up until that point based upon > experimental evidence gathered by testing human beings or animals. It > was limited because biological systems are very complex and hard to > tease apart their operational principles. Computer programs, on the > other hand, are vastly simpler and completely constructed from steps > we understand. We can vary EVERYTHING about how a program works. The > timing, the delays, the magnitude of a response, what it changes, what > inputs are observed, how much they change things, etc. The magnitude > of this capability to 'design' a 'mental ability' as though it was > just a collection of LOGO blocks was irresistible to those who could > master it. For the first time one could not only run experiments on > one's subjects; but one could actually build one's subject's minds on > which to experiment. > > Was it valid to dismiss traditional psychology? Didn't we lose the > real world when artificial constructs were created and we ran > experiments on them? I most emphatically say we did not. Not any more > than we had deluded ourselves into thnking we 'understood' the > biological brain because experiments were thought to explain how it > actually worked. After all, all an experiment provides is evidence > waiting to be disproved in whole or part by another subsequent more > subtle experiment. Psychology's past is a cratered battlefield with > disproved theories whose advocates were sure they had at last > understood how biological brains worked. The record of success is > hardly sufficient to claim that other methodologies aren't valid. > (Aviation is a example often cited as evidence that man's effort to > understand how to build flying machines based on flapping wings or the > use of feathers wasn't exactly the path to success). > > So. What does this all portend for the digital humanities. Well, for > one, it does mean that the path to duplicating the ability of humanist > critics may be open. If a program can be written to predict the > appreciation of literature by human readers it may tell us something > about the value of works few have yet read. How interesting would it > be, for example, to have a program that without any prompting, could > be fed the literary works of the past and would provide as output an > assessment of their merits as contributing to knowledge and > literature. Tuning it until its outputs matched history would be > enlightening. > > What programming languages can do is allow the precise determination > of how much of what we appreciate in text can be determined from > discrete measurable properties of text. Computer programs, being > without subjective decision-making ability, may finally be able answer > questions such as how much each of the factors in literature affect > the outcome. Lexical and grammatical choices can be ruled in or out by > designing programs that consider them or do not. > > Is 'inspiring' text quantifiable? Can the pivotal literary events that > changed the world be predicted from the past's books? Can we make > similar predictions about contemporary or future works that haven't > yet changed the world? Are scientific revolutions based on the ideas > in seminal works or on their author's literary skills in presenting > those ideas; or both? Can we create clever monkeys using typewriters > to actually write literature indistinguishable from human author's > works (or has that already been done pseudonymously and we just don't > know that Author X is a machine :-) (Sorry about that last one...) > > I should note that I'm a computational linguist (Actually a > 'computational lexicologist'), though I've also dabbled in fields such > as citation analysis; and am not a psychologist nor a literary > scholar; so my perceptions are those of an outsider to those fields. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 6 05:38:33 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EC771ABD87; Tue, 6 Sep 2011 05:38:33 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 86A091ABD71; Tue, 6 Sep 2011 05:38:31 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110906053831.86A091ABD71@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2011 05:38:31 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.268 events: books & reading; computational creativity X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 268. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Alessandro Valitutti (73) Subject: Autumn School on Computational Creativity [2] From: Ray Siemens (14) Subject: CFP - Research Foundations for Understanding Books and Reading inthe Digital Age: Text and Beyond (18 November 2011, Kyoto) --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2011 12:11:38 +0100 From: Alessandro Valitutti Subject: [IFIP-EC-NEWS] Autumn School on Computational Creativity AUTUMN SCHOOL ON COMPUTATIONAL CREATIVITY http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/ascc 7-11 November 2011 Helsinki region, Finland The University of Helsinki (together with Hecse and HIIT) will organize an international autumn school on computational creativity. We cordially invite PhD and MSc students and researchers who are interested in being introduced to various aspects of computational creativity by experts in the field. Previous experience of the field is not needed. We target audience that has background in computing, but we also welcome participants from other related disciplines. The goal of computational creativity is to model, simulate or enhance creativity using computers. Different subfields of computational creativity include linguistic, musical and visual creativity, producing creative artifacts such as jokes, paintings, or musical pieces. The autumn school covers computational creativity from the above mentioned three three angles. It focuses on several specific topics, provisionally including: * Linguistic creativity: computational humor (e.g. the use of computer to generate, recognize and model humor), automatic generation of metaphors, creative text mining. * Visual Creativity: automated painting and creative transformation of images. * Musical Creativity: aided musical composition, automatic recognition of musical patterns. Other topics will cross the above classification, for example the re-use of existing information or the unusual application of AI techniques such as machine learning. We are proud to announce that leading researchers in the field will lecture in the autumn school: * Simon Colton, Imperial College, UK * Graeme Ritchie, University of Aberdeen, UK * Carlo Strapparava, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy * Paulo Urbano, University of Lisbon, Portugal * Tony Veale, University College Dublin, Ireland Additional lecturers may still be invited to lecture in the autumn school. The autumn school is funded by Hecse, a Finnish doctoral programme in computer science. Since Hecse will cover the costs of the autumn school programme and organization, registration to the school is free of charge. Participants only pay for their accommodation and meals (and possibly for social programme). (For members of Hecse, all expenses will be covered by Hecse.) Registration to the event is open at https://elomake.helsinki.fi/lomakkeet/29404/lomake.html In case the number of seats have to be limited, first registrations have priority. The venue is not decided yet, but the school will be located in the Helsinki region. Details will be added to the autumn school web page as soon as possible. Contact: Hannu Toivonen (hannu.toivonen@cs.helsinki.fi) Alessandro Valitutti (alessandro.valitutti@cs.helsinki.fi) http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/ascc --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2011 21:58:44 -0700 From: Ray Siemens Subject: CFP - Research Foundations for Understanding Books and Reading inthe Digital Age: Text and Beyond (18 November 2011, Kyoto) Call for Papers: Research Foundations for Understanding Books and Reading in the Digital Age Research Foundations for Understanding Books and Reading in the Digital Age: Text and Beyond 18 November 2011 Kyoto, Japan. Soushi-kan Conference Hall, Ritsumeikan University. In conjunction with the Second International Symposium on Digital Humanities for Japanese Arts and Cultures (DH-JAC2011, 19-20 November 2011; http://tinyurl.com/4yakpa7) Proposals due 20 September 2011 Digital technology is fundamentally altering the way we relate to writing, reading, and the human record itself. The pace of that change has created a gap between core social/cultural practices that depend on stable reading and writing environments and the new kinds of digital artefacts-electronic books being just one type of many-that must sustain those practices now and into the future. This one-day gathering explores research foundations pertinent to understanding new practices and emerging media, specifically focusing on work in textual and extra-textual method, in itself and via exemplar, leading toward [1] theorizing the transmission of culture in pre- and post-electronic media, [2] documenting the facets of how people experience information as readers and writers, [3] designing new kinds of interfaces and artifacts that afford new reading abilities, [4] conceptualizing the issues necessary to provide information to these new reading and communicative environments, [5] reflection on interdisciplinary team research strategies pertinent to work in the area, and beyond. Featured speakers include Neil Fraistat (U Maryland), Kozaburo Hachimura (Ritsumeikan U), and Masahiro Shimoda (U Tokyo), with a special welcome from Mitsuyuki Inaba (Ritsumeikan U). The gathering is offered in conjunction with the Second International Symposium on Digital Humanities for Japanese Arts and Cultures (DH-JAC2011) (19-20 November 2011; http://tinyurl.com/4yakpa7) and is sponsored by the Japanese Association for Digital Humanities, the Digital Humanities Center for Japanese Arts and Cultures at Ritsumeikan University, the Implementing New Knowledge Environments (INKE) research group, and the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). Earlier gatherings of this group have taken place in conjunction with the Text & Literacy conference (December 2010; sponsored by the National Library of the Netherlands, the Book and Digital Media Studies department of Leiden University, INKE and SSHRC), and at the University of Victoria (October 2009; sponsored by INKE and SSHRC). We invite paper and poster/demonstration proposals that address these and other issues pertinent to research in the area. 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. Please send proposals before 20 September 2011 to siemens@uvic.ca. ____________ R.G. Siemens, English, University of Victoria, PO Box 3070 STN CSC, Victoria, BC, Canada. V8W 3W1. Clearihue C315 & B043b P:250.721.7255  F:250.721.6498 siemens@uvic.ca http://web.uvic.ca/~siemens/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Sep 7 05:24:41 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E87C1AD65B; Wed, 7 Sep 2011 05:24:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 49E0D1AD646; Wed, 7 Sep 2011 05:24:37 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110907052437.49E0D1AD646@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2011 05:24:37 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.269 interdisciplinary colllaboration X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 269. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2011 10:40:19 +0100 From: Anna Jordanous Subject: interdisciplinary collaboration In-Reply-To: <20110906053631.AD31D1ABC9F@woodward.joyent.us> Hi Mark, for point [2] there is an interesting series of conferences (the most recent of which has just taken place): Conference on Interdisciplinary Musicology (CIM). These conferences require each paper to have two or more co-authors, each from a different discipline. More details at http://www.uni-graz.at/~parncutt/cim/index2.htm anna On 06/09/2011 06:36, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 267. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2011 12:04:27 -0600 > From: Mark Winokur > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.259 discovery of a language > In-Reply-To:<20110903065106.837271A992E@woodward.joyent.us> > > > Hi, All: > > These questions have probably been treated endlessly, but I haven't > seen them at least since I joined the discussion: > > 1. What are some interesting texts for discussing scholarly > interdisciplinarity (rather than pedagogy), especially between the > Humanities and Computer Science? > > 2. What, in your opinion, are the most interesting contemporary examples > (within the last five years) of scholarly digital collaboration between > the two cultures: Humanities and Science and/or Engineering? > > Best, > > Mark -- Anna Jordanous Research Associate Centre for e-Research King's College London +44 (0)20 7848 1988 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Sep 7 05:25:40 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 368021AD6C1; Wed, 7 Sep 2011 05:25:40 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 7E91E1AD6B1; Wed, 7 Sep 2011 05:25:37 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110907052537.7E91E1AD6B1@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2011 05:25:37 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.270 events: cfp DH 2012; Interedition bursaries X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 270. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Joris van Zundert (54) Subject: Interedition TEI bursaries announcement [2] From: "Spence, Paul" (76) Subject: Digital Humanities 2012 - Call for Papers --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2011 09:52:41 +0200 From: Joris van Zundert Subject: Interedition TEI bursaries announcement === #teifuture #an_interoperability_perspective === == TEI & Interoperability Think Tank == Recently we witnessed an engaged debate over twitter and the TEI-list focusing on interoperability as a future avenue for furthering the goals of TEI. The ESF COST Action IS0704 'Interedition', specifically focused on interoperable tools for textual scholarship, is organizing a half day Think Tank on this subject during the upcoming TEI-meeting at the Universität Würzburg. We've found Sebastian Rathz (Oxford University Computing Services) and Doug Reside (New York Public Library) prepared to fire off the discussion with key pitches. == Bursaries == Interedition is delighted to offer several bursaries for attending this Think Tank on 12 October 2011 that is coinciding and co-organized with the 2011 Annual Conference and Members' Meeting of the TEI Consortium: "Philology in the Digital Age" held at Würzburg University, 10-16 October 2011. == About Interedition == The goals of Interedition < http://www.interedition.eu > is to promote the interoperability of the tools and methodology used in the field of digital scholarly editing and research. Equally, Interedition seeks to raise the awareness of the importance of sustainability of the digital artifacts and instruments we create. To this end, Interedition is supporting this conference at the University of Würzburg to explore the tools, methodologies, and approaches to better support a shared model for the creation of sustainable infrastructure for digital text. Applications are being accepted for bursaries for early stage researchers to attend this event with a thematic focus on digital scholarly editing, pre-conference workshops and tutorials and keynote presentations by leading textual scholars (Edward Vanhoutte, Andrea Rapp). Half of the bursaries are reserved for those researchers giving papers (full paper or micropaper) or presenting a poster. To apply for bursaries, 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’. - affiliated to a an institution in one of the signatory country of Interedition (Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, Finland, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Israel, Italy, The Netherlands, Norway, Polan, Spain, or the UK). - joining the Interedition Think Tank meeting on October 12. Bursaries will be awarded of a fixed amount of 400 Euros. Expenses will be reimbursed after the event in line with COST procedures. If you fit the above criteria and would like to apply for consideration, please send no more than 300 words on the following: a) a very brief CV on your career history and current academic affiliation, b) a motivation on how this workshop will intersect with your research. If applicable, please attach a letter of acceptance of your contribution (paper, poster) by the Program Committee of the conference. Please send your application to joris.van.zundert-at-huygens.knaw.nl *** no later than *** 25 September. -- --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2011 23:17:34 +0100 From: "Spence, Paul" Subject: Digital Humanities 2012 - Call for Papers Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations Digital Humanities 2012 - Call for Papers Hosted by University of Hamburg 16-22 July 2012 http://www.dh2012.uni-hamburg.de/ Abstract deadline: November 1, 2011 (Midnight GMT). Please note: The Program Committee will not be offering an extension to the deadline as has become customary in recent years. The deadline of November 1 is firm. If you intend to submit a proposal for DH2012, you need to submit it via the electronic submission form on the conference website by November 1 Presentations include: Posters (abstract max of 1500 words) Short papers (abstract max of 1500 words) Long papers (abstract max of 1500 words) Multiple paper sessions, including panels (overview max of 500 words) Call for Papers Announcement I. General Information The International Program Committee invites submissions of abstracts of between 750 and 1500 words on any aspect of digital humanities, from information technology to problems in humanities research and teaching. We welcome submissions particularly relating to interdisciplinary work and on new developments in the field, and we encourage submissions relating in some way to the theme of the 2012 conference, which is 'Digital Diversity: Cultures, languages and methods'. With the Digital Diversity theme in mind, we especially invite submissions from scholars representing emerging digital humanities communities, scholars in the digital arts and music, in spatial history, and in the public humanities. The conference web site is at http://www.dh2012.uni-hamburg.de/ and will be developing over the next few weeks. The program committee aims for a varied program and for that reason will normally not accept multiple submissions from the same author or group of authors for presentation at the conference. Proposals might, for example, relate to the following aspects of digital humanities: research on data mining, information design and modelling, software studies, and humanities research enabled through the digital medium; computer-based research and computer applications in literary, linguistic, cultural and historical studies, including electronic literature, public humanities, and interdisciplinary aspects of modern scholarship. Some examples might be text analysis, corpora, corpus linguistics, language processing, language learning; the digital arts, architecture, music, film, theatre, new media, digital games, and related areas; the creation and curation of humanities digital resources; the role of digital humanities in academic curricula. In the spirit of the conference theme, and in consultation with the ADHO Standing Committee on Multilingualism & Multiculturalism (MLMC), we particularly invite proposals on the potential and impact of digital methods and models in fostering multilingualism and multiculturalism, and on the challenges and potential presented to DH in terms of linguistic and cultural diversity. Proposals regarding endangered, lesser-known or minority languages and cultures are especially welcome, as are case studies demonstrating the successful integration of multilingualism and multiculturalism with digital methods. Selected papers may be eligible for inclusion in future ADHO publications devoted to the topic of multilingualism and multiculturalism. The range of topics covered by digital humanities can also be consulted in the journal of the associations: Literary and Linguistic Computing (LLC), Oxford University Press. The deadline for submitting poster, short paper, long paper, and sessions proposals to the Program Committee is November 1, 2011. Since the deadline is firm, we urge you to begin preparing your proposals before the submission form is ready. Presenters will be notified of acceptance by February 1, 2012. The electronic submission form will be available on the conference site at the beginning of October 2011. See below for full details on submitting proposals. A separate call for pre-conferences and workshops will be issued by the Program Committee shortly. In addition, proposals for non-refereed or vendor demonstrations should be discussed directly with the local conference organizer, Jan Christoph Meister, as soon as possible. His email address is jan-c-meister@uni-hamburg.de. All other proposals should be submitted to the Program Committee through the aforementioned electronic submission form on the conference web site. For more information on the conference in general, please visit the conference web site http://www.dh2012.uni-hamburg.de/. II. Types of Proposals Proposals to the Program Committee may be of four types: (1) poster presentations; (2) short paper presentations; (3) long papers; and (4) sessions (either three-paper or panel sessions). The type of submission preferred should be specified on the application; however, the committee may accept the application in another category based on the number of proposals and the nature of the abstracts. In part this addresses the incredible response to recent calls and in part recognizes that all applications are refereed and that the types of presentations are therefore equal in importance. Papers and posters may be given in English, French, German, Italian or Spanish. 1) Poster presentations Please submit an abstract of 750 to 1500 words. Poster presentations may include any work in progress on any topic of the call for papers as outlined above, computer technology, project demonstrations, and software demonstrations. Posters and software demonstrations are intended to be interactive, with the opportunity of the presenter to exchange ideas one-on-one with attendees and to discuss their work in detail with those most deeply interested in the same topic. Presenters will be provided with board space to display their work, computer connections may be available, and presenters are encouraged to provide a URL, business card, or handouts with more detailed information. Posters will be on display at various times during the conference, and a separate conference session will be dedicated to them when presenters should be present to explain their work and to answer questions. Additional times may be assigned for software or project demonstrations. Poster sessions may showcase some of the most important and innovative work being done in the digital humanities. In recognition of this, the Program Committee will award a prize for best poster. 2) Short papers This is a new category of presentation, allowing for up to five short papers in a one-hour session, with the length held to a strict ten (10) minutes each in order to allow time for one to two questions per paper. Short paper proposals (750 to 1500 words) are appropriate for reporting shorter experiments; describing work in progress; and for describing newly conceived tools or software in early stages of development. At the behest of the Program Committee, short papers may be presented as both a short paper and as a poster session. For research or projects further along in development, presenters should consider applying for a long paper presentation. 3) Long Papers Proposals for long papers (750-1500 words) are for reporting substantial, completed, and previously unpublished research; the development of significant new methodologies or digital resources; and/or rigorous theoretical, speculative, or critical discussions. Individual papers will be allocated twenty (20) minutes for presentation and ten (10) minutes for questions. Proposals about the development of new computing methodologies or digital resources should indicate how the methodologies are applied to research and/or teaching in the humanities, what their impact has been in formulating and addressing the research questions, and should include some critical assessment of the application of those methodologies in the humanities. Papers that concentrate on a particular application or digital resource in the humanities should cite traditional as well as computer-based approaches to the problem and should include some critical assessments of the computing methodologies used. All proposals should include relevant citations to sources in the literature. 4) Multiple Paper Sessions (90 minutes) are either: Three long papers. The session organizer should submit a 500-word statement describing the session topic, include abstracts of 750-1500 words for each paper, and indicate that each author is willing to participate in the session; or, A panel of four to six speakers. The panel organizer should submit an abstract of 750-1500 words describing the panel topic, how it will be organized, the names of all the speakers, and an indication that each speaker is willing to participate in the session. The deadline for session proposals is the same as for proposals for papers, i.e. November 1, 2011. Several points about the sessions papers: papers that are submitted as parts of special sessions may *not* also be submitted individually for consideration in another category. Session proposers should justify bundling the three papers into a special session, i.e., explaining the added value of the special session as opposed to including the papers separately, particularly how the special session addresses the conference theme. III. Format of the Proposals All proposals must be submitted electronically using the online submission form, found at the conference web site at http://www.dh2012.uni-hamburg.de beginning October 1, 2011. Anyone who has previously used the confTool system to submit proposal or reviews should use their existing account rather than setting up a new one. If anyone has forgotten their user name or password, please contact Paul Spence at paul.spence@kcl.ac.uk IV. Information about the conference venue Hamburg on the river Elbe has about 1.8 million inhabitants within the city limits, making the old Hanseatic merchant city Germany's second largest metropolis. Hamburg is characterized by its port, its international orientation and a cosmopolitan flair. The University of Hamburg was founded in 1919. Today the Faculty of the Humanities is home to over 10,000 students. Since its inception Hamburg University has maintained a strong focus on foreign languages and cultures. To foster and to explore such diversity is a key task of the Humanities - and to provide theories, methods and tools to this end poses a particularly interesting challenge to the Digital Humanities. We hope you will join in the discussion on "Digital Diversity" at the DH2012 and look forward to seeing you in Hamburg! V. Bursaries for young scholars A limited number of bursaries for young scholars will be made available to those presenting at the conference by the Association of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO). Young scholars who wish to apply for a bursary will find guidelines on the ADHO website http://www.digitalhumanities.org later this autumn (roughly November 1st). More details will be issued about this subject in the next few weeks. VI. International Program Committee Susan Brown (SDH-SEMI - Vice Chair) Arianna Ciula (ALLC) Tanya Clement (ACH) Michael Eberle-Sinatra (SDH-SEMI) Dot Porter (ACH) Jan Rybicki (ALLC) Jon Saklofske (SDH-SEMI) Paul Spence (ALLC - Chair) Tomoji Tabata (ALLC) Katherine Walter (ACH) ---------------------------------------- Paul Spence Acting Head of Department Department of Digital Humanities King's College London 26-29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL paul.spence@kcl.ac.uk http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/ddh/research/index.aspx _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 8 05:37:57 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45E7C1AF72D; Thu, 8 Sep 2011 05:37:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id BDE041AF717; Thu, 8 Sep 2011 05:37:53 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110908053753.BDE041AF717@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2011 05:37:53 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.271 interdisciplinary collaboration X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 271. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2011 09:35:09 +0100 From: James Cronin Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.269 interdisciplinary colllaboration In-Reply-To: <20110907052437.49E0D1AD646@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Mark, Myra H. Strober (2010) has noted that the extraordinary complexity of knowledge in contemporary society creates a paradox. Its sheer volume and intricacy demand disciplinary specialisation, even sub-specialisation. Innovative research and scholarship increasingly require immersion in the details of one’s own disciplinary dialogue, and departments, Strober suggests, are ideal settings for helping to do this. However, Strober continues, departments limit the ability of academics to tackle problems that transcend disciplinary boundaries. The difficult task of fixing interdisciplinary perspectives is to how to retain the benefits of disciplinary specialisation while at the same time fostering interdisciplinary collaboration (Strober, 2010, p. 2). Most discussions about barriers to interdisciplinarity are about funding, the academic reward system, and the difficulties of evaluating research from multiple perspectives. Strober’s work exposes hidden barriers rarely discussed: disciplinary habits of mind, disciplinary cultures, and interpersonal dynamics. Strober argues that difficulties in language are the least of the problems; translations may be tedious and not entirely accurate, but they are relatively easy to accomplish. What is more difficult is coming to understand the way colleagues from different disciplines think – their assumptions; concepts; categories; methods of discerning, evaluating, and reporting ‘truth’; and styles of arguing – their disciplinary cultures and habits of mind (Strober, 2010, p. 4). Collaboration does not always come naturally. The following eight observations help to scaffold collaborative activities: 1. Professional identity is forged within specific disciplines, communities of practice help to bridge the disciplinary divide, but disciplinary approaches are still significant factors in attitudes to interdisciplinary work. 2. Shared experiences, through community of practice activities, need to be continually fostered. 3. For collaboration to be meaningful there needs to be shared goals and defined outcomes. 4. Collaboration needs to track the 'troublesome' nature of the collaborative process. 5. Differences in methods and finding a shared language need to be approached through openness and flexibility of attitude. Revealing disciplinary representations of knowledge and disciplinary histories play a part in this dynamic process. 6. Collaboration requires the honouring of disciplinary identity and activity, yet still being flexible enough to allow multiple conceptual lenses or methods to be critiqued within the framework of the project and its agreed goals. 7. Facilitators and mentors 'model' collaborative practice through their own attitudes and approaches to collaborative work. 8. The transformative value of disciplinary collaboration allows for a more holistic approach to problem-solving (Blackshields, Cronin, Nyhan,. personal communication, 6 October 2010). Ultimately, for Strober, what makes interdisciplinary conversations fruitful is if these exchanges result in new interdisciplinary courses and, eventually, collaborative research projects (Strober, 2010, p. 8). References: Blackshields, D.; Cronin, J.; Nyhan, J. (2010, October 6) 'Integrative learning and technoculture: what's at stake?' LIN/NAIRTL Flexible Learning conference, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin , Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin. Strober, M. (2010). Interdisciplinary conversations: challenging habits of thought (Stanford University Press). Regards, James G. R. Cronin, University College Cork, Ireland. On 7 September 2011 06:24, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: >                 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 269. >            Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London >                       www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist >                Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > >        Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2011 10:40:19 +0100 >        From: Anna Jordanous >        Subject: interdisciplinary collaboration >        In-Reply-To: <20110906053631.AD31D1ABC9F@woodward.joyent.us> > > Hi Mark, for point [2] there is an interesting series of conferences > (the most recent of which has just taken place): Conference on > Interdisciplinary Musicology (CIM). These conferences require each paper > to have two or more co-authors, each from a different discipline. More > details at http://www.uni-graz.at/~parncutt/cim/index2.htm > > anna > > On 06/09/2011 06:36, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: >>                   Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 267. >>              Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London >>                         www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist >>                  Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org >> >> >> >>          Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2011 12:04:27 -0600 >>          From: Mark Winokur >>          Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.259 discovery of a language >>          In-Reply-To:<20110903065106.837271A992E@woodward.joyent.us> >> >> >> Hi, All: >> >> These questions have probably  been treated endlessly, but I haven't >> seen them at least since I joined the discussion: >> >> 1. What are some interesting texts for discussing scholarly >> interdisciplinarity (rather than pedagogy), especially between the >> Humanities and Computer Science? >> >> 2. What, in your opinion, are the most interesting contemporary examples >> (within the last five years) of scholarly digital collaboration between >> the two cultures: Humanities and Science and/or Engineering? >> >> Best, >> >> Mark > > -- > Anna Jordanous > Research Associate > Centre for e-Research > King's College London > +44 (0)20 7848 1988 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Sep 8 05:38:57 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 992A01AF799; Thu, 8 Sep 2011 05:38:57 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E80351AF790; Thu, 8 Sep 2011 05:38:55 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110908053855.E80351AF790@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2011 05:38:55 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.272 Humanities High Performance Computing Collaboratory X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 272. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2011 01:59:01 +0100 From: ICHASS Subject: ICHASS and CDH Win NEH Grant for Advanced Topics In DigitalHumanities Urbana, IL, Sept. 7, 2011 /I-CHASS Newswire/--- The Institute for Computing in Humanities, Arts and Social Science (I-CHASS) at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and the Center for Digital Humanities (CDH) at the University of South Carolina have collaborated to win a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Institutes for Advanced Topics in Digital Humanities (IATDH) grant award in the amount of $259,588.00 to support a project called the Humanities High Performance Computing Collaboratory (HpC). HpC will engage humanities scholars in a year-long collaboration with computing specialists in order to: 1) receive a comprehensive education in four computational concentrations; 2) receive instruction in digital humanities project design and management; 3) obtain hands-on experience with a variety of technical platforms; 4) work with experts to outline pilot explorations in at least one area of computational concentration; and 5) join a year-long virtual community where scholars will support their peers in authoring digital humanities projects. HpC represents an investment (structural, computational, and resource-based) in developing a model that will provide technical support, access to high performance computing, and products and services associated with digital technologies to humanities scholars with all levels of expertise—from beginner to the most advanced. Participants will join with computing specialists at I-CHASS, CDH and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) to be educated in growing areas of digital technology (Image Analytics, Social Networking, Mobile Applications, Augmented Reality, and Serious Gaming). After the training workshops, the community will discuss these technologies and develop their applications for humanities research via a virtual community as well as envision long-term technological goals for their projects. HpC will facilitate two five-day-long residencies as well as one two-day long conference for forty-five humanities scholars and ten computing specialists. An open call for participation in the HpC program will be released in the near future. This is the second NEH Institutes for Advanced Topics in Digital Humanities (IATDH) grant award for the program Humanities High Performance Computing Collaboratory (HpC). The first award in 2009 for $249,997.00 leveraged advance cyberinfrastructure facilities to support three interdisciplinary humanities research groups. The topics each group explored were globalizing medieval studies, developing three-dimensional (3D) history spaces, and constructing a multimedia repository for faculty and students of digital/new media. The three humanities research teams worked to develop their projects with computer scientist and engineers at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) and the Pittsburgh Supercomputer Center (PSC). For additional Information please contact: Michael Simeone, Assistant Director, I-CHASS, mpsimeon@gmail.com * * * Founded in 2004 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, I-CHASS charts new ground in high-performance computing and the humanities, arts, and social sciences by creating both learning environments and spaces for digital discovery. I-CHASS presents path-breaking research, computational resources, collaborative tools, and educational programming to showcase the future of the humanities, arts, and social sciences. For more information on I-CHASS, please visit: http://www.ichass.illinois.edu _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Sep 9 03:40:49 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6965172E73; Fri, 9 Sep 2011 03:40:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E5879172E5C; Fri, 9 Sep 2011 03:40:45 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110909034045.E5879172E5C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2011 03:40:45 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.273 interdisciplinary collaboration X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 273. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2011 04:38:30 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: interdisciplinary collaboration In response to James Cronin in Humanist 25.269, let me question the assumption that knowledge (or whatever it is that we quest for) is to be obtained only by burrowing deeper, that the essence or truth of whatever matter lies in some inner, deeper core. Saying anything else is difficult because the language we use inclines us to think like that, e.g. "fundamental", "deep", "bottom of that". But what if (as Rorty had Gadamer saying) we're in the process of shifting from going deep to going wide, i.e. starting to be able to know by listening to many voices instead of intently to the subconscious of one voice? I won't say that the Web has *caused* this, but perhaps it's part of the change. Comments? Yours, WM -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Sep 9 03:41:32 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15BE8172EC0; Fri, 9 Sep 2011 03:41:32 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 699F0172EAC; Fri, 9 Sep 2011 03:41:30 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110909034130.699F0172EAC@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2011 03:41:30 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.274 new on WWW: TextGrid Newsletter 10 X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 274. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2011 15:49:52 +0100 From: "Soering, Sibylle" Subject: TextGrid Newsletter 10: Sommer / Summer 2011 *** English version below *** Liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen, wir freuen uns, Ihnen heute den 10. TextGrid-Newsletter präsentieren zu können: http://www.textgrid.de/newsletter/news-10.html Die neue Ausgabe enthält Informationen u.a. zu folgenden Themen: * TextGridLab Version 1.0 veröffentlicht * Digital Humanities Festakt am 12./13.07.2011: Berichte, Videomitschnitte und Präsentationen der Vorträge, Workshops und Schulungen * Digitale Bibliothek: Literarischer Bestand online * Kommende Veranstaltungen * Aktuelle Veröffentlichungen und Berichte * Verwandte Aktivitäten TextGrid ist ein Forschungsverbund, dessen Ziel es ist, den Zugang und den Austausch von Informationen in den Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaften mit Hilfe moderner Informationstechnologie (Grid) zu unterstützen. Seit 2006 wird eine internetbasierte Plattform aufgebaut, die Wissenschaftlern Werkzeuge und Dienste für die Auswertung von textbasierten Daten in unterschiedlichen digitalen Archiven bietet - unabhängig von Datenform, Softwareausstattung oder Standort. TextGrid entwickelt eine Virtuelle Forschungsumgebung für Philologen, Linguisten, Musikwissenschaftler und Kunsthistoriker, aber auch für weitere Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaftler. 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. abbestellen. Dort haben Sie auch Zugriff auf alle früheren Newsletter (http://www.textgrid.de/newsletter/archiv.html). Freundliche Grüße, Ihr TextGrid-Team ********************************** Dear colleagues, We are pleased to present the 10th TextGrid Newsletter: http://www.textgrid.de/en/newsletter.html The current edition focuses on the following topics: * TextGridLab v1.0 Release * Digital Humanities ceremony, 12t th /13th July 2011, Göttingen: Reports, videos and presentations of lectures, workshops and training sessions * The Digital Library on TextGrid * Upcoming Events * New Publications and Reports * Related Activities The joint project TextGrid aims to support access to and exchange of data in the arts and humanities by means of modern information technology (the grid). Started in 2006, we are developing a web-based platform providing services and tools for researchers for analysis of text data in various digital archives - independently of data format, location and software. TextGrid serves as a virtual research environment for philologists, linguists, musicologists and art historians as well as for other scholars from the arts and humanities. This newsletter is a joint effort of the TextGrid partners. You can subscribe/unsubscribe via 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). Yours sincerely, The TextGrid team _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Sep 9 03:42:24 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id A677D172F11; Fri, 9 Sep 2011 03:42:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 9C3A5172F01; Fri, 9 Sep 2011 03:42:23 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110909034223.9C3A5172F01@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2011 03:42:23 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.275 Michael S. Hart, 1947-2011 X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 275. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Hope Greenberg (2) Subject: Michael S. Hart, 1947-2011 [2] From: James Rovira (29) Subject: A Sad Day... --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2011 14:22:54 -0400 From: Hope Greenberg Subject: Michael S. Hart, 1947-2011 Michael S. Hart, well known to many on HUMANIST, has died: http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Michael_S._Hart --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2011 23:15:45 -0400 From: James Rovira Subject: A Sad Day... http://boingboing.net/2011/09/**08/rip-project-gutenberg-** founder-michael-hart.html http://boingboing.net/2011/09/08/rip-project-gutenberg-founder-michael-hart.html ----- Michael Stern Hart was born in Tacoma, Washington on March 8, 1947. He died on September 6, 2011 in his home in Urbana, Illinois, at the age of 64. His is survived by his mother, Alice, and brother, Bennett. Michael was an Eagle Scout (Urbana Troop 6 and Explorer Post 12), and served in the Army in Korea during the Vietnam era. Hart was best known for his 1971 invention of electronic books, or eBooks. He founded Project Gutenberg, which is recognized as one of the earliest and longest-lasting online literary projects. He often told this story of how he had the idea for eBooks. He had been granted access to significant computing power at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. On July 4 1971, after being inspired by a free printed copy of the U.S. Declaration of Independence, he decided to type the text into a computer, and to transmit it to other users on the computer network. From this beginning, the digitization and distribution of literature was to be Hart's life's work, spanning over 40 years. Hart was an ardent technologist and futurist. A lifetime tinkerer, he acquired hands-on expertise with the technologies of the day: radio, hi-fi stereo, video equipment, and of course computers. He constantly looked into the future, to anticipate technological advances. One of his favorite speculations was that someday, everyone would be able to have their own copy of the Project Gutenberg collection or whatever subset desired. This vision came true, thanks to the advent of large inexpensive computer disk drives, and to the ubiquity of portable mobile devices, such as cell phones. ----- _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 10 07:51:21 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id F133C1B4578; Sat, 10 Sep 2011 07:51:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id AD82A1B4567; Sat, 10 Sep 2011 07:51:18 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110910075118.AD82A1B4567@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2011 07:51:18 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.276 interdisciplinary collaboration X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 276. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: James Rovira (21) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.273 interdisciplinary collaboration [2] From: liz (13) Subject: RE: [Humanist] 25.273 interdisciplinary collaboration --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2011 23:58:13 -0400 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.273 interdisciplinary collaboration In-Reply-To: <20110909034045.E5879172E5C@woodward.joyent.us> Why not just acknowledge the usefulness of two different metaphors for two different approaches to knowledge? One approach is linear and detailed, another associative and wide-ranging. We shift between metaphors depending upon the task at hand and its goals. Jim R > In response to James Cronin in Humanist 25.269, let me question the > assumption that knowledge (or whatever it is that we quest for) is to be > obtained only by burrowing deeper, that the essence or truth of whatever > matter lies in some inner, deeper core. Saying anything else is > difficult because the language we use inclines us to think like that, > e.g. "fundamental", "deep", "bottom of that". But what if (as Rorty had > Gadamer saying) we're in the process of shifting from going deep to > going wide, i.e. starting to be able to know by listening to many voices > instead of intently to the subconscious of one voice? I won't say that > the Web has *caused* this, but perhaps it's part of the change. > > Comments? > > Yours, > WM > --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2011 07:26:44 -0700 From: liz Subject: RE: [Humanist] 25.273 interdisciplinary collaboration In-Reply-To: <20110909034045.E5879172E5C@woodward.joyent.us> Your thoughts about "wide" versus "deeper" are right on the mark. In western culture, science has taught generations that "drilling down" is the way to go. It is why we have "specialists", the effort to get to the "bottom" of things requires it. As a self identified generalist, I am definitely one looking wider instead of fundamentally. Liz Walter _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 10 07:52:56 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 464A21B4679; Sat, 10 Sep 2011 07:52:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 31DAB1B4667; Sat, 10 Sep 2011 07:52:53 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20110910075253.31DAB1B4667@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2011 07:52:53 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.277 job at Washington; promotions at Illinois X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 277. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Kosmiski, Brian" (27) Subject: Assistant Director for the Humanities Digital Workshop (HDW) atWashington University in Saint Louis [2] From: "Reilly, Maeve J" (13) Subject: Faculty promotions announced at the Graduate School of Library andInformation Science (GSLIS) at the University of Illinois --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2011 09:57:38 -0500 From: "Kosmiski, Brian" Subject: Assistant Director for the Humanities Digital Workshop (HDW) at Washington University in Saint Louis Arts & Sciences Computing (A&SC) at Washington University in Saint Louis is hiring an Assistant Director for the Humanities Digital Workshop (HDW). The Assistant Director of the HDW is responsible for the Humanities Digital Workshop's overall goal of supporting faculty research projects and training students in the use of digital tools for research and publication. The Assistant Director will take a lead role in bringing assigned digital projects from vision to implementation by planning, developing timelines, assessing progress, testing, and rollout. The Assistant Director will work closely with faculty and librarians and manage teams of specialists, programmers, students, and staff in projects initiated by A&S faculty. The position will require close collaboration with staff from other campus organizations such as the digital library team at Olin Library, staff in Information Systems & Technology, A&S departmental staff, etc. On certain projects, collaboration with other institutions will be important. The Assistant Director of the HDW is responsible for the Humanities Digital Workshop's overall goal of supporting faculty research projects and training students in the use of digital tools for research and publication. The Assistant Director will assist in grant writing efforts, stay up to speed on the state of scholarly uses of technology, in extra-mural developments in encoding and archive management, and in funding sources and patterns. Descriptions of current projects are listed at http://hdw.artsci.wustl.edu . Required Qualifications - A successful candidate will have a BA or higher degree in a humanities field with a demonstrated track record in managing digital projects. - Strong humanities background - Understanding of the research process and emerging technologies for humanities research (data mining, visualization, mashups, social networking, etc.) - Strong written and oral communication skills - Ability to teach others - Knowledge of XML (e.g. TEI), XSLT, and related technologies - Ability to work well on a team - Web development skills (PHP, CSS, etc.) - Programming and scripting skills - Project management experience - Experience and skills in academic support, strong project management, and strong technical abilities. Organizational skills are essential. Interest and aptitude in research planning and management would be an asset but not required. The ability to work in concert with our existing team is a critical requirement. - The ideal candidate should have an active interest in creating digital tools to improve the research process. Preferred Qualifications - In developing strategic vision and plans for digital humanities scholarship - In developing digital humanities projects and seeing them to successful conclusion - Record of success in developing partnerships within and between institutions - Record of success in writing grants - Familiarity with XML technologies and in particular with the Text Encoding Initiative guidelines would be highly valued; fluency or experience in at least one modern programming language is preferred. (For information, recent HDW software has been written in Java, Clojure, PHP, Python, HTML-CSS-JavaScript, XSLT, using technologies such as relational databases, SVG, and RDF.) Salary Range: $4,306.25 - $5,598.13 per month For more information and/or to apply, please go to https://jobs.wustl.edu and reference job posting 22239. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2011 14:53:22 -0500 From: "Reilly, Maeve J" Subject: Faculty promotions announced at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS) at the University of Illinois The Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS) at the University of Illinois is pleased to announce the promotions of three faculty members this fall: Dr. Jerome McDonough has been promoted to the rank of Associate Professor. McDonough's research involves digital libraries, digital preservation, metadata design, human-computer interaction and user interface design, as well as socio-technical and participatory design approaches to information systems development. Dr. Allen Renear has been promoted to the rank of Professor. Renear's research centers around ontologies for data curation and scientific publishing; logic-based analysis of scientific discourse; XML semantics; production and delivery workflows for scientific publishing; and identity and change problems in digital object management. Dr. J. Stephen Downie has been promoted to the rank of Professor and has been named Associate Dean for Research. He conducts research in design and evaluation of music information retrieval systems, digital libraries, and digital humanities. As Associate Dean, he will coordinate all aspects of research at GSLIS including working closely with faculty on research plans, overseeing GSLIS research centers, and facilitating the development of GSLIS research strategy. Maeve Reilly Research Services Coordinator Graduate School of Library and Information Science University of Illinois Rm 219 LIS 501 E. Daniel Champaign, IL 61820 mjreilly@illinois.edu (217) 244-7316 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 10 07:53:35 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 090931B475D; Sat, 10 Sep 2011 07:53:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E3F8C1B4751; Sat, 10 Sep 2011 07:53:32 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110910075332.E3F8C1B4751@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2011 07:53:32 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.278 intro topics and texts? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 278. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2011 23:59:49 -0400 From: James Rovira Subject: Intro to Digital Humanities Dear Colleagues: If you were to teach an introductory, undergraduate course on digital humanities, what topics would you cover and what texts would you use? 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 Sep 10 07:54:55 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 880A51B4828; Sat, 10 Sep 2011 07:54:55 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B4C9E1B47EF; Sat, 10 Sep 2011 07:54:53 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110910075453.B4C9E1B47EF@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2011 07:54:53 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.279 events: MT X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 279. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2011 21:24:07 +0200 From: Венцислав_Жечев_( Subject: Call for Participation: 'Bringing MT to the User: Research MeetsTranslators' Third Joint EM+/CNGL Workshop (JEC2011) CALL FOR PARTICIPATION –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– “Bringing MT to the User: Research Meets Translators” Third Joint EM+/CNGL Workshop (JEC 2011) http://web.me.com/emcnglworkshop/JEC2011 –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– The EuroMatrixPlus Project (http://www.euromatrixplus.eu), the Centre for Next Generation Localisation (CNGL) (http://cngl.ie), the Directorate-General for Translation (DGT, European Commission) (http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/translation) and Autodesk (http://www.autodesk.ch) are co-organising the Third Joint EM+/CNGL Workshop (JEC 2011), entitled “Bringing MT to the User: Research Meets Translators”. The JEC 2011 workshop will be hosted by the Directorate General for Translation (DGT) (http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/translation) in Luxembourg on October 14th, 2011. In keeping with previous JECs, the format of the workshop is highly interactive with research paper presentations, invited talks and a panel discussion. PLEASE REGISTER Attendance of the workshop is free. If you wish to participate, please register at http://web.me.com/emcnglworkshop/JEC2011/Registration.html • Premise: Recent years have seen a revolution in MT triggered by the emergence of statistical approaches and improvements in translation quality. MT (rule-based, statistical and hybrid) is now available for many languages for free (on the Web) or for a fee and MT technologies are making strong inroads into the corporate localisation and translation industries as well as large public and administrative organisations dealing with multi-lingual content. Open-source MT solutions are competing with proprietary products. Increasing numbers of (professional) translators are post-editing TM/MT output. MT is a reality for internet users accessing and gisting content which is not available in their native language. At the same time, there has been a degree of disconnect between mainstream academic research and conferences on MT, often (and rightly so) focusing on algorithms to improve translation quality, and many of the important practical issues that need to be addressed to make MT maximally useful in real translation and localisation workflows, with human translators and users in general. • Objectives: JEC 2011 brings together translators, users, academic and industrial MT researchers and developers to discuss issues that are most important in real world industrial settings and applications involving MT, but currently under-represented in research circles. • Invited Speakers: Lucia Specia, RIILP, UK: "Quality Estimation for Machine Translation: Different Users, Different Needs" Jörg Porsiel, Volkswagen, Germany: "Machine translation at Volkswagen" Arle Lommel, GALA Global, USA: Panel Discussion Chair • List of Accepted Papers for Oral Presentation: 1. "Online Self-Serve Access to State-of-the-Art SMT" Andy Way, Kenny Holden, Lee Ball and Gavin Wheeldon 2. "User-Focused Task-Oriented MT Evaluation for Wikis: A Case Study" Federico Gaspari, Antonio Toral, Sudip Kumar Naskar and Andy Way 3. "Towards Application of User-Tailored Machine Translation" Andrejs Vasiļjevs, Raivis Skadiņš and Inguna Skadiņa 4. "A Review of Machine Translation Tools from a Post-Editing Perspective" Lucas Vieira and Lucia Specia • To be Confirmed for Oral Presentation: 5. "Putting Hybrid Machine Translation into Practice through Large-Scale Involvement of Human Translators in SomeProject" Christian Federmann, Aljoscha Burchardt, Maja Popović, David Vilar and Eleftherios Avramidis 6. "Using Statistical Machine Translation for Computer-Aided Translation at the European Commission" Andreas Eisele and Caroline Lavecchia The preliminary workshop program is available at http://web.me.com/emcnglworkshop/JEC2011/Preliminary_Program.html Abstracts of the accepted papers are available at http://web.me.com/emcnglworkshop/JEC2011/List_of_Accepted_Papers.html • Deadlines (all 23:59 GMT -11): 30th September: Camera-ready deadline for accepted papers 6th October: On-line registration closes 14th October: Workshop takes place at DGT in Luxembourg Workshop Chair: Ventsislav Zhechev (Autodesk) Workshop Senior PC: Ventsislav Zhechev (Autodesk) Andreas Eisele (DGT) Philipp Koehn (Univ. of Edinburgh) Josef van Genabith, Declan Groves (CNGL) Program Committee: Submitted papers were reviewed by a joint industry–academia committee. Industry members: Pedro L. Díez-Orzas (Linguaserve), Marc Dymetman (XRCE), Andreas Eisele (DGT of the EC), Daniel Grasmick (Lucy Software), Michael Jellinghaus (EU Parliament), Will Lewis (Microsoft), Yanjun Ma (Baidu), Alexandros Poulis (EU Parliament), Johann Roturier (Symantec), Andy Way (Applied Language Solutions), Zoran Zakic (DGT of the EC), Ventsislav Zhechev (Autodesk) Academic members: Michael Carl (CBS, Denmark), Jinhua Du (Xi’ian Univ. of Technology), Josef van Genabith (CNGL, EM+), Declan Groves (CNGL), Philipp Koehn (EM+), Philippe Langlais (University of Montreal), Alon Lavie (CMU), Pavel Pecina (CNGL), Michel Simard (NCR, Canada), Lucia Specia (RIILP, UK), Eiichiro Sumita (NICT, Japan), John Tinsley (CNGL, PLuTO), David Vilar (DFKI, Germany), Martin Volk (UZH, Switzerland) For inquiries please contact Dr. Ventsislav Zhechev at emcnglworkshop@me.com For up-to-date information, please visit http://web.me.com/emcnglworkshop/JEC2011 For information about the First Joint EM+/CNGL Workshop, please visit http://www.euromatrixplus.eu/cngl2009 For information about the Second Joint EM+/CNGL Workshop, please visit http://web.me.com/emcnglworkshop/JEC2010 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 11 05:18:16 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C3001BABB7; Sun, 11 Sep 2011 05:18:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 253A61BABA2; Sun, 11 Sep 2011 05:18:13 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110911051813.253A61BABA2@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2011 05:18:13 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.280 intro topics and texts X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 280. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Brett D. Hirsch" (24) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.278 intro topics and texts? [2] From: "Ulman, H. Lewis" (28) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.278 intro topics and texts? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2011 09:16:56 +0100 From: "Brett D. Hirsch" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.278 intro topics and texts? In-Reply-To: <20110910075332.E3F8C1B4751@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Jim, There's a collection on precisely this topic titled *Teaching Digital Humanities* currently under review with University of Michigan Press. There are some interesting essays in another recent collection, *Learning Through Digital Media*, freely available online http://learningthroughdigitalmedia.net/ . You may also wish to consult the Digital Humanities Syllabi page on the CUNY Digital Humanities Initiative site http://cunydhi.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2011/06/06/digital-humanities-syllabi/ as well as the Digital Humanities Curriculum Zotero group http://www.zotero.org/groups/digital_humanities_education for existing syllabi to use as models. Best wishes, Brett -- Dr. Brett D. Hirsch University Postdoctoral Research Fellow Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (M208) University of Western Australia http://www.notwithoutmustard.net/ Coordinating Editor, Digital Renaissance Editions http://digitalrenaissance.arts.uwa.edu.au/ Co-Editor, Shakespeare http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/shakespeare --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2011 13:40:26 +0000 From: "Ulman, H. Lewis" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.278 intro topics and texts? In-Reply-To: <20110910075332.E3F8C1B4751@woodward.joyent.us> On 9/10/11 3:53 AM, Jim R wrote: >If you were to teach an introductory, undergraduate course on digital >humanities, what topics would you cover and what texts would you use? I regularly teach an undergraduate course in digital humanities that focuses on electronic textual editing. We prepare TEI-conformant editions of previously unpublished and unedited manuscripts in Ohio State University's Rare Books and Manuscripts Library. In recent sections, students have read David Levy's _Scrolling Forward: Making Sense of Documents in the Digital Age_ (Arcade, 2001) to get them thinking broadly about documents; selected chapters from Burnard, O'Keefe, and Unsworth's _Electronic Textual Editing (MLA, 2006); and selected chapters from the TEI Guidelines. You can view an example of their work at http://people.cohums.ohio-state.edu/ulman1/SSCoxJournal/. Another example -- very much still in progress -- is available in a preview edition at http://people.cohums.ohio-state.edu/ulman1/LADoaneJournal/. Lewis ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ H. Lewis Ulman, Associate Professor Director, Digital Media Studies Department of English The Ohio State University 353 Denney Hall 164 West 17th Avenue Columbus, OH 43210 Phone: (614) 292-2275 <> E-mail: ulman.1@osu.edu WWW: http://people.cohums.ohio-state.edu/ulman1/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Sep 11 05:21:35 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C60E1BACEF; Sun, 11 Sep 2011 05:21:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 87EF51BACDC; Sun, 11 Sep 2011 05:21:31 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110911052131.87EF51BACDC@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2011 05:21:31 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.281 publication: material culture, intermedial practice X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 281. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2011 23:46:43 -0400 From: "Totosy de Zepetnek, Steven" Subject: new journal issue in digital humanities In-Reply-To: <20110910075453.B4C9E1B47EF@woodward.joyent.us> New journal issue in the peer-reviewed, full-text and open-access journal CLCWeb: Thematic issue New Perspectives on Material Culture and Intermedial Practice. Ed. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek, Asunción López-Varela Azcárate, Haun Saussy, and Jan Mieszkowski. CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 13.3 (2011): http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb/vol13/iss3/ Editorial "Introduction to New Perspectives on Material Culture and Intermedial Practice" Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek, Asunción López-Varela Azcárate, Haun Saussy, and Jan Mieszkowski Articles "(Inter)mediality and the Study of Literature" Werner Wolf "Discourses and Models of Intermediality" Jens Schröter "Intermediality and Aesthetic Theory in Shklovsky's and Adorno's Thought" Oleg Gelikman "Intermediality, Translation, Comparative Literature, and World Literature" Erin Schlumpf "Plotting the Pixel in Remediated Word and Image" Sarah Wyman "Making Sense of the Digital as Embodied Experience" Serge Bouchardon and Asunción López-Varela Azcárate "Video Games as Equipment for Living" Ronald Soetaert, Jeroen Bourgonjon, and Kris Rutten "Dialogue between Meaning Systems in Intermedial Texts" Cristina Peñamarín Beristain "Intermediality and Human vs. Machine Translation" Harry J. Huang "Intermediality, Rhetoric, and Pedagogy" Kris Rutten and Ronald Soetaert "An Intermedial Reading of Paley's Sita Sings the Blues" Ipshita Chanda "Towards a Multimodal Analysis of da Rimini's Dollspace" Maya Zalbidea Paniagua "Old and New Medialities in Foer's Tree of Codes" Kiene Brillenburg Wurth "Intermedial Representations in Asian Macbeth-s" I-Chun Wang "The Spirit of Matter in Büchner" Barbara Natalie Nagel "Musical, Rhetorical, and Visual Material in the Work of Feldman" Kurt Ozment "Intermediality, Rewriting Histories, and Identities in French Rap" Isabelle Marc Martínez "Digital Media, 419, and the Politics of the Global Network" Paul Benzon "Intermediality as Cultural Literacy and Teaching the Graphic Novel" Geert Vandermeersche and Ronald Soetaert "Digital Humanities in Developed and Emerging Markets" Verena Laschinger "Computer Mapping of Geography and Border Crossing in Scandinavia" Øyvind Eide "Intermediality, Architecture, and the Politics of Urbanity" Virgilio Tortosa Garrigós "Intersubjectivity and Intermediality in the Work of Serra" Rocío von Jungenfeld "A Case Study of (Inter)medial Participation" Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek Bibliography "Bibliography of Work in Media Studies and (Inter)mediality" Geert Vandermeersche, Joachim Vlieghe, and Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Sep 11 05:23:11 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C8E61BADB0; Sun, 11 Sep 2011 05:23:11 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id DA5591BAD9C; Sun, 11 Sep 2011 05:23:08 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110911052308.DA5591BAD9C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2011 05:23:08 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.282 event: grids and clouds X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 282. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2011 09:08:08 +0100 From: "Hedges, Mark" Subject: FW: [ASGC] Call for Papers - ISGC 2012 In-Reply-To: <4E648CFB.2070900@twgrid.org> Subscribers to the Humanist may be interested in the International Symposium on Grids and Clouds (ISGC) 2012, to be held at Academia Sinica in Taipei, Taiwan from 26 February to 2 March 2012. It has a track on applications in the humanities and social sciences. ________________________________________ > From: asgcpressrelease-bounces@lists.grid.sinica.edu.tw [asgcpressrelease-bounces@lists.grid.sinica.edu.tw] On Behalf Of Angelina Shen [angelina.shen@twgrid.org] > Sent: 05 September 2011 09:48 > To: asgcpressrelease@lists.grid.sinica.edu.tw > Subject: [ASGC] Call for Papers - ISGC 2012 [Apologize if you receive multiple postings] CALL FOR PAPERS ISGC 2012 http://event.twgrid.org/isgc2012/index.html Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan Invitation to Participate It is our great pleasure to announce that the International Symposium on Grids and Clouds (ISGC) 2012 will be held at Academia Sinica in Taipei, from 26 February to 2 March 2012, with co-located events and workshops. The conference is hosted by the Academia Sinica Grid Computing Centre (ASGC), Taipei, Taiwan. “Convergence, Collaboration, Innovation” is the theme of ISGC 2012. The last decade has seen the wide-scale emergence of e-Infrastructure as a critical asset for the modern e-Scientist. The emergence of large-scale research infrastructures and instruments that has produced a torrent of electronic data is forcing a generational change in the scientific process and the mechanisms used to analyse the resulting data deluge. No longer can the processing of these vast amounts of data and production of relevant scientific results be undertaken by a single scientist. Virtual Research Communities that span organisations around the world, through an integrated digital infrastructure that connects the trust and administrative domains of multiple resource providers, have become critical in supporting these analyses. ISGC 2012 will be the 10th meeting that over the last decade has tracked the convergence, collaboration and innovation of individual researchers across the Asia Pacific region to a coherent community and as a result has helped drive the growth of regional e-Science activities and its collaborations around the world. Submission Deadline: Friday, 7 October 2011 Submission Information: http://event.twgrid.org/isgc2012/cfp.html Online Submission: http://indico3.twgrid.org/indico/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=44 Abstract Word Limit: 500 words Topics of Interest Applications and results from the Virtual Research Communities and Industry: 1. High Energy Physics Submissions should report on experience with High Energy Physics (HEP) applications that exploit grid and cloud computing services, applications that are planned or under development, or application tools and methodologies. Topics of interest include: - End-user data analysis; - Management of distributed data; - Applications level monitoring; - Performance analysis and system tuning; - Workload scheduling; - Management of a HEP collaboration as a virtual organization; - Comparison between grid and other distributed computing paradigms as enablers of physics data handling and analysis; - Expectations for the evolution of HEP computing models drawn from recent experience handling extremely large and geographically diverse datasets. 2. Biomedicine and Life Sciences During the last decade, Biomedicine and Life Sciences have dramatically changed thanks to the use of High Performance Computing and highly Distributed Computing Infrastructures such as grids and clouds. Submissions should concentrate on practical applications in the fields of Biomedicine and Life Sciences, such as: - Cloud-based use of biomedical data; - Medical Imaging; - Drug Discovery; - Nano-medicine; - Public health applications / infrastructures; - High throughput biological data processing/analysis; - Integration of semantically diverse data sets and applications; - Combining grid with distributed data and services; - Biomedical data management issues; - Applications for non-technical end users. 3. Earth Science, Environmental Changes and Natural Disaster Mitigation Earth science is the basis for understanding the Earth, investigating the environmental changes, and probing the potential hazards. Natural disaster mitigation is one of the most critical regional issues in Asia. e–Science opens new opportunities for global collaboration on data-intensive problems in unprecedented capability. Studies to understand the earth nature, uncover the global changes, demystify the natural disaster mechanisms, and e-Science applications to support some of those are all very much welcomed. Submissions to this session should cover results, technologies, methods and systems for distributed collaboration and computation in support of the Earth Science study and disaster mitigation areas. Earth science has increasing needs for vast amounts of data with which to model, analyze and measure the history and evolution of the earth. This session would in particular address how these challenges are being addressed with the aids of e-Science paradigm. 4. Humanities and Social Sciences Researchers working in the social sciences and the humanities have started to explore the use of advanced computing infrastructures such as grids to address the grand challenges of their disciplines. For example, social scientists working on issues such as globalization, international migration, uneven development and deprivation are interested in linking complementary datasets and models at local, national, regional and global scales. Similarly, in the humanities, researchers from a wide range of disciplines are interested in managing, linking and analyzing distributed datasets and corpora. There has been a significant increase in the digital material available to researchers, through digitization programmes but also because more and more data is now “born digital”. As more and more applications demonstrate the successful application of e-Research approaches and technologies in the humanities and social sciences, questions arise as to whether common models of usage exist that could be underpinned by a generic e-Infrastructure. The session will focus on experiences made in developing e-Research approaches and tools that go beyond single application demonstrators. Their wider applicability may be based on a set of common concerns, common approaches or reusable tools and services. We are also specifically inviting contributions concerned with teaching e-Research approaches at undergraduate and postgraduate levels as well as other initiatives to "bridge the chasm" between early adopters the majority of researchers. Activity to enable the provisioning of a Resource Infrastructure: 5. Operations and Management This session will cover the current state of the art and recent advances in managing the operation of large scale research infrastructures. The scope of the session will include advances in monitoring tools and metrics, service management, the implementation and management of Service Level Agreements, improving service and site reliability, interoperability between infrastructures, user and operational support procedures, and other topics relevant to general grid and cloud operations. 6. Middleware and Interoperability Middleware technologies are an inevitable cornerstone of modern federated Grid and Cloud infrastructures. Their robustness, scalability and reliability are of major importance to support academic and business infrastructure users in gaining new scientific insights or increasing their revenues. Until recently middleware technologies were developed from specific requirements of certain communities and use cases. Today middleware technologies must converge by employing open standards to enable interoperability among technologies and infrastructures or to re-use components from other technologies – convergence, collaboration and innovation is and must be a key element of this endeavor. Therefore submissions should highlight their contribution to the convergence, collaboration and innovation of interoperable middleware technologies for federated IT-infrastructures. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - One-step-ahead interoperable middleware solutions (Grid-to-Grid, Grid-to-Cloud and vise-versa, Cloud-to-Cloud) including application use cases, employed open standards and implementation highlights; - Examples for convergence of middleware technologies, e.g. replacement of components by external, standardized and interoperable components from other middleware distributions. 7. Security and Networking Security and networking are at the forefront of the challenges in the deployment of large-scale e-Infrastructures. Research communities require secure access to distributed services linked together via high-performance networks. The many computing resource centres must be able to collaborate in a trustworthy, scalable and federated security environment. Opportunities for innovation exist in many areas of security and networking to address these requirements. These include developments in security middleware, operational security, security policy, identity management, virtual organisation management, network developments for e-Infrastructures, network monitoring and the move to IPv6. Submissions should address solutions to these and related security and networking issues. 8. Infrastructure clouds and Virtualisation This track will focus on the use of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud computing and virtualisation technologies in large-scale distributed computing environments in science and technology. We solicit papers describing underlying virtualisation and “cloud” technology, scientific applications and case studies related to using such technology in large scale infrastructure as well as solutions overcoming challenges and leveraging opportunities in this setting. Of particular interest are results exploring usability of virtualisation and infrastructure clouds from the perspective of scientific applications, the performance, reliability and fault-tolerance of solutions used, data management issues. Papers dealing with the cost, price, and cloud markets, with security and privacy as well as portability and standards, are also most welcome. 9. Business Models and Sustainability Whenever a business is established, it employs a particular business model that describes the architecture of the value (economic, social, etc.) creation, delivery, and capture mechanisms employed by the business enterprise. Business models are used to describe and classify businesses (especially in an entrepreneurial setting), but they are also used by managers inside companies to explore possibilities for future development. Business models are also referred to in some instances within the context of accounting for purposes of public reporting. Sustainability is the capacity to endure and interfaces with economics through the social and ecological consequences of economic activity. Among the many ways of living more sustainably, one can cite the use of science to develop new technologies (green technologies, renewable energy, or new and affordable cost-effective practices) to make adjustments that conserve resources. These two concepts apply to the e-infrastructure world and the purpose of this session will be to report about existing or foreseen initiatives aiming at guaranteeing the long-term sustainability of e-Infrastructures by means of business models. Technologies that provide access and exploitation of different site resources and infrastructures: 10. Data Management Data management encompasses the organization, distribution, storage, access, and validation of digital assets. Data management requirements can be characterized by data life stages that include shared project collections, to formally published libraries, to preservation of reference collections. Papers are sought that demonstrate the management of data through the multiple phases of the scientific data life cycle, from creation to re-use. Of particular importance are demonstrations of systems that validate assertions about collection properties, including integrity, chain of custody, and provenance. 11. Distributed Volunteer and Desktop Grid Computing This track will highlight the latest research achievements and experiences related to distributed volunteer computing and campus wide (or institutional) Desktop Grids. The topics will cover new technologies of the related software frameworks, recent application developments, as well as infrastructure operation and user support techniques for all levels: campus, institutional, and for very large scale cyberscience computing. Special focus will be on the following areas: - Interoperability with other and integration in other e-infrastructures; - Virtualisation techniques; - Data management; - Energy efficiency and Green computing aspects; - Quality of service; - Novel uses of volunteer computing and Desktop Grids; - Best practices and (social) impacts. 12. High Throughput Computing High Throughput Computing refers to a computing paradigm for delivering a large amount of computing capacity over relatively long periods of time in solving complex problems, as opposed to High Performance Computing focusing on a large amount of computing power for short periods of time. HTC is more concerned with getting as many as independent jobs possible done on available resources. With the growing availability of computing resources such as public grids (e.g., EGEE/EGI and OSG) and public/private clouds (e.g., Amazon EC2), it becomes possible to develop and deploy unprecedented large-scale HTC applications and systems by mobilizing as many computing resources as possible. However, it is quite challenging to effectively access, aggregate and manage all available resources that are usually under control by resource providers. This session will solicit recent research and development achievements and best practices related to HTC. The topics of interest include, but not limited to the followings: - Experiences on the development of large-scale HTC applications; - Best practices of HTC systems and environments; - HTC on Cluster/Grid/Cloud computing; - Integrated and coordinated use of different e-infrastructures for HTC; - Robustness and Reliability of HTC applications and systems over a long-time scale; - Interoperability of Grids and Clouds for HTC. 13. High Performance, Manycore and GPU Computing HPC resources, the emergence of many-core processors and GPUs as well as the requirements from user communities to utilize these new resources in modern federated Grid and Cloud infrastructures has increased both their complexity as well as scope. Efficiently using single instances of such resources with enabled and optimized applications and simulations is a major endeavor of the scientific community. When integrating such resources in Grids and Clouds with the aim of a federated use add another dimension of complexity. Therefore submissions should focus on the collaborative and innovative aspects in this domain. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Integration of HPC, many-core and GPU computing in Grid and Cloud infrastructures including application use cases and technological infrastructure advancements; - Application use cases for an collaborative use of HPC, many-core and GPU computing resources in federated Grid and Cloud infrastructures including open issues in middleware technologies; - Technologies for virtualised HPC-as-a-Service (HPCaaS) and GPU-as-a-Service (GPUaaS) including application use cases; - Technologies for efficient use of virtualisation techniques on many-core processors for “traditional” Grid use cases. Remarks All abstracts will be reviewed by ISGC program committee and track conveners. Notification of acceptance will be sent by the Secretariat by 12 December, 2011. The symposium proceedings will be published on-line (Proceedings of Science, PoS) afterwards. Information about the preparation of a final proceedings version will be announced on the symposium website. For more information, please visit event website at http://event.twgrid.org/isgc2012/index.html , or contact: Ms. Angelina Shen Email: angelina.shen@twgrid.org Tel: +886-2-2789-8371 Fax: +886-2-2783-5434 Office Address: Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Rm P4A-4, No.128, Sec2, Academia Rd, Nankang, Taipei 11529, Taiwan Sincerely, ISGC 2012 Secretariat ASGC Taipei, Taiwan _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 12 05:24:19 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FF9B4FA80; Mon, 12 Sep 2011 05:24:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D68BB4FA72; Mon, 12 Sep 2011 05:24:17 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110912052417.D68BB4FA72@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2011 05:24:17 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.283 parsing tools for Modern Hebrew X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 283. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2011 10:21:48 +0100 From: Yoav Goldberg Subject: Modern-Hebrew Parsing Tools Hello all, Two syntactic parsers for Hebrew (both in a constituency and a dependency representation) are now available for download under a GPL license. There are also online demos with which you can play with without downloading, and I have a large automatically parsed corpora (~70M words) which is available upon request. Check it out! http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~yoavg/uni/hebrewparsing.he.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 Tue Sep 13 04:03:18 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C28A4FDAB; Tue, 13 Sep 2011 04:03:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 551C94FDA1; Tue, 13 Sep 2011 04:03:16 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110913040316.551C94FDA1@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 04:03:16 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.284 intro topics and texts X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 284. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2011 13:04:59 +0000 From: "Nowviskie, Bethany (bpn2f)" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.280 intro topics and texts In-Reply-To: <20110911051813.253A61BABA2@woodward.joyent.us> On 9/10/11 3:53 AM, Jim R wrote: If you were to teach an introductory, undergraduate course on digital humanities, what topics would you cover and what texts would you use? You might also consider asking this question in the "DH in the Classroom" forum on Digital Humanities Questions and Answers: http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/forum/pedagogy There are some good recommendations on similar topics there already, and it would be nice to hear what the DH Answers community might have to add! Best, Bethany Bethany Nowviskie, MA Ed, Ph.D Director, Digital Research & Scholarship, UVA Library Associate Director, Scholarly Communication Institute Vice President, Association for Computers & the Humanities scholarslab.org/ ● uvasci.org/ ● ach.org/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Sep 13 04:04:00 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 430664FE68; Tue, 13 Sep 2011 04:04:00 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 247674FE13; Tue, 13 Sep 2011 04:03:57 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110913040357.247674FE13@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 04:03:57 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.285 new publication: unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 285. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2011 19:33:53 +0100 From: ingentaconnect InTouch Subject: Interdisciplinary Science Reviews vol. 36 no. 3(September 2011) Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 36.3 (September 2011) 1. The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences Russ, Steve 209-213(5) 2. The Vagueness of Wigner's Analysis Gray, Jeremy 214-228(15) 3. The Physical Origin of Physically Useful Mathematics Lutzen, Jesper 229-243(15) 4. Why the effectiveness of mathematics in the natural sciences is not surprising Suppes, Patrick 244-254(11) 5. Explaining the Applicability of Mathematics in Science Baker, Alan 255-267(13) 6. Reviews Miller, Ian; Rehbein, Malte 268-272(5) _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Sep 13 04:05:31 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27ACC49068; Tue, 13 Sep 2011 04:05:31 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 7D11E49060; Tue, 13 Sep 2011 04:05:29 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110913040529.7D11E49060@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 04:05:29 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.286 Humanist growing X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 286. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 05:02:11 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: record broken I am happy to report that this morning the previous record set a few weeks ago, when 11 new members joined within a 24-hour period was broken this morning, by 14 new applications. That no two of this morning's new members were from the same course in digital humanities or even the same institution, as far as I can recall, makes the number even more remarkable. There are many ways for our kind to communicate these days, so the growth of Humanist, modest though it is, would seem to indicate that we are doing something right. I wonder, what is it? Comments? In any case, welcome to all. Yours, WM -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Sep 13 04:06:14 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE1AC49125; Tue, 13 Sep 2011 04:06:14 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id BC069490CE; Tue, 13 Sep 2011 04:06:13 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110913040613.BC069490CE@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 04:06:13 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.287 call for nominations: ACH Exec X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 287. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2011 10:41:27 -0400 From: Dot Porter Subject: Final Call for Nominations to the ACH Executive Council - deadlineSeptember 15 *Final Call for nominations for the ACH Executive Council.* We especially need nominees for the positions of president and vice-president. Self-nominations are welcome! The Association for Computers and the Humanities invites nominations for this year's elections. We are electing a president, vice-president, and three Executive Council members, and seek candidates for all these offices who want to advance the field of digital humanities by helping to run the ACH. Together with other officers, these are the people who form the ACH's policies, decide how the ACH will spend its funds, and oversee its activities. They meet for an annual council meeting at the Digital Humanities conference every year, and hold discussions during the rest of the year by email and occasional phone conferences. Candidates must be (or be willing to become) members of the ACH and must commit to attending the council meetings at the Digital Humanities conference. The president and vice-president serve two-year terms; council members serve four-year terms. Candidates are expected to be active members of the digital humanities community. But these are not roles reserved to those in very senior positions: graduate students have often served on the council, and commitment to the organization and to the field have usually counted for more with the membership than job titles. Nominations should be sent to* ach-nominations@digitalhumanities.org* by *September 15*. They should include an email address for the nominee. A brief biographical statement will also be needed for the ballot but need not be included with the nomination. You are warmly encouraged to nominate yourself if you are interested. Please note that per the bylaws each nominee needs two nominations to be considered for inclusion on the ballot. The nominations committee shall determine the final slate of candidates to stand for election for the available positions. For more information on the responsibilities and obligations of ACHofficers, see http://www.ach.org/constitution#Bylaws Current officers of the ACH are listed at http://www.ach.org/officers Many thanks, ACH Nominations Committee Julia Flanders Neil Fraistat Dot Porter (chair) Brian Pytlik Zillig Bill Turkel -- *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Dot Porter (MA, MSLS) Digital Medievalist, Digital Librarian Email: dot.porter@gmail.com *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Sep 14 05:47:21 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4512E496FC; Wed, 14 Sep 2011 05:47:21 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 2E428496E9; Wed, 14 Sep 2011 05:47:19 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110914054719.2E428496E9@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 05:47:19 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.288 intro topics and texts X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 288. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 11:53:19 -0400 From: Brian Croxall Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.284 intro topics and texts In-Reply-To: <20110913040316.551C94FDA1@woodward.joyent.us> I'll humbly suggest my own course, "Intro to DH," which I'm currently teaching as a junior-level course at Emory: http://www.briancroxall.net/dh/. I also recently blogged about the resources I used in designing the class, including several other courses. That post includes links to as many of these courses as I could find: http://www.briancroxall.net/2011/08/29/introduction-to-digital-humanities/. Best, Brian Croxall -- Brian Croxall, Ph.D. | Emory University | CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow Emerging Technologies Librarian | www.briancroxall.net | @briancroxall On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 12:03 AM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 284. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2011 13:04:59 +0000 > From: "Nowviskie, Bethany (bpn2f)" > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.280 intro topics and texts > In-Reply-To: <20110911051813.253A61BABA2@woodward.joyent.us> > > On 9/10/11 3:53 AM, Jim R wrote: > > If you were to teach an introductory, undergraduate course on digital > humanities, what topics would you cover and what texts would you use? > > You might also consider asking this question in the "DH in the Classroom" > forum on Digital Humanities Questions and Answers: > > http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/forum/pedagogy > > There are some good recommendations on similar topics there already, and it > would be nice to hear what the DH Answers community might have to add! > > Best, > Bethany > > Bethany Nowviskie, MA Ed, Ph.D > Director, Digital Research & Scholarship, UVA Library > Associate Director, Scholarly Communication Institute > Vice President, Association for Computers & the Humanities > scholarslab.org/ http://scholarslab.org/ ● uvasci.org/ > ● ach.org/ http://ach.org/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Sep 14 05:49:02 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 695ED497C7; Wed, 14 Sep 2011 05:49:02 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A7DA849793; Wed, 14 Sep 2011 05:49:00 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110914054900.A7DA849793@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 05:49:00 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.289 award for best e-ref site X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 289. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:49:05 -0500 From: Paul Booth Subject: Award Announcement: PCA/ACA Award for Electronic Reference Site apologies for cross-posting The PCA/ACA Award for Best Electronic Reference Site In recognition of the importance of new academic formats, the PCA/ACA has established an Award for excellence in Electronic Reference Site. The award is given annually to the site that a committee agrees has met the necessary qualifications for contributing significantly to the study of Popular and American Culture in the following areas: Quality of research/scholarship, use of hypertext/networking of electronic medium, use of supplementary/secondary materials, contribution to popular and American studies scholarship, breadth of archived material, ease of searching, and updatability. Please send a 1-page nomination with the website address, sponsoring organization, targeted audience, general mission and/or special features of the site. Please also include contact information for award notification. Self-nominations are allowed. Awards will be given at the annual PCA/ACA conference. Deadline for nominations is Dec 31, 2011. Contact: Paul Booth; pbooth@depaul.edu Paul Booth College of Communication DePaul University 1 E. Jackson Chicago, IL 60604 312.362.7753 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 14 05:51:10 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0392C49845; Wed, 14 Sep 2011 05:51:10 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 6DEEE4982C; Wed, 14 Sep 2011 05:51:07 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110914055107.6DEEE4982C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 05:51:07 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.290 events: logic for programming, AI & reasoning X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 290. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 12:54:49 +0100 From: Geoff Sutcliffe Subject: LPAR-18 Venezuela- Call for Papers LPAR-18 CALL FOR PAPERS ============================================================ The 18th International Conference on Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence and Reasoning ============================================================ Merida, Venezuela - March 11-15, 2012 http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/events/lpar18/ The series of International Conferences on Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence and Reasoning (LPAR) is a forum where, year after year, some of the most renowned researchers in the areas of logic, automated reasoning, computational logic, programming languages and their applications come to present cutting-edge results, to discuss advances in these fields, and to exchange ideas in a scientifically emerging part of the world. The 18th LPAR will be held in Merida, Venezuela. Logic is a fundamental organizing principle in nearly all areas in Computer Science. It runs a multifaceted gamut from the foundational to the applied. At one extreme, it underlies computability and complexity theory and the formal semantics of programming languages. At the other extreme, it drives billions of gates every day in the digital circuits of processors of all kinds. Logic is in itself a powerful programming paradigm, but it is also the quintessential specification language for anything ranging from real-time critical systems to networked infrastructures. Logical techniques link implementation and specification through formal methods such as automated theorem proving and model checking. Logic is also the stuff of knowledge representation and artificial intelligence. Because of its ubiquity, logic has acquired a central role in Computer Science education. Topics ------ New results in the fields of computational logic and applications are welcome. Also welcome are more exploratory presentations, which may examine open questions and raise fundamental concerns about existing theories and practices. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Automated reasoning * Verification * Interactive theorem proving and proof assistants * Model checking * Implementations of logic * Satisfiability modulo theories * Rewriting and unification * Logic programming * Satisfiability checking * Constraint programming * Decision procedures * Logic and games * Logic and the Web * Ontologies and large knowledge bases * Logic and databases * Modal and temporal logics * Program analysis * Foundations of security * Description logics * Non-monotonic reasoning * Uncertainty reasoning * Logics for vague and inconsistent data * Specification using logic * Logic in artificial intelligence * Logic and types * Logical foundations of programming * Logical aspects of concurrency * Logic and computational complexity * Knowledge representation and reasoning * Logic of distributed systems [...] _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Sep 15 05:20:36 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id A53901C2F86; Thu, 15 Sep 2011 05:20:36 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D517B1C28D6; Thu, 15 Sep 2011 05:20:34 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110915052034.D517B1C28D6@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 05:20:34 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.291 intro topics and texts X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 291. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 08:39:16 +0200 From: Claire Clivaz Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.288 intro topics and texts In-Reply-To: <20110914054719.2E428496E9@woodward.joyent.us> Thank you so much, dear Brian, it is useful for all! Claire Clivaz Le 14 sept. 2011 à 07:47, Humanist Discussion Group a écrit : > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 288. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 11:53:19 -0400 > From: Brian Croxall > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.284 intro topics and texts > In-Reply-To: <20110913040316.551C94FDA1@woodward.joyent.us> > > > I'll humbly suggest my own course, "Intro to DH," which I'm currently > teaching as a junior-level course at Emory: http://www.briancroxall.net/dh/. > I also recently blogged about the resources I used in designing the class, > including several other courses. That post includes links to as many of > these courses as I could find: > http://www.briancroxall.net/2011/08/29/introduction-to-digital-humanities/. > > Best, > Brian Croxall > -- > Brian Croxall, Ph.D. | Emory University | CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow > Emerging Technologies Librarian | www.briancroxall.net | @briancroxall > _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 15 05:21:44 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id E460C1C2FBF; Thu, 15 Sep 2011 05:21:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 29B861C2FAF; Thu, 15 Sep 2011 05:21:42 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110915052142.29B861C2FAF@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 05:21:42 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.292 events: preserving software art X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 292. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 12:50:11 +0100 From: Leonidas Konstantelos Subject: Invitation: POCOS Symposium on Preservation of Software Art Preservation Of Complex Objects Symposia (POCOS) We are pleased to announce the 2nd POCOS Symposium on Preservation of Software Art: 11-12 October 2011, The Lighthouse, Glasgow, UK Organised by the Humanities Advanced Technology & Information Institute (HATII) at the University of Glasgow, UK. Online registration: http://www.pocos.org/index.php/registration Symposium Fee: Free + £10 donation for refreshments (payable at the event) Preservation of software art presents challenges in many fronts, including complex interdependencies between objects; time-based and interactive properties; and diversity in the technologies and practices used for development. This exciting two-day symposium will provide a forum for participants to discuss these challenges, review and debate the latest developments in the field, witness real-life case studies, and engage in networking activities. The symposium will promote discussion on such topics as: • Implications and advances in preserving software art • Issues of ephemerality • Significant properties for software art • Software art as performance • Legal and Ethical issues in collecting, curating and preserving software art • Interpretation and Documentation Keynote Speakers: • Richard Rinehart - Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University, USA • Simon Biggs - Edinburgh College of Art, UK Presenters include: • Vicky Isley and Paul Smith - boredomresearch / NCCA, Bournemouth University, UK • Michael Takeo Magruder - King's Visualisation Lab, King's College London, UK • Perla Innocenti - History of Art, University of Glasgow, UK • Leo Konstantelos - HATII, University of Glasgow, UK The programme also includes break-out sessions for participants to discuss key topics in preservation of Software Art. For more information, please visit the POCOS page at: http://www.pocos.org/index.php/pocos-symposia/software-art Download the brochure at: http://pocos.org/images/pub_material/leaflet_software_art.pdf Bookings are now open at the project website – however, space is limited so please book early. A waiting list will be maintained once the symposium is fully booked in case of late cancellations. We look forward to welcoming you at the event! Preservation Of Complex Objects Symposia (POCOS) has been funded by the JISC Information Environment Programme 2009-11 -- Dr Leo Konstantelos Principal Investigator, POCOS HATII Preservation Research Officer 11 University Gardens University of Glasgow Glasgow G12 8QH Skype: l.konstantelos T: +44 (0)141 330 7133 E: L.Konstantelos@hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk W: http://www.hatii.arts.gla.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 Sep 15 05:40:40 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 818E21C2513; Thu, 15 Sep 2011 05:40:40 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B1E621C2507; Thu, 15 Sep 2011 05:40:38 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110915054038.B1E621C2507@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 05:40:38 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.293 first impressions? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 293. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 06:38:34 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: odd or unexpected? I'm quite interested to hear first impressions from those who are new to the digital humanities. What have you found surprising, odd, under-developed, missing altogether or obsessive about the range of interests you encounter from those who have been in the field for a long time? When, for example, you look at the website of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (http://www.digitalhumanities.org/) or check out the contents of the Blackwell's Companion (http://www.digitalhumanities.org/companion/) or the subjects so far treated by one of the journals, e.g. the Digital Humanities Quarterly (http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/) or other publications (http://www.digitalhumanities.org/companion/), what do you think? If you had to tell someone, as frequently happens to me, what this field is all about, what would you say? AND what would you wish to be able to say? Recently I had a conversation with a very bright, senior computer scientist who has an important opportunity to take an interest. He thought at first that he understood, largely from a single example he knew about, but when confronted by the range of activities became much less sure he knew what was going on. But then, I can remember when I first looked into computer science I had more or less the same reaction: how, I thought, can anyone call all these activities by a single name, "computer science"? I found, as you'll likely know, that computer scientists themselves have been asking this question for a long time. But the question I am asking now is not really for insiders, graybeards et al, but for neophytes. What do you think? Lastly, reassurance for neophytes: this is a place where we see what something might mean by talking about it. So, first impressions, please. Yours, WM -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Sep 16 05:35:38 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BB081BC022; Fri, 16 Sep 2011 05:35:37 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 2BCAE1C13F6; Fri, 16 Sep 2011 05:35:36 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110916053536.2BCAE1C13F6@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 05:35:36 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.294 intro topics and texts X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 294. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 09:24:31 -0400 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.291 intro topics and texts In-Reply-To: <20110915052034.D517B1C28D6@woodward.joyent.us> Many thanks to all of those who have responded to my previous query about an Intro to Digital Humanities course thus far. Everyone's recommended resources were quite useful, including Willard's most recent post just about first impressions of the field. I could of course find generate my own lit of potential textbooks, but I wouldn't be sure of what works best for undergraduate students, so I'm very grateful for the contributions from faculty teaching these courses who have a sense of what works for them. On a more practical level, it also helps, for example, just to see that Brian Coxall's course below is 300 level, almost 400 level. I'm curious, but is the following notation a course prerequisite? Math & Science N302 I'm trying to think through an introductory DH course on this level too: prereqs, etc. One syllabus said that no programming background was necessary because students would learn .php and .xml in class, etc. I need to return to that one to see if there are any math or logic prereqs. Thank you all very much again, Jim R Thank you so much, dear Brian, it is useful for all! _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 16 05:36:04 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49BC51C2FC4; Fri, 16 Sep 2011 05:36:04 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 485631C2234; Fri, 16 Sep 2011 05:36:02 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110916053602.485631C2234@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 05:36:02 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.295 first impressions X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 295. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 01:47:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Ernesto Priego Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.293 first impressions? In-Reply-To: <20110915054038.B1E621C2507@woodward.joyent.us> Thanks to Willard for asking these questions. As a neophyte, here's a quick response.  For context: I think I first became aware of the term 'digital humanities' around 2005.  When people ask me what the field is about I usually give a general answer, a variation of 'the use and study of computers and computer culture to assist in and as part of humanities research'. Nevertheless I am very much aware this definition is contested by many working in the field. I have been slightly disappointed by what I (maybe ungenerously) perceive as either too much focus on written text quantitative analysis (something which has considerably changed in the last couple of years I suppose) or a reluctance to reflect critically on the cultural/ideological/political implications of using computers in the first place (way beyond the technological determinism debate).  I understand the need to be able to distinguish the specificity of digital humanities in relation to other related fields, but I do perceive as well the importance of an awareness that technologies, their uses and the ways they are conceptualised within and outside academia are in a constant state of flux, and that therefore any rigorous fixity, in my opinion, is likely to doom the field to stagnation. I think I have a clear idea of the state of the debate regarding definitions of digital humanities, at least in the US, the UK and Europe, and I can't help feeling that certain ideas still need to be challenged, particularly by voices which have 'traditionally' been under-represented. I think almost everyone agrees that access to computational infrastructure, as well as to the skills to employ it efficiently, is far from homogeneous around the world. As digital humanities gradually become more mainstream, and the resources for humanities research created, used and discussed by digital humanists increasingly become the standard for humanities research in general, the danger of dramatically, willingly or unwillingly, contributing to the so-called digital divide is more and more real. It already is. So I wish that discussions around this were more obviously present within the field, informing directly or indirectly what is done, and were not considered extraneous to it, reserved as it were to other general specialisms (sociology, cultural studies, etc.).  I hope this rushed comment makes sense. Thank you for reading...    Dr Ernesto Priego http://www.comicsgrid.com/ http://about.me/ernestopriego http://en.gravatar.com/ernestopriego ________________________________ From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sent: Thursday, 15 September 2011, 6:40 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 16 05:40:19 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6127A1C6076; Fri, 16 Sep 2011 05:40:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 883911C603E; Fri, 16 Sep 2011 05:40:16 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110916054016.883911C603E@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 05:40:16 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.296 jobs at Huygens ING and Emory X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 296. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Karina van Dalen (143) Subject: Jobs at Huygens ING [2] From: "Hickcox, Alice" (49) Subject: Senior software engineer position at Emory --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 16:06:45 +0200 From: Karina van Dalen Subject: Jobs at Huygens ING Starting in the fall of 2011, Huygens ING has the following two vacancies: (1) PhD student (Promovendus) Literary Quality 38 hours a week (1.0 fte) The PhD will be part of the research project The Riddle of Literary Quality, led by Huygens ING in cooperation with the Fryske Akademy and the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) of the University of Amsterdam. Literary quality is one of the most fascinating issues in Literary Studies. Scholars have found that social and cultural factors play an important role in the acceptance of a fictional work as literary or non-literary and as good or bad. The project The Riddle of Literary Quality will research whether formal characteristics of a text also play a role in readers' decisions to call a fictional text literary or non-literary, and good or bad. Many formal characteristics can be thought of as having a part in this, e.g. the use of difficult words, the number of adjectives and adverbs, or complex syntactic style. The project will integrate the analysis of low-level lexical-statistical features and high-level syntactic and narrative features. More information can be found at http://literaryquality.huygens.knaw.nl/. The project will be coordinated by Dr Karina van Dalen-Oskam (Huygens ING) in close collaboration with Prof. Dr Rens Bod (ILLC) and Dr Hanno Brand (Fryske Akademy). The project team will further consist of a Postdoc and a Developer. The project is part of the Computational Humanities Programme funded by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) and connected to the e-Humanities Group (http://ehumanities.nl/). The PhD will be working on the research into and the analysis of the low-level features that will be selected for analysis. The PhD will therefore combine knowledge of existing research into literary quality with new empirical approaches as developed in the area of digital/computational humanities. The PhD will collaborate with team members in the development of new tools and in presentations and publications about the project, and will report on part of the work in a dissertation to be defended at the University of Amsterdam. Position requirements - Master in Literary Studies or a closely related field - Knowledge of Dutch, English, and possibly also of Frisian - Affinity with empirical research - Affinity with information technology and willing to learn basic programming skills - Able to work as member of a closely collaborating team - Willing to reach out to and collaborate with national and international colleagues in related research disciplines - Willing to work at different locations (The Hague, Amsterdam, and occasionally Leeuwarden) with The Hague as the main location Appointment and Salary The appointment will be for 12 months. Upon positive evaluation, it will be extended with another 36 months (full-time). Applicants should have the right to work in the Netherlands for the duration of the contract. The salary starts at € 2,042.- in the first year and increases to € 2,612.- in the fourth year, based on a full-time appointment (Collective Agreement for Dutch universities), excluding 8% holiday pay and a 8,3% year-end bonus. Applications Please send a letter of application including 1. a curriculum vitae; 2. a letter of recommendation; 3. a list of courses followed and a copy of the MA diploma (please provide translations of these documents in English or Dutch where appropriate); 4. a copy of the MA thesis or a writing sample of it; 5. an extended letter of motivation explaining the applicant’s qualifications for this position (max. 1,000 words). before October 10, 2011 to Bedrijfsbureau Huygens ING, t.a.v. Hetty Labots, Personnel Department, P.O. Box 95366, 2509 CJ The Hague, The Netherlands or by e-mail to sollicitaties@huygens.knaw.nl Acquisitie naar aanleiding van deze advertentie wordt niet op prijs gesteld. ---------- (2) Postdoc High-level Pattern Recognition 34.2 hours a week (0.9 fte) The Postdoc will be part of the research project The Riddle of Literary Quality, led by Huygens ING in cooperation with the Fryske Akademy and the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) of the University of Amsterdam. Literary quality is one of the most fascinating issues in Literary Studies. Scholars have found that social and cultural factors play an important role in the acceptance of a fictional work as literary or non-literary and as good or bad. The project The Riddle of Literary Quality will research whether formal characteristics of a text also play a role in readers' decisions to call a fictional text literary or non-literary, and good or bad. Many formal characteristics can be thought of as having a part in this, e.g. the use of difficult words, the number of adjectives and adverbs, or complex syntactic style. The project will integrate the analysis of low-level lexical-statistical features and high-level syntactic and narrative features. More information can be found at http://literaryquality.huygens.knaw.nl/. The project will be coordinated by Dr Karina van Dalen-Oskam (Huygens ING) in close collaboration with Prof. Dr Rens Bod (ILLC) and Dr Hanno Brand (Fryske Akademy). The project team will further consist of a PhD and a Developer. The project is part of the Computational Humanities Programme funded by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) and connected to the e-Humanities Group (http://ehumanities.nl/). The Postdoc will be working on the adaptation and application of high-level pattern recognition on a selected corpus of literary texts in Dutch and will do smaller experiments on Frisian and English fictional texts. The high-level tools will be based on Probabilistic Tree-Substitution Grammars (PTSGs) within the Data-Oriented Parsing (DOP) framework as developed at the ILLC by Rens Bod c.s. The research will focus on syntactic complexity relating this to literary complexity but also plans experiments with still higher level patterns such as narrative structure. The Postdoc will collaborate with team members in the development of new tools and in presentations and publications about the project, and will report on the higher level pattern recognition in international publications. Position requirements - PhD in Computational Linguistics or a closely related field - Knowledge of Dutch, English, and possibly also of Frisian - International track record, evidenced by peer-reviewed publications - Excellent programming skills and affinity with Digital Humanities - Able to work as member of a closely collaborating team - Willing to reach out to and collaborate with national and international colleagues in related research disciplines - Willing to work at different locations (The Hague, Amsterdam, and occasionally Leeuwarden) with Amsterdam as the main location Appointment and Salary The position involves a temporary appointment with Huygens ING for 4 years with a 2-month period of probation. Applicants should have the right to work in the Netherlands for the duration of the contract. Depending on training and work experience, the maximum gross monthly salary coming with a full-time appointment will amount to a maximum of € 3.755,-(Collective Agreement for Dutch universities), excluding 8% holiday pay and a 8,3% year-end bonus. Applications Please send a letter of application including 1. Letter of motivation 2. CV 3. Two selected publications 4. Names and addresses of two referees before October 10, 2011 to Bedrijfsbureau Huygens ING, t.a.v. Hetty Labots, Personnel Department, P.O. Box 95366, 2509 CJ The Hague, The Netherlands or by e-mail to sollicitaties@huygens.knaw.nl Acquisitie naar aanleiding van deze advertentie wordt niet op prijs gesteld. -- Dr Karina van Dalen-Oskam Head of Department Literary Studies / Textual Scholarship Huygens ING - KNAW Postbus 90754 2509 LT The Hague The Netherlands +31-70-3315875 www.huygens.knaw.nl/ www.huygens.knaw.nl/vandalen/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 18:50:22 +0000 From: "Hickcox, Alice" Subject: Senior software engineer position at Emory We are posting this job widely; please forgive duplications. Emory University Library is hiring a software engineer. We are looking for a person with an interest in digital humanities and digital libraries work. Download the job description (pdf) at: http://goo.gl/oyEYD Robert W. Woodruff Library Emory University, 540 Asbury Circle, Atlanta, GA 30322 Software Engineer, Sr., full-time position, minimum beginning salary: $4700/month; $56,400 annual Identifies, designs, develops, implements, and revises software applications to meet business needs. Supports software applications and associated operating systems. Programs, analyzes and writes specifications. Devises solutions to system problems. Develops and tests applications; makes revisions to improve functionality. Develops and analyzes the effectiveness of new applications and test procedures. Writes and edits reports to provide recommendations, conclusions and other data. Minimum Qualifications: A bachelor's degree in computer science, math, engineering or a related field and three years of related experience in programming and software systems or an equivalent combination of education, training and experience. Knowledge of software development in a research institution context preferred. Additional Preferred Qualifications:Required: Strong technical skills, the ability and desire to stay abreast of new leading edge technology, and the ability to communicate effectively with a wide variety of stakeholders. Highly desirable qualifications for this position include:  Programming experience with Python, PHP, JavaScript and web standards like REST for seamless integration between complex systems.  Significant experience with including Apache and frameworks like Django or similar frameworks like Rails or Zend.  Experience with building and optimizing Solr/Lucene indexes or experience with Fedora or other repository systems.  Experience with relational databases like MySQL or PostgreSQL and non-relational databases like eXist.  Strong preference for experience with techniques and tools like continuous integration/deployment, GIT, Mercurial and communities like GitHub.  Experience with the Metadata and Semantic web standards.  Contributions to Open Source Projects and participation in developer communities a plus.  Fundamental Linux system administration skills and familiarity or desire to work with agile methods. Applications/resumes may be submitted online through http://www.emory.edu and looking for job posting #24442BR. For more information, contact Linda Nodine (404-727-0240, libln@emory.edu). -- Alice Hickcox Email: ahickco@emory.edu Beck Center, Woodruff Library Phone: 404-727-8133 Emory University Fax: 404-727-0287 Atlanta, GA 30322 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 16 05:41:42 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31DF01C61B6; Fri, 16 Sep 2011 05:41:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id DD2691C61A6; Fri, 16 Sep 2011 05:41:39 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110916054139.DD2691C61A6@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 05:41:39 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.297 new publication: D-Lib for 9-10/11 X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 297. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 20:51:54 +0100 From: Bonnie Wilson Subject: The September/October 2011 issue of D-LibMagazine is now available Greetings: The September/October 2011 issue of D-Lib Magazine (http://www.dlib.org/) is now available. This issue contains five articles, several short pieces in the 'In Brief' column, excerpts from recent press releases, and news of upcoming conferences and other items of interest in 'Clips and Pointers'. This month, D-Lib features the E-Corpus Digital Library. The articles include: Long-term Preservation for Spatial Data Infrastructures: a Metadata Framework and Geo-portal Implementation Article by Arif Shaon, Science and Technology Facilities Council, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell, UK, and Andrew Woolf, The Bureau of Meteorology, Canberra, Australia MapRank: Geographical Search for Cartographic Materials in Libraries Article by Markus Oehrli, Zentralbibliothek Zurich; Petr Pridal, Klokan Technologies and Moravian Library; Susanne Zollinger, ETH-Bibliothek Map Library; and Rosi Siber, EAWAG Automating the Production of Map Interfaces for Digital Collections Using Google APIs Article by Anna Neatrour, Anne Morrow, Ken Rockwell, and Alan Witkowski, The University of Utah Digitization Practices for Translations: Lessons Learned from the Our Americas Archive Partnership Project Article by Lorena Gauthereau-Bryson, Robert Estep, and Monica Rivero, Rice University A New Way to Find: Testing the Use of Clustering Topics in Digital Libraries Article by Kat Hagedorn and Michael Kargela, University of Michigan; Youn Noh, Yale University; and David Newman, University of California-Irvine D-Lib Magazine has mirror sites at the following locations: UKOLN, University of Bath, Bath, England http://mirrored.ukoln.ac.uk/lis-journals/dlib/ The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia http://dlib.anu.edu.au/ State Library of Lower Saxony and the University Library of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany http://webdoc.sub.gwdg.de/edoc/aw/d-lib/ Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan http://dlib.ejournal.ascc.net/ BN - National Library of Portugal, Portugal http://purl.pt/302/1 (If the mirror site closest to you is not displaying the September/October 2011 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 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 Fri Sep 16 05:43:06 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FB2F1C6325; Fri, 16 Sep 2011 05:43:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 872E81C6310; Fri, 16 Sep 2011 05:43:04 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110916054304.872E81C6310@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 05:43:04 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.298 CenterNet in ADHO X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 298. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 10:10:53 +1000 From: Harold Short Subject: ADHO-CenterNet : press release The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organisations (ADHO) and centerNet are very pleased to announce that with effect from 1 January 2012 centerNet is to become a fully fledged 'Constituent Organisation' within the ADHO umbrella. The formal agreements were finalised at meetings held in conjunction with the international Digital Humanities 2011 conference, held at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. centerNet will join three current Constituent Organisations in ADHO. These are the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH), the Association for Literary and Lingistic Computing (ALLC), and the Society for Digital Humanities/Société pour l'Étude des Médias Interactifs (SDH-SEMI). The agreement reached by ADHO and centerNet followed 18 months of discussions, led by Neil Fraistat and Kay Walter for Centernet and Harold Short and John Unsworth on behalf of ADHO. The key challenge arose from the membership basis of the various associations. ACH, ALLC and SDH-SEMI are individual-member associations; individuals become members by subscribing to ADHO's print journal LLC (at which time they indicate which association they wish to join). centerNet, in contrast, is an association of institutions. In order to preserve the 'subscription' principle, centerNet has agreed that from 1 January 2012 centres wishing to join centerNet will do so on the basis of an institutional subscription to LLC. As a constituent organisation within ADHO, centerNet will play a full role in ADHO activities, will have equal representation on the ADHO Steering Committee, and will be fully integrated into the revenue sharing process carried out each year to disburse the profits received from OUP in respect of LLC. The revenue sharing will include an annual subvention to support a centerNet publication venue. The intellectual focus of the discussions and the agreement has been the shared aim of promoting digital scholarship in the humanities world-wide. It is intended and expected that centerNet will be participant and beneficiary across the range of ADHO activities, which will in turn be broadened and enhanced by centerNet participation. Not least of centerNet’s benefits will be the stable financial basis that it will gain from ADHO membership. At a local level, individual ADHO members are already very involved in existing centres, and will continue to support their development and the creation of new centres where none yet exist. The centres, for their part, will continue to provide a focus of scholarly support for existing individual members, but will also seek actively to draw new scholars into the field, encouraging them to take up individual membership within an ADHO association. The admission of centerNet to ADHO is expected, therefore, to provide significant mutual benefit both to the centres in centerNet and to the individual scholars and their associations, and can be seen as a very exciting step forward with huge potential for the continued growth of the digital humanities internationally. ADHO was established in 2005 with the aim of providing a co-ordinated framework to promote and support digital research and teaching across arts and humanities disciplines worldwide. Current activities include an annual conference, which will next take place at the University of Hamburg, Germany in July 2012, a number of publication venues, and support for young scholars and a variety of projects and training events. The publication venues include: the print journal LLC: The Journal of Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, published by OUP; two refereed online journals: Digital Humanties Quarterly, and Digital Studies/le champ numérique; and two monograph series: Digital Scholarship in the Arts and Humanities, published by Ashgate, and Topics in the Digital Humanities, published by Illinois University Press. centerNet is an international network of digital humanities centers formed for cooperative and collaborative action to benefit digital humanities and allied fields in general, and centers as humanities cyberinfrastructure in particular. Since its inception in April 2007, centerNet has added over 250 members from about 120 centers in over 20 countries. Regional centerNet affiliates have been established in Asia Pacific, Europe, North America, and the U.K. and Ireland, each with a steering committee. In 2009, centerNet became a founding member of CHAIN: the Coalition of Humanities and Arts Infrastructures and Networks (with DARIAH, CLARIN, Project Bamboo, and ADHO). In 2010, centerNet formally affiliated with the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI), the Digital Library Federation, and 4Humanities, in each case to pursue an ambitious agenda of initiatives on matters of mutual interest. --- ends ---- Professor Harold Short King's College London, Dept of Digital Humanities & University of Western Sydney Web: www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/ddh _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Sep 16 05:44:02 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7E1B1C6647; Fri, 16 Sep 2011 05:44:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C3E101C635C; Fri, 16 Sep 2011 05:43:59 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20110916054359.C3E101C635C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 05:43:59 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.299 events: Hidden Histories X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 299. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 13:07:34 +0100 From: Julianne Nyhan Subject: Hidden Histories Symposium Dear All, Humanist readers who will be in London this coming Saturday (17 September) may be interested to know that two places have become available at a symposium in UCL. The gathering is entitled 'Hidden Histories: symposium on methodologies for the history of computing in the Humanities'. Further information about it is available here: http://tinyurl.com/6yy62sf Please email me directly if you would like one of these two places. Kind regards, Julianne Nyhan -- Dr Julianne Nyhan Lecturer in Digital Information Studies Department of Information Studies University College London * Office:* G15a, Foster Court *Email:* j.nyhan@ucl.ac.uk *Web: *http://www.ucl.ac.uk/infostudies/julianne-nyhan/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Sep 17 05:13:18 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCFFF1C672D; Sat, 17 Sep 2011 05:13:17 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id CD1A11C66FD; Sat, 17 Sep 2011 05:13:15 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110917051315.CD1A11C66FD@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2011 05:13:15 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.300 PhD studentship in music history at the Open X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 300. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 12:01:39 +0100 From: "Lorna M. Hughes" Subject: Open University PhD Studentship The Open University Faculty of Arts PhD Studentship in collaboration with the National Library of Wales "Music traditions and cultural history" Based at the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth One full-time, three year PhD studentship available from 1 January 2012 The National Library of Wales holds extensive and important archives relating to musical traditions in Wales, their performance and reception. The Faculty of Arts of The Open University has a long history of innovative engagement with museums, libraries and galleries, and this important extension is aimed at providing an opportunity for postgraduate study in the world’s major depository of Welsh traditional music. The work will complement various fields of research already prevalent in the Faculty, but particularly that of its Digital Humanities Group. Applications are sought for a PhD studentship which will engage innovatively with the Library’s collections and the way they are understood. The Faculty of Arts is especially interested in exploring specific collections of Welsh traditional music from the nineteenth century and audio and film recordings of its performance in the first half of the twentieth century. Various alternatives to the traditional PhD thesis are possible as the end product of the studentship, especially as the project is intended to exemplify new approaches to the study, understanding and dissemination of the subject through digital media. Further details of research in the Faculty of Arts at The Open University can be found at http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/research/index.shtml. These details also provide links to relevant collections at the Library. This opportunity is not restricted to music graduates. For further particulars and instructions on how to apply go to www3.open.ac.uk/employment or contact the Music Department on 01908 653280 or email Arts-Music-Enquiries@open.ac.uk. Closing date: 7 October 2011. Interviews will be held during the first two weeks of November 2011. It is hoped that the studentship will commence in January 2012 or as soon as possible after that date. -- Professor Lorna M. Hughes University of Wales Chair in Digital Collections Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru National Library of Wales Lorna.Hughes@llgc.org.uk Ffôn / Phone 01970 632 499 http://www.llgc.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Sep 18 05:47:32 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id E59D61C62B0; Sun, 18 Sep 2011 05:47:31 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C5E001C6164; Sun, 18 Sep 2011 05:47:29 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110918054729.C5E001C6164@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2011 05:47:29 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.301 first impressions X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 301. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 09:37:30 -0400 From: Paul Fyfe Subject: re: first impressions? [Yesterday, in the Hidden Histories Symposium at University College London, at least two of of presenters dwelt on the long debate among people in the digital humanities about what exactly the field is, whether it is a discipline and the like. Some days ago, in Humanist 25.293 (15/9), I asked for first impressions of the field. This, I thought, would be a possibly more interesting way of checking ourselves out, as one does before striding forth into the world once again. In response the following came back from Paul Fyfe (Florida State University). The students who responded to Professor Fyfe's asking of this question, quite independently of mine, agreed to let their comments be published here. After listening this morning to a programme on Radio 4 (BBC) about the abuse of the English language, finding truth in everything said about how badly my native tongue is abused and leaping from that truth to severely depressing inferences about the state of our culture, educational systems etc, I am lifted up by the intelligence and on occasion wit of Professor Fyfe's students. I hope you are too. --WM] Hello: wanted to share something about people's "first impressions" of digital humanities. I'm teaching an Intro to DH graduate course right now and, curious like you about people's early or even preconceptions of the field, made their first assignment to define DH before reading a single thing on the syllabus. I collected all their responses into a post on our course blog. Each response is headed by a generic description of the student's background (e.g. English literature grad student). http://english3.fsu.edu/~pfyfe_eng5933_fall11/wp/?p=24 [...] Yours -- Paul -- Paul Fyfe Assistant Professor English, History of Text Technologies Florida State University http://hott.fsu.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 20 07:44:10 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B29C19580B; Tue, 20 Sep 2011 07:44:10 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 70460195E2E; Tue, 20 Sep 2011 07:44:08 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110920074408.70460195E2E@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 07:44:08 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.302 first impressions X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 302. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: amsler@cs.utexas.edu (29) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.301 first impressions [2] From: Michael Hancher (14) Subject: [Humanist] 25.301 first impressions --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2011 06:17:56 -0500 From: amsler@cs.utexas.edu Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.301 first impressions In-Reply-To: <20110918054729.C5E001C6164@woodward.joyent.us> An interesting read (http://english3.fsu.edu/~pfyfe_eng5933_fall11/wp/?p=24 ). What came to mind was the technique of asking what 'digital X' was in terms of breaking down 'humanities' into its component fields. That along with the sense that 'digital' is late in being applied to the humanities. I.e., does it make sense to say the digital sciences or digital engineering? Those disciplines would have to doubly question such a term as their whole discipline assumes digital means and results are built into their day-to-day activities. I.e., they would have to carve out very small niches for 'pure' digital use within their disciplines. 'Digital mathematics' would be either 'numerical analysis' or 'proof by computer'; 'digital physics' would embrace 'quantum computing' or other methods of advanced physics for the development computing technology, or 'artificial reality' in which universes were modeled in a computer to see how they would perform using mathematical models of physical laws; 'digital engineering' would be thought to contrast with 'analogue engineering' or to directly be the field of computer design. What that appears to mean is that digital humanities is a name applied to the humanities 'coming of age' moment, when the humanities itself becomes self-aware that the world of digital media and techniques can no longer be ignored as a minor part of the field. Everyone to be educated in the humanities now has to be aware of the digital impact on their discipline to be considered a well-educated humanist. They may choose to not be immersed in digital pursuits, but they cannot afford to be unaware of those pursuits for the field as a whole has moved on to include digital awareness as a prerequisite. Ironically, 'digital humanities' as a label means the 'digital' is hereafter to be assumed as part of the humanities and as such the non-digital humanities will be the historic past of the discipline. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2011 13:20:57 -0500 From: Michael Hancher Subject: [Humanist] 25.301 first impressions In-Reply-To: <20110918054729.C5E001C6164@woodward.joyent.us> Thanks to Paul Fyfe and to Willard for relaying ten students’ thought-provoking observations about the meaning of "digital humanities" ( http://english3.fsu.edu/~pfyfe_eng5933_fall11/wp/?p=24). Some note that "humanities" is the more mysterious of the two terms, and define it by distinction from “the maths and sciences”: indeed, as “Not science.” (So, one recalls, *litterae humaniores* was not *litterae divinae.)* If the digital derives from math and science, and if the humanities = Not science, “digital humanities” must be a paradox -- one of its more attractive aspects. -- Michael Hancher http://mh.cla.umn.edu/ Professor of English, College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota 207 Lind Hall, 207 Church Street SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455 612–625–5075; fax 612–624–8228 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 20 07:45:52 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id E322B1A383F; Tue, 20 Sep 2011 07:45:51 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1DA1D1A382D; Tue, 20 Sep 2011 07:45:50 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110920074550.1DA1D1A382D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 07:45:50 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.303 intro topics and texts X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 303. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 09:23:47 -0400 From: Brian Croxall Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.294 intro topics and texts In-Reply-To: <20110916053536.2BCAE1C13F6@woodward.joyent.us> Hi all, There are no prerequisites for the course that I am teaching. "Math & Science N302" is the classroom in which I'm teaching. The course I'm teaching is a 300-level in part because 389 is the course number the English department here uses for courses on special topics that might not be taught again in the near future. It's a lot easier than creating a new course number. I also knew that I wanted to work with students who were more advanced so as to draw contrasts between typical "close reading" and the different projects we're taking in the course. Best, Brian On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 1:35 AM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 294. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 09:24:31 -0400 > From: James Rovira > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.291 intro topics and texts > In-Reply-To: <20110915052034.D517B1C28D6@woodward.joyent.us> > > > Many thanks to all of those who have responded to my previous query about > an > Intro to Digital Humanities course thus far. Everyone's recommended > resources were quite useful, including Willard's most recent post just > about > first impressions of the field. I could of course find generate my own lit > of potential textbooks, but I wouldn't be sure of what works best for > undergraduate students, so I'm very grateful for the contributions from > faculty teaching these courses who have a sense of what works for them. > > On a more practical level, it also helps, for example, just to see that > Brian Coxall's course below is 300 level, almost 400 level. I'm curious, > but is the following notation a course prerequisite? > > Math & Science N302 > > I'm trying to think through an introductory DH course on this level too: > prereqs, etc. One syllabus said that no programming background was > necessary because students would learn .php and .xml in class, etc. I need > to return to that one to see if there are any math or logic prereqs. > > Thank you all very much again, > > Jim R > > Thank you so much, dear Brian, it is useful for all! > > > > > _______________________________________________ > List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > List info and archives at at: http://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 20 07:46:23 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A25D1A379C; Tue, 20 Sep 2011 07:46:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 36DA61A3780; Tue, 20 Sep 2011 07:46:21 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110920074622.36DA61A3780@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 07:46:21 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.304 jobs at Clemson X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 304. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 14:33:47 +0100 From: Catherine Paul Subject: jobs at Clemson In-Reply-To: Dear Textual Scholarship Colleagues, I'm writing to forward two hiring advertisements for this year, which may be of interest to you or your students. Please feel free to forward them to any potentially interested parties. All best wishes, cp Assistant Professor (tenure track): Digital Humanities The English Department at Clemson University seeks to fill a tenure-track, Assistant Professor position for Fall 2012 in Digital Humanities. Candidates working in digital literary scholarship and emerging publishing technologies are especially encouraged to apply. The successful candidate will teach undergraduate courses in literature, rhetoric, professional communication, creative writing, and/or digital media, as well as advanced undergraduate and graduate courses in the candidate's specialized field. The successful candidate will also have the opportunity to participate in Clemson's interdisciplinary PhD program in Rhetorics, Communication, and Information Design. Please send letter of application and vita to Sean Williams, Chair, "Digital Humanities Search Committee," Department of English, 801 Strode Tower, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634. Review of applications will begin November 4, 2011. Preliminary interviews will occur at the MLA Convention in Seattle, WA. Clemson University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any individual or group of individuals on the basis of age, color, disability, gender, national origin, race, religion, sexual orientation, veteran status or genetic information. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Assistant Professor (tenure track): Literature and the History of Technology The English Department at Clemson University seeks to fill a tenure-track, Assistant Professor position, beginning Fall 2012, in Literature and the History of Technology from a broadly comparativist perspective. The successful candidate will also show expertise in one or more of the following secondary areas of interest: comparative and world literature, history of science, global studies and communication, and rhetorical, material and cross-cultural analysis. The successful candidate will teach undergraduate and graduate courses in the English Department and have the opportunity to participate in Clemson's interdisciplinary PhD program in Rhetorics, Communication, and Information Design. Please send letter of application and vita to Sean Williams, Chair, "Literature and Technology Search Committee," Department of English, 801 Strode Tower, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634. Review of applications will begin November 4, 2011. Preliminary interviews will occur at the MLA Convention in Seattle, WA. Clemson University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any individual or group of individuals on the basis of age, color, disability, gender, national origin, race, religion, sexual orientation, veteran status or genetic information. ******************************** Catherine E. Paul Professor of English Director of M.A. English Program Department of English 801 Strode Tower Clemson University Clemson, SC 29634-0523 cpaul@clemson.edu Tel.: 864.656.3151 FAX: 864.656.1345 OFFICE HOURS: MW 1-2, Tu 2-4, and by appointment ________________________________________ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Sep 20 07:48:30 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 569801A55C3; Tue, 20 Sep 2011 07:48:30 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id AE1E91A55B1; Tue, 20 Sep 2011 07:48:28 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110920074828.AE1E91A55B1@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 07:48:28 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.305 pubs: poetries & sciences; roadmap for techno-collaboration X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 305. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Willard McCarty (103) Subject: cfp: poetries and sciences [2] From: I-CHASS (9) Subject: I-CHASS article provides a roadmap for technology-driven collaborative scholarship --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 14:03:29 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: cfp: poetries and sciences Call for papers Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org) “Poetries and Sciences in the 21st Century” This is to invite proposals for contributions to a themed issue of Interdisciplinary Science Reviews on the topic of “Poetries and Sciences in the 21st Century”, to be published as volume 39, number 1, March 2014. Reference here to the present century is meant to imply that the relationship between poetry and science is historically contingent and that our current views of it are informed and challenged by those of the past. The intended aim of this issue is not so much to sketch what we believe to be true but to question our views by considering where they have come from and to speculate on what is to be done through an examination of the interactions between poetry and science. As a point of departure, consider the literary critic I.A. Richards’ Poetries and Sciences, a work whose writing and revisions span the middle half of the 20th century. Richards asked what poetry could become in a world deeply and broadly affected by technoscience, arguing that the revolution it has brought about is “too drastic to be met by any such half-measures” as promotion of wonder at the marvels of nature (1970: 52-3). What could wonder be but an attitude of ignorance when these marvels have, or are assumed to have, lawlike explanations? Science has neutralised nature, he argued, and so deprived poetry of its original well-spring: “the magical view of the world” (1970: 50). What could a poet say to those for whom making sense ultimately requires the radically plain style of scientific reasoning? Richards’ solution was to cut the language of the imagination free from the language of belief, hence from epistemological certainty, implying our philosophical freedom to explore possible worlds. Consider also the psychologist Jerome Bruner’s essay “Possible Castles”, from his Actual Minds, Possible Worlds (1986). Here Bruner argues that philosophical questioning of science (by Thomas Kuhn et al.) has reawakened the ancient, even tired question of the “two cultures” by revealing science to be historically contingent. In response to this reawakening he gives us two opposed trajectories for the sciences and the humanities, both originating in curiosity and speculation about the world, but one moving steadily away from ambiguity while the other moves towards increasing “the alternativeness of human possibility” (Bruner 1986: 53). He concludes by quoting Aristotle on the poet’s function: “to describe not the thing that has happened, but a kind of thing that might happen” (Poetics II.9). What matters to the poet, Bruner says, is verisimilitude to conceivable human experience. The poet’s job, we might say, is to expand what is conceivable by finding the best words, whereas the scientist’s is to extend what is explicable by equally audacious, but differently directed, acts of the imagination. Much closer to our time, physicist Robert B. Laughlin declares that, as much in physics as in biology, we have come out of the reductionism which defined science throughout the 20th century (2005: 208) – and so created Richard’s dilemma – into an Age of Emergence. If so, then the question to be rescued from the muddle of “two cultures” is truly vigorous and contemporary. Let us say that, to quote theoretical biologist Robert Rosen, we foreswear the crippling mental habit of “looking only downward toward subsystems, and never upward and outward” (2000: 2), which renders us unable to see emergent organizational principles, of poetry or life itself. What then might poetry and science have to do with each other? What might that pre-eminent expression of technoscience, computing, have to say about poetry and how might it go about saying it? How might our most adventurous theories of poetic discourse inform a computing that works “upward and outward” from its object of study? Practical Matters In the first instance we request abstracts of up to 500 words, highlighting the key areas of interest and possible direction of your contribution. Articles should have a maximum length of 6000 words. All contributions will be peer-reviewed. Articles may contain black and white illustrations (for which authors should seek the necessary permissions). The theme of this issue is open to interpretation and we welcome a variety of submissions. In particular, though, we aim to publish one article which considers Richards’ Poetries and Sciences in context with his career (including his involvement with the Macy Conference of 1951) as a way of revisiting Richards’ interactions with the topic and comparing them with those of contemporary poets and literary critics. For details on format see www.maney.co.uk/journals/notes/isr Please address all enquiries to the issue editor: Russell Jones r.jones-5@sms.ed.ac.uk September 2011 Schedule 06/2012 Declare intention to contribute (title and abstract) 12/2012 Secure commitment to submit article 06/2013 Submit first version 09/2013 Reviewers' comments and decisions back to authors 12/2013 Final materials due to the publisher 03/2014 Publication (vol 39.1) Please address all enquiries to the issue editor: Russell Jones r.jones-5@sms.ed.ac.uk September 2011 Works Cited Bruner, Jerome. 1986. “Possible Castles”. In Actual Minds, Possible Worlds. 44-54. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press. Laughlin, Robert B. 2005. A Different Universe: Reinventing Physics from the Bottom Down. New York: Basic Books. Richards, I.A. 1970. Poetries and Sciences: A Reissue of Science and Poetry (1926, 1935) with Commentary. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. Rosen, Robert. 2000. Essays on Life Itself. Complexity in Ecological Systems Series. New York: Columbia University Press. -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 17:23:49 +0100 From: I-CHASS Subject: I-CHASS article provides a roadmap for technology-driven collaborative scholarship In beginning to wrap up its research funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities' Digging into Data Challenge grant, I-CHASS is pleased to announce the publication of "Digging into data using new collaborative infrastructures supporting humanities-based computer science research," in First Monday. The essay, composed by I-CHASS researchers, engineers, and affiliates, outlines the cloud-based collaboratoration tools used by the Authorship Related Questions research group to present the legal, scholarly, and technical dimensions of multi-site collaboratory research: As interdisciplinary collaborations are becoming more common, aligning the interests of computer scientists and humanities scholars requires the formulation of a collaborative infrastructure for research where the approaches, methodologies, pedagogies, and intellectual innovations merge. While the concept of shared resources in a “cloud” is gaining popularity for office and document–based collaborations, we maintain that constructing a “cloud” of collective resources for use in researching large image archives across multiple disciplines and institutions requires a specific design that accommodates the communicative demands of multi–disciplinary academic research, the intricacies of intellectual property and publication, the needs of software developers working from remote sites, and the difficulties of serving large amounts of data for collective examination. In other words, the model we have developed tightly integrates practices and technologies for data sharing, software sharing, and knowledge sharing/communication. For the full article, click here: http://www.firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/3372/2950 * * * Founded in 2004 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, I-CHASS charts new ground in high-performance computing and the humanities, arts, and social sciences by creating both learning environments and spaces for digital discovery. I-CHASS presents path-breaking research, computational resources, collaborative tools, and educational programming to showcase the future of the humanities, arts, and social sciences. For more information on I-CHASS, please visit: http://www.ichass.illinois.edu _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Sep 20 07:49:32 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61AA61A566A; Tue, 20 Sep 2011 07:49:32 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 431E21A5657; Tue, 20 Sep 2011 07:49:30 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110920074930.431E21A5657@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 07:49:30 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.306 events: archaeology X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 306. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 17:45:58 +0100 From: Simon Mahony Subject: Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology 2012 Call for sessions, roundtables and workshops: Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology 2012 The Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA) 2012 conference will be hosted by the Archaeological Computing Research Group in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Southampton on 26-30 March 2012 The call for Sessions, Roundtables and Workshops is now open and closes on 1st October 2011. We invite submissions for sessions relating to all aspects of computer applications in archaeology, whether practically or theoretically focussed. The conference timetable will be organised around themes that emerge from the proposed sessions. Abstracts of up to 500 words maximum may be uploaded via the open conference management system. We are particularly keen to encourage sessions organised collaboratively across disciplines and/or institutions. Session, roundtable and workshop chairs are expected to administer the papers submitted to their session and write a short commentary on the session for the peer-reviewed conference proceedings. Review of sessions will be undertaken internally by the CAA2012 committee. Abstracts should be submitted via the open conference management system. https://www.ocs.soton.ac.uk/index.php/CAA/2012/schedConf/cfp Further details about the conference are available at:http://www.southampton.ac.uk/caa2012/ -- Simon Mahony _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 21 06:55:36 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6BAA1BB794; Wed, 21 Sep 2011 06:55:36 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1AA5F1BB781; Wed, 21 Sep 2011 06:55:34 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110921065535.1AA5F1BB781@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 06:55:34 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.307 jobs at Nevada, Stanford X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 307. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Jockers Matthew (7) Subject: alt-ac DH Job at Stanford [2] From: Peter La Chapelle (18) Subject: Job Posting: Assitant Professor in Digital Humanities --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 07:42:34 -0700 From: Jockers Matthew Subject: alt-ac DH Job at Stanford The Stanford University Library’s division of Academic Computing Services seeks a digital humanist for an exciting “alternative academic” (#alt-ac) position as Academic Technology Specialist (ATS) within the University’s Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages (DLCL). The DLCL’s ATS will work in partnership and collaboration with DLCL faculty and graduate students to advance humanistic enquiry through the application of computational tools and methods. Position requires advanced degree in humanities plus deep technical knowledge and experience in programming and text mining/analysis. Minimum Salary: $78,520. More dependent upon experience. For complete qualifications and full job description, please see jobs.stanford.edu and search for job# "44622" in the keyword field. -- Matthew Jockers Stanford University http://www.stanford.edu/~mjockers --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 12:16:54 -0700 From: Peter La Chapelle Subject: Job Posting: Assitant Professor in Digital Humanities Greetings, I just wanted to post the following announcement regarding a new tenure-track position in Digital Humanities: Nevada State College is a new, rapidly growing four-year college located in metropolitan Las Vegas. We seek excellent teacher/scholars to work alongside dedicated faculty in a highly collegial, interdisciplinary environment. Our faculty members enjoy the rare opportunity to shape the college as it continues to grow into a cornerstone of higher education in Southern Nevada. Faculty in the Liberal Arts & Sciences work in a new, state-of-the-art facility on our developing 500-acre campus that features "smart" classrooms, cutting edge biotechnology labs, and a world-class Finance Center. Our academic faculty members combine rigorous academic preparation from top doctoral programs with a dedication to new and exemplary methods of instruction. Nevada State College invites applications for a tenure track Assistant Professor in the Digital Humanities to begin fall 2012 (required: a Ph.D. in a Humanities or Social Science-related field such as Film Studies, English, or Communication by August 2012). The preferred candidate will be a humanities-based scholar able to teach courses in both media studies and media production, focusing on topics in visual arts, visual culture, and digital technology. Minimum Qualifications: 1) A Ph.D. in a Humanities, Social Sciences, or related field such as Communications, English, Film Studies, Cultural Studies, or Information Science. Highly competitive candidates who are A.B.D. also may be considered (note: degree requirements must be completed prior to the start date of Aug. 15, 2012). 2) Evidence of teaching excellence at the college/university level. 3) Ability to teach a variety of courses in fields such as Visual Media, Communications, Film Studies, History, and/or English. 4) Facility to teach courses in Media Production (e.g., film production, graphic design, or web design). 5) A demonstrated track record of effectively incorporating technology in the classroom. 6) Ability to help develop the Visual Media program as well as the School of Liberal Arts & Sciences. 7) Evidence of scholarly potential and/or activity. For complete details regarding this position, please visit the academic jobs posting at https://nscjobs.com/applicants/Central?quickFind=50528. Review of applications begins October 2011 and will continue until the position is filled. Sincerely, Pete La Chapelle Chair, Humanities Nevada State College _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 21 06:56:32 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D1E81BB01B; Wed, 21 Sep 2011 06:56:32 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 5726B1BB00D; Wed, 21 Sep 2011 06:56:31 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110921065631.5726B1BB00D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 06:56:31 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.308 disappearance of the digital? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 308. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 09:09:27 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: disappearance? This is in response to Bob Ansler's posting in Humanist 25.302 contrasting "digital humanities" and, say, "digital engineering", and from that contrast drawing the conclusion that the former label marks a moment of self-awareness. He concludes by saying that, > Ironically 'digital humanities' as a label means the 'digital' is hereafter to be > assumed as part of the humanities and as such the non-digital > humanities will be the historic past of the discipline. I am reminded of an argument Brian Cantwell Smith made some years ago, that paying attention to the digital means by which something is done or produced is not important any longer, except perhaps for a small minority of specialists. The analogy he drew, as I recall (Brian's less formal publications are typically difficult to trace), was to music as it is recorded and played back -- digitally, but who cares? Let me propose for further discussion the following: that in the modelling of cultural artefacts for analytical purposes, the fact that these artefacts are represented digitally remains central to the scholarship, since it is in the comparison of results from digital representation and processing that new things arise. But in simulating these artefacts, the fact that they are represented digitally is irrelevant. And that is why modelling (participial, not nominal) is central to the digital humanities as a field of its own. Simulating is an activity that, as far as I know, we're still not terribly familiar with, and for which we need alliance with the artists and the people in AI. But that's another topic for another time, I think. Comments? Yours, WM -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Sep 22 06:57:43 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 773C11C0C95; Thu, 22 Sep 2011 06:57:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 62E541C0C1B; Thu, 22 Sep 2011 06:57:41 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110922065741.62E541C0C1B@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 06:57:41 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.309 disappearance of the digital X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 309. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Bod, Rens" (63) Subject: RE: [Humanist] 25.308 disappearance of the digital? [2] From: Stephen Woodruff (9) Subject: RE: [Humanist] 25.308 disappearance of the digital? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 12:56:23 +0000 From: "Bod, Rens" Subject: RE: [Humanist] 25.308 disappearance of the digital? In-Reply-To: <20110921065631.5726B1BB00D@woodward.joyent.us> Dear all, If, as Williard McCarty writes, "modelling (participial, not nominal) is central to the digital humanities as a field of its own", why then don't we refer to the field as "computational humanities" rather than "digital humanities". Of course, the computational (modelling) cannot exist without the digital, but as an academic discipline it doesn't feel good to focus (just) on the digital -- it's the computational! I have always felt somewhat uncomfortable with the label "digital humanities". How do other humanists feel about this? Best, Rens -- Prof dr Rens Bod, VICI Laureate Chair of Computational Humanities Institute for Logic, Language and Computation, University of Amsterdam Visiting Address: Science Park 904, 1098 XH Amsterdam, NL Postal Address: P.O. Box 94242, 1090 GE Amsterdam, NL phone: +31 20 5256086 or +31 20 5256051 http://staff.science.uva.nl/~rens/ http://devergetenwetenschappen.blogspot.com/ ________________________________________ Van: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org [humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org] namens Humanist Discussion Group [willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk] Verzonden: woensdag 21 september 2011 8:56 Aan: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Onderwerp: [Humanist] 25.308 disappearance of the digital? Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 308. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 09:09:27 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: disappearance? This is in response to Bob Ansler's posting in Humanist 25.302 contrasting "digital humanities" and, say, "digital engineering", and from that contrast drawing the conclusion that the former label marks a moment of self-awareness. He concludes by saying that, > Ironically 'digital humanities' as a label means the 'digital' is hereafter to be > assumed as part of the humanities and as such the non-digital > humanities will be the historic past of the discipline. I am reminded of an argument Brian Cantwell Smith made some years ago, that paying attention to the digital means by which something is done or produced is not important any longer, except perhaps for a small minority of specialists. The analogy he drew, as I recall (Brian's less formal publications are typically difficult to trace), was to music as it is recorded and played back -- digitally, but who cares? Let me propose for further discussion the following: that in the modelling of cultural artefacts for analytical purposes, the fact that these artefacts are represented digitally remains central to the scholarship, since it is in the comparison of results from digital representation and processing that new things arise. But in simulating these artefacts, the fact that they are represented digitally is irrelevant. And that is why modelling (participial, not nominal) is central to the digital humanities as a field of its own. Simulating is an activity that, as far as I know, we're still not terribly familiar with, and for which we need alliance with the artists and the people in AI. But that's another topic for another time, I think. Comments? Yours, WM -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 17:06:39 +0100 From: Stephen Woodruff Subject: RE: [Humanist] 25.308 disappearance of the digital? In-Reply-To: <20110921065631.5726B1BB00D@woodward.joyent.us> Digitisation is abstraction. When we mean a third we try to say a third rather than 0.333, because 0.333 is less accurate than we MIGHT need. But we are used to fractions and decimals and raise an eyebrow at 0.333 and check the source. My computer tells me the time is 16.29 which is more accurate than I need right now, Queen Elizabeth I was born in 1533AD and Bolt ran the 100 metres in 9.572 seconds. In looking up that last figure I found Wikipedia saying "Justin Gatlin was briefly credited with a new world record time of 9.76. The IAAF announced five days later that the official timers, Tissot Timing, had discovered that time was incorrect as Gatlin's time was 9.766 and had erroneously been rounded down to the nearest hundredth instead of rounded up." All recordings are abstractions. > the fact that they are represented digitally is irrelevant. I disagree. We forget at our peril that someone or some machine decided how much to throw away when making the abstraction we call digitisation. Was it unimportant? To whom? You can't see the blackfly in my holiday photos. Gone forever. 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 Thu Sep 22 06:58:42 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 518711C0E49; Thu, 22 Sep 2011 06:58:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D3AFD1C0DFF; Thu, 22 Sep 2011 06:58:40 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110922065840.D3AFD1C0DFF@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 06:58:40 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.310 jobs at UCL, Brown X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 310. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Ashton, Andrew" (52) Subject: Job available at Brown University Library [2] From: Claire Warwick (27) Subject: Chair in DH and engineering at UCL --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 08:44:34 -0400 From: "Ashton, Andrew" Subject: Job available at Brown University Library The Brown University Library seeks an energetic and innovative individual for the position of Digital Repository Manager. The Brown Digital Repository (BDR) supports digital scholarship at Brown by providing a platform to use, publish, and curate data and digital collections across the disciplines. The primary responsibility of the Digital Repository Manager is to act as the technical lead for the Brown Digital Repository. The Digital Repository Manger supervises the Digital Repository Programmer and manages projects to create and publish digital collections of scholarly data. S/he collaborates with colleagues across the University in designing applications to retrieve and manipulate collections, and works to establish workflows that ensure the timely and efficient delivery of repository services. The incumbent works with librarians in the Scholarly Resources group to establish data curation and management practices in support of research, and with colleagues in the Library’s Center for Digital Scholarship to explore and implement new technologies that enable scholars to interact more effectively with digital materials. Additionally, the Digital Repository Manager will ensure that the documentation and web presence for repository services are kept current, and will work with stakeholders across campus to enact best practices for data formatting and storage. S/he is expected to maintain a keen awareness of trends in institutional repositories, and to pursue opportunities for enhancing repository services through the adoption of new technologies, linked data practices, funded projects, and partnerships. Qualifications: · Bachelor’s Degree. Advanced degree in library/information science, data curation, computer science, or related fields preferred. · Experience of 3-5 years in the developing and implementing complex web applications using MVC frameworks such as Django or Rails. · Demonstrated experience with digital repositories and related software, including Fedora and Solr. · Knowledge of Java or Python. · Demonstrated experience with Unix or Linux server platforms, related software, and basic system administration utilities. · Demonstrated understanding of digital library standards (METS, MODS, etc.), data standards (TEI, media formats, etc.) and RDF. · Familiarity with best practices, standards, and trends in the application of technology in libraries. · Ability to thrive in an environment of change and to foster that capacity in others. · Excellent communication, interpersonal, and organizational skills. · Ability to learn new technical skills quickly; ability to meet deadlines; strong service-orientation To apply for this position (Job #B01351 (B zero 1351)), please visit Brown’s Online Employment website (https://careers.brown.edu), complete an application online, attach documents, and submit for immediate consideration. Documents should include cover letter, resume, and the names and e-mail addresses of three references. Review of applications will continue until the position is filled.. Brown University is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer. -- Andrew Ashton Director of Digital Technologies Brown University Library --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 16:22:33 +0100 From: Claire Warwick Subject: Chair in DH and engineering at UCL UCL invites applications for a Professor of Digital Humanities. (This is equivalent to a North American Full Professorship) This is a joint appointment, tenable in any of the Departments of the Faculties of Engineering Sciences or Arts & Humanities, which will have as its principal focus activity within the interdisciplinary UCL Centre for Digital Humanities. This role will be specifically required to make substantive technical contributions to the development of digital humanities arising from an engagement in fundamental research in engineering (including imaging and computer science). The appointee should be willing to engage actively with the work of the UCL Centre for Digital Humanities, including undertaking leadership roles. Further information can be found at http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/ADG253/chair-of-digital-humanities/ If you would like to talk to me informally, please do email. It's important to note that this job is very much focused on Computer Science and engineering applications of DH so it's probably not appropriate for the kind of traditional DH person, such as myself, whose background is as a humanities scholar, unless they have subsequently morphed into a computer scientist or engineer. Hard core engineers are very much welcome though! Best wishes, Claire -- Professor Claire Warwick MA, MPhil, PhD Director: UCL Centre for Digital Humanities University College London _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Sep 22 06:59:34 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3BDA1C0F97; Thu, 22 Sep 2011 06:59:33 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 753DF1C0E7A; Thu, 22 Sep 2011 06:59:31 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110922065931.753DF1C0E7A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 06:59:31 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.311 events: THATCamp Lausanne; sustainability at UCL X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 311. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Enrico Natale (56) Subject: THATCamp Switzerland, 11-12 novembre 2011, Uni. Lausanne [2] From: Andrew Prescott (10) Subject: Guest lectures on sustainable heritage --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 17:24:53 +0200 From: Enrico Natale Subject: THATCamp Switzerland, 11-12 novembre 2011, Uni. Lausanne We are pleased to announce the following event: THATCamp Switzerland / The Humanities and Technology Camp / Université de Lausanne, Switzerland, 11-12 novembre 2011 THATCamp Switzerland is an unconference about Digital Humanities. It is an open, transdisciplinary event, based on the active collaboration of all its participants. THATCamp Switzerland is organized by infoclio.ch, hist.net, Histoire et Informatique in cooperation with the University of Lausanne and other institutions. As in any THATCamp, the program is not scheduled in advance, but is crowd-sourced to the participants during the event. Everyone has a chance to contribute with ideas and proposals. Work languages are French, German and English. Everyone with genuine interest in Digital Humanities is welcome. Registration is open till November 4th, within the limit of available places. Participation fees amount to 30 CHF, including coffee, lunch breaks, and Friday night social evening. Fees are due on the first conference day. Conference website: http://switzerland2011.thatcamp.org/ Programme: Friday November 11, 2011 10h00-10h45 Registration 10h45-11h00 Opening Speeches: Philippe Moreillon (Vice-dean Unil), Organisers (infoclio.ch, Association Histoire et Informatique, Hist.net ) 11h00-12h00 Conference by Willard McCarty (King's College London) 12h00-12h30 What is a THATCamp by Mills Kelly (CHNM) 12h30-13h30 Pause 13h30-15h00 Bootcamp session 1: Bibliographical Managment Software (Lit-Link); Introduction to Digital Information Litteracy (Bookmarking, Blogs, RSS Feeds, mailing lists); Swiss Digital Historical Landscape; Open bootcamp session 15h00-15h30 Pause 15h30-17h00 Bootcamp session 2 Bibliographical Management Software (Zotero); Individual Digital Preservation (Mails and Pictures); Social Media for Scientific Research (Social Bookmarking, Twitter, Facebook); Emulators 17h15-18h45 THATCamp organisation plenary session 19h30-22h00 Social evening (Hôtel de la Paix) Saturday November 12, 2011 09h00-10h30 Sessions THATCamp 1-4 11h00-12h30 Sessions THATCamp 5-8 14h00-15h30 Sessions THATCamp 9-12 16h00-17h30 Sessions THATCamp 13-16 Enrico Natale Infoclio.ch Hirschengraben 11 Postfach 6811 3001 Bern Tel: +41 31 311 75 72 enrico.natale@infoclio.ch --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 15:59:08 +0100 From: Andrew Prescott Subject: Guest lectures on sustainable heritage The following be of interest to Humanist subscribers: Guest Lectures Centre for Sustainable Heritage, University College London http://www.ucl.ac.uk/sustainableheritage/guest_lectures.htm Professor Andrew Prescott Department of Digital Humanities King's College London 28-29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Sep 23 06:32:54 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id D848919C3AF; Fri, 23 Sep 2011 06:32:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 7539919C399; Fri, 23 Sep 2011 06:32:53 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110923063253.7539919C399@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 06:32:53 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.312 response on "digital" & thanks X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 312. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Mark Winokur (74) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.308 disappearance of the digital? [2] From: Mark Winokur (55) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.269 interdisciplinary colllaboration [3] From: Mark Winokur (121) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.267 connections & collaboration: humanities& sciences? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 10:23:13 -0600 From: Mark Winokur Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.308 disappearance of the digital? In-Reply-To: <20110921065631.5726B1BB00D@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Bob and Willard and All: I don't believe that the term modifier "digital" describes complete range of interests in our field. One example is certainly "computational thinking": computation can be said to precede the digital (we might assign its origin to the Enlightenment, for example, rather than to post-WWII innovation). Other exceptions that don't quite fit under the rubric of "digital" are quantum computing -- which will probably have as great an effect on the Humanities as digital computing -- the "bio" of bio-engineering, neurobiology, and so one, all of which are replacing more traditional models (like for example psychoanalysis) of thinking about the relationship between the body or the mind to the Humanities (e.g.: psychoanalysis). The solution to the problem of finding a comprehensive rubric was faced in the early nineteen-nineties (or a bit earlier), when Humanities scholars began to apply various of the lessons of sociology and critical theory to the practice of historical criticism. There were a thousand methods and a thousand objects of study. The rubric that eventually won was extremely vague: "cultural studies." It's advantage was that no one knew exactly what it meant, so it ended up covering a variety of sins. Perhaps the same strategy ought to apply for us. Again, "digital Humanities" is not really comprehensive. But I wonder whether even computational Humanities fits the bill as well. While digital tends to describe a unitary object of study, computational tends to describe a single method. (I know I'm reducing like crazy here.) So my question is: what would be a term that, like "cultural studies," would walk the very fine line between descriptive an vague? Best, Mark On 9/21/2011 12:56 AM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 308. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 09:09:27 +0100 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: disappearance? > > > This is in response to Bob Ansler's posting in Humanist 25.302 > contrasting "digital humanities" and, say, "digital engineering", and > from that contrast drawing the conclusion that the former label marks a > moment of self-awareness. He concludes by saying that, > >> Ironically 'digital humanities' as a label means the 'digital' is hereafter to be >> assumed as part of the humanities and as such the non-digital >> humanities will be the historic past of the discipline. > I am reminded of an argument Brian Cantwell Smith made some years ago, > that paying attention to the digital means by which something is done or > produced is not important any longer, except perhaps for a small > minority of specialists. The analogy he drew, as I recall (Brian's less > formal publications are typically difficult to trace), was to music as > it is recorded and played back -- digitally, but who cares? > > Let me propose for further discussion the following: that in the > modelling of cultural artefacts for analytical purposes, the fact > that these artefacts are represented digitally remains central to > the scholarship, since it is in the comparison of results from > digital representation and processing that new things arise. > But in simulating these artefacts, the fact that they are > represented digitally is irrelevant. And that is why > modelling (participial, not nominal) is central to the digital > humanities as a field of its own. Simulating is an activity > that, as far as I know, we're still not terribly familiar with, and for > which we need alliance with the artists and the people in AI. But > that's another topic for another time, I think. > > Comments? > > Yours, > WM > --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 10:26:26 -0600 From: Mark Winokur Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.269 interdisciplinary colllaboration In-Reply-To: <20110907052437.49E0D1AD646@woodward.joyent.us> Hi, Anna: A belated thank you for the references; they look terrifically on point,. Best, Mark On 9/6/2011 11:24 PM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 269. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2011 10:40:19 +0100 > From: Anna Jordanous > Subject: interdisciplinary collaboration > In-Reply-To:<20110906053631.AD31D1ABC9F@woodward.joyent.us> > > Hi Mark, for point [2] there is an interesting series of conferences > (the most recent of which has just taken place): Conference on > Interdisciplinary Musicology (CIM). These conferences require each paper > to have two or more co-authors, each from a different discipline. More > details at http://www.uni-graz.at/~parncutt/cim/index2.htm > > anna > > On 06/09/2011 06:36, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: >> Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 267. >> Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London >> www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist >> Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org >> >> >> >> Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2011 12:04:27 -0600 >> From: Mark Winokur >> Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.259 discovery of a language >> In-Reply-To:<20110903065106.837271A992E@woodward.joyent.us> >> >> >> Hi, All: >> >> These questions have probably been treated endlessly, but I haven't >> seen them at least since I joined the discussion: >> >> 1. What are some interesting texts for discussing scholarly >> interdisciplinarity (rather than pedagogy), especially between the >> Humanities and Computer Science? >> >> 2. What, in your opinion, are the most interesting contemporary examples >> (within the last five years) of scholarly digital collaboration between >> the two cultures: Humanities and Science and/or Engineering? >> >> Best, >> >> Mark --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 10:28:11 -0600 From: Mark Winokur Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.267 connections & collaboration: humanities& sciences? In-Reply-To: <20110906053631.AD31D1ABC9F@woodward.joyent.us> Thanks for the response, which goes far beyond my question and which I will probably steal for one of my classes. Best, Mark On 9/5/2011 11:36 PM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 267. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2011 12:04:27 -0600 > From: Mark Winokur > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.259 discovery of a language > In-Reply-To:<20110903065106.837271A992E@woodward.joyent.us> > > > Hi, All: > > These questions have probably been treated endlessly, but I haven't > seen them at least since I joined the discussion: > > 1. What are some interesting texts for discussing scholarly > interdisciplinarity (rather than pedagogy), especially between the > Humanities and Computer Science? > > 2. What, in your opinion, are the most interesting contemporary examples > (within the last five years) of scholarly digital collaboration between > the two cultures: Humanities and Science and/or Engineering? > > Best, > > Mark > > On 9/3/2011 12:51 AM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: >> Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 259. >> Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London >> www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist >> Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org >> >> >> >> Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2011 20:56:19 -0500 >> From: amsler@cs.utexas.edu >> Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.255 discovery of a language? >> In-Reply-To:<20110901051427.5A15A19FE75@woodward.joyent.us> >> >> >> Marvin Minsky was, I believe, the person to first advocate that >> artificial intelligence researchers need not be trying to implement >> computer models of psychological theories, but instead, should be >> telling psychologists how cognitive processes could work. The >> reasoning was much the same that led George Miller to his observation. >> A scientific 'theory' in psychology was up until that point based upon >> experimental evidence gathered by testing human beings or animals. It >> was limited because biological systems are very complex and hard to >> tease apart their operational principles. Computer programs, on the >> other hand, are vastly simpler and completely constructed from steps >> we understand. We can vary EVERYTHING about how a program works. The >> timing, the delays, the magnitude of a response, what it changes, what >> inputs are observed, how much they change things, etc. The magnitude >> of this capability to 'design' a 'mental ability' as though it was >> just a collection of LOGO blocks was irresistible to those who could >> master it. For the first time one could not only run experiments on >> one's subjects; but one could actually build one's subject's minds on >> which to experiment. >> >> Was it valid to dismiss traditional psychology? Didn't we lose the >> real world when artificial constructs were created and we ran >> experiments on them? I most emphatically say we did not. Not any more >> than we had deluded ourselves into thnking we 'understood' the >> biological brain because experiments were thought to explain how it >> actually worked. After all, all an experiment provides is evidence >> waiting to be disproved in whole or part by another subsequent more >> subtle experiment. Psychology's past is a cratered battlefield with >> disproved theories whose advocates were sure they had at last >> understood how biological brains worked. The record of success is >> hardly sufficient to claim that other methodologies aren't valid. >> (Aviation is a example often cited as evidence that man's effort to >> understand how to build flying machines based on flapping wings or the >> use of feathers wasn't exactly the path to success). >> >> So. What does this all portend for the digital humanities. Well, for >> one, it does mean that the path to duplicating the ability of humanist >> critics may be open. If a program can be written to predict the >> appreciation of literature by human readers it may tell us something >> about the value of works few have yet read. How interesting would it >> be, for example, to have a program that without any prompting, could >> be fed the literary works of the past and would provide as output an >> assessment of their merits as contributing to knowledge and >> literature. Tuning it until its outputs matched history would be >> enlightening. >> >> What programming languages can do is allow the precise determination >> of how much of what we appreciate in text can be determined from >> discrete measurable properties of text. Computer programs, being >> without subjective decision-making ability, may finally be able answer >> questions such as how much each of the factors in literature affect >> the outcome. Lexical and grammatical choices can be ruled in or out by >> designing programs that consider them or do not. >> >> Is 'inspiring' text quantifiable? Can the pivotal literary events that >> changed the world be predicted from the past's books? Can we make >> similar predictions about contemporary or future works that haven't >> yet changed the world? Are scientific revolutions based on the ideas >> in seminal works or on their author's literary skills in presenting >> those ideas; or both? Can we create clever monkeys using typewriters >> to actually write literature indistinguishable from human author's >> works (or has that already been done pseudonymously and we just don't >> know that Author X is a machine :-) (Sorry about that last one...) >> >> I should note that I'm a computational linguist (Actually a >> 'computational lexicologist'), though I've also dabbled in fields such >> as citation analysis; and am not a psychologist nor a literary >> scholar; so my perceptions are those of an outsider to those fields. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 23 06:34:09 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BB3819C556; Fri, 23 Sep 2011 06:34:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D5DB319C54E; Fri, 23 Sep 2011 06:34:07 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110923063407.D5DB319C54E@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 06:34:07 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.313 H. P. Luhn's surprising algorithm X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 313. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 18:07:22 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: H. P. Luhn's surprising algorithm Some here will know that Hans Peter Luhn (1896-1964) was the inventor of the keywords-in-context (KWIC) concordance format, for which see his "Keyword-in-Context Format for Technical Literature (KWIC Index)", in Readings in Automatic Language Processing, ed. David G. Hays (New York: American Elsevier, 1966). It was originally given as a paper for the Division of Chemical Literature at the 136th Meeting of the American Chemical Society, released as ASDD Report RC-127, August 31, 1959. So much for what everyone could be expected to know. The surprising item, however, is his invention of the algorithm used to arrive at the proper check digit for credit-card numbers, called the Luhn algorithm in his honour. He was awarded US Patent 2950048 ("Computer for Verifying Numbers") for the technique in 1960. It is described succinctly in Phrack 47, http://medialab.freaknet.org/~alpt/tutorial/HackingFAQ/HackingFAQ4.htm, as follows: > 02. How do I determine if I have a valid credit card number? > > Credit cards use the Luhn Check Digit Algorithm. The main purpose of > this algorithm is to catch data entry errors, but it does double duty > here as a weak security tool. > > For a card with an even number of digits, double every odd numbered > digit and subtract 9 if the product is greater than 9. Add up all the > even digits as well as the doubled-odd digits, and the result must be > a multiple of 10 or it's not a valid card. If the card has an odd > number of digits, perform the same addition doubling the even numbered > digits instead. Think of that the next time you run an interactive concordance program! Yours, WM -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Sep 23 06:35:02 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1743419C674; Fri, 23 Sep 2011 06:35:02 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 5C00A19C5FC; Fri, 23 Sep 2011 06:35:00 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110923063500.5C00A19C5FC@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 06:35:00 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.314 words in time? 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Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 16:01:40 +0200 From: maurizio lana Subject: distribution of words in time dear humanists, i would like to ask for your help about "words and time". i have a texts collection where every text has (among other) a simple tag in CoCoA style for the date. i would like to be able to search for words, and then to get a timeline, showing the use and distribution of that word, based on the date tag. any idea? i would like to discover with your help a tool able to do that without need for programming; and possibly a tool working also in batch as i'd like to use it in an exploratory way: passing to it a big amount of words, and then seeing if there are interesting words which appear and disappear in time flow. with many thanks to everyone maurizio -- La Repubblica promuove lo sviluppo della cultura e la ricerca scientifica e tecnica. La Repubblica detta le norme generali sull'istruzione ed istituisce scuole statali per tutti gli ordini e gradi. (Costituzione della Repubblica Italiana, art. 9 e 33) ------- il mio corso di informatica umanistica: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85JsyJw2zuw ------- Maurizio Lana - ricercatore Università del Piemonte Orientale, Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici, via Manzoni 8, 13100 Vercelli - tel. +39 347 7370925 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Sep 23 06:37:44 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id D914C19C7B3; Fri, 23 Sep 2011 06:37:44 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E8BF119C79E; Fri, 23 Sep 2011 06:37:42 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110923063742.E8BF119C79E@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 06:37:42 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.315 events: qualitative methods; preservation of software art; digital history; complexity X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 315. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Leonidas Konstantelos (43) Subject: Reminder: POCOS Symposium on Preservation of Software Art [2] From: John Levin (19) Subject: Digital History seminars at Senate House, London [3] From: Hanne Andersen (21) Subject: [SPSP] Workshop on Empirical Philosophy of Science: QualitativeMethods [4] From: "Youngman, Paul" (68) Subject: CFP: Complexity and the Human Experience --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 09:36:53 +0100 From: Leonidas Konstantelos Subject: Reminder: POCOS Symposium on Preservation of Software Art *** Apologies for crossposting *** Preservation Of Complex Objects Symposia (POCOS) We are pleased to announce the 2nd POCOS Symposium on Preservation of Software Art: • 11-12 October 2011 • The Lighthouse, Glasgow, UK • Organised by the Humanities Advanced Technology& Information Institute (HATII) at the University of Glasgow, UK. • Symposium Fee: Free + £10 donation for refreshments (payable at the event) Online registration:http://www.pocos.org/index.php/registration Preservation of software art presents challenges in many fronts, including complex interdependencies between objects; time-based and interactive properties; and diversity in the technologies and practices used for development. This exciting two-day symposium will provide a forum for participants to discuss these challenges, review and debate the latest developments in the field, witness real-life case studies, and engage in networking activities. The symposium will promote discussion on such topics as: • Implications and advances in preserving software art • Issues of ephemerality • Significant properties for software art • Software art as performance • Legal and Ethical issues in collecting, curating and preserving software art • Interpretation and Documentation Keynote Speakers: • Richard Rinehart - Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University, USA • Simon Biggs - Edinburgh College of Art, UK Presenters include: • Vicky Isley and Paul Smith - boredomresearch / NCCA, Bournemouth University, UK • Michael Takeo Magruder - King's Visualisation Lab, King's College London, UK • Perla Innocenti - History of Art, University of Glasgow, UK • Leo Konstantelos - HATII, University of Glasgow, UK The programme also includes break-out sessions for participants to discuss key topics in preservation of Software Art. For more information, please visit the POCOS page at:http://www.pocos.org/index.php/pocos-symposia/software-art Download the brochure at:http://pocos.org/images/pub_material/leaflet_software_art.pdf Bookings are now open at the project website – however, space is limited so please book early. A waiting list will be maintained once the symposium is fully booked in case of late cancellations. We look forward to welcoming you at the event! Preservation Of Complex Objects Symposia (POCOS) has been funded by the JISC Information Environment Programme 2009-11 -- Dr Leo Konstantelos Principal Investigator, POCOS http://www.pocos.org 11 University Gardens University of Glasgow Glasgow G12 8QH Skype: l.konstantelos T: +44 (0)141 330 7133 E: L.Konstantelos@hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk W: http://www.hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 10:47:50 +0100 From: John Levin Subject: Digital History seminars at Senate House, London Dear Humanists, The program for the digital history seminar series at Senate House is now online: http://www.history.ac.uk/events/seminars/321 1 November: Matt Thompson (York) 'From Which to Taste a Vicarious Holiday'; railway marketing, digital history and collaboration 15 November: David Thomas and Valerie Johnson (TNA) Does Digital Change Anything? 6 December: Peter Rauxloh (Museum of London Archaeology) Digital landscapes and Archaeology (NB: I'm not involved in the organization of these seminars, just a happy attendee) John -- John Levin http://www.anterotesis.com johnlevin@joindiaspora.com http://twitter.com/anterotesis --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 13:39:08 +0100 From: Hanne Andersen Subject: [SPSP] Workshop on Empirical Philosophy of Science: QualitativeMethods *** Attachments: *Call for papers* for a Workshop on *Empirical Philosophy of Science - Qualitative Methods* March 21-23, 2012 in Sandbjerg (Denmark) Keynote Speakers: Nancy Nersessian, Georgia Institute of Technology Lisa Osbeck, University of West Georgia Erika Mansnerus, London School of Economics Hauke Riesch, Imperial College London Organizers: Hanne Andersen, Aarhus University Susann Wagenknecht, Aarhus University The workshop seeks to explore the benefits and challenges of an empirical philosophy of science: What do philosophers gain from empirical work? How can empirical research help to develop philosophical concepts? How do we integrate philosophical frameworks and empirical research? What constraints do we accept when choosing an empirical approach? What constraints does a pronounced theoretical focus impose on empirical work? Qualitative methods such as interviewing, fieldwork and qualitative text analysis gain increasingly appeal among philosophers of science. More and more scholars in philosophy resort to empirical work in order to study scientific practice. At the same time, the results produced through empirical work are very different from those gained through the kind of introspective conceptual analysis more typical of philosophy. Empirical work based on qualitative methods has a long and rich research tradition rooted in the social sciences. The use of qualitative methods in philosophy of science therefore also brings philosophers in close contact with philosophically inclined social scientists studying science. This workshop will provide participants with the opportunity to explore some of the methodological, conceptual and practical challenges of conducting qualitative empirical work with philosophy of science. The discussion will focus on recently accomplished or ongoing research projects, and will address questions concerning the quality of empirical work and its explanatory power and theoretical significance for philosophy of science. In order to ensure a comprehensive discussion we invite papers both from scholars in philosophy and the social sciences who study scientific practice with the help of empirical methods. Of particular interest are submissions that introduce examples of empirical work in philosophy of science, discuss first-hand experiences with qualitative methods and/or provide reflections upon the scope of an empirical philosophy of science. To apply: Proposals for papers (in either Word or pdf format) should include title, an abstract of ~800 words as well as the participant’s name, e-mail, phone and institutional affiliation. Deadline for the submission of abstracts: November 15, 2011. Decisions will be announced by December 1, 2011. Please send submissions to: Susann Wagenknecht, Centre for Science Studies, Aarhus University / su.wagen@ivs.au.dk The all-inclusive conference fee (415 Euro) will cover accommodation and food at Sandbjerg Estate for March 21-23, 2012. An additional night’s accommodation and breakfast can be booked for 118 Euro per person. PhD students can apply for a 50% reduction. Please contact Susann Wagenknecht regarding availability. Travel details and further information can be found at: http://ivs.au.dk/forskning/projects/philosophyofcontemporaryscienceinpractice/workshopsandconferences/ --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 17:11:30 +0000 From: "Youngman, Paul" Subject: CFP: Complexity and the Human Experience Human Complexity 2012 The First Annual Conference on Complexity and Human Experience Modeling Complexity in the Humanities and Social Sciences May 30th – June 1st, 2012 The University of North Carolina, Charlotte The recent increase in the number of formal institutes and conferences dedicated to complexity theory and its application is evidence that complexity science has arrived and is realizing its potential to cut across almost every academic discipline. Research projects centered on complex adaptive systems in the natural (physics, chemistry, biology, etc.) and social sciences (economics, political science, anthropology, sociology, psychology, etc.), along with novel applications in engineering, computer science, robotics, and, more recently, the arts and the humanities (archaeology, art history, history, literature, philosophy, performance art, religion, etc.), have already earned some recognition in the field of complexity science. In light of these developments, the Complex Systems Institute (http://www.complexity.uncc.edu http://www.complexity.uncc.edu/ ) and the Center for Advanced Research in the Humanities at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte (UNC Charlotte) will inaugurate an annual conference series, beginning in 2012, dedicated to complexity with particular application to understanding the intricacies of human experience across all domains. The goal of the series is to provide a trans-disciplinary venue for scholars from the humanities and the social sciences, as well as some aspects of the natural sciences (such as neuroscience, pharmacology, etc.). Since matters of life and death pertain to human experience in profound and important ways, the conference hopes to attract representatives from the allied health sciences as well. The conference series will be dedicated to a particular topic each year. The initial 2012 conference will be based on an Institute for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities (IATDH) sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the UNC Charlotte Complex Systems Institute this past year that was dedicated to computer modeling in the humanities and social sciences. In keeping with the theme of the IATDH, the topic for our first conference will be: Modeling Complexity in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Submissions are invited on any specific topic that falls within the parameters described above. Sample topics include, but are not limited to, studies on: * The development and transmission of language * The propagation of beliefs, ideas and ideologies * The nature of historical and political change * The analysis of literary texts and their circulation * The effect of individual action on global economies * Social structure among pre-historic peoples * Archaeological settlement patterns in early cities * The role of architecture in facilitating public traffic patterns * The relationship between productivity, creativity, and happiness * Elements and measures of creativity * Discovery of early trends and indicators of social and economic change * The role of science and technology in enhancing human experience * Defining and measuring indicators of the quality of human experience * The relationship between organizational/societal structure and the flow of energy and information * Defining utility and efficacy in the context of human experience * Simulation and modeling tools and paradigms * Verification and validation of models and simulated systems * The relationship between healthcare providers, patients, Internet, and social media * Defining ontologies in the context of modeling and simulation * Languages and tools fro promoting trans- and inter-disciplinary collaboration * Human-technology interaction * Data-driven wellness initiatives Submissions should be in the form of 5000-word papers, each of which will be reviewed by the program committee. The committee is particularly interested in papers that show novel applications of Complexity Theory to enhance research in the areas here specified. Thus, preliminary work in progress or plans for a research program are welcomed and encouraged. Submission details will be posted to the conference website at https://sites.google.com/site/humancomplexity2012/ in due time. This conference is dedicated to the work of Alan Turing (1912-1954) as part of the 2012 Alan Turing Year (http://www.turingcentenary.eu/), a series of events to commemorate Turing's life and work. We do so here by examining computing applications and complexity in the humanities and social sciences that allow us to discover, create and make connections in ways that would not be possible were it not for Turing's seminal work. The conference will begin with a presentation on the life and times of the man who provided the theory that made the modern computer possible. Human Complexity 2012 is sponsored in part by the International Association for Computing and Philosophy (http://iacap.org http://iacap.org/ ). Submission Deadline: January 2nd, 2012 (Firm) Decision Date: February 1st Final Program: March 1st Conference Chairs (in alphabetical order): * Anthony Beavers (Director, Cognitive Science and the Digital Humanities Lab, University of Evansville) * Mirsad Hadzikadic (Director, The Complexity Institute, UNC Charlotte) * Paul Youngman (Director, Center for Advanced Research in the Humanities, UNC Charlotte) Organizing Committee: * Anthony Beavers (Director, Cognitive Science and the Digital Humanities Lab, University of Evansville) * Marvin Croy (Chair, Department of Philosophy, UNCC) * Patrick Grim (Professor of Philosophy, SUNY-Stony Brook) * Mirsad Hadzikadic (Director, The Complexity Institute, UNC Charlotte) * Paul Youngman (Director, Center for Advanced Research in the Humanities, UNC Charlotte) Program Committee (preliminary): * Anthony Beavers (University of Evansville) * Aaron Bramson (University of Michigan) * Ted Carmichael (UNC Charlotte) * Marvin Croy (UNC Charlotte) * Patrick Grim (SUNY-Stony Brook) * Mirsad Hadzikadic (UNC Charlotte) * Sonya Hardin (UNC Charlotte) * Nicolas Payette (Université du Québec à Montréal) * Dan Singer (University of Michigan) * Charles Turnitsa (Old Dominion University) * Paul Youngman (UNC Charlotte) -- Anthony F. Beavers, Ph.D. Professor of Philosophy Director of Cognitive Science and the Digital Humanities Laboratory The University of Evansville http://faculty.evansville.edu/tb2/ President, International Association for Computing and Philosophy http://ia-cap.org http://ia-cap.org/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Sep 24 07:48:48 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id E66E41CB1C4; Sat, 24 Sep 2011 07:48:47 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 2BE3F1CB170; Sat, 24 Sep 2011 07:48:46 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110924074846.2BE3F1CB170@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2011 07:48:46 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.316 words in time: programming X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 316. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 14:22:56 +0200 From: Thomas Crombez Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.314 words in time? In-Reply-To: <20110923063500.5C00A19C5FC@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Maurizio, it's a pity you write that you would like a tool for this "without need for programming", since it is such a simple programming job. To be fair, I don't know if there is a tool available & there very well might be. But if you are willing to pick up just a very small bit of programming this could be solved in a matter of hours. Have a look at the wonderful e-book 'The Programming Historian' by William Turkel and Alan MacEachern (http://niche-canada.org/member-projects/programming-historian/ch1.html). It is a basic introduction to a very accessible and readable programming language (Python), and it focuses specifically on problems like yours (reading and analyzing text from text files, making basic computations based on text). Best regards Thomas Crombez "L'historien du futur sera programmeur ou ne sera pas." (LeRoy Ladurie, 1968) On 23-sep-2011, at 08:35, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 314. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 16:01:40 +0200 > From: maurizio lana > Subject: distribution of words in time > > dear humanists, > i would like to ask for your help about "words and time". > i have a texts collection where every text has (among other) a simple > tag in CoCoA style for the date. > i would like to be able to search for words, and then to get a timeline, > showing the use and distribution of that word, based on the date tag. > any idea? > > i would like to discover with your help a tool able to do that without > need for programming; and possibly a tool working also in batch as i'd > like to use it in an exploratory way: passing to it a big amount of > words, and then seeing if there are interesting words which appear and > disappear in time flow. > with many thanks to everyone > maurizio > > -- > La Repubblica promuove lo sviluppo della cultura e la ricerca > scientifica e tecnica. > La Repubblica detta le norme generali sull'istruzione ed istituisce scuole statali per tutti gli ordini e gradi. > (Costituzione della Repubblica Italiana, art. 9 e 33) > ------- > il mio corso di informatica umanistica: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v3D85JsyJw2zuw > ------- > Maurizio Lana - ricercatore > UniversitE0 del Piemonte Orientale, FacoltE0 di Lettere e Filosofia > Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici, via Manzoni 8, 13100 Vercelli - tel. > +39 347 7370925 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Sep 24 07:50:59 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9ABB91CB3BC; Sat, 24 Sep 2011 07:50:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0A9951CB3AC; Sat, 24 Sep 2011 07:50:58 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110924075058.0A9951CB3AC@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2011 07:50:57 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.317 response on "digital" X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 317. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Richard Frank" (26) Subject: RE: [Humanist] 25.312 response on "digital" & thanks [2] From: James Rovira (10) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.312 response on "digital" & thanks --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 08:38:26 -0400 From: "Richard Frank" Subject: RE: [Humanist] 25.312 response on "digital" & thanks Further to Mark Winokur's mention of the vague but also mercifully broad descriptor of cultural studies, I think the discipline could probably be reasonably be called "Computer Assisted Cultural Studies". This unfortunately has the less than pleasing acronym CACS, so that will never fly :-) However in thinking further on this, I wonder if a good solution really isn't possible. Given the diverse nature of the research subjects standing under the umbrella of DH, I wonder if trying to devise a name based more on the methodology used, rather than the on the subject matter being researched, is doomed to failure from the start. After all what should matter is the WHAT not the HOW of your research. The tools you use really in the end are just tools. To use the best example I can think of now, both the people that bury bodies at cemeteries & those that excavate ditches at the side of the road can use shovels to do their jobs (now they both use heavy machinery, but humour me). No one thinks it necessary to have one title to cover both tasks just because they use the same tools. Why here? Cheers Rick Frank --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 10:53:44 -0400 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.312 response on "digital" & thanks Mark: Although the computational historically precedes the digital (Pythagoras?), including as applied to literary artefacts, the computational today is carried out in digital environments. For that matter, the work of bioengineering, neuropsychology, etc., is carried out in practice in digital environments. Everything uses a computer as an interface. Why not consider "Digital Humanities" to be a large umbrella term (yes, covering a variety of sins) and "Computational Humanities" a subset within it? Somewhat historically misleading, I agree, but I think apropos to current practice. 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 Sep 24 07:54:37 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 013DB1CB4DC; Sat, 24 Sep 2011 07:54:37 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1DF1E1CB4CD; Sat, 24 Sep 2011 07:54:35 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110924075435.1DF1E1CB4CD@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2011 07:54:35 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.318 new pubs: Stanford LitLab 3; Scholarly Publishing X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 318. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: UTP Journals (67) Subject: Now Available Online - Journal of Scholarly Publishing October 2011 [2] From: Ryan James Heuser (14) Subject: Dispatch from the Stanford Literary Lab: Announcing Pamphlet #3 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 19:24:36 +0100 From: UTP Journals Subject: Now Available Online - Journal of Scholarly Publishing October 2011 Now available at Journal of Scholarly Publishing Online Journal of Scholarly Publishing Volume 43, Number 1, October 2011 now available at http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/p2r53406n422/ This issue contains: University Press Forum 2011 Rebecca Ann Bartlett Choice's Compilation of Significant University Press Titles for Undergraduates, 2010–2011 Tom Radko What I've Learned about Revising a Dissertation James Mulholland The structural changes in higher education and scholarly publishing have raised new questions about the usefulness of the dissertation as precursor to scholarly publication. This essay reconsiders the process of turning a dissertation into a book manuscript. Recent manuals about dissertation writing like From Dissertation to Book and Revising Your Dissertation are helpful but often provide overly broad conceptualizations about how to assess a dissertation and revise it into a book. Likewise, academics tend to describe the revision process in conceptual terms by focusing on too impressionistic ways of distinguishing the difference between a dissertation and a book. In addition, they spend surprisingly little time discussing the methods and techniques of writing and revision that authors actually use. Drawing from my own recent experience as an example, I offer practical advice as well as theoretical reflections on the research and writing process by which dissertations can become book manuscripts. The Scholarly Book Review in the Humanities John W. East This article examines the status of the book review as a form of scholarly publication in the humanities, looking at the role and characteristics of humanities book reviews and at who writes them and why. It examines evidence for the influence and impact of book reviews in the humanities and makes suggestions for the future of the scholarly book review in an online information environment. Journal des Savants Claude H. Potts As more books, journals, and newspapers make the inevitable transition to the electronic format, academics get the sense that the only scholarly materials one really needs can be found in the digital realm. Through the imagined voice of the Journal des Savants—the world's oldest scholarly journal still active today—this article brings to the surface valid concerns about print scarcity, familiar terrain for not only Europeanists but for anyone who works in area studies. It objects to conventional metrics for determining scholarly value and reconfirms known perils of relying solely on the mass-digitization efforts of Google Books. Most importantly, the article questions an over-reliance on digital preservation repositories such as LOCKSS, CLOCKSS, Portico, and HathiTrust—key players in the so-called Cloud Library, or external network of trusted digital library collection and service providers. The push toward cloud-sourced collections comes at a time when research libraries are hastily embarking on ambitious cooperative regional initiatives to systematically de-duplicate their costly, problematic, redundant, and very much terrestrial print collections. Exploring How Library Publishing Services Facilitate Scholarly Communication Ji-Hong Park, Jiyoung Shim Scholarly publishing plays a critical role in promotion, tenure, scholarly recognition, and certification of research quality at academic institutions. Given the importance of scholarly publishing, several libraries have launched library publishing services to support formal and informal scholarly communication. Despite the growing popularity and the benefits of library publishing services, few studies have explored the relationship between library publishing services and scholarly communication. This study aims to identify and examine the factors of library publishing services that facilitate scholarly communication. Based on Roosendaal and Geurts's (1997) four functions of scholarly communication, this study analyses and categorizes the library publishing services of eight research university libraries in North America. The registration function is reflected in publishing, intellectual property, and licensing services. The archiving function is reflected in digitization and repository services. The certification function is reflected in expert review and research support services. The awareness function is reflected in knowledge-sharing-platform and search aid services. Appraising Internationality in Spanish Communication Journals David Fernández-Quijada This article explores how journals published in a language other than English achieve a degree of internationality and can increase our knowledge of scientific publication patterns. This author offers a case study focused on Spanish communication journals from a sample of 1182 articles published from 2007 to 2009. The article examines three variables in this sample: the number of non-Spanish scholars, the use of languages other than Spanish, and how often non-Spanish journals are referred to. The results show that (a) these journals find it difficult to attract foreign scholars, (b) open-language policies have had a limited effect, and (c) internationality is constrained to the Spanish geolinguistic region. Making the Journal Abstract More Concrete James Hartley This article describes how the author, when compiling sets of abstracts for psychology teachers, began to realize that such abstracts needed to be made more concrete if they were to be more helpful for their readers. Three examples are provided. Reviews Letter to the Editor Robert Hauptman posted by T Hawkins, UTP Journals --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 22:39:12 +0100 From: Ryan James Heuser Subject: Dispatch from the Stanford Literary Lab: Announcing Pamphlet #3 Dear Prof. McCarty, On behalf of the Stanford Literary Lab, I'm writing to let you know that we have just published our third pamphlet, entitled "Becoming Yourself: The Afterlife of Reception." Written by Ed Finn, a recent Stanford Ph.D. and now University Innovation Fellow at Arizona State University, the pamphlet studies the literary marketplace by analyzing networks of co-occurrence among books, both in professional reviews, and in recommendations culled from Amazon. With its empirical and material focus, Finn's essay throws fresh light on literary prestige and on the "afterlife" of books in popular consumption. [...] Sincerely, Ryan Heuser Lab Coordinator --- Pamphlets of the Literary Lab: http://litlab.stanford.edu/?page_id=255 Ed Finn's website: http://edfinn.net Stanford Literary Lab: http://litlab.stanford.edu/ "If there is one thing to be learned from David Foster Wallace, it is that cultural transmission is a tricky game. This was a problem Wallace confronted as a literary professional, a university-based writer during what Mark McGurl has called the Program Era. But it was also a philosophical issue he grappled with on a deep level as he struggled to combat his own loneliness through writing. To really study this question we need to look beyond the symbolic markets of prestige to the real market, the site of mass literary consumption, where authors succeed or fail based on their ability to speak to that most diverse and complicated of readerships: the general public. Unless we study what I call the social lives of books, we make the mistake of keeping literature in the same ascetic laboratory that Wallace tried to break out of with his intense authorial focus on popular culture, mass media, and everyday life." -Ed Finn, Literary Lab Pamphlet 3 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Sep 24 07:58:11 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8408E1CB58A; Sat, 24 Sep 2011 07:58:11 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C61FF1CB581; Sat, 24 Sep 2011 07:58:09 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110924075809.C61FF1CB581@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2011 07:58:09 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.319 events: museums; online sources; the book X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 319. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Frédéric Clavert (79) Subject: CFP: Websites as sources: How should humanities and social sciences approach, use and diffuse publicly available online sources? [2] From: Wim Van-Mierlo (26) Subject: Future Perfect of the Book - cfp [3] From: (22) Subject: Museums and the Web 2012 (MW2012): Proposals due next week on 30 Sept! --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 10:21:46 +0200 From: Frédéric Clavert Subject: CFP: Websites as sources: How should humanities and social sciences approach, use and diffuse publicly available online sources? CALL FOR PAPERS DHLU Symposium 2012 WEBSITES AS SOURCES: How should humanities and social sciences approach, use and diffuse publicly available online sources? Deadline: 15 November 2011 The Jean Monnet Chair in History of European Integration and its Research Programme ‘Digital Humanities Luxembourg’ — DIHULUX (research unit Identités-Politiques-Sociétés-Espaces [IPSE]), together with the Centre Virtuel de la Connaissance sur l’Europe (CVCE), are pleased to launch the call for papers for the DHLU Symposium 2012. This Symposium follows the DHLU Symposium 2009, also organised in Luxembourg by these two institutions on the topic of ‘Contemporary history in the digital age’. This second edition aims to examine the use of websites as sources for research in the humanities and social sciences, especially encouraging an analysis of this heuristic question in the field of European integration studies (EIS). The Symposium will address both methodological aspects and the theoretical and institutional implications of the public dissemination of research results, focusing on digitised and online published sources as well as on websites themselves, which will be analysed as born digital sources. The potential of this innovative research approach will also be explored and emphasised. The Symposium will be structured around the following research clusters, but may also include other related approaches: 1. Holding the mirror This first cluster addresses the challenges and potentialities of online archives offering primary sources for research purposes. It will look into the modes of presentation and theoretical-methodological debates concerning uses, approaches and interconnections of such sources. 2. The critical added value This cluster focuses on online secondary sources and enhanced publications, with a special emphasis in digital research corpora. It aims at examining ongoing developments in the intertwining modes between available primary sources and resulting secondary sources centred on the priority of critically commenting and enriching contents as a scientific asset. 3. (Self-)reflections and the creative observer This cluster will take a step beyond textual sources to examine the unique features of audiovisual sources and hence of new forms of creation and re-creation of historical memories. A special section within this cluster will be dedicated to innovative digital oral history sources and projects. 4. Institutional and dissemination aspects: digital public history This cluster will focus on forms of institutionalisation of digital research practices, results and dissemination strategies by means of collaborative projects in the humanities and social sciences targeted towards a wide variety of audiences. 5. Web history and digital history methods for the use of websites as sources Web history constitutes a new scientific field centred on the historical study of websites for research purposes, thus paving the way for increasingly interdisciplinary trends in the humanities and social sciences. This session will offer Web historians the opportunity to share their experiences concerning their ongoing results and chosen methods. We welcome papers focusing on digital humanities and social sciences from researchers and scholars at all stages of their careers. Papers examining cases related to European integration studies (EIS) are especially encouraged. Abstracts (max. 500 words), submitted together with a short CV (max. 250 words) and a list of publications, can be written in English or French and should be sent to the following contact email address, which can also be used for any enquiries: frederic [dot] clavert [at] cvce [dot] eu The authors of the selected proposals will be invited to present their contributions at the DHLU Symposium 2012, to be held in Luxembourg, and their papers will be published in the Symposium proceedings (only English versions of the revised full papers will be accepted for publication). Participation costs will be covered up to a set limit. Deadline for proposals: 15 November 2011 The Symposium will be followed by THATCamp Luxembourg/Trier, closely linked to the main themes of the Symposium and offering technology and humanities specialists the opportunity to meet and discuss during brainstorming sessions based on the Symposium’s liveliest debates. THATCamp Luxembourg/Trier will be co-organised by the Center for Digital Humanities (Universität Trier). The First Meeting of the International Federation for Public History (IFPH) will take place alongside these two events. For further information, please refer to the DHLU Symposium 2012 website: http://www.digitalhumanities.lu --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 13:51:35 +0100 From: Wim Van-Mierlo Subject: Future Perfect of the Book - cfp THE FUTURE PERFECT OF THE BOOK Book History Research Network: a one-day colloquium Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London 25 November 2011 At a moment when the rise of e-Readers foretells the end of the printed book, the founder of the Internet Archive Brewster Kahle launches an initiative for the preservation of the book. He is creating a storehouse for physical books in specially-adapted containers on the West Coast of the United States in order to preserve them as “backup copies” for posterity. His idea came about as a reaction against the notion that books can be put beyond use (or thrown away) as soon as they are digitized. While the future of the book is certainly an important topic for consideration, an initiative such as Kahle's also begs the question how did past the past envision the future of the book – or of the predominant medium of the time. Victor Hugo's phrase, ' ceci tuera cela', spelt a new paradigm of mistrust when the printed book suddenly disrupted the foundation of manuscript culture and the transmission of the written. Although the digital revolution is possibly the most radical change in the history of writing, one can wonder how other similar transitions fared: from the scroll to the codex, from manuscript to printed book, from printing on the handpress to machine and offset printing, from writing by hand to writing on the typewriter and the wordprocessor? More fundamentally, do the concerns of fifteenth-century critics of print like those of Abbot Johannes Trithemius of Sponheim have anything in common with twenty-first-century anxieties about the triumph of digital technology? Is access to knowledge and preservation, which champions of the digital revolution invoke, really a new concern? How much of the (old) culture of the book is retained in the new digital media? This colloquium, therefore, wants to consider not just what “will be”, but also “what would have been” – the future perfect of the book. We invite proposals (no more than 250 words) for 20-minutes papers on any topic in book history relating to the future of the book considered at any moment in history. Deadline: 15 October 2011. Please email papers to the organisers: Cynthia Johnston (Research Student, Institute of English Studies): cynthia.johnston@postgrad.sas.ac.uk; Dr Wim Van Mierlo (Lecturer in Textual Scholarship and English Literature, Institute of English Studies): wim.van-mierlo@sas.ac.uk Topics may include: * competing technologies: scroll v. codex/paper v. screen/writing v. typing * manuscript culture in the age of print * the Gutenberg revolution as devolution * the library of the future in the past * old books and new media * mass digitization or digital archive * book collecting in the digital era * mise-en-page and digital design * hypertext and other outmoded technologies * readers and e-readers 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 --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 11:32:09 -0700 From: Subject: Museums and the Web 2012 (MW2012): Proposals due next week on 30 Sept! Perfect weather, clear waters, and your favorite museum people from around the world... --> Join us in San Diego, 11-14 April 2012, for MW2012! <-- Find the call for proposals https://conference.archimuse.com/mw2012/call on the MW2012 website https://conference.archimuse.com/mw2012 And submit your proposal online through September 30, 2011 https://conference.archimuse.com/mw2012/proposal [login required] Demonstration proposals will be accepted through December 31, 2011. Proposals are extended Abstracts, with full details (including biographies) of all co-authors Full written papers for all accepted proposals are due January 31, 2012. Read more: http://conference.archimuse.com/forum/mw2012_when_where_how Nancy Proctor & Rich Cherry MW2012 Co-chairs *Questions?* info@museumsandtheweb.com nancy@museumsandtheweb.com rcherry@museumsandthewebcom Follow us on Twitter: @museweb @nancyproctor @richcherry _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 25 08:32:24 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2A9B19DD19; Sun, 25 Sep 2011 08:32:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D4B9319DD04; Sun, 25 Sep 2011 08:32:20 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110925083220.D4B9319DD04@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2011 08:32:20 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.320 words in time X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 320. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: maurizio lana (42) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.316 words in time: programming [2] From: "Postles, David A. (Dr.)" (2) Subject: words in time: programming --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2011 10:13:18 +0200 From: maurizio lana Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.316 words in time: programming In-Reply-To: <20110924074846.2BE3F1CB170@woodward.joyent.us> Il 24/09/2011 09:48, Humanist Discussion Group ha scritto: > it's a pity you write that you would like a tool for this "without need > for programming", since it is such a simple programming job. To be fair, > I don't know if there is a tool available& there very well might be. > But if you are willing to pick up just a very small bit of programming > this could be solved in a matter of hours. > > Have a look at the wonderful e-book 'The Programming Historian' by > William Turkel and Alan MacEachern > (http://niche-canada.org/member-projects/programming-historian/ch1.html). > It is a basic introduction to a very accessible and readable programming > language (Python), and it focuses specifically on problems like yours > (reading and analyzing text from text files, making basic computations > based on text). > > Best regards > Thomas Crombez > > "L'historien du futur sera programmeur ou ne sera pas." > (LeRoy Ladurie, 1968) i know it is a pity, for many people. i myself i know that (very) much of what's described in the mentioned site/online book can be done with MonoconcPro in 5 minutes... and regarding my specific need (a way to show the distribution in time for a given word in a texts set with date tags) the words "distribution, time, across, histogram, draw" aren't mentioned in the book. this leads me to conclude that my problem is not addressed there, i fear. so i am still at the same point :-))) best to all the humanists maurizio -- La Repubblica promuove lo sviluppo della cultura e la ricerca scientifica e tecnica. La Repubblica detta le norme generali sull'istruzione ed istituisce scuole statali per tutti gli ordini e gradi. (Costituzione della Repubblica Italiana, art. 9 e 33) ------- il mio corso di informatica umanistica: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85JsyJw2zuw ------- Maurizio Lana - ricercatore Università del Piemonte Orientale, Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici, via Manzoni 8, 13100 Vercelli - tel. +39 347 7370925 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2011 16:57:18 +0100 From: "Postles, David A. (Dr.)" Subject: words in time: programming In-Reply-To: <20110924074846.2BE3F1CB170@woodward.joyent.us> Two thoughts: if, as Thomas suggests, you tackled a little command line code in Python, then there is NLT (natural language toolkit) ; otherwise, for M$ Windows users (spit!), there is WordSmith which has a GUI. Dave P. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 25 08:33:07 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 639DC19DDA2; Sun, 25 Sep 2011 08:33:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B9DC219DD91; Sun, 25 Sep 2011 08:33:04 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110925083304.B9DC219DD91@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2011 08:33:04 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.321 growth of jobs in digital humanities X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 321. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2011 21:56:07 +1000 From: Desmond Schmidt Subject: growth of digital humanities There have been a lot of advertisements for jobs lately on Humanist. So I used the Humanist archive to do a survey of the last 10 years. I counted jobs that had both a digital and a humanities component, were full time, lasted at least 12 months and were at PostDoc level or higher. 2002: 11 2003: 6 2004: 15 2005: 15 2006: 18 2007: 24 2008: 27 (incomplete - 1/2 year) 2009: 36 2010: 58 2011: 65 so far Breakdown by country: US: 133 GB: 65 CA: 35 IE: 18 DE: 13 FR: 8 IL: 3 NO: 2 NL: 2 ES: 2 AT: 1 AU: 1 BE: 1 Normalised by population: IE: 4.0 GB: 1.051779935 CA: 1.038575668 US: 0.433224756 NO: 0.416666667 IL: 0.405405405 DE: 0.158924205 FR: 0.127795527 NL: 0.121212121 AT: 0.119047619 BE: 0.092592593 AU: 0.04587156 ES: 0.043572985 --------------------------------- Desmond Schmidt Information Security Institute Faculty of Science and Technology Queensland University of Technology _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Sep 26 07:36:25 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FDF61AC068; Mon, 26 Sep 2011 07:36:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 3BD301AC00B; Mon, 26 Sep 2011 07:36:23 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110926073623.3BD301AC00B@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 07:36:23 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.322 growth of jobs X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 322. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Leif Isaksen (85) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.321 growth of jobs in digital humanities [2] From: Dot Porter (92) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.321 growth of jobs in digital humanities [3] From: natasha martin (76) Subject: RE: [Humanist] 25.321 growth of jobs in digital humanities --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2011 09:48:31 +0100 From: Leif Isaksen Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.321 growth of jobs in digital humanities In-Reply-To: <20110925083304.B9DC219DD91@woodward.joyent.us> Thanks Desmond Looks like things are on the hope for digital humanists! I was just wondering something similar over on Antiquist - in particular that in the past few days there seem to have been a number of permanent or tenured positions on offer which is a change from the fixed-term project work that has historically been the mainstay of alt-accers. From the data you've collected I'd also love to know: - how many are permanent as opposed to fixed term - how your numbers break down by country. I get the impression that the US has picked up a lot in recent years which may obscure the reality elsewhere. Thanks again and all the best Leif On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 9:33 AM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: >                 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 321. >            Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London >                       www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist >                Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > >        Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2011 21:56:07 +1000 >        From: Desmond Schmidt >        Subject: growth of digital humanities > > There have been a lot of advertisements for jobs lately on Humanist. > So I used the Humanist archive to do a survey of the last 10 years. > I counted jobs that had both a digital and a humanities component, were > full time, lasted at least 12 months and were at PostDoc level or higher. > > 2002: 11 > 2003: 6 > 2004: 15 > 2005: 15 > 2006: 18 > 2007: 24 > 2008: 27 (incomplete - 1/2 year) > 2009: 36 > 2010: 58 > 2011: 65 so far > > Breakdown by country: > US: 133 > GB: 65 > CA: 35 > IE: 18 > DE: 13 > FR: 8 > IL: 3 > NO: 2 > NL: 2 > ES: 2 > AT: 1 > AU: 1 > BE: 1 > > Normalised by population: > IE: 4.0 > GB: 1.051779935 > CA: 1.038575668 > US: 0.433224756 > NO: 0.416666667 > IL: 0.405405405 > DE: 0.158924205 > FR: 0.127795527 > NL: 0.121212121 > AT: 0.119047619 > BE: 0.092592593 > AU: 0.04587156 > ES: 0.043572985 > --------------------------------- > Desmond Schmidt > Information Security Institute > Faculty of Science and Technology > Queensland University of Technology --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2011 08:52:09 -0500 From: Dot Porter Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.321 growth of jobs in digital humanities In-Reply-To: <20110925083304.B9DC219DD91@woodward.joyent.us> The numbers show a growth in post-doc plus DH jobs, but I wonder how much of that is actual growth and how much of that is jobs that in the past would not have required a PhD that now do. I expect it's a bit of both (ten years ago there was not much call for "professors of DH" while now there undoubtedly is). That's a study I'd like to see. Amanda Gailey and I touch on this in our article "Credential Creep in the Digital Humanities", published in the Media Commons Press collection edited by Bethany Nowviskie (#alt-ac: Alternative Careers for Humanities Scholars, http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/alt-ac/pieces/credential-creep-digital-humanities). For that essay we also looked at the history of Humanist jobs postings, but we don't claim to offer a full qualitative analysis of the issue. Dot -- *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Dot Porter (MA, MSLS) Digital Medievalist, Digital Librarian Email: dot.porter@gmail.com *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2011 14:12:34 +0000 From: natasha martin Subject: RE: [Humanist] 25.321 growth of jobs in digital humanities In-Reply-To: <20110925083304.B9DC219DD91@woodward.joyent.us> good to know i'm going into the right field in the right country! Ireland may be crumbling on all other levels but if it keeps creating posts in digital humanities for the next year or so I'll be happy. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 26 07:36:52 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7BFA1AC0DF; Mon, 26 Sep 2011 07:36:52 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 9CF501AC0D5; Mon, 26 Sep 2011 07:36:51 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110926073651.9CF501AC0D5@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 07:36:51 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.323 words in time X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 323. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2011 07:39:03 -0500 From: Martin Mueller Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.320 words in time In-Reply-To: <20110925083220.D4B9319DD04@woodward.joyent.us> The problem you describe is computationally trivial if your data have good metadata. Easier said than done. For instance, if you rely on publication dates for time lines, the publication dates for Chaucer in the Text Creation Partnership are 1475 (or thereabouts) because that is when Caxton's Chaucer was published. And you will find that Shakespeare wrote an awful lot in the 18th century. Tagging large data sets with creation dates that are accurate to the decade would be a big help. MM _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 26 07:40:03 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 182C01AC254; Mon, 26 Sep 2011 07:40:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 6D2CF1AC1FE; Mon, 26 Sep 2011 07:39:59 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110926073959.6D2CF1AC1FE@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 07:39:59 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.324 the clear sight of George Winchester Stone X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 324. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2011 13:40:57 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: the clear sight of George Winchester Stone In his 1967 Presidential address to the Modern Language Association, "The Legacy of Sisyphus", George Winchester Stone summarized the promise of the new equipment thus: > We march into the last quarter century with > some hitherto unknown advantages, arm-in-arm > so to speak, with marvelous techniques for > eliminating quantities of drudgery in scholarship, > and for attacking masses of writing we have not > hitherto known how to handle. We have sorters > and computers which can help us analyze great > bodies of information. One of the real beauties of > the computer lies in the fact that for it to be > useful, the mass of information put into it must > be organized, tagged, designed, focussed, yet > pointed to a number of capabilities. This, in > itself, may tend to usher in anew a discipline of > thought and much contemplation as a program > is established. It will also call for a generous > exercise of the imagination as one fore-thinks > what uses the future will require of the materials > to be placed on the memory disc for later recall. > And this machinery is tremendously valuable > for us, just as long as we keep an aggressive > attitude toward it; just as long as we refuse to > ask only those questions which can be easily > analyzed and answered by the present computers; > just as long as we demand that they be > designed and re-designed, changed and varied so > as to help us in all kinds of questions we may > wish to ask. > PMLA 83.1 (March 1968) Four things of note here, I think. First is the notion of the computer as drudge -- a very common idea at the time, indeed the ruling idea for many then, alas. Second is the purchase on large corpora for kinds of studies then impossible or least *very* difficult. Third is the potential for a new discipline, namely ours. Fourth is his "aggressive attitude", that is, the strength of imagination to push for and help design new computings to answer to our "expanding eyes" (Blake's phrase). Actually, there's another thing to note: that this was a vision of the present, of what was then to hand, not a fling at telling the future. Comments? Yours, WM -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Sep 26 07:42:34 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDFA31AC387; Mon, 26 Sep 2011 07:42:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 3DEEB1AC370; Mon, 26 Sep 2011 07:42:32 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110926074232.3DEEB1AC370@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 07:42:32 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.325 Ficino turns 21! X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 325. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2011 09:40:21 -0400 From: crrs.ficino@utoronto.ca Subject: Ficino at 21 In-Reply-To: <4E76F182.1080206@mccarty.org.uk> On 28 September 2011, the Ficino listserv (for Renaissance and early modern studies) turns 21. Back in the summer of 1990 when the list was conceived, the idea of creating an on-going virtual seminar populated by scholars from across the globe was still very new. Instructors in the humanities still used blackboards, their lectures written on yellowing papers, annotated and glossed with details and insights garnered through years of repetition. Course packs were still photocopied by the bookstore, and syllabi peppered with references to curious corners of the library such as “in the reference section” or “on reserve.” Most students still typed essays, and, in the name of social equity, some were still allowed to submit handwritten versions! Conference announcements were sent out by mail, and editors corresponded with contributors through a succession of letters. Not only were internet connections far from ubiquitous, and e-mail only beginning to become a staple of academic life but the idea of a virtual colleague—someone with whom one may collaborate through electronic media but whom one has never met—was cutting-edge stuff. The idea of an e-mail list for Renaissance and early modern studies originated with Germaine Warkentin of the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies (CRRS) at the University of Toronto. But with Warkentin away on research in Europe, the mantle passed to the CRRS’s William Bowen to determine what such a system might look like, and how it might operate. To this end, Bowen approached Willard McCarty, who had pioneered the Humanist listserv for what was then known as computing in the humanities—the precursor of digital humanities. Begun some three years earlier, Humanist was groundbreaking in itself, for it was only the second such list in the humanities, only a few months younger than the pioneering AnsaxNet. The original idea for the early modern list was to call it “Erasmus,” reflecting the CRRS’s strong collection of Erasmiana, but this proved impractical as it would have resulted in the list perhaps being confused with the “Erasmus Programme” (an EU initiative that had recently been launched to promote student exchanges). Another early contender was “Borgia,” but it was Bowen who suggested “Ficino” on the basis of Marsilio’s comments in a letter to Bembo: “The convivium alone ... rebuilds limbs, revives humours, restores spirit, delights senses, fosters and awakens reason. The convivium is rest from labours, release from cares and nourishment of genius; it is the demonstration of love and splendour, the food of good will, the seasoning of friendship, the leavening of grace and the solace of life.” Certainly, it was a choice of name that better evoked the spirit of academic fellowship and cooperation that was—and is—the hallmark of the list. Bowen, McCarty and Warkentin appreciated that the strength of the list lay in its ability to foster ideas through the aether, openly, widely and as quickly as possible. Underlying their vision was the notion that knowledge is realised through dialogue. The list, they said, was to be “a free-wheeling ‘seminar’ convened for the purpose of argumentation, in the etymological sense of ‘making bright and clear.’” In order to break new ground, in order to nurture debate and to facilitate cross-disciplinary discussion, the list was to be “radically inclusive” with membership open to anyone looking to bring his or her knowledge and skills to bear on the early modern period. The list, then, was to be unmoderated, but even in these early days Bowen, McCarty and Warkentin appreciated the fact that it was important to keep the list tightly focussed, and to put off triflers and potential advertisers. This was the beginning of the short academic biography that all would-be members must supply, an idea that they borrowed from the Humanist list. By the end of the list’s first week, Ficino had 20 members: 14 Americans, 3 Canadians and 3 from the UK. Aside from early issues of technical housekeeping, the first discussion thread was begun by Roy Flannagan from Ohio University who asked where he might find an American source for high-quality slides of the restored Sistine Chapel—to which the reply was that he should phone the Vatican (number provided) and see if they could arrange for him to purchase some through the mail. Reading over these early postings, it is hard to re-imagine an academic world where an art historian could not just pull down high-quality digital images for his class from the Vatican’s website, and was advised instead to phone the cardinal overseeing the restorations—but, of course, in 1990 that’s what happened. The list has had several editors over the course of its life: 1990-1992: McCarty (editor) with Bowen (assistant editor)1992-1995: Warkentin and Bowen (co-editors) 1995-2000: Bowen (editor) Laura Hunt (assistant editor, 1997-1999) Richard Raiswell (assistant editor, 2000-2001) 2001- current: Raiswell (associate editor) As the list’s longest serving editor, my recollections are entirely positive. I have only had to remove people on a handful of occasions, for one of the great strengths of the list is that members are collegial and cordial. And when etiquette is breached, usually a polite private e-mail from me has ensured that appropriate decorum is quickly restored. I don’t think I have ever refused admission to the list—although I have had to suggest to many high school students upon applying for membership each year that they might be better served elsewhere for their project on Machiavelli or the Renaissance. Indeed, in November 2003, a high school teacher in Texas told his/her class that they should all just write to me as editor for help with their essays on various Renaissance topics. These requests, of course, never made it on to the list! My most difficult period, though, was in the aftermath of the 11 September 2001 attacks on the United States. Naturally, members wanted to find out about colleagues in New York, to share experiences and to try to make sense of the appalling atrocities that had taken place. But after a few days, the discussion quite remarkably reoriented itself and used the events as a lens through which to consider early modern instances of terrorism. Over the years, the list has grown to become the most important community of early modern scholars on the web. Today, Ficino has some 794 members who hail from some 29 different countries. Of course, the lion’s share of members are based in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom, but we have members from Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, Liechtenstein, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, the Russian Federation, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland. And the future of Ficino? The list is still going strong, but the format needs some tweaking to take advantage of some of the recent trends in social networking, perhaps through Twitter or the nascent Iter Community that is now the focus of some Bowen’s efforts. We are looking at new possibilities, but the current listserv model still remains an exceptionally valuable resource, and the only place on the web that can bring together all the right minds on any subject in early modern studies. Richard Raiswell Fellow, CRRS, Toronto Dept. of History, Univ. of PEI _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 26 07:43:06 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17CA21AC3B1; Mon, 26 Sep 2011 07:43:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 94B221AC3A0; Mon, 26 Sep 2011 07:43:03 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110926074303.94B221AC3A0@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 07:43:03 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.326 events: DHSI 2012 X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 326. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2011 18:30:08 +0100 From: Diane Jakacki Subject: cfp: Digital Humanities Summer Institute 2012 DHSI Colloquium, 5-8 June 2012 The DHSI Colloquium showcases new and emerging, innovative and engaging work of those at DHSI. CALL FOR PAPERS (1 December 2011): Proposals are now being accepted for presentations at the DHSI Colloquium for the digital humanities, to be held in June 2012 at the University of Victoria. Open to all DHSI attendees, the colloquium starts on the second day of the institute and takes place during sessions that begin and end each day. Presentations will be informal and may take the form of full-length conference papers (15-20 minutes), short conference papers, those traditional in their delivery, and those more demonstration-oriented. Brief high-impact formats such as paper-slams, lightning presentations, dork shorts, pecha kuchas, etc., will also be given consideration. The colloquium welcomes presentations by individuals or teams of two or more presenters. We invite proposals of 200-300 words for these presentations. Successful proposals will focus on specific applications, aspects and/or cases of digital humanities research, as opposed to general issues pertaining to the digital humanities; topics may include, but are not limited to, the scholar’s role in personal and institutional research projects, tool application and development, perspectives on digital humanities implications for the individual’s own research and pedagogy, etc. Potential presenters should be new or emerging scholars (including, but not limited to, graduate students; early career scholars and humanities scholars who are new to the digital humanities; librarians, and those in cultural heritage; alt-academics; academic professionals; and those in technical programs). Please submit abstracts via https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dhsicolloquium2012. Deadline for submissions is December 1, 2011. Submissions will be peer-reviewed and all who have submitted an abstract will be notified by late February 2012. For more information, contact dhsicolloquium2012@easychair.org. ABOUT THE DHSI: The Digital Humanities Summer Institute at the University of Victoria provides an ideal environment for discussing and learning about new computing technologies, and how they are influencing the work of those in the Arts, Humanities and Library communities. The Institute takes place across a week of intensive coursework, seminar participation, and lectures. It brings together faculty, staff, and graduate students from different areas of the Arts, Humanities, Library, and Archives communities. During the DHSI, we share ideas and methods, and develop expertise in applying advanced technologies to our teaching, research, dissemination, and preservation. For more information see www.dhsi.org http://www.dhsi.org/ . REGISTRATION: In recent years, courses have filled up quickly. We encourage applicants interested in attending the DHSI to register early. A number of sponsored tuition scholarships are also available. Registrations and applications for tuition scholarship applications will be accepted beginning in October. Digital Textual Studies Conference, 9-10 June 2012 This year, DHSI will be immediately followed by a conference on digital textual studies, led by the Textual Studies group of the Implementing New Knowledge Environments (INKE) project, and sharing our Friday DHSI Institute lecture. Details will be available early in the Fall term. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 27 04:40:24 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6679F1B053D; Tue, 27 Sep 2011 04:40:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id CC6E41B0526; Tue, 27 Sep 2011 04:40:21 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20110927044021.CC6E41B0526@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 04:40:21 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.327 high-performance computing for Canadians X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 327. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 14:03:39 -0600 From: Geoffrey Rockwell Subject: Compute Canada and the Humanities For Canadian colleagues: Compute/Calcul Canada has partnered with Super Micro to offer a High-Performance Computing platform for humanities researchers. Super Micro has donated an HPC system that Compute Canada will make available with support to humanists. To get access you have to apply through the National Resource Allocation process. The deadlines are tight (October 18th) and this opportunity is new. For digital humanists new to Compute Canada to apply they need to register with the Compute Canada DataBase: https://ccdb.computecanada.org/account_application Applicants are strongly advised to talk to technical staff at their local Compute Canada consortium to make sure you understand what Compute Canada has to offer and how to take advantage of it. (See http:computecanada.org to find your local consortium/staff.) Please send questions to Susan Baldwin, Executive Director, Compute Canada at susan.baldwin@computecanada.org Best, Geoffrey Rockwell _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Sep 27 04:47:11 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3502A1B063C; Tue, 27 Sep 2011 04:47:11 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E91A51B062C; Tue, 27 Sep 2011 04:47:08 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110927044708.E91A51B062C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 04:47:08 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.328 events: biology; digitization; books X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 328. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Shawn Day (28) Subject: The 20th annual SHARP conference [2] From: Juan Romero (78) Subject: SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS EvoMUSART 2012 [3] From: "Mandell, Laura" (23) Subject: IMPACT Seminar in the US --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 10:18:34 +0100 From: Shawn Day Subject: The 20th annual SHARP conference The 20th annual SHARP conference The Battle for Books 26-29 June 2012 Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Submissions are invited for the twentieth annual conference of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading & Publishing (SHARP) to be held in Dublin, Ireland between 26 and 29 June 2012 The Theme In a city like Dublin, which has been home to Swift, Wilde and Joyce one naturally thinks of ‘The Battle for Books’ in terms of censorship, constraint and restraint. While the organisers of this conference envisage that these offer significant topics for individual papers and groups of papers within panels, we encourage participants to interpret the theme as broadly as possible. On the production side of the industry one might consider the financial, emotional and organisational struggles of authors, printers and publishers to bring books to market. Papers are also welcome from scholars who wish to analyse the distribution, sale and reception of books across a range of time periods and geographical locations. There is plenty of scope to develop ‘The Battle for Books’ in a historical context, but we also invite papers from scholars who wish to examine the future for books, the book-trade and the printing industry in the context of current and future technological innovations. As always, proposals dealing with any aspect of book history are welcome. However, topics of particular importance to the themes of the conference include (but are not limited to): * Lost and endangered skills related to the printing industry and book-trade * Battles between/among authors, printers and publishers * Censorship, constraint and restraint * Contestation and cultural struggle * Constructions and deconstructions of national and local identities * The digital book and digital futures * Library futures You can find the full Call for Papers at:http://www.tcd.ie/longroomhub/events/forthcoming/SHARP2012.php --- Shawn Day --- Digital Humanities Observatory (RIA), --- Regus Pembroke House, --- 28 - 30 Pembroke Street Upper --- Dublin 2 IRELAND --- about.me/shawnday --- Tel: 00 353 1 2342441 --- Mob: 353 083 002 4264 --- s.day@ria.ie --- http://dho.ie http://dho.ie/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 11:15:31 +0200 From: Juan Romero Subject: SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS EvoMUSART 2012 SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS evomusart 2012 1st International Conference and 10th European Event on Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired Music, Sound, Art and Design 11-13 April 2012, Malaga, Spain Part of evo* 2012 evo*: http://www.evostar.org evomusart: http://www.evostar.org/2012/call-for-contributions/evomusart/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- evomusart 2012 is the tenth European event on Evolutionary Music and Art. Following the success of previous events and the importance of the field of evolutionary and biologically inspired music, sound, art and design, evomusart has became a evo* conference with independent proceedings. Thus, evomusart 2012 is the tenth European Event on Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired Music, Sound, Art and Design and the first conference on the field. The use of biologically inspired techniques for the development of artistic systems is a recent, exciting and significant area of research. There is a growing interest in the application of these techniques in fields such as: visual art and music generation, analysis, and interpretation; sound synthesis; architecture; video; poetry; design; and other creative tasks. The main goal of evomusart 2012 is to bring together researchers who are using biologically inspired computer techniques for artistic tasks, providing the opportunity to promote, present and discuss ongoing work in the area. The event will be held from 11-13 April, 2012 in Malaga, Spain as part of the evostar event. Accepted papers will be presented orally at the event and included in the evomusart proceedings, published by Springer Verlag in a dedicated volume of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Topics of interest ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The papers should concern the use of biologically inspired computer techniques - e.g. Evolutionary Computation, Artificial Life, Artificial Neural Networks, Swarm Intelligence, other artificial intelligence techniques. - 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 - Biologically Inspired Design and Art - Systems that create drawings, images, animations, sculptures, poetry, text, designs, webpages, buildings, etc.; - Biologically Inspired Sound and Music - Systems that create musical pieces, sounds, instruments, voices, sound effects, sound analysis, etc.; - Robotic Based Evolutionary Art and Music; - Other related artificial intelligence or generative techniques - in the fields of Computer Music, Computer Art; --Theory - Computational Aesthetics, Experimental Aesthetics; o Emotional Response, Surprise, Novelty; - Representation techniques; - Surveys of the current state-of-the-art in the area; identification of weaknesses and strengths; comparative analysis and classification; - Validation methodologies; - Studies on the applicability of these techniques to related areas; - New models designed to promote the creative potential of biologically inspired computation; --Computer Aided Creativity and computational creativity - Systems in which biologically inspired computation is used to promote the creativity of a human user; - New ways of integrating the user in the evolutionary cycle; - Analysis and evaluation of: the artistic potential of biologically inspired art and music; the artistic processes inherent to these approaches; the resulting artifacts; - Collaborative distributed artificial art environments; --Automation - Techniques for automatic fitness assignment; - Systems in which an analysis or interpretation of the artworks is used in conjunction with biologically inspired techniques to produce novel objects; - Systems that resort to biologically inspired computation to perform the analysis of image, music, sound, sculpture, or some other types of artistic object; ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submission: 30 November 2011 Conference: 11-13 April 2012 [...] --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 15:31:50 +0000 From: "Mandell, Laura" Subject: IMPACT Seminar in the US The IMPACT Center of Competence for Digitization Project Results and Future Path of Practice and Research Wednesday, October 12, 2011, Full Day 9:00am-5:00pm The IMPACT group at the KB, the National Library of the Netherlands, is offering a workshop at the ASIS&T conference in New Orleans in a few weeks. We are seeking attendees for the workshop. http://www.asis.org/asist2011/The_IMPACT_Center.html Over the last years mass digitization has become one of the most prominent issues in the library world. This workshop provides a unique opportunity to get to know more about the challenges major European libraries face when digitising their large collections of historical material and the solutions they developed within the IMPACT research project. In this workshop several IMPACT speakers will present innovative solutions and demonstrate tools for various stages in the digitization workflow. --Laura Mandell Professor of English Director, Initiative for Digital Humanities, Media, and Culture Texas A&M University 237 Blocker, MS 4227 College Station, TX 77843-4227 (979) 845-8345 mandell@tamu.edu _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Sep 28 05:29:56 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BE8F1D3C6C; Wed, 28 Sep 2011 05:29:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 5445A1D3C5C; Wed, 28 Sep 2011 05:29:54 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110928052954.5445A1D3C5C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 05:29:54 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.329 Stone's clear sight X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 329. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 22:16:32 -0500 (CDT) From: Alan Corre Subject: The clear sight of George Winchester Stone. Humanist, 25.324 Willard, what is wrong with regarding the computer as an exploitable drudge, which will obey your every wish, provided that you state it in a language it can understand? Around 1975 I conceived the idea of a dictionary of Judeo-Arabic, a set of dialects spoken from the Atlantic to India, and possessing what Eusèbe Vassel called "une petite littérature inconnue". These dialects are written in Hebrew script with diacritics to allow for the extra characters of Arabic. As it happened, I read of a project conceived by Prof. Mario Alinei of the University of Utrecht to compile a checklist of Italian texts using this strange entity called the computer. He is now recognized as a pioneer in the use of computers in language and literature studies. It occurred to me that that I could avoid becoming buried in slips of paper by using this machine, so I went to visit the professor, who received me very cordially. He had a young Afro-American programmer with whom I had long and interesting discussions. I brought back with me to Milwaukee those large green-lined sheets with the Fortran programs he had written for Professor Alinei's project, carried out by students laboriously poking holes into specially designed IBM cards with a stylus in order to enter the data. I sought help from the Social Science Research Facility at my university, and with some puzzlement they assigned me a programmer who wrote a program for the UNIVAC 1100, which enabled me to enter data from home by sticking my telephone receiver into a 300 baud modem, and typing on a dumb terminal. I had 128 *kilobytes* of shared memory available to me. I devised a transcription system for Judeo-Arabic, a for aleph, b for beth etc. with diacritics. The machine converted this set into a set appropriate to the Diablo printer Hebrew-English daisy wheel, which substituted Hebrew letters for the Roman lower case letters; so a became the `, b became a, and so on. This enabled me to print out my results in Hebrew with diacritics, along with English in UPPER CASE--a small sacrifice. That printer cost $10,000 by the way. As I worked, the technology changed, and especially the microcomputer came along. So I changed the encoding to enable the results to appear on the screen in Hebrew letters, using an assembly language program I found that converted Roman letters to Hebrew. My effort was published on 8 5.25 floppy disks, no longer readable by any current computer! So in a sense, my work has left little trace, although some of the texts I used are available on my website https://pantherfile.uwm.edu/corre/www But it was a great adventure for me, and much pleasanter than writing a dictionary the old way. The computer was my drudge. But I guess I came too early. Où sont les neiges d'antan--the eight-track, the Commodore... Online research stands a better chance of indefinite survival these days. But I have had a certain reward. The Lingua Franca section of my website which I started shortly after the Web came into existence, and has an intimate connexion with this project, has been recognized by the Library of Congress as an "historic website" and is currently being archived for permanent preservation in Washington DC. That Univac 1100 occupied an entire room, and had a fraction of the capacity of the computer on which I am typing now. Those of us who have watched this progression at close quarters are indeed blessed. Alan D. Corré _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Sep 28 05:31:21 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACD121D3CBE; Wed, 28 Sep 2011 05:31:21 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 729F91D3CB6; Wed, 28 Sep 2011 05:31:20 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110928053120.729F91D3CB6@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 05:31:20 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.330 cfp: cultures in virtual worlds X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 330. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 15:31:05 +0100 From: jeremy hunsinger Subject: cfp: cultures in virtual worlds Cultures in virtual worlds A special issue of the New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia Guest-edited by Jeremy Hunsinger and Adrienne Massanari Virtual worlds (VW) embody cultures, their artefacts, and their praxes; these new and old spaces of imagination and transformation allow humans to interact in spatial dimensions. Within these spaces, culture manifests with the creation, representation, and circulation of meaningful experiences. But virtual worlds are not novel in that regard, nor should we make the mistake to assume that they are novel in themselves. Virtual experiences have been around in some respect for hundreds of years, and virtual worlds based in information technology have existed for at least 40 years. The current generation of virtual worlds, with roots over four decades old in studies of virtual reality, computer supported cooperative work (CSCW), sociology, cultural studies, and related topics, provide for rich and occasionally immersive environments where people become enculturated within the world sometimes as richly as the rest of their everyday lives. We seek research that encounters and investigates cultures in virtual worlds in its plurality and in its richness. To that end, we invite papers covering the breadth of the topic of cultures in and of virtual worlds. Some possible areas/approaches of inquiry: • How culture of virtual worlds affect relationships • VW interfaces and culture/s • Hidden subcultures/communities in virtual worlds • Ages and VW cultures • Emic and etic experiences of virtual worlds • Producing VW cultures • Traditional cultural/critical studies inquiries of VWs • Transnational or cosmopolitan cultures in/of VWs While all forms of scholarship and research are welcome, we prefer theoretically and empirically grounded studies. We seek a Special Issue that exemplifies methodological pluralism and scholarly diversity. The use of visual evidence and representations is also encouraged. We especially seek pieces that investigate virtual worlds that have received little scholarly attention. Submission guidelines This special issue is Guest-Edited by Jeremy Hunsinger (Wilfrid Laurier University) and Adrienne Massanari (Loyola University Chicago). Queries regarding the Special Issue should be directed to them at jhuns@– –vt.edu and amassanari@– –luc.edu. The Guest-Editors welcome contributions from both new researchers and those who are more well-established. Submitted manuscripts will be subject to peer review. Length of papers will vary as per disciplinary expectations, but we encourage articles of around 7000 words (longer articles may be possible, if warranted). Short discussion papers of around 3000 words on relevant subjects are also welcomed as ‘Technical Notes’. Detailed author submission guidelines are available online at http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/journal.asp?issn=1361-4568&linktype=44. Papers must be submitted via the journal’s online submissions system: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tham Please indicate that your submission is for the Special Issue on Culture in Virtual Worlds. The special issue will be published in summer 2012. Important dates: November 11, 2011 Paper submission deadline February 10, 2012 Author notification May 5, 2012 Final copy due Summer 2012 Publication jeremy hunsinger Communication Studies Wilfrid Laurier University Center for Digital Discourse and Culture Virginia Tech () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail / - against microsoft attachments http://www.aoir.org The Association of Internet Researchers http://www.stswiki.org/ stswiki http://transdisciplinarystudies.tmttlt.com/ Transdisciplinary Studies:the book series _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 29 05:16:49 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id BED531B83A9; Thu, 29 Sep 2011 05:16:49 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D68551B8351; Thu, 29 Sep 2011 05:16:47 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110929051647.D68551B8351@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 05:16:47 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.331 growth of jobs X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 331. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 08:32:42 -0400 From: "Justin Tonra" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.321 growth of jobs in digital humanities In-Reply-To: <20110925083304.B9DC219DD91@woodward.joyent.us> That Ireland is apparently punching above its weight in offering DH posts is testimony to the dedication of a group of individuals in Irish universities who have been tireless in their advocacy for digital humanities. It is also due, in large part, to the role of the Digital Humanities Observatory, which succeeded in raising the institutional profile of DH and facilitated collaborative activity between its partner universities and institutions. The decision not to renew funding for the DHO is lamentable and shortsighted, and while recent DH appointments at departmental level in TCD and NUIG show promise for the future, renewing the inter-institutional collaboration and dialogue that the DHO made possible is an important short-term challenge. Hopefully these figures, which demonstrate the privileged position in which Ireland finds itself, will provide some impetus. Justin. -- Dr Justin Tonra IRCHSS Postdoctoral Fellow Department of English University of Virginia (+1) 434-982-2027 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 29 05:17:23 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 077431B83E7; Thu, 29 Sep 2011 05:17:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 8AC281B83CE; Thu, 29 Sep 2011 05:17:21 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110929051721.8AC281B83CE@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 05:17:21 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.332 words in time X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 332. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 09:13:08 -0500 From: John Laudun Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.323 words in time In-Reply-To: <20110926073651.9CF501AC0D5@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2011 07:39:03 -0500 > From: Martin Mueller > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.320 words in time > In-Reply-To: <20110925083220.D4B9319DD04@woodward.joyent.us> > > The problem you describe is computationally trivial if your data have good > metadata. Alas, this is the crux of the matter. Getting from complex, unstructured data to complex, structured data with metadata seems to be the focus of a lot of work. I have yet to see any form of automating this process that seemed flexible across corpora. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 29 05:20:34 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 046FF1B849B; Thu, 29 Sep 2011 05:20:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D808A1B8489; Thu, 29 Sep 2011 05:20:31 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110929052031.D808A1B8489@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 05:20:31 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.333 jobs: asst prof at Virginia Tech; fellowship program; PhD studentships X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 333. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Willard McCarty (55) Subject: doctoral scholarships in Sydney [2] From: David Gants (98) Subject: Bibliographical Society of America 2012 Fellowship Program [3] From: David Radcliffe (31) Subject: Position at Virginia Tech --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 09:51:57 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: doctoral scholarships in Sydney Doctoral Scholarship Institute for Culture and Society The University of Western Sydney’s newly-formed Institute for Culture and Society (which incorporates the Centre for Cultural Research) invites applications for PhD Scholarships. About the Institute The Institute for Culture & Society encourages theoretically-directed empirical research on the transformations in culture and society in the global era. The Institute is home to a number of internationally renowned scholars, contributing to the University of Western Sydney receiving the high-est ranking for research quality—well above world standard—in Cultural Studies (as part of the Excellence in Research for Australia 2010). Headed by Director, Distinguished Professor Ien Ang, and Research Director, Professor Tony Bennett, the Institute for Culture & Society is especially interested in projects in the following areas: -- Cities and Urban Cultures -- Intercultural Dialogue and Transnational Culture -- Institutions, Governance and Citizenship -- Cultural Economy and Globalisation -- Heritage, Environment and Society -- Digital Research and Cultural Transformation -- Australian Cultural Fields -- Culture and Education Candidates with backgrounds in cultural studies, sociology, anthropology, human geography, cultural history, media and communication studies, Asian studies and other disciplines are encouraged to apply. International applications are welcome, although fees may apply. Essential Criteria • Good Bachelor Honours degree (Class 1 or 2.1), or equivalent qualifications and/or experience • Research or professional experience in a relevant field of the humanities and social sciences. What does the scholarship provide? -- Tax-free stipend of $32,860 per annum and a funded place in the doctoral degree for domestic candidates. International applicants may have to pay fees. Need more information? • To discuss a potential project please contact Dr Megan Watkins at m.watkins@uws.edu.au OR Professor Deborah Stevenson at d.stevenson@uws.edu.au • Contact the Research Training, Policy and Programs Officer, Mrs Sandra Lawrence to discuss enrolment and scholarships: sg.lawrence@uws.edu.au • Find out more about the research being undertaken in the CCR and ICS at http://www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr How to apply • Submit an application form, research proposal and CV by the closing date. The application form can be downloaded from the web: www.uws.edu.au/research/scholarships APPLICATIONS CLOSE 21 October 2011 -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 13:11:09 -0400 From: David Gants Subject: Bibliographical Society of America 2012 Fellowship Program The Bibliographical Society of America 2012 Fellowship Program Announcement The BSA invites applications for its fifth annual Katharine Pantzer Senior Fellowship in Bibliography and the British Book Trades as well as its annual short-term fellowship program, all of which support bibliographical inquiry and research in the history of the book trades and in publishing history. Eligible topics may concentrate on books and documents in any field, but should focus on the book or manuscript (the physical object) as historical evidence. Such topics may include establishing a text or studying the history of book production, publication, distribution, collecting, or reading. Thanks to the generosity of donors, certain special fellowships support research in particular areas of study. Applicants should therefore read the fellowship titles and guidelines here to determine project eligibility and fit. Please note: these fellowships do not support enumerative bibliography (i.e. the preparation of lists). Individuals who have not received support in the previous five years will be given preference. All fellowships require a project report within one year of receipt of the award, and a copy of any subsequent publications resulting from the project, to be sent to the BSA. I. Fellowships: --The Senior Katharine Pantzer Fellowship ($6,000); Supports research in topics relating to book production and distribution in Britain during the hand-press period as well as studies of authorship, reading and collecting based on the examination of British books published in that period, with a special emphasis on descriptive bibliography. --The BSA-ASECS Fellowship for Bibliographical Studies in the Eighteenth Century ($3,000); Recipients must be a member of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies at the time of the award. --The BSA Fellowship in Cartographical Bibliography ($3000); Supports projects dealing with all aspects of the history, presentation, printing, design, distribution and reception of cartographical documents from Renaissance times to the present, with a special emphasis on eighteenth-century cartography --The BSA-Mercantile Library Fellowship in North American Bibliography ($2,000). --The Folter Fellowship in the History of Bibliography ($2,000); Supports projects in the history and development of bibliography and/or the book trade before 1900. --The Katharine Pantzer Fellowship in the British Book Trades ($2,000); Supports bibliographical inquiry as well as research in the history of the book trades and publishing history in Britain. --The McCorison Fellowship for the History and Bibliography of Printing in Canada and the United States: the Gift of Donald Oresman ($2,000). --The Reese Fellowship for American Bibliography and the History of the Book in the Americas ($2,000). --BSA General Fellowships ($2,000); The Society also offers a number of unnamed fellowships supporting bibliographical research as described above. II. Application Guidelines: Applications are due Dec 15 of each year. We regret that we cannot consider late or incomplete submissions. Applications should include the following components: 1) application form, available at http://www.bibsocamer.org/fellows.htm; 2) project proposal of no more than 1000 words; 3) applicant curriculum vitae; 4) two signed letters of recommendation on official letterhead submitted independently by referees. Letters submitted electronically as a signed PDF via e-mail are preferable, although postal submissions will be accepted. We ask that recommenders use the subject line Recommendation for [Applicant Name] that is, Recommendation for Chris Smith. Complete all application components (including an attached Project Description and curriculum vitae), save them in a recent version of Microsoft Word, WordPerfect, or PDF (preferable), and e-mail the full package to the Society Secretary at fellowships@bibsocamer.org. It is preferable to submit the application package as a single file with the subject line [Applicant Name]: BSA Fellowship, that is, ³Chris Smith: BSA Fellowship. This application package and two supporting letters of recommendation must be received by 15 December 2011. We regret that we cannot consider late or incomplete applications. Applicants are advised to request recommendation letters well in advance and to direct referees to the BSA site (http://www.bibsocamer.org/fellows.htm) for guidance. NOTE: This year the Society has introduced an on-line application form as a simpler alternative to e-mail or postal submission: http://www.bsafellowships.org/bsa/application_form.php. This page features fill-in fields for all the information contained in the traditional application form as well as buttons for electronically submitting curriculum vitae and Project Description files. For more information, contact the Society Secretary at fellowships@bibsocamer.org. --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 13:19:27 -0400 From: David Radcliffe Subject: Position at Virginia Tech Virginia Tech Assistant Professor, Digital Rhetoric The English Department at Virginia Tech invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor position in Digital Rhetoric to begin August 2012. Required PhD (in hand at the time of appointment) in Rhetoric and Writing or related field with preparation in digital rhetoric, new media, and professional writing; the promise of significant research and publication; and evidence of successful teaching. Preferred Publication, conference presentations, and teaching/working with diverse populations. Responsibilities Ongoing publication commensurate with a research faculty position; teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in professional writing and rhetoric with opportunities to develop a course in multimodal writing; serving on departmental, college, and university committees; and advising students. Teaching load 2/2. For more information, see www.english.vt.edu/RW-job-search. Applications Candidates must apply online at jobs.vt.edu, position #0110937. Attach to the online application a letter of interest that addresses the responsibilities and qualifications stated above, a CV, a writing sample, a dissertation abstract, and names/contact information for references. Queries Carolyn Rude, Search Committee Chair, Carolyn.Rude@vt.edu, 540.231.2374. Applications will be acknowledged by email. Review of applications will begin October 24 and continue until the position is filled. Video interviews with semifinalists in December will be followed by campus visits for finalists in early 2012. Virginia Tech has a strong commitment to diversity and seeks a broad spectrum of candidates, including women and minorities, people with disabilities, and veterans. Individuals with disabilities who desire accommodation in the application process should contact Bess Rowden: bessr@vt.edu, 540.231.8466. The Department of English offers a BA and MA in English, an MFA in Creative Writing, and a PhD in Rhetoric and Writing. Undergraduate specializations include Literature, Language, and Culture; Creative Writing; and Professional Writing. Virginia Tech is a research-extensive university that enrolls more than 30,000 students. Seewww.vt.edu/about/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 29 05:22:35 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E5D41B85EE; Thu, 29 Sep 2011 05:22:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 62A311B85DC; Thu, 29 Sep 2011 05:22:33 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110929052233.62A311B85DC@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 05:22:33 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.334 events: MT to the User X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 334. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 21:01:46 +0200 From: Ventsislav Zhechev Subject: Call for Participation: 'Bringing MT to the User: Research MeetsTranslators' Third Joint EM+/CNGL Workshop (JEC2011) ======================================== CALL FOR PARTICIPATION –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– "Bringing MT to the User: Research Meets Translators" Third Joint EM+/CNGL Workshop (JEC 2011) http://web.me.com/emcnglworkshop/JEC2011 –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– !!! PLEASE REGISTER !!! Attendance of the workshop is FREE. If you wish to participate, you HAVE TO REGISTER at http://web.me.com/emcnglworkshop/JEC2011/Registration.html The EuroMatrixPlus Project (http://www.euromatrixplus.eu), the Centre for Next Generation Localisation (CNGL) (http://cngl.ie), the Directorate-General for Translation (DGT, European Commission) (http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/translation) and Autodesk (http://www.autodesk.ch) are co-organising the Third Joint EM+/CNGL Workshop (JEC 2011), entitled “Bringing MT to the User: Research Meets Translators”. The JEC 2011 workshop will be hosted by the Directorate General for Translation (DGT) (http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/translation) in Luxembourg on October 14th, 2011. In keeping with previous JECs, the format of the workshop is highly interactive with research paper presentations, invited talks and a panel discussion. • Premise: Recent years have seen a revolution in MT triggered by the emergence of statistical approaches and improvements in translation quality. MT (rule-based, statistical and hybrid) is now available for many languages for free (on the Web) or for a fee and MT technologies are making strong inroads into the corporate localisation and translation industries as well as large public and administrative organisations dealing with multi-lingual content. Open-source MT solutions are competing with proprietary products. Increasing numbers of (professional) translators are post-editing TM/MT output. MT is a reality for internet users accessing and gisting content which is not available in their native language. At the same time, there has been a degree of disconnect between mainstream academic research and conferences on MT, often (and rightly so) focusing on algorithms to improve translation quality, and many of the important practical issues that need to be addressed to make MT maximally useful in real translation and localisation workflows, with human translators and users in general. • Objectives: JEC 2011 brings together translators, users, academic and industrial MT researchers and developers to discuss issues that are most important in real world industrial settings and applications involving MT, but currently under-represented in research circles. • Invited Speakers: Lucia Specia, RIILP, UK: "Quality Estimation for Machine Translation: Different Users, Different Needs" Jörg Porsiel, Volkswagen, Germany: "Machine translation at Volkswagen" Arle Lommel, GALA Global, USA: Panel Discussion • List of Accepted Papers for Oral Presentation: 1. "SmartMATE: Online Self-Serve Access to State-of-the-Art SMT" Andy Way, Kenny Holden, Lee Ball and Gavin Wheeldon 2. "User-Focused Task-Oriented MT Evaluation for Wikis: A Case Study" Federico Gaspari, Antonio Toral and Sudip Kumar Naskar 3. "Towards Application of User-Tailored Machine Translation" Andrejs Vasiļjevs, Raivis Skadiņš and Inguna Skadiņa 4. "A Review of Machine Translation Tools from a Post-Editing Perspective" Lucas Vieira and Lucia Specia 5. "Using Statistical Machine Translation for Computer-Aided Translation at the European Commission" Andreas Eisele and Caroline Lavecchia The workshop program is available at http://web.me.com/emcnglworkshop/JEC2011/Program.html Abstracts of the accepted papers are available at http://web.me.com/emcnglworkshop/JEC2011/List_of_Accepted_Papers.html and from the program page. • Deadlines (all 23:59 GMT -11): 30th September: Camera-ready deadline for accepted papers 9th October: On-line registration closes 14th October: Workshop takes place at DGT in Luxembourg DO NOT FORGET TO REGISTER FOR THE WORKSHOP AT http://web.me.com/emcnglworkshop/JEC2011/Registration.html Workshop Chair: Ventsislav Zhechev (Autodesk) Workshop Senior PC: Ventsislav Zhechev (Autodesk) Andreas Eisele (DGT) Philipp Koehn (Univ. of Edinburgh) Josef van Genabith, Declan Groves (CNGL) Program Committee: Submitted papers were reviewed by a joint industry–academia committee. Industry members: Pedro L. Díez-Orzas (Linguaserve), Marc Dymetman (XRCE), Andreas Eisele (DGT of the EC), Daniel Grasmick (Lucy Software), Michael Jellinghaus (EU Parliament), Will Lewis (Microsoft), Yanjun Ma (Baidu), François Masselot (Autodesk), Alexandros Poulis (EU Parliament), Johann Roturier (Symantec), Andy Way (Applied Language Solutions), Zoran Zakic (DGT of the EC), Ventsislav Zhechev (Autodesk) Academic members: Michael Carl (CBS, Denmark), Jinhua Du (Xi’ian Univ. of Technology), Josef van Genabith (CNGL, EM+), Declan Groves (CNGL), Philipp Koehn (EM+), Philippe Langlais (University of Montreal), Alon Lavie (CMU), Pavel Pecina (CNGL), Michel Simard (NCR, Canada), Lucia Specia (RIILP, UK), Eiichiro Sumita (NICT, Japan), John Tinsley (CNGL, PLuTO), David Vilar (DFKI, Germany), Martin Volk (UZH, Switzerland) For inquiries please contact Dr. Ventsislav Zhechev at emcnglworkshop@me.com For up-to-date information, please visit http://web.me.com/emcnglworkshop/JEC2011 For information about the First Joint EM+/CNGL Workshop, please visit http://www.euromatrixplus.eu/cngl2009 For information about the Second Joint EM+/CNGL Workshop, please visit http://web.me.com/emcnglworkshop/JEC2010 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 29 06:17:26 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 174161BF484; Thu, 29 Sep 2011 06:17:26 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 7F6111BF470; Thu, 29 Sep 2011 06:17:23 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110929061723.7F6111BF470@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 06:17:23 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.335 master or servant? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 335. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 07:11:50 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: master/servant Alan Corre, in Humanist 25.329, made an authoritative plea, and well documented, for regarding the computer as an exploitable drudge. This is in reply to that plea. It is (as always) intended to provoke discussion. Northrop Frye used to say that we humans are forever striving to give nature a human face. In other words, we anthropomorphize the world. Many linguists have pointed out that we cannot talk for very long, or perhaps not at all, without doing exactly that with language. So it's a perfectly ordinary human thing to find a social role for the computer so that we can make it a part of our world. My argument is that there are serious consequences which follow from the social role we choose. Is it to be servant or companion? Despite poor memory and disregard for history I think words, e.g. "servant", actually manage to bear old meanings, attitudes and situations into the present. I think the history of servitude comes with the word, and so when we think of the artificially intelligent machine as a servant (or server), we inherit the social model, becoming ourselves the master. Mastery is a good thing, and being a master with servants in a morally neutral way seems ideal. But is it? I think we need to consider the social history of servitude, picking out even those situations in which the master was morally responsible, compassionate, kind and so on, and his (this is mostly a sexist world) servants good in their kind, competent and so on, and then ask, is this how we want our world to be? Do we (who were once or remain in effect servants to an academic upper class) want to perpetuate this social arrangement into the worlds to come? To my mind one of the most penetrating comments on servitude occurs in Robert Altman's film, Gosford Park (2001, screenplay by Julian Fellowes), when the head housekeeper Mrs Wilson (played by Dame Helen Mirren), instructs one of her underlings as follows: > What gift do you think a good servant has that separates him from > the others? It is the gift of anticipation. And I am a good servant – > I am better than good, I am the best, I am the perfect servant. I > know when they’ll be hungry, and the food is ready. I know when > they’ll be tired, and the bed is turned down. I know it before they > know it themselves... I am the perfect servant – I have no life. This is a deeply sad comment on the servant's role. But consider as well what is happening to the people above stairs. They're infantalized. This (though not specifically referring to Gosford Park) is one of the insights in Ruth Gladys Garcia's doctoral dissertation, "'I will not call her servant': Ambiguity and power in master-servant relationships in the Eighteenth-century novel" (2009): that the master-servant relationship, which de facto puts the servant into the role of child to parent, is ambiguous and can easily flip polarity, infantalising the master. And I wonder: is the fondness for making computers into morally neutral servants so attractive because it turns aside the terror of having an artificially intelligent companion staring us in the face? And so dismisses the opportunity for us to grow by leaps and bounds? Those of us here who can read German and who have an interest in such matters will want to know about Markus Krajewski's recent book, Der Diener: Mediengeschichte einer Figur zwischen König und Klient (Fischer, 2010). I understand that it's being translated into English. Comments? Yours, WM -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Sep 30 05:20:55 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9F701C1E6D; Fri, 30 Sep 2011 05:20:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D3EA01C1DF8; Fri, 30 Sep 2011 05:20:52 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110930052052.D3EA01C1DF8@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2011 05:20:52 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.336 master or servant X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 336. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 12:12:31 -0400 From: Mark Wolff Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.335 master or servant? In-Reply-To: <20110929061723.7F6111BF470@woodward.joyent.us> On Sep 29, 2011, at 2:17 AM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > And I wonder: is the fondness for making computers into morally neutral > servants so attractive because it turns aside the terror of having an > artificially intelligent companion staring us in the face? And so > dismisses the opportunity for us to grow by leaps and bounds? I find that instead of thinking in binary terms of master/slave, we can understand our relationship to computers as a form of distributed cognition, a notion developed by Edwin Hutchins (and probably others) in his book Cognition in the Wild. Human will and intelligence are no longer at the center of human activity: they are part of a wider network of interactive (perhaps even emergent) processes of which neither humans nor machines is in complete control. In this sense, humans and machines coexist in a symbiotic relationship. How long has this relationship been around? At least since the invention of clocks. From what little I know of anthropology, human thought has always been determined in part by embodiment and the use of tools and other objects for interacting with the environment. Humans always think within an environment that exceeds what they can know. Cartesian dualism has led us away from this truth. mw -- Mark B. Wolff Associate Professor of French Chair, Modern Languages One Hartwick Drive Hartwick College Oneonta, NY 13820 (607) 431-4615 http://bumppo.hartwick.edu/~mark/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Sep 30 05:21:44 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 143111C1EBA; Fri, 30 Sep 2011 05:21:44 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 4153C1C1EB0; Fri, 30 Sep 2011 05:21:42 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110930052142.4153C1C1EB0@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2011 05:21:42 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.337 jobs at McGill X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 337. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 15:27:47 -0400 From: Stéfan_Sinclair Subject: tenure-track jobs in Italian & Russian at McGill Dear colleagues, The Department of Languages, Literatures & Cultures at McGill University has two tenure-track positions open, one with a concentration in Italian and the other with a concentration in Russian. As the job ads indicate, the new colleagues will be part of a growing multidisciplinary unit offering courses and programs in German, Italian, Russian, and Spanish languages, literatures, cultures, thought, cinemas, and digital humanities. I'm also very pleased to say that our department has just approved wording that values scholarly digital resources toward tenure and promotion. Please consider applying and/or forwarding this message to potential candidates. Italian: http://www.mcgill.ca/langlitcultures/employment Russian: http://www.mcgill.ca/langlitcultures/employment-opportunities-russian-studies Yours, Stéfan -- Stéfan Sinclair, Associate Professor of Digital Humanities at McGill Department of Languages, Literatures & Cultures Office 341, 688 Sherbrooke St. W Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A 3R1 Tel. 514-398-4984 http://stefansinclair.name/ Twitter: @sgsinclair _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Sep 30 05:25:04 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9407E1C1FED; Fri, 30 Sep 2011 05:25:04 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id AC2BE1C1FD2; Fri, 30 Sep 2011 05:25:02 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20110930052502.AC2BE1C1FD2@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2011 05:25:02 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.338 events: digital text & scholarship; archaeology X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 338. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Tom Brughmans (67) Subject: CALL FOR PAPERS: the connected past [2] From: Willard McCarty (49) Subject: London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship 2011-12 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 11:25:22 +0100 From: Tom Brughmans Subject: CALL FOR PAPERS: the connected past Dear all, We would like to announce 'The connected past: people, networks and complexity in archaeology and history', a two-day symposium at the University of Southampton 24-25 March 2012 (the two days before CAA2012 in Southampton). Confirmed keynote speakers include Professor Carl Knappett, Professor Alex Bentley and Professor Irad Malkin. The call for papers is now open and we would like to invite you to send in abstracts of up to 250 words by November 20th 2011. Please find the full call for papers below and attached. Feel free to circulate this call for papers and the attached poster. More information on the event is available on the website: http://connectedpast.soton.ac.uk/ Best wishes, Tom Brughmans, Anna Collar and Fiona Coward http://connectedpast.soton.ac.uk/ CALL FOR PAPERS The Connected Past: people, networks and complexity in archaeology and history University of Southampton 24-25 March 2012 http://connectedpast.soton.ac.uk/ Organisers: Tom Brughmans, Anna Collar, Fiona Coward Confirmed keynote speakers: Professor Carl Knappett and Professor Alex Bentley Over the past decade “network“ has become a buzz-word in many disciplines across the humanities and sciences. Researchers in archaeology and history in particular are increasingly exploring network-based theory and methodologies drawn from complex network models as a means of understanding dynamic social relationships in the past, as well as technical relationships in their data. This conference aims to provide a platform for pioneering, multidisciplinary, collaborative work by researchers working to develop network approaches and their application to the past. The conference will be held over two days immediately preceding the CAA conference (Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology), also hosted by the University of Southampton (http://caa2012.org), allowing participants to easily attend both. The conference aims to: -- provide a forum for the presentation of multidisciplinary network-based research -- discuss the practicalities and implications of applying network perspectives and methodologies to archaeological and historical data in particular -- establish a group of researchers interested in the potential of network approaches for archaeology and history -- foster cross-disciplinary dialogue and collaborative work towards integrated analytical frameworks for understanding complex networks -- stimulate debate about the application of network theory and analysis within archaeology and history in particular, but also more widely, highlight the relevance of this work for the continued development of network theory in other disciplines We welcome contributions addressing any of (but not restricted to) the following themes: -- The diffusion of innovations, people and objects in the past -- Social network analysis in archaeology and history -- The dynamics between physical and relational space -- Evolving and multiplex networks -- Quantitative network techniques and the use of computers to aid analysis -- Emergent properties in complex networks -- Agency, structuration and complexity in network approaches -- Agent-based modelling and complex networks -- Future directions for network approaches in archaeology and history Please email proposed titles and abstracts (max. 250 words) to: connectedpast@soton.ac.uk by November 20th 2011. Visit the conference website for more information: http://connectedpast.soton.ac.uk/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 16:53:38 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship 2011-12 The London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship, 2011-12 The London Seminar in Digital Text & Scholarship focuses on the ways in which the digital medium remakes the relationship of readers, writers, scholars, technical practitioners and designers to the manuscript and printed book. Its discussions are intended to inform public debate and policy as well as to stimulate research and provide a broad forum in which to present its results. Although the forum is primarily for those working in textual and literary studies, history of the book, humanities computing and related fields, its mandate is to address and involve an audience of non-specialists. Wherever possible the issues it raises are meant to engage all those who are interested in a digital future for the book. All are welcome. Seminars are held in Senate House or Stewart House, Malet Street, London, from 17.30-19.30. Refreshments are provided. For abstracts, biographical statements, directions and further information, see www.tinyurl.com/LondonSeminar/. 13 October 2011 (Thursday). Helena Barbas: 'The role of Narrative bifurcation in web design and content presentation' Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor), 17:30 - 19:30 17 October (in conjunction with the London Authorship Forum) David Holmes (The College of New Jersey): 'Case Studies in Traditional and Non-traditional Authorship Attribution' Room 104 (Senate House, 1st Floor) 17 November. Jan Rybicki: 'The Translator’s Other Invisibility: Stylometry in Translation' TBA 15 December 2011 Julianne Nyhan and Anne Welsh: 'Hidden Histories: Computing and the Humanities c.1949–1980' TBA 19 January Robert V. McNamee: " '...of things which they were not in quest of’: digital design and serendipity" TBA 16 February Katherine D. Harris (San José State University): 'A Supple Vocabulary for Digital Scholarly Editions' TBA 15 March Elton Barker (Open University) and Leif Isaksen (University of Southampton): 'Discovering and using ancient place data' Room S264, Senate House 2nd Floor. -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Oct 1 04:37:50 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4064A1C4901; Sat, 1 Oct 2011 04:37:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 190261C489F; Sat, 1 Oct 2011 04:37:48 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111001043748.190261C489F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 1 Oct 2011 04:37:48 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.339 master or servant X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 339. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Wendell Piez (91) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.336 master or servant [2] From: amsler@cs.utexas.edu (54) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.336 master or servant --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2011 13:13:25 -0400 From: Wendell Piez Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.336 master or servant In-Reply-To: <20110930052052.D3EA01C1DF8@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Willard and HUMANIST, On 9/30/2011 1:20 AM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: >> And I wonder: is the fondness for making computers into morally >> neutral servants so attractive because it turns aside the terror of >> having an artificially intelligent companion staring us in the >> face? And so dismisses the opportunity for us to grow by leaps and >> bounds? > > I find that instead of thinking in binary terms of master/slave, we > can understand our relationship to computers as a form of distributed > cognition, a notion developed by Edwin Hutchins (and probably others) > in his book Cognition in the Wild. Human will and intelligence are > no longer at the center of human activity: they are part of a wider > network of interactive (perhaps even emergent) processes of which > neither humans nor machines is in complete control. In this sense, > humans and machines coexist in a symbiotic relationship. How long > has this relationship been around? At least since the invention of > clocks. From what little I know of anthropology, human thought has > always been determined in part by embodiment and the use of tools and > other objects for interacting with the environment. Humans always > think within an environment that exceeds what they can know. > Cartesian dualism has led us away from this truth. Thanks to Mark for this insightful post. I think it's a valuable corrective to Willard's question. (Willard, Allen said "drudge", not "servant". I think the difference is significant. As you know, drudgery is regarded in some traditions as potentially a path to enlightenment; in any case, I dare say, it is performed as often out of love as it is under duress or in fulfillment of a contract. To say computers embody love may be a bit of a stretch, but the imps in the machine do not work to fulfill a contract either, or at least none they know of; their drudgery is unconscious and thus arguably not drudgery at all. And love as much as labor may go into the work of the engineers who deploy and programmers who command them.) As for Mark's comment, I agree that Edwin Hutchins' work is highly relevant -- while I think that this kind of distributed intelligence goes back far longer than the clock. We see it in packs of wolves and we would undoubtedly see it in teams of hunters stalking megafauna, just as we see it on the playing field, or among the crews of the ships Hutchins studies. What the clock and then the computer do differently, I think (in degree if not in kind), is in the support they give to the formalization and codification of process, thereby allowing a certain kind of intelligence (a dumb kind, inasmuch as its responsiveness is limited by its specification) to be externalized, rendered impersonal and freed from time and space. This is what enabled the assembly lines of the nineteenth century to generate, at superhuman scale, their quantities of guns and then carriages and cars; and it is what allows a lone scholar to have the words in a text counted for him or her -- if only we can determine and agree first on what we mean by "text", "word" and "count". Yet it comes at a price. Because these processes are now external, we can be oblivious to and in some way alienated from them even while we depend on them. In fact, we must be, if only because to understand them requires so many brains. There is no single person anywhere who understands, in detail, everything that happens inside the computing machinery under my fingers. For this reason, I am less troubled by the fear of an artificially intelligent companion staring back at me, servant or not, than I am by the knowledge that there are deeper processes underlying these processes, on which they in turn depend, and the fear that those processes (for example, the mining of rare metals, or the industrial processes by which they are assembled), performed on my behalf, may implicate me in ways I don't even imagine. It becomes a mystery whether the drudgery actually disappears, or has only been concentrated and displaced. Mark suggests that none of us is in control and that we and our machines are symbiotic; I think this is true, although if we distinguish us from our machines at all (rather than saying we are one fabric), I'd rather say the machines -- so far -- only provide part of the platform and medium for our symbiosis, and participate (again, so far) only as proxies. But if individual human will and intelligence are no longer at the center (assuming they ever were), where does it leave us as individuals? Where does it leave me? The only answer I can give to that might lie in that idea of responsiveness. The machine, so far, can only respond to what it is programmed to expect. But at least as long as I exercise will and intelligence, I can plan and prognosticate, and recognize and respond to the unexpected. (Not only is the mind bigger than it knows, it is bigger than it can know.) In such responsiveness, I like to imagine, is the possibility of responsibility. And this is the drudgery, I think, that really counts. Cheers, Wendell -- ====================================================================== Wendell Piez mailto:wapiez@mulberrytech.com Mulberry Technologies, Inc. http://www.mulberrytech.com 17 West Jefferson Street Direct Phone: 301/315-9635 Suite 207 Phone: 301/315-9631 Rockville, MD 20850 Fax: 301/315-8285 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mulberry Technologies: A Consultancy Specializing in SGML and XML --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2011 12:58:36 -0500 From: amsler@cs.utexas.edu Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.336 master or servant In-Reply-To: <20110930052052.D3EA01C1DF8@woodward.joyent.us> I think it is important to note that human beings tend to add human features to everything. Three circles are seen as two eyes and a mouth. A Roomba vacuum cleaner is seen as having a personality. Grand Chess Masters and Jeopardy players see human traits in computer opponents. We see automobiles and machinery as being tempermental. To some degree this is how we cope with the world's complexities. Having a model of how we operate we infer the same traits to things that we interact with; especially if they exhibit non-random behavior (sometimes even if they do exhibit random behavior -- like sacrifices to the volcano god) However, I'd venture to say that computers don't share our perspective. They only have their logic to guide them. Thus, when we discuss the computer in a master/slave relationship, we are actually discussing either someone else's intention in creating an interface to present to us--or our own mind's interpretation of a set of logic rules operating together. Now, this isn't to say that the human designers of computers couldn't be intentionally adding logic to give the illusion of personality, and such efforts will undoubtedly get more sophisticated in the future; but the master/servant paradigm is a little constrictive of the range of relationships that we might have with computers and probably is more revealing of the minds of the humans perceiving that relationship than what is actually happening. I.e., if you fear computers then it is a comfort to think of 'good' computers as servants; and 'bad' computers as masters. If you do not fear computers (any more than you rationally fear automobiles, garbage disposals, or lawn mowers), you would basically just build a mental model of them based on inferred capabilities and known inabilities. You don't trust your lawnmower's judgement about what it should cut and should not cut. But you don't doubt its capability to cut things when it runs over them. I am the master of my lawnmower. My lawnmower is my servant---but I wouldn't try to prove that by sticking my foot under it and assuming it wouldn't hurt me because it knows that relationship. The relationship is entirely in my mind. The lawnmower doesn't care. Computers don't care what you think about them (unless someone programs them to act as though they care--and people are doing that already). It's a convenience to have machines respond as if they were human and had human feelings. A convenience to the accomplishment of their intended goals added to their logic by the people who design them. Maybe people will become more gullible if machines act more human-like. Would this be a good thing? Anti-lock brakes were a good thing, but they required people who knew how to pump their brakes instead of slamming them on hard to readjust their behavior since the brakes were now more intelligent and expected people to slam on the brakes (and would ignore that behavior) but didn't expect people to pump the brakes when faced with an imminent fear of the vehicle being out of control. So, it will be with computers. As we make them more intelligent, to compensate for the possible lack of training of people to use them, they will not do what their predecessor computers did; but do what their designers thought they should do when faced with what it was expected human beings would do without instruction on how the computer works. This is an effort at symbiosis. It is an effort at merging human expectations with computer responses. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 Oct 1 04:39:37 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id F127E1C49C3; Sat, 1 Oct 2011 04:39:36 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 046141C49B3; Sat, 1 Oct 2011 04:39:34 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20111001043935.046141C49B3@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 1 Oct 2011 04:39:34 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.340 job at GSLIS (Illinois) X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 340. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2011 19:55:23 +0000 From: "Reilly, Maeve J" Subject: Faculty position--GSLIS at Illinois Faculty Position Applications encouraged by December 1, 2011; open until filled GSLIS at Illinois seeks to hire an outstanding full-time faculty member to join our dynamic and collegial program. Although strong candidates in any area are encouraged to apply, specializations of particular interest include: . Data curation . Archives . Information organizations and services in diverse communities The GSLIS faculty is highly interdisciplinary, with backgrounds in library science, communications, information science, computer science, English, engineering science, philosophy, history, folklore, public policy and management, medieval studies, and sociology, and we have been a top-ranked School of Library and Information Science for many years. GSLIS research expenditures are approximately $3M per year and growing. Faculty and students are involved in many interdisciplinary initiatives across campus, and they are affiliated with units such as the Environmental Change Institute; the Institute for Computing in Humanities, Arts, and Social Science; and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). The School also hosts several of its own centers and initiatives providing focused support for research and teaching in informatics, children's literature and youth services, and digital inclusion. Successful candidates must be comfortable working in an interdisciplinary academic unit and addressing general audiences in a professional master's degree program, as well as teaching students from undergraduate to Ph.D. levels in an iSchool. GSLIS participates in a campus-wide undergraduate minor and Ph.D. in Informatics, and it offers a Master of Science in Library and Information Science, a Master of Science in Bioinformatics, a Certificate of Advanced Study (CAS), and a CAS in Digital Libraries, a Ph.D., and a K-12 Library Information Specialist Certification Program. The School's award-winning LEEP online education option for the Master's and CAS degrees involves remote students in all aspects of professional education. Appointments made under this announcement will be effective August 16, 2012 or as negotiated. Rank is open, and salary is commensurate with experience. A Ph.D. degree or equivalent is required though we will consider candidates who are close to completion of the doctoral degree. Information about GSLIS programs and faculty can be found on the Internet at http://www.lis.illinois.edu/. Applicants should create a candidate profile at https://jobs.illinois.edu, and upload initial application materials through this system. To ensure full consideration, please submit a letter of application, current curriculum vitae, statement on teaching and research, and a list of three professional references including contact information by December 1, 2011. Review of applications will begin on December 1, 2011, and will continue until the position is filled. Applicants may be interviewed before the closing date, but no hiring decisions will be made until after the search has closed. For further information regarding application procedures, you may contact Candy Edwards (cledward@illinois.edu, 217-244-3809). Illinois is an Affirmative Action /Equal Opportunity Employer and welcomes individuals with diverse backgrounds, experiences, and ideas who embrace and value diversity and inclusivity (http://www.inclusiveillinois.illinois.edu). 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Daniel Champaign, IL 61820 mjreilly@illinois.edu (217) 244-7316 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 Oct 1 04:40:44 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBE381C4A7A; Sat, 1 Oct 2011 04:40:44 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 2F0E71C4A69; Sat, 1 Oct 2011 04:40:43 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111001044043.2F0E71C4A69@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 1 Oct 2011 04:40:43 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.341 basic scholarship? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 341. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2011 07:22:03 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: basic scholarship? In their Turing Award lecture, "Computer Science as Empirical Inquiry: Symbols and Search" (CACM 19.3: March 1976), Allen Newell and Herbert Simon wrote as follows about their discipline: > We build computers and programs for many reasons. We build them to > serve society and as tools for carrying out the economic tasks of > society. But as basic scientists we build machines and programs as a > way of discovering new phenomena and analyzing phenomena we already > know about. Society often becomes confused about this, believing that > computers and programs are to be constructed only for the economic > use that can be made of them (or as intermediate items in a > developmental sequence leading to such use). It needs to understand > that the phenomena surrounding computers are deep and obscure, > requiring much experimentation to assess their nature. It needs to > understand that, as in any science, the gains that accrue from such > experimentation and understanding pay off in the permanent > acquisition of new techniques; and that it is these techniques that > will create the instruments to help society in achieving its goals. My question is this: changing what needs to be changed, how much of what goes on in the digital humanities satisfies their criterion as what they would call basic science? Yours, WM -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Oct 1 04:46:34 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5FAA1C4C21; Sat, 1 Oct 2011 04:46:33 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 759541C4C0D; Sat, 1 Oct 2011 04:46:31 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111001044631.759541C4C0D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 1 Oct 2011 04:46:31 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.342 events: in/visibility; inauguration of Australasian DH; centres X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 342. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Craig Bellamy (109) Subject: CFP: Digital Humanities Australasia, 28-30 March 2012 [2] From: Charles Ess (87) Subject: save the date: CATaC'12 - June 18-20, 2012 - Aarhus, Denmark [3] From: Stuart Dunn (62) Subject: Seminar: Digital Humanities Centers and the New Humanities --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2011 17:44:09 +1000 From: Craig Bellamy Subject: CFP: Digital Humanities Australasia, 28-30 March 2012 Call for Papers, Panels and Posters *********************************************************************************** DIGITAL HUMANITIES AUSTRALASIA 2012: Building, Mapping, Connecting *********************************************************************************** The inaugural conference of the Australasian Association for Digital Humanities Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, 28-30 March 2012 Sponsored by the Australian Academy of the Humanities and the College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University. CONFERENCE WEBSITE: http://aa-dh.org/conference CALL FOR PROPOSALS CLOSES: 11 November 2011 NOTIFICATION OF ACCEPTANCE: 30 November 2011 REGISTRATION OPENS: Early January 2012 The Australasian Association for Digital Humanities is pleased to announce its inaugural conference, to be held at the Australian National University, Canberra, 28-30 March, 2012. The conference will feature papers, panels, posters and associated workshops. We invite proposals on all aspects of digital humanities in Australia, New Zealand and internationally, and especially encourage papers showcasing new research and developments in the field and/or responding to the conference theme of ‘Building, Mapping, Connecting’. Proposals may focus on, but need not be limited to: - Institutionalisation, interdisciplinarity and collaboration - Measuring and valuing digital research - Publication and dissemination - Research applications and interfaces for digital collections - Designing and curating online resources - Digital textuality and literacy - Curriculum and pedagogy - Culture, creativity, arts, music, performance - Electronic critical editions - Digitisation, text encoding and analysis - Communities and crowdsourcing - Infrastructure, virtual research environments, workflows - Information mining, modelling, GIS and visualisation - Critical reflections on digital humanities futures ------------------------------------------- INTERNATIONAL SPEAKERS ------------------------------------------- Julia Flanders (Brown University, USA) Alan Liu (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA) Peter Robinson (University of Saskatchewan, Canada) Harold Short (King’s College London, UK and University of Western Sydney, Australia) John Unsworth (University of Illinois, USA) ---------------------- SUBMISSIONS ---------------------- Abstracts of no more than 300 words, together with a biography of no more than 100 words, should be submitted to the Program Committee by 11 November, 2011. All proposals will be fully refereed. Proposals should be submitted via the online form at http://conference.aa-dh.org. Please indicate whether you are proposing a poster, a short paper (10 mins), a long paper (20 mins) or a panel. Presenters will be notified of acceptance of their proposal on 30 November, 2011. ------------------------------- TRAVEL BURSARIES ------------------------------- The Australian Academy of the Humanities has provided funding for travel bursaries. These will be available on a competitive basis for postgraduate students and early career researchers from Australia and New Zealand to present at the conference and participate in associated workshops. Staff from cultural institutions are also encouraged to apply. When submitting your proposal please indicate if you wish to be considered for a bursary. ---------------------------- PROPOSAL TYPES ---------------------------- 1. Poster presentations Poster presentations may include work-in-progress on any of the topics described above as well as demonstrations of computer technology, software and digital projects. A separate poster session will open the conference, during which time presenters will need to be available to explain their work, share their ideas with other delegates, and answer questions. Posters will also be on display at various times during the conference, and presenters are encouraged to provide material and handouts with more detailed information and URLs. 2. Short papers Short papers are allocated 10 minutes (plus 5 minutes for questions) and are suitable for describing work-in-progress and reporting on shorter experiments and software and tools in early stages of development. 3. Long papers Long papers are allocated 20 minutes (plus 10 minutes for questions) and are intended for presenting substantial unpublished research and reporting on significant new digital resources or methodologies. 4. Panels Panels (90 minutes) are comprised of either: (a) Three long papers on a joint theme. All abstracts should be submitted together with a statement, of no more than 300 words, outlining the session topic and its relevance to current directions in the digital humanities; or (b) A panel of four to six speakers. The panel organiser should submit a 300-word outline of the topic session and its relevance to current directions in the digital humanities as well as an indication from all speakers of their willingness to participate. -------------------- CONVENORS -------------------- Dr Paul Arthur, Australian National University Dr Katherine Bode, Australian National University ------------------------------------ PROGRAM COMMITTEE ------------------------------------ Dr Paul Arthur, Australian National University Dr Craig Bellamy, VeRSI, University of Melbourne, Australia Dr Katherine Bode, Australian National University Prof Hugh Craig, University of Newcastle, Australia Prof Jane Hunter, University of Queensland, Australia Dr Sydney Shep, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2011 08:54:40 +0000 From: Charles Ess Subject: save the date: CATaC'12 - June 18-20, 2012 - Aarhus, Denmark Dear Humanists, with the usual apologies for cross-posting: On behalf of the CATaC (Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Communication) Organizing Committee, I am very pleased to pass on to you the first CFP for CATaC‘12: Beyond the digital/cultural divide: in/visibility and new media. The biennial CATaC conference series, begun in 1998, has become a premier international forum for current research on the complex interactions between culturally-variable norms, practices, and communication preferences, and interaction with the design, implementation and use of information and communication technologies (ICTs). Our 2012 conference, as the title suggests, begins with the recognition that the ongoing issues and challenges clustering around digital divides ­ often involving mutually reinforcing cultural divides ­extends beyond classic and stubborn problems of access to new media and communication technologies. For example, matters of representation come into play, issuing in a cluster of questions: -- Whose images and words are seen/presented/promoted and whose aren't? And why? If activists are using new media to represent realities of, say, oppressed indigenous people in a given country, is this better than no visibility at all, even if the people in question do not have access or skills to present themselves as subjects? -- In particular: Local and indigenous HCI/ID is about making visible the semiotic scripts and political processes of meaning construction that shape the process of technology design and knowledge representation from a sociotechnical perspective. Making visible these scripts enables the assessment of the value of these tools and frameworks from indigenous and/or local perspectives. Key concerns here are (1) to examine the meaning and validity of democratic values that drive participatory design as a discipline, and (2) to question 'exported' representations of what constitutes good usability and user experience. And: -- How do new practices of cloaking messages in otherwise public or semi-public media; for example, the strategies of online steganography work to create intentional invisibility in otherwise visible spaces? Are there important culturally-variable elements in these practices that, when brought to the foreground, help illuminate and clarify them in new ways? Finally: -- What are the role(s) of (culturally) diverse understandings and representations of gender in structuring the frameworks and practices of design and implementation. How do these roles foster the visibility of some vis-à-vis the invisibility of ³others² (in Levinas¹ sense, in particular)? Additional submissions are encouraged that address further conference points of emphasis: -- Theoretical and practical approaches to analyzing ³culture² -- New layers of imaging and texting interactions fostering and/or threatening cultural diversity -- Impact of mobile technologies on privacy and surveillance -- Gender, sexuality and identity issues in social networks -- Cultural diversity in e-learning and/or m-learning -- Culturally-variable approaches to online identity management/creation, privacy, trust Copyright and intellectual property rights ­ recent developments, culturally-variable future directions? -- Culturally-variable responses to commodification in online environments Both short (3-5 pages) and long (10-15 pages) original papers are sought for presentation.  Panel proposals addressing a specific theme or topic are also encouraged. Our provisional schedule: Submission of papers (short or full), panel proposals: 17. February 2012 Notification of acceptance: 16. March, 2012 Final formatted papers (for conference proceedings): 19. April 2012   Further details regarding program (including keynote speakers and pre-conference activities), registration fees, travel and accommodations will be available soon on the conference website, http://www.catacconference.org/ . We look forward to welcoming you to Aarhus next June! Charles Ess (IMV, Aarhus University), Chair Fay Sudweeks (Professor Emerita, Murdoch University, Perth, Western Australia) ­ honorary chair Herbert Hrachovec (University of Vienna) Leah Macfadyen (University of British Columbia) José Abdelnour Nocera (University of West London, UK) Kenneth Reeder (University of British Columbia) Ylva Hård af Segerstad (Göteborgs universitet, Göteborg, SE) Michele M. Strano (Bridgewater College, Virginia, USA) Andra Siibak (University of Tartu, Estonia) Maja van der Velden (University of Oslo) --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2011 13:59:03 +0100 From: Stuart Dunn Subject: Seminar: Digital Humanities Centers and the New Humanities With apologies for cross-postings. Digital Humanities Centers and the New Humanities Wednesday 5 October 2011, 18:00 Anatomy Theatre & Museum (for directions see http://atm.kcl.ac.uk/location) Neil Fraistat, University of Maryland In association with arts-humanities.net What is the function of the digital humanities center within a rapidly changing humanities landscape? Although they have a great capacity for focusing, maximizing, and networking local knowledge, local resources, and local communities of practice, digital humanities centers are also at risk of being silos, overly focused on their home institutions, rarely collaborating with other centers, and unable to address by themselves the larger problems of the field. They also siphon off grant funding from schools unable to afford a digital humanities center of their own and can make it harder for scholars at such places to participate in the larger projects that help to shape the possibilities and future of the field. Are digital humanties centers crucial to the future of the field, or deleterious to it? Or to point the question more finely: in what ways and under what circumstances might digital humanities centers be seen as more crucial to the field than deleterious? I'll be discussing these issues especially in terms of the centerNet initiative, which seeks to create a truly global network of local digital humanities centers. About the speaker Neil Fraistat is Professor of English and Director of the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) at the University of Maryland. He is a founder and general editor of the Romantic Circles Website, the Co-Chair of centerNet (an international network of digital humanities centers), and he has published widely on the subjects of Romanticism, Textual Studies, and Digital Humanities in various articles and in the eight books he has authored or edited. Fraistat has engaged in projects involving the preservation of virtual worlds and born digital creative works; the development of the Open Annotation Collaboration framework for sharing annotations of digital content across the World Wide Web; and the building of international cyberinfrastructure. He currently serves on the advisory boards of Project Bamboo, CLARIN, D-SPIN, NINES, INKE, Project MUSE, and CHAIN, a coalition of humanities and arts infrastructures and networks that includes DARIAH, Project Bamboo, CLARIN, ADHO, and centerNet. Fraistat has been awarded the Society for Textual Scholarship's biennial Fredson Bowers Memorial Prize, the Keats-Shelley Association Prize, honorable mention for the Modern Language Association's biennial Distinguished Scholarly Edition Prize, and the Keats-Shelly Association's Distinguished Scholar Award. For more information, see:http://www.kcl.ac.uk/innovation/groups/cerch/events/fraistat.aspx -- Dr Stuart Dunn Research Fellow Centre for e-Research King's College London www.stuartdunn.wordpress.com Tel +44 (0)207 848 2709 Fax +44 (0)207 848 1989 stuart.dunn@kcl.ac.uk 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 Sun Oct 2 07:36:22 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7CEE19743F; Sun, 2 Oct 2011 07:36:21 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id F0EF719742B; Sun, 2 Oct 2011 07:36:19 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111002073619.F0EF719742B@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2011 07:36:19 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.343 The Tower and the Cloud X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 343. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 02 Oct 2011 08:34:14 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: The Tower and the Cloud Several here will, I expect, already know about a 2008 Educause publication, The Tower and the Cloud: Higher Education in the Age of Cloud Computing, ed. Richard N. Katz (http://www.educause.edu/books). Such is the wealth of publications in, about or near the digital humanities now that missing it until the latter part of 2011 is, I hope, not such a sin. John Unsworth's "University 2.0" will reward the reading. Yours, WM -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Oct 3 05:37:28 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id E703E1C6D9F; Mon, 3 Oct 2011 05:37:27 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id BE8231C6D8D; Mon, 3 Oct 2011 05:37:25 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111003053725.BE8231C6D8D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2011 05:37:25 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.344 3 publications: sustainability; Tower & Cloud; ancient mss X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 344. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Claire Clivaz (10) Subject: «From Ancient Manuscripts to the Digital Era» [2] From: James Cronin (59) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.343 The Tower and the Cloud [3] From: Luis Gutierrez (65) Subject: Mother Pelican Vol. 7 No. 10 October 2011 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2011 09:45:01 +0200 From: Claire Clivaz Subject: «From Ancient Manuscripts to the Digital Era» Dear List, You can find online 13 movies of the plenary lectures of the Swiss meeting «From Ancient Manuscripts to the Digital Era»: http://www.unil.ch/irsb/page75991.html Lectures by: Philippe Moreillon (CH), Claire Clivaz (CH), Christian Vandendorpe (CA), Frédéric Kaplan (CH), Philippe Kaennel (CH), Holt Parker (US), Leonard Muellner and Mary Ebbott (US), David Parker (UK), David Bouvier (CH), David Hamidovic (CH), Peter Haber (CH), Jean-Yves Mollier (F). A public debate on «What will come after the book?» concludes the series. Some powerpoints of the contributions are available here: http://www3.unil.ch/wpmu/digitalera2011/deroulement/ The proceedings will be published in an extensive digital version, with some articles also available in a small paper book, next year. All the best, Claire Clivaz --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2011 10:09:02 +0100 From: James Cronin Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.343 The Tower and the Cloud In-Reply-To: <20111002073619.F0EF719742B@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Willard, You might be interested to know that Katz's text has been discussed in SoTL (Scholarship of Teaching and Learning) literature. In the tower and the cloud, Richard Katz examines how higher education institutions (the tower) may interoperate with evolving network-based business and social paradigms (the cloud). His metaphor evocatively expresses the symbiotic aspirations of new knowledge paradigms within the context of an evolving semantic web of collective information exchange where educational and cultural memory institutions are no longer exclusively sole generators and disseminators of knowledge. I attach a link to a paper, published last year, "Beyond Wikipedia and Google: Web-based literacies and student learning" see http://cora.ucc.ie/handle/10468/264. Here, I briefly discuss the tower and cloud metaphor within the broader context of questions concerning knowledge making and online information exchange as viewed through a SoTL lens. Katz’s paradigm resonates with current SoTL – and Digital Humanities -- interest in the topic of Prosumption (content user as content producer); an interesting example of this is the “Student as Producer” project http://studentasproducer.lincoln.ac.uk/ at the University of Lincoln, UK. Regards, James -- James G.R. Cronin, University College Cork http://ucc-ie.academia.edu/JamesCronin --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 02 Oct 2011 23:35:08 -0400 From: Luis Gutierrez Subject: Mother Pelican Vol. 7 No. 10 October 2011 In-Reply-To: <20111002073619.F0EF719742B@woodward.joyent.us> Greetings ... just to let you know about the current issue ... Theme - *Gender Balance for Solidarity and Sustainability* Mother Pelican: A Journal of Sustainable Human Development http://www.pelicanweb.org/solisustv07n10page1.html Summary It is proposed that gender balance - deeply internalized, not merely a matter of numbers - will be a source of "new energy" to overcome the masculinist culture of violence and domination. Gender balance can help individuals and nations to start considering both self-interest and the common good. "We have a special responsibility to the ecosystem of this planet. In making sure that other species survive we will be ensuring the survival of our own." Wangari Maathai, Kenya (+ 26 September 2011) Gender balance at all levels of responsibility and authority can pave the way for a sensible transition from consumerism to sustainability. It can make possible the exploration of new initiatives such as transferring tax burdens from earned income to financial speculation, natural resource usage, and environmental degradation; declaring some form of debt jubilee and/or creating debt-free money by central and regional banks; enhancing distributive justice via a democratically set level of universal guaranteed personal income; balancing globalization with financial and monetary localization via local currencies and/or exchange trading systems; adopting business practices such as the triple bottom line; working out the economic and technological issues that must be resolved in order to migrate from fossil fuels to clean energy; consolidating democracy by firm adherence to the wise principles of solidarity, subsidiarity, and sustainability; and giving top priority to sustainable human development rather than unsustainable resource exploitation and wealth accumulation. So there is no lack of reasonable ideas about ways to manage the transition, but political will is utterly lacking; and political will cannot possibly emerge as long as masculinist patriarchy remains normative. The transition from consumerism to sustainability has already started, even though it remains invisible for many. But attaining gender balance in human affairs, and the process toward energy balance and ecological sustainability, will reinforce each other in many significant and mutually beneficial ways. Gender balance is the catalyst that will brake the current impasse and get the process going. Since the "patriarchs" will seldom pour the catalyst down from the top, it must gently percolate upwards from the grassroots: individual citizens, families, groups, and local communities. Articles Editorial Essay ~ Gender Balance for Solidarity and Sustainability Five Axioms of Sustainability, by Richard Heinberg Will economic collapse save us from climate catastrophe?, by Dan Allen The global prisoners' dilemma of unsustainability, by David Lempert Population, Consumption, and Reproductive Health, by Victoria Markham Economic Development Leaving Millions Behind, by Kanya D'Almeida From King Coal to Carbon Tax, by Paul Sabin The Masculinity Conspiracy - Part 1, by Joseph Gelfer Land Rehabilitation in Burkina Faso , by Pauline Buffle and Chris Reij A Proposal to Hasten a Global Paradigm Shift, by Judith Hand Supplement 1: Advances in Sustainable Development Supplement 2: Directory of Sustainable Development Resources Supplement 3: Strategies for the Transition to Clean Energy Supplement 4: Tactics for the Transition to Clean Energy Supplement 5: Status of Gender Equality in Society Supplement 6: Status of Gender Equality in Religion Please forward this notice to friends and colleagues who might be interested. Sincerely, Luis Luis T. Gutiérrez, PhD, PE The Pelican Web of Solidarity and Sustainability Mother Pelican: A Journal of Sustainable Human Development http://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 Mon Oct 3 06:43:43 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE9A61C6A7C; Mon, 3 Oct 2011 06:43:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 6C0B11C6A6A; Mon, 3 Oct 2011 06:43:41 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111003064341.6C0B11C6A6A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2011 06:43:41 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.345 what do we have to teach the baby? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 345. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2011 07:39:37 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: like a baby On 18 August IBM announced "a new generation of experimental computer chips designed to emulate the brain’s abilities for perception, action and cognition.... cognitive computers are expected to learn through experiences, find correlations, create hypotheses, and remember – and learn from – the outcomes, mimicking the brains structural and synaptic plasticity" (http://www-03.ibm.com/press/uk/en/pressrelease/35252.wss). In the latest London Review of Books (33.19, http://www.lrb.co.uk/v33/n19/daniel-soar/it-knows), Daniel Soar, reviewing three books on Google, quotes Steven Levy (of Hackers, I assume) in his book In the Plex, as follows on the more than 200 signals it uses in addition to PageRank: > What every one of those signals is and how they are weighted is > Google’s most precious trade secret, but the most useful signal of > all is the least predictable: the behaviour of the person who types > their query into the search box. A click on the third result counts > as a vote that it ought to come higher. A ‘long click’ – when you > select one of the results and don’t come back – is a stronger vote. > To test a new version of its algorithm, Google releases it to a small > subset of its users and measures its effectiveness through the > pattern of their clicks: more happy surfers and it’s just got > cleverer. We teach it while we think it’s teaching us. Levy tells the > story of a new recruit with a long managerial background who asked > Google’s senior vice-president of engineering, Alan Eustace, what > systems Google had in place to improve its products. ‘He expected to > hear about quality assurance teams and focus groups’ – the sort of > set-up he was used to. ‘Instead Eustace explained that Google’s brain > was like a baby’s, an omnivorous sponge that was always getting > smarter from the information it soaked up.’ Like a baby, Google uses > what it hears to learn about the workings of human language. The > large number of people who search for ‘pictures of dogs’ and also > ‘pictures of puppies’ tells Google that ‘puppy’ and ‘dog’ mean > similar things, yet it also knows that people searching for ‘hot > dogs’ get cross if they’re given instructions for ‘boiling puppies’. > If Google misunderstands you, and delivers the wrong results, the > fact that you’ll go back and rephrase your query, explaining what you > mean, will help it get it right next time. Every search for > information is itself a piece of information Google can learn from. Like that old question, "how much information is there in the world?", the possibility that Google might sell the information it gathers about us is beside the point. (Soar catalogues what Google learns about us.) Google, he writes, isn't gathering information to sell. In 2007 Google released GOOG-411 in the U.S., a voice-driven service that would come back at you with the top 8 results for whatever you asked about. > It soon became clear that what it was getting were demands for pizza > spoken in every accent in the continental United States, along with > questions about plumbers in Detroit and countless variations on the > pronunciations of ‘Schenectady’, ‘Okefenokee’ and ‘Boca Raton’. > GOOG-411, a Google researcher later wrote, was a phoneme-gathering > operation, a way of improving voice recognition technology through > massive data collection. The service was dropped three years later, but by then, Soar writes, "The baby had learned to talk." You can see where both Google and, on a smaller scale, IBM are going. "Distant reading" seems like quite small beer in comparison, and that's to understate massively. So a university professor wonders: what is the connection between what we're doing and where the world in this respect is going? Comments? Yours, WM -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Oct 4 05:29:15 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id D704A1C7C6B; Tue, 4 Oct 2011 05:29:14 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 89B8B1C7C0A; Tue, 4 Oct 2011 05:29:12 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111004052912.89B8B1C7C0A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2011 05:29:12 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.346 events: webites as sources & THATcamp; in/visibility; e-research X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 346. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "catac@it.murdoch.edu.au" (47) Subject: CATaC'12 - 18-20 June 2012 - Aarhus, Denmark [2] From: "Ashton, Anna" (37) Subject: Centre for e-Research seminars [3] From: "Tanner, Simon" (77) Subject: cfp: Digital Humanities Symposium 2012- Luxembourg - Centre Virtuel de la Connaissance sur l'Europe (CVCE) --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2011 07:47:54 +0100 From: "catac@it.murdoch.edu.au" Subject: CATaC'12 - 18-20 June 2012 - Aarhus, Denmark Dear colleagues On behalf of the CATaC (Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Communication) Organizing Committee, I am very pleased to pass on to you the first CFP for CATaC'12: Beyond the digital/cultural divide: in/visibility and new media. The biennial CATaC conference series, begun in 1998, has become a premier international forum for current research on the complex interactions between culturally-variable norms, practices, and communication preferences, and interaction with the design, implementation and use of information and communication technologies (ICTs). Our 2012 conference, as the title suggests, begins with the recognition that the ongoing issues and challenges clustering around digital divides - often involving mutually reinforcing cultural divides - extends beyond classic and stubborn problems of access to new media and communication technologies. For example, matters of representation come into play, issuing in a cluster of questions: - Whose images and words are seen/presented/promoted and whose aren't? And why? If activists are using new media to represent realities of, say, oppressed indigenous people in a given country, is this better than no visibility at all, even if the people in question do not have access or skills to present themselves as subjects? - In particular: Local and indigenous HCI/ID is about making visible the semiotic scripts and political processes of meaning construction that shape the process of technology design and knowledge representation from a sociotechnical perspective. Making visible these scripts enables the assessment of the value of these tools and frameworks from indigenous and/or local perspectives. Key concerns here are (1) to examine the meaning and validity of democratic values that drive participatory design as a discipline, and (2) to question 'exported' representations of what constitutes good usability and user experience. And: - How do new practices of cloaking messages in otherwise public or semi-public media; for example, the strategies of online steganography work to create intentional invisibility in otherwise visible spaces? Are there important culturally-variable elements in these practices that, when brought to the foreground, help illuminate and clarify them in new ways? Finally: - What are the role(s) of (culturally) diverse understandings and representations of gender in structuring the frameworks and practices of design and implementation. How do these roles foster the visibility of some vis-a-vis the invisibility of 'others' (in Levinas' sense, in particular)? Additional submissions are encouraged that address further conference points of emphasis: - Theoretical and practical approaches to analyzing 'culture' - New layers of imaging and texting interactions fostering and/or threatening cultural diversity - Impact of mobile technologies on privacy and surveillance - Gender, sexuality and identity issues in social networks - Cultural diversity in e-learning and/or m-learning - Culturally-variable approaches to online identity management/creation, privacy, trust Copyright and intellectual property rights: recent developments, culturally-variable future directions - Culturally-variable responses to commodification in online environments Both short (3-5 pages) and long (10-15 pages) original papers are sought for presentation. Panel proposals addressing a specific theme or topic are also encouraged. Our provisional schedule: Submission of papers (short or full), panel proposals: 17 February 2012 Notification of acceptance: 16 March 2012 Final formatted papers (for conference proceedings): 19 April 2012 Conference: 18-20 June 2012 Further details regarding program (including keynote speakers and pre-conference activities), registration fees, travel and accommodations will be available soon on the conference website, http://www.catacconference.org/. We look forward to welcoming you to Aarhus next June! Charles Ess (IMV, Aarhus University, Denmark), Chair Fay Sudweeks (Professor Emerita, Murdoch University, Australia), honorary chair Herbert Hrachovec (University of Vienna, Austria) Leah Macfadyen (University of British Columbia, Canada) Jose Abdelnour Nocera (University of West London, UK) Kenneth Reeder (University of British Columbia, Canada) Ylva Hård af Segerstad (Gothenburg University, Gothenburg, Sweden) Michele M. Strano (Bridgewater College, Virginia, USA) Andra Siibak (University of Tartu, Estonia) Maja van der Velden (University of Oslo) --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2011 15:30:04 +0100 From: "Ashton, Anna" Subject: Centre for e-Research seminars Please see below forthcoming seminars run by the Centre for e-Research. All take place in the Anatomy Theatre & Museum, King's College London (for directions see http://atm.kcl.ac.uk/location) and are followed by drinks. All welcome. Wednesday 5 October 18:00 'Digital Humanities Centers and the New Humanities' Neil Fraistat, University of Maryland http://www.kcl.ac.uk/innovation/groups/cerch/events/fraistat.aspx Tuesday 11 October 18:15 'Webometric Analyses of Social Web Texts: Case Studies Twitter and YouTube' Mike Thelwall, University of Wolverhampton http://www.kcl.ac.uk/innovation/groups/cerch/events/seminars/webometrics.aspx Tuesday 25 October 18:15 'BBC Genome Project' Andy O’Dwyer, BBC Research http://www.kcl.ac.uk/innovation/groups/cerch/events/seminars/bbcgenome.aspx Tuesday 8 November 18:15 'Watching the Detectives: Using digital forensic techniques to investigate the digital persona' Gareth Knight, King’s College London http://www.kcl.ac.uk/innovation/groups/cerch/events/seminars/digforensics.aspx Tuesday 22 November 18:15 'Documenting and Exploring Material Surface Features with Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI)' Kathryn Piquette, UCL http://www.kcl.ac.uk/innovation/groups/cerch/events/seminars/materialsurface.aspx Tuesday 6 December, 18:15 'The Ocropodium Project: Evaluating open-source tools for historical OCR' Mike Bryant, King’s College London http://www.kcl.ac.uk/innovation/groups/cerch/events/seminars/ocropodium.aspx ___ Anna Ashton Communications Manager Centre for e-Research King's College London 26-29 Drury Lane London, WC2B 5RL Email: anna.ashton@kcl.ac.uk Tel: 020 7848 2689 Fax: 020 7848 1989 http://www.kcl.ac.uk/cerch Follow us on Twitter @KingsCeRchhumanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2011 14:01:35 +0100 From: "Tanner, Simon" Subject: cfp: Digital Humanities Symposium 2012- Luxembourg - Centre Virtuel de la Connaissance sur l'Europe (CVCE) Digital Humanities Luxembourg (DHLU) 2012 presents two interlinked events taking place in Luxembourg from 20 to 23 March: I. DHLU Symposium 2012 ‘Websites as sources’ II. THATCamp Luxembourg/Trier CALL FOR PAPERS DHLU Symposium 2012 WEBSITES AS SOURCES: How should humanities and social sciences approach, use and diffuse publicly available online sources? Deadline: 15 November 2011 The Jean Monnet Chair in History of European Integration and its Research Programme ‘Digital Humanities Luxembourg’ — DIHULUX (research unit Identités-Politiques-Sociétés-Espaces [IPSE]), together with the Centre Virtuel de la Connaissance sur l’Europe (CVCE), are pleased to launch the call for papers for the DHLU Symposium 2012. This Symposium follows the DHLU Symposium 2009, also organised in Luxembourg by these two institutions on the topic of ‘Contemporary history in the digital age’. This second edition aims to examine the use of websites as sources for research in the humanities and social sciences, especially encouraging an analysis of this heuristic question in the field of European integration studies (EIS). The Symposium will address both methodological aspects and the theoretical and institutional implications of the public dissemination of research results, focusing on digitised and online published sources as well as on websites themselves, which will be analysed as born digital sources. The potential of this innovative research approach will also be explored and emphasised. The Symposium will be structured around the following research clusters, but may also include other related approaches: 1. Holding the mirror This first cluster addresses the challenges and potentialities of online archives offering primary sources for research purposes. It will look into the modes of presentation and theoretical-methodological debates concerning uses, approaches and interconnections of such sources. 2. The critical added value This cluster focuses on online secondary sources and enhanced publications, with a special emphasis in digital research corpora. It aims at examining ongoing developments in the intertwining modes between available primary sources and resulting secondary sources centred on the priority of critically commenting and enriching contents as a scientific asset. 3. (Self-)reflections and the creative observer This cluster will take a step beyond textual sources to examine the unique features of audiovisual sources and hence of new forms of creation and re-creation of historical memories. A special section within this cluster will be dedicated to innovative digital oral history sources and projects. 4. Institutional and dissemination aspects: digital public history This cluster will focus on forms of institutionalisation of digital research practices, results and dissemination strategies by means of collaborative projects in the humanities and social sciences targeted towards a wide variety of audiences. 5. Web history and digital history methods for the use of websites as sources Web history constitutes a new scientific field centred on the historical study of websites for research purposes, thus paving the way for increasingly interdisciplinary trends in the humanities and social sciences. This session will offer Web historians the opportunity to share their experiences concerning their ongoing results and chosen methods. We welcome papers focusing on digital humanities and social sciences from researchers and scholars at all stages of their careers. Papers examining cases related to European integration studies (EIS) are especially encouraged. Abstracts (max. 500 words), submitted together with a short CV (max. 250 words) and a list of publications, can be written in English or French and should be sent to the following contact email address, which can also be used for any enquiries: frederic [dot] clavert [at] cvce [dot] eu The authors of the selected proposals will be invited to present their contributions at the DHLU Symposium 2012, to be held in Luxembourg, and their papers will be published in the Symposium proceedings (only English versions of the revised full papers will be accepted for publication). Participation costs will be covered up to a set limit. — Deadline for proposals: 15 November 2011 The Symposium will be followed by THATCamp Luxembourg/Trier, closely linked to the main themes of the Symposium and offering technology and humanities specialists the opportunity to meet and discuss during brainstorming sessions based on the Symposium’s liveliest debates. THATCamp Luxembourg/Trier will be co-organised by the Center for Digital Humanities (Universität Trier). The First Meeting of the International Federation for Public History (IFPH) will take place alongside these two events. For further information, please refer to the DHLU Symposium 2012 website: http://www.digitalhumanities.lu _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 Oct 5 05:53:16 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1B8D1C72E5; Wed, 5 Oct 2011 05:53:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 928A91C72D1; Wed, 5 Oct 2011 05:53:14 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111005055314.928A91C72D1@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2011 05:53:14 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.347 events: TEI; DHSI; metadata; the novel X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 347. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Devin Griffiths (61) Subject: DH Panel at ACLA [2] From: Seth van Hooland (38) Subject: Free your Metadata! [3] From: Julia Flanders (11) Subject: TEI workshop at Brown: space still available [4] From: "Dana Wheeles" (31) Subject: NINES Fellowships for DHSI 2012 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2011 10:42:02 -0400 From: Devin Griffiths Subject: DH Panel at ACLA American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) http://www.acla.org/ Hi everyone, I just wanted to alert the list to a panel at next year's ACLA conference (at Brown), which addresses digital perspectives on the novel. The ACLA panel structure is a bit unusual in that they consist of twelve presenters who meet for two hours a day each of the three days of the conference -- almost like a workshop. I've pasted a description of the panel below. If you're interested, please apply directly to the organizers here http://acla.org/acla2012/?page_id=45 (http://acla.org/acla2012/?page_id=45) by Nov. 15. Megan and I look forward to seeing you in Providence. Best, Devin Griffiths Digital Perspectives on the World of the Novel *Seminar Organizers:* * Megan Ward (Point Park University), Devin Griffiths (University of Pennsylvania ) This panel explores how new technologies change the way we think about the novel. The world of the novel includes the imaginative world within the text, traditionally analyzed through close-reading of particular texts. Digital technologies allow for greater breadth of analysis but may also call into question focused readings of individual novels. How do networks, visualizations, or phrase nets, for instance, reinterpret literary world-making -- within texts and between them? The world of the novel also recognizes the novel as a world system. How can digital perspectives help us understand what Wai Chee Dimock calls "the broader constellation" of the novel across the timescales and geopolitical boundaries that constitute literary periods and fields of inquiry? And how do comparative methods transform the tools of digital humanism from technologies of "distant reading," in Franco Moretti's description, into tools of "thick reading" that find increased particularity and depth through broader analysis? Tools such as Google's n-gram viewer can chart fictions of catastrophe in historical perspective, but how do charts and graphs constitute objects of critical inquiry? How can text-mining and computational linguistics provide access to, rather than foreclose, the modes of textual, cultural, and historical engagement that drive contemporary scholarship? Possible topics include, but are not limited to: * Digital Comparativism, * Geographic Information and World Systems, * Text Mining, * Comparative Analysis, * The Informatics of Global Textual Flows, * Network Analysis, * Comparative Stylistics, * Digital Piracy, * The Novel and Hacktivism, * The E-Novel, * The New Media Novel, * The Novel as Social Network -- Devin Griffiths Post-Doctoral Fellow English Department University of Pennsylvania 331 Fisher-Bennet Hall 3340 Walnut St. Philadelphia, PA 19104-6273 215.573.7323; fax 215.573.2063 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2011 19:43:29 +0200 From: Seth van Hooland Subject: Free your Metadata! Dear colleagues, Looking for hands-on information on how to clean up your metadata and bring them into the Linked Data cloud? We have just launched http://freeyourmetadata.org, which aims to promote the use of Google Refine by curators, librarians, cataloguers, metadata managers and collection holders at large to reconcile their own locally developed with controlled vocabularies which are already a part of the Linked Data cloud, such as the LCSH. We only make use of freely available metadata and non-expert tools, in order to stimulate semantic web novices to start playing with their own metadata. Currently, the website features a detailed screencast on the metadata profiling and clean-up possibilities of Google Refine, by using the metadata from the Powerhouse Museum: http://freeyourmetadata.org/cleanup/. The screencast regarding the reconciliation of a locally developed vocabulary (or even free-text keywords) with the LCSH will be published shortly on the website. In-depth information regarding the cleaning of metadata and the reconciliation process with the LCSH can be found in our research paper, downloadable at http://freeyourmetadata.org/publications/freeyourmetadata.pdf. We will be giving talks in Europe in November (see http://freeyourmetadata.org/join/), and are currently busy setting up dates for some workshops in the US and Canada in February-March-April 2012. Don't hesitate to contact us if you want to co-organize a workshop/tutorial at your institution or conference, we'll be more than happy to help you free your metadata! Kind regards, Ruben Verborgh (Multimedia Lab, Ghent University) Max De Wilde (MaSTIC, UniversitE9 Libre de Bruxelles) Seth van Hooland (MaSTIC, UniversitE9 Libre de Bruxelles) Seth van Hooland Master en Sciences et Technologies de l'Information et de la Communication (MaSTIC) | UniversitE9 Libre de Bruxelles Av. F.D. Roosevelt, 50 CP 123 | 1050 Brussels - Belgium http://homepages.ulb.ac.be/~svhoolan/ http://mastic.ulb.ac.be 0032 2 650 4765 Office: DC11.113 --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2011 14:09:23 -0400 From: Julia Flanders Subject: TEI workshop at Brown: space still available There's still space available in our upcoming workshop: Introduction to Manuscript Encoding with TEI December 5-7, 2011 Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island $300 for TEI members and subscribers $450 for non-members This is an introduction to the basics of TEI and XML, with a special focus on the use of TEI to encode manuscript materials. A rough schedule is available at http://www.wwp.brown.edu/outreach/seminars/mss_2011-12/ We hope to see you there! Best wishes, Julia --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2011 14:16:01 -0400 From: "Dana Wheeles" Subject: NINES Fellowships for DHSI 2012 Announcing NINES Fellowships for DHSI 2012. The Digital Humanities Summer Institute at the University of Victoria (dhsi.org) provides an ideal environment for discussing and learning about new computing technologies and how they are influencing teaching, research, dissemination, and preservation in different disciplines. As a sponsor for the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) 2012, NINES is offering five tuition-free slots to scholars of nineteenth-century literature and culture interested in the digital humanities. Tuition at DHSI usually costs $950 (student rate $500). Anticipated course offerings for this year’s workshop (June 4-8) include: Text Encoding Fundamentals and Their Application Digitization Fundamentals and Their Application Introduction to XSLT for Digital Humanists Multimedia: Design for Visual, Auditory, and Interactive Electronic Environments Geographical Information Systems in the Digital Humanities Physical Computing and Desktop Fabrication for Humanists Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities Creating Digital Humanities Projects for the Mobile Environment Designing RESTful APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) Digital Humanities Databases Augmented Reality: An Introduction Issues in Large Project Planning and Management Out-of-the-Box Text Analysis for the Digital Humanities Digital Editions More information about these courses, and the Summer Institute itself, can be found at the DHSI website (dhsi.org). TO APPLY: Send a 1-2 page description of your research interests, their relationship to digital technologies and your reasons for wanting to attend the DHSI summer school to workshops@nines.org by October 26, 2010. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Oct 6 06:00:04 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83E6B1CE441; Thu, 6 Oct 2011 06:00:04 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D99181CE434; Thu, 6 Oct 2011 06:00:01 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111006060001.D99181CE434@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2011 06:00:01 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.348 Oxford Scholarly Editions Online X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 348. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2011 14:12:02 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Oxford Scholarly Editions Online > March 2012 sees the launch of a major new publishing initiative from > Oxford University Press – Oxford Scholarly Editions Online (OSEO) – > the first phase publishing online the complete text of more than 150 > scholarly editions of material written between 1485 and 1660. Oxford > Scholarly Editions Online will provide an interlinked collection of > authoritative Oxford editions of major works from the humanities. > This content constitutes the cornerstone of research in the fields of > English Literature, as well as Philosophy, History, and Religion. > > Each title within the collection presents the full text of the work, > as established by an authoritative editor, accompanied by the > editor’s record of important variations in that text, and > interpretative and explanatory notes. Most also have introductions > placing the work and the author in a historical context, and > explaining the editorial principles and the history of the text. > Online publication of these essential scholarly resources facilitates > navigation within and between editions, whilst retaining the > traditional elements familiar to users of the printed editions. The > more flexible online presentation opens up new possibilities for > search and comparison. For more see www.oxfordscholarlyeditions.com. Yours, WM -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Oct 6 06:00:46 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 296B41CE49C; Thu, 6 Oct 2011 06:00:46 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 77CFB1CE493; Thu, 6 Oct 2011 06:00:44 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111006060044.77CFB1CE493@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2011 06:00:44 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.349 imaging software X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 349. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2011 16:50:08 -0400 From: Lev Manovich Subject: ImagePlot Introducing ImagePlot 0.9: a new visualization software for digital humanities http://lab.softwarestudies.com/p/imageplot.html See your whole image collection in a single visualization. ImagePlot is a free software tool that visualizes collections of images and video of any size. It is implemented as a macro which works with the open source image processing program ImageJ. ImagePlot was developed by the Software Studies Initiative with support from the National Endowment for Humanities (NEH), the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2), and the Center for Research in Computing and the Arts (CRCA). Existing visualization tools show data as points, lines, and bars. ImagePlot's visualizations shows the actual images in your collection. The images can be scaled to any size and organized in any order - according to their dates, content, visual characteristics, etc. Because digital video is just a set of individual still images, you can also use ImagePlot to explore patterns in films, animations, video games, and any other moving image data. Better understand media collections and make new discoveries. Visualize image collections as timelines and scatter plots which display all images in a collection. Find images that are outliers. Discover clusters - sets of images that are similar in content or visual properties. Visualize multiple sets of images to better understand their similarities and differences. Explore patterns in existing metadata (i.e., dates, names, etc.), added annotations and keywords, or visual features (i.e., brightness, saturation, hue, shapes, etc.) Visualize change. We include macros which automatically measure various visual properties of every image in collection (or every frame in a video). These measurements can be visualized as line graphs, scatter plots, and image plots. This allows you to see the patterns of change over time in images' visual characteristics. You can also compare multiple image sets in terms of their visual characteristics. Visualize image collections of any size. From a few dozens to millions of images. There is no theoretical limit to the number of images that can be included in a single visualization. A few dozen images can be visualized in a second, a few thousands will take a few minutes. The largest number we tried so far was one million images ( yes, this took a while - but it worked!). If your collection is really big, start the render and just come back when it is finished. How does it work? From points to images. Start with point and line graphs, which allow you to quickly explore your image set. Once you find an interesting pattern, re-render the plot to show the images. Go back and forth between these options as often as you like. Render and save high-res visualizations. You can render and save greyscale and full-color visualizations of any size (as long as they don't go over 2.5 GB.) For example, we created 44,000 x 44,000 grey scale visualization showing one million manga pages, 137,530 x 13,800 visualization showing all shots in an hour long film, full-color 16,000 x 12,000 visualization showing 776 van Gogh paintings. (All were rendered on Mac Book Pro with 4GB of RAM). Turn any visualization into an animation. Select the option to save visualization after each new image is added to it. The result is a sequence of files which can be easily turned into video (use QuickTime or any video editing application). Customize everything. Customize the appearance of data points and lines, background, axis lines, data labels, image labels, the size of images, image transparency, and pretty much everything else you can think of. We wrote ImagePlot to support both quick exploration of image sets and creation of high-res visualizations for publications and exhibitions. So we added options to control every possible aspect of visualization appearance. Visualizations created with ImagePlot have been shown in science centers, art and design museums, and art galleries, including Graphic Design Museum (Breda), Gwangju Design Biennale (Korea), and The San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art. Use with digital image analysis tools. Measure various visual properties of the images in a collection (brightness, saturation, hues, shapes) using macros we provide - or you can use any other digital image tools. Study patterns in these properties across a whole collection using ImagePlot visualizations. Will it work with my stuff? Work with images in all popular formats. Color or grey scale images? JPEG or TIFF? No problem, ImagePlot can handle them all. If you images have different sizes, ImagePlot can also automatically scale them to the same size. If your images are located across multiple directories on your computer, we built in an option to handle this as well. Cross-platform. Run ImagePlot on Windows, Mac OS or Unix. No coding required. ImagePlot has a Graphical User Interface, so you don't need to program or script anything. Use data created in other applications. ImagePlot works with the most common data formats: a set of image files and the data about these images saved in a tab delimited text file (.txt). This makes ImagePlot compatible with lots of other applications for media cataloging, data analysis, and information visualization. You can prepare and edit data using any spreadsheet or word processor application. The data file can contain any number of rows and columns. (For example, our data file for one million manga pages had one million rows and 60 columns.) Download and run ImagePlot in minutes. ImagePlot is a macro which runs within the cross platform, open source image processing software ImageJ. Together these files take up under 5 MB. The full ~100MB download comes with several large sample image sets, which are helpful for getting started but not required for the software to run. _________________________________________________________________ Download ImagePlot 0.9 http://lab.softwarestudies.com/p/imageplot.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 Thu Oct 6 06:02:00 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E0101CE515; Thu, 6 Oct 2011 06:02:00 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id EAA901CE50C; Thu, 6 Oct 2011 06:01:58 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111006060158.EAA901CE50C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2011 06:01:58 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.350 events: DH 2012; MLA 2012; Preservation Research Exchange X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 350. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Spence, Paul" (66) Subject: Digital Humanities 2012 - CfP workshops and tutorials [2] From: Willard McCarty (38) Subject: Preservation Research Exchange: Preserving Digital Heritage [3] From: Mark Sample (9) Subject: Digital Humanities Sessions at the 2012 MLA Convention --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2011 09:04:16 +0100 From: "Spence, Paul" Subject: Digital Humanities 2012 - CfP workshops and tutorials Please find below the Call for Proposals for pre-conferences, workshops and tutorials for the Digital Humanities 2012 conference, in Hamburg Germany. Note that the deadline for this call (Midnight GMT on 1 November - please check equivalent time in your time zone) is the same as the deadline for posters, papers and panel sessions announced a few weeks ago. Deadlines will be firm. All submissions can be made through the ConfTool website at https://secure.digitalhumanities.org (see instructions below) and do check the DH2012 conference website for news in the coming weeks: http://www.dh2012.uni-hamburg.de/ Paul Spence Chair of International Programme Committee for 2012 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for proposals: Pre-conference Workshops and Tutorials Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations Digital Humanities 2012 Hosted by University of Hamburg 16-22 July 2012 http://www.dh2012.uni-hamburg.de/ Proposal deadline: November 1, 2011 (Midnight GMT) I. General Information The International Program Committee invites submissions of proposals of no more than 1500 words for pre-conferences or specialized Tutorials and Workshops on any aspect of digital humanities, from information technology to problems in humanities research and teaching. Tutorials are typically a half day to a full day; workshops and pre-conferences may be one day or more. We particularly welcome submissions relating to interdisciplinary work and on new developments in the field, and we encourage submissions relating in some way to the theme of the 2012 conference, 'Digital Diversity: Cultures, languages and methods' http://www.dh2012.uni-hamburg.de/ . Proposals might, for example, relate to the following aspects of digital humanities: - computer-based research and computer applications in literary, linguistic, cultural and historical studies, including electronic literature, public humanities, and interdisciplinary aspects of modern scholarship; - the digital arts, architecture, music, film, theatre, new media, and related areas; - research issues, including data mining, information design and modelling, software studies, and humanities research enabled through the digital medium. - digital humanities and diversity - libraries, archives, and the creation, delivery, management, and preservation of humanities digital resources - text analysis, corpora, corpus linguistics, language processing, language learning, and endangered languages - the role of digital humanities in academic curricula The range of topics covered by digital humanities can also be consulted in the journal of the associations: Literary and Linguistic Computing (LLC), Oxford University Press. Participants in Workshops or Tutorials will be expected to register for the full conference as well, paying the regular registration fee. There will be additional fees of roughly 40-50 Euros per half-day for participants in tutorials and workshops, with a minimum attendance of approximately 10 participants each, in order to ensure that these events cover their own costs. The deadline for submitting proposals to the Program Committee is November 1, 2011. All submissions will be refereed. Presenters will be notified of acceptance by December 15, 2011. See below for full details on submitting proposals. Proposals for non-refereed or vendor demonstrations should be discussed directly with the local conference organizers (please email katrin.schoenert@uni-hamburg.de) as soon as possible. For more information on the conference in general, please visit the conference web site, http://dh2011.stanford.edu/ . II. Pre-Conference Tutorials Proposals for Tutorials should provide the following information: 1. A title and brief description of the tutorial content and its relevance to the DH community (not more than 1500 words). 2. A brief outline of the tutorial structure showing that the tutorial's core content can be covered in a half-day tutorial (approximately 3 hours, plus breaks). In exceptional cases, full-day tutorials may be supported as well. 3. The names, postal addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses of the tutorial instructors, including a one-paragraph statement of their research interests and areas of expertise. 4. A list of previous venues and approximate audience sizes, if the same or a similar tutorial has been given elsewhere; otherwise an estimate of the audience size. (DH Tutorials are expected to be self-financing.) 5. Special requirements for technical support. Proposals will be submitted via the DH2012 conference registration application, ConfTool, at the address https://secure.digitalhumanities.org/ no later than November 1, 2011. TUTORIAL SPEAKER RESPONSIBILITIES Accepted tutorial speakers will be notified by December 15, 2011, and must then provide final draft abstracts of their tutorials for inclusion in the conference registration material by February 1, 2011. The description should be in two formats: an ASCII version that can be included in email announcements and published on the conference web site, and a Word or ODT (not PDF) version for inclusion in the electronic proceedings (detailed instructions to follow). III. Pre-Conference Workshops Proposals for workshops should provide the following information: 1. A title and brief description (of not more than 1500 words) of the workshop topic and its motivation (i.e., its relevance to DH). 2. A description of target audience and expected number of participants. 3. The intended length and format of the workshop (minimum half-day; maximum one and a half days). 4. A budget proposal (DH Workshops are expected to be self-financing.) 5. Dates for submission deadline (if there is to be a CfP) and notification of acceptances. 6. A list of individuals who have agreed to be part of the workshop program committee if the workshop proposal is accepted. 7. Full postal address, phone number, e-mail and fax of the workshop contact person. 8. Special requirements (e.g. computer infrastructure or audio equipment). Proposals will be submitted via the DH2012 conference registration application, ConfTool, at the address https://secure.digitalhumanities.org/ no later than November 1, 2011. You will be notified about the decision to accept or reject the proposal by December 15, 2011. IV. Format of the Proposals All proposals must be submitted electronically using the online submission form in the ConfTool system no later than November 1, 2011. Anyone who has previously used the ConfTool system to submit proposal or reviews should use their existing account rather than setting up a new one. Information for new users is available at the ConfTool site. If anyone has forgotten their user name or password, please contact . V. Information about the conference venue Hamburg on the river Elbe has about 1.8 million inhabitants within the city limits, making the old Hanseatic merchant city Germany's second largest metropolis. Hamburg is characterized by its port, its international orientation and a cosmopolitan flair. The University of Hamburg was founded in 1919. Today the Faculty of the Humanities is home to over 10,000 students. Since its inception Hamburg University has maintained a strong focus on foreign languages and cultures. To foster and to explore such diversity is a key task of the Humanities - and to provide theories, methods and tools to this end poses a particularly interesting challenge to the Digital Humanities. We hope you will join in the discussion on "Digital Diversity" at the DH2012 and look forward to seeing you in Hamburg! VI. International Program Committee Susan Brown (SDH-SEMI - Vice Chair) Arianna Ciula (ALLC) Tanya Clement (ACH) Michael Eberle-Sinatra (SDH-SEMI) Dot Porter (ACH) Jan Rybicki (ALLC) Jon Saklofske (SDH-SEMI) Paul Spence (ALLC - Chair) Tomoji Tabata (ALLC) Katherine Walter (ACH) Jan Christoph Meister (ex officio, Local Host) --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2011 20:11:06 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Preservation Research Exchange: Preserving Digital Heritage Preservation Research Exchange: Preserving Digital Heritage Call for papers www.ischool.utexas.edu/prex The Preservation Research Exchange (PREx) is the third annual symposium hosted by Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) preservation doctoral fellows. PREx will be held February 17-19, 2012 at the School of Information, The University of Texas at Austin. This no-cost symposium is for graduate students, faculty, and other scholars interested in sharing digital heritage research. The theme this year is Sustaining Digital Heritage. PREx is an opportunity for diverse disciplines to come together and share research about the many facets of sustaining digital artifacts. We are looking for original research exploring the technical, cultural, political, social, and historical aspects of sustaining digital heritage. Join us and share your research! The Preservation Research Exchange 2012 web site is www.ischool.utexas.edu/prex. Logistics The three-day event will feature posters, panel presentations, speakers, and tours. We are soliciting abstracts for both posters and 20-minute panel presentations. Abstracts should be no more than 500 words. In your abstract, please briefly describe your presentation idea and include full contact information (e.g. full name, affiliations, email, and phone number). Please name your file PREx_[enter last name_first name]. Poster and paper abstracts are due October 31, 2011. Email your submission to: prex@ischool.utexas.edu. Proposal receipt will be acknowledged via email within a few days of receipt. The abstracts will be reviewed in a double-blind process. All authors will be notified of decisions by December 1, 2011. About PREx The PREx Planning Committee consists of Carol Brock, April Norris, and Kathryn Pierce, IMLS doctoral students at the iSchool, The UT-Austin. We look forward to meeting you in February 2012. Carol Brock -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2011 22:45:11 -0400 From: Mark Sample Subject: Digital Humanities Sessions at the 2012 MLA Convention Dear Humanists, The program for the 2012 Modern Language Association Convention came out several days ago, and you might be interested in the comprehensive list of digital humanities sessions I put together: http://bit.ly/n6NvZB. By my count there are 56 sessions (though I might have missed one or two). That's up from 44 last year! Best, Mark Sample George Mason 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 Oct 7 05:39:13 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18EDD1CCDBA; Fri, 7 Oct 2011 05:39:13 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id BB99F1CCDAA; Fri, 7 Oct 2011 05:39:11 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111007053911.BB99F1CCDAA@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2011 05:39:11 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.351 Digital Americanists renewed X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 351. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2011 10:01:38 -0500 From: Ryan Cordell Subject: From the Digital Americanists: A New Board, New Initiatives,and a Membership Drive Dear past, current, and future members of the Digital Americanists, Exciting things are happening in the Digital Americanists Society this year! In May a new board was elected at ALA. The new board comprises: Amanda Gailey, University of Nebraska, President Matthew Wilkens, Notre Dame University, Vice-President Ryan Cordell, St. Norbert College, Secretary/Treasurer The new board has begun work on several new initiatives. First, we've moved the website to UNL (http://digitalamericanists.unl.edu/wordpress/), which should give us more flexibility than we had with our previous host. We welcome ideas about how we can make the website more useful to members. If you have suggestions for making the Digital Americanists' site more than an occasional news venue, please send us an email with your ideas. Second, we're working to reach scholars in new venues. The DA will continue to sponsor one or two panels at each year's American Literature Association Conference97more details about that when the ALA posts its CFP. Next year, however, we'll also sponsor a panel at the Society for Textual Scholarship's conference in Austin (http://textualsociety.org/). Finally, the DA has proposed a roundtable, "Digits, Data, and Dilemmas: Digitization and Knowledge Production in Nineteenth-Century American Literary Studies," for the C19 Americanists conference in Berkeley (http://c19americanists.org/conference/). We're seeking to expand our influence at Americanists gatherings, giving more scholars a chance to present their digital work to more diverse audiences. If you're interested in organizing a Digital Americanists panel at another conference, please let us know! In short, we hope to make membership in the Digital Americanists Society more valuable. To help us develop these new initiatives, however, we need you to join the society or renew your membership. Yearly dues are just $10, and we will work to ensure that those dues give members more than warm, fuzzy feelings of civic pride (though warm, fuzzy feelings of civic pride are certainly nice). Visit our membership page (http://digitalamericanists.unl.edu/wordpress/join/) for details about how to join or renew your membership. We look forward to working with all of you to further national conversations about technology and American studies. Please feel free to pass on this announcement to anyone you know who might be interested in joining the Digital Americanists. All the best, Amanda Gailey, amanda.gailey@gmail.com Matthew Wilkens, mwilkens@nd.edu Ryan Cordell, rccordell@gmail.com Dear past, current, and future members of the Digital Americanists, Exciting things are happening in the Digital Americanists Society this year! In May a new board was elected at ALA. The new board comprises: Amanda Gailey, University of Nebraska, President Matthew Wilkens, Notre Dame University, Vice-President Ryan Cordell, St. Norbert College, Secretary/Treasurer The new board has begun work on several new initiatives. First, we've moved the website to UNL (http://digitalamericanists.unl.edu/wordpress/), which should give us more flexibility than we had with our previous host. We welcome ideas about how we can make the website more useful to members. If you have suggestions for making the Digital Americanists' site more than an occasional news venue, please send us an email with your ideas. Second, we're working to reach scholars in new venues. The DA will continue to sponsor one or two panels at each year's American Literature Association Conference97more details about that when the ALA posts its CFP. Next year, however, we'll also sponsor a panel at the Society for Textual Scholarship's conference in Austin (http://textualsociety.org/). Finally, the DA has proposed a roundtable, "Digits, Data, and Dilemmas: Digitization and Knowledge Production in Nineteenth-Century American Literary Studies," for the C19 Americanists conference in Berkeley (http://c19americanists.org/conference/). We're seeking to expand our influence at Americanists gatherings, giving more scholars a chance to present their digital work to more diverse audiences. If you're interested in organizing a Digital Americanists panel at another conference, please let us know! In short, we hope to make membership in the Digital Americanists Society more valuable. To help us develop these new initiatives, however, we need you to join the society or renew your membership. Yearly dues are just $10, and we will work to ensure that those dues give members more than warm, fuzzy feelings of civic pride (though warm, fuzzy feelings of civic pride are certainly nice). Visit our membership page (http://digitalamericanists.unl.edu/wordpress/join/) for details about how to join or renew your membership. We look forward to working with all of you to further national conversations about technology and American studies. Please feel free to pass on this announcement to anyone you know who might be interested in joining the Digital Americanists. All the best, Amanda Gailey, amanda.gailey@gmail.com Matthew Wilkens, mwilkens@nd.edu Ryan Cordell, rccordell@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 Oct 7 07:06:09 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EC411D0623; Fri, 7 Oct 2011 07:06:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B51481D061A; Fri, 7 Oct 2011 07:06:07 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111007070607.B51481D061A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2011 07:06:07 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.352 simultaneous but divergent? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 352. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2011 08:05:13 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: simultaneous but diverging? This starts as an historiographical question but may wander elsewhere: who has written about more or less simultaneous developments that we would expect to reinforce each other but which in fact pass each other like ships in the night? I am thinking, for example, of Robert Connor's pondering of the question of why "computer technology became available at precisely the wrong moment" in the development of Classics, when "[t]he era of traditional lexical and textual studies had largely passed..." ("Scholarship and Technology in Classical Studies", in Scholarship and Technology in the Humanities, ed. May Katzen, 1991, pp. 52-62). Connor goes on to consider the same chiasmus in literary and in historical studies. Anthony Kenny points to Connor's question in his British Library lecture on computing in the humanities (1992), speculating that scholars fled the juggernaut of quantification with which computing was associated, especially in the early years. One might finger scarier, more repellent things, such as the military uses of computing at that time, e.g. SAGE, the "electronic battlefield" of Vietnam &c. But rather than dig only into those historical data for an explanation of that particular crossing in the night, I'd like to know about the whole class of such anomalies, and other examples, perhaps even non-technological. Suggestions and comments? Yours, WM -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Oct 8 07:47:57 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92E751C603A; Sat, 8 Oct 2011 07:47:57 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 56B141C6025; Sat, 8 Oct 2011 07:47:56 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111008074756.56B141C6025@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2011 07:47:56 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.353 simultaneous but divergent X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 353. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Anna-K. Mayer" (57) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.352 simultaneous but divergent? [2] From: "Prescott, Andrew" (124) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.352 simultaneous but divergent? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2011 09:12:15 +0100 From: "Anna-K. Mayer" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.352 simultaneous but divergent? In-Reply-To: <20111007070607.B51481D061A@woodward.joyent.us> This very much seems to be a question you want to run on the history/sociology-of-science/technology lists, starting with e.g. mersenne. On 7 October 2011 08:06, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 352. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2011 08:05:13 +0100 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: simultaneous but diverging? > > This starts as an historiographical question but may wander elsewhere: > who has written about more or less simultaneous developments that we > would expect to reinforce each other but which in fact pass each other > like ships in the night? I am thinking, for example, of Robert Connor's > pondering of the question of why "computer technology became available > at precisely the wrong moment" in the development of Classics, when > "[t]he era of traditional lexical and textual studies had largely > passed..." ("Scholarship and Technology in Classical Studies", in > Scholarship and Technology in the Humanities, ed. May Katzen, 1991, pp. > 52-62). Connor goes on to consider the same chiasmus in literary and in > historical studies. Anthony Kenny points to Connor's question in his > British Library lecture on computing in the humanities (1992), > speculating that scholars fled the juggernaut of quantification with > which computing was associated, especially in the early years. One might > finger scarier, more repellent things, such as the military uses of > computing at that time, e.g. SAGE, the "electronic battlefield" of > Vietnam &c. But rather than dig only into those historical data for an > explanation of that particular crossing in the night, I'd like to know > about the whole class of such anomalies, and other examples, perhaps > even non-technological. > > Suggestions and comments? > > Yours, > WM > -- > Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's > College London; Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western > Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); > Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); > www.mccarty.org.uk/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2011 10:51:45 +0100 From: "Prescott, Andrew" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.352 simultaneous but divergent? In-Reply-To: <20111007070607.B51481D061A@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Willard Anthony Kenny repeated the question posed in his 1992 lecture at a symposium organised four years later by the British Academy, and it has haunted me ever since. Introducing the symposium, Sir Anthony urged speakers to find examples of original scholarly work in the humanities which could not have been done without a computer. Many contributors found it difficult to respond to Sir Anthony¹s challenge, and Sir Anthony reflected that Œthe promise once held out by enthusiasts for computing in the humanities remains largely unfulfillled¹. I think we could make a much more confident answer now, and could point to substantial achievements such as the Oxford Historical Thesaurus which could never have been completed without a computer. And of course one would point now to the ubiquity of commercial packages such as ECCO or EEBO on which many scholars are now utterly reliant. However, I think Sir Anthony would then ask how this has generated new scholarly conceptions and we might still find that we struggle. It is indeed striking that, while the humanities have undergone a complete and profound reshaping over the past fifty years, computers have had very little to do with it. The changes have been the result of the impact of cultural theory which has revolutionised the way in which humanities scholars think about and approach their work. Major overarching themes such as gender, ethnicity, space, the body, perception and discourse are now central to many humanities disciplines. There is an element of suspicion about what computing represents from these theoretical standpoints which perhaps partly accounts for the way in which computing has not been part of the humanities revolution: not so much its links to the military-industrial complex, as a suspicion that it promotes an inherently quantitative and empirical methodology - these concerns are evident in the 1996 British Academy volume introduced by Sir Anthony. But I think the problem posed by Connor is a readily explained one: computing provided a means by which it looked as if new life could be breathed into disciplines which were under threat or declining, such as Classics. Computing offered a way in which (for example) the creation of editions, formerly at the apex of literary scholarship but now very much a neglected activity, could be seen as a cutting edge scholarly initiative, building links across to the sciences. We could debate the success or otherwise of this strategy in reviving interest in older but neglected humanities disciplines and methods, but I think one has to feel an anxiety as to the impact of this strategy of the digital humanities as a whole. If a major component of the digital humanities is simply a restated version of scholarly activities which (rightly or wrongly, and for whatever reason) have become marginal or otherwise neglected, then the digital humanities itself will be seen only as a home for refugees from those disciplines, and will not emerge as something capable of influencing scholarship more widely or of generating the kind of original scholarship that Sir Anthony Kenny asked for. In other words, the digital humanities has become disconnected (through its preoccupation with the theology of the pointy bracket, and other marginal issues) with wider humanities scholarship, and urgently needs to rebuild those links. A recent New York Times article on Humanities 2.0 declared that 'Members of a new generation of digitally savvy humanists argue it is time to stop looking for inspiration in the next political or philosophical ³ism² and start exploring how technology is changing our understanding of the liberal arts. This latest frontier is about method, they say, using powerful technologies and vast stores of digitized materials that previous humanities scholars did not have¹. I think that is a fundamentally wrong-headed view, and declaring that data provides the path away from the theory will continue to ensure the marginalisation of the digital humanities. Rather, we need to engage more wholeheatedly with the '-isms' and explore how digital technologies can give us new and original insights into those major theoretical issues with which humanities scholars are now concerned. All the best Andrew Professor Andrew Prescott Department of Digital Humanities King's College London 28-29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/ddh/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Oct 8 07:49:25 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8264D1C60A1; Sat, 8 Oct 2011 07:49:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 12B9E1C608D; Sat, 8 Oct 2011 07:49:24 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111008074924.12B9E1C608D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2011 07:49:24 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.354 jobs at TAMU & Hamburg X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 354. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Willard McCarty (57) Subject: job at Hamburg [2] From: Laura Mandell (43) Subject: software developer at TAMU --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2011 16:17:07 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: job at Hamburg UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG Faculty: 5 — Humanities Department: European Languages and Literatures (SLM II) Seminar/Institute: Institute of Greek and Latin Philology (IGrLatPhil) Upon funding approval the university will have a position open for a research associate (wissenschaftliche/r Mitarbeiter/in) — salary group 13 TV-L — with starting date: immediately within Special Research Area 950 “Manuscript Cultures in Asia, Africa and Europe”. The position calls for 39 hours per week. The short-term contract will end on 30-vi-2015 (see also § 2 of the Academic Fixed-Term Contract Law (Wissenschaftszeitver-tragsgesetz)). The university intends to increase the number of women amongst its academic per-sonnel and expressly encourages qualified women to apply. In compliance with the Hamburg Equal Opportunity Law, preference will be given to qualified female appli-cants. Responsibilities: The research associate’s duties include academic service within Scientific Service Project Z01 “Methods of analyzing manuscripts for recovering lost writing”. Area(s) of Responsibility: This service project will provide imaging of manuscripts that have been compromised through damage or intentional modifications for the multidisciplinary Special Re-search Area. Such manuscript pages will be digitised using special imaging systems, and the methods for evaluating and visualising the captured data shall be improved. The tasks include carrying out imaging campaigns in European and extra-European libraries, managing and extending the digitisation equipment, and independant de-velopment and improvement of open source software used in visualising the digital images in close cooperation with the scholarly users of these digital images. The focus of this particular position falls within information technology and particularly requires knowledge in the processing, evaluation and visualisation of data from two-dimensional imaging applications. Requirements: Academic degree in one of the above academic subject areas qualifying the holder to carry out the above-mentioned responsibilities. Major in information science or expe-rience in the area of image processing development (such as e.g. multispectral im-age analysis). Suitable software programming skills (C, C++/Java). Knowledge of the basics of photography would be a plus. Mobility and the readiness to work towards practical results in an interdisciplinary team and to travel internationally for the imaging work in libraries. Preference will be given to disabled applicants with equal qualifications. Application dossiers (application letter, curriculum vitae, degree certificate(s), etc.) are to be submitted to Prof. Dr. Michael Friedrich, Universität Hamburg, Fakultät für Geisteswissenschaften, Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1, Flügel Ost, D-20146 Hamburg by: 15-x-2011. For more information please contact Prof. Christian Brockmann (christian.brockmann @uni-hamburg.de) or check the following website http://www.manuscript-cultures. uni-hamburg.de/sfb/index_e.html . -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2011 17:14:25 -0500 From: Laura Mandell Subject: software developer at TAMU The Initiative for Digital Humanities, Media, and Culture seeks to hire a lead programmer at Texas A&M University. The job is posted at the Texas A&M site, NOV #120027, at this permanent url: tamujobs.tamu.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=198458 -- WANTED: Lead Software Applications Developer Lead technical person on teams with faculty members, librarians, technical and humanities graduate students, and others in the area of digital humanities (DH) to enhance and create DH projects. Supports scholars in a wide range of academic disciplines including literature, history, art and architecture, archaeology, communications as well as computer science researchers exploring the state of the art in digital libraries, web-scale information storage and retrieval, and computer human interaction. Works closely with faculty members in order to design interactive web applications that support their research. Understands the goals of the humanities researchers in order to build software that enables them to work more effectively, manage digital collections of cultural-heritage materials, and present their research to scholarly and popular audiences. Develops open source software, using and extending existing applications. Functions as the lead technical person on teams with faculty members, librarians, technical and humanities graduate students, and others in the area of digital humanities (DH) to enhance and create DH projects. Supports scholars in a wide range of academic disciplines including literature, history, art and architecture, archaeology, communications as well as computer science researchers exploring the state of the art in digital libraries, web-scale information storage and retrieval, and computer human interaction. Supports the IDHMC Director (Initiative for Digital Humanities, Media, and Culture) in offering workshops, demonstrations, and a central web site that will announce events and index information for faculty working in digital media. Assists in providing information about digital humanities topics such as open source tools, XML/TEI markup, sustainability of digital artifacts, and other topics that raise awareness and promote collaborations among humanities scholars, faculty in technical disciplines, and other humanities and technical personnel. Other duties as required More information is available online: http://t amujobs.tamu.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=198458 -- Laura Mandell Director, Initiative for Digital Humanities, Media, and Culture Professor, English Texas A&M University MS 4227 College Station, TX 77843-4227 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 Oct 8 07:50:21 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 470531C60FA; Sat, 8 Oct 2011 07:50:21 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C7A0F1C60E8; Sat, 8 Oct 2011 07:50:18 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111008075018.C7A0F1C60E8@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2011 07:50:18 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.355 events: challenge of ubiquity X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 355. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2011 13:27:28 +0100 From: "Bentkowska-Kafel, Anna" Subject: CHArt'11: The Challenge of Ubiquity in Digital Culture *** COMPUTERS AND THE HISTORY OF ART 27th ANNUAL CONFERENCE *** The Challenge of Ubiquity in Digital Culture, 17-18 November 2011, London Booking is now open for the 2011 CHArt Conference, which will be held at the Centre for Creative Collaboration (C4CC), London. The programme, abstracts and booking information are available from CHArt's website - www.chart.ac.uk Bookings received by 15 October qualify for concessionary rates. Email: chart@kcl.ac.uk ----- Dr Anna Bentkowska-Kafel Department of Digital Humanities King's College London 26-29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL Tel: +44(0)20 7848 1421 anna.bentkowska@kcl.ac.uk http://bentkowska.wordpress.com/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 Oct 9 03:34:42 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC66C1D13D4; Sun, 9 Oct 2011 03:34:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 853B81D13BB; Sun, 9 Oct 2011 03:34:40 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20111009033440.853B81D13BB@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2011 03:34:40 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.356 jobs at Nebraska-Lincoln X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============0114139605==" Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org --===============0114139605== Content-Type: text/plain Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 356. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2011 17:38:03 -0500 From: Kenneth M Price Subject: cluster hire in digital humanities The University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) announces a cluster hire in digital humanities: over the next three years the university intends to hire six tenure-line faculty members across a number of departments (and additional staff) to further propel this signature program. In the first phase of this effort, we seek promising candidates for tenure-track appointments at the Assistant Professor level. Initial interviews will be conducted at the Modern Language Association (MLA) and American Historical Association (AHA) conventions in January 2012. Candidates should be accomplished digital humanists able to contribute to a thriving interdisciplinary initiative and to the home department. Candidates must provide evidence of successful teaching and an active research agenda. PhD required by August 2012. The participating departments seek specialists who would contribute to the UNL’s research profile and teaching capacity in digital humanities. Candidates whose work focuses on comparative or transnational literatures, histories, and cultures are especially invited to apply. Applicants should go to http://employment.unl.edu, requisition 110758 or110779 and complete the Faculty/Academic Administrative Information form and apply online. Applicants should be prepared to attach the following to their online application: a letter of application, a curriculum vita, and a PDF or a link to one representative sample of their digital work. Please do not send paper applications. Review of applications will begin November 1, 2011, and continue until suitable candidates are found. For further information contact Kenneth Price, chair, search committee at 402-472-0293 or kprice2@unl.edu. The University of Nebraska has an active National Science Foundation ADVANCE gender equity program, and is committed to a pluralistic campus community through affirmative action, equal opportunity, work-life balance, and dual careers. 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Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 08 Oct 2011 22:32:21 -0500 From: amsler@cs.utexas.edu Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.353 simultaneous but divergent In-Reply-To: <20111008074756.56B141C6025@woodward.joyent.us> If one wants the computer to produce a new type of humanities, one shouldn't look to computing, but mathematics, for that answer. That is, a new humanities would require a mathematical theory of the humanities which then the computer could implement. Expecting the computer to be the basis for a new humanities without the humanities having a computable theory is like waiting for construction tools to cause the creation of a new building architecture. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 Oct 10 05:47:06 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B9451D325E; Mon, 10 Oct 2011 05:47:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C09441D3244; Mon, 10 Oct 2011 05:47:04 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111010054704.C09441D3244@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2011 05:47:04 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.358 simultaneous but divergent X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 358. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: James Rovira (22) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.357 simultaneous but divergent [2] From: Alex Gil (43) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.357 simultaneous but divergent [3] From: robert delius royar (16) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.357 simultaneous but divergent [4] From: Jascha Kessler (41) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.357 simultaneous but divergent --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2011 00:13:51 -0400 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.357 simultaneous but divergent In-Reply-To: <20111009034039.5DBAD1D149B@woodward.joyent.us> Wonderful response. We do have those models: they're linguistic, but linguistic approaches do not account for the bulk of published scholarship in literature (at least in English language scholarship). We're still living with the legacy of over thirty years of literary theory. Literary study would have to move far closer to the empirical end of the human sciences or toward linguistics for math-dependent approaches to literature to take hold. We would need people working in literary studies who were sociologists or anthropologists or linguists or even formalists rather than literary critics using sociology and anthropology and linguistics and too embarrassed to even sound formalist. That change can happen, if desirable, but at present the field is too politicized. Jim R If one wants the computer to produce a new type of humanities, one > shouldn't look to computing, but mathematics, for that answer. That > is, a new humanities would require a mathematical theory of the > humanities which then the computer could implement. Expecting the > computer to be the basis for a new humanities without the humanities > having a computable theory is like waiting for construction tools to > cause the creation of a new building architecture. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2011 11:25:33 -0400 From: Alex Gil Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.357 simultaneous but divergent In-Reply-To: <20111009034039.5DBAD1D149B@woodward.joyent.us> That is only if you think that the only thing we can do with computers is present them with data and have the computer make formally coherent models out of it. Computers allow us to communicate with each other in different volumes and formats. They also allow us to set up playing environments where we interact with our subjects differently. I am involved right now in the creation of such a tool with a team of folks at UVa's Scholars' Lab. Our use of computers is also changing the way that we imagine graduate training. If we change graduate studies, "the humanities" cannot stay the same, unless you mean something that transcends the actual way we conduct business. If that is the case then there is no ONE humanities. Honestly. @elotroalex --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2011 12:50:27 -0400 From: robert delius royar Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.357 simultaneous but divergent In-Reply-To: <20111009034039.5DBAD1D149B@woodward.joyent.us> Sun, 9 Oct 2011 (03:40 -0000 UTC) Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > From: amsler@cs.utexas.edu > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.353 simultaneous but divergent > > If one wants the computer to produce a new type of humanities, one > shouldn't look to computing, but mathematics, for that answer. That > is, a new humanities would require a mathematical theory of the > humanities which then the computer could implement. Expecting the > computer to be the basis for a new humanities without the humanities > having a computable theory is like waiting for construction tools to > cause the creation of a new building architecture. Perhaps something like a shotcrete sprayer or AutoCAD? Perhaps not. -- Dr. Robert Delius Royar Associate Professor of English, Morehead State University --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2011 11:54:51 -0700 From: Jascha Kessler Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.357 simultaneous but divergent In-Reply-To: <20111009034039.5DBAD1D149B@woodward.joyent.us> Excuse me, but I seem to have missed something previously ... perhaps? What is meant by a "New" Humanities? Jascha Kessler -- Jascha Kessler Professor of English & Modern Literature, UCLA Telephone/Facsimile: 310.393.4648 www.jfkessler.com www.xlibris.com _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Oct 10 05:47:50 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 847C21D329F; Mon, 10 Oct 2011 05:47:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B51131D328E; Mon, 10 Oct 2011 05:47:48 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111010054748.B51131D328E@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2011 05:47:48 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.359 what kind of undergraduates? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 359. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2011 00:37:26 -0400 From: James Rovira Subject: What Kind of Undergraduates? A question for those who teach in graduate programs in Digital Humanities: what would you like undergrads applying for grad study in Digital Humanities to enter already prepared to do? What skills and educational background would you like them to have? I can think of a few obvious answers, but I'm curious to see what answers I haven't considered yet. Thank you, Jim R _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Oct 11 06:07:46 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 028B21D5EF9; Tue, 11 Oct 2011 06:07:46 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E2E7C1D5EF0; Tue, 11 Oct 2011 06:07:43 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111011060743.E2E7C1D5EF0@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 06:07:43 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.360 simultaneous but divergent X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 360. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Willard McCarty (44) Subject: mathematics? [2] From: Desmond Schmidt (24) Subject: RE: [Humanist] 25.353 simultaneous but divergent --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2011 07:20:57 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: mathematics? Bob Amsler has said, > If one wants the computer to produce a new type of humanities, one > shouldn't look to computing, but mathematics, for that answer. That > is, a new humanities would require a mathematical theory of the > humanities which then the computer could implement. One problem surely is, what kind of mathematics would this be? I rely here on two of my favourite sources, Mike Mahoney (who in "Computer Science: The Search for a Mathematical Theory", argued that we don't know what this mathematics might look like) and Ian Hacking (who has been puzzling over how it is that we can call all those things by the singular noun "mathematics"). And (isn't it so?) computing has introduced a new kind, experimental mathematics, which Wikipedia informs me is, "that branch of mathematics that concerns itself ultimately with the codification and transmission of insights within the mathematical community through the use of experimental (in either the Galilean, Baconian, Aristotelian or Kantian sense) exploration of conjectures and more informal beliefs and a careful analysis of the data acquired in this pursuit." This quotation comes from "Experimental mathematics: A discussion" (http://oldweb.cecm.sfu.ca/organics/vault/expmath/expmath/html/expmath.html). This, by the way, is a fascinating article. Take a look. Another problem is (as someone else pointed out) that computing machinery, an open set of objects, can do many things, including complex simulations and, indeed, communications such as Humanist. Note the note on communication in the article on experimental mathematics, for example. Apparently "the new humanities" can mean many things, and isn't so new. Google it and see, or not. YouTube's offering by Richard E. Miller (Rutgers), co-editor of The New Humanities Reader, begins with, "What we're trying to do ... is to imagine a humanities that all students would be interested in." The idea of education in that statement is worth unpicking, don't you think? But I suspect what Bob Amsler had in mind is the notion that in our hands digital tools and methods will change the humanities in some fundamental way. What about the humanities simultaneously changing computing in some other fundamental way? Isn't that half the story of what we're doing? Comments? Yours, WM -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2011 20:29:40 +1000 From: Desmond Schmidt Subject: RE: [Humanist] 25.353 simultaneous but divergent In-Reply-To: <20111008074756.56B141C6025@woodward.joyent.us> "the digital humanities has become disconnected (through its preoccupation with the theology of the pointy bracket, and other marginal issues) with wider humanities scholarship" But has it? I can recall from my time as a classicist that there was a yawning gap between the old school textual editing types and the new school interpretative literary types. One sought to practise a scientific method for editing a text, and the other saw the text as a playing field for interpretation. So this divide between techies and non-techies seems to me the same divide, just shifted in subject-matter. Science vs hermeneutics. I wonder if there are still any pure "humanists" out there who do not consider themselves in any way to be "digital". Should we perhaps seek to end this artifical divide between techie and non-techie humanists, especially when the former continue to insist that applying pointy brackets to a text is a form of interpretation? I think the fusion is just incomplete and incoherent. One generation from now we may look back on this era as one of confusion. I like the idea of a maths of the humanities, establishing the basis through which interpretation can take place. That seems to me a stable position towards which we are unconsciously working. Desmond Schmidt Information Security Institute Queensland University of Technology Australia _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Oct 11 06:09:58 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23D631D5F6A; Tue, 11 Oct 2011 06:09:58 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B1AFC1D5F58; Tue, 11 Oct 2011 06:09:55 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111011060955.B1AFC1D5F58@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 06:09:55 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.361 job at Maynooth X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 361. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2011 17:36:05 +0100 From: Aja Teehan Subject: Research Associate (DH, Software Engineer) in An Foras Feasa, One Year Full Time Contract Post, NUI Maynooth Dear List, Please disseminate the following research assistant position advertisement at will. An Foras Feasa: the Institute for Research in Irish Historical and Cultural Traditions is the humanities research institute at NUI Maynooth and a research consortium of four partner institutions: NUI Maynooth, St Patrick's College Drumcondra, Dundalk Institute of Technology and Dublin City University. We are currently recruiting for a Research Associate with software engineering expertise to work on a Digital Humanities project on a one year, full-time contract. A broad outline follows and a full-description of the role can be accessed here: http://www.publicjobs.ie/publicjobs/en/star/goToJobDetails.do?id3D2013 An Foras Feasa (AFF) supports individual and collaborative research projects in the areas of Humanities and Technology, and represents a unique contribution of traditional knowledge and dynamic innovation. Since its foundation in 2007, An Foras Feasa has secured over 8 million euro in research funding from competitive research programmes including the Programmes for Research in Third-Level Institutions, Cycles 4 and 5, and the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences Research Development Initiative. This post has arisen in consequence of an IRCHSS Senior Research Fellowship Project Award to Professor Margaret Kelleher, Director, An Foras Feasa, for a one-year project entitled A Study of the Circulation of Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century Irish Fiction from 1650 to the Present: An Electronic Edition of the Loebers92 Guide to Irish Fiction. This project will provide, firstly, an electronic, searchable version of the Guide to Irish Fiction, 1650 -1900, produced in print form by Rolf and Magda Loeber (Four Courts, 2006), to include links to known electronic editions, and recent republished printed editions, of the listed texts. Secondly, the electronic Guide will provide the basis for a new analysis of patterns of publication, distribution and circulation of lesser-known seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth-century Irish fiction, to include an analysis of current patterns of distribution and access resulting from the contemporary digitisation of early Irish fiction. Duties will include; Implementation of data-model and controlling schema within an XML, document-oriented design (in collaboration with AFF's Technology Officer); Ingestion of data from the MS Word format into XML database using automated parsing techniques; Generation of reports on software engineering documentation, amongst other duties. Please follow the link for full details of the application process. Kind Regards, Aja Teehan Technology Officer An Foras Feasa The Institute for Research in Irish Historical and Cultural Traditions National University of Ireland Maynooth _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 Oct 11 06:10:27 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0909B1D5FA2; Tue, 11 Oct 2011 06:10:27 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 78A181D5F8E; Tue, 11 Oct 2011 06:10:24 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111011061024.78A181D5F8E@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 06:10:24 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.362 GIS projects? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 362. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2011 13:31:57 +0300 From: Constantinescu Nicolaie Subject: Re: [Humanist] 24.786 GIS projects? In-Reply-To: <20110316062051.2A9141178E0@woodward.joyent.us> Dear John Levin, Have you found any examples of GIS project in relation to Digital Humanities? Thank you, On 16 March 2011 08:20, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: >                 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 786. >         Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London >                       www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist >                Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > >        Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 19:00:19 +0000 >        From: John Levin >        Subject: Digital Humanities GIS projects > > Hi, > > I'm hoping the list can help me with a little project that seems obvious > and useful, but that doesn't seem to exist, namely a list of digital > humanities projects that use Geographic Information Systems (GIS) or > similar cartographical technologies. > > I'm currently going through my voluminous bookmarks, and have found a > few, but know that I haven't recorded every one I've seen or heard about. > > Is there already such a list in existence? What DH GIS projects do the > list know of? > > TIA > > John > -- > John Levin > http://www.anterotesis.com > johnlevin@joindiaspora.com > http://twitter.com/anterotesis -- Constantinescu Nicolaie Information Architect http://www.kosson.ro _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 Oct 11 06:11:07 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id B43C31D5FE9; Tue, 11 Oct 2011 06:11:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id CE8651D5FD8; Tue, 11 Oct 2011 06:11:05 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111011061105.CE8651D5FD8@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 06:11:05 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.363 new publications X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 363. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2011 13:21:18 -0400 From: Alan Pike Subject: Recent Publications in Southern Spaces, Greetings, * http://www.southernspaces.org/ * *Southern Spaces http://www.southernspaces.org/ *has recently published several pieces of interests to scholars in the Digital Humanities which integrate interactive maps, audio, video, and photography into compelling articles about real and imagined spaces and places of the American South and their connections to the wider world. * * *Documenting Migrants: An Interview with Charles D. Thompson, Jr. *Charles D. Thompson, Jr., Duke University http://southernspaces.org/2011/documenting-migrants-interview-charles-d-thompson-jr In this interview with Southern Spaces, Charles D. Thompson, Jr., revisits the making of two documentaries that he co-produced: *Brother Towns/Pueblos Hermanos* (2010) and *The Guestworker/Bienvenidos a Carolina del Norte*(2007). He discusses his agricultural background, education, experiences that led to documentary work, and current debates over immigration and globalization. * * *Palomares Bajo *Article by John Howard, King’s College London http://southernspaces.org/2011/palomares-bajo In this photo essay, John Howard interrogates the devious discourses and reluctant rhetorics of one of the worst nuclear disasters in history. He demonstrates the connections between North and South Carolina in the U.S. and the Almería province of southern Spain through a photo essay which challenges American cultural amnesia surrounding the long-term consequences of Cold War aggression. * * *Scales Intimate and Sprawling: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Geography of Marriage in Virginia *Article by Scott Nesbitt, Associate Director of the Digital Scholarship Lab, University of Richmond http://southernspaces.org/2011/scales-intimate-and-sprawling-slavery-emancipation-and-geography-marriage-virginia In this essay, Scott Nesbit analyzes migration and marriage patterns of recently freed men and women in post-Emancipation Virginia. Nesbit shows how slaves developed different concepts of marriage in response to forced internal migration, and then later, how recently freed men and women used governmental agents, employers, and even former slaveholders to buttress their legal claims to their families. The essay includes an interactive map that visualizes migration and marriage data of former slaves from counties across Virginia. * * *The color of Democracy: A Japanese Public Health Official’s Reconnaissance Trip to the U.S. South *Article by Aiko Takeuchi-Demirci, Brown University http://southernspaces.org/2011/color-democracy-japanese-public-health-officials-reconnaissance-trip-us-south In this essay, Aiko Takeuchi-Demirci revisists Japanese public health official Yoshio Koya’s trip to the U.S. South in 1950 to study African American birth control services. She examines Koya’s observations of the relationship between population control, racial politics, and “democracy” in the U.S. South and how eugenically-inspired American “public health” services informed Koya’s own experiments with birth control in rural Japan. * * *Katrina + 5: An X-Code Exhibition *Dorothy Moye, Decatur, Georgia http://southernspaces.org/2010/katrina-5-x-code-exhibition In this virtual exhibition, Dorothy Moye presents X-code images selected from the work of more than twenty-five photographers in Post-Katrina New Orleans, Louisiana between 2005 and 2010. Visually striking and emotionally compelling, the X-code speaks through its sheer numbers, its rhythmic repetition across the curving network of city streets, its narrative traces of ciphered messages, and its graphic directness. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 Oct 11 06:16:30 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FEC01D4105; Tue, 11 Oct 2011 06:16:30 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id AF6AE1D40ED; Tue, 11 Oct 2011 06:16:27 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111011061627.AF6AE1D40ED@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 06:16:27 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.364 events: poetry & science; language; Australasian DH; digital film X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 364. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Dr Paul Arthur (121) Subject: Invitation: Digital Humanities Australasia conference, 28-30 March 2012 [2] From: Sharon Ruston (14) Subject: Lecture and seminar for the Manchester Science Festival [3] From: Luana Ferreira de Freitas (28) Subject: *Volta ao fim *(*Back to the end*) [4] From: alckmar luiz dos santos (14) Subject: *Volta ao fim *(*Back to the end*) [5] From: "Lauersdorf, Mark R" (45) Subject: Call for Papers: Language Technology at KFLC 2012 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2011 18:24:47 +1100 From: Dr Paul Arthur Subject: Invitation: Digital Humanities Australasia conference, 28-30 March 2012 Call for Papers, Panels and Posters *********************************************************************************** DIGITAL HUMANITIES AUSTRALASIA 2012: Building, Mapping, Connecting *********************************************************************************** The inaugural conference of the Australasian Association for Digital Humanities Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, 28-30 March 2012 Sponsored by the Australian Academy of the Humanities and the College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University. CONFERENCE WEBSITE: http://aa-dh.org/conference CALL FOR PROPOSALS CLOSES: 11 November 2011 NOTIFICATION OF ACCEPTANCE: 30 November 2011 REGISTRATION OPENS: Early January 2012 The Australasian Association for Digital Humanities is pleased to announce its inaugural conference, to be held at the Australian National University, Canberra, 28-30 March, 2012. The conference will feature papers, panels, posters and associated workshops. We invite proposals on all aspects of digital humanities in Australia, New Zealand and internationally, and especially encourage papers showcasing new research and developments in the field and/or responding to the conference theme of ‘Building, Mapping, Connecting’. Proposals may focus on, but need not be limited to: - Institutionalisation, interdisciplinarity and collaboration - Measuring and valuing digital research - Publication and dissemination - Research applications and interfaces for digital collections - Designing and curating online resources - Digital textuality and literacy - Curriculum and pedagogy - Culture, creativity, arts, music, performance - Electronic critical editions - Digitisation, text encoding and analysis - Communities and crowdsourcing - Infrastructure, virtual research environments, workflows - Information mining, modelling, GIS and visualisation - Critical reflections on digital humanities futures ------------------------------------------- INTERNATIONAL SPEAKERS ------------------------------------------- Julia Flanders (Brown University, USA) Alan Liu (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA) Peter Robinson (University of Saskatchewan, Canada) Harold Short (King’s College London, UK and University of Western Sydney, Australia) John Unsworth (University of Illinois, USA) ---------------------- SUBMISSIONS ---------------------- Abstracts of no more than 300 words, together with a biography of no more than 100 words, should be submitted to the Program Committee by 11 November, 2011. All proposals will be fully refereed. Proposals should be submitted via the online form at http://conference.aa-dh.org. Please indicate whether you are proposing a poster, a short paper (10 mins), a long paper (20 mins) or a panel. Presenters will be notified of acceptance of their proposal on 30 November, 2011. ------------------------------- TRAVEL BURSARIES ------------------------------- The Australian Academy of the Humanities has provided funding for travel bursaries. These will be available on a competitive basis for postgraduate students and early career researchers from Australia and New Zealand to present at the conference and participate in associated workshops. Staff from cultural institutions are also encouraged to apply. When submitting your proposal please indicate if you wish to be considered for a bursary. ---------------------------- PROPOSAL TYPES ---------------------------- 1. Poster presentations Poster presentations may include work-in-progress on any of the topics described above as well as demonstrations of computer technology, software and digital projects. A separate poster session will open the conference, during which time presenters will need to be available to explain their work, share their ideas with other delegates, and answer questions. Posters will also be on display at various times during the conference, and presenters are encouraged to provide material and handouts with more detailed information and URLs. 2. Short papers Short papers are allocated 10 minutes (plus 5 minutes for questions) and are suitable for describing work-in-progress and reporting on shorter experiments and software and tools in early stages of development. 3. Long papers Long papers are allocated 20 minutes (plus 10 minutes for questions) and are intended for presenting substantial unpublished research and reporting on significant new digital resources or methodologies. 4. Panels Panels (90 minutes) are comprised of either: (a) Three long papers on a joint theme. All abstracts should be submitted together with a statement, of no more than 300 words, outlining the session topic and its relevance to current directions in the digital humanities; or (b) A panel of four to six speakers. The panel organiser should submit a 300-word outline of the topic session and its relevance to current directions in the digital humanities as well as an indication from all speakers of their willingness to participate. -------------------- CONVENORS -------------------- Dr Paul Arthur, Australian National University Dr Katherine Bode, Australian National University ------------------------------------ PROGRAM COMMITTEE ------------------------------------ Dr Paul Arthur, Australian National University Dr Craig Bellamy, VeRSI, University of Melbourne, Australia Dr Katherine Bode, Australian National University Prof Hugh Craig, University of Newcastle, Australia Prof Jane Hunter, University of Queensland, Australia Dr Sydney Shep, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand -- Dr Paul Arthur* ** *paularthur.com http://www.paularthur.com Deputy Director, National Centre of Biography Deputy General Editor, Australian Dictionary of Biography School of History, Research School of Social Sciences Australian National University Chair, Australasian Association for Digital Humanities aa-dh.org/chairs-welcome Executive Committee, International Auto/Biography Association theiaba.org Advisory Board, Australian Consortium of Humanities Research Centres achrc.net Series Editor, Anthem Scholarship in the Digital Age anthempress.com Twitter: @pwlarthur http://twitter.com/#!/pwlarthur | @biographynews http://twitter.com/#!/biographynews --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2011 11:54:27 +0100 From: Sharon Ruston Subject: Lecture and seminar for the Manchester Science Festival Lecture and seminar for the Manchester Science Festival: Poetry and Science: Humphry Davy Sir Humphry Davy (1778-1829) was the foremost chemist of his day. He is now best known for the miner’s safety lamp (also known as a Davy lamp) though he also isolated more chemical elements than any other individual. Few people know that he also wrote poetry throughout his life, the vast majority of which he did not publish. Professor Sharon Ruston will give a lecture on Davy and his work followed by a seminar in which participants will read and discuss some of Davy’s poems. The session will consider the links between poetry and science using copies of manuscript sources. The session will take place on Monday 24th October, 6-7.30pm, in the Becker Room at City Library (First Floor, Elliot House, 151 Deansgate, Manchester M3 3WD). This event is free but booking is advised. You can book a place at: http://www.manchestersciencefestival.com/whatson/humphry-davy Professor Sharon Ruston Chair in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture English, HuLSS Room 501, Crescent House University of Salford Salford, Greater Manchester UK, M5 4WT --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2011 14:46:12 -0300 From: Luana Ferreira de Freitas Subject: *Volta ao fim *(*Back to the end*) Parabéns, caro Alckmar. Muito sucesso. 2011/10/10 alckmar luiz dos santos > > Amigos, no dia 04 de novembro, na Livraria da Vila, em São Paulo (Rua > Fradique* *Coutinho, 915), às 20h, estaremos apresentando, Wilton Azevedo > e eu, nossa última criação digital, *Volta ao fim*. Ficaremos felizes com > a presença de quem puder comparecer. > > Um abraço, > > alckmar > > <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> > > Dear friends, > > On the 4th of November, 8h pm, Wilton Azevedo and I will present our last > digital creation, *Volta ao fim *(*Back to the end*), in São Paulo > (Livraria da Vila - Rua Fradique Coutinho, 915). We would be very happy > with your presence. > > Best regards > > alckmar santos > > -- *Luana Ferreira de Freitas* --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2011 14:33:03 -0300 From: alckmar luiz dos santos Subject: *Volta ao fim *(*Back to the end*) In-Reply-To: Amigos, no dia 04 de novembro, na Livraria da Vila, em São Paulo (Rua Fradique* *Coutinho, 915), às 20h, estaremos apresentando, Wilton Azevedo e eu, nossa última criação digital, *Volta ao fim*. Ficaremos felizes com a presença de quem puder comparecer. Um abraço, alckmar <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> Dear friends, On the 4th of November, 8h pm, Wilton Azevedo and I will present our last digital creation, *Volta ao fim *(*Back to the end*), in São Paulo (Livraria da Vila - Rua Fradique Coutinho, 915). We would be very happy with your presence. Best regards alckmar santos --[5]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2011 15:27:40 -0400 From: "Lauersdorf, Mark R" Subject: Call for Papers: Language Technology at KFLC 2012 Dear colleagues, I would like to invite you to submit an abstract for participation in the 7th annual Language Technology sessions at the Kentucky Foreign Language Conference (KFLC). The KFLC is an international, multidisciplinary academic conference with a 65-year history of bringing together top researchers in language, literature, culture, and linguistics in the fields of Arabic, East Asian, French and Francophone, German-Austrian-Swiss, Hispanic, Italian, Luso-Afro-Brazilian, and Russian Studies, as well as Language Technology, Translation and Cultural Studies, and Second Language Acquisition. The KFLC offers broad exposure for your work, gathering over 750 scholars in these disciplines from around the world. The Language Technology division ("LangTech at the KFLC") was inaugurated at KFLC 2006. In bringing a technology track to a high-level international academic conference with a strong literary-cultural tradition and orientation, we provide a forum for both academics and technologists to engage in a discussion of technological innovation in the teaching and research of world literatures and cultures (in addition to the more customary discussions of technology in language instruction). Indeed, "LangTech at the KFLC" seeks to encourage cross-pollination of ideas across languages and literary-cultural interests, encouraging participants from all KFLC literature, culture, and linguistics divisions to join in discussions on integrating technology into their teaching and research programs. I have included below the official Call for Papers for this year's LangTech at the KFLC 2012. I hope that you will consider bringing your work in Language Technology to Lexington to showcase for us, and that you will share this call broadly with your colleagues. I look forward to hearing from you and hope to see you here in the spring. Best regards, Mark Lauersdorf ----- CALL FOR PAPERS - LANGTECH AT THE KFLC - 19-21 April 2012 ----- It's Year 7 of LangTech at the KFLC! At the intersection between technology and literary, cultural, language, and linguistic teaching and research, we welcome submissions on any aspect of: **Technology for Literature & Culture, Language & Linguistics** This includes, but is certainly not limited to: • integrating technology into literature, culture, and linguistics *curricula and classrooms* • *faculty research* in literature, culture, and linguistics employing technology ("digital humanities") • technology for *student projects and research* in literature, culture, and linguistics Abstracts are, of course, also welcome in *all* other areas and aspects of technology and language, such as: • using tech tools and techniques for *language instruction* in all skills and on all levels • *mentoring* language educators in optimal use of technology in their teaching and research • employing technology-based *research publication* in language scholarship • *managing* language technology in an academic setting The KFLC is an international academic conference that brings together top researchers in language, literature, culture, and linguistics in the fields of Arabic, East Asian, French and Francophone, German-Austrian-Swiss, Hispanic, Italian, Luso-Afro-Brazilian, and Russian Studies, as well as Translation and Cultural Studies and Second Language Acquisition. We would like to see this broad range represented in the Language Technology sessions, to encourage cross-pollination of ideas across the languages and disciplines working to integrate technology into their teaching and research programs, and to encourage participants from the literature, culture, and linguistics sessions to join us in our discussions. Abstracts should be no more than 250-300 words in length and should be submitted directly online at: **KFLC Abstract Site: http://www.kflcabstracts.uky.edu/** In view of the multi-language audience that we hope to attract to all Language Technology sessions, the recommended language of presentation is English. **Deadline for submission of abstracts and panel proposals is 15 November 2011.** All proposed abstracts will be considered for inclusion in the KFLC program. Acceptance of a paper implies a commitment on the part of the participant(s) to register and attend the conference. All presenters must pay the appropriate registration fee by 15 February 2012 to be included in the program. The conference will take place 19-21 April 2012 on the campus of the University of Kentucky in Lexington. For more information on conference logistics, please visit: http://web.as.uky.edu/kflc/. For specific information on the Language Technology sessions, contact the division director at the coordinates listed below. If you've been with us before, make Year 7 the year you return! If you've never been, make this the year to join us in beautiful springtime Kentucky for "LangTech at the KFLC"! Mark Lauersdorf ----------------------------------- Dr. Mark Richard Lauersdorf KFLC -- Language Technology division director Associate Professor of Languages and Linguistics Director of Language Technology Interim Director, Collaboratory for Research in Computing for Humanities 1055 Patterson Office Tower University of Kentucky Lexington, KY 20506-0027, USA phone: ++859-257-7101 fax: ++859-257-3743 e-mail: lauersdorf@uky.edu http://www.rch.uky.edu/ http://linguistics.as.uky.edu/users/mrlaue2/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Oct 12 06:48:04 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 757DE1D195E; Wed, 12 Oct 2011 06:48:04 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id DAC201D1951; Wed, 12 Oct 2011 06:48:01 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111012064801.DAC201D1951@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 06:48:01 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.365 GIS projects X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 365. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Miran gmail (77) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.362 GIS projects? [2] From: John Levin (34) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.362 GIS projects? [3] From: "Sheila M. Morrissey" (19) Subject: RE: [Humanist] 25.362 GIS projects? [4] From: "Justin Tonra" (77) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.362 GIS projects? [5] From: Victoria Szabo (180) Subject: Re: GIS projects --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 11:03:43 +0200 From: Miran gmail Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.362 GIS projects? In-Reply-To: <20111011061024.78A181D5F8E@woodward.joyent.us> Dear John and Nicolaie, a group of Slovene literary scholars has just started a project The Space of Slovenian Literary Culture: Literary History and the GIS-Based Spatial Analysis. A list of links to similar projects has been created at the beginning, thanks to the Humanist Discussion Group messages 24.660, 24.788, 24.793, 24.800: http://beta.wikiversity.org/wiki/Literatura_in_prostor . Yes, it is far from whole Digital Humanities, however, a part of it. miran http://uni-lj.academia.edu/MiranHladnik/About --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 11:51:46 +0100 From: John Levin Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.362 GIS projects? In-Reply-To: <20111011061024.78A181D5F8E@woodward.joyent.us> I have compiled a list of DH GIS projects, currently at 70 items, & posted it on my blog: http://anterotesis.com/wordpress/dh-gis-projects/ If anyone knows of any other projects, please tell me! I'm currently analysing the projects, their aims, means, technologies etc, and hope to post some interim findings before the end of the year, as part of producing a full paper ont eh subject. Best John -- John Levin http://www.anterotesis.com johnlevin@joindiaspora.com http://twitter.com/anterotesis --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 08:43:13 -0400 From: "Sheila M. Morrissey" Subject: RE: [Humanist] 25.362 GIS projects? In-Reply-To: <20111011061024.78A181D5F8E@woodward.joyent.us> RE: GIS and humanities -- Have a look at "Mapping the Republic of Letters" at Stanford. https://republicofletters.stanford.edu/ Sheila. Sheila M. Morrissey Senior Research Developer ITHAKA 100 Campus Drive Suite 100 Princeton NJ 08540 609-986-2221    sheila.morrissey@ithaka.org   ITHAKA (www.ithaka.org) is a not-for-profit organization that helps the academic community use digital technologies to preserve the scholarly record and to advance research and teaching in sustainable ways.  We provide innovative services that benefit higher education, including Ithaka S+R, JSTOR, and Portico. --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 10:09:56 -0400 From: "Justin Tonra" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.362 GIS projects? In-Reply-To: <20111011061024.78A181D5F8E@woodward.joyent.us> The Spatial Humanities project at UVa's Scholars' Lab provides links to a range of Geospatial Scholarship projects on their Projects & Groups pages: http://spatial.scholarslab.org/project/ Justin. -- Dr Justin Tonra IRCHSS / European Commission CARA Postdoctoral Fellow Department of English University of Virginia (+1) 434-982-2027 --[5]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 12:55:31 -0400 From: Victoria Szabo Subject: Re: GIS projects In-Reply-To: <20111011061105.CE8651D5FD8@woodward.joyent.us> Dear John - Not a list of links, but if you look at the books by Anne Kelly Knowles they will give you some introduction. She has two books, Past Place and Placing History, published by ESRI, that provide some interesting examples. There is also a recent volume: The Spatial Humanities: GIS and the Future of Humanities Scholarship (ed Bodenhamer et. al.) that has a lot of great analysis of the field as well. How many of the projects listed in these volumes actually have an online representation accessible to the general user is another question. So far I have seen more derivative objects in the form of essays etc. than accessible, interactive online resources coming out of these projects. This might be partly because the ESRI software is proprietary but also because we haven't quite figured out how to share the data substrate with such projects without feeling like we are giving up the farm, rather than selling the fruits and vegetables. I suspect some people don't feel such work falls within the purview of DH strictly speaking, either... There are tons of mapping projects out there - are there specific kinds of projects you'd find of interest? Victoria ^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v Victoria Szabo Assistant Research Professor, Department of Art, Art History, and Visual 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 Wed Oct 12 06:49:25 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43D3E1D19B8; Wed, 12 Oct 2011 06:49:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E50D41D19A7; Wed, 12 Oct 2011 06:49:23 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111012064923.E50D41D19A7@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 06:49:23 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.366 simultaneous but divergent X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 366. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: maurizio lana (30) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.360 simultaneous but divergent [2] From: Jascha Kessler (146) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.360 simultaneous but divergent --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 09:19:29 +0200 From: maurizio lana Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.360 simultaneous but divergent In-Reply-To: <20111011060743.E2E7C1D5EF0@woodward.joyent.us> Il 11/10/2011 08:07, Humanist Discussion Group ha scritto: > YouTube's offering by Richard E. Miller > (Rutgers), co-editor of The New Humanities Reader, begins with, "What > we're trying to do ... is to imagine a humanities that all students > would be interested in." The idea of education in that statement is > worth unpicking, don't you think? But I suspect what Bob Amsler had in > mind is the notion that in our hands digital tools and methods will > change the humanities in some fundamental way. What about the humanities > simultaneously changing computing in some other fundamental way? Isn't > that half the story of what we're doing? it's a problem, a serious one, if we must make humanities more interesting because the passion of humanities students is lowering. i don't think that a new, deeper connection between mathematics (whichever they will be) and humanities will be able to give *by itself* a solid and satisfactory answer to this problem. the question "why the humanities?" comes before any other, and immediately after comes "why mixing humanities and 'other sciences'?", the accent being on the "why". the answers must be able to explain the matter to (and possibly to convince) those who - in the sciences or the humanities fields - don't think that this wedding has to be done. this is said by a humanist who has been doing researches with physic-mathematicians for years now on highly experimental matters, not by a skeptic person. best maurizio -- Maurizio Lana - ricercatore Università del Piemonte Orientale, Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici, via Manzoni 8, 13100 Vercelli tel. +39 347 7370925 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 12:29:13 -0700 From: Jascha Kessler Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.360 simultaneous but divergent In-Reply-To: <20111011060743.E2E7C1D5EF0@woodward.joyent.us> "Interpretation," is it? But what is interpretation? That Talmud is neat instance, vast volumes of commentary, which by now, digitized I am sure, remain forever the same, though altering from person to person, or scholar/rabbi to scholar rabbi, from one generation to the next. R.P.Blackmur remarked in the latter 1940s, as I recall, that new trends or schools, or turns, in literary criticism were au fond a new generation's effort to teach the same texts [all or whichever in the Humanities, say] in a different manner, with a different perspective, historical, linguistic, psychological, political...whatever. Derrida, et alia, came along two decades later and, Voilà! we got theory as theory on theory, ad nauseam, not texts but as in the Talmud marginal comments on marginal comments, since of course, the Torah remained the same, pace the scholiast and archæologist. It might be well to recall Thoreau's comment when he talked about the value of "experience." Viz., one generation abandons another like vessels stranded on the shore. {more or less, if not exactly quoted}. Jascha Kessler -- Jascha Kessler Professor of English & Modern Literature, UCLA Telephone/Facsimile: 310.393.4648 www.jfkessler.com www.xlibris.com _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Oct 12 06:50:55 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB0D31D1A82; Wed, 12 Oct 2011 06:50:55 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D8A4F1D1A6D; Wed, 12 Oct 2011 06:50:53 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111012065053.D8A4F1D1A6D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 06:50:53 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.367 pubs: interdisciplinary collaboration; palaeography & codicology; St Patrick's Confessio X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 367. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Franz Fischer (139) Subject: Two DH publications, freely available online [2] From: Willard McCarty (5) Subject: References on Social Science Study of Interdisciplinary Collaboration --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 10:53:12 +0200 From: Franz Fischer Subject: Two DH publications, freely available online Two DH publications, freely available online: -1- Codicology and Palaeography in the Digital Age 2. Ed. by Franz Fischer, Christiane Fritze and Georg Vogeler, in collaboration with Bernhard Assmann, Patrick Sahle and Malte Rehbein. Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2010. ISBN 978-3-8423-5032-8. Online Version 2011: http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/4337/ - urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-43377 (full volume) Further information: http://www.i-d-e.de/ Contents (see http://www.i-d-e.de/schriften/3-kpdz2) Introduction: Franz Fischer, Patrick Sahle: Into the Wide - Into the Deep: Manuscript Research in the Digital Age (online: http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/4338/; urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-43387) Digital Reproduction Pádraig Ó Macháin: Irish Script on Screen: the Growth and Development of a Manuscript Digitisation Project (online:http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/4339/; urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-43397) Armand Tif: Kunsthistorische Online-Kurzinventare illuminierter Codices in österreichischen Klosterbibliotheken (online: http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/4340/; urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-43401) Alison Stones, Ken Sochats: Towards a Comparative Approach to Manuscript Study on theWeb: the Case of the Lancelot-Grail Romance (online: http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/4341/; urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-43414) Melissa M. Terras: Artefacts and Errors: Acknowledging Issues of Representation in the Digital: Imaging of Ancient Texts (online: http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/4342/; urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-43429) Digital Catalogue and Semantics Silke Schöttle, Ulrike Mehringer: Handschriften, Nachlässe, Inkunabeln & Co.: Die Erschließung der deutschen Handschriften und die Bereitstellung von Sonderbeständen in Online-Katalogen an der Universitätsbibliothek Tübingen mit TUSTEP (online: http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/4343/; urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-43436) Marilena Maniaci, Paolo Eleuteri: Das MaGI-Projekt: Elektronische Katalogisierung der griechischen Handschriften Italiens (online: http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/4344/; urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-43440) Ezio Ornato: La numérisation du patrimoine livresque médiéval : avancée décisive ou miroir aux alouettes ? (online: http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/4345/; urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-43453) Toby Burrows: Applying Semantic Web Technologies to Medieval Manuscript Research (online: http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/4346/; urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-43464) Robert Kummer: Semantic Technologies for Manuscript Descriptions - Concepts and Visions (online: http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/4347/; urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-43472) Manuscripts and the Sciences Lior Wolf, Nachum Dershowitz, Liza Potikha, Tanya German, Roni Shweka, Yaacov Choueka: Automatic Palaeographic Exploration of Genizah Manuscripts (online: http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/4348/; urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-43481) Daniel Deckers, Leif Glaser: Zum Einsatz von Synchrotronstrahlung bei der Wiedergewinnung gelöschter Texte in Palimpsesten mittels Röntgenfluoreszenz (online: http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/4349/; urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-43494) Timothy Stinson: Counting Sheep: Potential Applications of DNA Analysis to the Study of Medieval Parchment Production (online: http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/4350/; urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-43508) Peter Meinlschmidt, Carmen Kämmerer, Volker Märgner: Thermographie ? ein neuartiges Verfahren zur exakten Abnahme, Identifizierung und digitalen Archivierung von Wasserzeichen in mittelalterlichen und frühneuzeitlichen Papierhandschriften, -zeichnungen und -drucken (online: http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/4351/; urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-43513) Digital Palaeography Peter A. Stokes: Teaching Manuscripts in the Digital Age (online: http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/4352/; urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-43521) Dominique Stutzmann: Paléographie statistique pour décrire, identifier, dater. . . Normaliser pour coopérer et aller plus loin ? (online: http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/4353/; urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-43535) Stephen Quirke: Agendas for Digital Palaeography in an Archaeological Context: Egypt 1800 BC (online: http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/4354/; urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-43548) Markus Diem, Robert Sablatnig, Melanie Gau, Heinz Miklas: Recognizing Degraded Handwritten Characters (online: http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/4355/; urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-43559) Julia M. Craig-McFeely: Finding What You Need, and Knowing What You Can Find: Digital Tools for Palaeographers in Musicology and Beyond (online: http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/4356/; urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-43569) Transcription and Text Encoding Isabelle Schürch, Martin Rüesch: Ad fontes - mit E-Learning zu ersten Editionserfahrungen (online: http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/4357/; urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-43576) Carole Dornier, Pierre-Yves Buard: L?édition électronique de cahiers de travail : l'exemple de Mes Pensées de Montesquieu (online: http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/4358/; urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-43585) Samantha Saïdi, Jean-François Bert, Philippe Artières: Archives d'un lecteur philosophe. Le traitement numérique des notes de lecture de Michel Foucault (online: http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/4359/; urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-43591) Elena Pierazzo, Peter A. Stokes: Putting the Text back into Context: A Codicological Approach to Manuscript Transcription (online: http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/4360/; urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-43605) [The online version is identical to the print version published by Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2010. However, greyscale images have been replaced with colour images where possible. Minor changes to the character font may have shifted pagebreaks slightly but general page references remain valid.] -2- The Saint Patrick's Confessio HyperStack. Ed. by Anthony Harvey and Franz Fischer. Dublin, Royal Irish Academy: 2011. Online: http://confessio.ie A digital edition of Saint Patrick's writings in original Latin and in a variety of modern languages (including Irish) along with digital images of all extant manuscripts testimonies and reproductions of the most relevant print editions. The Stack is accompanied by a range of articles and special features such as: St Patrick's Writings: Confessio and Epistola (introduction by David Kelly): http://confessio.ie/more/article_kelly# HyperStack Bibliography (the most complete, annotated bibliography on St Patrick in beta-version): http://confessio.ie/more/bibliography# Muirchú's Life of St Patrick (electronic version of the edition and translation by Ludwig Bieler): http://confessio.ie/more/muirchu_latin#; http://confessio.ie/more/muirchu_english# Tírechán's Collectanea (electronic version of the edition and translation by Ludwig Bieler): http://confessio.ie/more/tirechan_latin#; http://confessio.ie/more/tirechan_english# Pillars of Conversion in Muirchú and Tírechán: Two Case Studies (article by Elizabeth Dawson): http://confessio.ie/more/article_dawson# Tírechán: Biography and character study (article by Terry O'Hagan): http://confessio.ie/more/article_ohagan# The Staff, the Snake and the Shamrock: St Patrick in Art (article by Rachel Moss): http://confessio.ie/more/article_moss# Seeking Patrick (novel & audiobook by Derick Mockler): http://confessio.ie/more/novel_mockler_text#; http://confessio.ie/more/novel_mockler_text/audio# Confessio dialogue (audio feature performed by Kate Younger & Anthony Harvey): http://confessio.ie/more/confessio_dialogue# -- Dr. des. Franz Fischer Cologne Center for eHumanities / Thomas-Institut Universität zu Köln, Universitätsstr. 22, D-50923 Köln Telefon: +49 - (0)221 - 470 - 6883/1750 Email: franz.fischer@uni-koeln.de -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.cceh.uni-koeln.de/ http://www.i-d-e.de/ http://www.thomasinstitut.uni-koeln.de/ http://ti-intern.uni-koeln.de/sdoe/ http://confessio.ie/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 16:10:26 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: References on Social Science Study of Interdisciplinary Collaboration The following of great interest to at least some of us, from Mersenne, a discussion group which "/seeks to promote informal and open discussion within the community of science, technology and medicine studies/" (www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/*mersenne*.html). WM -------- Original Message -------- _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Oct 12 06:54:48 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 546B31D1B03; Wed, 12 Oct 2011 06:54:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0D7AD1D1AEF; Wed, 12 Oct 2011 06:54:46 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111012065446.0D7AD1D1AEF@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 06:54:46 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.368 events: DHSI 2012; Judaica Europeana workshop X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 368. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Lena Stanley-Clamp (32) Subject: Invitation to the Judaica Europeana Digital Humanities Workshop atthe British Library 31.10.11 [2] From: Ray Siemens (45) Subject: Announcing DHSI 2012, Registration and Scholarships --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 15:09:35 +0100 From: Lena Stanley-Clamp Subject: Invitation to the Judaica Europeana Digital Humanities Workshop at the British Library 31.10.11 Please find below the programme of the Digital Humanities Workshop at the British Library on 31 October 2011. Participation is free but booking is essential. Lena Stanley-Clamp Director, European Association for Jewish Culture www.judaica-europeana.eu http://www.judaica-europeana.eu BRITISH LIBRARY 31 October 2011 Judaica Europeana Digital Humanities Workshop Discover how Judaica Europeana http://www.judaica-europeana.eu/ is making available online a vast archive of Jewish history and culture. 31 Oct 2011 / 9.30-16.50 / free British Library / 96 Euston Road London / NW1 2DB Hear a range of leading academic researchers and experts in the digital humanities and Jewish Studies talk about innovative approaches to incorporating this exciting new digital resource in their research. This event will be of interest to academic researchers in the field of Jewish Studies and European history as well as those wishing to learn more about developments in digital humanities. Lunch and refreshments are included at this free event, but booking is essential and places are limited. Find out more and book >> http://www.bl.uk/whatson/events/event124222.html Discover the world's knowledge www.bl.uk Copyright (c) The British Library Board The British Library, 96 Euston Road, London, NW1 2DB --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 16:55:39 -0700 From: Ray Siemens Subject: Announcing DHSI 2012, Registration and Scholarships 2012 Digital Humanities Summer Institute 4-8 June 2012, University of Victoria http://www.dhsi.org We are pleased to announce the 2012 Digital Humanities Summer Institute! The DHSI 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. *HOST AND SPONSORS Now in its tenth year of operation, the institute takes place on the University of Victoria campus, and is generously hosted by the University of Victoria's Faculty of Humanities and its Electronic Textual Cultures Lab. The DHSI is sponsored by the University of Victoria and its Library, University of British Columbia Library, the College of Arts at the University of Guelph, Texas A&M University, the Centre for Digital Humanities, Department of English, Ryerson University, the Faculty of Arts at the University of Waterloo, the Brittain Fellowship at Georgia Tech, the Editing Modernism in Canada (EMiC) project, NINES, INKE, the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organisations, the Society for Digital Humanities / Société pour l'étude des médias interactifs, the Association for Computers and the Humanities, the Social Science and Humanities Research Council, and others. *DHSI 2012 REGISTRATION: http://dhsi.org/courses.php Registration for the 2012 DHSI is now open! Registration and course information is available via http://dhsi.org/courses.php. *TUITION SCHOLARSHIPS, ACH BURSARIES: http://dhsi.org/scholarships.php We are very pleased that we are able to offer a limited number of tuition scholarship spots for the 2012 summer institute. Scholarship spots are open to everyone, and are awarded on the basis of need, merit, and course availability; scholarships cover all tuition costs, with the exception of an administration fee. The application form is available online at http://dhsi.org/scholarships.php. The application deadline is February 14th.  Please note that scholarships are awarded on a rolling basis beginning immediately, to expedite travel planning and other arrangements, and there are a limited number of scholarship spots available in each course.  The Association for Computers and the Humanities (http://www.ach.org) is again graciously offering several bursaries to assist graduate students in defraying travel and lodging costs. You may apply for this bursary at the same time as for DHSI scholarships by indicating on the scholarship application form that you are a graduate student member of the ACH and would like to be considered for the ACH bursary. Please apply early as courses will fill quickly. *INSTITUTE LECTURES We are very excited that this year's institute lectures will be given by Laura Mandel (Texas A&M) and Adriaan Van der Weel (Leiden U). *DHSI COLLOQUIUM Building on the success of the graduate student colloquium over the past three years, our DHSI Colloquium has been expanded to include the work of all new or emerging scholars (including, but not limited to, graduate students; early career scholars and humanities scholars who are new to the digital humanities; librarians, and those in cultural heritage; alt-academics; academic professionals; and those in technical programs). Please see the call for papers at http://dhsi.org/events.php. *COURSES FOR 2012: http://dhsi.org/courses.php Fundamentals / Introductory Courses: 1. Text Encoding Fundamentals and their Application: Julia Flanders (Brown U), Constance Crompton (ETCL, U Victoria), and Melanie Chernyk (ETCL, U Victoria) 2. Digitisation Fundamentals and their Application: Robin Davies (VIU) and Michael Nixon (VIU) Tools & Methods / Intermediate Courses: 3. Introduction to XSLT for Digital Humanists: Syd Bauman (Brown U) and Martin Holmes (U Victoria, HCMC) 4. Multimedia: Design for Visual, Auditory, and Interactive Electronic Environments: Aimée Morrison (U Waterloo) 5. Geographical Information Systems in the Digital Humanities: Ian Gregory (Lancaster U) 6. Physical Computing and Desktop Fabrication for Humanists: William J. Turkel (U Western Ontario) 7. Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities: Katherine D. Harris (San Jose State), Diane Jakacki (Georgia Tech), and Jentery Sayers (U Victoria) 8. Creating Digital Humanities Projects for the Mobile Environment: Dene Grigar (Washington State, Vancouver), Brett Oppegaard (Washington State, Vancouver), John Barber (Washington State, Vancouver), and Will Luers (Washington State, Vancouver) 9. Designing RESTful APIs (Application Programming Interfaces): Neal Audenaert (Texas A&M) 10. Digital Humanities Databases: Harvey Quamen (U Alberta), Jon Bath (U Saskatchewan), Matt Bouchard (U Toronto) 11. Augmented Reality: An Introduction: Markus Wust (N Carolina State) Seminars & Consultations / Advanced Courses 12. Issues in Large Project Planning and Management: Lynne Siemens (U Victoria) 13. Digital Editions: Matt Huculak (Dalhousie U) 14. Out-of-the-Box Text Analysis for the Digital Humanities: David Hoover (NYU) 15. Understanding the Pre-Digital Book: Helene Cazes (U Victoria), Adriaan Van der Weel (Leiden U), Erik Kwakkel (Leiden U), and Erin Kelly (U Victoria), with Ray Siemens (U Victoria) 16. Online Tools for Literary Analysis: Susan Brown (U Guelph / Alberta) and Stan Ruecker (Illinois Institute of Technology) 17. SEASR in Action: Data Analytics for Humanities Scholars: Loretta Auvil (NCSA, UIUC) and Boris Capitanu (NCSA, UIUC) *REGISTRATION FEES Early registration fees for the institute are $500 CDN for students and $950 CDN for non-students. After April 1, 2011, fees will be $600 CDN (student) and $1250 CDN (non-student). The tuition scholarship covers this fee minus an administration fee. --- For more information, please visit http://www.dhsi.org. You can contact members of the DHSI team at institut@uvic.ca. ____________ R.G. Siemens, English, University of Victoria, PO Box 3070 STN CSC, Victoria, BC, Canada. V8W 3W1. Clearihue C315 & B043b P:250.721.7255  F:250.721.6498 siemens@uvic.ca http://web.uvic.ca/~siemens/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Oct 13 05:21:47 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4E351D6DE0; Thu, 13 Oct 2011 05:21:46 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 29FF91D6D63; Thu, 13 Oct 2011 05:21:45 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111013052145.29FF91D6D63@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 05:21:45 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.369 GIS projects X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 369. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Moacir (32) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.365 GIS projects [2] From: "Nowviskie, Bethany (bpn2f)" (13) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.365 GIS projects --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 11:05:11 +0200 From: Moacir Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.365 GIS projects In-Reply-To: <20111012064801.DAC201D1951@woodward.joyent.us> Victoria Szabo wrote: > I suspect some people don't feel such work falls within the purview of > DH strictly speaking, either... This was why I did not write in yesterday morning, and it's also reflected in how Nicolaie phrased the question, asking about GIS projects "in relation to Digital Humanities." Is it possible that a humanistic project can incorporate a GIS yet not be a DH project? On the one hand, this seems absurd. Surely a GIS—reliant as it is on (digital*) data collection, manipulation, and analysis—fits within even the most restrictive definitions of DH? On the other, my own project, which incorporates (but not centrally) a GIS, certainly does not feel like a DH project—or even, necessarily, a GIS project; I look at the Mapping the Lakes project, for example, a shining instance of using a GIS in the humanities, and consider myself doing something completely different, though with the same software. But I doubt my own apprehensions are in line with the taxonomic divide suggested above. Ideas? --m * I suppose an "information system" need not be digital, though in GIS school we were taught that the workstation, software, and database were all necessary components of a GIS. But I've also not ever read a single piece about using a GIS in the humanities, from the introduction to the Bodenhamer et al. book on down, that did not refer to the declining cost (in time and money) of computers and software—and hence, of building and using a GIS—when explaining why GISes were growing in the humanities. -- Moacir P. de Sá Pereira PhD Candidate, Dept. of English Language and Literature University of Chicago http://moacir.com/ | moacir@uchicago.edu --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 19:29:06 +0000 From: "Nowviskie, Bethany (bpn2f)" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.365 GIS projects In-Reply-To: <20111012064801.DAC201D1951@woodward.joyent.us> Dear John and all -- We’d like to invite anyone interested in building an index of work in humanities GIS to contribute to the “Projects and Groups” or “Readings and Research” sections of the Spatial Humanities site Justin Tonra recently mentioned on Humanist: http://spatial.scholarslab.org/ The website was one outcome of a two-year, NEH-funded “Institute for Enabling Geospatial Scholarship” held at the University of Virginia Library Scholars’ Lab. The bibliography sections of the Spatial Humanities site are Zotero-based, so anyone can join in and add content. Here’s how: http://spatial.scholarslab.org/contribute/ The site also features essays by Jo Guldi on the spatial turn across the disciplines, a peer-reviewed occasional publication of “Step by Step” tutorials, and GIS-related feeds from social media and Q&A sites, including DH Answers. Institute participants (who included approximately 75 humanities scholars, map and GIS librarians, and software developers) helped to define the needed sections of the site. Many were especially interested in the creation of a common and crowdsourced index of projects that could serve as inspiration and help define best practices in the field. Best, Bethany Bethany Nowviskie, MA Ed, Ph.D Director, Digital Research & Scholarship, UVA Library Associate Director, Scholarly Communication Institute Vice President, Association for Computers & the Humanities scholarslab.org/ ● uvasci.org/ ● ach.org/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Oct 13 05:23:47 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C8CA1D6EC6; Thu, 13 Oct 2011 05:23:47 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 33AD01D6E9D; Thu, 13 Oct 2011 05:23:45 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111013052345.33AD01D6E9D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 05:23:45 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.370 intro topics and texts X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 370. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 12:14:30 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: being haunted In a wonderful, at times very funny interview with the psychologist George A. Miller in Bernard J. Baars, The Cognitive Revolution in Psychology (New York: Guilford Press, 1986): 200-23, Miller talks about his early educational background. Later Baars asks him why it is that his work during the late 1940s and 1950s was so remarkably free from the constraints of behaviouristic psychology that dominated his discipline. Miller mentions his graduate school experience at Harvard, and Baars asks, "Do you think that your college background in literature and theater may have helped to broaden your perspective as well?" Miller replies, "It was more a matter of being haunted by that background -- of experiencing the psychology we were developing as inadequate to deal with the things I'd learned in literature and drama" (p. 211). To reply somewhat tangentially to a recent question asked on Humanist (James Rovira's, in 25.278), I think in just this way about the best sort of background for students who wish to study the digital humanities: of an educational background that will continually haunt them with the inadequacies of whatever computing can come up with, as a driving force to greater understanding. Comments? Yours, WM -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor (fractional), University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Oct 13 05:24:58 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9183F1D6F3F; Thu, 13 Oct 2011 05:24:58 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id EC9DD1D6F35; Thu, 13 Oct 2011 05:24:56 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111013052456.EC9DD1D6F35@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 05:24:56 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.371 collective noun? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 371. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 13:31:35 +1100 From: "Ken Friedman" Subject: Advice on collective nouns Friends, This is a request for help on one of those odd topics where members of the Humanist list so often seem to know a great deal. A recent meeting of deans found us searching for the collective noun for deans. A search for experts on English brought me to you, and I hope that in your work on lexicology and etymology, you might have come across such a word. One of the deans present did a Google search to find the words "decanter" and "decorum." This did not seem right to me, so I did some checking. Most of the web sites I find on Google are amateur sites, and the lists of collective nouns I found were filled with errors. If a source has many errors on other collective nouns, I don't see the source as reliable on this word. The logic of labeling a group of deans as a "decanter" or a "decorum" could be a pop etymology follow-on from the Latin term for dean, decanus. That doesn't mean that these words are not used as collective nouns for dean, but it could be the case that someone invented words that have spread from list to list in the same way that false Wikipedia facts take on life when Wikipedia cites poor sources and other sources cite Wikipedia. Neither the Oxford English Dictionary nor Webster's gives the terms decanter or decorum such usage. If anyone on The Humanist could shed light on this topic or direct me to a reliable reference work on collective nouns, I'd be most grateful. Thank you. Ken Friedman Professor Ken Friedman, PhD, DSc (hc), FDRS | University Distinguished Professor | Dean, Faculty of Design | Swinburne University of Technology | Melbourne, Australia | kenfriedman@groupwise.swin.edu.au | Ph: +61 3 9214 6078 | Faculty www.swinburne.edu.au/design _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Oct 13 05:26:12 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E3A51D6FBA; Thu, 13 Oct 2011 05:26:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 9FB991D6FA7; Thu, 13 Oct 2011 05:26:10 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111013052610.9FB991D6FA7@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 05:26:10 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.372 authorship algorithm X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 372. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 11:22:21 -0400 From: Luis Gutierrez Subject: Algorithm could untangle authors of Torah This might be of interest to members of this list: Algorithm could untangle authors of Torah Science, 11 October 2011 http://scienceblog.com/48316/algorithm-could-decipher-authors-of-torah/ Luis Luis T. Gutiérrez, PhD, PE The Pelican Web of Solidarity and Sustainability Mother Pelican: A Journal of Sustainable Human Development Home Page ~ http://pelicanweb.org Current Issue ~ http://www.pelicanweb.org/solisustv07n10page1.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 Thu Oct 13 05:27:07 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEA021D6245; Thu, 13 Oct 2011 05:27:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 9874F1D6FFA; Thu, 13 Oct 2011 05:27:05 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111013052705.9874F1D6FFA@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 05:27:05 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.373 cfp: Solomonoff conference X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 373. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 15:53:01 +1100 From: Dianne Nguyen Subject: CALL FOR PARTICIPATION - Solomonoff 85th Memorial Conference Solomonoff 85th Memorial Conference http://www.solomonoff85thmemorial.monash.edu/ Dear Colleague The Solomonoff Organising Committee cordially invites you to participate at the upcoming Solomonoff 85th Memorial Conference to be held at Monash University, Clayton Campus, between Wedn 30 November and Fri 2 December 2011. The Conference is being held in honour and memory of Ray Solomonoff (1926-2009). Solomonoff was the father of algorithmic information theory (before Kolmogorov and Chaitin), perhaps the first to advocate probabilistic artificial intelligence, and (in 1985) one of the first to write on the technological singularity. Solomonoff is also mentioned in the recent "New Scientist" magazine article of Sat 10/Sept/2011 (pp42-45) for having the pioneering ideas in the 1960s of modern theories of intelligence. His January 2010 New York Times obituary is linked to from www.csse.monash.edu.au/~dld/MML.html#rjs. Keynote Speakers The Conference program includes three distinguished guest speakers: Prof. Leonid Levin, Boston University, USA - famous for (e.g.) the Cook-Levin theorem of NP-Completeness, the computable Kt complexity approximation to (uncomputable) Kolmogorov complexity, the universal Levin search, etc. Prof. Ming Li, University of Waterloo, Canada - widely known for the Li & Vitanyi "An introduction to Kolmogorov complexity and its Applications" book and for current research in bioinformatics. Grace Solomonoff, USA Program Committee (includes 2 Turing Award winners) Andrew Barron, Statistics, Yale University, USA Greg Chaitin, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Fouad Chedid, Notre Dame University, Lebanon Bertrand Clarke, Medical Statistics, University of Miami, USA A. Phil Dawid, Statistics, Cambridge University, UK Peter Gacs, Boston University, USA Alex Gammerman, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK John Goldsmith, Linguistics, University of Chicago, USA Marcus Hutter, Australian National University, Australia Leonid Levin, Boston University, USA Ming Li, Mathematics, University of Waterloo, Canada John McCarthy, Stanford University, USA (Turing Award winner) Marvin Minsky, MIT, USA (Turing Award winner) Kee Siong Ng, ANU & EMC Corp, Australia David Paganin, Physics, Monash University, Australia Teemu Roos, University of Helsinki, Finland Juergen Schmidhuber, IDSIA, Switzerland William Uther, NICTA and University of New South Wales, Australia Farshid Vahid, Econometrics, Monash University, Australia Paul Vitanyi, CWI, The Netherlands Vladimir Vovk, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK Theme/Topics This is a multi-disciplinary conference based on the wide range of applications of work related to or inspired by that of Ray Solomonoff. The contributions sought for this conference include, but are not restricted to, the following:- Statistical inference and prediction, Econometrics (including time series and panel data), in Principle proofs of financial market inefficiency, Theories of (quantifying) intelligence and new forms of (universal) intelligence test (for robotic, terrestrial and extra-terrestrial life), the Singularity (or infinity point, when machine intelligence surpasses that of humans), the future of science, Philosophy of science, the Problem of induction, Evolutionary (tree) models in biology and linguistics, Geography, Climate modelling and bush-fire detection, Environmental science, Image processing, Spectral analysis, Engineering, Artificial intelligence, Machine learning, Statistics and Philosophy, Mathematics, Linguistics, Computer science, Data mining, Bioinformatics, Computational intelligence, Computational science, Life sciences, Physics, Knowledge discovery, Ethics, Computational biology, Computational linguistics, Collective intelligence, structure and computing connectivity of random nets, effect of Heisenberg's principle on channel capacity, Arguments that entropy is not the arrow of time, and etc. Registration For information on registration and payment, please visit: http://www.solomonoff85thmemorial.monash.edu/registration.html Please feel at liberty to forward announcement to interested staff and students. I look forward to receiving your registration and participation at the Conference. Kind regards Dr Dianne Q. Nguyen (Co-ordinator) and (chairman) A/Prof. David L. Dowe. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 Oct 13 05:35:42 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C5001D643D; Thu, 13 Oct 2011 05:35:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 685E71D6430; Thu, 13 Oct 2011 05:35:40 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111013053540.685E71D6430@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 05:35:40 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.374 software for editing a complex apparatus? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 374. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 23:12:28 +0100 From: Drew Longacre Subject: Apparatus Programs [The following forwarded from the list for the Society for Textual Scholarship. Please copy any replies to Drew Longacre, drewlongacre@yahoo.com. --WM] Dear textual scholars, I've been compiling an extensive textual apparatus and commentary for the Hebrew text of the Genesis Flood Narrative in a Microsoft Word document, but recently I have run into several technical problems. The file is heavy laden with many footnotes, symbols, and foreign language texts and fonts, and Word does not seem to be able to handle the load. For a while it ran extremely slow. Then it started opening only sporadically. And now it has stopped displaying the fonts because of insufficient memory, even though I have over 2 GB of RAM available! I've even broken the file down into numerous smaller files, but to no avail. So the questions for those experienced in compiling electronic apparatuses are: 1) Has anyone else encountered similar problems with Microsoft Word, and does anyone have any tips for more efficient use of the program? 2) What other programs are available that you recommend for recording extensive critical apparatuses and notes? Thanks, Drew Longacre _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 Oct 14 06:39:49 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCC981D8774; Fri, 14 Oct 2011 06:39:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 96F401D876A; Fri, 14 Oct 2011 06:39:46 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111014063946.96F401D876A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 06:39:46 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.375 GIS projects X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 375. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 11:47:57 +0100 From: John Levin Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.369 GIS projects In-Reply-To: <20111013052145.29FF91D6D63@woodward.joyent.us> I think that for Archaeology, place is central and GIS widely used, and has been for many years, before the term 'Digital Humanities' was coined. Of the 74 projects in my list, 12 deal with classical and medieval Europe / Mediterranean. That's about 16%, and points to the strength of GIS in this field. But it may be that archaeology is under-represented, because rather than producing *digital projects*, they produced *data* which was shared in ways other than being displayed as part of a website. John -- John Levin http://www.anterotesis.com johnlevin@joindiaspora.com http://twitter.com/anterotesis _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Oct 14 06:41:54 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A8421D87E0; Fri, 14 Oct 2011 06:41:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 15FD81D87CE; Fri, 14 Oct 2011 06:41:52 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111014064152.15FD81D87CE@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 06:41:52 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.376 collective noun X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 376. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Unsworth, John M" (39) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.371 collective noun? [2] From: Jascha Kessler (77) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.371 collective noun? [3] From: "centrostudicomparati@libero.it" (62) Subject: R: [Humanist] 25.371 collective noun? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 13:30:01 +0000 From: "Unsworth, John M" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.371 collective noun? In-Reply-To: <20111013052456.EC9DD1D6F35@woodward.joyent.us> As a dean (at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois) I have long felt that the proper collective noun for deans is "a gripe of deans." John On Oct 13, 2011, at 1:24 AM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 371. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 13:31:35 +1100 > From: "Ken Friedman" > Subject: Advice on collective nouns > > Friends, > > This is a request for help on one of those odd topics where members of the Humanist list so often seem to know a great deal. > > A recent meeting of deans found us searching for the collective noun for deans. A search for experts on English brought me to you, and I hope that in your work on lexicology and etymology, you might have come across such a word. > > One of the deans present did a Google search to find the words "decanter" and "decorum." This did not seem right to me, so I did some checking. Most of the web sites I find on Google are amateur sites, and the lists of collective nouns I found were filled with errors. If a source has many errors on other collective nouns, I don't see the source as reliable on this word. > > The logic of labeling a group of deans as a "decanter" or a "decorum" could be a pop etymology follow-on from the Latin term for dean, decanus. That doesn't mean that these words are not used as collective nouns for dean, but it could be the case that someone invented words that have spread from list to list in the same way that false Wikipedia facts take on life when Wikipedia cites poor sources and other sources cite Wikipedia. Neither the Oxford English Dictionary nor Webster's gives the terms decanter or decorum such usage. > > If anyone on The Humanist could shed light on this topic or direct me to a reliable reference work on collective nouns, I'd be most grateful. > > Thank you. > > Ken Friedman > > Professor Ken Friedman, PhD, DSc (hc), FDRS | University Distinguished Professor | Dean, Faculty of Design | Swinburne University of Technology | Melbourne, Australia | kenfriedman@groupwise.swin.edu.au | Ph: +61 3 9214 6078 | Faculty www.swinburne.edu.au/design --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 10:35:15 -0700 From: Jascha Kessler Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.371 collective noun? In-Reply-To: <20111013052456.EC9DD1D6F35@woodward.joyent.us> Collectivist confab: Whereas family or committee can be used and thought of as a collection of individuals, or those individuals as such [viz., "the family sit down to dinner; the family sits down to dinner"], there is no need to collect a dunciad of deans, who will prefer to browse separate and solitary on the green grass of our mere professors, the intellectual proletariat ruled from above, or should one say, from "overhead," which rules in the financial office...? We might say the Deanery, like rookery, which can be collective, or Their Deanship is or are in [secretive] conference...? Jascha Kessler -- Jascha Kessler Professor of English & Modern Literature, UCLA Telephone/Facsimile: 310.393.4648 www.jfkessler.com www.xlibris.com --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 21:37:47 +0200 (CEST) From: "centrostudicomparati@libero.it" Subject: R: [Humanist] 25.371 collective noun? In-Reply-To: <20111013052456.EC9DD1D6F35@woodward.joyent.us> deanery? _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 Oct 14 06:43:34 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B8E81D8849; Fri, 14 Oct 2011 06:43:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1AFEC1D8838; Fri, 14 Oct 2011 06:43:33 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111014064333.1AFEC1D8838@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 06:43:33 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.377 software for apparatus X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 377. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Torsten Schaßan (3) Subject: AW: Apparatus Programs [2] From: Tom Salyers (44) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.374 software for editing a complex apparatus? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 07:00:46 +0100 From: Torsten Schaßan Subject: AW: Apparatus Programs Hi, besides the two programs mentioned (Notabene and CTE) I would add Tustep, which is capable of the same things. Anyway, my first question would be: What do you want to do with the text? If for example you want to do both an print and online edition I would considern none of the above mentioned programs right but I would propose encoding them in TEI and deal with it with all he means that XML gives us. Would that be an option? Best, Torsten Von Samsung Mobile gesendet --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 10:59:25 +0100 From: Tom Salyers Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.374 software for editing a complex apparatus? In-Reply-To: <20111013053540.685E71D6430@woodward.joyent.us> Drew, There are a few things to consider here regarding your one large file. (I'm assuming you're running Windows of some flavor or another; please disregard this if that's not the case.) Do you have 2 GB available, or *total*? If it's total, your system is unfortunately a bit cramped; most modern versions of Windows run more comfortably in 4 GB. You can free up some room by killing off any programs that start with Windows that you don't absolutely need--for instance, Skype likes to start itself up regardless of whether or not you'll be calling anyone. You can most easily do this by going to Start/Run and typing in "msconfig", then looking on the Startup tab. Anything that isn't crucial or needed for your work should be unchecked. In the long term, though, you might want to consider adding more RAM to your system if possible. As for the problem persisting even when you break the file up into smaller documents, there's a possibility you might have a virus. (There's a virus out there that--among other things--attacks one of the files used by Word for editing documents.) You may also have a corrupt file in your Word configuration. You can find more information and some solutions to try at http://word.mvps.org/faqs/apperrors/InsufficientMemory.htm . I hope this helps you a bit. Please let us know how it goes. -- Tom Salyers _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Oct 14 06:44:53 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DC161D88B9; Fri, 14 Oct 2011 06:44:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 088651D88B0; Fri, 14 Oct 2011 06:44:51 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111014064451.088651D88B0@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 06:44:51 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.378 postdoc in ontology evolution X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 378. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 22:21:35 +0100 From: Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research Subject: Joint Postdoctoral Research Position in Ontology Evolution: Centrefor AI Research, South Africa and University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom Applications are invited for a Postdoctoral Research position in the area of Ontology Evolution in the newly established UKZN/CSIR Meraka Centre for Artificial Intelligence (CAIR) within the School of Computer Science, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: http://cair.cs.ukzn.ac.za (alias http://cair.meraka.org.za) The project seeks to explore to what extent current approaches to ontology evolution can be captured using description logics, with emergency response as a possible area of application. Strong preference will be given to candidates with experience in description logics or ontology evolution. The successful applicant will be based primarily in Pretoria, South Africa, and will undertake short research placements to the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom (UED). The application will be jointly supervised by Professor Tommie Meyer at CAIR and Professor Alan Bundy at UED. The position is for a duration of one year and is renewable for a second year, subject to satisfactory progress. Eligibility Criteria: - A doctoral degree in Computer Science or related area. - Proven experience to undertake postdoctoral research in the specified area. Funding for the position will range from R180 000 to R270 000 per year comprising of: - A tax free scholarship of R180 000 for one year and subject to satisfactory progress, renewable for a second year. - A topup of up to R90 000 per year from CAIR , depending on the experience of the candidate and the availability of funds. There is no application deadline. The position will be filled as soon as an appropriate candidate is identified. The awarding of the position is subject to the availability of funds. More details on the application process can be found on the CAIR website: http://cair.cs.ukzn.ac.za/?page_id=501 http://cair.meraka.org.za/?page_id=501 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 Oct 14 06:47:38 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 865CE1D891A; Fri, 14 Oct 2011 06:47:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 7DCCE1D8912; Fri, 14 Oct 2011 06:47:37 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111014064737.7DCCE1D8912@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 06:47:37 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.379 events: DH; visualisation; digitisation X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 379. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Craig Bellamy (111) Subject: CFP: Digital Humanities Australasia, 28-30 March 2012 [2] From: Lena Stanley-Clamp (9) Subject: Digital Humanities Workshop at the British Library on 31 October [3] From: "Lorna M. Hughes" (37) Subject: Workshop at National LIbrary of Wales [4] From: "Mcdaid, Sarah" (44) Subject: CFP - Electronic Visualisation and the Arts London 2012 [5] From: Katherine L Walter (2) Subject: 6th Nebraska Digital Workshop --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 16:41:04 +1100 From: Craig Bellamy Subject: CFP: Digital Humanities Australasia, 28-30 March 2012 Call for Papers, Panels and Posters *********************************************************************************** DIGITAL HUMANITIES AUSTRALASIA 2012: Building, Mapping, Connecting *********************************************************************************** The inaugural conference of the Australasian Association for Digital Humanities Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, 28-30 March 2012 Sponsored by the Australian Academy of the Humanities and the College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University. CONFERENCE WEBSITE: http://aa-dh.org/conference CALL FOR PROPOSALS CLOSES: 11 November 2011 NOTIFICATION OF ACCEPTANCE: 30 November 2011 REGISTRATION OPENS: Early January 2012 The Australasian Association for Digital Humanities is pleased to announce its inaugural conference, to be held at the Australian National University, Canberra, 28-30 March, 2012. The conference will feature papers, panels, posters and associated workshops. We invite proposals on all aspects of digital humanities in Australia, New Zealand and internationally, and especially encourage papers showcasing new research and developments in the field and/or responding to the conference theme of ‘Building, Mapping, Connecting’. Proposals may focus on, but need not be limited to: - Institutionalisation, interdisciplinarity and collaboration - Measuring and valuing digital research - Publication and dissemination - Research applications and interfaces for digital collections - Designing and curating online resources - Digital textuality and literacy - Curriculum and pedagogy - Culture, creativity, arts, music, performance - Electronic critical editions - Digitisation, text encoding and analysis - Communities and crowdsourcing - Infrastructure, virtual research environments, workflows - Information mining, modelling, GIS and visualisation - Critical reflections on digital humanities futures ------------------------------------------- INTERNATIONAL SPEAKERS ------------------------------------------- Julia Flanders (Brown University, USA) Alan Liu (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA) Peter Robinson (University of Saskatchewan, Canada) Harold Short (King’s College London, UK and University of Western Sydney, Australia) John Unsworth (University of Illinois, USA) ---------------------- SUBMISSIONS ---------------------- Abstracts of no more than 300 words, together with a biography of no more than 100 words, should be submitted to the Program Committee by 11 November, 2011. All proposals will be fully refereed. Proposals should be submitted via the online form at http://conference.aa-dh.org. Please indicate whether you are proposing a poster, a short paper (10 mins), a long paper (20 mins) or a panel. Presenters will be notified of acceptance of their proposal on 30 November, 2011. ------------------------------- TRAVEL BURSARIES ------------------------------- The Australian Academy of the Humanities has provided funding for travel bursaries. These will be available on a competitive basis for postgraduate students and early career researchers from Australia and New Zealand to present at the conference and participate in associated workshops. Staff from cultural institutions are also encouraged to apply. When submitting your proposal please indicate if you wish to be considered for a bursary. ---------------------------- PROPOSAL TYPES ---------------------------- 1. Poster presentations Poster presentations may include work-in-progress on any of the topics described above as well as demonstrations of computer technology, software and digital projects. A separate poster session will open the conference, during which time presenters will need to be available to explain their work, share their ideas with other delegates, and answer questions. Posters will also be on display at various times during the conference, and presenters are encouraged to provide material and handouts with more detailed information and URLs. 2. Short papers Short papers are allocated 10 minutes (plus 5 minutes for questions) and are suitable for describing work-in-progress and reporting on shorter experiments and software and tools in early stages of development. 3. Long papers Long papers are allocated 20 minutes (plus 10 minutes for questions) and are intended for presenting substantial unpublished research and reporting on significant new digital resources or methodologies. 4. Panels Panels (90 minutes) are comprised of either: (a) Three long papers on a joint theme. All abstracts should be submitted together with a statement, of no more than 300 words, outlining the session topic and its relevance to current directions in the digital humanities; or (b) A panel of four to six speakers. The panel organiser should submit a 300-word outline of the topic session and its relevance to current directions in the digital humanities as well as an indication from all speakers of their willingness to participate. -------------------- CONVENORS -------------------- Dr Paul Arthur, Australian National University Dr Katherine Bode, Australian National University ------------------------------------ PROGRAM COMMITTEE ------------------------------------ Dr Paul Arthur, Australian National University Dr Craig Bellamy, VeRSI, University of Melbourne, Australia Dr Katherine Bode, Australian National University Prof Hugh Craig, University of Newcastle, Australia Prof Jane Hunter, University of Queensland, Australia Dr Sydney Shep, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 09:27:05 +0100 From: Lena Stanley-Clamp Subject: Digital Humanities Workshop at the British Library on 31 October Please circulate the following information to your list. Many thanks. Digital Humanities and the Study of Jewish History and Culture 31 October 2011, 9.30 - 4 pm, a British Library Workshop in association with Judaica Europeana at the BL Conference Centre, 96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB Registration is free, but booking is essential. More information, programme and how to book at http://www.bl.uk/whatson/events/event124222.html Lena Stanley-Clamp Director, European Association for Jewish Culture, London Project Manager, Judaica Europeana www.judaica-europeana.eu http://www.judaica-europeana.eu/ --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 10:45:38 +0100 From: "Lorna M. Hughes" Subject: Workshop at National LIbrary of Wales Dear Humanists, King's College, London and the National Library of Wales are co-hosting a workshop at the National Library of Wales, on October 28th, 2011. The workshop has been sponsored by JISC. A limited number of places are still available: if you wish to attend, please register by e-mailing lorna.hughes@llgc.org.uk. Friday October 28th 2011, 10:00-16:30 “New Directions in Digitization” Council Room, National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth This workshop will discuss new developments in digitization, and present findings from a number of recent projects. There will be a special focus on Welsh and other Celtic digitization projects. Innovative approaches will be discussed to representing text and image; developing mass digitization initiatives; and developing scholarly resources. There will be opportunities for discussion about future direction, collaboration and innovation in digitization. Presentations will include: Mark Hedges, King’s College, London: Digitization at KCL Mike Bryant, King’s College, London: The Ocropodium Project Paul Ell, Queen’s University, Belfast: CDDA: Digitization and Celtic Studies Alan Hughes/Scott Waby, National Library of Wales: Digitization at the National Library of Wales: case studies and lessons learned Lorna Hughes, National Library of Wales: Value, use and impact of digital collections: the SPHERE project Rheinallt Foster-Jones, People’s Collection, Wales: Innovation in Community Digitization Tom Pert, RCAHMW: Putting pictures in their place; Royal Commission for Ancient and Historic Monuments of Wales digitization projects To register: If you wish to attend this workshop, please send e-mail to lorna.hughes@llgc.org.uk. Places are limited, and prior registration is essential. -- Professor Lorna M. Hughes University of Wales Chair in Digital Collections Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru National Library of Wales Lorna.Hughes@llgc.org.uk Ffôn / Phone 01970 632 499 http://www.llgc.org.uk/ --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 14:50:11 +0100 From: "Mcdaid, Sarah" Subject: CFP - Electronic Visualisation and the Arts London 2012 Electronic Visualisation and the Arts (EVA) London 2012 Tuesday 10th July - Thursday 12th July 2012 Venue: British Computer Society, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7HA www.eva-london.org CALL FOR PROPOSALS Deadline: 22nd January 2012 *Visualising* ideas and concepts in culture, heritage the arts and sciences: digital arts, sound, music, film and animation, 2D and 3D imaging, European projects, archaeology, architecture, social media for museums, heritage and fine art photography, medical visualisation and more OFFERS OF PAPERS, DEMONSTRATIONS AND WORKSHOPS by 22nd January 2012 A feature of EVA London is its varied session types. We invite proposals of papers, demonstrations, short performances, workshops or panel discussions. Demonstrations and performances will be an important part of this year's conference.  We especially invite papers or presentations on topical subjects, and the newest and cutting edge technologies and applications. Only a summary of the proposal, on up to one page, is required for selection. This must be submitted electronically according to the instructions on the EVA London website. Proposals may be on any aspect of EVA London's focus on visualisation for arts and culture, heritage and medical science, broadly interpreted. Papers are peer reviewed and may be edited for publication as hard copy and online. Other presentations may be published as summaries or as papers. If your proposal is a case study, we will be looking for discussions of wider principles or applications using the case study as an example. A few bursaries for EVA London registration fees will again be available if you don't have access to grants. *********************************************************** EVA London's Conference themes will particularly include new and emerging technologies and applications, including but not limited to: * Visualising ideas and concepts * Imaging and images in museums and galleries * Digital performance * Music, sound, film and animation * Medical humanities * Reconstructive archaeology and architecture * Digital and computational art and photography * Visualisation in museums, historic sites and buildings * Immersive environments * Technologies of digitisation * 2D, 3D and high definition imaging * Virtual and augmented worlds * Web 2.0 and 3.0 technologies in art and culture * Digital visualisation of performance and music   If this message was forwarded to you, join our mailing list to receive EVA London announcements (only) directly. Send an email to: listserv@jiscmail.ac.uk. --[5]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 11:05:24 -0500 From: Katherine L Walter Subject: 6th Nebraska Digital Workshop From: Katherine L Walter/Library/UNL/UNEBR To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: 10/13/2011 11:05 AM(402) 472-3939 The Center for Digital Research in the Humanities (CDRH) at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln is very pleased to announce the finalists for the 6th annual Nebraska Digital Workshop. Early career scholars and their projects are: Kirsten C. Uszkalo, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Simon Fraser University and CIRCA scholar, University of Alberta The Witches in Early Modern England (WEME) Project Jentery Sayers, Assistant Professor of English, University of Victoria, British Columbia How Text Lost Its Source: Magnetic Recording Cultures Colin F. Wilder, Postdoctoral Research Associate), Brown University Republics of Literatures (formerly: The Hessian Social Network Project: Analysis of Social Networks and Textual Citations among Legal Operators in the German Enlightenment) Senior scholars presenting at the workshop this year and their areas of research are: Susan Brown, Professor of English and Theatre Studies at the University of Guelph, is a founding member of the Orlando Project on Victorian women’s literature of the British Isles and leads the nationally-funded Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory at the University of Alberta. She is responsible for Victorian materials in the textbase, and author of volume two of the “Orlando History, 1820-1890.” Her research interests are Victorian literature, 20th C women's literature and feminist theory. William G. Thomas, III teaches U.S. history and specializes in the U.S. Civil War, the U.S. South, Slavery and Digital History. He is currently the Chair of the Department of History at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and, since 2005, has been the John and Catherine Angle Professor in the Humanities. Professor Thomas is the author of The Iron Way: Railroads, the Civil War, and the Making of Modern America (Yale University Press, 2011), and his digital research, Railroads and the Making of Modern America, involves data mining and GIS. ********************* Katherine L. Walter Co-Director, Center for Digital Research in the Humanities Professor and Chair, Digital Initiatives & Special Collections University of Nebraska-Lincoln 319 Love Library Lincoln, NE 68588-4100 kwalter1@unl.edu (402) 472-3939 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 Oct 15 05:24:42 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E5971D848F; Sat, 15 Oct 2011 05:24:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id DC5071D847E; Sat, 15 Oct 2011 05:24:40 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111015052440.DC5071D847E@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2011 05:24:40 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.380 GIS projects X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 380. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 09:53:36 +0100 From: Leif Isaksen Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.375 GIS projects In-Reply-To: <20111014063946.96F401D876A@woodward.joyent.us> I think you make a great point here John, even if your use of the word 'shared' is rather generous. It would be nice to see the younger spatial humanities disciplines teaching their archaeological siblings a thing or two in this regard. ;-) All the best Leif > I think that for Archaeology, place is central and GIS widely used, and > has been for many years, before the term 'Digital Humanities' was coined. > > Of the 74 projects in my list, 12 deal with classical and medieval > Europe / Mediterranean. That's about 16%, and points to the strength of > GIS in this field. But it may be that archaeology is under-represented, > because rather than producing *digital projects*, they produced *data* > which was shared in ways other than being displayed as part of a website. > > John > > -- > John Levin > http://www.anterotesis.com > johnlevin@joindiaspora.com > http://twitter.com/anterotesis > _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Oct 15 05:26:20 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9A5B1D84EE; Sat, 15 Oct 2011 05:26:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 7B60F1D84E6; Sat, 15 Oct 2011 05:26:18 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111015052618.7B60F1D84E6@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2011 05:26:18 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.381 collective noun X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 381. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Virginia Knight (15) Subject: Advice on collective nouns [2] From: Jascha Kessler (143) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.376 collective noun --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 10:04:08 +0100 From: Virginia Knight Subject: Advice on collective nouns I suspect many collective nouns were thought up by someone in a light-hearted moment and put on a list of collective nouns, then circulated on such lists from then until now, but have never really been used because there has been no need for them. For example some of the many collective nouns for birds apply to species that are not gregarious. Virginia Knight ---------------------- Dr. Virginia Knight, Senior Technical Researcher Institute for Learning and Research Technology University of Bristol, 8-10 Berkeley Square, Bristol BS8 1HH Tel: +44 (0)117 331 4369 Fax: +44 (0)117 331 4396 Virginia.Knight@bristol.ac.uk http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/aboutus/staff?search=cmvhk --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 12:26:21 -0700 From: Jascha Kessler Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.376 collective noun In-Reply-To: <20111014064152.15FD81D87CE@woodward.joyent.us> My "deanery" was nonced on the fly. At UCLA, that place, rookery or hatchery, was once familiarly known to some of us THE HOUSE OF HORRORS... Jascha Kessler -- Jascha Kessler Professor of English & Modern Literature, UCLA Telephone/Facsimile: 310.393.4648 www.jfkessler.com www.xlibris.com _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Oct 15 05:26:49 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34BC91D852A; Sat, 15 Oct 2011 05:26:49 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 475FF1D8514; Sat, 15 Oct 2011 05:26:47 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111015052647.475FF1D8514@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2011 05:26:47 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.382 intro topics and texts X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 382. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 11:59:12 -0400 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.370 intro topics and texts In-Reply-To: <20111013052345.33AD01D6E9D@woodward.joyent.us> Thank you for the response, Willard -- I hadn't thought of my question from the point of view of the effect of the humanities upon someone with a background in the sciences. But I believe that's a good answer. The humanities should haunt the sciences and remind them of their limitations. I'm trying to imagine what an undergraduate Digital Humanities degree or concentration might look like, especially one that would lead to further graduate study. What I imagine so far includes: 1. Interdisciplinary knowledge of the humanities, so that the graduate has grounding in literature, art, and history at least (Classics, British, American, World). Philosophy would integrated with the study of these three disciplines. 2. One year of calculus 3. One programming language 4. .xml, .css. .php, .html (varieties) 5. Image and video editing 6. Familiarity with TEI and ICONCLASS 7. Sound editing? 8. Basic knowledge of the history of digital humanities and its uses across disciplines. Anything anyone would add, drop, modify, substitute? Thank you, Jim R To reply somewhat tangentially to a recent question asked on Humanist (James > Rovira's, in 25.278), I think in just this way about the best sort of > background for students who wish to study the digital humanities: of an > educational background that will continually haunt them with the > inadequacies of whatever computing can come up with, as a driving force to > greater understanding. > > Comments? > > Yours, > WM _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Oct 15 05:27:37 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2D5A1D8588; Sat, 15 Oct 2011 05:27:37 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 7C0631D8571; Sat, 15 Oct 2011 05:27:35 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111015052735.7C0631D8571@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2011 05:27:35 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.383 job at Rice in ephemera X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 383. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 09:11:42 -0400 From: Jennifer Vinopal Subject: Job opening: Rice ephemera archive post-doctoral fellow I'm posting this for a colleague. For inquiries, please use the Rice contact information below. _____ Location: Houston, Texas, United States Institution Type: College/University Position Type: Post-doctoral fellow Position: A two-year post-doctoral fellowship in the T.T. and Wei Fong Chao Center for Asian Studies at Rice University, with the possibility to extend for an additional year. Stipend: $40,000 per year, plus benefits. Applications will be accepted until position is filled. Responsibilities: (1) Interested in research with ephemera and interested in developing new protocols and methods for storing and sharing ephemera. - Develop a theme for a series of conferences. (2) Develop a long term strategy for organizational and individual contributions to the archive - Negotiate agreements with organizers, scholars, libraries and universities - Report to Luce foundation twice a year. (3) Collaborating with Fondren Center for Digital Scholarship administrative, research and technical staff. - Work with the coordinator for digital archives to assess the usability of tools and practices used by archivists to review and process born-digital materials. (4) Organize student field researchers. - Teach basic research methods. - Oversee student research. (5) Develop technical web interface to facilitate archive submissions. - Handle variations in Dublincore metadata. - Work with programmers on the interface. - Remain aware of developing technology issues Required Qualifications: Ph.D. in a humanities or social sciences discipline. Experience with humanities and social science research methods. Recommended Qualifications: Experience in ephemera collections, particularly advertisements. Experience in developing or working on an archive. Preferred skills: Chinese language, in particular. Other Asian language skills. Application: Applicants may submit their application electronically to chaoctr@rice.edu. All other applicants are requested to mail three letters of reference, one hard copy of a writing sample (no more than 25 pages), a cover letter and a current CV. Cover letters should discuss applicants interest in developing and pioneering a digital ephemera archive. Meagan Williams Chao Center for Asian Studies (MS-475) Rice University P.O. Box 1892 Houston, Texas 77251-1892 USA Email address: chaoctr@rice.edu Specific questions may be emailed to the Assistant Director of the Chao Center, Meagan Williams, at chaoctr@rice.edu. About the University: Rice is a member of the Association of American Universities, which includes the 62 top research institutions in North America. Its endowment per student is sixth-largest among American private research universities, and its small size (about 3,100 undergraduates) encourages a great deal of personal interaction between students and professors (our median undergraduate class-size is 14). We have students from all 50 states and from 81 countries, and many of them participate in cutting-edge research guided by world class faculty in the humanities, social sciences, engineering and natural sciences. Rice University is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. Women and minorities are strongly encouraged to apply. - Jennifer - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Jennifer Vinopal / vinopal@nyu.edu Librarian for Digital Scholarship Initiatives 5th floor south, Bobst Library, New York University 70 Washington Square South New York, NY 10012 v: 212.998.2522 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Oct 15 05:28:26 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DB621D85C8; Sat, 15 Oct 2011 05:28:26 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D14831D85B7; Sat, 15 Oct 2011 05:28:24 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111015052824.D14831D85B7@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2011 05:28:24 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.384 software for apparatus X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 384. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 17:07:31 +1000 From: Desmond Schmidt Subject: RE: [Humanist] 25.377 software for apparatus In-Reply-To: <20111014064333.1AFEC1D8838@woodward.joyent.us> Hi Drew, Perhaps you might also try to reduce Word's memory requirements. If, for example, you have "track changes" on, you should turn it off. Switching off anything else that might chew up memory, e.g. loaded dictionaries, spell-checking etc. might also be a good idea. You might also try saving the file out to rtf and then reloading. This might clear out any redundant data structures resulting from editing. Who knows how these formats work? (Well, Microsoft does, but they're not telling). Word is a familiar program but was not really designed for this specialised task. So it doesn't surprise me that it struggles. Desmond Schmidt Information Security Institute Faculty of Science and Technology Queensland University of Technology _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Oct 15 05:29:27 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1D1D1D860A; Sat, 15 Oct 2011 05:29:27 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 918D91D85FA; Sat, 15 Oct 2011 05:29:26 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111015052926.918D91D85FA@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2011 05:29:26 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.385 events: metadata & vocabularies X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 385. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 11:05:40 +0200 From: Georg Vogeler Subject: Conference announcement "Digital Library 2011: Metadata andVocabularies" In-Reply-To: Ladies and Gentlemen, on*November 24-25,** **2011* the University of Graz will hold the conference *"**Digital Library:** M**etadata and** **Vocabularies**"*. Through lectures, workshops and a poster session, the conference will address topics which are indispensable for the design of sustainable on-line knowledge repositories, such as … the importance of the use of standard data for digital archives and libraries … application scenarios for semantic technologies in various subject domains … recent developments on metadata models for the description of digital cultural heritage Detailed information on the workshops and presentations, the conference program, abstractsand the online registration can be found at: http://conference.ait.co.at/digbib/index.php/digbib2011/metavok Please note that the conference will be held entirely in German and the conference website therefor is only provided in German as well! The conference is organized by: Center for Information Modeling in the Humanities, University of Graz AIT Applied Information Technology Research Association, Graz (EuropeanaLocal Austria) Sincerely, Georg Vogeler Center for Information-Modeling in the Humanities University of Graz, Austria _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 Oct 15 07:50:37 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACF5E1D8F9C; Sat, 15 Oct 2011 07:50:37 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 300941D8F8D; Sat, 15 Oct 2011 07:50:36 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111015075036.300941D8F8D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2011 07:50:36 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.386 wormy and graphical ways of working X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 386. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2011 07:44:30 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: The Worm Book and its community In her essay, "Wormy Logic: Model Organisms as Case-Based Reasoning", in Science without Laws, ed. Creager, Lunbeck and Wise (2007), Rachel Ankeny comments that biologist Sydney Brenner's research into the genetic mapping of the nematode C. elegans "resulted in a relatively cohesive community often celebrated as a model of scientific cooperation and shared understanding of fundamental concepts" (p. 48). She points to two accounts in the journal Science, Leslie Roberts, "The Worm Project", NS 248, 4961 (15 June 1990): 1310-1313, and Elizabeth Pennisi, "Worming Secrets", NS 282, 5396 (11 December 1998): 1972-1974 (both in JSTOR). Looking across the fence at this activity, I wonder, what can we learn from it, other than about C. elegans -- say about research and community? Somewhere (I cannot at the moment get to half my library and so cannot chase the reference), the German typographer and calligrapher Rudolf Koch is reputed to have said on his deathbed, "Remember, we were able to work together!" But unlike the scientists of The Worm Project, the artists with whom Koch associated produced their own things. We know Koch, for example, not as one of several signatories to works of graphic art, but as the sole maker of this and that. So I wonder, perhaps we should look to such artists as well as to the scientists for ideas toward practical models of collaboration. Comments? Yours, WM -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor (fractional), University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Oct 16 07:08:30 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id E10361D9F2E; Sun, 16 Oct 2011 07:08:29 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 7CCC41D9DA0; Sun, 16 Oct 2011 07:08:27 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111016070827.7CCC41D9DA0@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2011 07:08:27 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.387 intro topics and texts X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 387. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2011 10:34:09 -0400 From: "Mark LeBlanc" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.382 intro topics and texts In-Reply-To: <20111015052647.475FF1D8514@woodward.joyent.us> a quick 2cent reply and one significant edit to jimR's suggestion on what a DH ugrad might take: > 2. One year of calculus > 3. One programming language > 4. .xml, .css. .php, .html (varieties) i would edit the list as follows: > 2. One year of DISCRETE mathematics (while understanding rates of growth is important, more students need to see discrete math topics, for example, counting, logic, graphs, trees, regular expressions, etc) > 3. TWO SEMESTERS of AT LEAST one programming language mark ------------------------------------------------------ Meneely Professor of Computer Science Wheaton College Norton, MA 02766 USA http://cs.wheatoncollege.edu/mleblanc 508.286.3970 ------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 Oct 16 07:09:06 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CA9A1D9027; Sun, 16 Oct 2011 07:09:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 3FBFB1D901F; Sun, 16 Oct 2011 07:09:05 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111016070905.3FBFB1D901F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2011 07:09:05 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.388 job at Stanford X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 388. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2011 06:25:04 -0700 From: Matthew Jockers Subject: Last Call: Job at Stanford Last Call for Stanford ATS Position: Review of applications for the Academic Technology Specialist (ATS) position within Stanford's Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages (DLCL) will begin on October 24th. Potential applicants may contact mjockers@stanford.edu for more information. For complete qualifications and full job description, please see http://tinyurl.com/3t8ouyo _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 Oct 16 09:57:08 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id E38491D9710; Sun, 16 Oct 2011 09:57:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id DFF471D96FF; Sun, 16 Oct 2011 09:57:05 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111016095705.DFF471D96FF@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2011 09:57:05 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.389 bipolar intelligence X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 389. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2011 10:50:05 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: bipolar intelligence I've argued casually for some time that the difference between what computing can do (at any one moment) and what we can do isn't to be resolved but to be held in mind simultaneously so that one can play off against the other. Unlike computer science the push in the digital humanities is to strive for this difference, not to strive for its elimination, i.e. for the successful automation of the research problem in hand. Thanks to the Finnish ecologist Yrjö Haila, "Socioecologies", Ecography 22.4 (1999), I can now refer to a serious argument to back up my notion of bipolar intelligence: Peter Elbow's "The uses of binary thinking", JAC 13.1 (1993), www.jacweb.org/Archived_volumes/Text_articles/V13_I1_Elbow.htm. Elbow draws, as he says, on a tradition that "sees value in accepting, putting up with, indeed seeking the nonresolution of the two terms: not feeling that the opposites must be somehow reconciled, not feeling that the itch must be scratched." Read it tonight (or this afternoon)! He makes the intellectual argument, so I won't try that here. But it's worth noting that without seeing the computational and the humanistic as opposites useful to each other as such *and* holding both simultaneously in mind, the digital humanities withers away into service, either delivering computational work meekly to the humanities (and so the techie subaltern in the academic department, or the software shop serving several departments) or humanistic data slavishly served up to computing (and so the technical poacher hungry for interesting problems). Comments? Yours, WM -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor (fractional), University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Oct 17 05:52:42 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id F05AF1DB556; Mon, 17 Oct 2011 05:52:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C64171DB546; Mon, 17 Oct 2011 05:52:39 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20111017055239.C64171DB546@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 05:52:39 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.390 software for glossaries? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 390. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2011 22:42:19 +0200 From: "Jan Rybicki" Subject: Glossary-making software Dear All, A student of (a colleague of) mine is looking for software that would help her produce a glossary of a philosophical work. Any suggestions? All the best, Jan Rybicki _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Oct 17 05:53:02 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53E121DB585; Mon, 17 Oct 2011 05:53:02 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0952A1DB573; Mon, 17 Oct 2011 05:53:00 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111017055300.0952A1DB573@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 05:53:00 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.391 events: storytelling X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 391. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2011 17:22:26 +0100 From: "MAILER-DAEMON@unknown.domain" Subject: Sharing Interactive Digital Storytelling Technologies, ICIDS 2011 Workhsop - CFP Sharing Interactive Digital Storytelling Technologies Workshop to be held in conjunction with the 4th international Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling (ICIDS'2011) Vancouver, Canada, Nov. 28., 2011 http://tecfalabs.unige.ch/IDStechnos/ ====================================================== Submissions due: Oct. 28, 2011 This workshop is organized in the context of the European Project IRIS. http://iris.scm.tees.ac.uk/ WORKSHOP AIMS The Interactive Digital Storytelling (IDS) field has produced numerous research prototypes over the last years. These prototypes cover several different technological domains, including drama management; human computer interaction; language understanding and generation; behavioral modeling; 3D rendering, modeling and animation. Research in this field usually focuses on one specific area. However, it is often the case that other dimensions need to be integrated with one's core contribution to provide the end-user with a whole experience that can be assessed. As a consequence, researchers in IDS tend to become "one-person bands", trying to unite being scientists in multiple fields, being engineers in an array of domains, and being developers at home with many technologies and processes. This workshop aims at moving the field towards increased sharing of technologies: * first, by increasing the community's awareness of this issue; * second, and more importantly, by gathering key players around the table to develop concrete strategies to share their technologies. This will enable participants to: - Become informed of existing IDS-related components and available middleware; - Share technologies that have been developed in their research labs or companies; - Identify key obstacles and find the best way to organize the scaffolding for and the actual sharing/integration of IDS technologies within the research community. Before and during the workshop, the contributions and findings will be collected on the workshop website, which will gather existing technologies from participants and other actors in the IDS community. HOW TO PARTICIPATE? All correspondence should be addressed to: nicolas.szilas [at] unige.ch. The workshop is organized around three types of participants: - Technology providers, with technology developed by their research labs or companies available for sharing; - Software integrators, with visions on how to technically organize the sharing of IDS-related components and with success and flop stories of community processes; - Users, with needs and intention to use third-party IDS components and middleware within their own scientific, product, and/or artistic development. If you want to participate as a speaker, please submit an e-mail specifying: - The type of participant that best corresponds to your position (see above); - A short position paper (see below), specifying your specific contribution and role in the process of sharing IDS technologies; - Whether you wish your paper to be published on the workshop's website. Non-speaker participants can register from now on, by e-mail. The workshop is free of charge, but the number of participants is limited by room capacity. People who cannot attend the workshop but do want to contribute may also submit a position paper, which will be published, if accepted, on the workshop's website. POSITION PAPER FORMAT Position papers should be submitted in PDF format. A descriptive title and specification of the author(s) name(s) and affiliation(s) should be provided. Contributions should not exceed two DIN-A4 or US-letter pages in length, and be typeset in at least 10-point font. Bibliographic records supplied should be verified with care for completeness and correctness and include any available DOIs and/or URLs. AFTER THE WORKSHOP Based on the outcomes of the workshop, the organizers intend to either invite participants to co-authorship of an overview journal article or edit a special journal section/issue to which participants will be invited to contribute. The website will be maintained after the workshop, offering a forum for further discussions. These results will feed into the future meetings on this key challenge. IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: 28 October, 2011 Notification of acceptance for presentation: 2 November, 2011 Workshop: 28 November, 2011 ORGANIZERS Nicolas Szilas, TECFA-FPSE, University of Geneva (nicolas.szilas [at] unige.ch) Thomas Boggini, TECFA-FPSE, University of Geneva Paolo Petta, Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, OFAI CONTACT All correspondence should be addressed to: nicolas.szilas [at] unige.ch. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Oct 18 05:35:03 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id F21081D91F3; Tue, 18 Oct 2011 05:35:02 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 869351D91E6; Tue, 18 Oct 2011 05:35:01 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111018053501.869351D91E6@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 05:35:01 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.392 software for glossaries; collective noun X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 392. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Kirk Lowery (12) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.390 software for glossaries? [2] From: "centrostudicomparati@libero.it" (43) Subject: R: [Humanist] 25.390 software for glossaries? [3] From: Mark Winokur (18) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.376 collective noun --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 12:36:35 +0200 From: Kirk Lowery Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.390 software for glossaries? In-Reply-To: <20111017055239.C64171DB546@woodward.joyent.us> >        Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2011 22:42:19 +0200 >        From: "Jan Rybicki" >        Subject: Glossary-making software > > A student of (a colleague of) mine is looking for software that would help > her produce a glossary of a philosophical work. Any suggestions? LaTeX has a glossary package. But TeX has a fierce learning curve. Worth learning, in my opinion, but if it's a one-off project and LaTeX has no further use, then my guess is that she's stuck with a word processor and manual formatting. Hope this helps, Kirk --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 14:41:37 +0200 (CEST) From: "centrostudicomparati@libero.it" Subject: R: [Humanist] 25.390 software for glossaries? In-Reply-To: <20111017055239.C64171DB546@woodward.joyent.us> I think every concordance software is able to do that: Conc-App, Anlisi Lessicale, Wordsmith, Hyperbase etc. Besta Francesco Stella --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 14:22:13 -0600 From: Mark Winokur Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.376 collective noun In-Reply-To: <20111014064152.15FD81D87CE@woodward.joyent.us> I was going to go in that direction, but was afraid any deans on the list might be offended. A dither of deans? A dumpster? A dustmop of deans? On 10/14/2011 12:41 AM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 376. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 13:30:01 +0000 > From: "Unsworth, John M" > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.371 collective noun? > In-Reply-To:<20111013052456.EC9DD1D6F35@woodward.joyent.us> > > As a dean (at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois) I have long felt that the proper collective noun for deans is "a gripe of deans." > > John _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Oct 18 05:36:18 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id A63441D924D; Tue, 18 Oct 2011 05:36:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 8B7BD1D923E; Tue, 18 Oct 2011 05:36:16 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20111018053616.8B7BD1D923E@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 05:36:16 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.393 bipolar intelligence X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 393. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 12:22:04 +0100 From: David Zeitlyn Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.389 bipolar intelligence In-Reply-To: <2EA6D63AE264BA4EA1CA3E63B8850AC26F9CBB0458@MAPI.ad.kent.ac.uk> Willard many thanks for the nudge about Elbow's paper. It puts me in mind of the distinction between Paraconsistency and Dialetheism as different ways of dealing with inconsistency: Paraconsistency controlling/managing inconsistency; Di-lethian-ism embracing it! _ See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraconsistent_logic_ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialetheism __ best wishes and thanks as ever for the fascinating range of references which is humanist davidz -- David Zeitlyn, Professor of Social Anthropology (research) Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, 51 Banbury Road, Oxford, OX2 6PF, UK http://www.isca.ox.ac.uk/about-us/staff/academic/professor-david-zeitlyn/ http://users.ox.ac.uk/~wolf2728/ http://about.me/david.zeitlyn _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 Oct 18 05:38:15 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 977881D92C5; Tue, 18 Oct 2011 05:38:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D5C201D92AD; Tue, 18 Oct 2011 05:38:13 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111018053813.D5C201D92AD@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 05:38:13 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.394 interdisciplinary collaboration? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 394. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 10:50:51 -0400 From: James McQuaid Subject: References on Social Science Study of Interdisciplinary Collaboration [Forwarded from the Mersenne list. Note the URL of the helpful bibliography. --WM] Dear Mersenne Subscribers, I am writing because I am working on an NSF funded project looking at social science studies of interdisciplinary collaboration with Drs. Susannah Paletz (University of Pittsburgh) and Laurel Smith-Doerr (Boston University). A part of this project involves compiling a list of references that bear on this topic. We were hoping you may be willing to take a look at the current list and make suggestions for additions. The current list appears here: https://sites.google.com/site/interdisciplinary2010/additional-readings. Thank you all for your time. Sincerely, Jim McQuaid _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 Oct 18 05:40:14 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id D800D1D935F; Tue, 18 Oct 2011 05:40:14 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 6FF351D934C; Tue, 18 Oct 2011 05:40:13 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111018054013.6FF351D934C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 05:40:13 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.395 Internet Archaeology open; call for editions & essays X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 395. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Judith Winters (50) Subject: Internet Archaeology 'Open' for Open Access week! [2] From: Andrew Jewell (56) Subject: Scholarly Editing: Call for Editions and Essays --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 11:41:01 +0100 From: Judith Winters Subject: Internet Archaeology 'Open' for Open Access week! Internet Archaeology is going totally 'Open Access' for duration of Open Access Week, 24-30 October. The e-journal Internet Archaeology has been a hybrid Open Access journal for over a year, and it is our wish to move fully towards a sustainable Open Access (OA) model. I hope therefore that this event will both demonstrate our serious efforts in this direction as well as give potential authors (in whose hands the journal's future really lies) the opportunity to view the range of material IA can publish. I'd like to encourage all authors to include OA fees in future research funding applications wherever possible. What we've done/are doing . Following negotiations, JISC Collections has purchased the full suite of Internet Archaeology content on behalf of UK higher and further education institutions, which means that their members have permanent access to 15 years of rich multimedia scholarly content. . All reviews and editorials in Internet Archaeology have always been Open Access. . We have also had success more recently in attracting articles with OA funding either via authors' departmental research committees, government agencies or University library OA funds. . But at current levels, this is still not enough to replace our existing subscription income (which still provides the main means of covering our costs i.e. one full-time member of staff and production overheads) which would allow us to make the full transition to Open Access. However the proportion of uptake of the OA option will be continually monitored and subscriptions to the journal will be reviewed annually in light of this uptake while we make the transition. What can you do? o Are you applying for research funding? Where possible, include OA costs in your application. Just approach me at the earliest possible stage with your publication idea so that costs can be calculated. o Have you already finished your research/project and looking for a publication outlet? Increasingly university departments and research libraries have publication and/or OA funds. Investigate these options and again let me know of your plans at the earliest opportunity. Please feel free to circulate this announcement as widely as possible. Regards, Judith --- Judith Winters Editor, Internet Archaeology, University of York http://intarch.ac.uk/ http://intarch.ac.uk Twitter: @IntarchEditor Times Higher Education University of the Year 2010 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 09:42:00 -0500 From: Andrew Jewell Subject: Scholarly Editing: Call for Editions and Essays Scholarly Editing: The Annual of the Association for Documentary Editing (www.scholarlyediting.org) CALL FOR EDITIONS AND ESSAYS 2013 Issue Edition Proposals As part of our commitment to publish the scholarly work of editors, we invite proposals for rigorously edited digital small-scale editions to be published in the peer-reviewed, open-access, digital journal, Scholarly Editing. Proposals should be approximately 1000 words long and should include the following information: 1) A description of content, scope, and approach. Please describe the materials you will edit and how you will approach editing and commenting on them. We anticipate that a well-researched apparatus (an introduction, annotations, etc.) will be key to most successful proposals. 2) A statement of significance. Please briefly explain how this edition will contribute to your field. 3) Approximate length. 4) Indication of technical proficiency. With only rare exceptions, any edition published by Scholarly Editing must be in XML (Extensible Markup Language) that complies with TEI (Text Encoding Initiative) Guidelines, which have been widely accepted as the standard for digital textual editing. Please indicate your facility with TEI. 5) A brief description of how you imagine the materials should be visually represented. Scholarly Editing will provide support to display images and text in an attractive house style. If you wish to create a highly customized display, please describe it and indicate what technologies you plan to use to build it. Please send proposals as Rich Text Format (RTF), MS Word, or PDF to the co-editors via email no later than December 15, 2011 for consideration for the 2013 issue. After December 15, proposals will be considered for future issues. Essays Scholarly Editing welcomes submissions of articles discussing any aspect of the theory or practice of editing, print or digital. Please send submissions via email to the editors and include the following information in the body of your email: 1) Names, contact information, and institutional affiliations of all authors; 2) Title of the article; and 3) Filename of article. Please omit all identifying information from the article itself. Send proposals as Rich Text Format (RTF), MS Word, or PDF; if you wish to include image files or other addenda, please send all as a single zip archive. For questions of style and citation format, please consult the current edition of The Chicago Manual of Style. Submissions must be received by April 1, 2012, for consideration for the 2013 issue. Please, no simultaneous submissions. Feel free to contact us if you have questions. Amanda Gailey Department of English Center for Digital Research in the Humanities University of Nebraska-Lincoln agailey2@unlnotes.unl.edu Andrew Jewell University Libraries Center for Digital Research in the Humanities University of Nebraska-Lincoln ajewell@unlnotes.unl.edu _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Oct 18 05:41:17 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70C6B1D93A3; Tue, 18 Oct 2011 05:41:17 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 976A11D9391; Tue, 18 Oct 2011 05:41:15 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111018054115.976A11D9391@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 05:41:15 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.396 events: consciousness; books & reading X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 396. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Center for CONSCIOUSNESS STUDIES (238) Subject: Toward a Science of Consciousness 2012 - Call for Abstracts, Workshop Proposals, Art-Tech Demo [2] From: Ray Siemens (45) Subject: Research Foundations for Understanding Books and Reading in a Digital Age (18 November 2011, Ritsumeikan U, Kyoto) --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 09:32:24 -0700 From: Center for CONSCIOUSNESS STUDIES Subject: Toward a Science of Consciousness 2012 - Call for Abstracts, Workshop Proposals, Art-Tech Demo This message is in MIME format. --=_2wrdyua28olc Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Description: Plaintext Version of Message Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Conference Announcement and Call for Abstracts TOWARD A SCIENCE OF CONSCIOUSNESS April 9-14, 2012 Loews Ventana Canyon Resort Hotel Tucson, Arizona Sponsored by: The Center for Consciousness Studies, The University of Arizona http://www.consciousness.arizona.edu Toward a Science of Consciousness (TSC) conferences have been held annually since 1994, alternating between Tucson, Arizona and other locations around = the world. The tenth biennial 'Tucson Conference', Toward a Science of Consciousness will take place April 9-14, 2012. Known for rigorous and leading edge approaches to all aspects of the study = of conscious experience, TSC includes neuroscience, cognitive science, artific= ial intelligence, psychology, philosophy, neurobiology, medicine, quantum physi= cs and cosmology as well as art, mind technology and experiential and contemplative approaches. TSC is the largest interdisciplinary gathering probing fundamental questions related to conscious experience. An estimated= 500 scientists, philosophers, psychologists, experientialists, artists and stud= ents from over 60 countries are due to take part. For the first time, Toward a Science of Consciousness will be held at the Loews Ventana Canyon Resort Hotel in the Catalina Foothills abo= ve Tucson, Arizona (with a special conference rate of 99 dollars/room/night).= =A0 See:=A0 http://www.loewshotels.com/en/Ventana-Canyon-Resort Plenary/Keynote Session themes will include: ?=A0=A0=A0 HOT or NOT: Debate on higher-order theories of consciousness ?=A0=A0=A0 War of the Worldviews: Chopra and Mlodinow on consciousness ?=A0=A0=A0 Consciousness and Echolocation ?=A0=A0=A0 Fractal consciousness: Scale-free brain structure and dynamics ?=A0=A0=A0 Retrocausality and consciousness ?=A0=A0=A0 Searching for consciousness in coma and anesthesia Speakers will include: Daryl Bem Ned Block Melanie Boly Deepak Chopra Biyu Jade He Daniel Kish Victor Lamme Hakwan Lau George Mashour Leonard Mlodinow David Rosenthal ?and others As in previous conferences, program sessions will include Plenary and Keyno= te talks, Concurrent talks, Posters, Art/Science demos and exhibits, Pre-Conference workshops, Side trips and Social events in the Tucson conference tradition.=A0=A0=A0 For information see:=A0=A0 http://www.consciousness.ari= zona.edu/ Abstract Submission TSC 2012 Conference Abstract Submission System is now open. Abstracts considered for Plenary, Concurrent, Poster and Art/Tech Demo sessions See:=A0=A0=A0 http://sbs.arizona.edu/project/consciousness/index.php Schedule of Deadlines -- Tentative December 10=A0=A0 Abstracts Due January 5=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 Decisions January 15=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 Early Registration Due March 1=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 Final Abstract Edits Due Call for Pre-Conference Workshop proposals Toward a Science of Consciousness 2012 April 9-14, 2012 http://www.consciousness.arizona.edu Proposals for pre-conference workshops are invited in all areas related to understanding conscious experience. Workshops provide in depth, detailed treatments of various methodologies, perspectives, reviews and approaches. Workshops may be solo presentations, or include two or more presenters. Send workshop proposals to: center@u.arizona.edu Deadline for Workshop proposals is November 1 =A0 On behalf of the Program Committee - Toward a Science of Consciousness 2012. David Chalmers, Australian National University, Co-Chair Stuart Hameroff, University of Arizona, Co-Chair Uriah Kriegel, University of Arizona Hakwan Lau, Columbia University Marilyn Schlitz, Institute of Noetic Sciences Heather Berlin, Mount Sinai Medical Center Jonathan Schooler, University of California, Santa Barbara Melanie Boly, University of Liege Moran Cerf, UCLA/NYU Abi Behar-Montefiore, conference manager, center@u.arizona.edu Contact: Abi Behar-Montefiore, Manager, Center for Consciousness Studies, University= of Arizona - center@u.arizona.edu Conference Links : CCS WEBSITE=A0=A0=A0=A0 www.consciousness.arizona.edu CCS /TSC=A0 CONFERENCE REGISTRATION=A0 and ABSTRACT SUBMISSION=A0=A0 http://sbs.arizona.edu/project/consciousness/index.php CONFERENCE HOTEL BOOKING: http://www.loewshotels.com/en/Ventana-Canyon-Resort/GroupPages/Consciousnes= s Follow us: Facebook=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 http://www.facebook.com/pages/Center-for-Conscio= usness-=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 Studies/221542854531534 Twitter=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 http://twitter.com/#!/brainyday To subscribe: http://web.sbs.arizona.edu/project/mymailer/welcome/subscribe/2/index.html To unsubscribe: http://web.sbs.arizona.edu/project/mymailer/welcome/unsubscribe/2/index.htm= l Sincerely, Abi Behar-Montefiore Assistant Director Center for CONSCIOUSNESS STUDIES University of Arizona, Anesthesiology P.O Box 245114 - University Medical Center 1501 N Campbell Ave. 5th floor Tucson, Arizona USA 85724-5114 office: 520-621-9317 - cell: 520-247-5785 fax: 520-626-6416 www.consciousness.arizona.edu center@u.arizona.edu --=_2wrdyua28olc Content-Type: text/html; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Description: HTML Version of Message Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Conference Announcement and Call for Abstracts

TOWARD A SCIENCE OF CONSCIOUSNESS
April 9-14, 2012
Loews Ventana Canyon Resort Hotel
Tucson, Arizona

Sponsored by:
The Center for Consciousness Studies,
The University of Arizona
http://www.consciousness.arizona.edu


Toward a Science of Consciousness (TSC) conferences have been held annually since 1994, alternating between Tucson, Arizona and other locations around the world. The tenth biennial 'Tucson Conference', Toward a Science of Consciousness will take place April 9-14, 2012.

Known for rigorous and leading edge approaches to all aspects of the study of conscious experience, TSC includes neuroscience, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, psychology, philosophy, neurobiology, medicine, quantum physics and cosmology as well as art, mind technology and experiential and contemplative approaches. TSC is the largest interdisciplinary gathering probing fundamental questions related to conscious experience. An estimated 500 scientists, philosophers, psychologists, experientialists, artists and students from over 60 countries are due to take part.

For the first time, Toward a Science of Consciousness will be
held at the Loews Ventana Canyon Resort Hotel in the Catalina Foothills above
Tucson, Arizona (with a special conference rate of 99 dollars/room/night).=A0 See:=A0 http://www.loewshotels.com/en/Ventana-Canyon-Resort

Plenary/Keynote Session themes will include:
?=A0=A0=A0 HOT or NOT: Debate on higher-order theories of consciousness
?=A0=A0=A0 War of the Worldviews: Chopra and Mlodinow on consciousness
?=A0=A0=A0 Consciousness and Echolocation
?=A0=A0=A0 Fractal consciousness: Scale-free brain structure and dynamics
?=A0=A0=A0 Retrocausality and consciousness
?=A0=A0=A0 Searching for consciousness in coma and anesthesia

Speakers will include:

Daryl Bem
Ned Block
Melanie Boly
Deepak Chopra
Biyu Jade He
Daniel Kish
Victor Lamme
Hakwan Lau
George Mashour
Leonard Mlodinow
David Rosenthal
?and others

As in previous conferences, program sessions will include Plenary and Keynote talks,
Concurrent talks, Posters, Art/Science demos and exhibits, Pre-Conference workshops, Side trips and Social events in the Tucson conference
tradition.=A0=A0=A0 For information see:=A0=A0 http://www.consciousness.arizona.edu/


Abstract Submission

TSC 2012 Conference Abstract Submission System is now open. Abstracts considered for Plenary, Concurrent, Poster and Art/Tech Demo sessions
See:=A0=A0=A0 http://sbs.arizona.edu/project/consciousness/index.php

Schedule of Deadlines -- Tentative
December 10=A0=A0 Abstracts Due
January 5=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 Decisions
January 15=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 Early Registration Due
March 1=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 Final Abstract Edits Due


C= all for Pre-Conference Workshop proposals
Toward a Science of Consciousness 2012
April 9-14, 2012
http://www.consciousness.arizona.edu

Proposals for pre-conference workshops are invited in all areas related to
understanding conscious experience. Workshops provide in depth, detailed
treatments of various methodologies, perspectives, reviews and approaches.
Workshops may be solo presentations, or include two or more presenters.
Send workshop proposals to: center@u.arizona.edu

Deadline for Workshop proposals is November 1
=A0


On behalf of the
Program Committee - Toward a Science of Consciousness 2012.
David Chalmers, Australian National University, Co-Chair
Stuart Hameroff, University of Arizona, Co-Chair
Uriah Kriegel, University of Arizona
Hakwan Lau, Columbia University
Marilyn Schlitz, Institute of Noetic Sciences
Heather Berlin, Mount Sinai Medical Center
Jonathan Schooler, University of California, Santa Barbara
Melanie Boly, University of Liege
Moran Cerf, UCLA/NYU
Abi Behar-Montefiore, conference manager, center@u.arizona.edu

Contact:
Abi Behar-Montefiore, Manager, Center for Consciousness Studies, University of
Arizona - center@u.arizona.edu

Conference Links :

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--=_2wrdyua28olc-- --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 13:31:01 -0700 From: Ray Siemens Subject: Research Foundations for Understanding Books and Reading in a Digital Age (18 November 2011, Ritsumeikan U, Kyoto) Research Foundations for Understanding Books and Reading in a Digital Age: Text and Beyond 18 November 2011 Soushi-kan Conference Hall (Building number 23 on the map ) Ritsumeikan University (access map ) Kyoto, Japan. Digital technology is fundamentally altering the way we relate to writing, reading, and the human record itself. The pace of that change has created a gap between core social/cultural practices that depend on stable reading and writing environments and the new kinds of digital artefacts-electronic books being just one type of many-that must sustain those practices now and into the future. This one-day gathering explores research foundations pertinent to understanding new practices and emerging media, specifically focusing on work in textual and extra-textual method, in itself and via exemplar, leading toward [1] theorizing the transmission of culture in pre- and post-electronic media, [2] documenting the facets of how people experience information as readers and writers, [3] designing new kinds of interfaces and artifacts that afford new reading abilities, [4] conceptualizing the issues necessary to provide information to these new reading and communicative environments, [5] reflection on interdisciplinary team research strategies pertinent to work in the area, and beyond. The gathering is offered in conjunction with the Second International Symposium on Digital Humanities for Japanese Arts and Cultures (DH-JAC2011) (19-20 November 2011; http://tinyurl.com/4yakpa7 ) and is sponsored by the Japanese Association for Digital Humanities, the Digital Humanities Center for Japanese Arts and Cultures at Ritsumeikan University, the Implementing New Knowledge Environments (INKE) research group, and the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). Earlier gatherings of this group have taken place in conjunction with the Text & Literacy conference (December 2010; sponsored by the National Library of the Netherlands, the Book and Digital Media Studies department of Leiden University, INKE and SSHRC), and at the University of Victoria (October 2009; sponsored by INKE and SSHRC). To register to attend the gathering, please be in touch by email with Ray Siemens, siemens@uvic.ca . Program [Note : With the exception of the plenary panel, papers circulate in advance to registered participants; presentations consist of a 5 minute overview followed by 10 minutes of discussion, question and answer.] 8.45-10.15 (1): Plenary Panel Presentations, Welcome (Ray Siemens [U Victoria]) 1. Mitsuyuki Inaba (Ritsumeikan U) : "Welcome to 'the Place to Establish Your Destiny' [Ritsumeikan]" 2. Masahiro Shimoda (U Tokyo): "Creating New Research Environments in International Alliance" 3. Kozaburo Hachimura (Ritsumeikan U): "Digital Archiving of Intangible Cultural Properties: Measurement, Analysis, and Representation of Body Motion" 4. Neil Fraistat (U Maryland): "Textual Addressability and the Future of Editing" 10.30-11.30 (2): The Nature of Reading 5. Emile Fromet de Rosnay (U Victoria): "The Circuits of Reading the Digital: Some Models" 6. Jon Bath (U Saskatchewan) and Craig Harkema (U Saskatchewan): "There's More than One Way to Skin a Book: Experimental Interfaces for Reading Illustrated Books" 7. Christian Wittern (U Kyoto): "Towards an Architecture for Active Reading" 8. Hussein Keshani (U British Columbia Okanagan): "Reading Visually: Can Art Historical Reading Approaches be Digitized?" 11.45-1.00 (3): Editing and Interaction 9. Christian Vandendorpe (U Ottawa): "The Scholarly Book as a Special Case of Wiki" 10. Daniel Paul O'Donnell (U Lethbridge), Roberto Rosselli Del Turco (U Torino), Catherine Karkov (U Leeds), James Graham (U Lethbridge), Wendy Osborn (U Lethbridge): "'Nor doubted once': Editing Text and Context" 11. Constance Crompton (ETCL, U Victoria), Ray Siemens (ETCL, U Victoria): "The Social Edition in Social Conditions: Editing the Devonshire Manuscript" 12. Stan Ruecker (Illinois Institute of Design), Geoffrey Rockwell (U Alberta), Stéfan Sinclair (McGill U), Milena Radzikowska (Mt Royal College), Teresa Dobson (U British Columbia) and Ann Blanford (University College London) with Daniel Sondheim (U Alberta), Mihaela Ilovan (U Alberta), Jennifer Windsor (U Alberta), Mark Bieber (U Alberta), Sara Faisal (U Alberta), Alejandro Giacometti (University College London), Piotr Michura (Academy of Fine Arts, Krakow), Luciano Frizzera (U Alberta), and the INKE Research Team: "The Beginning, the Middle, and the End: New Tools for the Scholarly Edition" 13. Geoffrey Rockwell (U Alberta), Stan Ruecker (Illinois Institute of Design), Mihaela Ilovan (U Alberta), Daniel Sondheim (U Alberta), and the INKE Research Group: "The Face of the Scholarly Corpus and Edition" 1.00-2.15. Lunch Break 2.15-3.30 (4): Analysis and Environment 14. Tomoji Tabata (U Osaka): "Using Random Forests to Spotlight Dickensian Style: Text-mining in Digital Humanities" 15. Kyoko Omori (Hamilton College): "Analysis of Silent Cinema and Benshi Narration in Digital Humanities" 16. Harvey Quamen (U Alberta): "The Limits of Modelling: Database Culture and the Humanities" 17. Richard Cunningham (Acadia U), Alan Galey (U Toronto), Jon Bath (U Saskatchewan), Brent Nelson (U Saskatchewan), Scott Schofield (U Toronto), Ray Siemens (U Victoria), Paul Werstine (U Western Ontario), and the INKE Research Group: "Ready, Set, Populate: The Architectures of the Book Online Reference Resource" 18. William R Bowen (U Toronto): "Changing Paradigms in Digital Humanities: A Case Study Looking Forward to Iter's 20th Year" 3.45-5.00 (5): Archiving and Repository 19. Takaaki Kaneko (Ritsumeikan U): "Digital Archiving of Printing Blocks and Bibliography Based on It" 20. Susan Brown (U Alberta / Guelph), Milena Radzikowska (Mount Royal College), Geoffrey Rockwell (U Alberta), Stan Ruecker (Illinois Institute of Design), and members of the INKE Research Team: "From CRUD to CREAM: Imagining a Rich Scholarly Repository Interface" 21. Jon Saklofske (Acadia U): "Fluid Layering: Reimagining Digital Literary Archives through Dynamic, User-Generated Content" 22. Brent Nelson (U Saskatchewan), Stan Ruecker (Illinois Institute of Design), Milena Radzikowska (Mt Royal College), and Mark Bieber (U Alberta): "A Short History and Demonstration of the Dynamic Table of Contents" 23. Lynne Siemens (U Victoria) and the INKE Research Group: "'Firing on all cyclinders': Progress and Transition in INKE's Year 2" 5.00-5.15 (6): Closing Comments 24. Ray Siemens (U Victoria), with Corina Koolen (Leiden U), Alex Garnett (U British Columbia), and the INKE, ETCL, and PKP Research Groups: "Editing-Reading-Writing-Analysing-Archiving? Ways to Approach Scholarly Books and Professional Reading in the Digital, Social Age" ____________ R.G. Siemens, English, University of Victoria, PO Box 3070 STN CSC, Victoria, BC, Canada. V8W 3W1. Clearihue C315 & B043b P:250.721.7255 F:250.721.6498 siemens@uvic.ca http://web.uvic.ca/~siemens/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Oct 19 05:30:53 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD3C01DC4F0; Wed, 19 Oct 2011 05:30:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0E9BE1DC4E7; Wed, 19 Oct 2011 05:30:53 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111019053053.0E9BE1DC4E7@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 05:30:53 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.397 events: DH2012 proposals; Gigliozzi memorial X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 397. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Fabio Ciotti (31) Subject: From Humanities computing to digital cultures: a conference in memory of Giuseppe Gigliozzi [2] From: "Spence, Paul" (15) Subject: Final reminder: Call for Proposals for Digital Humanities 2012 conference --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 10:30:22 +0200 From: Fabio Ciotti Subject: From Humanities computing to digital cultures: a conference in memory of Giuseppe Gigliozzi From Humanities computing to digital cultures: a conference in memory of Giuseppe Gigliozzi 28th October 2011 will mark the tenth anniversary of Giuseppe Gigliozzi's death. As a scholar and researcher, his work was a crucial reference point for the development of the Digital Humanities in Italy. To commemorate him, DigLab - Mediateca of Humanities Science at the University of Rome La Sapienza, and the Literary and Philosophy department of University of Rome Tor Vergata, sponsored by the Association for Digital Humanities and Digital Culture, have organized a conference to be held on 27th and 28th October. The conference will be divided into three thematic sessions with the following programme: Programme - The status of the Digital Humanites Thursday 27 October – University of Rome La Sapienza h. 9.30 Speakers G. Ragone, T. Orlandi, D. Buzzetti, G. Roncaglia, Round table with, S. Tortorella, discussant A.M. Tammaro - Text and computer Il testo e il computer Thursday 27 October – University of Rome La Sapienza h. 15.00 Moderator: P. Stoppelli Papers by C. Bläsi, P. Mastandrea M. Lana, F. Perazzini, T. Mancinelli, F. Tomasi, Discussion - Beyond Digital Humanities: digital culture and knowledge networks Friday 28 October, University of Tor Vergata h. 9.30, Aula Auditorium, Literary and Philosophy Fac. Greetings from the Dean of the Faculty of Literature and Philosophy Rino Caputo Nicola Longo, Ciao Giuseppe, commemoration of Giuseppe Gigliozzi Papers by D. Fiormonte, F. Ciotti, R. Mordenti, S. Lariccia, M. Giovagnoli, E. Ilardi Discussion --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 15:16:14 +0100 From: "Spence, Paul" Subject: Final reminder: Call for Proposals for Digital Humanities 2012 conference The international Program Committee for the Digital Humanities 2012 conference (to be held at Hamburg, Germany) announces its last call for all proposals--proposals for posters, short papers, long papers, panels and pre-conference tutorials and workshops. The deadline is now just **two weeks away** on Tuesday, 1 Nov 2011, at 12 midnight GMT. Just a reminder that this is a firm deadline - please check your time zone in relation to GMT and leave plenty of time before the deadline for your submission. Submissions should be made through the DH 2012 conference ConfTool submission portal at https://secure.digitalhumanities.org. If you have previously used ConfTool to submit a paper, review papers, or register for Digital Humanities conference and cannot remember your user name, please contact us at dh2012 at digitalhumanities.org. If you cannot remember your password, the system will generate a new password for you. The full Call for Papers for both the main conference and pre-conference are available on the conference website at http://www.dh2012.uni-hamburg.de/ Best wishes Paul Spence, Chair on behalf of the 2012 international Programme Committee ---------------------------------------- Paul Spence Acting Head of Department Department of Digital Humanities King's College London 26-29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL paul.spence@kcl.ac.uk http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/ddh/research/index.aspx _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 Oct 19 05:32:08 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94C941DC53B; Wed, 19 Oct 2011 05:32:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E2DC81DC526; Wed, 19 Oct 2011 05:32:06 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20111019053206.E2DC81DC526@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 05:32:06 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.398 Mellon grant to Downie at GSLIS (Illinois) X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 398. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 18:18:18 +0000 From: "Reilly, Maeve J" Subject: Mellon grant awarded to GSLIS at Illinois The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) a $390,000 grant for Professor J. Stephen Downie to lead the "Music Information Retrieval Evaluation eXchange: Next Generation" (MIREX: NG) project," which runs from 1 October 2011 through 31 December 2013. Since 2005, Downie has directed MIREX from his International Music Information Retrieval Systems Evaluation Laboratory (IMIRSEL) at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS) at UIUC. MIREX allows music information retrieval (MIR) researchers to come together to investigate how well their innovative MIR algorithms perform. MIREX has played a pivotal role in the growth and success of the MIR research community, having performed more than 1200 evaluations of algorithms across 23 unique task categories. In partnership with experts from Ithaka S+R, the MIREX: NG project will allow Downie to develop formal models for the financial and administrative sustainability of MIREX. Once the organizational structures have been created, the partners will work with the MIR community to finalize, and then implement, a sustainable business plan model to ensure the long term vitality of MIREX. For more information, contact J. Stephen Downie. Maeve Reilly Research Services Coordinator Graduate School of Library and Information Science University of Illinois Rm 219 LIS 501 E. Daniel Champaign, IL 61820 mjreilly@illinois.edu (217) 244-7316 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 Oct 19 05:33:59 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FFFC1DC5BB; Wed, 19 Oct 2011 05:33:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 83B351DC5A5; Wed, 19 Oct 2011 05:33:57 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111019053357.83B351DC5A5@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 05:33:57 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.399 jobs at Bates (Maine); Nebraska X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 399. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Katherine L Walter (49) Subject: Nebraska: History and Digital Humanities Liaison Librarian position [2] From: Michael Hanrahan (21) Subject: Job @ Bates College --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 10:03:24 -0500 From: Katherine L Walter Subject: Nebraska: History and Digital Humanities Liaison Librarian position The University Libraries of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Oct. 11 Assistant Professor, Tenure Leading History and Digital Humanities Liaison Librarian Responsibilities: The History and Digital Humanities Liaison Library works collaboratively with faculty, staff and students to provide research and instructional services in history; provides collection development; serves as a liaison to the History Department, and related studies; maintains regular contact with faculty and students to ascertain their information and research needs and to keep them aware of the development of history collections and services; serves as a resource with the instructional faculty teaching courses relating to history to provide library instruction; assists faculty in incorporating digital humanities resources into their teaching and research; maintains interdisciplinary connections with liaison librarians for instruction and collection building for history and related areas; participates in digital humanities projects. Qualifications: Required: Master's degree from an ALA-accredited program; the ability to work flexibly and creatively in a changing environment; strong public serve philosophy; ability to interact positively and productively in a collegial academic environment with library colleagues, students, faculty and staff; Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to work effectively with a diverse population of faculty, staff, students and community members; ability to meet standards for promotion and tenure leading to peer reviewed publications and service; evidence of excellent analytical, organizational, communication and time-management skills. Preferred: PhD in History; reference and library instruction experience in an academic library; familiarity with a wide range of electronic and print resources; Significant library experience working as a liaison, coordinator or consultant in history studies/programs; Demonstrated skill in using digital information resources in historical studies; and knowledge of principles in collection development. Salary: $51,000 USD minimum. Salary is negotiable and will be based upon qualifications of the successful candidate. Starting date: December 1, 2011; negotiable. Application Deadline: Oct. 31, 2011. Applications will be accepted until the position is filled, but applications received by October 31 will be assured full consideration. Applicants must complete the Faculty/Administrative application at http://employment.unl.edu, requisition 110788. Candidates must also attach required documents. For more information about the UNL Libraries, visit our homepage at: http://libraries.unl.edu. "The University of Nebraska has an active National Science Foundation ADVANCE gender equity program, and is committee to a pluralistic campus community through affirmative action, equal opportunity, work-life balance, and dual careers." Contact Nancy Busch at (402) 472-2526 for assistance. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 12:46:09 -0400 From: Michael Hanrahan Subject: Job @ Bates College Bates College seeks a Curricular Technology Consultant. The successful candidate will consult and collaborate with faculty in the development and support of sustainable curricular resources based on an informed understanding of current and emerging technologies. As a member of the Curricular and Research Computing group, the Curricular Technology Consultant will contribute to the provision of technology services, user support, and computing resources to meet the academic needs of the faculty and students at Bates. Duties will include the oversight and management of a faculty computing facility dedicated to research and development in the digital humanities, with particular attention to interdisciplinary studies and non-English languages. We invite applications for this position from qualified persons who share Bates' strong commitment to the liberal arts, diversity and nondiscrimination. For a full position description and to apply, visit our careers page: http://goo.gl/BjINQ Bates does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national or ethnic origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression, marital or parental status, age, or disability, in the recruitment and admission of its students, in the administration of its educational policies and programs, or in the recruitment and employment of its faculty and staff. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 Oct 20 05:30:56 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 200A91DD4D6; Thu, 20 Oct 2011 05:30:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id EACDE1DD4C8; Thu, 20 Oct 2011 05:30:54 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111020053054.EACDE1DD4C8@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 05:30:54 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.400 curation newsletter X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 400. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 10:29:14 +0100 From: Katie McCadden Subject: Digital Curator Vocational Education Europe (DigCurV) The Digital Curator Vocational Education Europe (DigCurV) project ( http://www.digcur-education.org/) is delighted to announce the first issue of the DigCurV newsletter, 'Ahead of the CurV.' The newsletter is one of the ways in which the project is reaching out to people working in the library, museum, archive and cultural activities sector with an interest or involvement in digital curation, digital preservation and training. The purpose of the newsletter is to share news and information about the project’s activities, about the sector, as well as events and developments in digital curation from the members of our network and related projects. In the first issue you will find an update on the project, features on Vilnius University Library and Biblioteca Nationale Marciana, and details about how you might join the DigCurV network. You can also follow DigCurV on Facebook, LinkedIn, Slideshare and Twitter. View the first issue at: http://www.digcur-education.org/eng/News/Ahead-of-the-CurV-Newsletter -- Katie McCadden Research Assistant Digital Curator Vocational Education Europe (DigCurV) Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities (DARIAH) Long Room Hub Trinity College Dublin Dublin 2 Ireland Phone: +353 01 896 4470 E-mail: katietmccadden@gmail.com www.digcur-education.orgwww.digcur-education.org www.dariah.euwww.dariah.edu -- _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Oct 20 05:33:51 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 453071DD5D3; Thu, 20 Oct 2011 05:33:51 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D5A911DD5C0; Thu, 20 Oct 2011 05:33:49 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111020053349.D5A911DD5C0@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 05:33:49 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.401 new from King's X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 401. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 21:58:57 +0100 From: "Prescott, Andrew" Subject: News from King's College London Dear Willard, We have recently had some discussion on Humanist about the good news in terms of job openings in the digital humanities, so its perhaps appropriate to report news about improvements in contracts and career prospects for existing staff in a digital humanities unit. Like many digital humanities outfits, one of the long-term problems in the Department of Digital Humanities at King's College London has been restricted opportunities to move into academic streams and a reliance on short-term contracts with resulting insecurities. With the support of the School of Arts and Humanities, a major restructuring of contracts has taken place within the Department of Digital Humanities that has enabled staff to choose between academic, research and developer career paths. A number of staff have been offered long-term contracts and others have been promoted. I append the new staff list below. I am sure that you will want to join me in congratulating John Bradley, Paul Spence, Peter Stokes and Paul Vetch on their promotion to Senior Lecturer. Much of the groundwork for this restructuring was laid before I joined the Department, and the restructuring was very much a team effort, but I nevertheless think that the Department (and digital humanities more widely) owes a debt of gratitude to Paul Spence as Acting Head of Department for his work in pushing through this restructuring. Andrew Professor Andrew Prescott Department of Digital Humanities King's College London 28-29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/ddh/ Surname First Name Position Title Ajanta Btihaj Lecturer Baker Drew Research Fellow Bentkowska-Kafel Anna Research Associate Blazeby Martin Research Fellow Bodard Gabriel Research Associate Bradley John Senior Lecturer Brookes Stewart Research Associate (Digital Palaeography) Caballero Beatriz Research Developer Caton Paul Research Associate Denard Hugh Lecturer Goddard Kevin Research & Business Manager Hall Elliott Research Developer Jakeman Neil Research Developer Jordan Tim Senior Lecturer Kelly Jasmine Content Manager Lavagnino John Reader Lawrence Faith Research Associate Litta Modignani Picozzi Eleonora Research Assistant Little David Research Developer McCarty Willard Professor Monteiro Viera José Miguel Research Fellow Noel Geoffroy Research Developer Pasin Michele Research Associate Pierazzo Elena Lecturer Prescott Andrew Professor (Head of Department from 1st January 2012) Short Harold Professor Spence Paul Senior Lecturer (Acting Head of Department to 31st December 2011) Stokes Peter Senior Lecturer Tanner Simon Director of KCL Digital Consultancy Services Tupman Charlotte Project Research Associate Vetch Paul Senior Lecturer Walda Hafed Research Fellow Watts Timothy Systems Administrator _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 Oct 20 05:34:18 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 711C11DD614; Thu, 20 Oct 2011 05:34:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 9BE711DD5FD; Thu, 20 Oct 2011 05:34:17 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111020053417.9BE711DD5FD@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 05:34:17 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.402 events: DH2012, final reminder X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 402. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 15:16:14 +0100 From: "Spence, Paul" Subject: Final reminder: Call for Proposals for Digital Humanities 2012conference The international Program Committee for the Digital Humanities 2012 conference (to be held at Hamburg, Germany) announces its last call for all proposals--proposals for posters, short papers, long papers, panels and pre-conference tutorials and workshops. The deadline is now just **two weeks away** on Tuesday, 1 Nov 2011, at 12 midnight GMT. Just a reminder that this is a firm deadline - please check your time zone in relation to GMT and leave plenty of time before the deadline for your submission. Submissions should be made through the DH 2012 conference ConfTool submission portal at https://secure.digitalhumanities.org. If you have previously used ConfTool to submit a paper, review papers, or register for Digital Humanities conference and cannot remember your user name, please contact us at dh2012 at digitalhumanities.org. If you cannot remember your password, the system will generate a new password for you. The full Call for Papers for both the main conference and pre-conference are available on the conference website at http://www.dh2012.uni-hamburg.de/ Best wishes Paul Spence, Chair on behalf of the 2012 international Programme Committee ---------------------------------------- Paul Spence Acting Head of Department Department of Digital Humanities King's College London 26-29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL paul.spence@kcl.ac.uk http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/ddh/research/index.aspx _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 Oct 21 07:45:45 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BC691DE2B1; Fri, 21 Oct 2011 07:45:45 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 83A2D1DE29A; Fri, 21 Oct 2011 07:45:43 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111021074543.83A2D1DE29A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2011 07:45:43 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.403 job at the NYPL X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 403. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 09:44:30 -0400 From: Doug Reside Subject: Digital Humanities Programmer Job at NYPL Digital Humanities Programmer at the New York Public Library https://jobs-nypl.icims.com/jobs/6373/job Position Description: External Overview: Us? A small, creative team at the heart of one of the world's great cultural institutions: exploring new technologies, imagining the future of research. You? A maker and experimenter. Able to build, test and debug in rapid iterations. Excited by deep archives and interested in figuring out ways to breathe new life into them digitally. Convinced that public institutions have a role to play in shaping the information age. Game to help reinvent a 100+-year-old organization. Users? An entire city, and also a vast array of thinking people around the world. NYPL is an incubator for books, technologies, businesses and works of art. Thousands of scholars, writers, artists, students, workers and job seekers use our reading rooms, databases and archives to pursue vectors of thought and creation. Our digital collections are accessed through web browsers around the world. External Responsibilities: Day to day: You’ll work at NYPL’s landmark central branch on 42nd Street, collaborating with curators and librarians on digital collections projects, developing dynamic interfaces and applications, experimenting with amazing library data sets, using and contributing to open source software, organizing public symposia and code camps, attending conferences and meetups, and dreaming up the next big thing*. Current NYPL Labs project areas range across the following: developing new interfaces and tools exposing archival materials crowdsourcing tools and games for enhancing library collections e-reading technologies for browsers and mobile devices data mining and visualization geospatial (modeling cultural history through old maps) *Got side projects? Not a problem. NYPL offers a fast-paced but humane work culture, leaving you time to live, play and create outside of the office. Artists, hackers, writers, musicians... we all work at the Library. Position will report to the Manager of NYPL Labs within the Library's Office of Strategic Planning, and will also work closely with the NYPL web development team and Senior Manager for Web Initiatives. External Qualifications: Comfortable with both GUI IDEs, such as XCode or Visual Studio, as well as command line tools Excellent knowledge of Javascript, including frameworks and techniques such as AJAX, JQuery and/or Prototype Expert level HTML and CSS skills Demonstrated experience building with a scripting language Demonstrated experience working with dynamic content in template-driven web frameworks such as Ruby on Rails, Drupal, etc. Knowledge of source code/version control software, test driven development, and Agile processes a major plus Knowledge in development of mobile applications on Android or iOS a plus Experience with building large-scale distributed applications and architectures using Java or C/C++ another plus Project based experience with open source creative coding frameworks such as Cinder or openFrameworks would be excellent Clear, acute writing style (there will be blogging and potentially other writing opportunities) Ability to work well with others, but also to build things by yourself (though not afraid to ask for help) Bachelor's degree in Web Development, Computer Science, Digital Design, or a related field (or equivalent professional experience) is required Degree/experience/interest in a humanities field a plus Passion for libraries, archives and open source/open access culture a must _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 Oct 21 07:46:33 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C2D81DE354; Fri, 21 Oct 2011 07:46:33 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E9A0F1DE33A; Fri, 21 Oct 2011 07:46:31 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111021074631.E9A0F1DE33A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2011 07:46:31 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.404 new publication: LLC 26.4 for December X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 404. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 11:52:58 +0100 From: "oxfordjournals-mailer@alerts.stanford.edu" Subject: Lit Linguist Computing for December 2011; Vol. 26, No. 4 Literary and Linguistic Computing Table of Contents Alert A new issue of Literary and Linguistic Computing is available online: December 2011; Vol. 26, No. 4 The below Table of Contents is available online at: http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/content/vol26/issue4/index.dtl?etoc ---------------------------------------------------------------- Original Articles ---------------------------------------------------------------- Richard J. Evans Comparing methods for the syntactic simplification of sentences in information extraction 371-388 Peter Garrard, Anne-Marie Haigh, and Celeste de Jager Techniques for transcribers: assessing and improving consistency in transcripts of spoken language 389-405 Andrew Kane and Frank Wm. Tompa Janus: the intertextuality search engine for the electronic Manipulus florum project 407-415 Katia Lida Kermanidis Linguistic steganography with knowledge-poor paraphrase generation 417-434 Xuan Le, Ian Lancashire, Graeme Hirst, and Regina Jokel Longitudinal detection of dementia through lexical and syntactic changes in writing: a case study of three British novelists 435-461 Elena Pierazzo A rationale of digital documentary editions 463-477 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Reviews ---------------------------------------------------------------- Bela Hollosy Data Processing and Management for Quantitative Linguistics with FoxPro.Fengxiang Fan. 479-481 Carlos Monroy Expressive Processing: Digital Fictions, Computer Games, and Software Studies. Noah Wardrip-Fruin. 481-483 David Robey L'umanista digitale. * Teresa Numerico, Domenico Fiormonte and Francesca Tomasi. 483-484 Vincent Vandeghinste Learning Machine Translation. * Cyril Goutte, Nicola Cancedda, Marc Dymetman, and George Foster 484-486 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 Oct 21 07:48:42 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8D791DE411; Fri, 21 Oct 2011 07:48:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id F3B151DE3F5; Fri, 21 Oct 2011 07:48:39 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111021074839.F3B151DE3F5@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2011 07:48:39 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.405 "open" access? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 405. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2011 08:39:15 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: "open" access I am informed automatically by the journals division of Oxford University Press that OUP has established an "open access model", known as Oxford Open: > Through this initiative, authors of accepted papers will > be given the option of paying an open access publication > charge to make their paper freely available online > immediately via the journal website, meaning that readers > will not need a journal subscription to view open access > content. While, as the Editor of a journal myself, I appreciate that publishers must charge for what they publish, it does seem to me to be a misuse of language to call this model "open". It is actually a "prepaid option". Some of you will know the model is taken directly from the sciences, where authors build publication charges into their grant-applications. Rarely, or only sometimes, can we in the humanities do that. Furthermore, since the practice of putting (actually or nominally) penultimate versions online is quite common, I do wonder about the wisdom of creating such a model for the underfunded researchers in our field. They will vote with their websites. The charges are hardly trivial. See http://www.oxfordjournals.org/oxfordopen/charges.html. Comments? Yours, WM -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor (fractional), University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Oct 22 08:04:32 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id F18981DF8A7; Sat, 22 Oct 2011 08:04:31 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 4D2A91DF898; Sat, 22 Oct 2011 08:04:30 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111022080430.4D2A91DF898@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2011 08:04:30 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.406 "open" access X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 406. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2011 16:09:13 +0100 From: "Prescott, Andrew" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.405 "open" access? In-Reply-To: <20111021074839.F3B151DE3F5@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Willard, I share your concerns, but what strikes me more is how humanities scholars seem largely to have failed to engage with the vigorous debate which has taken place in the libraries and research council world, over precisely these issues over the past couple of years. The upshot appears to be that institutions are expected to manage these costs, but this message once again does not seem to have penetrated as far as many senior arts faculty managers. Good starting points in this discussion is the current AHRC guidance (www.ahrc.ac.uk/.../access%20to%20research%20outputs.pdf) and a report from the excellent Research Information Network (http://www.rin.ac.uk/our-work/communicating-and-disseminating-research/hea ding-open-road-costs-and-benefits-transitions-s). It is remarkable that humanities scholars are ignoring fundamental debates about the future structure of scholarly communications. I think the RIN report makes it clear that it will be very difficult for scholars to vote with their servers but the implications of this then become very convoluted and we start to see a very confused landscape for scholarly publication. Likewise, the debates around the repository movement also seem to have passed many scholars by - the way in which PhD theses for example are now available very rapidly from repositories mean that the idea of the first monograph, a traditional stepping stone in a young scholar's career, is now becoming redundant, but we haven't revised our expectations. The lesson of all this is to my mind is that we need to build much closer links with the librarians who are at the coal face in mediating provision of access to digital scholarship. Andrew Professor Andrew Prescott Department of Digital Humanities King's College London 28-29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/ddh/ On 21/10/2011 08:48, "Humanist Discussion Group" wrote: > > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 405. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2011 08:39:15 +0100 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: "open" access > >I am informed automatically by the journals division of Oxford >University Press that OUP has established an "open access model", known >as Oxford Open: > >> Through this initiative, authors of accepted papers will >> be given the option of paying an open access publication >> charge to make their paper freely available online >> immediately via the journal website, meaning that readers >> will not need a journal subscription to view open access >> content. > >While, as the Editor of a journal myself, I appreciate that publishers >must charge for what they publish, it does seem to me to be a misuse of >language to call this model "open". It is actually a "prepaid >option". > >Some of you will know the model is taken directly from the >sciences, where authors build publication charges into their >grant-applications. Rarely, or only sometimes, can we in the humanities >do that. Furthermore, since the practice of putting (actually or >nominally) penultimate versions online is quite common, I do wonder >about the wisdom of creating such a model for the underfunded >researchers in our field. They will vote with their websites. > >The charges are hardly trivial. See >http://www.oxfordjournals.org/oxfordopen/charges.html. > >Comments? > >Yours, >WM >-- >Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's >College London; Professor (fractional), University of Western Sydney; >Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, >Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Oct 22 08:05:19 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE7B81DF9EE; Sat, 22 Oct 2011 08:05:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 4432C1DF9BD; Sat, 22 Oct 2011 08:05:18 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111022080518.4432C1DF9BD@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2011 08:05:18 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.407 job at Lafayette X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 407. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2011 16:28:38 -0400 From: Eric Luhrs Subject: Job Posting: Digital Library Programmer at Lafayette College DIGITAL LIBRARY PROGRAMMER at Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania Lafayette College seeks a programmer with broad interests, or a librarian or scholar with programming experience, for a key role in the development of new digital initiatives, and to maintain and extend existing initiatives that directly support the teaching and research of our Faculty. As a member of the Digital Scholarship team, the Digital Library Programmer reports to the Digital Initiatives Librarian and works closely with librarians and faculty members to understand and deliver solutions that support innovative scholarship. The person selected for this position will be comfortable with the design, development, and deployment of web applications in an Open Source environment, will have an understanding of relational database design, an aptitude for choosing and learning new languages and technologies, and the ability to develop complex migration paths for various kinds of data between different applications and databases. Primary responsibilities: work with faculty and Digital Scholarship team to design and implement digital projects, program new web applications and software tools; customize and extend existing digital library platforms (currently CONTENTdm (PHP), DSpace, and MetaDB (both Java)); manage revision control for digital library projects; coordinate server maintenance with the College’s central IT department. This is a full-time, 12-month position. Lafayette College Libraries provide ample funding for staff members to attend and present their work at relevant academic or professional conferences. Candidates with an advanced degree may be eligible for faculty status without rank or tenure. QUALIFICATIONS Education/Experience Bachelor’s degree and programming experience in an academic environment. Advanced degree preferred. Otherwise strong applicants with keen interest in digital libraries and demonstrated relevant experience are encouraged to apply, even without precisely meeting all educational or professional requirements. Skills In addition to strong technical skills, the successful candidate will possess natural curiosity, a desire to partner with scholars, and an aptitude for explaining technical concepts to non-technical audiences. Experience with _many_ of the following technologies _required_. Web standards: XHTML, CSS, XML, XSLT, Cocoon, JSON. Server applications: Apache, Tomcat, MySQL, Postgres. Programming languages: JavaScript, PHP, Java. Experience with jQuery, or similar JavaScript library. Ability to manage source code in a revision control system such as Subversion or Git. Experience with _some_ of the following technologies _desired_. Library standards: Dublin Core, MARC, METS, MODS, PREMIS, RDF, VRA Core. Library web applications: CONTENTdm, Drupal, DSpace, Fedora. Familiarity with basic Linux systems administration tasks, especially related to installation, upgrades, and troubleshooting of production library web applications. Involvement with Open Source development community. Please send resume with letter addressing job qualifications and three professional references to: Neil McElroy, Dean Libraries Lafayette College Easton, PA 18042 Application materials can be sent by email to: castells@lafayette.edu. Lafayette College is committed to creating a diverse community: one that is inclusive and responsive, and is supportive of each and all of its faculty, students, and staff. All members of the College community share a responsibility for creating, maintaining, and developing a learning environment in which difference is valued, equity is sought, and inclusiveness is practiced. Lafayette College is an equal opportunity employer and encourages applications from women and minorities. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 Oct 23 08:00:43 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5EA961DF657; Sun, 23 Oct 2011 08:00:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 6D62D1DF647; Sun, 23 Oct 2011 08:00:41 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111023080041.6D62D1DF647@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2011 08:00:41 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.408 new book: networked sociability X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 408. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2011 23:23:40 +1100 From: "Paul Emerson Teusner" Subject: Book promotion G’day everyone, Apologies for cross-postings and such. I’d like to promote a book coming out by IGI Global, of which I’m a contributor: Networked Sociability and Individualism: Technology for Personal and Professional Relationships, ed. Francesca Comunello. The recent popularity of Social Network Sites (SNS) shows that there is a growing interest in articulating, making visible, and managing personal or professional relationships through technology-enabled environments. Networked Sociability and Individualism: Technology for Personal and Professional Relationships provides a multidisciplinary framework for analysing the new forms of sociability enabled by digital media and networks. This book focuses on a variety of social media and computer-mediated communication environments with the aim of identifying and understanding different types of social behaviour and identity expression. For more information, and a list of contributors, go to http://www.igi-global.com/book/networked-sociability-individualism/53001. 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Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2011 11:31:45 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries QQML 2012 4th International Conference on Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries 22 - 25 May 2012 Limerick, Ireland http://www.isast.org/ (For the poster see http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1319279540_2011-10-22_willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk_20306.2.pdf -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor (fractional), University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Oct 24 07:48:56 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC2471E29F3; Mon, 24 Oct 2011 07:48:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B229E1E29E3; Mon, 24 Oct 2011 07:48:53 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111024074853.B229E1E29E3@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 07:48:53 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.410 open access X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 410. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Charles Muller (41) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.406 "open" access [2] From: Jean-Claude Guédon (311) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.406 "open" access --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2011 17:51:32 +0900 From: Charles Muller Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.406 "open" access In-Reply-To: <20111022080430.4D2A91DF898@woodward.joyent.us> Andrew Prescott, responding to the problem presented by Willard, wrote: > It is remarkable that humanities scholars are ignoring fundamental debates > about the future structure of scholarly communications. I think the RIN > report makes it clear that it will be very difficult for scholars to vote > with their servers but the implications of this then become very > convoluted and we start to see a very confused landscape for scholarly > publication. Likewise, the debates around the repository movement also > seem to have passed many scholars by - the way in which PhD theses for > example are now available very rapidly from repositories mean that the > idea of the first monograph, a traditional stepping stone in a young > scholar's career, is now becoming redundant, but we haven't revised our > expectations. This also hearkens back to the message expressed by Joe Raben in his keynote at DH2010 in which he bemoaned the fact that despite the relatively long history of DH as a "field", and the rapid proliferation of tools and mechanisms that could easily serve the purpose for gathering, organizing, and publishing "new content," relatively little responsibility seems to have been taken by humanities scholars to direct and manage the publication of their own new content online. On one hand, we turn the responsibility over to Wikipedia and Google. Or, on the other hand, to Oxford, Brill, TaylorFrancis, and so on. If we compare this situation with that of the development of applications and methodologies for corpus analysis, markup, databasing, aggregation--the more mechanical aspects of this field--the difference is huge. I don't know what it will take to change this trend, but I would like to say that I am trying to do my part. Chuck ------------------- A. Charles Muller University of Tokyo Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, Faculty of Letters Center for Evolving Humanities 7-3-1 Hongō, Bunkyō-ku Tokyo 113-0033, Japan Web Site: Resources for East Asian Language and Thought http://www.acmuller.net Mobile Phone: 090-9310-1787 Twitter @acmuller4 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2011 12:31:53 -0400 From: Jean-Claude Guédon Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.406 "open" access In-Reply-To: <20111022080430.4D2A91DF898@woodward.joyent.us> Allow me to bring back a note of optimism about all this. The major obstacles to Open Access in the humanities are due to the greater symbolic value granted to books, and the frequent economic fragility of journals in the humanities. This said, if you consult the list doaj (http://www.doaj.org), you will find a fair number of Open Access journals. The European Commission has funded OAPEN (http://www.oapen.org) which has placed quite a few books in Open Access. Other presses, such as that of Australian National University or the HSRC in South Africa, as well as Athabasca University in Canada, have published OA monographs. Neither should we forget the Open Humanities Press (http://openhumanitiespress.org/) with which I am associated. The University of Michigan Library and Press also collaborate with OHP, thanks to Paul Courant's leadership, well supported by several worthy colleagues at U. Mich. The portal RedALyC in Mexico hold several hundreds of titles of journals, many of which are in the humanities, and they are OA. (http://redalyc.uaemex.mx/). Of course, this is all in Spanish... But Spanish is an important world language, probably more important than French nowadays. SciELo also holds resources in the humanities, although it concentrates on the natural sciences (http://www.scielo.org) The French portal revues.org also hold several OA journals (http://www.revues.org/). Its affiliated site "hypothèses" is worth mentioning in passing as it is a place where researchers publish their research agenda (research area and associated questions): http://hypotheses.org/ The "Author Pay" strategy will not work easily in the humanities, and the extensions of Springer's "Open Choice" even less. This is due to the ways in which humanities research is supported in our (OECD-type) countries. However, on the other side of the medal, governmental subsidies for journals are sometimes aware of the needs of OA journals. In Canada, for example, subsidies are on the basis of a flat rate per article ($850.00), and many journmals find this sufficient to publish in open access. Incidentally, I recently chaired a SSHRC jury allocating grants to about 50 journals and we found enormous disparities in the ratio cost/article from one journal to the next. In short, the problem may also lie in the fact that the digital humanities communities do not strongly overlap with the OA communities, even though OA can exist only in digital form. But OA is about archiving and publishing, while the digital humanities are more about computer-assisted analyses of documents and data of all kinds. Best regards, Jean-Claude Guédon Le samedi 22 octobre 2011 à 08:04 +0000, Humanist Discussion Group a écrit : > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 406. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2011 16:09:13 +0100 > From: "Prescott, Andrew" > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.405 "open" access? > In-Reply-To: <20111021074839.F3B151DE3F5@woodward.joyent.us> > > Dear Willard, > > I share your concerns, but what strikes me more is how humanities scholars > seem largely to have failed to engage with the vigorous debate which has > taken place in the libraries and research council world, over precisely > these issues over the past couple of years. The upshot appears to be that > institutions are expected to manage these costs, but this message once > again does not seem to have penetrated as far as many senior arts faculty > managers. Good starting points in this discussion is the current AHRC > guidance (www.ahrc.ac.uk/.../access%20to%20research%20outputs.pdf) and a > report from the excellent Research Information Network > (http://www.rin.ac.uk/our-work/communicating-and-disseminating-research/hea > ding-open-road-costs-and-benefits-transitions-s). > > It is remarkable that humanities scholars are ignoring fundamental debates > about the future structure of scholarly communications. I think the RIN > report makes it clear that it will be very difficult for scholars to vote > with their servers but the implications of this then become very > convoluted and we start to see a very confused landscape for scholarly > publication. Likewise, the debates around the repository movement also > seem to have passed many scholars by - the way in which PhD theses for > example are now available very rapidly from repositories mean that the > idea of the first monograph, a traditional stepping stone in a young > scholar's career, is now becoming redundant, but we haven't revised our > expectations. The lesson of all this is to my mind is that we need to > build much closer links with the librarians who are at the coal face in > mediating provision of access to digital scholarship. > > Andrew > > Professor Andrew Prescott > Department of Digital Humanities > King's College London > 28-29 Drury Lane > London WC2B 5RL > > http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/ddh/ > > On 21/10/2011 08:48, "Humanist Discussion Group" > wrote: > > > > > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 405. > > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > > > > > Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2011 08:39:15 +0100 > > From: Willard McCarty > > Subject: "open" access > > > >I am informed automatically by the journals division of Oxford > >University Press that OUP has established an "open access model", known > >as Oxford Open: > > > >> Through this initiative, authors of accepted papers will > >> be given the option of paying an open access publication > >> charge to make their paper freely available online > >> immediately via the journal website, meaning that readers > >> will not need a journal subscription to view open access > >> content. > > > >While, as the Editor of a journal myself, I appreciate that publishers > >must charge for what they publish, it does seem to me to be a misuse of > >language to call this model "open". It is actually a "prepaid > >option". > > > >Some of you will know the model is taken directly from the > >sciences, where authors build publication charges into their > >grant-applications. Rarely, or only sometimes, can we in the humanities > >do that. Furthermore, since the practice of putting (actually or > >nominally) penultimate versions online is quite common, I do wonder > >about the wisdom of creating such a model for the underfunded > >researchers in our field. They will vote with their websites. > > > >The charges are hardly trivial. See > >http://www.oxfordjournals.org/oxfordopen/charges.html. > > > >Comments? > > > >Yours, > >WM > >-- > >Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's > >College London; Professor (fractional), University of Western Sydney; > >Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, > >Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ -- Jean-Claude Guédon Professeur titulaire Littérature comparée Université de Montréal _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Oct 25 07:56:03 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCA281E44FC; Tue, 25 Oct 2011 07:56:02 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 615921E44E5; Tue, 25 Oct 2011 07:56:00 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111025075600.615921E44E5@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 07:56:00 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.411 collective noun X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 411. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 15:57:02 -0400 From: Wendell Piez Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.381 collective noun In-Reply-To: <20111015052618.7B60F1D84E6@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Willard, On 10/15/2011 1:26 AM, Virginia Knight wrote: > I suspect many collective nouns were thought up by someone in a > light-hearted moment and put on a list of collective nouns, then > circulated on such lists from then until now, but have never really been > used because there has been no need for them. For example some of the > many collective nouns for birds apply to species that are not gregarious. There are actually, as I understand it, two different collective nouns for deans. As John Unsworth remarks, there is a "gripe of deans", which would be a small number. This would be no more than five or six, more likely three or four; but even two deans can make a gripe. However, if the number grows large (from eight or nine on up), they become a "remonstrance". Whether deans have been known to be so gregarious (or indeed whether they or anyone else has a need for a collective noun for themselves), I am not actually sure, but maybe Dean Unsworth can say. 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Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 09:13:22 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: in defense Researchers in the humanities are in the course of this discussion of open access taking flak if not direct fire for being uninvolved in open access discussions and movements. I wonder, however, if this is fair. Aren't we (I include myself among these researchers) busy enough without having to pay significant attention not just to the manner in which our writings are published but more to the infrastructure of publication? I agree that the problems we touch on here are very, very important, i.e. they bear sharply on the central purpose of research, at least for me, which is to communicate thoughts, findings, constructs. But infrastructure, while important to everyone, does not, cannot be everyone's job to build and maintain. The action I take is short-term and individual, so perhaps culpable, but it is action, and it is what I can do without diverting my time for research. I put penultimate versions of what I write online whenever possible. And I am *enormously* grateful to others for the same. (And please note that, as I am fond of saying, one of the main effects of doing that is a dramatic increase in my book-buying.) Wouldn't it be better to paint a variegated landscape in which a portion of its denizens are worthily employed with open-access concerns while others do various other things? Comments? Yours, WM -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor (fractional), University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Oct 25 08:15:02 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4DB51E47F9; Tue, 25 Oct 2011 08:15:02 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 98DED1E47EC; Tue, 25 Oct 2011 08:14:58 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111025081458.98DED1E47EC@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 08:14:58 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.413 cfp: Digital Philology, 2013 open issue X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 413. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 04:45:29 +0100 From: Albert Lloret Subject: Digital Philology - CFS 2013 Open Issue Digital Philology: A Journal of Medieval Cultures Call for Submissions, 2013 Open Issue Digital Philology is a new peer-reviewed journal devoted to the study of medieval vernacular texts and cultures. Founded by Stephen G. Nichols and Nadia R. Altschul, the journal aims to foster scholarship that crosses disciplines upsetting traditional fields of study, national boundaries and periodizations. Digital Philology also encourages both applied and theoretical research that engages with the digital humanities and shows why and how digital resources require new questions, new approaches, and yield radical results. Beginning in 2012 Digital Philology will have two issues per year, published by the Johns Hopkins University Press. One of the issues will be open to all submissions, while the other one will be guest-edited and revolve around a thematic axis. Contributions may take the form of a scholarly essay or focus on the study of a particular manuscript. Articles must be written in English, follow the 3rd edition (2008) of the MLA style manual, and be between 5,000 and 7,000 words in length, including footnotes and list of works cited. Quotations in the main text in languages other than English should appear along with their English translation. Digital Philology is welcoming submissions for its 2013 open issue. Inquiries and submissions (as a Word document attachment) should be sent to dph@jhu.edu, addressed to the Managing Editor (Albert Lloret). Digital Philology will also publish manuscript studies and reviews of books and digital projects. Correspondence regarding manuscript studies may be addressed to Jeanette Patterson at jpatterson09@gmail.com. Correspondence regarding digital projects and publications for review may be addressed to Timothy Stinson at tlstinson@gmail.com. Editors and Editorial Board Albert Lloret, Managing Editor University of Massachusetts Amherst Jeanette Patterson, Manuscript Studies Editor Johns Hopkins University Timothy Stinson, Review Editor North Carolina State University Nadia R. Altschul, Executive Editor Johns Hopkins University Stephen G. Nichols and Nadia R. Altschul, Founding Editors Johns Hopkins University Editorial Board Tracy Adams, Auckland University Benjamin Albritton, Stanford University Nadia R. Altschul, Johns Hopkins University R. Howard Bloch, Yale University Kevin Brownlee, University of Pennsylvania Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet, University of Paris, Sorbonne - Paris IV Suzanne Conklin Akbari, University of Toronto Lucie Dolezalova, Charles University, Prague Alexandra Gillespie, University of Toronto Jeffrey Hamburger, Harvard University Daniel Heller-Roazen, Princeton University Sharon Kinoshita, University of California, Santa Cruz Joachim Küpper, Free University of Berlin Deborah McGrady, University of Virginia Christine McWebb, University of Waterloo Stephen G. Nichols, Johns Hopkins University Timothy Stinson, North Carolina State University Lori Walters, Florida State University Albert Lloret, Managing Editor Digital Philology: A Journal of Medieval Cultures University of Massachusetts Dept. of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Herter Hall 433 161 Presidents Drive Amherst, MA 01003 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 Oct 25 08:17:07 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id B69E71E487E; Tue, 25 Oct 2011 08:17:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 8CD141E486D; Tue, 25 Oct 2011 08:17:04 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111025081704.8CD141E486D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 08:17:04 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.414 events: deadlines for DH2012 & Communicating Reproduction X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 414. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Francis Neary (59) Subject: Reminder: 'Communicating Reproduction' Conference [2] From: Jan Christoph Meister (18) Subject: DH 2012: 1 November deadline for proposals --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 10:33:31 +0100 From: Francis Neary Subject: Reminder: 'Communicating Reproduction' Conference In-Reply-To: <4E410C08.4040105@cam.ac.uk> A reminder that the deadline (1 November) is approaching to register for our Communicating Reproduction conference. Please fill in the form at http://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/medicine/communicating.html if you would like to join us for the discussions. Further details are below. Very good wishes, Francis. Communicating Reproduction 5–6 December 2011 A conference to be held in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge. Scholars have explored continuities and discontinuities in theories of sex and gender; knowledge of entities such as seeds, germs, embryos, monsters and clones; concerns about creation, evolution, degeneration and regeneration; investments in maternity, paternity and heredity; practices of fertility control, potency and childbirth; and health relations between citizen and state, individual and population. But we have paid much less attention to the huge changes in processes and media of communication. There is important work on specific practices, from education to advertising, conversation to mass entertainment, and on specific media, from ritual objects to printed books, films to the internet. But we lack synthetic and comparative accounts. This conference aims to explore how we might best ground debates about reproduction in changing practices of communication over the long term, though primarily within the Western tradition. Nor is reproduction just a lens through which to view the history of communication. For generation and reproduction are themselves potent metaphors for communication. Richard de Bury wrote in /Philobiblon/ (1345) of the making of books as a form of generation across time and modern authors often frame the distribution of identical copies in terms of mechanical reproduction. The conference will bring together scholars representing ancient to modern periods and various disciplines. Talks will be 20-minute summaries of pre-circulated papers, followed by commentary and discussion in one-hour slots in such a way as to promote dialogue and critical engagement between fields and approaches. Speakers and provisional titles: Helen King (Open University): Educating Lucina: midwives and the communication of reproductive knowledge, ancient and early modern Catherine Rider (University of Exeter): Communicating religious views of infertility in the Middle Ages Jennifer Richards (Newcastle University): 'Issue dangerous to the Queen': pregnancy and politics in the Elizabethan polity Mary Fissell (The Johns Hopkins University): Making a masterpiece from bits and pieces Angelique Richardson (University of Exeter): Reproduction and the post-Darwinian novel Staffan Müller-Wille (University of Exeter): Reproducing species Wendy Kline (University of Cincinnati): Coming home: modern midwifery and the controversy over home birth Solveig Jülich (Stockholm University): The Lennart Nilsson-industry: remediating images of life before birth Uta Schwarz (Cologne): Introduction to the film Helga (1967) Ludmilla Jordanova (King's College, London): Closing comments Organisers: Nick Hopwood, Peter Jones, Lauren Kassell, Francis Neary, Jim Secord To register, please follow the instructions at: http://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/medicine/communicating.html Funded by a Wellcome Trust Strategic Award in the History of Medicine on 'Generation to Reproduction' http://www.reproduction.group.cam.ac.uk/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 19:24:16 +0200 From: Jan Christoph Meister Subject: DH 2012: 1 November deadline for proposals In-Reply-To: <4E410C08.4040105@cam.ac.uk> 24.10.11 19:16 Reminder: Deadline for proposals for DH 2012 ---------------------------------------- Please note the deadline for proposals for papers, posters and workshops for the DH 2012 is 1 November 2011, 24:00 GMT and will not be extended. For Calls for Papers/Workshops in numerous languages, information on the submission routine and any other conference related information please visit our new DH 2012 website at http://www.dh2012.uni-hamburg.de/ In order to receive regular conference updates via mail please subscribe to the newsletter on our site. Chris Meister Local Organizer DH 2012 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Oct 25 08:48:38 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 370CB1E4CF1; Tue, 25 Oct 2011 08:48:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id CB9861E4CE8; Tue, 25 Oct 2011 08:48:36 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111025084836.CB9861E4CE8@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 08:48:36 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.415 call for editors: Dissertation Reviews X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 415. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 22:29:50 +0100 From: Leon Rocha Subject: Dissertation Reviews Seeking New Editors In-Reply-To: Sent on behalf on Tom Mullaney, Assistant Professor of History, Stanford University (tsmullaney@stanford.edu) * * * *Dissertation Reviews is seeking dynamic scholars in the humanities and social sciences to help broaden our innovative scholarly network.* /Dissertation Reviews/ (www.dissertationreviews.org http://www.dissertationreviews.org ) is a web platform featuring friendly, non-critical overviews of recently defended Ph.D. dissertations. Each review provides a summary of the author's main arguments, the particular scholarly conversation in which s/he is engaging, and the main source bases for the research. By focusing on the window of time between dissertation defense and first book publication, our goal is to offer scholars a glimpse of the /immediate present /of each field. Such awareness, we feel, leads to more dynamic, informed, collegial, and innovative scholarly communities. We are looking for dynamic, early- to mid-career scholars to help us bring /Dissertation Reviews/ to new disciplines and fields in all areas of the humanities and social sciences. *Description* As a Field Editor, you would collaborate closely with the editorial staff to develop a new branch of /Dissertation Reviews. /Specifically, you would: - Work with editorial staff to learn about recently defended dissertations in your field - Liaise with dissertation authors and reviewers in your field - Draw upon and expand your knowledge of the field in order to pair dissertations with appropriate reviewers - Act as the public face of /Dissertation Reviews /within your field/discipline/area - Collaborate with your fellow /Dissertation Reviews /editors in other fields to help continually improve and enhance the overall project *Eligible Candidates* All early- and mid-career faculty, post-doc, and advanced Ph.D. students in the humanities and social sciences are eligible to apply. As the the ideal candidate, you are: - Committed to the development of ever more dynamic, collegial, and innovative scholarly communities - Enthused by the idea of becoming more informed about current, cutting-edge research in your field - Responsible and reliable - A professional, consistent communicator - An active member of your field's scholarly networks (i.e., conferences, listservs, etc.) *Eligible Areas* All fields, disciplines, and areas in the humanities and social sciences are eligible. As part of the application process (details below), we ask that you recommend a particular area, field, or discipline that you believe would benefit from, and contribute to, the /Dissertation Reviews /network. There is /no restriction whatsoever on focus/, only on scope: we ask that the proposed rubric be "medium-sized" - i.e., not too large, not too small. Recent successful recommendations include South Asian Studies, Religious Studies, Russian History, English Linguistics, and Science Studies, among others. And there's no need to have the rubric perfected from the start: we will collaborate with you to help determine the ideal thematic, theoretical, temporal and spatial contours of the new branch. *Application Items* Please email us at dissertationreviews@gmail.com with following items: - Brief Statement addressing: - the field/discipline/area you are applying to help develop and edit - how and why the scholars and scholarship in this field would, in your opinion, benefit from and contribute to the /Dissertation Reviews /community - how your own background and credentials speak to the eligibility items listed above - CV (2 pp. or less) *Further Information* To learn more about /Dissertation Reviews/, our editors, and our contributors, please visit us at www.dissertationreviews.org http://www.dissertationreviews.org -- Thomas S. Mullaney Assistant Professor Department of History Stanford University Department Page: http://www.stanford.edu/dept/history/people/mullaney_thomas.html _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Oct 26 07:33:50 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BEE01E50A8; Wed, 26 Oct 2011 07:33:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id DF2CE1E509C; Wed, 26 Oct 2011 07:33:47 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111026073347.DF2CE1E509C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 07:33:47 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.416 open access X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 416. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: D.Allington (22) Subject: RE: [Humanist] 25.412 open access (in defense) [2] From: "Prescott, Andrew" (89) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.412 open access [3] From: Leif Isaksen (101) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.412 open access --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 13:44:45 +0100 From: D.Allington Subject: RE: [Humanist] 25.412 open access (in defense) In-Reply-To: <20111025081354.A61D41E4799@woodward.joyent.us> Willard, I agree that it's not quite fair. The open access problem faced by researchers in the humanities (as well as in the social and natural sciences) is not technological but institutional. One is putting one's career at risk if one doesn't aim to publish the main part of one's work in major journals and scholarly presses - yet doing so places severe restrictions on the ways in which that work can be made available to the wider public. This problem is not insurmountable, but to overcome it may require a form of political action to which academics are unaccustomed. What would it take to persuade an appointments committee that a digital object linked to from NINES was equivalent to a monograph published by Oxford University Press? As I understand it, things are a little easier for computer scientists, for whom the conference paper is a much more important form of research dissemination. Daniel Dr Daniel Allington Lecturer, English Language Studies & Applied Linguistics Centre for Language and Communication Stuart Hall Building The Open University http://open.academia.edu/DanielAllington Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 09:13:22 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: in defense Researchers in the humanities are in the course of this discussion of open access taking flak if not direct fire for being uninvolved in open access discussions and movements. I wonder, however, if this is fair. [...] Comments? Yours, WM -- --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 15:54:22 +0100 From: "Prescott, Andrew" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.412 open access In-Reply-To: <20111025081354.A61D41E4799@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Willard, I heartily approve of making pre-publication versions of articles available, but sadly it still does not avoid involvement in questions of the infrastructure of scholarly communication, since it raises the question of the role of institutional repositories, which in many institutions actively solicit such deposit. The institutional repository movement traces its origins to such pioneering advocates of open access as Stevan Harnard, but the banner for the institutional repository has recently been borne chiefly by librarians, who often face considerable resistance (or at least active apathy) from academic staff, as I remember only too well from my involvement with the Welsh Repository Network. How far do members of the digital humanities community support their local institutional repositories, and work for development of those repositories. A good presentation on some of the issues is: http://www.slideshare.net/guest674be9/voices-of-authority-advocating-instit utional-repositories-for-successful-cultural-change-v10 But the relationship between open access and the IR is a complex one, and the IR model is by no means a simple route to dealing with all the issues of the future of scholarly communication: http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6639327.html This certainly makes it clear that if IRs are to be successful, they need institutional support, but is it fair to leave all the heavy lifting to librarians? Andrew http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6639327.html Professor Andrew Prescott Department of Digital Humanities King's College London 28-29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/ddh/ --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 16:53:18 +0100 From: Leif Isaksen Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.412 open access In-Reply-To: <20111025081354.A61D41E4799@woodward.joyent.us> Hi Willard I'm not sure if I'm one of the flakkers although I know I've been nudging a number of folks recently on this topic, hopefully in a constructive manner for reasons which I'll come to. The question you raise is (for me) an important one. For the record I'm against the idea that people should be expected to take an ethical or philosophical stance on issues that aren't related to their field of inquiry. As an example, I believe quite strongly that archaeologists, qua archaeologists, should not be required to make statements for or against the military invasion of another country. In that role I feel they have the right to remain agnostic (which does not relieve them of any ethical demands incumbent on them as human being!). By the same token I don't expect (non-digital) humanists to have a strong opinion in this debate (although I wish more of them did). In the case of the DH I think it's harder to avoid the issue of open access however, and at the very least it seems curious to me that someone would _wish_ to ignore it. I am aware that there is a traditional model of Humanities Computing in which people apply closed-loop algorithms to finite bodies of text and publish the results (hopefully with some analysis added). For folks that still adhere to that model I agree that the issue of Open Access is somewhat out of scope. The more recent trend in DH however (and almost certainly the one that is driving the growth in interest and funding) is towards the impact of, and innovation in, collaborative/interactive/networked (and overwhelming Web-based) models of scholarship. For teachers and researchers working in that space I find it very difficult to see how one can _not_ take a stance, as access to information is fundamental to participation. I hasten to add that I don't have any view as to which stance they should take (and a number of people who used to beat the 'open' drum now advocate more nuanced models), but assuming even a moderate level of generalisation, it seems either ingenuous or naive for DHers to promote these new models of interaction while simultaneously professing either ignorance or agnosticism as to how they might be achieved. I'm sure that's provided plenty for people to disagree with, which brings me back to my original point - while we should encourage as many people as possible to take part in this evolving debate, it needs to be done in as civil, and indeed inclusive, a manner as possible. 'Open' isn't merely a technical or legal issue, it's also about the social communities that build up around resources. Sadly the Open Source debate was lost (in archaeology at least) not because of the arguments themselves (which were often very sound), but because they were frequently presented in a way which completely alienated everyone who didn't sign up to them. As Openness has become a bit of a zeitgeist among policymakers and funders lately, I make no apology for trying to keep the pressure up on those who can make resources available to those unable to access them, but I do apologise if in doing so anyone has felt under fire. This should most certainly be seen as an opportunity to catalyze positive change and not pitch (yet) another ideological battle. All best wishes Leif >        Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 09:13:22 +0100 >        From: Willard McCarty >        Subject: in defense > > > Researchers in the humanities are in the course of this discussion of > open access taking flak if not direct fire for being uninvolved in open > access discussions and movements. I wonder, however, if this is > fair. Aren't we (I include myself among these researchers) busy > enough without having to pay significant attention not just to the > manner in which our writings are published but more to the > infrastructure of publication? I agree that the problems we touch on > here are very, very important, i.e. they bear sharply on the central > purpose of research, at least for me, which is to communicate > thoughts, findings, constructs. But infrastructure, while important > to everyone, does not, cannot be everyone's job to build and > maintain. > > The action I take is short-term and individual, so perhaps culpable, > but it is action, and it is what I can do without diverting my time for > research. I put penultimate versions of what I write online whenever > possible. And I am *enormously* grateful to others for the same. (And > please note that, as I am fond of saying, one of the main effects of > doing that is a dramatic increase in my book-buying.) > > Wouldn't it be better to paint a variegated landscape in which a > portion of its denizens are worthily employed with open-access > concerns while others do various other things? > > Comments? > > Yours, > WM > -- > Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's > College London; Professor (fractional), University of Western Sydney; > Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, > Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Oct 26 07:35:13 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DC2C1E5104; Wed, 26 Oct 2011 07:35:13 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 9248D1E50F3; Wed, 26 Oct 2011 07:35:11 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20111026073511.9248D1E50F3@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 07:35:11 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.417 job at Northeastern X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 417. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 16:48:41 +0100 From: Shawn Day Subject: Digital Humanities Position at Northeastern University Open rank position in digital humanities at Northeastern ----- The College of Social Sciences and Humanities at Northeastern University invites applications and nominations for an open rank position (assistant/associate/full professor) in the field of Digital Humanities to begin fall 2012. The successful candidate will have expertise in new computational approaches that help distill meaning from texts and artifacts, and in new modes of presenting these in electronic formats. Examples include but are not limited to text-mining, geographic information systems, natural language processing, visualization, or complex network analysis. He or she will be familiar with the theoretical challenges implicit in this emerging field, will have an interest in translating knowledge within and between disciplines and for a broader public, and will help to build new expertise in Digital Humanities at Northeastern. The position will complement existing University strengths in the related areas of network science and computational social science. Applications are invited from any discipline that contributes to the Digital Humanities. The appointment will be made in an appropriate department in the College of Social Sciences and Humanities and a cross-departmental or cross-college appointment (such as with the College of Computer and Information Science) is also possible. Candidates must have a PhD at the beginning of the appointment and a record of scholarship and teaching commensurate with rank. Northeastern University in Boston is a nationally-ranked research university with a strong urban mission, a global perspective, and an emphasis on interdisciplinary scholarship. Its signature Cooperative Education Program and study-abroad opportunities such as Dialogues of Civilization provide experiential learning opportunities for its 19,000 undergraduate and graduate students. The newly founded College of Social Sciences and Humanities incorporates the departments of African-American Studies; Economics; English; History; Languages, Literatures and Cultures; Philosophy and Religion; Political Science; and Sociology and Anthropology. The College is home to the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice and the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs. Its eight interdisciplinary programs include International Affairs; Law and Public Policy; East Asian Studies; Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies; and Jewish Studies. Applications will only be accepted through the College of Social Sciences and Humanities website. To apply, please go to http://www.northeastern.edu/cssh/, and click on the Faculty Positions link. Applicants already holding tenure should upload a letter of application, CV, a statement of current and future research interests, a writing sample of no more than 50 pages, and the names of three referees. Untenured applicants should upload a letter of application, CV, a statement of current and future research interests, a writing sample of no more than fifty pages, and should have three references submitted via the Faculty Positions site. Review of applications will begin October 20, 2011 and will continue until the position is filled. Questions about the position may be directed to the Chair of the Search Committee, David Lazer, or to Co-Chair, Elizabeth Maddock Dillon at dighumsearch@neu.edu. Northeastern University is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action Educational Institution and Employer, Title IX University. Northeastern University particularly welcomes applications from minorities, women, and persons with disabilities. David Lazer (www.davidlazer.com http://www.davidlazer.com/ ) Associate Professor of Political Science and Computer Science Northeastern University & Director, Program on Networked Governance Harvard Kennedy School Harvard University The netgov blog: http://www.iq.harvard.edu/blog/netgov/ --- Shawn Day --- Digital Humanities Observatory (RIA), --- Regus Pembroke House, --- 28 - 30 Pembroke Street Upper --- Dublin 2 IRELAND --- about.me/shawnday --- Tel: 00 353 1 2342441 --- s.day@ria.ie --- http://dho.ie http://dho.ie/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Oct 26 07:36:40 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id F40121E515A; Wed, 26 Oct 2011 07:36:39 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 638021E514A; Wed, 26 Oct 2011 07:36:37 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111026073637.638021E514A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 07:36:37 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.418 events: complexity; communication X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 418. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Glen Worthey (91) Subject: CFP: Complexity and Human Experience. Deadline: Jan 2, 2012 [2] From: Willard McCarty (62) Subject: HASTAC conference --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 09:28:39 -0700 From: Glen Worthey Subject: CFP: Complexity and Human Experience. Deadline: Jan 2, 2012 Human Complexity 2012 The First Annual Conference on Complexity and Human Experience Modeling Complexity in the Humanities and Social Sciences May 30th -- June 1st, 2012 The University of North Carolina, Charlotte The recent increase in the number of formal institutes and conferences dedicated to complexity theory and its application is evidence that complexity science has arrived and is realizing its potential to cut across almost every academic discipline. Research projects centered on complex adaptive systems in the natural (physics, chemistry, biology, etc.) and social sciences (economics, political science, anthropology, sociology, psychology, etc.), along with novel applications in engineering, computer science, robotics, and, more recently, the arts and the humanities (archaeology, art history, history, literature, philosophy, performance art, religion, etc.), have already earned some recognition in the field of complexity science. In light of these developments, the Complex Systems Institute (http://www.complexity.uncc.edu) and the Center for Advanced Research in the Humanities at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte (UNC Charlotte) will inaugurate an annual conference series, beginning in 2012, dedicated to complexity with particular application to understanding the intricacies of human experience across all domains. The goal of the series is to provide a trans-disciplinary venue for scholars from the humanities and the social sciences, as well as some aspects of the natural sciences (such as neuroscience, pharmacology, etc.). Since matters of life and death pertain to human experience in profound and important ways, the conference hopes to attract representatives from the allied health sciences as well. The conference series will be dedicated to a particular topic each year. The initial 2012 conference will be based on an Institute for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities (IATDH) sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the UNC Charlotte Complex Systems Institute this past year that was dedicated to computer modeling in the humanities and social sciences. In keeping with the theme of the IATDH, the topic for our first conference will be: Modeling Complexity in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Submissions are invited on any specific topic that falls within the parameters described above. Sample topics include, but are not limited to, studies on: * The development and transmission of language * The propagation of beliefs, ideas and ideologies * The nature of historical and political change * The analysis of literary texts and their circulation * The effect of individual action on global economies * Social structure among pre-historic peoples * Archaeological settlement patterns in early cities * The role of architecture in facilitating public traffic patterns * The relationship between productivity, creativity, and happiness * Elements and measures of creativity * Discovery of early trends and indicators of social and economic change * The role of science and technology in enhancing human experience * Defining and measuring indicators of the quality of human experience * The relationship between organizational/societal structure and the flow of energy and information * Defining utility and efficacy in the context of human experience * Simulation and modeling tools and paradigms * Verification and validation of models and simulated systems * The relationship between healthcare providers, patients, Internet, and social media * Defining ontologies in the context of modeling and simulation * Languages and tools fro promoting trans- and inter-disciplinary collaboration * Human-technology interaction * Data-driven wellness initiatives Submissions should be in the form of 5000-word papers, each of which will be reviewed by the program committee. The committee is particularly interested in papers that show novel applications of Complexity Theory to enhance research in the areas here specified. Thus, preliminary work in progress or plans for a research program are welcomed and encouraged. Submission details will be posted to the conference website at https://sites.google.com/site/humancomplexity2012/ in due time. This conference is dedicated to the work of Alan Turing (1912-1954) as part of the 2012 Alan Turing Year (http://www.turingcentenary.eu/), a series of events to commemorate Turing's life and work. We do so here by examining computing applications and complexity in the humanities and social sciences that allow us to discover, create and make connections in ways that would not be possible were it not for Turing's seminal work. The conference will begin with a presentation on the life and times of the man who provided the theory that made the modern computer possible. Human Complexity 2012 is sponsored in part by the International Association for Computing and Philosophy (http://iacap.org). Submission Deadline: January 2nd, 2012 (Firm) Decision Date: February 1st Final Program: March 1st -- Glen Worthey, Digital Humanities Librarian Digital Initiatives Group Head Stanford University Libraries (ph) +1-650-213-6759; (f) +1-650-723-9383 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 19:33:20 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: HASTAC conference *HASTAC V Conference: **Digital Scholarly Communication* This year's conference will be held in the North Quadrangle at University of Michigan, a new center of digitally and technologically-driven units at UM, from Screen Arts and Cultures to the School of Information. This year’s theme, *Digital Scholarly Communication*, focuses on the promise and challenge of new forms of academic publication and dissemination. Promoting discussions that require cross-campus participation, the conference will unfold as a collaborative effort among various departments: the Sweetland Writing Center http://cts.vresp.com/c/?HASTAC/6241b731b9/7c8194c5e9/59a6d153fa , the Library http://cts.vresp.com/c/?HASTAC/6241b731b9/7c8194c5e9/95927cf7fa , and the University of Michigan Press http://cts.vresp.com/c/?HASTAC/6241b731b9/7c8194c5e9/db9264a28a . Conference organizers are now finalizing the schedule and will be posting FAQs and updates over the coming weeks on the conference website. If you have any questions not covered by the FAQs or information on the site, contact Mikko Tuomela . *Program Overview* The evenings will be given over to two digital art projects commissioned courtesy of the Mary Kidder Commissioning Fund of the Institute for the Humanities UMichigan and the Andrew Mellon Foundation (which is largely supporting this HASTAC conference). Both will be mounted by major digital artist Paul Kaiser http://cts.vresp.com/c/?HASTAC/6241b731b9/7c8194c5e9/76a2daf8e7 and the Open Ended Group http://cts.vresp.com/c/?HASTAC/6241b731b9/7c8194c5e9/7e13312bc5 with which he works. One of these projects will be housed in the Institute’s museum quality gallery space, the other in UMichigan’s high technology Digital Media Commons http://cts.vresp.com/c/?HASTAC/6241b731b9/7c8194c5e9/6cb9a927c7 at North Campus. There will be an evening reception on Friday at the Institute’s gallery and on Saturday at the Digital Commons. Appetizers and drinks will be served. Paul Kaiser will be also giving the School of Art and Design http://cts.vresp.com/c/?HASTAC/6241b731b9/7c8194c5e9/608ade4576 ’s Penny Stamps Lecture at the Michigan Theater http://cts.vresp.com/c/?HASTAC/6241b731b9/7c8194c5e9/9d98c99a62 on Thursday, December 1 at 5:00 PM. *Questions on Conference Proposals: * * The timeblocks for sessions will be posted on the conference website by Friday, October 28 and a fuller program by Monday, October 31. See SCHEDULE on the website http://cts.vresp.com/c/?HASTAC/6241b731b9/7c8194c5e9/39ffcdd33a . All presentations are scheduled for Friday and Saturday. * Other presenters may be added to an event if entire group stays within their time limit. Please email Mikko Tuomela the name, title, and topic for the final program. * Conference organizers are not providing feedback on proposals other than acceptance status. *Registration:* All participants must register for the conference: to present, to attend sessions, and to partake in meals. See REGISTRATION on the conference website: http://hastac2011.org/ http://cts.vresp.com/c/?HASTAC/6241b731b9/7c8194c5e9/8af4c4da7e -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor (fractional), University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Oct 27 07:13:47 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 261CA1DFC6A; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 07:13:47 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0FCC11DFC4A; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 07:13:44 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111027071344.0FCC11DFC4A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 07:13:43 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.419 open access X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 419. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: D.Allington (32) Subject: RE: [Humanist] 25.416 open access [2] From: "Gibson, Matthew (msg2d)" (74) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.412 open access [3] From: micah vandegrift (271) Subject: Re: Open Access --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 09:26:45 +0100 From: D.Allington Subject: RE: [Humanist] 25.416 open access In-Reply-To: <20111026073347.DF2CE1E509C@woodward.joyent.us> I'd like to stick up for those academic staff who stubbornly resist uploading pre-publication versions of their articles to institutional repositories. I personally have never uploaded such a version because I don't want to have two versions of each of my articles floating around the net. Luckily, my institutional repository gives me another option: I can upload the final version, yet have it remain under restricted access. It isn't 'open' because it can't be directly downloaded. However, anyone who wants to read it can fill in a short web form which is then emailed to me; if I approve the request, a copy of the article is automatically emailed to him or her. Apparently this is legally equivalent to somebody's phoning me up to ask for an offprint, and my posting it off to him or her via the royal mail. This requires more effort on the part of the would-be reader, as well as on the part of the author; it means both that the repository gets fewer downloads to show off in official statistics and that the author sometimes has his or her inbox cluttered up with requests; and it means that the reader doesn't get the instant gratification of an immediately available download. However, I far prefer this to the current alternatives of uploading a pre-publication version and not uploading anything at all. Apart from anything else, it's very nice to know who is reading one's work. Daniel Dr Daniel Allington Lecturer in English Language Studies and Applied Linguistics Centre for Language and Communication The Open University +44 (0) 1908 332 914 http://open.academia.edu/DanielAllington --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 15:54:22 +0100 From: "Prescott, Andrew" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.412 open access In-Reply-To: <20111025081354.A61D41E4799@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Willard, I heartily approve of making pre-publication versions of articles available, but [...] the banner for the institutional repository has recently been borne chiefly by librarians, who often face considerable resistance (or at least active apathy) from academic staff, as I remember only too well from my involvement with the Welsh Repository Network. [...] Andrew http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6639327.html Professor Andrew Prescott Department of Digital Humanities King's College London 28-29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/ddh/ -- The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 000391), an exempt charity in England & Wales and a charity registered in Scotland (SC 038302). --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 13:58:15 +0000 From: "Gibson, Matthew (msg2d)" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.412 open access In-Reply-To: <20111025081354.A61D41E4799@woodward.joyent.us> Willard, I agree that it doesn't have to be your JOB to figure out and build infrastructure to support access to digital projects/publications, but wouldn't you want to be somewhat invested in the idea that people can access tomorrow that which you publish today? I think it behooves anyone working in this field to have at least some idea about the difficulties and challenges of sustaining the machine and human resources that provide what we think of as open access to content. After all, open access is anything but free (at least to the folks responsible for keeping it up). Just some thoughts. Cheers, Matthew -- Matthew Gibson Director of Digital Programs Virginia Foundation for the Humanities 145 Ednam Drive Charlottesville, VA 22903 On 10/25/11 4:13 AM, "Humanist Discussion Group" wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 412. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 09:13:22 +0100 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: in defense > > >Researchers in the humanities are in the course of this discussion of >open access taking flak if not direct fire for being uninvolved in open >access discussions and movements. I wonder, however, if this is >fair. Aren't we (I include myself among these researchers) busy >enough without having to pay significant attention not just to the >manner in which our writings are published but more to the >infrastructure of publication? I agree that the problems we touch on >here are very, very important, i.e. they bear sharply on the central >purpose of research, at least for me, which is to communicate >thoughts, findings, constructs. But infrastructure, while important >to everyone, does not, cannot be everyone's job to build and >maintain. > >The action I take is short-term and individual, so perhaps culpable, >but it is action, and it is what I can do without diverting my time for >research. I put penultimate versions of what I write online whenever >possible. And I am *enormously* grateful to others for the same. (And >please note that, as I am fond of saying, one of the main effects of >doing that is a dramatic increase in my book-buying.) > >Wouldn't it be better to paint a variegated landscape in which a >portion of its denizens are worthily employed with open-access >concerns while others do various other things? > >Comments? > >Yours, >WM >-- >Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's >College London; Professor (fractional), University of Western Sydney; >Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, >Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 10:19:17 -0400 From: micah vandegrift Subject: Re: Open Access In-Reply-To: <20111025081354.A61D41E4799@woodward.joyent.us> Hello Willard et all, Several points stand out to me in our discussion on Open Access and the Humanities. For the record, I am a librarian, working in scholarly communications with an academic background in digital humanities... so my biases may be clear. To the original question, you are absolutely correct that scholars shouldn't necessarily be concerned with infrastructure, and that your primary goal should be to continue to produce thoughtful, enlightened research. That is where collaboration becomes so important, as both Lief and Andrew have already mentioned, and the role of the academic library/librarian has the opportunity to become fruitful in support of faculty. I see this trend toward scholarly communication offices in campus libraries as being a substantial effort of the libraries to meet faculty halfway, which has not been a strong point for us over time. The argument for archiving in an Institutional Repository is simple enough, but it cannot function without faculty participation - and thank you Andrew for raising that point. As I'm sure some of you know, many schools' Faculty Senates are adopting Open Access Archiving mandates, which helps this process along. Famously, Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences actually adopted a different type of policy, giving the University immediate non-exclusive rights to faculty article publications, which then allows the library to do the work of archiving without burdening the faculty. As these policies become the standard, which seems to be not too far off as evidenced by the recent formation of the Coalition of Open Access Policy Institutions (COAPI) here in the U.S., I'm convinced that faculty and libraries will develop workflows and procedures that simplify participation. I think it's important to note that this open access archiving option does not alter the how and where of your publishing practices, which I understand is fundamental to promotion and tenure, and both Willard and Daniel mentioned. Many folks wrongly assume that participating in open access means they cannot publish in high impact journals in their field, which is not the case. However, it may be the case that open access (archiving OR publishing) is not currently possible for some humanities scholars - like Art Historians, who have considerable image copyright concerns and republish much of their work in anthologies - and to that end a good scholarly communications librarian would work diligently with faculty to support them in continuing to share their scholarship however it best suits their profession needs. Finally, I'd like to press Leif's point a bit further and argue that if we are discussing Digital Humanities specifically, wide, free, open access is fundamental to the future of the field. When I survey the projects and tools that the digital humanities have produced, the majority of them are devoted to building knowledge out of (digitized) archives and special collections and making that knowledge searchable, findable, discoverable, visible, adaptable, and visual. I’d like to propose that we acknowledge that Digital Humanities, in the context of the connected world we inhabit, is in fact the new, emerging Public History, and if so, open access is the bottom line. Technological and institutional structures will have to adapt to account for that, if this is a movement that begins to affect the public (through policy?!), and the academic communities they invest in. Promotion and tenure boards will eventually have to acknowledge that a digital object in NINES is *valuable* (to the field and the public) in the same way that a monograph can be, but that will only happen if/when senior faculty become engaged in these new scholarly methods or express support of junior faculty who do so. (And trust me, I know exactly the can of worms I’m opening up by stating that!). Sincerely, Micah Vandegrift Scholarly Communications Project Manager Florida State University _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Oct 27 07:16:01 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07CE71DFD3D; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 07:16:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 9FB5A1DFD2C; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 07:15:57 +0000 (GMT) Subject: 25.420 funding for DH2012; job at Médialab (Paris) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111027071557.9FB5A1DFD2C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 07:15:57 +0000 (GMT) X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 420. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Paul Girard (41) Subject: job opportunities in médialab Sciences Po [2] From: Jan Christoph Meister (10) Subject: DFG funding for DH 2012 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 16:33:31 +0200 From: Paul Girard Subject: job opportunities in médialab Sciences Po version française ci-dessous. Dear colleagues, Thanks to our participation in the big adventure of the new scientific equipment DIME-SHS (medialab.sciences-po.fr/dimeshs) project, the médialab and the CDSP seeks 3 new I.T. collaborators : - a system administrator - a web mining developer - a web designer / graphic interface developer The applications are to be sent before November the 30th to recrutement@sciences-po.fr Applications are open for english-speaking candidates who might well be interested in such positions in Paris city center. Please feel free to apply if you have enough french understanding to read and understand the job positions and if you consider moving in Paris. Keep in mind that you will have to learn French, having some basics is required. Feel free to forward those propositions to your network. Stay tuned we might open new opportunities soon. médialab and CDSP team chers collègues, Dans le cadre de sa participation à la grande aventure de l'équipement d'excellence DIME-SHS http://medialab.sciences-po.fr/dimeshs , le médialab et le CDSP cherchent de nouveux collaborateurs. 3 profiles techniques viendront renforcer nos équipes actuelles pour relever les défis posés par les nouveaux moyens d'enquêtes pour les sciences humaines et sociales : - un administrateur système - un développeur web mining - un web designer / développeur d'interfaces Les candidats ont jusqu'au 30 Novembre pour envoyer leurs candidatures à recrutement@sciences-po.fr Merci de faire circuler autour de vous, les équipes du médialab et du CDSP web version here : http://www.medialab.sciences-po.fr/index.php?page=event-details-fr&event_id=54 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 20:12:39 +0200 From: Jan Christoph Meister Subject: DFG funding for DH 2012 In-Reply-To: <20111025075600.615921E44E5@woodward.joyent.us> We're delighted to announce that the German Research Foundation (DFG) has awarded a generous conference grant in support of the DH 2012. Among other, the grant will enable us to award bursaries to international students willing to assist us as conference helpers. Details on the scheme will be posted on the conference website in due course - please subscribe to our newsletter to receive conference updates at www.dh2012.uni-hamburg.de Thanks, Chris Meister Local Organizer DH 2012 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Oct 27 07:16:33 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63F941DFD64; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 07:16:33 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 933761DFD54; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 07:16:30 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111027071630.933761DFD54@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 07:16:30 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.421 multiple reviews of the same book? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 421. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 10:52:46 -0400 (EDT) From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca Subject: Multiple Reviews, One Publisher In-Reply-To: <20100516135707.920335F21C@woodward.joyent.us> Willard The Centre for Cyberculture Studies published multiple reviews of books. http://silverinsf.blogspot.com/2009/12/retiring-rccs.html As David Silver describes the practice, "RCCS would routinely feature two, three, four, and even five reviews of a single book. coupled with an author response, these multiple reviews offer multiple perspectives into a complex topic." Published between July 1997 and December 2009, the reviews are still available online http://rccs.usfca.edu/booklist.asp I post to Humanits in part to publicize the resource and also in part to start a conversation about best practices. I am wondering it the readers of Humanist know of other examples of publishing multiple reviews of the same book. 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 Thu Oct 27 07:17:33 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 281BE1DFDB4; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 07:17:33 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 936A81DFD9D; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 07:17:30 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111027071730.936A81DFD9D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 07:17:30 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.422 new publication on text mining X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 422. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 17:46:52 -0400 From: Dominic Forest Subject: Fouille de textes et la recherche / Text mining and information retrieval Le volume 35, numéro 3 (septembre 2011) de la Revue canadienne des sciences de l'information et de bibliothéconomie sur le thème de la fouille de textes et la recherche d'information est maintenant disponible sur Project MUSE http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/canadian_journal_of_information_and_library_sci ence/toc/ils.35.3.html Table des matières : 1-- Fouille de textes et recherche d'information http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/canadian_journal_of_information_and_library_sci ence/summary/v035/35.3.forest.html Introduction par Dominic Forest et Lyne Da Sylva 2-- Named Entity Normalization: Combining Normalization Rules, Endogenous Resources and User-Oriented Process / Normalisation des entités nommées : allier règles déclaratives, ressources endogènes et processus centré sur l'utilisateur http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/canadian_journal_of_information_and_library_sci ence/summary/v035/35.3.andreani.html Vanessa Andréani, Thibault Roy et Thomas Lebarbé Abstract: Normalization is involved in many fields of information processing. It improves the performance of several applications, such as information retrieval or information extraction, and makes the construction of language resources more reliable. Normalization consists in standardizing each variant of a term or named entity into a unique form, and in this way restricts the impact of language variation. Our work applies to named entity normalization, and aims at optimizing fine-grained corpus analyses carried out by the TecKnowMetrix Company. Our approach mixes several methods, such as pattern matching, similarity metrics and endogenous techniques. Moreover, we place the user in the center of our normalization process, in order to obtain fully reliable data that fit his or her needs. Résumé : La normalisation intervient dans de nombreux champs du traitement de l'information. Elle permet d'améliorer l'efficacité d'applications telles que la recherche ou l'extraction d'information, et de rendre plus fiable la constitution de ressources langagières. La normalisation consiste à ramener toutes les variantes d'un même terme ou d'une entité nommée à une forme standard, et permet de limiter les effets de la variation linguistique. Notre travail porte sur la normalisation des entités nommées, et vise à optimiser les analyses de corpus fines réalisées par la société TecKnowMetrix. Notre approche combine plusieurs méthodes, telles que l'utilisation de formes, de calculs de similarité, ou encore de techniques endogènes. De plus, nous plaçons l'utilisateur au centre du processus de normalisation, afin d'obtenir des données parfaitement fiables et adaptées à ses besoins. 3-- Bilingual Document Clustering: Evaluating Cognates as Features / Le groupage de documents bilingues : l'évaluation des cognats comme caractéristiques http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/canadian_journal_of_information_and_library_sci ence/summary/v035/35.3.denicia-carral.html Claudia Denicia-Carral, Manuel Montes-y-Gómez, Luis Villaseñor-Pineda et David Pinto-Avendaño Abstract: This paper focuses on the task of bilingual clustering, which involves dividing a set of documents from two different languages into a set of groups, so that documents with similar topics belong to the same group, regardless of their source language. It mainly considers a clustering approach that relies on the use of cognates as document features. Particularly, it proposes two straightforward methods that extract cognates from their own target document collection and do not require using any external bilingual resource, like parallel corpora or a bilingual dictionary. Experimental results in two bilingual collections that include news reports in English and Spanish are encouraging. They indicate that cognates are relevant features for the task of bilingual clustering, outperforming by more than 10% the results achieved by other known approaches. Résumé : Cet article se consacre à la tâche du groupage bilingue, qui comprend la répartition d'une série de documents appartenant à deux langues différentes en une série de groupes, de telle façon que les sujets similaires apparaissent dans le même groupe, quelle que soit la langue d'origine. Il s'intéresse surtout à une approche de groupage qui fait usage des cognats considérés comme des traits distinctifs des documents. En particulier, il propose deux méthodes directes permettant l'extraction des cognats à partir de leur propre collection de documents cibles, sans recourir à l'utilisation de ressources bilingues externes, telles que des corpus parallèles ou un dictionnaire bilingue. Nous avons obtenu des résultats expérimentaux encourageants avec deux collections bilingues incluant des bulletins de nouvelles en anglais et en espagnol. Ces résultats indiquent que les cognats sont des traits distinctifs valables pour le groupage de documents bilingues, et qu'ils permettent d'obtenir des résultats dépassant de 10 % ceux que l'on obtient avec les autres approches connues. 4-- Automatic Modeling of Logical Connectors by Statistical Analysis of Context / Modélisation automatique de connecteurs logiques par analyse statistique du contexte http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/canadian_journal_of_information_and_library_sci ence/summary/v035/35.3.charton.html Eric Charton et Juan-Manuel Torres-Moreno Abstract: In this paper we present an algorithm for the enrichment of the language model by a model of logical connectors. Using seed connectors based on a corpus, our algorithm is capable of grouping context-dependant logical connectors of identical meaning into classes. This categorization of links may then be employed to generate finite state machines (FSMs) capable of identifying logical articulation of a phrase. In this capacity, it constitutes a first step towards an automatic analysis of argumentative texts. We use this device (FSMs), assisted by a language model, to rewrite automatically sentences in a text processing system. Résumé : Dans cet article, nous décrivons un algorithme d'enrichissement de modèle de langue par un modèle de connecteurs logiques. Notre algorithme est capable, en partant de connecteurs amorces et en s'appuyant sur un corpus, de regrouper automatiquement des connecteurs logiques de sens identiques, en fonction du contexte. Ce regroupement peut être ensuite utilisé pour générer des automates à états finis capables d'identifier une articulation logique dans une phrase. À ce titre, il constitue un premier pas en direction de l'analyse automatique de textes argumentatifs. Nous utilisons ce dispositif dans un système de réécriture automatique de phrases, assisté par modèle de langue. 5-- A Sentiment-Based Digital Library of Movie Review Documents Using Fedora / Une bibliothèque numérique de documents critiques de films basée sur les sentiments en utilisant Fedora http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/canadian_journal_of_information_and_library_sci ence/summary/v035/35.3.na.html Jin-Cheon Na, Tun Thura Thet, Arie Hans Nasution et Fauzi Munif Hassan Abstract: This study develops a digital library of movie review documents that supports sentiment-based browsing and searching. Firstly, we develop an automatic method for in-depth sentiment analysis and classification of movie review documents to provide sentiment orientations toward multiple perspectives of movies, such as overall opinion about the movie, director, and cast. By utilizing information extraction techniques such as entity extraction, co-referencing, and pronoun resolution, the review texts are segmented into multiple sections where each section contains multiple sentences and discusses a particular aspect of the reviewed movie. For each aspect section, a machine-learning algorithm, Support Vector Machine (SVM), is applied to determine sentiment orientation toward the target aspect. Secondly a prototype digital library is developed with the automatically analysed data to show the usefulness of sentiment-based browsing and searching. Using the system, the user can browse and search movies by sentiment polarity (positive, neutral, or negative) of multiple aspects in the movie. Finally, a usability evaluation is conducted to observe the effectiveness of the sentiment-based digital library. Résumé : Cette étude examine le développement d'une bibliothèque numérique de documents critiques de films permettant l'exploration et la recherche par sentiments. Pour commencer, nous développons une méthode automatique pour l'analyse en profondeur des sentiments et la classification des documents critiques de films propres à fournir des orientations à propos des sentiments capables d'offrir des perspectives multiples sur les films, comme par exemple l'opinion générale sur le film, sur le metteur en scène, et sur les acteurs. Grâce à l'utilisation de techniques d'extraction d'information telles que l'extraction d'entités, le co-référencement, et la résolution de pronoms, les comptes rendus sont segmentés en de multiples sections où chacune contient plusieurs phrases et aborde un aspect particulier du film en question. À chacune de ces sections on applique un algorithme d'apprentissage automatique, Support Vector Machine (SVM), qui détermine l'orientation du ou des sentiments pour cette section. Ensuite, nous développons un prototype de bibliothèque numérique en utilisant les données analysées automatiquement afin de montrer l'utilité de l'exploration et de la recherche par sentiments. En utilisant ce système, l'utilisateur peut explorer et faire des recherches dans les films selon les polarités des sentiments (positif, neutre, ou négatif) et ce, sur de nombreux aspects des films. Pour finir, nous avons effectué une évaluation d'utilisabilité afin de vérifier l'efficacité d'une bibliothèque numérique basée sur les sentiments. A respected source of the most up-to-date research on library and information science, The Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science is recognized internationally for its authoritative bilingual contributions to the field of information science. Established in 1976, the journal is dedicated to the publication of research findings, both in full-length and in brief format; reviews of books; software and technology; and letters to the editor. Pour en savoir plus : www.utpjournals.com/cjils Suivez les Presses de l'université de Toronto sur Facebook : www.facebook.com/utpjournals ____________________________________________________________ Dominic Forest, Ph. D. Professeur adjoint Adresse postale : École de bibliothéconomie et des sciences de l'information Université de Montréal C.P. 6128, succursale Centre-ville Montréal (Québec) H3C 3J7 Adresse géographique : École de bibliothéconomie et des sciences de l'information Université de Montréal Pavillon Lionel-Groulx 3150, rue Jean-Brillant, bureau C-2046 Montréal (Québec) H3T 1N8 Téléphone : (514) 343-6119 Télécopieur : (514) 343-5753 Courrier électronique : dominic.forest@umontreal.ca Sites Internet : www.dominicforest.name et www.ebsi.umontreal.ca ____________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Oct 28 06:44:17 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 101FC1E7DB3; Fri, 28 Oct 2011 06:44:17 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id F1A071E7DAA; Fri, 28 Oct 2011 06:44:14 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111028064414.F1A071E7DAA@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 06:44:14 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.423 open access X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 423. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 17:29:15 -0400 From: Jean-Claude Guédon Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.412 open access In-Reply-To: <20111025081354.A61D41E4799@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Willard, all, I do not quite understand why you think that researchers in the humanities are taking flak for being uninvolved in open access. What I have seen in this discussion is rather mild, it seems to me. And in my own involvement with these issues, I have never heard anyone singling out researchers in the humanities as particularly uninvolved. What I have observed, on the other hand, are arguments where the concerns of humanists are not taken into account, as if all of scholarship consisted of science, technology and medicine. But that is another issue altogether. Researchers may be very busy, but they still need to pay attention to their working environment. Scientists should pay attention to the quality of their instruments, and they generally do; humanists are certainly interested in the wealth and depth of their library, which is an infrastructure, and if they complain about the lack of journals, etc., they might consider looking a little further than the usual complaint to the librarian who, too often, is simply deemed to be either insensitive or incompetent, or both, plus being bureaucratic, etc... If journals are missing in the library, a quick check on library budgets and their evolution might be profitably compared to the evolution of subscription prices for journals, particularly STM journals. They might then consider that, given the priorities of modern universities, humanities journals will be given up in order to free money for STM journals. Then, humanists might begin to wonder why some commercial publishers need to make profit at the tune of 35-45% before taxes. Researchers are not just researchers; they are also citizens. Public money goes into supporting research, lots of it. Why the published results of research should be so expensive when the manuscripts have been given away to publishers for free, when publishers have us peer review the articles again for free, etc. ? These are the very questions that triggered the Public Library of Science when it was still nothing more than a worldwide petition back in 2001. They are still with us. They may trouble the quiet aire of delightful studies, but that is an elitist attitude that seems to claim that some of us are entitled to unlimited (subsidized) access to information without having to reflect on the economic conditions that begin to make this privilege a reality. Anecdotal evidence about some SSH journals is interesting but statistically irrelevant. What count are the the subscription budgets of libraries, of consortia, and the effects of so-called "big deals", etc. When journals cost in the tens of thousand of dollars a year, we are truly in the realm of "Big Science", but not in the way that Derek Price had envisioned it. Jean-Claude Guédon -- Jean-Claude Guédon Professeur titulaire Littérature comparée Université de Montréal Le mardi 25 octobre 2011 à 08:13 +0000, Humanist Discussion Group a écrit : > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 412. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 09:13:22 +0100 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: in defense > > > Researchers in the humanities are in the course of this discussion of > open access taking flak if not direct fire for being uninvolved in open > access discussions and movements. I wonder, however, if this is > fair. Aren't we (I include myself among these researchers) busy > enough without having to pay significant attention not just to the > manner in which our writings are published but more to the > infrastructure of publication? I agree that the problems we touch on > here are very, very important, i.e. they bear sharply on the central > purpose of research, at least for me, which is to communicate > thoughts, findings, constructs. But infrastructure, while important > to everyone, does not, cannot be everyone's job to build and > maintain. > > The action I take is short-term and individual, so perhaps culpable, > but it is action, and it is what I can do without diverting my time for > research. I put penultimate versions of what I write online whenever > possible. And I am *enormously* grateful to others for the same. (And > please note that, as I am fond of saying, one of the main effects of > doing that is a dramatic increase in my book-buying.) > > Wouldn't it be better to paint a variegated landscape in which a > portion of its denizens are worthily employed with open-access > concerns while others do various other things? > > Comments? > > Yours, > WM _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Oct 28 06:46:28 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id A73D81E7E0B; Fri, 28 Oct 2011 06:46:28 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 263BB1E7E01; Fri, 28 Oct 2011 06:46:25 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111028064625.263BB1E7E01@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 06:46:25 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.424 new publication: Studies in Quantitative Linguistics 11 & 12 X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 424. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 08:10:23 +0100 From: RAM-Verlag Subject: Studies in Quantitative Linguistics 11 & 12, 2011 Just published ( 2011 ) Studies in Quantitative Linguistics 11, 2011: "Issues in Quantitative Linguistics 2", 188 pages. (ISBN: 978-3-942303-07-1). edited by: Emmerich Kelih, Victor Levickij, Yulia Matskulyak. and Studies In Quantitative Linguistics 12, 2011: "Problems in Quantitative Linguistics 3",161 pages. (ISBN: 978-3-942303-08-8). authors: Radek Cech, Gabriel Altmann. Published by: RAM-Verlag (www.ram-verlag.de) Contents: See www.ram-verlag.de. The books are available as Printed edition: EUR 45.00 plus PP CD edition: EUR 20.00 plus PP Internet (download PDF-file): 15.00 EUR. If you have any questions,do not hesitate to contact me. 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Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 23:24:25 +0100 From: Christian Fuchs Subject: New MA Programme in Digital Media & Society at Uppsala University Dear colleagues, We have a new MA programme in Digital Media & Society at Uppsala University. Please help us to spread information about it by informing your students about the existence of this programme or forwarding them this message. Thank you for your help. With kind regards, Christian Fuchs *** New MA Programme in Digital Media & Society at Uppsala University Uppsala University has introduced a new master programme in Digital Media & Society as part of the Social Science Master. It is a 2-year-programme that will start at the end of August 2012 with its first year of students. The programme's teaching language is English. The application period for students starts now and lasts until January 16, 2012. The goal of this programme is that students acquire skills to critically study the role of digital media in society. Students study the economic, political, cultural, social and practical impacts of digital media. This programme focuses on teaching theoretical, empirical, ethical, critical and practical skills for studying digital media in the information society. European Union students do not pay fees for studying in Sweden. Uppsala University is among the 100 best universities in the world (Times Higher Education University Ranking 2011: #87). Every year 45,000 undergraduate and graduate students enroll for classes. Uppsala University offers some 30 international master programmes and 300 single-subject courses taught in English. It is the oldest university in the Nordic countries - founded in 1477. Programme The programme consists of one semester of advanced core courses (30 credits) that focus on theoretical knowledge, empirical skills and ethical reasoning required for understanding and analyzing digital media & society. 30 credits (= 4 courses, one semester study time) is made up of basic social science skills courses that are taught together with the other specialties in the Social Science Master. Another 30 credits are elective courses that the students choose from various courses taught at Uppsala University. Also an internship at a company or a research internship at a university department are options for the elective courses. The master’s thesis (30 credits) is the final stage in the programme. The four core courses are: * Introduction to Information Society Studies (semester 1) * Internet, Social Media and Society (semester 1) * Cyberculture and Politics (semester 2) * Organizations and Communication in Global Society (semester 2) The four skills courses are: * Quantitative Methods * Qualitative Methods * Science Theory and Methodology * Social Science Methods and Research Design Further information for students: Flyer (PDF) http://fuchs.uti.at/wp-content/uploads/DM&S_flyer.pdf Programme site: http://www.uu.se/en/education/courses_and_programmes/selma/program/?pKod=SSV2M&lasar=12/13 Facebook-Group http://www.facebook.com/pages/Master-in-Digital-Media-Society/156723914419506 Application Application site: www.antagning.se/intl/search?period=HT_2012&freeText=UU-P2052 All applicants need to verify English language profiency. This is normally attested by an internationally recognised test such as TOEFL or IELTS. Eligibility Bachelor’s degree equivalent to a Swedish degree of at least 180 ECTS credits (i.e. three years of full-time studies), including at least 90 ECTS credits of studies in social sciences or a comparable field that qualifies for studies on the specilisation in Digital Media & Society. Selection and Application Letter Selection will be based on previous academic studies and degrees with emphasis on grades in relevant fields and degree project (if any), a summary in English (1–2 pages) of a previous degree project (if any), and a statement of intent (3–5 pages). Students should accompany their application with a statement of intent, in which they engage with each of the following questions: * Please describe the undergraduate (bachelor) studies that you completed. * What were your favourite topics, main interests, favourite courses in your undergraduate (bachelor) studies and why? * Why are you interested in studying in the master’s programme focusing on Digital Media & Society? * What do you expect to learn studying Digital Media & Society? * What qualifies you for studying in the field of Digital Media & Society? * What are your future plans and goals after you have finished your studies and how can a social science master’s degree focusing on Digital Media & Society support you in achieving your goals? * Why do you want to study in Sweden and at Uppsala University’s Department of Informatics and Media? Contact Department of Informatics and Media Uppsala University http://www.im.uu.se Director of Studies Göran Svensson goran.svensson@im.uu.se Tel +46-18-4711514 -- Prof. Christian Fuchs Chair in Media and Communication Studies Department of Informatics and Media Uppsala University Kyrkogårdsgatan 10 Box 513 751 20 Uppsala Sweden christian.fuchs@im.uu.se Tel +46 (0) 18 471 1019 http://fuchs.uti.at http://www.im.uu.se NetPolitics Blog: http://fuchs.uti.at/blog Editor of tripleC: http://www.triple-c.se Book "Foundations of Critical Media and Information Studies" (Routledge 2011) Book "Internet and Society" (Paperback, Routledge 2010) Co-Editor of "Internet and Surveillance" (Routledge 2011) _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Oct 28 06:50:26 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5EF531E7F0A; Fri, 28 Oct 2011 06:50:26 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 13B271E7EF9; Fri, 28 Oct 2011 06:50:20 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111028065020.13B271E7EF9@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 06:50:19 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.426 events: Chicago Colloquium X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 426. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 15:28:26 +0200 From: Arno Bosse Subject: Final Program and Speakers for 2011 Chicago DHCS Colloquium; Registration now open [Posted on behalf of Profs. George K. Thiruvathukal and Steven E. Jones at Loyola University Chicago, DHCS 2011 Co-Chairs] Dear Colleagues: We are pleased to announce that the program has been set for the 2011 Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science (http://chicagocolloquium.org) which will be held November 19-21 at Loyola University Chicago's Water Tower Campus, located in downtown Chicago on the Magnificent Mile. The Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science (DHCS) brings together researchers and scholars in the humanities and computer science to examine the current state of digital humanities as a field of intellectual inquiry and to identify and explore new directions and perspectives for future research. The (near) final program is available at http://chicagocolloquium.org/dhcs-2011-program/. The registration form is available at http://chicagocolloquium.org/dhcs-2011-registration/. Information about the venue and nearby hotels is available at http://chicagocolloquium.org/dhcs-2011-hotels/. This year92s DHCS is sponsored by Loyola University Chicago, the University of Chicago, Northwestern University, and the Illinois Institute of Technology. We have also just received support from the IT Consultancy ThoughtWorks (http://www.thoughtworks.com/) for this year's reception on the main evening of the conference (Sunday, November 20). We're honored to announce our three keynote speakers at DHCS 2011: Barbara Maria Stafford (http://barbaramariastafford.com/) is the Distinguished University Visiting Professor at Georgia Institute of Technology. Her work has consistently explored the intersections between the visual arts and the physical and biological sciences from the early modern to the contemporary era. Her current research charts the revolutionary ways the neurosciences are changing our views of the human and animal sensorium, shaping our fundamental assumptions about perception, sensation, emotion, mental imagery, and subjectivity. Stafford92s most recent book is Echo Objects: The Cognitive Work of Images, University of Chicago Press, 2007. Her talk is entitled Visualizing Attention: The Need for Conscious Seeing in Visual Search. Nick Montfort (http://nickm.com/) is associate professor of digital media at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Montfort has collaborated on the blog Grand Text Auto, the sticker novelImplementation, and 2002: A Palindrome Story. He writes poems, text generators, and interactive fiction such as Book and Volume and Ad Verbum. Most recently, he has published Riddle & Bind (Spineless Books, 2010) and together with Ian Bogost, Racing the Beam: The Atari Video Computer System (MIT Press, 2009). Montfort also wroteTwisty Little Passages: An Approach to Interactive Fiction (MIT Press, 2003) and co-edited The Electronic Literature Collection Volume 1 (ELO, 2006) and The New Media Reader (MIT Press, 2003). His talk will be focused on Platform Studies. Ajita John (http://www.research.avayalabs.com/gcm/usa/en-us/people/all/ajitajohn.htm) began her research career at Bell Labs and is now a Research Scientist at Avaya Labs. Her work explores the interplay between social media and rich media interactions over audio and video and has proposed live collaborative tagging - a new form of tagging in the enterprise where participants in an audio conference collaboratively tag the conversation with freely-formed keywords. Her research has explored searching and browsing of tagged rich media and developed computational models for inferring expertise and macro-level properties for user communities in social networks. Her talk titled Conversations: Then and Now; How Social Media has Changed Interactions and Perspectives will focus on the impact of social media feedback for conversations in the enterprise and in public forums, techniques to integrate the feedback into persisted conversations, and visual perspectives in information retrieval for social media-based content. Ajita holds a PhD in computer science from the University of Texas at Austin, has authored numerous conference and journal papers, book chapters, and holds several patents. Please see http://chicagocolloquium.org/2011/08/keynote-speakers/ for additional details. We encourage you to register as soon as possible at http://chicagocolloquium.org/dhcs-2011-registration/. Space at the venue is limited to approximately 150 attendees. We look forward to seeing you at Loyola University Chicago. George K. Thiruvathukal and Steven E. Jones Loyola University Chicago Co-Chairs, DHCS 2011 --- Arno Bosse Research and Development Department GF6ttingen State and University Library Georg-August-Universitaet GF6ttingen 37073 GF6ttingen Germany Phone: +49 551 39 12121 http://www.sub.uni-goettingen.de/ twitter: kintopp skype: kintopp _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 Oct 28 07:16:05 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 167EE1E7360; Fri, 28 Oct 2011 07:16:05 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 61FC81E7353; Fri, 28 Oct 2011 07:15:59 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111028071559.61FC81E7353@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 07:15:59 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.427 ideas and things? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 427. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 08:13:35 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: ideas and things Consider the following two utterances: 1. "No ideas / but in things" (William Carlos Williams, "A Sort of a Song") 2. Thing Knowledge (title of a book in the philosophy of scientific instruments by Davis Baird) Implicit in both, we might say, is an argument pulling ideas and things together, though each in the opposite direction to the other. Each is addressed to an audience that, I'd suppose, has too much of the one in mind without the other. This is a common enough disciplinary tug-of-war, e.g. between mathematical physicists and engineers. Others cheer on one side or the other depending on their own interests and the fashions of the moment. Can we agree that the truth (or best state) lies for the digital humanities in the middle? Where are we at the moment? On which side is our imbalance? Comments? Yours, WM -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor (fractional), University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Oct 29 08:33:16 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDC7C1E7AEE; Sat, 29 Oct 2011 08:33:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 040B41E7AE3; Sat, 29 Oct 2011 08:33:08 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111029083309.040B41E7AE3@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2011 08:33:08 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.428 open access X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 428. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: D.Allington (27) Subject: RE: [Humanist] 25.419 open access [2] From: "Prescott, Andrew" (13) Subject: Open Access --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 13:33:52 +0100 From: D.Allington Subject: RE: [Humanist] 25.419 open access In-Reply-To: <20111027071344.0FCC11DFC4A@woodward.joyent.us> Thanks for the last point, Micah: speaking as very junior faculty, I wouldn't have felt quite comfortable making it myself. Of course - in the UK at least - when senior faculty evaluate the work of their juniors they are often in large part attempting to second-guess the priorities of the Research Excellence Framework panel members whose judgements will shape the public funding landscape from 2014. The rule of thumb I've most often heard is that a peer reviewed article trumps a chapter in an edited collection, a longer article trumps a shorter one, and an authored monograph trumps everything else; digital objects have no clear place in that hierarchy, and are unlikely, therefore, to be considered a very safe bet. So the question of whose support must be engaged is deferred - until eventually we reach the Olympian heights at which the rules of the game are decided. (Although this opens yet another can of worms, by raising the question of whether we should be playing at all. The Research Excellence Framework is a zero-sum game, so if all scholars collectively decided to ignore it, there would be no net loss and an immense gain in terms of academic freedom - small chance of that happening, however.) Best wishes Daniel Dr Daniel Allington Lecturer in English Language Studies and Applied Linguistics Centre for Language and Communication The Open University +44 (0) 1908 332 914 http://open.academia.edu/DanielAllington ________________________________________ [...] Promotion and tenure boards will eventually have to acknowledge that a digital object in NINES is *valuable* (to the field and the public) in the same way that a monograph can be, but that will only happen if/when senior faculty become engaged in these new scholarly methods or express support of junior faculty who do so. (And trust me, I know exactly the can of worms I’m opening up by stating that!). Sincerely, Micah Vandegrift Scholarly Communications Project Manager Florida State University --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 14:02:15 +0100 From: "Prescott, Andrew" Subject: Open Access In-Reply-To: <20111027071344.0FCC11DFC4A@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Willard, The following recent listing on the very interesting 'Impact of Social Sciences' blog by librarians at the LSE may be of interest in relationship to our recent exchanges on open access: http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2011/10/28/championing-open-access/ Andrew Professor Andrew Prescott Department of Digital Humanities King's College London 28-29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/ddh/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Oct 29 08:35:43 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21C541E7B78; Sat, 29 Oct 2011 08:35:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E09D51E7B66; Sat, 29 Oct 2011 08:35:35 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111029083535.E09D51E7B66@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2011 08:35:35 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.429 ideas and things X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 429. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Geoffrey Rockwell (10) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.427 ideas and things? [2] From: Mícheál_Mac_an_Airchinnigh (11) Subject: ideas and things --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:50:46 +0900 From: Geoffrey Rockwell Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.427 ideas and things? In-Reply-To: <20111028071559.61FC81E7353@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Willard, You ask about thing knowledge, something I think is important to the digital humanities as we try to sort out whether building things is scholarship. I am not sure that the truth can lie in the middle in this case because I think the truth has to lie in traditions of interpretation, which is what I take Baird to be saying. If you haven't been trained to "read" a demonstration device like an orrery then it is all Greek to you. Likewise, if you haven't been trained to read Heideggarian discourse "Being and Time" will seem like a black box. Before you can ask about the truth of either (the orrery's representation of the solar system, Heidegger's philosophy) you need to be trained in the tradition that can make sense of them. What would it mean for the truth to lie between such traditions? Do we really have to choose or can we be trained in many and express ourselves across them? One thing I get from Heidegger's philosophy of technology is that we tend not to see the "ready-at-hand" which I take to include the interpretative technologies we use and the traditions of interpretation. These enable truth finding and discussing which makes them hard to see. For those of us trained in the humanities the truth bearing of discourse is so obvious we take it to be paradigmatic and any other form of bearing truth to be dependent on some humanist to explain it in writing. Baird (in writing) is obviously irritated with such logocentrism, which is why he sets out to correct the impression in his excellent book. Steve Ramsay and I in a chapter in a forthcoming book titled, "Developing Things: Notes toward an Epistemology of Building in the Digital Humanities" ask about the anxieties around thing theory. We aren't convinced the things we build need to be theories or need to meet in the middle. I would argue then that in humanities computing we are experimenting with truth telling (and story telling) with a new form of things called digital media, web sites, serious games and so on. It may be to early to ask about truth as we develop a tradition of intervention and interpretation within which such things could be poked. Best, Geoffrey Rockwell On 2011-10-28, at 4:15 PM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Can we agree that the truth (or best state) lies for the digital > humanities in the middle? Where are we at the moment? On which side is > our imbalance? --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 09:36:59 +0100 From: Mícheál_Mac_an_Airchinnigh Subject: ideas and things In-Reply-To: <20111028071559.61FC81E7353@woodward.joyent.us> 2011-10-28 Hi Willard "Can we agree that the truth (or best state) lies for the digital humanities in the middle? Where are we at the moment? On which side is our imbalance?" I like the question: My spontaneous reaction was: "Leaning to the left with the Digital (somewhat like the Tower of Pisa), whilst the Humanities stumble around it." kind regards Mícheál Mac an Airchinnigh _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: 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 Oct 29 08:36:51 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED6541E7BF5; Sat, 29 Oct 2011 08:36:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A6FBD1E7BE0; Sat, 29 Oct 2011 08:36:46 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111029083646.A6FBD1E7BE0@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2011 08:36:46 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.430 job at Rutgers X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 430. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 14:22:49 -0400 (EDT) From: Joseph Deodato Subject: Digital Humanities Librarian, Rutgers University- Newark, NJ - United States In-Reply-To: <77829063.1250193.1319825559019.JavaMail.root@zimmbox11.rutgers.edu> Digital Humanities Librarian, John Cotton Dana Library Rutgers University Libraries - Newark Campus Rutgers University Libraries seek an experienced, innovative, and service-oriented librarian for a new position, Digital Humanities Librarian, based in the Dana Library on the Newark Campus. Required: Master’s degree from an ALA-accredited library and information science program. Degree in a humanities discipline, or strong humanities reference experience. Knowledge of research and instructional needs of humanities faculty. Experience in an academic library. Knowledge of metadata schema and library applications of emerging technologies. Ability to meet tenure and promotion requirements. For complete position profile (APP 197), requirements, instructions, email address and how to apply, go to: http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/hr/libpersonnel/APP197.pdf _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Oct 29 08:41:43 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D77C1E7CDB; Sat, 29 Oct 2011 08:41:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 43B501E7CB9; Sat, 29 Oct 2011 08:41:40 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111029084140.43B501E7CB9@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2011 08:41:40 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.431 linearity and non-linearity in editions? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 431. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 12:54:03 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: linearity of text The era of hypertext as revelation has, I'd suppose, passed, but if my ear-to-the-ground is hearing properly, the denegration of linearity has not. It is in some contexts a dirty word, a transcendental vice. Precisely for that reason it is most refreshing to run across Meir Sternberg's "Telling in Time", distributed across three numbers of Poetics Today (11.4, 13.3 and 27.1), published from Winter 1990 to Spring 2006. I suspect Sternberg's robust defense of chronological narration will be familiar to the narratologists here, but it is new to me. Not so new, but brought to mind at almost the same time, is R. G. Collingwood's observation about time: > Time is generally . . . imagined to ourselves in a metaphor, as a > stream or something in continuous and uniform motion.... [But] the > metaphor of a stream means nothing unless it means that the stream > has banks.... The events of the future do not really await their turn > to appear, like the people in a queue at a theatre awaiting their > turn at the box office: they do not yet exist at all, and therefore > cannot be grouped in any order whatever. The present alone is actual; > the past and the future are ideal and nothing but ideal. It is > necessary to insist on this because our habit of 'spatialising' time, > or figuring it to ourselves in terms of space, leads us to imagine > that the past and future exist in the same way . . . in which, when > we are walking up the High past Queen's, Magdalen and All Souls > exist. Putting Sternberg and Collingwood together, I conclude that we have two powerful ways of imagining, (to use the former's argument) one Biblical-linear, the other Homeric-nonlinear. Once again, as Tertullian said rather aggressively, Athens and Jerusalem at loggerheads -- but precisely for that reason all the more powerful. I raise this matter here to ask about current thinking with regards to digital editions: how are these two ways of imagining text being deployed? Yours, WM -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor (fractional), University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Oct 29 08:51:59 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E2E81E7F0A; Sat, 29 Oct 2011 08:51:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 40BC61E7EF0; Sat, 29 Oct 2011 08:51:54 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111029085154.40BC61E7EF0@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2011 08:51:54 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.432 events: stylometry in translation; free software X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 432. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Richard Lewis (29) Subject: Richard Stallman in South East London [2] From: Willard McCarty (43) Subject: Rybicki on stylometry in translation, London Seminar, 17/11 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 10:40:43 +0100 From: Richard Lewis Subject: Richard Stallman in South East London The Centre for Creative and Social Technology (CAST) at Goldsmiths' College, University of London is pleased to announce its first public lecture this term, given by free software pioneer Richard Stallman. Date: Thursday 3 November 2011 Time: 18:00-20:00 Place: Ian Gulland Lecture Theatre, Whitehead Building, Goldsmiths' College Travel: New Cross Gate (Zone 2; Southern, 5min from London Bridge; London Overground) New Cross (Zone 2; Southeastern, 20min from Charing Cross; London Overground) Title: It's Free Software and it Gives you Freedom http://castlondon.com/events/stallman.html Stallman is the founder of the Free Software movement, the GNU project, the Free Software Foundation, and the League for Programming Freedom. He also invented the concept of copyleft to protect the ideals of this movement, and enshrined this concept in the widely used GPL (General Public Licence) for software. He is the author of 'Free as in Freedom' and will be signing copies of his book and meeting attendees at the end of the lecture. Email cast@gold.ac.uk to book a place. -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Richard Lewis ISMS, Computing Goldsmiths, University of London Tel: +44 (0)20 7078 5134 Skype: richardjlewis JID: ironchicken@jabber.earth.li http://www.richardlewis.me.uk/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2011 09:49:21 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Rybicki on stylometry in translation, London Seminar, 17/11 Jan Rybicki: 'The Translator’s Other Invisibility: Stylometry in Translation' London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship Thursday, 17 November 2011, 17.30-19.30 265 Senate House Malet Street, Bloomsbury, London www.tinyurl.com/LondonSeminar/ ABSTRACT. Mona Baker's statement on translators' styles (as 'somewhat neglected in translation studies') has always sounded as a memento for my own literary translation work and has always led to the same question: when my target-language readers pay for their Polish Golding, Gordimer, or Ishiguro, are not they swindled into only getting Rybicki (himself not a Booker Prize winner) instead? More complex issues and translatorial blunders aside, are the readers indeed getting their money's worth at least in terms of style? Is there at all a Golding style in Polish, or does it vary from translator to translator? Somewhat against my intuitions (and misgivings), the application of stylometrical authorship-attribution methods to the problem paints a morally-soothing picture. In multidimensional analyses of most-frequent-word usage, authors of originals are usually recognized in translation despite the transfer into another language and its production by another hand; also, despite the obvious fact that most-frequent-word lists of originals and translations do not exhibit a simple word-to-word correspondence. It also presents new questions as to what it is that non-traditional authorship attribution methods really show. And it is a manifestation of a new kind of translator's invisibility unforeseen by Venuti. ----- Jan Rybicki (b. 1963) is Assistant Professor of English Studies at the Jagiellonian University of Kraków, Poland; he also taught at Rice University, Houston, TX. His interests include translation, comparative literature and humanities computing, especially stylometry and authorship attribution. He has worked extensively (both traditionally and digitally) on Henryk Sienkiewicz and the reception of the Polish novelist's works into English, and on the reception of English literature in Poland. Rybicki is also an active literary translator into Polish, with some thirty novels by authors such as Coupland, Fitzgerald, Golding, Gordimer, Ishiguro, le Carré, Oe, or Winterson. ----- Refreshments provided. All welcome. -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor (fractional), University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Oct 30 08:57:47 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A6471E8558; Sun, 30 Oct 2011 08:57:47 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1C28E1E8542; Sun, 30 Oct 2011 08:57:43 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111030085743.1C28E1E8542@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2011 08:57:43 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.433 events: textual scholarship X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 433. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2011 14:19:35 -0500 From: Matt Cohen Subject: CFP: Society for Textual Scholarship, Austin, Texas, 31 May - 2 June 2012 Dear Humanist colleagues; I hope you will consider submitting for this conference; and please spread the word. Regards, Matt Cohen ----- CALL FOR PAPERS The Society for Textual Scholarship International Interdisciplinary Conference 31 May ­ 2 June 2012 The University of Texas at Austin Program Chairs: Coleman Hutchison & Matt Cohen, The University of Texas at Austin KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: George Bornstein, The University of Michigan Jeffrey Masten, Northwestern University Phillip H. Round, The University of Iowa Deadline for Proposals: January 2, 2012 This off-year conference will bring the Society for Textual Scholarship to a campus with internationally significant archival holdings, in one of the most interesting cities in the United States. A number of on-campus resources--the Harry Ransom Center, the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, and the Benson Latin American Collection, among others--and the vast multicultural attractions of Texas¹s capital city and technology hub make this an exciting venue for the meeting. The Program Chairs invite a broad set of proposals on the discovery, enumeration, description, bibliographical analysis, editing, annotation, and mark-up of texts in disciplines such as literature, history, musicology, classical and biblical studies, philosophy, art history, legal history, the history of science and technology, computer science, library and information science, archives, lexicography, epigraphy, paleography, codicology, cinema studies, new media studies, game studies, theater, linguistics, women¹s studies, race and ethnicity studies, indigenous studies, and textual and literary theory. Given the local context of the conference, we especially encourage submissions dealing with issues of race, ethnicity, cross-cultural textual questions, and translation--issues reflected in our choice of keynote speakers. As always, the conference is particularly open to considerations of the role of digital tools and technologies in textual theory and practice. Papers addressing aspects of archival theory and practice as they pertain to textual criticism and scholarly editing are also most welcome. Submissions may take one of the following forms: 1. Papers. Papers should be no more than 20 minutes in length. They should offer the promise of substantial critical or analytical insight. Papers that are primarily reports or demonstrations of tools or projects are discouraged. 2. Panels. Panels may consist of either three associated papers or four or five roundtable speakers. Roundtables should address topics of broad interest and scope, with the goal of fostering lively debate between the panel and audience following brief opening remarks. 3. Workshops. Workshops should pose a specific problem, tool, or skill set for which the workshop leader will provide expert guidance and instruction. Examples might include an introduction to forensic computing or paleography. Workshop leaders should be prepared to offer well-defined learning outcomes for attendees, and describe them in the proposal. Proposals that are accepted will be announced on the conference website http://www.textual.org and attendees will be required to enroll with the workshop leader(s). NB: All workshops will be scheduled for Thursday, 31 May 2012. Proposals for all formats should include a title; abstract of the proposed paper, panel, seminar, or workshop (500 words maximum); and the name, e-mail address, and institutional affiliation for each participant. Workshop proposals in particular should take care to articulate the imagined audience and any expectations of prior knowledge or preparation. ***All proposals should indicate what, if any, technological support will be required.*** Inquiries and proposals should be submitted electronically to: Professor Coleman Hutchison STSTX2012@gmail.com Additional contact information: Department of English 1 University Station B5000 University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX 78712 Phone: (512) 471-8372 Fax: (512) 471-4909 (marked clearly to Coleman Hutchison¹s attention) All participants in the 2012 STS conference must be members of STS. For information about membership, please contact Secretary Meg Roland at or visit the Indiana University Press Journals website and follow the links to the Society for Textual Scholarship membership page: http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/ . For conference updates and information, including a list of keynote speakers, see the STS website at http://www.textual.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 Oct 31 08:10:34 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CB391E9FE7; Mon, 31 Oct 2011 08:10:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id CF9991E9FD0; Mon, 31 Oct 2011 08:10:24 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111031081024.CF9991E9FD0@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 08:10:24 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.434 publication ratios? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 434. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 08:09:07 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: publication ratios I would very much like to know if in recent years anyone has done a gross estimate (as it would have to be) by discipline of the ratios of publication forms, books vs book chapters vs articles vs conference papers? Yours, WM -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor (fractional), University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Oct 31 08:12:34 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id C45A51EA058; Mon, 31 Oct 2011 08:12:33 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 839791EA043; Mon, 31 Oct 2011 08:12:27 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111031081227.839791EA043@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 08:12:27 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.435 new publication: Scholarly Electronic Publication, ver 80 X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 435. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2011 23:03:23 +0000 From: "Charles W. Bailey, Jr." Subject: Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography, Version 80 Version 80 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography is now available from Digital Scholarship as an XHTML website with live links to many included works. This selective bibliography includes over 4,000 articles, books, technical reports, and other scholarly textual sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet. The bibliography covers a wide range of topics, such as digital copyright, digital libraries, digital preservation, digital repositories, e-books, e-journals, license agreements, metadata, and open access. All included works are in English. It is available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License. http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepb.html This version marks the fifteenth year of publication of the bibliography, which was established on October 25, 1996. Changes in This Version The bibliography has the following sections (new/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* 2.4 Research* 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* 4.1 Research (Multiple-Types of Electronic Works)* 5 Legal Issues 5.1 Digital Copyright* 5.2 License Agreements* 6 Library Issues 6.1 Digital Libraries* 6.2 Digital Preservation* 6.3 General Works* 6.4 Metadata and Linking* 7 New Publishing Models* 8 Publisher Issues* 8.1 Digital Rights Management and User Authentication* 9 Repositories, E-Prints, and OAI* Appendix A. Related Bibliographies* Appendix B. About the Author* Appendix C. SEPB Use Statistics* The following recent Digital Scholarship publications may also be of interest: E-science and Academic Libraries Bibliography , Version 1 http://bit.ly/paMnrh Institutional Repository and ETD Bibliography 2011 http://bit.ly/oZ9esq Google Book Search Bibliography, Version 7 http://bit.ly/4zllz8 See also: Digital Scholarship Publications Overview. http://bit.ly/ffWu9D Translate (oversatta, oversette, prelozit, traducir, traduire, tradurre, traduzir, or ubersetzen) this message: http://bit.ly/tbuRfc -- Best Regards, Charles Charles W. Bailey, Jr. Publisher, Digital Scholarship http://bit.ly/Z6HFx _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Oct 31 08:15:01 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A0F31EA11E; Mon, 31 Oct 2011 08:15:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 5C2AE1EA100; Mon, 31 Oct 2011 08:14:54 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111031081454.5C2AE1EA100@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 08:14:54 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.436 Late Antique Latin texts X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 436. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2011 22:28:12 +0000 From: maurizio lana Subject: project announcement: digilibLT In-Reply-To: <38C7E6498E60A149ABBB1C9947191BFC035F88FE@MAIL.universe.lon.ac.uk> THE PROJECT The digilibLT (digital library of late-antique Latin texts) project aims to digitize all extant non-Christian Latin prose works dating from the second to the fifth century CE as an ideal completion of PHI cdrom #5.3. The texts will be freely available on the project website, www.digiliblt.unipmn.it. The research project team is directed by Raffaella Tabacco (research supervisor) and Maurizio Lana. The project is funded by the 'Regione Piemonte', ‘Assessorato alla Cultura’, 'Dipartimento Innovazione, Ricerca, Università, Energia'. In a later phase, the website will also include late-antique Latin poetry and Latin Christian texts. Texts are freely available in a number of different formats (TXT, TEI, Beta code, PDF) under a Creative Commons license. Texts are not accompanied by a critical apparatus, which is protected by copyright laws. The website offers a concise presentation for each text, giving essential information (date, editions, main critical approaches), and an updated bibliography. It also offers the possibility of simple and advanced textual searches. Search results may be freely downloaded. LATE-ANTIQUE LATIN LITERATURE: WHY? Late-antique culture played a crucial role in elaborating and transmitting Greek and Latin thought to modern Europe, esp. in the fields of literature, philosophy, politics, religion and science. It also produced some of the undisputed masterpieces of Latin literature. The lack of a complete digital library of late-antique Latin texts is not acceptable in the present state of scholarship and makes it impossible for scholars working on Late antiquity to take advantage of word search software commonly used for other classical texts. AUTHORS, WORKS, EDITIONS The website offers an interactive list of late-antique non-Christian Latin texts which will published on the website for download and searches. The list is available for download too in PDF format showing the adopted critical edition for every work (the so-called Canon). Evaluating the critical editions available for each work is complex so this list will be completed at the beginning of 2012. In the meantime, the website offers a periodically updated list. The following works are now available: Epitoma de Tito Liuio; Medicinae ex holeribus et pomis; De herba uettonica, De medicina (Medicina Plinii), De morte testamentoque Alexandri, De rebus bellicis, Ephemeris belli Troiani, Epitoma rerum gestarum Alexandri Magni, Itinerarium Alexandri, Liber memorialis, Res gestae Alexandri Macedonis, De fluminibus fontibus lacubus nemoribus paludibus montibus gentibus per litteras libellus, Collatio Alexandri et Dindimi, De excidio Troiae historia. The number is growing day after day. ONLINE SEARCHES The website offers a search engine for locating occurrences of one or more words within single works or in the entire corpus. The search results can be consulted either in concordance format or within the context of the whole work; a simple system of arrows leads from one occurrence to the next. It is also possible to search groups of texts selected by author, date, or genre. Advanced searches allow users to refine searches by date, genre, or author, or by using Boolean operators or by defining some specific sections of the text for searches (titles, poetry, etc.). BIBLIOGRAPHY A short entry describes each work, giving concise information on literary and philological problems, and offering brief information on the biography of its author. The entry also includes a selected bibliography of scholarly works, constantly updated. FORMATS TExts are distributed in the TXT and TEI formats. In a later phase, texts will be also available in Beta code and PDF formats and, finally, ePUB. The TXT format allows scholars to study the text using the preferred software for statistical analysis, text retrieval, etc. The TEI format is an open de facto standard for textual encoding. The digilibLT project uses the TEI format for describing the structure of texts (books, chapters, paragraphs...) and the main philological characteristics; it allows scholars to describe morphologic, syntactic, and semantic features. Users familiar with software designed for the TLG and PHI cdrom’s will be able to use their preferred software on late antique Latin texts by downloading texts in Beta format. The PDF format is especially useful for users who wish to print the Latin texts. The ePUB format is designed for users who want to read and/or annotate the text on a personal computer or ebook reader. USER'S LICENCE All texts are feely available for reading and downloading under Creative Commons license “Attribuzione, Non commerciale, Condividi allo stesso modo 3.0 Italia”. The website does not distribute content from the reference editions if protected by copyright (e.g. the critical apparatus). Users intending to download texts must register with the website, giving a minimum amount of personal data (family and given name, country, and, if applicable, academic affiliation) which will be used in order to document the activity of the website. Users are also asked to accept the user's license. Personal data will be handled confidentially; processing will take place pursuant to the legislation in force. Detailed data will not be passed on to public or private bodies of any kind. RESEARCH PROJECT TEAM The research project team includes Luigi Battezzato, Silvia Botto, Roberta Piastri, Gabriella Vanotti, from the ‘Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici’ of the Università del Piemonte Orientale (Vercelli), Andrea Balbo and Ermanno Malaspina, from the ‘Dipartimento di Filologia, Linguistica e Tradizione classica’ of the Università di Torino, as well as PhD students, PhD graduates and MA graduates from the Universities of Vercelli, Turin and Salamanca: Giancarlo Bessi, Alice Borgna, Manuela Ferroni, Laura Mosca, Simona Musso, Manuela Naso, David Paniagua, Nadia Rosso, Simona Rota, Beatrice Strona. Fabio Ciotti (‘Università di Roma Tor Vergata’) and Peter Heslin (University of Durham (UK)) also collaborate with the project. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: progetto@digiliblt.unipmn.it -------- Maurizio Lana - ricercatore Università del Piemonte Orientale, Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici, via Manzoni 8, 13100 Vercelli tel. +39 347 7370925 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Oct 31 08:19:04 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69E681EA2ED; Mon, 31 Oct 2011 08:19:04 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 21A9F1EA2BF; Mon, 31 Oct 2011 08:18:55 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111031081856.21A9F1EA2BF@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 08:18:55 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.437 events: Preservation Research Exchange; Language Techology X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 437. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Kathryn Pierce (51) Subject: Preservation Research Exchange 2012 Call for Abstracts Extended [2] From: "Lauersdorf, Mark R" (55) Subject: Second Call: Language Technology at KFLC 2012 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2011 13:59:44 -0500 From: Kathryn Pierce Subject: Preservation Research Exchange 2012 Call for Abstracts Extended Please contribute to and/or forward to appropriate groups the following opportunity to submit abstracts for papers and posters to PREx 2012: Sustaining Digital Heritage. The submission deadline is extended to November 15, 2011. -----PREx 2012 - Call for Submissions----- Preservation Research Exchange 2012: Sustaining Digital Heritage February 17 -- 19, 2012 The University of Texas at Austin The Preservation Research Exchange (PREx) is the third annual symposium hosted by Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) preservation doctoral fellows. PREx will be held February 17-19, 2012 at the School of Information, The University of Texas at Austin. This no-cost symposium is for graduate students, faculty, and other scholars interested in sharing digital heritage research. The theme this year is Sustaining Digital Heritage. PREx is an opportunity for diverse disciplines to come together and share research about the many facets of sustaining digital artifacts. We are looking for original research exploring the technical, cultural, political, social, and historical aspects of sustaining digital heritage. Join us and share your research! The Preservation Research Exchange 2012 web site is www.ischool.utexas.edu/prex. http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/prex The three-day event will feature posters, panel presentations, speakers, and tours. We are soliciting abstracts for both posters and 20-minute panel presentations. Abstracts should be no more than 500 words. In your abstract, please briefly describe your presentation idea and include full contact information (e.g. full name, affiliations, email, and phone number). Please name your file PREx_[enter last name_first name]. Poster and paper abstracts are due November 15, 2011. Email your submission to: prex@ischool.utexas.edu. Proposal receipt will be acknowledged via email within a few days of receipt. The abstracts will be reviewed in a double-blind process. All authors will be notified of decisions by December 15, 2011. The PREx Planning Committee consists of Carol Brock, April Norris, and Kathryn Pierce, IMLS doctoral students at the iSchool, The UT-Austin. We look forward to meeting you in February 2012. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2011 17:58:11 -0400 From: "Lauersdorf, Mark R" Subject: Second Call: Language Technology at KFLC 2012 Dear colleagues, This is the *Second Call* for submission of abstracts to the Language Technology sessions at the Kentucky Foreign Language Conference (KFLC). Many thanks to those who have already responded and who have shared this information with their colleagues and constituents. Please note (and relay to your colleagues) that the deadline for submission of abstracts is fast approaching: **15 November 2011** For your convenience, I have included below my original message with the full Call for Papers. If you have any questions at all, please do not hesitate to get in touch with me. I look forward to hearing from you and your colleagues. Mark ----- original message ----- Dear colleagues, I would like to invite you to submit an abstract for participation in the 7th annual Language Technology sessions at the Kentucky Foreign Language Conference (KFLC). The KFLC is an international, multidisciplinary academic conference with a 65-year history of bringing together top researchers in language, literature, culture, and linguistics in the fields of Arabic, East Asian, French and Francophone, German-Austrian-Swiss, Hispanic, Italian, Luso-Afro-Brazilian, and Russian Studies, as well as Language Technology, Translation and Cultural Studies, and Second Language Acquisition. The KFLC offers broad exposure for your work, gathering over 750 scholars in these disciplines from around the world. The Language Technology division ("LangTech at the KFLC") was inaugurated at KFLC 2006. In bringing a technology track to a high-level international academic conference with a strong literary-cultural tradition and orientation, we provide a forum for both academics and technologists to engage in a discussion of technological innovation in the teaching and research of world literatures and cultures (in addition to the more customary discussions of technology in language instruction). Indeed, "LangTech at the KFLC" seeks to encourage cross-pollination of ideas across languages and literary-cultural interests, encouraging participants from all KFLC literature, culture, and linguistics divisions to join in discussions on integrating technology into their teaching and research programs. I have included below the official Call for Papers for this year's LangTech at the KFLC 2012. I hope that you will consider bringing your work in Language Technology to Lexington to showcase for us, and that you will share this call broadly with your colleagues. I look forward to hearing from you and hope to see you here in the spring. Best regards, Mark Lauersdorf ----- CALL FOR PAPERS - LANGTECH AT THE KFLC - 19-21 April 2012 ----- It's Year 7 of LangTech at the KFLC! At the intersection between technology and literary, cultural, language, and linguistic teaching and research, we welcome submissions on any aspect of: **Technology for Literature & Culture, Language & Linguistics** This includes, but is certainly not limited to: • integrating technology into literature, culture, and linguistics *curricula and classrooms* • *faculty research* in literature, culture, and linguistics employing technology ("digital humanities") • technology for *student projects and research* in literature, culture, and linguistics Abstracts are, of course, also welcome in *all* other areas and aspects of technology and language, such as: • using tech tools and techniques for *language instruction* in all skills and on all levels • *mentoring* language educators in optimal use of technology in their teaching and research • employing technology-based *research publication* in language scholarship • *managing* language technology in an academic setting The KFLC is an international academic conference that brings together top researchers in language, literature, culture, and linguistics in the fields of Arabic, East Asian, French and Francophone, German-Austrian-Swiss, Hispanic, Italian, Luso-Afro-Brazilian, and Russian Studies, as well as Translation and Cultural Studies and Second Language Acquisition. We would like to see this broad range represented in the Language Technology sessions, to encourage cross-pollination of ideas across the languages and disciplines working to integrate technology into their teaching and research programs, and to encourage participants from the literature, culture, and linguistics sessions to join us in our discussions. Abstracts should be no more than 250-300 words in length and should be submitted directly online at: **KFLC Abstract Site: http://www.kflcabstracts.uky.edu/** In view of the multi-language audience that we hope to attract to all Language Technology sessions, the recommended language of presentation is English. **Deadline for submission of abstracts and panel proposals is 15 November 2011.** All proposed abstracts will be considered for inclusion in the KFLC program. Acceptance of a paper implies a commitment on the part of the participant(s) to register and attend the conference. All presenters must pay the appropriate registration fee by 15 February 2012 to be included in the program. The conference will take place 19-21 April 2012 on the campus of the University of Kentucky in Lexington. For more information on conference logistics, please visit: http://web.as.uky.edu/kflc/. For specific information on the Language Technology sessions, contact the division director at the coordinates listed below. If you've been with us before, make Year 7 the year you return! If you've never been, make this the year to join us in beautiful springtime Kentucky for "LangTech at the KFLC"! Mark Lauersdorf ----------------------------------- Dr. Mark Richard Lauersdorf KFLC -- Language Technology division director Associate Professor of Languages and Linguistics Director of Language Technology Interim Director, Collaboratory for Research in Computing for Humanities 1055 Patterson Office Tower University of Kentucky Lexington, KY 20506-0027, USA phone: ++859-257-7101 fax: ++859-257-3743 e-mail: lauersdorf@uky.edu http://www.rch.uky.edu/ http://linguistics.as.uky.edu/users/mrlaue2/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Oct 31 08:19:34 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1F3C1EA339; Mon, 31 Oct 2011 08:19:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 2DFCF1EA324; Mon, 31 Oct 2011 08:19:27 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111031081927.2DFCF1EA324@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 08:19:27 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.438 events: Preservation Research Exchange; Language Techology X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 438. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org From: Humanist Discussion Group Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 437. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Kathryn Pierce (51) Subject: Preservation Research Exchange 2012 Call for Abstracts Extended [2] From: "Lauersdorf, Mark R" (55) Subject: Second Call: Language Technology at KFLC 2012 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2011 13:59:44 -0500 From: Kathryn Pierce Subject: Preservation Research Exchange 2012 Call for Abstracts Extended Please contribute to and/or forward to appropriate groups the following opportunity to submit abstracts for papers and posters to PREx 2012: Sustaining Digital Heritage. The submission deadline is extended to November 15, 2011. -----PREx 2012 - Call for Submissions----- Preservation Research Exchange 2012: Sustaining Digital Heritage February 17 -- 19, 2012 The University of Texas at Austin The Preservation Research Exchange (PREx) is the third annual symposium hosted by Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) preservation doctoral fellows. PREx will be held February 17-19, 2012 at the School of Information, The University of Texas at Austin. This no-cost symposium is for graduate students, faculty, and other scholars interested in sharing digital heritage research. The theme this year is Sustaining Digital Heritage. PREx is an opportunity for diverse disciplines to come together and share research about the many facets of sustaining digital artifacts. We are looking for original research exploring the technical, cultural, political, social, and historical aspects of sustaining digital heritage. Join us and share your research! The Preservation Research Exchange 2012 web site is www.ischool.utexas.edu/prex. http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/prex The three-day event will feature posters, panel presentations, speakers, and tours. We are soliciting abstracts for both posters and 20-minute panel presentations. Abstracts should be no more than 500 words. In your abstract, please briefly describe your presentation idea and include full contact information (e.g. full name, affiliations, email, and phone number). Please name your file PREx_[enter last name_first name]. Poster and paper abstracts are due November 15, 2011. Email your submission to: prex@ischool.utexas.edu. Proposal receipt will be acknowledged via email within a few days of receipt. The abstracts will be reviewed in a double-blind process. All authors will be notified of decisions by December 15, 2011. The PREx Planning Committee consists of Carol Brock, April Norris, and Kathryn Pierce, IMLS doctoral students at the iSchool, The UT-Austin. We look forward to meeting you in February 2012. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2011 17:58:11 -0400 From: "Lauersdorf, Mark R" Subject: Second Call: Language Technology at KFLC 2012 Dear colleagues, This is the *Second Call* for submission of abstracts to the Language Technology sessions at the Kentucky Foreign Language Conference (KFLC). Many thanks to those who have already responded and who have shared this information with their colleagues and constituents. Please note (and relay to your colleagues) that the deadline for submission of abstracts is fast approaching: **15 November 2011** For your convenience, I have included below my original message with the full Call for Papers. If you have any questions at all, please do not hesitate to get in touch with me. I look forward to hearing from you and your colleagues. Mark ----- original message ----- Dear colleagues, I would like to invite you to submit an abstract for participation in the 7th annual Language Technology sessions at the Kentucky Foreign Language Conference (KFLC). The KFLC is an international, multidisciplinary academic conference with a 65-year history of bringing together top researchers in language, literature, culture, and linguistics in the fields of Arabic, East Asian, French and Francophone, German-Austrian-Swiss, Hispanic, Italian, Luso-Afro-Brazilian, and Russian Studies, as well as Language Technology, Translation and Cultural Studies, and Second Language Acquisition. The KFLC offers broad exposure for your work, gathering over 750 scholars in these disciplines from around the world. The Language Technology division ("LangTech at the KFLC") was inaugurated at KFLC 2006. In bringing a technology track to a high-level international academic conference with a strong literary-cultural tradition and orientation, we provide a forum for both academics and technologists to engage in a discussion of technological innovation in the teaching and research of world literatures and cultures (in addition to the more customary discussions of technology in language instruction). Indeed, "LangTech at the KFLC" seeks to encourage cross-pollination of ideas across languages and literary-cultural interests, encouraging participants from all KFLC literature, culture, and linguistics divisions to join in discussions on integrating technology into their teaching and research programs. I have included below the official Call for Papers for this year's LangTech at the KFLC 2012. I hope that you will consider bringing your work in Language Technology to Lexington to showcase for us, and that you will share this call broadly with your colleagues. I look forward to hearing from you and hope to see you here in the spring. Best regards, Mark Lauersdorf ----- CALL FOR PAPERS - LANGTECH AT THE KFLC - 19-21 April 2012 ----- It's Year 7 of LangTech at the KFLC! At the intersection between technology and literary, cultural, language, and linguistic teaching and research, we welcome submissions on any aspect of: **Technology for Literature & Culture, Language & Linguistics** This includes, but is certainly not limited to: • integrating technology into literature, culture, and linguistics *curricula and classrooms* • *faculty research* in literature, culture, and linguistics employing technology ("digital humanities") • technology for *student projects and research* in literature, culture, and linguistics Abstracts are, of course, also welcome in *all* other areas and aspects of technology and language, such as: • using tech tools and techniques for *language instruction* in all skills and on all levels • *mentoring* language educators in optimal use of technology in their teaching and research • employing technology-based *research publication* in language scholarship • *managing* language technology in an academic setting The KFLC is an international academic conference that brings together top researchers in language, literature, culture, and linguistics in the fields of Arabic, East Asian, French and Francophone, German-Austrian-Swiss, Hispanic, Italian, Luso-Afro-Brazilian, and Russian Studies, as well as Translation and Cultural Studies and Second Language Acquisition. We would like to see this broad range represented in the Language Technology sessions, to encourage cross-pollination of ideas across the languages and disciplines working to integrate technology into their teaching and research programs, and to encourage participants from the literature, culture, and linguistics sessions to join us in our discussions. Abstracts should be no more than 250-300 words in length and should be submitted directly online at: **KFLC Abstract Site: http://www.kflcabstracts.uky.edu/** In view of the multi-language audience that we hope to attract to all Language Technology sessions, the recommended language of presentation is English. **Deadline for submission of abstracts and panel proposals is 15 November 2011.** All proposed abstracts will be considered for inclusion in the KFLC program. Acceptance of a paper implies a commitment on the part of the participant(s) to register and attend the conference. All presenters must pay the appropriate registration fee by 15 February 2012 to be included in the program. The conference will take place 19-21 April 2012 on the campus of the University of Kentucky in Lexington. For more information on conference logistics, please visit: http://web.as.uky.edu/kflc/. For specific information on the Language Technology sessions, contact the division director at the coordinates listed below. If you've been with us before, make Year 7 the year you return! If you've never been, make this the year to join us in beautiful springtime Kentucky for "LangTech at the KFLC"! Mark Lauersdorf ----------------------------------- Dr. Mark Richard Lauersdorf KFLC -- Language Technology division director Associate Professor of Languages and Linguistics Director of Language Technology Interim Director, Collaboratory for Research in Computing for Humanities 1055 Patterson Office Tower University of Kentucky Lexington, KY 20506-0027, USA phone: ++859-257-7101 fax: ++859-257-3743 e-mail: lauersdorf@uky.edu http://www.rch.uky.edu/ http://linguistics.as.uky.edu/users/mrlaue2/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Nov 1 07:03:39 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D1C21EBC9A; Tue, 1 Nov 2011 07:03:39 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 389021EBC6B; Tue, 1 Nov 2011 07:03:28 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20111101070328.389021EBC6B@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2011 07:03:27 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.439 intro topics and texts X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 439. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 09:59:06 -0400 (EDT) From: Deena Engel Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.387 intro topics and texts In-Reply-To: <20111016070827.7CCC41D9DA0@woodward.joyent.us> Hi, I am sorry for the delay in my reply to this thread. I would add at a semester of database technologies/programming to the proposed curriculum below. Please note that our department (Computer Science at New York University) takes a different approach to teaching Digital Humanities to undergraduates. We offer a Web Programming Minor in the Computer Science Department (http://cs.nyu.edu/webapps/content/academic/undergrad/minors), and we offer a course called "Computing in the Humanities and the Arts" in the "380" series, under "Topics of General Interest". We have offered the Computing in the Humanities Course three times in the last four years to a mixture of Computer Science major and Web Programming minor students. Students come into the course with at least one semester each of web design (including xHTML, CSS and related skills) and at least one semester of programming (Python or Java) so the course is readily accessible to undergraduate students with Humanities major and/or minor fields. It has been our experience that for many of the students in this class that this course has "opened their eyes" to possibilities in combining their two fields of interest. Regards, Deena Engel ------------------------------- Deena Engel Department of Computer Science New York University On Sun, 16 Oct 2011, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 387. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2011 10:34:09 -0400 > From: "Mark LeBlanc" > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.382 intro topics and texts > In-Reply-To: <20111015052647.475FF1D8514@woodward.joyent.us> > > > a quick 2cent reply and one > significant edit to jimR's > suggestion on what a DH ugrad > might take: > >> 2. One year of calculus >> 3. One programming language >> 4. .xml, .css. .php, .html (varieties) > > i would edit the list as follows: > >> 2. One year of DISCRETE mathematics > (while understanding rates of growth > is important, more students need to see > discrete math topics, for example, > counting, logic, graphs, trees, > regular expressions, etc) > >> 3. TWO SEMESTERS of AT LEAST > one programming language > > mark > > ------------------------------------------------------ > Meneely Professor of Computer Science > Wheaton College > Norton, MA 02766 USA > > http://cs.wheatoncollege.edu/mleblanc > 508.286.3970 > ------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Nov 1 07:04:14 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 473A31EBCF4; Tue, 1 Nov 2011 07:04:14 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1D61B1EBCDB; Tue, 1 Nov 2011 07:04:10 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111101070410.1D61B1EBCDB@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2011 07:04:10 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.440 Fish on GeoHumanities et al. X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 440. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2011 06:46:05 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Fish on "GeoHumanities" et al Stanley Fish, in "The Triumph of the Humanities" (New York Times for 13 June 2011), notices the recently published collection, GeoHumanities: Art, History, Text at the Edge of Place, ed. Michael Dear et al (London: Routledge, 2011), then goes on to scoop up BioHumanities and other hybrid fields of recent vintage to observe that, > What this all suggests is that while we have been anguishing over the > fate of the humanities, the humanities have been busily moving into, > and even colonizing, the fields that were supposedly displacing them. > In the ‘70s and the ‘80s the humanities exported theory to the social > sciences and (with less influence) to the sciences; many disciplines > saw a pitched battle between the new watchwords — perspective, > contingency, dispersion, multi-vocality, intertextuality — and the > traditional techniques of dispassionate observation, the collection of > evidence, the drawing of warranted conclusions and the establishing of > solid fact. Now the dust has settled and the invaded disciplines have > incorporated much of what they resisted. Propositions that once seemed > outlandish — all knowledge is mediated, even our certainties are > socially constructed — are now routinely asserted in precincts where > they were once feared as the harbingers of chaos and corrosive relativism. > > One could say then that the humanities are the victors in the theory > wars; nearly everyone now dances to their tune. But this conceptual > triumph has not brought with it a proportionate share of resources or > institutional support. Perhaps administrators still think of the > humanities as the province of precious insights that offer little to > those who are charged with the task of making sense of the world. > Volumes like “GeoHumanities” tell a different story, and it is one > that cannot be rehearsed too often. See http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/13/the-triumph-of-the-humanities/?scp=1&sq=stanley%20fish%20geohumanities&st=cse for the whole thing. I think we might tell a somewhat different story. I think we would shun sad notions of triumphal conquest or colonization. (Do we really have to play out within universities tragic errors of the past, configuring ourselves as agents of empire? How embarrassing! How misleading.) I think we would rather point to a drive or tendency to interdisciplinary research. And we might then go on to probe the role of the digital humanities as participant and urgent force in this quite remarkable change. Comments? Yours, WM PS: My thanks to my colleague Dr Paul Caton for drawing my attention to Fish's article. -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor (fractional), University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Nov 1 07:08:06 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E81E1EBE4C; Tue, 1 Nov 2011 07:08:05 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 28BB41EBE36; Tue, 1 Nov 2011 07:07:54 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111101070755.28BB41EBE36@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2011 07:07:54 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.441 events: editions; museums; antiquity X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 441. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: maurizio lana (53) Subject: Tecnologie moderne per le opere degli antichi [2] From: Neal Stimler (59) Subject: Digital Humanities Scholars in Museums: Crowdsourced Video Panel, 3 November [3] From: Aurélien BERRA (45) Subject: Édition savante et humanités numériques --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 09:26:12 +0100 From: maurizio lana Subject: Tecnologie moderne per le opere degli antichi In-Reply-To: <4E8FF1AA.4060700@lett.unipmn.it> dear colleagues, we are pleased to announce the conference "Tecnologie moderne per le opere degli antichi", which will be held in Vercelli, Italy, November 8, 2011, (Palazzo Tartara, Sala delle Colonne, Corso Garibaldi 98). The conference is organized by project digilibLT (digital library of late latin texts,www.digiliblt.unipmn.it) headed by Raffaella Tabacco and Maurizio Lana, whose goal is to digitize the late latin texts from II to VI century C.E. The project is co-financed by Regione Piemonte, Assessorato alla cultura. The conference program: Morning session 9,15 Greetings from political and academical authorities Raffaella Tabacco, Università del Piemonte Orientale, introduces the conference themes and chairs the session Carmen Codoñer, Università di Salamanca, “De glossariis” Franca Ela Consolino, Università de L’Aquila, “Ennodio e Venanzio Fortunato negli epitaffi che li commemorano” Paolo Mastandrea, Università di Venezia, “Corippo sotto interrogazione” 11,30 coffee break 11,45 Massimo Gioseffi, Università di Milano, “La scoliografia virgiliana: una prospettiva di lavoro” David Paniagua, Università di Salamanca, “Considerazioni sui segnali discorsivi in Cezio Faventino” Andrea Balbo, Università di Torino, “Riflessioni stilistiche (e prospettive di ricerca) sulla storiografia e l'oratoria tardoantica" Buffet Afternoon session 15,00 Maurizio Lana, Università del Piemonte Orientale chairs the session Helma Dik, University of Chicago, “Working on the corpus - to work with the corpus” Guido Milanese, Università Cattolica, Milano, “Che cosa chiedere a un corpus di testi?” 16 coffee break 16,15 Peter Heslin, Durham University, “La leggibilità e i mezzi di trasmissione di testi classici da Carlo Magno a XML” Dominique Longrée, LASLA, “Vecchi e nuovi strumenti per esplorare le banche dati latine del LASLA” Discussion Conference conclusions by Maurizio Lana. You are invited to participate, and to register with an email message (name and surname, institution, expected hour of arrival) to info@digiliblt.unipmn.it . The conference venue is 200 meters from the railway station (http://g.co/maps/vyuz6) Thank you for helping us in spreading this announcement. Our excuses for any possible but involuntary and someway unavoidable cross-posting. For accommodations you can ask (from inexpensive to expensive): University Residence, erasmus@rettorato.univc.it Modo Hotel, modohotel@virgilio.it Cinzia Hotel, http://www.hotelcinziaristorante.com/, direzione@hotel-cinzia.com Hotel Ristorante Il Giardinetto http://www.ristoranteilgiardinetto.it/, giardi.dan@libero.it --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 12:14:10 +0000 From: Neal Stimler Subject: Digital Humanities Scholars in Museums: Crowdsourced Video Panel, 3 November In-Reply-To: <4E8FF1AA.4060700@lett.unipmn.it> Dear Colleague, I seek your participation in my crowdsourced video panel entitled, “Philosophical Leadership Needed for the Future: Digital Humanities Scholars in Museums,” for the 39th Annual Museum Computer Network Conference in Atlanta, Georgia November 16th – 19th. Boundaries between museums, libraries and archives continue to blur in the 21st Century. This panel seeks to learn from the progress made in academic and library communities to empower museums with the vision needed to serve constituents in a new media culture. Panelists are asked to contribute 1-5 minute video responses via YouTube to the following questions: 1. How can museums advance beyond the continuation of traditional practices utilizing digital tools to a new mode of interpretation that seeks to understand the meanings of collections and scholarship in a new media culture? 2. What is required of museums to establish digital humanities research centers within the framework of existing institutions? 3. Why might interdisciplinary and non-traditional scholars from outside the established professional ranks make the best leaders needed for inspired change in the philosophical directions of museums? The open call format is for both attendees and non-attendees, if you will not be attending the conference, please see this as a great opportunity to contribute to the Museum Computer Network program. Videos must be submitted by November 3, 2011. This is the link to the panel page on the Museum Computer Network Conference Wiki (http://www.mcn.edu/2011/philosophical-leadership-needed-future-digital-humanities-scholars-museums). The instructions on how to contribute to the panel are listed below. Please share information about this panel with other colleagues. If you have any recommendations of books, articles or blog posts that might be of interest, please include those references in your e-mail notification. Contact me by e-mail at neal.stimler@gmail.com or on Twitter @nealstimler if you have any questions. Thank you for your time and consideration. Sincerely, Neal Stimler Associate Coordinator of Images The Metropolitan Museum of Art Email: neal.stimler@gmail.com Twitter: @nealstimler P.S. I will also be hosting general discussion as part of the THATCamp MCN unconference taking place on Saturday, November 19th (http://mcn2011.thatcamp.org/09/12/digital-humanities-scholars-leaders-needed-for-the-future-of-museums/). Abstract: Museum technologists have successfully supported the creation and delivery of content produced by curators, educators and librarians. However, many museum administrators and boards have yet to recognize the importance of scholarly study of their own institutions in the context of an evolving digital society. The support of digital humanities research in the academic and library communities over the last several years has not yet been adopted to the same degree in museums. Session Description: This crowdsourced panel session will present 1-5 minute video responses from an open call to the community of professionals in archives, libraries, museums and universities as they reflect on the barriers and benefits of implementing digital humanities methodologies in museums. Participate in the Panel: 1. Sign up for a YouTube Account via the web or your mobile device. 2. Before shooting your video prepare a written script and record with your webcam or mobile device as close to a final cut as possible. 3. Please edit your video for content and length before submitting it to the panel. You can edit videos within YouTube using the YouTube Editor (http://www.youtube.com/editor). 4. Please consider captioning your video (http://www.youtube.com/t/captions_about). CaptionTube is a valuable tool for making captions for your videos (http://captiontube.appspot.com/). 5. Please answer all three of the interview questions in your 1-5 minute video response: * Question 1: * How can museums advance beyond the continuation of traditional practices utilizing digital tools to a new mode of interpretation that seeks to understand the meanings of collections and scholarship in a new media culture? * Question 2: * What is required of museums to establish digital humanities research centers within the framework of existing institutions? * Question 3: * Why might interdisciplinary and non-traditional scholars from outside the established professional ranks make the best leaders needed for inspired change in the philosophical directions of museums? 6. Upload your video to YouTube. 7. Please e-mail your contact information, short biography and link to your posted video, along with the written script of your video response to neal.stimler@gmail.com. When Recording: 1. Consider ambient noise, lighting and sound when recording your response. 2. Say your name, profession, organization and social media handles at the start of the video. 3. Mention that the video is part of 39th Annual Museum Computer Network Conference panel, “Philosophical Leadership Needed for the Future: Digital Humanities Scholars in Museums.” 4. When uploading to YouTube, please tag the video with the keywords: * philosophical * philosophy * leadership * future * digital * humanities * scholars * museums * museum computer network * atlanta Rights and Permissions: 1. You must submit your video with a Creative Commons CC-BY license [attribution - reuse allowed] (http://www.youtube.com/t/creative_commons). 2. Videos that are not checked with a Creative Commons CC-BY license will not be included in the panel. Deadline: 1. Videos must be submitted by November 3, 2011. 2. Videos submitted after this deadline will be collected in the playlist associated with the panel, but may not be included in the presentation at the conference on November 18, 2011 at 2PM. Contact: Please contact Neal Stimler via e-mail at neal.stimler@gmail.com or on Twitter (http://twitter.com/#!/nealstimler) @nealstimler if you are interested in participating in the panel. This panel was modeled after the American Association of Museums Center for the Future program, “Voices of the Future.” Visit this link for more information (http://www.futureofmuseums.org/thinking/Voices.cfm). --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2011 01:15:37 +0100 From: Aurélien BERRA Subject: Édition savante et humanités numériques In-Reply-To: <4E8FF1AA.4060700@lett.unipmn.it> Dear humanists, Please find below the programme of a seminar on "Scholarly Editing and Digital Humanities" starting soon in Paris. Do feel free to forward this announcement to anyone who could be interested. All comments and questions are welcome! Best regards, Aurélien Berra --- Le séminaire "Édition savante et humanités numériques" est un cycle de conférences complémentaires de l'École des hautes études en sciences sociales. Il a lieu de novembre 2011 à juin 2012, le mercredi de 18 h à 20 h, à l’Institut national d’histoire de l’art, 2 rue Vivienne, 75002 Paris, salle Walter Benjamin. L'édition savante vise la mise à disposition d'un corpus en vue de son étude. Les problèmes et les promesses de la réinvention des pratiques dans un environnement numérique rendent fondamentale une réflexion sur le devenir de la philologie. Ces douze séances font alterner trois cycles : analyse d'aspects décisifs à partir d'un corpus d'éditions électroniques ; lecture de textes majeurs des "digital humanities" ; situation de la France dans le champ des humanités numériques. Voici le programme prévu, qui est susceptible d'évoluer en fonction des participants. 09.11.2011 Naviguer dans les éditions 23.11.2011 Hypertexte : T. Nelson, E. Barrett, J. Bolter, G. Landow 14.12.2011 Textes numériques : l'encodage, pratique savante ? 11.01.2012 Comparer les textes 25.01.2012 Informatique et humanités : W. McCarty 08.02.2012 Bases de données 14.03.2012 Visualiser les textes 28.03.2012 Édition numérique : J. McGann 11.04.2012 Communauté : revues, listes et réseaux sociaux 09.05.2012 Interagir avec les éditions 23.05.2012 Édition numérique : P. Shillingsburg 06.06.2012 Centres et institutions Toutes les personnes intéressées sont bienvenues, quels que soient leur spécialité, leur statut et leur pratique de ces technologies toujours nouvelles. Ce séminaire de recherche est conçu comme un lieu de partage non seulement des connaissances, mais aussi des expériences et des questions. Le carnet de recherche en ligne "Philologie à venir" accompagne les conférences (http://philologia.hypotheses.org). Aurélien BERRA Université Paris-Ouest UMR 7041 ArScAn-THEMAM & UMR 8210 ANHIMA _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Nov 2 07:37:00 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id E83C01EC40E; Wed, 2 Nov 2011 07:36:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 748F11EC3FB; Wed, 2 Nov 2011 07:36:56 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111102073656.748F11EC3FB@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2011 07:36:56 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.442 Fish on GeoHumanities X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 442. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2011 09:44:14 -0400 From: "Totosy de Zepetnek, Steven" Subject: totosy Re: [Humanist] 25.440 Fish on GeoHumanities et al. In-Reply-To: <20111101070410.1D61B1EBCDB@woodward.joyent.us> Fish takes the same approach Haun Saussy (Yale, now Chicago) took re comparative literature in Comparative Literature in an Age of Globalization (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins UP, 2006); indeed, how can one take a position of intellectual "achievement" re the humanities without taking into account of the humanities' institutional and job market situation as Willard points out correctly? and, of course, it would be no great effort to counter the position re the achievement of the humanities on the intellectual level either…. steven totosy de zepetnek phd professor http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweblibrary/totosycv On Nov 1, 2011, at 3:04 am, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 440. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2011 06:46:05 +0000 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: Fish on "GeoHumanities" et al > > Stanley Fish, in "The Triumph of the Humanities" (New York Times for 13 > June 2011), notices the recently published collection, GeoHumanities: > Art, History, Text at the Edge of Place, ed. Michael Dear et al (London: > Routledge, 2011), then goes on to scoop up BioHumanities and other > hybrid fields of recent vintage to observe that, >> What this all suggests is that while we have been anguishing over the >> fate of the humanities, the humanities have been busily moving into, >> and even colonizing, the fields that were supposedly displacing them. >> In the ‘70s and the ‘80s the humanities exported theory to the social >> sciences and (with less influence) to the sciences; many disciplines >> saw a pitched battle between the new watchwords — perspective, >> contingency, dispersion, multi-vocality, intertextuality — and the >> traditional techniques of dispassionate observation, the collection of >> evidence, the drawing of warranted conclusions and the establishing of >> solid fact. Now the dust has settled and the invaded disciplines have >> incorporated much of what they resisted. Propositions that once seemed >> outlandish — all knowledge is mediated, even our certainties are >> socially constructed — are now routinely asserted in precincts where >> they were once feared as the harbingers of chaos and corrosive relativism. >> >> One could say then that the humanities are the victors in the theory >> wars; nearly everyone now dances to their tune. But this conceptual >> triumph has not brought with it a proportionate share of resources or >> institutional support. Perhaps administrators still think of the >> humanities as the province of precious insights that offer little to >> those who are charged with the task of making sense of the world. >> Volumes like “GeoHumanities” tell a different story, and it is one >> that cannot be rehearsed too often. > See > http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/13/the-triumph-of-the-humanities/?scp=1&sq=stanley%20fish%20geohumanities&st=cse > for the whole thing. > > I think we might tell a somewhat different story. I think we would shun > sad notions of triumphal conquest or colonization. (Do we really have to > play out within universities tragic errors of the past, configuring > ourselves as agents of empire? How embarrassing! How misleading.) I > think we would rather point to a drive or tendency to interdisciplinary > research. And we might then go on to probe the role of the digital > humanities as participant and urgent force in this quite remarkable change. > > Comments? > > Yours, > WM > > PS: My thanks to my colleague Dr Paul Caton for drawing my attention to > Fish's article. > -- > Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's > College London; Professor (fractional), University of Western Sydney; > Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, > Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Nov 2 07:38:03 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE3F21EC486; Wed, 2 Nov 2011 07:38:02 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0356B1EC478; Wed, 2 Nov 2011 07:37:58 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20111102073759.0356B1EC478@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2011 07:37:58 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.443 open letter on socio-economic sciences and humanities research X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 443. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2011 11:12:29 +0000 From: Poul Holm Subject: Open Letter to the European Commission on Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities research in the new FP, 2014-2020 Dear colleagues, With this message we would like to invite you to sign an Open Letter addressed to the European Commissioner for Research and Innovation (www.eash.eu/openletter2011 http://www.eash.eu/openletter2011 ), alerting her to the vital insights that Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities (SSH) contribute to address Europe's and the world's Grand Societal Challenges. In view of legislative decisions to be taken on the next 100-Billion-worth EU Framework Programme Horizon 2020 (2014-2020), the letter stresses the necessity for a varied and strong research programme in the Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities (SSH): it argues that neglecting such potential contributions as SSH research has to make risks undermining the EU strategy to develop innovative, inclusive and sustainable societies. Yet, there still is a distinct danger of insufficient funding in Horizon 2020 for research areas such as cultural change, demography, education, the economy and globalisation, identity politics and social cohesion, and many others. For background information on these matters see: www.eash.eu/openletter2011 The Open Letter initiative has grown out of deliberations among a number of European umbrella organisations in the area of SSH, and seeks to bring to the attention of the European Commission and national governments the concerns of the largest research community in Europe. If you agree, that a substantial and independent SSH-centered research programme should be included in all future European Framework Programmes, we invite you to sign the Open Letter online at www.eash.eu/openletter2011. Please also kindly spread this invitation to sign in your institutions and among your networks. First results of this initiative will be presented to Commissioner Geoghegan-Quinn on 10 November 2011. We hope to be able to point to a high number of signatures as an expression of a groundswell of support and concern among SSH communities. The collection of signatures will, however, continue after this specific date, as the legislative decision process will last for longer. Thank you in advance for signing and for supporting this initiative. Do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions: SSH-letter@net4society.eu. Poul Holm Professor of Environmental History Academic Director Trinity Long Room Hub Trinity College Dublin Ireland Tel: +353 1 896 8490 Mobile: +353 (0)876 188 039 Fax: +353 1 896 4220 http://www.tcd.ie/longroomhub Trinity Long Room Hub is the Trinity College Arts and Humanities Research Institute To register for our biannual newsletter, BeSpoke, please visit www.tcd.ie/longroomhub/newsletter/ http://www.tcd.ie/longroomhub/newsletter/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Nov 2 07:41:05 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 903CB1EC613; Wed, 2 Nov 2011 07:41:05 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A5CFB1EC5FE; Wed, 2 Nov 2011 07:40:56 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111102074056.A5CFB1EC5FE@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2011 07:40:56 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.444 events: critical textual editing X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 444. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2011 10:10:18 +0000 From: Caroline Macé Subject: LECTIO: Laboratory for Critical Text Editing - Round Table 21 November Dear Colleagues, LECTIO, the Leuven Centre for the study of the transmission of texts and ideas in Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (http://ghum.kuleuven.be/lectio), is organizing a series of round tables in the framework of a "Laboratory for critical text editing". The first one is entitled ‘Digital or critical/Digital and critical?’. Speakers are Franz Fischer (Cologne Center for eHumanities), Karina van Dalen-Oskam (Huygens ING) and Tara Andrews (K.U.Leuven/LECTIO). The meeting will take place on Monday November 21, 2-5 pm, in Leuven, Faculty of Arts (http://www2.arts.kuleuven.be/situering), Room: MSI 02.08. You are most welcome to attend, but, please register by sending an email to An Faems: an.faems@arts.kuleuven.be. Best wishes, Caroline Macé _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Nov 2 07:42:16 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 789E01EC667; Wed, 2 Nov 2011 07:42:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1203C1EC657; Wed, 2 Nov 2011 07:42:12 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111102074212.1203C1EC657@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2011 07:42:12 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.445 call for papers on rhetoric & digital humanities X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 445. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2011 09:07:38 -0400 From: Jim Ridolfo Subject: CFP: Rhetoric and the Digital Humanities *Call For Proposals: Rhetoric and the Digital Humanities * This edited collection will consist of an editors’ introduction and three sections. The first section will consist of eight to twelve chapters that define field connections between rhetoric and the digital humanities. The second section will consist of eight to twelve chapters focused on research methodology. The third section will include eight to twelve short vision statements, modeled after the NEH white paper genre, which offer several paths for exploring interdisciplinary trajectories between rhetorical studies and the digital humanities. Deadline for 500-750 word chapter proposals: *April 1, 2012* (Notification by June 1, 2012) Date for full manuscripts: January, 2013 (Responses to manuscripts by April, 20013) *Please find the full CFP here:* http://rid.olfo.org/cfp/ Regards, Jim and Bill -- Jim Ridolfo, PhD Assistant Professor of Composition and Rhetoric University of Cincinnati http://rid.olfo.org | twitter.com/ridolfoj | +1 (740) RID-OLFO William F. Hart-Davidson Co-Director WIDE Research Center Michigan State University Suite 7 Olds Hall, 48824 http://www.wide.msu.edu _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Nov 3 04:34:33 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D8351EC01A; Thu, 3 Nov 2011 04:34:33 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 3582C1EC00C; Thu, 3 Nov 2011 04:34:25 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111103043426.3582C1EC00C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2011 04:34:25 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.446 Fish on GeoHumanities etc. X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 446. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2011 11:02:03 +0000 From: D.Allington Subject: RE: [Humanist] 25.442 Fish on GeoHumanities In-Reply-To: <20111102073656.748F11EC3FB@woodward.joyent.us> As Steven observes, it is 'no great effort to counter [Fish's] position re the achievement of the humanities on the intellectual level'. In fact, one can easily counter or even reverse most of the positions he takes in that article. For example, to say (as Fish does) that 'In the ‘70s and the ‘80s the humanities exported theory to the social sciences' is to forget that the social sciences have always 'exported theory' to the humanities. Even when I agree with Fish, I can't help but be annoyed by his posturing and empty controversialism. If he were an anonymous USENET poster, we'd call him a troll. Which suggests that the best response may be to ignore him - as I have in this case failed to do! Daniel Dr Daniel Allington Lecturer in English Language Studies and Applied Linguistics Centre for Language and Communication The Open University +44 (0) 1908 332 914 http://open.academia.edu/DanielAllington _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Nov 3 04:37:38 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42FA51EC08A; Thu, 3 Nov 2011 04:37:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D9C991EC082; Thu, 3 Nov 2011 04:37:32 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111103043732.D9C991EC082@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2011 04:37:32 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.447 events: doing the PhD at King's; e-research X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 447. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Ashton, Anna" (24) Subject: Call for papers: CeRch Seminar Series [2] From: "Pierazzo, Elena" (31) Subject: Becoming a Digital Humanities PhD Student: workshop at King's College London --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2011 11:13:21 +0000 From: "Ashton, Anna" Subject: Call for papers: CeRch Seminar Series Call for papers: Centre for e-Research (CeRch) Seminar Series http://www.kcl.ac.uk/innovation/groups/cerch/events/seminars/index.aspx This Seminar Series is a wide-ranging programme of events organised every term by CeRch at King's College London. With viewpoints from many disciplines including the sciences, social sciences and humanities, the series' primary focus is methodological: the seminars will focus on the theory and practice of e-Research, its place in academia and society, and how it can benefit a range of stakeholders. We are now inviting papers for the Spring term. Please send an abstract of no more than 500 words to Stuart.Dunn@kcl.ac.uk. Deadline 15 November 2011. Dinner will be provided on the evening and accommodation and travel will be reimbursed. Spring term dates: January 17, 31; February 14, 28; March 13, 27 Seminars are held fortnightly during term time at 6.15pm in the Anatomy Theatre & Museum at King's College London Strand Campus (http://atm.kcl.ac.uk/location) and are followed by drinks. Follow us on Twitter @KingsCeRch Twitter hashtag: #cerchseminars ___ Anna Ashton Communications Manager Centre for e-Research King's College London 26-29 Drury Lane London, WC2B 5RL Email: anna.ashton@kcl.ac.uk Tel: 020 7848 2689 Fax: 020 7848 1989 http://www.kcl.ac.uk/cerch Follow us on Twitter @KingsCeRch --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2011 17:15:29 +0000 From: "Pierazzo, Elena" Subject: Becoming a Digital Humanities PhD Student: workshop at King's College London With apologies for cross posting. The event described below will be of immediate interest to people in the London area, but we will shortly be hosting a virtual open day for those elsewhere. Please forward this notice to anyone you think might be interested. ================================= Are you thinking of doing a MPhil/PhD in Digital Humanities or Digital Humanities with Hellenic Studies, Classics, Comparative Literature, History, English, French, German, Music…? And would you like to study in central London at one of the world top universities? If the answer is yes, come to our event to meet potential supervisors and current PhD students. There will also be a research clinic, followed by a drinks reception. Additionally, this event is open to all University of London MA and current MPhil/PhD students who would like to add a digital component to their PhD. 1 December 6 to 8pm in S3.41 Strand Campus Programme 6.00-7.00 - Session 1 Welcome to PhD Programme: Structure and Aims (Professor Willard McCarty) Career Prospects for Postgraduate (Emma Baker, Career Services) Being a Digital Humanities PhD Student: Perspectives of two Current Students Research Environment in the Department of Digital Humanities (Dr John Lavagnino) Supervisors and Research Questions (Dr Elena Pierazzo) 7.00-8.00 Session 2 (Drinks Reception) Research Clinic and Networking Find more details on our website: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/ddh/study/pgr/workshop.aspx Regards Elena _________________________ Dr Elena Pierazzo Lecturer in Digital Humanities Chair of the Teaching Committee Department of Digital Humanities King's College London 26-29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL Phone: 0207-848-1949 Fax: 0207-848-2980 elena.pierazzo@kcl.ac.uk www.kcl.ac.uk _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Nov 4 09:11:09 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A4321F05E2; Fri, 4 Nov 2011 09:11:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 91F461F05D1; Fri, 4 Nov 2011 09:10:56 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111104091058.91F461F05D1@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2011 09:10:56 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.448 events: digital projects, Trinity College Dublin X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 448. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2011 10:05:10 +0000 From: Shawn Day Subject: Long Room Hub Digital Projects Roundtable TCD Digital Projects Roundtable 1 *All Welcome* Friday, 4th November, 1-2:00 PM Neill/Hoey Lecture Theatre, Trinity Long Room Hub • Catherine Morris, Long Room Hub, will talk about her work with digital archives and contribution to Europeana in Poland; • Dermot Frost, High Performance Computing Centre, will speak about Trinity's participation in the National Audio/Visual Repository (NAVR) Project; • Mads Haahr, School of Computer Science, will share experiences working with augmented reality. Following are the Digital Forum Events taking place through December. Tuesday, 11th October, 4-5:30 PM Dr Richard Cunningham, Acadia University Implementing a New Knowledge Environment: Textual Studies and Architectures of the Book Monday, 17th October, 11-12:30 PM Dr Robert Whalen, Northern Michigan University Building the Digital Temple: How did we get here? Friday, 4th November, 1-2 PM TCD Digital Projects Roundtable 1 Monday, 28th November, 1:30-5:30 PM (in the Hub SEMINAR ROOM) Making Your Text Digital: Introduction to XML Markup Hands-on workshop limited to 15 participants: register by email to mccaddek@tcd.ie Monday, 5th December, 1-2 PM TCD Digital Projects Roundtable 2 All events will be held in the Long Room Hub. Please distribute this poster widely. All are welcome. --- Shawn Day --- Digital Humanities Observatory (RIA), --- Regus Pembroke House, --- 28 - 30 Pembroke Street Upper --- Dublin 2 IRELAND --- about.me/shawnday --- Tel: 00 353 1 2342441 --- s.day@ria.ie --- http://dho.ie http://dho.ie/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Nov 4 10:41:52 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 556D01EF246; Fri, 4 Nov 2011 10:41:52 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 20AFE1EF233; Fri, 4 Nov 2011 10:41:43 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111104104144.20AFE1EF233@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2011 10:41:43 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.449 methodology vs style? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 449. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2011 10:33:59 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: methodology vs style In "The Politics of Explanation: an Alternative" (Knowledge and Reflexivity: New Frontiers in the Sociology of Knowledge, ed. Woolgar, 1988), Bruno Latour argues that our inherited idea of explanatory power inherently separates us from that which we study, indeed that this power is proportional to the distance between an explanation and that which it explains. From the theorem that contains all instances, the law from which all behaviours may be derived, the object that stands for all of its kind we derive a sense of control, command, satisfaction. With them we are able to act at a distance. Those who think about geophysical space will recognise the relevance of arguments concerning the politics of mapping. Programmers will recognise the pleasure of building software that in a sense replaces all its output because that output can be generated at any time. (I know: who does that any more other than systems programmers?) Latour is concerned specifically with social scientific and historiographical explanations, i.e. with those in which the loss imposed by this distance, by mapping the territory of interest is severe. For the humanities it is perhaps even more severe, though I think that it's a pointless competition. The alternative he proposes is not to abandon the distancing, and so the formulation of causes. (The robustness of the idea of causation suggests its usefulness, but see R. G. Collingwood's brilliant essay, "On the so-called idea of causation", in JSTOR.) Rather it is to display all the work of formulating the explanation. This, he points out, is irreductionist: it adds the work of reduction to the rest rather than subtracting the rest once the reduction has been achieved. (For an example of a history written in this way, brilliantly, see David Mindell's Between Human and Machine: Feedback, Control and Computing before Cybernetics, 2002.) Latour notes the resultant deflation of methodology. Instead, he recommends, the function of methodology should be done by style, that is, by rendering as detailed, lively and engaging an account as possible. Our own focus (to which I plead massively guilty) on methodology, on "the methodological commons", has that reductionist tendency, though I think in practice that the pace of change in computing makes this a common space in which styles of acting are exhibited far more often than great monuments are erected. But there is a problem created by our talking as if methods were durable objects rather than wills-o'-the-wisp, or as Alan Perlis said, soap-bubbles. You can see where this is going: in the direction already being explored by Geoffrey Rockwell's and Stéfan Sinclair's Hermeneuti.ca (name and URL are identical). And yes, of course, this makes our job of staking out turf increasingly more difficult. But perhaps this is a liberation. Comments? Yours, WM -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor (fractional), University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Nov 5 12:31:31 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD1BD1F19D3; Sat, 5 Nov 2011 12:31:30 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 8E0371F198A; Sat, 5 Nov 2011 12:31:16 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111105123116.8E0371F198A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2011 12:31:16 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.450 postdocs at Amsterdam X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 450. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2011 13:26:05 +0100 From: Rens Bod Subject: Two postdoc positions in Digital Humanities/Computational Linguistics at University of Amsterdam Two postdoc positions in Digital Humanities/Computational Linguistics at University of Amsterdam Starting date: 1 March 2012 See http://www.uva.nl/vacatures/vacatures.cfm/447DAFE1-1098-4F19-9D7E6A4EDE4B7FEE 2 Postdocs in Digital Humanities/Computational Linguistics 1.0 FTE (38 hours per week, for 2 years) vacancy number W11-208 You are interested in the development and application of digital methods in the humanities. Digital research corpora of literature, art, music and language are changing the humanities in a spectacular way, leading to new questions that seemed unanswerable until very recently. The Digital Humanities or e-Humanities transcend the individual humanities disciplines, and you will need to be at home in more than one discipline. Tasks The postdoctoral researchers will execute their research projects within the broader context of the research field and will occasionally be called upon to participate in teaching and supervision tasks. The researchers will cooperate with other members of the field that have backgrounds in various relevant fields, and contribute to organizing an international conference. Furthermore, candidates are expected actively to apply for external funding related to the research priority area. We welcome applications in all fields of Digital Humanities. We particularly welcome applications that fit within the following two project themes: Postdoc project theme 1: Corpus Creation and Games People experience language, literature, music, art, film, and games more and more through digital devices that allow, in principle, for monitoring their experiences and responses. This state of affairs opens up completely new ways of collecting data on how people experience language and the cultural products traditionally studied in the humanities. This postdoc project theme is about conceptualizing simple but attractive applications for the web, smartphones and tablets, with the goal of collecting data on important open questions in the humanities (for instance, on the relation between language and music). The candidate will have good programming skills, knowledge of techniques used in the game industry, and creative ideas about how they can be applied to answer open questions from the academic disciplines that study language, literature, music, art or film. Postdoc project theme 2: Literary Quality Literary quality is one of the most fascinating issues in literary studies. Scholars have found that social and cultural factors play an important role in the acceptance of a fictional work as literary or non-literary and as good or bad. This project theme will research whether formal characteristics of a text also play a role in readers' decisions to call a fictional text literary or non-literary, and good or bad. It will integrate the analysis of low-level lexical-statistical features and high-level syntactic and narrative features. This project is especially intended to investigate literary quality across different languages, by using techniques such as Data-Oriented Parsing. It will be carried out in close collaboration with the Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). The candidate will have a background in literary studies or (computational) linguistics, and will have programming skills and knowledge of natural language processing. Requirements ■Completed Doctoral degree in a relevant field; ■Publications in peer-reviewed journals or with established academic publishers; ■Excellent academic writing and presentation skills; ■Excellent social and organizational skills; ■Experience with external fundraising is an advantage. Further information For further information about the position and the field of Digital Humanities contact rens.bod@uva.nl, or the Faculty’s research department at onderzoek-fgw@uva.nl. Appointment The Postdoc positions will be on a temporary basis for the period of two years. The starting date will be March 1st 2012 at the latest. The gross monthly salary will be between € 3195 and 4374 (‘Onderzoeker 3’; salary scale 11, according to the collective labour agreement Dutch universities) in the case of a full-time position (38 hours/week). Depending on experience and date of completion of the PhD an appointment as ‘Onderzoeker 4’ (between € 2379 and € 3755; salary scale 10, according to the collective labour agreement Dutch universities) may (initially) be necessary. A contract of 0.8 fte is possible as well. Secondary benefits at Dutch universities are attractive and include holiday pay and an end of year bonus. Job application Applications including a cover letter, complete academic CV, and project proposal (maximum 1800 words in length) should be submitted at the latest on Monday November 28th 2011, 08.00 hrs. Please send your documents to onderzoek-fgw@uva.nl. Interviews with selected candidates will be held in the afternoon of Monday December 19th 2011. Please state the vacancy number and ‘strictly confidential’ in the upper left corner of the envelope or in the subject field of your e-mail. -- Prof dr Rens Bod, VICI Laureate Chair of Computational Humanities Institute for Logic, Language and Computation, University of Amsterdam Visiting Address: Science Park 904, 1098 XH Amsterdam, NL Postal Address: P.O. Box 94242, 1090 GE Amsterdam, NL phone: +31 20 5256086 or +31 20 5256051 http://staff.science.uva.nl/~rens/ http://devergetenwetenschappen.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Nov 7 08:18:03 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37C351F1392; Mon, 7 Nov 2011 08:18:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id AB9FA1F1379; Mon, 7 Nov 2011 08:17:55 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111107081755.AB9FA1F1379@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2011 08:17:55 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.451 events: academic heritage X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 451. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2011 13:28:35 +0100 From: Roland Wittje Subject: XIII Universeum Network Meeting - Call for papers XIII UNIVERSEUM NETWORK MEETING Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway, 14-16 June 2012 Call for Papers The European Academic Heritage Network UNIVERSEUM announces its 13th annual meeting. UNIVERSEUM invites submissions of papers on academic heritage in its broadest sense, tangible and intangible, namely the preservation, study, access and promotion of university collections, museums, archives, libraries, botanical gardens, astronomical observatories, and university buildings of historical, artistic and scientific significance. Sessions and workshops to three main themes will be organised: Academic Heritage and Public Engagement Organised by Klaus Staubermann Central Museums / Central Storage Versus Dispersed Collections Organised by Ing-Marie Munktell Recent Scientific Heritage at Universities Organised by Roland Wittje Papers on other topics, especially those which have not been presented at Universeum meetings before, are welcomed too. Graduate students are especially encouraged to attend and present a paper. Paper presentations are limited to 20 minutes, including 5 minutes for discussion. The conference language is English. Please send abstracts for paper proposals of no more than 200 words to the email address below before 31 January 2012. Please use the abstract template at the conference website www.ntnu.edu/universeum2012. Include a short biography highlighting main research interests (no more than 50 words). Proposals will be reviewed by the Programme Committee. Speakers will be given notice by 1 March 2012. More info: www.ntnu.edu/universeum2012 For proposals and inquiries, please contact: universeum2012@hf.ntnu.no Program Committee: Thomas Brandt, Norwegian University of Science and Technology Marta Lourenço, University of Lisbon Sofia Talas, University of Padua Roland Wittje, University of Regensburg (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 Mon Nov 7 09:56:04 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0D491F274F; Mon, 7 Nov 2011 09:56:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 81CF31F272E; Mon, 7 Nov 2011 09:55:57 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111107095557.81CF31F272E@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2011 09:55:57 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.452 open letter on research 2014-2020 X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 452. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2011 09:50:19 +0000 From: Sinead O'Sullivan Subject: Open Letter to the European Commission on Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities research in the new FP, 2014-2020 In-Reply-To: <06A4382E-77D6-42BF-A7A1-A305222D45C0@mimectl> Open Letter to the European Commission on Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities research in the new FP, 2014-2020 http://www.eash.eu/openletter2011/ Dear colleagues, With this message we would like to invite you to sign an Open Letter addressed to the European Commissioner for Research and Innovation (http://www.eash.eu/openletter2011/), alerting her to the vital insights that Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities (SSH) contribute to address Europe’s and the world’s Grand Societal Challenges. In view of legislative decisions to be taken on the next 100-Billion-worth EU Framework Programme Horizon 2020 (2014-2020), the letter stresses the necessity for a varied and strong research programme in the Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities (SSH): it argues that neglecting such potential contributions as SSH research has to make risks undermining the EU strategy to develop innovative, inclusive and sustainable societies. Yet, there still is a distinct danger of insufficient funding in Horizon 2020 for research areas such as cultural change, demography, education, the economy and globalisation, identity politics and social cohesion, and many others. For background information on these matters see: http://www.eash.eu/openletter2011/ The Open Letter initiative has grown out of deliberations among a number of European umbrella organisations in the area of SSH, and seeks to bring to the attention of the European Commission and national governments the concerns of the largest research community in Europe. If you agree, that a substantial and independent SSH-centered research programme should be included in all future European Framework Programmes, we invite you to sign the Open Letter online at http://www.eash.eu/openletter2011/. Please also kindly circulate this invitation to sign among your institutions, and across your networks and subject associations. First results of this initiative will be presented to Commissioner Geoghegan-Quinn on 10 November 2011. We hope to be able to point to a high number of signatures as an expression of a groundswell of support and concern among SSH communities. The collection of signatures will, however, continue after this specific date, as the legislative decision process will last for longer. Thank you in advance for signing and for supporting this initiative. Do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions: SSH-letter@net4society.eu. On behalf of the Inter-agency Task Group on SSH in Europe, Dr Ruediger Klein Executive Director European Federation of National Academies of Sciences and Humanities (ALLEA) P.O.Box 19121, 1000GC Amsterdam c/o KNAW, Kloveniersburgwal 29, 1011JV Amsterdam The Netherlands Tel.: +31-20-5510-722 (secretariat: -754) ruediger.klein@allea.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 Nov 7 09:56:46 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3B281F27E4; Mon, 7 Nov 2011 09:56:45 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 366271F27CC; Mon, 7 Nov 2011 09:56:40 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111107095640.366271F27CC@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2011 09:56:40 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.453 events: annotation of corpora X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 453. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2011 09:29:40 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Workshop on Annotation of Corpora for Research in the Humanities ACRH: Workshop on Annotation of Corpora for Research in the Humanities 5 January 2012 University of Heidelberg http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/conf/ACRH10/index.php The workshop aims at building a tighter collaboration between people working in various areas of the Humanities (such as literature, philology, history etc.) and the research community involved in developing, using and making annotated corpora accessible. -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor (fractional), University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Nov 8 08:44:02 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22CDE1F3D12; Tue, 8 Nov 2011 08:44:02 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D9C961F3D07; Tue, 8 Nov 2011 08:43:57 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111108084357.D9C961F3D07@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2011 08:43:57 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.454 call to department chairs: evaluating digital scholarship X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 454. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2011 14:17:00 -0500 From: Andrew Stauffer Subject: Department Chairs: call for applications to NINES/NEH Summer Institute 2012 on Evaluating Digital Scholarship In-Reply-To: Call for Applications: *Chairs of Departments* NINES / NEH Summer Institute: Evaluating Digital Scholarship http://institutes.nines.org June 19 – June 22, 2012 University of Virginia Hosted by NINES http://nines.org In 2012, NINES (Networked Infrastructure for Nineteenth-century Electronic Scholarship) at the University of Virginia will be hosting the second of two NEH Summer Institutes in Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities. The topic is “Evaluating Digital Scholarship," and we are specifically inviting *current and incoming Department Chairs in English, Foreign Languages, and Classics* to participate. We are planning to gather Department Chairs from a range of colleges and universities to address these issues specifically at the level of departmental leadership. Starting from documents produced last year, we aim to produce collaborative working papers that could help guide the activities of language and literature departments as scholarship moves into digital forms. Last summer’s Institute brought together scholars and administrators for a series of conversations about scholarly values and the opportunities and challenges of the digital. Information and documents generated at the 2011 Institute can be found at our website. (http://institutes.nines.org) The 2012 Institute will be focused on five categories of departmental activity, with attention to the specifics of literary studies and the digital humanities: Promotion and tenure Hiring and retention Graduate training Curriculum and teaching Departmental culture The NINES / NEH Institute will begin on the morning of June 20 and continue through the evening of June 22, 2012. Participants will be reimbursed for their travel expenses and hotel costs and given a modest honorarium. Applications should consist of a *c.v. and a brief narrative* (not to exceed 800 words) describing your background/perspective, your reasons for wanting to be part of the Institute, and your thoughts on departmental activities in reference to the changing nature of scholarship in a digital age. * Please send applications BY DECEMBER 15, 2011 to institutes@nines.org*. You may direct questions to the organizers: Andrew Stauffer at the University of Virginia (amstauff@gmail.com), Laura Mandell at Texas A&M (laura.mandell@gmail.com), or Susan Schreibman at Trinity College Dublin (Susan.Schreibman@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 Nov 8 08:46:28 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04BC61F3DB9; Tue, 8 Nov 2011 08:46:28 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 3C0171F3DA5; Tue, 8 Nov 2011 08:46:23 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111108084623.3C0171F3DA5@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2011 08:46:23 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.455 events: libraries; publishing X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 455. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Peter Linde (128) Subject: Elpub 2012 Call for Papers [2] From: Mats Dahlström (42) Subject: CFP: LIDA 2012 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2011 13:27:40 +0100 From: Peter Linde Subject: Elpub 2012 Call for Papers Call for Papers 16th International Conference on Electronic Publishing June 14-15, 2012, Guimarães, Portugal Social Shaping of Digital Publishing: Exploring the interplay between Culture and Technology SCOPE Since the advent of the Web the processes and forms of electronic publishing have been changing. The Open Access movement has been a major driver of change in recent years in regard to scholarly communication. However, on other fields of application, such as e-government or e-learning, the changes are also evident. These are, in most cases, driven by technological advances, but there are many cases where social reality change pushes technology development. The social and the mobile Web and linked data are currently shaping the edge of research on digital publishing. Liquid publishing is on the more daring agendas. Digital Preservation is an issue that poses great challenges, still far from solved. The legal issues, security and trust continue to deserve our full attention. We need new visualization techniques and Innovative Interfaces that keep pace with the global dimension of information. This is the current scenario, but what will follow? What technologies and social and communication paradigms will we be discussing in ten or twenty years? Elpub 2012 will be focusing on the social shaping of digital publishing by exploring the interplay between culture and technology. It is fitting that we are hosting the conference in the European Capital of Culture for 2012, Guimarães. We welcome a wide variety of papers from members of the communities whose research and experiments are transforming the nature of electronic publishing and scholarly communications. Topics include but are not restricted to these seven main areas: 1 - Digital Scholarship, Open Access and Open Science Concepts, models and innovative applications in the field of scholarly communication. Results of recent studies on current practices. New tools and / or results of studies of their applicability. Positioning on new trends. 2 ?Interoperability and the Intelligent Web Concepts, models and innovative applications that are based on the paradigms of the Semantic Web. Metadata, linked data and open linked data, text mining, traceability, scalability, rules, inference and agents on open environments. Cloud computing and related applications, services and studies. Demonstration applications. Results of field studies and software applications. 3 ? The Social and Mobile Web Concepts, models and innovative applications for the social Web and for the mobile Web. Challenges and achievements of electronic publishing in mobile environments. Context-aware pervasive systems. Geo-location and electronic publication. Information retrieval. The social Web in mobile environments. Results of field studies and software applications. 4 ? The legal, secure and trustful Web Copyright and legal issues. Convergence, divergence and relationships between existing copyright models. Machine-readable information and interoperability on copyright. Authentication. Security and privacy on publishing and in cloud computing. Theoretical models or tools to ensure the reliability of sources. Results of field studies and software applications. 5 ? Innovative interfaces, interaction and visualization New models of interfaces for electronic publication. New interfaces for impaired people. Models and visualization applications for Web 3.0 and 4.0 and for cloud computing. Results of field studies and software applications. 6 ? Failures and learnings Papers that report experimentations that did not work and lessons learned from those failures. 7 ? The future of Digital Publishing Position papers with new insights for the future. New scholarly constructs and discourse methods. Innovative business models for electronic publishing. New technological paradigms for electronic publishing. Contributions are invited for the following categories: · Research papers (up to 10 pages; please use the template in the conference web site) · Posters (up to 3 pages. · Extended abstracts (a minimum of 1,000 and maximum of 1,500 words; please specify it as ?extended abstract? using the template) Information for authors All submissions are subject to blind peer review and acceptance by the international ELPUB Programme Committee. Accepted full papers will be published by IOS Press in a digital format open access conference proceedings book. Full papers are currently being indexed in DBLP and are expected to be indexed by ISI, Scopus and INSPEC (application under evaluation). Accepted abstracts will be extended to full papers and published online only. Final versions of all the works will be available online and archived at: http://elpub.scix.net. The best papers accepted for Elpub 2012, are planned to be published in a special issue of the Journal ?Information Services & Use? (IOS Press). All submitted papers will have opportunities for consideration for this Special Journal Issue. The selection will be carried out during the review process. Submitted papers must not be under consideration by any other journal or publication. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register with the Conference and present the paper. Paper submission will be done via EasyChair. To submit a paper, please use the template available and follow the specific instructions available at the conference website ( http://www.elpub.net). All content published in the Elpub proceedings are distributed open access via the conference archive (http://elpub.scix.net.) under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution license, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided that the original work is properly cited. For content published in IOS Press channels, different copyright arrangements might apply. Important Dates · January 9, 2012: Deadline for submission of full-text papers and extended abstracts (in all categories). · February 20, 2012: Notification of acceptance of submitted papers and extended abstracts · March 26, 2012: Deadline for submissions of all final papers in camera ready form. Conference dates and location: June 14-15, 2012, University of Minho, Guimarães (European Capital of Culture 2012), Portugal Conference Host: University of Minho, Guimarães, Portugal General Chair: Professor Ana Alice Baptista, University of Minho, Portugal Programme Chair: Peter Linde, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden All suggestions and comments are welcome. Please send us your ideas about what keynote speakers to invite Looking forward to your contributions and participation in the conference! See website for all details: http://www.elpub.net Peter Linde Blekinge Tekniska Högskola Biblioteket 371 79 Karlskrona Tel 0455-385103, Fax 0455-385107 Mobile: +46 708 778138 E-mail: peter.linde@bth.se Blekinge Institute of Technology The Library S-371 79 Karlskrona Sweden Tel +46 455 385103 Fax +46 455 385107 E-mail: peter.linde@bth.se --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2011 08:39:46 +0100 From: Mats Dahlström Subject: CFP: LIDA 2012 On behalf of the organizers, here is a (link to the) call for papers for LIDA 2012: -------------------------- CALL FOR PARTICIPATION - LIBRARIES IN THE DIGITAL AGE (LIDA) 2012 Zadar, Croatia, 18-22 June 2012 University of Zadar, Zadar, Croatia (http://www.unizd.hr/) Full CFP and conference information at: http://ozk.unizd.hr/lida/ Email: lida@unizd.hr Libraries in the Digital Age (LIDA) is a biennial international conference that focuses on the challenging and rapidly transforming nature of libraries and information systems and services. In recognition of today’s continually evolving online and mediated technological environment, “CHANGES” has been chosen as the theme for LIDA 2012, which is divided into two parts. The first part addresses advances in applications and practice and the second part covers research and development. LIDA 2012 brings together researchers, educators, practitioners, and developers from all over the world in a forum for personal exchanges, discussions, and learning, made memorable by being held in an enchanting and spectacularly beautiful city on the shore of the Adriatic Sea. Instructions for submissions are at LIDA site: http://ozk.unizd.hr/lida/ Important dates: Papers and posters - an extended abstract by 31 January 2012; accepted full papers and poster summary in final form for Proceedings by 15 April 2012. Workshops - short proposal by 31 January 2012. Demonstrations - proposal by 1 March 2012. PhD Forum - dissertation proposal or research description by 1 April 2012. Conference co-directors: TATJANA APARAC-JELUSIC, Ph.D., Department of Information Sciences, University of Zadar; Zadar, Croatia; taparac@unizd.hr TEFKO SARACEVIC, Ph.D., School of Communication and Information, Rutgers University; New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA tefkos@rutgers.edu Program chairs: For part I: MARIE L. RADFORD, Ph.D., School of Communication and Information, Rutgers University; New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA mradford@rutgers.edu For part II: CHRISTINE L. BORGMAN, Ph.D., Department of Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA borgman@gseis.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 Wed Nov 9 08:20:38 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id F20751F489E; Wed, 9 Nov 2011 08:20:37 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 9166E1F4876; Wed, 9 Nov 2011 08:20:31 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111109082031.9166E1F4876@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2011 08:20:31 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.456 new publication: GLIMPSE 8 on cartography X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 456. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2011 21:12:41 -0700 From: "Glimpse Journal" Subject: GLIMPSE issue 8, CARTOGRAPHY, now available [Please forward as desired. Apologies for duplicates and cross-postings.] "CARTOGRAPHY" GLIMPSE | the art + science of seeing, issue 8, autumn 2011 now available http://www.glimpsejournal.com GLIMPSE issue 8, "Cartography," presents perspectives on the history and human experience of mapping, at varying scales. This issue considers how the symbolic definition of real and imagined boundaries expressed in maps, may both expand and constrain human understanding. CONTENTS Selected Dates in European, Islamic and Chinese Cartography by Esther Howe with Meghan O’Reilly and Connie Wang Atlas Vertebra by Arto Vaun Borrowed Borders: Cartographic leverage from empires to zip codes by Mark Monmonier Narrative Cartographies: Creating an atlas as a novel by Elbie Bentley From Sextant to SatNav: Building a 3-D map of the human heart with supplementary multimedia illustrations by Katherine Fletcher, Peter Kohl and Denis Noble RetroSpect: A Map of the Open Country of Woman’s Heart... by Georgia B. Barnhill Losing And Finding Our Way: A conversation about cognitive mapping and orientation with neuroscientist Giuseppe Iaria by Rachel Sapin with introduction by Carolyn Arcabascio Reorganizing Space, Negotiating Identity: The use of placenames in ordinary conversation by Lisa Gabbert The Literary Terrain of Mark Twain and the Mississippi by Rachel Sapin Many Rivers and Kara’s Wave by Matthew Cusick Cartography and Humanism: Concordances and discordances by Yi-Fu Tuan (Re)views by Meghan O’Reilly ____________________________ GLIMPSE | the art + science of seeing http://www.glimpsejournal.com An interdisciplinary journal examining visual perception and its implications for being, knowing, and constructing our world(s) _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Nov 9 08:30:24 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EB711F4C70; Wed, 9 Nov 2011 08:30:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id EC8C21F4C53; Wed, 9 Nov 2011 08:30:16 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111109083016.EC8C21F4C53@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2011 08:30:16 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.457 events: Australian fiction; models & simulations X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 457. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Michele Pasin (14) Subject: DDH Research Seminar - Novel knowledge: Australian fiction,AustLit and digital humanities [2] From: Uskali Mäki (51) Subject: cfp: Models and Simulations 5 (Helsinki, 14-16 June 2012) --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2011 11:35:42 +0000 From: Michele Pasin Subject: DDH Research Seminar - Novel knowledge: Australian fiction, AustLit and digital humanities Dear Colleagues and Students, You are invited to our departmental research seminar this Thursday 10 November 2011, in DDH seminar room, Drury Lane, Strand Campus, King's College London, at 1pm. Out speaker this month is Dr. Katherine Bode, from the Australian National University. The title of her talk is "Novel knowledge: Australian fiction, AustLit and digital humanities". ================================ SUMMARY: Australia is leading the world in the scope and comprehensiveness of its online bibliographical archive, AustLit: The Australian Literature Resource. My research draws on this database to explore the critical potential of data-mining, modeling and visualization as methods for investigating and analyzing literary and book history. This paper discusses the possibilities and limitations of this data-rich, digital humanities approach, and offers a case study of the findings it enables. By analyzing patterns in the production, circulation and reception of nineteenth-century Australian novels, I present new insights into the operations of publishing and print culture in Australia, the relationship between British and colonial book markets and readerships, as well as shifts in British publishing at the end of the nineteenth century. =============================== Katherine Bode is Senior Lecturer in literary and textual studies in the Digital Humanities Hub at the Australian National University. She has published widely on gender in contemporary fiction and on quantitative and digital approaches to literary history. Her latest monograph, Reading by Numbers: Recalibrating the Literary Field, will be published by Anthem Press in March 2012. She was Co-Editor of Resourceful Reading: The New Empiricism, eResearch, and Australian Literary Culture, Sydney University Press, 2006. I hope that you can join us. Best wishes, Michele Pasin Full colloquia listings are at: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/ddh/events/newdh/index.aspx Department of Digital Humanities: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/ddh/index.aspx --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2011 19:53:06 +0000 From: Uskali Mäki Subject: cfp: Models and Simulations 5 (Helsinki, 14-16 June 2012) Call for papers MODELS AND SIMULATIONS 5 Helsinki, 14-16 June 2012 The Finnish Centre of Excellence in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences is delighted to host the 5th Models and Simulations (MS5) conference in Helsinki. Conference website: http://www.helsinki.fi/ms5 The previous MS meetings have taken place in Paris, Tilburg, Charlottesville, and Toronto. As before, the overall theme of the conference will be the philosophical and methodological issues of simulations and models, broadly construed. Papers on any aspect of this theme are welcome from both philosophers and practicing scientists. One focus of the 5th meeting will be on models and simulations within and across the social sciences. Of course, submissions of papers related to the natural sciences in particular and modeling and simulating in general are also welcome. Possible topics include the following: Models, simulations, and scientific representation. Models, simulations, and scientific explanation. Fictions vs. idealizations. The role of simplicity, generality, robustness, unifying power, and other non-empirical epistemic virtues in modeling. Styles and conventions of modeling in different disciplines. Transfer of model templates and modelling methods across disciplinary boundaries. What kinds of inherent biases do model-based research heuristics involve? What standards should be used in assessing model-based expertise in policy applications? How to combine different sources of evidence within a model? How to render model-based evidence commensurable with other evidence? Keynote speakers • Rosaria Conte (ISTC-CNR, Rome) • Mary Morgan (LSE) • Tim Benton (Leeds) SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS Abstracts of 100 words and extended abstracts of 800-1000 words The deadline for submission is 5 February 2012 Abstract submission is electronic. To submit, please prepare a PDF file of your extended abstract. Make sure that the extended abstract is prepared for blind review. Then follow this link: https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=ms5 If you do not already have an EasyChair account, you first need to create one when you enter the site. When logged in, click on the new submission link. Include your 100 words abstract and upload the PDF file of your extended abstract. You will be able to revise your submission any number of times before the deadline. For further information and inquiries, please contact jaakko.kuorikoski@helsinki.fi -- Uskali Mäki University of Helsinki http://www.helsinki.fi/tint _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Nov 10 08:29:49 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71F301F5234; Thu, 10 Nov 2011 08:29:49 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 167171F5224; Thu, 10 Nov 2011 08:29:47 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111110082947.167171F5224@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 08:29:47 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.458 unworthy? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 458. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2011 13:06:52 -0200 From: renata lemos-morais Subject: "the human sciences have yet to prove their worth" "Earlier this year, Senator Tom Coburn published a report called “Under the Microscope,” in which he criticized the funding of any research he couldn’t immediately understand as important. Of particularly dubious value, in Coburn’s opinion, are the behavioral and social sciences—including my own field, psychology. Following his report, Coburn proposed eliminating the National Science Foundation’s funding for these “human” sciences, writing: “…do any of these social studies represent obvious national priorities that deserve a cut of the same pie as astronomy, biology, chemistry, earth science, physics and oceanography?” Mo Brooks, the chair of a congressional panel considering such cuts, echoed this opinion. Brooks explicitly claimed that the human sciences have yet to prove their worth" more at: http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/streamsofconsciousness/2011/11/08/understanding-your-mind-is-mission-critical/ -- *renata lemos-morais* nomadesign.com.br _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Nov 10 08:34:37 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9F601F52F4; Thu, 10 Nov 2011 08:34:37 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A792D1F52DE; Thu, 10 Nov 2011 08:34:34 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111110083434.A792D1F52DE@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 08:34:34 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.459 events: communication; documentation; information & AI X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 459. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Prescott, Andrew" (30) Subject: Lecture in Edinburgh [2] From: Dianne Nguyen (85) Subject: Solomonoff Memorial Conf, Melbourne, Nov/Dec 2011,Call for Participation [3] From: I-CHASS (29) Subject: HASTAC V Conference at University of Michigan Ann Arbor Dec 1-3 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2011 09:56:32 +0000 From: "Prescott, Andrew" Subject: Lecture in Edinburgh 14TH ANNUAL DR HAROLD PLENDERLEITH MEMORIAL LECTURE Digitally documenting the historic environment: challenges and opportunities Queen Anne Room Edinburgh Castle Thursday 24 November 2011 6pm - 9pm The Icon Scotland group are pleased to announce details of the 14th Annual Dr Harold Plenderleith Memorial Lecture. This year¹s lecture is being given by David S Mitchell, Director of Conservation at Historic Scotland and will be held at the stunning Edinburgh Castle on Thursday 24 November 2011. The title of the talk is Digitally documenting the historic environment: challenges and opportunities and David will discuss the 3D laser scanning of historic buildings and sites and the possibilities that open up for remote access, use and interpretation. Sites in both Scotland and internationally that have already been scanned include Mount Rushmore and Rosslyn Chapel as featured in the Da Vinci Code. This promises to be a fantastic visual treat so book now. Tickets must be booked and paid for in advance by calling the Icon office on 020 3142 6799 or you can download the booking form attached. Cost: Icon members £10; non members £12; students and unwaged £5 The lecture starts at 6.15pm and there is a drinks reception between 7.15pm and 9pm. This event is kindly supported by Historic Scotland Professor Andrew Prescott Department of Digital Humanities King's College London 28-29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/ddh/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 18:55:55 +1100 From: Dianne Nguyen Subject: Solomonoff Memorial Conf, Melbourne, Nov/Dec 2011,Call for Participation Apologies for cross posting Solomonoff 85th Memorial Conference http://www.Solomonoff85thMemorial.monash.edu/ Dear Colleague The Solomonoff Organising Committee cordially invites you to participate at the upcoming Solomonoff 85th Memorial Conference to be held at Monash University, Clayton Campus, between Wedn 30 November and Fri 2 December 2011. To take advantage of the Early Bird Registration fee we encourage you to register as soon as possible. The Conference is being held in honour and memory of Ray Solomonoff (1926-2009). Solomonoff was the father of algorithmic information theory (before Kolmogorov and Chaitin), perhaps the first to advocate probabilistic artificial intelligence, and (in 1985) one of the first to write on the technological singularity. Solomonoff is also mentioned in the recent "New Scientist" magazine article of Sat 10/Sept/2011 (pp42-45) for having the pioneering ideas in the 1960s of modern theories of intelligence. His January 2010 New York Times obituary is linked to from www.csse.monash.edu.au/~dld/MML.html#rjs. Keynote Speakers The Conference program includes three distinguished guest speakers: Prof. Leonid Levin, Boston University, USA - famous for (e.g.) the Cook-Levin theorem of NP-Completeness, the computable Kt complexity approximation to (uncomputable) Kolmogorov complexity, the universal Levin search, etc. Prof. Ming Li, University of Waterloo, Canada - widely known for the Li & Vitanyi "An introduction to Kolmogorov complexity and its Applications" book and for current research in bioinformatics. Grace Solomonoff, USA [...] --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2011 21:37:57 +0000 From: I-CHASS Subject: HASTAC V Conference at University of Michigan Ann Arbor Dec 1-3 "DIGITAL SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION," the fifth International HASTAC Conference, December 1-3, 2011, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor [*Please note evening of Dec 1 is a pre-conference #alt-ac workshop; regular conference proceedings are Dec 2-3] HASTAC's fifth international conference, hosted this year by the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, December 1-3, shows why and how we cannot change the academic message without transforming the medium. And vice versa. The conference on "Digital Scholarly Communication" practices what it preaches, experimenting with an array of new forms and formats designed not just to discuss those three terms--digital, scholarly, communication--but to show how they work together to change one another and, indeed, to contribute to the transformation of higher education more generally. Bringing together voices from many sectors of the academy in a variety of new formats, this conference presages powerful new possibilities for interdisciplinary, interactive, and multimedia research and communication both in the academy and for the general public. You can view the entire Conference program here: http://hastac2011.org/schedule/conference-program/ And you can register here: http://hastac2011.org/register/ HIGHLIGHTS "Digital Scholarly Communication" intersperses a range of keynotes across an array of academic and non-academic domains with sessions using innovative and interactive formats, packed with new ideas and methods. There are over a dozen roundtables concurrent with lightning talks (mini-lectures) and then combined Q and A sessions. There is time for idea jamming, workshopping, and other ways of meeting and interacting, as well as art, music, tours virtual and real, digital arts exhibits, and interactive experiences on every level. Keynotes will be presented by: * • Dan Atkins: Cyber-infrastructure * • Dan Cohen: Open Access and Crowd Sourcing * • Cathy Davidson: Reading, Writing, Critical Thinking, and Data Mining: Reclaiming the Information Age * • Josh Greenberg: Public Digital Display * • Jim Leach: Digital technologies in the civilizing project of the global humanities * • Siva Vaidhyanathan: The Googlization of Everything #Alt-Ac: The Conference opens with an evening dedicated to #alt-ac: Alternative Academic Careers are alternatives to traditional tenure-track jobs in academe. The #alt-ac workshop will help participants create non-academic resumes based on proven and successful models that transform academic credentials into skills necessary and vital in the world beyond the university. We're grateful to everyone who has worked so hard to put on this amazing event and look forward to welcoming you to HASTAC V in Ann Arbor. ------------------ The HASTAC network is very grateful to the University of Michigan for its support of this conference, to UM's Institute for the Humanities, the UM School of Information, MLibrary, the College of Literature, Science and the Arts, the Gayle Morris Sweetland Center for Writing, and the Principal Supporter, The Andrew W. Mellow Foundation. Special thanks to HASTAC Steering Committee members Daniel Herwitz (U Michigan) and Julie Thompson Klein (Wayne State) for their leadership. * * * Founded in 2004 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, I-CHASS charts new ground in high-performance computing and the humanities, arts, and social sciences by creating both learning environments and spaces for digital discovery. I-CHASS presents path-breaking research, computational resources, collaborative tools, and educational programming to showcase the future of the humanities, arts, and social sciences. For more information on I-CHASS, please visit: http://www.ichass.illinois.edu _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Nov 11 08:16:55 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id CEAB31F820B; Fri, 11 Nov 2011 08:16:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A57581F81F8; Fri, 11 Nov 2011 08:16:49 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111111081649.A57581F81F8@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2011 08:16:49 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.460 unworthy X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 460. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 11:01:40 -0800 From: Jascha Kessler Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.458 unworthy? In-Reply-To: <20111110082947.167171F5224@woodward.joyent.us> It is a question about worth. W.H. Auden in his Phi Beta Kappa address at Harvard offered this: "Thou shalt not commit a social science." And he was no Born-Again Xtian writer, for sure.... Jascha Kessler On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 12:29 AM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 458. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2011 13:06:52 -0200 > From: renata lemos-morais > Subject: "the human sciences have yet to prove their worth" > > > "Earlier this year, Senator Tom Coburn published a report called “Under the > Microscope,” in which he criticized the funding of any research he couldn’t > immediately understand as important. Of particularly dubious value, in > Coburn’s opinion, are the behavioral and social sciences—including my own > field, psychology. Following his report, Coburn proposed eliminating the > National Science Foundation’s funding for these “human” sciences, writing: > “…do any of these social studies represent obvious national priorities that > deserve a cut of the same pie as astronomy, biology, chemistry, earth > science, physics and oceanography?” Mo Brooks, the chair of a congressional > panel considering such cuts, echoed this opinion. Brooks explicitly claimed > that the human sciences have yet to prove their worth" > > more at: > > http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/streamsofconsciousness/2011/11/08/understanding-your-mind-is-mission-critical/ > > -- > *renata lemos-morais* > nomadesign.com.br -- Jascha Kessler Professor of English & Modern Literature, UCLA Telephone/Facsimile: 310.393.4648 www.jfkessler.com www.xlibris.com _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Nov 11 08:17:49 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 663141F8240; Fri, 11 Nov 2011 08:17:49 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 629EF1F822E; Fri, 11 Nov 2011 08:17:45 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111111081745.629EF1F822E@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2011 08:17:45 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.461 job at Indiana X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 461. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 13:12:54 -0500 From: Dot Porter Subject: Metadata Analyst position open at Indiana University Libraries Please take note of the following position with has just opened in the Digital Library Program at Indiana University. We welcome applications from candidates with strong backgrounds in metadata crosswalking and XML/XSLT. This is a tenure-track librarian position. Dot Porter (Associate Dir. for Content & Services, DLP) (Full description posted here, also available at ) Metadata Analyst Assistant Librarian/Associate Librarian Indiana University Bloomington Libraries The IU Bloomington Libraries are seeking an energetic, innovative and service-oriented individual for the newly created position of Metadata Analyst for the Indiana University Digital Library Program (DLP). The DLP is a system-wide resource that is dedicated to the production, maintenance, delivery, and preservation of a wide range of high-quality networked resources. As part of the Library Technologies and Digital Libraries division, the DLP assumes a leadership role in the development and delivery of services to preserve and provide access to digital content from IU’s libraries, archives, museums, faculty, and academic departments to local users, citizens of the state of Indiana, and beyond. The DLP provides a focus for the development of strategies and initiatives that will help guide the University's libraries through the transformations necessary to succeed in the digital age. The Metadata Analyst reports to the Associate Director for Digital Library Content and Services and will be responsible for:    Planning long-term metadata strategies for the IU Libraries and DLP    Advising on appropriate standards and approaches to creating and managing metadata for digital projects, collections, and systems    Working with collection managers, subject specialists, and catalogers to identify appropriate metadata standards in digital projects covering a variety of media, including text, music, still images, audio, and video    Designing and/or adapting XML schemas, XSLT stylesheets, Schematron assertions, and RDF ontologies for digital systems and projects    Translating metadata between formats and integrating metadata from a variety of sources    Participating in the design and development of services to support preservation of and access to digitized and born-digital content from IU's collections    Collaborating with local, national, and international partners on research to advance the state of the art in digital libraries    Serving as a liaison between the Digital Library Program and internal and external partners on collaborative metadata projects    Performing project management activities for individual digital collection and systems projects The Metadata Analyst will work on projects across the spectrum of the Digital Library Program, including those in support of the Lilly Library, University Archives, Cook Music Library, Archives of Traditional Music, Wells Library, and other units on the IU Bloomington campus, as well as in support of other IU campuses. The Metadata Analyst will also provide metadata planning and analysis support for IUScholarWorks, IU’s suite of online scholarly communication services (based on DSpace and Open Journal System software), and IU’s Fedora-based digital collections repository. The Metadata Analyst will also contribute to DLP's involvement in IU's efforts to support data management and curation for its researchers and in the groundbreaking work on data publishing and curation to be undertaken as part of an NSF funded DataNet award. Additional work will overlap with the HathiTrust Digital Library (http://hathitrust.org) and the HathiTrust Research Center (http://www.hathitrust-research.org). QUALIFICATIONS: Required:    ALA-accredited master's degree in library science, information management/science, or related degree    Minimum 2 years of experience in metadata analysis and support    Knowledge of the concepts and applications used in the standards and practices of organizing information    Experience in recommending, designing and implementing metadata schemes for digital library projects    Experience in the transformation of XML documents using XSLT    Experience with metadata standards including MARC, MARCXML, EAD, Dublin Core, METS, MODS, FRBR, VRA and others    Experience with creation and/or knowledge and management of digital objects in various text, image, sound, and/or video formats    Experience with digital repository systems such as Fedora or DSpace    Excellent written and oral communication skills    Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work well with diverse population of faculty, students, and academic colleagues    Good organization skills and an aptitude for complex analytical and detailed work    Ability to meet the requirements of a tenure-track librarian position Preferred:    Demonstrated ability to plan, coordinate, manage, and implement projects    Experience with programming using Perl or Java    Experience in writing grant proposals and/or managing grants    Experience cataloging in MARC SALARY AND BENEFITS: Salary is competitive and commensurate with experience and education; benefits include a university healthcare plan, university-funded base retirement plan, a 100% university paid group life insurance plan, and a generous paid time off plan. This is a tenure-track academic appointment that includes eligibility for sabbatical leaves. For a full list of benefit programs, please refer to the following resources:    Website: http://www.indiana.edu/~uhrs/benefits/neweeo-profe.html    Video: http://www.indiana.edu/~uhrs/benefitsvideo/academic.html    Brochure: http://hr.iu.edu/enroll/video.html APPLICATION REVIEW: Review of applications will begin on January 1, 2012. The position will remain open until filled. How to apply. -- *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Dot Porter (MA, MSLS) Digital Medievalist, Digital Librarian Email: dot.porter@gmail.com *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Nov 11 08:18:22 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id B40951F8265; Fri, 11 Nov 2011 08:18:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 590271F8253; Fri, 11 Nov 2011 08:18:19 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111111081819.590271F8253@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2011 08:18:19 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.462 new on WWW: database of Spanish theatre X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 462. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 21:26:47 +0100 From: Nàdia Revenga Subject: ARTELOPE Database goes live with open access ARTELOPE Database goes live with open access The ARTELOPE research group, coordinated by Joan Oleza (University of Valencia, Spain), is pleased to announce that the ARTELOPE Database is available through open access at this direct link http://artelope.uv.es, or through the website of the TC/12 project, "Classical Spanish Theatrical Patrimony. Texts and Research Instruments", http://www.tc12.es. ARTELOPE was created from the perspective of applying new technologies to the Humanities and with the objective of contributing to the development of new tools for digital research in the Humanities. The database includes information and plots of an essential corpus of the Spanish theatrical patrimony that is very hard tackle from a general perspective due to its vast size: Lope de Vega's theatre. The Project has evolved thanks to constant funding by Spain's R+D national programme since 2001 until today, and with the collaboration of 26 researchers (out of 42 who have participated over its ten years of life) from various European, Latin American and Spanish universities. At this stage, in which ARTELOPE has just gone live, any indications about technical errors, malfunctions or suggestions will be very much appreciated and welcomed. The webpage offers a service in order to send comments or suggestions to the ARTELOPE administrators. The team coordinated by Joan Oleza hopes that, with this open-access webpage, all the efforts invested will contribute to enhance the study and knowledge of Spanish classical theatre in general and of Lope de Vega in particular. ******************************************** Nàdia Revenga Tècnic superior d'investigació TC/12 Patrimonio teatral clásico español Universitat de València http://tc12.uv.es/tc12/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Nov 11 08:21:26 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F4DC1F82FA; Fri, 11 Nov 2011 08:21:26 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B584D1F82E3; Fri, 11 Nov 2011 08:21:21 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111111082121.B584D1F82E3@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2011 08:21:21 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.463 events: archaeology X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 463. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 14:14:14 +0000 From: Tom Brughmans Subject: Reminder call for papers The Connected Past Dear all, A quick reminder of the 20 November 2011 deadline for the call for papers of 'The connected past: people, networks and complexity in archaeology and history', a two-day symposium at the University of Southampton 24-25 March 2012 (the two days before Computer Applications and Quantitative techniques in Archaeology 2012 in Southampton). Confirmed keynote speakers include Professor Carl Knappett, Professor Irad Malkin and Professor Alex Bentley. Please find the full call for papers below and attached. Feel free to circulate this call for papers and the attached poster. More information on the event is available on the website: http://connectedpast.soton.ac.uk/ Best wishes, Tom Brughmans, Anna Collar and Fiona Coward CALL FOR PAPERS The Connected Past: people, networks and complexity in archaeology and history University of Southampton 24-25 March 2012 http://connectedpast.soton.ac.uk/ Organisers: Tom Brughmans, Anna Collar, Fiona Coward Confirmed keynote speakers: Professor Carl Knappett, Professor Irad Malkin and Professor Alex Bentley Over the past decade 91network92 has become a buzz-word in many disciplines across the humanities and sciences. Researchers in archaeology and history in particular are increasingly exploring network-based theory and methodologies drawn from complex network models as a means of understanding dynamic social relationships in the past, as well as technical relationships in their data. This conference aims to provide a platform for pioneering, multidisciplinary, collaborative work by researchers working to develop network approaches and their application to the past. The conference will be held over two days immediately preceding the CAA conference (Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology), also hosted by the University of Southampton (http://caa2012.org), allowing participants to easily attend both. The conference aims to: -- provide a forum for the presentation of multidisciplinary network-based research -- discuss the practicalities and implications of applying network perspectives and methodologies to archaeological and historical data in particular -- establish a group of researchers interested in the potential of network approaches for archaeology and history -- foster cross-disciplinary dialogue and collaborative work towards integrated analytical frameworks for understanding complex networks -- stimulate debate about the application of network theory and analysis within archaeology and history in particular, but also more widely, highlight the relevance of this work for the continued development of network theory in other disciplines We welcome contributions addressing any of (but not restricted to) the following themes: -- The diffusion of innovations, people and objects in the past -- Social network analysis in archaeology and history -- The dynamics between physical and relational space -- Evolving and multiplex networks -- Quantitative network techniques and the use of computers to aid analysis -- Emergent properties in complex networks -- Agency, structuration and complexity in network approaches -- Agent-based modelling and complex networks -- Future directions for network approaches in archaeology and history Please email proposed titles and abstracts (max. 250 words) to: connectedpast@soton.ac.uk by November 20th 2011. Visit the conference website for more information: http://connectedpast.soton.ac.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Nov 12 08:51:02 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50A261F6F99; Sat, 12 Nov 2011 08:51:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 3BF351F6F73; Sat, 12 Nov 2011 08:50:48 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111112085048.3BF351F6F73@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2011 08:50:48 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.464 unworthy X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 464. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: maurizio lana (23) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.458 unworthy? [2] From: James Rovira (22) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.460 unworthy --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2011 09:38:53 +0100 From: maurizio lana Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.458 unworthy? In-Reply-To: <20111110082947.167171F5224@woodward.joyent.us> Il 10/11/2011 09:29, Humanist Discussion Group ha scritto: > "Earlier this year, Senator Tom Coburn published a report called > “Under the Microscope,” in which he criticized the funding of any > research he couldn’t immediately understand as important. [...] the matter is similar to that of cooking: which is the worth of cooking, baking, stewing, steaming, roasting, grilling, (and the verbs list could be longer) the foods we eat? couldn't we eat foods cooked all in the same way, with great saving in energy and time? why not eating great amounts of uncooked meat until we have it, as paleolithic people, and then go wandering searching for another source of meat until we find it? yes we could but we wouldn't like it. m. lana -- Il faut essayer, nous aussi. C'est ça, le progrès. A force d'essayer, peut-être qu'on aura à la fin les organes nécessaires, par exemple l'organe de la dignité, ou de la fraternité... " r. gary, les racines du ciel ------- il mio corso di informatica umanistica: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85JsyJw2zuw ------- Maurizio Lana - ricercatore Università del Piemonte Orientale, Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici, via Manzoni 8, 13100 Vercelli tel. +39 347 7370925 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2011 08:22:43 -0500 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.460 unworthy In-Reply-To: <20111111081649.A57581F81F8@woodward.joyent.us> I've been critical of the human sciences in the past myself, but I don't think this senator's opinion is based upon an informed critique of their role. The problem with Tom Coburn's position about the social sciences is, first, that it betrays ignorance, and secondly, that it has an ill-conceived notion of "worth." The social and human sciences form the basis of much educational practice, advertising practices, and scholarship in the fields of business and political science. The opinion data that he depends upon during his political campaigns is dependent upon human science models. His unawareness of the use of the social sciences in the fields above, or his unwillingness to consider them, indicates next that he doesn't know what he means by "worth," which I suspect is only in the area of physical products. If the field of knowledge doesn't result in the production of a "thing," then it's of no worth. That's clearly nonsense stated that way. Knowledge of things is half of the important knowledge in the world. Knowledge of people is at least the other half, if not more. So Coburn is either terribly ignorant or simply lying to pursue a political agenda. As an M.D. he should know better, so I suspect his comments are only politically motivated. Those in the US who work in the human sciences tend to vote Democratic, so he has a vested interest in disenfranchising these areas of study. 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 Nov 12 09:19:46 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8BDA1F74D1; Sat, 12 Nov 2011 09:19:45 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 43D431F74C0; Sat, 12 Nov 2011 09:19:43 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111112091943.43D431F74C0@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2011 09:19:43 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.465 working with what one has? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 465. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2011 15:57:07 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: without funding The genre of "acknowledgements" in books provides a chance not often taken to comment on the socio-intellectual circumstances of scholarly work. Following is one for your collection, and one that answers to a thread of discussion that has surfaced more in recent times than earlier. It is thanks to Robert Jarvis, who is Adlai E. Stevenson Professor of International Politics at Columbia. He begins his acknowledgements to System Effects: Complexity in Political and Social Life (Princeton, 1997), co-winner of the American Political Science Association's Best Book Award in political psychology for 1998, thus: > At lunch with younger colleagues a number of years ago, I mentioned > that a journal had just rejected my latest article. They could hardly > disguise their relief at learning that this doesn't happen just to > them. In this spirit I would like to say that several private > foundations and public funding agencies declined to support this research. > > So my debts are intellectual only. I have perhaps mentioned before that my first great lesson along these lines came from a seminar given by Dr. Rangaswamy Narasimhan (http://hindu.com/2007/09/04/stories/2007090455531100.htm) at the International Semiotics Symposium in Toronto in 1987. For several days we sat in a room and, with Narasimhan's guidance, imagined a computing system capable of learning as a child learns. Narasimhan knew quite a bit about the developmental psychology of children. What I didn't know then was that he had designed the first general purpose computer in India. How thrilling those days with him were! Of course he had no end of funding at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, and of course Jarvis had all the while support in the form of a professorship at Columbia. But there is, I think, a lesson to be learned about what one can do with what one has. Comments? Yours, WM -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor (fractional), University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Nov 12 09:20:27 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B56A1F7518; Sat, 12 Nov 2011 09:20:27 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 5A9141F74FD; Sat, 12 Nov 2011 09:20:20 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111112092020.5A9141F74FD@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2011 09:20:20 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.466 job at Indiana: URL X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 466. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2011 06:30:46 -0500 From: Dot Porter Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.461 job at Indiana In-Reply-To: <20111111081745.629EF1F822E@woodward.joyent.us> Here is a direct link to the job posting, which wasn't included in my original message. Follow this link for information on how to apply (scroll down to see the Metadata Analyst posting) http://www.libraries.iub.edu/index.php?pageId=1410 Dot On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 3:17 AM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > >                 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 461. >            Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London >                       www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist >                Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > >        Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 13:12:54 -0500 >        From: Dot Porter >        Subject: Metadata Analyst position open at Indiana University Libraries > > > Please take note of the following position with has just opened in the > Digital Library Program at Indiana University. We welcome applications > from candidates with strong backgrounds in metadata crosswalking and > XML/XSLT. This is a tenure-track librarian position. > > Dot Porter > (Associate Dir. for Content & Services, DLP) > > (Full description posted here, also available at ) > > Metadata Analyst > > Assistant Librarian/Associate Librarian > > Indiana University Bloomington Libraries > > The IU Bloomington Libraries are seeking an energetic, innovative and > service-oriented individual for the newly created position of Metadata > Analyst for the Indiana University Digital Library Program (DLP). > > The DLP is a system-wide resource that is dedicated to the production, > maintenance, delivery, and preservation of a wide range of > high-quality networked resources. As part of the Library Technologies > and Digital Libraries division, the DLP assumes a leadership role in > the development and delivery of services to preserve and provide > access to digital content from IU’s libraries, archives, museums, > faculty, and academic departments to local users, citizens of the > state of Indiana, and beyond. The DLP provides a focus for the > development of strategies and initiatives that will help guide the > University's libraries through the transformations necessary to > succeed in the digital age. > > The Metadata Analyst reports to the Associate Director for Digital > Library Content and Services and will be responsible for: > >    Planning long-term metadata strategies for the IU Libraries and DLP >    Advising on appropriate standards and approaches to creating and > managing metadata for digital projects, collections, and systems >    Working with collection managers, subject specialists, and > catalogers to identify appropriate metadata standards in digital > projects covering a variety of media, including text, music, still > images, audio, and video >    Designing and/or adapting XML schemas, XSLT stylesheets, > Schematron assertions, and RDF ontologies for digital systems and > projects >    Translating metadata between formats and integrating metadata from > a variety of sources >    Participating in the design and development of services to support > preservation of and access to digitized and born-digital content from > IU's collections >    Collaborating with local, national, and international partners on > research to advance the state of the art in digital libraries >    Serving as a liaison between the Digital Library Program and > internal and external partners on collaborative metadata projects >    Performing project management activities for individual digital > collection and systems projects > > The Metadata Analyst will work on projects across the spectrum of the > Digital Library Program, including those in support of the Lilly > Library, University Archives, Cook Music Library, Archives of > Traditional Music, Wells Library, and other units on the IU > Bloomington campus, as well as in support of other IU campuses. The > Metadata Analyst will also provide metadata planning and analysis > support for IUScholarWorks, IU’s suite of online scholarly > communication services (based on DSpace and Open Journal System > software), and IU’s Fedora-based digital collections repository. > > The Metadata Analyst will also contribute to DLP's involvement in IU's > efforts to support data management and curation for its researchers > and in the groundbreaking work on data publishing and curation to be > undertaken as part of an NSF funded DataNet award. Additional work > will overlap with the HathiTrust Digital Library > (http://hathitrust.org) and the HathiTrust Research Center > (http://www.hathitrust-research.org). > > QUALIFICATIONS: > Required: > >    ALA-accredited master's degree in library science, information > management/science, or related degree >    Minimum 2 years of experience in metadata analysis and support >    Knowledge of the concepts and applications used in the standards > and practices of organizing information >    Experience in recommending, designing and implementing metadata > schemes for digital library projects >    Experience in the transformation of XML documents using XSLT >    Experience with metadata standards including MARC, MARCXML, EAD, > Dublin Core, METS, MODS, FRBR, VRA and others >    Experience with creation and/or knowledge and management of > digital objects in various text, image, sound, and/or video formats >    Experience with digital repository systems such as Fedora or DSpace >    Excellent written and oral communication skills >    Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work well with > diverse population of faculty, students, and academic colleagues >    Good organization skills and an aptitude for complex analytical > and detailed work >    Ability to meet the requirements of a tenure-track librarian position > > Preferred: > >    Demonstrated ability to plan, coordinate, manage, and implement projects >    Experience with programming using Perl or Java >    Experience in writing grant proposals and/or managing grants >    Experience cataloging in MARC > > SALARY AND BENEFITS: > Salary is competitive and commensurate with experience and education; > benefits include a university healthcare plan, university-funded base > retirement plan, a 100% university paid group life insurance plan, and > a generous paid time off plan. This is a tenure-track academic > appointment that includes eligibility for sabbatical leaves. For a > full list of benefit programs, please refer to the following > resources: > >    Website: http://www.indiana.edu/~uhrs/benefits/neweeo-profe.html >    Video: http://www.indiana.edu/~uhrs/benefitsvideo/academic.html >    Brochure: http://hr.iu.edu/enroll/video.html > > APPLICATION REVIEW: > > Review of applications will begin on January 1, 2012. The position > will remain open until filled. How to apply. > > -- > *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* > Dot Porter (MA, MSLS) > Digital Medievalist, Digital Librarian > Email: dot.porter@gmail.com > *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* > > > _______________________________________________ > List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php > Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php -- *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Dot Porter (MA, MSLS) Digital Medievalist, Digital Librarian Email: dot.porter@gmail.com *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Nov 12 09:22:23 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4906B1F75B6; Sat, 12 Nov 2011 09:22:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E94111F75A5; Sat, 12 Nov 2011 09:22:19 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111112092219.E94111F75A5@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2011 09:22:19 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.467 publications: scholarly publishing; computational linguistics X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 467. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: UTP Journals (54) Subject: Essential JSP: Critical Insights into the World of Scholarly Publishing [2] From: "J. Stewart" (86) Subject: Request to circulate CFP - INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS (IJCL) --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 16:41:53 +0000 From: UTP Journals Subject: Essential JSP: Critical Insights into the World of Scholarly Publishing Essential JSP: Critical Insights into the World of Scholarly Publishing The Journal of Scholarly Publishing, the authoritative voice of academic publishing for more than 40 years, introduces an informative new series. 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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 www.facebook.com/utpjournals www.twitter.com/utpjournals posted by T Hawkins, UTP Journals --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2011 13:14:03 -0800 From: "J. Stewart" Subject: Request to circulate CFP - INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS (IJCL) CALL FOR PAPERS - INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS (IJCL) ISSN: 2180-1266 Volume 3, Issue 1 Info. at http://www.cscjournals.org/csc/journals/IJCL/journal_cfp.php?JCode=IJCL Computer Science Journals (CSC Journals) invites researchers, editors, scientists & scholars to publish their scientific research papers in an International Journal of Computational Linguistics (IJCL) Volume 3, Issue 1. Computational linguistics is an interdisciplinary field dealing with the statistical and/or rule-based modeling of natural language from a computational perspective. Today, computational language acquisition stands as one of the most fundamental, beguiling, and surprisingly open questions for computer science. 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CSC Journals anticipate and invite papers on any of the following topics: Comparative Surveys that Critique Previously Reports Models of Language Change and its Effect on Linguistics Computational Linguistics Models that Address the Acquisition of Word-order Computational Models Models that Combine Linguistics Parsing Computational Theories Models that Employ Statistical/probabilistic Grammar Corpus Linguistics Models that Employ Techniques from machine learning Formal Linguistics-Theoretic and Grammar Induction Natural Language Processing Information Retrieval and Extraction Quantitative Linguistics Language Generation Speech Analysis/Synthesis Language Learning Speech Recognition/Understanding Linguistics Modeling Techniques Spoken Dialog Systems Linguistics Theories Web Information Extraction/Mining Machine Translation Important Dates - IJCL CFP - Volume 3, Issue 1. 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Stewart Computer Science Journals (CSC Journals) B-5-8 Plaza Mont Kiara, Mont Kiara 50480, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Tel: + 603 6207 1607, + 603 2782 6991 Fax:+ 603 6207 1697 Url: http://www.cscjournals.org _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Nov 12 09:28:45 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7C611F76B3; Sat, 12 Nov 2011 09:28:44 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 35AC31F76A3; Sat, 12 Nov 2011 09:28:42 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111112092842.35AC31F76A3@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2011 09:28:42 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.468 events: book history; boxed knowledge X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 468. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Spence, Paul" (27) Subject: CFP The Ages of the Book [2] From: M D Eddy (90) Subject: CfP: Knowledge in a Box: How Mundane Things Shape Knowledge Production --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2011 11:30:49 +0000 From: "Spence, Paul" Subject: CFP The Ages of the Book In-Reply-To: <002e01cc9e3f$0b2d05d0$21871170$@mx> AGES OF THE BOOK INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE (Congreso Internacional Las Edades del Libro) Call for papers The aim of the conference is to bring together specialists from diverse fields of study, such as written and printed culture, visual design and communication, editing and the publishing industry, history, literature and new technologies, for discussion of academic, scientific, technical and economic issues that will advance our knowledge on the written word throughout history. The conference will explore the wide range of traditions and innovations surrounding the composition of texts manifest in distinct periods and in different regions of the world, from the early production of codices through to present day electronic books. The organizing committee invites abstract submissions on subjects such as epigraphy, calligraphy and paleography, editorial design, typography, printing processes, ecdotics, textual and graphic editing, electronic publishing and technology applied to editing. Additional topics for consideration are transmission of texts, textual and visual disposition, page design, typography and illustrations in books, text-image relationships, ornamentation, initialing, reading styles and methods, use and management of color in the transmission of texts, usability, design and navigation for screen, e-book interface design and visual ergonomics. The main thematic areas are the manuscript, printed and electronic book. The conference will take place at the Institute for Bibliographic Studies (Instituto de Investigaciones Bibliográficas), at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (National Autonomous University of Mexico) in Mexico City from the 15th to the 19th of October 2012. The event is organized by the Instituto de Investigaciones Bibliográficas of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, the National Library (Biblioteca Nacional de México), the National Newspaper Library (Hemeroteca Nacional de México) and the Fondo de Cultura Económica. Guidelines for Submissions 1. Submitted abstracts most include the following information: -Title -Full name of author or authors -Institution/country -Main theme of the abstract (manuscript book, printed book or electronic book) -Email of corresponding author -Personal or institutional address 2. Abstracts should not exceed 500 words, written in Times New Roman, 12 points, double spaced, and accompanied by a brief CV of the author or authors (maximum 10 lines). 3. Abstracts should be sent by email to edadesdellibro@iib.unam.mx, as an attachment in either doc, rtf or pdf formats. 4. We accept abstract submissions in Spanish, English or French. Participants will be asked to provide a Spanish translation of their talk so that this can be projected on a screen during their presentation. The deadline for abstracts is the 31st of January 2012. There will be no extensions. All abstracts will be reviewed by an international committee. Authors will be notified of the results from the 31st of March 2012 and will have until the 31st of May to send their full papers. For more information please visit: http://www.edadesdellibro.unam.mx ----------------------------------------------------- Dra. Isabel Galina Russell Instituto de Investigaciones Bibliográficas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Tel. 56.22.69.99 ext.48662 igalina@unam.mx http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~uczciga/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2011 12:06:38 +0000 From: M D Eddy Subject: CfP: Knowledge in a Box: How Mundane Things Shape Knowledge Production In-Reply-To: <002e01cc9e3f$0b2d05d0$21871170$@mx> Call For Papers Knowledge in a Box: How Mundane Things Shape Knowledge Production July 26-29, 2012 Kavala, Greece Organizing committee: Susanne Bauer, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Germany Maria Rentetzi, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece Martina Schlünder, Justus-Liebig-University, Giessen, Germany The topic: We invite proposals from scholars in the history of science, technology, and medicine, science and technology studies, the humanities, visual and performing arts, museum and cultural studies and other related disciplines for a workshop on the uses and meanings of mundane things such as boxes, packages, bottles, and vials in shaping knowledge production. In keeping with the conference theme, we are asking contributors to include specific references to the ways in which boxes have played a role97commercial, epistemic or otherwise97in their own particular disciplinary frameworks. Boxes have always supported the significance of the objects they contained, allowing specific activities to arise. In the hands of natural historians and collectors, boxes functioned as a means of organizing their knowledge throughout the eighteenth century. They formed the material bases of the cabinet or established collection and accompanied the collector from the initial gathering of natural specimens to their final display. As "knowledge chests" or "magazining tools" the history of box-like containers also go back to book printing and the typographical culture. The artists' boxes of the early nineteenth century were used to store the paraphernalia of a new fashionable trend. In the late nineteenth century the box became the pharmacist's laboratory and a device for standardizing and controlling dosage of oral remedies. In the twentieth century radiotherapy the box was elevated to a multifunctional tool working as a memory aid to forgetful patients or as "knowledge package" that predetermined dosages, included equipment, and ready-made radium applicators. Focusing on medicine, boxes have played a crucial role since the eighteenth century when doctors ought to bring instruments to their patient's house for surgical or obstetrical interventions. In modern operating rooms boxes organize the workflow and build an essential part of the aseptical regime. Late twentieth century biomedical scientists store tissue samples in large-scale biobanks, where samples contained in straws are placed in vials, then the vials in boxes which in turn are stacked up in "elevators". This storage system facilitates retrieval with barcodes, indexing each individual sample so that additional variables can be retrieved from a database. Thus the container and its content are tied up in a close epistemic and material relationship. As it is usually the case the box embodies the knowledge that goes into the chemical laboratory and its function; it classifies objects into collections of natural history; it meaningfully orders letters in a printer's composition or painting equipment for the artist' convenience; it standardizes pharmaceutical dosage forms and allows pharmacists to control the production and consumption of their remedies; in the commercial world it misleads or informs customers; it persuades consumers for the integrity of the product that they enclose; it hides the identity of the object(s) that contains, it shapes professional identities and is essential for mobilizing, transporting, accumulating and circulating materials and the knowledge they produce and embody. Furthermore, if we do understand matter and materiality not as given, solid, continuous, and stable but rather as something being done, performed, shaped and embedded in practices, then we should examine closer how bottles and boxes themselves materialize differently in a set of diverse practices. How do they change their ontologies by migrating from the kitchen to the laboratory, from the workshop to the operating room? We welcome innovative understandings of the role that boxes and containers have played historically and continue to play in technology, medicine, and science. We see the workshop as contributing to an ongoing interest in science and technology studies on the importance of mundane things in scientific practice and technological innovations. Submission guidelines: Deadline for proposals: January 15, 2012 Please submit a 300-words abstract along with your name, institutional affiliation, email and phone number as a word or pdf attachment to the organizers of the conference Proposals will be reviewed and notification of the outcome will be made in February 15, 2012. We are pursuing publication outlets for selected papers from the workshop. Therefore we expect full papers from those that will participate by May 30, 2012. Details will be provided after notification. Conference registration fee: 50 euros Place The venue of the conference is a wonderful tobacco warehouse renovated to host the tobacco museum of the city of Kavala in northern Greece. Contact info For further information please contact the organizers: Susanne Bauer sbauer@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de Maria Rentetzi mrentetz@vt.edu Martina Schlünder m.schluender@gmx.de Dr Matthew D Eddy Durham University, Department of Philosophy, 50/51 Old Elvet, Durham, DH1 3HN, United Kingdom. http://www.dur.ac.uk/m.d.eddy/ m.d.eddy@durham.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 Sun Nov 13 09:10:25 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B9D2200553; Sun, 13 Nov 2011 09:10:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 90A9A200541; Sun, 13 Nov 2011 09:10:16 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111113091016.90A9A200541@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2011 09:10:16 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.469 working with what one has X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 469. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Sheila M. Morrissey" (6) Subject: RE: [Humanist] 25.465 working with what one has? [2] From: Bob Blair (105) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.465 working with what one has? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2011 09:07:19 -0500 From: "Sheila M. Morrissey" Subject: RE: [Humanist] 25.465 working with what one has? In-Reply-To: <20111112091943.43D431F74C0@woodward.joyent.us> It would be, to say the least, a collection with quite a history -- c.f. Samuel Johnson's Letter to Lord Chesterfield: Is not a patron my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help? The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it: till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it. I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that to a patron, which providence has enabled me to do for myself. Sheila Morrissey --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2011 19:18:30 -0800 (PST) From: Bob Blair Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.465 working with what one has? In-Reply-To: <20111112091943.43D431F74C0@woodward.joyent.us> Of course Jarvis's dedication is firmly in a line that famously goes back to Samuel Johnson, and probably much further. --- On Sat, 11/12/11, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > From: Humanist Discussion Group > Subject: [Humanist] 25.465 working with what one has? > To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > Date: Saturday, November 12, 2011, 1:19 AM >           >         Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 465. >             Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London   >     www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist                > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > >         Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2011 15:57:07 +0000 >         From: Willard McCarty >         Subject: without funding > > > The genre of "acknowledgements" in books provides a chance not often > taken to comment on the socio-intellectual circumstances of scholarly > work. Following is one for your collection, and one that answers to a > thread of discussion that has surfaced more in recent times than earlier. > It is thanks to Robert Jarvis, who is Adlai E. Stevenson Professor of International > Politics at Columbia. He begins his acknowledgements to System Effects: > Complexity in Political and Social Life (Princeton, 1997), co-winner of > the American Political Science Association's Best Book Award in > political psychology for 1998, thus: > > > At lunch with younger colleagues a number of years ago, I mentioned > > that a journal had just rejected my latest article. They could hardly > > disguise their relief at learning that this doesn't happen just to > > them. In this spirit I would like to say that several private > > foundations and public funding agencies declined to support this research. > > > > So my debts are intellectual only. > > I have perhaps mentioned before that my first great lesson along these > lines came from a seminar given by Dr. Rangaswamy Narasimhan > (http://hindu.com/2007/09/04/stories/2007090455531100.htm) > at the International Semiotics Symposium in Toronto in 1987. For > several days we sat in a room and, with Narasimhan's guidance, > imagined a computing system capable of learning as a child learns. > Narasimhan knew quite a bit about the developmental psychology of > children. What I didn't know then was that he had designed the first > general purpose computer in India. How thrilling those days with him were! > > Of course he had no end of funding at the Tata Institute of > Fundamental Research, and of course Jarvis had all the while support in > the form of a professorship at Columbia. But there is, I think, a > lesson to be learned about what one can do with what one has. > > Comments? > > Yours, > WM > > -- > Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital > Humanities, King's > College London; Professor (fractional), University of > Western Sydney; > Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews > (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, > Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); > www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Nov 13 09:11:39 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id E43D0200599; Sun, 13 Nov 2011 09:11:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 92171200590; Sun, 13 Nov 2011 09:11:34 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111113091134.92171200590@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2011 09:11:34 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.470 renewed Corpus Rhythmorum Musicum online X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 470. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2011 10:21:53 +0100 From: "Center for Comparative Studies" Subject: Corpus Rhythmorum Musicum I am delighted to inform the list that a renewed version of the database containing the textual and musical editions and the linguistical, metrical, musical and paleographical analysis of the earliest Latin medieval "songs" of non-liturgical transmission - such as the "Planctus Karoli" and many others -, edited by a team of scholars coordinated by me and Sam Barrett (Univ. of Cambridge) is on line at the address www.corimu.unisi.it, now including the audio records of the modern musical transcriptions realized by Giacomo Baroffio's choirs. For copyright reasons the reproductions of the 140 pages of the original manuscripts can be still consulted only in the cd-rom enclosed in the SISMEL www.sismel.it publication. The database will be constantly updated with new entries: the next ones are "computistic" songs (rhythmical early medieval calendars set to music in IX-X century). Every proposal of collaboration to the next editions will be welcome. Francesco Stella, Università di Siena ad Arezzo _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Nov 13 09:12:33 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 203BD2005D8; Sun, 13 Nov 2011 09:12:33 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 4C3AC2005C7; Sun, 13 Nov 2011 09:12:29 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111113091229.4C3AC2005C7@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2011 09:12:29 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.471 events: language technology X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 471. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2011 19:42:31 -0500 From: "Lauersdorf, Mark R" Subject: **Final Call** -- Language Technology at KFLC 2012 Dear colleagues, This is the *Final Call* for submission of abstracts to the Language Technology sessions at the Kentucky Foreign Language Conference (KFLC) 2012. There is still time to join our international group and be a part of the 7th annual LangTech sessions. ** Deadline for abstract submission is Tuesday, 15 November 2011 ** For your reference, I have included below my original message with a brief description of the conference and the full Call for Papers. Many thanks to those who have already responded and who have shared this information with their colleagues and constituents. If you have any questions at all, please do not hesitate to get in touch with me. I look forward to hearing from you and your colleagues and to adding your work to the growing list of exciting proposals that have already come in. With best regards, Mark -----Original Message----- From: Lauersdorf, Mark R Sent: Monday, October 10, 2011 3:28 PM To: 'humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org' _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Nov 13 09:27:36 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10FB3200782; Sun, 13 Nov 2011 09:27:36 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id F3E61200771; Sun, 13 Nov 2011 09:27:30 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111113092730.F3E61200771@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2011 09:27:30 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.472 differences computing has made? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 472. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2011 09:25:40 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: differences actually made? Those interested in critical thought about the difference that computers have actually made to research will welcome the following: Jon Agar, "What difference did computers make?", Social Studies of Science 36.6 (2006): 869-907; Joel B. Hagen, "The introduction of computers into systematic research in the United States during the 1960s", Studies in the History and Philosophy of the Biological and Biomedical Sciences 32.2 (2001): 291-314. Those committed to promoting the doctrine of a revolutionary change will, however, be less pleased by their arguments. I haven't yet seen Agar's more recent book, *The Government Machine: A Revolutionary History of the Computer*, which I gather is an historically developed account of the close relationship between computing and bureaucracy. As far as I know Agar is the only one to have noticed Turing's mathematical bureaucrat as such (in his 1936 paper on the Entscheidungsproblem). Yours, WM -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor (fractional), University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Nov 14 07:35:52 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1D0F20174C; Mon, 14 Nov 2011 07:35:51 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id BC7B0201740; Mon, 14 Nov 2011 07:35:47 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111114073547.BC7B0201740@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2011 07:35:47 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.473 events: textual studies; virtual archaeology X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 473. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Prescott, Andrew" (4) Subject: Virtual archaeology [2] From: Brent Nelson (61) Subject: CFP -- Beyond Accessibility: Textual Studies in the 21st Century --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2011 16:27:51 +0000 From: "Prescott, Andrew" Subject: Virtual archaeology W This call for papers may be of interest for Humanist (if it hasn't already appeared and I haven't missed it!) http://www.virtualarchaeology.ru/info/ A --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2011 18:40:17 -0600 From: Brent Nelson Subject: CFP -- Beyond Accessibility: Textual Studies in the 21st Century *Beyond Accessibility: Textual Studies in the 21st Century Call for Papers* The Textual Studies team of INKE (Implementing New Knowledge Environments) wish to invite presentation proposals for Beyond Accessibility: Textual Studies in the 21st Century . June 8, 9, and 10, 2012, University of Victoria, Victoria BC, Canada. Keynote speakers: Adriaan van der Weel (Leiden University) and Sydney Shep, (Victoria University of Wellington) At the end of the 20th century, textual studies witnessed a revolution in accessibility to texts with the explosion of the internet. Now we simply take it for granted that digital processes infuse every step of our study, editing, production, and dissemination of texts. The Textual Studies team of INKE invites presentations that address the questions "What is the state of textual studies in the 21st century? What is the important work of textual studies in the 21st century? What are the outstanding issues, challenges, concerns, emerging trends, methods, attitudes, and exciting developments in textual scholarship? Papers may address such questions as * What is the state of the scholarly edition after the transition from print to print and digital? * What is the impact on the material book and on book history of the different kinds of access enabled by the digital medium? * How have authorship attribution studies been transformed by access to so many more searchable texts? * How has the new age of access to materials affected the state of textual studies in various regions of the globe? * How well are scholars being served by traditional and emerging infrastructures for the study, creation, production, and dissemination of texts? * What is the future of, for example, the study of readership and letter writing, genetic editing, and reception history? INKE is a multi-national, multi-disciplinary research initiative, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and partnering organizations, to study, develop, and implement digital environments for reading and research (www.inke.ca). The Textual Studies Team of INKE is researching ways in which the age of manuscript and print production can inform our development and implementation of electronic reading technologies. We invite proposals for papers, posters/demonstrations, and roundtable discussions that address these and other issues pertinent to research in textual studies. Proposals should contain a title, a detailed and focussed abstract (of approximately 300 words) plus list of works cited, and the names, affiliations, and Website URLs of presenters. Please send proposals before 15 December 2011 to richard.cunningham@acadiau.ca. Potential participants in the conference, particularly those coming from abroad, might be interested to take advantage of the Digital Humanities Summer Institute, which will just before our conference, from 4-8 June, also at the University of Victoria (http://www.dhsi.org/). A limited number of scholarships for workshop tuition will be available for graduate students participating in the Beyond Accessibility conference. Also of potential interest is the annual conference of the Society for Digital Humanities (SDH/SEMI) at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences at Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, 28-30 May, 2012 (http://www.sdh-semi.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 Nov 14 07:45:34 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71172201841; Mon, 14 Nov 2011 07:45:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 98A3B201830; Mon, 14 Nov 2011 07:45:31 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111114074531.98A3B201830@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2011 07:45:31 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.474 events: language technology X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 474. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2011 12:07:58 -0500 From: "Lauersdorf, Mark R" Subject: final call: Language Technology at KFLC [The following was in its previous manifestation on Humanist rudely truncated by software, which mistook the header in the implicitly quoted message for its end. Apologies to Professor Lauersdorf. --WM] Dear colleagues, This is the *Final Call* for submission of abstracts to the Language Technology sessions at the Kentucky Foreign Language Conference (KFLC) 2012. There is still time to join our international group and be a part of the 7th annual LangTech sessions. ** Deadline for abstract submission is Tuesday, 15 November 2011 ** For your reference, I have included below my original message with a brief description of the conference and the full Call for Papers. Many thanks to those who have already responded and who have shared this information with their colleagues and constituents. If you have any questions at all, please do not hesitate to get in touch with me. I look forward to hearing from you and your colleagues and to adding your work to the growing list of exciting proposals that have already come in. With best regards, Mark -----Original Message-----> From: Lauersdorf, Mark R > Sent: Monday, October 10, 2011 3:28 PM > To: 'humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org' > Subject: Call for Papers: Language Technology at KFLC 2012 Dear colleagues, I would like to invite you to submit an abstract for participation in the 7th annual Language Technology sessions at the Kentucky Foreign Language Conference (KFLC). The KFLC is an international, multidisciplinary academic conference with a 65-year history of bringing together top researchers in language, literature, culture, and linguistics in the fields of Arabic, East Asian, French and Francophone, German-Austrian-Swiss, Hispanic, Italian, Luso-Afro-Brazilian, and Russian Studies, as well as Language Technology, Translation and Cultural Studies, and Second Language Acquisition. The KFLC offers broad exposure for your work, gathering over 750 scholars in these disciplines from around the world. The Language Technology division ("LangTech at the KFLC") was inaugurated at KFLC 2006. In bringing a technology track to a high-level international academic conference with a strong literary-cultural tradition and orientation, we provide a forum for both academics and technologists to engage in a discussion of technological innovation in the teaching and research of world literatures and cultures (in addition to the more customary discussions of technology in language instruction). Indeed, "LangTech at the KFLC" seeks to encourage cross-pollination of ideas across languages and literary-cultural interests, encouraging participants from all KFLC literature, culture, and linguistics divisions to join in discussions on integrating technology into their teaching and research programs. I have included below the official Call for Papers for this year's LangTech at the KFLC 2012. I hope that you will consider bringing your work in Language Technology to Lexington to showcase for us, and that you will share this call broadly with your colleagues. I look forward to hearing from you and hope to see you here in the spring. Best regards, Mark Lauersdorf ----- CALL FOR PAPERS - LANGTECH AT THE KFLC - 19-21 April 2012 ----- It's Year 7 of LangTech at the KFLC! At the intersection between technology and literary, cultural, language, and linguistic teaching and research, we welcome submissions on any aspect of: **Technology for Literature & Culture, Language & Linguistics** This includes, but is certainly not limited to:- integrating technology into literature, culture, and linguistics *curricula and classrooms* - *faculty research* in literature, culture, and linguistics employing technology ("digital humanities") - technology for *student projects and research* in literature, culture, and linguistics Abstracts are, of course, also welcome in *all* other areas and aspects of technology and language, such as: - using tech tools and techniques for *language instruction* in all skills and on all levels - *mentoring* language educators in optimal use of technology in their teaching and research - employing technology-based *research publication* in language scholarship - *managing* language technology in an academic setting The KFLC is an international academic conference that brings together top researchers in language, literature, culture, and linguistics in the fields of Arabic, East Asian, French and Francophone, German-Austrian-Swiss, Hispanic, Italian, Luso-Afro-Brazilian, and Russian Studies, as well as Translation and Cultural Studies and Second Language Acquisition. We would like to see this broad range represented in the Language Technology sessions, to encourage cross-pollination of ideas across the languages and disciplines working to integrate technology into their teaching and research programs, and to encourage participants from the literature, culture, and linguistics sessions to join us in our discussions. Abstracts should be no more than 250-300 words in length and should be submitted directly online at: **KFLC Abstract Site: http://www.kflcabstracts.uky.edu/** In view of the multi-language audience that we hope to attract to all Language Technology sessions, the recommended language of presentation is English. **Deadline for submission of abstracts and panel proposals is 15 November 2011.** All proposed abstracts will be considered for inclusion in the KFLC program. Acceptance of a paper implies a commitment on the part of the participant(s) to register and attend the conference. All presenters must pay the appropriate registration fee by 15 February 2012 to be included in the program. The conference will take place 19-21 April 2012 on the campus of the University of Kentucky in Lexington. For more information on conference logistics, please visit: http://web.as.uky.edu/kflc/. For specific information on the Language Technology sessions, contact the division director at the coordinates listed below. If you've been with us before, make Year 7 the year you return! If you've never been, make this the year to join us in beautiful springtime Kentucky for "LangTech at the KFLC"! Mark Lauersdorf ----------------------------------- Dr. Mark Richard Lauersdorf KFLC -- Language Technology division director Associate Professor of Languages and Linguistics Director of Language Technology Interim Director, Collaboratory for Research in Computing for Humanities 1055 Patterson Office Tower University of Kentucky Lexington, KY 20506-0027, USA phone: ++859-257-7101 fax: ++859-257-3743 e-mail: lauersdorf@uky.edu http://www.rch.uky.edu/ http://linguistics.as.uky.edu/users/mrlaue2/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Nov 15 05:38:24 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BC72202513; Tue, 15 Nov 2011 05:38:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 104EE202503; Tue, 15 Nov 2011 05:38:16 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111115053817.104EE202503@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2011 05:38:16 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.475 complementarity? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 475. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2011 05:34:16 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: complementarity I want to use the word "complementarity" to qualify the relationship between digital technologies and the humanities but first must reverse the process by which it became the creature of quantum mechanics and return it to the simple, expansive sense of "a complementary relationship or situation". If you would, regard that reversal as having happened. Now to the complementarity I want to ask about. A colleague just asked me in effect whether I thought we needed more of it in the digital humanities, to wit whether the relationship is not too often too one-way, from these technologies to the humanities rather than also from the humanities to them. What do you think? If you are about to jump in to assert that this is a perfect marriage (I issue a most open invitation), please supply evidence as specific as you can as to what the humanities have done for the technologies. I think we have enough of the other kind to last us for a while, or at least enough assertions that were one actually to look he or she could produce such evidence. (Do we believe that?) I suspect that on the whole we are still so applications-orientated, perhaps also so stymied by the enormously difficult challenges coming from the humanities, that we tend not to think of what they contribute. I suspect that we still feel the need to promote digital tools and methods to our less techologically literate colleagues as once happened with wordprocessing. Nowadays it is not rarely said that the digital humanities might be a life-raft for the humanities as a whole. But why should scholars of principle think that? I for one would rather have them on my life-raft than have it sunk by a horde of opportunists. In asking the question I mean *much* more than markup with XML. I want to ask, how do the interpretative demands of the humanities stimulate the transformation of the technologies -- or could if only we paid attention? Comments? Yours, WM -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor (fractional), University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Nov 15 05:42:38 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id A60CD20259B; Tue, 15 Nov 2011 05:42:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 20114202589; Tue, 15 Nov 2011 05:42:33 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111115054233.20114202589@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2011 05:42:32 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.476 events: history of art; reconfiguring research; textual studies X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 476. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Bentkowska-Kafel, Anna" (19) Subject: CHArt (Computers and the History of Art) Conference - 17th & 18thNovember [2] From: Clotilde Prunier (88) Subject: CFP Configuration(s) 8-9 June 2012 Université Paris Ouest [3] From: Ray Siemens (58) Subject: Conference following DHSI 2012! Textual Studies in the 21st Century CFP --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2011 13:48:12 +0000 From: "Bentkowska-Kafel, Anna" Subject: CHArt (Computers and the History of Art) Conference - 17th & 18thNovember With apologies for cross-posting. Dear Colleague, A final reminder that CHArt (Computers and the History of Art) are holding their annual conference this week in London and it is not too late to sign up if you have not already done so. Please see details below. Dr Anna Bentkowska-Kafel Department of Digital Humanities King's College London 26-29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL Tel: +44(0)20 7848 1421 anna.bentkowska@kcl.ac.uk http://bentkowska.wordpress.com/ __________________________________________________________________________ The CHArt 2011 Conference will examine various levels of enthusiasm and concern for the way that digital technology has impacted upon our responses to art; with specific reference to new paradigms of accessibility, immediacy, prevalence and mutability. 'The Challenge of Ubiquity in Digital Culture' takes place at the Centre for Creative Collaboration (King’s Cross, London) on the 17th and 18th November and the keynote speaker will be Mike Phillips (Plymouth University) who is one of the founding editors of a new journal called 'Ubiquity'. The programme has contributions from UK, US, Canadian and European speakers. More details and a full programme are available at: http://www.chart.ac.uk Payment is possible on arrival at the venue but please indicate your intention to attend as soon as possible by writing to: chart@kcl.ac.uk. One day attendance is: £110 Two day attendance is: £160 Significant reductions are available for CHArt members and students, please enquire via email. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2011 22:45:37 +0100 From: Clotilde Prunier Subject: CFP Configuration(s) 8-9 June 2012 Université Paris Ouest Scroll down for the English version *Colloque international organisé par le groupe R.A.O (Recherche Assistée par Ordinateur), au sein du CREA (EA370), Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense,* *8^et 9 juin 2012* *Configuration(s)* Dès les années 1960, littéraires, linguistes et historiens, entre autres, fondent de grands espoirs sur l'ordinateur, qui ouvre, selon eux, de nouvelles pistes de recherche, mais aussi --surtout-- une nouvelle manière d'aborder leurs objets d'étude. François Furet, par exemple, souligne que « l'utilisation de l'ordinateur par l'historien [...] est aussi une contrainte théorique très utile, dans la mesure où la formalisation d'une série documentaire destinée à être programmée oblige par avance l'historien à renoncer à sa naïveté épistémologique, à construire son objet de recherche, à réfléchir à ses hypothèses, et à passer de l'implicite à l'explicite[1] <#_ftn1>. » Ce colloque a pour dessein de se pencher sur la contribution de l'informatique aux sciences humaines sous l'angle des configurations des divers éléments constitutifs de la recherche (objet, outil, production). On s'attachera par exemple à mettre en évidence les répercussions du recours à l'instrumentation électronique sur la configuration des savoirs (la définition des champs disciplinaires au sein des sciences humaines et le rapport de ces dernières aux sciences dites dures) et sur la configuration de la recherche individuelle dans le cadre d'une communicabilité toujours accrue qui facilite la participation à des projets collectifs d'envergure. Par ailleurs, on pourra analyser l'apport de l'instrumentation électronique à la mise au jour des configurations sous-jacentes, que ce soit d'une oeuvre artistique ou littéraire, d'une langue, d'un paysage ou d'une société. Les communications (30 minutes) pourront concerner toute aire géographique et toute période historique, mais se feront exclusivement en français ou en anglais. Les propositions (300 mots) ainsi qu'un titre et une brève note bio-bibliographique sont à envoyer à Clotilde Prunier cprunier@u-paris10.fr avant le 15 décembre 2011. Après consultation d'un comité de lecture, elles pourront faire l'objet d'une publication. Comité scientifique Anne Bandry-Scubbi (Université de Strasbourg) Françoise Deconinck-Brossard (Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense) Alain Kerhervé (Université de Brest) Clotilde Prunier (Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense) As far back as the 1960s, scholars working in the fields of literature, linguistics or history pinned their faith on computers which, they maintained, opened up new avenues of research. More important still, computers made for new ways of approaching the objects of their research. Louis T Milic, for example, contended that 'the manner of thinking of scholars who have been affected by computers has ... been modified. The demands of the machine have forced scholars in the direction of more explicit statement, because programs cannot be vague and tentative.'[2] <#_ftn2> This conference proposes to investigate the contribution of computing to the humanities and the social sciences in terms of the configurations of the various components of research -- its objects, tools and productions. Papers may highlight the effects of the use of digital tools on the configuration of knowledge -- for instance, on the definition of academic disciplines within the humanities and the social sciences, but also on their relationship with the so-called hard sciences --, on the configuration of each scholar's research in the context of ever increasing data sharing, which makes it possible to set up large-scale collective projects. Papers may also explore the ways in which digital tools enable scholars to bring to light the underlying configurations of literary and artistic works, of languages, landscapes or societies. Papers, which must not exceed 30 minutes, can deal with any historical period and any geographical area, but will be given either in French or English. To submit a proposal, please send a title, a 300-word abstract and a brief C.V. to Clotilde Prunier cprunier@u-paris10.fr by 15 December 2011. All papers will be reviewed by an advisory board. Selected papers will be published. Scientific committee: Anne Bandry-Scubbi (Université de Strasbourg) Françoise Deconinck-Brossard (Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense) Alain Kerhervé (Université de Brest) Clotilde Prunier (Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [1] <#_ftnref1>François Furet, « Histoire quantitative et construction du fait historique », /Annales : économies, sociétés, civilisations/, 26.1, 1971, p. 63-75 (p. 67). [2] <#_ftnref2>Louis T. Milic, 'The Next Step', /Computers and the Humanities/ 1.1 (September 1966), p. 4. -- Clotilde Prunier Département d'études anglophones Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense 200 avenue de la République 92001 Nanterre cedex --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2011 23:27:49 +0000 From: Ray Siemens Subject: Conference following DHSI 2012! Textual Studies in the 21st Century CFP Beyond Accessibility: Textual Studies in the 21st Century Call for Papers The Textual Studies team of INKE (Implementing New Knowledge Environments) wish to invite presentation proposals for Beyond Accessibility: Textual Studies in the 21st Century . June 8, 9, and 10, 2012, University of Victoria, Victoria BC, Canada. Keynote speakers: Adriaan van der Weel (Leiden University) and Sydney Shep, (Victoria University of Wellington) At the end of the 20th century, textual studies witnessed a revolution in accessibility to texts with the explosion of the internet. Now we simply take it for granted that digital processes infuse every step of our study, editing, production, and dissemination of texts. The Textual Studies team of INKE invites presentations that address the questions "What is the state of textual studies in the 21st century? What is the important work of textual studies in the 21st century? What are the outstanding issues, challenges, concerns, emerging trends, methods, attitudes, and exciting developments in textual scholarship? Papers may address such questions as * What is the state of the scholarly edition after the transition from print to print and digital? * What is the impact on the material book and on book history of the different kinds of access enabled by the digital medium? * How have authorship attribution studies been transformed by access to so many more searchable texts? * How has the new age of access to materials affected the state of textual studies in various regions of the globe? * How well are scholars being served by traditional and emerging infrastructures for the study, creation, production, and dissemination of texts? * What is the future of, for example, the study of readership and letter writing, genetic editing, and reception history? INKE is a multi-national, multi-disciplinary research initiative, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and partnering organizations, to study, develop, and implement digital environments for reading and research (www.inke.ca). The Textual Studies Team of INKE is researching ways in which the age of manuscript and print production can inform our development and implementation of electronic reading technologies. We invite proposals for papers, posters/demonstrations, and roundtable discussions that address these and other issues pertinent to research in textual studies. Proposals should contain a title, a detailed and focussed abstract (of approximately 300 words) plus list of works cited, and the names, affiliations, and Website URLs of presenters. Please send proposals before 15 December 2011 to richard.cunningham@acadiau.ca. Potential participants in the conference, particularly those coming from abroad, might be interested to take advantage of the Digital Humanities Summer Institute, which will just before our conference, from 4-8 June, also at the University of Victoria (http://www.dhsi.org/). A limited number of scholarships for workshop tuition will be available for graduate students participating in the Beyond Accessibility conference. Also of potential interest is the annual conference of the Society for Digital Humanities (SDH/SEMI) at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences at Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, 28-30 May, 2012 (http://www.sdh-semi.org/). _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Nov 16 07:36:53 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 688FF200FC7; Wed, 16 Nov 2011 07:36:52 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 2172E200FB7; Wed, 16 Nov 2011 07:36:44 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111116073646.2172E200FB7@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 07:36:44 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.477 complementarity X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 477. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Seth van Hooland (151) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.475 complementarity? [2] From: Desmond Schmidt (27) Subject: RE: [Humanist] 25.475 complementarity? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2011 13:20:26 +0100 From: Seth van Hooland Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.475 complementarity? In-Reply-To: <20111115053817.104EE202503@woodward.joyent.us> Dear prof. McCarty, I am currently giving a course on information technology to 550 undergraduate students from the arts and humanities faculty of the Université Libre de Bruxelles. So it is my job to convince 20-21 year old students in history, linguistics, philosophy, etc of the importance to be able to model a simple entity-relationship diagram, understand how the web works, code some basic HTML/CSS and in the sideline point out how the hours they spend on Facebook are exploited as a form of Immaterial Labour 2.0 (see for example http://ephemeraweb.org/journal/7-1/7-1cote-pybus.pdf). One of the main goals I have set myself with this course is to demonstrate what the humanities have to offer to engineers and computer scientists (for those of you interested, you can find the syllabus of this course on http://homepages.ulb.ac.be/~svhoolan/syllabus_TRANB300.pdf). When I show a piece of simple HTML source code or a database schema on my slides during the first classes, at least 200 or 300 students gaze at me with pure horror in their eyes. This purely irrational reaction is partly due to the underdog position humanities put themselves in as in regards to the "sciences exactes". That is why I am currently trying (I put the emphasis on trying) to convince my students that there are opportunities for humanists to provide engineers and IT professionals with valuable input. Making an abstract model of a complex reality (which can be done with pen and paper) is typically something which can (and should) be done by someone who understands that reality, which is in most cases a humanist. The fact that this is currently not the case, is also probably one of the reasons why so many digitization projects fail or do not deliver satisfactory results. Coming back to the question of prof. McCarty to supply concrete evidence of the added-value of humanities towards technologies, I would like to point out to the research of Isabelle Boydens (my former PhD supervisor), who has been working over the last decade on how the historical method at large, and hermeneutics in particular, can help to assess and to improve the quality of databases. The research of prof. Boydens has led to huge cost savings in the domain of the management of the Belgian social security, so a more concrete example of the added-value of humanities towards technologies is difficult to find. For those of you who read French, I can not recommend "Informatique, normes et temps" highly enough (see http://www.amazon.com/Informatique-normes-temps-L-Boydens/dp/2802712683/re f3Dsr_1_1?ie3DUTF8&qid3D1321351868&sr3D8-1). David Bade of the University of Chicago recently wrote a review of her work in "It's about Time!: Temporal Aspects of Metadata Management in the Work of Isabelle Boydens" (Cataloging & Classification Quarterly (The International Observer), volume 49, nB0 4, 2011, pp. 328-338 (see http://catalogingandclassificationquarterly.com/ccq49nr4.html). Isabelle Boydens and I have recently published an article in the Journal of Documentation on the importance and the concrete added-value of hermeneutics in the field of empirical databases (see http://www.emeraldinsight.com/journals.htm?articleid3D1911713&show3Dabst ract, please feel free to contact me if you do not have access to the full article), which demonstrates how hermeneutics (relying on the work of Fernand Braudel and Norbert Elias) can be operationalized to provide a framework to understand and act upon data quality issues. In the context of the project Freeyourmetadata.org, I will be giving several presentations in the US (Columbia, University of Maryland, CHNM George Mason and University of Illinois Champaign) in the second and third week of February 2012, so please contact me if you are in that region and want to discuss the aforementioned issues. I would be delighted to explore this issue with colleagues and collaborate on more publications which concretely point out the added-value of the humanities for the technological domain. Kind regards, Seth van Hooland Président du Master en Sciences et Technologies de l'Information et de la Communication (MaSTIC) Université Libre de Bruxelles Av. F.D. Roosevelt, 50 CP 123 | 1050 Bruxelles http://homepages.ulb.ac.be/~svhoolan/ http://mastic.ulb.ac.be 0032 2 650 4765 Office: DC11.113 Le 15 nov. 2011 E0 06:38, Humanist Discussion Group a écrit : > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 475. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2011 05:34:16 +0000 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: complementarity > > > I want to use the word "complementarity" to qualify the relationship > between digital technologies and the humanities but first must reverse > the process by which it became the creature of quantum mechanics and > return it to the simple, expansive sense of "a complementary > relationship or situation". If you would, regard that reversal as having > happened. > > Now to the complementarity I want to ask about. A colleague just asked > me in effect whether I thought we needed more of it in the digital > humanities, to wit whether the relationship is not too often too > one-way, from these technologies to the humanities rather than also from > the humanities to them. > > What do you think? > > If you are about to jump in to assert that this is a perfect marriage (I > issue a most open invitation), please supply evidence as specific as you > can as to what the humanities have done for the technologies. I think we > have enough of the other kind to last us for a while, or at least enough > assertions that were one actually to look he or she could produce such > evidence. (Do we believe that?) > > I suspect that on the whole we are still so applications-orientated, > perhaps also so stymied by the enormously difficult challenges coming > from the humanities, that we tend not to think of what they contribute. > I suspect that we still feel the need to promote digital tools and > methods to our less techologically literate colleagues as once happened > with wordprocessing. Nowadays it is not rarely said that the digital > humanities might be a life-raft for the humanities as a whole. But why > should scholars of principle think that? I for one would rather have > them on my life-raft than have it sunk by a horde of opportunists. > > In asking the question I mean *much* more than markup with XML. I want > to ask, how do the interpretative demands of the humanities stimulate > the transformation of the technologies -- or could if only we paid attention? > > Comments? > > Yours, > WM > -- > Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's > College London; Professor (fractional), University of Western Sydney; > Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, > Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ > --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 05:35:29 +1000 From: Desmond Schmidt Subject: RE: [Humanist] 25.475 complementarity? In-Reply-To: <20111115053817.104EE202503@woodward.joyent.us> I have a strong hunch that the traffic is almost exclusively one-way. The reason is that many of the problems encountered by humanists in their work are purely scientific. And the level of expertise of humanists for solving them, having been trained to work quite differently, can't be as good as that of the scientists. On the other hand I doubt that scientists have much need for hermeneutics. So taking these two forces together, the few examples where humanists have been able to reverse the tide and teach scientists how to do things (e.g. having a hand in inventing markup) are mostly of the flavour of having an influence rather than driving the design. Where I think digital humanities could have more of an influence is in providing an intriguing backdrop to solving familiar scientific problems. For example, demonstrating tools to handle textual variation in the humanities vs the biological sciences. (e.g. Barbrook's note in Nature, 1998). But the digital humanities are in danger of being taken over by technologists. I favour a more "complementary" relationship in which the character of the humanities is preserved, and in which technology merely helps out. As Aristotle once said, in a pure marriage of minds one or the other must perish if not both. Desmond Schmidt Information Security Institute Faculty of Science and Technology Queensland University of Technology (07)3138-9509 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Nov 16 07:39:34 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0751202054; Wed, 16 Nov 2011 07:39:33 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1B5B0202040; Wed, 16 Nov 2011 07:39:29 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111116073929.1B5B0202040@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 07:39:28 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.478 publications: entries in LEME; D-Lib for November/December X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 478. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Bonnie Wilson (55) Subject: The November/December 2011 issue of D-Lib Magazine is now available [2] From: UTP Journals (45) Subject: New entries in Lexicons of Early Modern English --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2011 21:44:34 +0000 From: Bonnie Wilson Subject: The November/December 2011 issue of D-Lib Magazine is now available Greetings: The November/December 2011 issue of D-Lib Magazine (http://www.dlib.org/) is now available. This issue contains four articles, three conference reports, several short pieces in the 'In Brief' column, excerpts from recent press releases, and news of upcoming conferences and other items of interest in 'Clips and Pointers'. This month, D-Lib features the Digital Memory of Catalonia collection. The articles include: Extending the Scope of Trove: Addition of E-resources Subscribed to By Australian Libraries Article by Rose Holley, National Library of Australia A Semantic Registry for Digital Library Collections and Services Article by James E. Powell, Krista Black, and Linn Marks Collins, Los Alamos National Laboratory Weaving Content with Coordination Widgets Article by Robert B. Allen Academic Libraries on Facebook: An Analysis of Users' Comments Article by Michalis Gerolimos, Alexander Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki, Greece The conference reports include: OAI7 — CERN Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication Article by Paola Castellucci, Universita di Roma "La Sapienza" and Elena Giglia, Universita degli Studi di Torino Report on the 10th European Networked Knowledge Organization Systems/Services (NKOS) Workshop Conference Report by Philipp Mayr, GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences Report on the Workshop "Linking Research and Education in Digital Libraries" Conference Report by Vittore Casarosa and Donatella Castelli, ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy and Anna Maria Tammaro, University of Parma, Italy D-Lib Magazine has mirror sites at the following locations: UKOLN, University of Bath, Bath, England http://mirrored.ukoln.ac.uk/lis-journals/dlib/ The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia http://dlib.anu.edu.au/ State Library of Lower Saxony and the University Library of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany http://webdoc.sub.gwdg.de/edoc/aw/d-lib/ Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan http://dlib.ejournal.ascc.net/ BN - National Library of Portugal, Portugal http://purl.pt/302/1 (If the mirror site closest to you is not displaying the November/December 2011 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 D-Lib Magazine --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2011 17:40:01 +0000 From: UTP Journals Subject: New entries in Lexicons of Early Modern English Lexicons of Early Modern English (LEME) - http://leme.library.utoronto.ca/ Locating historical references and accessing manuscripts can be difficult with countless hours spent searching for a single text for the sparsest of contributions to your research. Lexicons of Early Modern English is a growing historical database offering scholars unprecedented access to early books and manuscripts documenting the growth and development of the English language. With more than 580,000 word-entries from 176 monolingual, bilingual, and polyglot dictionaries, lexical encyclopedias, hard-word glossaries, spelling lists, and lexically-valuable treatises surviving in print or manuscript from the Tudor, Stuart, Caroline, Commonwealth, and Restoration periods, LEME sets the standard for modern linguistic research on the English language. “Firstly, I want to say what an extraordinary and wonderful resource the LEME is. It is invaluable to the academic community who work on these periods and the ways in which you have developed in from the EMDD are formidable. Thank you!” (Charlotte Scott, researcher and LEME user) Use Modern Techniques to Research Early Modern English! § 176 Searchable lexicons § 122 Fully analyzed lexicons § 588,721 Total word entries § 368,372 Fully analyzed word entries § 60,891 Total English modern headwords Lexicons recently added to LEME http://www.utpjournals.com/leme/leme.html § Anonymous, Catholicon Anglicum: The Remedy for all Diseases (ca. 1475), an English-Latin dictionary from Lord Monson's manuscript, reconstructed from a 19th-century Early English Text Society edition. The earliest such lexicon surviving in the language holding some 7,180 word-entries, distinguishes itself by the extensive use of Latin synonyms in explanations. § John Lydgate, The Horse the Ghoos and the Sheep (1477) § William Caxton, French and English (ca. 1480) § Anonymous, The Fromond List of Garden Plants (ca. 1525),a list of about 138 plants associated with Thomas Fourmond / Formond of Carssalton, Surrey (died March 21, 1542/43). The list has nine sections: for a garden, for pottage, for sauce, for the cop, for salad, to still, for savour and beauty, roots, and for an herber. § Niels Hemmingsen, A Postle, or Exposition of the Gospels (1569), a translation of Niel Hemmingsen's Postilla seu enarratio Evangeliorum (Copenhagen, 1561) § John Florio, Florio his First Fruits (1578), parallel Italian-English dialogues, followed by a brief Italian-English glossary and a grammar § Anonymous, The Academy of Pleasure (1656) § William Lucas, A Catalogue of Seeds, Plants, &c. (ca. 1677) a trade-list in eleven sections: seeds of roots, sallad seeds, potherb seeds, sweet herb seeds, physicall seeds, flower seeds, seeds of evergreen & flowering trees, sorts of pease, beans, &c., seeds to improve land, flower roots, and sorts of choice trees & plants § Peter Levins, Manipulus Vocabulorum (London, 1570), a dictionary of 8,940 English-Latin word-entries, organized by English rhyme-endings (with accentuation). 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It provides exciting research opportunities for linguistic historians through the following powerful features: § Searchable word-entries (simple, wildcard, Boolean, and proximity) § Documentary period database of more than 10,000 works from the Early Modern era § Large primary bibliography of more than 1,000 early works known to include lexical information § Browseable page-by-page transcriptions of lexical works § A selection list of editorially lemmatized headwords unique to each lexical text § Continually updated new dictionaries, glossaries, and tools each year For more information, please contact 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/leme http://leme.library.utoronto.ca/ www.facebook.com/utpjournals www.twitter.com/utpjournals http://www.twitter.com/utpjournals 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 Wed Nov 16 07:42:45 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1AC520210D; Wed, 16 Nov 2011 07:42:44 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id CF3962020DD; Wed, 16 Nov 2011 07:42:38 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111116074238.CF3962020DD@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 07:42:38 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.479 events: critical social theory; DH Deutschland; democratisation X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 479. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Shawn Day (23) Subject: 2011 RIA International Affairs Conference: Democratisation & NewMedia, Friday Nov 25th- Registration Open [2] From: Jan Christoph Meister (26) Subject: Digital Humanities Deutschland - founding 'unconference', Universityof Hamburg, 17 July 2012 (@ DH 2012) [3] From: Christian Fuchs (239) Subject: CfA: Conference "Critique, Democracy, and Philosophy in 21st Century Information Society. Towards Critical Theories of Social Media" --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2011 12:32:47 +0000 From: Shawn Day Subject: 2011 RIA International Affairs Conference: Democratisation & New Media, Friday Nov 25th- Registration Open The 2011 RIA International Affairs Conference, entitled Democratisation and New Media, will be taking place in Academy House on Friday 25th November. The Tánaiste, and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Mr Eamon Gilmore, TD will be delivering the opening address. Some key note speakers include: * Mr Mark Little (former RTE journalist and founder of @storyful) * Ms Susan Pointer (Google, Director of Public Policy) * Professor Sarah Oates (Professor of Political Communication, University of Glasgow) * Professor Philip Seib (Director, USC Center on Public Diplomacy and Professor of International Relations, University of Southern California) The conference will be followed by a reception in Iveagh House, hosted by the Department of Foreign Affairs, to mark the launch of the Academy’s Journal Irish Studies In International Affairs. Twitter Hashtag: #RIAintaffairs To see the full programme and to book a place, please follow the link: http://www.ria.ie/events/events-listing/2011-ria-international-affairs-conference--democra.aspx [cid:image001.jpg@01CCA391.6175FE90] Carmel Ni Luanai Senior Executive Assistant Royal Irish Academy/Acadamh Ríoga na hÉireann 19 Dawson Street Dublin 2, Ireland Tel: +353 (0)1 6090640 Email: c.niluanai@ria.ie Website: www.ria.ie http://www.ria.ie The Royal Irish Academy/Acadamh Ríoga na hÉireann Ireland’s Academy for the sciences and humanities. Follow the Academy on twitter: https://twitter.com/riadawson --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2011 20:15:38 +0100 From: Jan Christoph Meister Subject: Digital Humanities Deutschland - founding 'unconference', University of Hamburg, 17 July 2012 (@ DH 2012) DH in Germany, Austria and Switzerland is surely “alive and kicking”, as a multitude of DH projects as well as funding programs by, among other, the DFG, BMBF and the Volkswagenstiftung demonstrate. However, DH scholars in the German speaking region lack a representative organization that would formulate our field’s academic interests and requirements and communicate these to regional research policy makers and funding agencies, as well as to the broader public. In order to facilitate future strategic development of DH as a leading future research paradigm, we *invite all Digital Humanities researchers in the German speaking region* to come together, exchange ideas and information and establish a joint professional organization called “*Digital Humanities Deutschland*” (hereafter: *DHD*) which **we envisage as a chapter organization within ALLC. The inaugural DHD meeting will be organized as an "unconference" *and be held at the University of Hamburg on 17 July 2012*, immediately prior to the official opening of the DH 2012. Pending the outcome of a current funding application travel grants will be able to assist junior DH researchers and teams. The conference language will be German. For further details, please visit*http://www.dig-hum.de* . Digitally yours, Jan Christoph Meister Gerhard Lauer Peter Wittenburg --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2011 20:57:50 +0000 From: Christian Fuchs Subject: CfA: Conference "Critique, Democracy, and Philosophy in21st Century Information Society. Towards Critical Theories of Social Media" Call for Contributions/Abstracts Critique, Democracy, and Philosophy in 21st Century information Society. Towards Critical Theories of Social Media. The Fourth ICTs and Society-Conference Uppsala University. May 2nd-4th, 2012. http://www.icts-and-society.net/events/uppsala2012/ http://fuchs.uti.at/wp-content/CfA.pdf A unique event for networking, presentation of critical ideas, critical engagement, and featuring leading critical scholars in the area of Critical Internet Studies and Critical Studies of Media & Society. Confirmed Keynote Speakers * Andrew Feenberg (Simon Fraser University, Canada): Great Refusal and Long March: How to Use Critical Theory to Think About the Internet. * Charles Ess (Aarhus University, Denmark): Digital Media Ethics and Philosophy in 21st Century Information Society * Christian Christensen (Uppsala University, Sweden): WikiLeaks: Mainstreaming Transparency? * Christian Fuchs (Uppsala University, Sweden): Critique of the Political Economy of Social Media and Informational Capitalism * Graham Murdock (Loughborough University, UK): The Peculiarities of Media Commodities: Consumer Labour, Ideology, and Exploitation Today * Gunilla Bradley (KTH, Sweden): Social Informatics and Ethics: Towards a Good Information Society * Mark Andrejevic (University of Queensland, Australia): Social Media: Surveillance and Exploitation 2.0 * Nick Dyer-Witheford (University of Western Ontario, Canada): Cybermarxism Today: Cycles and Circuits of Struggle in 21st Century Capitalism * Peter Dahlgren (Lund University, Sweden): Social Media and the Civic Sphere: Perspectives for the Future of Democracy * Tobias Olsson (Jönköping University, Sweden): Social Media Participation and the Organized Production of Net Culture * Trebor Scholz (New School, USA): The Internet as Playground and Factory * Ursula Huws (University of Hertfordshire, UK): Virtual Work and the Cybertariat in Contemporary Capitalism * Vincent Mosco (Queen’s University, Canada): Marx is Back, but Will Knowledge Workers of the World Unite? On the Critical Study of Labour, Media, and Communication Today * Wolfgang Hofkirchner (Vienna University of Technology, Austria): Potentials and Risks for Creating a Global Sustainable Information Society Conference Topic This conference provides a forum for the discussion of how to critically study social media and their relevance for critique, democracy, politics and philosophy in 21st century information society. We are living in times of global capitalist crisis. In this situation, we are witnessing a return of critique in the form of a surging interest in critical theories (such as the critical political economy of Karl Marx, critical theory, etc) and revolutions, rebellions, and political movements against neoliberalism that are reactions to the commodification and instrumentalization of everything. On the one hand there are overdrawn claims that social media (Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, mobile Internet, etc) have caused rebellions and uproars in countries like Tunisia and Egypt, which brings up the question to which extent these are claims are ideological or not. On the other hand, the question arises what actual role social media play in contemporary capitalism, power structures, crisis, rebellions, uproar, revolutions, the strengthening of the commons, and the potential creation of participatory democracy. The commodification of everything has resulted also in a commodification of the communication commons, including Internet communication that is today largely commercial in character. The question is how to make sense of a world in crisis, how a different future can look like, and how we can create Internet commons and a commons-based participatory democracy. This conference deals with the question of what kind of society and what kind of Internet are desirable, what steps need to be taken for advancing a good Internet in a sustainable information society, how capitalism, power structures and social media are connected, what the main problems, risks, opportunities and challenges are for the current and future development of Internet and society, how struggles are connected to social media, what the role, problems and opportunities of social media, web 2.0, the mobile Internet and the ubiquitous Internet are today and in the future, what current developments of the Internet and society tell us about potential futures, how an alternative Internet can look like, and how a participatory, commons-based Internet and a co-operative, participatory, sustainable information society can be achieved. Questions to be addressed include, but are not limited to: * What does it mean to study the Internet, social media and society in a critical way? What are Critical Internet Studies and Critical Theories of Social Media? What does it mean to study the media and communication critically? * What is the role of the Internet and social media in contemporary capitalism? * How do power structures, exploitation, domination, class, digital labour, commodification of the communication commons, ideology, and audience/user commodification, and surveillance shape the Internet and social media? * How do these phenomena shape concrete platforms such as Google, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc? * How does contemporary capitalism look like? What is the role of the Internet and social media in contemporary capitalism? * In what society do we live? What is the actual role of information, ICTs, and knowledge in contemporary society? Are concepts like network society, information society, informational capitalism, etc adequate characterizations of contemporary society or overdrawn claims? What are the fundamental characteristics of contemporary society and which concept(s) should be used for describing this society? * What is digital labour and how do exploitation and surplus value generation work on the Internet? Which forms of exploitation and class structuration do we find on the Internet, how do they work, what are their commonalities and differences? How does the relation between toil and play change in a digital world? How do classes and class struggles look like in 21st century informational capitalism? * What are ideologies of the Internet, web 2.0, and social media? How can they be deconstructed and criticized? How does ideology critique work as an empirical method and theory that is applied to the Internet and social media? * Which philosophies, ethics and which philosophers are needed today in order to understand the Internet, democracy and society and to achieve a global sustainable information society and a participatory Internet? What are perspectives for political philosophy and social theory in 21st century information society? * What contradictions, conflicts, ambiguities, and dialectics shape 21st century information society and social media? * What theories are needed for studying the Internet, social media, web 2.0, or certain platforms or applications in a critical way? * What is the role of counter-power, resistance, struggles, social movements, civil society, rebellions, uproars, riots, revolutions, and political transformations in 21st century information society and how (if at all) are they connected to social media? * What is the actual role of social media and social networking sites in political revolutions, uproars, and rebellions (like the recent Maghrebian revolutions, contemporary protests in Europe and the world, the Occupy movement, etc)? * How can an alternative Internet look like and what are the conditions for creating such an Internet? What are the opportunities and challenges posed by projects like Wikipedia, WikiLeaks, Diaspora, IndyMedia, Democracy Now! and other alternative media? What is a commons-based Internet and how can it be created? * What is the role of ethics, politics, and activism for Critical Internet Studies? * What is the role of critical theories in studying the information society, social media, and the Internet? * What is a critical methodology in Critical Internet Studies? Which research methods are needed on how need existing research methods be adapted for studying the Internet and society in a critical way? * What are ethical problems, opportunities, and challenges of social media? How are they framed by the complex contradictions of contemporary capitalism? * Who and what and where are we in 21st century capitalist information society? How have different identities changed in the global world, what conflicts relate to it, and what is the role of class and class identity in informational capitalism? * What is democracy? What is the future of democracy in the global information society? And what is or should democracy be today? What is the relation of democracy and social media? How do the public sphere and the colonization of the public sphere look like today? What is the role of social media in the public sphere and its colonization? The conference is the fourth in the ICTs and Society-Conference Series (http://www.icts-and-society.net). The ICTs and Society-Network is an international forum that networks scholars in the interdisciplinary areas of Critical Internet Studies, digital media studies, Internet & society studies and information society studies. The ICTs and Society Conference series was in previous years organized at the University of Salzburg (Austria, June 2008), the University of Trento (Italy, June 2009) and the Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (Spain, July 2010). About Uppsala, Uppsala University and the Department of Informatics and Media: Uppsala University (http://www.uu.se) was founded in 1477 and is the oldest university in the Nordic countries. Every year 45 000 undergraduate and graduate students enroll for classes. Uppsala is an academic and students-oriented city with old academic tradition. The Department of Informatics and Media (http://www.im.uu.se) is a newly established institution at Uppsala University. Its research focuses on understanding and designing digital media in the information society. Among its educational programmes is a new master’s programme in Digital Media & Society that will start in August 2012. Early May is a particularly nice time to come and visit Uppsala. It is the time of spring festivities and the awakening of nature and the city. The end of April has since medieval times been a time of celebrating the spring, especially in Eastern Sweden. Uppsala and especially Uppsala’s students have participated in this tradition, especially on the last of April (“sista april”, Valborg, http://www.valborgiuppsala.se/en) that features various celebrations and special activities all over the town. Time Plan: February 29th, 2012, 17:00, Central European Time (CET): Abstract Submission Deadline Until March 11th, 2012: information about acceptance or rejection of presentations March 30th, 2012, 17:00, CET: registration deadline May 2nd-4th, 2012: Conference, Ekonomikum, University of Uppsala, Kyrkogårdsgatan 10, Uppsala Abstract Submission: a) For submission, please first register your profile on the ICTs and Society platform: http://www.icts-and-society.net/register/ b) Please download the abstract submission form: http://fuchs.uti.at/wp-content/uploads/ASF.doc , insert your presentation title, contact data, and an abstract of 200-500 words. The abstract should clearly set out goals, questions, the way taken for answering the questions, main results, the importance of the topic for critically studying the information society and/or social media and for the conference. Please submit your abstract until February 29th, 2012, per e-mail to Marisol Sandoval: marisol.sandoval@uti.at Organizer: Uppsala University, Department of Informatics and Media, Kyrkogårdsgatan 10, Box 513, 751 20 Uppsala, Sweden http://www.im.uu.se Contact for academic questions in respect to the conference: Prof. Christian Fuchs, christian.fuchs@im.uu.se , Tel +46 18 471 1019 Contact for questions concerning conference organization and administration: Marisol Sandoval, marisol.sandoval@uti.at Co-organizers: * ICTs and Society Network * European Sociological Association – Research Network 18: Sociology of Communications and Media Research * tripleC – Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society * Unified Theory of Information Research Group (UTI), Austria * Department of Information and Media Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark * Institute for Design & Assessment of Technology, Vienna University of Technology, Austria * Jönköping University, School of Education and Communication, Sweden Conference Board and Organization Committee: Charles Ess, Aarhus University Christian Christensen, Uppsala University Christian Fuchs, Uppsala University + UTI Research Group Göran Svensson, Uppsala University Marisol Sandoval, Unified Theory of Information Research Group Sebastian Sevignani, Unified Theory of Information Research Group Sylvain Firer-Blaess, Uppsala University Thomas Allmer, Unified Theory of Information (UTI) Research Group Tobias Olsson, Jönköping University Verena Kreilinger, Unified Theory of Information Research Group Wolfgang Hofkirchner, Vienna University of Technology + UTI Research Group Welcome to Uppsala in Spring 2012! _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Nov 17 05:22:10 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 552F1204F77; Thu, 17 Nov 2011 05:22:10 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 82F6D204F6D; Thu, 17 Nov 2011 05:22:03 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111117052203.82F6D204F6D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 05:22:03 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.480 complementarity X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 480. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 08:00:44 +0000 From: Adam Crymble Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.477 complementarity In-Reply-To: <20111116073646.2172E200FB7@woodward.joyent.us> As someone who buys his bread and pays his university tuition with money from humanists looking for technical solutions, I'd encourage everyone not to underestimate the contributions of the underwriter. Technology in its own right is useless without an application. Humanities scholarship provides a purpose for some of that technology and the money with which to apply it. Adam Crymble PhD Student, History & Digital Humanities King's College London On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 7:36 AM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 477. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > [1] From: Seth van Hooland > (151) > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.475 complementarity? > > [2] From: Desmond Schmidt > (27) > Subject: RE: [Humanist] 25.475 complementarity? [...] _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Nov 17 05:23:18 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98B1C204FC7; Thu, 17 Nov 2011 05:23:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D24C1204FB6; Thu, 17 Nov 2011 05:23:11 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111117052311.D24C1204FB6@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 05:23:11 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.481 job at NYU X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 481. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 21:03:47 -0500 From: "Matthew K. Gold" Subject: Job Announcement: Asst/Assoc Prof in Cyberinfrastructure ASSISTANT OR ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR - CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE Position: Assistant or Associate Professor - Cyberinfrastructure Job ID#: 4817 Department: Interdisciplinary Location: Graduate Center Closing Date: Open Until Filled with review of applications to begin November 30, 2011 http://www.gc.cuny.edu/News-Events-Public-Programs/News/Detail?id=6917 General Description: The Graduate Center of the City University of New York invites applications from distinguished scholars with interdisciplinary research interests in cyberinfrastructure for a tenure-track position at the level of Assistant or Associate Professor. The is one of a cluster of newly-created cyberinfrastructure faculty lines across-the CUNY system. Some preferred fields of specialization include: data visualization and analysis; data/text mining; linked data/semantic web; data interoperability; computational science; informatics; machine learning; game theory; and digital humanities. The appointment will begin in Fall 2012. General Duties Performs teaching, research, and guidance duties in area(s) of expertise as noted below. Shares responsibility for committee and department assignments, performing administrative, supervisory, and other functions as may be assigned. Salary: Salary and start-up package will be competitive and commensurate with the high level of accomplishment expected for the successful applicant. Qualifications: Minimum Qualifications For Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor designations: Ph.D. degree in area(s) of expertise, or equivalent as noted below. Also required are the ability to teach successfully, interest in productive scholarship or creative achievement, and ability to cooperate with others for the good of the institution. For Instructor designation: A master's degree in area(s) of expertise, and/or active progress toward a doctorate, or equivalent as noted below. Also required are the ability to teach successfully, interest in productive scholarship or creative achievement, and ability to cooperate with others for the good of the institution. Other Qualifications The successful candidate will have a: - Ph.D. with an exceptional publication record; - demonstrated history of successful grant-funded research; - interdisciplinary interests and a commitment both to teaching and mentoring graduate-level students; and - record of collaborative research. To apply: Please send a letter of application, a current CV, a statement of research interests (including a description of current and planned research funding), and the names and contact information of three professional references to: Chair of Cyberinfrastructure Search Committee, Office of the Provost, CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016 Email applications will be accepted. To apply, please send a message with the above materials as attachments to cyberinfrastructure@gc.cuny.edu. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- An Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action/IRCA/Americans with Disabilities Act Employer. The Graduate Center complies with the Clery Act and copies of its annual report on security policies and statistics are available in its Security Office. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Nov 17 05:24:08 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4855A203009; Thu, 17 Nov 2011 05:24:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id DF685204FED; Thu, 17 Nov 2011 05:24:02 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20111117052402.DF685204FED@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 05:24:02 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.482 publication: how the page matters X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 482. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 21:47:17 +0000 From: "Reilly, Maeve J" Subject: GSLIS at Illinois faculty member investigates How the Page Matters In her new book, How the Page Matters (University of Toronto Press), Bonnie Mak, assistant professor at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois, explains that how text is presented in a book can tell a bigger story than what is inscribed on each page. Specifically, Mak, who has a joint appointment in the Program in Medieval Studies, examines the fifteenth-century Latin text, the Controversia de nobilitate by Buonaccorso da Montemagno in three forms-as a manuscript, as a printed work, and as a digital edition. Transcending boundaries of history and language, How the Page Matters connects technology with tradition using innovative approaches from architectural, medieval, and new media studies. While historicizing contemporary digital culture and asking how on-screen combinations of image and text affect the way we understand information being conveyed, Mak's analysis proves both the timeliness of studying the interface design and the persistence of the page as a mechanism for communication. More information can be found on our website: www.lis.illinois.edu/articles/2011/11/new-book-explores-how-page-matters www.lis.illinois.edu/people/faculty/bmak An excerpt of the book may be found at: people.lis.illinois.edu/~bmak/page_sample_spreads.pdf Maeve Reilly Research Services Coordinator Graduate School of Library and Information Science University of Illinois Rm 219 LIS 501 E. Daniel Champaign, IL 61820 mjreilly@illinois.edu (217) 244-7316 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Nov 17 05:33:55 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E1C3203236; Thu, 17 Nov 2011 05:33:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 245FA20320F; Thu, 17 Nov 2011 05:33:44 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111117053345.245FA20320F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 05:33:44 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.483 events: medieval texts & mss; social phenomena X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 483. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Caroline Macé (20) Subject: CFP - Leuven, 2-3 April 2012 - Digital analysis of texts andmanuscripts [2] From: Judith Simon (195) Subject: Social Computing, Social Cognition, Social Networks and Multiagent Systems --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 12:32:59 +0000 From: Caroline Macé Subject: CFP - Leuven, 2-3 April 2012 - Digital analysis of texts andmanuscripts Dear Colleagues, Proposals are now being invited for presentations at a workshop entitled "Methods and means for digital analysis of ancient and medieval texts and manuscripts", to be held at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven on 2-3 April 2012. Please, see the CFP below. Best wishes, Caroline Macé and Tara Andrews ----- Call for Participation Leuven, 2-3 April 2012 Methods and means for digital analysis of ancient and medieval texts and manuscripts THE WORKSHOP This workshop aims at mapping the various ways in which digital tools can help and, indeed, change our scholarly work on "pre-modern" texts, more precisely our means of analyzing the interrelationships between manuscripts and texts produced in the pre-modern era. This includes the history of textual traditions in a very broad sense, encompassing several fields of research, such as book history, stemmatology, research on textual sources, tracing of borrowings and influences between texts, etc. We welcome researches in any field of textual scholarship carried out on any ancient or medieval textual tradition in any language (Latin, Greek, "vernacular" / "oriental" languages…), using computer-aided methods of analysis. Possible topics are: stemmatological analysis of manuscript traditions, digital palaeography / codicology, analysis of relationships between texts, textual history, textual criticism... This workshop is seen as complementary to the Interedition ‘bootcamp’ to be held in Leuven in January 2012 (see http://www.interedition.eu/ for more information). TO PARTICIPATE To participate in the workshop, please submit a short abstract (preferably in English) (300-500 words) to Tara Andrews (tara.andrews@arts.kuleuven.be) by 15 December 2012. As we seek to encourage the participation of early-stage researchers (PhD students or post-doctoral researchers), a limited number of bursaries are available to cover travel expenses. If you wish to apply for one of these, please submit an additional statement motivating your application (main criteria are importance of this workshop for your current research and absence of other possible funding). Abstracts and applications for bursaries will be evaluated by the scientific committee. The result of this evaluation will be made known by 1 February. The language of the workshop is primarily English, but we may consider other languages. Please note that we intent to publish the papers presented at this workshop as a book. If your abstract is accepted, you will also receive some guidelines for the publication. ORGANIZERS The Tree of Texts project is a CREA (“creative research”) project (3H100334), funded by the KU Leuven from 1/10/2010 to 30/9/2012) with Caroline Macé as promoter and Tara Andrews as main researcher. The project is focused on the field of text stemmatology, and the aim is to arrive at an empirical model for variation in medieval text traditions. The goal of Interedition is to promote the interoperability of the tools and methodology used in the field of digital scholarly editing and research. Equally, Interedition seeks to raise the awareness of the importance of sustainability of the digital artifacts and instruments we create. SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE: Tara Andrews (K.U.Leuven), Aurélien Berra (Université Paris-Ouest), Thomas Crombez (Universiteit Antwerpen), Juan Garcès (Göttingen Centre for Digital Humanities), Tuomas Heikkilä (University of Helsinki), Caroline Macé (K.U.Leuven), Torsten Schaßan (Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel), Frederik Truyen (K.U.Leuven), Dirk Van Hulle (Universiteit Antwerpen), Joris van Zundert (Huygens Institute). --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 17:30:35 +0000 From: Judith Simon Subject: Social Computing, Social Cognition, Social Networks and Multiagent Systems CALL FOR PAPERS Symposium on SOCIAL COMPUTING - SOCIAL COGNITION - SOCIAL NETWORKS AND MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS @ AISB/IACAP 2012 July 2nd – 3rd 2012 https://sites.google.com/site/socialturnsnamasaisbiacap2012/ The symposium is part of the AISB/IACAP World Congress 2012 in honour of Alan Turing, held on July 2nd to 6th, 2012. University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.http://events.cs.bham.ac.uk/turing12/ & http://www.aisb.org.uk/convention/aisb12/ The event is jointly organized by The Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour (AISB) [http://www.aisb.org.uk ] and The International Association for Computing and Philosophy (IACAP) [http://www.ia-cap.org ] ------------------------------- SYMPOSIUM CHAIRS Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic, Mälardalen University, Sweden. Antonino Rotolo, CIRSFID, U. di Bologna, Italy. Giovanni Sartor, EUI and CIRSFID, Italy. Judith Simon, U. of Vienna, Austria and KIT, Germany. Clara Smith, UNLP and UCALP, Argentina. --------------------------------- This 2012 symposium merges the symposium entitled Social Turn: Social Computing - Social Cognition - Social Intelligence; and the SNAMAS symposium, focused on Social Networks and Multi-Agent Systems, which have precursor symposia in Social Computing at IACAP and the SNAMAS in AISB conferences. ---------------------------------- TOPICS The field of social computing has two different foci: social and computational. There is the focus on socialness of social software or social web applications. Widespread examples of social software are blogs, wikis, social bookmarking services, instant messaging services, and social networking sites. Social computing often uses various types of crowdsourcing techniques for aggregation of input from numerous users (public at large). Tools such as prediction markets, social tagging, reputation and trust systems as well as recommender systems are based on collaborative filtering and thus a result of crowdsourcing. Another focus of social computing is on computational modeling of social behavior, among others through Multi-agent systems (MAS) and Social Networks (SN). MAS have an anchoring going beyond social sciences even when a sociological terminology is often used. There are several usages of MAS: to design distributed and/or hybrid systems; to develop philosophical theory; to understand concrete social facts, or to answer concrete social issues via modelling and simulation. MAS aim at modelling, among other things, cognitive or reactive agents who interact in dynamic environments where they possibly depend on each other to achieve their goals. The emphasis is nowadays on constructing complex computational systems composed by agents which are regulated by various types of norms, and behave like human social systems. Finally, Social networks (SN) are social structures made of nodes (which are, generally, individuals or organizations) that are tied by one or more specific types of interdependency, such as values, visions, idea, financial exchange, friends, kinship, dislike, conflict, trade, web links, disease transmission, among many others. Social networks analysis plays a critical role in determining the way specific problems are solved, organizations are run, and the degree to which individuals succeed in achieving their goals. Social networks analysis has addressed also the dynamics issue, called dynamic networks analysis. This is an emergent scientific field that brings together traditional social network analysis, link analysis and multi-agent systems. The symposium addresses, but is not limited to, the following topics: - Conceptual issues such as Socialness (notions of the social used and/or enforced in social computing and research on social cognition or social intelligence) and - Computational Models and mechanisms of social computing (information processing) as well as models and social mechanisms of cognition and intelligence. - Agency & Action in social computing systems: How can agency be understood and/or modeled in systems consisting of human and non-human agents? - Social Coordination & Norms: Emergence of norms (e.g. in Wikipedia) and compliance including their computational modeling in socio-technical systems. - Interaction & Communication in socio-technical systems and their computational models - Knowledge: the epistemological and ethical consequences of distributed knowledge creation in social computing and its computational models - Relations between the individual and the social: Forming of individual existence in relation to social computing (e.g. digital identity), including its computational modeling. - Agreement technologies. - Electronic Institutions. - Empirical and/or theoretical studies on a specific social or legal relationship (power, solidarity, legitimity, dependency...). - Empirical and/or theoretical studies on social relations' regulations. - Formalization of Normed Systems. - Logical frameworks for representing, describing and analysing agent's social or legal relationships. - Relations between the individual and the social: Forming of individual existence in relation to social computing (e.g. digital identity), including its info-computational modeling. - Responsibility, Accountability & Liability. What is epistemically and ethically responsible behavior with respect to social software and how can it be supported? What are the responsibilities of different human agents (e.g. software users, designers, researchers, etc)? - Rules and standards. - Social Networking Sites: philosophical implications of socialness in social networking sites (e.g., privacy, social structures, etc.). - Info-computational models of social networking sites. - The role of agents´ attributes in structuring social and legal relationships. - The role of specific social relationships in structuring groups and organizations. - Trust in social computing. Differences and similarities between notions of trust e.g. in multi-agent systems, social networking sites, recommender systems, etc. Differences and similarities between trust online and offline. How can trust be supported by a computational system itself? ------------------------------ IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline: February 1, 2012. Notification of acceptance: March 1, 2012. Camera ready version deadline: March 30, 2012. Symposium: 2nd – 3rd July, 2012. --------------------------------- PAPER SUBMISSION Guidelines for paper submission are as follows: - The paper should be written in English. - The maximum length of a paper is 6 A4-sized pages in ECAI format (format download: http://www.aisb.org.uk/convention/aisb08/download.html). - The paper should be in PDF format. - Please choose one track between SOCIAL TURN and SNAMAS, and submit via the online paper submission system to the corresponding track at: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=socialturnmasaisbiac ------------------------------------- PROGRAM COMMITTEE Doris Allhutter, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria. Frederic Amblard, IRIT, U. Toulouse, France. Giulia Andrighetto, ISTC-CNR, Italy. Carlos Areces, UN Córdoba, Argentina. Guido Boella, University of Torino, Italy. Pompeu Casanovas, UAB Institute of Law and Technology, Spain. Cristiano Castelfranchi, ISTC-CNR, Italy. Mark Coeckelbergh University of Twente, Netherlands Diego Compagna, University Duisburg-Essen, Germany. Rosaria Conte, ISTC-CNR, Italy. Charles Ess, Aarhus University, Danmark. Ricardo Guibourg, UBA, Argentina. Hamid Ekbia, Indiana University, Indiana Lars-Erik Janlert, Umeå University, Sweden Matthias Mailliard, Cemagref, France. Antonio A. Martino, U. Salvador, Argentina. Jeremy Pitt, Imperial College London, UK. Leon Van der Torre, U Louxembourg, Louxembourg. Serena Villata, University of Torino, Italy. Jutta Weber, University Paderborn, Germany. Christian Fuchs, Uppsala University, Sweden. --------------------------------------- POSTERS AND SYSTEM DEMONSTRATIONS There will be one session for system demonstrations, and one day poster exhibition. ---------------------------------------- PROCEEDINGS AND POST PROCEEDINGS There will be a separate proceedings for each symposium, produced before the Congress. Each delegate at the Congress will receive, on arrival, a memory stick containing the proceedings of all symposia. Selected papers of the Symposium, under a second review process, will be considered for a special issue of the AI & Law Journal, Springer http://www.springer.com/computer/ai/journal/10506; and for the open access TripleC journal http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC . -------------------------------------- ABOUT THE CONGRESS The Congress serves both as the year's AISB Convention and the year's IACAP conference. The Congress has been inspired by a desire to honour Alan Turing, and by the broad and deep significance of Turing's work to AI, to the philosophical ramifications of computing, and to Philosophy and computing more generally. The Congress is one of the events forming the Alan Turing Year (http://www.mathcomp.leeds.ac.uk/turing2012/). The intent of the Congress is to stimulate a particularly rich interchange between AI and Philosophy on any areas of mutual interest, whether directly addressing Turing's own research output or not. The Congress will consist mainly of a number of collocated Symposia on specific research areas, interspersed with Congress-wide refreshment breaks, social events and invited Plenary Talks. All papers other than the invited Plenaries will be given within Symposia. This symposium is closely connected to UmoCoP, Symposium on Understanding and Modelling Collective Phenomena, which will be held on July 3rd-5th 2012. There will be a joint panel from both symposia on July 3rd. ---------------------- CONTACTS For further inquiries please contact any of the chairs: gordana.dodig-crnkovic@mdh.se, judith.simon@univie.ac.at (SOCIAL COMPUTING - SOCIAL COGNITION - SOCIAL NETWORKS) antonino.rotolo@unibo.it, giovanni.sartor@libero.it, csmith@info.unlp.edu.ar (MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS) -- Judith Simon Department of Philosophy - University of Vienna (PI: Epistemic Trust in Socio-Technical Epistemic Systems) ITAS - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Senior Researcher) Institut Jean Nicod - Ecole normale supérieure - Paris (Associate Post-doctoral fellow) _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Nov 17 05:34:59 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B94D2032AE; Thu, 17 Nov 2011 05:34:58 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C624A203285; Thu, 17 Nov 2011 05:34:52 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20111117053452.C624A203285@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 05:34:52 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.484 call for submissions: Postmodern Cultural Sound, Text and Image X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 484. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 06:15:05 -0800 (PST) From: Nicholas Ruiz III Subject: CFP: Kritikos 2012 Kritikos: Journal of Postmodern Cultural Sound, Text and Image (ISSN 1552-5112) Kritikos has been in circulation since 2004 and publishes work in cultural theory, art and criticism. We are especially interested in what is happening now. And we welcome the work of graduate students. Share your work. We invite submissions for 2012. Kritikos: http://intertheory.org/kritikos Many thanks for your scholarship and support. Nicholas Ruiz III, Ph.D NRIII for Congress 2012 http://intertheory.org/nriiiforcongress2010.html ____________________________________ Editor, Kritikos http://intertheory.org Nicholas Ruiz III for Congress PO Box 1372 New Smyrna Beach, FL 32170 http://twitter.com/#!/nriii _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Nov 18 07:30:34 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC64D20632D; Fri, 18 Nov 2011 07:30:33 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 264B520631A; Fri, 18 Nov 2011 07:30:24 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111118073025.264B520631A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2011 07:30:24 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.485 job at CUNY, not NYU! X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 485. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Dr. Katherine D. Harris" (122) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.481 job at NYU [2] From: Tom Elliott (114) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.481 job at NYU [Apologies herewith for my error. --WM] --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 21:26:37 -0800 From: "Dr. Katherine D. Harris" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.481 job at NYU In-Reply-To: <20111117052311.D24C1204FB6@woodward.joyent.us> Just a little clarification: This job is at The Graduate Center, CUNY. (Not quite NYU) Fabulous, fabulous school and extremely progressive. Good luck to all of the applicants. Kathy ************************** Dr. Katherine D. Harris Tenured Assistant Professor Department of English & Comparative Literature San Jose State University One Washington Square San Jose, CA 95192-0090 Email: katherine.harris@sjsu.edu Phone: 408.924.4475 Research Blog: http://triproftri.wordpress.com/ Editor, Forget Me Not Hypertextual Archive http://www.orgs.muohio.edu/anthologies/FMN/ On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 9:23 PM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 481. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 21:03:47 -0500 > From: "Matthew K. Gold" > Subject: Job Announcement: Asst/Assoc Prof in Cyberinfrastructure > > > ASSISTANT OR ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR - CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE > Position: Assistant or Associate Professor - Cyberinfrastructure > Job ID#: 4817 > Department: Interdisciplinary > Location: Graduate Center > Closing Date: Open Until Filled with review of applications to begin > November 30, 2011 > > http://www.gc.cuny.edu/News-Events-Public-Programs/News/Detail?id=6917 > > General Description: > > The Graduate Center of the City University of New York invites applications > from distinguished scholars with interdisciplinary research interests in > cyberinfrastructure for a tenure-track position at the level of Assistant > or Associate Professor. > > The is one of a cluster of newly-created cyberinfrastructure faculty lines > across-the CUNY system. > > Some preferred fields of specialization include: data visualization and > analysis; data/text mining; linked data/semantic web; data > interoperability; computational science; informatics; machine learning; > game theory; and digital humanities. > > The appointment will begin in Fall 2012. > > General Duties > Performs teaching, research, and guidance duties in area(s) of expertise as > noted below. Shares responsibility for committee and department > assignments, performing administrative, supervisory, and other functions as > may be assigned. > > Salary: Salary and start-up package will be competitive and commensurate > with the high level of accomplishment expected for the successful > applicant. > > Qualifications: > Minimum Qualifications > For Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor designations: > Ph.D. degree in area(s) of expertise, or equivalent as noted below. Also > required are the ability to teach successfully, interest in productive > scholarship or creative achievement, and ability to cooperate with others > for the good of the institution. > > For Instructor designation: > A master's degree in area(s) of expertise, and/or active progress toward a > doctorate, or equivalent as noted below. Also required are the ability to > teach successfully, interest in productive scholarship or creative > achievement, and ability to cooperate with others for the good of the > institution. > > Other Qualifications > The successful candidate will have a: > - Ph.D. with an exceptional publication record; > - demonstrated history of successful grant-funded research; > - interdisciplinary interests and a commitment both to teaching and > mentoring graduate-level students; and > - record of collaborative research. > > To apply: > > Please send a letter of application, a current CV, a statement of research > interests (including a description of current and planned research > funding), and the names and contact information of three professional > references to: Chair of Cyberinfrastructure Search Committee, Office of the > Provost, CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016 > > Email applications will be accepted. To apply, please send a message with > the above materials as attachments to cyberinfrastructure@gc.cuny.edu. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 08:09:02 -0600 From: Tom Elliott Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.481 job at NYU In-Reply-To: <20111117052311.D24C1204FB6@woodward.joyent.us> To clarify: This is a job at the "City University of New York" (CUNY), not "New York University" (NYU). The two are distinct. T -- Tom Elliott, Ph.D. Associate Director for Digital Programs Senior Research Scholar Institute for the Study of the Ancient World New York University http://isaw.nyu.edu/people/staff/tom-elliott/ Want to talk or meet? Please suggest a date and time via http://www.doodle.com/paregorios _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Nov 18 07:36:50 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id D604E2063D2; Fri, 18 Nov 2011 07:36:49 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 116922063C7; Fri, 18 Nov 2011 07:36:44 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20111118073644.116922063C7@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2011 07:36:43 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.486 complementarity X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============0592516551==" Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org --===============0592516551== Content-Type: text/plain Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 486. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 11:15:45 +0100 From: Seth van Hooland Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.480 complementarity In-Reply-To: <20111117052203.82F6D204F6D@woodward.joyent.us> Humanities not only provide a purpose but also the content. Having assisted to numerous meetings in the context of European Commission funded projects, the humanities are in some contexts downgraded as mere "content providers". The following quote from Simon Knell regarding the DigiCULT initiative is quite illustrative in this sense: "What technologists have come to understand is that technologies are not taken up if content is inadequate (hence the rise of texting and the failure of WAP). Future online services require a critical mass of quality content, and the proven popularity of museums on the Web suggests a natural way forward. Certainly there is a relationship of mutual benefit here between those who wish to develop new technological solutions and the content-holding institutions who wish to develop new audiences. And as cultural materials in museums, libraries and archives are traditionally available free, they also present a relatively unproblematic resource from which to tap. This relationship has given the DigiCULT initiative a certain prestige and political weight." [S. Knell. The shape of things to come: museums in the technological landscape. Museums and society, 1(3):132-146, 2003, p. 136]." So it's clear that humanities can provide content and money for the promotion of technologies, but I'm sure we're capable of providing more than just that, no? Seth van Hooland Président du Master en Sciences et Technologies de l'Information et de la Communication (MaSTIC) Université Libre de Bruxelles Av. F.D. Roosevelt, 50 CP 123 | 1050 Bruxelles http://homepages.ulb.ac.be/~svhoolan/ http://mastic.ulb.ac.be 0032 2 650 4765 Office: DC11.113 Le 17 nov. 2011 06:22, Humanist Discussion Group a écrit : > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 480. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 08:00:44 +0000 > From: Adam Crymble > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.477 complementarity > In-Reply-To: <20111116073646.2172E200FB7@woodward.joyent.us> > > > As someone who buys his bread and pays his university tuition with money > from humanists looking for technical solutions, I'd encourage everyone not > to underestimate the contributions of the underwriter. Technology in its > own right is useless without an application. Humanities scholarship > provides a purpose for some of that technology and the money with which to > apply it. > > Adam Crymble > PhD Student, History & Digital Humanities > King's College London [...] --===============0592516551== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php --===============0592516551==-- From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Nov 18 07:37:45 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 058C3206413; Fri, 18 Nov 2011 07:37:45 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 74230206400; Fri, 18 Nov 2011 07:37:39 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20111118073739.74230206400@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2011 07:37:39 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.487 job at GSLIS (Illinois) X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 487. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 17:25:53 +0000 From: "Reilly, Maeve J" Subject: GSLIS at Illinois faculty position search GRADUATE SCHOOL OF LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE (GSLIS) University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Faculty Position, search #F1100120 GSLIS seeks to hire an outstanding full-time faculty member to join our dynamic and collegial program. Although strong candidates in any area are encouraged to apply, specializations of particular interest include: * Data curation * Archives * Information organizations and services in diverse communities The GSLIS faculty is highly interdisciplinary, with backgrounds in library science, communications, information science, computer science, English, engineering science, philosophy, history, folklore, public policy and management, medieval studies, and sociology, and we have been a top-ranked School of Library and Information Science for many years. GSLIS research expenditures are approximately $3M per year and growing. Faculty and students are involved in many interdisciplinary initiatives across campus, and they are affiliated with units such as the Environmental Change Institute; the Institute for Computing in Humanities, Arts, and Social Science; and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). The School also hosts several of its own centers and initiatives providing focused support for research and teaching in informatics, children's literature and youth services, and digital inclusion. Successful candidates must be comfortable working in an interdisciplinary academic unit and addressing general audiences in a professional master's degree program, as well as teaching students from undergraduate to Ph.D. levels in an iSchool. GSLIS participates in a campus-wide undergraduate minor and Ph.D. in Informatics, and it offers a Master of Science in Library and Information Science, a Master of Science in Bioinformatics, a Certificate of Advanced Study (CAS), and a CAS in Digital Libraries, a Ph.D., and a K-12 Library Information Specialist Certification Program. The School's award-winning LEEP online education option for the Master's and CAS degrees involves remote students in all aspects of professional education. Appointments made under this announcement will be effective August 16, 2012 or as negotiated. Rank is open, and salary is commensurate with experience. A Ph.D. degree or equivalent is required though we will consider candidates who are close to completion of the doctoral degree. Information about GSLIS programs and faculty can be found on the Internet athttp://www.lis.uiuc.edu/. Applicants should create a candidate profile at https://jobs.illinois.edu, and upload initial application materials through this system. To ensure full consideration, please submit a letter of application, current curriculum vitae, statement on teaching and research, and a list of three professional references including contact information by December 1, 2011. Review of applications will begin on December 1, 2011, and will continue until the position is filled. Applicants may be interviewed before the closing date, but no hiring decisions will be made until after the search has closed. For further information regarding application procedures, you may contact Candy Edwards, (cledward@illinois.edu, 217 244-3809) Illinois is an Affirmative Action /Equal Opportunity Employer and welcomes individuals with diverse backgrounds, experiences, and ideas who embrace and value diversity and inclusivity. (www.inclusiveillinois.illinois.edu). Maeve Reilly Research Services Coordinator Graduate School of Library and Information Science University of Illinois Rm 219 LIS 501 E. Daniel Champaign, IL 61820 mjreilly@illinois.edu (217) 244-7316 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Nov 18 07:42:27 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id C86022064BF; Fri, 18 Nov 2011 07:42:26 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 343372064AE; Fri, 18 Nov 2011 07:42:20 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111118074221.343372064AE@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2011 07:42:20 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.488 revolutionary effects? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 488. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 14:13:50 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: revolutionary? I am looking for studies of whether computing has had revolutionary effects on any of the disciplines of the humanities. I'm not interested in articles that claim such effects, rather those that argue with evidence that they have happened, and preferably how and why. Good work has been done on the social effects and on those in the natural and social sciences, for example: Rob Kling, "Computerization and social transformations", Science, Technology & Human Values 16.3 (1991); Joel B. Hagen, "The Introduction of computers into systematic research in the United States during the 1960s", Studies in the History and Philosophy of the Biological and Biomedical Sciences 32.3 (2001); D. Hakken, "Computing and social change: New technology and workplace transformation, 1980-1990", Annual Review of Anthropology 22 (1993). These studies suggest very strongly that the question has no simple or straightforward answer, that this answer varies across disciplines and that it often has much to do with technological determinism ("impact" & similar). How about the humanities? Yours, WM -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor (fractional), University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Nov 18 07:43:04 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F9382064F3; Fri, 18 Nov 2011 07:43:04 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id BA3942064E9; Fri, 18 Nov 2011 07:42:59 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20111118074259.BA3942064E9@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2011 07:42:59 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.489 recommendations for suitable candidates? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 489. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 08:22:31 -0500 From: "Rick Frank" Subject: Semantic analysis, NLP & Sentiment Analysis Good day all, This is peripherally related to the list but I still think it is appropriate to ask here. I'm part of a consortium that is applying for FP7 funding via my fledgling European company for a semantic tech API that can be used in various contexts (perhaps even by humanists). My own use would be for processing unstructured (verbatim responses) of primary data in real-time & acting on it in a survey research context. My partners have other commercial end goals for the same underlying technology. We are looking for the RTD people now (research/tech/development) so are seeking talented PHD Computer Sci. people highly skilled in working with NLP. It is quite ambitious in scope so we need keen minds to accomplish what we wish to achieve (if in fact it is achievable with the current tools available). There is considerable funding in the proposal for this so some bright but impoverished PHD students or recent graduates could really benefit from this. More senior people are also welcome but I am assuming that most of these have quite enough work to do in their own fields of expertise. Any recommendations made by anyone here would be much appreciated. Offline replies may be more appreciated by the list unless someone feels productive discussions can be had about such things. Many thanks Rick Frank rickf@dufferinresearch.com President, Dufferin Research 2255 St Laurent Blvd Ottawa, ON. K1G 4K3 (613) 730-4664 X 221 (ph) (613) 730-2332 (fax) (613) 204-1070 (mobile) _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Nov 18 07:43:58 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id C465D206530; Fri, 18 Nov 2011 07:43:58 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id BC292206520; Fri, 18 Nov 2011 07:43:53 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111118074353.BC292206520@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2011 07:43:53 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.490 David Hockney on convenience X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 490. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 10:11:54 -0500 (EST) From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca Subject: Rhetoric of Convenience: Hockney In-Reply-To: <20111117052203.82F6D204F6D@woodward.joyent.us> Willard I thought the following might be of interest for those that watch trends in technology and the arts. I also offer it here as an example of the rhetoric of convenience. David Hockney from the brochure for "fresh flowers" on view at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto With the iPhone I often drew with my thumb. I could hold it in my right hand and my thumb could reach every corner of the screen as it was small and the fulcrum of the thumb is within the thumb. I learned to type with my thumb as well, holding the phone in my right hand. I could then have a cigarette in my left hand to help me concentrate. I was one of the first to get an iPad simply because it was bigger and I assumed he drawings could be more complicated. I suggested to friends that they get one and I would send them the drawings. there was a new thing on the iPad. You could play the drawing back with the press of a button. I had never seen myself draw before, this also seemed fascinating to everybody I showed them to. The only thing seen like this before was Picasso drawing on glass for a film. Francois 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 Fri Nov 18 07:45:25 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3275C206577; Fri, 18 Nov 2011 07:45:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 10796206565; Fri, 18 Nov 2011 07:45:21 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111118074521.10796206565@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2011 07:45:21 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.491 events: summer institute at HpC X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 491. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 13:44:37 +0000 From: I-CHASS Subject: Humanities High Performance Computing Collaboratory Funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, The Humanities High Performance Computing Collaboratory (HpC) is a summer institute for graduate students and faculty who are conducting scholarship in the digital humanities. HpC offers two five-day workshops, one with the University of Illinois’ Institute for Computing in Humanities, Arts, and Social Science (I-CHASS), and the other at the University of South Carolina’s Center for Digital Humanities (CDH). Attendees will 1) receive a comprehensive education in four computational concentrations: computer vision, augmented reality, game design, and mobile app development; 2) receive instruction in digital humanities project design and management; 3) obtain hands on experience with a variety of technical platforms; 4) work with technical staff to outline pilot explorations in at least one area of computational concentrations; and 5) join a year long virtual community where scholars will support their peers in authoring digital humanities projects. The first workshop will take place in Champaign, IL on June 10-14. The second will take place in Columbia, SC on August 5-9. There will be a two-day concluding conference to be hosted by CDH August 25-26. From June 10 2011 to June 10 2012, participants will be linked by an online collaboratory where they can discuss, plan, and develop new projects in the digital humanities. Because the goal of HpC is to familiarize scholars in the humanities with the crucial technologies and methods of advanced computing, applicants need not have any technical background or expertise. Please send a letter of interest that outlines your current technical and intellectual investment in digital humanities and C.V. to Michael Simeone, mpsimeon@illinois.edu. Please submit your application before January 15th, 2012. HpC will select a total of 25 applicants for participation in the institute. HpC Lead Faculty: Dr. Jijun Tang received a Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of New Mexico. He is currently an associate professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of South Carolina. His research interests include high-performance computing, algorithm development, computational biology and computer games. In the past years, Dr. Tang’s research was supported by National Science Foundation (NSF), National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), and Office of Naval Research (ONR). Dr. Tang and his group have extensive teaching experience in computer game, mobile application and software project management, including offering a senior level game development course for undergraduate and graduate students for the last five years, and various short courses for people with various background of programming. Dr. Song Wang is currently an associate professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of South Carolina. His research interests include computer vision, medical imaging, and machine learning. He has published more than 30 papers and his research has been supported by National Science Foundation (NSF), Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), and Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). He is currently serving as the Publicity/Web portal Chair of the Technical Committee of Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TCPAMI), IEEE Computer Society and an Associate Editor of Pattern Recognition Letters. He received the PhD degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in 2002. Dr. Kenton McHenry received a Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2008. He is currently a Research Scientist at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) and lead of the Image, Spatial, and Data Analysis (ISDA) group. His background is in computer vision with interests in the areas of image segmentation, object/material recognition, 3D reconstruction and digital curation. Kenton and the ISDA group are investigating means of providing immediate free searchable access to the upcoming 1940 census data release, which consists of over 3 million un-transcribed digitized census forms. The goal is to explore methods of allowing users to find information within the image data without months of effort by thousands of human transcribers. Kenton has recently become engaged in the GroupScope project. With the goal of studying large group behaviour, GroupScope brings together overlapping collections of video and audio and attempts to automate and/or aid in the identification of interactions between the people observed. Dr. Alex Yahja works on the interface between technologies and the humanities, social sciences and the arts as an Assistant Director in Modeling and Semantics at I-CHASS. The problems he has worked on include collaboration across disciplines, model validation and improvement, network-based recommendation, mapping of research activities, disaster response, and semantics-based specification and collaboration. Alex received a PhD in computation, organizations and society and two Masters of Science degrees, one in engineering and public policy and one in robotics, from Carnegie Mellon University. His current research interests include semantics, idea evolution, innovation drivers, dynamic social networks, organization and management, modeling and simulation, and machine learning. Dr. Alan Craig is the Associate Director for Human-Computer Interaction at the Institute for Computing in Humanities, Arts, and Social Science. He is also a researcher at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. Alan has focused his career on the interface between humans and machines. He has been involved in many different capacities related to scientific visualization, virtual reality, data mining, multi-modal representation of information, and collaborative systems and has produced award winning scientific visualizations. Alan is among the pioneers in using sound to represent scientific data. He has been with NCSA for nearly twenty-five years where he has aided scientists in adopting high performance computing technologies to advance their research. In his role with I-CHASS he is bringing HPC methodology, tools, and techniques to researchers and educators in humanities, arts, and social science. He is co-author of the book Understanding Virtual Reality, published by Morgan Kaufmann Publishing, and author of the newly released book, Developing Virtual Reality Applications, from Elsevier Publishing. He is currently authoringUnderstanding Augmented Reality, also for Elsevier. In the past two years, he has received three patents related to different aspects of information technology. * * * Founded in 2004 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, I-CHASS charts new ground in high-performance computing and the humanities, arts, and social sciences by creating both learning environments and spaces for digital discovery. I-CHASS presents path-breaking research, computational resources, collaborative tools, and educational programming to showcase the future of the humanities, arts, and social sciences. For more information on I-CHASS, please visit: http://www.ichass.illinois.edu _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Nov 19 08:12:37 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CD622064A9; Sat, 19 Nov 2011 08:12:37 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id DFB9F206491; Sat, 19 Nov 2011 08:12:29 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111119081229.DFB9F206491@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2011 08:12:29 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.492 revolutionary effects X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 492. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Juan Garces (65) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.488 revolutionary effects? [2] From: Suzana Sukovic (71) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.488 revolutionary effects? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2011 09:28:04 +0100 From: Juan Garces Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.488 revolutionary effects? In-Reply-To: <20111118074221.343372064AE@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Willard, I took part in a panel discussion last week at which a young doctoral student in media science from Münster University, Andre Donk (http://egora.uni-muenster.de/ifk/personen/andredonk.shtml), presented part of his thesis on precisely that topic, albeit focusing on Münster University and covering all disciplines. I am not sure how much analysis he has undertaken on a wider scale (i.e. beyond Münster), but his results seemed to be in line with the studies you mention. All best, Juan On 18 November 2011 08:42, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: >                 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 488. >            Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London >                       www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist >                Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > >        Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 14:13:50 +0000 >        From: Willard McCarty >        Subject: revolutionary? > > > I am looking for studies of whether computing has had revolutionary > effects on any of the disciplines of the humanities. I'm not interested > in articles that claim such effects, rather those that argue with > evidence that they have happened, and preferably how and why. Good work > has been done on the social effects and on those in the natural and > social sciences, for example: > > Rob Kling, "Computerization and social transformations", Science, > Technology & Human Values 16.3 (1991); > Joel B. Hagen, "The Introduction of computers into systematic research in the > United States during the 1960s", Studies in the History and Philosophy > of the Biological and Biomedical Sciences 32.3 (2001); > D. Hakken, "Computing and social change: New technology and workplace > transformation, 1980-1990", Annual Review of Anthropology 22 (1993). > > These studies suggest very strongly that the question has no simple or > straightforward answer, that this answer varies across disciplines and > that it often has much to do with technological determinism ("impact" & > similar). > > How about the humanities? > > Yours, > WM > -- > Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's > College London; Professor (fractional), University of Western Sydney; > Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, > Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ -- Dr Juan Garces Digital Scholar --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2011 12:31:09 +1100 From: Suzana Sukovic Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.488 revolutionary effects? In-Reply-To: <20111118074221.343372064AE@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Willard, You may like to see my chapter "E-texts in research projects in the humanities" (2011) http://ses.library.usyd.edu.au/handle/2123/7261 Cheers, Suzana Dr Suzana Sukovic Head of Learning Resource Centre St.Vincent's College, Potts Point Research Associate, Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences The University of Sydney Australia mob: 0414 637 594 Contact Me [image: LinkedIn] http://linkd.in/g2F4gu [image: Facebook] http://www.facebook.com/SuzanaSukovic#%21/ [image: Twitter] _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Nov 19 08:17:10 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16614206619; Sat, 19 Nov 2011 08:17:10 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 36C2820660D; Sat, 19 Nov 2011 08:17:03 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111119081703.36C2820660D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2011 08:17:02 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.493 why keep it up? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 493. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2011 17:43:53 -0800 From: Jascha Kessler Subject: re: What boots it to maintain Humanistic discipline...? I have been somewhat puzzled by the implicit doubt, if not anxious skepticism tinging the Humanities/Technology thread of late. I think the other week some Senator in Washiington forcefully dismissed all educational costs for maintaining anything but the Sciences and Technology. His rationale seems to have been the costs of education which does not produce tangible economic promise for students in today's world. While higher education probably isn't helpful for "vocational" purposes, the crafts and operations of technology, so far as studying languages or history, say, is concerned, and thousands suffer peonage in the crypts of colleges, universities and junior colleges, the notion that business and technology are all that matter is simply Yahoo. I attach a review of mine about a book out earlier this year, which was a devastating cri de coeur [.pdf file, URL below]. There is lots of such suffering about. About 40 years ago the Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy, MD, gave a public lecture in which he reviewed the history of American universities in the 20th century, and it was full of skepticism about what good would come of the professional schools being attached to, or integrated with the university, meaning medicine, engineering, business, all of which would not only parasitize, but simply devour their host. This matter of decrying Humanities as useless is now a storm much larger than that little clour no larger than a man's hand over the horizon. In the end, anyone with the slightest acquaintance with, say Shakespeare, would understand where the bottom line is. Viz., As was asked of Plato, Yes, but who will guard the Guardians? Sounds theoretical, so I shall quote the late Menachem Begin, a prime minister of Israel, who had been in the death lager once. He put the question in a practical, not philosophical way. When Europe [and the UN] offered to guarantee the integrity and safety of the State, Israel, he asked, *And who will guarantee the guarantors? * In short, if the Business School, the Engineering School, the Medical School, and yes, "Public Policy School" and Social "Sciences" are all that matter for the future of our civilization, where will its graduates ever get an inkling of the vast troves of history and thought from which a touch of tainting can help in guiding the individual through all of life's vicissitudes and training? This is not Dr. Pangloss lecturing Candide, who lies under the debris of the great earthquake in Portugal. Everyone knows that the Doctor could do nothing for Lady Macbeth. And that Macbeth's retort was, Throw physick to the dogs. Put on my armor! Had Macbeth a bit more than military training, he might have known his fate beforehand and not ventured to kill his guest, the old King. Moral? He who runs will read it from these examples. Jascha Kessler -- Jascha Kessler Professor Emeritus of Modern English & American Literature, UCLA Telephone/Facsimile: 310.393.4648 www.jfkessler.com www.xlibris.com *** Attachments: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1321667052_2011-11-19_humanist-owner@lists.digitalhumanities.org_23360.2.octet-stream _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Nov 19 08:17:57 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A275206681; Sat, 19 Nov 2011 08:17:57 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 60BA120665B; Sat, 19 Nov 2011 08:17:51 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111119081751.60BA120665B@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2011 08:17:51 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.494 publications: JEP 14.2 X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 494. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2011 16:54:15 +0000 From: Rebecca Welzenbach Subject: JEP 14.2 now online! Dear subscribers, I'm pleased to announce that the latest issue of JEP is now online: http://www.journalofelectronicpublishing.org/ Poet and University of Michigan Librarian Aaron McCollough guest-edited this special issue organized around the theme of digital poetry and poetics. The issue includes 14 contributions (plus an Editor's Note): * Aaron McCollough's "Editor's Note" (http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/3336451.0014.201) * Richard Nash's "Some Thoughts on Poetry and Pornography as Experimental Twins" (http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/3336451.0014.202) * Michael S. Hennessey's "Two Future Binaries" (http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/3336451.0014.203) * W. Scott Howard's "WYSIWIG Poetics: Reconfiguring the Fields for Creative Writers and Scholars" (http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/3336451.0014.204) * Aaron McCollough's "4k Formalism: An Interview with Ian Bogost" (http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/3336451.0014.205) * James Brown's "The Literary and the Computational: A Conversation with Nick Montfort" (http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/3336451.0014.206) * Brian Kim Stefans' "Comedies of Separation: Toward a Theory of the Ludic Book" (http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/3336451.0014.207) * Darren Wershler's "News that Stays News: Marshall MacLuhan and Media Poetics" (http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/3336451.0014.208) * Antonio Roque's "Language Technology Enables a Poetics of Interactive Generation" (http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/3336451.0014.209) * Ben Gunsberg's "Make it Now: QuickMuse and the Arrival of Fast-Track Composition" (http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/3336451.0014.210) * Benjamin Paloff's "Digital Orpheus: The Hypertext Poem in Time" (http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/3336451.0014.211) * Amaranth Borsuk's "The Upright Script: Words in Space and on the Page" (http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/3336451.0014.212) * Michael Rudin's "From Hemingway to Twitterature: the Short and Shorter of It" (http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/3336451.0014.213) * Jim Andrews' "Why I am a Net Artist" (http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/3336451.0014.214) * Thylias Moss' "On Establishment of Environment in Limited Fork Theory Systems" (http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/3336451.0014.215) Please check it out and share widely! Sincerely, Rebecca Welzenbach Managing Editor, JEP rwelzenb@umich.edu (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 Sat Nov 19 08:22:08 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7EC72067F4; Sat, 19 Nov 2011 08:22:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 456552067D6; Sat, 19 Nov 2011 08:21:58 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111119082158.456552067D6@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2011 08:21:58 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.495 events: programming; editing tools; websites X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 495. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Georg Vogeler (21) Subject: Workshop "Tools for Digital Scholarly Editions",Cologne 28./29.11.2011 [2] From: Frédéric Clavert (93) Subject: Websites as sources: deadline extension [3] From: Liesbeth De Mol (180) Subject: CfP History and Philosophy of Programming -- IACAP/AISB world congress, July 2012 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2011 10:46:39 +0100 From: Georg Vogeler Subject: Workshop "Tools for Digital Scholarly Editions",Cologne 28./29.11.2011 Dear everybody, the Institut für Dokumentologie und Editorik (IDE) in collaboration with the Cologne Center for eHumanities and the International Center for Archival Research (ICARus) organizes a technical workhop for developers of tools for digital scholarly editions. It aims at a better cooperation between the projects working parallely on a toolbox for the scholarly editor. The workshop will take place 28-29th november in Cologne (Germany). You can find detailed information on the workshop at http://www.i-d-e.de/events-des-ide/workshop-2011 If you are interested in participating, please get in contact with us. Best Georg Vogeler -- Dr. Georg Vogeler Zentrum für Informationsmodellierung in den Geisteswissenchaften - Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz http://www.uni-graz.at/zim/ Merangasse 70 - A - 8010 Graz Tel. +43 316 380 8033 Institut für Dokumentologie und Editorik http://www.i-d-e.de Association Paléographique Internationale - Culture . Ecriture . Société (APICES) http://www.palaeographia.org/apices/apices.htm --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2011 14:51:56 +0100 From: Frédéric Clavert Subject: Websites as sources: deadline extension Dear All, the deadline for the Digital Humanities Luxembourg Symposium (March 2011) has been extended to the 30th of November. The Jean Monnet Chair in History of European Integration and its Research Programme « Digital Humanities Luxembourg » — DIHULUX (research unit Identités-Politiques-Sociétés-Espaces [IPSE]), together with the Centre Virtuel de la Connaissance sur l’Europe (CVCE), are pleased to launch the call for papers for the DHLU Symposium 2012. This Symposium follows the DHLU Symposium 2009, also organised in Luxembourg by these two institutions on the topic of « Contemporary history in the digital age ». This second edition aims to examine the use of websites as sources for research in the humanities and social sciences, especially encouraging an analysis of this heuristic question in the field of European integration studies. The Symposium will address both methodological aspects and the theoretical and institutional implications of the public dissemination of research results, focusing on digitised and online published sources as well as on websites themselves, which will be analysed as born digital sources. The potential of this innovative research approach will also be explored and emphasised. The Symposium will be structured around the following research clusters, but may also include other related approaches: > 1. Holding the mirror This first cluster addresses the challenges and potentialities of online archives offering primary sources for research purposes. It will look into the modes of presentation and theoretical-methodological debates concerning uses, approaches and interconnections of such sources. > 2. The critical added value This cluster focuses on online secondary sources and enhanced publications, with a special emphasis in digital research corpora. It aims at examining ongoing developments in the intertwining modes between available primary sources and resulting secondary sources centred on the priority of critically commenting and enriching contents as a scientific asset. > 3. (Self-)reflections and the creative observer This cluster will take a step beyond textual sources to examine the unique features of audiovisual sources and hence of new forms of creation and re-creation of historical memories. A special section within this cluster will be dedicated to innovative digital oral history sources and projects. > 4. Institutional and dissemination aspects: digital public history This cluster will focus on forms of institutionalisation of digital research practices, results and dissemination strategies by means of collaborative projects in the humanities and social sciences targeted towards a wide variety of audiences. > 5. Web history and digital history methods for the use of websites as sources Web history constitutes a new scientific field centred on the historical study of websites for research purposes, thus paving the way for increasingly interdisciplinary trends in the humanities and social sciences. This session will offer Web historians the opportunity to share their experiences concerning their ongoing results and chosen methods. >> Participation We welcome papers focusing on digital humanities and social sciences from researchers and scholars at all stages of their careers. Papers examining cases related to European integration studies (EIS) are especially encouraged. Abstracts (max. 500 words), submitted together with a short CV (max. 250 words) and a list of publications, can be written in English or French and should be sent to the following contact email address, which can also be used for any enquiries: frederic [dot] clavert [at] cvce [dot] eu > Deadline for proposals : 15 November 2011 The authors of the selected proposals will be invited to present their contributions at the DHLU Symposium 2012, to be held in Luxembourg, and their papers will be published in the Symposium proceedings (only English versions of the revised full papers will be accepted for publication). Participation costs will be covered up to a set limit. The proposed papers will be examined and selected by a scientific committee composed of : - René Leboutte (Université du Luxembourg, Luxembourg), - Serge Noiret (European University Institute, Italy), - Marin Dacos (CLEO, CNRS, France) - Stefan Gradman (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany), - Vittore Casarosa (CNR, Italy), - Sean Takats (Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, George Mason University, USA), - Frédéric Clavert (CVCE, Luxembourg). The Symposium will be followed by THATCamp Luxembourg/Trier. ---- The call for participation is available on Calenda: http://calenda.revues.org/nouvelle20911.html best regards, Frédéric Clavert --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2011 16:01:41 +0100 From: Liesbeth De Mol Subject: CfP History and Philosophy of Programming -- IACAP/AISB world congress, July 2012 CALL FOR PAPERS Symposium on the History and Philosophy of Programming 5-6 July 2012 http://www.computing-conference.ugent.be/hapop12 as part of AISB/IACAP World Congress 2012 - Alan Turing 2012 2-6 July 2012 http://events.cs.bham.ac.uk/turing12/index.php ------------------------------------------------------------------ OCCASION As part of the AISB/IACAP World Congress programme, the Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science at Ghent University organizes a one day Symposium on the History and Philosophy of Programming. On the Occasion of the Turing Centennial, from 2-6 July 2012, the AISB (The Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour) and the IACAP (The International Association for Computing and Philosophy) merge their annual symposia/conferences to the AISB/IACAP World Congress. The Congress serves both as the year's AISB Convention and the year's IACAP conference. The Congress has been inspired by a desire to honour Alan Turing, and by the broad and deep significance of Turing's work to AI, to the philosophical ramifications of computing, and to philosophy and computing more generally. The Congress is one of the events forming the Alan Turing Year http://www.mathcomp.leeds.ac.uk/turing2012/ The intent of the Congress is to stimulate a particularly rich interchange between AI and Philosophy on any areas of mutual interest, whether directly addressing Turing's own research output or not. ------------------------------------------------------------------- SCOPE This Symposium follows the organization of the International Conference on History and Philosophy of Computing, held at the University of Ghent from 7 to 10 November 2011 www.computing-conference.ugent.be A historical awareness of the evolution of computing not only helps to clarify the complex structure of the computing sciences, but it also provides an insight in what computing was, is and maybe could be in the future. Philosophy, on the other hand, helps to tackle some of the fundamental problems of computing. The aim of this conference is to zoom into one fundamental aspect of computing, namely the foundational and the historical problems and developments related to the science of programming. Alan Turing himself was driven by the fundamental question of "what are the possible processes which can be carried out in computing a number" [Turing, 1936]. His answer today is well-known, and today we understand a program as a rather complex instance of what became known as the Turing Machine. What is less well-known, is that Turing also wrote one of the first programming manuals ever for the Ferranti Mark I, where one feels the symbolic machine hiding on the back of the Manchester hardware. This was only the beginning of a large research area that today involves logicians, programmers and engineers in the design, understanding and realization of programming languages. That a logico-mathematical-physical object called `program' is so controversial, even though its very nature is mostly hidden away, is rooted in the range of problems, processes and objects that can be solved, simulated, approximated and generated by way of its execution. Given its widespread impact on our lives, it becomes a responsibility of the philosopher and the historian to study the science of programming. ------------------------------------------------------------------- TOPICS The historical and philosophical reflection on the science of programming is the main topic at the core of this Symposium and we expect contributions about the following topics and their intersections: 1. The history of computational systems, machines and programs 2. Foundational issues and paradigms of programming (programming logics, semantics and proof-theories for distributed, secure, cloud, functional, object-oriented, etc.) Our wish is to bring forth to the scientific community a deep understanding and critical view of the problems related to the scientific paradigm represented by the science of programming. Possible and in no way exclusive questions that might be of relevance to this Symposium are: - What was and is the significance of hardware developments for the development of software (and vice versa)? - In how far can the analogue and special-purpose machines built before the 40s programs and what does this mean for our conception of "program" today? - How important has been the hands-off vs. the hands-on approach for the development of programming? - What is the influence of models of computability like Church's lambda-calculus on the development of programming languages? - Which case studies from the history of programming can tell us today something about future directions? - Is programming a science or a technology? - In how far does it make sense to speak about programming paradigms in the sense of Kuhn? - What are the novel and most interesting approaches to the design of programs? - What are the most interesting formal properties of procedural semantics, typed systems, etc? - What is correctness for a program? Issues in Type-checking, Model-checking, etc. - What is the common structure of Proofs and Programs? Logic of Proofs and Curry-Howard Isomorphism. - What are the current logical issues in programming? - How do we understand programs as syntactical-semantical objects? - What is the nature of the relation between algorithms and programs? - What is a program? - Which problems are the most pressing ones and why are they relevant to more than just programmers? - How can epistemology profit from the understanding of programs' behavior and structure? - What legal and socio-economical issues are involved in the creation, patenting or free-distribution of programs? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SUBMISSION DETAILS: The programme will consists of 2 Invited Lectures and up to 8 Contributed Papers. It will takes place in the afternoon session of the 5th and the morning session of the 6th of July. We cordially invite researchers working in a field relevant to the main topics of the conference to submit an extended abstract of minimum 2 and maximum 5 pages to computing.conference@ugent.be Please mention "ABSTRACT HAPOP" in the subject line. Abstracts must be written in English. Please note that the format of submitted files must be .pdf or .rtf. Only unpublished material will be considered for presentation. IMPORTANT DATES: Submissions Deadline: 1 February 2012 Acceptance/rejection Decisions: 1 March 2012 Final versions of abstracts for inclusion in proceedings: 30 March 2012. Symposium: 5 July (afternoon) and 6 July (morning) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- INVITED SPEAKERS: Gerard Alberts (Universiteit van Amsterdam) Julian Rohrhuber (Robert Schumann Hochschule Duesseldorf) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- SYMPOSIUM ORGANIZERS: Liesbeth De Mol and Giuseppe Primiero? PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:? S. Artemov (City Univeristy of New York) M. Bullynck (Universite' de Paris 8) L. de Mol (CLPS UGent) V. de Paiva (Reardem Commerce) H. Durnova (Masarykova Univerzita Brno) R. Kahle (Universidade Nova de Lisbona) B. Loewe (Universiteit van Amsterdam) F. Kamareddine (Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh) G. Primiero (CLPS UGent) R. Turner (University of Essex) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- PROCEEDINGS There will be a separate proceedings for each symposium, produced before the Congress. Each delegate at the Congress will receive, on arrival, a memory stick containing the proceedings of all symposia. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CONTACT AND INFORMATION: For further information please contact us at:? computing.conference@ugent.be or have a look at our website: http://www.computing-conference.ugent.be/hapop12 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- RELATED EVENTS The Symposium on History and Philosophy of Programming will be followed by a Roundtable on topics in the Philosophy of Computer Science on the day after. Confirmed participants include: Raymond Turner, University of Essex, UK (MODERATOR) Rainhard Bengez, TU München, Germany Manfred Broy, TU München, Germany, Marcelo Dascal, University of Tel Aviv, Israel Ruth Hagengruber, University of Paderborn, Germany Giovanni Sartor, EUI -- European University Institute, Florence, Italy Dov M. Gabbay, King's College, London, UK Jean-Gabriele Ganascia, University Pierre and Marie Curie, Paris, France Gilles Dowek, l'Ècole polytechnique, Paris, France Jan van Leeuwen, Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands Lothar Philipps, University of Munich, Germany Giovanni Sartor, EUI -- European University Institute, Florence, Italy Kevin Ashley, University of Pittsburgh, USA Hennry Prakken, Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands Erich Schweighofer, University of Vienna, Austria Yoshino Hajime, Meiji Gakuin University, Tokio, Japan Douglas Walton, University of Windsor, Canada Topics include: *Philosophical approaches to Computer Science *Just Counting Machines? From Leibniz via Lovecraft and Babbage to Turing, Zuse and von Neumann. *Which kinds of logic and mathematical concepts are suitable for machines and humans to understand machines? Everyone is cordially invited _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Nov 20 08:16:01 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id C26122076C7; Sun, 20 Nov 2011 08:16:00 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 5A17F2076B3; Sun, 20 Nov 2011 08:15:54 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111120081554.5A17F2076B3@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2011 08:15:54 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.496 where is the thrill? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 496. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2011 09:06:07 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: where the thrill is Yesterday I spent many hours with only partial success trying to install the Natural Language Toolkit (http://www.nltk.org/) on my Mac. After numerous difficulties with numerous websites, chasing bits and pieces in various stages of development, I began to suspect that I was grossly overlooking a rather obvious truth: that the reward many must be enjoying from treading the same path is not at all what I was seeking -- that, to reach to the proverbial, their reward is in the journey, not the arrival. I want to arrive! This morning I turned to a book on my desk for some temporary distraction: Brian Winston, Misunderstanding Media (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1986). In the process of describing the emergence of television into popularity after World War II, Winston relates the visit made by David Sarnoff and a colleague, both from the Radio Corporation of America, in 1920 to "an independent radio engineer who had perfected a uni-control radio that was simpler to operate" than the device then manufactured by RCA. Sarnoff's colleague "was busy pointing out how useless the device was since the joy of radio was clearly to have a lot of knobs to tune and the enjoyment of the privacy of a headset." Sarnoff, however, exclaimed, "This is the radio music box of which I've dreamed." Winston concludes that, "Failure of vision, as much as unthinking enthusiasm for technology, can lead equally well to the misunderstanding of media" (p. 53). It's surely not that we less technologically enraptured want to run away from our machine, rather than we long to merge with it and for that reason find all the prickly bits intensely frustrating. Thinking about this again I wonder about this merging. As I understand the phenomenologist's argument, mastery of this tool in front of me means its disappearance. Perhaps it does disappear sometimes, but I derive so much pleasure from the elegance of its design that I would mourn the loss permanently and regret it even for a moment. So is the idea of "interface" correct after all: that it is not to be overcome in prosthesis, like the blind person's stick, but provide a location, a medium within which to work? If so, then how do we think about this medium? How do we improve it? Does the response we make vary with the device? And by the way, I *love* listening to radio, not tuning it. If I had a pacemaker, I wouldn't want to be logging in and making adjustments. Perhaps what we call "the computer" is unique in maintaining this interface as the locus of attention? Comments? Yours, WM -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor (fractional), University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Nov 20 08:17:04 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CB7F20773E; Sun, 20 Nov 2011 08:17:04 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C909320772F; Sun, 20 Nov 2011 08:16:57 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111120081657.C909320772F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2011 08:16:57 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.497 events: open archaeology X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 497. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2011 18:22:14 +0000 From: Nicole Smith Subject: Open Content in Archaeology - CAA 2012 Session Hi All, Leif and I just wanted to draw your attention to this Computer applications and quantitative methods in Archaeology 2012 conference session. We welcome all submissions, see the abstracts below. If you are planning to submit an abstract for the session, the deadline is at the end of this month. See the CAA website for details: http://www.southampton.ac.uk/caa2012/ Best, Nicole Beale and Leif Isaksen ============== The Shoulders of Giants: Open Content in Archaeology Chairs: Nicole Beale and Leif Isaksen Open Content, while by no means a new concept, is increasingly being seen as having a transformative impact on the Research and Higher Education Communities.[1] Distinct from the Open Source and Open Standards initiatives, Open Content is the online provision of actionable research material under licenses that permit its reuse. It facilitates public learning, the interconnection of resources, economic efficiency, and gives rise to new lines of research. A number of pioneering archaeological schemes (including the ADS,[2] Arachne[3] and OpenContext[4]) have begun to make headway in this area, and commercial units (especially in the UK) are playing an important role as well. The evolving suite of Creative Commons licenses is also slowly addressing important concerns related to copyright, IPR and Data Protection. Nevertheless, Archaeology as a global discipline has woefully inadequate provision of openly available data with the vast majority of data kept technically, legally (and frequently physically) out of the hands of those who could do something unanticipated and useful with it. This session is intended to be a showcase and forum for projects and theory related to the subject of Open Content in Archaeology. Topics of interests include, but are not limited to: Showcase * New Open Content repositories and data sets * Interconnections between online data (including ‘Linked Open Data’) * Projects applying new analysis techniques to legacy data sets Theory * Legal issues (licensing, national and international legal requirements) * Practical issues (acquisition, hosting, formatting, nighthawking, etc.) * Lessons learned (case studies) Papers will be followed by a discussion of future action within this important area of activity. Note: This session is unrelated to this year’s CAA Open Content Prize which will consider any viable paper submitted for consideration, regardless of the session in which it is presented. [1] http://www.nmc.org/pdf/2011-Technology-Outlook-UK.pdf [2] http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/ [3] http://www.arachne.uni-koeln.de/ [4] http://opencontext.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 Nov 21 06:46:11 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBFF7207639; Mon, 21 Nov 2011 06:46:10 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D4316207625; Mon, 21 Nov 2011 06:46:01 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111121064601.D4316207625@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 06:46:01 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.498 where the thrill is (or isn't) X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 498. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2011 12:13:30 -0800 From: Jascha Kessler Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.496 where is the thrill? In-Reply-To: <20111120081554.5A17F2076B3@woodward.joyent.us> Well, Willard McC., I had a pacemaker [the Zephyr, Chaucer's spring breeze?] installed three months ago, not the size of the old cigarette packet, but a thicker silver dollar...also gone the way of specie in our epoch of the printing presses. Wheeled in at 10 am, awakened at 3 pm, taken home on my own legs at 4pm. Only caveat after a month: do NOT ever stand before your microwave oven. Recalibrated for a good normal pulse after 1 month, by some electronic gadget hung on my shoulder, read on a screen, and now scarcely visible in its location and certainly ticking electronically away with no symptoms of anything since I fell asleep on the gurney. Jascha K So, nothing ought to interfere with one's screen, eyes, fingers, or thinking brain. On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 12:15 AM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 496. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2011 09:06:07 +0000 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: where the thrill is > > > Yesterday I spent many hours with only partial success trying to install > the Natural Language Toolkit (http://www.nltk.org/) on my Mac. After > numerous difficulties with numerous websites, chasing bits and pieces in > various stages of development, I began to suspect that I was grossly > overlooking a rather obvious truth: that the reward many must be > enjoying from treading the same path is not at all what I was seeking -- > that, to reach to the proverbial, their reward is in the journey, not > the arrival. I want to arrive! > > This morning I turned to a book on my desk for some temporary > distraction: Brian Winston, Misunderstanding Media (London: Routledge & > Kegan Paul, 1986). In the process of describing the emergence of > television into popularity after World War II, Winston relates the visit > made by David Sarnoff and a colleague, both from the Radio Corporation > of America, in 1920 to "an independent radio engineer who had perfected > a uni-control radio that was simpler to operate" than the device then > manufactured by RCA. Sarnoff's colleague "was busy pointing out how > useless the device was since the joy of radio was clearly to have a lot > of knobs to tune and the enjoyment of the privacy of a headset." > Sarnoff, however, exclaimed, "This is the radio music box of which I've > dreamed." Winston concludes that, "Failure of vision, as much as > unthinking enthusiasm for technology, can lead equally well to the > misunderstanding of media" (p. 53). > > It's surely not that we less technologically enraptured want to run away > from our machine, rather than we long to merge with it and for that reason > find all the prickly bits intensely frustrating. Thinking about this again > I wonder about this merging. As I understand the phenomenologist's > argument, mastery of this tool in front of me means its disappearance. > Perhaps it does disappear sometimes, but I derive so much pleasure from > the elegance of its design that I would mourn the loss permanently and > regret it even for a moment. So is the idea of "interface" correct after > all: > that it is not to be overcome in prosthesis, like the blind person's stick, > but provide a location, a medium within which to work? If so, then how do > we think about this medium? How do we improve it? Does the response > we make vary with the device? > > And by the way, I *love* listening to radio, not tuning it. If I had a > pacemaker, > I wouldn't want to be logging in and making adjustments. Perhaps what we > call "the computer" is unique in maintaining this interface as the locus of > attention? > > Comments? > > Yours, > WM > -- > Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's > College London; Professor (fractional), University of Western Sydney; > Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, > Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ -- Jascha Kessler Professor of English & Modern Literature, UCLA Telephone/Facsimile: 310.393.4648 www.jfkessler.com www.xlibris.com _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Nov 21 06:46:57 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2813E2076CA; Mon, 21 Nov 2011 06:46:57 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 32B272076A2; Mon, 21 Nov 2011 06:46:53 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111121064653.32B272076A2@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 06:46:52 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.499 events: editing; movement X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 499. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Stuart Dunn (50) Subject: Loc(i) Motion: Current technologies and computational methodologiesfor exploring,human movement in the past and present [2] From: "Stolz, Michael (GERM)" (22) Subject: InterNational and InterDisciplinary Aspects of Scholarly Editing (Bern, 15-18 Feb 2012) --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2011 10:14:24 +0000 From: Stuart Dunn Subject: Loc(i) Motion: Current technologies and computational methodologiesfor exploring,human movement in the past and present Loc(i) Motion: Current technologies and computational methodologies for exploring human movement in the past and present http://www.southampton.ac.uk/caa2012/ Session Code: Theory6 Human movement and mobility has always been a challenging topic in the field of archaeology – involving research both in past and contemporary settings- due to the static nature of material culture which usually conditions both its interpretation and reception. In addition, research on movement features in a variety of discourses pertinent to spatial perception, wayfinding and embodied experience providing thus, an ideal ground for interdisciplinary research. Mobility in past societies can be considered a scalar phenomenon whose study requires the consideration of diverse temporal and spatial scales. In order to understand how people travelled and moved during the past, it is necessary to delve into a series of theoretical and practical issues that range from the basic variables and factors that affect human movement such as physiology, perception, and social relationships, to the specific conditions of the environment in which the studied society lived. In the past decade, a wide range of computational approaches in different disciplines has been developed helping us to shed light into a variety of hypothesis related to human movement. Similarly, current technological advances in motion capture, tracking systems and simulation techniques enable the study of human movement and the experience of moving both in real and virtual spaces; and to extrapolate from one to the other. This has unlocked a variety of new territories for research and practice-led work which informs the computer-mediated fields of heritage such as site and visitor management, fieldwork, serious games in cultural heritage, museology and visitor experience studies. It also allows us to (re) consider some of the assumptions that lie behind the capture and presentation of 3D imagery of archaeological features and environments. The purpose of this session is to bring together the various technologies and computational methodologies used by archaeologists and other specialists that explore past and present human movement. We also welcome papers that examine potential lines of collaboration on this topic between a diversity of fields like physiology, psychology, archaeology, heritage management, design and computer science --Dr Stuart Dunn Research Fellow Centre for e-Research King's College London www.stuartdunn.wordpress.com Tel +44 (0)207 848 2709 Fax +44 (0)207 848 1989 stuart.dunn@kcl.ac.uk Centre for e-Research 26-29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL UK Geohash: http://geohash.org/gcpvj1zm7yp1 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2011 15:06:52 +0000 From: "Stolz, Michael (GERM)" Subject: InterNational and InterDisciplinary Aspects of Scholarly Editing (Bern, 15-18 Feb 2012) In-Reply-To: <20111120081554.5A17F2076B3@woodward.joyent.us> Dear subscribers, I am pleased to announce that the Conference on "InterNational and InterDisciplinary Aspects of Scholarly Editing", jointly organized by the ESTS and the Arbeitsgemeinschaft für germanistische Edition (University of Bern, 15.­18. February 2012), is now open for registration. For the programme, registration and local details such as hotels etc. please consult the website on: http://www.parzival.unibe.ch/Bern2012/index.html The organization committee is looking forward to welcome you in Bern in February 2012. With best wishes Michael Stolz -- Prof. Dr. Michael Stolz Universitaet Bern Institut fuer Germanistik Laenggass-Str. 49 CH-3000 Bern 9 Tel.: +41 31 631 83 04 Fax: +41 31 631 37 88 E-mail: michael.stolz@germ.unibe.ch URL: http://www.parzival.unibe.ch/stolz/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Nov 22 08:45:01 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFD62208CAD; Tue, 22 Nov 2011 08:45:00 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 7F5CC208C9B; Tue, 22 Nov 2011 08:44:56 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111122084456.7F5CC208C9B@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 08:44:56 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.500 where the thrill is X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 500. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Stephen Woodruff (8) Subject: RE: [Humanist] 25.496 where is the thrill? [2] From: Daniel Allington (70) Subject: RE: [Humanist] 25.496 where is the thrill? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 09:39:35 +0000 From: Stephen Woodruff Subject: RE: [Humanist] 25.496 where is the thrill? In-Reply-To: <20111120081554.5A17F2076B3@woodward.joyent.us> I think the relationship you are describing, including "pleasure from the elegance", its presence and its disappearance, is that of a musician with his instrument. regards Stephen Woodruff Humanities Advanced Technology & information Institute 11 University Gardens Glasgow G12 0JU Scotland / UK 0141 330 4508 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 10:15:03 +0000 From: Daniel Allington Subject: RE: [Humanist] 25.496 where is the thrill? In-Reply-To: <20111120081554.5A17F2076B3@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Willard I think that what underlies your 'where is the thrill?' question is the distinction between two different relationships to technology: that of the hacker and that of the end-user. The end-user expects the technology to be adapted to him or her - often, this means an intuitive GUI, but the most important principle is that It Just Works. The hacker, by contrast, expects to have to adapt him- or herself to the technology. These can of course be the same person at different times. Being a library rather than an application, the Natural Language Toolkit is suited to the 'hacker' mentality. To run with your radio analogy, it isn't a radio but a set of components that - in the right hands (not mine, by the way!) - might be useful for research into radio technology. And *there's* the thrill. Regards Daniel Sent from Samsung Mobile Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 496. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2011 09:06:07 +0000 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: where the thrill is > > >Yesterday I spent many hours with only partial success trying to install >the Natural Language Toolkit (http://www.nltk.org/) on my Mac. After >numerous difficulties with numerous websites, chasing bits and pieces in >various stages of development, I began to suspect that I was grossly >overlooking a rather obvious truth: that the reward many must be >enjoying from treading the same path is not at all what I was seeking -- >that, to reach to the proverbial, their reward is in the journey, not >the arrival. I want to arrive! > >This morning I turned to a book on my desk for some temporary >distraction: Brian Winston, Misunderstanding Media (London: Routledge & >Kegan Paul, 1986). In the process of describing the emergence of >television into popularity after World War II, Winston relates the visit >made by David Sarnoff and a colleague, both from the Radio Corporation >of America, in 1920 to "an independent radio engineer who had perfected >a uni-control radio that was simpler to operate" than the device then >manufactured by RCA. Sarnoff's colleague "was busy pointing out how >useless the device was since the joy of radio was clearly to have a lot >of knobs to tune and the enjoyment of the privacy of a headset." >Sarnoff, however, exclaimed, "This is the radio music box of which I've >dreamed." Winston concludes that, "Failure of vision, as much as >unthinking enthusiasm for technology, can lead equally well to the >misunderstanding of media" (p. 53). > >It's surely not that we less technologically enraptured want to run away >from our machine, rather than we long to merge with it and for that reason >find all the prickly bits intensely frustrating. Thinking about this again >I wonder about this merging. As I understand the phenomenologist's >argument, mastery of this tool in front of me means its disappearance. >Perhaps it does disappear sometimes, but I derive so much pleasure from >the elegance of its design that I would mourn the loss permanently and >regret it even for a moment. So is the idea of "interface" correct after all: >that it is not to be overcome in prosthesis, like the blind person's stick, >but provide a location, a medium within which to work? If so, then how do >we think about this medium? How do we improve it? Does the response >we make vary with the device? > >And by the way, I *love* listening to radio, not tuning it. If I had a pacemaker, >I wouldn't want to be logging in and making adjustments. Perhaps what we >call "the computer" is unique in maintaining this interface as the locus of >attention? > >Comments? > >Yours, >WM >-- >Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's >College London; Professor (fractional), University of Western Sydney; >Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, >Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Nov 22 08:46:50 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18133208D80; Tue, 22 Nov 2011 08:46:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 32B9F208D5F; Tue, 22 Nov 2011 08:46:44 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111122084644.32B9F208D5F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 08:46:43 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.501 Turing Fellowships & Scholarships X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 501. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 19:26:29 +0000 From: S B Cooper Subject: Turing Fellowships and Scholarships The Turing Fellowships and Scholarships Competition: http://www.turing100.manchester.ac.uk/index.php/fellowships The Turing Centenary Conference in Manchester will see the beginning of the 3-year Turing Centenary Research Project - "Mind, Mechanism and Mathematics", also funded by the John Templeton Foundation. As part of the Alan Turing Year, proposals are invited for: *** Five Turing Research Fellowships for researchers no more than 10 years from the award of a PhD relevant to their proposed research, value 75,000 UK pounds each, and *** Three Turing Scholarships for gifted younger researchers of age up to 25 years old, value 45,000 UK pounds each over the three years. Each Award may be held at a location of the winner's choice, and may be held as a valuable supplement to other funding. For further details of eligibility etc, please see the How to Apply webpage at the Alan Turing Year website: http://www.mathcomp.leeds.ac.uk/turing2012/give-page.php?409 The Research Project will address a number of major questions related to the Turing legacy, and are listed at the Turing Centenary Research Project webpage: http://www.mathcomp.leeds.ac.uk/turing2012/give-page.php?408 under four main headings: 1. The Mathematics of Emergence: The Mysteries of Morphogenesis 2. Possibility of Building a Brain: Intelligent Machines, Practice and Theory 3. Nature of Information: Complexity, Randomness, Hiddenness of Information 4. How should we compute? New Models of Logic and Computation. Important Dates: Submission deadline December 16, 2011 Award Notification March 31, 2012 Award Ceremony Turing Centenary day, June 23, 2012 Commencement of the research project July 1, 2012 Completion of the research project June 30, 2015 Winners will be expected to attend the award ceremony at the Turing Centenary Conference in Manchester, 22 - 25 June, 2012. The members of the Competition Judging Panel are: Samson Abramsky (Oxford) Manindra Agrawal (Kanpur) Eric Allender (Rutgers) Luca Cardelli (Microsoft Research, Cambridge) Rodney Downey (Wellington) Luciano Floridi (Oxford/Hertfordshire) Barbara Grosz (Harvard) Stuart Kauffman (Vermont/Santa Fe) Cris Moore (New Mexico/Santa Fe) Gordon Plotkin (Edinburgh) Aaron Sloman (Birmingham) Robert I. Soare (Chicago) The Judging Panel is Chaired by S. Barry Cooper (Leeds) _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Nov 22 08:48:07 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75C30208DC9; Tue, 22 Nov 2011 08:48:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A17EE208DBE; Tue, 22 Nov 2011 08:48:00 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111122084800.A17EE208DBE@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 08:48:00 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.502 publication: DHQ 5.3 X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 502. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 22:47:05 -0500 From: Julia Flanders Subject: DHQ issue 5.3 now available We're very happy to announce the publication of the new issue of DHQ: DHQ 5.3 http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/ With this issue we are introducing a new commenting feature--please let us know what you think! Table of Contents ======================== Special Cluster: Futures of Digital Humanities Edited by Mauro Carassai and Elise Takehana Forward to the Past: Nostalgia for Handwriting in Scribblenauts and The World Ends with You Aaron Kashtan, Department of English University of Florida Digital Literature and the Modernist Problem Maria Engberg, Blekinge Institute of Technology; Jay David Bolter, Georgia Institute of Technology Avatar Emergency Gregory L. Ulmer, Professor of English and Media Studies University of Florida, Gainesville Writing to be Found and Writing Readers John Cayley, Brown University The New Place of Reading: Locative Media and the Future of Narrative Brian Greenspan, Carleton University Nodalism Phillip H. Gochenour, Towson University Readies Online Craig Saper, University of Maryland, Baltimore County ======================== Articles New Media in the Academy: Labor and the Production of Knowledge in Scholarly Multimedia Helen J. Burgess, University of Maryland Baltimore County; Jeanne Hamming, Centenary College of Louisiana ======================== Issues in Digital Humanities A View from IT James Smithies, University of Canterbury, New Zealand Digital Pedagogy Unplugged Paul Fyfe, Florida State University Best wishes, Julia Julia Flanders Editor-in-Chief, DHQ 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 Tue Nov 22 08:54:44 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23736208F1E; Tue, 22 Nov 2011 08:54:44 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 9DFB2208F0D; Tue, 22 Nov 2011 08:54:35 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111122085435.9DFB2208F0D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 08:54:35 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.503 events: museums; AI; law & ethics X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 503. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Maria Botti (15) Subject: cfp: 5th International Conference on Information law and ethics 2012 [2] From: Bernd Carsten Stahl (62) Subject: cfp: Symposium on a Framework for Responsible Research and Innovation in Artificial Intelligence [3] From: "Tanner, Simon" (12) Subject: Digital Humanities Scholars in Museums - MCN 2011 Panel --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 08:53:20 +0000 From: Maria Botti Subject: cfp: 5th International Conference on Information law and ethics 2012 CALL FOR PAPERS 5th International Conference on Information Law and Ethics 2012 Equity, Integrity & Beauty in Information Law & Ethics Corfu, June 29-30, 2012 Conference website: http://conferences.ionio.gr/icil2012 The ICIL conference is open to papers on any field of law and/or ethics related in any way to any aspect of information. Papers of philosophy, sociology, history and psychology of information also interest us. We are interested in papers on intellectual property, data protection, freedom of information, individual rights and information, privacy, cyberlaw and cyberethics, media law and ethics, digital divide and information technology, e-government, surveillance, intellectual freedom, open access, digital divide and other. We are also particularly interested in papers on the historical development of information laws and ethical theory and we would also consider papers dealing with the social, political or psychological aspects of information. Special sessions of ICIL 2012-please submit abstracts mentioning the session you prefer. See details of these sessions in the ICIL site. Arts and Ethics http://conferences.ionio.gr/icil2012/art-ethics Women in Academia http://conferences.ionio.gr/icil2012/women Young Scholars’ Forum Libraries’ Intellectual Capital Submitted abstracts of 250 words (references excluded) should be sent for review to botti@otenet.gr Abstracts deadline: March 15, 2012 Notification on acceptance of abstracts: April 1, 2012 Full paper deadline: June 1, 2012 IMPORTANT NOTICE We have opened the paper reviewing process; interested researchers will be informed about the review of their paper within 15 days from receipt of their abstract. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 08:53:42 +0000 From: Bernd Carsten Stahl Subject: cfp: Symposium on a Framework for Responsible Research and Innovation in Artificial Intelligence Symposium on a Framework for Responsible Research and Innovation in Artificial Intelligence Call for Papers In recognition of the Turing Centenary, the society for the study of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour (AISB) will be holding a joint meeting with the International Association of Computing and Philosophy (IACAP): 2-6 July 2012 in Birmingham, UK. http://www.aisb.org.uk/convention/aisb12/ organized by *** Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour (AISB) http://www.aisb.org.uk/ *** International Association for Computing and Philosophy (IACAP) http://www.ia-cap.org/ As part of this event, the UK EPSRC funded project on a Framework for Responsible Research and Innovation in ICT will host a symposium targeted at issues of responsibility specific to AI. This symposium is foreseen to take place on Wednesday 04 and Thursday 05 July 2012. For an updated version of the call for papers please check: www.responsible-innovation.org.uk http://www.responsible-innovation.org.uk Background Despite the plethora of ethical issues related to or arising from artificial intelligence, there is little guidance on what it would mean to undertake research in the area in a responsible way. Ethical issues that are currently being discussed include whether and under what conditions artificial agents are capable of being moral subjects, which rights or obligations they have or should have or how moral codes and ethical theories will have to change in the light of potentially autonomous artificial intelligence, to name but a few. In the light of these highly interesting and very complex questions, researchers interested in ethics and AI have tended to pay much less attention to the types of responsibility issues research on AI may raise and how they can be addressed. Important questions that need to be answered are: how ethical issues can be identified in the first place, who is responsible for addressing them, to whom they are responsible, what the consequences are of such responsibility and which roles the different stakeholders play in the ensuing network of responsibility. In addition, it is unclear to what degree recent attempts to promote responsible research and innovation in other disciplines (Kjolberg & Strand, 2011; Owen & Goldberg, 2010) are pertinent to ICT and AI. Similarly, it remains unclear whether generic attempts to provide guidance on ethics in ICT (Harris, Jennings, Pullinger, Rogerson, & Duquenoy, 2011; Wright, 2011) are appropriate for the types of problems to be discussed in AI. The principles of robotics published by the EPSRC[1] include guidance for designers, builders and users of robots. It is currently not clear how these principles have been applied in practice and in what way they can facilitate a responsible approach to AI. The proposed symposium will draw on work undertaken in two important research projects. The first is the European FP7 research project ETICA (Ethical Issues of Emerging ICT Applications, www.etica-project.eu), which has identified particular ethical issues that can be expected to arise from AI in the medium-term future. The second is the UK EPSRC project on a “Framework of Responsible Research and Innovation in ICT” which aims to provide a community-owned account of responsibility within the ICT area. AI presents core research questions for both of these projects which motivates the proposal for this workshop specifically on responsible innovation in AI. A key incentive of this symposium is to foster discourse between philosophers & social scientists who are interested in computer ethics and AI researchers & practitioners who are fluent in the processes and practices of AI. Providing governance arrangements that give suitable attention to the ethics of AI will require an equal and overarching understanding of both of these aspects. The symposium will therefore aim to specifically attract case studies and comparable accounts of ethical issues of AI. It will solicit contributions on the identification of such issues, their resolution, their context and the way in which such experiences are of broader interest. It is envisaged that the symposium will be highly interactive to allow space for the discovery of so far underdeveloped areas in need of research aimed at understanding ethical issues in AI. A further outcome of the symposium will be the development of case studies to be shared among the community. The EPSRC project has set itself the task of developing an Observatory for Responsible Research and Innovation in ICT which will be a community-owned resource fostering increased understanding and discussion of pertinent issues. The project has a significant budget to be allocated to AI researchers interested in carrying out case studies that focus on ethical issues encountered in the design and development of such systems. The proposed symposium will contribute to identifying interested AI researchers who may want to participate in carrying out case studies. Keynote Speakers Plenary speakers are likely to include: (a final and confirmed list will be available on http://events.cs.bham.ac.uk/turing12/invited.php): · Monday: Colin Allen · Tuesday: Stephen Wolfram · Wednesday: Luciano Floridi · Thursday: (to be determined) · Friday: Aaron Sloman Possible topics Submissions will be invited on topics such as: · Responsibilities of the individual researcher / developer in AI · Collective responsibility in AI; how is it defined and enforced? · Unforeseen consequences and side effects in AI: how can they be addressed? · Limitations of responsibility in AI · Responsibility, liability and accountability: is the legal framework for AI sufficient? · Responsibility and relativism: how can responsibilities be defined in a context of cultural and disciplinary pluralism? Submissions / Timeline Submission of extended abstracts (up to 1500 words) will be invited. Submissions should be sent by email to bstahl@dmu.ac.uk · submissions should be in by 1 February 2012 · acceptance/rejection decisions will be made by 1 March 2012 · final versions of abstracts, papers, etc. (as appropriate for your symposium), for inclusion in proceedings, delivered by authors to the symposium chairs by 30 March 2012. Symposium chairs · Marina Jirotka, University of Oxford, e-Research Centre · Bernd Carsten Stahl, De Montfort University, Centre for Computing and Social Responsibility · Grace Eden, University of Oxford, e-Research Centre Programme Committee (to be confirmed) · Philippe Goujon, University of Namur · Don Gotterbarn, East Tennessee State University · Terry Bynum, Southern Connecticut State University · Veikko Ikonen, VTT, Finland · Michael Nagenborg, University of Tübingen, Germany · Mathias Gutmann, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany Related Activities Authors interested in the ethics of doing AI research are encouraged to check the conference website for two other symposia as possible venues for submitting their research: (1) Moral Cognition and Theory of Mind, and (2) The Machine Question: AI, Ethics, and Moral Responsibility. Additional Information The Congress serves both as the year's AISB Convention and the year's IACAP conference. The Congress has been inspired by a desire to honour Alan Turing, and by the broad and deep significance of Turing's work to AI, to the philosophical ramifications of computing, and to philosophy and computing more generally. The Congress is one of the events forming the Alan Turing Year (http://www.mathcomp.leeds.ac.uk/turing2012/). The intent of the Congress is to stimulate a particularly rich interchange between AI and Philosophy on any areas of mutual interest, whether directly addressing Turing's own research output or not. The Congress will consist mainly of a number of collocated Symposia on specific research areas, interspersed with Congress-wide refreshment breaks, social events and invited Plenary Talks. All papers other than the invited Plenaries will be given within Symposia. References Harris, I., Jennings, R. C., Pullinger, D., Rogerson, S., & Duquenoy, P. (2011). Ethical assessment of new technologies: a meta-methodology. Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society, 9(1), 49-64. doi:10.1108/14779961111123223 Kjolberg, K. L., & Strand, R. (2011). Conversations About Responsible Nanoresearch. NanoEthics, 1–15. Owen, R., & Goldberg, N. (2010). Responsible Innovation: A Pilot Study with the U.K. Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. Risk Analysis: An International Journal, 30(11), 1699-1707. doi:10.1111/j.1539-6924.2010.01517.x Wright, D. (2011). A framework for the ethical impact assessmentof information technology. Ethics and Information Technology, 14(online first). Retrieved from http://www.springerlink.com/content/1388-1957/preprint/?sort=p_OnlineDate&sortorder=desc&o=10 ________________________________ [1] http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/ourportfolio/themes/engineering/activities/Pages/principlesofrobotics.aspx --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 10:43:48 +0000 From: "Tanner, Simon" Subject: Digital Humanities Scholars in Museums - MCN 2011 Panel In-Reply-To: <9C34D44D56EE92439E316D60B8493FC514F02A1C5D@KCL-MAIL04.kclad.ds.kcl.ac.uk> Dear All, Digital Humanities Scholars in Museums - MCN 2011 Panel http://www.youtube.com/user/museumcn This Youtube playlist hosts Neal Stimler's Museum Computer Network 2011 crowd sourced YouTube video panel, "Philosophical Leadership Needed for the Future: Digital Humanities Scholars in Museums." Panellists submitted responses from an open call to the community of professionals in archives, libraries, museums and universities as they reflected on the barriers and benefits of implementing digital humanities methodologies in museums. View the conference webpage for more information http://www.mcn.edu/2011/philosophical-leadership-needed-future-digital-humanities-scholars-museums I submitted a short video and many others submitted interesting and innovative views of DH in museums. Well worth a browse. I attended via Twitter and panellists answered questions there. The Twitter feed can be explored by searching #mcn2011 and/or #digitalhumanities. All my best, Simon ____________________________ Simon Tanner King's College London Tel: +44 (0)7887 691716 http://twitter.com/SimonTanner _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Nov 23 08:48:20 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9682F2096AF; Wed, 23 Nov 2011 08:48:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id EDCD020969B; Wed, 23 Nov 2011 08:48:15 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111123084815.EDCD020969B@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 08:48:15 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.504 where the thrill is X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 504. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 09:06:05 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: getting to the thrill I take Stephen Woodruff's point, in Humanist 25.500, that hackers love to play with the tools and build things, while end-users just want the thing to work. But what I suppose I was really getting at was in Daniel Alllington's analogy to the musician and instrument. While I don't want to deny the pleasures and achievements of hacking -- far from that, I once was an assembly-language programmer and *loved* twiddling the bits -- I think we're feeling our way toward a third kind of relationship, to use Allington's metaphor: between the instrument maker and the listener is the musician. I think the concept "end-user" seriously inhibits our ability to think beyond the Fordist model of industrial manufacturing, in its deleterious effects no more vividly illustrated than by Charlie Chaplin in Modern Times (1936, also the year of Turing's paper). As I like to ask, what sorts of people do we call "users"? Do we really want to be positioning our audience at the end of a production-line? Yours, W -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor (fractional), University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Nov 23 08:49:52 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC3EA209716; Wed, 23 Nov 2011 08:49:52 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0479B2096F6; Wed, 23 Nov 2011 08:49:48 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111123084949.0479B2096F6@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 08:49:48 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.505 events: education; mobile communications; information society X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 505. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Charles Ess (83) Subject: Call for participation - International Research Workshop - Media Studies, Aarhus University [2] From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (72) Subject: TCC 2012 (Apr 17-19): Call for Papers & Presentations [3] From: David Brown (141) Subject: cfp: i-Society 2012 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 12:00:04 +0100 From: Charles Ess Subject: Call for participation - International Research Workshop - Media Studies, Aarhus University Dear colleagues, With apologies for duplications and cross-postings: please distribute to interested colleagues and relevant lists. On behalf of our keynote speakers and organizers, we are pleased to invite participation in an international research workshop on Mobile Communication: Mobile Internet, Locative Media, Mobility and Place. We invite researchers who work with mobile communication as a cultural, spatial and social phenomenon to join us for this two-day round-table workshop hosted by the Media Studies Department at Aarhus University. We will emphasize the spatial aspects of mobile communication and mobile internet. The workshop aims to reflect and discuss general theoretical perspectives, empirical case studies and methodological implications of studying mobile internet and locative media in relation to mobility and place. We have invited an international panel of speakers in order to encourage and facilitate the development of an international research network on mobile communication. Topics to be analyzed and discussed: - Theoretical, analytical and methodological aspects of mobile communication, mobile internet and locative media - Travelling, mobility and mobile technologies - Locative media and the production of place - Mobile internet, mobile media devises and new media practices Guest speakers: Rich Ling (DK) "Digital Gemeinschaft" Naomi Baron (US)"Reading on the Run: What We Read on Mobile Devices and Why" Leopoldina Fortunati (Italy) "Mobilities and Mobile Phones" Jonas Larsen (DK) "Mobile Communication, Place and Mobile Methods" Additional contributors: Iben Have, DK & Birgitte Stougaard, DK "Audiobooks and Mobile Listening: New Medium, New Users, New Literary Experiences?" Anja Bechmann, DK "Communication to-go: Studying Mobile and Seamless Communication Practices" Jakob Linaa Jensen, DK "Online Social Networks; Augmentation of Social Space" Martin Brynskov, DK "Mobile Media and Smart Cities" Stine Lomborg, DK  "The internet in my pocket" Charles Ess, DK  "Mobile Communication, Culture, Convergence" Anne Marit Waade, DK  "Locative Mobile Media, Place and Performativity" Logistics - The roundtable workshop starts Thursday 29 March at 10.00am and ends Friday 30 March at 5.00pm - The workshop takes place at Aarhus University, IT-campus, ADA Building, meeting room 333, Helsingforsgade 15, 8200 Aarhus N - Workshop fee: participation in the workshop itself is free, but participants will be asked to cover meal expenses (400 DKr for lunch and coffee for two days, and ­ optional - 400 DKr. for dinner Thursday night). Accommodation and travel expenses are covered by each participant. Submitting abstract for presentation: There will be a limited number of participants in the workshop. Deadline for submitting an abstract for presentation is 15. January 2012. The abstract should be no longer than 250 words. All participants will receive a response by 1 February. Please send your abstract to Sarah Shorr: imvsgs@hum.au.dk Guidelines for the presentation Prepare a presentation of ca. 10 minutes inclusive relevant questions to be posed for the workshop discussion. It might be based on a paper, an article or just a note or questions. Please send your contribution by 1 March to Sarah Shorr: imvsgs@hum.au.dk. Contributions will be distributed to participants prior to the workshop: participants will be asked to read each other¹s papers in advance of the workshop. Organizers Charles Ess, Media Studies, Aarhus University    Anne Marit Waade, Media Studies, Aarhus University    Sarah Schorr, Ph.D. Fellow, Media Studies, Aarhus University Related Ph.D-course In connection to the workshop, we are organizing the Ph.D. course, Researching Mobile and Locative Media - Methods and Ethics. It takes place Wednesday, March 28, 2012. 11 am ­ 6 pm. In this course, we will emphasize the methodological approaches, as well as the ethical questions that surround the empirical study of mobile and locative media. For more information about the course, please contact Sarah Schorr, e-mail: imvsgs@hum.au.dk. Many thanks in advance, Charles Ess Professor MSO Institut for Informations- og Medievidenskab Helsingforsgade 14 8200 Århus N. Denmark mail: tel: (+45) 8942 9250 Professor, Philosophy and Religion Drury University, Springfield, Missouri 65802 USA Exemplary persons seek harmony, not sameness. -- Analects 13.23 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 15:22:54 -0500 (EST) From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca Subject: TCC 2012 (Apr 17-19): Call for Papers & Presentations *17th Annual* *TCC WORLDWIDE ONLINE CONFERENCE* *April 17-19, 2012*** *Pre-conference: April 5, 2012*** *EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES IN EDUCATION* *TRENDS & ISSUES*** Submission deadline: January 16, 2012 Homepage: tcchawaii.org *CALL FOR PROPOSALS* *TCC 2012* invites faculty, support staff, librarians, counselors, student affairs professionals, students, administrators, and educational consultants to submit proposals for papers and general sessions. *THEME* Social media, such as Twitter and Facebook, have facilitated communication, sharing, collaboration and creativity among students and faculty. Students and faculty have converged on the Internet to share their views and utilize Web 2.0 tools for teaching and learning. There are many issues and concerns, however, that have yet to be answered fully: How do faculty, staff, students and the communities served produce positive learning outcomes? Can students learn through virtual worlds, educational games, augmented realities, or the use of mobile devices? What technologies continue to reshape e-learning? How do we support our colleagues? *TOPICS* TCC invites papers and general session proposals related to educational technology such as open educational resources, e-learning, virtual communities, social media tools and mobile learning. A broad range of proposals are encouraged, including, but not limited to: - Perspectives and experiences with emerging learning technologies - Case studies in using ICT and social media tools in learning - Enabling student collaboration, creativity, and sharing - Building and sustaining communities of learners - Instructional applications in virtual worlds - Distance learning programs and practices - Blogging and micro-blogging experiences - Ubiquitous and lifelong learning - Mobile learning applications - Open educational resources (OER) - Online student services and advising - Assessment strategies for online learning - Professional development for faculty and staff - Global access and intercultural communication - Educational technology in developing countries - Projects for seniors and persons with disabilities - E-Books and other modes of content distribution - Educational game design, rubrics, and assessment - Online learning resources (library, learning centers, etc.) - Social networking games and MMORPGs in education - Gender equity, intercultural understanding, and open access - Augmented reality; blending virtual content in real environments - Online, hybrid, or blended modes of technology supported learning *PROPOSALS*** This conference accepts proposals for three categories: papers, general sessions and student sessions. Presentation and submission details: http://tcchawaii.org/presentations Proposals that involve student presenters are greatly encouraged. Fees for student presenters will be waived. Student presentations will be scheduled later in the day. The submission deadline is *January 16, 2012*. *VENUE* This conference is held entirely online using a web browser to access live sessions and related content. A computer equipped with headphones and microphone as well as broadband Internet access is highly recommended. *SPONSORS & VENDORS* Organizations or companies interested in sponsoring this event may contact John Walber of LearningTimes *ADDITIONAL INFORMATION* For additional information, contact Bert Kimura or Curtis Ho . This event is a partnership between TCCHawaii and LearningTimes. University of Hawai'i faculty and other volunteers provide additional support. --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 01:48:59 +0000 (GMT) From: David Brown Subject: cfp: i-Society 2012 CALL FOR PAPERS ******************************************************************* International Conference on Information Society (i-Society 2012), Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE UK/RI Computer Chapter 25-28 June, 2011, London, UK www.i-society.eu ******************************************************************* The International Conference on Information Society (i-Society 2012) is Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE UK/RI Computer Chapter. The i-Society is a global knowledge-enriched collaborative effort that has its roots from both academia and industry. The conference covers a wide spectrum of topics that relate to information society, which includes technical and non-technical research areas. The mission of i-Society 2012 conference is to provide opportunities for collaboration of professionals and researchers to share existing and generate new knowledge in the field of information society. The conference encapsulates the concept of interdisciplinary science that studies the societal and technological dimensions of knowledge evolution in digital society. The i-Society bridges the gap between academia and industry with regards to research collaboration and awareness of current development in secure information management in the digital society. The topics in i-Society 2012 include but are not confined to the following areas: *New enabling technologies - Internet technologies - Wireless applications - Mobile Applications - Multimedia Applications - Protocols and Standards - Ubiquitous Computing - Virtual Reality - Human Computer Interaction - Geographic information systems - e-Manufacturing *Intelligent data management - Intelligent Agents - Intelligent Systems - Intelligent Organisations - Content Development - Data Mining - e-Publishing and Digital Libraries - Information Search and Retrieval - Knowledge Management - e-Intelligence - Knowledge networks *Secure Technologies - Internet security - Web services and performance - Secure transactions - Cryptography - Payment systems - Secure Protocols - e-Privacy - e-Trust - e-Risk - Cyber law - Forensics - Information assurance - Mobile social networks - Peer-to-peer social networks - Sensor networks and social sensing *e-Learning - Collaborative Learning - Curriculum Content Design and Development - Delivery Systems and Environments - Educational Systems Design - e-Learning Organisational Issues - Evaluation and Assessment - Virtual Learning Environments and Issues - Web-based Learning Communities - e-Learning Tools - e-Education *e-Society - Global Trends - Social Inclusion - Intellectual Property Rights - Social Infonomics - Computer-Mediated Communication - Social and Organisational Aspects - Globalisation and developmental IT - Social Software *e-Health - Data Security Issues - e-Health Policy and Practice - e-Healthcare Strategies and Provision - Medical Research Ethics - Patient Privacy and Confidentiality - e-Medicine *e-Governance - Democracy and the Citizen - e-Administration - Policy Issues - Virtual Communities *e-Business - Digital Economies - Knowledge economy - eProcurement - National and International Economies - e-Business Ontologies and Models - Digital Goods and Services - e-Commerce Application Fields - e-Commerce Economics - e-Commerce Services - Electronic Service Delivery - e-Marketing - Online Auctions and Technologies - Virtual Organisations - Teleworking - Applied e-Business - Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) *e-Art - Legal Issues - Patents - Enabling technologies and tools *e-Science - Natural sciences in digital society - Biometrics - Bioinformatics - Collaborative research *Industrial developments - Trends in learning - Applied research - Cutting-edge technologies * Research in progress - Ongoing research from undergraduates, graduates/postgraduates and professionals Important Dates: Paper Submission Date: January 31, 2012 Short Paper (Extended Abstract or Work in Progress): February 01, 2012 Notification of Paper Acceptance /Rejection: March 01, 2012 Notification of Short Paper (Extended Abstract or Work in Progress) Acceptance /Rejection: February 20, 2012 Camera Ready Paper and Short Paper Due: March 15, 2012 Participant(s) Registration (Open):  January 01, 2012 to June 15, 2012 Early Bird Attendee Registration Deadline (Authors only): January 01 to April 05, 2012 Late Bird Attendee Registration Deadline (Authors only): April 05 to June 15, 2012 Conference Dates: June 25-28, 2012   For more details, please visit www.i-society.eu _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Nov 24 06:29:51 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9900F20BD90; Thu, 24 Nov 2011 06:29:51 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 8855320BD7A; Thu, 24 Nov 2011 06:29:43 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111124062943.8855320BD7A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2011 06:29:43 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.506 where the thrill is X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 506. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Todd Lawson (39) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.504 where the thrill is [2] From: Jascha Kessler (13) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.504 where the thrill is --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 09:33:35 -0500 From: Todd Lawson Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.504 where the thrill is In-Reply-To: <20111123084815.EDCD020969B@woodward.joyent.us> Can it be that the thrill resides to some degree in the "sweet unrest" in which the process is simultaneously instrument and music (as in the case of normal languages)? Todd Lawson On 2011-11-23, at 3:48 AM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 504. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 09:06:05 +0000 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: getting to the thrill > > > I take Stephen Woodruff's point, in Humanist 25.500, that hackers love > to play with the tools and build things, while end-users just want the > thing to work. But what I suppose I was really getting at was in Daniel > Alllington's analogy to the musician and instrument. While I don't want > to deny the pleasures and achievements of hacking -- far from that, I > once was an assembly-language programmer and *loved* twiddling the bits > -- I think we're feeling our way toward a third kind of relationship, to > use Allington's metaphor: between the instrument maker and the listener > is the musician. > > I think the concept "end-user" seriously inhibits our ability to think beyond > the Fordist model of industrial manufacturing, in its deleterious effects no > more vividly illustrated than by Charlie Chaplin in Modern Times (1936, > also the year of Turing's paper). As I like to ask, what sorts of > people do we call "users"? Do we really want to be positioning our > audience at the end of a production-line? > > Yours, > W > -- > Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's > College London; Professor (fractional), University of Western Sydney; > Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, > Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 10:14:19 -0800 From: Jascha Kessler Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.504 where the thrill is In-Reply-To: <20111123084815.EDCD020969B@woodward.joyent.us> And...Willard's "musician" is my car's mechanic. I dont look under the hood, except to replenish the water for the windshield wipers. I DRIVE that beast, Ford, or post-Ford...and the last ten years have included a host of disastrous electronic controls to make the car "smarter." Too smart by half. Getting locked out and driven too fast, for instance? Jascha K -- Jascha Kessler Professor of English & Modern Literature, UCLA Telephone/Facsimile: 310.393.4648 www.jfkessler.com www.xlibris.com _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Nov 24 06:33:10 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DEDA20BE97; Thu, 24 Nov 2011 06:33:10 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 2B96D20BE86; Thu, 24 Nov 2011 06:32:59 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111124063259.2B96D20BE86@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2011 06:32:59 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.507 events: occupations X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 507. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 11:10:03 -0500 From: Erika Biddle Subject: CFP for Intersections/Cross Sections 2012: Occupations Below is the CFP for the annual graduate conference hosted by the Joint Programme in Communication and Culture at York and Ryerson Universities, Toronto. Please distribute widely. + + + CFP for INTERSECTIONS / CROSS SECTIONS 2012: “OCCUPATIONS” (March 23– 25, 2012) 11th Annual Communication and Culture Graduate Conference, York University/Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario Abstracts due: December 23, 2011; notification by January 23, 2012 Conference date: March 23–25, 2012 Please email submissions and questions to: intersections.occupations@gmail.com Occupare: (Latin.) To seize, capture Occupy but better yet, self manage…. The former option is basically passive—the latter is active and yields tasks and opportunities to contribute.… To occupy buildings, especially institutions like universities or media, isn’t just a matter of call it, or tweet it, and they will come. It is a matter of go get them, inform them, inspire them, enlist them, empower them, and they will come. – Michael Albert, “Occupy to Self Manage” (http://interactivist.autonomedia.org/node/33609 ) I think that our political structures are corrupt and we need to really think about what a democratic society would be like. People are learning how to do it now…. This is more than a protest, it’s a camp to debate an alternative civilization. – David Graeber, “The Man Behind Occupy Wall Street,” interviewed by Seth Fiegerman (http://interactivist.autonomedia.org/node/33897) This is a critical moment, as “Occupy everywheres” present possibilities for new politics, and new forms of learning, engaging and living with each other. From the recurring occupations of the squares in Greece and Italy to the UK’s winter of discontent and the Arab Spring, to the summer of protest in Spain and the North American autumn—at general assemblies around the globe, people are running their own lives, influencing the media and discussing what is to be done without politicians. The recent occupations are an education in direct democracy and the solidarity necessary for action. Occupy Wall Street, and the occupations around the world, are attempts to build the social compositions that are the precondition for action. They are the working-through of a problem that ‘politics-as-usual’ works to suppress—the massive exploitation that is capitalism, and the emergence of politics adequate to address it. At this stage, the occupations are the connection of people, ideas and machines—the cumulation of assemblages that might build something. What happens next depends on what is being built now. As it was written upon the recent expulsion of OWS from Zuccotti Park: “You can’t evict an idea whose time has come.” We invite graduate students from all related disciplines to submit proposals for academic, artistic and activist presentations and workshops that explore, celebrate, analyze and otherwise critically engage with the ideas emerging from occupations. Possible areas of engagement include: politics and aesthetics, movement research and performance studies, humanities and digital humanities, critical disability studies, labour studies, social theory, social movement theory, policy, political economy, communications studies, media, culture, pedagogy, technology, artistic practice and activism. Please send a 250-word abstract, as well as a brief biographical note (100 words) to occupations.intersections@gmail.com by December 23, 2011. Proposals should list paper/panel title, name, institutional affiliation and contact details. Workshop facilitators: Please provide a tentative timeline highlighting the duration and one or two general learning objectives of your session, along with a clear indication of space and technical requirements. Artists: If sending creative works by email, please limit attachment size to 5 MB or less, or direct us to a URL. Include viewing instructions, comments and titles in your email if applicable. If submitting creative works by post, please mail the proposal, a non- original copy of the work, and viewing instructions to the following address (well before the submission deadline): Intersections 2012 Conference c/o Graduate Program in Communication and Culture 3013 TEL Building, York University 4700 Keele Street Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 Intersections / Cross Sections 2012: Occupations is presented by and for graduate student scholars, artists and activists through the organizing efforts of the Communication and Culture Graduate Students Association (GSA): http://thecomcult.wordpress.com For more information about the Joint Graduate Program in Communication and Culture at York and Ryerson Universities: http://comcult.yorku.ca and http://www.ryerson.ca/graduate/programs/comcult/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Nov 24 06:35:06 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 935D420BF29; Thu, 24 Nov 2011 06:35:05 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 5B34720BF1B; Thu, 24 Nov 2011 06:34:56 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111124063456.5B34720BF1B@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2011 06:34:56 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.508 publication: objects in motion cfp X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 508. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 18:13:48 +0100 From: Nina Möllers Subject: CfP for Publication: Objects in Motion. Globalizing Technology (Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, 2013) CALL FOR PAPERS: Objects in Motion: Globalizing Technology Artefacts: Studies in the History of Science and Technology, Vol. 8 (Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, 2013) Deadline for Proposal: December 12, 2011 We invite proposals from scholars in the history of science, technology, and medicine, science and technology studies, material culture, museum and cultural studies for innovative contributions that explore technological artefacts within the context of a history of globalization. The papers will be published in Volume 8 of the Artefacts Series by Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press. Publication is projected for late 2013. Global movement of people, objects and ideas—the basis of the interconnectedness that makes up globalization—has only been possible because of myriad technologies. Technology has driven globalization and globalization has changed technology. To understand the intricate relationship of both, we need to go back to the artefacts and examine machines, appliances and large systems in the (global) networks through which they have circulated. How have the dynamics of globalization been materialized in objects? Although technological consumer objects such as phones, PCs and frozen foods are frequently named when globalizing effects are described, artefacts often disappear in public and scholarly debates. Yet, by their double nature as both material entity and symbol, they produce, re-produce and react to globalizing effects. While generations of historians of technology have focused on the materiality of objects in the sense that they have analyzed their innovative technical character, their operation modes and ‘improvements’, recent paradigm shifts have resulted in a more integrative approach to technical material culture. Artefacts are increasingly understood as embodying both a material and immaterial side that goes beyond their mere modes of functioning into the social and cultural realm. Concurrent with that is the acknowledgment that technological objects need to be studied in view of increasingly globalized production and consumption cycles. While the globalized world has changed the ways that technological objects have been engineered, built and sold, it similarly has changed how they have been perceived and appropriated as consumer goods and symbols. Successful contributions will focus on technological objects as the primary objects of inquiry and sources of evidence. We are currently accepting proposals for research papers (approx. 6,000 words), case studies (max. 3,000 words) and exhibition reviews/discussions (max.1,500 words). Due to the tight timeline for this project, please limit your proposals to projects that are already well advanced. A topic as large as globalization and technology poses challenges for potential contributors wanting to ground their projects in a manageable framework. For this reason we are proposing a number of research themes. Researchers may wish to explore one or several of these. 1. From Technology Transfer to Reciprocity In contributing to a history of globalization, object-focused transfer studies will have most value where they address questions of dialogue and reciprocity in the transfer process, or where they problematize and historicize the concept of transfer itself. 2. Modernity, Nation-States and Multinational Corporations Historians of technology need to analyze globalized technological artefacts in their relations to historical meta-narratives and concepts such as modernity and Westernization, imperialism and nationalism, colonialism and postcolonialism. 3. Global and Local If we follow Madeleine Akrich’s dictum of user scripts inscribed by producers of technology and de-scripted, modified or rejected by users, the relationship between global and local contexts of artefacts become important. What is the relationship between globalization and localization? 4. Globalization as (Non-)Movement of People, Objects and Knowledge Studying globalization’s effects on technology means to analyze the multidimensional network that is made up of subjects, objects and contexts. Who and what have moved in a globalized world? How have labor markets, international expert cultures, cooperation and knowledge transfer influenced globalization? 5. Globalization and Museums Finally, the science and technology museum as medium between producers and consumers needs to be considered. How has globalization influenced the museum, its collections, its exhibitions, its research and its administration? How do we exhibit globalization? Proposals should include a title and abstract (no more than 500 words), as well as the author’s curriculum vitae. Please send all proposals electronically by December 12, 2011 to: Bryan Dewalt, Canada Science and Technology Museum, bdewalt@technomuses.ca AND Nina Moellers, Deutsches Museum, n.moellers@deutsches-museum.de -- Dr. Nina Möllers Forschungsinstitut Deutsches Museum Museumsinsel 1 80538 München Germany n.moellers@deutsches-museum.de http://www.energiekonsum.mwn.de/ http://www.deutsches-museum.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 Fri Nov 25 06:05:45 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id A04ED20B226; Fri, 25 Nov 2011 06:05:45 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E5A9C20B213; Fri, 25 Nov 2011 06:05:39 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111125060539.E5A9C20B213@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2011 06:05:39 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.509 where the thrill is X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 509. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2011 11:50:33 +0000 From: D.Allington Subject: RE: [Humanist] 25.504 where the thrill is In-Reply-To: <20111123084815.EDCD020969B@woodward.joyent.us> >As I like to ask, what sorts of >people do we call "users"? Do we really want to be positioning our >audience at the end of a production-line? >Yours, >W This is something that bothers me. Releasing a program without a GPL/BSD-type licence automatically places the audience at the end of a production line. But then again, if what one is releasing is a large, fully-functioning program with a user-friendly GUI, then most of the audience will end up in that position anyway because the skills needed to make anything of the source code will be so far from universal that it might just as well be closed. I wouldn't even bother looking at the sources for GIMP, for example (though don't get me wrong, I'm certainly grateful that it exists!). When people release libraries, on the other hand (as with the Natural Language Toolkit), they're doing something rather different. There's no 'end user' of a library - the implied audience consists of people who are going to make use of its resources in producing their own programs, which they may or may not choose to distribute. And if the library is sufficiently well designed, then the skills necessary to kludge together a script that makes use of those resources are likely to be far more widespread than the sort of skills necessary to work with the sources of a mega program like GIMP. Moreover, if it's written in a relatively accessible language like Python, then the existence of a library may motivate people to acquire those skills. (I'm a bit resistant to the idea of learning Python, for example, but I'm going to have to do so one of these days because there are so many incredibly useful Python libraries out there!) I guess what I'm saying is that it would be a good thing if more DH projects aimed to release useful, well-documented libraries that would encourage humanists to develop the skills necessary to make use of them in producing new programs. However, I know that there are pressures towards manufacturing a visually appealing finished product that requires minimal technical expertise from the (end-user) audience. Best regards Daniel Dr Daniel Allington Lecturer in English Language Studies and Applied Linguistics Centre for Language and Communication The Open University +44 (0) 1908 332 914 http://open.academia.edu/DanielAllington ________________________________________ -- The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 000391), an exempt charity in England & Wales and a charity registered in Scotland (SC 038302). _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Nov 25 06:07:30 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1896E20B2B7; Fri, 25 Nov 2011 06:07:30 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 59F9020B2A2; Fri, 25 Nov 2011 06:07:23 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111125060723.59F9020B2A2@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2011 06:07:23 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.510 jobs in Qatar X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 510. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2011 12:16:21 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: jobs in Qatar [The following has been sent to me by Anil Chagani , who has been hired by the Qatari Museums Authority "to build 9 world-class museums and research centres. The organisation has a significant budget to research, preserve and document the region’s heritage." In the first instance they're looking for a Director for a Digital Humanities Research Centre, but Mr Chagani would also welcome hearing from those interested in the following positions: 2. Metadata Specialists (Print and Digital); 3. Digital Curator; 4. Librarian for Digital Research& Scholarship; 5. Knowledge Integration& Emerging Technologies Librarian (KIETL); 6. LAMPP Developer. The job-description for the Director's position is included below. Interest should be expressed to Mr Chagani directly. --WM] Position: Director Department: Digital Humanities Research Center Reports to: Director, National Museum of Qatar Supervises: Digital Curator, Research Librarians, Archivist, Knowledge Integration & Emerging Technologies Librarian, Instructional Technologist, Community Outreach Specialist, Metadata Specialists, Social Network Specialist Responsibilities: The Director of the Research Center provides vision and leadership for the research activities and digital output of Qatar’s 21st century museums. This position will work closely with Qatar’s community of experts to build comprehensive research collections for intensive study of the nation of Qatar onsite and in virtual spaces. This position provides direction and support for digital initiatives and has broad institutional impact developing and refining the Museum’s digital strategic plan in close collaboration with senior leadership. The Director plays a pivotal role in shaping the research environment, information interaction and museum experiences. The Director will oversee the development of the first digital humanities research center in the region and will supervise and mentor creative exploration and re-application of data for enhanced exploration; requiring active study and intellectual discourse of digital humanities and contemporary museums with a specific focus on exhibiting culture. Implementation of enterprise-wide content management and visualization systems will figure prominently in this work and requires participation and close collaboration with all museum staff, departmental work groups, committees, and task forces. The dynamic nature of technology requires the Director to be current in technology trends and support the professional development of the research center’s staff. The Director must continue to develop current innovations and pursue new ones. The Director must maximize the use of the Museum’s digital assets, protect them, and deploy them creatively to enhance research, education, and the physical and virtual visitor experiences. -- Must have expertise in strategic planning -- Must possess expertise in translating museum collections into digital experiences -- Must be dynamic, creative and proven leader -- Must be able to demonstrate previous success in a mentorship capacity Qualifications: MLS/MLIS from an ALA-accredited institution or equivalent. Masters of Arts in Museum Studies or equivalent. Demonstrated knowledge of emerging technologies as well as experience successfully integrating those technologies within the museum context. Ability to collaborate effectively with all levels of museum staff and the Qatar community at large. Appreciation of diversity. Demonstrated ability to work effectively in a multicultural work environment and community setting. A sustained record of professional and scholarly activities. Commitment to fostering a diverse workplace and building a diverse workforce and to supporting professional development and training for employees at all levels. Minimal Competencies: 1. Communication – Communicates effectively one-to-one, in small groups and in public speaking contexts; writes concise, well-organized emails, letters and proposals while using appropriate vocabulary and grammar. 2. Computer Proficiency –Experience with integrated content management systems or digital repositories; software and hardware for digital humanities output; bibliographic utilities, web-based acquisition for collection management. Experience in information visualization and interactive narrative applications. Experience with spreadsheets and statistical software. 3. Conceptual Ability - Deals effectively, not just with concrete tangible issues, but also abstract conceptual matters. 4. Coach Ability - Receptive to feedback, open to change, seeks continuous improvement. 5. Organization – Plans, organizes and schedules in an efficient, productive manner; anticipates contingencies and pays attention to detail; targets projects or initiatives that require special attention and focuses on key tasks when faced with limited time and/or resources. 6. Efficiency/Dependability – Effectively performs duties and responsibilities; supports organizational policies; anticipates demands/pressures of assignments and adjusts accordingly. Preferred Qualifications: Capacity to thrive in the exciting, ambiguous, future-oriented environment of a world-class research institution and to respond effectively to changing needs and priorities. 10 years prior experience in an academic or research setting, preferrably in a musuem or within an applied laboratory of interactive visualization that includes personnel evaluation, budget preparation, and strategic planning. Professional commitment, evidenced through strong interest in local or national committee work, research, publication, etc. Ability to articulate and implement a philosophy of research service. Preferred Competencies: 1. Energy/Drive - Exhibits energy and a strong desire to achieve. 2. Problem Solving – Formulates realistic plans and contingencies and establishes appropriate measurements of anticipated results. 3. Innovation/Creativity – Explores alternatives to existing products and services; identifies opportunities to improve procedures and practices; shows imagination. -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor (fractional), University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Nov 26 05:52:50 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52D4F20C5A3; Sat, 26 Nov 2011 05:52:49 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 99D4320C592; Sat, 26 Nov 2011 05:52:38 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111126055239.99D4320C592@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2011 05:52:38 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.511 formal methods and experiment X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 511. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2011 14:59:37 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: formal methods and experiment Robin Milner, in his inaugural lecture of the Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science (Edinburgh, 1986), "Is Computing an Experimental Science", praises wide-spread recognition of the need for a larger conceptual frame than provided by any one programming language. He asserts the value of logic as a basis for the methodology by which system specifications are to be worked out. But he then notes an attendant danger: > Much use has been made recently of the term "formal methods" in > relation to system design. The choice of this term (wherever it came > from), rather than the term "theory", suggests that the methodology is > paramount; I fear that it also reflects a mistaken assumption--that > is, it suggests that the conceptual frame for design already exists > and that we only need to animate it by the right formal methodology. He then draws an analogy: > just as a physicist or chemist tests and tests his theories by > carefully controlled experiment, so it should be with us. I've always thought that experiment, as a style of scientific reasoning (to use Hacking's term) gets us very close to what it is that we do and keeps us from a conceptual stiffening of joints. But consideration of our practices in these terms cannot stop here, because "experiment" is a term with a history that is interesting to the historian but distracts from the simple point made provocatively by Paul Feyerabend when he said at the end of Chapter 1 of Against Method, "anything goes"! Later he admitted to an ironical intent: "'anything goes'", he said, "is not a 'principle' I hold… but the terrified exclamation of a rationalist who takes a closer look at history" (1993/1975: vii). He is saying, look at what actually happens in practice. Sure, when you're making software that is meant to be used as is, e.g. to make easier the editing of messages in an online discussion group like this one, you want to produce something that simply works. But what do we find when we look at software meant for research, not to aid research that happens elsewhere by other means but to be an intimate research companion, to be to the researcher as water is to the swimmer? "Prosthesis", "the prosthetic imagination" and so forth (terms that at this moment seem just right) are likewise have a history that can be very distracting and confusing. So allow me to recommend to your attention a very fine essay by Vivian Sobchack, "A leg to stand on: Prosthetics, Metaphor, and Materiality", in The Prosthetic Impulse: From a Posthuman Present to a Biocultural Future, ed. Marquard Smith and Joanne Morra (MIT Press, 2006). Comments? Yours, WM -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor (fractional), University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Nov 26 05:54:17 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33F9620C607; Sat, 26 Nov 2011 05:54:17 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 2EF4B20C5F7; Sat, 26 Nov 2011 05:54:10 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111126055410.2EF4B20C5F7@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2011 05:54:10 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.512 events: qualitative and quantative in libraries X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 512. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2011 16:58:48 +0200 From: "Secretariat@isast.org" Subject: 2nd-round submissions to the 4th QQML2012 Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries International Conference, 22-25 May 2012 Limerick Ireland Dear Colleagues, Don’t miss the 2nd-round submissions to the 4th QQML2012 International Conference (22-25 May 2012 Limerick Ireland) that starts now until 15 December 2011. Please think of abstract or paper submission and disseminate this Call for Papers to your colleagues. [Those of you who have already email your abstract(s) or paper(s) during the 1st call, please ignore this announcement] The Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries International Conference (QQML 2012) aims to bring together researchers and scientists from academia, libraries, archives, museums, from governmental and non government organizations to present new results and identify future research interests. To fulfil QQML goals and success we are inviting proposals for: * Conference Sessions of 4-6 paper presentations. * Conference Workshops: 2 – 5 hour workshops. * Pecha- Kucha presentations: 5-7 minute presentations. * New researchers’ research results. * Poster presentations. Poster presentations offer you the opportunity to share research findings or innovative applications. An effective poster should focus on a single message and display an essential content in the title, main headings and graphics. Please submit (as an email attachment to secretariat@isast.org ) a 300 word abstract (in MS Word format) describing your poster. Posters should be no larger than A1 size (841mm × 1189mm) portrait style. The final posters presentations should not exceeding 2,500 words. Please visit http://www.isast.org/sessionsworkshops.html to find the list of Sessions. Perhaps you have another topic relevant to the library theory and practice to propose. We would like to tell us about! Awards: The Candidate Doctors and Master Students have the opportunity to present their research projects to the LIS community. If you like to submit to the competition, please take into account of the following: * One paper submission per person is accepted. * The project research must be near completion (e.g. analysis of the data, conclusions from the research findings). * The final version of the full papers must be submitted by April 1st, 2012. * Students whose papers are accepted are required to register for and attend the QQML 2012 International Conference in Limerick, Ireland, on May 22-25, 2012. The deadline for abstract/paper/poster/sessions/workshops proposals is the 15th December 2011. If you have any questions concerning the Call for Proposals, please contact: Anthi Katsirikou, anthi@asmda.com and secretariat@isast.org Looking forward to welcoming you in Limerick, Kind regards, Anthi Katsirikou Librarian, PhD, MSc QQML Conference co-chair Director, University of Piraeus Library Coordinator of European Documentation Centers in Greece Adjunct Lecturer at TEI of Athens Member of the Board of the Association of Greek Librarians and Information Professionals E-mail: anthi@asmda.com Jerald Cavanagh BSc Econ, MSc, MA, Local Committee Co-Chair Institute Librarian Limerick Institute of Technology Limerick, Rep of Ireland e-Mail: jerald.cavanagh@lit.ie Padraig Kirby BA (Hons) HdipLIS, Local Committee Co-Chair Acting Senior Library Assistant The Library Limerick Institute of Technology Moylish Park Limerick, Republic of Ireland Padraig.Kirby@lit.ie _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Nov 28 08:18:33 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CC5420F4B4; Mon, 28 Nov 2011 08:18:32 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E9EDF20F4AA; Mon, 28 Nov 2011 08:18:25 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111128081825.E9EDF20F4AA@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 08:18:25 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.513 where the thrill is X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 513. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 10:40:28 +0900 From: Christian Wittern Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.509 where the thrill is In-Reply-To: <20111125060539.E5A9C20B213@woodward.joyent.us> >> As I like to ask, what sorts of >> people do we call "users"? Do we really want to be positioning our >> audience at the end of a production-line? >> Yours, >> W > This is something that bothers me. Releasing a program without a > GPL/BSD-type licence automatically places the audience at the end of a > production line. But then again, if what one is releasing is a large, > fully-functioning program with a user-friendly GUI, then most of the > audience will end up in that position anyway because the skills needed to > make anything of the source code will be so far from universal that it > might just as well be closed. I wouldn't even bother looking at the > sources for GIMP, for example (though don't get me wrong, I'm certainly > grateful that it exists!). I'd like to chime in here and bring in a slightly different perspective. In recent years I came to see software development, especially of open source software, essentially as a community process. This means that while there might be releases (and some are releasing very frequently), these are not meant to be finished products, but rather thrown out into the community with an implicit or explicit request for feedback. The software development process is not so much designed on a whiteboard and then implemented, but evolves based on the feedback of other community members. There is for example a large user community around the Ebook management software Calibre, most of them users of various ebook devices, but also software developers. As new devices come out or limits of the various parts of the program are discovered, users voice requests for improvements and developers implement them. There is no strict dividing line between these roles and indeed, most of the developers are also users most of the time, and of course there are occasional visitors and core members. And then you have experienced users that explain advanced features of the software to newcomers. If we look at this as a whole system, I would think that the users are at least as important for the development of good software as the developers are. All this makes me think that there is not an 'end' of the production line and our audience is not 'the other' sitting out there, but potential members of a community with whom a conversation is opened by releasing a piece of software. All the best, Christian Wittern -- Christian Wittern, Kyoto _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Nov 28 08:19:50 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CA1C20F4FC; Mon, 28 Nov 2011 08:19:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E75D020F4E8; Mon, 28 Nov 2011 08:19:41 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20111128081941.E75D020F4E8@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 08:19:41 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.514 petition to pardon Turing X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 514. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2011 08:05:33 +0000 (GMT) From: S Barry Cooper Subject: Grant a pardon to Alan Turing - petition for UK residents It seems the UK Government will only accept signatures to the petition from UK residents. Apologies to all those from outside the UK who tried overnight, only to discover this. The petition now has 53 signatories. ---------- Sent message ---------- Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2011 22:48:52 +0000 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Nov 29 06:27:47 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id A524820EAC6; Tue, 29 Nov 2011 06:27:46 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 317D320EABD; Tue, 29 Nov 2011 06:27:37 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111129062737.317D320EABD@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2011 06:27:37 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.515 where the thrill is X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 515. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2011 04:49:52 +1000 From: Desmond Schmidt Subject: RE: [Humanist] 25.513 where the thrill is In-Reply-To: <20111128081825.E9EDF20F4AA@woodward.joyent.us> Linus Torvalds said this recently about the reality of free software development: "If you start off with some ‘kumba-ya feeling’ where you think people from all the world are going to come together to make a better world by working together on your project, you probably won't be going very far." (http://h30565.www3.hp.com/t5/Feature-Articles/Linus-Torvalds-s-Lessons-on-Software-Development-Management/ba-p/440) While I concur entirely with Christian's description of the "community" as providing feedback leading to the development of a better product it's generally feedback about usability, not direct help in the development of the product itself. Desmond Schmidt Information Security Institute Faculty of Science and Technology Queensland University of Technology ________________________________________ From: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org [humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org] On Behalf Of Humanist Discussion Group [willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk] Sent: Monday, November 28, 2011 6:18 PM To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Nov 29 06:30:51 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id E398C20EBB9; Tue, 29 Nov 2011 06:30:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 2978F20EBA8; Tue, 29 Nov 2011 06:30:41 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111129063041.2978F20EBA8@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2011 06:30:41 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.516 events: reading; archives; text-analysis; spatial narrative X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 516. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Joris van Zundert (87) Subject: Interedition: CFP Bootcamp #9 - Text Analysis [2] From: Milena Dobreva (30) Subject: Policies and Practices in Access to Digital Archives [3] From: "Bodenhamer, David J" (82) Subject: NEH Institute: Spatial Narrative and Deep Maps [4] From: Ray Siemens (52) Subject: cfp: E-reading: an Interdisciplinary Symposium --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 09:42:11 +0100 From: Joris van Zundert Subject: Interedition: CFP Bootcamp #9 - Text Analysis In-Reply-To: Please circulate widely... **CALL FOR PARTICIPATION** Interedition 9th Bootcamp: 11 - 14 January 2012 ------------------------------------------------ Interedition invites all interested to participate in the upcoming Development Bootcamp, which will take place from 11 to 14 January at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. The bootcamps are intended for the development of prototypes for interoperable 'microservice' tools for text scholarship and digital editions. The work of previous bootcamps have focused on collation, transcription, and annotation of texts; the goal of this bootcamp is to encourage the development of prototypes for text analysis. One of the most exciting directions of digital text edition lies in the question of the innovative lines of research that might be taken when all the textual data is digitized, annotated, collated, and checked. Examples include: * Discourse analysis * Linked data * Stemmatology * Stylistics * ... Each of these has been incorporated into one or more existing critical edition, but there are at present very few tools available that might be shared between edition projects. There is an acute need for better interoperability of the tools we have, and for the development of new tools that are designed from the ground up with the principles of interoperability in mind. During this bootcamp Interedition seeks to bring together scholars and developers working on any sort of text analysis for digital edition, to discuss their lines of approach, the tools they are using, and possible points of interoperability and interchange of data. The primary objective, as with all bootcamps, is the development of prototypes that put the results of our discussions to work. Another important objective is to give developers and early stage researchers an opportunity to meet and share their own projects and experiences with tool interoperability in textual scholarship. BURSARIES COST Action IS0704 'Interedition' is offering bursaries to early stage researchers (< Ph.D. + 10 years) and developers that want to join the bootcamp. The bursaries will consist of an €100 per diem allowance and will cover full travel expenses, subject to caps. A limited number of bursaries are available to participants from outside the member countries of Interedition. [1] HOW TO APPLY If you are interested in participating in the bootcamp, please send an email to joris.van.zundert-AT-huygensinstituut.knaw.nlby **14 December 2011**. You don't need an intricate motivation, but please state your affiliation, and add a very short (certainly not more than 200 words) description of your current or related development work in digital humanities. Attendance throughout the bootcamp is expected, but in certain circumstances a shorter attendance may be negotiated. PROGRAM Wednesday 11 January - Introduction of participants and projects - Introduction to existing tools for text analysis - Division of Tasks/Labor Thursday 12 January - Hacking - Documentation of the day's work Friday 13 January - Hacking - Documentation of the day's work Saturday 14 January - Unconference on participants' projects - Documentation - Discussion of future possibilities for further cooperation ABOUT INTEREDITION Interedition (http://www.interedition.eu) is a COST (http://www.cost.eu) funded Action whose objective is to further the interoperability of tools in digital scholarship. Interedition is raising the awareness of the importance of interoperability as a major driver for sustainability for tools and data in the field of digital scholarship. This activity takes two forms: firstly, meetings in which researchers in digital scholarship can network their knowledge of tools and the possibilities for their interoperability; secondly, the development of proof-of-concept implementations of interoperable tools. These proof-of-concept tools are the focus of Interedition's periodic bootcamps, which offer the open source development community in the humanities opportunities to meet, network, and exchange knowledge. ABOUT THE ORGANIZERS The bootcamp and think tank are organized through the kind efforts of: - Caroline Macé (KU Leuven) - Tara Andrews (KU Leuven) [1] Member countries include Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, Finland, F.Y.R. Macedonia, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Spain, and the United Kingdom. -------------------- --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 14:25:26 +0000 From: Milena Dobreva Subject: Policies and Practices in Access to Digital Archives In-Reply-To: Policies and Practices in Access to Digital Archives: Towards a New Research and Policy Agenda The Central European University invite applicants for an intensive one-week summer session in Budapest from 2 July-6 July, 2012. This course has been developed to meet the specific needs of established professionals looking to deepen their impact on policy issues related to digitital archives. The creation of a diverse coalition of experts is an envisioned goal of the course. Practitioners from the field of archives, research, law and policy making are encouraged to apply. The course deals with the contemporary complexities of accessibility and the long-term preservation of archival material within institutional settings. It will explore the driving/prohibitive role of IPR and various implications of the regulation of digital material: Will access to primary sources become the luxury of the few under a new type of digital divide? Do we have evidential data of the market value of digitised archival collections? What kind of policy agenda will ensure the future availability of cultural heritage content? What kind of strategy will guarantee that archives within the digital European single market are sustainable? The course will consist of intensive teaching sessions and participants will be expected to prepare a paper in advance for presentation purposes. Please note that places are limited to 30 participants and offered on a competitive basis. This summer course is able to offer a limited amount of grants. Applicants will be asked to explain what their engagement with archival material is and what particular policy-related issues they consider most challenging. The deadline for application is February 15, 2012. For further information and to apply, please visit the CEU Summer University website: http://www.summer.ceu.hu/node/350 --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 17:14:18 +0000 From: "Bodenhamer, David J" Subject: NEH Institute: Spatial Narrative and Deep Maps In-Reply-To: Summer 2012 NEH Institute for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities Spatial Narrative and Deep Maps: Explorations in the Spatial Humanities June 18-29, 2012 Call for Proposals: Applications due Friday, February 3, 2012 The Virtual Center for Spatial Humanities (VCSH), a multidisciplinary collaboration among Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis (IUPUI), Florida State University, and West Virginia University, is pleased to announce an NEH Advanced Institute for summer 2012 designed to advance exploration of key topics in the spatial humanities. The institute will offer scholars the opportunity to discover the benefits of a spatial-analytical approach to humanities scholarship and to explore how to bend geo-spatial technologies, including GIS and Web 2.0 tools, to the needs of the humanities. Two areas of emphasis will be spatial narratives and deep maps. Fellows participating in the program will learn both by engaging with a variety of existing projects as well as through the production of a prototype project in collaboration with the VCSH team. Fellows also will have an opportunity to present their own work and to contribute to scholarly and Web products that result from the institute. The institute will meet in Indianapolis from June 18 to 29, 2012 and will be administered by IUPUI’s Polis Center. It will draw upon a multidisciplinary faculty from the three collaborating institutions, as well as leading scholars in the field of spatial humanities from the US and UK, and will be supported technically by the advanced technology group of the Polis Center. The institute schedule will allow time for fellows to interact with the staff and to seek advice for their own projects or project ideas, but the primary focus will be on how to use geo-spatial technologies to enhance the narrative and analytical traditions of the humanities. The fellows will work with project staff to develop a prototype deep map to support multi-scalar and contingent analysis of problems of interests to humanists. To focus this work, the institute will explore the spatial contexts of American religion, using the Digital Atlas of American Religion, an NEH-supported project of VCSH, and the multi-faceted evidence from the Polis Center’s six-year study of the intersection of religion and urban culture in a mid-sized American city. About the fellowships: Up to 12 fellowships will be awarded to individuals or teams who demonstrate serious interest in the application of geo-spatial technologies to problems in the humanities. While scholars in all humanities disciplines are eligible to apply, we are especially interested in collaborating with those who have experience in one or more geo-spatial technologies as well as scholars who have thought about the spatial dimensions of American religion. During the institute, fellows will explore central issues in the spatial humanities, including such topics as database structures and information architectures, interactive design, and collaborative research, while situating these concerns within the fields of American history and religious studies. Guest lecturers during the summer include Ian Gregory (historical GIS and digital humanities, Lancaster University), Anne Knowles (historical geography, Middlebury College), Katy Börner (informatics and advanced visualization, Indiana University), and Art Farnsley (sociology of religion, IUPUI), among others. Institute leaders are David Bodenhamer (history, IUPUI), John Corrigan (religious studies, Florida State), and Trevor Harris (geography, West Virginia University). All fellows will participate in a two-week residency June 18-29 at IUPUI. The residency will include colloquia and working sessions in which participants collectively will develop project foundations and address relevant issues in spatial humanities. Fellows also will be provided the opportunity to present their own projects. Applicants need not be proficient with geo-spatial technologies but must demonstrate some level of engagement with them as well as with spatial questions and analyses. Evidence of the capacity for successful collaboration and for scholarly innovation is required. Fellowship awards will include a stipend of $3,000 for each participant, as well as a travel allowance. Accommodation and meal costs will be the responsibility of each fellow, but the institute will seek to arrange low-cost housing for participants. We welcome scholars from all career levels, from advanced graduate student to full professor. About the proposals: Proposals should include the following: • Two to three-page statement of how participation in the institute will fit the scholarly and professional goals of the applicant. • One-page description of the applicant’s experience with geo-spatial technologies and spatial analysis. • Brief CV (maximum of three pages). • Letter of support from department chair for non-tenured faculty or from dissertation advisor for doctoral candidates. Projects that articulate a clear understanding of the potential of spatial humanities and the problems associated with the use of geo-spatial technologies in humanities scholarship will be regarded favorably. David J. Bodenhamer Executive Director and Professor The Polis Center at IUPUI 1200 Waterway Blvd. Indianapolis, IN 46202 317-274-2455 --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 14:28:22 +0000 From: Ray Siemens Subject: cfp: E-reading: an Interdisciplinary Symposium In-Reply-To: -----Original Message----- > From: Alan Galey [mailto:alan.galey@utoronto.ca] E-reading: an Interdisciplinary Symposium 31 March 2012, Massey College, University of Toronto This symposium, a collaboration between the University of Toronto graduate program in Book History and Print Culture, and a new, online publication, The Toronto Review of Books, invites papers that consider the practice of e-reading, both as an activity and an idea. E-reading tends to provoke either dismay or enthusiasm from its critics, but this symposium aims for clear-eyed assessments that address both the potential gains and losses of a practice that is rapidly growing in popularity around the world. With an interdisciplinary and cross-period scope, this symposium seeks to give e-reading a history that accounts for the continuities and discontinuities the practice shares with the ancient tradition of reading a wide a variety of materials, including paper, papyrus, parchment, and other media. Scholars working on periods both before and after the rise of virtual media are therefore equally encouraged to submit proposals that address what might be called the "long history" of e-reading. Possible topics may include but are not limited to: - Digital reading in humanities scholarship: materials, methods, and critics - The profits of e-reading, financial and intellectual - Economies of e-reading: the corporate ownership of e-texts, copyright and the cost of e-books - Pedagogy and e-reading: the fate of bibliographic skills - Online literacies: attention span, short form, bots, and e-readingemail, texting, e-reading, and the history of correspondence - From Socrates to WikiLeaks: memorization, data, and electronic memory - Scanning: fast reading and slow reading - eReaders: the materiality of e-reading - Screens and reading - eDesign - The long history of mobile reading and travel - Precursors to virtual reading: visions and reading - Marginalia, reading out loud, and blog comments: the long history of private reading in public - Facebook and reading - Digital literacies in developing countries - Animation, interaction, and reading: illustrated e-books - Internet/book/e-book: the fate of bookwork in e-landscapes - E-books, e-readers, and fashion - Time and e-reading Papers should be delivered in English and should not exceed 20 minutes' oral presentation in length. Please send proposals of approximately 250 words, alongwith institutional and departmental affiliation, to bhpc2011@gmail.com. The deadline for submissions is 20 December 2011. -- Alan Galey Assistant Professor University of Toronto individual.utoronto.ca/alangaley/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Nov 30 06:56:28 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25EB9210C05; Wed, 30 Nov 2011 06:56:28 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 03508210BEE; Wed, 30 Nov 2011 06:56:19 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111130065620.03508210BEE@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 06:56:19 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.517 fellowships, grants & studentships X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 517. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Susan Schreibman (40) Subject: TEI Community Initiative Grants: Call for Proposals [2] From: Wintner Shuly (26) Subject: Doctoral and post-doctoral scholarships in ComputationalLinguistics and Natural Language Processing [3] From: Daniel Pitti (4) Subject: [IATH-Fellows] Fwd: [Centernet] Fellowship opportunity --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2011 10:38:25 +0000 From: Susan Schreibman Subject: TEI Community Initiative Grants: Call for Proposals TEI Community Initiative Grants Proposals Due 15 December 2011 Total Call: $4,000 The TEI Board is delighted to announce a call for Community Initiative Grants. Proposed projects proposed should support and promote the goals of the TEI and should be carried out within one year of the date of the award. Applications will be adjudicated according to the following criteria: Ø * excellence of the proposal; Ø * contribution of the activity to the promotion and development of the TEI; Ø * track record of individuals or group proposing the activity; Ø * deliverables which are realistic and can be accomplished within the budget and time period proposed. Although there is no upper amount for any individual proposal, applicants should bear in mind that the total amount for this grant call is $4,000. Proposals should be no longer than three pages (ca. 750 words) and should contain the following information: 1. Name and contact details of proposer 2. Name of organization (if the proposal is being submitted on behalf of a TEI SIG or other organistion) 3. Narrative addressing the criteria above. 4. Amount requested. Please indicate if it would be possible to carry out the activity with less funding, and if so, how that would change the nature of the proposal. 5. Date for final report Please send submissions to Susan Schreibman susan.schreibman AT gmail.com by 15 December 2011 -- Susan Schreibman, PhD Long Room Hub Senior Lecturer in Digital Humanities School of English Trinity College Dublin Dublin 2, Ireland email: susan.schreibman@tcd.ie phone: +353 1 896 3694 fax: +353 1 671 7114 check out the new MPhil in Digital Humanities at TCD http://www.tcd.ie/English/postgraduate/digital-humanities/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2011 11:50:48 +0000 From: Wintner Shuly Subject: Doctoral and post-doctoral scholarships in Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing Doctoral and post-doctoral scholarships in Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing Computational Linguistics Group, University of Haifa, Israel http://cl.haifa.ac.il/ Two fully-funded research positions are available. 1. Grammar engineering You will develop and implement mechanisms for grammar engineering that will facilitate collaborative grammar development, including facilities for modularization, abstraction and information encapsulation. The framework is based on typed unification grammars, and is aimed to support the development of large-scale HPSG grammars. The ideal candidate should: - have a solid background in computer science, with excellent programming skills - be familiar with contemporary syntactic theories, ideally HPSG - be creative, innovative and hard-working - possess excellent communication skills, both oral and written (in English). 2. Machine translation, machine learning and text categorization You will develop classifiers that can distinguish between original and translated texts, and use such information to improve the quality of machine translation. The ideal candidate should: - have a solid background in computer science, with excellent programming skills - be familiar with statistical machine translation and machine-learning-based text categorization - be creative, innovative and hard-working - possess excellent communication skills, both oral and written (in English). Post-doctoral scholarships require a PhD in hand (or about to be conferred). They are for one year, with very likely extension to a second (and maybe a third) year. Candidates should demonstrate a promising track record of publications. Doctoral scholarships require a Masters degree in Computer Science or a closely-related area. They are for three to four years. To apply, please e-mail an updated CV, with the names and contact details of at least three references, to Shuly Wintner (shuly@cs.haifa.ac.il). Further documentation (e.g., transcripts of previous studies) may be needed at a later stage. While there is no firm deadline, we expect to fill these positions as soon as possible. For any inquiries on these positions please contact Shuly Wintner by e-mail. --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2011 16:04:48 +0000 From: Daniel Pitti Subject: Fellowship opportunity Begin forwarded message: > From: David Miller > > Date: November 28, 2011 8:39:24 AM EST Call for Applications, Neukom Fellows at Dartmouth College The Neukom Institute for Computational Science is pleased to announce the inaugural Neukom Fellows competition. Neukom Fellows are designed as explicitly interdisciplinary positions for recent Ph.D.s whose research interests cuts across traditional disciplinary boundaries, but hassome computational component, whether it be a framing concept for intellectual exploration or an explicit component of the work that is pursued. The successful candidate should be interested in and, in the best case have a history of collaborative work across disciplines, but still show good evidence of independence and initiative. The Fellowships are two- to three-year appointments, with the third year extension considered upon request after areview early in the second year. Neukom Fellows will be mentored by faculty in two departments at Dartmouth College, take up residence in one department, and will teach one seminar course eachyear on a subject of their interest. There is a possibility of additional teaching if that is desirable on the part of the candidate. Beyond that there are no additional duties. Neukom Fellow stipends are $60,000 for 2012-2013.Some additional funds are available for equipment, travel, and research materials. Requirements: 1. Ph.D. in any discipline (or expected Ph.D. by September 2012). 2. Research interests that strongly intersect the theme of computation. 3. A proven ability to work independently and collaboratively 4. A demonstrated interest in multidisciplinary research. 5. Evidence of the ability to think outside traditional paradigms. Application Materials: Interested candidates must submit the following: 1. Curriculum vitae (including publications list).?2. Statement of research interests (max. 2 pages) including a short description of the research you would like to pursue and why.?3. Description of which departments (and even better, which Dartmouth faculty) you would be interested in working with and why the opportunity toengage with multiple departments would enhance your work. 4. Three referees who can write on your behalf to the aims of the Fellowship. 5. (Optional) A copy of one paper you have written in English, either published or unpublished. To apply: Completed applications received by December 1, 2011 will get first consideration. Materials received after that date stand the chance of not being considered. Applications from women and minorities are encouraged. Dartmouth College is an equal opportunity employer. For more information see http://www.dartmouth.edu/~neukom/programs/postdoc-fellows.html The Neukom Fellows Program and the Neukom Institute are made possible by a generous gift from Mr. William H. Neukom. ---- For archives and subscription options please see: http://litsciarts.org -- David Lee Miller Carolina Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature Director, Center for Digital Humanities University of South Carolina Columbia, SC 29208 (803) 777-4256 FAX 777-9064 dmill1951@gmail.com http://www.cas.sc.edu/engl/people/pages/miller.html _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Nov 30 06:59:50 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5562210CA2; Wed, 30 Nov 2011 06:59:49 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 44BAD210C88; Wed, 30 Nov 2011 06:59:43 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111130065943.44BAD210C88@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 06:59:43 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.518 hype and change X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 518. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 06:52:38 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: hype and change In reading the writings of the early period in the digital humanities I've come to treasure a number of thoughtful essays amidst all the hype. Michael Mahoney writes in "The histories of computing(s)", Histories of computing, ed. Thomas Haigh (Harvard, 2011), that "From the very beginning people in the field have been engaged in instant historical analysis aimed at declaring a new epoch, a radical disjuncture." He credits Edmund Callis Berkeley with the first announcement of the 'computer revolution' in a book with that title (1962), though the phrase is found as early as 1954 in a conference paper by Leon Megginson, who also compared it, like Berkeley, with the Industrial Revolution. By 1957, when Herbert Simon proclaimed his (in)famous predictions, the metaphor of revolution must already have been wrapping itself around computing. And by the early 1960s it's not hard to find others who simply announce the radical disjuncture and fall to predicting this and that. "Hype hides history", Mahoney remarks in his essay, but it does so by inflating and distorting, not making something up. Despite all the rhetoric a few were genuinely puzzled, for example, Robert Hayes, Professor of Library Science at UCLA, who in a panel discussion summarized in Edmund A. Bowles, ed., Computers in Humanistic Research (Prentice-Hall, 1967), asks "Does the computer have a significant role to play in humanistic research?" It's easy for us to regard the question as silly, burdened as we are with what's happened since then, but by asking it he gets to a nub of the matter we are unwise but likely these days to overlook. Questioning the mechanization of research he asks, "If we introduce into the humanistic tradition this seed of mechanism, what will happen to our view of man? .... I am frightened, in fact, if the humanities, the stronghold of belief in man, adopts a view that man and his work are governed by formulas, averages, norms, and rules" (p. 242). A slight but crucial translation from the language of the 1960s gets us to the point also made by the engineer-mathematician Richard Hamming in 1961. "You have probably heard and read about the computer revolution," he says, "the control revolution if you prefer, that is presently occurring. But you have heard and read mainly about the material aspects of the revolution; I propose to show you that the intellectual aspects of this revolution are at least as interesting and important." He likewise compares it to the Industrial Revolution, but then says, "The computer revolution is, however, perhaps better compared with the Copernican revolution, or the Darwinian revolution, both of which greatly changed man's idea of himself and the world in which he lives" ("Intellectual Implications of the Computer Revolution", American Mathematical Monthly 70.1, 1963, p. 4). Again, as with Hayes, the nub of the matter is the idea of the human and what is happening to it, and so the idea of the humanities and what is happening to it. Comments? Yours, WM -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor (fractional), University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Nov 30 07:00:43 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D95D210CEE; Wed, 30 Nov 2011 07:00:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 18319210CD9; Wed, 30 Nov 2011 07:00:34 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20111130070034.18319210CD9@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 07:00:34 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.519 events: modelling X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 519. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2011 16:38:07 +0100 From: "Diekmann, S." Subject: CFP: VALUES AND NORMS IN MODELING (VaNiM 2012) VALUES AND NORMS IN MODELING (VaNiM 2012) June 25-27, 2012. Eindhoven, The Netherlands [CALL FOR PAPERS] We invite submissions for the upcoming conference Values and Norms in Modeling (VaNiM 2012) which will be held at Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands, June 25-27, 2012 -- vanim2012.ieis.tue.nl. It is widely acknowledged that a large variety of values and norms (including epistemic, moral, and political values and norms) play an important role in modeling. Although the literature about the role of values in science is huge, the specific theme of values and norms exclusively focusing on modeling has not yet received the attention it should. Models are often conceived of as being approximate representations of phenomena or systems. Moreover, they are often seen as having epistemic or even non-epistemic purposes, which makes them subject to a plethora of normative influences. We are interested in questions such as: How do epistemic and non-epistemic values affect the production and assessment of models? What is the moral significance of these values and norms? To what extent, if any, does the allowance of value assessments threaten the objectivity of models? Would it be desirable and possible to eliminate epistemic or non-epistemic values and norms from models? We invite papers addressing these and related issues from a foundational as well as an applied perspective. We especially welcome contributions on non-epistemic values in engineering modeling, climate modeling and modeling in operations research. Keynote speakers: - Bas van Fraassen & Isabelle Peschard - Ilkka Niiniluoto - Stephan Hartmann - Eric Winsberg - Susan Sterrett - Athur Petersen - Wendy Parker - Marc Le Menestrel Abstracts of no more than 500 words can be sent to vanim2012@easychair.org until January 10, 2012. All proposals have to be submitted under one of the four conference themes: 1. VALUES IN MODELING: FOUNDATIONAL ISSUES 2. VALUES IN ENGINEERING MODELING 3. VALUES IN CLIMATE MODELING 4. VALUES IN OPERATIONS RESEARCH MODELING Talks will be allotted 30 minutes and will be followed by a 15 minutes discussion period. For further information visit: vanim2012.ieis.tue.nl Sven Diekmann, s.diekmann@tue.nl Department of Philosophy and Ethics Ecis - Eindhoven Centre for Innovation Studies Eindhoven, University of technology The Netherlands _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Dec 1 06:15:08 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19D0520EC4A; Thu, 1 Dec 2011 06:15:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D143320EC2D; Thu, 1 Dec 2011 06:14:57 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111201061457.D143320EC2D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2011 06:14:57 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.520 new publication: Debates in the Digital Humanities X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 520. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2011 06:08:32 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Debates in the Digital Humanities This is to announce publication of the forthcoming collection, edited by Matthew K. Gold, Debates in the Digital Humanities, from Michigan University Press, to be available January 2012 at the Modern Language Association convention, from Amazon &al. > Debates in the Digital Humanities brings together leading figures in > the field to explore its theories, methods, and practices and to > clarify its multiple possibilities and tensions. Together, the > essays—which will be published later as an ongoing, open-access > website—suggest that the digital humanities is uniquely positioned to > contribute to the revival of the humanities and academic life. For more information, including a table of contents and list of contributors, see either the University of Minnesota Press website (http://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/debates-in-the-digital-humanities) or the DHDebates website (http://dhdebates.org/). -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor (fractional), University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Dec 1 06:20:10 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2AD6120ED52; Thu, 1 Dec 2011 06:20:10 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 82B0920ED35; Thu, 1 Dec 2011 06:19:57 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111201061958.82B0920ED35@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2011 06:19:57 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.521 events: editing und Editorik X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 521. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Georg Vogeler (29) Subject: Spring School "Digital Edition", Vienna 6.-10.2.2012 [2] From: Shawn Day (90) Subject: CFP: Interedition 9th Bootcamp: 11 - 14 January 2012 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 12:20:10 +0100 From: Georg Vogeler Subject: Spring School "Digital Edition", Vienna 6.-10.2.2012 The Digital Humanist is not the place to advertise digital scholarly editing, but certainly the place to inform all of you of a school trying to attract less technical advanced people and teach them the methods of scholarly editing. So please spread the word: The Institute for Documentology and Scholarly Editing (IDE) in cooperation with the International Center for Archival Sciences (ICARus) and the Institute for Austrian Historical Research (IfÖG) has set up another Spring School on "Digital Edition" http://www.i-d-e.de/events-des-ide/spring-school-2012 . It will take place in Vienna 6.-10.2012 and will introduce into XML, the TEI, other connected techniques and standards and the theory of digital editing. The school is adressed to young and more experienced scholars working on a critical scholarly edition who are interested in getting an idea of the concepts of digital editing and learning the basic skills to create one by themselves. The school will be held in German. If you are interested in participating please send a short presentation of your project to Best Georg -- Dr. Georg Vogeler Zentrum für Informationsmodellierung in den Geisteswissenchaften - Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz http://www.uni-graz.at/zim/ Merangasse 70 - A - 8010 Graz Tel. +43 316 380 8033 Institut für Dokumentologie und Editorik http://www.i-d-e.de Association Paléographique Internationale - Culture . Ecriture . Société (APICES) http://www.palaeographia.org/apices/apices.htm --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 14:10:55 +0000 From: Shawn Day Subject: CFP: Interedition 9th Bootcamp: 11 - 14 January 2012 In-Reply-To: **CALL FOR PARTICIPATION** Interedition 9th Bootcamp: 11 - 14 January 2012 ------------------------------------------------ Interedition invites all interested to participate in the upcoming Development Bootcamp, which will take place from 11 to 14 January at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. The bootcamps are intended for the development of prototypes for interoperable 'microservice' tools for text scholarship and digital editions. The work of previous bootcamps have focused on collation, transcription, and annotation of texts; the goal of this bootcamp is to encourage the development of prototypes for text analysis. One of the most exciting directions of digital text edition lies in the question of the innovative lines of research that might be taken when all the textual data is digitized, annotated, collated, and checked. Examples include: * Discourse analysis * Linked data * Stemmatology * Stylistics * ... Each of these has been incorporated into one or more existing critical edition, but there are at present very few tools available that might be shared between edition projects. There is an acute need for better interoperability of the tools we have, and for the development of new tools that are designed from the ground up with the principles of interoperability in mind. During this bootcamp Interedition seeks to bring together scholars and developers working on any sort of text analysis for digital edition, to discuss their lines of approach, the tools they are using, and possible points of interoperability and interchange of data. The primary objective, as with all bootcamps, is the development of prototypes that put the results of our discussions to work. Another important objective is to give developers and early stage researchers an opportunity to meet and share their own projects and experiences with tool interoperability in textual scholarship. BURSARIES COST Action IS0704 'Interedition' is offering bursaries to early stage researchers (< Ph.D. + 10 years) and developers that want to join the bootcamp. The bursaries will consist of an €100 per diem allowance and will cover full travel expenses, subject to caps. A limited number of bursaries are available to participants from outside the member countries of Interedition. [1] HOW TO APPLY If you are interested in participating in the bootcamp, please send an email to joris.van.zundert-AT-huygensinstituut.knaw.nl by **14 December 2011**. You don't need an intricate motivation, but please state your affiliation, and add a very short (certainly not more than 200 words) description of your current or related development work in digital humanities. Attendance throughout the bootcamp is expected, but in certain circumstances a shorter attendance may be negotiated. PROGRAM Wednesday 11 January - Introduction of participants and projects - Introduction to existing tools for text analysis - Division of Tasks/Labor Thursday 12 January - Hacking - Documentation of the day's work Friday 13 January - Hacking - Documentation of the day's work Saturday 14 January - Unconference on participants' projects - Documentation - Discussion of future possibilities for further cooperation ABOUT INTEREDITION Interedition (http://www.interedition.eu http://www.interedition.eu/ ) is a COST (http://www.cost.eu http://www.cost.eu/ ) funded Action whose objective is to further the interoperability of tools in digital scholarship. Interedition is raising the awareness of the importance of interoperability as a major driver for sustainability for tools and data in the field of digital scholarship. This activity takes two forms: firstly, meetings in which researchers in digital scholarship can network their knowledge of tools and the possibilities for their interoperability; secondly, the development of proof-of-concept implementations of interoperable tools. These proof-of-concept tools are the focus of Interedition's periodic bootcamps, which offer the open source development community in the humanities opportunities to meet, network, and exchange knowledge. ABOUT THE ORGANIZERS The bootcamp and think tank are organized through the kind efforts of: - Caroline Macé (KU Leuven) - Tara Andrews (KU Leuven) [1] Member countries include Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, Finland, F.Y.R. Macedonia, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Spain, and the United Kingdom. -- Drs. Joris J. van Zundert Researcher & Developer Digital and Computational Humanities Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences www.huygens.knaw.nl/en/vanzundert/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Dec 1 13:13:43 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B5332135C9; Thu, 1 Dec 2011 13:13:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B518A2135B7; Thu, 1 Dec 2011 13:13:35 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111201131335.B518A2135B7@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2011 13:13:35 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.522 Debates in the Digital Humanities: erratum et corrigendum X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 522. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2011 13:11:27 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Minnesota and Michigan My profuse apologies to all the Humanists in Minnesota and Michigan for confusedly first attributing the new book Debates in the Digital Humanities first to the latter university press, then, finally getting it right, to the former. No doubt the citizens of both states will have the sort of jokes traded back and forth that Australians and New Zealanders tell about each other. I dimly recall one about the effect on the average intelligence of both being raised by people who emigate from one to the other. Anyhow, I am sorry to make such an error. But I must say that the University of Michigan Press should be lamenting the fact that they didn't get the book :-). Yours, WM -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor (fractional), University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Dec 2 07:44:49 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35EE5214465; Fri, 2 Dec 2011 07:44:49 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B7229214455; Fri, 2 Dec 2011 07:44:46 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111202074446.B7229214455@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2011 07:44:46 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.523 events: London Seminar; Linguistic Annotation X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 523. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Nancy Ide (106) Subject: First CFP: Sixth Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW VI) [2] From: Willard McCarty (17) Subject: London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship online [3] From: Willard McCarty (40) Subject: London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship for December --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2011 11:45:12 -0500 From: Nancy Ide Subject: First CFP: Sixth Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW VI) The 6th Linguistic Annotation Workshop (The LAW VI) Sponsored by the ACL Special Interest Group on Annotation (SIGANN) [http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.corpora/14500 -- WM] July 12-13, 2012 ICC Jeju Jeju, Republic of Korea Linguistic annotation of natural language corpora is the backbone of supervised methods of statistical natural language processing. The Sixth LAW will provide a forum for presentation and discussion of innovative research on all aspects of linguistic annotation, including creation/evaluation of annotation schemes, methods for automatic and manual annotation, use and evaluation of annotation software and frameworks, representation of linguistic data and annotations, etc. As in the past, the LAW will provide a forum for annotation researchers to both work towards standardization, best practices, and interoperability of annotation information and software. The special theme for LAW VI is Collaborative Annotation (both community-based and crowd-sourced). The workshop will include a special session on this topic. We invite submissions relating to this theme as well as any aspect of linguistic annotation, including: Collaborative annotation -- Issues, strategies, and results for community-based annotation of common (shared) resources -- Issues, strategies, and results for crowd-sourcing linguistic annotations Annotation procedures: -- Innovative automated and manual strategies for annotation -- Machine learning and knowledge-based methods for automation of corpus annotation -- Creation, maintenance, and interactive exploration of annotation structures and annotated data Annotation evaluation: -- Inter-annotator agreement and other evaluation metrics and strategies -- Qualitative evaluation of linguistic representation Annotation access and use: -- Representation formats/structures for merged annotations of different phenomena, and means to explore/manipulate them -- Linguistic considerations for merging annotations of distinct phenomena Annotation guidelines and standards: -- Best practices for annotation procedures and/or development and documentation of annotation schemes -- Interoperability of annotation formats and/or frameworks among different systems as well as different tasks, frameworks, modalities, and languages Annotation software and frameworks: -- Development, evaluation and/or innovative use of annotation software frameworks Annotation schemes: -- New and innovative annotation schemes -- Comparison of annotation schemes Submission information Submissions of long and short papers (8 and 4 pages respectively, excluding references) and demonstrations (4 pages) should be submitted electronically through the system at https://www.softconf.com/acl2012/law-6/. Submissions should conform to the official ACL 2012 style guidelines and be submitted in PDF. Reviewing will be blind, so submissions must not include the authors' names and affiliations. Please see the guidelines for submissions to the general ACL conference at http://www.acl2012.org/call/sub01.asp for more information. Important dates Submission deadline: 18 March 2012 Acceptance Notification: 15 April, 2012 Camera ready deadline: 30 April 2012 [...] --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2011 23:45:28 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship online I am very pleased to announce the first London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship to be podcast, Jan Rybiski's discussion of "The Translator's Other Invisibility: Stylometry in Translation", 17 November 2011, now online at www.sas.ac.uk/videos-and-podcasts/culture-language-literature/london-seminar-digital-text-and-scholarship/. Our plans are to have all seminars in the series recorded and put online henceforth. My thanks to the Institute of English Studies and to the School of Advanced Study, University of London, for supplying the equipment, editing the video and putting the result where everyone with access to the Internet can view it. Yours, WM -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor (fractional), University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2011 23:47:20 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship for December London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship 15 December 2011 Room 265, Senate House, second floor 17.30-19.30 Julianne Nyhan and Anne Welsh: 'Hidden Histories: Computing and the Humanities c.1949–1980' The application of computing to the Humanities is not new and can be traced back to at least 1949, when Fr Roberto Busa began researching the creation of an index variorum of some 11 million words of medieval Latin in the works of St Thomas Aquinas and related authors. Notes and contributions towards a history of the computer in the humanities have appeared in recent years; however, our understanding of such developments remains incomplete and largely unwritten. The Hidden Histories project (funded by the University of Trier's Historisch-Kulturwissenschaftliche Forschungszentrum (HKFZ) and the Centre for Digital Humanities, UCL ) aims to gather and make available sources to enable the social, intellectual and cultural conditions that shaped the early take up of computing in the Humanities to be investigated. The project draws on an interdisciplinary method bundle from Oral History, Digital Humanities and Historical-Cultural Studies. With the aim of capturing memories, observations and insights that are rarely recorded in the scholarly literature of the field it carries out interviews with 'pioneer' or 'early adopter' scholars and practitioners from c. 1949 until 1980 (that is, from main frame computing to the coming of the personal computer). The presentation will give an overview of progress to date, with particular emphasis on the methodological pillars of our project. Anne Welsh is Lecturer in Library and Information Studies at University College London and a member of the UCL Centre for Digital Humanities. Her research and teaching is centred on documentation, metadata and especially Historical Bibliography. Julianne Nyhan is a Teaching Fellow in electronic communication and publishing in the department of Information Studies, UCL and a Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin in the Centre for Digital Humanities, Universitaet Trier. -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor (fractional), University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Dec 3 09:06:36 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0929218662; Sat, 3 Dec 2011 09:06:36 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 04D382184D1; Sat, 3 Dec 2011 09:06:35 +0000 (GMT) Subject: 25.524 job at Montréal From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111203090635.04D382184D1@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 3 Dec 2011 09:06:35 +0000 (GMT) X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 524. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2011 17:57:14 -0500 From: "Michael E. Sinatra" Subject: job at Montréal Dear all, There is still time to apply to the following Canada Research Chair at the Université de Montréal. Best wishes, Michael ----- Professor of Literature and Digital Culture The Department of French Studies invites applications for a full-time tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor of Literature and Digital Culture. The successful candidate will be nominated for a tier 2 Canada Research Chair (PhD or equivalent degree obtained within the past ten years). Responsibilities The successful candidate will be expected to teach at all three levels of the curriculum, supervise graduate students, engage in ongoing research and publication, and contribute to the academic life and reputation of the institution. Requirements PhD in Literature or other relevant field. Teaching experience. Excellent publication and research record that includes an inquiry into the future of literary studies and editorial practices in the digital era. Practical experience with digital tools. Excellent command of French. The Université de Montréal is a Québec university with an international reputation. French is the language of instruction. To renew its teaching faculty, the University is intensively recruiting the world’s best specialists. In accordance with the institution’s language policy [http://www.direction.umontreal.ca/secgen/recueil/politique_linguistique.html], the Université de Montréal provides support for newly-recruited faculty to attain proficiency in French. Salary The Université de Montréal offers a competitive salary and a complete range of benefits. Starting Date From June 1, 2012. Deadline The complete application, including a cover letter, curriculum vitæ, a description of the candidate’s research program and a copy of recent publications or research reports, must be received at the address below by December 15, 2011. Applications submitted by email will not be accepted. Curriculum vitae Please ensure that the curriculum vitae includes the following: 1. University education and professional training, starting with the most recent. 2. University, research, professional or industrial experience, starting with the most recent position. 3. Research funding: list funding sources (grants, contracts, scholarships, etc.) received over the past five years. Indicate if funding is requested, current or held. Also state the funding period and your status (head or co- researcher). 4. Contributions to research: 4.1 Important contributions: Enumerate the five most important contributions you have made to research over your career. Explain their importance (approx. 1 page). 4.2 List of contributions (works, collective works, articles in refereed journals, etc.). 4.3 Leadership (maximum 1 page) Illustrate your leadership potential in your research field or discipline. 4.4 Guidance (maximum 2 pages): Specify your guidance activities with respect to graduate- level studies and postdoctoral researchers. Specify the number of students supervised over your career and the number of students currently being supervised. 4.5 Other contributions: describe any other activities that demonstrate the impact of your work, such as receiving awards or distinctions, consultations, contributions to public, scientific and professional organizations, membership on committees, executive boards, etc. Research program (maximum 6 pages, including references): Please describe your research program, which would be provided as part of your nomination to the Canada Research Chair Program. Please refer to the research program’s key objectives and explain how your contribution will have an impact on the research field. Please describe the guidance and supervision activities that would result from your research program. Candidates must also arrange to have three letters of recommendation sent directly to the Department Chair at the following address: Francis Gingras, Interim Chair Department of French-Language Literatures Université de Montréal P. O. Box 6128, Station Centre-Ville Montreal, Quebec H3C 3J7 For more information about the Department of French Studies, please consult the Web site at: www.littfra.umontreal.ca. ----------------------------------- Dr. Michael E. Sinatra, Associate Professor http://michaelsinatra.org/ Département d'études anglaises Université de Montréal ----------------------------------- President 'Synergies' http://www.synergiescanada.org President (French) 'Society for Digital Humanities' http://www.sdh-semi.org _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Dec 3 09:07:15 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E2422186C7; Sat, 3 Dec 2011 09:07:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 967CF2186B7; Sat, 3 Dec 2011 09:07:13 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111203090713.967CF2186B7@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 3 Dec 2011 09:07:13 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.525 publication: research infrastructures X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 525. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2011 13:48:23 +0000 From: European Science Foundation Subject: Research Infrastructures in the Digital Humanities Science Policy Briefing (SPB) on “Research Infrastructures in the Digital Humanities" http://go.madmimi.com/redirects/40e1ed79e744b9409fede6ba48a3a7f8?pa=6538623477 The Standing Committee for the Humanities of the European Science Foundation has the pleasure to announce the recent publication of a Science Policy Briefing (SPB) on “Research Infrastructures in the Digital Humanities”. The briefing argues that without Research Infrastructures (RIs) such as archives, libraries, academies, museums and galleries, significant strands of Humanities research would not be possible. By drawing on a number of case studies, it also demonstrates that digital RIs offer Humanities scholars new and productive ways to explore old questions and develop new ones. The report focuses on developing a common strategy on RIs in the Humanities at a European level and identifies seven key areas of priorities and future research directions aimed at researchers and information professionals, as well as the institutions which make decisions of importance to them, such as funding bodies, those responsible for management and administration of research organisations and RIs, selection and promotion committees. The PDF of the publication can be accessed 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 Dec 3 09:10:45 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66FD2218801; Sat, 3 Dec 2011 09:10:45 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 8ED2F2187B0; Sat, 3 Dec 2011 09:10:43 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111203091043.8ED2F2187B0@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 3 Dec 2011 09:10:43 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.526 events: narrating space; establishing text; landscapes & archaeology X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 526. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Roberto Rosselli Del Turco (74) Subject: The Fourth Meeting on Digital Philology: Verona, 13-15 September 2012 [2] From: Seth Denbo (28) Subject: IHR Seminar in Digital History - 6 December [3] From: Ray Siemens (28) Subject: NEH Institute: Spatial Narrative and Deep Maps --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2011 09:49:41 +0100 From: Roberto Rosselli Del Turco Subject: The Fourth Meeting on Digital Philology: Verona, 13-15 September 2012 The Fourth Meeting on Digital Philology: Verona, 13-15 September 2012 Constitutio textus: Establishing the critical text The topic of the Fourth Meeting on Digital Philology is the establishment of the critical text, traditionally referred to as the constitutio textus. For texts from the Antiquity and the Middle Ages, this usually includes a recension of the witnesses, typically concluding with a stemma. However, the recension does not specify how an edition should be designed, whether it is a printed or a digital edition. More specifically, an editor has to decide to which degree he or she wants to use the result of the stemmatic recension as the basis for the constitutio textus, i.e. the selection and weighing of sources for the edited text. Traditionally, classical scholars have been more reconstructive in their approach than medieval scholars. The meeting will be divided into two consecutive sessions, each containing 6–8 papers. For the first session, the planning committee has invited a selection of international scholars to present their view of the Stand der Forschung in the field (in alphabetical order): Thomas Bein (Aachen), Marjorie Burghart (Lyon), Tuomas Heikkilä (Helsinki), Caroline Macé (Leuven), Francesco Stella (Siena), and Paolo Trovato (Ferrara). Call for papers For the second session, comprising 6-8 papers, the committee is now making a call for theoretically and methodologically informed papers on: - Stemmatology in theory and practice - The Lachmannian approach (old and new) - From qualitative to quantitative methods - Quantitative methods applied to stemmatology - ‘Old’ vs. ‘New’ (or ‘Material’) Philology - The study of variants - Digital editing of texts from the manuscript age Proposals should be submitted in the form of an abstract (max 800 words) by the 15th February 2012. The planning committee and appointed referees will review abstracts and select papers. The authors of the selected papers will be notified of their status by the end of May 2012. The official languages of the meeting are Italian and English. Consequently, abstracts can be submitted in one of these two languages. If your proposal is accepted and you plan to give your talk in Italian, you are kindly requested to use English either in your handout or in your Powerpoint slides. This would help participation in the final discussion. Please note that talks should last no more than 35 minutes. 10 more minutes will be available for questions. Make sure that people do have time for questions at the end of your presentation (do not exceed 35 minutes). Submissions of abstracts and other enquiries Please submit the abstract of your paper as a Word or PDF file to Dr. Raffaele Cioffi . He will also help with general enquiries about the meeting. The conference web site is available at the URL http://www.filologiadigitale.it/. Venue Sala Convegni del Banco Popolare, Via San Cosimo 10, Verona. There is no charge for attending the meeting. The meeting will extend from lunch on Thursday 13 to lunch on Saturday 15 September. Accommodation Please see the list of hotels in central Verona, in Word or in PDF. Unfortunately, we cannot by now guarantee the speakers in the call for papers section any reimbursement for their travel and accommodation expenses. Partial or full refund will depend upon availability of funds. Planning committee Maria Adele Cipolla University of Verona Marina Buzzoni Ca’ Foscari University of Venice Roberto Rosselli Del Turco University of Torino Odd Einar Haugen University of Bergen -- Roberto Rosselli Del Turco roberto.rossellidelturco at unito.it Dipartimento di Scienze rosselli at ling.unipi.it del Linguaggio Then spoke the thunder DA Universita' di Torino Datta: what have we given? (TSE) Hige sceal the heardra, heorte the cenre, mod sceal the mare, the ure maegen litlath. (Maldon 312-3) --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2011 09:40:22 -0500 From: Seth Denbo Subject: IHR Seminar in Digital History - 6 December *Institute of Historical Research Seminar in Digital History* 'Digital landscapes and Archaeology' Peter Rauxloh (Museum of London Archaeology) Venue: ST276 (Stewart House, second floor) and streamed live on the web at historyspot.org.uk Time: Tuesday, 6 December, 5.15 pm GMT The central theme of the seminar series, is how digital technologies have enabled researchers into the past to gain new insights, new views and new perspectives on their subject which would otherwise be missed. This presentation will discuss such technologies in the context of two major projects carried out by MOLA, and will consider how digital technologies have effected the capture, manipulation and presentation of various types of data concentrating on the spatial. Peter Rauxloh is internationally known as a leading exponent of the use of databases in archaeology. As Database and Geographic Information Systems Development Manager for MOLA, Peter is responsible for providing strategic direction on the exploitation of both these systems to ensure disciplined data capture, validation, analysis and presentation so as to enable holistic archaeological interpretation. He is also the author of the Locating London's Past http://locatinglondonspast.wordpress.com/ blog. ------ The IHR Seminar in digital history is actively engaged in presenting and discussing new methodologies which have been made possible through the development of computational methods for the study of history. Further information can be found on the IHR Seminar page at http://www.history.ac.uk/events/seminars/321. Follow us on twitter @IHRDigHist or join the mailing list for seminar announcements: http://groups.google.com/group/ihr-digital-history-seminar-announce --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2011 16:43:14 +0000 From: Ray Siemens Subject: NEH Institute: Spatial Narrative and Deep Maps In-Reply-To: Summer 2012 NEH Institute for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities Spatial Narrative and Deep Maps: Explorations in the SpatialHumanities June 18-29, 2012 Call for Proposals: Applications due Friday, February 3, 2012 The Virtual Center for Spatial Humanities (VCSH), a multidisciplinary collaboration among Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis (IUPUI), Florida State University, and West Virginia University, is pleased to announce an NEH Advanced Institute for summer 2012 designed to advance exploration of key topics in the spatial humanities. The institute will offer scholars the opportunity to discover the benefits of a spatial-analytical approach to humanities scholarship and to explore how to bend geo-spatial technologies, including GIS and Web 2.0 tools, to the needs of the humanities. Two areas of emphasis will be spatial narratives and deep maps. Fellows participating in the program will learn both by engaging with a variety of existing projects as well as through the production of a prototype project in collaboration with the VCSH team. Fellows also will have an opportunity to present their own work and to contribute to scholarly and Web products that result from the institute. The institute will meet in Indianapolis from June 18 to 29, 2012 and will be administered by IUPUI’s Polis Center. It will draw upon a multidisciplinary faculty from the three collaborating institutions, as well as leading scholars in the field of spatial humanities from the US and UK, and will be supported technically by the advanced technology group of the Polis Center. The institute schedule will allow time for fellows to interact with the staff and to seek advice for their own projects or project ideas, but the primary focus will be on how to use geo-spatial technologies to enhance the narrative and analytical traditions of the humanities. The fellows will work with project staff to develop a prototype deep map to support multi-scalar and contingent analysis of problems of interests to humanists. To focus this work, the institute will explore the spatial contexts of American religion, using the Digital Atlas of American Religion, an NEH-supported project of VCSH, and the multi-faceted evidence from the Polis Center’s six-year study of the intersection of religion and urban culture in a mid-sized American city. About the fellowships: Up to 12 fellowships will be awarded to individuals or teams who demonstrate serious interest in the application of geo-spatialtechnologies to problems in the humanities. While scholars in all humanities disciplines are eligible to apply, we are especially interested in collaborating with those who have experience in one or more geo-spatial technologies as well as scholars who have thought about the spatial dimensions of American religion. During the institute, fellows will explore central issues in the spatial humanities, including such topics as database structures and information architectures, interactive design, and collaborative research, while situating these concerns within the fields of American history and religious studies. Guest lecturers during the summer include Ian Gregory (historical GIS and digital humanities, Lancaster University), Anne Knowles (historical geography, Middlebury College), Katy Börner (informatics and advanced visualization, Indiana University), and Art Farnsley (sociology of religion, IUPUI), among others. Institute leaders are David Bodenhamer (history, IUPUI), John Corrigan (religious studies, Florida State), and Trevor Harris (geography, West Virginia University). All fellows will participate in a two-week residency June 18-29 at IUPUI. The residency willinclude colloquia and working sessions in which participants collectively will develop project foundations and address relevant issues in spatial humanities. Fellows also will be provided the opportunity to present their own projects. Applicants need not be proficient with geo-spatial technologies but must demonstrate some level of engagement with them as well as with spatial questions and analyses. Evidence of the capacity for successful collaboration and for scholarly innovation is required. Fellowship awards will include a stipend of $3,000 for each participant, aswell as a travel allowance. Accommodation and meal costs will be the responsibility of each fellow, but the institute will seek to arrange low-cost housing for participants. We welcome scholars from all career levels, from advanced graduate student to full professor. About the proposals: Proposals should include the following: · Two to three-page statement of how participation in the institute will fit the scholarly and professional goals of the applicant. · One-page description of the applicant’s experience with geo-spatial technologies and spatial analysis. · Brief CV (maximum of three pages). · Letter of support from department chair for non-tenured faculty or from dissertation advisor for doctoral candidates. Projects that articulate a clear understanding of the potential of spatial humanities and the problems associated with the use of geo-spatial technologies in humanities scholarship will be regarded favorably. Electronic applications are required. Submit to ddearth@iupui.edu. Deadline for applications: Friday, February 3, 2012. Fellowship recipients will be notified in mid April, 2012. Questions may be directed to ddearth@iupui.edu. -- Neil Fraistat Professor of English & Director Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) University of Maryland 301-405-5896 or 301-314-7111 (fax) http://www.mith.umd.edu/ http://twitter.com/fraistat _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Dec 4 08:47:55 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31C6F21B5AF; Sun, 4 Dec 2011 08:47:55 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 8B73121B59E; Sun, 4 Dec 2011 08:47:53 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111204084753.8B73121B59E@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2011 08:47:53 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.527 progress? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 527. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2011 08:45:06 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: progress In his review in CHum 2 (1967) of the very interesting book, Computers in Humanistic Research, ed. Edmund A. Bowles (1967), Thomas E. Cooney, Jr., asks the reader to make the following supposition, > that the major disciplines of the humanities were arranged in a > hierarchy in which the precedence of each depended on the concreteness > of its data and the rigor of its thought. At the top of such a list > would be archaeology, which reasons mostly from objects: the refuse, > wreckage and funerary testaments of human life. At the bottom--and > this is not meant invidiously--would be philosophy, which reasons > perhaps more vigorously than archaeology, but mostly from the abstract > summaries of human experience thrown up by the other humanities and > the natural sciences. High on the list would be anthropology, which, > though it is concerned with objects, reasons much more from its own > taxonomies of human behavior. Somewhere in the middle would come > political science and history, both of which mix intuitive theorizing > with consideration of masses of essentially documentary data. And near > the bottom would be literary scholarship, which, though grounded on > texts, must grapple intuitively with the calculated ambiguities of > their content. Cooney then goes on to say that the explanation for this hierarchy is "the one that IBM itself gave when it sponsored and funded the six regional conferences in 1964 and 1965 that generated" the book under review. My first question for you is, what has changed in the last 44 years? If we were to lay out the disciplines now in Cooney's (and IBM's) terms, would any resorting be required? But my second question is, if not (as I think to be the case), then what's wrong with the picture? My eye fastens immediately on the phrase, "a hierarchy in which the precedence of each depended on the concreteness of its data and the rigor of its thought". Hmmmm: concreteness and rigour. Metaphorically these sound like attributes one would like a building to have (except in a zone where earthquakes are common), not ones suitable, say, for those who live in buildings. But what sort of metaphors would do better for the disciplines at the bottom of Cooney's list? Comments? Yours, WM -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor (fractional), University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Dec 5 06:41:51 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3482E21ABD0; Mon, 5 Dec 2011 06:41:51 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id DF25421ABC6; Mon, 5 Dec 2011 06:41:49 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20111205064149.DF25421ABC6@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2011 06:41:49 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.528 events: linguistic annotation (corrected URL) X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 528. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2011 13:13:12 -0500 From: Nancy Ide Subject: Re: First CFP: Sixth Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW VI) In-Reply-To: Please note that the url for LAWVI was incorrect in the original call; = it is http://faculty.washington.edu/fxia/LAWVI Contact email address: lawvi@uw.edu [Humanist 25.523.1 is copied here for your convenience --WM] The 6th Linguistic Annotation Workshop (The LAW VI) Sponsored by the ACL Special Interest Group on Annotation (SIGANN) July 12-13, 2012 ICC Jeju Jeju, Republic of Korea Linguistic annotation of natural language corpora is the backbone of supervised methods of statistical natural language processing. The Sixth LAW will provide a forum for presentation and discussion of innovative research on all aspects of linguistic annotation, including creation/evaluation of annotation schemes, methods for automatic and manual annotation, use and evaluation of annotation software and frameworks, representation of linguistic data and annotations, etc. As in the past, the LAW will provide a forum for annotation researchers to both work towards standardization, best practices, and interoperability of annotation information and software. The special theme for LAW VI is Collaborative Annotation (both community-based and crowd-sourced). The workshop will include a special session on this topic. We invite submissions relating to this theme as well as any aspect of linguistic annotation, including: Collaborative annotation -- Issues, strategies, and results for community-based annotation of common (shared) resources -- Issues, strategies, and results for crowd-sourcing linguistic annotations Annotation procedures: -- Innovative automated and manual strategies for annotation -- Machine learning and knowledge-based methods for automation of corpus annotation -- Creation, maintenance, and interactive exploration of annotation structures and annotated data Annotation evaluation: -- Inter-annotator agreement and other evaluation metrics and strategies -- Qualitative evaluation of linguistic representation Annotation access and use: -- Representation formats/structures for merged annotations of different phenomena, and means to explore/manipulate them -- Linguistic considerations for merging annotations of distinct phenomena Annotation guidelines and standards: -- Best practices for annotation procedures and/or development and documentation of annotation schemes -- Interoperability of annotation formats and/or frameworks among different systems as well as different tasks, frameworks, modalities, and languages Annotation software and frameworks: -- Development, evaluation and/or innovative use of annotation software frameworks Annotation schemes: -- New and innovative annotation schemes -- Comparison of annotation schemes Submission information Submissions of long and short papers (8 and 4 pages respectively, excluding references) and demonstrations (4 pages) should be submitted electronically through the system at https://www.softconf.com/acl2012/law-6/. Submissions should conform to the official ACL 2012 style guidelines and be submitted in PDF. Reviewing will be blind, so submissions must not include the authors' names and affiliations. Please see the guidelines for submissions to the general ACL conference at http://www.acl2012.org/call/sub01.asp for more information. Important dates Submission deadline: 18 March 2012 Acceptance Notification: 15 April, 2012 Camera ready deadline: 30 April 2012 [...] _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Dec 6 06:57:13 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id D73A7221BF5; Tue, 6 Dec 2011 06:57:13 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id EBEDE221BEC; Tue, 6 Dec 2011 06:57:11 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111206065711.EBEDE221BEC@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2011 06:57:11 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.529 open fields X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 529. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2011 06:55:52 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: tilling not fencing With mind on something else, I picked up this morning Gillian Beer's inspirational collection of essays, Open Fields: Science in Cultural Encounter (Oxford, 1996), to discover the following quotation from Carlyle, which I pass on with painful feelings of recognition: > He [the philosopher Dugald Stewart] does not enter on the field to > till it; he only encompasses it with fences, invites cultivators, and > drives away intruders: often (fallen on evil days) he is reduced to > long arguments with the passers-by, to prove that it *is* a field, > that this so highly prized domain of his is, in truth, soil and > substance, not clouds and shadows. (Beer, p. 2) Comments? Yours, WM -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor (fractional), University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Dec 6 06:58:40 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8098B221CE8; Tue, 6 Dec 2011 06:58:40 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 2AB3B221CB7; Tue, 6 Dec 2011 06:58:39 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111206065839.2AB3B221CB7@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2011 06:58:39 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.530 events: CS and information systems X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 530. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2011 18:29:58 +0000 From: Fedcsis secretariat Subject: CALL FOR EVENTS - 2012 FEDERATED CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER SCIENCE ANDINFORMATION SYSTEMS CALL FOR EVENTS 2012 FEDERATED CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER SCIENCE AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS 9 - 12 SEPTEMBER 2012, WROCLAW, POLAND www.fedcsis.org The 2012 Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems cordially invites you to consider contributing an event (conference, symposium, workshop, consortium meeting, special session). The FedCSIS multi-conference consists of a significant number of recurring Events, but proposals for new associated events are welcome until January 11, 2012. The Events can run over any span of time within the conference dates; from half-day to three days. Wroclaw (pronounced Vrots-Love) http://www.wroclaw-life.com/ is proud to be the host city of FedCSIS 2012. You are welcome to the city that has gained the titles of „the Meeting Place of Poland” and „the Venice of Poland.” With over a thousand years of history, Wroclaw is the city where as many as 10 Nobel Prize winners lived, and which provides education to as many as 120,000 students enrolled in the city's universities. Wroclaw is the co-host of Euro 2012 - European Football Championships and it was chosen as the 2016 European Capital of Culture, which illustrates diversity of its strengths. GOALS The FedCSIS Events provide a platform for bringing together researchers, practitioners, and academia to present and discuss ideas, challenges, and potential solutions on established or emerging topics related to research and practice in computer science and information systems. The Events will be selected based on the scientific/technical interest and/or their relevance to practitioners in their topics, the clarity of the proposal in addressing the requested information, the innovativeness of the Event topics, and the capacity in the FedCSIS multi-conference program. PUBLICATIONS As in previous years, papers accepted and presented at any Event will be published in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library proceedings (pending), and on USB memory stick given to FedCSIS participants. The IEEE proceedings will be published under an ISBN number and under nonexclusive copyright. Such copyright implies that Events' organizers can and, indeed, are strongly encouraged to invite extended and revised papers for post-conference publications in high-quality journals, edited volumes, etc. EVENT PROPOSALS Event proposals should include the following information (2 pages maximum): 1. The nature of the Event. 2. The title the Event, and a clear description of the topic, including a brief justification. 3. The complete contact information of the Event organizers, including a link to their personal websites, and an overview of previous experiences with organization of scientific events. 4. Indication of the expected number of papers/attendees to attend the Event. 5. Information of expected post-event publications, of extended and revised papers, in high-quality journals, edited volumes, etc. Event organizers should email their proposals (in a single pdf file) to the FedCSIS Secretariat secretariat@fedcsis.org Event proposal submission deadline: January 11, 2012 [...] FEDCSIS SECRETARIAT Email: secretariat@fedcsis.org Web: http://www.fedcsis.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 Dec 7 06:23:14 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA6DD21D17F; Wed, 7 Dec 2011 06:23:13 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 97EE021D176; Wed, 7 Dec 2011 06:23:11 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111207062311.97EE021D176@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2011 06:23:11 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.531 collaboration in Elizabethan drama? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 531. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2011 14:39:06 +0000 From: Tom Salyers Subject: Elizabethan drama and collaboration Could anyone point me in the direction of scholarly papers and/or books on the subject of collaboration in Elizabethan drama? I'm particularly interested in material that covers the size of text segments that collaborators may have habitually worked on--e.g., scenes, between the entrance and exit of a major character, more or less arbitrary chunks, etc. I'm doing my PhD thesis on computational stylistics and authorship attribution in Elizabethan drama, and while I know *how* I want to test, I'm having some trouble narrowing down where to set boundaries in my texts for my purposes. I had originally picked the scene level, but a.) that introduces some structural and statistical problems, and b.) it's been pointed out (and quite rightly) that I hadn't adequately justified my decision in the relevant chapter. Any and all pointers would help tremendously. Thanks in advance. NB: I hasten to point out that this doesn't concern the so-called "authorship question". My thesis focuses on attempting to determine what, if any, collaboration or reworking of earlier plays Shakespeare may or may not have done in the early part of his career--for instance, what parts of Titus Andronicus might have originated with George Peele, if any. -- Tom Salyers _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Dec 7 06:25:03 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id F13C52204F4; Wed, 7 Dec 2011 06:25:02 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 5A0422204E4; Wed, 7 Dec 2011 06:25:01 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111207062501.5A0422204E4@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2011 06:25:01 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.532 publication: Mozart's letters X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 532. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2011 12:54:29 +0100 From: Patrizia Rebulla Subject: In Mozart's Words. First Group: Mozart's Letters from Italian Travels A first group of Mozart's letters are online here: letters.mozartways.com In Mozart’s Words provides multilingual access to an annotated version of the voluminous correspondence of Mozart and his family - approximately 1,400 letters - that will progressively be made available online. The website offers i) a univocal database of all references to people, places and musical works contained in the letters, facilitating the systematic search of all cited occurrences, and ii) access to background materials such as reviews, newspapers, documents, objects, paintings, engravings, and books as a corollary to the historical-critical annotations. The Mozart family letters are the most extensive and richly detailed correspondence of any composer of the eighteenth century or earlier and a fundamental source of information concerning daily life at the time and Mozart's own biography. Numerous details of his life - including details of the early tours and the composer's time in Vienna - are known only from the letters. By the same token, they also give information concerning his compositional activities, including otherwise unknown works. Even beyond illuminating the genesis, authenticity and chronology of his music, however, the letters also give evidence concerning its performance, including questions of ornamentation, scoring, tempo and the size of the orchestras he played with, in Salzburg and elsewhere. The website offers access to the letters in the original German version plus a modernised German spelling, English, Italian and French. For the majority of letters, both the holograph and its diplomatic transcription are available. Mozart's scores are linked to each work, like here: http://letters.mozartways.com/index.php?lang=eng&theme=works&name=385&alpha=M The letters are fully annotated by Cliff Eisen http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/music/people/acad/eisen/index.aspx, Academic Director of the edition. Within the footnotes, many references are given about other sources or contemporary objects, like here: http://letters.mozartways.com/index.php?lang=eng&theme=background&name=152-2&letter=84&bd=152&namesrc=84&anchor=readmore-152-2, or here: http://letters.mozartways.com/index.php?lang=eng&theme=background&name=152-3&letter=84&bd=152&namesrc=84&anchor=readmore-152-3 and here: http://letters.mozartways.com/index.php?lang=eng&theme=background&name=157-4&letter=1&bd=157&namesrc=1&anchor=fn2 This is the first part of a very ambitious project, conducted until now with very limited resources. A number of issues are already known. Nevertheless, we thought that it was worthy to go online and submit the website to the community for suggestions and comments. We will be very grateful for any of them. -- Patrizia Rebulla Project Manager In Mozart's Words mobile: +32 494 542610 skype ID: patrizia.rebulla _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Dec 7 06:27:08 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32EE122072A; Wed, 7 Dec 2011 06:27:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 077472206FA; Wed, 7 Dec 2011 06:27:07 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111207062707.077472206FA@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2011 06:27:07 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.533 events: e-publishing; standardization X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 533. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Peter Linde (42) Subject: Elpub 2012 - 2nd Call for Papers [2] From: Kai Jakobs (90) Subject: Reminder - CfP: Standardisation Management --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2011 14:07:23 +0100 From: Peter Linde Subject: Elpub 2012 - 2nd Call for Papers Call for Papers 16th International Conference on Electronic Publishing June 14-15, 2012, Guimarães, Portugal Social Shaping of Digital Publishing: Exploring the interplay between Culture and Technology Elpub 2012 will be focusing on the social shaping of digital publishing by exploring the interplay between culture and technology. Important Dates · January 9, 2012: Deadline for submission of full-text papers and extended abstracts (in all categories). · February 20, 2012: Notification of acceptance of submitted papers and extended abstracts · March 26, 2012: Deadline for submissions of all final papers in camera ready form. Conference dates and location: June 14-15, 2012, University of Minho, Guimarães (European Capital of Culture 2012), Portugal Conference Host: University of Minho, Guimarães, Portugal General Chair: Professor Ana Alice Baptista, University of Minho, Portugal Programme Chair: Peter Linde, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden See website for all details: http://www.elpub.net Join our community at: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Elpub-Conference/255715494465396 Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/ElpubConf LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Elpub-Conference-4170564?home&gid=4170564&trk=anet_ug_hm Dear Sir/Madame! Please feel free to disseminate this reminder in any channels you find appropriate. Peter Linde Blekinge Tekniska Högskola Biblioteket 371 79 Karlskrona Tel 0455-385103, Fax 0455-385107 Mobile: +46 708 778138 E-mail: peter.linde@bth.se Blekinge Institute of Technology The Library S-371 79 Karlskrona Sweden Tel +46 455 385103 Fax +46 455 385107 E-mail: peter.linde@bth.se --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2011 14:00:12 +0100 From: Kai Jakobs Subject: Reminder - CfP: Standardisation Management Folks, The CfP below may be of interest to some of you (at least that's what I hope). Likewise perhaps the conference it is associated with. Plus, I understand the weather in Valencia is very acceptable in March, and the city itself is really nice. So sharpen your pencils, dig out your keyboards, and start writing ....... And in case of any further questions - please do ask. Cheers, Kai. CALL FOR PAPERS Workshop on 'Standardisation Management' http://www.comsys.rwth-aachen.de/team/kai-jakobs/ws-standardisation- management/ 20/21 March 2012 Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain http://www.turisvalencia.es/ In conjunction with the I-ESA'12 conference (Interoperability for Enterprise Systems and Applications) http://www.aidima.es/iesa2012/index.htm Objective of the Workshop ------------------------- The WS aims to address aspects relating to the management of standardisation. That is, it will look at managerial issues of corporate standardisation as well as at standards management in the public sector. Accordingly, the main objective is to contribute to the identification of best-practices in organisational standardisation management. Corporate standardisation management also entails the selection of the most appropriate standards bodies. Thus, a secondary objective is to identify the criteria upon which this selection is based. This, in turn, will (hopefully) contribute to a more effective and efficient standardisation landscape. Topics Covered (this is a non-exclusive list) - approaches to corporate standardisation management in the public and the private sector; - corporate standardisation strategies; - intra-organisational flow of information about standardisation; - the individual in standards setting - selection, training, motivation; - new ways of co-operation between standards bodies; - potential new standardisation landscapes. Submission Guidelines --------------------- Original (unpublished) papers not exceeding 6 pages are solicited. Formatting guidelines may be found at www.hermes-science.fr/word/eng-guidelines.doc. All papers will undergo a double blind peer-review process. Accepted papers will be included in the workshop proceedings, to be published by ISTE Publications, UK. Outstanding papers will be considered for inclusion in the International Journal on IT Standards and Standardization Research (JITSR). All submissions (in .doc/.docx/.rtf/.pdf format) should be sent to: Kai.Jakobs@comsys.rwth-aachen.de Programme Committee ------------------- Kai Jakobs (Chair), RWTH Aachen U., DE Knut Blind, TU Berlin, DE Tineke Egyedi, TU Delft, NL Vladislav Fomin, Vytautas Magnus U., LT Stephan Gauch, TU Berlin, DE Ian Graham, U. of Edinburgh, UK Klaus Turowski, U. of Magdeburg, DE Henk de Vries, Erasmus U., NL Tim Weitzel, U. of Bamberg, DE Robin Williams, U. of Edinburgh, UK Deadlines --------- Submissions due: 31 December 2011 Notification: 30 January 2012 Final papers due: 1 March 2012 ________________________________________________________________ Kai Jakobs RWTH Aachen University Computer Science Department Informatik 4 (Communication and Distributed Systems) Ahornstr. 55, D-52074 Aachen, Germany Tel.: +49-241-80-21405 Fax: +49-241-80-22222 Kai.Jakobs@comsys.rwth-aachen.de http://www.comsys.rwth-aachen.de/team/kai-jakobs/ EURAS - The European Academy for Standardization. http://www.euras.org The International Journal of IT Standards and Standardization Research. http://www.igi-global.com/ijitsr The 'Advances in Information Technology Standards and Standardization Research' book series. http://www.igi-global.com/Bookstore/TitleDetails.aspx?TitleId=37142 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Dec 8 06:03:13 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id C975A21BFEF; Thu, 8 Dec 2011 06:03:13 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 7757921BFE6; Thu, 8 Dec 2011 06:03:12 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111208060312.7757921BFE6@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2011 06:03:12 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.534 job at Texas Tech X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 534. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2011 16:37:37 +0000 From: "Hawkins, Ann" Subject: chair search... Dear all, Please check out the link below which provides information on our external search for a chair. http://www.english.ttu.edu/chair_2012.asp Of interest to the list: the department has a graduate specialization in Book History, a digital humanities lab and a recently opened Letterpress Lab (with our very cool 1890s Washington press). It would be a great place for a person in textual studies, digital humanities, or book history; I've very much enjoyed the opportunities here...the institution is very entreprenurial, so one can build things if one wishes....as you can see from the above. We're looking for a full or an associate with credentials to be appointed as a full. Closing date is a bit late: January 15th. I'm on the search committee, so I can field queries. Ann Hawkins Ann R. Hawkins Series Editor, History of the Book (www.pickeringchatto.com/hob) Editor, _Romantic Women Writers Reviewed, 1789-1819_ (www.pickeringchatto.com/romantic) Pickering & Chatto, London Professor of Bibliography Department of English 15th and Flint Texas Tech University Lubbock, TX 79409 www.faculty.english.ttu.edu/hawkins _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Dec 8 06:04:17 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D68C22435A; Thu, 8 Dec 2011 06:04:17 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A0CC622434A; Thu, 8 Dec 2011 06:04:15 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111208060415.A0CC622434A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2011 06:04:15 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.535 clean energy, preservation and change X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 535. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Luis Gutierrez (31) Subject: Transition to Clean Energy [2] From: Willard McCarty (48) Subject: stopping change --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2011 13:32:44 -0500 From: Luis Gutierrez Subject: Transition to Clean Energy Mother Pelican: A Journal of Sustainable Human Development The December 2011 issue has been posted: http://www.pelicanweb.org/solisustv07n12page1.html For your consideration: Strategies for the Transition to Clean Energy http://www.pelicanweb.org/solisustv07n12supp3.html 1. Primacy of Integral Human Development 2. Joint Integrity of Humanity and the Human Habitat 3. Mitigation Strategies for Sustainable Human Development 4. Adaptation Strategies for Sustainable Human Development 5. Solidarity, Subsidiarity, Sustainability, and Nonviolence 6. Non-Renewable & Renewable Energy Resources 7. Integrated Strategy for the Transition to Clean Energy 8. Variations of the Integrated Transition Strategy 9. Strategic Data Sources & Global Transition Megatrends Tactics for the Transition to Clean Energy http://www.pelicanweb.org/solisustv07n12supp4.html 1. Global Citizen Movements & The Occupy Movement 2. Education for Sustainable Development 3. "Soft Means" to Advance Public Policy 4. Financial Transaction/Speculation Taxes 5. Shift to Land/Resource Value Taxes 6. Guaranteed Basic Personal Income 7. ISO Standards, Guidelines, and Best Practices 8. Transferring Subsidies from Fossil Fuels to Clean Energy 9. Fostering Clean Energy Technologies Sincerely, Luis Luis T. Gutiérrez, PhD, PE The Pelican Web of Solidarity and Sustainability Mother Pelican: A Journal of Sustainable Human Development --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2011 06:00:52 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: stopping change The following is forwarded from the European Society for Textual Scholarship list, with thanks. The arguments go back and forth. Heraclitus pops his head in and smiles. A physicist points out that however solid, matter is energy, as Oppie and his mates demonstrated rather dramatically. The name Ozymandias is mentioned. So I wonder, wouldn't it be better (also) to consider this an opportunity to rethink our relationship to the continuum stretching from change to permanence? Cannot preservation be a neurosis? (I think that, and take great care to back up my hard disc, make sure my roof doesn't leak etc etc.) Someone recently pointed out, I think on Radio 4, that in a finite system homeostasis, not perpetual growth, is health. Gregory Bateson noted that things (including humans) die, rot, vanish so that new things (including humans) have some room to be and develop. Digital storage, however the technology of it improves, will always be finite. But let us assume that letting go in the digital realm can be indefinitely postponed. What then does scholarship begin to look like, when a curious and energetic scholar asks a question, one of those important, consequential ones, that keeps on expanding? WM ----- > ________________________________________ > From: The list of the European Society for Textual Scholarship and the > Society for Textual Scholarship [TEXTUALSCHOLARSHIP@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On > Behalf Of Young, John K [youngj@MARSHALL.EDU] > Sent: Sunday, August 07, 2011 8:33 AM > Subject: Digital Data op-ed > > Dear Members of the STS Community, > > Those who have not already seen it may be interested in Kari Kraus’s > fascinating op-ed piece in today’s New York Times on new strategies > for curating digital materials, “When Data Disappears”: > http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/07/opinion/sunday/when-data-disappears.html?_r=1&ref=opinion. > > Best wishes for the end of summer, > John > > John Young > Professor of English > Marshall University > (304) 696-2349 > youngj@marshall.edu -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor (fractional), University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Dec 8 06:05:04 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04FC82243DD; Thu, 8 Dec 2011 06:05:04 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 9AB7A2243CB; Thu, 8 Dec 2011 06:05:01 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111208060501.9AB7A2243CB@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2011 06:05:01 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.536 events: documentary editing X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 536. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2011 16:20:57 +0000 From: Annemarie Kets Subject: Call for Papers 34th Annual Meeting Association for Documentary Editing: Charlottesville, Virginia, 9-11 August 2012 CALL FOR PAPERS 34th ANNUAL MEETING ASSOCIATION FOR DOCUMENTARY EDITING Charlottesville, Virginia, 9-11 August 2012 The Association for Documentary Editing invites proposals for papers, roundtables, and/or panels for the organization's 34th annual meeting in Charlottesville, Virginia, 9-11 August 2012. See http://documentaryediting.org/meeting/index.html. The 2012 program theme is “Documentary Democracy,” an appropriate topic for a meeting in Thomas Jefferson’s hometown. The theme can be applied to the program in two different ways. First, it can be argued that documents are the essential foundation of modern democratic societies, not just the few famous founding documents but a broad, very diverse body of historical, literary, philosophical, and other documents and works. Second, the theme concerns the opportunities and challenges presented by the increasing democratization and globalization of documentary knowledge in the expanding digital universe, particularly in regard to access, diversity, technology, and scholarship. Prospective presenters may focus on either aspect of the theme or both together. In any case the Program Committee hopes that presenters will interpret our theme as widely as possible. All ideas are welcome. We also encourage submissions from solo editors or projects in the early stages of organization. Abstracts of a maximum of 500 words are due by 1 March 2012. In a separate paragraph state your name, address, telephone number, email, project, organizational, and/or institutional affiliation, if any, and what audio-visual technology you might need. Please send abstracts within the body of an email and as an attached Word document to: pdc7m@virginia.edu. 2012 ADE Program Committee: Philander Chase, chair; Robert Haggard, Annemarie Kets, Jennifer Stertzer, Vanessa Steinroetter _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Dec 9 10:41:29 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73CD122A5EC; Fri, 9 Dec 2011 10:41:29 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id AB55122A59B; Fri, 9 Dec 2011 10:41:27 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20111209104127.AB55122A59B@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2011 10:41:27 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.537 what to do with tapes? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 537. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2011 06:27:46 -0800 (PST) From: "Kevin Roddy" Subject: UNIX 7-track computer tapes Fellow Humanists, As many of us begin to retire, we find--at least I do--boxes of 1200- and 2400-foot computer tapes, 'tar' format, from the 80's for which machine-readers no longer exist on campus. My own two dozen tapes, chronicling the old days of *Davis Medieval Texts and Studies,* Project Rhetor, UNIX nroff/troff, and *CHUM*, belong in that category. The University of California Digital Libraries personnel have promised to 'look into the problem,' but I sense that tight budgets will not make it a priority. Contrarywise, the few professional services that I have identified would charge impossibly exorbitant amounts. Is there an academic institution out there wise enough to have saved a reader in a back room; sentimentality and laziness would count as well. If so, I can promise a remuneration for any conversion to more appropriate media, and of course complete access to anyone who might be interested in the material. With thanks, Kevin Roddy Lecturer Emeritus Medieval Studies Program The University of California, Davis _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Dec 9 10:42:36 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03FA622A636; Fri, 9 Dec 2011 10:42:36 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 8424022A626; Fri, 9 Dec 2011 10:42:34 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111209104234.8424022A626@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2011 10:42:34 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.538 we are not surfs! X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 538. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2011 10:38:57 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: we are not surfs Many here will want to read and, I hope, to comment on Matthew Reisz's article "Surfdom", in the Times Higher Education for 8 December 2011, at www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=418343. Mr Reisz asks, with the answer already given in the title, > The internet has revolutionised humanities research. But has the > development of ever-more sophisticated online resources freed up > scholars to explore new ideas, or made them slaves to the digital machine? Yours, WM -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor (fractional), University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Dec 9 10:43:24 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5702622A672; Fri, 9 Dec 2011 10:43:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id BE21D22A662; Fri, 9 Dec 2011 10:43:21 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111209104321.BE21D22A662@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2011 10:43:21 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.539 PhD programme in texts and technology X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 539. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2011 23:17:42 +0000 From: Melody Bowdon Subject: UCF PhD Program in Texts and Technology: Applications Due January 15 In-Reply-To: <15E7E37C6D74B04ABC231852D65901CE0167BC50@NET5010.net.ucf.edu> Dear Colleagues: Please inform your students interested in advanced study in the digital humanities that the University of Central Florida's doctoral program in Texts and Technology is currently accepting applications. The application deadline for next fall is January 15, 2012. The doctoral program in Texts and Technology is part of a growing interdisciplinary field combining the scholarly study, creative production, and assessment of digital media texts. The curriculum emphasizes historical scholarship in media and digital studies, theory and production of new media, and the practical application of digital technologies in a variety of discourses in the humanities. This innovative program prepares students for research, teaching, and program development. Areas of research and production include digital editing, Web design, multimedia production, distributed education, entertainment, publishing, information architecture, and visualization. Graduates from the Texts and Technology program have gone on to faculty positions in departments of English, Communication, and Digital Media and have taken administrative positions such as Director of Course Design and Production, Director of Academic Creativity, Dean of Distance Learning, and Managing Editor with a variety of organizations. The University of Central Florida is located in Orlando, an exciting metropolitan area with a diverse array of professional and recreational activities. Students also benefit from opportunities arising in conjunction with numerous non-profit organizations in the Central Florida Research Park adjacent to campus, as well as the UCF Center for Humanities and Digital Research on campus. For more information concerning the Texts and Technology Ph.D. Program, visit the T&T Webpage, http://tandt.cah.ucf.edu or contact the Program Director, Dr. Rudy McDaniel, at rudy@ucf.edu. I'd also be happy to answer questions. Best regards, Melody Melody A. Bowdon, Ph.D. Director, Karen L. Smith Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning Associate Professor of Writing and Rhetoric University of Central Florida P.O. Box 160066 Orlando, FL 32816-0066 Phone: 407-823-3544 melody.bowdon@ucf.edu www.fctl.ucf.edu _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Dec 9 10:44:12 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id C59CB22A6BB; Fri, 9 Dec 2011 10:44:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D7FF622A6AB; Fri, 9 Dec 2011 10:44:10 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111209104410.D7FF622A6AB@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2011 10:44:10 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.540 Swedish Twitter University X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 540. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2011 09:44:10 -0000 From: "Fuller, Steve" Subject: Swedish Twitter University This nascent bit of cybersocial epistemology may be of interest to this group because of form and/or content: The Swedish Twitter University conducts micro-courses that consist of 25 tweets (i.e. 140-character messages) that are presented over an appointed hour, during which the instructor addresses questions (also in the form of tweets). The sixth such course will occur on-line on Monday. The topic is foresight exercises (in policy). The instructor, Jamais Cascio, has an interesting line on this (i.e. foresight = body politic's immune system) and there is some background reading here, which also includes more general information about the Swedish Twitter University (you can also see how the previous courses went): http://svtwuni.wordpress.com/2011/12/07/stu06/ It seems that, at least in principle, they would accept proposals for courses on any topic, which with enough lead time for advertising would attract an appropriate audience. So far, as might be expected, the courses have been about the more futuristic end of science and technology policy but they need not be limited to that. Steve Steve Fuller Auguste Comte Chair in Social Epistemology Dept of Sociology, Univ of Warwick Coventry CV4 7AL, UK Phone +44 2476 523 940. Twitter: @profstevefuller http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/sociology/staff/academicstaff/sfuller/fullers_index Humanity 2.0: What It Means to Be Human Past, Present and Future (Palgrave). http://amzn.to/k6gSIh; video version: http://t.co/bbJuV9B _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Dec 9 10:48:05 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 208C022A7BD; Fri, 9 Dec 2011 10:48:05 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 4A98822A7AD; Fri, 9 Dec 2011 10:48:03 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111209104803.4A98822A7AD@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2011 10:48:03 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.541 events: textual studies, digital editions X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 541. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Brent Nelson (64) Subject: Reminder -- Beyond Accessibility Conference. Deadline 15 December. [2] From: Joris van Zundert (65) Subject: Interedition: Call for Papers Symposium 'Scholarly Digital Editions, Tools and Infrastructure', 19-20 March 2012, The Hague,The Netherlands --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2011 22:22:07 -0600 From: Brent Nelson Subject: Reminder -- Beyond Accessibility Conference. Deadline 15 December. Deadline fast approaching...* Beyond Accessibility: Textual Studies in the 21st Century Call for Papers* The Textual Studies team of INKE (Implementing New Knowledge Environments) wish to invite presentation proposals for Beyond Accessibility: Textual Studies in the 21st Century . June 8, 9, and 10, 2012, University of Victoria, Victoria BC, Canada. Keynote speakers: Adriaan van der Weel (Leiden University) and Sydney Shep, (Victoria University of Wellington) At the end of the 20th century, textual studies witnessed a revolution in accessibility to texts with the explosion of the internet. Now we simply take it for granted that digital processes infuse every step of our study, editing, production, and dissemination of texts. The Textual Studies team of INKE invites presentations that address the questions "What is the state of textual studies in the 21st century? What is the important work of textual studies in the 21st century? What are the outstanding issues, challenges, concerns, emerging trends, methods, attitudes, and exciting developments in textual scholarship? Papers may address such questions as * What is the state of the scholarly edition after the transition from print to print and digital? * What is the impact on the material book and on book history of the different kinds of access enabled by the digital medium? * How have authorship attribution studies been transformed by access to so many more searchable texts? * How has the new age of access to materials affected the state of textual studies in various regions of the globe? * How well are scholars being served by traditional and emerging infrastructures for the study, creation, production, and dissemination of texts? * What is the future of, for example, the study of readership and letter writing, genetic editing, and reception history? INKE is a multi-national, multi-disciplinary research initiative, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and partnering organizations, to study, develop, and implement digital environments for reading and research (www.inke.ca). The Textual Studies Team of INKE is researching ways in which the age of manuscript and print production can inform our development and implementation of electronic reading technologies. We invite proposals for papers, posters/demonstrations, and roundtable discussions that address these and other issues pertinent to research in textual studies. Proposals should contain a title, a detailed and focussed abstract (of approximately 300 words) plus list of works cited, and the names, affiliations, and Website URLs of presenters. Please send proposals before 15 December 2011 to richard.cunningham@acadiau.ca. Potential participants in the conference, particularly those coming from abroad, might be interested to take advantage of the Digital Humanities Summer Institute, which will just before our conference, from 4-8 June, also at the University of Victoria (http://www.dhsi.org/). A limited number of scholarships for workshop tuition will be available for graduate students participating in the Beyond Accessibility conference. Also of potential interest is the annual conference of the Society for Digital Humanities (SDH/SEMI) at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences at Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, 28-30 May, 2012 (http://www.sdh-semi.org/). -- @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Dr. Brent Nelson, Associate Professor Department of English 9 Campus Dr. University of Saskatchewan Saskatoon, SK S7N 5A5 ph.: (306) 966-1820 fax.: (306) 966-5951 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2011 10:25:53 +0100 From: Joris van Zundert Subject: Interedition: Call for Papers Symposium 'Scholarly Digital Editions, Tools and Infrastructure', 19-20 March 2012, The Hague,The Netherlands In-Reply-To: Call for Papers: Scholarly Digital Editions, Tools and Infrastructure Interedition - An Interoperable Supranational Infrastructure for Digital Editions 19-20 March 2011, Huygens ING, The Hague, The Netherlands == Huygens ING is pleased to host a symposium to mark the achievements of Interedition, COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) Action IS0704. This event will also serve as a springboard for further work based on the principles of interoperability promoted by Interedition within the domain of digital scholarly editing and research. One of the key objectives of Interedition has been to produce a ‘roadmap’ conceptualizing the development of a technical infrastructure for collaborative digital preparation, editing, publication, analysis and visualization of literary research materials. Interedition has approached the problem of interoperable infrastructure from the perspectives of methodology, technology, and community. At present Interedition is realizing the ‘nuts and bolts’ of a bottom-up generalizable architecture, focusing on the development community and the prototyping of distributed lightweight services. This grassroots approach is emerging from the ‘engine rooms’ where Web 2.0 digital editions are being built and promises a generalizable and viable approach to collaborative digital humanities tool building. Creators and/or users of tools for textual scholarship are invited to submit paper proposals dealing with tools and methodologies that promote, exemplify, and otherwise address the issues of interoperability and sustainability in the field of digital scholarly editing and research. In particular, we encourage papers which address, but are not limited to the following areas: * Development and application of tools to achieve interoperability and sustainability in the arena of digital textual scholarship * Development methodology and the problem of bottom-up versus top-down approaches * Development and application of tools for digital scholarly editions * Theoretical and practical problems of digital editing and scholarly information exchange * Community and user aspects of interoperability in textual scholarship * Crowd sourcing solutions * Architectural approaches towards interoperability for tools in digital scholarship * Digital techniques and methodologies from scholars working on textual data in the humanities Speakers are asked to submit abstracts of 750 words. This should also include the names, titles, institutional affiliations, addresses, phone numbers and email addresses of all authors. Abstracts must be submitted via email to joris.van.zundert@huygens.knaw.nl by 15 January 2012. Please note that we will be publishing the proceedings and that contributions will be peer reviewed. A bursary scheme will be in place to facilitate travel and accommodation for selected papers. Details will be forthcoming *** Keeping true to Interedition’s principles a bootcamp oriented towards collaborative coding opportunities for researchers/developers will be attached to this symposium. More details about this will be forthcoming. *** Further details will be available at: http://www.interedition.eu/ == Symposium organizing committee == Peter Boot (Huygens Institute for the History of The Netherlands) Karina van Dalen-Oskam (Huygens Institute for the History of The Netherlands) Fotis Jannidis (Universität Würzburg) Kathryn E. Piquette (University College London) Susan Schreibman (Trinity College Dublin) Joris van Zundert (Huygens Institute for the History of The Netherlands) == Links of Interest == About Interedition: http://www.interedition.eu About the Huygens ING: http://www.huygens.knaw.nl/en/over-ons/ About COST and Interedition: http://www.cost.esf.org/domains_actions/isch/Actions/IS0704 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Dec 9 12:17:54 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 739BE227737; Fri, 9 Dec 2011 12:17:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C338E227726; Fri, 9 Dec 2011 12:17:52 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111209121752.C338E227726@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2011 12:17:52 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.542 raising the alarm X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 542. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2011 12:16:52 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: education Today, it seems, is a good day for raising the alarm. I draw your attention to two articles in the London Review of Books 33.24, 15 December 2011: Michael Wood, "Must we pay for Sanskrit?" Keith Thomas, "Universities under attack" Both are freely online, at http://www.lrb.co.uk/. Yours, WM -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor (fractional), University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Dec 10 06:59:38 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA10122C7ED; Sat, 10 Dec 2011 06:59:37 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 4E8A922C7DE; Sat, 10 Dec 2011 06:59:36 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111210065936.4E8A922C7DE@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2011 06:59:36 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.543 what to do with tapes X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 543. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Sterringa, J." (8) Subject: RE: [Humanist] 25.537 what to do with tapes? [2] From: "Bleck, Bradley" (8) Subject: RE: [Humanist] 25.537 what to do with tapes? (obsolete technologies) --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2011 11:54:46 +0000 From: "Sterringa, J." Subject: RE: [Humanist] 25.537 what to do with tapes? In-Reply-To: <20111209104127.AB55122A59B@woodward.joyent.us> In Amsterdam Edo Dooijes foresaw this problem and started collecting old machines and tools, all still working, and now kept in the Computer Museum http://www.science.uva.nl/museum/ A bit far from California, however. Best regards, Joke Sterringa --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2011 08:17:59 -0800 From: "Bleck, Bradley" Subject: RE: [Humanist] 25.537 what to do with tapes? (obsolete technologies) In-Reply-To: <20111209104127.AB55122A59B@woodward.joyent.us> This is a great question. While I don't have tapes, I have 5-1/4" floppies from a Commodore 128 (graduate school!), 3-1/2" floppies from various Macs and PCs, zip disks and the like with data that is no longer accessible on the various machines I have access to. What do people do to recover the information form these older technologies? It seems that the request for data recovery on the tape is is just a more extreme concern for a situation I suspect many of us face. Bradley Bleck English Department Spokane Falls CC http://bleckblog.org _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Dec 10 07:31:21 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 939C822CC54; Sat, 10 Dec 2011 07:31:21 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 900FD22CC4C; Sat, 10 Dec 2011 07:31:20 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111210073120.900FD22CC4C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2011 07:31:20 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.544 events: London Seminar for December X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 544. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2011 07:29:55 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship www.tinyurl.com/LondonSeminar/ Julianne Nyhan and Anne Welsh: 'Hidden Histories: Computing and the Humanities c.1949–1980' 15 December 2011 Room 265, Senate House, 2nd floor 17.30-19.30 All are welcome. The application of computing to the Humanities is not new and can be traced back to at least 1949, when Fr Roberto Busa began researching the creation of an index variorum of some 11 million words of medieval Latin in the works of St Thomas Aquinas and related authors. Notes and contributions towards a history of the computer in the humanities have appeared in recent years; however, our understanding of such developments remains incomplete and largely unwritten. The Hidden Histories project (funded by the University of Trier's Historisch-Kulturwissenschaftliche Forschungszentrum (HKFZ) and the Centre for Digital Humanities, UCL ) aims to gather and make available sources to enable the social, intellectual and cultural conditions that shaped the early take up of computing in the Humanities to be investigated. The project draws on an interdisciplinary method bundle from Oral History, Digital Humanities and Historical-Cultural Studies. With the aim of capturing memories, observations and insights that are rarely recorded in the scholarly literature of the field it carries out interviews with 'pioneer' or 'early adopter' scholars and practitioners from c. 1949 until 1980 (that is, from main frame computing to the coming of the personal computer). The presentation will give an overview of progress to date, with particular emphasis on the methodological pillars of our project. ----- Anne Welsh is Lecturer in Library and Information Studies at University College London and a member of the UCL Centre for Digital Humanities. Her research and teaching is centred on documentation, metadata and especially Historical Bibliography. Julianne Nyhan is Lecturer in Digital Information Studies in the Department of Information Studies, UCL, and a Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin in the Centre for Digital Humanities, Universität Trier. -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor (fractional), University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Dec 11 09:07:38 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53DCB22D80C; Sun, 11 Dec 2011 09:07:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0DC3022D803; Sun, 11 Dec 2011 09:07:37 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111211090737.0DC3022D803@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2011 09:07:37 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.545 what to do with tapes X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 545. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2011 09:10:45 -0500 From: Matthew Kirschenbaum Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.543 what to do with tapes In-Reply-To: <20111210065936.4E8A922C7DE@woodward.joyent.us> There are reasonable solutions for 3.5 and 5.25-inch disks, such as the Kryoflux and FC5025 controller cards. Some more detail here: http://mith.umd.edu/vintage-computers/fc5025-operation-instructions Matt On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 1:59 AM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > >                 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 543. >            Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London >                       www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist >                Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > >  [1]   From:    "Sterringa, J."                       (8) >        Subject: RE: [Humanist] 25.537 what to do with tapes? > >  [2]   From:    "Bleck, Bradley"          (8) >        Subject: RE: [Humanist] 25.537 what to do with tapes? (obsolete >                technologies) > > > --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ >        Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2011 11:54:46 +0000 >        From: "Sterringa, J." >        Subject: RE: [Humanist] 25.537 what to do with tapes? >        In-Reply-To: <20111209104127.AB55122A59B@woodward.joyent.us> > > In Amsterdam Edo Dooijes foresaw this problem and started collecting old machines and tools, all still working, and now kept in the Computer Museum > http://www.science.uva.nl/museum/ > A bit far from California, however. > > Best regards, > Joke Sterringa > > > --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ >        Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2011 08:17:59 -0800 >        From: "Bleck, Bradley" >        Subject: RE: [Humanist] 25.537 what to do with tapes? (obsolete technologies) >        In-Reply-To: <20111209104127.AB55122A59B@woodward.joyent.us> > > This is a great question. While I don't have tapes, I have 5-1/4" floppies from a Commodore 128 (graduate school!), 3-1/2" floppies from various Macs and PCs, zip disks and the like with data that is no longer accessible on the various machines I have access to. What do people do to recover the information form these older technologies? It seems that the request for data recovery on the tape is is just a more extreme concern for a situation I suspect many of us face. > > Bradley Bleck > English Department > Spokane Falls CC > http://bleckblog.org -- Matthew Kirschenbaum Associate Professor of English Associate Director, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) University of Maryland 301-405-8505 or 301-314-7111 (fax) http://mkirschenbaum.net and @mkirschenbaum on Twitter I am on leave, Aug. 2011-12; please refer to my personal leave policies: http://mkirschenbaum.wordpress.com/2011/07/31/during-my-fellowship/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Dec 11 09:09:12 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C05822DA3E; Sun, 11 Dec 2011 09:09:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 05B1922DA2E; Sun, 11 Dec 2011 09:09:10 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111211090910.05B1922DA2E@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2011 09:09:10 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.546 events: the Turing Centenary X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 546. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2011 18:55:35 +0000 From: S B Cooper Subject: Turing Centenary Conference, Cambridge, June 18-23, 2012 SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS: TURING CENTENARY CONFERENCE http://www.cie2012.eu Computability in Europe 2012: How the World Computes University of Cambridge Cambridge, 18-23 June 2012 CiE 2012 is one of a series of special events, running throughout the Alan Turing Year, celebrating Turing's unique impact on mathematics, computing, computer science, informatics, morphogenesis, artificial intelligence, philosophy and computational aspects of physics, biology, linguistics, connectionist models, economics and the wider scientific world. CiE 2012 is planned to be an event worthy of the remarkable scientific career it commemorates. PLENARY SPEAKERS include: Andrew Hodges (Oxford, Special Invited Lecture), Ian Stewart (Warwick, Special Public Lecture), Dorit Aharonov (Jerusalem), Veronica Becher (Buenos Aires), Lenore Blum (Carnegie Mellon), Rodney Downey (Wellington), Yuri Gurevich (Microsoft), Juris Hartmanis (Cornell), Richard Jozsa (Cambridge), Stuart Kauffman (Vermont/ Santa Fe), James Murray (Washington/ Oxford, Microsoft Research Lecture), Stuart Shieber (Harvard), Paul Smolensky (Johns Hopkins) and Leslie Valiant (Harvard, jointly organised lecture with King's College). SUBMISSION OF PAPERS and informal presentations are now invited for this historic event. For submission details, see: http://www.mathcomp.leeds.ac.uk/turing2012/WScie12/give-page.php?12 The CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS will be published by LNCS, Springer-Verlag. Post-conference publications include special issues of APAL and LMCS. We encourage all researchers presenting papers of the highest research quality at CiE 2012 to submit their full papers to the CiE journal COMPUTABILITY where they will be handled as regular submissions. IMPORTANT DATES: Submission Deadline for LNCS: Jan. 20, 2012 Notification of authors: Mar. 16, 2012 Deadline for final revisions: Apr. 6, 2012 Submission Deadline for Informal Presentations: May 11, 2012 CiE 2012 CONFERENCE TOPICS include, but not exclusively - * Admissible sets * Algorithms * Analog computation * Artificial intelligence * Automata theory * Bioinformatics * Classical computability and degree structures * Cognitive science and modelling * Complexity classes * Computability theoretic aspects of programs * Computable analysis and real computation * Computable structures and models * Computational and proof complexity * Computational biology * Computational creativity * Computational learning and complexity * Computational linguistics * Concurrency and distributed computation * Constructive mathematics * Cryptographic complexity * Decidability of theories * Derandomization * DNA computing * Domain theory and computability * Dynamical systems and computational models * Effective descriptive set theory * Emerging and Non-standard Models of Computation * Finite model theory * Formal aspects of program analysis * Formal methods * Foundations of computer science * Games * Generalized recursion theory * History of computation * Hybrid systems * Higher type computability * Hypercomputational models * Infinite time Turing machines * Kolmogorov complexity * Lambda and combinatory calculi * L-systems and membrane computation * Machine learning * Mathematical models of emergence * Molecular computation * Morphogenesis and developmental biology * Multi-agent systems * Natural Computation * Neural nets and connectionist models * Philosophy of science and computation * Physics and computability * Probabilistic systems * Process algebras and concurrent systems * Programming language semantics * Proof mining and applications * Proof theory and computability * Proof complexity * Quantum computing and complexity * Randomness * Reducibilities and relative computation * Relativistic computation * Reverse mathematics * Semantics and logic of computation * Swarm intelligence and self-organisation * Type systems and type theory * Uncertain Reasoning * Weak systems of arithmetic and applications We particularly welcome submissions in emergent areas, such as bioinformatics and natural computation, where they have a basic connection with computability. CiE 2012 will have a special relationship to the scientific legacy of Alan Turing, reflected in the broad theme: How the World Computes, with all its different layers of meaning. Contributions which are directly related to the visionary and seminal work of Turing will be particularly welcome. SPECIAL SESSIONS include: * The Universal Turing Machine, and History of the Computer Chairs: Jack Copeland and John Tucker * Cryptography, Complexity, and Randomness Chairs: Rod Downey and Jack Lutz Speakers so far: Eric Allender, Lance Fortnow, Omer Reingold, Alexander Shen * The Turing Test and Thinking Machines Chairs: Mark Bishop and Rineke Verbrugge Speakers: Bruce Edmonds, John Preston, Susan Sterrett, Kevin Warwick, Jiri Wiedermann * Computational Models After Turing: The Church-Turing Thesis and Beyond Chairs: Martin Davis and Wilfried Sieg Speakers: Giuseppe Longo, Peter Nemeti, Stewart Shapiro (tbc), Matthew Szudzik, Philip Welch, Michiel van Lambalgen * Morphogenesis/Emergence as a Computability Theoretic Phenomenon Chairs: Philip Maini and Peter Sloot Speakers: Jaap Kaandorp, Shigeru Kondo, Nick Monk, John Reinitz, James Sharpe, Jonathan Sherratt * Open Problems in the Philosophy of Information Chairs: Pieter Adriaans and Benedikt Loewe Speakers: Patrick Allo, Luis Antunes, Mark Finlayson, Amos Golan, Ruth Millikan Information of funding for students (including ASL grants) and the attendance of female researchers is to follow. There will be the annual Women in Computability Workshop, supported by a grant from the Elsevier Foundation. CiE 2012 will be associated/co-located with a number of other Turing centenary events, including: * ACE 2012, June 15-16, 2012 * Computability and Complexity in Analysis (CCA 2012), June 24-27, 2012 http://cca-net.de/cca2012/ * Developments in Computational Models (DCM 2012), June 17, 2012 http://www.math.uni-hamburg.de/home/loewe/DCM2012/ * THE INCOMPUTABLE at Kavli Royal Society International Centre Chicheley Hall, June 12-15, 2012 http://www.mathcomp.leeds.ac.uk/turing2012/inc/ Contributed papers will be selected from submissions received by the PROGRAMME COMMITTEE consisting of: * Samson Abramsky (Oxford) * Pieter Adriaans (Amsterdam) * Franz Baader (Dresden) * Arnold Beckmann (Swansea) * Mark Bishop (London) * Paola Bonizzoni (Milan) * Luca Cardelli (Cambridge) * Douglas Cenzer (Gainesville) * S Barry Cooper (Leeds, Co-chair) * Ann Copestake (Cambridge) * Anuj Dawar (Cambridge, Co-chair) * Solomon Feferman (Stanford) * Bernold Fiedler (Berlin) * Luciano Floridi (Hertfordshire) * Martin Hyland (Cambridge) * Marcus Hutter (Canberra) * Viv Kendon (Leeds) * Stephan Kreutzer (Oxford) * Ming Li (Waterloo) * Benedikt Loewe (Amsterdam) * Angus MacIntyre (London) * Philip Maini (Oxford) * Larry Moss (Bloomington) * Amitabha Mukerjee (Kanpur) * Damian Niwinski (Warsaw) * Dag Normann (Oslo) * Prakash Panangaden (Montreal) * Jeff Paris (Manchester) * Brigitte Pientka (Montreal) * Helmut Schwichtenberg (Munich) * Wilfried Sieg (Carnegie Mellon) * Mariya Soskova (Sofia) * Bettina Speckmann (Eindhoven) * Christof Teuscher (Portland) * Peter van Emde Boas (Amsterdam) * Jan van Leeuwen (Utrecht) * Rineke Verbrugge (Groningen) The PROGRAMME COMMITTEE cordially invites all researchers (European and non-European) in computability related areas to submit their papers (in PDF-format, max 10 pages) for presentation at CiE 2012. We particularly invite papers that build bridges between different parts of the research community. ORGANISING COMMITTEE: Arnold Beckmann (Swansea), Luca Cardelli (Cambridge), S Barry Cooper (Leeds), Ann Copestake (Cambridge), Anuj Dawar (Cambridge, Chair), Bjarki Holm (Cambridge), Martin Hyland (Cambridge), Benedikt Loewe (Amsterdam), Arno Pauly (Cambridge), Andrew Pitts (Cambridge) The conference is sponsored by the ASL, EACSL, EATCS, Elsevier Foundation, IFCoLog, King's College Cambridge, The University of Cambridge and Microsoft Research. For a small poster to download and display: http://www.mathcomp.leeds.ac.uk/turing2012/WScie12/Images/cie12.poster.1000x1400.png Contact: Anuj Dawar - anuj.dawar(at)cl.cam.ac.uk ********************************************************************** _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Dec 12 06:09:08 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9757922E101; Mon, 12 Dec 2011 06:09:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 7CE8322E0D8; Mon, 12 Dec 2011 06:09:07 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111212060907.7CE8322E0D8@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 06:09:07 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.547 events: complexity X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 547. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2011 12:56:20 -0800 From: Glen Worthey Subject: Reminder: Human Complexity 2012. Deadline: 2 January 2012 [Posted on behalf of conference co-chair Anthony Beavers http://faculty.evansville.edu/tb2/ , to whom questions should be directed. -GW] Human Complexity 2012: The First Annual Conference on Complexity and Human Experience Modeling Complexity in the Humanities and Social Sciences May 30th – June 1st, 2012 The University of North Carolina, Charlotte Submission Deadline: January 2nd, 2012 (Firm) Decision Date: February 1st Final Program: March 1st The recent increase in the number of formal institutes and conferences dedicated to complexity theory and its application is evidence that complexity science has arrived and is realizing its potential to cut across almost every academic discipline. Research projects centered on complex adaptive systems in the natural (physics, chemistry, biology, etc.) and social sciences (economics, political science, anthropology, sociology, psychology, etc.), along with novel applications in engineering, computer science, robotics, and, more recently, the arts and the humanities (archaeology, art history, history, literature, philosophy, performance art, religion, etc.), have already earned some recognition in the field of complexity science. In light of these developments, the Complex Systems Institute (http://www.complexity.uncc.edu) and the Center for Advanced Research in the Humanities at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte (UNC Charlotte) will inaugurate an annual conference series, beginning in 2012, dedicated to complexity with particular application to understanding the intricacies of human experience across all domains. The goal of the series is to provide a trans-disciplinary venue for scholars from the humanities and the social sciences, as well as some aspects of the natural sciences (such as neuroscience, pharmacology, etc.). Since matters of life and death pertain to human experience in profound and important ways, the conference hopes to attract representatives from the allied health sciences as well. The conference series will be dedicated to a particular topic each year. The initial 2012 conference will be based on an Institute for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities (IATDH) sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the UNC Charlotte Complex Systems Institute this past year that was dedicated to computer modeling in the humanities and social sciences. In keeping with the theme of the IATDH, the topic for our first conference will be: Modeling Complexity in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Submissions are invited on any specific topic that falls within the parameters described above. Sample topics include, but are not limited to, studies on: * The development and transmission of language * The propagation of beliefs, ideas and ideologies * The nature of historical and political change * The analysis of literary texts and their circulation * The effect of individual action on global economies * Social structure among pre-historic peoples * Archaeological settlement patterns in early cities * The role of architecture in facilitating public traffic patterns * The relationship between productivity, creativity, and happiness * Elements and measures of creativity * Discovery of early trends and indicators of social and economic change * The role of science and technology in enhancing human experience * Defining and measuring indicators of the quality of human experience * The relationship between organizational/societal structure and the flow of energy and information * Defining utility and efficacy in the context of human experience * Simulation and modeling tools and paradigms * Verification and validation of models and simulated systems * The relationship between healthcare providers, patients, Internet, and social media * Defining ontologies in the context of modeling and simulation * Languages and tools fro promoting trans- and inter-disciplinary collaboration * Human-technology interaction * Data-driven wellness initiatives Submissions should be in the form of 5000-word papers, each of which will be reviewed by the program committee. The committee is particularly interested in papers that show novel applications of Complexity Theory to enhance research in the areas here specified. Thus, preliminary work in progress or plans for a research program are welcomed and encouraged. Submission details will be posted to the conference website at https://sites.google.com/site/humancomplexity2012/ in due time. This conference is dedicated to the work of Alan Turing (1912-1954) as part of the 2012 Alan Turing Year (http://www.turingcentenary.eu/), a series of events to commemorate Turing's life and work. We do so here by examining computing applications and complexity in the humanities and social sciences that allow us to discover, create and make connections in ways that would not be possible were it not for Turing's seminal work. The conference will begin with a presentation on the life and times of the man who provided the theory that made the modern computer possible. Human Complexity 2012 is sponsored in part by the International Association for Computing and Philosophy (http://iacap.org). Submission Deadline: January 2nd, 2012 (Firm) Decision Date: February 1st Final Program: March 1st Conference Chairs (in alphabetical order): * Anthony Beavers (Director, Cognitive Science and the Digital Humanities Lab, University of Evansville) * Mirsad Hadzikadic (Director, The Complexity Institute, UNC Charlotte) * Paul Youngman (Director, Center for Advanced Research in the Humanities, UNC Charlotte) Organizing Committee: * Anthony Beavers (Director, Cognitive Science and the Digital Humanities Lab, University of Evansville) * Marvin Croy (Chair, Department of Philosophy, UNCC) * Patrick Grim (Professor of Philosophy, SUNY-Stony Brook) * Mirsad Hadzikadic (Director, The Complexity Institute, UNC Charlotte) * Paul Youngman (Director, Center for Advanced Research in the Humanities, UNC Charlotte) Program Committee (preliminary): * Anthony Beavers (University of Evansville) * Aaron Bramson (University of Michigan) * Ted Carmichael (UNC Charlotte) * Marvin Croy (UNC Charlotte) * Patrick Grim (SUNY-Stony Brook) * Mirsad Hadzikadic (UNC Charlotte) * Sonya Hardin (UNC Charlotte) * Nicolas Payette (Université du Québec à Montréal) * Dan Singer (University of Michigan) * Charles Turnitsa (Old Dominion University) * Paul Youngman (UNC Charlotte) _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Dec 12 09:53:16 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF93A23142F; Mon, 12 Dec 2011 09:53:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C4BDC231420; Mon, 12 Dec 2011 09:53:15 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111212095315.C4BDC231420@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 09:53:15 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.548 what's in a name? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 548. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 09:52:09 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: -ology and -ics We have perhaps completed our adolescent phase of worrying over what we call our academic field, but in case not, and for those to whom it matters, I pass on a reference to an entertaining discussion of the suffixes "-ology" and "ics" by Anatol Rapoport, "What is semantics?", American Scientist 40.1 (1952): 123-35, found in JSTOR. For those curious about the man, his Wikipedia entry is the place to go. Unfortunately for us now, as we construct our professional identity, he does not consider "-ies", but his article does point to the fact that our current name is a collective noun, plural in form, singular in meaning. Yours, WM -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor (fractional), University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Dec 13 06:51:15 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20A4B233F32; Tue, 13 Dec 2011 06:51:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 9C1C6233F22; Tue, 13 Dec 2011 06:51:13 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111213065113.9C1C6233F22@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 06:51:13 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.549 what to do with tapes X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 549. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 09:11:41 -0600 From: Patricia Galloway Subject: RE: [Humanist] 25.537 what to do with tapes? In-Reply-To: My Digital Archiving and Preservation class in the School of Information, University of Texas at Austin, has been working with legacy formats (floppies in multiple formats, zips, Jaz, etc. etc.--though not open-reel tapes) in collaboration with the Goodwill Computer Museum in Austin which has been assisting me to build a lab for doing this. Computer museums are a good choice; in California the Computer History Museum and in Seattle the Living Computer Museum both deal with open-reel tapes in their own work. University archives programs and government archives are also setting up such labs. And of course there are businesses that do format conversions as well, although their concerns may be less with the authenticity of the material than its functionality. Pat Galloway School of Information, UT-Austin _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Dec 13 06:51:39 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CB5C233FA3; Tue, 13 Dec 2011 06:51:39 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E1A12233F98; Tue, 13 Dec 2011 06:51:37 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111213065137.E1A12233F98@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 06:51:37 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.550 what's in a name X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 550. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 09:36:32 -0800 (PST) From: Laval Hunsucker Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.548 what's in a name? In-Reply-To: <20111212095315.C4BDC231420@woodward.joyent.us> > Unfortunately . . . he does not consider "-ies", but his article > does point to the fact that our current name is a collective > noun, plural in form, singular in meaning. Unfortunately I can not quickly find in his article where he does this, but no matter. This seems to be the season for "splendid isolation", if you'll forgive the topical political allusion -- and maybe we should just revel in our own variety of that. Or is there in fact *another* "-ies" out there among academic/scholarly/scientific/technical pursuits ?  ( Outside, I suppose, of a possible residual category of "Sundries" :-). ) A quick look informs me that there are, according to the OED, 728 "-ologies", from "Abiology" to "Zygology", and 441 "-ics", from "Acoustics" to "Wave Mechanics". Being a (near-)loner in this environment may have its own certain chic, if not practical advantage, I guess. - Laval Hunsucker   Breukelen, Nederland >________________________________ > From: Humanist Discussion Group >To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org >Sent: Monday, December 12, 2011 10:53 AM >Subject: [Humanist] 25.548 what's in a name? > >                 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 548. >            Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London >                      www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist >                Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > >        Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 09:52:09 +0000 >        From: Willard McCarty >        Subject: -ology and -ics > >We have perhaps completed our adolescent phase of worrying over what we >call our academic field, but in case not, and for those to whom it >matters, I pass on a reference to an entertaining discussion of the >suffixes "-ology" and "ics" by Anatol Rapoport, "What is semantics?", >American Scientist 40.1 (1952): 123-35, found in JSTOR. For those >curious about the man, his Wikipedia entry is the place to go. >Unfortunately for us now, as we construct our professional identity, he >does not consider "-ies", but his article does point to the fact that >our current name is a collective noun, plural in form, singular in meaning. > >Yours, >WM >-- >Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's >College London; Professor (fractional), University of Western Sydney; >Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, >Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Dec 13 06:57:57 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17203233361; Tue, 13 Dec 2011 06:57:57 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 16C18230425; Tue, 13 Dec 2011 06:57:55 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111213065755.16C18230425@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 06:57:55 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.551 publications: software; language; interdisciplinary studies X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 551. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Willard McCarty (2) Subject: FW: Call for Short Chapters :: Handbook: New Horizons in Creative Open Software, Multimedia, Human Factors and Software Engineering [2] From: RAM-Verlag (22) Subject: Glottometrics 21, 2011 [3] From: Willard McCarty (41) Subject: Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 36.4 (December) --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 10:31:08 +0000 From: Willard Mccarty Subject: FW: Call for Short Chapters :: Handbook: New Horizons in Creative Open Software, Multimedia, Human Factors and Software Engineering : Blue Herons Editions :: Call for Chapters :: New Deadline ------------------------------------------------------------------------- :: On an Edited Handbook to be Published by Blue Herons Editions (Human-Computer Interaction collection) in November 2011 Title: "New Horizons in Creative Open Software, Multimedia, Human Factors and Software Engineering" http://www.blueherons.net/home_en_7.html The proposal is expected to be 2 - 4 pages, submitted in .doc or .pdf format, composed of title, author(s) (name, affiliation, phone number, and e-mail address), extended abstract (background, related work, principal contributions, references and so on), table of contents, and contact author/s. :: Short chapter (10 and 12 pages (5.000 - 6.000 words) Long chapter (20 and 26 pages (8.000 - 12.000 words) :: All contributions should be of high originality, quality, clarity, significance, impact and not published elsewhere or submitted for publication during the review period. Main areas are solicited on, but not limited to: :: Advances in Programming Languages and Techniques :: Applications of New Technologies to Communicability Expansion :: Artificial Life [... and many others] Main editor: Francisco V. Cipolla-Ficarra, PhD Editorial assistants: Prof. Emma Nicol (Glasgow, UK) and Mary Brie (La Valletta, Malta) Important Dates: :: Chapter Proposal Submission Deadline: Wednesday, 9 November 2011 :: Proposal Acceptance Due Date: Monday, 14 November 2011 :: Full Chapter Submission Deadline: Monday, 28 November 2011 :: Planned Publishing Date: November 2011 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 13:26:47 +0000 From: RAM-Verlag Subject: Glottometrics 21, 2011 In-Reply-To: <20111212102313.31561.qmail@webmaildh3.aruba.it> if you are interested in Glottometrics 21, 2011, please click here: http://www.ram-verlag.de/ . Glottometrics 21, 2011 is available as: Printed edition: EUR 30.00 plus PP CD edition: EUR 15.00 plus PP Internet (download PDF-file): 7.50 EUR. If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact me. Jutta Richter For: RAM-Verlag RAM-Verlag Jutta Richter-Altmann Medienverlag 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 --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 06:21:38 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 36.4 (December) In-Reply-To: <20111212102313.31561.qmail@webmaildh3.aruba.it> Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 36.4 December 2011 http://www.isr-journal.org 1. Editorial McCarty, Willard pp. 273-275(3) 2. Scientific Visualizations: Bridge-Building between the Sciences and the Humanities via Visual Analogy. "Everything one invents is true" - Gustave Flaubert Petrucci, Mario pp. 276-300(25) 3. The Microbial Stages of Humanity Cockell, CharlesS pp. 301-313(13) 4. Environmental History within a Revitalized Integrative Research Methodology for Today and Tomorrow van Eeden, Elize S pp. 314-329(16) 5. Difficulties of the Re-Emergent Science the Case of Astrobiology Czyzewska, Urszula K pp. 330-339(10) 6. When Natural met Social: A Review of Collaboration between the Natural and Social Sciences Fischer, Arnout R H; Tobi, Hilde; Ronteltap, Amber pp. 341-358(18) 7. Putting the Brain at the Heart of General Education in the Twenty-First Century: A Proposal Fuller, Steve pp. 359-372(14) -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor (fractional), University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Dec 13 07:04:07 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id E95982340A3; Tue, 13 Dec 2011 07:04:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 6D7C123408F; Tue, 13 Dec 2011 07:04:04 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111213070404.6D7C123408F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 07:04:04 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.552 events: texts & mss X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 552. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 14:45:49 +0000 From: Caroline_Macé Subject: Reminder: CFP - Leuven, 2-3 April 2012 - Digital analysis of textsand manuscripts *** Attachments: mhstore: missing argument to -part Dear Colleagues, Proposals are being invited for presentations at a workshop entitled "Methods and means for digital analysis of ancient and medieval texts and manuscripts", to be held at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven on 2-3 April 2012. ----- Call for Participation Leuven, 2-3 April 2012 Methods and means for digital analysis of ancient and medieval texts and manuscripts THE WORKSHOP This workshop aims at mapping the various ways in which digital tools can help and, indeed, change our scholarly work on "pre-modern" texts, more precisely our means of analyzing the interrelationships between manuscripts and texts produced in the pre-modern era. This includes the history of textual traditions in a very broad sense, encompassing several fields of research, such as book history, stemmatology, research on textual sources, tracing of borrowings and influences between texts, etc. We welcome researches in any field of textual scholarship carried out on any ancient or medieval textual tradition in any language (Latin, Greek, "vernacular" / "oriental" languages…), using computer-aided methods of analysis. Possible topics are: stemmatological analysis of manuscript traditions, digital palaeography / codicology, analysis of relationships between texts, textual history, textual criticism... This workshop is seen as complementary to the Interedition ‘bootcamp’ to be held in Leuven in January 2012 (see http://www.interedition.eu/ for more information). TO PARTICIPATE To participate in the workshop, please submit a short abstract (preferably in English) (300-500 words) to Tara Andrews (tara.andrews@arts.kuleuven.be) by 15 December 2011. As we seek to encourage the participation of early-stage researchers (PhD students or post-doctoral researchers), a limited number of bursaries are available to cover travel expenses. If you wish to apply for one of these, please submit an additional statement motivating your application (main criteria are importance of this workshop for your current research and absence of other possible funding). Abstracts and applications for bursaries will be evaluated by the scientific committee. The result of this evaluation will be made known by 1 February. The language of the workshop is primarily English, but we may consider other languages. Please note that we intent to publish the papers presented at this workshop as a book. If your abstract is accepted, you will also receive some guidelines for the publication. ORGANIZERS The Tree of Texts project is a CREA (“creative research”) project (3H100334), funded by the KU Leuven from 1/10/2010 to 30/9/2012) with Caroline Macé as promoter and Tara Andrews as main researcher. The project is focused on the field of text stemmatology, and the aim is to arrive at an empirical model for variation in medieval text traditions. The goal of Interedition is to promote the interoperability of the tools and methodology used in the field of digital scholarly editing and research. Equally, Interedition seeks to raise the awareness of the importance of sustainability of the digital artifacts and instruments we create. SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE: Tara Andrews (K.U.Leuven), Aurélien Berra (Université Paris-Ouest), Thomas Crombez (Universiteit Antwerpen), Juan Garcès (Göttingen Centre for Digital Humanities), Tuomas Heikkilä (University of Helsinki), Caroline Macé (K.U.Leuven), Torsten Schaßan (Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel), Frederik Truyen (K.U.Leuven), Dirk Van Hulle (Universiteit Antwerpen), Joris van Zundert (Huygens Institute) ----- Best wishes, Caroline Macé and Tara Andrews _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Dec 13 07:04:38 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 351842340E1; Tue, 13 Dec 2011 07:04:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 364432340D2; Tue, 13 Dec 2011 07:04:36 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111213070436.364432340D2@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 07:04:36 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.553 ACH election underway X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 553. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 09:14:15 -0500 From: Dot Porter Subject: ACH Election is underway ACH elections are now underway, and voting will continue through January 20, using our new online voting system. This year there are three open spots on the Executive Council, as well as openings for both President and Vice President. If you are a member in good standing of ACH (or a joint member of ACH and other ADHO constituent organizations) and you haven't received an email ballot, please contact ACH Secretary Dot Porter at dot.porter@gmail.com. Ballots will be sent in early January to anyone who has joined ACH since voting began on December 2. -- *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Dot Porter (MA, MSLS) Digital Medievalist, Digital Librarian Email: dot.porter@gmail.com *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Dec 13 08:23:33 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 814D5234B39; Tue, 13 Dec 2011 08:23:33 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id F4063234B2A; Tue, 13 Dec 2011 08:23:31 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111213082331.F4063234B2A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 08:23:31 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.554 publications: evaluating digital scholarship X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 554. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 07:28:33 +0000 From: Susan Schreibman Subject: Evaluating Digital Scholarship articles available as open access Colleagues -- I'm delighted to tell you that the Modern Language Association has generously made available on open access six specially commissioned articles on the theme of evaluating digital scholarship (Profession 2011). A wide variety of media, formats, and perspectives is covered. The series is introduced by Susan Schreibman, Laura Mandell, and Stephen Olsen, with contributions by Steve Anderson and Tara McPherson ('Engaging Digital Scholarship: Thoughts on Evaluating Multimedia Scholarship'), Geoffrey Rockwell ('Engaging Digital Scholarship: Thoughts on Evaluating Multimedia Scholarship'), Bethany Nowviskie ('Where Credit Is Due: Preconditions for the Evaluation of Collaborative Digital Scholarship'), Jerome McGann ('On Creating a Usable Future'), and Katheleen Fitzpatrick ('Peer Review, Judgment, and Reading'). These articles provide an important intervention as digital scholarship and digital scholarly methods and practices are becoming more mainstreamed into traditional academic work . Articles can be accessed via the URL below http://www.mlajournals.org/toc/prof/2011/1 Susan -- Susan Schreibman, PhD Long Room Hub Senior Lecturer in Digital Humanities School of English Trinity College Dublin Dublin 2, Ireland email: susan.schreibman@tcd.ie phone: +353 1 896 3694 fax: +353 1 671 7114 check out the new MPhil in Digital Humanities at TCD http://www.tcd.ie/English/postgraduate/digital-humanities/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Dec 14 07:56:55 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED359237F46; Wed, 14 Dec 2011 07:56:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 611D1237F33; Wed, 14 Dec 2011 07:56:53 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111214075653.611D1237F33@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 07:56:53 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.555 what to do with tapes X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 555. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 13:26:52 -0500 From: Doug Reside Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.545 what to do with tapes In-Reply-To: <20111211090737.0DC3022D803@woodward.joyent.us> Also, if any Humanist members want their 5.25 data recovered, send me an email. I may be able to do it for free (using the equipment Matt mentioned) as long as you can cover shipping and there aren't too many disks. Doug On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 4:07 AM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: >                 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 545. >            Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London >                       www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist >                Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > >        Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2011 09:10:45 -0500 >        From: Matthew Kirschenbaum >        Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.543 what to do with tapes >        In-Reply-To: <20111210065936.4E8A922C7DE@woodward.joyent.us> > > > There  are reasonable solutions for 3.5 and 5.25-inch disks, such as > the Kryoflux and FC5025 controller cards. Some more detail here: > > http://mith.umd.edu/vintage-computers/fc5025-operation-instructions > > Matt > > On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 1:59 AM, Humanist Discussion Group > wrote: >> >>                 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 543. >>            Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London >>                       www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist >>                Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org >> >>  [1]   From:    "Sterringa, J."                       (8) >>        Subject: RE: [Humanist] 25.537 what to do with tapes? >> >>  [2]   From:    "Bleck, Bradley"          (8) >>        Subject: RE: [Humanist] 25.537 what to do with tapes? (obsolete >>                technologies) >> >> >> --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>        Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2011 11:54:46 +0000 >>        From: "Sterringa, J." >>        Subject: RE: [Humanist] 25.537 what to do with tapes? >>        In-Reply-To: <20111209104127.AB55122A59B@woodward.joyent.us> >> >> In Amsterdam Edo Dooijes foresaw this problem and started collecting old machines and tools, all still working, and now kept in the Computer Museum >> http://www.science.uva.nl/museum/ >> A bit far from California, however. >> >> Best regards, >> Joke Sterringa >> >> >> --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>        Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2011 08:17:59 -0800 >>        From: "Bleck, Bradley" >>        Subject: RE: [Humanist] 25.537 what to do with tapes? (obsolete technologies) >>        In-Reply-To: <20111209104127.AB55122A59B@woodward.joyent.us> >> >> This is a great question. While I don't have tapes, I have 5-1/4" floppies from a Commodore 128 (graduate school!), 3-1/2" floppies from various Macs and PCs, zip disks and the like with data that is no longer accessible on the various machines I have access to. What do people do to recover the information form these older technologies? It seems that the request for data recovery on the tape is is just a more extreme concern for a situation I suspect many of us face. >> >> Bradley Bleck >> English Department >> Spokane Falls CC >> http://bleckblog.org > > > -- > Matthew Kirschenbaum > Associate Professor of English > Associate Director, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) > University of Maryland > 301-405-8505 or 301-314-7111 (fax) > http://mkirschenbaum.net and @mkirschenbaum on Twitter > > I am on leave, Aug. 2011-12; please refer to my personal leave policies: > http://mkirschenbaum.wordpress.com/2011/07/31/during-my-fellowship/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Dec 14 08:01:45 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id AAC872316BD; Wed, 14 Dec 2011 08:01:45 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 46B442316AD; Wed, 14 Dec 2011 08:01:44 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111214080144.46B442316AD@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 08:01:44 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.556 jobs: postdoc in Berlin; position at MIT X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 556. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Jochen Schneider (28) Subject: MPIWG Postdoctoral Fellowships [2] From: Jeffrey Ravel (44) Subject: HyperStudio's Developer Position --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 11:32:29 +0100 From: Jochen Schneider Subject: MPIWG Postdoctoral Fellowships The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin Independent Research Group on Modern Geometry and the Concept of Space Director: Vincenzo De Risi announces Two Post-doctoral Fellowships for one year in the academic year 2012-2013 (with the possibility to begin as soon as Summer 2012). The Research Group is also accepting proposals for non-funded visiting positions. See the details on the web page of the group. Research projects should concern the history of geometry, the history of mathematical epistemology or the history of the concept of space from the Ancient to the Early Modern Age. Possible topics include: • The history of elementary geometry and Euclid’s Elements in Antiquity and the Renaissance. • The philosophy of mathematics from Antiquity to the 18th century. • The conception of space from Descartes to Kant. • The beginnings of projective geometry. • Optics and the theory of vision. A fuller description of the topics and aims of the Research Group can be found here: http://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/en/research/projects/MRGdeRisi. The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science is an international and interdisciplinary research institute. The colloquium language is English; it is expected that candidates will be able to present their own work and discuss that of others fluently in that language. Applications may however be submitted in German, English, French, or Italian. Candidates should hold a doctorate at the time the position begins, and show evidence of scholarly promise in the form of publications or other achievements. The position is primarily devoted to research, with no teaching and minimal administrative duties. Fellows are expected to take part to the cultural and scientific life of the Institute, to advance their own research project, and to actively contribute to the Group researches. Fellowships are endowed with a monthly stipend between 1.900 € and 2.300 € (fellows from abroad) or between 1.468 € and 1.621 € (fellows from Germany). Please address specific questions to Ms. Claudia Paaß, Head of Administration (paass@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de). Candidates are requested to submit a curriculum vitae (including list of publications), a research proposal on a topic related to the project, a sample writing representative of the candidate’s work (such as a chapter of the doctoral dissertation or a scientific article), and names and addresses (preferably including email) of two referees who have already been contacted by the applicant to assure their willingness to submit letters of presentation if requested, to Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte Verwaltung Kennziffer: NWG De Risi Boltzmannstraße 22 14195 Berlin or by email to: verwaltungsleitung@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de by February 15th, 2012. For questions concerning the research project, please contact Dr. Vincenzo De Risi (vderisi@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de); for administrative questions concerning the position and the Institute, please contact Mr. Jochen Schneider (jsr@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de), Research Coordinator. Scholars of all nationalities are welcome to apply; applications from women are especially welcomed. The Max Planck Society is committed to employing more handicapped individuals and encourages them to apply. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 17:40:42 -0500 From: Jeffrey Ravel Subject: HyperStudio's Developer Position Web Applications Developer (part-time - 60%) MIT‘s HyperStudio team is seeking an energetic and highly motivated software engineer to build the front and back end of scalable web applications. The person will be part of the core team responsible for the design and development of online tools for information visualization and user collaboration in the humanities and social sciences. The engineer will provide system design, prototyping, implementation, functional verification, debugging, and deployment on Mac OS X and UNIX server platforms, and occasional system administration support. The person will be working closely with a team that includes developers, designers, graduate and undergraduate students, and faculty. Requirements: • BS in EE, CS, or CE• Minimum of 3 years of development experience • Expertise developing database-driven web applications and data modeling • Understanding of software engineering best practices, object oriented design, and test-driven development • Strong programming skills in Ruby on Rails • Advanced knowledge of Javascript, CSS, and HTML 5 • Track record of delivering high quality products and commitment to delivering great user experience In addition, candidates with the following are preferred: • Solid knowledge of SQL (PostgreSQL) • Familiarity with basic system administration of Mac OS X, in particular managing Apache, MySQL and PostgreSQL installations • Some familiarity with PHP and Java is desirable • Experience in building web application user interfaces (include in your résumé links to your previous work, if applicable) • Interest in and enthusiasm for the humanities and social sciences Please apply for this position through MIT’s HR site: http://sh.webhire.com/servlet ****************************************** Jeffrey S. Ravel Professor of History MIT History Faculty, E51-285 77 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02139 tel: 617.253.4451 fax: 617.253.9406 portable en France: 06.86.62.38.92 ravel@mit.edu http://web.mit.edu/ravel/www/ravel.htm ****************************************** _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Dec 14 08:03:04 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4BCB2344DE; Wed, 14 Dec 2011 08:03:04 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E1ACC2344CE; Wed, 14 Dec 2011 08:03:02 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111214080302.E1ACC2344CE@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 08:03:02 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.557 publication on research infrastructures X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 557. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 07:53:21 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Research Infrastructures in the Digital Age Many here, I expect, will want to know about and then download the new European Science Foundation Science Policy Briefing 42, Research Infrastructure in the Digital Humanities, at http://www.esf.org/research-areas/humanities/strategic-activities/research-infrastructures-in-the-humanities.html, under Press Release at the right-hand side of the page. (I still curse, though with tasteful decorum, systems which pump out horrendously long and linguistically rebarbative URLs. My tasteful (I hope) distaste will explain why I am not supplying the direct link to this report. Surely we have the technical wit to communicate as if to other humans.) Yours, WM -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor (fractional), University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Dec 14 08:07:32 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54A6E237043; Wed, 14 Dec 2011 08:07:32 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1A7EA23702E; Wed, 14 Dec 2011 08:07:30 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111214080730.1A7EA23702E@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 08:07:30 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.558 events: narratives & maps; computational linguistics for lit; games & virtual worlds X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 558. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Shawn Day (24) Subject: Spatial Narrative and Deep Maps: Explorations in the SpatialHumanities [2] From: Anna Kazantseva (73) Subject: Call for Papers: Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Literature [3] From: Leonidas Konstantelos (39) Subject: Invitation to Symposium on Preservation of Video Games and VirtualWorlds - Cardiff, UK --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 12:47:41 +0000 From: Shawn Day Subject: Spatial Narrative and Deep Maps: Explorations in the SpatialHumanities Summer 2012 NEH Institute for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities Spatial Narrative and Deep Maps: Explorations in the Spatial Humanities June 18-29, 2012 Call for Proposals: Applications due Friday, February 3, 2012 The Virtual Center for Spatial Humanities (VCSH), a multidisciplinary collaboration among Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis (IUPUI), Florida State University, and West Virginia University, is pleased to announce an NEH Advanced Institute for summer 2012 designed to advance exploration of key topics in the spatial humanities. The institute will offer scholars the opportunity to discover the benefits of a spatial-analytical approach to humanities scholarship and to explore how to bend geo-spatial technologies, including GIS and Web 2.0 tools, to the needs of the humanities. Two areas of emphasis will be spatial narratives and deep maps. Fellows participating in the program will learn both by engaging with a variety of existing projects as well as through the production of a prototype project in collaboration with the VCSH team. Fellows also will have an opportunity to present their own work and to contribute to scholarly and Web products that result from the institute. The institute will meet in Indianapolis from June 18 to 29, 2012 and will be administered by IUPUI's Polis Center. It will draw upon a multidisciplinary faculty from the three collaborating institutions, as well as leading scholars in the field of spatial humanities from the US and UK, and will be supported technically by the advanced technology group of the Polis Center. The institute schedule will allow time for fellows to interact with the staff and to seek advice for their own projects or project ideas, but the primary focus will be on how to use geo-spatial technologies to enhance the narrative and analytical traditions of the humanities. The fellows will work with project staff to develop a prototype deep map to support multi-scalar and contingent analysis of problems of interests to humanists. To focus this work, the institute will explore the spatial contexts of American religion, using the Digital Atlas of American Religion, an NEH-supported project of VCSH, and the multi-faceted evidence from the Polis Center's six-year study of the intersection of religion and urban culture in a mid-sized American city. About the fellowships: Up to 12 fellowships will be awarded to individuals or teams who demonstrate serious interest in the application of geo-spatial technologies to problems in the humanities. While scholars in all humanities disciplines are eligible to apply, we are especially interested in collaborating with those who have experience in one or more geo-spatial technologies as well as scholars who have thought about the spatial dimensions of American religion. During the institute, fellows will explore central issues in the spatial humanities, including such topics as database structures and information architectures, interactive design, and collaborative research, while situating these concerns within the fields of American history and religious studies. Guest lecturers during the summer include Ian Gregory (historical GIS and digital humanities, Lancaster University), Anne Knowles (historical geography, Middlebury College), Katy Börner (informatics and advanced visualization, Indiana University), and Art Farnsley (sociology of religion, IUPUI), among others. Institute leaders are David Bodenhamer (history, IUPUI), John Corrigan (religious studies, Florida State), and Trevor Harris (geography, West Virginia University). All fellows will participate in a two-week residency June 18-29 at IUPUI. The residency will include colloquia and working sessions in which participants collectively will develop project foundations and address relevant issues in spatial humanities. Fellows also will be provided the opportunity to present their own projects. Applicants need not be proficient with geo-spatial technologies but must demonstrate some level of engagement with them as well as with spatial questions and analyses. Evidence of the capacity for successful collaboration and for scholarly innovation is required. Fellowship awards will include a stipend of $3,000 for each participant, as well as a travel allowance. Accommodation and meal costs will be the responsibility of each fellow, but the institute will seek to arrange low-cost housing for participants. We welcome scholars from all career levels, from advanced graduate student to full professor. About the proposals: Proposals should include the following: . Two to three-page statement of how participation in the institute will fit the scholarly and professional goals of the applicant. . One-page description of the applicant's experience with geo-spatial technologies and spatial analysis. . Brief CV (maximum of three pages). . Letter of support from department chair for non-tenured faculty or from dissertation advisor for doctoral candidates. Projects that articulate a clear understanding of the potential of spatial humanities and the problems associated with the use of geo-spatial technologies in humanities scholarship will be regarded favorably. Electronic applications are required. Submit to ddearth@iupui.edu. Deadline for applications: Friday, February 3, 2012. Fellowship recipients will be notified in mid April, 2012. Questions may be directed to ddearth@iupui.edu. Trevor M. Harris PhD. Eberly Distinguished Professor of Geography Department of Geology and Geography --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 11:52:01 -0500 From: Anna Kazantseva Subject: Call for Papers: Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Literature First Call for Papers Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Literature Co-located with The 2012 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies June 7 or 8, 2012 Montréal, Québec, Canada All information, including announcements and updates, can be found on the workshop's Web site: https://sites.google.com/site/clfl2012/ MOTIVATION AND SCOPE The amount of literary material available on-line keeps growing rapidly. Not only are there machine-readable texts in libraries, collections and e-book stores, but there is also more and more “live” literature – e-zines, blogs, self-published e-books and so on. There is a need for tools to help users navigate, visualize and appreciate high volume of available literature. Literary texts are quite different from technical and formal documents, which have been the focus of NLP research thus far. Most forms of statistical language processing rely on lexical information in one way or another. In literature, the primary mode is narrative rather than exposition. Stories may be cognitively easier to read than certain expository genres, such as scientific documents, but it is a challenging form of discourse for NLP tools and methods. For instance, literary prose lacks overt lexical clues and structural markers typically leveraged in the processing of more structured genres. Also, even conventional literary texts exhibit far less unity of time, space and topic than most formal discourse. Learning to handle these challenges in literary data may help move past heavy reliance on surface clues in general. Literature also differs from other genres because of the needs of its typical audience. For instance, reading, searching or browsing literature online is a different task than searching for the latest news on a particular topic. Search criteria would be rather abstract: not a keyword, but a literary style, similarity to another work, point of view and so on. When looking for a summary or a digest, a reader may prefer to know or visualize a text's broad characteristics than facts which summarize the plot. We invite papers that touch upon these areas, but also welcome other ideas which promote the processing of literary narrative or related forms of discourse. TOPICS OF INTEREST Note: Papers on other closely related topics will also be considered * the needs of the readers and how those needs translate into meaningful NLP tasks; * searching for literature; * recommendation systems for literature; * computational modelling of narratives, computational narratology; * summarization of literature; * differences between literature and other genres as relevant to computational linguistics; * discourse structure in literature; * emotion analysis for literature; * profiling and authorship attribution; * identification and analysis of literature genres; * building and analysing social networks of characters; * generation of literary narrative, dialogue or poetry; * modelling dialogue literary style for generation. SUBMISSION We invite submission of long and short papers, describing completed or ongoing research on systems, studies, theories and models which can inform the area of computational linguistics for literature. Long papers should be at most 8 pages, plus unlimited space for references. Short papers should be at most 4 pages plus references, and can be appropriate for either oral or poster presentation. Accepted long papers, and perhaps selected short papers, will be presented as talks. In addition, we encourage submission of position papers -- mapping out research ideas and programs -- of up to 6 pages plus references. There will be double-blind review: submissions must be anonymized. Style files and sample PDFs are available on this page: http://www.naaclhlt2012.org/conference/conference.php Submission page: please visit later IMPORTANT DATES (all deadlines 11:59 pm. Hawaii Time) Submission deadline: February 20, 2012 Notification of acceptance: March 23, 2012 Camera-ready version due: April 10, 2012 Workshop: June 7 or June 8, 2012 PROGRAM COMMITTEE * Cecilia Ovesdotter Alm (Rochester Institute of Technology) * Nicholas Dames (Columbia University) * Hal Daumé III (University of Maryland) * Anna Feldman (Montclair State University) * Mark Finlayson (MIT) * Pablo Gervás (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) * Roxana Girju (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) * Amit Goyal (University of Maryland) * Katherine Havasi (MIT Media Lab) * Matthew Jockers (Stanford University) * James Lester (North Carolina State University) * Inderjeet Mani (Children's Organization of Southeast Asia) * Kathy McKeown (Columbia University) * Saif Mohammad (National Research Council, Canada) * Vivi Nastase (HITS gGmbH) * Rebecca Passonneau (Columbia University) * Livia Polanyi (LDM Associates) * Owen Rambow (Columbia University) * Michaela Regneri (Saarland University) * Reid Swanson (University of California, Santa Cruz) * Marilyn Walker (University of California, Santa Cruz) * Janice Wiebe (University of Pittsburgh) CO-ORGANIZERS * David Elson (Google) * Anna Kazantseva (University of Ottawa) * Rada Mihalcea (University of North Texas) * Stan Szpakowicz (University of Ottawa) CONTACT INFORMATION Send general inquiries to clfl.workshop@gmail.com Anna Kazantseva Ph.D. Candidate University of Ottawa School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 15:58:21 +0000 From: Leonidas Konstantelos Subject: Invitation to Symposium on Preservation of Video Games and VirtualWorlds - Cardiff, UK In-Reply-To: *** Apologies for crossposting *** Preservation Of Complex Objects Symposia (POCOS) We are pleased to announce the 3rd POCOS Symposium on Preservation of Games and Virtual Worlds: • 26-27 January 2012 • The Novotel Hotel, Cardiff, UK • Organised by the Future-Proof Computing Group, University of Portsmouth, UK. • Symposium Fee: Free + £10 donation for refreshments (payable at the event) Online registration: http://www.pocos.org/index.php/registration Preservation of video games and virtual worlds presents challenges on many fronts, including complex interdependencies between game elements and platforms; online, interactive and collaborative properties; and diversity in the technologies and practices used for development and curation. This exciting two-day symposium will provide a forum for participants to discuss these challenges, review and debate the latest developments in the field, witness real-life case studies, and engage in networking activities. The symposium will promote discussion on such topics as: • Implications and advances in preserving video games and virtual worlds • Issues of recreating complex technical environments in terms of mods, cracks, plug-ins, joysticks etc. for both console and PC games • The overriding need to provide an authentic user experience for preserved games • The Economical Case for re-releasing old games • Legal and Ethical issues in collecting, curating and preserving virtual worlds • Interpretation and Documentation, especially metadata Keynote Speakers: • Dr Jerome McDonough – The iSchool, University of Illinois, USA / Preserving Virtual Worlds Project • Prof. Richard Bartle FRSA – University of Essex, UK and creator of MUD1 • Dr Dan Pinchbeck, TheChineseRoom, UK and creator of Dear Esther Presenters include: • Paul Charisse, Visual Effects Artist, University of Portsmouth, UK with credits The Lord of the Rings (Gollum) and Harry Potter • Tom Woolley - Curator of New Media, National Media Museum, UK The programme also includes break-out sessions for participants to discuss key topics in the preservation of games and virtual worlds. For more information, please visit the POCOS page at: http://www.pocos.org/index.php/pocos-symposia/videogame-environments-a-virtual-worlds Download the brochure at: http://www.pocos.org/images/pub_material/POCOS_3_LEAFLET_V1.pdf Bookings are now open at the project website – however, space is limited so please book early. A waiting list will be maintained once the symposium is fully booked in case of late cancellations. We look forward to welcoming you at the event! Preservation Of Complex Objects Symposia (POCOS) has been funded by the JISC Information Environment Programme 2009-11 -- Dr Leo Konstantelos Principal Investigator, POCOS 11 University Gardens University of Glasgow Glasgow G12 8QH Skype: l.konstantelos E: L.Konstantelos@hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk W: http://www.hatii.arts.gla.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 Dec 15 08:22:29 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7CDB23B4ED; Thu, 15 Dec 2011 08:22:29 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 98AE823B4E4; Thu, 15 Dec 2011 08:22:27 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111215082227.98AE823B4E4@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2011 08:22:27 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.559 what to do with tapes X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 559. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 08:58:58 -0800 From: "Bleck, Bradley" Subject: RE: [Humanist] 25.555 what to do with tapes In-Reply-To: <20111214075653.611D1237F33@woodward.joyent.us> Thanks for the generous offer Doug. Can you retrieve data from disks used in a Commodore 128? I'd only have a few at most. Bradley Bleck English Department Spokane Falls CC http://bleckblog.org ________________________________________ Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 555. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 13:26:52 -0500 From: Doug Reside Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.545 what to do with tapes In-Reply-To: <20111211090737.0DC3022D803@woodward.joyent.us> Also, if any Humanist members want their 5.25 data recovered, send me an email. I may be able to do it for free (using the equipment Matt mentioned) as long as you can cover shipping and there aren't too many disks. Doug _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Dec 15 08:23:05 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F3D123B586; Thu, 15 Dec 2011 08:23:05 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B940A23B57B; Thu, 15 Dec 2011 08:23:03 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20111215082303.B940A23B57B@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2011 08:23:03 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.560 job at Illinois X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 560. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 20:48:39 +0000 From: "Reilly, Maeve J" Subject: JOB: Senior research programmer at Illinois Please share widely. GRADUATE SCHOOL OF LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE (GSLIS) University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Senior Research Programmer GSLIS seeks to hire one Senior Research Programmer to support the School's growing research computing needs. This position provides professional programming, analysis, maintenance and technical research infrastructure support for GSLIS research projects and proposals. A full job announcement and information about GSLIS, its programs, and its culture can be found on the Internet at http://www.lis.illinois.edu/ (http://www.lis.illinois.edu/about-gslis/jobs). This is a 100% FTE, 12-month, academic professional position with regular University benefits. Salary is commensurate with experience. Starting date is as soon as possible after the closing date. To ensure full consideration, please complete your candidate profile at http://jobs.illinois.edu and upload a letter of interest, names and contact information for three professional references, and your resume by January 30, 2012. Applications not submitted through this website will not be considered. Interviews may occur before the closing date; however, no decisions will be made prior to the closing date. The search will remain open until filled. For further information regarding application procedures, you may contact Candy Edwards, (cledward@illinois.edu, 217 244-3809). The U of I is an AA-EOE www.inclusiveillinois.illinois.edu. Maeve Reilly Research Services Coordinator Graduate School of Library and Information Science University of Illinois Rm 219 LIS 501 E. Daniel Champaign, IL 61820 mjreilly@illinois.edu (217) 244-7316 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Dec 15 08:34:16 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4ABB23B7E9; Thu, 15 Dec 2011 08:34:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id CBCC723B7D8; Thu, 15 Dec 2011 08:34:13 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111215083413.CBCC723B7D8@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2011 08:34:13 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.561 afraid? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 561. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 10:02:45 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: afraid? I quote from page 3 of Michael J. Preston and Samuel S. Coleman, "Some considerations concerning encoding and concording texts", Computers and the Humanities 12 (1978): 3-12. The authors are discussing the difficult question of how to assess whether what is done with computers in specific instances is worth the candle. > The difficulty, of course, is that significance in one area is not > necessarily significance in another. A computationally simple project > may be of importance in a particular discipline and should not be > assigned cavalierly to the computational hell of the "trivial." > Analogously, experimental research may yield computational results > with minimal application in a traditional discipline, but show promise > of further development and eventual broad utility. Multiple and > perhaps even contradictory viewpoints ought to be characteristic of > those who use computers in humanistic research because the technology > is being used for so many different purposes; this attitude is > particularly encouraged by the current subsiding of the old fears > about computers intruding into the humanities. Indeed, a kind of > backlash in favor of computer research in the humanities seems to > present the greatest danger-that of complacency-especially for those > of us at universities where there is a substantial group of computing > humanists. What jumps out at me is "the current subsiding of the old fears" which clears a space for complacency, for the familiarity that blocks what those fears are essentially about. When in the past I have spoken about how interesting these fears are, I've tended to get a reaction of dismissal from those old enough to be in a position to remember them. But in fact, if you check the literature of the time, fears are abundantly attested. Some of this literature also poo-poos colleagues' fearfulness, e.g. proclaiming the bright new scientific revolution happening without the help of the humanities, as Stephen M. Parrish wrote in the 1960s. But, I ask, how can any fundamental change happen without being importantly fearful? How can we possibly understand that change without experiencing the profound discomfort of the cognitive ground shifting under one's feet? I'm collecting expressions of the fear of computing among humanists ca 1950-1990. I would be most grateful for any references. Unfortunately Joanna Bourke's Fear: A Cultural History (2005) does not deal with technophobia. Yours, WM -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor (fractional), University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Dec 15 09:15:06 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB775234DF5; Thu, 15 Dec 2011 09:15:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D28CC234DE5; Thu, 15 Dec 2011 09:15:04 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111215091504.D28CC234DE5@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2011 09:15:04 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.562 call for nominations: best reference site X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 562. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 12:06:22 -0600 From: Paul Booth Subject: Reminder: Award Announcement: PCA/ACA Award for Electronic ReferenceSite The PCA/ACA Award for Best Electronic Reference Site. In recognition of the importance of new academic formats, the PCA/ACA has established an Award for excellence in Electronic Reference Site.The award is given annually to the site that a committee agrees has met the necessary qualifications for contributing significantly to the study of Popular and American Culture in the following areas: Quality of research/scholarship,Use of hypertext/networking of electronic medium, Use of supplementary/secondary materials, Contribution to popular and American studies scholarship, Breadth of archived material, Ease of searching, and updatability. Please send a 1-page nomination with the website address, sponsoring organization, targeted audience, general mission and/or special features of the site. Please also include contact information foraward notification. Self-nominations are allowed. Awards will be givenat the annual PCA/ACA conference. Deadline for nominations is Dec 31,2011. Contact: Paul Booth, pbooth@depaul.edu _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Dec 15 09:18:26 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1A94235921; Thu, 15 Dec 2011 09:18:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 965F3235691; Thu, 15 Dec 2011 09:18:24 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111215091824.965F3235691@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2011 09:18:24 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.563 job at Cambridge X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 563. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2011 09:11:44 +0000 From: Chris Martin Subject: 6 month Research Associate post in Digital Humanities at CRASSH In-Reply-To: <4EE8B1DD.5010409@cam.ac.uk> -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: 6 month Research Associate post in Digital Humanities at CRASSH > Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 14:25:33 +0000 > From: Anne Alexander Dear colleagues, Please find below details of a new short-term post in Digital Humanities and Transferable Skills Training available in 2012. I'd be very grateful if you could circulate further to anyone who may be interested in applying. Best wishes, Anne Alexander Apply online here: http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/page/1082/ra-digital-humanities.htm *Research Associate Digital Humanities and Transferable Skills Training (TST) Six-month post attached to the Digital Humanities Network at CRASSH* Full-time, starting 1 February 2012 or as soon as possible thereafter Salary: £27,428 pa pro rata (Grade 7), fixed term contract, no possibility of renewal. *Deadline for applications: 9 January 2012* CRASSH is seeking a postdoctoral Research Associate to lead a six-month project on the digital humanities and Transferable Skills Training (TST). The project focuses specifically on the transferability of digital skills, and aims to increase awareness among early-career researchers of how the digital skills they have learnt in one context (social, academic or professional) can be applied in another. The initiative has three principal aims: · To encourage early-career researchers across CSAH and CHSS to develop advanced digital skills, make them aware of existing training provision and self-teaching resources relevant to their needs. · To enhance early-career researchers' awareness of the transferability of advanced digital skills, both in terms of the development of their academic careers, and in terms of their employability outside academia in the rapidly expanding digital economy, through the development of a set of online resources and a workshop which would highlight how digital skills can support research and researchers' careers (both inside and outside academia) · To develop recommendations for sustainable researcher development in this area, in consultation with key stakeholders across the two schools, including identification of potential sources of external funding following the end of the Roberts funding in 2012. *_Main duties_* Produce a report on the digital training needs of the early-career researcher community across CSAH and CHSS in consultation with key stakeholders across the University. Make recommendations on how to deliver sustainable researcher development in this area in the medium and long term, including the identification of sources of potential future funding after the end of the current Roberts funding in 2012. Create a sustainable directory of research training provision in this area to be hosted on the Cambridge Digital Humanities Network website, as an easily accessible point of reference for early-career researchers in the humanities and social sciences across the two schools. Create a range of online resources focussing on the role of advanced digital skills in career development both in the academic and professional domains. Organise a one-day workshop aimed at early-career researchers which would highlight how digital skills can support research and researchers' careers (both inside and outside academia). The proposed timeline for the project, based on a start date of 1 February would be: project report by mid-July 2012, online resources made available from the end of May 2012, workshop to take place in May or June 2012. *_Person specification_* The Digital Humanities and TST project leader must have: · A PhD in the arts, social sciences and humanities · Knowledge and experience of advanced digital tools such as advanced use of peer-to-peer networks and social media platforms, managing user-generated content, and engaging with the public and the media in online environments · An awareness of existing training provision and self-teaching resources relevant to the needs of early career researchers · Excellent communication and networking skills, both oral and written · Strong organisation skills and the ability to work independently and to deadlines *_How to apply_* The appointment is full-time for a six-month period, non-renewable. The start date will be 1 February 2012 or as soon as possible thereafter, but no later than end February 2012. Applications should be made via the online application system http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/applications.php by the deadline of *midday on 9 January 2012* and should include: · CV uploaded as a PDF · A Statement of Support (typed into the field Project Title) · a completed form CHRIS 6 http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/offices/hr/forms/chris6/ , Parts 1 and 3 only for this application · Contact details of two referees Informal enquiries about the post can be made to Dr Anne Alexander, raa43@cam.ac.uk , Co-ordinator of the Digital Humanities Network at CRASSH. For queries relating to the online application system, please contact the Administrator, ch335@cam.ac.uk. *Equal Opportunities Information* The University of Cambridge appoints solely on merit. No applicant for an appointment in the University, or member of staff once appointed, will be treated less favourably than another on the grounds of sex (including gender reassignment), marital or parental status, race, ethnic or national origin, colour, disability (including HIV status), sexual orientation, religion, age or socio-economic factors. *Information if you have a Disability* The University welcomes applications from individuals with disabilities. Our recruitment and selection procedures follow best practice and comply with disability legislation. The University is committed to ensuring that applicants with disabilities receive fair treatment throughout the recruitment process.Adjustments will be made, wherever reasonable to do so, to enable applicants to compete to the best of their ability and, if successful, to assist them during their employment. We encourage applicants to declare their disabilities in order that any special arrangements, particularly for the selection process, can be accommodated. Applicants or employees can declare a disability at any time. Applicants wishing to discuss with or inform the University of any special arrangements connected with their disability can, at any point in the recruitment process, contact the Administrator , who is responsible for recruitment to this position, on Telephone: 01223 760490, or by post to 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge CB2 1RX . *Further Information* There is a range of information which you may find helpful on the University's website: www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/ http://www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/ . This includes applying for posts, working at the University, living in Cambridge and details of current vacancies. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Dec 16 09:54:48 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BD3A23E60C; Fri, 16 Dec 2011 09:54:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C1F6423E59E; Fri, 16 Dec 2011 09:54:45 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111216095445.C1F6423E59E@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2011 09:54:45 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.564 call for proposals: scholarly editing X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 564. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2011 13:50:28 -0600 From: Andrew Jewell Subject: Scholarly Editing Proposal Deadline Extended *Scholarly Editing* Proposal Deadline Extended Since we have heard from potential contributors that the previous deadline at the end of the semester presented a hardship, we have decided to extend the deadline for edition proposals to *January 31, 2012*. For your reference, here is the call for proposals: CALL FOR EDITIONS AND ESSAYS 2013 Issue Edition Proposals As part of our commitment to publish the scholarly work of editors, we invite proposals for rigorously edited digital small-scale editions to be published in the peer-reviewed, open-access, digital journal, Scholarly Editing. Proposals should be approximately 1000 words long and should include the following information: 1) A description of content, scope, and approach. Please describe the materials you will edit and how you will approach editing and commenting on them. We anticipate that a well-researched apparatus (an introduction, annotations, etc.) will be key to most successful proposals. 2) A statement of significance. Please briefly explain how this edition will contribute to your field. 3) Approximate length. 4) Indication of technical proficiency. With only rare exceptions, any edition published by Scholarly Editing must be in XML (Extensible Markup Language) that complies with TEI (Text Encoding Initiative) Guidelines, which have been widely accepted as the standard for digital textual editing. Please indicate your facility with TEI. 5) A brief description of how you imagine the materials should be visually represented. Scholarly Editing will provide support to display images and text in an attractive house style. If you wish to create a highly customized display, please describe it and indicate what technologies you plan to use to build it. Please send proposals as Rich Text Format (RTF), MS Word, or PDF to the co-editors via email no later than January 31, 2012 for consideration for the 2013 issue. Essays Scholarly Editing welcomes submissions of articles discussing any aspect of the theory or practice of editing, print or digital. Please send submissions via email to the editors and include the following information in the body of your email: 1) Names, contact information, and institutional affiliations of all authors; 2) Title of the article; and 3) Filename of article. Please omit all identifying information from the article itself. Send proposals as Rich Text Format (RTF), MS Word, or PDF; if you wish to include image files or other addenda, please send all as a single zip archive. For questions of style and citation format, please consult the current edition of The Chicago Manual of Style. Submissions must be received by April 1, 2012, for consideration for the 2013 issue. Please, no simultaneous submissions. Feel free to contact us if you have questions. Amanda Gailey Department of English Center for Digital Research in the Humanities University of Nebraska-Lincoln agailey2@unlnotes.unl.edu Andrew Jewell University Libraries Center for Digital Research in the Humanities University of Nebraska-Lincoln ajewell@unlnotes.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 Fri Dec 16 09:58:29 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A7EB23E7E4; Fri, 16 Dec 2011 09:58:29 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 7DF8823E6F4; Fri, 16 Dec 2011 09:58:27 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111216095827.7DF8823E6F4@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2011 09:58:27 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.565 Happy/Merry Christmas 2011! X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 565. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2011 09:24:18 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Happy/Merry Christmas 2011 Because Humanist has grown so much in the last year it is an even better idea than otherwise to explain my habit of sending out a Christmas message to everyone within reach. My practice goes back to a particular Christmas season in Toronto whose circumstances are described better in Humanist 3.879 (22 December 1989) than I could possibly manage in 2011. I commend it to your attention, at www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Archives/Virginia/v03/0873.html. It is good to be reminded by those words that at least with respect to the academic field we now call the digital humanities, conditions were far less bright and hopeful than they are today. The remarkable change since then I suspect may also be marked by the greater difficulty in feeling a cozy sense of communal belonging that was then far easier to achieve. Members of this electronic seminar (an antiquated term, but one I still like) and the somewhat larger group of practitioners were a relatively small and certainly beleaguered assembly, therefore more cohesive. Nothing like the scorn of one's colleagues, "with darkness and dangers compassed round", to compel that sense. But uncompelled we can imagine community without further degrading that powerful word. I think we help to restore it. This, then, is to celebrate how very different our professional circumstances are now, and to conjure for those not around back then the enormity of what has been achieved by the many, some labouring steadily since then. Jobs, students, publications proliferating. A strong international organization of organizations, with more in the queue. Scholars actually trained to be in the field now beginning to take their places in it. Academic departments starting to emerge. So much to celebrate. Those of us who have been in the Long March (a parallel I conjure and abjure simultaneously) are bound to wonder how to keep alive the memory of it so as continually to create for the present a sense of trajectory, hence guidance into the many futures. Memories are what individuals have. They're a valuable source for making the history we need. But they're only the beginning of it. If one could one might be tempted to go back to the world before the Web, when writing that history was simultaneously not so urgent and apparently within reach. We then did not have the dizzying abundance of materials we can now see are not simply relevant but a sine qua non, collectively if not individually, e.g. Fortune Magazine's special issue of March 1964, "The Boundless Age", or Shell Oil's advert for IBM, "The Oracle on 57th Street", in The Saturday Evening Post of 16 December 1960, or Herman H. Goldstine's The Computer from Pascal to von Neumann (1972), or Bernard J. Baars' The Cognitive Revolution in Psychology (1986). The list (alas, hooray) seems endless. We can now, thanks to the Web and its digitized contents, see that the horizon of relevance and our abilities to discern it are coterminous -- or, to put the matter the other way around, if we're an island we're in a large and complexly interrelated archipelago of disciplines, practices and lives. Here Christmas is a very dark time of year, though not so dark as points further north, of course. Gloom is its genius. This year Chanukah (20-28 December) overlaps; St Lucy's Day (13 December) has come and gone, as has Al-Hijra (7 December); the end of the year in the Sikh calendar (26 December) is soon. Humanist will continue to be sent out most of the days of this season, depending on what's sent in and what's cooking downstairs. All the very best to all of you! Yours, WM -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor (fractional), University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Dec 16 10:30:13 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7680B23C712; Fri, 16 Dec 2011 10:30:13 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id CA19323CEDE; Fri, 16 Dec 2011 10:30:07 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111216103007.CA19323CEDE@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2011 10:30:07 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.566 events: live chat on higher education (in 1.5 hrs) X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 566. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2011 02:17:58 -0800 (PST) From: Ernesto Priego Subject: Guardian live chat: purpose of higher education In-Reply-To: <20111216095827.7DF8823E6F4@woodward.joyent.us> Hello all, Apologies for using the seminar for this announcement. Not sure if everyone would get this today Friday 16 December in time but I'll give it a go. I suggested today's question for the Guardian Higher Education Network end of the year "live chat" (the interface does not really work like a chat room but it seems the Guardian does not really or cannot do anything to change this). The question is "is this the end of knowledge for knowledge's sake?", which they also rephrased as "What is the purpose of higher education?" I recommended various members of the UK digital humanities communities, and I am glad that they took my suggestions on board and they went for Willard, Simon Tanner and Geoffrey Rockwell to be part of the expert panel. The conversation will take place 12-2pm GMT (it remains online afterwards so you can always check it later). The link to go to is http://www.guardian.co.uk/higher-education-network/blog/2011/dec/13/purpose-of-university Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2012 to you all. Best, Dr Ernesto Priego http://www.comicsgrid.com/ http://about.me/ernestopriego _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Dec 16 10:51:17 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77D1223EBAE; Fri, 16 Dec 2011 10:51:17 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E89EC23EBA6; Fri, 16 Dec 2011 10:51:15 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111216105115.E89EC23EBA6@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2011 10:51:15 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.567 a surf's objection X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 567. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2011 19:44:39 +0900 From: Geoffrey Rockwell Subject: from a surf Dear Willard, This is a late answer to your pointing us to the Matthew Reisz article “Surfdom” (http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=418343) which starts with, “The internet has revolutionised humanities research. But has the development of ever-more sophisticated online resources freed up scholars to explore new ideas, or made them slaves to the digital machine?” His approach seems to find someone to quote, ask a pointed question and let that stand as evidence that there is a problem. While this approach is irritating when you have been in the field for some time, it is probably worth addressing taking some of the issues raised seriously. * Serfdom. The title of the article, "Surfdom" and opening question about whether online resources have made us slaves is just plain silly. Does the existence of resources enslave anyone in any meaningful way? If so, were we slaves to print before? Does Reisz think we were free before to explore new ideas and are now serfs to the surfing machine? Yes, that old story of technological slavery again; now dressed in cute questions about the digital humanities which alas will have to put up with such reporting as long as we are seen as the new new thing. As for serfdom, Reisz plies his readers with suggestions that the technological (the mechanical) is limiting scholarship or public access or some unidentified person who might be fooled into thinking the digital is the real thing. Philosophers and historians of science and technology have long questioned such facile deterministic views which would have a dominant technology drive our thinking. There is undoubtedly a connection, but it goes both ways. Perhaps the digital is being enslaved by the humanities. Perhaps computing is going to turn out to be driven by the questions of English profs. What matters is that we continue to discuss the digital and how it might change the questions we ask, and that is one of the things we have been doing seriously in the digital humanities. * Digitization driving scholarship. Reisz quotes Peitch to the effect that "what gets digitsed drives scholarship." There is some truth to this, but the same holds for any scholarly work. What is published (in your language) also drives scholarship as do all sorts of other things like public funding, conferences, and student enrolments. Has it ever been any different? I would call it “changing” not driving with its slave driving connotations. If anything digital archives are coexisting and supplementing traditional archives so that scholars can choose what will drive them. Would we want it any different? Imagine if a field like the digital humanities had no effect? While I doubt we are driving scholarship (the cuts in the UK to universities are doing that) the digital humanities should make a difference and there is nothing wrong with that. What discipline does not try to engage others? Why should projects be funded if we don't try to change the scholarship? * Access. Reisz manages to turn virtues of access into sins. He quotes Pietsch that "digitisation does reduce some of the obstacles imposed by distance" and then quotes her to the effect that most of what she needs remains unavailable "in bricks-and-mortar institutions". In other words all this digitization doesn't help (even if it driving things). One story hardly touches the issue of access. Reisz may still have to travel, but how many scholars don't need to travel because they can access a digital surrogate? Reisz himself admits, "It is a rare researcher in the humanities today who doesn't draw frequently on digital resources, as well as using the internet to check factual details or read texts that are long out of print." Digitization of materials was never meant to entirely replace archival access, it is meant to broaden access to those without travel grants and to reduce the need for fragile documents to be constantly consulted. The digital surrogate supplements, but doesn't replace the original. Use of digital resources is one more tool available to the scholar. For that matter, access isn't only for the scholars like Pietch working on neglected topics. Access is also for the geneaologists, the amateurs, and the citizens who pay for universities. We would be fools to think that only professionals with travel grants are interested in online resources or the only people important. Digitization is a way to engage a broader community and return scholarship to them, not that Reiz thinks much of that argument (see below). * Limitations. Reisz quotes Turner about the "limitations imposed by the mechanical process" of digitization. I wonder what the alternative to mechanical processes is? Copying out by hand? Are there not limitations to the mechanically printed editions we read, to the opto-mechanical microfilms we use to consult newspapers, or even the "originals" which were often mechanically produced (and are still housed in infrastructure like archives.) Sure things get missed in digitization - that is what archiving does and what editing does - it keeps and discards, it shows and hides. Digitization is no different - content experts make choices about what to digitize, how to encode it, and what sort of access system will deal it up. Archivists make similar choices. Scholars should question these decisions, they should look closely at the medium and infrastructure they use to study the past whatever the form. Surely a serious scholar, who uses a computer in everyday work as most do in this age, will not be fooled into "a false sense of security in some digital projects". After all they are scholars and most are really go at asking questions. No doubt we all need continued training and other opportunities where we can learn about the limits of the digital, but that too is what the digital humanities offers. Reisz seems limited in his view of what the digital humanities is. He thinks we digitize mindlessly without ever wondering about the choices made. * Utility, Democratisation and Thinking. Underlying much of Reisz's argument are some assumptions about what the point of scholarship is and what is useful. His opening, phrased as a question, contrasts the slavery of online resource development to exploring "new ideas." Digital development not only threatens thinking, he also complains that it isn't even useful to amateurs as a resource. He writes about the Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music being organized in a way that is useless to the "amateur music lover". He complains about Paul Vetch's argument about democratisation (by making scholarly resources available through digitization), "If democratisation means anything, it must surely mean more than just making freely available online something of interest to only a handful of specialists." But that is exactly the point - digitization can make specialized information available for use by anyone who can surf the web instead of keeping it to a professional caste lucky enough to be paid to chase the stuff down. Since when are only scholars interested in specialized resources. Reisz should get out more and meet some of the people who love this stuff without a PhD. Digitization opens up specialization letting anyone play at it, and we should be very careful making assumptions about what will be useful to whom over time. As for generating ideas, he should read his Plato. Socrates in the Phaedrus complained that writing would not make us wiser. I've seen no evidence that any form of writing, scholarship, or information access makes anyone wiser or helps them think. Information, whatever form it takes, is something we think about or think through, it isn't the new ideas themselves, they are what people have. If anything Reisz isn't radical enough. If we want people to explore ideas we might try discouraging writing altogether, including his writing (and mine) and get back to dialogue with a philosopher. We simply don't know where or when new ideas are going to come and if there is a problem it is that we are inundated with cheap information dressed as reporting instead of knowledge. * Funding Ideas. At the same time that he complains about digitizing too much specialized stuff he also quotes an anonymous researcher that, "Meanwhile, there was less money available to fund researchers wanting to investigate a substantive question or develop an original idea." The implication is that digitization doesn't further substantive or original research. Or perhaps the wrong people are being funded as he complains about how digital humanities is done in teams (with graduate students being funded.) Do these people have no original ideas? Do they not pursue questions? I think there is a hidden snobbery here that some more worthy club of people who wouldn't stoop to manage a digital project are the real thinkers that should be funded. There is the suggestion that all sorts of much more worthy traditional research is being neglected as money is wasted on digitization. People, that great anonymous and undocumented people, "raised questions about whether there aren't just as many pointless projects and whether the field always justifies the hype that surrounds it." So who decides what is a pointless project? One anonymous and unhappy reviewer or the committees who judged the digital grants fundable? The humanities have been whipped pointlessly since Socrates was martyred and Reisz knows that, even as he tries his hand without admitting it. I would answer that it is in the nature of pure research to do things that seem pointless to others and it has ever been so, even before the digital humanities. Find me a project which no one complains about. Digitization doesn't change the tendency of scholars to pursue ever more specialized questions and it won't change the pointless criticism. At least when projects are accessible on the web we aren't hiding in an ivory tower. At least through digitization we are openly sharing the research and digital evidence with a potential public. I hope some publics see through to things that interest them and continue to support universities and granting councils still interested in substantial work whether digital or not, useful or not. * Waste. The one point I would agree with is that we need to be talking about what works best and how to best husband the resources available, more so now that we are facing cutbacks in the humanities. Sure, some digital projects have wasted their funds and some resources aren't being used (yet), but isn't that normal at a time when we are experimenting with new technologies that are changing. Should we just sit back and wait until the dust settles and someone outside tells us how to do things right or should we try solutions relevant to the humanities. The fact is that the digital humanities has led the discussion about how to best leverage computing for scholarship. We have been addressing these issues for decades, but Reisz seems to think the digital humanities is just a stampede to digitize stuff. One could rewrite his article in praise of how the issues of access, limitations, audience, and technology he is raising now in 2011 have been discussed in the digital humanities since the 1970s. Central to the digital humanities are questions about digitization and computing with the digitized, but he wouldn't know without consulting the (online) record. I want to tell readers who think we are wantonly digitizing without thought to take a course in our Humanities Computing MA program or read about the TEI. The solution to the issue of poorly thought out digitization is the ongoing and rigorous discussion of the issue and that is what informatics, library and information science and the digital humanities have been cultivating for decades. No doubt the length of this response says something about how artfully he pricks my hopes and beliefs about the digital humanities. I wish responding to reporting were not necessary, or that I believed that any reporting like any review is good (whatever it says), but as we move from a discipline largely ignored to one questioned publicly we need to prepare for critical reporting and respond. We should be prepared to take criticism seriously and explain what we do over and over. It has, alas, become part of the job of the humanities to explain the value of our work. As you (Willard) point out in your comment below the article, he has an awfully limited idea of what the digital humanities is which means others do too. Best, Geoffrey Rockwell _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Dec 17 08:15:18 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 704E8241C81; Sat, 17 Dec 2011 08:15:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A89F8241C58; Sat, 17 Dec 2011 08:15:16 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111217081516.A89F8241C58@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2011 08:15:16 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.568 a surf's objection X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 568. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2011 12:09:57 -0800 From: Jascha Kessler Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.567 a surf's objection In-Reply-To: <20111216105115.E89EC23EBA6@woodward.joyent.us> My thanks to a detailed objurgation to Surfdom by Reisz, from Mr. Rockwell. It might be well to step a bit further back and consider the ancient [cf Cynics'] besetting legacy of Primitivism, a recurrent motif in civilizations East and West. It is a fundamental trope, so to say, as in "Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers...." A "hard primitivist" is to be found in Thoreau's WALDEN, who adjured us to keep our accounts on our thumbnail, and deplored, wittily, the excitement over the advent of telegraphy. [Cf. attached published letter on this head, in Financial Times, March 2009]. This is not about Luddite phenomena. On the other hand there are ties that essentially bind, each and all, each to each, and all to all. Freud wrote a short paper in 1917, in which he praised the telephone, a later derivative of telegraphy, for its ability to put us into contact with our nearest and dearest, virtually, by voice, over theretofore vast differences. Both are to be considered essential examples at extreme opposites, or 180° apart. The matrix is communication. Not by naked touch, but by our fundamental attribute, speech, that is coded speech, or language. The tongue talks. Digitization, of everything, that is our indexing index fingers, is a current manifestation. Like speech, it can be nothing, merest palaver, or everything, and that everything is the second derivation from speech, or writing, that is translation of speech into letters or signs. Addiction to digitals, letters or images, is perhaps an individual problem: one cannot take a walk without passing 9 out of 10 walking and texting, or talking into headphones while jogging, or whatever. It is quasi-surreal, to be sure: people not even seeing the world about them, but focused on distant other persons, in so to say "touch." It is something new and strange, growing at full fathom five, like the coral in Shax's THE TEMPEST... but, mirabile dictu! alive, alive, oh! Jascha Kessler *** Attachments: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1324066206_2011-12-16_humanist-owner@lists.digitalhumanities.org_96.2.jpeg On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 2:51 AM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 567. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2011 19:44:39 +0900 > From: Geoffrey Rockwell > Subject: from a surf > > > Dear Willard, > > This is a late answer to your pointing us to the Matthew Reisz article > “Surfdom” ( > http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=418343) which > starts with, > > “The internet has revolutionised humanities research. But has the > development of ever-more sophisticated online resources freed up scholars > to explore new ideas, or made them slaves to the digital machine?” > > His approach seems to find someone to quote, ask a pointed question and > let that stand as evidence that there is a problem. While this approach is > irritating when you have been in the field for some time, it is probably > worth addressing taking some of the issues raised seriously. > > * Serfdom. The title of the article, "Surfdom" and opening question about > whether online resources have made us slaves is just plain silly. Does the > existence of resources enslave anyone in any meaningful way? If so, were we > slaves to print before? Does Reisz think we were free before to explore new > ideas and are now serfs to the surfing machine? Yes, that old story of > technological slavery again; now dressed in cute questions about the > digital humanities which alas will have to put up with such reporting as > long as we are seen as the new new thing. As for serfdom, Reisz plies his > readers with suggestions that the technological (the mechanical) is > limiting scholarship or public access or some unidentified person who might > be fooled into thinking the digital is the real thing. Philosophers and > historians of science and technology have long questioned such facile > deterministic views which would have a dominant technology drive our > thinking. There is undoubtedly a connection, but it goes both ways. Perhaps > the digital is being enslaved by the humanities. Perhaps computing is going > to turn out to be driven by the questions of English profs. What matters is > that we continue to discuss the digital and how it might change the > questions we ask, and that is one of the things we have been doing > seriously in the digital humanities. > > * Digitization driving scholarship. Reisz quotes Peitch to the effect that > "what gets digitsed drives scholarship." There is some truth to this, but > the same holds for any scholarly work. What is published (in your language) > also drives scholarship as do all sorts of other things like public > funding, conferences, and student enrolments. Has it ever been any > different? I would call it “changing” not driving with its slave driving > connotations. If anything digital archives are coexisting and supplementing > traditional archives so that scholars can choose what will drive them. > Would we want it any different? Imagine if a field like the digital > humanities had no effect? While I doubt we are driving scholarship (the > cuts in the UK to universities are doing that) the digital humanities > should make a difference and there is nothing wrong with that. What > discipline does not try to engage others? Why should projects be funded if > we don't try to change the scholarship? > > * Access. Reisz manages to turn virtues of access into sins. He quotes > Pietsch that "digitisation does reduce some of the obstacles imposed by > distance" and then quotes her to the effect that most of what she needs > remains unavailable "in bricks-and-mortar institutions". In other words all > this digitization doesn't help (even if it driving things). One story > hardly touches the issue of access. Reisz may still have to travel, but how > many scholars don't need to travel because they can access a digital > surrogate? Reisz himself admits, "It is a rare researcher in the humanities > today who doesn't draw frequently on digital resources, as well as using > the internet to check factual details or read texts that are long out of > print." Digitization of materials was never meant to entirely replace > archival access, it is meant to broaden access to those without travel > grants and to reduce the need for fragile documents to be constantly > consulted. The digital surrogate supplements, but doesn't replace the > original. Use of digital resources is one more tool available to the > scholar. > > For that matter, access isn't only for the scholars like Pietch working on > neglected topics. Access is also for the geneaologists, the amateurs, and > the citizens who pay for universities. We would be fools to think that only > professionals with travel grants are interested in online resources or the > only people important. Digitization is a way to engage a broader community > and return scholarship to them, not that Reiz thinks much of that argument > (see below). > > * Limitations. Reisz quotes Turner about the "limitations imposed by the > mechanical process" of digitization. I wonder what the alternative to > mechanical processes is? Copying out by hand? Are there not limitations to > the mechanically printed editions we read, to the opto-mechanical > microfilms we use to consult newspapers, or even the "originals" which were > often mechanically produced (and are still housed in infrastructure like > archives.) Sure things get missed in digitization - that is what archiving > does and what editing does - it keeps and discards, it shows and hides. > Digitization is no different - content experts make choices about what to > digitize, how to encode it, and what sort of access system will deal it up. > Archivists make similar choices. Scholars should question these decisions, > they should look closely at the medium and infrastructure they use to study > the past whatever the form. Surely a serious scholar, who uses a computer > in everyday work as most do in this age, will not be fooled into "a false > sense of security in some digital projects". After all they are scholars > and most are really go at asking questions. No doubt we all need continued > training and other opportunities where we can learn about the limits of the > digital, but that too is what the digital humanities offers. Reisz seems > limited in his view of what the digital humanities is. He thinks we > digitize mindlessly without ever wondering about the choices made. > > * Utility, Democratisation and Thinking. Underlying much of Reisz's > argument are some assumptions about what the point of scholarship is and > what is useful. His opening, phrased as a question, contrasts the slavery > of online resource development to exploring "new ideas." Digital > development not only threatens thinking, he also complains that it isn't > even useful to amateurs as a resource. He writes about the Digital Image > Archive of Medieval Music being organized in a way that is useless to the > "amateur music lover". He complains about Paul Vetch's argument about > democratisation (by making scholarly resources available through > digitization), "If democratisation means anything, it must surely mean more > than just making freely available online something of interest to only a > handful of specialists." But that is exactly the point - digitization can > make specialized information available for use by anyone who can surf the > web instead of keeping it to a professional caste lucky enough to be paid > to chase the stuff down. Since when are only scholars interested in > specialized resources. Reisz should get out more and meet some of the > people who love this stuff without a PhD. Digitization opens up > specialization letting anyone play at it, and we should be very careful > making assumptions about what will be useful to whom over time. As for > generating ideas, he should read his Plato. Socrates in the Phaedrus > complained that writing would not make us wiser. I've seen no evidence that > any form of writing, scholarship, or information access makes anyone wiser > or helps them think. Information, whatever form it takes, is something we > think about or think through, it isn't the new ideas themselves, they are > what people have. If anything Reisz isn't radical enough. If we want people > to explore ideas we might try discouraging writing altogether, including > his writing (and mine) and get back to dialogue with a philosopher. We > simply don't know where or when new ideas are going to come and if there is > a problem it is that we are inundated with cheap information dressed as > reporting instead of knowledge. > > * Funding Ideas. At the same time that he complains about digitizing too > much specialized stuff he also quotes an anonymous researcher that, > "Meanwhile, there was less money available to fund researchers wanting to > investigate a substantive question or develop an original idea." The > implication is that digitization doesn't further substantive or original > research. Or perhaps the wrong people are being funded as he complains > about how digital humanities is done in teams (with graduate students being > funded.) Do these people have no original ideas? Do they not pursue > questions? I think there is a hidden snobbery here that some more worthy > club of people who wouldn't stoop to manage a digital project are the real > thinkers that should be funded. There is the suggestion that all sorts of > much more worthy traditional research is being neglected as money is wasted > on digitization. People, that great anonymous and undocumented people, > "raised questions about whether there aren't just as many pointless > projects and whether the field always justifies the hype that surrounds > it." So who decides what is a pointless project? One anonymous and unhappy > reviewer or the committees who judged the digital grants fundable? The > humanities have been whipped pointlessly since Socrates was martyred and > Reisz knows that, even as he tries his hand without admitting it. I would > answer that it is in the nature of pure research to do things that seem > pointless to others and it has ever been so, even before the digital > humanities. Find me a project which no one complains about. Digitization > doesn't change the tendency of scholars to pursue ever more specialized > questions and it won't change the pointless criticism. At least when > projects are accessible on the web we aren't hiding in an ivory tower. At > least through digitization we are openly sharing the research and digital > evidence with a potential public. I hope some publics see through to things > that interest them and continue to support universities and granting > councils still interested in substantial work whether digital or not, > useful or not. > > * Waste. The one point I would agree with is that we need to be talking > about what works best and how to best husband the resources available, more > so now that we are facing cutbacks in the humanities. Sure, some digital > projects have wasted their funds and some resources aren't being used > (yet), but isn't that normal at a time when we are experimenting with new > technologies that are changing. Should we just sit back and wait until the > dust settles and someone outside tells us how to do things right or should > we try solutions relevant to the humanities. The fact is that the digital > humanities has led the discussion about how to best leverage computing for > scholarship. We have been addressing these issues for decades, but Reisz > seems to think the digital humanities is just a stampede to digitize stuff. > One could rewrite his article in praise of how the issues of access, > limitations, audience, and technology he is raising now in 2011 have been > discussed in the digital humanities since the 1970s. Central to the digital > humanities are questions about digitization and computing with the > digitized, but he wouldn't know without consulting the (online) record. I > want to tell readers who think we are wantonly digitizing without thought > to take a course in our Humanities Computing MA program or read about the > TEI. The solution to the issue of poorly thought out digitization is the > ongoing and rigorous discussion of the issue and that is what informatics, > library and information science and the digital humanities have been > cultivating for decades. > > No doubt the length of this response says something about how artfully he > pricks my hopes and beliefs about the digital humanities. I wish responding > to reporting were not necessary, or that I believed that any reporting like > any review is good (whatever it says), but as we move from a discipline > largely ignored to one questioned publicly we need to prepare for critical > reporting and respond. We should be prepared to take criticism seriously > and explain what we do over and over. It has, alas, become part of the job > of the humanities to explain the value of our work. As you (Willard) point > out in your comment below the article, he has an awfully limited idea of > what the digital humanities is which means others do too. > > Best, > > Geoffrey Rockwell -- Jascha Kessler Professor of English & Modern Literature, UCLA Telephone/Facsimile: 310.393.4648 www.jfkessler.com www.xlibris.com _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Dec 20 06:11:19 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97101248BBB; Tue, 20 Dec 2011 06:11:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C81D2248BB2; Tue, 20 Dec 2011 06:11:17 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111220061117.C81D2248BB2@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 06:11:17 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.569 Australasian Association joins ADHO X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 569. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 12:55:04 +1100 From: Craig Bellamy Subject: aaDH joins ADHO Dear Humanist, We are pleased to announce that the Australasian Association for Digital Humanities (aaDH) has been admitted to the international umbrella group, the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organisations (ADHO http://digitalhumanities.org/ ). Membership to aaDH will now occur through subscription to the LLC Journal http://www.oxfordjournals.org/our_journals/litlin/access_purchase/price_list.html , which administers association memberships for all ADHO constituent organisations. Professor Ray Siemens (Victoria; Canada), Chair of the ADHO Steering Committee passed on the following message: "On behalf of all members of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organisations, the ADHO Steering Committee wishes to extend a very warm welcome to the Australian Association for Digital Humanities as the newest ADHO Constituent Organisation. The discussion was strongly supportive and positive, and the decision unanimous". More information about the aaDH and our upcoming conference can be found here http://aa-dh.org/2011/12/aadh-joins-adho/ . Kind Regards, Dr Craig Bellamy Secretary, aaDH (For the aaDH executive) _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Dec 22 08:33:16 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70F4524A326; Thu, 22 Dec 2011 08:33:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 568A724A33B; Thu, 22 Dec 2011 08:33:14 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111222083314.568A724A33B@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2011 08:33:14 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.570 a surf's relief X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 570. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2011 10:27:57 -0600 From: Patricia Galloway Subject: a surf's objection In-Reply-To: Here's how I feel about increasingly miniaturized and omnipresent communications technologies: when I am old(er) and babbling to myself on the public streets, people will just assume that I am wearing a particularly miniaturized headset and will let me go my way in peace. That's one good side of the phenomenon... Pat Galloway On 12/17/2011 6:00 AM, humanist-request@lists.digitalhumanities.org wrote: > Send Humanist mailing list submissions to > humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://lists.digitalhumanities.org/mailman/listinfo/humanist > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > humanist-request@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > humanist-owner@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Humanist digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. 25.568 a surf's objection (Humanist Discussion Group) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2011 08:15:16 +0000 (GMT) > From: Humanist Discussion Group > To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > Subject: [Humanist] 25.568 a surf's objection > Message-ID:<20111217081516.A89F8241C58@woodward.joyent.us> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 568. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2011 12:09:57 -0800 > From: Jascha Kessler > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.567 a surf's objection > In-Reply-To:<20111216105115.E89EC23EBA6@woodward.joyent.us> > > > My thanks to a detailed objurgation to Surfdom by Reisz, from Mr. Rockwell. > > It might be well to step a bit further back and consider the ancient [cf > Cynics'] besetting legacy of Primitivism, a recurrent motif in > civilizations East and West. It is a fundamental trope, so to say, as in > "Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers...." A "hard primitivist" is > to be found in Thoreau's WALDEN, who adjured us to keep our accounts on our > thumbnail, and deplored, wittily, the excitement over the advent of > telegraphy. [Cf. attached published letter on this head, in Financial > Times, March 2009]. This is not about Luddite phenomena. > > On the other hand there are ties that essentially bind, each and all, each > to each, and all to all. Freud wrote a short paper in 1917, in which he > praised the telephone, a later derivative of telegraphy, for its ability to > put us into contact with our nearest and dearest, virtually, by voice, over > theretofore vast differences. > > Both are to be considered essential examples at extreme opposites, or 180? > apart. The matrix is communication. Not by naked touch, but by our > fundamental attribute, speech, that is coded speech, or language. The > tongue talks. Digitization, of everything, that is our indexing index > fingers, is a current manifestation. Like speech, it can be nothing, > merest palaver, or everything, and that everything is the second derivation > from speech, or writing, that is translation of speech into letters or > signs. > > Addiction to digitals, letters or images, is perhaps an individual problem: > one cannot take a walk without passing 9 out of 10 walking and texting, or > talking into headphones while jogging, or whatever. It is quasi-surreal, to > be sure: people not even seeing the world about them, but focused on > distant other persons, in so to say "touch." > > It is something new and strange, growing at full fathom five, like the > coral in Shax's THE TEMPEST... but, mirabile dictu! alive, alive, oh! > > Jascha Kessler > > > *** Attachments: > http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1324066206_2011-12-16_humanist-owner@lists.digitalhumanities.org_96.2.jpeg > > On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 2:51 AM, Humanist Discussion Group< > willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > >> Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 567. >> Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London >> www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist >> Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org >> >> >> >> Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2011 19:44:39 +0900 >> From: Geoffrey Rockwell >> Subject: from a surf >> >> >> Dear Willard, >> >> This is a late answer to your pointing us to the Matthew Reisz article >> ?Surfdom? ( >> http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=418343) which >> starts with, >> >> ?The internet has revolutionised humanities research. But has the >> development of ever-more sophisticated online resources freed up scholars >> to explore new ideas, or made them slaves to the digital machine?? >> >> His approach seems to find someone to quote, ask a pointed question and >> let that stand as evidence that there is a problem. While this approach is >> irritating when you have been in the field for some time, it is probably >> worth addressing taking some of the issues raised seriously. >> >> * Serfdom. The title of the article, "Surfdom" and opening question about >> whether online resources have made us slaves is just plain silly. Does the >> existence of resources enslave anyone in any meaningful way? If so, were we >> slaves to print before? Does Reisz think we were free before to explore new >> ideas and are now serfs to the surfing machine? Yes, that old story of >> technological slavery again; now dressed in cute questions about the >> digital humanities which alas will have to put up with such reporting as >> long as we are seen as the new new thing. As for serfdom, Reisz plies his >> readers with suggestions that the technological (the mechanical) is >> limiting scholarship or public access or some unidentified person who might >> be fooled into thinking the digital is the real thing. Philosophers and >> historians of science and technology have long questioned such facile >> deterministic views which would have a dominant technology drive our >> thinking. There is undoubtedly a connection, but it goes both ways. Perhaps >> the digital is being enslaved by the humanities. Perhaps computing is going >> to turn out to be driven by the questions of English profs. What matters is >> that we continue to discuss the digital and how it might change the >> questions we ask, and that is one of the things we have been doing >> seriously in the digital humanities. >> >> * Digitization driving scholarship. Reisz quotes Peitch to the effect that >> "what gets digitsed drives scholarship." There is some truth to this, but >> the same holds for any scholarly work. What is published (in your language) >> also drives scholarship as do all sorts of other things like public >> funding, conferences, and student enrolments. Has it ever been any >> different? I would call it ?changing? not driving with its slave driving >> connotations. If anything digital archives are coexisting and supplementing >> traditional archives so that scholars can choose what will drive them. >> Would we want it any different? Imagine if a field like the digital >> humanities had no effect? While I doubt we are driving scholarship (the >> cuts in the UK to universities are doing that) the digital humanities >> should make a difference and there is nothing wrong with that. What >> discipline does not try to engage others? Why should projects be funded if >> we don't try to change the scholarship? >> >> * Access. Reisz manages to turn virtues of access into sins. He quotes >> Pietsch that "digitisation does reduce some of the obstacles imposed by >> distance" and then quotes her to the effect that most of what she needs >> remains unavailable "in bricks-and-mortar institutions". In other words all >> this digitization doesn't help (even if it driving things). One story >> hardly touches the issue of access. Reisz may still have to travel, but how >> many scholars don't need to travel because they can access a digital >> surrogate? Reisz himself admits, "It is a rare researcher in the humanities >> today who doesn't draw frequently on digital resources, as well as using >> the internet to check factual details or read texts that are long out of >> print." Digitization of materials was never meant to entirely replace >> archival access, it is meant to broaden access to those without travel >> grants and to reduce the need for fragile documents to be constantly >> consulted. The digital surrogate supplements, but doesn't replace the >> original. Use of digital resources is one more tool available to the >> scholar. >> >> For that matter, access isn't only for the scholars like Pietch working on >> neglected topics. Access is also for the geneaologists, the amateurs, and >> the citizens who pay for universities. We would be fools to think that only >> professionals with travel grants are interested in online resources or the >> only people important. Digitization is a way to engage a broader community >> and return scholarship to them, not that Reiz thinks much of that argument >> (see below). >> >> * Limitations. Reisz quotes Turner about the "limitations imposed by the >> mechanical process" of digitization. I wonder what the alternative to >> mechanical processes is? Copying out by hand? Are there not limitations to >> the mechanically printed editions we read, to the opto-mechanical >> microfilms we use to consult newspapers, or even the "originals" which were >> often mechanically produced (and are still housed in infrastructure like >> archives.) Sure things get missed in digitization - that is what archiving >> does and what editing does - it keeps and discards, it shows and hides. >> Digitization is no different - content experts make choices about what to >> digitize, how to encode it, and what sort of access system will deal it up. >> Archivists make similar choices. Scholars should question these decisions, >> they should look closely at the medium and infrastructure they use to study >> the past whatever the form. Surely a serious scholar, who uses a computer >> in everyday work as most do in this age, will not be fooled into "a false >> sense of security in some digital projects". After all they are scholars >> and most are really go at asking questions. No doubt we all need continued >> training and other opportunities where we can learn about the limits of the >> digital, but that too is what the digital humanities offers. Reisz seems >> limited in his view of what the digital humanities is. He thinks we >> digitize mindlessly without ever wondering about the choices made. >> >> * Utility, Democratisation and Thinking. Underlying much of Reisz's >> argument are some assumptions about what the point of scholarship is and >> what is useful. His opening, phrased as a question, contrasts the slavery >> of online resource development to exploring "new ideas." Digital >> development not only threatens thinking, he also complains that it isn't >> even useful to amateurs as a resource. He writes about the Digital Image >> Archive of Medieval Music being organized in a way that is useless to the >> "amateur music lover". He complains about Paul Vetch's argument about >> democratisation (by making scholarly resources available through >> digitization), "If democratisation means anything, it must surely mean more >> than just making freely available online something of interest to only a >> handful of specialists." But that is exactly the point - digitization can >> make specialized information available for use by anyone who can surf the >> web instead of keeping it to a professional caste lucky enough to be paid >> to chase the stuff down. Since when are only scholars interested in >> specialized resources. Reisz should get out more and meet some of the >> people who love this stuff without a PhD. Digitization opens up >> specialization letting anyone play at it, and we should be very careful >> making assumptions about what will be useful to whom over time. As for >> generating ideas, he should read his Plato. Socrates in the Phaedrus >> complained that writing would not make us wiser. I've seen no evidence that >> any form of writing, scholarship, or information access makes anyone wiser >> or helps them think. Information, whatever form it takes, is something we >> think about or think through, it isn't the new ideas themselves, they are >> what people have. If anything Reisz isn't radical enough. If we want people >> to explore ideas we might try discouraging writing altogether, including >> his writing (and mine) and get back to dialogue with a philosopher. We >> simply don't know where or when new ideas are going to come and if there is >> a problem it is that we are inundated with cheap information dressed as >> reporting instead of knowledge. >> >> * Funding Ideas. At the same time that he complains about digitizing too >> much specialized stuff he also quotes an anonymous researcher that, >> "Meanwhile, there was less money available to fund researchers wanting to >> investigate a substantive question or develop an original idea." The >> implication is that digitization doesn't further substantive or original >> research. Or perhaps the wrong people are being funded as he complains >> about how digital humanities is done in teams (with graduate students being >> funded.) Do these people have no original ideas? Do they not pursue >> questions? I think there is a hidden snobbery here that some more worthy >> club of people who wouldn't stoop to manage a digital project are the real >> thinkers that should be funded. There is the suggestion that all sorts of >> much more worthy traditional research is being neglected as money is wasted >> on digitization. People, that great anonymous and undocumented people, >> "raised questions about whether there aren't just as many pointless >> projects and whether the field always justifies the hype that surrounds >> it." So who decides what is a pointless project? One anonymous and unhappy >> reviewer or the committees who judged the digital grants fundable? The >> humanities have been whipped pointlessly since Socrates was martyred and >> Reisz knows that, even as he tries his hand without admitting it. I would >> answer that it is in the nature of pure research to do things that seem >> pointless to others and it has ever been so, even before the digital >> humanities. Find me a project which no one complains about. Digitization >> doesn't change the tendency of scholars to pursue ever more specialized >> questions and it won't change the pointless criticism. At least when >> projects are accessible on the web we aren't hiding in an ivory tower. At >> least through digitization we are openly sharing the research and digital >> evidence with a potential public. I hope some publics see through to things >> that interest them and continue to support universities and granting >> councils still interested in substantial work whether digital or not, >> useful or not. >> >> * Waste. The one point I would agree with is that we need to be talking >> about what works best and how to best husband the resources available, more >> so now that we are facing cutbacks in the humanities. Sure, some digital >> projects have wasted their funds and some resources aren't being used >> (yet), but isn't that normal at a time when we are experimenting with new >> technologies that are changing. Should we just sit back and wait until the >> dust settles and someone outside tells us how to do things right or should >> we try solutions relevant to the humanities. The fact is that the digital >> humanities has led the discussion about how to best leverage computing for >> scholarship. We have been addressing these issues for decades, but Reisz >> seems to think the digital humanities is just a stampede to digitize stuff. >> One could rewrite his article in praise of how the issues of access, >> limitations, audience, and technology he is raising now in 2011 have been >> discussed in the digital humanities since the 1970s. Central to the digital >> humanities are questions about digitization and computing with the >> digitized, but he wouldn't know without consulting the (online) record. I >> want to tell readers who think we are wantonly digitizing without thought >> to take a course in our Humanities Computing MA program or read about the >> TEI. The solution to the issue of poorly thought out digitization is the >> ongoing and rigorous discussion of the issue and that is what informatics, >> library and information science and the digital humanities have been >> cultivating for decades. >> >> No doubt the length of this response says something about how artfully he >> pricks my hopes and beliefs about the digital humanities. I wish responding >> to reporting were not necessary, or that I believed that any reporting like >> any review is good (whatever it says), but as we move from a discipline >> largely ignored to one questioned publicly we need to prepare for critical >> reporting and respond. We should be prepared to take criticism seriously >> and explain what we do over and over. It has, alas, become part of the job >> of the humanities to explain the value of our work. As you (Willard) point >> out in your comment below the article, he has an awfully limited idea of >> what the digital humanities is which means others do too. >> >> Best, >> >> Geoffrey Rockwell > _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Dec 22 08:34:07 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 497E324F3BA; Thu, 22 Dec 2011 08:34:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0D27C24F3A8; Thu, 22 Dec 2011 08:34:05 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20111222083405.0D27C24F3A8@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2011 08:34:05 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.571 Tales from the Digital Archive X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 571. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2011 19:22:32 +0100 From: Stephen Miller Subject: Tales from the Digital Archive "Once a writer's archive consisted of letters, badly-typed first drafts and corrected manuscripts. But now they write on computers and communicate by email, what clues to their creative process remain? Archaeologist Christine Finn sets out to explore how the new generation of archive from the digital age will be made accessible to future generations." http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b010m9sw _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Dec 22 08:37:09 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07FBB24F9B1; Thu, 22 Dec 2011 08:37:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1292924F9A1; Thu, 22 Dec 2011 08:37:07 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111222083707.1292924F9A1@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2011 08:37:07 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.572 events: occupations; e-research; mobile text X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 572. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: erika biddle-stavrakos (61) Subject: CFP for Occupations: new conference dates and deadline [2] From: Domenico Fiormonte (50) Subject: The Mobile Text [3] From: Stuart Dunn (43) Subject: Centre for e-Research Seminar series - Spring 2012 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 11:36:11 -0500 From: erika biddle-stavrakos Subject: CFP for Occupations: new conference dates and deadline FYI: The date for “Occupations,” the 11th Annual Graduate Conference in Communication and Culture at York University and Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario has been changed from March 23-25, 2012 to April 27-29, 2012. Please see information on the revised deadline for submissions in the CFP below. Also of note, Edu-Factory’s “Our University! A Conference on Struggles Within and Beyond the Neoliberal University” will be held in Toronto the same weekend. We will be working in collaboration with the Edu-Factory organizers on some events over this weekend; stay posted for details. For more information on the Edu-Factory conference, see http://www.edu-factory.org/wp/the-university-is-ours/ + + + INTERSECTIONS / CROSS SECTIONS 2012: OCCUPATIONS 11th Annual Graduate Conference in Communication and Culture at York University and Ryerson University, Toronto, ON, Canada April 27-29, 2012 (new date!) http://thecomcult.wordpress.com Abstracts due: February 1, 2012 (revised deadline) Email submissions and questions to: intersections.occupations@gmail.com Occupy but better yet, self manage…. The former option is basically passive—the latter is active and yields tasks and opportunities to contribute.… To occupy buildings, especially institutions like universities or media, isn’t just a matter of call it, or tweet it, and they will come. It is a matter of go get them, inform them, inspire them, enlist them, empower them, and they will come. – Michael Albert, “Occupy to Self Manage” ( http://interactivist.autonomedia.org/node/33609) The unfolding events at Occupy Wall Street and elsewhere present possibilities for new politics, and new forms of learning from, living with and engaging each other. Occupations are attempts to build the social compositions that are the precondition for action. They are the working through of a problem that politics-as-usual works to suppress—the massive exploitation that is capitalism and the emergence of politics adequate to address it. At this stage, occupations are the connection of people, ideas and machines—the cumulation of assemblages that might build something. What happens next depends on what is being built now. We invite graduate students from all related disciplines to submit proposals for academic, artistic and activist presentations and workshops that explore and otherwise critically engage occupations. Please send a 250-word abstract to occupations.intersections@gmail.com. Proposals should list paper/panel title, name, institutional affiliation and contact details. Workshop facilitators: Please provide a timeline indicating the duration and one or two general learning objectives of your session, along with space and technical requirements. Artists: If sending creative works by email, please limit attachment size to 5 MB or less, or direct us to a URL. Include viewing instructions, comments and titles if applicable. If submitting creative works by post, please mail the proposal, a copy of the work and viewing instructions to the following address: Intersections / Cross Sections 2012 Conference c/o Graduate Program in Communication and Culture 3013 TEL Building, York University 4700 Keele Street Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 Occupations is presented by and for graduate student scholars, artists and activists through the organizing efforts of the Communication and Culture Graduate Students Association (GSA). For more information about the Joint Graduate Program in Communication and Culture at York and Ryerson Universities: http://comcult.yorku.ca & http://www.ryerson.ca/graduate/programs/comcult/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2011 19:08:14 +0100 From: Domenico Fiormonte Subject: The Mobile Text The mobile text. Studying literature after the new media. *Il testo è mobile. Studiare la letteratura dopo i nuovi media* A Study Day Rome, January 10th 2012 Sala Conferenze “Ignazio Ambrogio” via del Valco di San Paolo, 19 – Roma University of Roma Tre Department of Comparative Literature Department of Italian Studies And under the patronage of Italian Institute of German Studies Italian Institute of Philosophical Studies. The advent of the Internet galaxy has been transforming the order of knowledge and the ways it is elaborated, memorized and transmitted. Knowledge does not appear to us as an ensemble of separate fields anymore but as a variably connecting network.Text has lost its centrality but its presence remains pervasive while its consistence is discovered to be fluid. Scholars from a whole series of different backgrounds will discuss this new condition of the text and of the literary studies on the occasion of the coming out of *Al di là del testo. La critica letteraria e lo studio della cultura* (Quodlibet, Macerata 2011), edited by Francesco Fiorentino, *Canoni liquidi* (ScriptaWeb, Napoli 2011), edited by Domenico Fiormonte as well as the recent work by Massimo Riva *Il futuro della letteratura. L’opera d’arte nell’epoca della sua(ri)producibilità digitale* (ScriptaWeb, Napoli 2011). Program Greetings and Opening Remarks 10 a.m Introduction by Francesco Fiorentino and Domenico Fiormonte Session One Coordinated by Maria Del Sapio (Università Roma Tre) Alberto Sobrero (La Sapienza Università di Roma), "Studiare dopo Internet" Arturo Mazzarella (Università Roma Tre): "Ogni testo è sempre un pre-testo" Raul Mordenti (Università di Roma Tor Vergata): "Filologia digitale" Rocco Ronchi (Università dell’Aquila): "Il testo come molteplicità virtuale e durata creatrice" General Discussion with: Francesco Fiorentino (Università Roma Tre), Ugo Fracassa (Università Roma Tre) and Francesco Pompeo (Università Roma Tre). 3 p.m Session Two Coordinated by Mario De Nonno (Università Roma Tre) Laura Fortini (Università Roma Tre): "Umane lettere: dai corpi testuali agli stili dell'enunciazione" Mario Ricciardi (Politecnico di Torino): "Inventare il passato" Massimo Riva (Brown University): "Liquido/gassoso/nebuloso: per una critica della ragion fluida" General Discussion with Domenico Fiormonte (Università Roma Tre), Fabio Ciotti (Università di Roma Tor Vergata), Teresa Numerico (Università Roma Tre) Contacts: ffiorent@uniroma3.it / fiormont@uniroma3.it --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2011 07:04:33 +0000 From: Stuart Dunn Subject: Centre for e-Research Seminar series - Spring 2012 Dear all, Apologies for cross-postings. The Centre for e-Research Seminar Series for Spring 2012 is now avilable; see the programme below. All events begin at 6.15, in the Anatomy Theatre and Museum, King's College London Strand Campus, and are followed by drinks. For directions see http://atm.kcl.ac.uk/. For further details of the events and speakers, and to register, please go to http://www.kcl.ac.uk/innovation/groups/cerch/events/seminars/index.aspx. The seminars are free and all are welcome, but registration is requested. Tuesday 17 January, 6.15pm: Ralph Schroeder and Eric T. Meyer, Oxford Internet Institute: Digital Transformations of Research and Styles of Knowing, Tuesday 31 January, 6.15pm: Leah Tether, Anglia Ruskin University: Manuscript Digitisation: How applying publishing and content packaging theory can move us forward Tuesday 14 February, 6.15pm: Tom Brughmans, University of Southampton: Networks of Networks: a critical review of formal network methods in archaeology through citation network analysis and close reading, Tuesday 28 February, 6.15pm: Anna Jordanous, King's College London and Bill Keller, University of Sussex: Building an Ontology of Creativity: a language processing approach Tuesday 13 March, 6.15pm: Simon Dixon and Rosemary Dixon, Queen Mary, University of London: Dissenting Academies Online Tuesday 27 March, 6.15pm: Andrea Scharnhorst, Nick Jankowski, Clifford Tatum, Sally Wyatt, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Netherlands: Enhanced Publications in the Social Sciences and Humanities: tensions, opportunities and problems -Stuart -- Dr Stuart Dunn Research Fellow Centre for e-Research King's College London www.stuartdunn.wordpress.com Tel +44 (0)207 848 2709 Fax +44 (0)207 848 1989 stuart.dunn@kcl.ac.uk 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 Fri Dec 23 09:37:14 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96D83243BEC; Fri, 23 Dec 2011 09:37:14 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 23F9324DC3C; Fri, 23 Dec 2011 09:37:13 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111223093713.23F9324DC3C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2011 09:37:13 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.573 events: cultural mapping at UCLA; digital humanities at the MLA X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 573. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Susan Schreibman (15) Subject: DH sessions at the 2012 MLA [2] From: Chris Johanson (49) Subject: NEH Summer Institute at UCLA: Digital Cultural Mapping (June 18-July6, 2012) --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2011 13:38:50 +0000 From: Susan Schreibman Subject: DH sessions at the 2012 MLA The ACH is delighted to announce a listing of digital humanities sessions at the 2012 Modern Language Convention in Seattle Washington. The 2012 list was complied by Mark Sample and the ACH gratefully acknowledges his generosity in making it available on the ACH site. The ACH has been compiling this list since 1995 and anybody who is interested in using this information for analysis should get in touch. For the this year's listing as well as previous years, seehttp://www.ach.org/mla-pages with all best wishes susan -- Susan Schreibman, PhD Long Room Hub Senior Lecturer in Digital Humanities School of English Trinity College Dublin Dublin 2, Ireland email: susan.schreibman@tcd.ie phone: +353 1 896 3694 fax: +353 1 671 7114 check out the new MPhil in Digital Humanities at TCD http://www.tcd.ie/English/postgraduate/digital-humanities/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2011 20:06:56 -0500 From: Chris Johanson Subject: NEH Summer Institute at UCLA: Digital Cultural Mapping (June 18-July6, 2012) NEH Summer Institute at UCLA: Digital Cultural Mapping (June 18-July 6, 2012) Directed by: Todd Presner, Diane Favro, and Chris Johanson Fellowship stipends and housing support up to $4,100 provided for Institute participants The purpose of this NEH Institute for Advanced Topics in Digital Humanities is to bring together a cohort of 12 Humanities scholars and advanced graduate students across various disciplines to learn how to develop innovative publications and courses that harness the theoretical and practical approaches of the “geospatial Humanities.” By geospatial Humanities, we mean the centrality of place, geotemporal analysis, and mapping for conceptualizing, investigating, and visualizing research problems in fields such as history, architecture, classics, literary studies, art history, as well as the humanistic social sciences (archaeology, anthropology, and political science). Situated at the intersection of critical cartography and information visualization, the Institute will combine a survey of the “state of the art” in interoperable geospatial tools and publication models, with hands-on, studio-based training in integrating GIS data into Humanities scholarship, developing spatial visualizations, and deploying a suite of mapping tools in the service of creating publication-ready research articles and short monographs with robust digital components.  To learn more, please go to: http://hypercities.com/NEH Application Deadline: February 1, 2012 Who can apply? The Institute targets scholars at all stages of their careers (faculty, graduate students, librarians, and staff researchers) who are actively engaged in digitally enabled research and who are currently preparing digital publications and/or teaching courses that rely on geotemporal analysis and argumentation.  The Institute is primarily focused on helping scholars bring mature research projects to a state in which they can be submitted to journals and presses for peer review and eventual publication.  A large component of the Institute will thus focus on evaluating digital scholarship through conversations with key representatives from university presses, professional associations, and leading journals.  The Institute is less an “introduction” to GIS and geospatial digital tools than it is a hands-on opportunity to work closely with faculty and staff affiliated with UCLA’s Digital Cultural Mapping program in order to prepare scholarly research in the geospatial Humanities for peer review and submission to presses and journals.  The HyperCities platform (http://hypercities.com), the Scalar platform, and various geo-visualization tools will figure centrally in the Institute. ---- Christopher Johanson Assistant Professor, UCLA Department of Classics Work/Cell: 310 574-2834 http://www.classics.ucla.edu/people/faculty/johanson _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Dec 27 08:13:42 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 821DB25B685; Tue, 27 Dec 2011 08:13:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1DFE225B572; Tue, 27 Dec 2011 08:13:40 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20111227081340.1DFE225B572@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2011 08:13:40 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.574 publication: Kritikos 8 X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 574. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2011 08:01:20 -0800 (PST) From: Nicholas Ruiz III Subject: Kritikos V.8, Sept. - Dec. 2011 Kritikos V.8, Sept. - Dec. 2011 American Psycho, Cosmopolis and the Coiffure?...(w.e.arnold) http://intertheory.org/arnold.htm Wall Street...(n.ruiz) http://intertheory.org/wallst.htm Reviews: http://intertheory.org/reviews.htm Nicholas Ruiz III, Ph.D NRIII for Congress 2012 http://intertheory.org/nriiiforcongress2010.html ____________________________________ Editor, Kritikos http://intertheory.org Nicholas Ruiz III for Congress PO Box 1372 New Smyrna Beach, FL 32170 http://twitter.com/#!/nriii _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Dec 27 08:16:12 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46E7625C3A0; Tue, 27 Dec 2011 08:16:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B246A25C2EF; Tue, 27 Dec 2011 08:16:10 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111227081610.B246A25C2EF@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2011 08:16:10 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.575 events: social media; museums X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 575. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Christian Fuchs (24) Subject: Plenary Talk Abstracts of the Conference "Critique, Democracy, and Philosophy in 21st Century Information Society" (Uppsala, 2-4 May 2012) [2] From: (28) Subject: Early registration is now open for MW2012! --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 25 Dec 2011 16:22:03 +0000 From: Christian Fuchs Subject: Plenary Talk Abstracts of the Conference "Critique, Democracy, and Philosophy in 21st Century Information Society" (Uppsala, 2-4 May 2012) Critique, Democracy, and Philosophy in 21st Century Information Society Towards Critical Theories of Social Media The Fourth ICTs and Society-Conference Uppsala University, May 2nd-4th, 2012. The collected abstracts of the plenary talks are now available: http://www.icts-and-society.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/abstracts.pdf Opening Plenary Vincent Mosco (Queen’s University, Canada): Marx is Back, but Will Knowledge Workers of the World Unite? On the Critical Study of Labour, Media, and Communication Today Graham Murdock (Loughborough University, UK): The Digital Lives of Commodities: Consumption, Ideology and Exploitation Today Featuring plenary talks by Andrew Feenberg, Catherine McKercher, Charles Ess, Christian Christensen, Christian Fuchs, Gunilla Bradley, Mark Andrejevic, Nick Dyer-Witheford, Peter Dahlgren, Tobias Olsson, Trebor Scholz, Ursula Huws, Wolfgang Hofkirchner. Abstract submission: open until February, 2012 29 (deadline) ATTENTION: We recommend EARLY submission of abstracts way before the deadline because the presentation slots are limited and abstracts will be reviewed continuously starting in early January 2012. Once all presentation slots are filled, the submission process will be closed. Submission information: http://www.icts-and-society.net/events/uppsala2012/ http://www.icts-and-society.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/CallforAbstracts.pdf --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2011 23:05:13 -0800 From: Subject: Early registration is now open for MW2012! Perfect weather, clear waters, and your favorite museum people from around the world... Join us in San Diego, April 11-14, 2012 for Museums and the Web 2012... the largest international conference devoted to the exploration of art, science, natural and cultural heritage online Discounted early registration rates apply when you register for Museums and the Web 2012 before Jan 15, 2012: http://www.museumsandtheweb.com/mw2012/registration Exhibitors are welcome to reserve a space in the exhibit hall, and also propose an Exhibitor Briefing session: http://www.museumsandtheweb.com/mw2012/exhibits The call for Demonstration proposals is still open through Dec 31 at http://www.museumsandtheweb.com/mw2012/demonstrations (The call closed Sept 30 for formal papers, mini-workshops, professional forums and workshops.) The Draft Program is online: http://www.museumsandtheweb.com/mw2012/draft_program The conference will be held at the Sheraton San Diego Hotel & Marina, with spectacular views over the Bay: http://www.starwoodhotels.com/sheraton/property/overview/index.html?prop... The hotel offers extensive sport facilities, great restaurants, and quick access to both downtown attractions and local beaches. Hotel Reservations: https://www.starwoodmeeting.com/StarGroupsWeb/booking/reservation?id=111... MW2012 has negotiated a special rate of $199 [single or double]. More local information: http://www.museumsandtheweb.com/mw2012/local-information We're looking forward to seeing you in San Diego April 11-14, 2012! Nancy & Rich MW2012 program co-chairs _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Dec 29 06:24:13 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id A426D26325C; Thu, 29 Dec 2011 06:24:13 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B92AC26324A; Thu, 29 Dec 2011 06:24:11 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111229062411.B92AC26324A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2011 06:24:11 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.576 events: at McGill in January X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 576. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2011 19:37:32 +0000 From: "Stefan Sinclair, Prof" Subject: January DH at McGill Dear colleagues, Things are heating up in January at McGill, below is a sampling of some of the DH events. If you're in Montreal and able to join us, please do. Jan 10, 1pm: Tim Sherratt (Canberra), "Collections, interfaces, power and people" http://www.mcgill.ca/channels/events/item/?item_id=211954 Jan 10, 2pm: William Turkel (UWO), "Arduino for Digital Humanists" http://www.mcgill.ca/channels/events/item/?item_id=211429 (space limited, please contact me if interested) Jan 17, 3pm: Chad Gaffield (SSHRC - Zampolli Prize 2011), "The Centrality of Digital Humanities in the Re-imagining of Scholarship" http://www.mcgill.ca/channels/events/item/?item_id=212893 Jan 24, 3pm: 4Humanities@McGill DH Reading Group, "Experimental Code Gaming" http://www.mcgill.ca/channels/events/item/?item_id=212661 Best wishes to all for a happy and peaceful new year. Stéfan -- Stéfan Sinclair, Associate Professor of Digital Humanities Office 341, Languages, Literatures & Cultures, McGill University 688 Sherbrooke St. W, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A 3R1 http://stefansinclair.name/ (Twitter: @sgsinclair) _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Dec 29 12:06:51 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id B91B0261EBC; Thu, 29 Dec 2011 12:06:51 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C97DC261EB1; Thu, 29 Dec 2011 12:06:49 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111229120649.C97DC261EB1@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2011 12:06:49 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.577 techno-utopias, dystopias and analyses X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 577. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2011 11:55:17 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: techno-utopias, dystopias and analyses Bruce Arnold's "Caslon Analytics" (www.caslon.com.au/), on "the intersection of law, digital technology, business and society", provides many points of interest for members of this seminar. My particular point of entry was to his breathless discussion of digital dystopias (www.caslon.com.au/digitalguide3.htm), such as the collapse of the Internet predicted for 2006 in 2004 in Hannu H Kari's "Internet is deteriorating and close to collapse -- What can we do to survive?". As it happens several broken links to intriguing items are not a problem, since Google is sufficient to find them, e.g. Andrew Odlyzko's "The history of communications and its implications for the Internet", which in turn leads to Professor Odlyzko's online papers, www.dtc.umn.edu/~odlyzko/; or Rita Kohrman's "Computer Anxiety in the 21st Century: When You Are Not In Kansas Any More" (www.ala.org/acrl/sites/ala.org.acrl/files/content/conferences/pdf/kohrman.pdf). To us fear of computing in the present may seem as strange as self-evidently paranoid visions for the future. So let me ask, does all this seem utterly bizarre to you? What do you think is responsible for the fear? What are the fearful afraid of? Comments? Yours, WM -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor (fractional), University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Dec 30 09:11:39 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC1E5266408; Fri, 30 Dec 2011 09:11:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A931B2663F9; Fri, 30 Dec 2011 09:11:34 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111230091134.A931B2663F9@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2011 09:11:34 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.578 techno-utopias, dystopias and analyses X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 578. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: amsler@cs.utexas.edu (85) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.577 techno-utopias, dystopias and analyses [2] From: Jascha Kessler (32) Subject: Fear of the Computer[s] --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2011 09:40:18 -0600 From: amsler@cs.utexas.edu Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.577 techno-utopias, dystopias and analyses In-Reply-To: <20111229120649.C97DC261EB1@woodward.joyent.us> I wonder whether the Internet or more particularly, the World Wide Web, by which I mean the knowledge stored and accessed using the Internet, is the fulfillment of some basic instinct comparable to those that led to the creation of language and the recording of knowledge in text itself. Once words and then language had been invented, the idea of written language must have been a major breakthrough, allowing ideas to be preserved and read back as if from the voices of their originators. Then the invention of forms of written text evolved into the numerous varieties we see today. The Web appears to be the latest evolutionary step in that progression, with a mechanism for recording content in 'web pages' collected into 'web sites'; and with an overall indexing strategy yet evolving--somewhat comparable to the creation of the mechanisms of titles, tables of contents, indexes, etc. created to handle access to the growth of written text. What presumably is most frightening about the World Wide Web is that it shows signs of automation that printed text did not. The Web is harvested by 'web crawlers' that automatically collect and index web sites for other people to then retrieve. A development that seems almost like there is a robotic army that sneaks about reading everything and keeping a record of it while we're sleeping. The very idea that text and the content that it contains now flows without our intervention, without the eleborate methods of print distribution that were created to handle the movement of paper-based text, is startling if not outright frightening. It also is intimidating to the professionals who made their living operating the paper-based system. Everyone from the manufacturers of the implements for recording language through those whose professions involved assembling and proofing it, manufacturing its print products en masse, marketing those products, distributing them, receiving them and storing them in places such as bookstores and libraries, recycling those products through used bookstores. All these professions are threatened by the web. Even those who made their living reading and reviewing print text are threatened, since distribution of web pages and web sites doesn't require human intervention--everyone can read the web without reviewers. That does seem odd, i.e., that we haven't taken up the challenge to 'review' web sites as actively as we reviewed print publications. Perhaps it is because the text itself is no longer fixed into units with permanence that can be bounded. Whereas publications involved 'editions', the web doesn't have 'editions' of web pages or web sites. They can and do change their content continuously. This is threatening as well. For if we cannot depend upon the text to be permanent, how can we add value to its statements, produce the important summarization and analyses of its significance. It's like trying to review the beauty of cloud-filled skies or sunsets. They are not only each seen from a different perspectve, but are ever changing such that the subsequent potential viewers cannot precisely see the same thing the reviewer described. That's potentially dangerous as well. The web has responded with an effort at 'permanent' links; but how much permanance can there be when the method of preserving permanent references is itself dependent upon the same technology that creates total impermanence. So, apart from the threat from computers and software, the agents of these changes, whose capacity to reorganize and rewrite the knowledge itself we're still discovering; we're now threatened by the changes to all of stored world knowledge that could come about. How will we authenticate it in the future such that we know it's the same text our colleagues and ancestors read? You say this eBook is the text of a 20th century work that is no longer available in print and all of whose copies are now stored in the 'cloud'. Oh, there can be new glorious new work done by scholars everywhere at anytime. Never have so many been able to access so much with so little effort. But it just seems to depend on such a lot of intangible and ephemeral resources. We seem to be discarding the proven survivability of mass produced and widely dispersed recorded knowledge for the admitted impermanence of electronic and optical recordings requiring special hardware to access. Take away the electricity and the knowledge becomes inaccessible. Surge the electricity and the stored knowledge itself and the hardware to access it could be destroyed. What's threatening about that? So, there you have it... The need to change every job that has to do with creating, distributng, retrieving and reviewing knowledge and the threat of the complete loss of world knowledge due to technical glitches or its selective revision at the hands of powerful groups. What I find somewhat amusing here is that the perceived threat from 'computers' themselves doesn't seem as potentially dangerous, apart from them being the agents of change. I.e., hardware and software may well be our best allies in the effort to combat the threats. It reminds me of something I heard about the insects of the world as a threat to humans. If it wasn't for insects acting as predators on other insects, we'd never survive. So, computers are just the agents of change---whether change is safe of not is up to how we use computers to combat the changes brought about by computers. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2011 10:56:08 -0800 From: Jascha Kessler Subject: Fear of the Computer[s] In-Reply-To: <20111229120649.C97DC261EB1@woodward.joyent.us> Of course, after 60.6mos years with the same telephone number at the same residence address, VERIZON, declared me an unknown, number and all, for billing and repair services. Two months ago. Last week, the 2 landlines were dead, and incoming calls went to Voice Mail on the cellular phone, and that last 4 days until a live technician visited the other day, rebooted the box, just for the hell of it [fiber optic line], and surmised the problem was on the central Servers somewhere beyond the Moon. Just getting beyond the recorded voice Menu of options, which always avoids contact with a living person, requires the patience of a Ph.D graduate student with a sleeping Dissertation chairperson. Did I write sleeping? Seriously, however, an amusing anecdote about the "anxiety problem." At the residence of the Israeli Consul in Los Angeles 40 years ago, we listened at a party to an old guy who told us that he had been a partner in Ontario, across the border from Detroit, with Henry Ford, in a carriage-building business. A young Russian immigrant Jew he was then [NO pace to the virulent later Henry Ford regarding his attitude and acts against Jewry]. At a certain point, Ford proposed they move the business across to the US and build carriages with motors. For whatever reason, that partner demurred. Ford moved. The young Russian went west to Saskatchewan to homestead his 150 or so acres, provided with some income and materials to grow wheat [which would have made him rich]; and a telephone party line so as to be able to call out to distant neighbors and govt HQ somewhere, Calgary? during the black cold frozen snowbound winters. After a few years, he sold out, and came to the US. Never really got into the middle class from then on. He had been anxious about the newfangled, deadly machines that he might have been building in Detroit. -- Jascha Kessler Professor Emeritus of Modern English & American Literature, UCLA Telephone/Facsimile: 310.393.4648 www.jfkessler.com www.xlibris.com _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Dec 30 12:05:41 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87D422679CD; Fri, 30 Dec 2011 12:05:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id BF4CD2679B9; Fri, 30 Dec 2011 12:05:39 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111230120539.BF4CD2679B9@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2011 12:05:39 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.579 Winograd's Reactive Engine Paper X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 579. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2011 12:02:43 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: The Reactive Engine Paper Allow me to draw your attention to a speculative paper written by Stanford computer scientist Terry Winograd in October 1974, "The Reactive Engine Paper", which begins with the statement that, > Time-sharing is obsolete because it is based on the assumption that a person > interacting with a computer large enough to do serious work cannot make good use > of its computing power except during a fraction of the time. (If you don't know what "time-sharing" is, or rather was, then you have some preparatory reading to do.) Winograd then goes on to imagine what a machine dedicated to a single user would be like if designed best to serve that user. The paper was republished in The Best of Creative Computing, Volume 2 (1977), under "Languages and Programming Theory", which you can find at www.atariarchives.org. While you're there you might also want to check out Volumes 1 and 3 of that publication. We can of course ooh! and aah! over Winograd's prescience, but I bring his paper to your attention because of the question he asks. He doesn't ask, as mostly people did at that time (and, alas, continue to do without awareness of the choice they're making and of its quite secondary nature), how can I use this machine that is in front of me to accomplish the tasks I have? He asks instead, what do I in fact do all the time and how might computing, properly conceived, be designed to serve that? Comments? Yours, WM -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor (fractional), University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Dec 31 08:32:30 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2976B266C00; Sat, 31 Dec 2011 08:32:30 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0EE90266B91; Sat, 31 Dec 2011 08:32:28 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111231083228.0EE90266B91@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2011 08:32:28 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.580 reactive engines X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 580. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2011 07:37:14 -0600 From: amsler@cs.utexas.edu Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.579 Winograd's Reactive Engine Paper In-Reply-To: <20111230120539.BF4CD2679B9@woodward.joyent.us> It's a false sense of accomplishment. Time-sharing is still with us as our 'personal' computers share their time between all the tasks they are performing for us (and for themselves). Your computer is still only listening to your input part of the time and doesn't instantly drop everything when you use the keyboard. It is busy backing up files, clearing away old data, updating its stacks and queues of tasks to perform, downloading from the web, uploading to the web, fending off attacks from the web, saving files, accessing files--all the time it is on. Even disconnected from the web it isn't paying full attention to us. It watches the clock, knows when we've stopped typing, decides when to go to sleep if we stop working. I can only believe that Terry Winograd was complaining about the speed of the computer he had access to because time-sharing was causing it to be too slow; which was a perennial problem with time-sharing systems when the number of users was the most critical factor in determining how much work you could get done. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Dec 31 08:35:11 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF596266E9C; Sat, 31 Dec 2011 08:35:11 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 76F93266E8A; Sat, 31 Dec 2011 08:35:09 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20111231083509.76F93266E8A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2011 08:35:09 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.581 publications: Informatica umanistica 5; Interpretation cfp X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 581. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Massimo Parodi" (14) Subject: Informatica Umanistica 5 [2] From: James Rovira (18) Subject: Updated CFP, Interpretation: Theory: History --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2011 16:01:04 +0100 From: "Massimo Parodi" Subject: Informatica Umanistica 5 Informatica Umanistica n. 5 is online http://www.ledonline.it/informatica-umanistica/ CONTENTS: Massimo Parodi • Presentazione Dalla funzione all’organo Elena Landone • Il marcatore del discorso spagnolo hombre dal sussidio didattico al forum online Silvana Vassallo - Leonora Cappellini • Installazioni interattive in Italia. Percorsi di ricerca all’intersezione tra arte e tecnologie digitali Silvia Pilloni • Digita come parli Dall’organo alla funzione Paola Galimberti • Qualità e disponibilità dei dati Piero Attanasio • Valutazione delle pubblicazioni ed effetti sul settore editoriale --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2011 14:25:58 -0500 From: James Rovira Subject: Updated CFP, Interpretation: Theory: History (Apologies for cross posting) Dear Colleagues: The editors of *Interpretation: Theory: History* continue to welcome abstracts and CVs well into January of 2012. For this volume, are seeking 6000 word essays focused upon figures important to the rise and development of literary theory and to the history of textual interpretation that present each figure within his or her social, political, cultural, and intellectual contexts. The full CFP is available here: http://interpretationtheoryhistory.wordpress.com/about/ And a list of figures for whom we have already received abstracts is available here: http://interpretationtheoryhistory.wordpress.com/2011/12/27/current-status-of-interpretation-theory-history/ Further information is available on the blog. This volume is focused on figures from Marx and Freud to the present, but we are also interested in major figures from Plato to the nineteenth century. Feel free to email any questions or comments directly to jamesrovira@gmail.com. James Rovira _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Jan 1 10:30:53 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 064FD26BCDE; Sun, 1 Jan 2012 10:30:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0203426BCC7; Sun, 1 Jan 2012 10:30:50 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120101103051.0203426BCC7@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 1 Jan 2012 10:30:50 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.582 reactive engines X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 582. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Anupam Basu (40) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.580 reactive engines [2] From: Jascha Kessler (54) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.580 reactive engines --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2011 04:46:36 -0600 From: Anupam Basu Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.580 reactive engines In-Reply-To: <20111231083228.0EE90266B91@woodward.joyent.us> > It's a false sense of accomplishment. Time-sharing is still with us as > our 'personal' computers share their time between all the tasks they > are performing for us (and for themselves). Your computer is still > only listening to your input part of the time and doesn't instantly > drop everything when you use the keyboard. I think Winograd is talking about multiple users running multiple tasks on a computer rather than the CPU having to tend to multiple things and poll I/O ports for input etc. Even the PDP-10 had to do that for each user, but the "time-sharing" aspect was from multiple users or processes that ran on the same computer but were separated from each other. The parallel on today's personal computers might be multi-tasking, multi-threading and, on multi core chips, parallel processing. The thrust of his paper seems to be towards a more complete approach to computing rather than on the technicality of what constitutes time-sharing, though. He suggests that instead of doing several things with severe constraints, the entire processing power of the machine can be put to the service of accomplishing one task well. I think today's GUI's are a culmination of this approach. Take a word processor for instance. The essential act of string processing is very light computationally, involving little more than a CPU idling most of the time and collecting and displaying a keystroke now and then (say the Pico text editor for Unix systems). But a modern word processor throws a whole gamut of computing power at this essentially simple task just to make it easy and versatile. A program like MS-Word of OpenOffice Writer probably takes the system resources required to run several dozen instances of pico and dedicates it to the accomplishing of one task -drawing on graphics, various ways of input, multi-threading and whatnot. This is the direction that Winograd seems to anticipate in 1974 and it is quite an insight. That said, big data seems to be bringing back the need for highly focused and resource-lean processing power as we encounter data that is often too heavy for easy processing with resource-hungry tools. Opening a couple of Google n-gram files in a GUI editor on my laptop can be a painful experience, if it can be done at all. But using lightweight tools like vi - no problem at all. And it's even easier if I can ssh into a sandbox on a powerful but shared server. Isn't something like SETI (http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/) the ultimate big-data, time-sharing application? Anupam http://irh.wisc.edu/basu --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2011 11:37:22 -0800 From: Jascha Kessler Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.580 reactive engines In-Reply-To: <20111231083228.0EE90266B91@woodward.joyent.us> Further to the speed issue: A Mac Pro G4, at least 5 to 6 years old, was significantly boosted this year after I installed a SSD, 120 gigs [too small, but more costs more than 129$], and there is now no sensible delay to any operation that is being conducted, atop the hidden ones inside, including Time Sharing backups every 30 minutes.. Jascha Kessler On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 12:32 AM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 580. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2011 07:37:14 -0600 > From: amsler@cs.utexas.edu > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.579 Winograd's Reactive Engine Paper > In-Reply-To: <20111230120539.BF4CD2679B9@woodward.joyent.us> > > It's a false sense of accomplishment. Time-sharing is still with us as > our 'personal' computers share their time between all the tasks they > are performing for us (and for themselves). Your computer is still > only listening to your input part of the time and doesn't instantly > drop everything when you use the keyboard. It is busy backing up > files, clearing away old data, updating its stacks and queues of tasks > to perform, downloading from the web, uploading to the web, fending > off attacks from the web, saving files, accessing files--all the time > it is on. Even disconnected from the web it isn't paying full > attention to us. It watches the clock, knows when we've stopped > typing, decides when to go to sleep if we stop working. > > I can only believe that Terry Winograd was complaining about the speed > of the computer he had access to because time-sharing was causing it > to be too slow; which was a perennial problem with time-sharing > systems when the number of users was the most critical factor in > determining how much work you could get done. > -- Jascha Kessler Professor of English & Modern Literature, UCLA Telephone/Facsimile: 310.393.4648 www.jfkessler.com www.xlibris.com _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Jan 1 11:01:49 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 151D9266C32; Sun, 1 Jan 2012 11:01:49 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 424EF266C23; Sun, 1 Jan 2012 11:01:46 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120101110147.424EF266C23@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 1 Jan 2012 11:01:46 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.583 a Happy New Year from the past X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 583. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2011 12:10:16 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: recreating the past In the reception history of computing one of the most challenging reactions to recreate and hold steadily in mind so as to glimpse a past world has to be Timothy Leary's, in "Personal computers / Personal freedom", published in The Digital Deli: The Comprehensive User-Lovable Menu of Computer Lore, Culture, Lifestyles and Fancy, ed. Steve Ditlea (1984, www.atariarchives.org/deli/). Wikipedia has enough about Leary to inform those too young to remember him as guru and man of nearly absolute authority to many of the young during the late 1960s. But what's interesting in our shared context now is how "the computer" figures into the story of psycho-spiritual progress that he proclaimed. Of course we can dismiss him and his story as nonsense, indeed dangerous nonsense at the time it was gospel, but the fact that many believed and lived this story with him makes it interesting and significant. What I find especially interesting about "Personal computers / Personal freedom" is the quite strange mixture of associations. Were it all simply, consistently psychedelic babble it would be quite dull, but it's not. Take, for example, his last sentence (which in the online version is placed immediately above a photographic gallery of Coke bottles from 1894 to 1915). The resonances here should be very strong for anyone familiar with American culture: > If we are to stay free, we must see to it that the right to bear > computers becomes as inalienable as the constitutional guarantees of > free speech and a free press. Note that phrase "the right to bear computers", which in an American context is quite difficult to read without hearing in the immediate background, "the right to bear arms". Sorting that with Coke bottles isn't a strain cognitively, but both with psycho-spiritual liberation is *very* weird. Perhaps stranger than Waco, Texas. In passing Leary mentions a co-worker, John Lilly, author of Programming and Metaprogramming in the Human Bio-Computer (1972). Lilly was a physician, psychoanalyst and neurophysiologist; for his quite unusual career see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_C._Lilly/ and his homepage, http://www.johnclilly.com/. I gather that he saw psychoactive drugs as a means of reprogramming the brain. Again, we can brush him and his work aside, or rather regard him as simply having gone off the rails and so thankfully having disappeared from sight. But I wonder. Historically does he not form a link between more conventionally scientific research such as Warren McCulloch's, hence Allen Turing's, and the knowledge that the world is constructed, and so can be deconstructed? Doesn't that link help us to see a rather surprising and quite complex set of interconnections between apparently very dissimilar things? The circle of possibly interrelated things all happening more or less simultaneously during the incunabular period of our field keeps expanding and getting both stranger and more interesting. And when you're done trying to put the pieces together, read the parallel essay in the same collection by the arch-conservative William F. Buckley, who ends his piece thus: > Progressive conservatives should pass a law making it unlawful not to > use a computer. Comments? And a Happy New Year to you! Yours, WM -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor (fractional), University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Jan 1 11:03:13 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81FE226BA01; Sun, 1 Jan 2012 11:03:13 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id DA7D226B8D3; Sun, 1 Jan 2012 11:03:11 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120101110311.DA7D226B8D3@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 1 Jan 2012 11:03:11 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.584 the Year of Turing begins X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 584. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 1 Jan 2012 02:17:08 +0000 (GMT) From: S Barry Cooper Subject: [ATY/TCAC] Alan Turing Year starts today! A very Happy New Year to you all! To welcome in 2012 - the Alan Turing Year - here is a bumper update, with loads of news to read or skim over, depending on your interests. It is still 2011 as this update starts here in Europe, though the ATY has already swept into New Zealand, China and Hong Kong, and is still some hours off in Brazil, Princeton and California. So here goes, in no special order as usual: 1) The BCS book "Alan Turing and His Contemporaries - Building the world’s first computers", sponsored by the Computer Conservation Society, is on track for publication in February 2012 - you can order it at: http://www.bcs.org/category/15824 And Editor Simon Lavington, an expert on the early days of the UK computing industry, is available to give talks related to his book. Simon tells us: "As far as the CCS is concerned, the Turing book will be ‘launched’ at a lecture on 15th March – see: http://www.computerconservationsociety.org/20120315.htm All are invited to this seminar – you don’t have to be a CCS member." 2) Hong Kong is buzzing with ATY activity. Here is the wonderful and many-talented Loke Lay, wearing the marathon T-shirt designed for the ATY by Hong Kong cartoonist Li Chi-Tak: http://www.mathcomp.leeds.ac.uk/turing2012/Images/lokelay.jpg Her series of Turing-related articles for Hong Kong newspaper Apple Daily has a lot of additions, see: http://www.mathcomp.leeds.ac.uk/turing2012/give-page.php?310 Another major initiative is by Cambridge Wong, who is organising a series of lectures - The Turing Trilogy - starting on January 6th. Cambridge already gave a talk on "From Alan Turing to Steve Jobs" - see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRy0GVZadx8 and set up an 'Alan Turing Year in Hong Kong' Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/groups/atyhk/ The local organising group plan activities including public talks, radio programmes, academic lecture series, exhibitions (large and small), books/articles, a competition, even a marathon. Just arrived - here is Loke Lay's article, just published in Ming Pao Monthly, "ATY starts today!": http://www.mathcomp.leeds.ac.uk/turing2012/Images/ATY.starts.pdf 3) Nachum Dershowitz writes that the Turing in Israel plans are going well, with "a Turing Centennial Conference on Wednesday, 4 April 2012, with a very nice lineup of speakers" - and "a special issue of Galileo, the Israeli Magazine of Science and Thought, in January." 4) For Italian speakers, we hear that the famously knowledgeable, entertaining and provocative Piergiorgio Odifreddi, logician and best-selling Italian author, will speak at "Alan Turing, eclettico e stravagante : un omaggio al grande matematico nel centenario della nascita", January 20, 2012, at SUPSI, Trevano, Switzerland: http://www.supsi.ch/home/comunica/eventi/2012/2012-01-20 5) Of course, one of the big events of the last few weeks was the UK Channel 4 showing of "Britain's Greatest Codebreaker", getting around 1.4 million viewers, and making a big impression on many people who did not know much about Turing before. 6) Funny how academic conferences end up in such nice locations - the ATY event 'Interdisciplinary Symposium on Complex Systems' will happen next September on the Island of Kos in Greece. Looks a great meeting: https://sites.google.com/site/complexsystems2012/ Deadline for extended abstracts: June 1, 2012. 7) June in Cambridge will be a busy time, for obvious reasons. Co-located with the Turing Centenary Conference the week before is the Ninth International Conference on Computability and Complexity in Analysis (CCA 2012), June 24-27, 2012. Nice webpage: http://cca-net.de/cca2012/ Submission deadline: April 1, 2012. 8) Apart from the Channel 4 docu-drama, the event attracting the most media attention for Turing was the starting, just over a month ago, of the HMGovernment e-petition "Grant a pardon to Alan Turing": http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/23526 There are currently 19,615 signatories. The campaign will continue throughout 2012. It will make more and more people aware of how the UK criminally used the criminal law to destroy one of its greatest scientists. A BBC Radio interviewer explained to me how she did not know anything about Turing until her interview about the petition. And the issue of all those others - whose lives were blighted by the society and its law which destroyed Turing - is brought into the open. The petition provides an engrossing undercurrent to a year full of interest ... Among many encouraging and sometimes moving messages, got this from Raymond Lavas in Quebec: "They may be able to prevent me from voting. In revenge I shall convince three UK citizens who are friends to vote themselves for Turing on my behalf, I am intrepid enough to work out the logistics.... my ancestors were born here in 1546 in Limoilou Quebec Canada. I am fluent in both French and English, and I am translating historical French Science reports into American English at the moment." And from Joan Feigenbaum in Yale: "I am not a UK citizen. However, as a computer scientist and lifelong opponent of discrimination (wrt race, gender, sexual orientation, or any other irrelevant criterion), I would like to lend my support to the campaign for a pardon of Turing." There are some wonderful people out there ... 9) From Marian Gheorghe in Sheffield: "I am pleased to let you know that the Steering Committee and the CMC13 co-chairs have all enthusiastically agreed to organise a special session dedicated to Alan Turing's legacy. There are at least two invited talks on this subject and my colleagues Erzsebet and Gyorgy, CMC13 co-chairs, are actively looking for some more invited speakers. A selection of submitted papers dealing with relationships between Turing work and membrane computing will be presented at this session - details here http://www.sztaki.hu/tcs/proba/cmc13/ " 10) The Manchester Museum's exhibition on "Alan Turing and Life’s Enigma" is coming along nicely, and will run 24 Mar-18 Nov 2012. More info from Henry McGhie: http://www.evolvingwords.org/?page_id=185 Henry reported on plans at a recent Manchester TCAC meeting. Lots of other news from that eventually, including the exciting Turing Centenary Meeting, which has a fantastic speaker line-up: http://www.turing100.manchester.ac.uk/ Also some interesting news from Comma Press: http://www.commapress.co.uk/ We may need a whole update for Manchester. And should mention the Alan Turing Centenary Cryptography Competition for school students: http://www.maths.manchester.ac.uk/cryptography_competition_2012/ 11) From Richard Zach in Calgary: "I'm planning a series of talks in Calgary to honor Turing's life and work. We'll have a webpage up by the end of the week at www.ucalgary.ca/turing " And it works, nice webpage. Watch this space for more details! 12) From Marta Sanz-Sole, President of the European Mathematical Society: "As you already know, in July 2012 we have the quadrennial Conference "European Congress of Mathematics" 6ecm in Cracow http://www.6ecm.pl/ Very likely, we will organize either a public lecture on Turing legacy or/and a mini-symposium." 13) The 6-month ATY programme of the Isaac Newton Institute programme will start on 9th January with a Public Opening, which will be supported by the London Mathematical Society as one of their 'Spitalfields Days". Entitled "The Mathematical Legacy of Alan Turing", it is open to all, and there are 100 pound travel grants available to postgraduate students. Details at: http://www.newton.ac.uk/programmes/SAS/sasw05.html 14) Princeton University Press tells us they will launch a special re-publication of Turing's thesis, edited by Andrew Appel, complete with an authoritative introduction by Sol Feferman. We wrote back: "I think this is a wonderful contribution to the Turing centenary. For me, this is the most important and most interesting of Turing's writings, and it is a real delight to see the original copy in facsimile form. Sol Feferman is the most authoritative commentator on this work that you could have chosen. Of course, there are other viewpoints on the paper, it is packed with interesting ideas that have turned out to be of significance for all sorts of currently active research areas. But Sol is someone who has himself taken the core ideas of Turing's thesis (subsequently paper) to a new level, and contributed important and influential work based on Turing's approach to incomputability and questions arising from Goedel's Incompleteness Theorem." 15) On December 5, Ursula Martin wrote: "Not bad song about Turing http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksUyhJRkvNk Written by Steve Pride, a group theorist in Glasgow http://www.maths.gla.ac.uk/homepages/sjp/ " Yes, we agree. Impressive for someone whose day-job is mathematics. And actually quite moving. 16) Some fantastic stuff emerging from the direction of Manchester Metropolitan University (specially via the amazing Collette Curry). You can get an overview from Collette's MMU Turing Year webpage (under construction): http://www.chaturing.com/turing/ 17) Sevenoaks School continue to do great things. David Vaccaro wrote about a year 10 (14-year-olds) trip to Bletchley Park: http://www.sevenoaksschool.org/year-10-trip-to-bletchley-park He reports: "We were fantastically well looked after by the guides of the Education Department. Hopefully lots of schools will make the trip in 2012." 18) We hear from Turing Year in China organiser Angsheng Li that their high-profile speakers will be invited to give special lectures for Beijing high school students, and some may go on to Hong Kong for further events there. 19) Anna Dumitriu, co-chair of the Turing Arts and Culture Cttee, has a very interesting travelling art exhibition scheduled: http://web.me.com/annadumitriu/Alan_Turing_Year_Arts/Exhibition.html “Intuition and Ingenuity”: An Art Exhibition in Celebration of the Life of Alan Turing (for Alan Turing Year 2012) will feature at the Lighthouse as part of Brighton Science Festival Friday 17th - Sunday 26th February 2012, and travel to the Kinetica Art Fair, 9-12 February 2012. 20) The Turing Centenary Conference (CiE 2012) has matched a fantastic line-up of invited speakers (http://www.cie2012.eu) with what must be the most collectable poster of the Alan Turing Year - you can see a small version at: http://www.mathcomp.leeds.ac.uk/turing2012/WScie12/Images/cie12.poster.1000x1400.png or download the full high-definition version from: http://www.mathcomp.leeds.ac.uk/turing2012/Images/cie12.poster.big.pdf Deadline for submissions is January 20, 2012. 21) Another major ATY conference is the first joint World Congress 2012 of the Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour (AISB) and the International Association for Computing and Philosophy (IACAP). It's in Birmingham, July 2nd to 6th, 2012: http://events.cs.bham.ac.uk/turing12/ And the latest news from them: THE SYMPOSIA FORMING THE CONFERENCE HAVE NOW ISSUED THEIR CALLS FOR PAPERS. Please consult the individual calls via the above Congress page. The due date for abstracts or papers (depending on the Symposium) is 1 February 2012. 22) Ok, Princeton is special - here is the main item from the Dec.12 letter from Jon Edwards: Our plans for the Princeton Turing Centennial (May 10-12, 2012) are taking shape and our web site and Facebook page are up! We invite folks to register at www.princeton.edu/turing We have 17 confirmed speakers: Andrew Appel, Martin Davis, Shafi Goldwasser, David Harel, Robert Kahn, Dick Karp, Dick Lipton, Barbara Liskov, Tom Mitchell, Andrew Odlyzko, Christos Papadimitriou, Ron Rivest, Dana Scott, Bob Tarjan, Les Valiant, Phil Wadler, Avi Wigderson, and Andy Yao.  Andrew Hodges will deliver the Louis Clark Vanuxem Lecture on April 23, 2012, an early kickoff for our Turing Centennial celebration. 23) Also: The Princeton University Press will publish a new American edition of Andrew Hodges' book Alan Turing: The Enigma. Available May 2012. 24) Another 'First Call' ... for the Seventh International Conference on Computability, Complexity and  Randomness (CCR 2012), held as a part of the INI programme Semantics and  Syntax: A Legacy of Alan Turing. CCR 2012 is part of the Alan Turing  Year Events, July 2-6, 2012. http://math.uni-heidelberg.de/logic/conferences/ccr2012/ Deadline (for abstracts) 25 February 2012 25) The Science Museum is being very cagy about its Turing exhibition. But we're definitely expecting something really special. Anyway, Google have announced their support for an ambitious rolling programme of exhibitions related to the history of computing, starting with the Alan Turing Year edition - see: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/8961983/Google-teams-up-with-Science-Museum-for-new-exhibitions.html Watch for more news soon. 26) A Second Call for Papers - 6th International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning Manchester, UK, June 26-July 1, 2012: http://ijcar.cs.manchester.ac.uk/ "IJCAR 2012 is held as part of the Alan Turing Year 2012 just after The Alan Turing Centenary Conference in Manchester. Deadline for submission: January 30. 27) From Simon Thompson in Canterbury: "I was writing to you to let you know about the workshop taking place at the BMC this year, on, coincidentally, Turing's Legacy. It may be that some of your participants would be interested in attending the BMC, which will also have talks on the Turing theme from Solomon Feferman, Andrew Hodges, David Harel and Sue Black." Looks a nice programme. 28) And - another ATY event in a picturesque location - Logic in Computer Science (LICS 2012) will run June 25--28, 2012 in Dubrovnik, Croatia: http://informatik.hu-berlin.de/lics/lics12 LICS 2012 will include a plenary session in honor of Alan Turing on the occasion of his centenary, with talks by Robert L. Constable, E. Allen Emerson (co-winner of 2008 A. M. Turing Award), Joan Feigenbaum, and Leonid Levin. 29) I should mention much of our information comes via the invaluable work of Daniela Derbyshire, our indefatiguable Turing Year Media Contact - including this useful webpage she received from George Broadhead, Pink Triangle Trust Secretary, on "Gay and Lesbian Humanist - Alan Mathison Turing (1912 – 1954)": http://www.pinktriangle.org.uk/glh/turing.html 30) Some promising news from Benedict Loewe: "I just returned from a meeting with Jeff Caster, the prospective director for 'Breaking the Code' to be performed in Germany and the Netherlands, and things are looking very good. I think it is now certain that this is going to work out: the University Players Hamburg with Jeff Caster as director and Anke Kell as producer will be on tour to Amsterdam, Almere, Paderborn and Braunschweig, and possibly other places with an amateur performance of 'Breaking the Code' next year: http://www.jeffcaster.com/ We'll have an official announcement very soon." Fingers crossed. Still no news about the London and New York professional productions of BtC, but we still have to work around the freeze on permissions for UK amateur productions. 31) The 17th Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education in Israel has become an Alan Turing Year event. As their webpage: http://www.iticse12.org.il/HTMLs/Home.aspx says: "All three Keynotes of ITiCSE 2012 will be in conjunction with the Turing Centenary", and they have terrific speakers - Michael Rabin (no less), Lenore Blum and David Harel. 32) From Bob Doran in Auckland: "Just to let you know that we have released the programme for 2012. News item at: http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/uoa/site/cs/home/news/template/news_item.jsp?cid=444758 Permanent link at: http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/our_department/Gibbons_Lectures/#next Jack Copeland has already given his talk. It was great. It has been recorded and we will webcast it next year." 33) Benedikt Loewe tells us: "The publisher Elsevier is continuing the programme 'Increasing representation of female researchers in the computability community' originally funded by the Elsevier Foundation (2008-2010)." This means CiE 2012 can give up to 4 grants of 200 EUR to junior female researchers to attend CiE 2012. See: http://www.mathcomp.leeds.ac.uk/turing2012/WScie12/give-page.php?14 Also there are details of ASL Student Travel Grants. 34) The Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum in Paderborn exhibition EMINENT & ENIGMATIC has an opening event GENIAL & GEHEIM, 19:00 on January 10 - and here is the flyer: http://www.mathcomp.leeds.ac.uk/turing2012/Images/HNF.flyer.pdf 35) Nelma Moreira writes to tell us about the 17th International Conference on Implementation and Application of Automata (CIAA) in Porto, Portugal on July 17-20, 2012: http://www.dcc.fc.up.pt/CIAA12/ She reports: "We are glad to inform you our invited speakers, which include Joseph Sifakis, a Turing award, but also Januz Brzozowski, Grzegorz Rozenberg and Dexter Kozen. In case you agree to associated these events to ATY we would be happy to announce that this edition is dedicated to the Alan Turing on the occasion of the centenary of his birth." Yes, it's now in the ATY programme of events: http://www.mathcomp.leeds.ac.uk/turing2012/give-page.php?13 36) Herbert Bruderer reports from Zurich: "My book "Konrad Zuse und die Schweiz" will shortly appear at the Oldenbourg-Verlag in Munich. It includes a large chapter on Alan Turing and von Neumann as well as a worldwide survey on the early computers and a bibliography of some 500 publications (USA, Britain, France, Germany, Switzerland)." And then gives us a fascinating piece of information: "By the way, there was a meeting betwen Alan Turing and Konrad Zuse in late summer 1947 at the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft in Göttingen (participants: Womersley, Turing, Porter/Walther, Zuse, Schreyer, Billing, etc.). The historians do not know this colloquium." I've not seen this anywhere else. Maybe others know more. 37) Veronica Becher is involved in organising "Logic and Computability session of CLAM 2012", as part of a big conference in Cordoba: http://www.famaf.unc.edu.ar/clam2012/ More information to follow. 38) From Tito Orlandi: "CENTRO LINCEO INTERDISCIPLINARE Beniamino Segre, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Italy organizes a congress on November the 22nd, 2012 in order to commemorate Alan Turing: "Per il centenario di Alan Turing, fondatore dell'informatica." Roma, Acc. Naz. dei Lincei, Palazzo Corsini. All aspects of the activity of Allan Turing will be illustrated. Lecturers: Giorgio Ausiello, Dino Buzzetti, Luigia Carlucci Aiello, Carlo Cellucci, Gabriele Lolli, Angelo R. Meo, Daniele Mundici, Tito Orlandi, Pino Persano, Gino Roncaglia." 39) SOFSEM 2012 has a Special Session on Turing Machines - see: http://www.sofsem.cz/sofsem12/index.php?page=call 40) Joost Joosten is involve in organising an ATY event: Workshop on Modal Logic and Proof Theory; First International Wormshop http://www.phil.uu.nl/~jjoosten/WormShop I thought 'Wormshop' was a typo :-) but Joost explained all about the usefulness of worms. 41) Daniela has been talking to Jamillah Knowles, who makes the cutting-edge BBC Radio 5 'Outriders' programme. A first result was "Turing to Telecomix": http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/outriders/2011/12/turing_to_telecomix.shtml featuring an interview with Barry Cooper on the Alan Turing Year, and why Turing is so important to so many people. You can find the podcast here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/pods The Turing part is around 8 minutes in. 42) Now here's an exciting project, given away by this job vacancy advertisement: http://www.manchestersciencefestival.com/news/projectmanagervacancy It is still not officially 'out there', but it arises from morphogenesis guru Jonathan Swinton, and his idea of a mass school-based experiment to grow sunflowers during 2012, and examine the extent of the Fibonacci sequence connection. Was Turing right? Maybe we said too much already ... 43) Luca Aceto writes from Iceland: "I am pleased to inform you that the Icelandic Centre of Excellence in Theoretical Computer Science (ICE-TCS, http://www.icetcs.ru.is/) will be organizing a series of talks to celebrate the Alan Turing Centenary. The preliminary schedule for the events that will be held in the spring 2012 is at http://icetcs.ru.is/turingyear2012RU.html Thanks a lot, and season greetings" Brilliant, thanks Luca. 44) More via Daniela: "I am a PhD student of Kazakh Nationality University, studying computablity theory, So i use some information about Alan Turing on your site and I have write a littile bit about Turing in Kazakh Language. And I use the ATY Logo, I use my website will translate about him work ,This is my respect for the great mathematician-Alan Turing My webpage abaout  Alan Turing: http://www.maths.kz/?page_id=2073 " Nice to see the ATY reached Kazakhstan. 45) Sandra Alves has been organising some IFCoLog student sessions as part of CiE 2012. She writes: "I really want to advance things concerning the student sessions. The deadline is the 11th of May, so we still have some time, but we need to start advertising. The link to the sessions webpage at IFCoLog is: http://www.ifcolog.net/?page_id=6149 " Watch for more news! 46) Finally, an extract from an update from the Turing film producer Patrick Sammon: " November's Channel 4 broadcast in the United Kingdom attracted almost 1.5 million viewers and received good reviews.  The Times described the film as "...an overdue and thoroughly honourable telling of this dreadful story." Another critic said it's "awe-inspiring." The Sunday Times called it "powerful" and "imaginative."   This positive progress gives us momentum as we move ahead with ambitious worldwide distribution plans.  Agreements with broadcasters in other countries hopefully will be finalized in the months ahead.  This drama documentary eventually will reach millions of viewers around the world through broadcast, digital, DVD, and theatrical release." ***************** Lots more news brewing - but it's already nearly 2 hours into the Alan Turing Year, and there is already too much information here. Especially about ATY conferences, even for those who mean to go to some! Please keep sending news. And all the best to everyone for a very happy - and interesting - 2012 Alan Turing Year! __________________________________________________________________________ ALAN TURING YEAR http://www.turingcentenary.eu ASSOCIATION COMPUTABILITY IN EUROPE http://www.computability.org.uk Email: pmt6sbc@leeds.ac.uk Facebook: www.facebook.com/pages/The-Alan-Turing-Year/199853901070 and http://en-gb.facebook.com/people/Alan-Turing-Year/100000473465821 Twitter: http://twitter.com/AlanTuringYear __________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Jan 4 06:15:54 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 824D1217368; Wed, 4 Jan 2012 06:15:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 9FBF2217352; Wed, 4 Jan 2012 06:15:52 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120104061552.9FBF2217352@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2012 06:15:52 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.585 constructing worlds X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 585. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 1 Jan 2012 22:10:05 -0800 From: Jascha Kessler Subject: re WM's question I watched and heard Leary's presentation at the Santa Monica auditorium in the mid-60s, with THE GRATEFUL DEAD. And of course the large audience was predominantly wild-eyed youths. The music was suitable to the Pied Piper that Leary was; and how many children of all ages followed them into the cave of The Mountain and were lost! I had some acquaintance with the processes of mind-blowing, etc., from the late 1940s, and was appalled by the huge success of those lunatics. [My novel, RAPID TRANSIT: 1948, www.xlibris.com, 1999 or 2000?, is available printed on demand, paper or hardback versions. (One excellent feature of the computer world: a book doesn't go out of print or is shredded when crates are returned from bookstores)]. But, I would suggest that Willard's words, "and the knowledge that the world is constructed, and so can be deconstructed?" require some criticism. The world of words and ideas may be a human construct that can be deconstructed; but the processes of human lives, and their constructed world since earliest paleolithic times, so far as one can tell, is and is not the world. It is, insofar as history is the history of applied Tekne, since fire was made a tool [a risky tool daily, and not fully controlled], given that Homo sapiens is a creature surviving by means of prostheses, if not from birth or before, then at least after weaning. But despite, say the prostheses of the medical technologies and arts, the rickety-scaffolding of the helical coils within the chromosomes, DNA, that is, is not (yet) altogether controllable, if only because that scaffolding is subject weathering and time. It seems that only an imprudent, hubristic rhetorical flourish might believe that "the world can be deconstructed." It is not as simple as that. The world is not something we have constructed or can control, down to its neutrinos. I would note that my own personal world might have fallen apart like semblable made of lego this year, were it not for a cunning little medal, programmed, called "Zephyr," a model of the Pacemaker genre, which was inserted into my upper left chest, to keep the heart beating at a better rate than it had been for some time. I am not an ingrate, but the construction of my personal world by this means, is a labile one, and I hope not to have it deconstructed by accident, say inadvertently watching my soup be reheated in the microwave. I suppose all this is a response to the too-easily worded phrase Willard threw out in his 1.1.12 comment? Jascha Kessler -- Jascha Kessler Professor Emeritus of Modern English & American Literature, UCLA Telephone/Facsimile: 310.393.4648 www.jfkessler.com www.xlibris.com _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Jan 4 06:16:50 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8235D21742F; Wed, 4 Jan 2012 06:16:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 9A05E2173BF; Wed, 4 Jan 2012 06:16:48 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120104061648.9A05E2173BF@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2012 06:16:48 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.586 publication: Origins of Cyberspace X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 586. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2012 11:16:14 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Origins of Cyberspace The affluent here may wish to purchase the trade edition of Diana H. Hook and Jeremy M. Norman, Origins of Cyberspace: A Library on the History of Computing, Networking and Telecommunications (2002), described at www.historyofscience.com/norman-publishing/computing-history/cyberspace.php for US $500; the very affluent may be moved to acquire the limited edition. The rest of us must be content with downloading the prospectus and the index of authors and subjects -- and in a small number of cases, perusing the book in a local library (of which there are 4 in London -- stay tuned). It would appear to be a very good starting-point for historical enquiries into the early histories relevant to the digital humanities. Yours, WM -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor (fractional), University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Jan 4 06:20:18 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5524021761A; Wed, 4 Jan 2012 06:20:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 3E276217604; Wed, 4 Jan 2012 06:20:15 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120104062015.3E276217604@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2012 06:20:15 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.587 events: Turing; text; scholarship; history of the humanities X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 587. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Willard McCarty (46) Subject: London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship, 19 January [2] From: "Bod, Rens" (56) Subject: "The Making of the Humanities III", 2012, Rome [3] From: Liesbeth De Mol (60) Subject: Turing in Context - King's College - Cambridge, England, 18- 19 February 2012 [4] From: Monica Berti (44) Subject: NEH Institute at Tufts University - Working with Text in a Digital Age [5] From: Brent Nelson (88) Subject: cfp: Society for Digital Humanities / Société pour l'étude des médias --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2012 11:20:36 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship, 19 January *London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship 19 January 2012 *5.30pm: Room S265, 2nd Floor Senate House www.tinyurl.com/LondonSeminar/ Robert V. McNamee and Mark Rogerson: " ' ...of things which they were not in quest of': digital design and serendipity" In the simplest terms, the Bodleian Libraries' Electronic Enlightenment Project digitizes letters drawn from an international collection of published critical editions, along with never-previously-published born-digital collections edited specifically for the Project. More intriguingly, it uses what we call "scholarly technology" to reconstruct what may be the world's first global, social network — stretching from the early 17th to the mid 19th centuries. In that process, EE recovers conversations and correspondents previously lost, or only available in book form to the most erudite researcher. In this presentation, we will introduce our concept and application of "scholarly technology", and consider how the design and development of this kind of digital resource results in a system so culturally dense and interwoven as to positively encourage serendipitous discovery. Dr Robert McNamee, creator and now Director of the Electronic Enlightenment Project, began his academic life in astrophysics, at the University of Calgary; later returned to study literary textuality, finally reading for a DPhil (Oxford) working with the bibliographer and textual scholar Don F. McKenzie. McNamee worked on several early projects in the digital humanities; was head of digital R & D at the Voltaire Foundation, Oxford, where he worked on creation of an SGML version of the massive Œuvres complete de Voltaire. Interested in the links between correspondence and the then new Web, his project attracted Mellon Foundation funding to explore the relationship. Mark Rogerson, Technical editor of the EE Project, and senior lecturer at the Oxford International Centre for Publishing studies (Oxford Brookes University), Rogerson started out as a computer-service engineer, but quickly found that the problem-solving involved in writing software was far more interesting than fixing other people's computers. Rogerson is deeply interested and involved in the content as well as the technology of EE — that makes him ideally suited to a project in which the depth and complexity of the content is inseparable from the creative means required to make it accessible. The latest work on geographical information systems has provided an excellent excuse to indulge further his passion for early-modern cartography. All welcome. Refreshments provided. -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor (fractional), University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2012 21:29:12 +0000 From: "Bod, Rens" Subject: "The Making of the Humanities III", 2012, Rome L.S. In my previous posting, the lay out got messed up. Could you please post the following message instead? (Let's hope it works out well now). Many thanks. Best, Rens Bod ________________________________ *Call for Papers: "THE MAKING OF THE HUMANITIES III"* The third international conference on the history of the humanities, "The Making of the Humanities III", will take place at the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome, from 1 till 3 November 2012. See http://makingofthehumanitiesiii.blogspot.com/ *Keynote Speakers* Lorraine Daston (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science) John Joseph (University of Edinburgh) Glenn Most (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa) Jo Tollebeek (University of Leuven) *Goal of the Conference* This is the third of a biennially organized conference that brings together scholars and historians of humanities disciplines to draw the outlines for a comparative history of the humanities. Although there exist histories of single humanities disciplines, a comparative history would satisfy a long-felt need, and fill a conspicuous gap in intellectual history. *Theme of the 2012 Conference* The theme of the meeting in 2012 will be "The Making of the Modern Humanities", focusing on the period 1850-2000. Topics include all aspects of the history of philology, linguistics, literary studies, musicology, historiography, art history and other humanities disciplines, with an emphasis on their mutual influences, and their interaction with the other sciences. *Conference Panels* In addition to the theme of this year’s meeting, there will be four general conference panels that cover all periods, areas and disciplines: Panel I: Objectivity in the Humanities Panel II: Methodology in the Humanities Panel III: The Search for Patterns in the Humanities Panel IV: The Sciences and the Humanities *Abstract Submissions* Papers can be submitted to the general theme or to one of the panels. Please indicate on your abstract whether you want your paper to be considered for the general theme or for one of the panels or both. Send your abstract of maximally 400 words to: HistoryHumanities@gmail.com Deadline for abstract submissions: 1 June 2012 For more information, see http://makingofthehumanitiesiii.blogspot.com/ *Organization* Huizinga Institute of Cultural History (Working Group History of the Humanities) Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome Institute for Logic, Language and Computation, University of Amsterdam -- Prof dr Rens Bod, VICI Laureate Chair of Computational Humanities Institute for Logic, Language and Computation, University of Amsterdam Visiting Address: Science Park 904, 1098 XH Amsterdam, NL Postal Address: P.O. Box 94242, 1090 GE Amsterdam, NL phone: +31 20 5256086 or +31 20 5256051 http://staff.science.uva.nl/~rens/ Call for Papers "The Making of the Humanities III", 2012, Rome: http://makingofthehumanitiesiii.blogspot.com/ --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2012 09:27:57 +0100 From: Liesbeth De Mol Subject: Turing in Context - King's College - Cambridge, England, 18-19 February 2012 Turing in Context King's College Cambridge, England 18-19 February 2012 http://www.math.uni-hamburg.de/home/loewe/TiC@Kings/ CALL FOR PARTICIPATION In the year 2012, the academic world will celebrate Alan Turing's (1912-1954) birth centenary as the Alan Turing Year. Turing, who was on the Time Magazine's list of the 100 most important people of the 20th century, has revolutionized several fields by his seminal contributions to the theory of computation (the Turing machine), the practical applications of that theory by building the first digital computers, cryptography, and artificial intelligence (the Turing test). Turing's special role for science in the 20th century and his sad premature death made him an icon whose recognition goes beyond his immediate scientific impact (consider, e.g., the British Prime Minister's public apology to Turing in September 2009). The event "Turing in Context" will highlight the many contributions of Alan Turing for a general academic audience, in particular for undergraduate and postgraduate students of all fields, and put these contributions in a historical context. Our seven speakers will cover topics such as British war intelligence, discrimination laws, pattern formation in biological systems, artificial intelligence, as well as logic and foundations of computing. The event Turing in Context is hosted by Turing's former college in Cambridge, King's College and is generously funded by the Isaac Newton Institute and the AISB. INVITED SPEAKERS. Henk Barendregt (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, The Netherlands) Sue Black (University College London, U.K.) David Gondek (Thomas J. Watson Research Center, U.S.A.) Leslie Moran (Birkbeck College, U.K.) Julian Richards (Buckingham University, U.K.) Raul Rojas (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany) Angela Stevens (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany) All members of Cambridge University, in particular all students at King's College, are cordially invited to join us for this celebration. Attendance is free, but since there is only limited seating capacity in Keynes Hall, we ask for advance registration by sending an e-mail to Jenny Mackayprogrammes@newton.ac.uk with the subject line "Registration for Turing in Context, 18-19 Feb 2012". Acceptance is on a first-come first-served basis. The event will take place in Keynes Hall at King's College. There will be an exhibition of Turing-related items from the archives of King's College in the adjacent Chatwynd Room during the event. RELATED EVENTS. On Friday, 17 February 2012, Dr. David Gondek from IBM Research will give a general audience presentation on the famous Watson project: http://www.math.uni-hamburg.de/home/loewe/TiC@Kings/watson.html In October 2012, there will be a research-based follow-up event entitled Turing in Context II with talks for specialists at the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium in Brussels: http://www.computing-conference.ugent.be/tic2/ Sponsors. TiC@Kings is organized as part of the Alan Turing Year 2012 and sponsored by the King's College of our Lady and Saint Nicholas in Cambridge, the Isaac Newton Institute for the Mathematical Sciences, and the Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour (AISB). Organizers. Liesbeth De Mol (Gent), Benedikt Löwe (Amsterdam& Hamburg), Ken Moody (Cambridge), Giuseppe Primiero (Gent). --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2012 16:55:32 +0100 From: Monica Berti Subject: NEH Institute at Tufts University - Working with Text in a Digital Age Hi All, Apologies for cross-postings. I am very pleased to send you the RFP of "Working with Text in a = Digital Age", a three-week NEH Institute for Advanced Topics in the = Digital Humanities that will be held at Tufts University (July 23 - = August 10, 2012). For further details see the previous announcement on the Perseus = homepage: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/ "Tufts University invites applications to =93Working with Text in a = Digital Age=94, a three-week NEH Institute for Advanced Technology in = the Digital Humanities (July 23-August 10, 2012) that combines = traditional topics such as TEI Markup with training in methods from = Information Retrieval, Visualization, and Corpus and Computational = Linguistics. Faculty, graduate students, and library professionals are = encouraged to apply. Applicants should submit proposals by February 15, = 2012. Participant proposals must include CVs and statements of purpose = (no more than 1,000 words) describing how they will be able to use = participation in the Institute to advance their subsequent careers. = Participants must be committed to collaborative work and to publication = of results from this Institute under a Creative Commons license. = Participants should identify source materials with which they propose to = work during the Institute and which must be in the public domain or = available under a suitable license. In an ideal case, source materials = would include both texts for intensive analysis and annotation and one = or more larger corpora to be mined and analyzed more broadly. Statements = of purpose must describe initial goals for the Institute. For more = information or to submit applications, please contact = lcerrato@perseus.tufts.edu. We particularly encourage participants who are committed to developing = research agendas that integrate contributions and research by = undergraduates, that expand the global presence of the Humanities, and = that, in general, broaden access to and participation in the Humanities. = Preference will be given to participants who are best prepared not only = to apply new technologies but to do so as a means to transform their = teaching and research and the relationship of their work to society = beyond academia." Happy New Year! Monica Berti ________________________________________________ Monica Berti Universit=E0 di Roma Tor Vergata - monica.berti@uniroma2.it Tufts University - monica.berti@tufts.edu http://www.monicaberti.it http://www.antichita.uniroma2.it/berti.htm= --[5]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2012 12:47:25 -0600 From: Brent Nelson Subject: cfp: Society for Digital Humanities / Société pour l'étude des médias *Society for Digital Humanities / Société pour l'étude des médias interactifs * * Call for Papers, Congress 2012* (See the French version below) */Crossroads: Scholarship for an Uncertain World/* 2012 Annual Meeting of the Society for Digital Humanities / Société pour l'étude des médias interactifs The Society for Digital Humanities (SDH/SEMI) invites scholars, practitioners, and graduate students to submit proposals for papers and sessions for its annual meeting, which will be held at the 2012 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Wilfrid Laurier University and University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, from 28-30 May (http://congress2012.ca/). The society would like in particular to encourage submissions relating to the central theme of the Congress--"Crossroads: Scholarship for an Uncertain World." While this year's Congress theme is well suited to the interests of SDH/SEMI, we encourage submissions on all topics relating to both theory and practice in the evolving field of the digital humanities. Our keynote speaker and recipient of this year's award for Outstanding Achievement for Computing in the Arts and Humanities is Ronald Tetreault (Dalhousie University). The conference will also present joint sessions with ACCUTE and Canadian Game Studies Association/Association Canadienne d'Études Vidéoludiques (http://sdh-semi.org/).Proposals should specify any preference for inclusion in this joint session. Proposals for papers (20 min.), posters, and panels or roundtables (2 -6 speakers for a 1½ hour session) will be accepted until 1 February 2012 and must be submitted at http://www.sdh-semi.org/conference/. Abstracts should be between 200 and 400 words long, and should clearly indicate the paper's thesis, methodology and conclusions. There is a limited amount of funding available to support graduate student travel.Please note that all presenters must be members of SDH/SEMI at the time of the conference. Selected papers from the conference will appear in a special collection published in the society journal, /Digital Studies/Le champ numérique /(http://www.digitalstudies.org). Program committee: Brent Nelson (program chair), Aimée Morrison (local organizer), Eric Moore, Harvey Quamen, Jon Saklofske, Susan Brown, Stéfan Sinclair, Dan O'Donnell, Michael Eberle-Sinatra *Appel de communications* */À la croisée des chemins: Le savoirface à un monde incertain/* Réunion annuelle de 2012 de la /Society for Digital Humanities // Société pour l'étude des médias interactifs (SDH/SEMI) La Société pour l'étude des médias interactifs invite chercheurs et étudiants aux cycles supérieurs à soumettre des propositions de communication et de session pour sa réunion annuelle, qui se tiendra au Congrès 2012 de la Fédération canadienne des sciences humaines à l'Université Wilfrid Laurier et l'Université de Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, du 28 au 30 mai (http://congress2012.ca/). La Société souhaite encourager en particulier des propositions concernant le thème central de la réunion : « À la croisée des chemins : Le savoirface à un monde incertain ». Bien que le thème du congrès de cette année soit bien adapté aux intérêts de la SDH/SEMI, nous encourageons également toute communication qui traite des sciences humaines numériques, tant au niveau théorique que pratique. Ronald Tetraul (Dalhousie University), récipiendaire du prix 2012 pour une contribution exceptionnelle dans le domaine des arts et sciences humaines informatiques, sera notre conférencier plénier. La conférence présentera aussi des sessions conjointes avec ACCUTE et le Canadian Game Studies Association/Association Canadienne d'Études Vidéoludiques (http://sdh-semi.org/).Les participants devraient indiquer leur intérêt à participer aux sessions conjointes. Les propositions de communication (20'), posters et de session ou table-ronde (2-6 participants pour une période d'une heure trente) seront acceptées jusqu'au 1 février 2012 et doivent être soumises à http://www.sdh-semi.org/conference/.Les résumés devraient compter entre 200 et 400 mots, et indiquer clairement la thématique, méthodologie, et conclusion. La société a des fonds limités pour les frais de déplacements pour les étudiants.Veuillez noter que tout présentateur devra être membre de la SDH/SEMI au moment de la conférence. Une sélection des présentations de la conférence sera publiées dans un numéro spécial du journal de la Société, le /Digital Studies/Le champ numérique /(http://www.digitalstudies.org http://www.digitalstudies.org/ ). Comité scientifique:Brent Nelson (program chair), Aimée Morrison (local organizer), Eric Moore, Harvey Quamen, Jon Saklofske, Susan Brown, Stéfan Sinclair, Dan O'Donnell, Michael Eberle-Sinatra -- @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Dr. Brent Nelson, Associate Professor Department of English 9 Campus Dr. University of Saskatchewan Saskatoon, SK S7N 5A5 ph.: (306) 966-1820 fax.: (306) 966-5951 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Jan 5 06:14:22 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2CC1215E0E; Thu, 5 Jan 2012 06:14:21 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 7D2F5215D7A; Thu, 5 Jan 2012 06:14:20 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20120105061420.7D2F5215D7A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2012 06:14:20 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.588 Origins of Cyberspace: no Dijkstra X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 588. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2012 09:47:31 -0500 From: robert delius royar Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.586 publication: Origins of Cyberspace In-Reply-To: <20120104061648.9A05E2173BF@woodward.joyent.us> The index includes "Dickinson, Angie" but not "Dijkstra, Edsger," who was already known in the field by the late 1960s. [The book's prospectus states that "[t]he material it describes ranges chronologically from 1613 to about 1970. There are 1411 annotated entries."] Wed, 4 Jan 2012 (06:16 -0000 UTC) Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 586. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2012 11:16:14 +0000 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: Origins of Cyberspace > > The affluent here may wish to purchase the trade edition of Diana H. > Hook and Jeremy M. Norman, Origins of Cyberspace: A Library on the > History of Computing, Networking and Telecommunications (2002), > described at > www.historyofscience.com/norman-publishing/computing-history/cyberspace.php > for US $500; the very affluent may be moved to acquire the limited > edition. The rest of us must be content with downloading the prospectus > and the index of authors and subjects -- and in a small number of cases, > perusing the book in a local library (of which there are 4 in London -- > stay tuned). It would appear to be a very good starting-point for > historical enquiries into the early histories relevant to the digital > humanities. > > Yours, > WM > -- 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 Jan 5 06:16:19 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA15021522B; Thu, 5 Jan 2012 06:16:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 80BB6214397; Thu, 5 Jan 2012 06:16:17 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120105061617.80BB6214397@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2012 06:16:17 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.589 job at Washington University X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 589. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2012 13:41:15 -0500 From: Dot Porter Subject: Digital Humanities Job at Washington University in St. Louis (posted at the request of Amy Lehman, The Interdisciplinary Project in the Humanities, www.iph.wustl.edu, Washington University) Mark Steinberg Weil Early Career Fellowship in Digital Humanities at Washington University in St. Louis. The Humanities Digital Workshop at Washington University in St. Louis invites applications for /a three-year early-career fellowship in digital humanities/, to begin July 1, 2012. We seek scholars with expertise in any of a broad range of humanities topics and methods -- quantitative history, network analysis, topic-modeling, statistical approaches to book history, lexicography, computer-assisted stylistics, text-processing, or human-computer interaction.The fellow’s research program should employ analysis of digitized texts or data to extend or contest current understandings of literary, political, social, or cultural history. Candidates must have completed their doctorates after 2008, and must have completed all requirements for the Ph.D. before July 1, 2012. The Weil fellowship was established to foster the professional development of gifted scholars and the further enrichment of the university’s vigorous research environment. The HDW fellow is expected to pursue her or his own research, but will also join the research team of one or more of the projects currently supported by the HDW; the Fellow is expected to participate in the intellectual life of the HDW as well as of other units relevant to the Fellow’s research interests. Teaching responsibilities include a course each Fall and Spring semester, as well as supervision of a small number of students.Some courses may be centered in the Fellow’s substantive discipline; others may straddle disciplines, but with a methodological focus in digital scholarship. Fellows are expected to be in residence during the entire fellowship period, apart from research-related travel. Fellows will receive a salary of $60,000 per year, plus Washington University postdoctoral benefits; and a $5,000 annual research/travel stipend. Applicants should submit a CV, graduate school transcript, two letters of recommendation, a description of the proposed research project, a brief account of the applicant’s involvement in digital humanities, and a proposal for a seminar (introductory or advanced) in digital humanities. Submit all application materials electronically to the HDW Fellowship Search Committee, c/o hdw-artsci@wustl.edu > Loewenstein jfloewen@wustl.edu dknox@wustl.edu X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2540215A3C; Thu, 5 Jan 2012 06:17:17 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 3F5C3215A30; Thu, 5 Jan 2012 06:17:15 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120105061715.3F5C3215A30@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2012 06:17:15 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.590 print index vs digital search? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 590. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2012 08:53:06 -0500 From: "Holly C. Shulman" Subject: print index vs. digital search Can anyone direct me to a discussion on the differences between an index in a printed volume and search protocols in a digital environment. I am most interested in the relationship between the media and the method. With thanks, Holly Shulman -- Holly C. Shulman Editor, Dolley Madison Digital Edition Founding Director, Documents Compass Research Professor, Department of History University of Virginia 434-243-8881 hcs8n@virginia.edu _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Jan 5 06:17:47 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA1BC215D63; Thu, 5 Jan 2012 06:17:47 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B06A5215A79; Thu, 5 Jan 2012 06:17:46 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120105061746.B06A5215A79@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2012 06:17:46 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.591 software: synapsen X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 591. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2012 10:41:25 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: synapsen Many here will, I suspect, be interested in Markus Krajewski's hypertextual card-index and reference organizer, synapsen, http://www.verzetteln.de/synapsen/synapsen_e.html. Yours, WM -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor (fractional), University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Jan 5 06:21:40 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0BD6217BA4; Thu, 5 Jan 2012 06:21:40 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id CFEAC217B83; Thu, 5 Jan 2012 06:21:38 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120105062138.CFEAC217B83@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2012 06:21:38 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.592 events: styles of knowing; early Jewish/Christian studies X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 592. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Stuart Dunn (66) Subject: Centre for e-Research Seminar: Digital Transformations of Research and Styles of Knowing [2] From: Claire Clivaz (8) Subject: Call for papers 2012: DH and Early Jewish/Christian Studies --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2012 10:42:33 +0000 From: Stuart Dunn Subject: Centre for e-Research Seminar: Digital Transformations of Research and Styles of Knowing With apologies for cross-postings. The first seminar in the Centre for e-Research Seminar Series for 2012, Digital Transformations of Research and Styles of Knowing by Ralph Shroeder and Eric Meyer, is on Thursday 17th January in the Anatomy Theatre and Museum, King's College London. For more information and to register, please go to http://www.kcl.ac.uk/innovation/groups/cerch/events/seminars/index.aspx ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Digital Transformations of Research and Styles of Knowing Ralph Schroeder, Senior Research Fellow, Oxford Internet Institute and Eric T. Meyer, Research Fellow, Oxford Internet Institute Tuesday 17 January, 6.15pm, Anatomy Museum. Followed by drinks. In recent years, large-scale research programmes have been implemented across the globe with labels like e-Science, e-Infrastructure and cyberinfrastructure (Meyer and Schroeder 2009). It has been argued that these various digital transformations have fundamentally changed how research is done. In this paper, we challenge this argument, and suggest instead that there are more specific changes in particular areas of research that have taken place. To delimit the scope of what can be considered a digital transformation of research or ‘e-Research’ (since these could potentially encompass a vast range of phenomena), we define these as the distributed and collaborative use of digital tools and data in the production of scientific knowledge. One feature that e-Research efforts share is that they consist of online research technologies with a digital component, though what this component consists of varies among particular e-Research projects (for example, data in a digital format, the use of computing power to perform processing, or the creation of complex visualizations with computer graphics). We argue, however, that this variety in technologies is not infinite, but that there are a limited number of these components which can be identified. Please register to attend at: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/2658460527 About the speakers Dr Eric T. Meyer is a Research Fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute. His research in the area of social informatics focuses on understanding how digital technologies enable changes in the way people work, relate and interact. A particular focus has been studying how the practices of research are changing as digital tools and data become central in the sciences, social sciences, and arts & humanities. He is broadly interested in a fundamental question regarding how technology and practice are related: what evidence is there that technology has enabled people and organizations to do entirely new things? More information is available at: http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/?id=120 Ralph Schroeder is Professor at the Oxford Internet Institute at the University of Oxford. He is director of research at the Institute and director of its Master's degree in 'Social Science of the Internet'. His books include 'Rethinking Science, Technology and Social Change' (Stanford University Press 2007) and 'Being there Together: Social Interaction in Virtual Environments' (Oxford University Press 2010). Before coming to Oxford, he was Professor at Chalmers University in Gothenburg, Sweden. His current research is focused on the digital transformations of research -- Dr Stuart Dunn Research Fellow Centre for e-Research King's College London www.stuartdunn.wordpress.com Tel +44 (0)207 848 2709 Fax +44 (0)207 848 1989 stuart.dunn@kcl.ac.uk Centre for e-Research 26-29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL UK Geohash: http://geohash.org/gcpvj1zm7yp1 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2012 17:12:16 +0100 From: Claire Clivaz Subject: Call for papers 2012: DH and Early Jewish/Christian Studies Dear list, A research group has been open on DH in the field of early Jewish and Christian studies: «Digital Humanities in Biblical Studies, Early Jewish, and Christian Studies». At the next SBL international/EABS/OTS meeting, in Amsterdam, 22-26 of July 2012, two sessions are proposed, one about «Digital Humanities and Manuscripts», chaired by David Hamidovic and Claire Clivaz. The other one is about «Digital Humanities and Academic Publishing», chaired by Andrew Gregory and Claire Clivaz. The call for papers is open until the 1st February. You will find all the details here: http://www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_CallForPaperDetails.aspx?MeetingId=20&VolunteerUnitId=574 Happy new year to all, Claire Clivaz, Lausanne (CH) _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Jan 6 06:07:29 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52E3121E175; Fri, 6 Jan 2012 06:07:29 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 628F321E164; Fri, 6 Jan 2012 06:07:27 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120106060727.628F321E164@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2012 06:07:27 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.593 job at Cambridge X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 593. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2012 09:59:55 -0000 From: "Chris Martin" Subject: Digital Library Metadata Specialist http://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/-11222/ Digital Library Metadata Specialist Cambridge University Library is seeking to appoint a suitably qualified candidate with an interest and relevant experience in digital libraries or digital humanities to work within its digital library team from early 2012. The Foundations Project is a strategic initiative of the Library, which aims to establish a state-of-the-art infrastructure for the production, preservation and online delivery of digitised content from its world-class collections. The first iteration of the digital library is online at http://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/. The appointee will work within a core team of six, including another metadata specialist, with whom they will share a portfolio. Reporting to the Library's Digitisation and Digital Preservation Manager, they will concentrate on metadata and transcription aspects of the project, supporting the broad requirements of the Foundations Project and the particular needs of several associated projects, particularly a JISC-funded mass digitisation project based on the fascinating archive of the Board of Longitude. This role will provide an opportunity for the appointee to work at the forefront of digital library and digital humanities initiatives. Applicants should have a good honours degree in information management, computing, digital humanities or a related field and experience of working with XML-based metadata or transcription data (e.g. METS or TEI). They should ideally have some experience of scripting in one or more of the following: PHP, Perl, Java. In addition to excellent technical skills, we seek applicants with good project management and interpersonal skills, able to communicate well with non-technical users and stakeholders. Informal enquiries are welcomed by Grant Young, Digitisation and Digital Preservation Manager on 012237 65576 / gy219@cam.ac.uk or Patricia Killiard, Head of Electronic Services and Systems on 01223 333037 / pk219@cam.ac.uk Further details can be downloaded from www.lib.cam.ac.uk/Vacancies or are available from the Librarian's Personal Assistant, Cambridge University Library, West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DR, e-mail: Charlotte.Ross@lib.cam.ac.uk, Tel: (01223) 747413. Applications, in the form of a covering letter, a Curriculum Vitae and a completed CHRIS/6 form should reach the Personnel Officer not later than 9 January 2012, either by post to the above address or electronically to Charlotte.Ross@lib.cam.ac.uk (but not both). * Limit of tenure: 1.5 years from date of appointment. Quote Reference: VE11222,Closing Date: 9 January 2012 Interview Date: 24/01/2012 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Jan 6 06:08:53 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55EC221E2D9; Fri, 6 Jan 2012 06:08:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 8354921E2CA; Fri, 6 Jan 2012 06:08:51 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120106060851.8354921E2CA@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2012 06:08:51 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.594 publication: Baudrillard Studies 9.1 X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 594. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2012 04:39:01 -0500 From: Gerry Coulter Subject: Announce: Baudrillard Studies Volume 9-1 now availalbe Volume 9- 1 (January 2012) of the International Journal of Baudrillard Studies is now available online at: http://www.ubishops.ca/baudrillardstudies/vol-9_1/v9-1-TofCfinal.html IJBS is an open access journal. Volume 9-1 features a chapter from Kim Toffoletti's new book Baudrillard Re-Framed, an obituary for Lucien Freud, Jesse Hearns Branaman on the Egyptian Revolution of 2011, Gerry Coulter on Contemporary Art, Arne DeBoever on Simondon and Baudrillard, Erin Holliday-Karre on Women, power and seduction in the progessive era, Paul O'Mahoney on Klosxsowski, Nietzsche and Baudrillard, Russell Manning on Seduction, Alex McVey on Baudrillard, Borges and Sexuality, Mel Salm on simulation and the Large Hadron Collider, Laura Smith on Baudrillard, Virilio, and Art After Aesthetics. We also have a book review and the usual round up of "Baudrillard on the Web" for 2011. Books availalbe for review are also listed All the best with 2012... Gerry Coulter _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Jan 6 06:10:02 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0E4A21E364; Fri, 6 Jan 2012 06:10:00 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 4572321E34E; Fri, 6 Jan 2012 06:09:58 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120106060958.4572321E34E@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2012 06:09:58 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.595 digital media & learning competition X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 595. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2012 01:25:35 +0000 From: UC Humanities Research Institute Subject: Reminder: Digital Media and Learning Research Competition - Apply by 1/6/12 Digital Media and Learning Research Competition: Call for Applications Badges, Trophies, and Achievements: Recognition and Accreditation for Informal and Interest-Driven Learning Deadline: January 6, 2012 at 5pm PST/8pm EST | Visit dmlcompetition.net for more about the Competition. Online networks, digital resources, and gaming environments provide rich opportunities for learning that is demand-driven and learner-centered. More and more people are turning to networked knowledge communities, online tutorials, and other digital resources for wide ranging learning needs. While learning is migrating to these more informal and non-institutionalized kinds of contexts, we still have little research that examines how people assess, recognize, and display the learning that happens in these settings. What are the emerging techniques and practices for managing reputation and recognizing learning? What are the broad historical and structural understandings of how accreditation operates in our changing social and cultural environment? What systems exist for recognizing learning outside of formal degree and training programs? How do credentials and other displays of achievement operate in the digital and networked world? What kinds of skills and experiences have not been well captured by existing credentialing and recognition systems? How is the landscape of credentialing changing (or not) with the shift to digital and networked society? We seek empirical and theoretical research focusing on these questions. Studies should focus on areas such as: * Ranking, badging, and achievement systems in games, clubs, competitions, and other forms of interest-driven activities. * Accreditation and certificates outside of formal degree programs, including areas such as work skills training, language, writing and critical capabilities, arts, crafts, and other trades. * The role of credentials, badges, and other recognitions of achievement in career and reputation development. * Empirical, theoretical, and critical studies of how companies, groups, institutions, and individuals produce, utilize, and exploit various credentialing and reputation systems. [...] University of California Humanities Research Institute | 4000 Humanities Gateway | Irvine | CA | 92697-3350 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Jan 6 06:11:55 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0447521E4A0; Fri, 6 Jan 2012 06:11:55 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E9F5C21E448; Fri, 6 Jan 2012 06:11:52 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120106061152.E9F5C21E448@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2012 06:11:52 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.596 events: cybernetics & systems X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 596. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2012 15:34:01 +0000 From: Veli-Pekka Parkkinen Subject: cfp: EMCSR 2012 EMCSR 2012 CALL FOR PAPERS We invite you to submit your extended abstract to the 21st European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems Research. Visit the website at http://www.emcsr.net The meeting will take place from APRIL 10 TO APRIL 13, 2012, IN VIENNA, on the Campus of the University of Vienna, AUSTRIA. ******** Thank you for forwarding this information to those potentially interested in making a submission. ******** Papers (extended abstracts) can be submitted for SYMPOSIUM O. DICHOTOMIES IN SYSTEMS BIOLOGY Chair: Joris van Poucke, Centre for Critical Philosophy, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium, and Veli-Pekka Parkkinen, Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway PAPER PRESENTATIONS FOLLOWED BY AN OCTAVIAN DISCUSSION Since the advent of Systems Biology at the turn of the century, a plethora of approaches, opinions, definitions, etc., on its meaning and significance have emerged. Notwithstanding this multitude, there are some clear lines to be drawn between an empirical, local approach that is close to previous molecular research and a more idealistic, global approach that has more affinities with some typical systems approaches. Various proposals, such as the "research cycle" by Kitano, were made in order to establish a fruitful working methodology hoping that both traditions can meet each other "in the middle". In addition to this debate, there is the dichotomy between structure and function, which is of equally importance to Systems Biology. Because of new high-throughput technologies, that produced huge amounts of structural data, molecular biologists were forced to turn to global approaches in order to make sense of the data. By doing this, however, they lost the biological meaning and relevance of certain local processes and are stuck with the global, structural interpretations of the data. The challenge, so will be discussed, is to think of the appropriate relationship between the global and the local level, the idealistic systems approach and the empirical biological approach, between structure and function The question is how they can be related with each other without falling into a reduction to one or the other level. For further details on the calls please follow the links provided or visit http://www.emcsr-conference.org/2012/schedConf/cfp. For further details on submissions please visit http://www.emcsr-conference.org/2012/about/submissions#onlineSubmissions . You have to register with the website before you can submit your extended abstract. Registration is the first step in the submission process. The timeline for extended abstracts is JANUARY 14, 2012. The notification of (non)acceptance by the session chair(s) in question is no later than JANUARY 27, 2012. The Schedule will be announced on FEBRUARY 7, 2012. Principal contact Joris Van Poucke, Joris.vanpoucke@ugent.be Veli-Pekka Parkkinen, v.p.parkkinen@ifikk.uio.no* Links: ------ http://www.emcsr.net http://campus.univie.ac.at/en/home/ -- Veli-Pekka Parkkinen PhD Research Fellow IFIKK, Faculty of Humanities PSBio University of Oslo v.p.parkkinen@ifikk.uio.no _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Jan 7 08:42:41 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EB6A2758A7; Sat, 7 Jan 2012 08:42:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id CBB57275897; Sat, 7 Jan 2012 08:42:39 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120107084239.CBB57275897@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2012 08:42:39 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.597 ALLC call for workshop & project support X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 597. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2012 15:09:04 +0000 From: Melissa Terras Subject: ALLC call for workshop and project support 2012 The ALLC committee, in accordance with the general description of ALLC calls for workshop and project support, hereby call for proposals for workshops and projects in 2012. The deadline for this call is January 31, 2012. Notifications will go out by February 28, 2012. The maximum total support in this call will be EUR 6,000. We expect submissions in the range from EUR 800 to EUR 3,000. Only in special cases will the whole amount be awarded to one single project. Submissions are to be sent by email to oyvind.eide[at]iln.uio.no by the end of January 31, 2012. Please use the format described in the general description of ALLC calls for workshops and projects you can find at http://www.allc.org/research/allc-supported-workshops-and-projects/allc-calls-workshop-and-project-support best wishes, Melissa Terras Secretary of ALLC. -- Melissa M. Terras MA MSc DPhil CLTHE CITP FHEA Reader in Electronic Communication Department of Information Studies Foster Court University College London Gower Street WC1E 6BT Tel: 020-7679-7206 (direct), 020-7679-7204 (dept), 020-7383-0557 (fax) Email: m.terras@ucl.ac.uk Web: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/infostudies/melissa-terras/ Blog: http://melissaterras.blogspot.com/ Deputy Director, UCL Centre for Digital Humanities: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/dh/ General Editor, Digital Humanities Quarterly: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Jan 7 08:43:16 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 214A22758D2; Sat, 7 Jan 2012 08:43:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A16792758C1; Sat, 7 Jan 2012 08:43:13 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120107084313.A16792758C1@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2012 08:43:13 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.598 on failure X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 598. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2012 08:40:12 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: strive to fail "In the realm of art... failure has a different currency [than in other areas of life]. Failure, by definition, takes us beyond assumptions and what we think we know. Artists have long turned their attention to the unrealizability of the quest for perfection, or the open-endedness of experiment, using both dissatisfaction and error as a means to rethink how we understand our place in the world. The inevitable gap between the intention and realization of an artwork makes failure impossible to avoid. This very condition of art-making makes failure central to the complexities of artistic practice and its resonance with the surrounding world. Through failure one has the potential to stumble on the unexpected -- a strategy also, of course, used to different ends in the practice of scientists or business entrepeneurs. To *strive to fail* is to go against the socially normalized drive towards ever increasing success. In Samuel Beckett's words, 'To be an artist is to fail as no other dare fail.'" Lisa Le Feuvre, ed., Failure (London: Whitechapel Gallery and MIT Press, 2010), www.whitechapelgallery.org/shop/index.php/fuseaction/shop.product/product_id/772 (and it's a beautifully produced book) Yours, WM -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor (fractional), University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Jan 7 08:43:40 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A2672758F0; Sat, 7 Jan 2012 08:43:40 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 047962758E8; Sat, 7 Jan 2012 08:43:38 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120107084339.047962758E8@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2012 08:43:38 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.599 text-analysis for spooks? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 599. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2012 08:37:54 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: content analysis for intelligence purposes Those here who use or are otherwise interested in text-analysis in any of its forms may wish to look up Ithiel de Sola Pool's review, "Content Analysis for Intelligence Purposes", of Alexander L. George's book, Propaganda Analysis: A Study of Inferences Made from Nazi Propaganda in World War II (1959), in World Politics 12.3 (1960). The review claims this book is a RAND Corporation Research Study; although I cannot find it in RAND's listing of publications, George wrote several things for them, including a downloadable paper on "The Scientific Status of Propaganda Analysis", http://www.rand.org/pubs/papers/P616.html. Before digital computing, it would seem, the ground was already being laid for the kind of work some of us here have championed for years. Does anyone know of what happened to the development of text-analysis for intelligence purposes, and whether the spooks have in fact pushed the development of tools? Yours, WM -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College Lsondon; Professor (fractional), University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Jan 7 08:45:20 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id E43D427597F; Sat, 7 Jan 2012 08:45:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 5CD57275976; Sat, 7 Jan 2012 08:45:18 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120107084518.5CD57275976@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2012 08:45:18 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.600 publication: Fetishes, Fallacies, and Perceptions in scholarly publishing X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 600. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2012 20:35:40 +0000 From: UTP Journals Subject: Now Available Online - Journal of Scholarly Publishing 43.2 January2012 Now available at Journal of Scholarly Publishing Online Journal of Scholarly Publishing Volume 43, Number 2 / January 2012 http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/m1427611850h/ This issue contains: Peer Review: Fetishes, Fallacies, and Perceptions Robin Derricourt The key to a successful program of scholarly book publishing lies with the knowledge, creativity, and drive of the commissioning (acquisitions) editor. Peer review is a useful tool for testing and confirming the editor's judgment and arguing the case for publication, but the role of peer review alone can often be overrated. Too many funding and appointment systems are based on a fetishised image of this concept. Despite the debates and changing perceptions about scholarly books, it is editorial excellence that underlies the quality and importance of a list. While journals rely more on the formal process of peer review, the role of the entrepreneurial journal editor also remains important to scholarly communication. http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/630743154773j538/?p=f7bdb952e9724fa1aec91c2336562936&pi=0 DOI: 10.3138/jsp.43.2.137 An Experiment in Open-Access Textbook Publishing: Changing the World One Textbook at a Time Meredith Morris-Babb, Susie Henderson The revolt against the ever-increasing costs of postsecondary texts has begun. No one can deny that reselling texts, sharing texts, e-book reserves, and free copies that are resold have forced the commercial publishers to take action. But at what cost to higher education? Just as the cable monopolies are beginning to lose ground to other delivery systems of broadcast content, so too are textbook companies losing ground to other forms of delivery. Most commercially developed e-textbooks are little more than enhanced print editions and have limited access and restrictions on printing and downloading the content. Open-access texts solve many of these problems, but, as many now realize, ‘open’ does not equal ‘no cost.’ This article will explore some of the forces that are driving the open-access phenomenon, and describes the joint effort by the University Press of Florida and the University of Florida Department of Mathematics project for open-access calculus texts. http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/x52w5542t2222427/?p=f7bdb952e9724fa1aec91c2336562936&pi=1 DOI: 10.3138/jsp.43.2.148 The Importance of Encouraging Librarians to Publish in Peer-Reviewed Publications Alain R. Lamothe Advancement in any field can only be achieved when participants distribute their ideas and experiences. What happens, however, when colleagues express uninterest, hesitation, apprehension, and, in some cases, outright hostility toward publishing? By relaying his publishing experiences as an academic librarian, both positive and negative, the author hopes to alleviate the fear, doubt, and resistance some feel toward publishing their results and ideas, particularly in peer-reviewed journals. Reasons to publish, as well as valuable suggestions and advice, are presented to the reader. http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/f722843676602r38/?p=f7bdb952e9724fa1aec91c2336562936&pi=2 DOI: 10.3138/jsp.43.2.156 Art History Publishing and Segmentation: Exploratory Observations of an Ecology of Publishing Jean-Pierre V.M. Hérubel Art history publication occupies a complex scholarly geography. Unlike other humanities disciplines, art history publication encompasses a larger landscape, including various publishers and venues available to art historians. Since the book is considered a sine qua non in the humanities, art history as a discipline is open to a more dynamic configuration of publishing opportunities. Depending upon local academic professional requirements, art historians can avail themselves of different outlets—for example, university presses, museums, and university museum publications—for the dissemination of knowledge. This introductory and exploratory discussion centres on the unique environment open to art historians in academia as well as in the museum world. Focused on twentieth-century topics, this discussion offers examples of publishing trends, including what types of publisher are linked to different types of subjects. Further discussion offers an approach that can be applied to any variety of subjects in art history. A significant objective of this article is to situate the larger context into an ecology of publication in art history. http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/65w536h860j84l78/?p=f7bdb952e9724fa1aec91c2336562936&pi=3 DOI: 10.3138/jsp.43.2.168 Automated Document Analyser for Screening of Journal Articles Saadiyah Darus, Abdul Muhaimin Abdullah The screening process of journal articles, done to determine the suitability for publication, is presently done manually. The chief editor or an assistant will read and check the submitted articles against some standard criteria of the journal. With the increase in the number of submissions, this task becomes a burden, which in turn causes delays in giving initial feedback to the authors. The objective of this paper is to describe the design and implementation of an automated document analyser that can be used by editors for initial screening of journal articles. This analyser was developed so that it can be used within a Microsoft Word environment via VBA macros. The current version of the software can determine the length of the title, information about author(s), the length of the abstract, number of keywords, the number of words in the content, the presence or absence of an acknowledgement, and whether a specific journal is cited in the article. http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/81016547618331u7/?p=f7bdb952e9724fa1aec91c2336562936&pi=4 DOI: 10.3138/jsp.43.2.188 A Comparative Study of the Publication Output of Librarians and Academics in Universities in the South-South Zone of Nigeria E. Emmanuel Baro, Loveth Ebhomeya This study is aimed at examining the publication output differences between librarians and academics at Niger Delta University and Delta State University in Nigeria. The study employed a comparative method. The study comprises focus groups made up of thirty librarians and forty academics (teaching staff) from Niger Delta University (NDU), Amassoma, Bayelsa State; and Delta State University (Delsu), Abraka, Delta State. Questionnaires and interviews were used for data collection. The data obtained from the questionnaires were analysed using simple percentage to answer the research questions and a chi-squared statistical tool of significance to test the formulated hypotheses. The study revealed the following: that librarians and academics in the two universities published equally; that high qualifications influence the publication output of librarians and academics; and that long daily working hours, heavy workload, a limited number of local journals, and high publication charges are some of the major problems militating against the publication output of librarians and academics in Nigeria. The study will stimulate librarians, despite the obstacles militating against their publication efforts, to see the need to publish like their lecturing counterparts in order to meet promotion requirements. The findings of this study should move university authorities in Nigeria to set aside time (hours or days) for research activities for all academic staff as directed by the National University Commission (NUC) in Nigeria. http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/g88h6n784p0x4183/?p=f7bdb952e9724fa1aec91c2336562936&pi=5 DOI: 10.3138/jsp.43.2.200 The Impact of Submission Experiences on Perceptions of Journal Quality and Editorial Support: The Viewpoint of Chinese Authors Zili Zhang, Ziqiong Zhang, Rob Law This study examines differences in perceptions of journal quality and editorial support among three categories of Chinese authors: those whose manuscripts were accepted without revision, those whose manuscripts were accepted after revision, and those whose manuscripts were rejected. An analysis of online reviews of journal quality and editorial support in six disciplines revealed the existence of biases caused by authors' submission experiences. The results show that a Chinese author will rate the quality of a journal and its editorial support higher if his or her manuscript was accepted by the journal regardless of whether he or she was required to make revisions. The results also indicate that no major variations exist in perceptions of journal quality and editorial support between authors whose manuscripts were accepted without revision and authors whose manuscripts were accepted after revision. http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/h751014113v44224/?p=f7bdb952e9724fa1aec91c2336562936&pi=6 DOI: 10.3138/jsp.43.2.220 When You're Criticized Brian Martin What should you do when you or your organization is subject to lengthy, published criticism that you think is seriously distorting and misleading? The three main options are to ignore the criticisms, to counter-attack, and to respond with information and arguments. To make a choice, it is important to assess the way audiences' perceptions are likely to be influenced by your response. http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/9240j34828426853/?p=f7bdb952e9724fa1aec91c2336562936&pi=7 DOI: 10.3138/jsp.43.2.230 Literary Societies in Fiction: ‘A Sort of Mild Mania’ Hazel K. Bell One might expect that authors would be gratified by the existence of societies devoted to the discussion of works of literature, particularly of those committed to the works of particular authors. Or might resentment of the lack of a band of such devotees of their own rather guide their reaction? Either way, it seems that fictional portrayals of such societies are far from flattering, as this brief article points out. http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/a287438679002457/?p=f7bdb952e9724fa1aec91c2336562936&pi=8 DOI: 10.3138/jsp.43.2.238 Moving William W. Savage, Jr. http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/t724886n351xv203/?p=f7bdb952e9724fa1aec91c2336562936&pi=9 DOI: 10.3138/jsp.43.2.243 Review Sanford G. Thatcher http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/b4663j176xp3v031/?p=7ba08a86cb104b7cb30d79919de1b355&pi=10 DOI: 10.3138/jsp.43.2.248 Journal of Scholarly Publishing A must for anyone who crosses the scholarly publishing path – authors, editors, marketers and publishers of books and journals. For more than 40 years, the Journal of Scholarly Publishing has been the authoritative voice of academic publishing. The journal combines philosophical analysis with practical advice and aspires to explain, argue, discuss and question the large collection of new topics that continuously arise in the publishing field. The journal has also examined the future of scholarly publishing, scholarship on the web, digitalization, copyrights, editorial policies, computer applications, marketing and pricing models. 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Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2012 22:12:29 +0000 From: "Nowviskie, Bethany (bpn2f)" Subject: ACH response to White House RFIs The Association for Computers and the Humanities has responded publicly to two US White House RFIs (requests for information) on open access to federally-funded digital data and research publications. The document is available on ACH's website -- http://ach.org/ -- and directly, as a PDF download, here: http://is.gd/TYDcdc These RFIs were issued by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, which is accepting feedback through January 12th: http://is.gd/ayvITe In our response, ACH not only strongly advocates open access to all research and research publications created with public funds, but also argues for the formal inclusion of humanities voices in these crucial conversations. On behalf of ACH's officers and executive council, Bethany Nowviskie Bethany Nowviskie, PhD Director, Digital Research & Scholarship, UVa Library Associate Director, Scholarly Communication Institute Vice President, Association for Computers & the Humanities nowviskie.org http://nowviskie.org/ | scholarslab.org | uvasci.org http://uvasci.org | ach.org http://ach.org/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Jan 9 06:09:48 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77427224808; Mon, 9 Jan 2012 06:09:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 8D95E224771; Mon, 9 Jan 2012 06:09:46 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120109060946.8D95E224771@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2012 06:09:46 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.602 on failure X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 602. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Alan Corre (9) Subject: Strive to fail 25.598 [2] From: Mícheál_Mac_an_Airchinnigh (58) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.598 on failure --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2012 20:53:51 -0600 (CST) From: Alan Corre Subject: Strive to fail 25.598 In-Reply-To: <1324285788.867806.1325989922035.JavaMail.root@mail12.pantherlink.uwm.edu> Thank you, Willard, for giving us food for thought as usual. A modern Hebrew poet in a rueful review of his life writes the plaintive line: "When shall I sing my song until it is complete/perfect". Of course it is less prosaic and more musical in the original: Matáy ashír hashír ad tóm. When I taught this line in my teaching days, I pointed out that there was more to this complaint than meets the eye. It reflects Deuteronomy 31.30 when Moses is about to recite his dying song, which he will command heaven and earth to hear: "And Moses spoke all the words of this song in the ears of the whole congregation of Israel *unto their completion/perfection*." The implication is that only a divinely inspired prophet can create something unto perfection and true completion. The inspiration that strikes poets, musicians, scientists is a pale reflection of the inspiration of the true prophet. Edward Fitzgerald was clearly never satisfied with his wonderful paraphrase-translation of Omar Khayyam and published four different versions. The moral seems to me to be: perfection is impossible for the ordinary mortal; only a Moses can reach that magic "tom". So let's do our very best and leave the judgment to history. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2012 14:16:55 +0000 From: Mícheál_Mac_an_Airchinnigh Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.598 on failure In-Reply-To: <20120107084313.A16792758C1@woodward.joyent.us> 2012-01-08 Hi Willard Nice caption. It is an interesting point of view... I would restate it in the form "Strive to succeed; be not surprised at failure" Beckett was definitely not overtly a man of optimistic view :) best regards Mícheál === On 2012:Jan:7, at 08:43, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 598. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2012 08:40:12 +0000 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: strive to fail > > "In the realm of art... failure has a different currency [than in other > areas of life]. Failure, by definition, takes us beyond assumptions and > what we think we know. Artists have long turned their attention to the > unrealizability of the quest for perfection, or the open-endedness of > experiment, using both dissatisfaction and error as a means to rethink > how we understand our place in the world. The inevitable gap between the > intention and realization of an artwork makes failure impossible to > avoid. This very condition of art-making makes failure central to the > complexities of artistic practice and its resonance with the surrounding > world. Through failure one has the potential to stumble on the > unexpected -- a strategy also, of course, used to different ends in the > practice of scientists or business entrepeneurs. To *strive to fail* is > to go against the socially normalized drive towards ever increasing > success. In Samuel Beckett's words, 'To be an artist is to fail as no > other dare fail.'" > > Lisa Le Feuvre, ed., Failure (London: Whitechapel Gallery and MIT Press, > 2010), > www.whitechapelgallery.org/shop/index.php/fuseaction/shop.product/product_id/772 > > (and it's a beautifully produced book) > > Yours, > WM > -- > Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's > College London; Professor (fractional), University of Western Sydney; > Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, > Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Jan 9 06:12:00 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E92A224B48; Mon, 9 Jan 2012 06:12:00 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C6B412249D8; Mon, 9 Jan 2012 06:11:57 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20120109061157.C6B412249D8@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2012 06:11:57 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.603 text-analysis for spooks X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 603. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Robert Barron (50) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.599 text-analysis for spooks? [2] From: "Jan Rybicki" (72) Subject: RE: [Humanist] 25.599 text-analysis for spooks? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2012 10:56:12 +0200 From: Robert Barron Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.599 text-analysis for spooks? In-Reply-To: <20120107084339.047962758E8@woodward.joyent.us> Looks like they are... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADVISE Robert Barron --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2012 11:04:11 +0100 From: "Jan Rybicki" Subject: RE: [Humanist] 25.599 text-analysis for spooks? In-Reply-To: <20120107084339.047962758E8@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Fellow Text-Analysis Spooks, As the translator (into Polish) of seven novels by John le Carre, I must say that I tried to investigate this subject; in fact, I tried to contact former analysts of Polish secret service from communist times, hoping that they could share with me brilliant Soviet methods that would solve all our authorship disputes (Shakespeare included). Needless to say, I have failed. This issue resurfaced when my colleague Maciej Eder and myself were returning from Elisabeth Burr's first European Summer School "Culture and Technology". On the long road from Leipzig to Krakow we shared a train compartment with a very nice but also surprisingly well-informed American couple; on hearing what we do, the man was very enthusiastic about the potential of our stylometric research for the NSA and the CIA. We did not pursue the subject and this is probably why we have not been recruited to this day; another explanation is that the two agencies are already using JGAAP and don't need anything else (Patrick?). Of course, I'm going to look up the texts mentioned below. Spookily, Jan Rybicki > -----Original Message----- > Sent: Saturday, January 07, 2012 9:44 AM > To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > Subject: [Humanist] 25.599 text-analysis for spooks? > > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 599. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2012 08:37:54 +0000 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: content analysis for intelligence purposes > > Those here who use or are otherwise interested in text-analysis in any > of its forms may wish to look up Ithiel de Sola Pool's review, "Content > Analysis for Intelligence Purposes", of Alexander L. George's book, > Propaganda Analysis: A Study of Inferences Made from Nazi Propaganda in > World War II (1959), in World Politics 12.3 (1960). The review claims > this book is a RAND Corporation Research Study; although I cannot find > it in RAND's listing of publications, George wrote several things for > them, including a downloadable paper on "The Scientific Status of > Propaganda Analysis", http://www.rand.org/pubs/papers/P616.html. Before > digital computing, it would seem, the ground was already being laid for > the kind of work some of us here have championed for years. Does anyone > know of what happened to the development of text-analysis for > intelligence purposes, and whether the spooks have in fact pushed the > development of tools? > > Yours, > WM > > -- > Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's > College Lsondon; Professor (fractional), University of Western Sydney; > Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); > Editor, > Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Jan 9 06:13:01 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8D07224BFD; Mon, 9 Jan 2012 06:13:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E54B1224BEA; Mon, 9 Jan 2012 06:12:58 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120109061258.E54B1224BEA@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2012 06:12:58 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.604 events: mobile comms; museums X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 604. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Charles Ess (85) Subject: Second CFP: Mobile Communication - Aarhus University - 29-30 March,2012 [2] From: (15) Subject: MW2012 early registration deadline in 7 days!! --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2012 12:00:27 -0600 From: Charles Ess Subject: Second CFP: Mobile Communication - Aarhus University - 29-30 March,2012 Dear colleagues, With apologies for duplications and cross-postings: please distribute to interested colleagues and relevant lists. Gentle reminder: the deadline for submitting a presentation abstract is 15. January. On behalf of our keynote speakers and organizers, we are pleased to invite participation in an international research workshop on Mobile Communication: Mobile Internet, Locative Media, Mobility and Place. We invite researchers who work with mobile communication as a cultural, spatial and social phenomenon to join us for this two-day round-table workshop hosted by the Media Studies Department at Aarhus University. We will emphasize the spatial aspects of mobile communication and mobile internet. The workshop aims to reflect and discuss general theoretical perspectives, empirical case studies and methodological implications of studying mobile internet and locative media in relation to mobility and place. We have invited an international panel of speakers in order to encourage and facilitate the development of an international research network on mobile communication. Topics to be analyzed and discussed: - Theoretical, analytical and methodological aspects of mobile communication, mobile internet and locative media - Travelling, mobility and mobile technologies - Locative media and the production of place - Mobile internet, mobile media devises and new media practices Guest speakers: Rich Ling (DK) "Digital Gemeinschaft" Naomi Baron (US)"Reading on the Run: What We Read on Mobile Devices and Why" Leopoldina Fortunati (Italy) "Mobilities and Mobile Phones" Jonas Larsen (DK) "Mobile Communication, Place and Mobile Methods" Additional contributors: Iben Have, DK & Birgitte Stougaard, DK "Audiobooks and Mobile Listening: New Medium, New Users, New Literary Experiences?" Anja Bechmann, DK "Communication to-go: Studying Mobile and Seamless Communication Practices" Jakob Linaa Jensen, DK "Online Social Networks; Augmentation of Social Space" Martin Brynskov, DK "Mobile Media and Smart Cities" Stine Lomborg, DK  "The internet in my pocket" Charles Ess, DK  "Mobile Communication, Culture, Convergence" Anne Marit Waade, DK  "Locative Mobile Media, Place and Performativity" Logistics - The roundtable workshop starts Thursday 29 March at 10.00am and ends Friday 30 March at 5.00pm - The workshop takes place at Aarhus University, IT-campus, ADA Building, meeting room 333, Helsingforsgade 15, 8200 Aarhus N - Workshop fee: participation in the workshop itself is free, but participants will be asked to cover meal expenses (400 DKr for lunch and coffee for two days, and ­ optional - 400 DKr. for dinner Thursday night). Accommodation and travel expenses are covered by each participant. Submitting abstract for presentation: There will be a limited number of participants in the workshop. Deadline for submitting an abstract for presentation is 15. January 2012. The abstract should be no longer than 250 words. All participants will receive a response by 1 February. Please send your abstract to Sarah Shorr: imvsgs@hum.au.dk Guidelines for the presentation Prepare a presentation of ca. 10 minutes inclusive relevant questions to be posed for the workshop discussion. It might be based on a paper, an article or just a note or questions. Please send your contribution by 1 March to Sarah Shorr: imvsgs@hum.au.dk. Contributions will be distributed to participants prior to the workshop: participants will be asked to read each other¹s papers in advance of the workshop. Organizers Charles Ess, Media Studies, Aarhus University    Anne Marit Waade, Media Studies, Aarhus University    Sarah Schorr, Ph.D. Fellow, Media Studies, Aarhus University Related Ph.D-course In connection to the workshop, we are organizing the Ph.D. course, Researching Mobile and Locative Media - Methods and Ethics. It takes place Wednesday, March 28, 2012. 11 am ­ 6 pm. In this course, we will emphasize the methodological approaches, as well as the ethical questions that surround the empirical study of mobile and locative media. For more information about the course, please contact Sarah Schorr, e-mail: imvsgs@hum.au.dk. Many thanks in advance, Charles Ess Professor MSO Media Studies Helsingforsgade 14 8200 Århus N. Denmark mail: tel: (+45) 8942 9250 Professor, Philosophy and Religion Drury University, Springfield, Missouri 65802 USA Exemplary persons seek harmony, not sameness. -- Analects 13.23 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 08 Jan 2012 11:49:16 -0800 From: Subject: MW2012 early registration deadline in 7 days!! Escape to sunny San Diego and save big while joining your favorite museum people from around the world for the largest international conference devoted to the exploration of art, science, natural and cultural heritage online. Museums and the Web 2012 April 11-14 Discounted early registration rates apply when you register for Museums and the Web 2012 before Jan 15, 2012: http://www.museumsandtheweb.com/mw2012/registration Exhibitors are welcome to reserve a space in the exhibit hall: http://www.museumsandtheweb.com/mw2012/exhibits The Draft Program is online: http://www.museumsandtheweb.com/mw2012/draft_program We're looking forward to seeing you in San Diego April 11-14, 2012! Nancy & Rich MW2012 program co-chairs _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Jan 10 09:45:02 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6700622CEC9; Tue, 10 Jan 2012 09:45:02 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0786B22CE74; Tue, 10 Jan 2012 09:44:59 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120110094500.0786B22CE74@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 09:44:59 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.605 Inaugural lectures in London, 24-25/1 X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 605. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 09:01:43 +0000 From: "Prescott, Andrew" Subject: Inaugural lectures This is to let Humanist followers know about some lectures we are organising with UCL Digital Humanities on 24-25 January which we hope will form a kind of mini-festival of digital humanities to cheer us all up in the dull period after Christmas and New Year. On Tuesday 24 January, Professor Claire Warwick will be giving her inaugural lecture, 'The Monologue in a Crowdsourced World: Have Digital Humanities Rendered the Inaugural Lecture Obsolete?'. This will take place at the Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre, UCL, at 6.30pm, and will be followed by a reception. To register for Claire's lecture, go to: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/2143978698 On Wednesday 25 January, a series of events will take place at King's College London to mark the merger of the Centre for e-Research with the Department of Digital Humanities and my appointment as Head of the Department of Digital Humanities. Details are as follows: - Lynne Siemens, University of Victoria, 'Interdisciplinary Collaborations across Sites, Borders, Languages', Anatomy Museum, King's College London, Strand, 2pm-3.30pm, 25 January 2012: http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/event/2740622275. - Tea will be served after Lynne's talk. - Sheila Anderson and Andrew Prescott: presentation and round table on future visions for the Centre for e-Research and the Department of Digital Humanities at King¹s College London, Anatomy Museum, King¹s College London, Strand, 4.15pm-5.15pm: http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/event/274078275 - At 6.30pm, Professor Andrew Prescott, incoming Head of the Department of Digital Humanities will give a lecture "An Electric Current of the Imagination: What the Digital Humanities Are and What They Might Become". The lecture will be introduced by Professor Sir Rick Trainor KBE, Principal and President, King's College London. A response to the lecture will be given by Dr. Raymond Siemens, Canada Research Chair in Humanities Computing and Distinguished Professor in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Victoria. The lecture will take place in the Edmond J. Safra Lecture Theatre, Main Building, Strand Campus, King's College London: http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/event/2740816857. There will be a wine reception following my lecture. Everyone is welcome to these events which are all free- please just register via Eventbrite to help us in monitoring numbers. I'd be grateful to subscribers to Humanist if they could pass on details of these events to anyone they think might be interested. All the best Andrew Professor Andrew Prescott Department of Digital Humanities King's College London 28-29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/ddh/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Jan 10 09:48:11 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FE6722CFB0; Tue, 10 Jan 2012 09:48:11 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 6C9F022CFA1; Tue, 10 Jan 2012 09:48:10 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120110094810.6C9F022CFA1@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 09:48:10 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.606 on failure X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 606. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: James Rovira (29) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.602 on failure [2] From: Brian Croxall (66) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.598 on failure --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2012 09:21:35 -0500 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.602 on failure In-Reply-To: <20120109060946.8D95E224771@woodward.joyent.us> I was struck by this quotation too. I think my starting place is the definition of failure as the disjunction between intent and realization. >From that, I go in a few directions. I'll be thinking in terms of art, but art as techne -- anything executed with skill and intent. -- failure to realize my intent sheds light upon the nature of my intent. It helps me understand it in more detail and specificity. I may learn to redefine my intent. -- failure to realize my intent may cause me to question or even abandon my intent. Of course this questioning or abandonment can be negative, as in a kind of despair, but it can be positive as well. Perhaps the actual product can be better than my intent and completely different from me. -- failure to realize my intent establishes the artwork as something other than me, something that has "a life of its own." It changes my view of art. -- positive failures to realize my art establishes a dialectic between inspiration and skill. My "unintentional intents," whatever their source, come to be as important as my consciously controlled intent. Thank you again for provoking discussion, Willard. Jim R > The inevitable gap between the > intention and realization of an artwork makes failure impossible to > avoid. This very condition of art-making makes failure central to the > complexities of artistic practice and its resonance with the surrounding > world. Through failure one has the potential to stumble on the > unexpected -- a strategy also, of course, used to different ends in the > practice of scientists or business entrepeneurs. To *strive to fail* is > to go against the socially normalized drive towards ever increasing > success. In Samuel Beckett's words, 'To be an artist is to fail as no > other dare fail.'" --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2012 16:44:04 -0800 From: Brian Croxall Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.598 on failure In-Reply-To: <20120107084313.A16792758C1@woodward.joyent.us> Failure is something that I've been thinking a lot about over the last year or so. I think we need to become as public with our failures as possible. The sciences have a few journals of negative results, which help other scientists know which paths are not as profitable for exploration. We should be looking to do the same when possible. I'll offer up my 2011 MLA talk as a call for more dialogue about failure: http://www.briancroxall.net/2011/01/27/dr-profhacker-or-how-i-l3rn3d-to-st0p-worry1ng-and/ Best, Brian -- Brian Croxall, Ph.D. | Emory University | CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow Emerging Technologies Librarian | www.briancroxall.net | @briancroxall _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Jan 10 09:50:34 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5A2D2241E6; Tue, 10 Jan 2012 09:50:33 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1239F21E51A; Tue, 10 Jan 2012 09:50:31 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120110095031.1239F21E51A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 09:50:31 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.607 text-analysis for spooks X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 607. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Patricia Galloway (9) Subject: text-analysis for spooks [2] From: Matthew Jockers (108) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.603 text-analysis for spooks --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2012 10:21:31 -0600 From: Patricia Galloway Subject: text-analysis for spooks In-Reply-To: Where has text-analysis for spooks gone? Hidden in plain sight, of course (the TREC competitions [transcribing voice telephone communication was cracked years ago], text-mining in general), as well of course as commoditized (text-mining again; cookies; capturing every keystroke typed by anyone while visiting a website--hence the funding and interest in social network calculations and Big Data in general). Pat Galloway School of Information University of Texas at Austin --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2012 13:18:31 -0800 From: Matthew Jockers Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.603 text-analysis for spooks In-Reply-To: <20120109061157.C6B412249D8@woodward.joyent.us> ECHELON (a not so secret, top-secret agency) has (supposedly) been doing this sort of thing for many years. A more recent entry, however, is Palantir Technologies (http://www.palantirtech.com/) from right here in Palo Alto. Palintir does text/data mining/analysis for govt. and private sector. They were written up in the Wall Street Journal in 2009 in an article titled "How Team of Geeks Cracked Spy Trade" (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125200842406984303.html) see also (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125191944568880635.html#slide/1) and (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palantir_Technologies) See (http://www.palantirtech.com/government) for intelligence, defense, and "cyber security" applications. Matt _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Jan 10 09:52:32 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32B0E22BA22; Tue, 10 Jan 2012 09:52:32 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 887CE22BA11; Tue, 10 Jan 2012 09:52:30 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120110095230.887CE22BA11@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 09:52:30 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.608 modelling mind X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 608. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2012 12:04:14 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: modelling mind Allow me to draw your attention to a gently intelligent article that appeared in the Bell Laboratories Record in February 1953: John Maszar, "Switching Systems as Mechanized Brains" (available at www.historyofphonephreaking.org/docs/blr-1953-02-switching-systems-as-brains.pdf). Maszar looks at what we now call computing from the perspective of a telephone engineer and so sees the digital computer of his time as one kind of switching system. But what I want to draw your attention to specifically is how this perspective leads him to model human rational behaviour as the outcome of complex switching circuitry. Maszar argues that one is forced to make a distinction between non-thinking mental activity on the one hand and thinking on the other. The former is that which can be modelled successfully by switching circuitry, the later that which cannot. He argues that the latter is and will continue to be a shrinking domain. > This declassification of wide areas of mental effort should not dismay > anyone of us. It is not an important gain for those are sure that even > as machines have displaced muscles, they will also take over the > functions of the 'brain.' Neither is it a real loss for those who feel > that there is something hallowed about all functions of the human > mind. What we are giving up > to the machines - some of us gladly, others reluctantly - are the > uninteresting flatlands of routine mental chores, tasks that have to > be performed according to rigorous rules. The areas we are holding > unchallenged are the dominating heights of creative mental effort, > which comprise the ability to speculate, to invent, to imagine, to > philosophize, to dream better ways for tomorrow than exist today. > These are mental activities for which rigorous rules cannot be > formulated - they constitute real thinking, whose mechanization most > of us cannot conceive. What I worry about when I set to worrying is that our eyes more often than not drop to the "uninteresting flatlands" of what machines can now routinely do, that "the dominating heights of creative mental effort" get ever more blurry as we toil below -- that, to shift the terms somewhat, we are seduced by the notion that research has become for us merely carrying out what we already know how to do, the only thing we can afford to promise given the time-pressures of deliverables in funded project-work. But note the spatial metaphor at play in Maszar's argument: as Herbert Simon and others would say later, the problem-space that we progressively account for, and so the shrinking space of the unaccounted for. There's where I'd pick a fight with the man. Comments? Yours, WM -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor (fractional), University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Jan 10 10:02:14 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88BBB22C59C; Tue, 10 Jan 2012 10:02:14 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 7DF9722C586; Tue, 10 Jan 2012 10:02:12 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120110100212.7DF9722C586@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 10:02:12 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.609 archaeology & history; the book; CL for literature; scholarship X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 609. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Tom Brughmans (138) Subject: Invitation symposium 'The Connected Past: People,Networks and Complexity in Archaeology and History' [2] From: Anna Kazantseva (73) Subject: 2nd CFP: Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Literature,NAACL 2012, Montreal [3] From: Brent Nelson (92) Subject: Crossroads: Scholarship for an Uncertain World [4] From: Isabel Galina (78) Subject: Reminder CFP The Ages of the Book --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2012 15:47:34 +0000 From: Tom Brughmans Subject: Invitation symposium 'The Connected Past: People,Networks and Complexity in Archaeology and History' *** Attachments: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1326124094_2012-01-09_humanist-owner@lists.digitalhumanities.org_27586.1.2.png Dear all, Registration for 'The Connected Past: People, Networks and Complexity in Archaeology and History' is now open (poster attached). Everyone is welcome to attend this two-day multi-disciplinary symposium. Registration and payment details are available online: http://connectedpast.soton.ac.uk/registration/ . Please note that places to the event are limited, we suggest registering well before the deadline of 29 February to make sure your seat is reserved. Registration for concessions is C2A330, standard rate is C2A345. The event will take place 24-25 March 2012 at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Southampton (UK). This is the two days before and at the same venue as the Computer Applications and Quantitative Techniques in Archaeology conference (CAA, http://www.southampton.ac.uk/caa2012/ ). We are delighted with the great response to our call for papers by scholars from disciplines as diverse as archaeology, history, mathematics, physics, computer science and classics. The range of topics is equally diverse, but all contributors and keynotes (Carl Knappett, Irad Malkin and Alex Bentley) promise to make original contributions to the use of networks and complexity in archaeology and history. The full list of accepted papers and posters is now available online and below this message: http://connectedpast.soton.ac.uk/schedule/ We are looking forward to seeing you at The Connected Past! Tom Brughmans, Anna Collar and Fiona Coward http://connectedpast.soton.ac.uk/ [...] --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2012 14:04:48 -0500 From: Anna Kazantseva Subject: 2nd CFP: Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Literature, NAACL 2012, Montreal Second Call for Papers Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Literature Co-located with The 2012 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies June 7 or 8, 2012 Montréal, Québec, Canada All information, including announcements and updates, can be found on the workshop's Web site: https://sites.google.com/site/clfl2012/ MOTIVATION AND SCOPE The amount of literary material available on-line keeps growing rapidly. Not only are there machine-readable texts in libraries, collections and e-book stores, but there is also more and more “live” literature – e-zines, blogs, self-published e-books and so on. There is a need for tools to help users navigate, visualize and appreciate high volume of available literature. Literary texts are quite different from technical and formal documents, which have been the focus of NLP research thus far. Most forms of statistical language processing rely on lexical information in one way or another. In literature, the primary mode is narrative rather than exposition. Stories may be cognitively easier to read than certain expository genres, such as scientific documents, but it is a challenging form of discourse for NLP tools and methods. For instance, literary prose lacks overt lexical clues and structural markers typically leveraged in the processing of more structured genres. Also, even conventional literary texts exhibit far less unity of time, space and topic than most formal discourse. Learning to handle these challenges in literary data may help move past heavy reliance on surface clues in general. Literature also differs from other genres because of the needs of its typical audience. For instance, reading, searching or browsing literature online is a different task than searching for the latest news on a particular topic. Search criteria would be rather abstract: not a keyword, but a literary style, similarity to another work, point of view and so on. When looking for a summary or a digest, a reader may prefer to know or visualize a text's broad characteristics than facts which summarize the plot. We invite papers that touch upon these areas, but also welcome other ideas which promote the processing of literary narrative or related forms of discourse. TOPICS OF INTEREST Note: Papers on other closely related topics will also be considered * the needs of the readers and how those needs translate into meaningful NLP tasks; * searching for literature; * recommendation systems for literature; * computational modelling of narratives, computational narratology; * summarization of literature; * differences between literature and other genres as relevant to computational linguistics; * discourse structure in literature; * emotion analysis for literature; * profiling and authorship attribution; * identification and analysis of literature genres; * building and analysing social networks of characters; * generation of literary narrative, dialogue or poetry; * modelling dialogue literary style for generation. SUBMISSION We invite submission of long and short papers, describing completed or ongoing research on systems, studies, theories and models which can inform the area of computational linguistics for literature. Long papers should be at most 8 pages, plus unlimited space for references. Short papers should be at most 4 pages plus references, and can be appropriate for either oral or poster presentation. Accepted long papers, and perhaps selected short papers, will be presented as talks. In addition, we encourage submission of position papers -- mapping out research ideas and programs -- of up to 6 pages plus references. There will be double-blind review: submissions must be anonymized. Style files and sample PDFs are available on this page: http://www.naaclhlt2012.org/conference/conference.php Submission page: please visit later IMPORTANT DATES (all deadlines 11:59 pm. Hawaii Time) Submission deadline: March 12, 2012 Notification of acceptance: April 13, 2012 Camera-ready version due: May 1, 2012 Workshop: June 8, 2012 [...] CONTACT INFORMATION Send general inquiries to clfl.workshop@gmail.com Anna Kazantseva Ph.D. Candidate University of Ottawa School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2012 16:35:45 +0000 From: Brent Nelson Subject: Crossroads: Scholarship for an Uncertain World Society for Digital Humanities / Société pour l'étude des médias interactifs Call for Papers (See the French version below) Crossroads: Scholarship for an Uncertain World 2012 Annual Meeting of the Society for Digital Humanities / Société pour l'étude des médias interactifs The Society for Digital Humanities (SDH/SEMI) invites scholars, practitioners, and graduate students to submit proposals for papers and sessions for its annual meeting, which will be held at the 2012 Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, Wilfrid Laurier University and University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, from 28-30 May. The society would like in particular to encourage submissions relating to the central theme of the Congress–“Crossroads: Scholarship for an Uncertain World.” While this year’s Congress theme is well suited to the interests of SDH/SEMI, we encourage submissions on all topics relating to both theory and practice in the evolving field of the digital humanities. Our keynote speaker and recipient of this year’s award for Outstanding Achievement for Computing in the Arts and Humanities is Ronald Tetreault (Dalhousie University). The conference will also present joint sessions with ACCUTE and Canadian Game Studies Association/Association Canadienne d’Études Vidéoludiques (http://sdh-semi.org/). Proposals should specify any preference for inclusion in this joint session. Proposals for papers (20 min.), posters, and panels or roundtables (2-6 speakers for a 1½ hour session) will be accepted until 1 February 2012 and must be submitted athttp://www.sdh-semi.org/conference/. Abstracts should be between 200 and 400 words long, and should clearly indicate the paper's thesis, methodology and conclusions. There is a limited amount of funding available to support graduate student travel. Please note that all presenters must be members of SDH/SEMI at the time of the conference. Selected papers from the conference will appear in a special collection published in the society journal, Digital Studies/Le champ numérique (http://www.digitalstudies.org). Program committee: Brent Nelson (program chair), Aimée Morrison (local organizer), Eric Moore, Harvey Quamen, Jon Saklofske, Susan Brown, Stéfan Sinclair, Dan O’Donnell, Michael Eberle-Sinatra Appel de communications À la croisée des chemins: Le savoir face à un monde incertain Réunion annuelle de 2012 de la Society for Digital Humanities / Société pour l'étude des médias interactifs (SDH/SEMI) La Société pour l'étude des médias interactifs invite chercheurs et étudiants aux cycles supérieurs à soumettre des propositions de communication et de session pour sa réunion annuelle, qui se tiendra au Congrès 2012 de la Fédération canadienne des sciences humaines à l’Université Wilfrid Laurier et l’Université de Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, du 28 au 30 mai. La Société souhaite encourager en particulier des propositions concernant le thème central de la réunion : « À la croisée des chemins : Le savoir face à un monde incertain ». Bien que le thème du congrès de cette année soit bien adapté aux intérêts de la SDH/SEMI, nous encourageons également toute communication qui traite des sciences humaines numériques, tant au niveau théorique que pratique. Ronald Tetraul (Dalhousie University), récipiendaire du prix 2012 pour une contribution exceptionnelle dans le domaine des arts et sciences humaines informatiques, sera notre conférencier plénier. La conférence présentera aussi des sessions conjointes avec ACCUTE et le Canadian Game Studies Association/Association Canadienne d’Études Vidéoludiques (http://sdh-semi.org/). Les participants devraient indiquer leur intérêt à participer aux sessions conjointes. Les propositions de communication (20'), posters et de session ou table-ronde (2-6 participants pour une période d'une heure trente) seront acceptées jusqu’au 1 février 2012 et doivent être soumises à http://www.sdh-semi.org/conference/. Les résumés devraient compter entre 200 et 400 mots, et indiquer clairement la thématique, méthodologie, et conclusion. La société a des fonds limités pour les frais de déplacements pour les étudiants. Veuillez noter que tout présentateur devra être membre de la SDH/SEMI au moment de la conférence. Une sélection des présentations de la conférence sera publiées dans un numéro spécial du journal de la Société, le Digital Studies/Le champ numérique (http://www.digitalstudies.org). Comité scientifique: Brent Nelson (program chair), Aimée Morrison (local organizer), Eric Moore, Harvey Quamen, Jon Saklofske, Susan Brown, Stéfan Sinclair, Dan O’Donnell, Michael Eberle-Sinatra -- @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Dr. Brent Nelson, Associate Professor Department of English 9 Campus Dr. University of Saskatchewan Saskatoon, SK S7N 5A5 ph.: (306) 966-1820 fax.: (306) 966-5951 --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2012 16:41:29 -0600 From: Isabel Galina Subject: Reminder CFP The Ages of the Book *** Attachments: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1326148897_2012-01-09_humanist-owner@lists.digitalhumanities.org_13595.2.pdf Reminder CfP Ages of the Book – deadline 31st of January AGES OF THE BOOK INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE (Congreso Internacional Las Edades del Libro) Call for papers The aim of the conference is to bring together specialists from diverse fields of study, such as written and printed culture, visual design and communication, editing and the publishing industry, history, literature and new technologies, for discussion of academic, scientific, technical and economic issues that will advance our knowledge on the written word throughout history. The conference will explore the wide range of traditions and innovations surrounding the composition of texts manifest in distinct periods and in different regions of the world, from the early production of codices through to present day electronic books. The organizing committee invites abstract submissions on subjects such as epigraphy, calligraphy and paleography, editorial design, typography, printing processes, ecdotics, textual and graphic editing, electronic publishing and technology applied to editing. Additional topics for consideration are transmission of texts, textual and visual disposition, page design, typography and illustrations in books, text-image relationships, ornamentation, initialing, reading styles and methods, use and management of color in the transmission of texts, usability, design and navigation for screen, e-book interface design and visual ergonomics. The main thematic areas are the manuscript, printed and electronic book. The conference will take place at the Institute for Bibliographic Studies (Instituto de Investigaciones Bibliográficas), at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (National Autonomous University of Mexico) in Mexico City from the 15th to the 19th of October 2012. The event is organized by the Instituto de Investigaciones Bibliográficas of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, the National Library (Biblioteca Nacional de México), the National Newspaper Library (Hemeroteca Nacional de México) and the Fondo de Cultura Económica. Guidelines for Submissions [...] The deadline for abstracts is the 31st of January 2012. There will be no extensions. All abstracts will be reviewed by an international committee. Authors will be notified of the results from the 31st of March 2012 and will have until the 31st of May to send their full papers. For more information please visit: http://www.edadesdellibro.unam.mx @edadesdellibro #edlmx ----------------------------------------------------- Dra. Isabel Galina Russell Instituto de Investigaciones Bibliográficas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Tel. 56.22.69.99 ext.48662 igalina@unam.mx http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~uczciga/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Jan 11 06:59:50 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 267DC2323B6; Wed, 11 Jan 2012 06:59:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 30D032323A6; Wed, 11 Jan 2012 06:59:48 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120111065948.30D032323A6@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 06:59:48 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.610 on failure X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 610. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Jascha Kessler (124) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.606 on failure [2] From: Robert Barron (5) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.602 on failure --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 16:14:23 -0800 From: Jascha Kessler Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.606 on failure In-Reply-To: <20120110094810.6C9F022CFA1@woodward.joyent.us> When it comes to an art work, or Work of Art, Beckett notwithstanding, where does failure arise, or how is it attached as a description? In whose eyes, or ears? The beholder or reader? the Maker? Each individual has the individual's own properties of beholding, assimilating, reviewing, reconsidering. There is also perhaps a temporal process: most of us will have experienced the difference in apprehension and understanding of a work, say Hamlet, or Macbeth, certainly King Lear, at each renewed reading or watching performed. What is communicated differs, at least so far as I have known it, decade by decade. The work remains the same, the beholder changes, grows, matures, learns how to read or see it, many times over, unendingly..until the beholder is taken by what is the refrain in 1001 Nights, The Destroyer of Delights. That goes of course, year by year in listening to a piece of Mozart or Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Mahler, et cetera. The work remains perfect, so to say, in itself, by NOT changing, and when it comes to performance of drama and music, the performers' styles and approaches change, between them and in themselves. When taking up the notion of success or failure, perhaps Heraclitus ought to be kept in mind. It is, and yet is not, between morning and evening, as Stephen Dedalus noted in ULYSSES, I think...? Jascha Kessler -- Jascha Kessler Professor of English & Modern Literature, UCLA Telephone/Facsimile: 310.393.4648 www.jfkessler.com www.xlibris.com --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 05:20:50 +0200 From: Robert Barron Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.602 on failure In-Reply-To: <20120109060946.8D95E224771@woodward.joyent.us> Perhaps a bit trite, but still correct and relevant is this quote by Thomas Edison: "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. " Robert Barron Enterprise Management Specialist - IBM Israel http://classicarete.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 Wed Jan 11 07:03:04 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BA7E23245D; Wed, 11 Jan 2012 07:03:04 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E44EE23244C; Wed, 11 Jan 2012 07:03:01 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20120111070301.E44EE23244C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 07:03:01 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.611 modelling mind X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 611. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 04:31:27 -0600 From: Anupam Basu Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.608 modelling mind In-Reply-To: <20120110095230.887CE22BA11@woodward.joyent.us> > Maszar argues > that one is forced to make a distinction between non-thinking mental > activity on the one hand and thinking on the other. The former is that > which can be modelled successfully by switching circuitry, the later > that which cannot. He argues that the latter is and will continue > to be a shrinking domain. Eugene Charniak devotes the preface of his seminal book, "Statistical Natural Language Processing" (1993) to contrasting the AI and statistical approaches to NLP. AI, he argues, attempted just the kind of Icarian feat of modeling the world that Maszar seems to gesture at. It was, Charniak suggests, also why AI was superseded by the "non-intelligent" brute force of statistical NLP. However, the lure of getting at the peaks rather than merely the flatlands drives much of human effort, and the peaks are not quite as safe as Maszar hoped. As statistical methods get bigger and better they can come quite close to approximating the processes of the mind (if not exactly emulating its internal workings). IBM's Watson's internal "thinking" doesn't replicate human thinking, but its end result can be surprisingly "human." Similarly, Siri doesn't "understand" language in a human sense, but can simulate understanding quite effectively. And they'll only get better. -Anupam http://irh.wisc.edu/basu _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Jan 11 07:04:23 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 268802324B6; Wed, 11 Jan 2012 07:04:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 4A3242324A1; Wed, 11 Jan 2012 07:04:21 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120111070421.4A3242324A1@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 07:04:21 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.612 job at ebay Israel X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 612. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 06:21:16 +0000 From: Zvika Marx Subject: Research Job opening at ebay Israel Dear friends, Couple of months from now I will leave my position as a Research Scientist with eBay Israel (Netanya). While I prepare for my next adventure (first hints: www.semanticms.com), eBay has started looking for replacement/s. Following is a message from Tomer, head of R&D. In addition to contacting him directly, feel free to come back to me with any questions. Best regards, -Zvika _______________________________________ Hi All, My name is Tomer Meron, I am head of R&D for eBay Israel. As part of the activities of the Israeli group, we conduct research and development of text based algorithms for various eBay use cases. We are currently expanding our team and are interested in hiring PHD graduates with proven ability in the areas of text classification, textual machine learning, information retrieval and adjacent areas. If anyone is interested please reply back tmeron@ebay.com Thank you and best regards Tomer Meorn _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Jan 11 07:05:37 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCEB7232522; Wed, 11 Jan 2012 07:05:37 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 6B83923250F; Wed, 11 Jan 2012 07:05:36 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120111070536.6B83923250F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 07:05:36 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.613 citation practice for large-scale projects? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 613. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 17:02:08 -0500 From: Seth Denbo Subject: Query about citation practise The following item regarding citation practice for large-scale digital projects was posted to the H-Albion discussion list by Tim Hitchcock a few weeks ago, and I thought that some of the subscribers to this list would have a perspective. "I have been involved in a series of relatively large scale digitisation projects over the last ten years, and I wanted to ask the advice of this list and through it the wider historical community, about how best to cite projects like The Old Bailey Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org http://www.oldbaileyonline.org ) and London Lives (www.Londonlives.org http://www.Londonlives.org ). Both sites currently provide detailed citation guides, and automatically generated forms of citation for each web page that satisfy the main purpose of a citation - to be able to find the material again. But it has been represented to me that this form of citation effectively hides the creative contribution of the individual members of the teams of people who created these resources. As large scale projects become more common in the humanities, and as the number of people building careers in them grows, it seemed important to interrogate how we are currently representing the contributions made by programmers, and project managers, etc. "An alternative would be to ask that the websites be cited as 'authored' by all of the people involved (some forty individuals in the case of the Old Bailey and London Lives). This would create a more science-like form of authorship and could include an indication of their role in the project. A form of citation of this sort, would have the advantage of allowing individuals to cite the project as a 'publication' on their CVs, and to claim an equivalence between this kind of work, and the single authored format of most published history. This could, in turn, help to make the academy a bit more commodious, and to give proper credit for the creative contributions made by individuals to large team projects. "At the same time, no-one wants to lard their footnotes with forty names (even once, assuming the citation was radically truncated after its first use). This would also have implications for how we acknowledge the roles of research assistants and PhD students in a more traditional context. Any advice or comment, very much welcome. I am particularly anxious to canvas the opinions of people who have experience of working in large team projects. Tim Hitchcock" _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Jan 11 07:06:27 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D39E232554; Wed, 11 Jan 2012 07:06:27 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 17D35232544; Wed, 11 Jan 2012 07:06:26 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120111070626.17D35232544@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 07:06:26 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.614 more from Stanley Fish X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 614. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 21:38:59 +1100 From: "Ken Friedman" Subject: Stanley Fish on Digital Humanities Dear Colleagues, Stanley Fish has been blogging about the digital humanities in the New York Times. Today's column: OPINION | January 09, 2012 Stanley Fish: The Digital Humanities and the Transcending of Mortality By STANLEY FISH Coming to terms with what long-form scholarship in the digital age really means. http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/09/the-digital-humanities-and-the-transcending-of-mortality/?emc=eta1 and his column of a few weeks back: OPINION | December 26, 2011 Stanley Fish: The Old Order Changeth By STANLEY FISH Are the digital humanities literary studies' (latest) next big thing? http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/26/the-old-order-changeth/?emc=eta1 Best regards, Ken Professor Ken Friedman, PhD, DSc (hc), FDRS | University Distinguished Professor | Dean, Faculty of Design | Swinburne University of Technology | Melbourne, Australia | kenfriedman@groupwise.swin.edu.au | Ph: +61 3 9214 6078 | Faculty www.swinburne.edu.au/design _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Jan 11 07:07:32 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8A14232591; Wed, 11 Jan 2012 07:07:32 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id AB810232581; Wed, 11 Jan 2012 07:07:31 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120111070731.AB810232581@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 07:07:31 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.615 events: Turing conference in Cambridge X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 615. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 16:39:17 +0000 From: S B Cooper Subject: Turing Centenary Conference in Cambridge - Submission Deadline Jan.20, 2012 FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS: TURING CENTENARY CONFERENCE http://www.cie2012.eu Computability in Europe 2012: How the World Computes University of Cambridge Cambridge, 18-23 June 2012 The deadline for SUBMISSION OF PAPERS and informal presentations for this historic event is JANUARY 20, 2012. For submission details, see: http://www.mathcomp.leeds.ac.uk/turing2012/WScie12/give-page.php?12 IMPORTANT DATES: Submission Deadline for LNCS: Jan. 20, 2012 Notification of authors: Mar. 16, 2012 Deadline for final revisions: Apr. 6, 2012 Submission Deadline for Informal Presentations: May 11, 2012 The CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS will be published by LNCS, Springer-Verlag. Post-conference publications include special issues of APAL and LMCS. We encourage all researchers presenting papers of the highest research quality at CiE 2012 to submit their full papers to the CiE journal COMPUTABILITY where they will be handled as regular submissions. CiE 2012 will have a special relationship to the scientific legacy of Alan Turing, reflected in the broad theme: How the World Computes, with all its different layers of meaning. Contributions which are directly related to the visionary and seminal work of Turing will be particularly welcome. CiE 2012 CONFERENCE TOPICS include, but not exclusively - * Admissible sets * Algorithms * Analog computation * Artificial intelligence * Automata theory * Bioinformatics * Classical computability and degree structures * Cognitive science and modelling * Complexity classes * Computability theoretic aspects of programs * Computable analysis and real computation * Computable structures and models * Computational and proof complexity * Computational biology * Computational creativity * Computational learning and complexity * Computational linguistics * Concurrency and distributed computation * Constructive mathematics * Cryptographic complexity * Decidability of theories * Derandomization * DNA computing * Domain theory and computability * Dynamical systems and computational models * Effective descriptive set theory * Emerging and Non-standard Models of Computation * Finite model theory * Formal aspects of program analysis * Formal methods * Foundations of computer science * Games * Generalized recursion theory * History of computation * Hybrid systems * Higher type computability * Hypercomputational models * Infinite time Turing machines * Kolmogorov complexity * Lambda and combinatory calculi * L-systems and membrane computation * Machine learning * Mathematical models of emergence * Molecular computation * Morphogenesis and developmental biology * Multi-agent systems * Natural Computation * Neural nets and connectionist models * Philosophy of science and computation * Physics and computability * Probabilistic systems * Process algebras and concurrent systems * Programming language semantics * Proof mining and applications * Proof theory and computability * Proof complexity * Quantum computing and complexity * Randomness * Reducibilities and relative computation * Relativistic computation * Reverse mathematics * Semantics and logic of computation * Swarm intelligence and self-organisation * Type systems and type theory * Uncertain Reasoning * Weak systems of arithmetic and applications We particularly welcome submissions in emergent areas, such as bioinformatics and natural computation, where they have a basic connection with computability. CiE 2012 is one of a series of special events, running throughout the Alan Turing Year, celebrating Turing's unique impact on mathematics, computing, computer science, informatics, morphogenesis, artificial intelligence, philosophy and computational aspects of physics, biology, linguistics, connectionist models, economics and the wider scientific world. CiE 2012 is planned to be an event worthy of the remarkable scientific career it commemorates. PLENARY SPEAKERS include: Andrew Hodges (Oxford, Special Invited Lecture), Ian Stewart (Warwick, Special Public Lecture), Dorit Aharonov (Jerusalem), Veronica Becher (Buenos Aires), Lenore Blum (Carnegie Mellon), Rodney Downey (Wellington), Yuri Gurevich (Microsoft), Juris Hartmanis (Cornell), Richard Jozsa (Cambridge), Stuart Kauffman (Vermont/ Santa Fe), James Murray (Oxford/ Princeton, Microsoft Research Lecture), Stuart Shieber (Harvard), Paul Smolensky (Johns Hopkins) and Leslie Valiant (Harvard, jointly organised lecture with King's College). SPECIAL SESSIONS include: * The Universal Turing Machine, and History of the Computer Chairs: Jack Copeland and John Tucker Speakers so far: Ivor Grattan-Guinness, Robert I. Soare * Cryptography, Complexity, and Randomness Chairs: Rod Downey and Jack Lutz Speakers so far: Eric Allender, Lance Fortnow, Omer Reingold, Alexander Shen * The Turing Test and Thinking Machines Chairs: Mark Bishop and Rineke Verbrugge Speakers: Bruce Edmonds, John Preston, Susan Sterrett, Kevin Warwick, Jiri Wiedermann * Computational Models After Turing: The Church-Turing Thesis and Beyond Chairs: Martin Davis and Wilfried Sieg Speakers: Giuseppe Longo, Peter Nemeti, Stewart Shapiro (tbc), Matthew Szudzik, Philip Welch, Michiel van Lambalgen * Morphogenesis/Emergence as a Computability Theoretic Phenomenon Chairs: Philip Maini and Peter Sloot Speakers: Jaap Kaandorp, Shigeru Kondo, Nick Monk, John Reinitz, James Sharpe, Jonathan Sherratt * Open Problems in the Philosophy of Information Chairs: Pieter Adriaans and Benedikt Loewe Speakers: Patrick Allo, Luis Antunes, Mark Finlayson, Amos Golan, Ruth Millikan Information of funding for students (including ASL grants) and the attendance of female researchers is to follow. There will be the annual Women in Computability Workshop, supported by a grant from the Elsevier Foundation. CiE 2012 will be associated/co-located with a number of other Turing centenary events, including: * ACE 2012, June 15-16, 2012 * Computability and Complexity in Analysis (CCA 2012), June 24-27, 2012 http://cca-net.de/cca2012/ * Developments in Computational Models (DCM 2012), June 17, 2012 http://www.math.uni-hamburg.de/home/loewe/DCM2012/ * THE INCOMPUTABLE at Kavli Royal Society International Centre Chicheley Hall, June 12-15, 2012 http://www.mathcomp.leeds.ac.uk/turing2012/inc/ Contributed papers will be selected from submissions received by the PROGRAMME COMMITTEE consisting of: * Samson Abramsky (Oxford) * Pieter Adriaans (Amsterdam) * Franz Baader (Dresden) * Arnold Beckmann (Swansea) * Mark Bishop (London) * Paola Bonizzoni (Milan) * Luca Cardelli (Cambridge) * Douglas Cenzer (Gainesville) * S Barry Cooper (Leeds, Co-chair) * Ann Copestake (Cambridge) * Anuj Dawar (Cambridge, Co-chair) * Solomon Feferman (Stanford) * Bernold Fiedler (Berlin) * Luciano Floridi (Hertfordshire) * Martin Hyland (Cambridge) * Marcus Hutter (Canberra) * Viv Kendon (Leeds) * Stephan Kreutzer (Oxford) * Ming Li (Waterloo) * Benedikt Loewe (Amsterdam) * Angus MacIntyre (London) * Philip Maini (Oxford) * Larry Moss (Bloomington) * Amitabha Mukerjee (Kanpur) * Damian Niwinski (Warsaw) * Dag Normann (Oslo) * Prakash Panangaden (Montreal) * Jeff Paris (Manchester) * Brigitte Pientka (Montreal) * Helmut Schwichtenberg (Munich) * Wilfried Sieg (Carnegie Mellon) * Mariya Soskova (Sofia) * Bettina Speckmann (Eindhoven) * Christof Teuscher (Portland) * Peter van Emde Boas (Amsterdam) * Jan van Leeuwen (Utrecht) * Rineke Verbrugge (Groningen) The PROGRAMME COMMITTEE cordially invites all researchers (European and non-European) in computability related areas to submit their papers (in PDF-format, max 10 pages) for presentation at CiE 2012. We particularly invite papers that build bridges between different parts of the research community. ORGANISING COMMITTEE: Arnold Beckmann (Swansea), Luca Cardelli (Cambridge), S Barry Cooper (Leeds), Ann Copestake (Cambridge), Anuj Dawar (Cambridge, Chair), Bjarki Holm (Cambridge), Martin Hyland (Cambridge), Benedikt Loewe (Amsterdam), Arno Pauly (Cambridge), Andrew Pitts (Cambridge) The conference is sponsored by the ASL, EACSL, EATCS, Elsevier Foundation, IFCoLog, King's College Cambridge, The University of Cambridge and Microsoft Research. For a small poster to download and display: http://www.mathcomp.leeds.ac.uk/turing2012/WScie12/Images/cie12.poster.1000x1400.png Contact: Anuj Dawar - anuj.dawar(at)cl.cam.ac.uk _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Jan 12 06:34:25 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 225FE21F0C9; Thu, 12 Jan 2012 06:34:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 3990C21F0B4; Thu, 12 Jan 2012 06:34:23 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120112063423.3990C21F0B4@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 06:34:23 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.616 citation practice for large-scale projects X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 616. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Rachel Lee (111) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.613 citation practice for large-scale projects? [2] From: Lynne Siemens (15) Subject: RE: [Humanist] 25.613 citation practice for large-scale projects? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 08:39:19 -0500 From: Rachel Lee Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.613 citation practice for large-scale projects? In-Reply-To: <20120111070536.6B83923250F@woodward.joyent.us> Bethany Nowviskie addressed the issue of crediting collaborators in a talk at the NINES Institute--she has a stronger focus on citational practice/credit and collaborative projects in the context of promotion and tenure, but she thoughtfully addresses this general question. Here's the text from her talk: http://nowviskie.org/2011/where-credit-is-due/ The "Off the Tracks" workshop also developed a Collaborator's Bill of Rights. (The review draft is here: http://mith.umd.edu/offthetracks/recommendations/ and the final version here: http://bit.ly/ueRmmx http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/mcpress/offthetracks/part-one-models-for-collaboration-career-paths-acquiring-institutional-support-and-transformation-in-the-field/a-collaboration/collaborators%E2%80%99-bill-of-rights/). One of the recommendations is that collaborators *should* represent their contributions on the CV (as Tom Hitchcock also mentions in his original query). I think part of the issue raised in these discussions is that collaborative projects may also need to develop more standardized practices themselves for recognizing contributions (for example, citing who contributed/participated, in addition to how and when). This sort of transparency on the project-level would support contributors' listing work on the CV and might make the citation-trail from papers, books, etc. easier to follow. Rachel Lee Project Coordinator William Blake Archive http://www.blakearchive.org/blake/ PhD Candidate Department of English University of Rochester rachel.lee@rochester.edu --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 08:30:26 -0800 From: Lynne Siemens Subject: RE: [Humanist] 25.613 citation practice for large-scale projects? In-Reply-To: <20120111070536.6B83923250F@woodward.joyent.us> Hi Seth, you have posed a good question in regard to citation practices with large-scale projects. One strategy that Implementing New Knowledge Networks Research project (with over 35 active researchers and many more research assistants and postdoctoral fellows, see http://www.digitalstudies.org/ojs/index.php/digital_studies/article/viewArticle/177/220 for more information about the project) uses to develop its own authorship convention to reflect the project's collaborative approach. Each publication is referenced with a primary author or more and "INKE Research Group". In this case, the named authors are have been most responsible for the paper but we still give a nod to the work of all present and past members of the team. A footnote typically gives more information on the contribution of others. Team members also list their membership in the project on their CVs where they can provide more discussion of their role (The authorship convention is outlined in the project's governance document, see http://journals.uvic.ca/index.php/INKE/article/view/546/245). Cheers, Lynne Lynne Siemens Assistant Professor Masters of Community Development (publicadmin.uvic.ca/macd) School of Public Administration University of Victoria Telephone: (250) 721-8069 Fax: (250) 721-8849 Email: siemensl@uvic.ca _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Jan 12 06:42:08 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9E7121F252; Thu, 12 Jan 2012 06:42:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E023521F241; Thu, 12 Jan 2012 06:42:05 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120112064205.E023521F241@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 06:42:05 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.617 modelling mind X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 617. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 07:28:39 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: modelling mind Anupam Basu notes in Humanist 25.611 that the peaks of human mental activity, Maszar's "thinking", are not as safe as Maszar supposed. Indeed, isn't belief in such safety iour chief enemy -- or, more accurately, the chief enemy of human becoming? We tend to brush aside fear of the artificially intelligent and of the advance of statistical tools as childish ignorance. Some of it is, or rather, it is in some respects. But in others this fear is invaluable because it points to the defamiliarizing force of computing -- one might say, computing's greatest gift of all. If what we thought we essentially were -- e.g., "the rational animal" -- is shown to be so closely approximated by machinery that the difference seems insignificant, then isn't it time more closely to inspect what we regard as insignificant (touching Jerry McGann's "hem of a quantum garment") or to look again, as Freud insisted we do, at our idea of humanity? There is, of course, all the talk about "the posthuman" that has been going on for a long time now. But I wonder if speaking of the changing as a change, i.e. as a binary flip from one state to another, isn't yet another way of turning aside rather than facing the fear and so losing all the benefit. All the signs are that the process of refiguring the human is ongoing. Comments? Yours,WM -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor (fractional), University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Jan 12 06:45:52 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FAA221F38D; Thu, 12 Jan 2012 06:45:52 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 2D57E21F37E; Thu, 12 Jan 2012 06:45:51 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120112064551.2D57E21F37E@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 06:45:51 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.618 call for chapters: ""Emerging Software for Interactive Interfaces..." X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 618. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 11:49:32 +0000 From: Willard Mccarty Subject: call for chapters: "Emerging Software for Interactive Interfaces, Database, Computer Graphics and Animation" In-Reply-To: <20120111114914.28548.qmail@webmaildh2.aruba.it> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- :: Blue Herons Editions :: Call for Chapters :: New Deadline ------------------------------------------------------------------------- :: On an Edited Handbook to be Published by Blue Herons Editions (Human-Computer Interaction collection) in March 2012 Title: "Emerging Software for Interactive Interfaces, Database, Computer Graphics and Animation: Pixels and the New Excellence in Communicability, Cloud Computing and Augmented Reality" http://www.blueherons.net/home_en_9.html The proposal is expected to be 2 - 4 pages, submitted in .doc or .pdf format, composed of title, author(s) (name, affiliation, phone number, and e-mail address), extended abstract (background, related work, principal contributions, references and so on), table of contents, and contact author/s. :: All contributions should be of high originality, quality, clarity, significance, impact and not published elsewhere or submitted for publication during the review period. Main areas are solicited on, but not limited to: :: 2D and 3D Computer Graphics :: 3D Scanning :: Advances in Programming Languages and Techniques :: Artificial Intelligence :: Artificial Life :: Audio-visual Communication :: Augmented Reality :: Behaviour Computer Animation :: Biometrics Techniques :: Cartography Digital :: Cinema 3D :: Cloud Computing :: Coherence in Ray Tracing :: Color Mapping, Imaging, Illumination and Texture Mapping in Computer Graphics :: Communicability :: Compression Methods of the Dynamic and Static Media Databases :: Computer Animation :: Computer Art :: Computer-Aided Design – CAD :: Computer-Aided Education – CAE :: Computer-Aided Manufacturing – CAM :: Cross-Cultural Interfaces :: Data Mining and Machine Learning :: Data Mining Tools and Software :: Digital Imaging for Film and TV :: Digital Libraries and Digital Image Collections :: Digital Sound :: Digital Typography :: Distributed Multimedia :: Dynamic and Static Information for Scientific Visualization :: E-entertainment :: Efficiency and Complexity Issues in Graphics Algorithms :: Emerging Audio-Visual Layout and Content :: Emotional Design :: Engines for Graphics and Virtual Reality :: Ergonomics :: Face, Voice and Signature Recognition Systems for Security :: Finite Element Methods in Graphics :: Flow Visualization :: Forward Ray Tracing :: Fractals and Chaos: Theory and Experiments :: Fundamentals of Human Perception :: Geographical Information Systems – GIS :: Geometric and Volume Modelling in Computer Graphics :: Graph Theory in Image Processing and Vision :: Graphics Optimization Techniques :: Holographic Displays and Interaction :: Human and Social Factors in Computer Science :: Human Perception and Graphics :: Human-Computer Communication – HCC :: Human-Computer Interaction – HCI :: Hyperbase and Compression Methods of the Information :: Hypermedia Sensory Interfaces and Smart Environments :: Illumination Techniques and Reflectance Modeling :: Illustration and Photography Digital :: Image Generation, Acquisition and Processing :: Image Restoration for Cultural and Natural Heritage :: Image Based Modeling and Algorithms :: Immersive Multimedia and Virtual Reality :: Indexing and Search of Multimedia Data :: Industrial Design and Simulation :: Integration of Virtual Reality in Hypermedia Systems :: Intelligent Graphics :: Intelligent User Interface :: Interaction Paradigms and Human Factors :: Interactive Design :: Interactive Geometric Processing :: Interactive Systems and Intelligent Agents :: Textual Information: Discursive Analysis :: Knowledge Acquisition and Representation :: Machine Learning Technologies for Vision :: Massively Multiplayer Games :: Mixed Reality :: Mobile and Ubiquitous Games :: Modeling Natural Phenomena :: Modeling Non-rigid Objects :: Molecular Graphics :: Morphing :: Motion Capture :: Multimedia Immersive Networked Environments :: Multimodal Interfaces :: Music and Audio Processing for Hypermedia On-line and Off-line :: Natural Phenomena and Computer Graphics Emulation :: Non-Photorealistic Rendering :: Object-Oriented Graphics :: Open-Source Software :: Particle Systems :: Perceptual Based Techniques in Computer Vision, Graphics and Imaging :: Perceptual Quality in Image :: Pervasive Software Engineering :: Procedural Modelling :: Quality Attributes and Metrics for Communicability :: Radiosity :: Realtime Video Processing Applied to Games :: Real-World Deployment Experience of Multimedia Distribution Platforms :: Rendering Methods :: Scientific visualization :: Secure Databases and Computer Graphics Applications :: Semiotics in Computing :: Shape Analysis :: Simulation and Emulation in Virtual Reality :: Social Impact of Art and Culture in Interactive Design :: Software Security Engineering :: Software Tools for Computer Graphics :: Special Effects :: Speech and Natural Language Interfaces :: Stereo Vision :: Surface Appearance, Formation and Enhancement :: Technologies and Applications Emerging for Microinformatics Systems :: Texture Mapping :: Three-dimensional Reconstruction for Cultural Heritage :: Three-dimensional Software Accelerators for Games on the Internet :: Three-dimensional Television :: Touch Interfaces :: Ubiquitous Computing :: Usability of New Technologies :: User-Centered Design :: Video Games :: Virtual Actors :: Virtual Reality :: Virtual World Creation for Real Simulation, Education and Entertainment :: Visual Effects and Computer-Generated Imagery :: Visualization Tools and Systems for Simulation and Modeling :: Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 :: Web TV :: Wireless and Mobile Computer Science Main editor: Francisco V. Cipolla-Ficarra, PhD Editorial assistants: Mary Brie (La Valletta, Malta), Doris Edison (Vancouver, Canada), and Emma Nicol (Glasgow, UK) Important Dates: :: Chapter Proposal Submission Deadline: still open :: Proposal Acceptance Due Date: Friday, 24 February 2012 :: Full Chapter Submission Deadline: Friday, 23 March 2012 :: Planned Publishing Date: March 2012 P.S. 1) In case you are not interested for this handbook, we would be grateful if you can pass on this information/email to another interested person you see fit (thanks a lot). 2) If you wish to be removed from this mailing list, please send an email to info[at]blueherons.net with “remove” in the subject line. 3) We are working for a new mailing list. Excuse us once again for the people with send us a email with “remove” and maybe had received this email. 4) We wishing you and your colleagues a happy 2012! _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Jan 12 06:49:11 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id F238B21F419; Thu, 12 Jan 2012 06:49:10 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 011EE21F400; Thu, 12 Jan 2012 06:49:08 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120112064909.011EE21F400@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 06:49:08 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.619 events: digital editions; heritage X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 619. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Joris van Zundert (65) Subject: cfp: Symposium 'Scholarly Digital Editions, Tools and Infrastructure' [2] From: kcl - digitalhumanities (31) Subject: cfp: Digital Humanities Symposium --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 09:56:22 +0100 From: Joris van Zundert Subject: cfp: Symposium 'Scholarly Digital Editions, Tools and Infrastructure' === REMINDER: deadline 15 January 2012 === === Call for Papers: Scholarly Digital Editions, Tools and Infrastructure === == Interedition - An Interoperable Supranational Infrastructure for Digital Editions == == 19-20 March 2011, Huygens ING, The Hague, The Netherlands == Huygens ING is pleased to host a symposium to mark the achievements of Interedition, COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) Action IS0704. This event will also serve as a springboard for further work based on the principles of interoperability promoted by Interedition within the domain of digital scholarly editing and research. One of the key objectives of Interedition has been to produce a ‘roadmap’ conceptualizing the development of a technical infrastructure for collaborative digital preparation, editing, publication, analysis and visualization of literary research materials. Interedition has approached the problem of interoperable infrastructure from the perspectives of methodology, technology, and community. At present Interedition is realizing the ‘nuts and bolts’ of a bottom-up generalizable architecture, focusing on the development community and the prototyping of distributed lightweight services. This grassroots approach is emerging from the ‘engine rooms’ where Web 2.0 digital editions are being built and promises a generalizable and viable approach to collaborative digital humanities tool building. Creators and/or users of tools for textual scholarship are invited to submit paper proposals dealing with tools and methodologies that promote, exemplify, and otherwise address the issues of interoperability and sustainability in the field of digital scholarly editing and research. In particular, we encourage papers which address, but are not limited to the following areas: * Development and application of tools to achieve interoperability and sustainability in the arena of digital textual scholarship * Development methodology and the problem of bottom-up versus top-down approaches * Development and application of tools for digital scholarly editions * Theoretical and practical problems of digital editing and scholarly information exchange * Community and user aspects of interoperability in textual scholarship * Crowd sourcing solutions * Architectural approaches towards interoperability for tools in digital scholarship * Digital techniques and methodologies from scholars working on textual data in the humanities Speakers are asked to submit abstracts of 750 words. This should also include the names, titles, institutional affiliations, addresses, phone numbers and email addresses of all authors. Abstracts must be submitted via email to joris.van.zundert@huygens.knaw.nl by 15 January 2012. Please note that we will be publishing the proceedings and that contributions will be peer reviewed. A bursary scheme will be in place to facilitate travel and accommodation for selected papers. Details will be forthcoming *** Keeping true to Interedition’s principles a bootcamp oriented towards collaborative coding opportunities for researchers/developers will be attached to this symposium. More details about this will be forthcoming. *** Further details will be available at: http://www.interedition.eu/ == Symposium organizing committee == Peter Boot (Huygens Institute for the History of The Netherlands) Karina van Dalen-Oskam (Huygens Institute for the History of The Netherlands) Fotis Jannidis (Universität Würzburg) Kathryn E. Piquette (University College London) Susan Schreibman (Trinity College Dublin) Joris van Zundert (Huygens Institute for the History of The Netherlands) == Links of Interest == About Interedition: http://www.interedition.eu About the Huygens ING: http://www.huygens.knaw.nl/en/over-ons/ About COST and Interedition: http://www.cost.esf.org/domains_actions/isch/Actions/IS0704 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 10:18:01 +0000 From: kcl - digitalhumanities Subject: cfp: Digital Humanities Symposium Digital Humanities Symposium: Virtualisation and Heritage Saturday 25th February 2012 We are very pleased to announce that The University of York, UK, will be hosting the event Digital Humanities Symposium: Virtualisation and Heritage on the 25th of February 2012. This event seeks to bring together researchers and practitioners in the digital humanities who focus on different aspects of heritage. We are interested in paper presentations, posters and workshop proposals. The topics may include, but are not limited to: - Acoustic modelling of heritage sites - Virtual modelling of heritage sites - Data capture - Dissemination and cultural heritage - Virtual modelling for public display - Virtual modelling for research - Technical developments and applications - Media archiving and digital restoration - Ethics of heritage preservation and reconstruction Please send abstracts of 300 words to virtualisationandheritage@gmail.com The full Call for Papers and the Registration Form can be found at: http://www.york.ac.uk/tftv/news-events/events/2012/digital-humanities-symposium/ Important Dates: Deadline for Abstract Submission: 22nd January 2012 Deadline for Registration: 11th February 2012 Please send queries and submissions to virtualisationandheritage@gmail.com Kind regards, Mariana Lopez Oliver Jones Gavin Kearney ________________________________ Administrative Assistant Department of Digital Humanities King’s College London 2nd Floor | 26-29 Drury Lane | London | WC2B 5RL Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 2931 Fax: +44 (0)20 7848 2980 Email: digitalhumanities@kcl.ac.uk http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/ddh/index.aspx _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Jan 13 06:14:39 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDB2022E867; Fri, 13 Jan 2012 06:14:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D9FEB22E833; Fri, 13 Jan 2012 06:14:34 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120113061434.D9FEB22E833@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 06:14:34 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.620 citation practice for large-scale projects X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 620. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 08:10:54 -0800 From: Dave Shepard Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.616 citation practice for large-scale projects In-Reply-To: <20120112063423.3990C21F0B4@woodward.joyent.us> At HyperCities, we try to credit everybody, including the programmers and designers, on a project's "About" page: http://inscriptions.etc.ucla.edu/index.php/statues-and-memory/about/. As far as publications go, though, we have attributed authorship to those who did the research if we submit anything (even a digital project) to a refereed journal, so the citation would include only the researchers' names. In the infinite space of the digital, it's easy to include everyone. In the finite space of print (particularly journal pages), I find it's generally understandable to only credit the people who do the research as the authors, and leave out people who did web design, coding, and the like, as important as that is--and I say this as one of the people who does the coding. That said, when the coding is a substantial part of the research, what if we followed something like the practice requested by the author of MALLET, where we cite the software in the bibliography, and credit all the authors there? For example: Presner, Todd and [long list of collaborators]. HyperCities. http://hypercities.ats.ucla.edu/ -- David Shepard Project Manager, Hypercities (http://hypercities.com/) PhD Candidate, Department of English UCLA _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Jan 13 06:21:24 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24CB722EA60; Fri, 13 Jan 2012 06:21:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 2061522EA50; Fri, 13 Jan 2012 06:21:22 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120113062122.2061522EA50@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 06:21:22 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.621 events: artefacts; social computing; info law; games & VR X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 621. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: MARIA (7) Subject: 5th International Conference on Information Law 2012- Corfu June 29-30, 2012 [2] From: Judith Simon (202) Subject: CfP: SOCIAL TURN - SNAMAS @ AISB 2012 [3] From: Leo Konstantelos (74) Subject: Symposium on Preservation of Video Games and Virtual Worlds- Cardiff, UK [4] From: Klaus Staubermann (43) Subject: CfP Artefacts 2012 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 13:40:37 +0000 From: MARIA Subject: 5th International Conference on Information Law 2012- Corfu June 29-30, 2012 In-Reply-To: <4F0EDF81.4020101@univie.ac.at> REMINDER 5th International Conference on Information Law 2012 Corfu June 29-30, 2012 http://conferences.ionio.gr/icil2012 abstracts deadline March 1, 2012 JOIN! --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 13:29:33 +0000 From: Judith Simon Subject: CfP: SOCIAL TURN - SNAMAS @ AISB 2012 In-Reply-To: <4F0EDF81.4020101@univie.ac.at> CALL FOR PAPERS Symposium on SOCIAL COMPUTING - SOCIAL COGNITION - SOCIAL NETWORKS AND MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS @ AISB/IACAP 2012 July 2nd – 3rd 2012 https://sites.google.com/site/socialturnsnamasaisbiacap2012/ The symposium is part of the AISB/IACAP World Congress 2012 in honour of Alan Turing, held on July 2nd to 6th, 2012. University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.http://events.cs.bham.ac.uk/turing12/ & http://www.aisb.org.uk/convention/aisb12/ The event is jointly organized by The Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour (AISB) [http://www.aisb.org.uk ] and The International Association for Computing and Philosophy (IACAP) [http://www.ia-cap.org ] ------------------------------- NEWS INVITED SPEAKERS Bernhard Rieder, Department of Media Studies, University of Amsterdam. Marek Sergot, Imperial College, London. GRANTS The European Network for Social Intelligence is offering a limited number of travel grants for PhD students and early stage researchers. Please indicate in your paper submission if you want to apply for the travel grants. Further information will be made available on the symposium website. ------------------------------- SYMPOSIUM CHAIRS Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic, Mälardalen University, Sweden. Antonino Rotolo, CIRSFID, U. di Bologna, Italy. Giovanni Sartor, EUI and CIRSFID, Italy. Judith Simon, University of Vienna, Austria and & Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany. Clara Smith, UNLP and UCALP, Argentina. -------------------------------- This 2012 symposium merges the symposium entitled Social Turn: Social Computing - Social Cognition - Social Intelligence; and the SNAMAS symposium, focused on Social Networks and Multi-Agent Systems, which have precursor symposia in Social Computing at IACAP and the SNAMAS in AISB conferences. ---------------------------------- TOPICS The field of social computing has two different foci: social and computational. There is the focus on socialness of social software or social web applications. Widespread examples of social software are blogs, wikis, social bookmarking services, instant messaging services, and social networking sites. Social computing often uses various types of crowdsourcing techniques for aggregation of input from numerous users (public at large). Tools such as prediction markets, social tagging, reputation and trust systems as well as recommender systems are based on collaborative filtering and thus a result of crowdsourcing. Another focus of social computing is on computational modeling of social behavior, among others through Multi-agent systems (MAS) and Social Networks (SN). MAS have an anchoring going beyond social sciences even when a sociological terminology is often used. There are several usages of MAS: to design distributed and/or hybrid systems; to develop philosophical theory; to understand concrete social facts, or to answer concrete social issues via modelling and simulation. MAS aim at modelling, among other things, cognitive or reactive agents who interact in dynamic environments where they possibly depend on each other to achieve their goals. The emphasis is nowadays on constructing complex computational systems composed by agents which are regulated by various types of norms, and behave like human social systems. Finally, Social networks (SN) are social structures made of nodes (which are, generally, individuals or organizations) that are tied by one or more specific types of interdependency, such as values, visions, idea, financial exchange, friends, kinship, dislike, conflict, trade, web links, disease transmission, among many others. Social networks analysis plays a critical role in determining the way specific problems are solved, organizations are run, and the degree to which individuals succeed in achieving their goals. Social networks analysis has addressed also the dynamics issue, called dynamic networks analysis. This is an emergent scientific field that brings together traditional social network analysis, link analysis and multi-agent systems. The symposium addresses, but is not limited to, the following topics: - Conceptual issues such as Socialness (notions of the social used and/or enforced in social computing and research on social cognition or social intelligence) and Computational Models and mechanisms of social computing (information processing) as well as models and social mechanisms of cognition and intelligence. - Agency & Action in social computing systems: How can agency be understood and/or modeled in systems consisting of human and non-human agents? - Social Coordination & Norms: Emergence of norms (e.g. in Wikipedia) and compliance including their computational modeling in socio-technical systems. - Interaction & Communication in socio-technical systems and their computational models - Knowledge: the epistemological and ethical consequences of distributed knowledge creation in social computing and its computational models - Relations between the individual and the social: Forming of individual existence in relation to social computing (e.g. digital identity), including its computational modeling. - Agreement technologies. - Electronic Institutions. - Empirical and/or theoretical studies on a specific social or legal relationship (power, solidarity, legitimity, dependency...). - Empirical and/or theoretical studies on social relations' regulations. - Formalization of Normed Systems. - Logical frameworks for representing, describing and analysing agent's social or legal relationships. - Relations between the individual and the social: Forming of individual existence in relation to social computing (e.g. digital identity), including its info-computational modeling. - Responsibility, Accountability & Liability. What is epistemically and ethically responsible behavior with respect to social software and how can it be supported? What are the responsibilities of different human agents (e.g. software users, designers, researchers, etc)? - Rules and standards. - Social Networking Sites: philosophical implications of socialness in social networking sites (e.g., privacy, social structures, etc.). - Info-computational models of social networking sites. - The role of agents´ attributes in structuring social and legal relationships. - The role of specific social relationships in structuring groups and organizations. - Trust in social computing. Differences and similarities between notions of trust e.g. in multi-agent systems, social networking sites, recommender systems, etc. Differences and similarities between trust online and offline. How can trust be supported by a computational system itself? ------------------------------ IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline: February 1, 2012. Notification of acceptance: March 1, 2012. Camera ready version deadline: March 30, 2012. Symposium: 2nd – 3rd July, 2012. --------------------------------- PAPER SUBMISSION Guidelines for paper submission are as follows: - The paper should be written in English. - The maximum length of a paper is 6 A4-sized pages in ECAI format (format download: http://www.aisb.org.uk/convention/aisb08/download.html). - The paper should be in PDF format. - Please choose one track between SOCIAL TURN and SNAMAS, and submit via the online paper submission system to the corresponding track at: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=socialturnmasaisbiac ------------------------------------- PROGRAM COMMITTEE Doris Allhutter, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria. Frederic Amblard, IRIT, U. Toulouse, France. Giulia Andrighetto, ISTC-CNR, Italy. Carlos Areces, UN Córdoba, Argentina. Guido Boella, University of Torino, Italy. Pompeu Casanovas, UAB Institute of Law and Technology, Spain. Cristiano Castelfranchi, ISTC-CNR, Italy. Mark Coeckelbergh University of Twente, Netherlands Diego Compagna, University Duisburg-Essen, Germany. Rosaria Conte, ISTC-CNR, Italy. Charles Ess, Aarhus University, Danmark. Ricardo Guibourg, UBA, Argentina. Hamid Ekbia, Indiana University, Indiana Lars-Erik Janlert, Umeå University, Sweden Matthias Mailliard, Cemagref, France. Antonio A. Martino, U. Salvador, Argentina. Jeremy Pitt, Imperial College London, UK. Leon Van der Torre, U Louxembourg, Louxembourg. Serena Villata, University of Torino, Italy. Jutta Weber, University Paderborn, Germany. Christian Fuchs, Uppsala University, Sweden. --------------------------------------- POSTERS AND SYSTEM DEMONSTRATIONS There will be one session for system demonstrations, and one day poster exhibition. ---------------------------------------- PROCEEDINGS AND POST PROCEEDINGS There will be a separate proceedings for each symposium, produced before the Congress. Each delegate at the Congress will receive, on arrival, a memory stick containing the proceedings of all symposia. Selected papers of the Symposium, under a second review process, will be considered for a special issue of the AI & Law Journal, Springer http://www.springer.com/computer/ai/journal/10506; and for the open access TripleC journal http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC . -------------------------------------- ABOUT THE CONGRESS The Congress serves both as the year's AISB Convention and the year's IACAP conference. The Congress has been inspired by a desire to honour Alan Turing, and by the broad and deep significance of Turing's work to AI, to the philosophical ramifications of computing, and to Philosophy and computing more generally. The Congress is one of the events forming the Alan Turing Year (http://www.mathcomp.leeds.ac.uk/turing2012/). The intent of the Congress is to stimulate a particularly rich interchange between AI and Philosophy on any areas of mutual interest, whether directly addressing Turing's own research output or not. The Congress will consist mainly of a number of collocated Symposia on specific research areas, interspersed with Congress-wide refreshment breaks, social events and invited Plenary Talks. All papers other than the invited Plenaries will be given within Symposia. This symposium is closely connected to UmoCoP, Symposium on Understanding and Modelling Collective Phenomena, which will be held on July 3rd-5th 2012. There will be a joint panel from both symposia on July 3rd. ---------------------- CONTACTS For further inquiries please contact any of the chairs: gordana.dodig-crnkovic@mdh.se, judith.simon@univie.ac.at (SOCIAL COMPUTING - SOCIAL COGNITION - SOCIAL NETWORKS) antonino.rotolo@unibo.it, giovanni.sartor@libero.it, csmith@info.unlp.edu.ar (MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS) --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 14:03:12 +0000 From: Leo Konstantelos Subject: Symposium on Preservation of Video Games and Virtual Worlds- Cardiff, UK In-Reply-To: <4F0EDF81.4020101@univie.ac.at> Dear all, places are still available for the Preservation Of Complex Objects Symposium (POCOS) on Video Games and Virtual Worlds in Cardiff on 26-27 January 2012. The event features an impressive array of distinguished speakers and should not be missed by anyone working or interested in preserving video game materials. Participation is free (plus £10 donation for refreshments payable at the event). You can book your place online here: http://www.pocos.org/index.php/registration For further information, please see the symposium invitation below. Best wishes, Leo ================================================ Preservation Of Complex Objects Symposia (POCOS) We are pleased to announce the 3rd POCOS Symposium on Preservation of Games and Virtual Worlds: • 26-27 January 2012 • The Novotel Hotel, Cardiff, UK • Organised by the Future-Proof Computing Group, University of Portsmouth, UK. • Symposium Fee: Free + £10 donation for refreshments (payable at the event) Online registration:http://www.pocos.org/index.php/registration Preservation of video games and virtual worlds presents challenges on many fronts, including complex interdependencies between game elements and platforms; online, interactive and collaborative properties; and diversity in the technologies and practices used for development and curation. This exciting two-day symposium will provide a forum for participants to discuss these challenges, review and debate the latest developments in the field, witness real-life case studies, and engage in networking activities. The symposium will promote discussion on such topics as: • Implications and advances in preserving video games and virtual worlds • Issues of recreating complex technical environments in terms of mods, cracks, plug-ins, joysticks etc. for both console and PC games • The overriding need to provide an authentic user experience for preserved games • The Economical Case for re-releasing old games • Legal and Ethical issues in collecting, curating and preserving virtual worlds • Interpretation and Documentation, especially metadata Keynote Speakers: • Dr Jerome McDonough – The iSchool, University of Illinois, USA / Preserving Virtual Worlds Project • Prof. Richard Bartle FRSA – University of Essex, UK and creator of MUD1 • Dr Dan Pinchbeck, TheChineseRoom, UK and creator of Dear Esther Presenters include: • Angela Dappert - The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) and TIMBUS project • Tom Woolley - Curator of New Media, National Media Museum, UK The programme also includes break-out sessions for participants to discuss key topics in the preservation of games and virtual worlds. For more information, please visit the POCOS page at:http://www.pocos.org/index.php/pocos-symposia/videogame-environments-a-virtual-worlds Download the brochure at:http://www.pocos.org/images/pub_material/POCOS_3_LEAFLET_V1.pdf Bookings are now open at the project website – however, space is limited so please book early. A waiting list will be maintained once the symposium is fully booked in case of late cancellations. We look forward to welcoming you at the event! Preservation Of Complex Objects Symposia (POCOS) has been funded by the JISC Information Environment Programme 2009-11 -- Dr Leo Konstantelos Principal Investigator, POCOS HATII Preservation Research Officer 11 University Gardens University of Glasgow Glasgow G12 8QH Skype: l.konstantelos T: +44 (0)141 330 7133 E: L.Konstantelos@hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk W: http://www.hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 13:54:02 -0000 From: Klaus Staubermann Subject: CfP Artefacts 2012 In-Reply-To: <4F0EDF81.4020101@univie.ac.at> Call for Papers: ARTEFACTS 2012 ARTEFACTS is an international network of academic and museum-based scholars of science, technology and medicine interested in promoting the use of objects in research. The network was established in 1996 and since then has held annual conferences examining the role of artefacts in the making of science and technology and related areas. The next conference will be held in Edinburgh, Scotland, 7-9 October 2012. The Scottish government aims to hold a referendum in the next few years on national independence and the theme of the conference echoes this issue. It aims to discuss the entanglement of national styles and identity and scientific, technical and medical artefacts in a global context. Topics could cover questions such as - Between inventors and the nation: who makes and owns artefacts? - Do artefacts embody national styles or distinct communities of practice? - Do artefacts reflect particular national attitudes on the relationship between science and technology? - Do artefacts act as signifiers of nationhood and how are they enlisted in the construction of nationalist agendas? - National, international or local: how do museums aim at audiences through artefacts stories? ARTEFACTS conferences are friendly and informal meetings with the character of workshops. There is plenty of time for open discussion and networking. Each contributor is allocated a 20 minutes slot for her or his talk plus ample of time for questions and discussion. If you want to present a paper please contact Klaus Staubermann at k.staubermann@nms.ac.uk not later than 30 April 2012. Please remember that the focus of presentations should be on artefacts. The conference will be held at the award-winning refurbished National Museum of Scotland. For information about travel, accommodation, and holidays in Scotland visit www.visitscotland.com http://www.visitscotland.com/ Dr Klaus Staubermann Principal Curator of Technology National Museums Scotland Chambers Street Edinburgh EH1 1JF Tel (0)131-247-4357 Fax (0)131-247-4312 e-mail k.staubermann@nms.ac.uk http://www.nms.ac.uk http://www.nms.ac.uk/ Fascinating Mummies - mummies as you've never seen them before. National Museum of Scotland, 11 Feb-27 May. www.nms.ac.uk/mummies _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Jan 13 06:23:37 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 350CD22EB47; Fri, 13 Jan 2012 06:23:37 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B1D3222EB3C; Fri, 13 Jan 2012 06:23:35 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20120113062335.B1D3222EB3C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 06:23:35 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.622 text-analysis for spooks X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 622. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 23:14:23 -0700 From: Geoffrey Rockwell Subject: Text analysis for spooks On the subject of text and content analysis for spooks Humanist readers might be interested to look at the documents put together by EPIC (Electronic Privacy Information Center) on Carnivore (and Omnivore) - systems developed for the FBI to monitor electronic communication including email. Among other things Carnivore seems to do text mining on email. The links are: http://epic.org/privacy/carnivore/ http://epic.org/privacy/carnivore/foia_documents.html Many of the documents are from EPIC's Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests and are therefore redacted producing beautiful pages where almost all text has been inked out. I have a a page image on the Omnivore Source Code on a blog post at http://www.theoreti.ca/?p=3D738 for those who appreciate such art. Yours, Geoffrey R. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Jan 14 07:03:59 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9586C236A21; Sat, 14 Jan 2012 07:03:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 6DF92236A0F; Sat, 14 Jan 2012 07:03:57 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20120114070357.6DF92236A0F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2012 07:03:57 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.623 text-analysis for spooks X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 623. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Robert Barron (48) Subject: text-analysis for spooks [2] From: Geoffrey Rockwell (10) Subject: Apologies --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 08:34:19 +0200 From: Robert Barron Subject: text-analysis for spooks I think you mean http://www.theoreti.ca/?p=738 It's art ready for MoMA. Robert Barron On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 8:23 AM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 622. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 23:14:23 -0700 > From: Geoffrey Rockwell > Subject: Text analysis for spooks > > > On the subject of text and content analysis for spooks Humanist readers > might be interested to look at the documents put together by EPIC > (Electronic Privacy Information Center) on Carnivore (and Omnivore) - > systems developed for the FBI to monitor electronic communication > including email. Among other things Carnivore seems to do text mining on > email. The links are: > > http://epic.org/privacy/carnivore/ > http://epic.org/privacy/carnivore/foia_documents.html > > Many of the documents are from EPIC's Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) > requests and are therefore redacted producing beautiful pages where > almost all text has been inked out. I have a a page image on the > Omnivore Source Code on a blog post at http://www.theoreti.ca/?p=3D738 > for those who appreciate such art. > > Yours, > > Geoffrey R. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 09:27:16 -0700 From: Geoffrey Rockwell Subject: Apologies Dear Humanists, Alas there was a typo in the URL I provided to an image of a redacted Omnivore FOIA document. > I have a a page image on the > Omnivore Source Code on a blog post at http://www.theoreti.ca/?p=3D3D738 > for those who appreciate such art. The correct URL is: http://www.theoreti.ca/?p=3D738 Perhaps the spooks now have tools to introduce 3D into Humanist communications to disrupt things :-) Geoffrey R.= _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Jan 14 07:05:49 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 499B5236A7B; Sat, 14 Jan 2012 07:05:49 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 76816236A68; Sat, 14 Jan 2012 07:05:45 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120114070545.76816236A68@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2012 07:05:45 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.624 job at Leeds X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 624. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 14:35:48 +0000 From: Stuart Dunn Subject: Job: Research Fellow in Human/Technology Interface @ ICSRiM- University of Leeds In-Reply-To: <4F0F107A.1070206@leeds.ac.uk> -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Job: Research Fellow in Human/Technology Interface @ ICSRiM - University of Leeds > Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:55:22 +0000 > From: Kia Ng > To: Dunn, Stuart =-=-=-=-=-=-= Dear All, Happy New Year! A Research Fellow post in Human/Technology Interface at ICSRiM - University of Leeds: http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/ADT368/research-fellow-in-human-technology-interface/ Could you help to spread the information on appropriate lists and to potential applicants please? Thank you very much Best wishes, Kia www.kcng.org _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Jan 14 07:09:04 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8ECB236B13; Sat, 14 Jan 2012 07:09:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 06618236B06; Sat, 14 Jan 2012 07:09:00 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120114070901.06618236B06@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2012 07:09:00 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.625 proof; the computing centre X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 625. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Willard McCarty (25) Subject: proof [2] From: Willard McCarty (24) Subject: the computing centre --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 06:48:58 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: proof "The most merciful thing in the world..." H. P. Lovecraft wrote, "is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.... The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age" ("The Call of Cthulhu", 1926). I am more inclined to think, full of hope, that such a vision of the world is the result of madness rather than the cause of it, but this dark vision does serve well to underscore the situation toward which total digitization is bringing us. Is it not the case that the more cultural data we have, hence the more potential evidence, the easier it will be to "prove" anything one wants to prove? I would think that the result of all this potential evidence (providing, unlike Lovecraft, we preserve our sanity) will be greatly to increase the importance of argument -- that the more of it we have the more elusive proof will become. Comments? Yours, WM -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor (fractional), University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 09:29:30 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: the computing centre In "A Report from Princeton" (Pespectives of New Music 3.2, 1965) the American composer of electronic and acoustic music J. K. Randall wrote, > To me, the most striking political aspect of my own work with > [software] has been, not my sudden exposure to the fruits of > engineering and programming, but my sudden dependence upon the > independent and not-so-independent work of others: composers and > theorists, colleagues and students, professional and semi-professional > programmers, musicians and musical dabblers. One of the virtues of a > university computer center is that it seems at once to create, because > of its numerous functions, an interdependence among people of widely > divergent positions, interests, and skills; and to guarantee, by > attracting such people to a single place where indispensable machines > are being maintained and operated, that the needed exchanges of > information will actually take place. (84-5) Is it true that after nearly five decades the centripetal effect Randall describes remains essential to the digital humanities despite the fact that physical machinery is no longer the proximate cause? And if this is so, then how should our institutions best instantiate the field? Yours, WM -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor (fractional), University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Jan 14 07:09:33 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87D52236B59; Sat, 14 Jan 2012 07:09:33 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B2A81236B48; Sat, 14 Jan 2012 07:09:31 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120114070931.B2A81236B48@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2012 07:09:31 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.626 event: visualisation and the arts X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 626. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 10:48:02 -0000 From: "Mcdaid, Sarah" Subject: EVA London 2012: Final call for proposals ELECTRONIC VISUALISATION AND THE ARTS LONDON 2012 Tuesday 10th July - Thursday 12th July 2012 Venue: British Computer Society, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7HA www.eva-london.org CALL FOR PROPOSALS Deadline: 22nd January 2012 *Visualising* ideas and concepts in culture, heritage the arts and sciences: digital arts, sound, music, film and animation, 2D and 3D imaging, European projects, archaeology, architecture, social media for museums, heritage and fine art photography, medical visualisation and more OFFERS OF PAPERS, DEMONSTRATIONS AND WORKSHOPS by 22nd January 2012 A feature of EVA London is its varied session types. We invite proposals of papers, demonstrations, short performances, workshops or panel discussions. Demonstrations and performances will be an important part of this year's conference.  We especially invite papers or presentations on topical subjects, and the newest and cutting edge technologies and applications. Only a summary of the proposal, on up to one page, is required for selection. This must be submitted electronically according to the instructions on the EVA London website. Proposals may be on any aspect of EVA London's focus on visualisation for arts and culture, heritage and medical science, broadly interpreted. Papers are peer reviewed and may be edited for publication as hard copy and online. Other presentations may be published as summaries or as papers. If your proposal is a case study, we will be looking for discussions of wider principles or applications using the case study as an example. A few bursaries for EVA London registration fees will again be available if you don't have access to grants. *********************************************************** EVA London's Conference themes will particularly include new and emerging technologies and applications, including but not limited to: * Visualising ideas and concepts * Imaging and images in museums and galleries * Digital performance * Music, sound, film and animation * Medical humanities * Reconstructive archaeology and architecture * Digital and computational art and photography * Visualisation in museums, historic sites and buildings * Immersive environments * Technologies of digitisation * 2D, 3D and high definition imaging * Virtual and augmented worlds * Web 2.0 and 3.0 technologies in art and culture * Digital visualisation of performance and music   If this message was forwarded to you, join our mailing list to receive EVA London announcements (only) directly. Send an email to: listserv@jiscmail.ac.uk. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Jan 15 07:18:21 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id BADEE235F3A; Sun, 15 Jan 2012 07:18:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 2DCF6235F27; Sun, 15 Jan 2012 07:18:16 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120115071816.2DCF6235F27@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2012 07:18:16 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.627 citation practice for large-scale projects X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 627. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2012 10:47:37 +0100 From: maurizio lana Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.613 citation practice for large-scale projects? In-Reply-To: <20120111070536.6B83923250F@woodward.joyent.us> dear humanists, here is my penny. at digilibLT (digital library of late latin texts, digiliblt.unipmn.it) we choose to credit every person for every contribution to the project. if you go to the site, english version, click "searchable works", then click any of the listed works, and you will see an introductory page to the chosen work, where every person involved in the preparation of that work is listed. we don't have defined yet a policy about how to cite the collaborators when the whole project is mentioned maurizio ------- il mio corso di informatica umanistica: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85JsyJw2zuw ------- Maurizio Lana - ricercatore Università del Piemonte Orientale, Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici via Manzoni 8, 13100 Vercelli tel. +39 347 7370925 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Jan 15 07:19:15 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93F3E235F84; Sun, 15 Jan 2012 07:19:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B063F235F70; Sun, 15 Jan 2012 07:19:14 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20120115071914.B063F235F70@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2012 07:19:14 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.628 crowd-sourced editing? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 628. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2012 17:21:07 -0800 (PST) From: Bob Blair Subject: Crowd-sourcing editing? I have an index of Samuel R. Rawson's "History of England from the Accession of James I. ...", a 10-volume set that, after 130 years, is still the definitive text of English history 1604-1641. It's a pretty good index; there's only about one error per 100 entries. The errors fall into two categories: 1) incorrect page numbers in a volume; and 2) incorrect volume identifications. I've spent a lot of time (hundreds of hours) trying to get the problems corrected. I'm through about half of the entries related to "Charles I". By my calculation, I will not live long enough to finish the work. My choices seem clear: either release the work and let people deal with the inaccuracies; or get others to do what I can't make time for. My question is whether any members of the Humanist group have encountered this kind of problem, and if so, how did you solve it? Bob Blair _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Jan 15 07:20:17 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 962F1235FE5; Sun, 15 Jan 2012 07:20:17 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id F1C96235FBF; Sun, 15 Jan 2012 07:20:14 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120115072014.F1C96235FBF@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2012 07:20:14 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.629 new publication: for Tito Orlandi X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 629. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2012 13:19:46 +0100 From: Domenico Fiormonte Subject: La macchina nel tempo LA MACCHINA NEL TEMPO. Studi di informatica umanistica in onore di Tito Orlandi ed. by Lorenzo Perilli and Domenico Fiormonte Firenze, Le Lettere, 2011. pp. XIII+336 Order online: http://www.lelettere.it Tito Orlandi was one of the founding figures in Italy and Europe of the Digital Humanities, known in Italy as "Informatica Umanistica", an expression coined by Orlandi himself in the late 80s. To celebrate his figure and his outstanding contribution to the field, a group of scholars of different humanities backgrounds collected their contributions in this book not only to pay homage to the discipline but to give an account of its state of the art. Though distinctive in nature and authorship, the essays composing this book are connected one another through the principle of methodological homogeneity with original studies in classical philology, modern archeology, linguistics, formal logic, musicology, history, textual analysis, library sciences. All the essays provide interesting insights and reflections that go beyond the boundaries of the single disciplines of reference pointing out decisive, and still currently unsolved, knots such as the relationship between information studies and humanities or the concept of encoding as a passage from the world of analogical objects to the world of digital ones. Almost paradoxically, nowadays the great achievements in the field of information technologies seem to coincide with the great concerns of Digital Humanities: superficiality of the applications, lack of transparence in the processes of digitalization, linguistic and geopolitical supremacy of a restricted part of the scientific community and last but not least the risk of loss or manipulation of cultural memories. The very topicality of the above-stated concerns shows, just like the contributions contained in this book do, that the Digital Humanities is “alive” more than ever and ready to pick some of the most important fruits of its labors. Still open, instead, is the fascinated and ambitious challenge issued by Tito Orlandi himself in the 80s: the quest for a convergence between natural and cultural sciences capable to go far beyond the mere applicative horizon. ESSAYS and CONTRIBUTIONS Edoardo Ballo and Massimo Parodi, "Strumento e teoria". Domenico Fiormonte and Teresa Numerico, "Le radici interdisciplinari dell’informatica: logica, linguistica e gestione della conoscenza". Dino Buzzetti, "Oltre il rappresentare. Le potenzialità del markup". Fabio Ciotti, "La rappresentazione digitale del testo: il paradigma del markup e i suoi sviluppi". Gino Roncaglia, "Alcune note su modelli diversi di organizzazione ipertestuale". Claude Cazalé Bérard, "Ritratto dell’Ipercritico da giovane". Maria Guercio, "Gli archivi digitali". Lorenzo Perilli, "Filologia ieri, oggi ... e domani". Alberto Cadioli, "Dall'ipersaggio” all'archivio". Nicola Tangari, "Informatica, musica, musicologia". Serge Noiret, "Storia Digitale: sulle risorse di rete per gli storici". Paola Moscati, "Venti anni di «Archeologia e Calcolatori». Aspetti e momenti". Maurizio Lana, "Un database testuale per il latino tardo". Ilaria Bonincontro, "Edizioni critiche in formato elettronico". Francesca Tomasi, "Informatica Umanistica: iniziative, progetti e proposte". _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Jan 15 07:24:59 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 914802370E1; Sun, 15 Jan 2012 07:24:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1284B2370BF; Sun, 15 Jan 2012 07:24:54 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120115072454.1284B2370BF@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2012 07:24:54 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.630 Cthulhu emergent online? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 630. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2012 11:42:18 -0800 (PST) From: Elijah Richard Meeks Subject: Re: proof Willard, It's funny you should mention Lovecraft, I just finished a small exploration of the Internet phenomenon TV Tropes and I introduced it by comparing our representations of complex data to Lovecraft's description of these terrible entities "extruding" only a small and confusing portion of their incomprehensible bulk into our reality: https://dhs.stanford.edu/social-media-literacy/tvtropes-pt-1-the-weird-geometry-of-the-internet/ Even the title of the first part is a reference to a beloved Lovecraftian concept of "weird geometries" indicative of the unknowable and hopefully not madness-inducing nature of these alien structures. I'm constantly reminded of Matt Jockers' claim that we now have "an embarassment of data" and wonder if this leaves us incapable of knowing things and only able to interpret one small, very mediated "extrusion" at a time. Furthering the analogy, it seems fitting that many of my own representations of these objects are similar to the tentacled being that graces the title from which your quote comes from. In fact, I titled an early visualization of Ben Franklin's correspondence network "Ben Franklin as Cthulhu". I'm a fan of Lovecraft's work and his concepts and think they are useful in framing our attempts to grapple with all manner of extremely complex digital objects. Perhaps the intuitive similarities between these Eldritch Abominations and the huge databases that so influence our life in the modern age is a reason for Lovecraft's resurgent popularity. Best, Elijah Sent from my iPhone _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Jan 16 06:23:43 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 144D323853D; Mon, 16 Jan 2012 06:23:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 8607A23851E; Mon, 16 Jan 2012 06:23:40 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120116062340.8607A23851E@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 06:23:40 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.632 Cthulhu emergent X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 632. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org From: Humanist Discussion Group Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 631. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Clark, Stephen" (7) Subject: RE: [Humanist] 25.630 Cthulhu emergent online? [2] From: Rob Myers (9) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.630 Cthulhu emergent online? [3] From: James Rovira (15) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.630 Cthulhu emergent online? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2012 10:04:32 +0000 From: "Clark, Stephen" Subject: RE: [Humanist] 25.630 Cthulhu emergent online? In-Reply-To: <20120115072454.1284B2370BF@woodward.joyent.us> There's a splendid series by Charles Stross, in which Lovecraftian horrors are allowed entry to our world through computerized maths (the series is also pastiche secret service lit): The Atrocity Archives and its sequels. See http://www.antipope.org/charlie/ Stephen Clark --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2012 12:24:27 +0000 From: Rob Myers Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.630 Cthulhu emergent online? In-Reply-To: <20120115072454.1284B2370BF@woodward.joyent.us> On 15/01/12 07:24, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > > I'm a fan of Lovecraft's work and his concepts and think they are useful in framing our attempts to grapple with all manner of extremely complex digital objects. Perhaps the intuitive similarities between these Eldritch Abominations and the huge databases that so influence our life in the modern age is a reason for Lovecraft's resurgent popularity. As if Wintermute and Neuromancer fragmented into Elder Gods rather than Loa. - Rob. --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2012 11:45:47 -0500 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.630 Cthulhu emergent online? In-Reply-To: <20120115072454.1284B2370BF@woodward.joyent.us> I enjoyed reading the article below -- what's the difference between data so voluminous and intricate that it cannot be read and noise? Jim R Willard, > > It's funny you should mention Lovecraft, I just finished a small > exploration of the Internet phenomenon TV Tropes and I introduced it by > comparing our representations of complex data to Lovecraft's description of > these terrible entities "extruding" only a small and confusing portion of > their incomprehensible bulk into our reality: > > > https://dhs.stanford.edu/social-media-literacy/tvtropes-pt-1-the-weird-geometry-of-the-internet/ > > _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Jan 16 06:25:50 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2A5F2385CE; Mon, 16 Jan 2012 06:25:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 585A02385B7; Mon, 16 Jan 2012 06:25:48 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20120116062548.585A02385B7@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 06:25:48 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.633 credible proof in a data-rich world X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 633. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2012 23:08:18 +0000 From: Richard Lewis Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.625 proof; the computing centre In-Reply-To: <20120114070901.06618236B06@woodward.joyent.us> At Fri, 13 Jan 2012 06:48:58 +0000, Willard McCarty wrote: > I am more inclined to think, full of hope, that such a vision of the > world is the result of madness rather than the cause of it, but this > dark vision does serve well to underscore the situation toward which > total digitization is bringing us. Is it not the case that the more > cultural data we have, hence the more potential evidence, the easier > it will be to "prove" anything one wants to prove? I would think > that the result of all this potential evidence (providing, unlike > Lovecraft, we preserve our sanity) will be greatly to increase the > importance of argument -- that the more of it we have the more > elusive proof will become. Or perhaps that we have to become more literate in understanding what constitutes a credible proof in a data-rich world. For example, some statistical criticism skills would help to catch out those telling worse than "damned lies". Best, Richard -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Richard Lewis ISMS, Computing Goldsmiths, University of London JID: ironchicken@jabber.earth.li http://www.richardlewis.me.uk/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Jan 16 06:30:31 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 485F42386E2; Mon, 16 Jan 2012 06:30:31 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 4725E2386CE; Mon, 16 Jan 2012 06:30:25 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120116063025.4725E2386CE@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 06:30:25 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.634 events: editing; citizen cyberscience X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 634. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Mark Hedges (38) Subject: London Citizen Cyberscience Summit, 16-18 Feb 2012, at UCL and Royal Geographical Society [2] From: Joris van Zundert (72) Subject: Interedition: Symposium 'Scholarly Digital Editions, Tools andInfrastructure', Deadline extension: 29 January 2012 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2012 17:14:31 +0000 From: Mark Hedges Subject: London Citizen Cyberscience Summit, 16-18 Feb 2012, at UCL and Royal Geographical Society Subscribers to the Humanist may be interested in the London Citizen Cyberscience Summit, which will be held on 16-18 Feb 2012 at University College London and the Royal Geographical Society. Details at http://www.citizencyberscience.net/summit2/index.htm. * ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The London Citizen Cyberscience Summit in 2010 brought together for the first time volunteers and scientists from a wide range of Web-based science projects, ranging from volunteer computing (SETI@home,ClimatePrediction.net) to volunteer thinking (GalaxyZoo, Herbaria@home) to volunteer sensing (EpiCollect, NoiseTube) and much more. Historians, journalists, teachers and businessmen all brought their angle on citizen cyberscience to the event. Above all, it was a chance for the some of the millions of volunteers who make citizen cyberscience so successful to tell their story. **The Second London Citizen Cyberscience Summit, 16-18 February 2012, promises to be just as pioneering in its scope, and even more innovative in its format – ranging from classical academic seminar on the first day, through to full-fledged open hardware hackfest on the last. It will take place at the Royal Geographical Society (on the 16th) and at UCL (17th and 18th), in London. ***On Day 1,* we set the scene. (Thursday 16th February 2012, Royal Geographical Institute). Meet some of the leading figures in citizen scienceand explore the process of public engagement and participation, outreach of citizen science to the developing world, and the undertaking of "extreme" citizen science projects, in rain forests, arctic tundra, or urban jungles. *On Day 2, *we look beneath the surface. (Friday 17th February 2012, UCL). Experts will discuss the hardware and software that powers citizen cyberscience. There will be a panel discussion with citizen scientists on why participation and engagement, and a showcase of new and future citizen science projects. In the evening, we'll start planning the next day's hands-on sessions. *On Day 3,* we get down to business…together! (Saturday 18th February 2012) This will include further unconference sessions, and a hackfest for development of hardware and software prototypes, demos and mock-ups, with awards for the most innovative creations! *• Register and buy your ticket http://lccs2.eventbrite.com/ • Propose talks and demo http://bit.ly/loncitscisumform ** * --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2012 22:49:29 +0100 From: Joris van Zundert Subject: Interedition: Symposium 'Scholarly Digital Editions, Tools andInfrastructure', Deadline extension: 29 January 2012 === Deadline Extension: deadline Sun 29 January 2012 (23.59 GMT+1) === We are extending the deadline of the call below to a final definite date and time of Sunday 29 January 2012, 23.59 GMT+1. Apologies for confusing the community with being 'a year off' in the initial call, we hope this wasn't reason for anyone not to submit: we do stress the symposium is indeed taking place from 19-20 March 2012. === Call for Papers: Scholarly Digital Editions, Tools and Infrastructure=== == Interedition - An Interoperable Supranational Infrastructure for Digital Editions == == 19-20 March 2012, Huygens ING, The Hague, The Netherlands == Huygens ING is pleased to host a symposium to mark the achievements of Interedition, COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) Action IS0704. This event will also serve as a springboard for further work based on the principles of interoperability promoted by Interedition within the domain of digital scholarly editing and research. One of the key objectives of Interedition has been to produce a ‘roadmap’ conceptualizing the development of a technical infrastructure for collaborative digital preparation, editing, publication, analysis and visualization of literary research materials. Interedition has approached the problem of interoperable infrastructure from the perspectives of methodology, technology, and community. At present Interedition is realizing the ‘nuts and bolts’ of a bottom-up generalizable architecture, focusing on the development community and the prototyping of distributed lightweight services. This grassroots approach is emerging from the ‘engine rooms’ where Web 2.0 digital editions are being built and promises a generalizable and viable approach to collaborative digital humanities tool building. Creators and/or users of tools for textual scholarship are invited to submit paper proposals dealing with tools and methodologies that promote, exemplify, and otherwise address the issues of interoperability and sustainability in the field of digital scholarly editing and research. In particular, we encourage papers which address, but are not limited to the following areas: * Development and application of tools to achieve interoperability and sustainability in the arena of digital textual scholarship * Development methodology and the problem of bottom-up versus top-down approaches * Development and application of tools for digital scholarly editions * Theoretical and practical problems of digital editing and scholarly information exchange * Community and user aspects of interoperability in textual scholarship * Crowd sourcing solutions * Architectural approaches towards interoperability for tools in digital scholarship * Digital techniques and methodologies from scholars working on textual data in the humanities Speakers are asked to submit abstracts of 750 words. This should also include the names, titles, institutional affiliations, addresses, phone numbers and email addresses of all authors. Abstracts must be submitted via email to joris.van.zundert@huygens.knaw.nl by 15 January 2012. Please note that we will be publishing the proceedings and that contributions will be peer reviewed. A bursary scheme will be in place to facilitate travel and accommodation for selected papers. Details will be forthcoming *** Keeping true to Interedition’s principles a bootcamp oriented towards collaborative coding opportunities for researchers/developers will be attached to this symposium. More details about this will be forthcoming. *** Further details will be available at: http://www.interedition.eu/ == Symposium organizing committee == Peter Boot (Huygens Institute for the History of The Netherlands) Karina van Dalen-Oskam (Huygens Institute for the History of The Netherlands) Fotis Jannidis (Universität Würzburg) Kathryn E. Piquette (University College London) Susan Schreibman (Trinity College Dublin) Joris van Zundert (Huygens Institute for the History of The Netherlands) == Links of Interest == About Interedition: http://www.interedition.eu About the Huygens ING: http://www.huygens.knaw.nl/en/over-ons/ About COST and Interedition: http://www.cost.esf.org/domains_actions/isch/Actions/IS0704 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Jan 16 06:31:38 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64D8A23875C; Mon, 16 Jan 2012 06:31:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C9483238745; Mon, 16 Jan 2012 06:31:34 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120116063134.C9483238745@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 06:31:34 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.635 cfp: Radical History Review on digital culture X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 635. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2012 15:20:38 -0500 From: Elena Razlogova Subject: CFP: Radical Histories in Digital Culture (deadline extended toJanuary 31, 2012) In-Reply-To: <043E68C1-8612-49C3-8A39-248E587D5BE5@infowarrior.org> Call for Proposals Issue 117: Radical Histories in Digital Culture Deadline extended to January 31, 2012 The Radical History Review seeks submissions for an issue that will explore the political and historical implications of the accelerated proliferation of digital culture in the first decade of the 21st century. We are now in the midst of a dramatic cultural and political change as digital culture in the form of personal communication devices, online social networking sites, instant mass messaging, multiuser video games, and numerous other digital media forms, reshape the way we communicate and interact with each other. Just as the modern industrial era reshaped the nature of human and political subjectivity, the digital information era is reshaping social movements, how we view ourselves in relation to the social and political, and rewiring where, how, and with whom we engage in political action. This issue of RHR will examine the impact of digital culture on political life at the local, national, and transnational level, such as the “Twitter Revolution” in Iran, social networking and the Arab Spring, and the popular use of digital communication tools in “Occupy Wall Street”. It will explore the strengths and weaknesses, and popular perceptions, of digital media in struggles for justice through a series of interlocking themes including but not limited to: 1. The mobilization of local, national, and transnational social movements through the use of social network sites, tweets, texting, and other forms of networked and instantaneous communication forms. 2. The rhetoric of digital “equality” and unequal access to digital culture: class, race, region, and gender, and access to social media and digital communication technologies. 3. The impact of digital culture on collective memory, conceptions of the historical, historical research methods, and the writing of history. 4. The role of history in digital humanities: archival practices, collecting history online, historical text mining, and digital storytelling. 5. New and emerging communication gatekeepers, stealth campaigning, corporate/state deception or propaganda, online surveillance or information mining, and the state’s manipulation of networked information in war/conflict situations. 6. Oppositional consciousness and a reshaping of civic involvement and political participation in a digital world. 7. Individualism, social networking, and the emergence of a neoliberal subjectivity in cyberspace. 8. “Serious” video games and social change; multiuser online games and the countering of complex social/political challenges. 9. Art, culture jamming, and a contestation of visual culture by artists or artist groups working in the digital arena. 10. Digital technology and journalism/photojournalism: from the proliferation of alternative news sources to the impact of cell phone photos and video as documentation. 11. Digital culture and the law: the policing of cyberspace; digital media as legal evidence. 12. Radical software, open-source initiatives, and efforts to liberate software, hardware, or digital media infrastructure from corporate/state governance. 13. Radical pedagogies for the digital age. At this time we are requesting abstracts that are no longer than 400 words; these are due by January 31, 2012 and should be submitted electronically as an attachment, to contactrhr@gmail.com with “Issue 117 submission” in the subject line. By February 29, 2012, authors of approved abstracts will be asked to submit their full articles for peer review. The due date for completed drafts of articles is July 1, 2012. An invitation to submit a full article does not guarantee publication. Please send any images as low-resolution digital files embedded in a Word document along with the text. If chosen for publication, you will need to send high-resolution image files (jpg or tif files at a minimum of 300 dpi), and secure written permission to reprint all images. For preliminary e-mail inquiries, please include “Issue 117” in the subject line. Those articles or other materials selected for publication after the peer review process will be included in issue 117 of the Radical History Review, scheduled to appear in Fall 2013. Abstract Deadline: due January 31, 2012 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Jan 17 06:34:01 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05D8123E66B; Tue, 17 Jan 2012 06:34:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A6A5923E658; Tue, 17 Jan 2012 06:33:35 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120117063335.A6A5923E658@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 06:33:35 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.636 citation practice; noise X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 636. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Adam Crymble (24) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.627 citation practice for large-scale projects [2] From: robert delius royar (23) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.632 Cthulhu emergent --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 07:25:17 +0000 From: Adam Crymble Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.627 citation practice for large-scale projects In-Reply-To: <20120115071816.2DCF6235F27@woodward.joyent.us> As this discussion has continued in several places, I've decided to post my own thoughts on my blog. http://adamcrymble.blogspot.com/2012/01/is-old-bailey-online-film-or-science.html In that post I responded directly to one of Tim's questions that developed from the ongoing discussion on H-Albion, "So the question becomes - are we film or science?". This refers to the style of credit most appropriate for web-based DH projects, either a page of credits on the website (film-style), or a listing of "authors" who made considerable contributions (science-style) As someone who is involved with building the digital side of these resources, I argue that the best system of credit is the one that helps team members keep their options open. Both a film-style system of credits embedded in the website, and a science-style system of authorship leaves people in my position with the most flexibility in terms of career progression without obscuring the purposes of either system of credit. That way, people who want to pursue a creative career have film-style credits at which to point future employers, and those who seek an academic career can more easily explain their academic contributions with credible citations as evidence for work. Adam Crymble adam.crymble@gmail.com King's College London, PhD Student, History & Digital Humanities Network in Canadian History & Environment, Webmaster and Project Manager --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 10:05:07 -0500 From: robert delius royar Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.632 Cthulhu emergent In-Reply-To: <20120116062340.8607A23851E@woodward.joyent.us> On Mon, 16 Jan 2012 (06:23 -0000 UTC) James Rovira via Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > > I enjoyed reading the article below -- what's the difference between data > so voluminous and intricate that it cannot be read and noise? Noise is data for which we have yet to develop the filters needed to convert it into information. > > Jim R > > Willard, >> >> It's funny you should mention Lovecraft, I just finished a small >> exploration of the Internet phenomenon TV Tropes and I introduced it by >> comparing our representations of complex data to Lovecraft's description of >> these terrible entities "extruding" only a small and confusing portion of >> their incomprehensible bulk into our reality: >> >> >> https://dhs.stanford.edu/social-media-literacy/tvtropes-pt-1-the-weird-geometry-of-the-internet/ -- 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 Tue Jan 17 06:37:18 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75F5D23E715; Tue, 17 Jan 2012 06:37:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id EC60823E703; Tue, 17 Jan 2012 06:37:13 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120117063713.EC60823E703@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 06:37:13 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.637 jobs: developer; curator & asst curator; PhD studentship X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 637. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Melissa Terras (16) Subject: Doctoral funding opportunity in ancient portraiture [2] From: Julia Flanders (16) Subject: job opening: web applications developer for TEI publishing project [3] From: Klaus Staubermann (21) Subject: Assistant Curator and Curator/Senior Curator of Technology --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 09:14:30 +0000 From: Melissa Terras Subject: Doctoral funding opportunity in ancient portraiture In-Reply-To: <2C68F677-3ABE-4068-9397-F957B6FBCD26@cornell.edu> Hi Folks, Please do pass on to any interested parties, Melissa -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Doctoral funding opportunity in ancient portraiture > Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2012 16:47:32 +0000 > From: Verity Platt Dear Colleagues, I am writing to let you know about a fully funded PhD opportunity, in case you have any MA students or seniors interested in pursuing a project on Classical portraiture. I am currently working with Prof. Barbara Graziosi at Durham University in the UK, who has been awarded a large grant from the European Research Council for a project on the lives of ancient poets, in antiquity and beyond: http://www.dur.ac.uk/classics/livingpoetsproject/ This grant will provide funding for several postdocs and doctoral students, including a position for a student to work on portraits of ancient poets. S/he will be funded for three years (including fees, maintenance and travel), based in Durham, with the second year spent at Cornell University working with me under the aegis of the Cornell Classics department, with additional supervision from Prof. Annetta Alexandridis. At a time when funding is so hard to come by and graduate admissions are so competitive, I'm sure you will agree that this is a great opportunity. The project will bring together specialists in ancient biography and portraiture through several conferences, publications and an extensive website, and will give the student in question the chance to study in both the UK and the USA. It would be an ideal position for a student interested in ancient portraiture, the relationship between image and text, reception studies, and/or digital humanities. If you know of any potential applicants, I would be very grateful if you could direct them to the Durham website. The deadline for applications is April 2012. http://www.dur.ac.uk/classics/livingpoetsproject/researchposts/ Please feel free to contact me if you have any further questions. With best wishes, Verity Platt --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 11:55:48 -0500 From: Julia Flanders Subject: job opening: web applications developer for TEI publishing project In-Reply-To: <2C68F677-3ABE-4068-9397-F957B6FBCD26@cornell.edu> Please share with interested colleagues: Brown University Web Applications Developer, TAPAS Project The Brown University Library and the TAPAS Project are seeking a developer to lead the technical implementation of the TAPAS service. Working with other members of the Brown Digital Repository development team, the developer will install and customize an instance of Islandora (Drupal and Fedora), and will develop functionality for publishing, describing, analyzing, visualizing, and sharing scholarly texts. The developer will collaborate with Brown systems and development staff, staff at Wheaton College, and other TAPAS participants, to create, refine, and implement ideas for building the service, and will work with those groups to test and roll out new web applications. Additionally, the developer will customize Drupal and the underlying Fedora repository to enable a broad set of interactions to support the publication of encoded texts, and will develop an API to provide programmatic access to TAPAS data. The TEI Archiving, Publishing and Access Service, or TAPAS (http://www.tapasproject.org), is a new community service for scholars and other creators of TEI materials who need a place to publish and archive their data and ensure it remains accessible over time. TAPAS will provide repository services with a user-friendly interface for contributing, managing, and publishing TEI data, and will also offer training and supporting services for those who need help developing and publishing their projects. Qualifications: • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent education and experience • 2-5 years of demonstrated experience and proficiency planning, developing, and maintaining web sites and back-end systems. • Substantial experience with PHP; Drupal experience strongly preferred. • Familiarity with XML, XSLT, Solr, and Fedora Commons desirable. • Experience developing web applications using APIs and web services. • Familiarity with TEI & common metadata standards (e.g., MODS, Dublin Core) desirable • Strong interpersonal skills; ability to work successfully as part of a distributed team. This is a 2-year full time position with the possibility of renewal, contingent on funding. We are also willing to consider part time work arrangements. To apply for this position (JOB# B01380), please visit Brown’s Online Employment website (https://careers.brown.edu), complete an application online, attach documents, and submit for immediate consideration. Documents should include cover letter, resume, and the names and e-mail addresses of three references. Review of applications will continue until the position is filled. Brown University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 17:32:12 -0000 From: Klaus Staubermann Subject: Assistant Curator and Curator/Senior Curator of Technology In-Reply-To: <2C68F677-3ABE-4068-9397-F957B6FBCD26@cornell.edu> Dear all, We are currently advertising for an assistant curator of technology (maternity cover) and a curator/senior curator of technology: http://vacancies.nms.ac.uk/nms/vacancies/microsite.asp Although a key role of these posts will be to help deliver the next phase of our gallery master plan we are keen to see applications from candidates with a research interest in the history of technology. Best wishes, Klaus Dr Klaus Staubermann Principal Curator of Technology National Museums Scotland Chambers Street Edinburgh EH1 1JF Tel (0)131-247-4357 Fax (0)131-247-4312 e-mail k.staubermann@nms.ac.uk http://www.nms.ac.uk http://www.nms.ac.uk/ Fascinating Mummies - mummies as you've never seen them before. National Museum of Scotland, 11 Feb-27 May. www.nms.ac.uk/mummies _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Jan 17 06:38:16 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D12423E750; Tue, 17 Jan 2012 06:38:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0814023E740; Tue, 17 Jan 2012 06:38:10 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120117063811.0814023E740@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 06:38:10 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.638 call for reviewers & projects X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 638. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 18:05:46 +0000 From: "Dr. Katherine D. Harris" Subject: Reviewers Needed Dear Colleagues, The SHARP (Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing) newsletter has been running a regular feature review of digital projects (subscription & open access). At this point, we're looking for reviewers and projects to be reviewed. We've amassed a queue of projects below. Also below are the deadlines. Potential Projects to be Reviewed: The Vault at Pfaff's Salani Project 19th Century American Children's Book Trade Directory America's Historical Imprints America's Historical NewsPapers ARTFl London Lives: 1690-1800 Uncle Tom's Cabin & American Culture Waterloo Directory of Periodicals Deadlines: Winter (Nov 1 deadline) Spring (Feb 1 deadline) Summer (May 1 deadline) If interested, please choose a project from above or suggest one outside the list. The only caveat is that it can't be a project that you've worked on yourself. Please also choose a deadline. At that point, I'll send further information (style sheets, etc). I look forward to hearing from you. All best, Kathy Harris ************************** Dr. Katherine D. Harris Tenured Assistant Professor Department of English & Comparative Literature San Jose State University Research Blog: http://triproftri.wordpress.com/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Jan 17 06:39:39 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA05423E7B6; Tue, 17 Jan 2012 06:39:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 5135323E7A2; Tue, 17 Jan 2012 06:39:33 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120117063933.5135323E7A2@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 06:39:33 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.639 text collection from business conversations? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 639. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 11:09:33 +0100 From: Frederik Vaassen Subject: Natural language processing and interpersonal communication Hi all, I'm currently researching how natural language processing techniques can be applied to interpersonal communication in a business setting. Specifically, my research has involved trying to automatically place sentences from business conversations on the Interpersonal Circumplex (also known as Leary's Rose, a two-dimensional framework defined by dominance and affinity dimensions). The classifier I'm building will be integrated in a serious game that will help people get to grips with this Interpersonal Circumplex by conversing (via text) with a virtual character. I'm looking to expand on this research both in terms of communication frameworks and in terms of the data I apply these frameworks to. And there's the rub: finding appropriate data isn't easy at all. The data I've used to experiment on so far was gathered manually, and it's been sufficient for a good few experiments, but I'm looking for larger and more diverse corpora. Does anyone know of any text collections that contain conversations between two parties, captured in a business setting? Some examples: e-mail conversations; transcripts of face-to-face conversations, phone conversations and meetings; scripts for professional role play sessions... Ideally, I'd like the documents to be in English or in Dutch. Any input is greatly appreciated! Regards, Frederik Vaassen CLiPS Research Center University of Antwerp, Belgium http://www.clips.ua.ac.be/~frederik _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Jan 17 06:42:05 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id D454A23E829; Tue, 17 Jan 2012 06:42:04 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A3CF923E817; Tue, 17 Jan 2012 06:41:58 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120117064158.A3CF923E817@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 06:41:58 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.640 publications: Paper Machines; Dlib; astrological casebooks; evaluating digital scholarship X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 640. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Lauren Kassell (14) Subject: Casebooks Project Release: 10,000 records online [2] From: Susan Schreibman (21) Subject: Evaluating Digital Scholarship [3] From: Willard McCarty (14) Subject: Paper Machines [4] From: Bonnie Wilson (49) Subject: The January/February 2012 issue of D-LibMagazine is now available --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 08:35:05 +0000 From: Lauren Kassell Subject: Casebooks Project Release: 10,000 records online Simon Forman’s casebooks, recording 10,073 consultations between 16 March 1596 and 5 September 1603, can now be browsed: http://www.magicandmedicine.hps.cam.ac.uk/ A search facility will follow soon. We welcome feedback: hps-casebooks@lists.cam.ac.uk Dr Lauren Kassell Department of History & Philosophy of Science University of Cambridge Free School Lane Cambridge CB2 3RH www.hps.cam.ac.uk +44 1223 767173 --- Pembroke College Cambridge CB2 1RF www.pem.cam.ac.uk +44 1223 330897 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 10:08:35 +0000 From: Susan Schreibman Subject: Evaluating Digital Scholarship Readers of this list might be interested in a pre-conference workshop held at the 2012 Modern Language Association in Seattle sponsored by the Committee on Information Technology on evaluating digital scholarship. We are delighted to be able to make available the materials we used for this workshop. http://wiki.mla.org/index.php/WORKSHOP_2012 It includes, in addition to workshop material, a long list of further resources for evaluating digital scholarship. with all best wishes susan -- Susan Schreibman, PhD Long Room Hub Senior Lecturer in Digital Humanities School of English Trinity College Dublin Dublin 2, Ireland email: susan.schreibman@tcd.ie phone: +353 1 896 3694 fax: +353 1 671 7114 check out the new MPhil in Digital Humanities at TCD http://www.tcd.ie/English/postgraduate/digital-humanities/ --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 17:09:28 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Paper Machines This is to alert all those with an historical interest in Markus Krajewski's Paper Machines: About Cards & Catalogues, 1548-1929 (MIT 2011). Krajewski, you may know, is an historian of media at Weimar; his major work so far, Der Diener: Mediengeschichte einer Figur zwischen König und Klient (Fischer 2010), is I am told being translated, but slowly, into English. Read it, or both, tonight. Yours, WM -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor (fractional), University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 22:28:12 +0000 From: Bonnie Wilson Subject: The January/February 2012 issue of D-LibMagazine is now available Greetings: The January/February 2012 issue of D-Lib Magazine (http://www.dlib.org/) is now available. This issue contains four articles, one conference report, three short pieces in the 'In Brief' column, excerpts from recent press releases, and news of upcoming conferences and other items of interest in 'Clips and Pointers'. This month, D-Lib features the The First World War Poetry Digital Archive. The articles include: The Five Stars of Online Journal Articles — a Framework for Article Evaluation Article by David Shotton, University of Oxford Developing Mobile Access to Digital Collections Article by Carmen Mitchell, California State University San Marcos and Daniel Suchy, University of California, San Diego ARROW: Accessible Registries of Rights Information and Orphan Works Towards Europeana Article by Cinzia Caroli and Gabriella Scipione, CINECA, InterUniversity Computing Centre Information and Knowledge Management Services and Elda Rrapi and Giuseppe Trotta, mEDRA, multilingual European DOI Registration Agency SWORD: Facilitating Deposit Scenarios Article by Stuart Lewis, The University of Auckland Library, Pablo de Castro, GrandIR, and Richard Jones, Cottage Labs The conference report is: A Report from the 2011 ICSTI Workshop on Multimedia and Visualization Innovations for Science Conference Report by Tomasz Neugebauer, Concordia University Libraries D-Lib Magazine has mirror sites at the following locations: UKOLN, University of Bath, Bath, England http://mirrored.ukoln.ac.uk/lis-journals/dlib/ The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia http://dlib.anu.edu.au/ State Library of Lower Saxony and the University Library of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany http://webdoc.sub.gwdg.de/edoc/aw/d-lib/ Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan http://dlib.ejournal.ascc.net/ BN - National Library of Portugal, Portugal http://purl.pt/302/1 (If the mirror site closest to you is not displaying the January/February 2012 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 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 Tue Jan 17 06:44:19 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5ECE23E8A7; Tue, 17 Jan 2012 06:44:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id EF5C423E89C; Tue, 17 Jan 2012 06:44:14 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120117064414.EF5C423E89C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 06:44:14 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.641 events: programming; text editing; AI X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 641. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Liesbeth De Mol (182) Subject: 2nd cfp: Symposium on the History and Philosophy of Programming [2] From: Daniel Sonntag (92) Subject: KI 2012: Call for papers [3] From: Caroline_Macé (5) Subject: LECTIO: Laboratory for Critical Text Editing - Round Table 27February --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 08:47:53 +0100 From: Liesbeth De Mol Subject: 2nd cfp: Symposium on the History and Philosophy of Programming I hope that the following cfp will be of interest to some of you, very best wishes, Liesbeth. CALL FOR PAPERS Symposium on the History and Philosophy of Programming 5-6 July 2012 http://www.computing-conference.ugent.be/hapop12 as part of AISB/IACAP World Congress 2012 - Alan Turing 2012 2-6 July 2012 http://events.cs.bham.ac.uk/turing12/index.php ------------------------------------------------------------------ OCCASION As part of the AISB/IACAP World Congress programme, the Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science at Ghent University organizes a one day Symposium on the History and Philosophy of Programming. On the Occasion of the Turing Centennial, from 2-6 July 2012, the AISB (The Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour) and the IACAP (The International Association for Computing and Philosophy) merge their annual symposia/conferences to the AISB/IACAP World Congress. The Congress serves both as the year's AISB Convention and the year's IACAP conference. The Congress has been inspired by a desire to honour Alan Turing, and by the broad and deep significance of Turing's work to AI, to the philosophical ramifications of computing, and to philosophy and computing more generally. The Congress is one of the events forming the Alan Turing Year http://www.mathcomp.leeds.ac.uk/turing2012/ The intent of the Congress is to stimulate a particularly rich interchange between AI and Philosophy on any areas of mutual interest, whether directly addressing Turing's own research output or not. ------------------------------------------------------------------- SCOPE This Symposium follows the organization of the International Conference on History and Philosophy of Computing, held at the University of Ghent from 7 to 10 November 2011 www.computing-conference.ugent.be A historical awareness of the evolution of computing not only helps to clarify the complex structure of the computing sciences, but it also provides an insight in what computing was, is and maybe could be in the future. Philosophy, on the other hand, helps to tackle some of the fundamental problems of computing. The aim of this conference is to zoom into one fundamental aspect of computing, namely the foundational and the historical problems and developments related to the science of programming. Alan Turing himself was driven by the fundamental question of “what are the possible processes which can be carried out in computing a number” [Turing, 1936]. His answer today is well-known, and today we understand a program as a rather complex instance of what became known as the Turing Machine. What is less well-known, is that Turing also wrote one of the first programming manuals ever for the Ferranti Mark I, where one feels the symbolic machine hiding on the back of the Manchester hardware. This was only the beginning of a large research area that today involves logicians, programmers and engineers in the design, understanding and realization of programming languages. That a logico-mathematical-physical object called `program' is so controversial, even though its very nature is mostly hidden away, is rooted in the range of problems, processes and objects that can be solved, simulated, approximated and generated by way of its execution. Given its widespread impact on our lives, it becomes a responsibility of the philosopher and the historian to study the science of programming. ------------------------------------------------------------------- TOPICS The historical and philosophical reflection on the science of programming is the main topic at the core of this Symposium and we expect contributions about the following topics and their intersections: 1. The history of computational systems, machines and programs 2. Foundational issues and paradigms of programming (programming logics, semantics and proof-theories for distributed, secure, cloud, functional, object-oriented, etc.) Our wish is to bring forth to the scientific community a deep understanding and critical view of the problems related to the scientific paradigm represented by the science of programming. Possible and in no way exclusive questions that might be of relevance to this Symposium are: - What was and is the significance of hardware developments for the development of software (and vice versa)? - In how far can the analogue and special-purpose machines built before the 40s programs and what does this mean for our conception of “program” today? - How important has been the hands-off vs. the hands-on approach for the development of programming? - What is the influence of models of computability like Church's lambda-calculus on the development of programming languages? - Which case studies from the history of programming can tell us today something about future directions? - Is programming a science or a technology? - In how far does it make sense to speak about programming paradigms in the sense of Kuhn? - What are the novel and most interesting approaches to the design of programs? - What are the most interesting formal properties of procedural semantics, typed systems, etc? - What is correctness for a program? Issues in Type-checking, Model-checking, etc. - What is the common structure of Proofs and Programs? Logic of Proofs and Curry-Howard Isomorphism. - What are the current logical issues in programming? - How do we understand programs as syntactical-semantical objects? - What is the nature of the relation between algorithms and programs? - What is a program? - Which problems are the most pressing ones and why are they relevant to more than just programmers? - How can epistemology profit from the understanding of programs' behavior and structure? - What legal and socio-economical issues are involved in the creation, patenting or free-distribution of programs? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SUBMISSION DETAILS: The programme will consists of 2 Invited Lectures and up to 8 Contributed Papers. It will takes place in the afternoon session of the 5th and the morning session of the 6th of July. We cordially invite researchers working in a field relevant to the main topics of the conference to submit an extended abstract of minimum 2 and maximum 5 pages to computing.conference@ugent.be Please mention "ABSTRACT HAPOP" in the subject line. Abstracts must be written in English. Please note that the format of submitted files must be .pdf or .rtf. Only unpublished material will be considered for presentation. IMPORTANT DATES: Submissions Deadline: 1 February 2012 Acceptance/rejection Decisions: 1 March 2012 Final versions of abstracts for inclusion in proceedings: 30 March 2012. Symposium: 5 July (afternoon) and 6 July (morning) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- INVITED SPEAKERS: Gerard Alberts (Universiteit van Amsterdam) Julian Rohrhuber (Robert Schumann Hochschule Duesseldorf) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- SYMPOSIUM ORGANIZERS: Liesbeth De Mol and Giuseppe Primiero
 PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:
 S. Artemov (City Univeristy of New York) M. Bullynck (Universite' de Paris 8) L. de Mol (CLPS UGent) V. de Paiva (Reardem Commerce) H. Durnova (Masarykova Univerzita Brno) R. Kahle (Universidade Nova de Lisbona) B. Loewe (Universiteit van Amsterdam) F. Kamareddine (Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh) G. Primiero (CLPS UGent) R. Turner (University of Essex) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- PROCEEDINGS There will be a separate proceedings for each symposium, produced before the Congress. Each delegate at the Congress will receive, on arrival, a memory stick containing the proceedings of all symposia. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CONTACT AND INFORMATION: For further information please contact us at:
 computing.conference@ugent.be or have a look at our website: http://www.computing-conference.ugent.be/hapop12 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- RELATED EVENTS The Symposium on History and Philosophy of Programming will be followed by a Roundtable on topics in the Philosophy of Computer Science on the day after. Confirmed participants include: Raymond Turner, University of Essex, UK (MODERATOR) Rainhard Bengez, TU München, Germany Manfred Broy, TU München, Germany, Marcelo Dascal, University of Tel Aviv, Israel Ruth Hagengruber, University of Paderborn, Germany Giovanni Sartor, EUI – European University Institute, Florence, Italy Dov M. Gabbay, King's College, London, UK Jean-Gabriele Ganascia, University Pierre and Marie Curie, Paris, France Gilles Dowek, l'Ècole polytechnique, Paris, France Jan van Leeuwen, Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands Lothar Philipps, University of Munich, Germany Giovanni Sartor, EUI – European University Institute, Florence, Italy Kevin Ashley, University of Pittsburgh, USA Hennry Prakken, Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands Erich Schweighofer, University of Vienna, Austria Yoshino Hajime, Meiji Gakuin University, Tokio, Japan Douglas Walton, University of Windsor, Canada Topics include: *Philosophical approaches to Computer Science *Just Counting Machines? From Leibniz via Lovecraft and Babbage to Turing, Zuse and von Neumann. *Which kinds of logic and mathematical concepts are suitable for machines and humans to understand machines? Everyone is cordially invited --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 12:51:26 +0000 From: Daniel Sonntag Subject: KI 2012: Call for papers CALL FOR PAPERS =========================== KI 2012, Saarbrücken, Germany, 24-27 September, http://www.dfki.de/KI2012/ KI 2012 is the 35th edition of the German Conference on Artificial Intelligence, which traditionally brings together academic and industrial researchers from all areas of AI. The technical programme of KI 2012 will comprise paper and poster presentations and a variety of workshops and tutorials. KI 2012 will take place in Saarbrücken, Germany, September 24-27, 2012, and is a premier forum for exchanging news and research results on theory and applications of all aspects on AI. The conference invites significant, original, and previously unpublished research from all areas of AI, its fundamentals, its algorithms, its history, and its applications. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to: * Knowledge Acquisition, Representation, Reasoning and Ontologies * Combinatorial Search, Configuration, Design and Deduction * Natural Language Processing, Statistical NLP, Semantics * Planning and Scheduling; Spatial and Temporal Reasoning * Reasoning under Uncertainty, Probabilistic Inferences * Non-Monotonic Reasoning and Default Logics * Constraint Satisfaction, Processing and Programming * Embodied AI: Robotics, Vision and Perception * Intelligent Information Retrieval, Semantic Search, Semantic Web * Evolutionary and Neural Computation * Machine Learning, Computational Learning Theory and Data-Mining * Distributed Problem Solving and Multi-Agent Systems * Game Playing and Interactive Entertainment, AI for Graphics * Game Theory and General Game Playing, Generalized Intelligence * AI for Human-Computer-Interaction and Adaptive Communication * Mobile Solutions with Textile, Semantic and Spatial Media * Augmented Reality, Smart Cities, Smart Traffic, Smart Hardware * Assistance Systems in Living and Working Environments * Software-Engineering, Model Checking and Security in AI * Distributed Computation and Swarm Intelligence * Cognitive Modelling, AI and Psychology * History and Philosophical Foundations of AI * Applications including Logistics, Production and Health Care We especially welcome application papers and posters providing novel insights on the interplay of AI and the real world, as well as papers that bring useful computational technologies from other areas of computer science into AI. Submission Guidelines --------------------------- Submitted papers, which have to be in English, must not exceed 12 pages in Springer LNCS style for full technical contributions and 4 pages for short contributions. Full technical papers are expected to report on new research that makes a substantial technical contribution to the field. Short papers can report on new research or other issues of interest to the AI community. Examples of work suitable for short papers include: novel ideas that are not yet fully developed or whose scope is not large enough for a full paper; important implementation techniques; novel interesting benchmark problems; short experimental studies; interesting applications that are not yet completely solved or analyzed; position or challenge papers; etc. Papers will be subject to blind peer review. All papers will be reviewed based on the standard criteria of relevance, significance of results, originality of ideas, soundness, and quality of the presentation. All accepted papers will be published in the main conference proceedings, and will be presented at the conference. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference and present the contribution. Important Dates --------------------------- Workshop and tutorial proposals deadline: April 1, 2012 Workshop and tutorial proposals notification: April 15, 2012 Full paper submission deadline: May 1, 2012 Notification (full paper): July 1, 2012 Submission deadline for poster, doctoral consortium and workshop papers: July 9, 2012 Deadline for camera ready copy (full paper): July 13, 2012 Notification (poster, doctoral consortium and workshop papers): August 31, 2012 Conference: September 24-27, 2012 Organizers --------------------------- General Chair: Antonio Krüger (Saarland University and DFKI) Program Chair: Birte Glimm (University of Ulm) Local Chairs: Boris Brandherm (Saarland University) and Ralf Jung (Saarland University) Workshop Chair: Gabriele Kern-Isberner (TU Dortmund) Tutorial Chair: Wolfgang Maaß (Saarland University) Poster Chair: Stefan Wölfl (University of Freiburg) Doctorial Consortium Chair: Carsten Lutz (University of Bremen) Publicity Chair: Daniel Sonntag (DFKI) Contact --------------------------- Details and updates will be available on the conference web site: http://dfki.de/KI2012 For questions about the CfP or program, please contact: birte.glimm@uni-ulm.de --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 17:49:07 +0000 From: Caroline_Macé Subject: LECTIO: Laboratory for Critical Text Editing - Round Table 27February In-Reply-To: <271A7616FA3F40418C36BD4396D6AB67B34B614D28@ICTS-S-EXC2-CA.luna.kuleuven.be> Dear Colleagues, LECTIO, the Leuven Centre for the study of the transmission of texts and ideas in Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (http://ghum.kuleuven.be/lectio/laboratory-for-critical-text-editing), is organizing a series of round tables in the framework of a "Laboratory for critical text editing". This second round table is entitled ‘Collection’ at the crossroads of book history and textual criticism. Speakers are Tania Van Hemelryck (Université catholique de Louvain), Bart Besamusca (Universiteit Utrecht) and Gert Partoens (K.U.Leuven). The meeting will take place on Monday February 27, 2-5 pm, in Leuven, Faculty of Arts (http://www2.arts.kuleuven.be/situering), Room: MSI 02.08. You are most welcome to attend, but, please register by sending an email to An Faems: an.faems@arts.kuleuven.be. Best wishes, Caroline Macé _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Jan 18 07:47:53 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E0D623D65C; Wed, 18 Jan 2012 07:47:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 8EBC923D64F; Wed, 18 Jan 2012 07:47:48 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120118074748.8EBC923D64F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 07:47:48 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.642 crowd-sourced editing; citation practice; business text X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 642. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Peter Stadler (20) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.620 citation practice for large-scale projects [2] From: Cornelius Puschmann Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.639 text collection from business conversations? [3] From: Peter Organisciak (45) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.628 crowd-sourced editing? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:09:48 +0100 From: Peter Stadler Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.620 citation practice for large-scale projects In-Reply-To: <20120113061434.D9FEB22E833@woodward.joyent.us> Am 13.01.2012 um 07:14 schrieb Humanist Discussion Group: > At HyperCities, we try to credit everybody, including the programmers and > designers, on a project's "About" page: > http://inscriptions.etc.ucla.edu/index.php/statues-and-memory/about/. Just randomly picked this phrase since I think it's a good and common practice. But I wonder how do you credit those programmers and designers that contributed to your site by providing software libraries such as prototype and jquery (just to mention those two)? Are those to mention on the "about this project" page or somehow hidden in the technical documentation? All the best Peter PS: Don't have a look at our site since we are really bad at crediting our contributers. So thanks for this thread for bringing it to my attention! -- Peter Stadler Carl-Maria-von-Weber-Gesamtausgabe Arbeitsstelle Detmold Gartenstr. 20 D-32756 Detmold Tel. +49 5231 975-665 Fax: +49 5231 975-668 stadler at weber-gesamtausgabe.de www.weber-gesamtausgabe.de --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:07:51 +0100 From: Cornelius Puschmann Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.639 text collection from business conversations? In-Reply-To: <20120117063933.5135323E7A2@woodward.joyent.us> Hi Frederik, perhaps this is helpful to you: http://users.utu.fi/micnel/business_english_lexis_site.htm Best wishes, Cornelius On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 7:39 AM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 639. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 11:09:33 +0100 > From: Frederik Vaassen > Subject: Natural language processing and interpersonal communication > > > Hi all, > > I'm currently researching how natural language processing techniques can > be applied to interpersonal communication in a business setting. > > Specifically, my research has involved trying to automatically place > sentences from business conversations on the Interpersonal Circumplex > (also known as Leary's Rose, a two-dimensional framework defined by > dominance and affinity dimensions). > > The classifier I'm building will be integrated in a serious game that > will help people get to grips with this Interpersonal Circumplex by > conversing (via text) with a virtual character. > > I'm looking to expand on this research both in terms of communication > frameworks and in terms of the data I apply these frameworks to. And > there's the rub: finding appropriate data isn't easy at all. > > The data I've used to experiment on so far was gathered manually, and > it's been sufficient for a good few experiments, but I'm looking for > larger and more diverse corpora. > > Does anyone know of any text collections that contain conversations > between two parties, captured in a business setting? Some examples: > e-mail conversations; transcripts of face-to-face conversations, phone > conversations and meetings; scripts for professional role play sessions... > Ideally, I'd like the documents to be in English or in Dutch. > > Any input is greatly appreciated! > > Regards, > > Frederik Vaassen > CLiPS Research Center > University of Antwerp, Belgium > http://www.clips.ua.ac.be/~frederik -- Dr. Cornelius Puschmann Department for English Language and Linguistics Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf Building 23.11, Level 1, Room 21 Universitätsstrasse 1 40225 Düsseldorf Germany phone: +49 211 81-15927 (office) fax: +49 211 81-11443 Nachwuchsforschergruppe "Wissenschaft und Internet" / Junior Researchers Group "Science and the Internet" http://nfgwin.uni-duesseldorf.de --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 00:37:17 -0600 From: Peter Organisciak Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.628 crowd-sourced editing? In-Reply-To: <20120115071914.B063F235F70@woodward.joyent.us> What form did you anticipate releasing the index in? If it's online, there's really no reason why you can't choose both options: to release it with minor inaccuracies and to crowdsource corrections. The Internet affords us the ability to easily solicit feedback – or even direct edits – from readers and to effortlessly absorb them back into the original material. It's certainly easier to convince actual readers to fix/notify when they find errors than it to convince volunteers to just comb the work. Readers-as-editors is something we see in Wikipedia and the National Library of Australia's Trove (http://trove.nla.gov.au/). Meanwhile, people can benefit from the index even before its perfect. The 14-year old Suda Online (http://www.stoa.org/sol/) serves as a good case for work-in-progress online publishing. We don't owe The Edition anything. Peter Organisciak On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 1:19 AM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 628. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2012 17:21:07 -0800 (PST) > From: Bob Blair > Subject: Crowd-sourcing editing? > > I have an index of Samuel R. Rawson's "History of England from the > Accession of James I. ...", a 10-volume set that, after 130 years, is still > the definitive text of English history 1604-1641. It's a pretty good > index; there's only about one error per 100 entries. The errors fall into > two categories: 1) incorrect page numbers in a volume; and 2) incorrect > volume identifications. > > I've spent a lot of time (hundreds of hours) trying to get the problems > corrected. I'm through about half of the entries related to "Charles I". > By my calculation, I will not live long enough to finish the work. > > My choices seem clear: either release the work and let people deal with > the inaccuracies; or get others to do what I can't make time for. > > My question is whether any members of the Humanist group have encountered > this kind of problem, and if so, how did you solve it? > > Bob Blair _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Jan 18 07:48:22 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB42223D69D; Wed, 18 Jan 2012 07:48:21 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E2C2523D683; Wed, 18 Jan 2012 07:48:17 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120118074817.E2C2523D683@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 07:48:17 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.643 text-analysis software X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 643. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 07:41:55 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: text-analysis software Many here will be interested in Diction, text-analysis software described at http://www.dictionsoftware.com/. New entries into the field are not all that frequent, or at least notices of them on Humanist aren't. Notice of others would be appreciated. Yours, WM -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor (fractional), University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Jan 18 07:50:11 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6E5C23D719; Wed, 18 Jan 2012 07:50:11 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 9910A23D6F3; Wed, 18 Jan 2012 07:50:07 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120118075007.9910A23D6F3@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 07:50:07 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.644 ACH and DH blackout in protest X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 644. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 00:51:39 +0000 From: "Nowviskie, Bethany (bpn2f)" Subject: ACH and DH Answers to protest SOPA/PIPA Dear Humanist and centerNet colleagues, (with apologies for cross-posting) The Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) has decided to join Wikipedia, Reddit, Boing Boing, MediaCommons, CUNY Academic Commons, and other online publishers, large and small, in a 24-hour website blackout, to begin late this evening and run through January 18th. ACH goes dark to protest legislation under consideration in the United States that would gravely endanger free, open, and innovative online communication, and the welfare of the digital and public humanities. The blackout of ACH.org http://ACH.org will extend to our popular Q&A board, Digital Humanities Questions and Answers, a collaboration with ProfHacker at the Chronicle of Higher Education: http://digitalhumanities.org/answers Although the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) was recently weakened in the U.S. House of Representatives under threat of a White House veto, a similar PROTECT IP Act (PIPA) is still active in the U.S. Senate. Both pieces of legislation would have global consequences, and pose threats to publishers, libraries, professional societies, and individuals working in online scholarly communication and the digital humanities. We recommend the Electronic Frontier Foundation's SOPA/PIPA resources for more information: http://www.eff.org/coica We hope that you will join the ACH in making the voices of digital humanities scholars heard: contact elected officials, join Wednesday's protests, and spread the word. Sincerely, ACH Officers and Executive Council Dr. Julia Flanders, President Dr. Bethany Nowviskie, Vice President Ms. Dot Porter, MLS, Exec. Secretary Prof. Jarom McDonald, Treasurer Dr. Paul Caton Dr. Susan Schreibman Prof. Stéfan Sinclair Dr. Matthew Jockers Prof. Matthew Kirschenbaum Prof. Katherine Walter Dr. Tanya Clement Prof. Neil Fraistat Prof. Geoffrey Rockwell Prof. Susan Brown Prof. Kathleen Fitzpatrick Dr. Lisa Spiro Bethany Nowviskie, PhD Director, Digital Research & Scholarship, UVa Library Associate Director, Scholarly Communication Institute Vice President, Association for Computers & the Humanities nowviskie.org http://nowviskie.org/ | scholarslab.org | uvasci.org http://uvasci.org | ach.org http://ach.org/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Jan 18 07:51:41 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id E118F23D7A9; Wed, 18 Jan 2012 07:51:40 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 5B0F723D78C; Wed, 18 Jan 2012 07:51:34 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120118075134.5B0F723D78C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 07:51:34 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.645 events: cultural attitudes; markup X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 645. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Tommie Usdin (36) Subject: Balisage 2012 Call for Participation [2] From: "catac@it.murdoch.edu.au" (54) Subject: CATaC12 Call for Papers --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 12:14:35 -0500 From: Tommie Usdin Subject: Balisage 2012 Call for Participation It's a new year and time to plan for Balisage 2012! Balisage is where people interested in descriptive markup meet each year in August for informed technical discussion, occasionally impassioned debate, good coffee, and the incomparable ambience of one of North America's greatest cities, Montreal. We welcome anyone interested in discussing the use of descriptive markup to build strong, lasting information systems. Practitioner or theorist, tool-builder or tool-user, student or lecturer -- you are invited to submit a paper proposal for Balisage 2012. As always, papers at Balisage can address any aspect of the use of markup and markup languages to represent information and build information systems. Possible topics include but are not limited to: * XML and related technologies * Non-XML markup languages * Implementation experience with XML parsing, XSLT processors, XQuery processors, XML databases, Topic Map engines, XProc integrations, or any markup-related technology * Semantics, overlap, and other complex fundamental issues for markup languages * Case studies of markup design and deployment * Quality of information in markup systems * JSON and XML * Efficiency of Markup Software * Markup systems in and for the mobile web * The future of XML and of descriptive markup in general * Interesting applications of markup In addition, please consider becoming a Peer Reviewer. Reviewers play a critical role towards the success of Balisage. They review blind submissions -- on topics that interest them -- for technical merit, interest, and applicability. Your comments and recommendations can assist the Conference Committee in creating the program for Balisage 2012! How: * Submit full papers in XML to * See the Instructions for Authors (http://www.balisage.net/authorinstructions.html) and Tag Set and Submission Guidelines (http://www.balisage.net/tagset.html) for details. * Apply to the Peer Review panel (http://www.balisage.net/peer/ReviewAppForm.html) Schedule: 16 March 2012 - Peer review applications due 20 April 2012 - Paper submissions due 20 April 2012 - Applications due for student support awards due 28 May 2012 - Speakers notified 13 July 2012 - Final papers due 6 August 2012 - Pre-conference Symposium 7-10 August 2012 - Balisage: The Markup Conference Help us make Balisage your favorite XML Conference. See you in Montreal! -- The Balisage 2012 Conference Committee ====================================================================== Balisage: The Markup Conference 2012 mailto:info@balisage.net August 7-10, 2012 http://www.balisage.net Preconference Symposium on August 6, 2012 ====================================================================== --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 04:23:00 +0000 From: "catac@it.murdoch.edu.au" Subject: CATaC12 Call for Papers Dear colleagues The theme for this year’s Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Communication Conference (CATaC’12) is: Beyond the digital/cultural divide: in/visibility and new media. The conference will take place 18-20 June 2012, at Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark. Please see http://www.catacconference.org for more details. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS * Dr. Rasha Abdullah (Associate Professor and Chair of the Journalism & Mass Communication Department, The American University in Cairo). Provisional title: "Lessons from Egypt: The roles and limits of social media in political activism and transformation" * Dr. Randi Markussen (Associate Professor and Head of Group, Technologies in Practice, IT University of Copenhagen). Provisional title: "E-Voting and Public Control of Elections" The biennial CATaC conference series, begun in 1998, has become a premier international forum for current research on the complex interactions between culturally-variable norms, practices, and communication preferences, and interaction with the design, implementation and use of information and communication technologies (ICTs). Our 2012 conference, as the title suggests, begins with the recognition that the ongoing issues and challenges clustering around digital divides - often involving mutually reinforcing cultural divides - extends beyond classic and stubborn problems of access to new media and communication technologies. For example, matters of representation come into play, issuing in a cluster of questions: - Whose images and words are seen/presented/promoted and whose aren't? And why? If activists are using new media to represent realities of, say, oppressed indigenous people in a given country, is this better than no visibility at all, even if the people in question do not have access or skills to present themselves as subjects? - In particular: Local and indigenous HCI/ID is about making visible the semiotic scripts and political processes of meaning construction that shape the process of technology design and knowledge representation from a sociotechnical perspective. Making visible these scripts enables the assessment of the value of these tools and frameworks from indigenous and/or local perspectives. Key concerns here are (1) to examine the meaning and validity of democratic values that drive participatory design as a discipline, and (2) to question 'exported' representations of what constitutes good usability and user experience. And: - How do new practices of cloaking messages in otherwise public or semi-public media; for example, the strategies of online steganography work to create intentional invisibility in otherwise visible spaces? Are there important culturally-variable elements in these practices that, when brought to the foreground, help illuminate and clarify them in new ways? Finally: - What are the role(s) of (culturally) diverse understandings and representations of gender in structuring the frameworks and practices of design and implementation. How do these roles foster the visibility of some vis-a-vis the invisibility of 'others' (in Levinas' sense, in particular)? Additional submissions are encouraged that address further conference points of emphasis: - Theoretical and practical approaches to analyzing 'culture' - New layers of imaging and texting interactions fostering and/or threatening cultural diversity - Impact of mobile technologies on privacy and surveillance - Gender, sexuality and identity issues in social networks - Cultural diversity in e-learning and/or m-learning - Culturally-variable approaches to online identity management/creation, privacy, trust Copyright and intellectual property rights: recent developments, culturally-variable future directions - Culturally-variable responses to commodification in online environments Both short (3-5 pages) and long (10-15 pages) original papers are sought for presentation. Panel proposals addressing a specific theme or topic are also encouraged. Our provisional schedule: Submission of papers (short or full), panel proposals: 17 February 2012 Notification of acceptance: 16 March 2012 Final formatted papers (for conference proceedings): 19 April 2012 Conference: 18-20 June 2012 Further details regarding program (including keynote speakers and pre-conference activities), registration fees, travel and accommodations will be available soon on the conference website, http://www.catacconference.org. We look forward to welcoming you to Aarhus next June! Charles Ess (IMV, Aarhus University, Denmark), Chair Fay Sudweeks (Professor Emerita, Murdoch University, Australia), Honorary Chair Herbert Hrachovec (University of Vienna, Austria) Leah Macfadyen (University of British Columbia, Canada) Jose Abdelnour Nocera (University of West London, UK) Kenneth Reeder (University of British Columbia, Canada) Ylva Hård af Segerstad (Gothenburg University, Gothenburg, Sweden)) Michele M. Strano (Bridgewater College, Virginia, USA) Andra Siibak (University of Tartu, Estonia) Maja van der Velden (University of Oslo) _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Jan 19 09:23:19 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCDE3241BBD; Thu, 19 Jan 2012 09:23:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 45465241BAD; Thu, 19 Jan 2012 09:23:05 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120119092305.45465241BAD@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 09:23:05 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.646 text-analysis software X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 646. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: maurizio lana (9) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.643 text-analysis software [2] From: "Jan Rybicki" (53) Subject: RE: [Humanist] 25.643 text-analysis software [3] From: Seth Denbo (61) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.643 text-analysis software --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 10:10:53 +0100 From: maurizio lana Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.643 text-analysis software In-Reply-To: <20120118074817.E2C2523D683@woodward.joyent.us> Il 18/01/2012 08:48, Humanist Discussion Group ha scritto: > New entries into the field are not all that frequent, or at least notices of them on Humanist > aren't. Notice of others would be appreciated. i strongly support the words of willard. maurizio ------- Maurizio Lana - ricercatore Università del Piemonte Orientale, Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici via Manzoni 8, 13100 Vercelli - tel. +39 347 7370925 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 19:21:58 +0100 From: "Jan Rybicki" Subject: RE: [Humanist] 25.643 text-analysis software In-Reply-To: <20120118074817.E2C2523D683@woodward.joyent.us> For stylometrists/authorship attributors, this site: https://sites.google.com/site/computationalstylistics/ offers an R script by Maciej Eder (and, marginally, Jan Rybicki) that does Delta (in a variety of flavours), Cluster Analysis, Principal Components Analysis, Multidimensional Scaling and Bootstrap Consensus Trees; the script contains a GUI. The script had its premiere at the poster session of DH2011; the poster, which serves in lieu of a manual, is also available at the abovementioned site. All the best, Jan Rybicki --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 18:21:29 -0500 From: Seth Denbo Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.643 text-analysis software In-Reply-To: <20120118074817.E2C2523D683@woodward.joyent.us> Willard, I know you've asked for new ones but some of the following may be of interest to Humanist readers who are unfamiliar with text-analysis software. There are a number of text-analysis tools and software packages out there that have been developed by and for scholars, and are available under open source licenses or are in the public domain. GATE and MALLET aren't new, but are the two projects that come to mind most readily. The Stanford NLP Group also has a stable of analysis tools that are publicly available. In many cases the barriers to using these are pretty substantial for humanists without a digital background, but Voyant Tools is very easy to use, doesn't require any installation, and allows scholars to use a number of basic text analysis tools on any amount of text they chose. WordSeer is another interesting project that is being developed at UC Berkeley. It is not currently available for use except by the people within the project, but its an example of where some very interesting work is being done on text analysis. I don't know if there are plans to release it to the public in the future or not. These few tools are by no means a comprehensive list, but just a few quick examples that come to mind. http://gate.ac.uk/ http://mallet.cs.umass.edu/ http://nlp.stanford.edu/software/index.shtml http://voyant-tools.org/ http://mininghumanities.com/2010/12/07/wordseer/ Yours, Seth Denbo _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Jan 19 09:23:53 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id C595B241BF6; Thu, 19 Jan 2012 09:23:52 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A767A241BE5; Thu, 19 Jan 2012 09:23:46 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120119092346.A767A241BE5@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 09:23:46 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.647 text from business conversations X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 647. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 10:35:11 +0100 From: Frederik Vaassen Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.639 text collection from business conversations? In-Reply-To: Hi Cornelius, Thanks for the tip! I was already aware of Nelson's corpus, but it's a useful source for sure. I'm always looking for more data, so if anyone has other ideas or suggestions for sources of business conversations, don't be shy. Thanks again, Cornelius, Frederik On 2012-01-17 16:07, Cornelius Puschmann wrote: > Hi Frederik, > > perhaps this is helpful to you: > http://users.utu.fi/micnel/business_english_lexis_site.htm > > Best wishes, > > Cornelius > > On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 7:39 AM, Humanist Discussion Group > > > wrote: > > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 639. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > > Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 11:09:33 +0100 > From: Frederik Vaassen > > Subject: Natural language processing and interpersonal > communication > > > Hi all, > > I'm currently researching how natural language processing techniques can > be applied to interpersonal communication in a business setting. > > Specifically, my research has involved trying to automatically place > sentences from business conversations on the Interpersonal Circumplex > (also known as Leary's Rose, a two-dimensional framework defined by > dominance and affinity dimensions). > > The classifier I'm building will be integrated in a serious game that > will help people get to grips with this Interpersonal Circumplex by > conversing (via text) with a virtual character. > > I'm looking to expand on this research both in terms of communication > frameworks and in terms of the data I apply these frameworks to. And > there's the rub: finding appropriate data isn't easy at all. > > The data I've used to experiment on so far was gathered manually, and > it's been sufficient for a good few experiments, but I'm looking for > larger and more diverse corpora. > > Does anyone know of any text collections that contain conversations > between two parties, captured in a business setting? Some examples: > e-mail conversations; transcripts of face-to-face conversations, phone > conversations and meetings; scripts for professional role play > sessions... > Ideally, I'd like the documents to be in English or in Dutch. > > Any input is greatly appreciated! > > Regards, > > Frederik Vaassen > CLiPS Research Center > University of Antwerp, Belgium > http://www.clips.ua.ac.be/~frederik > http://www.clips.ua.ac.be/%7Efrederik > -- > Dr. Cornelius Puschmann > > Department for English Language and Linguistics > Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf > Building 23.11, Level 1, Room 21 > Universitätsstrasse 1 > 40225 Düsseldorf > Germany > > phone: +49 211 81-15927 (office) > fax: +49 211 81-11443 > > Nachwuchsforschergruppe "Wissenschaft und Internet" / > Junior Researchers Group "Science and the Internet" > http://nfgwin.uni-duesseldorf.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 Jan 19 09:24:37 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E589241C39; Thu, 19 Jan 2012 09:24:37 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id F0147241C28; Thu, 19 Jan 2012 09:24:30 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120119092430.F0147241C28@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 09:24:30 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.648 job at NYU X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 648. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:04:32 -0500 From: Jennifer Vinopal Subject: NYU position opening: Librarian for English and Comparative Literature NYU Libraries is undertaking a search for a Librarian for English and Comparative Literature. Brief description: Subject specialist supporting the research, teaching, and learning programs of faculty, graduate and undergraduate students in the Department of English and in the Department of Comparative Literature, in collaboration with other area studies librarians. The position reports to the Head of the Humanities and Social Sciences Center in the Collections and Research Services Division, NYU Libraries. 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Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 11:08:01 -0800 From: Erik Fleischer Subject: Use of Data Visualization at Stanford University Thought this might be of interest: http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/event/index.cfm?event=detail&id=35838&loc=en_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 Thu Jan 19 09:26:42 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 778C4241D1E; Thu, 19 Jan 2012 09:26:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 8CEA6241D02; Thu, 19 Jan 2012 09:26:33 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120119092633.8CEA6241D02@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 09:26:33 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.650 Electronic Theses & Dissertations, ver. 6 X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 650. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:01:56 +0000 From: "Charles W. Bailey, Jr." Subject: Electronic Theses and Dissertations Bibliography, Version 6 Digital Scholarship has released the Electronic Theses and Dissertations Bibliography, Version 6. It includes selected English-language articles, books, conference papers, technical reports, unpublished e-prints, and other scholarly textual sources that are useful in understanding electronic theses and dissertations. Most sources have been published from 2000 through 2011; however, a limited number of earlier key sources are also included. The bibliography includes links to freely available versions of included works. 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Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Mark Finlayson (122) Subject: 2nd CFP: Computational Models of Narrative 2012 [2] From: Matt Erlin (87) Subject: Conference: Distant Readings/Descriptive Turns: Topologies of German Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century (Travel Grants Available) --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 12:50:33 -0500 From: Mark Finlayson Subject: 2nd CFP: Computational Models of Narrative 2012 Second Call for Papers ---------------------- 2012 Workshop on ================================= Computational Models of Narrative ================================= May 26-27, 2012 (1.5 days) Lütfi Kirdar Istanbul Exhibition and Congress Centre Istanbul, Turkey http://narrative.csail.mit.edu/ws12/ to be co-located with the 2012 Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC'2012) (note: workshop dates have changed slightly since the first call) Second CALL FOR PAPERS Paper submission deadline: **February 24, 2012** Invited Speaker: Prof. Dr. Jan Christoph Meister, Universität Hamburg **Note:** There will be a number of travel grants available to authors who have papers at the workshop, but would otherwise be unable to attend because of financial constraints. Workshop Aims ============= Narratives are ubiquitous in human experience. We use them to communicate, convince, explain, and entertain. As far as we know, every society in the world has narratives, which suggests they are rooted in our psychology and serve an important cognitive function. It is becoming increasingly clear that, to truly understand and explain human intelligence, beliefs, and behaviors, we will have to understand why narrative is universal and explain (or explain away) the function it serves. The aim of this workshop series is to address key, fundamental questions about narrative, using computational techniques, so to advance our understanding of cognition, culture, and society. Special Focus: Shared Resources =============================== In addition to fundamental questions, the field has yet to address key needs with regard to shared resources and corpora that could smooth and hasten the way forward. The vast majority of work on narrative uses fewer than four stories to perform their experiments, and rarely re-uses narratives from previous studies. Because NLP technology cannot yet take us all the way to the highly-accurate formal representations of language semantics, this implies significant amounts of repeated work in annotation. The way forward could be catalyzed by carefully constructed shared resources. This meeting will be an appropriate venue for papers addressing fundamental topics and questions regarding narrative. Moreover, the meeting will have a special focus on the identification, collection, and construction of shared resources and corpora that facilitate the computational modeling of narrative. Papers should focus on issues fundamental to computational modeling and scientific understanding, or issues related to building shared resources to advance the field. Discussing technological applications or motivations is not discouraged, but is not required. Illustrative Topics and Questions ================================= -What kinds of shared resources are required for the computational study of narrative? -What content and modalities should be put in a “Story Bank”? What formal representations should be used? -What shared resources are available, or how can already-extant resources be adapted to common needs? -What makes narrative different from a list of events or facts? What is special that makes something a narrative? -What are the details of the relationship between narrative and common sense? -How are narratives indexed and retrieved? Is there a "universal" scheme for encoding episodes? -What impact do the purpose, function, and genre of a narrative have on its form and content? -What comprises the set of possible narrative arcs? Is there such a set? How many possible story lines are there? -Are there systematic differences in the formal properties of narratives from different cultures? -What are appropriate representations for narrative? What representations underlie the extraction of narrative schemas? -How should we evaluate computational models of narrative? Important Dates =============== -February 24, 2012 - Submissions due -March 19, 2012 - Notification of acceptance -April 4, 2012 - Camera-ready versions due -May 26-27, 2012 - Workshop (1.5 days) Submission Details ================== Submissions should be made through the workshop's START paper submission website at https://www.softconf.com/lrec2012/Narrative2012/. Papers may fall into one of three categories: long papers (8 page limit), short papers (4 page limit), or position papers (2 page limit). Papers should follow the LREC style as specified on the main LREC site. Organizing Committee ==================== -Mark A. Finlayson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA -Pablo Gervás, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain -Deniz Yuret, Koc University, Turkey -Floris Bex, University of Dundee, UK Program Committee ================= -Barbara Dancygier, University of British Columbia, Canada -Andrew Gordon, Intitute for Creative Technologies, USA -Benedikt Löwe, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands -Whitman Richards, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA -Bart Verheij, University of Groningen, the Netherlands -Patrick Winston, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA -R. Michael Young, North Carolina State University, USA Additional Information ====================== In preparation is an arrangement with a noted international journal for a special issue featuring expanded versions of the best papers from the workshop. Sponsors ======== -ONR Global -Office of Naval Research -Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Previous Meetings ================= -2010 AAAI Fall Symposium on Computational Models of Narrative -2009 MIT Workshop on Computational Models of Narrative ================= Mark A. Finlayson Research Scientist, MIT CSAIL 32 Vassar St. Room 32-258, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA +1.617.253.0287 (office); +1.617.515.0708 (mobile); markaf@mit.edu ================================================================== --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 13:21:00 -0600 From: Matt Erlin Subject: Conference: Distant Readings/Descriptive Turns: Topologies of German Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century (Travel Grants Available) Continuing a 42-year tradition of hosting symposia devoted to new topics in German literature and culture, the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at Washington University announces the 21st St. Louis Symposium: "Distant Readings / Descriptive Turns: Topologies of German Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century." The symposium will take place Friday, March 30 -- Saturday, March 31, 2012, on the Danforth Campus of Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. Building on recent approaches to literary and cultural criticism developed by Franco Moretti,Bruno Latour, and others working under the rubric "new sociologies of culture," fifteen German and North American scholars will give presentations that seek to generate fresh insights into cultural history by adopting and adaptingthe empirical methods of the natural and social sciences. Participants will address the question of what can be gained (and what is lost) when we move away from an exhaustive rhetorical analysis of individual texts and turn our attention instead toward large bodies of data, making use of analytical techniques borrowed from such disciplines as statistics, computational science, quantitative history, and the emerging field of digital humanities. Additional information can be found on the symposium website: http://distantreadings.wustl.edu/ *Travel Grants* Thanks to the generosity of the Max Kade Foundation, we are able to offer a limited number of travel reimbursements for advanced graduate students and assistant professors who would like to attend the symposium. To apply for a travel grant, please send the organizers a short CV and brief explanation of your reasons for wishing to attend together with an estimate of your travel costs (airfare or mileage reimbursement). We will accept applications up to and including February 15, 2012. ** *Speakers and Topics * ** Lutz Koepnick (Washington University) *Can Computers Read? * Andrew Piper (McGill University) *The Werther Effect: Topologies of German Literature, 1774-1832 * Matt Erlin (Washington University) *The Location of Literary History: Topic Modeling and the German Novel, 1731-1864 * Fotis Jannidis (Universität Würzburg) *Mapping the Narrative? A Corpus-Based Study of the German Novel from 1700 to 1900* ** Gerhard Lauer (Universität Göttingen) *Calculating Literature: First Steps Toward a Computer-Based Analysis of Nineteenth-Century Novels* Tobias Boes (University of Notre Dame) *The Vocations of the Novel: Distant Reading Occupational Change in Nineteenth-Century German Literature* Paul Youngman (UNC Charlotte) *Black Devil and Iron Angel Revisited: N-Gramming the Railway in Nineteenth-Century German Fiction* ** Todd Kontje (UC San Diego) *The Case for Close Reading after the Descriptive Turn* Katja Mellmann (Universität Göttingen) *"Detoured Reading": Understanding Literature through its Contemporary Reception. Case Studies in Nineteenth-Century German Novels* Jonathan Hess (UNC Chapel Hill) *Distant Reading and the Study of Nineteenth-Century German-Jewish Culture* Kirsten Belgum (University of Texas at Austin) *Distant Reception: Bringing German Books to America* Lynne Tatlock (Washington University) *The One and the Many: The Old Mam'selle's Secret and the American Traffic in German Fiction (1868-1917)* Nicolas Pethes (Ruhr-Universität Bochum) *Serial Individuality: Case Study Collections around 1800* Peter McIsaac (University of Michigan) *Rethinking Non-Fiction: A Digital Humanities Approach to the Nineteenth-Century Science-Literature Divide* Allen Beye Riddell (Duke University) *How to Read 16,700 Journal Articles: Studying Nineteenth-Century German Studies Using Topic Models* Topologies of German Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century *St. Louis Symposium on* ** -- Matt Erlin Associate Professor Department of Germanic Lang.& Lit. Washington University One Brookings Drive St. Louis, MO 63130 (314) 935-4005 merlin@wustl.edu _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Jan 19 09:46:08 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id F413C244135; Thu, 19 Jan 2012 09:46:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 4A8F2244123; Thu, 19 Jan 2012 09:45:52 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120119094552.4A8F2244123@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 09:45:52 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.652 events: London Seminar for 19/1 cancelled! X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 652. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 09:44:17 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: London Seminar cancelled The scheduled London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship for this evening, " ' ...of things which they were not in quest of': digital design and serendipity", to be given by Robert McNamee and Mark Rogerson, has been cancelled due to the simultaneous felling of both speakers by a bad flu. Apologies to all who were planning to attend. This seminar will be rescheduled for the 2012-13 cycle. Yours, WM -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor (fractional), University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Jan 20 07:32:53 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D0CD2495AA; Fri, 20 Jan 2012 07:32:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 15DD02495A0; Fri, 20 Jan 2012 07:32:46 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120120073247.15DD02495A0@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 07:32:46 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.653 data-visualisation at Stanford: the URL X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 653. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 13:43:52 +0100 From: simon@familie-gruening.de Subject: RE: [Humanist] 25.649 data-visualisation at Stanford Sorry, but the link won't work. :( Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 649. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 11:08:01 -0800 From: Erik Fleischer Subject: Use of Data Visualization at Stanford University Thought this might be of interest: http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/event/index.cfm?event=detail&id=35838&loc=en_us. [Forgive posting an answer to the question almost on the question! The link does work -- if you omit the full-stop/period at the end of the URL. This is a design fault in the parsing of URLs, I assume. --WM] _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Jan 20 07:34:09 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C114249626; Fri, 20 Jan 2012 07:34:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 8ECAF249608; Fri, 20 Jan 2012 07:33:49 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120120073351.8ECAF249608@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 07:33:49 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.654 ACH Exec Council: last day to vote X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 654. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 10:39:42 -0500 From: Dot Porter Subject: Last day to vote for ACH Executive Council and Officers Friday January 20th is the last day to vote for Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) Executive Council and Officers. If you are a member of the ACH you will have received a ballot from Oxford University Press. Please take a few minutes to fill in your ballot and participate in the future of ACH and the digital humanities! A reminder as well that membership to ACH is by calendar year. If you were a member last year, you would like to join this year, or simply if you would like to know more, please proceed to the Membership area of the ACH website to learn more about benefits, and to join: http://ach.org/membership. Thanks so much, Dot Porter, ACH Exec. Secretary -- *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Dot Porter (MA, MSLS) Digital Medievalist, Digital Librarian Email: dot.porter@gmail.com *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Jan 20 07:36:03 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 499792496C3; Fri, 20 Jan 2012 07:36:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A851C2496A8; Fri, 20 Jan 2012 07:35:56 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120120073556.A851C2496A8@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 07:35:56 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.655 events: markup; Turing Centenary X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 655. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: S B Cooper (41) Subject: Turing Centenary Conference (CiE 2012) - Final submissionarrangements [2] From: Tommie Usdin (36) Subject: Balisage 2012 Call for Participation --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 11:31:44 +0000 From: S B Cooper Subject: Turing Centenary Conference (CiE 2012) - Final submissionarrangements FINAL SUBMISSION INFORMATION --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Turing Centenary Conference (CiE 2012) University of Cambridge, UK June 18 to 23, 2012 http://www.cie2012.eu All final submissions needed by 27 JANUARY 2012* * With CiE 2012 submissions running at unprecedented levels, and the organisers receiving numerous requests for extensions: The server for submissions to the Turing Centenary Conference: CiE 2012 will remain open for new submissions until the end of Sunday, 22 January. Revised versions of papers may be submitted until the end of Friday, 27 January as long as an abstract has been submitted by the end of Sunday, 22 January. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Computability in Europe provides the largest international conference dealing with the full spectrum of computability-related research. The 2012 Turing Centenary Conference will be especially broad, bringing together researchers from the full community influenced by the seminal work of Turing and his contemporaries. For details of the full range of topics, we refer to the original Call for Papers at: http://www.mathcomp.leeds.ac.uk/turing2012/WScie12/give-page.php?42 Best wishes Anuj Dawar and Barry Cooper co-chairs, Turing Centenary Conference ________ CiE 2012: Turing Centenary Conference http://www.cie2012.eu ALAN TURING YEAR http://www.turingcentenary.eu AlanTuringYear on Twitter http://twitter.com/AlanTuringYear --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:43:49 -0500 From: Tommie Usdin Subject: Balisage 2012 Call for Participation It's a new year and time to plan for Balisage 2012! Balisage is where people interested in descriptive markup meet each year in August for informed technical discussion, occasionally impassioned debate, good coffee, and the incomparable ambience of one of North America's greatest cities, Montreal. We welcome anyone interested in discussing the use of descriptive markup to build strong, lasting information systems. Practitioner or theorist, tool-builder or tool-user, student or lecturer -- you are invited to submit a paper proposal for Balisage 2012. As always, papers at Balisage can address any aspect of the use of markup and markup languages to represent information and build information systems. Possible topics include but are not limited to: * XML and related technologies * Non-XML markup languages * Implementation experience with XML parsing, XSLT processors, XQuery processors, XML databases, Topic Map engines, XProc integrations, or any markup-related technology * Semantics, overlap, and other complex fundamental issues for markup languages * Case studies of markup design and deployment * Quality of information in markup systems * JSON and XML * Efficiency of Markup Software * Markup systems in and for the mobile web * The future of XML and of descriptive markup in general * Interesting applications of markup In addition, please consider becoming a Peer Reviewer. Reviewers play a critical role towards the success of Balisage. They review blind submissions -- on topics that interest them -- for technical merit, interest, and applicability. Your comments and recommendations can assist the Conference Committee in creating the program for Balisage 2012! How: * Submit full papers in XML to * See the Instructions for Authors (http://www.balisage.net/authorinstructions.html) and Tag Set and Submission Guidelines (http://www.balisage.net/tagset.html) for details. * Apply to the Peer Review panel (http://www.balisage.net/peer/ReviewAppForm.html) Schedule: 16 March 2012 - Peer review applications due 20 April 2012 - Paper submissions due 20 April 2012 - Applications due for student support awards due 28 May 2012 - Speakers notified 13 July 2012 - Final papers due 6 August 2012 - Pre-conference Symposium 7-10 August 2012 - Balisage: The Markup Conference Help us make Balisage your favorite XML Conference. See you in Montreal! -- The Balisage 2012 Conference Committee =================================================== Balisage: The Markup Conference 2012 mailto:info@balisage.net August 7-10, 2012 http://www.balisage.net Preconference Symposium on August 6, 2012 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Jan 21 09:02:38 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0447249096; Sat, 21 Jan 2012 09:02:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 212A9249086; Sat, 21 Jan 2012 09:02:32 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20120121090232.212A9249086@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2012 09:02:32 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.656 text-analysis for spooks X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 656. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 19:47:02 -0500 From: Donald Waters Subject: [Humanist] 25.622 text-analysis for spooks Apologies for the delay in replying to this thread. Readers may be interested in the following publication of the Council on Library and Information Resources: "A Distant Symmetry Final Report: U.S. Intelligence Community Tools." It was posted August 8, 2010 at www.clir.org/pubs/archives/AckerShilton2010.pdf http://www.clir.org/pubs/archives/AckerShilton2010.pdf . Don Waters _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Jan 21 09:04:08 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 517C3249123; Sat, 21 Jan 2012 09:04:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1E505249114; Sat, 21 Jan 2012 09:04:03 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120121090403.1E505249114@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2012 09:04:03 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.657 riding the rapids toward what? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 657. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 13:50:50 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: riding the rapids toward what? In "The Impact of Technology: The Historic Debate" (Automation and Technological Change, ed. John T. Dunlop), American historian Robert L. Heilbroner wrote in 1962, two years before the first conference on literary computing, > In an age when it is possible to write seriously about a > Death-of-the-World machine, it is hardly necessary to waste words on > the power of technology to affect society. The shoe is now on the > other foot: the brooding question is no longer what technology will > make of man, but what man can still accomplish in the face of his > technology. These words seem quite dated, not only by the gendered language but also by the characteristic preoccupation of those Cold War years with The Bomb, which made the case for technological determinism as never before. But what he goes on to say seems far less dated. "[I]t is not merely the apocalyptic potential of nuclear warfare which thus tilts the scales", he writes; > At least in the Western world, where the typical landscape is > industrial, where human life is sustained by the ceaseless operation > of an enormous technical apparatus, where mechanical contrivances > have penetrated into the smallest interstices of private life, it is > not mere rhetoric to ask if Things are not already in the saddle, > riding Man.... In the body of the article he reflects on the economic and historical attempts to come to terms with the impact of technology on human work and society, ending with a brief but powerful meditation on the problem of leisure. We have, he says (said in 1962), no adequate response: > Adrift on a furious current of technology, we allow ourselves to be > swept along, trusting to the blind forces at work to bring us safely > to some unknown but unquestioned destination. It need hardly be > pointed out that this belief in the benign social impact of > technology may turn out to have been the most tragic of all > contemporary faiths. Hence, while there is still time left, we must > peer courageously ahead, take audacious triangulations on our course, > seek to combine empiricism and speculation on the grand scale. > Perhaps now, as the perils and promise of technology seize our > imaginations and crowd our awareness as never before, it may be > possible to launch such an effort to understand and guide our fate. > For in this age of technical virtuosity Man will surely never ride > Things unless he is prepared to ask questions which today do not > often seem to occur to him. I think we must plead guilty to an insufficient amount and quality of reflective thought, perhaps also of courageous looking ahead, but there's something else here that bothers me. Recalling the nearly contemporaneous lecture of another American historian, Richard Hoftstadter, "The paranoid style in American politics" (1963), and allowing for the fact that The Bomb was (and is) no fantasy, it does seem to me that Heilbroner has forgotten that the Things riding us, which we are also riding, are ultimately us, that is, made by us for ourselves. Which of course makes them both less and more scary, but more significantly, interesting and precious. So, I conclude, if in the early times of computing people were spooked by computing they were not just being silly. They were on to something. Comments? Yours, WM -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor (fractional), University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Jan 21 09:05:11 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E9EC249192; Sat, 21 Jan 2012 09:05:11 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B6376249184; Sat, 21 Jan 2012 09:05:05 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120121090505.B6376249184@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2012 09:05:05 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.658 an infographic of the digital humanities X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 658. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 12:44:33 +0000 From: Melissa Terras Subject: Infographic: Quantifying Digital Humanities, Hi folks, In November I started to gather some statistics about Digital Humanities (http://melissaterras.blogspot.com/2011/11/stats-and-digital-humanities.html). I've turned them into an infographic, which is available in full technicolour over at the UCLDH Flickr account http://www.flickr.com/photos/ucldh/6730021199/sizes/o/in/photostream/ . http://www.flickr.com/photos/ucldh/6730021199/sizes/o/in/photostream/ A 300dpi print version is also available here http://www.ucl.ac.uk/infostudies/melissa-terras/DigitalHumanitiesInfographic.pdf This is courtesy of UCL Centre for Digital Humanities, as they paid for the graphic design. We at UCLDH are going to get some printed up for to stick on walls -more about that soon, hopefully, once we figure out the costs on that. Just a few words on the process. This was an inclusive, not an exclusive, attempt at trying to pull together available statistics on Digital Humanities. I'm aware there are a lot of things that dont appear on the infographic - major individual projects, for example. But it was the best that I could do, with the information available. I'm still collecting statistics, and interested in anything else that comes to light - I need to dig out the subscription numbers for LLC in the early 2000s, for example - but if you are not represented here, and would be pleased to be included in any future iterations, let me know. Depending on reception, we may do an updated version of this. Additionally, I'd love to hear your comments and suggestions on other things we can do in this vein to scope out and promote our field. best Melissa -- Melissa M. Terras MA MSc DPhil CLTHE CITP FHEA Reader in Electronic Communication Department of Information Studies Foster Court University College London Gower Street WC1E 6BT Tel: 020-7679-7206 (direct), 020-7679-7204 (dept), 020-7383-0557 (fax) Email: m.terras@ucl.ac.uk Web: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/infostudies/melissa-terras/ Blog: http://melissaterras.blogspot.com/ Deputy Director, UCL Centre for Digital Humanities: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/dh/ General Editor, Digital Humanities Quarterly: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Jan 22 09:54:09 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A52C24C727; Sun, 22 Jan 2012 09:54:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B314224C70B; Sun, 22 Jan 2012 09:54:02 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120122095402.B314224C70B@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2012 09:54:02 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.659 riding the rapids X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 659. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: amsler@cs.utexas.edu (47) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.657 riding the rapids toward what? [2] From: Jascha Kessler (126) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.657 riding the rapids toward what? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2012 10:41:20 -0600 From: amsler@cs.utexas.edu Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.657 riding the rapids toward what? In-Reply-To: <20120121090403.1E505249114@woodward.joyent.us> The view of the future from the early days of computing was limited. First, computers were only in the hands of very large organizations and government control of the biggest computers was universally accepted bacause of their expense. Couple that with the Cold War and paranoia was inevitable. With the introduction of personal computers and then the World Wide Web the entire landscape changed. There was no control other than human nature on what people did with computing. Today we seem to have an ever-increasing number of problems caused by our computing capablities, but I think people more clearly see these problems as caused by other people using computers, rather than the technology itself. Cell phones enable people to send text messages in moving cars resulting in distracted driving accidents; cloud computing enables copyright piracy to spread rapidly and uncontrollably, overwhelming a legal system only having remedies that are geared to a world of tangible media; anwering machines accessible remotely permit others to download personal messages; hackers anywhere in the world can break into computers and steal valuable or sensitive information, etc. All of these ills we face seem to embody three things. (1) the technology that made them possible also had significant positive effects that were behind why that technology was created. (2) The negative impacts were casued by human beings misusing the technology, not by the technology interacting with itself. (3) The speed of change has outpaced our cultural and legal system's ability to have laws or controlling technology in place to deal with the human beings abusing the technology. Where are we headed? Expanding the requirements for "Impact Statements" beyond "Environmental Impact Statements" to new "Technology Impact Statements" (and maybe commissioning science-fiction authors to write the 'downside' forecasts?) This would probably mean creating a new Technology Protection Agency to protect us from the risks of new technology before it was built or deployed. I can hear the counter-arguments already---more government regulation and paperwork interfering with the ability to grow the economy. The EPA didn't get started until the rivers caught fire. It would take a wholesale technology failure or worse to create the TPA. Producing more technology to monitor people's behavior when using technology. This is a bigger brother, alas, such as cameras and 'black box' recorders in automobiles; how about 'auto-pilots' for cruise ships! That seems very timely. One idea that seemed to work was putting technology in redlight running camera photo systems to delay the cross-street's green light when a speeding car runs a redlight, and the On-Star air-bag deployment system using the car's cell phone to call emergency services when a crash occurs--whether or not the passsenger is capable of responding; etc.) --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2012 11:36:38 -0800 From: Jascha Kessler Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.657 riding the rapids toward what? In-Reply-To: <20120121090403.1E505249114@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Willard, You cite two contemporary writers, political scientists and historians of the modern and pre-modern period from say 1820s.... As a small example about the self-absorption of our era, here is a letter that I sent some days ago the Financial Times, in connection with 2 letters previously arguing, 1) that Technology is not recognized as superior to Science; 2) that Science is the real thing that matters. Neither letter writer seems to have much deeper understanding. Of course FT has not published it, as usual. Although it may get to it this week. So, regard this as a "sneak preview" of a possible publication in the next days. Nota bene, my citation of 5 fingers [pace Digital] January 13, 2012 Letters to the Editor THE FINANCIAL TIMES London Sir: Mr Kimball’s comment re Tim Hammond’s letter [FT, Letters, 10 January, “Scientific advance …”], which ran, “The simple truth is that most of our technologies were not invented by scientists” or “breakthrough or advance in science”, absolutely begs the question. [FT.Letters, 13 January]. Kimball declares, “most scientists are interested in both theory and application.” What is application if not made possible by technology? Science stands upon technology, without which it is not. Science as theory requires measurement, measurement observation. For measuring, we Homo sapiens need tools, from the first moment the species first counted five fingers, and in counting considered objects and time itself, as shown by scrawled daily changing moons found in a paleolithic cave. The scientist *hypothesizes *or *ponders* what measurements mean [L. *scientia]*; the technologist pursues the art or craft of measuring [Gr. *Tekne*].* * That is the basis upon which we survived, the only species that needs prostheses almost from birth, being born helpless, hence deficient. Prostheses are additions or supplements to make survival possible. Sincerely, Jascha Kesler Professor of Modern English & American Literature, UCLA On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 1:04 AM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 657. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 13:50:50 +0000 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: riding the rapids toward what? > > > In "The Impact of Technology: The Historic Debate" (Automation and > Technological Change, ed. John T. Dunlop), American historian Robert L. > Heilbroner wrote in 1962, two years before the first conference on > literary computing, > > > In an age when it is possible to write seriously about a > > Death-of-the-World machine, it is hardly necessary to waste words on > > the power of technology to affect society. The shoe is now on the > > other foot: the brooding question is no longer what technology will > > make of man, but what man can still accomplish in the face of his > > technology. > > These words seem quite dated, not only by the gendered language but also > by the characteristic preoccupation of those Cold War years with The Bomb, > which made the case for technological determinism as never before. But > what he goes on to say seems far less dated. "[I]t is not merely the > apocalyptic potential of nuclear warfare which thus tilts the scales", > he writes; > > > At least in the Western world, where the typical landscape is > > industrial, where human life is sustained by the ceaseless operation > > of an enormous technical apparatus, where mechanical contrivances > > have penetrated into the smallest interstices of private life, it is > > not mere rhetoric to ask if Things are not already in the saddle, > > riding Man.... > > In the body of the article he reflects on the economic and historical > attempts to come to terms with the impact of technology on human work > and society, ending with a brief but powerful meditation on the problem > of leisure. We have, he says (said in 1962), no adequate response: > > > Adrift on a furious current of technology, we allow ourselves to be > > swept along, trusting to the blind forces at work to bring us safely > > to some unknown but unquestioned destination. It need hardly be > > pointed out that this belief in the benign social impact of > > technology may turn out to have been the most tragic of all > > contemporary faiths. Hence, while there is still time left, we must > > peer courageously ahead, take audacious triangulations on our course, > > seek to combine empiricism and speculation on the grand scale. > > Perhaps now, as the perils and promise of technology seize our > > imaginations and crowd our awareness as never before, it may be > > possible to launch such an effort to understand and guide our fate. > > For in this age of technical virtuosity Man will surely never ride > > Things unless he is prepared to ask questions which today do not > > often seem to occur to him. > > I think we must plead guilty to an insufficient amount and quality of > reflective thought, perhaps also of courageous looking ahead, but there's > something else here that bothers me. Recalling the nearly contemporaneous > lecture of another American historian, Richard Hoftstadter, "The paranoid > style in American politics" (1963), and allowing for the fact that The > Bomb was (and is) no fantasy, it does seem to me that Heilbroner has > forgotten that the Things riding us, which we are also riding, are > ultimately us, that is, made by us for ourselves. Which of course makes > them both less and more scary, but more significantly, interesting and > precious. > > So, I conclude, if in the early times of computing people were spooked by > computing they were not just being silly. They were on to something. > > Comments? > > Yours, > WM > > -- > Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's > College London; Professor (fractional), University of Western Sydney; > Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, > Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ -- Jascha Kessler Professor of English & Modern Literature, UCLA Telephone/Facsimile: 310.393.4648 www.jfkessler.com www.xlibris.com _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Jan 22 09:55:22 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id D345D24C772; Sun, 22 Jan 2012 09:55:21 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id BB7FF24C760; Sun, 22 Jan 2012 09:55:15 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120122095515.BB7FF24C760@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2012 09:55:15 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.660 infographics X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 660. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2012 00:19:06 +0000 (GMT) From: peter jones Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.658 an infographic of the digital humanities In-Reply-To: <20120121090505.B6376249184@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Melissa, This is excellent work and noting the license I will post this early next month (followed after with this reply), will fb about the graphic and tweet it too. As to other avenues...? One of the most 'human' (and scientific) of disciplines within Digital Humanities is that of health, medicine, nursing and related fields. There have also been major developments in e-patient websites and portals and I wonder to what extent citizen science is being applied in health (and the humanities)? There is a growing body also in the growing range of topics within such groups as HIFA2015 and GANM: http://www.hifa2015.org/ http://knowledge-gateway.org/ganm (new website to follow) As your infographic demonstrates - informatics - is central to DH and the emergence of distinct schools of informatics might be worth examination? community informatics urban informatics citizen informatics gender informatics social informatics personal informatics health informatics nursing informatics medical informatics ... What are the commonalities, the differences? The benefits of infotech are constantly espoused and in health IT "benefits realization" has been a constant mantra. Already, with NPfIT still smoldering (not 'finished') there is talk of the next generation of systems enabling patient access to their health records. Insights into the application of telecare, telematics, e-therapies including dementia (assisted living, pervasive computing) and the residential care sector could be very informative. A real challenge would be to produce an infographic that helps define: integrated (care) multidisciplinary (care) care pathway(s) But that is a big ask - as are the above as these are very broad areas. Well done on this effort Melissa.   Best wishes, Peter Jones Lancashire UK -- Blogging at "Welcome to the QUAD" http://hodges-model.blogspot.com/ Hodges Health Career - Care Domains - Model http://www.p-jones.demon.co.uk/ h2cm: help 2C more - help 2 listen - help 2 care http://twitter.com/#!/h2cm _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Jan 23 06:39:28 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE66124C7D7; Mon, 23 Jan 2012 06:39:27 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D2AF824C7BD; Mon, 23 Jan 2012 06:39:17 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120123063917.D2AF824C7BD@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 06:39:17 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.661 what happens when you can see so much more? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 661. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2012 11:07:00 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: a vantage point Allow me to direct you to the online transcripts and mp3 downloads of the Reith Lectures, 1948-2011. See http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/the-reith-lectures/transcripts/2011/ for the transcripts; for the audio files, start at http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/the-reith-lectures/archive/. This series was, in the BBC's account, > inaugurated in 1948 by the BBC to mark the historic contribution made > to public service broadcasting by Sir John (later Lord) Reith, the > corporation's first director-general.... [T]he BBC each year invites > a leading figure to deliver a series of lectures on radio. The aim > is to advance public understanding and debate about significant > issues of contemporary interest. My own interest in the series is historical, to use the lectures as indicators of how important automation was, what this importance was taken to be and how it varied during the first few decades following WWII. ("Automation", understood in John Diebold's sense, is a far better keyword to use than "computer" when studying a large part of the world of which computing was then a part.) Surveying what I have collected leads me first, unsurprisingly, to celebrate the collection -- a truly amazing find -- then to wonder how I am ever going to control the mushrooming amount of evidence presenting itself to me from day to day, of which this series is only a small piece, only yesterday's find -- and then, what is happening and might happen to scholarship as a whole in consequence of the same taking place in all fields of study. Comments? Yours, WM -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor (fractional), University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Jan 24 06:29:52 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D92424F7EE; Tue, 24 Jan 2012 06:29:52 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 2271324F7D3; Tue, 24 Jan 2012 06:29:46 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120124062946.2271324F7D3@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 06:29:45 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.662 job in Berlin X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 662. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 19:17:03 +0100 From: Markus Schnoepf Subject: Open position, Berlin, Germany Apologies for cross posting and please redistribute to interested candidates. The Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities is offering a full time position in the project "Digital Knowledge Store" which is funded by the DFG. We are looking for a scholar coming form the Humanities with a strong emphasis on Digital Humanities. The position is limited for one year with the possibility of extension of two more years, depending on a successful course of the project. The goal of the project is to further develop the digital knowledge store of the academy and to establish it in national and international research landscape. Duties: - building up a concept for a metadata scheme for digital resources - evaluation - implementation of APIs and webservices - construction of a metadata repository Requirements: - university degree - experiences in the Digital Humanities, data modelling and XML/XSLT - experiences with german and international standars and metadata standards in the field of LIS and DH. - good knowledge of a programming language More detailled information in german: http://www.bbaw.de/stellenangebote/2012/2012-01-11_Ausschreibung_Wsp.pdf Please feel free to contact us in case you have more questions regarding the postion or the project Markus Schnöpf, M.A., MA(lis) Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften Telota Jägerstr. 22/23 10117 Berlin Tel.: 030 / 20370-504 www.telota.de www.bbaw.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 Jan 24 06:32:07 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B0B824F8E9; Tue, 24 Jan 2012 06:32:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id EFD7324F8D8; Tue, 24 Jan 2012 06:31:59 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120124063159.EFD7324F8D8@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 06:31:58 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.663 call for editions & essays; new publication: Intellectual Communities X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 663. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Amanda Gailey (62) Subject: Reminder: Call for Essays and Editions [2] From: Domenico Fiormonte (23) Subject: Intellectual Communities --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 18:20:30 +0000 From: Amanda Gailey Subject: Reminder: Call for Essays and Editions CALL FOR EDITIONS AND ESSAYS 2013 Issue Edition Proposals As part of our commitment to publish the scholarly work of editors, we invite proposals for rigorously edited digital small-scale editions to be published in the peer-reviewed, open-access, digital journal, Scholarly Editing. Proposals should be approximately 1000 words long and should include the following information: 1) A description of content, scope, and approach. Please describe the materials you will edit and how you will approach editing and commenting on them. We anticipate that a well-researched apparatus (an introduction, annotations, etc.) will be key to most successful proposals. 2) A statement of significance. Please briefly explain how this edition will contribute to your field. 3) Approximate length. 4) Indication of technical proficiency. With only rare exceptions, any edition published by Scholarly Editing must be in XML (Extensible Markup Language) that complies with TEI (Text Encoding Initiative) Guidelines, which have been widely accepted as the standard for digital textual editing. Please indicate your facility with TEI. 5) A brief description of how you imagine the materials should be visually represented. Scholarly Editing will provide support to display images and text in an attractive house style. If you wish to create a highly customized display, please describe it and indicate what technologies you plan to use to build it. Please send proposals as Rich Text Format (RTF), MS Word, or PDF to the co-editors via email no later than January 31, 2012 for consideration for the 2013 issue. Essays Scholarly Editing welcomes submissions of articles discussing any aspect of the theory or practice of editing, print or digital. Please send submissions via email to the editors and include the following information in the body of your email: 1) Names, contact information, and institutional affiliations of all authors; 2) Title of the article;  and 3) Filename of article. Please omit all identifying information from the article itself. Send proposals as Rich Text Format (RTF), MS Word, or PDF; if you wish to include image files or other addenda, please send all as a single zip archive. For questions of style and citation format, please consult the current edition of The Chicago Manual of Style. Submissions must be received by April 1, 2012, for consideration for the 2013 issue. Please, no simultaneous submissions. Feel free to contact us if you have questions. Amanda Gailey Department of English Center for Digital Research in the Humanities University of Nebraska-Lincoln agailey2@unlnotes.unl.edu Andrew Jewell University Libraries Center for Digital Research in the Humanities University of Nebraska-Lincoln ajewell@unlnotes.unl.edu -- Amanda Gailey Assistant Professor Department of English Center for Digital Research in the Humanities University of Nebraska 202 Andrews Hall Lincoln, NE 68588 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 21:40:40 +0100 From: Domenico Fiormonte Subject: Intellectual Communities Dear colleagues: I am glad to announce the publication of Intellectual Communities and Partnerships in Italy and Europe. Studies in Honour of Mark Davie, edited by Danielle Hipkins(Bern: Lang, 2012), with an introduction by Katharine Hodgson, pp. XIV, 182, ISBN 978-3-0343-0172-5, £30. This book has been inspired by the emphasis that Mark Davie's studies have put on the cooperative nature of artistic and intellectual pursuits in the humanities. Whilst the importance of connections between intellectuals is often acknowledged in the form of intertextual studies, research into real dialogue between individuals is little researched, partly due to the practical challenges of such research. The ten chapters of this book - written by specialists in different cultures - redress in part this imbalance and offer a new angle on the canon by tracing the impact of concrete partnerships and communities in Italian and European history. The issues that the volume's contributors keep in mind include: the reasons that artists and intellectuals choose to collaborate; the forms that this collaboration takes; the factors that determine its success; and whether some areas of culture lend themselves to intellectual collaboration better than others. More information is available at http://www.peterlang.com/download/datasheet/54529/datasheet_430172.pdf Best wishes Luciano Parisi _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Jan 24 06:37:44 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FE4B24F9CF; Tue, 24 Jan 2012 06:37:44 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 57E3024F99A; Tue, 24 Jan 2012 06:37:34 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20120124063735.57E3024F99A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 06:37:34 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.664 events: cfp: Information Society; public lectures: Understanding Technology X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 664. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Mark Newman (139) Subject: cfp: International Conference on Information Society (i- Society 2012) [2] From: Klaus Staubermann (32) Subject: Understanding Technology 2012 lectures at National Museums Scotland --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 12:09:54 +0000 (GMT) From: Mark Newman Subject: cfp: International Conference on Information Society (i-Society 2012) CALL FOR PAPERS ******************************************************************* International Conference on Information Society (i-Society 2012), Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE UK/RI Computer Chapter 25-28 June, 2012, London, UK www.i-society.eu ******************************************************************* The International Conference on Information Society (i-Society 2012) is Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE UK/RI Computer Chapter. The i-Society is a global knowledge-enriched collaborative effort that has its roots from both academia and industry. The conference covers a wide spectrum of topics that relate to information society, which includes technical and non-technical research areas. The mission of i-Society 2012 conference is to provide opportunities for collaboration of professionals and researchers to share existing and generate new knowledge in the field of information society. The conference encapsulates the concept of interdisciplinary science that studies the societal and technological dimensions of knowledge evolution in digital society. The i-Society bridges the gap between academia and industry with regards to research collaboration and awareness of current development in secure information management in the digital society. 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Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Ken Friedman" (11) Subject: Stanley Fish: Mind Your P's and B's: The Digital Humanitiesand Interpretation [2] From: Constantinescu Nicolaie (44) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.557 publication on research infrastructures --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 19:09:20 +1100 From: "Ken Friedman" Subject: Stanley Fish: Mind Your P's and B's: The Digital Humanitiesand Interpretation Dear Colleagues, Stanley Fish is back with yet another column on the digital humanities. He raises interesting arguments, but I'm not sure he gets the point. Yours, Ken Professor Ken Friedman, PhD, DSc (hc), FDRS | University Distinguished Professor | Dean, Faculty of Design | Swinburne University of Technology | Melbourne, Australia | kenfriedman@groupwise.swin.edu.au | Ph: +61 3 9214 6078 | Faculty www.swinburne.edu.au/design OPINION | January 23, 2012 Stanley Fish: Mind Your P's and B's: The Digital Humanities and Interpretation By STANLEY FISH Digital humanists have new tools at their disposal, but does that necessarily make for a more accurate reading of texts? http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/23/mind-your-ps-and-bs-the-digital-humanities-and-interpretation/?emc=eta1 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 00:14:26 +0200 From: Constantinescu Nicolaie Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.557 publication on research infrastructures In-Reply-To: <20111214080302.E1ACC2344CE@woodward.joyent.us> [A kind expression of thanks, a reminder of a useful publication and encouragement to send in notices of anything you spot that might be welcomed by others. The digital humanities have grown to such a degree that we need all the eyes and ears we can muster! --WM] Thank you for this! On 14 December 2011 10:03, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 557. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 07:53:21 +0000 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: Research Infrastructures in the Digital Age > > Many here, I expect, will want to know about and then download the new > European Science Foundation Science Policy Briefing 42, Research > Infrastructure in the Digital Humanities, at > > http://www.esf.org/research-areas/humanities/strategic-activities/research-infrastructures-in-the-humanities.html, > under Press Release at the right-hand side of the page. > > (I still curse, though with tasteful decorum, systems which pump out > horrendously long and linguistically rebarbative URLs. My tasteful (I > hope) distaste will explain why I am not supplying the direct link to > this report. Surely we have the technical wit to communicate as if to > other humans.) > > Yours, > WM > -- > Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's > College London; Professor (fractional), University of Western Sydney; > Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, > Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ -- Constantinescu Nicolaie Information Architect http://www.kosson.ro _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Jan 25 06:35:03 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD2B724F6A7; Wed, 25 Jan 2012 06:35:02 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 047BF24F693; Wed, 25 Jan 2012 06:34:55 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120125063456.047BF24F693@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 06:34:55 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.666 events: born-digital; XSLT; Manifesto; mss X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 666. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Asciutti, Valentina" (55) Subject: Next week's CeRch seminar [2] From: Richard Lewis (24) Subject: Decoding Digital Humanities (London) [3] From: Julia Flanders (18) Subject: XSLT workshop: March 8-10, 2012, Brown University [4] From: Doug Reside (29) Subject: Talk on born digital research --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 10:42:34 +0000 From: "Asciutti, Valentina" Subject: Next week's CeRch seminar A quick reminder about next week's CeRch seminar. All best, Valentina ----- The second seminar in the Centre for e-Research Seminar Series for 2012, Manuscript Digitisation: How applying publishing and content packaging theory can move us forward by Dr Leah Tether (Cultures of the Digital Economy Institute, Anglia Ruskin University), is on Tuesday 31st January in the Anatomy Theatre and Museum, King's College London. For more information and to register, please go to http://www.kcl.ac.uk/innovation/groups/cerch/events/seminars/index.aspx ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Manuscript Digitisation: How applying publishing and content packagingtheory can move us forward Using Gérard Genette's seminal work on 'paratexts' (defined by Genette as items attached to texts which fundamentally influence a reader's reception of a text, such as, for example, blurbs, jacket designs, prefaces etc,), "Paratext" (Cambridge, 1997), this paper will explore two main areas. The first constitutes a practical enquiry into the ways in which digital media have been used to render the paratexts of medieval manuscripts and, to do this, I shall refer to an existing project as a kind of case study, one which acts representatively, due to its use of software features, methods and tools which have been applied in a number of digital/medieval projects. I shall use this case study as a lens for exploring how successfully manuscriptural paratexts are represented by completed digitisation projects by applying Genette’s theory of paratextual spaces. I shall then consider some of the latest developments in digital tools for medievalists so as to consider what might be possible now with the benefit of hindsight, and given the rapid pace of technological developments. The second area of enquiry, which also makes use of Genette's theory, will constitute a consideration of whether - just as it is now commonplace to see the manuscript itself as a paratext to a text - we can also see the digitised manuscript as a paratext in its own right, that is as a ‘threshold’ which can deliver the reader a new and nuanced reading of the text. Ultimately, the paper will explore how the broader application of publishing theory could move manuscript digitisation projects forward because, just as book publishing actually constitutes an exercise in content packaging - which is traditionally the realm of publishing professionals -, the process of creating digital manuscripts, and digital editions of medieval texts, can also be seem clearly in this light. About the speaker Dr Leah Tether is Postdoctoral Research Fellow/Lecturer in Publishing, Cultures of the Digital Economy Institute, Anglia Ruskin University Leah completed a PhD in Medieval French Literature at Durham University, specifically looking at early medieval works of continuation and their mechanics, both in a textual and manuscriptural sense. Since finishing her PhD, she has spent a year working in Durham's Development and Alumni Relations Office, seeking sources of strategic funding from Durham alumni - specifically what is termed as major gifts. Leah also has a background in trade publishing, having spent time as an editor at Penguin Books and also being responsible for editing Durham University's alumni magazine, and is now assisting on Anglia Ruskin University's MA Publishing course. Her current research focuses on manuscript digitisation and the complex questions raised by the practice. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 14:59:54 +0000 From: Richard Lewis Subject: Decoding Digital Humanities (London) We're very pleased to announce that Decoding Digital Humanities (London) is re-starting its regular discussion meetings on: * Tuesday 31 January 18:30 * at The Plough, 27 Museum Street, WC1A 1LH. For this first meeting we will be discussing the Digital Humanities Manifesto: http://tcp.hypotheses.org/411 Decoding Digital Humanities began as an informal series of pub meetings organised by the Centre for Digital Humanities at UCL. It has since expanded with several international chapters but still retains its informal atmosphere. You will be very welcome to join us for a drink and to discuss all things DH. We look forward to seeing you there. Best, Richard -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Richard Lewis ISMS, Computing Goldsmiths, University of London Tel: +44 (0)20 7078 5134 Skype: richardjlewis JID: ironchicken@jabber.earth.li http://www.richardlewis.me.uk/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 10:01:20 -0500 From: Julia Flanders Subject: XSLT workshop: March 8-10, 2012, Brown University Registration is now open for the WWP's spring workshop on XSLT: Introduction to XSLT for Digital Humanities March 8-10, 2012 Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island Instructors: Syd Bauman, Brown University David Birnbaum, University of Pittsburgh Cost: $450 ($300 for TEI members and students) Registration deadline: March 1, 2012 This three-day intensive workshop will introduce participants to the fundamental concepts of XSLT, the power tool of the XML world, focusing on the needs and data of digital humanists. Participants will develop stylesheets that explore the basic capacities of XSLT, and will learn how to read and reverse engineer other people's stylesheets to develop their skills. Familiarity with the TEI and XML is assumed. For more information, or to register for the workshop: http://www.wwp.brown.edu/outreach/seminars/ Julia Flanders Director, Women Writers Project --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 14:43:52 -0500 From: Doug Reside Subject: Talk on born digital research See the press release below for some shameless self-promotion: A NYPL Labs lunch talk with Doug Reside On February 4, 1992, Jonathan Larson saved a Microsoft Word document that grew, over four years, to become the musical RENT. Although Larson saved and resaved the file multiple times, at least some of the earlier drafts can be recovered thanks to Larson’s personal archival practices and a feature called “fast save” that was embedded in his copy of Microsoft Word 5.1. In this talk, Doug Reside, Digital Curator at the Library for the Performing Arts, will discuss the process he used to recover these early drafts and what his process suggests for the work of curators, scholars, and archivists in the future. Free and open to the public. Bring lunch! Speaker Doug Reside became Digital Curator for the Performing Arts at New York Public Library in 2011 after four and a half years on the directorial staff of the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH). He has been the director on multiple theater library projects including Music Theater Online, and the Shakespeare Quartos Archive. He is currently editing the Musical of the Month blog at NYPL which makes available, in various ebook formats, one pre-1923 libretto each month. He is currently writing a book about the ways in which digital technology has changed the creation and production of musical theater. NYPL Labs NYPL Labs is an experimental technology unit working closely with curators to develop imaginitive new interfaces, tools and participatory initiatives around research library collections and data. Labs hosts public talks and workshops on a roughly monthly basis on advanced topics in the digital humanities. Keep an eye out for future events @nypl_labs. Get in touch at labs@nypl.org _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Jan 26 07:00:43 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FC3C251505; Thu, 26 Jan 2012 07:00:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 7495C2514EA; Thu, 26 Jan 2012 07:00:34 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120126070034.7495C2514EA@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 07:00:34 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.667 infographic flatland X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 667. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 03:16:53 +0100 From: Domenico Fiormonte Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.660 infographics In-Reply-To: <20120122095515.BB7FF24C760@woodward.joyent.us> Dear all, I wonder how data about the rest of the world were collected. As it is, this infographics reflects a vision of Digital Humanities as a big Anglo-american Empire with small satellites here and there. It is mono-lingual, mono-cultural, and, above all, poorly researched. Numbers cannot tell an inclusive and respectful story of Humanities Computing, Informatica Umanistica or Digitale Geisteswissenschaften. Dense cultural issues cannot be represented like this. It is not just a matter of being "included" in or "excluded" from a family, it is a sense of an entire international community being flattened and misrepresented. Yours, Domenico Fiormonte _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Jan 26 07:02:54 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04D31251579; Thu, 26 Jan 2012 07:02:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 8042A251569; Thu, 26 Jan 2012 07:02:46 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120126070246.8042A251569@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 07:02:46 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.668 TAPAS: repository & publishing service for TEI X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 668. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 08:51:46 -0500 From: Julia Flanders Subject: TAPAS: TEI Archiving, Publishing and Access Service We are very pleased to announce the start of development for the TEI Archiving, Publication, and Access service (TAPAS, http://www.tapasproject.org), which we hope will be of interest to many in the TEI and digital humanities community. TAPAS is creating a digital repository and publishing service for TEI data, to support those who do not have access to such resources at their own institutions. The groundwork for TAPAS began in 2009 with a planning grant from the IMLS. Starting December 2011, with a two-year IMLS National Leadership Grant and an 18-month NEH Digital Humanities Startup Grant, we are building the TAPAS repository and user interface, including an API that will permit third parties to work with TEI data drawn from TAPAS. We’ll be using Fedora with Islandora and Drupal to provide an intuitive interface for users at all levels to contribute, manage, and publish TEI data. A few key milestones during the next year: • We have a job search open for a repository developer; this will be a two-year, full-time position with the possibility of continuation depending on ongoing funding. It should be a really interesting job with a great project team. • Very shortly we will be seeking contributors interested in helping us test and document the data ingestion process. • By the end of 2012, we expect to be able to accept contributions of TEI data on a trial basis. When fully launched, the TAPAS service will also provide TEI training, consultation services, documentation and tutorials. The basic service will be free and open to all, with a scaled membership fee structure (based on level of usage and access to advanced support) to provide for the long-term sustainability of the service. TAPAS is hosted at Brown University, Wheaton College, and the University of Virginia, and is supported by a growing community of institutions including Dickinson College, Hamilton College, Mt. Holyoke College, the University of Puget Sound, Vassar College, and Willamette University. We look forward to serving the TEI community! Contact or follow us at: http://www.tapasproject.org info@tapasproject.org Best wishes on behalf of the TAPAS team, Julia Flanders, Brown University Scott Hamlin, Wheaton College _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Jan 26 07:04:33 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8921B251623; Thu, 26 Jan 2012 07:04:33 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 71FD7251614; Thu, 26 Jan 2012 07:04:27 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120126070427.71FD7251614@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 07:04:27 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.669 DH Commons & centerNet; best paper award X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 669. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Neil Fraistat (47) Subject: DH Commons and centerNet [2] From: "Reilly, Maeve J" (15) Subject: McDonough receives Best Paper award at HICSS --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 10:40:21 -0500 From: Neil Fraistat Subject: DH Commons and centerNet centerNet and* *DHCommons (http://www.dhcommons.org) are pleased to announce that DHCommons has become a sponsored initiative of centerNet. DHCommons and centerNet reached this agreement after six months of discussions, led by Ryan Cordell and Quinn Dombrowski for DHCommons and Neil Fraistat representing centerNet. DHCommons is an online hub focused on matching digital humanities projects seeking assistance with scholars interested in project collaboration. It thus responds to a pressing and demonstrable need for a project-collaborator matching service that will allow scholars interested in DH to enter the field by joining an existing project as well as make existing projects more sustainable by drawing in new, well-matched participants. DHCommons helps break down the siloization of an emerging field by connecting collaborators across institutions, a particularly acute need for solo practitioners and those without access to a digital humanities center. Working with centerNet, DHCommons will strive also to reach solo digital humanists in countries or regions without robust digital humanities infrastructure, helping them find communities of potential collaborators to further their work. DHCommons began in a session on interinstitutional collaboration at THATCamp Chicago in October of 2010. Session participants Ryan Cordell (St. Norbert College), Quinn Dombrowski (University of Chicago), and Christopher Dickman (St. Louis University) began developing the hub soon thereafter with the support of the Texas A&M Initiative for Digital Humanities, Media, and Culture (http://idhmc.tamu.edu/) and the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education (http://www. nitle.org/). The DHCommons Advisory Board includes Rebecca Davis (NITLE), Christopher Dickman (St. Louis University), Quinn Dombrowski (University of Chicago), Laura Mandell (IDHMC), Katherine Rowe (Bryn Mawr College), and Lisa Spiro (NITLE). The partnership between centerNet and DHCommons promises to be mutually beneficial while helping to create and solidify the emerging infrastructure for digital scholarship in the humanities. As a centerNet initiative, DHCommons will help lower the cost of entry into digital scholarship and bridge gaps between large humanities centers and solo practitioners around the world. DHCommons will complement the mission of other centerNet initiatives, such as, *arts-humanities.net*,* *aimed at supporting collaboration in the digital humanities. Through DHCommons, centerNet will foster increased collaboration among digital humanities centers and—most importantly—between centers and those previously outside of the center network. -- Neil Fraistat Professor of English & Director Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) University of Maryland 301-405-5896 or 301-314-7111 (fax) http://www.mith.umd.edu/ Twitter: @fraistat --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 18:24:17 +0000 From: "Reilly, Maeve J" Subject: McDonough receives Best Paper award at HICSS Jerome McDonough, associate professor at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois, has received the Best Paper award in the Digital Media: Content and Communication track at the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), held in Maui in January. His paper, "Knee-Deep in Data: Practical Problems in Applying the OAIS Reference Model to the Preservation of Computer Games," examines the reference model for an Open Archival Information System (OAIS) through the Preserving Virtual Worlds project, in which McDonough and partners explored the application of the OAIS Reference Model for the preservation of computer games, videogames and electronic literature within a research library setting. The paper identifies practical problems in determining the appropriate range of representation and context information needed to preserve computer games and discusses possible solutions to those problems. The Preserving Virtual Worlds project, funded by the Library of Congress's National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIP), investigated what preservation issues arose with computer games and interactive fiction, and how existing metadata and packaging standards might be employed for the long-term preservation of these materials. McDonough is now principal investigator on Preserving Virtual Worlds II, funded by IMLS, which focuses on determining properties for a variety of educational games and game franchises in order to provide a set of best practices for preserving the materials through virtualization technologies and migration, as well as provide an analysis of how the preservation process is documented. You can view the paper at http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_45/bp45/dm1.pdf. More information on Preserving Virtual Worlds can be found athttp://www.lis.illinois.edu/people/faculty/jmcdonou. Maeve Reilly Research Services Coordinator Graduate School of Library and Information Science University of Illinois Rm 219 LIS 501 E. Daniel Champaign, IL 61820 mjreilly@illinois.edu (217) 244-7316 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Jan 26 07:07:00 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 637EE251710; Thu, 26 Jan 2012 07:07:00 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B05EB2516FF; Thu, 26 Jan 2012 07:06:52 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120126070652.B05EB2516FF@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 07:06:52 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.670 events many & various X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 670. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: (16) Subject: MW2012 regular registration closes January 31st [2] From: Annamaria Carusi (50) Subject: 4S/EASST Open Panel Call for Papers: Mediated practices [3] From: Stuart Dunn (44) Subject: 2012 Digiclass Seminars CFP [4] From: Julia Flanders (52) Subject: Workshop: Knowledge Organization and Data Modeling in the Humanities [5] From: Brent Nelson (95) Subject: SDH-SEMI 2012 deadline for proposals is fast approaching --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 00:11:22 -0800 From: Subject: MW2012 regular registration closes January 31st Join museum professionals from around the world at MW2012 including speakers from France, Australia, The Netherlands, Norway, The UK, Germany, Korea, Greece, Italy and Singapore (to name a few) for the largest international conference devoted to the exploration of art, science, natural and cultural heritage online. Museums and the Web 2012 April 11-14, San Diego California. Regular registration rates apply when you register for Museums and the Web 2012 before Jan 31st, 2012: http://www.museumsandtheweb.com/mw2012/registration Exhibitors are welcome to reserve a space in the exhibit hall: http://www.museumsandtheweb.com/mw2012/exhibits The full schedule is online: http://www.museumsandtheweb.com/mw2012 We're looking forward to seeing you in San Diego April 11-14, 2012! Nancy & Rich MW2012 program co-chairs --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 08:55:42 +0000 From: Annamaria Carusi Subject: 4S/EASST Open Panel Call for Papers: Mediated practices CALL FOR PAPERS: Joint meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) and the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) 2012: October 17-20, 2012, Copenhagen Business School, Frederiksberg, Denmark Mediated Practice: Insights from STS, Critical Theory and Media Theory Panel organisers: Anne Beaulieu (University of Groninghen) Annamaria Carusi (University of Oxford / NTNU) Aud Sissel Hoel (Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)) Sarah de Rijcke (University of Leiden) Work in STS, media theory and critical theory intersects through a focus on mediated practices. Furthermore, science and technology studies and humanities based studies of media and culture (including film, art, literature, music) have common interests in representations, meaning systems, social and institutional aspects of science, media and culture, and the politics and ethics of interventions in these domains. We often draw upon overlapping perspectives and theories, which are however deployed in different ways by scholars of science, and scholars of media and culture. The aim of this panel is to build on precedents (Thacker’s Biomedia, van Dijck’s ImagEnation, etc.) and to further explore these overlaps and divergences, and the ways in which concepts, ideas approaches and perspectives might travel more effectively across science and technological studies, media studies and cultural studies. We invite papers that show how a notion developed in one field can be used in the other, either via analysis of examples, by adopting a hybrid approach, or by theoretical reflection. Papers for the panel could broach the topics: · Relations between ideas of medium and technologies in STS and media/critical theory. · Analyses of visual, textual, and audio objects that use a combined approach from STS and media/critical theory. · Different ideas of agency (for example, in the context of authors and artists as well as social actors). · Different understandings of interpretation as an act, practice and process. · The relation between local and situated meanings on the one hand and general and abstract terms on the other, and issues of circulation of meaning in mediated settings. · Approaches to contextualised ethics and socio-political responsibility or intervention that draw on STS and media/critical theory. Please submit your abstract electronically via the webpage / link below of the conference, and make sure to suggest that your paper will fit into open panel no 46: Mediated practices. http://www.4sonline.org/meeting The deadline for abstract submissions is March 11. For further information and details, feel free to contact any of the organizers: Anne Beaulieu, Annamaria Carusi, Aud Sissel Hoel, or Sarah de Rijcke. --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 11:40:23 +0000 From: Stuart Dunn Subject: 2012 Digiclass Seminars CFP In-Reply-To: <4F1EDAF9.6050504@kcl.ac.uk> Digital Classicist 2012: Call for Papers The annual Digital Classicist seminar series on the subject of research into the ancient world that has an innovative digital component will run again in Summer 2012. We warmly welcome contributions from students as well as from established researchers and practitioners. Themes could include digital text, linguistics technology, imaging and visualization, linked data, open access, geographic analysis, serious gaming and any other digital or quantitative methods. While we welcome high-quality application papers discussing individual projects, the series also hopes to accommodate broader theoretical consideration of the use of digital technology in Classical studies. The content should be of interest both to classicists, ancient historians or archaeologists, and to information scientists or digital humanists, and have an academic research agenda relevant to at least one of those fields. The seminars will run on Friday afternoons (16:30-18:00) from June to mid-July in Senate House, London, hosted by the Institute of Classical Studies (ending early this year to avoid clashing with the Olympic Games). In previous years collected papers from the seminars have been published in a special issue of Digital Medievalist; a printed volume from Ashgate Press; a BICS supplement (in production). The last few years’ papers have been released as audio podcasts. We have had expressions of interest in further print volumes from more than one publisher. There is a budget to assist with travel to London (usually from within the UK, but we have occasionally been able to assist international presenters to attend, so please enquire). To submit a paper for consideration for the Digital Classicist Seminars, please email an abstract of 300-500 words to gabriel.bodard@kcl.ac.uk, by midnight UTC on April 1st, 2012. More information will be found at http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2012.html -- Dr Gabriel BODARD (Research Associate in Digital Epigraphy) Department of Digital Humanities King's College London 26-29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL Email: gabriel.bodard@kcl.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 1388 Fax: +44 (0)20 7848 2980 http://www.digitalclassicist.org/ http://www.currentepigraphy.org/ --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 08:42:05 -0500 From: Julia Flanders Subject: Workshop: Knowledge Organization and Data Modeling in the Humanities In-Reply-To: <4F1EDAF9.6050504@kcl.ac.uk> Knowledge Organization and Data Modeling in the Humanities Providence, Rhode Island March 14-16, 2012 http://datasymposium.wordpress.com The Centre for Digital Editions in Würzburg and the Brown University Center for Digital Scholarship are pleased to announce a workshop entitled “Knowledge Organization and Data Modeling in the Humanities.” This event, sponsored by a generous grant from the DFG/NEH Bilateral Digital Humanities Program, brings together digital humanists, humanities scholars, and information theorists to consider how digital methods of knowledge representation in the humanities have developed during the past thirty years. Through theoretical papers, case studies, panel sessions, and discussion, the workshop will explore how the various models now available to us shape and inflect the research objects we create and the research we undertake with them. For a full schedule, list of invited participants, and abstracts please see http://datasymposium.wordpress.com. Although the workshop itself is limited by time and space, we would like to encourage virtual participation in several different ways. Between now and the workshop event, we'll be highlighting each session and its participants in turn on the workshop web site, inviting questions and preliminary discussion. We also invite virtual participation in the workshop via twitter and chat; more detail on that will be forthcoming. All comments, questions, and contributions will be of great value to us in writing the final white paper, which (together with the presentations) will be published online. To frame the presentations and discussion we will keep in mind a set of larger theoretical and strategic questions, which will be the focus of the white paper arising from the workshop: • Why do certain ways of modeling humanities data feel natural to us, and what hidden assumptions (about texts, artifacts, usage, and scholarship) do they reflect? • Do data models reflect real information structures or create them? • What are the practical and strategic advantages of specific models in specific contexts? • What are the latent or explicit politics of knowledge representation systems? • What do we learn from changes in representational models over time? • What new developments in information modeling might hold value for the humanities? • What are the most urgent and compelling research questions in information modeling for the humanities? where are these being addressed? • Where are information modeling issues visible in the work of digital humanities scholarship? what is their practical impact and where can insights into information modeling improve the effectiveness or quality of these projects? • How do information models and humanities scholarship intersect, and where do we see them exerting mutual pressure on one another? what can information modeling learn from humanities scholarship and vice versa? We look forward to the discussion! Julia Flanders and Fotis Jannidis --[5]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 12:21:51 -0600 From: Brent Nelson Subject: SDH-SEMI 2012 deadline for proposals is fast approaching In-Reply-To: <4F1EDAF9.6050504@kcl.ac.uk> Apologies for cross-posting. This is a reminder that the deadline for proposals for SDH-SEMI (1 February) is fast approaching. CFP below: Society for Digital Humanities / Société pour l'étude des médias interactifs Call for Papers (See the French version below) Crossroads: Scholarship for an Uncertain World 2012 Annual Meeting of the Society for Digital Humanities / Société pour l'étude des médias interactifs The Society for Digital Humanities (SDH/SEMI) invites scholars, practitioners, and graduate students to submit proposals for papers and sessions for its annual meeting, which will be held at the 2012 Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, Wilfrid Laurier University and University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, from 28-30 May. The society would like in particular to encourage submissions relating to the central theme of the Congress–“Crossroads: Scholarship for an Uncertain World.” While this year’s Congress theme is well suited to the interests of SDH/SEMI, we encourage submissions on all topics relating to both theory and practice in the evolving field of the digital humanities. Our keynote speaker and recipient of this year’s award for Outstanding Achievement for Computing in the Arts and Humanities is Ronald Tetreault (Dalhousie University). The conference will also present joint sessions with ACCUTE and Canadian Game Studies Association/Association Canadienne d’Études Vidéoludiques (http://sdh-semi.org/). Proposals should specify any preference for inclusion in this joint session. Proposals for papers (20 min.), posters, and panels or roundtables (2-6 speakers for a 1½ hour session) will be accepted until 1 February 2012 and must be submitted athttp://www.sdh-semi.org/conference/. Abstracts should be between 200 and 400 words long, and should clearly indicate the paper's thesis, methodology and conclusions. There is a limited amount of funding available to support graduate student travel. Please note that all presenters must be members of SDH/SEMI at the time of the conference. Selected papers from the conference will appear in a special collection published in the society journal, Digital Studies/Le champ numérique (http://www.digitalstudies.org). Program committee: Brent Nelson (program chair), Aimée Morrison (local organizer), Eric Moore, Harvey Quamen, Jon Saklofske, Susan Brown, Stéfan Sinclair, Dan O’Donnell, Michael Eberle-Sinatra Appel de communications À la croisée des chemins: Le savoir face à un monde incertain Réunion annuelle de 2012 de la Society for Digital Humanities / Société pour l'étude des médias interactifs (SDH/SEMI) La Société pour l'étude des médias interactifs invite chercheurs et étudiants aux cycles supérieurs à soumettre des propositions de communication et de session pour sa réunion annuelle, qui se tiendra au Congrès 2012 de la Fédération canadienne des sciences humaines à l’Université Wilfrid Laurier et l’Université de Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, du 28 au 30 mai. La Société souhaite encourager en particulier des propositions concernant le thème central de la réunion : « À la croisée des chemins : Le savoir face à un monde incertain ». Bien que le thème du congrès de cette année soit bien adapté aux intérêts de la SDH/SEMI, nous encourageons également toute communication qui traite des sciences humaines numériques, tant au niveau théorique que pratique. Ronald Tetraul (Dalhousie University), récipiendaire du prix 2012 pour une contribution exceptionnelle dans le domaine des arts et sciences humaines informatiques, sera notre conférencier plénier. La conférence présentera aussi des sessions conjointes avec ACCUTE et le Canadian Game Studies Association/Association Canadienne d’Études Vidéoludiques (http://sdh-semi.org/). Les participants devraient indiquer leur intérêt à participer aux sessions conjointes. Les propositions de communication (20'), posters et de session ou table-ronde (2-6 participants pour une période d'une heure trente) seront acceptées jusqu’au 1 février 2012 et doivent être soumises à http://www.sdh-semi.org/conference/. Les résumés devraient compter entre 200 et 400 mots, et indiquer clairement la thématique, méthodologie, et conclusion. La société a des fonds limités pour les frais de déplacements pour les étudiants. Veuillez noter que tout présentateur devra être membre de la SDH/SEMI au moment de la conférence. Une sélection des présentations de la conférence sera publiées dans un numéro spécial du journal de la Société, le Digital Studies/Le champ numérique (http://www.digitalstudies.org). Comité scientifique: Brent Nelson (program chair), Aimée Morrison (local organizer), Eric Moore, Harvey Quamen, Jon Saklofske, Susan Brown, Stéfan Sinclair, Dan O’Donnell, Michael Eberle-Sinatra -- @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Dr. Brent Nelson, Associate Professor Department of English 9 Campus Dr. University of Saskatchewan Saskatoon, SK S7N 5A5 ph.: (306) 966-1820 fax.: (306) 966-5951 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Jan 26 09:45:48 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 478CC25384A; Thu, 26 Jan 2012 09:45:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 95471253835; Thu, 26 Jan 2012 09:45:43 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120126094543.95471253835@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 09:45:43 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.671 seeing the digital humanities through the eyes of students X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 671. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 09:36:02 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: seeing the digital humanities through the eyes of students As the digital humanities PhD programme at King's College London grows, the variety of research proposals which come in affords us the opportunity to observe what applicants consider digital humanities research to be. Admittedly the sampling of people with ideas on the subject is small -- so far, I'd estimate, somewhere between 40 and 50 enquiries serious enough to come with actual proposals, most of them within the last couple of years. Since they're proposals in effect to commit significant time, effort and funds to research in the discipline, it would seem to me that they constitute particularly valuable evidence for our deliberations about e.g. whether one big tent is preferable to many smaller ones, or whether the versioning of software is a good way to think about the development of the field (hence Digital Humanities 2.0 etc). One question that arises from these proposals and that arose clearly this morning from one of them in particular is, what qualifies a research project as one best pursued in the digital humanities as its primary locus? The fact that an object of study happens to be in digital form or that digital tools happen to be used in the study of it surely isn't enough. However big the tent or however open its sides may be, I'd think, the practicalities an individual faces in becoming disciplined, which the institutional form of a department and its programmes vitally support, means a choice between what's centrally a digital humanities doctoral project and what's not. Shades of grey and variety in the style of choosing, of course, but still choices have to be made in order that the research be done in the best environment for it. (Surely we can foresee a time when a high percentage of all proposals across all departments in the humanities have or explicitly involve a digital component. And, unfortunately, we still have to fend off the tiresome pseudo-Marxist argument about the withering away of the discipline as all becomes digitally instantiated.) The question I want to ask now is, can we glimpse something like a guiding principle in these pragmatic choices? This morning I found myself writing that a doctoral project in our discipline foregrounds the digital phenomena as such, then lets everything else, including theory, arise from it -- or at least devotes a substantial part of the dissertation to such an exercise. What do you think? Yours, WM -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor (fractional), University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Jan 27 10:31:55 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99A4325151F; Fri, 27 Jan 2012 10:31:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 9645B251503; Fri, 27 Jan 2012 10:31:41 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120127103141.9645B251503@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 10:31:41 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.672 through the eyes of students X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 672. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Willard McCarty (36) Subject: a digital humanities PhD [2] From: dean@rehberger.us (82) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.671 seeing the digital humanities through the eyesof students --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 12:13:00 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: a digital humanities PhD Forwarded with permission. WM -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Re: what you think > Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 13:42:16 +0300 > From: Diliana Stoyanova Dear Professor McCarty, Here are my two cents on the question that you asked. When I was looking for a place to submit my proposal, I wondered over and over, where does it fit and what is its identity as a research question. I started with elimination – it wasn't law because there were not pure juridical questions; it wasn't politics because I was not reviewing theories and systems; it wasn't computer science – no coding or layers anywhere; it wasn't communications or history; it was a little of everything and none of them at the same time. I think my dilemma back then is similar to the question that you are asking. After all, we live in a world where lawyers study biotechnology and IT; where art students learn business; where engineers dive into economics and international development. The fact of the matter is, digital humanities is a true inter-disciplinary field, which is both a blessing and a curse, giving it a multi-dimensional nature and no established contextual identity. It is like a new word that everybody uses but every single person attaches a different meaning to, or an old word that has taken on something with the change of the times. For example, when we say history we don't just mean reading old texts and arguing about the order of events, we talk about languages, culture, philosophy, technology, sociology, ethno-musicology, genetics, engineering, mathematics, on and on and on. But that doesn't mean history doesn't have its separate identity as a field. What digital humanities is for me is a new perspective on questions that cannot be answered anywhere else, the perspective of how can the world be changed (or made a better place) by the digital technologies, instead of using them to perpetuate the status quo and its inherent problems. [...] Best regards, Diliana --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 10:42:08 -0500 From: dean@rehberger.us Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.671 seeing the digital humanities through the eyesof students In-Reply-To: <20120126094543.95471253835@woodward.joyent.us> Willard, I think this is a key question that we really do need to answer. I was thinking of this very issue in a different context when confronted with the notion of creating a taxonomy for the digital humanities. Starting out, I thought it would be an easy and fun adventure, but after many tries at the white board creating nodal maps, I quickly found it too painful to finish. Obviously, the digital humanities methods taxonomy produced by King’s College (http://www.arts-humanities.net/ictguides/methods) is a possible way to go and is an excellent guide for grouping how we go about doing what we do, but it really solves no problems for us since the applications of the methods could be in any discipline whether humanities or not. Although I do know some folks who call themselves digital humanists whose primary work has not been in traditional disciplinary scholarship but on developing methods in network analysis, scholarly communication, or HCI, for example, particularly in area of writing studies. Part of the problem, of course, is not our tent but the vagaries and vicissitudes of the humanities in the academy (particularly in US institutions). Is history a humanities discipline or a social science? Can doing 3d modeling with an anthropologist (who sees herself as a scientist) be considered digital humanities work? Is a project with a natural history museum digital humanities? Is a project conducted by computer scientists working with a large store of historical audio a digital humanities project? That is, do we define digital humanities by the content of the project or by the participation of a person credentialized by an institution as a “humanist”? Dean Rehberger _____________________________ 409 Natural Science Building East Lansing MI 48824-1120 Direct: 517.353.4969 Main: 517.355.9300 Fax (517)-355-8363 Director, Matrix, http://matrix.msu.edu On Jan 26, 2012, at 4:45 AM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 671. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 09:36:02 +0000 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: seeing the digital humanities through the eyes of students > > > As the digital humanities PhD programme at King's College London grows, > the variety of research proposals which come in affords us the > opportunity to observe what applicants consider digital humanities > research to be. Admittedly the sampling of people with ideas on the > subject is small -- so far, I'd estimate, somewhere between 40 and 50 > enquiries serious enough to come with actual proposals, most of them > within the last couple of years. Since they're proposals in effect to > commit significant time, effort and funds to research in the discipline, > it would seem to me that they constitute particularly valuable evidence > for our deliberations about e.g. whether one big tent is preferable to many > smaller ones, or whether the versioning of software is a good way to > think about the development of the field (hence Digital Humanities 2.0 etc). > > One question that arises from these proposals and that arose clearly > this morning from one of them in particular is, what qualifies a > research project as one best pursued in the digital humanities as its > primary locus? The fact that an object of study happens to be in digital > form or that digital tools happen to be used in the study of it surely > isn't enough. However big the tent or however open its sides may be, I'd > think, the practicalities an individual faces in becoming disciplined, > which the institutional form of a department and its programmes vitally > support, means a choice between what's centrally a digital humanities > doctoral project and what's not. Shades of grey and variety in the style > of choosing, of course, but still choices have to be made in order that > the research be done in the best environment for it. (Surely we can > foresee a time when a high percentage of all proposals across all > departments in the humanities have or explicitly involve a digital > component. And, unfortunately, we still have to fend off the tiresome > pseudo-Marxist argument about the withering away of the discipline as > all becomes digitally instantiated.) > > The question I want to ask now is, can we glimpse something like a > guiding principle in these pragmatic choices? > > This morning I found myself writing that a doctoral project in our > discipline foregrounds the digital phenomena as such, then lets > everything else, including theory, arise from it -- or at least devotes > a substantial part of the dissertation to such an exercise. > > What do you think? > > Yours, > WM > -- > Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's > College London; Professor (fractional), University of Western Sydney; > Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, > Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Jan 27 10:35:39 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A74125159B; Fri, 27 Jan 2012 10:35:39 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B3225251591; Fri, 27 Jan 2012 10:35:31 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20120127103531.B3225251591@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 10:35:31 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.673 infographic flatland X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============1534179194==" Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org --===============1534179194== Content-Type: text/plain Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 673. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org dear humanists, i completely agree with the words of domenico fiormonte. i had the same thoughts after reading the infographic about DH. my first question was, and still is: do the authors know of "others"? other nations, other associations, other people, other names for DH, other points of view. this infographics contains more advertising than information: i have nothing against advertising, i worked for year in that world, but it must be declared as such. maurizio lana > > I wonder how data about the rest of the world were collected. As it > > is, this infographics reflects a vision of Digital Humanities as a big > > Anglo-american Empire with small satellites here and there. It is > > mono-lingual, mono-cultural, and, above all, poorly researched. > > Numbers cannot tell an inclusive and respectful story of Humanities > > Computing, Informatica Umanistica or Digitale Geisteswissenschaften. > > Dense cultural issues cannot be represented like this. It is not just > > a matter of being "included" in or "excluded" from a family, it is a > > sense of an entire international community being flattened and > > misrepresented. ------- Maurizio Lana - ricercatore Università del Piemonte Orientale, Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici via Manzoni 8, 13100 Vercelli - tel. +39 347 7370925 --===============1534179194== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php --===============1534179194==-- From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Jan 27 10:36:41 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DC75251618; Fri, 27 Jan 2012 10:36:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 995B32515EA; Fri, 27 Jan 2012 10:36:33 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120127103633.995B32515EA@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 10:36:33 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.674 jobs: postdoc at Emory X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 674. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 13:06:41 -0500 From: Brian Croxall Subject: Two-year Mellon Postdoctoral Digital Humanities Fellowship at Emory'sDiSC [Atlanta] The Emory University Libraries invites applications for a two-year postdoctoral fellow to work in the Digital Scholarship Commons (DiSC; http://web.library.emory.edu/disc), a new center for digital scholarship based in Emory University’s Robert W. Woodruff Library. The position is funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Responsibilities The Mellon postdoctoral fellow will collaborate on digital humanities projects in partnership with librarians, faculty members, and graduate students. He/she will serve as project researcher, content administrator, editorial associate, reviewer, and technologist. The Fellow will be exposed to changing practices, tools, and products of digital scholarship and will gain training in project development, project management, developmental editing, online presentation, and digital archiving. Qualifications Required: Experience with digital scholarship projects and initiatives, advanced humanities research experience, technology skills, subject expertise, and strong written and verbal communication skills. Applicants must have successfully defended the dissertation or be on track to defend by the end of Summer 2012. Experience with some or all of the following is desired: - Wordpress, Omeka or other CMS - data visualization tools and methods - programming (Python, Ruby etc.) - text-mining tools and methods - GIS tools and methods Applicants should submit the following: - A current CV - A cover letter which describes - why he/she wants to work in DiSC; - how this position fits in to his/her overall professional goals; and - how he/she uses technology in their academic work OR examples of digital scholarship he/she admires and why. Send materials and contact information for three references to: Linda Nodine, Library Human Resources, via email to necharl@emory.edu. (Full mailing address is: Robert W. Woodruff Library, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322-2870.) Application review begins March 1, 2012. Phone interviews will take place in mid-March with campus interviews at the end of the month. The position could start as early as late April 2012 but will start no later than the end of August 2012. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Jan 27 10:37:31 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8ED072516A9; Fri, 27 Jan 2012 10:37:30 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 335A1251696; Fri, 27 Jan 2012 10:37:25 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120127103725.335A1251696@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 10:37:25 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.675 crowd-sourcing 3d images X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 675. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 07:28:28 -0500 From: Doug Reside Subject: Crowd sourcing 3d images >From the about page of Stereogranimator (http://stereo.nypl.org/): > NYPL Labs is proud to bring you the Stereogranimator, a tool for > transforming historical stereographs from The New York Public > Library's vast collections into shareable 3D web formats. This site is > all about your participation, so have fun with it, experiment with it, > and let us know how we can improve it. --- This is a really cool little experiment in crowd sourcing my colleagues have been working on. You can generate 3d images ala-ViewMaster through a nifty little JavaScript toy that mashes them into an animated GIF or a red/blue composite. Check it out! Doug _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Jan 29 18:12:02 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7917256090; Sun, 29 Jan 2012 18:12:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 73F3725607B; Sun, 29 Jan 2012 18:11:54 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120129181154.73F3725607B@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2012 18:11:54 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.676 infographics in non-flat worlds X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 676. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 09:19:15 -0500 From: Devin Griffiths Subject: infographics in non-flat worlds In-Reply-To: <20120127103531.B3225251591@woodward.joyent.us> Hi all, I just wanted to chime in and say that I appreciate the active conversation of the limitations of the infographic produced by Melissa and UCLDH, *but* I think the emphasis is misplaced. In a world that is emphatically non-flat, any single slice of information will be inadequate to the task of representing our cosmos. And we know the limitations of projection mapping, from Mecator to Albers. At the same time, we need coherent and focused arguments to move the conversation along, especially for non-specialists, especially for our local communities. And in a series of conversations I've been having with administrators around the US, the key question I have to confront is whether DH research is viable. This graphic presents a coherent argument that it is. Yes, this is advertising. And it is needed. I'd also point out that, in a discipline that continues to debate whether a single moniker like "digital humanities" can capture the wide and incoherent array of practices we deploy, we should expect coordinating and simplifying representations to bump into the same problems. But I don't think the answer is to do away with them, or, as Borges suggests in his story on exactitude, to create maps that are as large as the world itself. In addition to problems and distortions, there are virtues in abstraction. Thanks, Devin Griffiths Devin Griffiths Post-Doctoral Fellow English Department University of Pennsylvania 331 Fisher-Bennet Hall 3340 Walnut St. Philadelphia, PA 19104-6273 215.573.7323; fax 215.573.2063 On 1/27/12 5:35 AM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 673. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > dear humanists, > > i completely agree with the words of domenico fiormonte. > i had the same thoughts after reading the infographic about DH. my first > question was, and still is: do the authors know of "others"? other > nations, other associations, other people, other names for DH, other > points of view. > > this infographics contains more advertising than information: i have > nothing against advertising, i worked for year in that world, but it > must be declared as such. > > maurizio lana > >>> I wonder how data about the rest of the world were collected. As it >>> is, this infographics reflects a vision of Digital Humanities as a big >>> Anglo-american Empire with small satellites here and there. It is >>> mono-lingual, mono-cultural, and, above all, poorly researched. >>> Numbers cannot tell an inclusive and respectful story of Humanities >>> Computing, Informatica Umanistica or Digitale Geisteswissenschaften. >>> Dense cultural issues cannot be represented like this. It is not just >>> a matter of being "included" in or "excluded" from a family, it is a >>> sense of an entire international community being flattened and >>> misrepresented. > ------- > Maurizio Lana - ricercatore > Università del Piemonte Orientale, Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici > via Manzoni 8, 13100 Vercelli - tel. +39 347 7370925 > > > > _______________________________________________ > List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php > Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Jan 29 18:13:11 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC8AF256112; Sun, 29 Jan 2012 18:13:11 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 125392560F7; Sun, 29 Jan 2012 18:13:06 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120129181306.125392560F7@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2012 18:13:05 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.677 through the eyes of students X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 677. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:52:28 -0800 From: "Dr. Katherine D. Harris" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.672 through the eyes of students In-Reply-To: <20120127103141.9645B251503@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Willard, Thank you for bringing up this important question -- DH through the eyes of our students. There's been a movement of late to highlight digital pedagogy (the use of tools in the undergraduate classroom), but that begs the question about when to expose students to theorizing the tools and then ostensibly (if they haven't already done so) building something with those tools. (I'm think of "tools" very liberally here.) You mention already the proposal for dissertations as an interesting source for definitions of Digital Humanities. I wonder if there are other areas that will tell us how this younger set are defining DH (academic computing, or what have you)? RE:Humanities, a conference by/for/about undergraduate work in DH, will highlight students' insights into DH and should prove a nice grounding for this kind of question. In the end, I'm curious: what are we teaching them, and have they taken a jump into the deep end by themselves? (After all, the advice of late has been to volunteer for some project, get in there, get dirty, learn something new in order to obtain experience in Digital Humanities.) All best, Kathy Harris ************************** Dr. Katherine D. Harris Tenured Assistant Professor Department of English & Comparative Literature San Jose State University Research Blog: http://triproftri.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 Jan 30 10:06:17 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96AFE2557D1; Mon, 30 Jan 2012 10:06:17 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 80AC92557C4; Mon, 30 Jan 2012 10:06:14 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120130100614.80AC92557C4@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 10:06:14 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.678 through the eyes of students X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 678. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2012 13:47:45 -0500 From: "Mark LeBlanc" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.677 through the eyes of students In-Reply-To: <20120129181306.125392560F7@woodward.joyent.us> in response to Dr. Katherine D. Harris, "what are we teaching them?" here's one on-going attempt: http://cs.wheatoncollege.edu/~mleblanc/courses.html --> see link under Spring 2012 COMP 131 -- Computing for Poets m On Sun, 29 Jan 2012 18:13:05 +0000 (GMT) Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 677. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:52:28 -0800 > From: "Dr. Katherine D. Harris" > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.672 through the eyes of students > In-Reply-To: <20120127103141.9645B251503@woodward.joyent.us> > > > Dear Willard, > > Thank you for bringing up this important question -- DH through the >eyes of > our students. There's been a movement of late to highlight digital >pedagogy > (the use of tools in the undergraduate classroom), but that begs the > question about when to expose students to theorizing the tools and >then > ostensibly (if they haven't already done so) building something with >those > tools. (I'm think of "tools" very liberally here.) > > You mention already the proposal for dissertations as an interesting >source > for definitions of Digital Humanities. I wonder if there are other >areas > that will tell us how this younger set are defining DH (academic >computing, > or what have you)? > > RE:Humanities, a conference by/for/about undergraduate work in DH, >will > highlight students' insights into DH and should prove a nice >grounding for > this kind of question. > > In the end, I'm curious: what are we teaching them, and have they >taken a > jump into the deep end by themselves? (After all, the advice of late >has > been to volunteer for some project, get in there, get dirty, learn > something new in order to obtain experience in Digital Humanities.) > > All best, > Kathy Harris > ************************** > Dr. Katherine D. Harris > Tenured Assistant Professor > Department of English & Comparative Literature > San Jose State University > Research Blog: http://triproftri.wordpress.com/ ------------------------------------------------------ Meneely Professor of Computer Science Wheaton College Norton, MA 02766 USA http://cs.wheatoncollege.edu/mleblanc 508.286.3970 ------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Jan 30 10:07:36 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF8F0255826; Mon, 30 Jan 2012 10:07:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 75CEF25581B; Mon, 30 Jan 2012 10:07:28 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120130100728.75CEF25581B@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 10:07:28 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.679 project planning? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 679. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:06:53 +0100 From: Jan Christoph Meister Subject: DH project planning: tools, white papers, guidelines? In-Reply-To: <20120126094543.95471253835@woodward.joyent.us> In the context of the German-Canadian "Digital Commons Initiative" project (funded by an Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung TransCoop grant) we are currently conducting a survey of tools and documents that provide guidelines and practical support for the conceptualization, procuring of funding and project execution. This information will contribute towards building a multi dimensional, interactive project life cycle map as part of a generic "DH project consultant" that is designed to assist researchers and project planners. To this end my team and I would appreciate any pointers to tools, white papers, guidelines, best practice descriptions etc. for planning and executing research projects in the humanities, and specifically in the digital humanities. Thanks, Chris -- _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Jan 30 10:08:38 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3429825587A; Mon, 30 Jan 2012 10:08:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 7B16025585F; Mon, 30 Jan 2012 10:08:32 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120130100832.7B16025585F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 10:08:32 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.680 call for microgrant applications X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 680. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2012 17:08:44 +0000 From: Susan Schreibman Subject: ACH Microgrant Call ACH Microgrants: Web Development and Scholarly Communication Proposals Due 25 February 2012 Awards: ~$200-500; $2000 total grant call The Executive of the Association for Computers and the Humanities is delighted to announce a call for Microgrants. Proposals will be accepted in two categories: * initiatives that enhance the redesigned ACH Website , or * activities that add functionality/features to the online journal Digital Humanities Quarterly Proposals might include developing new content such as podcasts or making existing content more user friendly, more visible, or amenable to analytics. Proposals may take the form of apps, plugins, or tools. For DHQ, of particular interest are proposals focusing on integration of DHQ content with digital humanities tools, visualization of DHQ data, or enrichment of DHQ data. ACH is particularly interested in proposals that focus on enhanced communications with ACH members, our mentoring and advocacy initiatives, Digital Humanities Questions and Answers http://digitalhumanities.org/answers , or on the history of the association. Proposals should seek to draw in the community, expand the existing community, or link to other initiatives. Graduate students and early stage researchers are encouraged to apply. It is expected that grants will be in the range of $US 200-500. These are intended to be small grants that enable innovative activities by community members, such as graduate students, alt-ac faculty and staff, and junior faculty, who don't have access to the resources of senior researchers. Projects should begin no later than three months after receipt of notification of acceptance and should conclude by 31 December 2012. For full details of the call, please see http://www.ach.org/ -- Susan Schreibman, PhD Long Room Hub Associate Professor in Digital Humanities School of English Trinity College Dublin Dublin 2, Ireland email: susan.schreibman@tcd.ie phone: +353 1 896 3694 fax: +353 1 671 7114 check out the new MPhil in Digital Humanities at TCD http://www.tcd.ie/English/postgraduate/digital-humanities/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Jan 30 10:10:20 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id D032A2558EC; Mon, 30 Jan 2012 10:10:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 092E02558DA; Mon, 30 Jan 2012 10:10:12 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120130101013.092E02558DA@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 10:10:12 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.681 events: classics; museums; free knowledge X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 681. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Mahony, Simon" (42) Subject: 2012 Digiclass Seminars CFP [2] From: (44) Subject: MW2012 Best of the Web nominations open: Deadline Feb 21 (plus othernews) [3] From: Franz Fischer (63) Subject: CfP: Wikipedia Academy: Research and Free Knowledge --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:57:34 +0000 From: "Mahony, Simon" Subject: 2012 Digiclass Seminars CFP Digital Classicist 2012: Call for Papers The annual Digital Classicist seminar series on the subject of research into the ancient world that has an innovative digital component will run again in Summer 2012. We warmly welcome contributions from students as well as from established researchers and practitioners. Themes could include digital text, linguistics technology, imaging and visualization, linked data, open access, geographic analysis, serious gaming and any other digital or quantitative methods. While we welcome high-quality application papers discussing individual projects, the series also hopes to accommodate broader theoretical consideration of the use of digital technology in Classical studies. The content should be of interest both to classicists, ancient historians or archaeologists, and to information scientists or digital humanists, and have an academic research agenda relevant to at least one of those fields. The seminars will run on Friday afternoons (16:30-18:00) from June to mid-July in Senate House, London, hosted by the Institute of Classical Studies (ending early this year to avoid clashing with the Olympic Games). In previous years collected papers from the seminars have been published in a special issue of Digital Medievalist; a printed volume from Ashgate Press; a BICS supplement (in production). The last few years’ papers have been released as audio podcasts. We have had expressions of interest in further print volumes from more than one publisher. There is a budget to assist with travel to London (usually from within the UK, but we have occasionally been able to assist international presenters to attend, so please enquire). To submit a paper for consideration for the Digital Classicist Seminars, please email an abstract of 300-500 words to gabriel.bodard@kcl.ac.uk, by midnight UTC on April 1st, 2012. More information will be found at http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2012.html -- Simon Mahony Student Support Manager War Studies Online Department of War Studies King's College London Strand WC2R 2LS http://www.kcl.ac.uk/wimw --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2012 13:11:52 -0800 From: Subject: MW2012 Best of the Web nominations open: Deadline Feb 21 (plus othernews) Museums and the Web 2012: April 11-14, 2012 San Diego, USA: The international conference for culture and heritage online http://www.museumsandtheweb.com/mw2012 Our Tag: #mw2012 ***Best of the Web Nominations Close February 21, 2012*** Each year at MW2012 we recognize the best work by museums on the web. Help us to find it! Suggest a site for consideration by the MW2012 Best of the Web Panel. Nominations close Feb. 21. For full details and deadlines see: http://museumsandtheweb.com/mw2012/best ***MW2012 Program Online*** The full program for Museums and the Web 2012 is online. Start browsing from the Sessions page, and follow the links through to Paper Abstracts and Speaker Profiles. Full papers will be online before the conference. See: http://museumsandtheweb.com/mw2012/sessions ***Pre-Conference Workshops Filling Up*** All of the Pre-Conference workshops at MW2012 have limited enrollment to ensure that they are great learning experiences. If you've been thinking about including a workshop in your registration, do so soon to avoid disappointment. http://museumsandtheweb.com/mw2012/workshops ***MW2012 Registration Online*** You can complete your conference registration quickly and easily online at http://www.museumsandtheweb.com/mw2012/registration ***MW2012 Conference Hotel*** Museums and the Web 2012 (MW2012) will take place at the Sheraton San Diego Hotel & Marina in San Diego, California renowned for its idyllic climate, a dazzling array of world-class family attractions and its 70 miles of pristine beaches. Located at 1380 Harbor Island Drive, San Diego, California 92101 The hotel is nestled at the edge of spectacular San Diego Bay, the Sheraton San Diego Hotel & Marina enjoys panoramic views of the bay and the city skyline yet is just 10 minutes from renowned attractions including the San Diego Zoo, Old Town and Balboa Park. Make your reservation online by March 20th to reserve the conference rate at https://www.starwoodmeeting.com/StarGroupsWeb/booking/reservation?id=1110139217&key=ACE64 ------------------------- See You There! We're looking forward to another great international gathering at Museums and the Web. Already, there are more than twenty countries represented. We hope to see you in San Diego, for the 16th Museums and the Web. Nancy and Rich Co-Chair Museums and the Web 2012 --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 08:51:55 +0100 From: Franz Fischer Subject: CfP: Wikipedia Academy: Research and Free Knowledge CfP: Wikipedia Academy: Research and Free Knowledge. Berlin, 29.06.2012-01.07.2012 The free online Encyclopedia Wikipedia answers questions of millions of users every day. Wikipedia’s mere existence, growth, (social and technical) functioning and quality also raises an enormous number of research questions. The “Wikipedia Academy 2012: Research and Free Knowledge” provides a platform for the research community and the Wikipedia community to connect, present, discuss and advance research on Wikipedia in particular and on free knowledge in general. The Wikipedia Academy 2012 is organized by Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. in collaboration with the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society and Freie Universität Berlin. The conference will take place in Berlin, June 29 to July 1, 2012. The event will be open to all interested parties and features a variety of session formats, ranging from panel discussions and tracks with traditional paper presentations to break-out sessions, lightning talks, poster presentations and a science fair. We particularly encourage young doctoral and postdoctoral researcher to participate and to submit extended abstracts. For research paper and poster sessions, we encourage the submission of extended abstracts addressing issues in the overall nexus of Wikipedia and free knowledge. Proposal submission deadline: 31.03.2012 Wikipedia Analytics - Wikis and Wikipedia as a research tool - Analyzing Wikipedia as a source of “Big Data” - Assessing and measuring the quality of Wikipedia articles Wikipedia Global - Relations and Differences between different Wikipedia language versions - Differences between and critique of free/open knowledge ideologies - Regional studies of Wikipedia and free knowledge with global lessons Sharing Cultures and Practices - Sharing culture(s) in Wikipedia and other projects of commons-based peer production - Incentives, innovation and community dynamics in open collaborative peer production - Wiki theory and wiki practices Research on Users of and Contributors to Wikipedia - Diversity among users of and contributors to Wikipedia - Influencing participation by adapting user interfaces in open collaborative settings - Using information visualization as information instrument to users and contributors Economic and Regulatory Aspects of Free Knowledge - Economic, regulatory and societal implications of (increased) access to free knowledge - Different Modes of Governance: Emergence of Order and Coordination in Wikipedia - The role of licensing decisions for Wikipedia and other collaborative forms of knowledge production http://wikipedia-academy.de academy@wikimedia.de -- Dr. des. Franz Fischer Cologne Center for eHumanities / Thomas-Institut Universität zu Köln, Universitätsstr. 22, D-50923 Köln Telefon: +49 - (0)221 - 470 - 6883/1750 Email: franz.fischer@uni-koeln.de -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.cceh.uni-koeln.de/ http://www.i-d-e.de/ http://www.thomasinstitut.uni-koeln.de/ http://ti-intern.uni-koeln.de/sdoe/ http://confessio.ie/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Jan 31 06:48:13 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33C37256E6B; Tue, 31 Jan 2012 06:48:13 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 41D9D256E57; Tue, 31 Jan 2012 06:48:08 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120131064808.41D9D256E57@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 06:48:08 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.682 project planning X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 682. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: James Smith (30) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.679 project planning? [2] From: Lynne Siemens (26) Subject: RE: [Humanist] 25.679 project planning? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:15:17 -0500 From: James Smith Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.679 project planning? In-Reply-To: <20120130100728.75CEF25581B@woodward.joyent.us> On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 5:07 AM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > > To this end my team and I would appreciate any pointers to tools, white > papers, guidelines, best practice descriptions etc. for planning and > executing research projects in the humanities, and specifically in the > digital humanities. > Here at MITH, we've been successful using a process based on SCRUM: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrum_(development) . We're a small team, so we don't make use of all of the aspects of the process. The most important thing is that we don't work out all of the details for each milestone in a project until we start the milestone. This gives us flexibility to change details as we learn during the development process. For each milestone, we try to break down work items so that each item requires no more than four hours of work (estimated). By having each item be four hours of work or less, we can have everything in our mind that we need to attack the item without having to dump it all and rebuild it because we ended the workday part way through finishing the item. We then prioritize these items based on how critical they are to the success of the project. When we run out of time on a milestone, we either drop what wasn't done, or move it to a new milestone where we prioritize it along with everything else for that milestone. If it doesn't get done by the end of the project, it's because the item wasn't important enough to push something else out of the way. This has allowed us to do rapid development with a small team while avoiding burnout. We hit the highlights in a project without getting bogged down in a never ending project. We also don't get overwhelmed by the full scope of the project since we focus on each milestone individually. -- James Smith --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 07:45:35 -0800 From: Lynne Siemens Subject: RE: [Humanist] 25.679 project planning? In-Reply-To: <20120130100728.75CEF25581B@woodward.joyent.us> Hi Chris, This has been a research interest of mine with a few presentations at the Digital Humanities conferences. I have also had several papers published that might be of use for your project. These include: · Siemens, L., Cunningham, R., Duff, W. & Warwick, C. (2011). ""More minds are brought to bear on a problem": Methods of Interaction and Collaboration within Digital Humanities Research Teams". Digital Studies/Le champ numérique. 2.2. pp. 22. http://www.digitalstudies.org/ojs/index.php/digital_studies/article/view/185. · Siemens, L., Cunningham, R., Duff, W. & Warwick, C. (2011). "The Tale of Two Cities: Implications of the Similarities and Differences in Collaborative Approaches within the Digital Libraries and Digital Humanities Communities". Literary & Linguistic Computing, 26.3. 335-348. · Siemens, L. (2011). "The Balance between On-line and In-person Interactions: Methods for the Development of Digital Humanities Collaboration". Digital Studies/Le champ numérique. 2.1. pp. 19. http://www.digitalstudies.org/ojs/index.php/digital_studies/article/view/184. · Siemens, L. (2010). "The Potential of Grant Applications as Team Building Exercises". Journal of Research Administration, 61.2. 75-89. · Siemens, L. (2009). "'It's a team if you use 'reply all': An Exploration of Research Teams in Digital Humanities Environments". Literary & Linguistic Computing, 24.2. 225-233. · Siemens, L. (2010). "Time, Place and Cyberspace: Foundations for Successful E-Research Collaboration". In E-Research Collaboration: Theory, Techniques and Challenges, Murugan Anandarajan and Asokan Anandarajan, Eds. Springer-Verlag. 35-48. I have also been researching the nature of collaboration within the large-scale, long-term research project Implementing new Knowledge Environments (INKE). These papers include: · Siemens, L. and the INKE Research Group (2010). "Understanding Long Term Collaboration: Reflections on Year 1 and Before". Research Foundations for Understanding Books and Reading in the Digital Age. pp. 3. · Siemens, L. with the INKE Research Group (2009). "From Writing the Grant to Working the Grant: An Exploration of Processes and Procedures in Transition". Proceedings of INKE 2009. 2009. pp. 32. http://conferences.uvic.ca/index.php/INKE/inke2009_october/paper/view/49. · Siemens, L. and the INKE Research Group (2011). "'Firing on all Cylinders': Progress and Transition in INKE's Year 2". Research Foundations for Understanding Books and Reading in the Digital Age. pp. 24. Cheers Lynne Lynne Siemens Assistant Professor Masters of Community Development (publicadmin.uvic.ca/macd) School of Public Administration University of Victoria Telephone: (250) 721-8069 Fax: (250) 721-8849 Email: siemensl@uvic.ca _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Jan 31 06:48:46 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB868256EBB; Tue, 31 Jan 2012 06:48:45 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 2362D256EA9; Tue, 31 Jan 2012 06:48:41 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120131064841.2362D256EA9@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 06:48:41 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.683 events: social computing X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 683. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 11:14:41 +0000 From: Judith Simon Subject: cfp: SOCIAL TURN/SNAMAS @ AISB 2012 - DEADLINE EXTENDED (March 2, 2012) CALL FOR PAPERS Symposium on SOCIAL COMPUTING - SOCIAL COGNITION - SOCIAL NETWORKS AND MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS @ AISB/IACAP 2012 July 2nd – 3rd 2012 https://sites.google.com/site/socialturnsnamasaisbiacap2012/ The symposium is part of the AISB/IACAP World Congress 2012 in honour of Alan Turing, held on July 2nd to 6th, 2012. University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.http://events.cs.bham.ac.uk/turing12/ & http://www.aisb.org.uk/convention/aisb12/ The event is jointly organized by The Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour (AISB) [http://www.aisb.org.uk ] and The International Association for Computing and Philosophy (IACAP) [http://www.ia-cap.org ] ------------------------------- EXTENDED DEADLINE: March 2, 2012 (apologies for multiple postings - please distribute) IMPORTANT DATES: Paper submission deadline: March 2, 2012. Notification of acceptance: April 2, 2012. Camera ready version deadline: May 4, 2012. Symposium: 2nd – 3rd July, 2012. -------------------------------- NEWS INVITED SPEAKERS Bernhard Rieder, Department of Media Studies, University of Amsterdam. Marek Sergot, Imperial College, London. GRANTS The European Network for Social Intelligence is offering a limited number of travel grants for PhD students and early stage researchers. Please indicate in your paper submission if you want to apply for the travel grants. Further information will be made available on the symposium website. ------------------------------- SYMPOSIUM CHAIRS Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic, Mälardalen University, Sweden. Antonino Rotolo, CIRSFID, U. di Bologna, Italy. Giovanni Sartor, EUI and CIRSFID, Italy. Judith Simon, University of Vienna, Austria and & Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany. Clara Smith, UNLP and UCALP, Argentina. -------------------------------- This 2012 symposium merges the symposium entitled Social Turn: Social Computing - Social Cognition - Social Intelligence; and the SNAMAS symposium, focused on Social Networks and Multi-Agent Systems, which have precursor symposia in Social Computing at IACAP and the SNAMAS in AISB conferences. ---------------------------------- TOPICS The field of social computing has two different foci: social and computational. There is the focus on socialness of social software or social web applications. Widespread examples of social software are blogs, wikis, social bookmarking services, instant messaging services, and social networking sites. Social computing often uses various types of crowdsourcing techniques for aggregation of input from numerous users (public at large). Tools such as prediction markets, social tagging, reputation and trust systems as well as recommender systems are based on collaborative filtering and thus a result of crowdsourcing. Another focus of social computing is on computational modeling of social behavior, among others through Multi-agent systems (MAS) and Social Networks (SN). MAS have an anchoring going beyond social sciences even when a sociological terminology is often used. There are several usages of MAS: to design distributed and/or hybrid systems; to develop philosophical theory; to understand concrete social facts, or to answer concrete social issues via modelling and simulation. MAS aim at modelling, among other things, cognitive or reactive agents who interact in dynamic environments where they possibly depend on each other to achieve their goals. The emphasis is nowadays on constructing complex computational systems composed by agents which are regulated by various types of norms, and behave like human social systems. Finally, Social networks (SN) are social structures made of nodes (which are, generally, individuals or organizations) that are tied by one or more specific types of interdependency, such as values, visions, idea, financial exchange, friends, kinship, dislike, conflict, trade, web links, disease transmission, among many others. Social networks analysis plays a critical role in determining the way specific problems are solved, organizations are run, and the degree to which individuals succeed in achieving their goals. Social networks analysis has addressed also the dynamics issue, called dynamic networks analysis. This is an emergent scientific field that brings together traditional social network analysis, link analysis and multi-agent systems. The symposium addresses, but is not limited to, the following topics: - Conceptual issues such as Socialness (notions of the social used and/or enforced in social computing and research on social cognition or social intelligence) and Computational Models and mechanisms of social computing (information processing) as well as models and social mechanisms of cognition and intelligence. - Agency & Action in social computing systems: How can agency be understood and/or modeled in systems consisting of human and non-human agents? - Social Coordination & Norms: Emergence of norms (e.g. in Wikipedia) and compliance including their computational modeling in socio-technical systems. - Interaction & Communication in socio-technical systems and their computational models - Knowledge: the epistemological and ethical consequences of distributed knowledge creation in social computing and its computational models - Relations between the individual and the social: Forming of individual existence in relation to social computing (e.g. digital identity), including its computational modeling. - Agreement technologies. - Electronic Institutions. - Empirical and/or theoretical studies on a specific social or legal relationship (power, solidarity, legitimity, dependency...). - Empirical and/or theoretical studies on social relations' regulations. - Formalization of Normed Systems. - Logical frameworks for representing, describing and analysing agent's social or legal relationships. - Relations between the individual and the social: Forming of individual existence in relation to social computing (e.g. digital identity), including its info-computational modeling. - Responsibility, Accountability & Liability. What is epistemically and ethically responsible behavior with respect to social software and how can it be supported? What are the responsibilities of different human agents (e.g. software users, designers, researchers, etc)? - Rules and standards. - Social Networking Sites: philosophical implications of socialness in social networking sites (e.g., privacy, social structures, etc.). - Info-computational models of social networking sites. - The role of agents´ attributes in structuring social and legal relationships. - The role of specific social relationships in structuring groups and organizations. - Trust in social computing. Differences and similarities between notions of trust e.g. in multi-agent systems, social networking sites, recommender systems, etc. Differences and similarities between trust online and offline. How can trust be supported by a computational system itself? ------------------------------ IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline: March 2, 2012. Notification of acceptance: April 2, 2012. Camera ready version deadline: May 4, 2012. Symposium: 2nd – 3rd July, 2012. --------------------------------- PAPER SUBMISSION Guidelines for paper submission are as follows: - The paper should be written in English. - The maximum length of a paper is 6 A4-sized pages in ECAI format (format download: http://www.aisb.org.uk/convention/aisb08/download.html). - The paper should be in PDF format. - Please choose one track between SOCIAL TURN and SNAMAS, and submit via the online paper submission system to the corresponding track at: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=socialturnmasaisbiac ------------------------------------- PROGRAM COMMITTEE Doris Allhutter, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria. Frederic Amblard, IRIT, U. Toulouse, France. Giulia Andrighetto, ISTC-CNR, Italy. Carlos Areces, UN Córdoba, Argentina. Guido Boella, University of Torino, Italy. Pompeu Casanovas, UAB Institute of Law and Technology, Spain. Cristiano Castelfranchi, ISTC-CNR, Italy. Mark Coeckelbergh University of Twente, Netherlands Diego Compagna, University Duisburg-Essen, Germany. Rosaria Conte, ISTC-CNR, Italy. Charles Ess, Aarhus University, Danmark. Ricardo Guibourg, UBA, Argentina. Hamid Ekbia, Indiana University, Indiana Lars-Erik Janlert, Umeå University, Sweden Matthias Mailliard, Cemagref, France. Antonio A. Martino, U. Salvador, Argentina. Jeremy Pitt, Imperial College London, UK. Leon Van der Torre, U Louxembourg, Louxembourg. Serena Villata, University of Torino, Italy. Jutta Weber, University Paderborn, Germany. Christian Fuchs, Uppsala University, Sweden. --------------------------------------- POSTERS AND SYSTEM DEMONSTRATIONS There will be one session for system demonstrations, and one day poster exhibition. ---------------------------------------- PROCEEDINGS AND POST PROCEEDINGS There will be a separate proceedings for each symposium, produced before the Congress. Each delegate at the Congress will receive, on arrival, a memory stick containing the proceedings of all symposia. Selected papers of the Symposium, under a second review process, will be considered for a special issue of the AI & Law Journal, Springer http://www.springer.com/computer/ai/journal/10506; and for the open access TripleC journal http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC . -------------------------------------- ABOUT THE CONGRESS The Congress serves both as the year's AISB Convention and the year's IACAP conference. The Congress has been inspired by a desire to honour Alan Turing, and by the broad and deep significance of Turing's work to AI, to the philosophical ramifications of computing, and to Philosophy and computing more generally. The Congress is one of the events forming the Alan Turing Year (http://www.mathcomp.leeds.ac.uk/turing2012/). The intent of the Congress is to stimulate a particularly rich interchange between AI and Philosophy on any areas of mutual interest, whether directly addressing Turing's own research output or not. The Congress will consist mainly of a number of collocated Symposia on specific research areas, interspersed with Congress-wide refreshment breaks, social events and invited Plenary Talks. All papers other than the invited Plenaries will be given within Symposia. This symposium is closely connected to UmoCoP, Symposium on Understanding and Modelling Collective Phenomena, which will be held on July 3rd-5th 2012. There will be a joint panel from both symposia on July 3rd. ---------------------- CONTACTS For further inquiries please contact any of the chairs: gordana.dodig-crnkovic@mdh.se, judith.simon@univie.ac.at (SOCIAL COMPUTING - SOCIAL COGNITION - SOCIAL NETWORKS) antonino.rotolo@unibo.it, giovanni.sartor@libero.it, csmith@info.unlp.edu.ar (MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS) _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Jan 31 07:19:38 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A58F254414; Tue, 31 Jan 2012 07:19:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 374C42543EA; Tue, 31 Jan 2012 07:19:26 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120131071926.374C42543EA@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 07:19:26 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.685 inaugural lectures & departmental news from London X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 685. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org From: Humanist Discussion Group Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 684. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 07:02:15 +0000 From: Andrew Prescott Subject: CeRCH Dear Willard, Two items from the events in London last week which might be of interest to readers of Humanist: 1. As part of the announcement that the Centre for e-Research will be merging with the Department of Digital Humanities, it was also announced that various members of CeRCH will be moving to academic posts. Mark Hedges and Tobias Blanke have been appointed as Senior Lecturer, and Stuart Dunn and Richard Gartner have been appointed as Lecturers. 2. The text of Claire Warwick's lecture is now available on her blog: http://clairewarwick.blogspot.com/2012/01/inaugural-lecture.html The text of my lecture is now on the DDH blog: http://blogs.cch.kcl.ac.uk/wip/2012/01/26/an-electric-current-of-the-imagination/ Best wishes Andrew -- Andrew Prescott Head of Department Department of Digital Humanities King's College London 26-29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL +44 (0)20 7848 2651 www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/ddh _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Feb 1 06:55:46 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 236422571CE; Wed, 1 Feb 2012 06:55:46 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1B5352571B7; Wed, 1 Feb 2012 06:55:38 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120201065539.1B5352571B7@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2012 06:55:38 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.686 join the aaDH! X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 686. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:23:53 +1100 From: Craig Bellamy Subject: Join the aaDH Dear Humanist, As many of you may know, the Australasian Association for Digital Humanities (aaDH) now has a membership model as part of our alignment with the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organisations (ADHO). And in particular, if you are coming to our conference in March in Canberra, we would encourage you to join the aaDH (you may do this by ticking the joint membership box when you subscribe/renew your subscription to LLC). By doing this you will receive a generous discount of roughly AUS$130 to the Conference (this discount is more that the LLC subscription rate!) You will also receive a similar discount for DH2012 in Hamburg. I hope you will consider joining the aaDH and support the Digital Humanities in Australia and New Zealand. http://aa-dh.org/member/ Kind regards, Dr Craig Bellamy, Secretary, aaDH _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Feb 1 06:58:11 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09D66257240; Wed, 1 Feb 2012 06:58:10 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C8952257232; Wed, 1 Feb 2012 06:58:05 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120201065805.C8952257232@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2012 06:58:05 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.687 events: programming; new media X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 687. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Charles Ess (95) Subject: Last call for papers, panel proposals - CATaC'12 (June 18- 20, 2012,Aarhus, Denmark) [2] From: Liesbeth De Mol (189) Subject: Symposium on the History and Philosophy of Programming: EXTENDED DEADLINE (March 2, 2012) --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 10:59:30 +0100 From: Charles Ess Subject: Last call for papers, panel proposals - CATaC'12 (June 18-20, 2012,Aarhus, Denmark) CATaC'12 (Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Communication) ­ Call for Papers, Panel Proposals Conference theme: Beyond the digital/cultural divide: in/visibility and new media. The conference will take place June 18-20, 2012, at Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark. A pre-conference field trip will help us explore local sites of historical and contemporary significance in the development and deployment of diverse communication technologies. The conference dinner will feature some of the best of new Scandinavian cuisine at Nordens Folkekøkken, Aarhus ( http://www.nordensfolkekokken.dk/ ). Keynote speakers * Dr. Rasha Abdullah (Associate Professor and Chair of the Journalism & Mass Communication Department, The American University in Cairo). Provisional title: ³Lessons from Egypt: the roles and limits of social media in political activism and transformation.² * Dr. Randi Markussen (Associate Professor and Head of Group, ³Technologies in Practice,² IT University of Copenhagen).  Provisional title: ³E-Voting and Public Control of Elections.² The biennial CATaC conference series, begun in 1998, has become a premier international forum for current research on the complex interactions between culturally-variable norms, practices, and communication preferences, and interaction with the design, implementation and use of information and communication technologies (ICTs).   CATaC has been ranked by the Australian Research Council among the top 20% of conferences in terms of international impact and significance. Our 2012 conference, as the title suggests, begins with the recognition that the ongoing issues and challenges clustering around digital divides - often involving mutually reinforcing cultural divides - extends beyond classic and stubborn problems of access to new media and communication technologies.  Additional submissions are encouraged that address further conference points of emphasis:   - Theoretical and practical approaches to analyzing 'culture' - New layers of imaging and texting interactions fostering and/or threatening cultural diversity - Impact of mobile technologies on privacy and surveillance - Gender, sexuality and identity issues in social networks - Cultural diversity in e-learning and/or m-learning - Culturally-variable approaches to online identity management/creation, privacy, trust Copyright and intellectual property rights: recent developments, culturally-variable future directions - Culturally-variable responses to commodification in online environments For further details on conference themes and topics, please see the conference website, . Both short (3-5 pages) and long (10-15 pages) original papers are sought for presentation.  Panel proposals addressing a specific theme or topic are also encouraged.   IMPORTANT DATES: Submission of papers (short or full), panel proposals: 17 February 2012     Notification of acceptance: 16 March 2012     Final formatted papers (for conference proceedings): 19 April 2012     Conference: 18-20 June 2012   Registration fees (including pre-conference field trip and conference dinner) Earlybird (until April 20, 2012): Full: $515.00 Reviewer: $495.00 Author: $495.00 Author & Reviewer: $475.00 Student: $400.00 (After April 20, 2012, add $50.00) The primary conference hotel is First Hotel Atlantic ()  Conference participants will receive a discounted rate for accommodations.  Additional accommodations are also available: more details soon on the conference website, along with further details regarding program, submission and registration procedures, travel, etc.   We look forward to welcoming you to Aarhus next June!   Charles Ess (IMV, Aarhus University, Denmark), Chair Fay Sudweeks (Professor Emerita, Murdoch University, Australia), honorary chair Herbert Hrachovec (University of Vienna, Austria) Leah Macfadyen (University of British Columbia, Canada) Jose Abdelnour Nocera (University of West London, UK) Kenneth Reeder (University of British Columbia, Canada) Ylva Hård af Segerstad (Gothenburg University, Gothenburg, Sweden) Michele M. Strano (Bridgewater College, Virginia, USA) Andra Siibak (University of Tartu, Estonia) Maja van der Velden (University of Oslo) --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 12:59:38 +0100 From: Liesbeth De Mol Subject: Symposium on the History and Philosophy of Programming: EXTENDED DEADLINE (March 2, 2012) EXTENDED DEADLINE March 2, 2012: Symposium on the History and Philosophy of Programming 5-6 July 2012 http://www.computing-conference.ugent.be/hapop12 as part of AISB/IACAP World Congress 2012 - Alan Turing 2012 2-6 July 2012 http://events.cs.bham.ac.uk/turing12/index.php IMPORTANT DATES: Paper submission deadline: March 2, 2012. Notification of acceptance: April 2, 2012. Camera ready version deadline: May 4, 2012. ------------------------------------------------------------------ OCCASION As part of the AISB/IACAP World Congress programme, the Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science at Ghent University organizes a one day Symposium on the History and Philosophy of Programming. On the Occasion of the Turing Centennial, from 2-6 July 2012, the AISB (The Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour) and the IACAP (The International Association for Computing and Philosophy) merge their annual symposia/conferences to the AISB/IACAP World Congress. The Congress serves both as the year's AISB Convention and the year's IACAP conference. The Congress has been inspired by a desire to honour Alan Turing, and by the broad and deep significance of Turing's work to AI, to the philosophical ramifications of computing, and to philosophy and computing more generally. The Congress is one of the events forming the Alan Turing Year http://www.mathcomp.leeds.ac.uk/turing2012/ The intent of the Congress is to stimulate a particularly rich interchange between AI and Philosophy on any areas of mutual interest, whether directly addressing Turing's own research output or not. ------------------------------------------------------------------- SCOPE This Symposium follows the organization of the International Conference on History and Philosophy of Computing, held at the University of Ghent from 7 to 10 November 2011 www.computing-conference.ugent.be A historical awareness of the evolution of computing not only helps to clarify the complex structure of the computing sciences, but it also provides an insight in what computing was, is and maybe could be in the future. Philosophy, on the other hand, helps to tackle some of the fundamental problems of computing. The aim of this conference is to zoom into one fundamental aspect of computing, namely the foundational and the historical problems and developments related to the science of programming. Alan Turing himself was driven by the fundamental question of "what are the possible processes which can be carried out in computing a number" [Turing, 1936]. His answer today is well-known, and today we understand a program as a rather complex instance of what became known as the Turing Machine. What is less well-known, is that Turing also wrote one of the first programming manuals ever for the Ferranti Mark I, where one feels the symbolic machine hiding on the back of the Manchester hardware. This was only the beginning of a large research area that today involves logicians, programmers and engineers in the design, understanding and realization of programming languages. That a logico-mathematical-physical object called `program' is so controversial, even though its very nature is mostly hidden away, is rooted in the range of problems, processes and objects that can be solved, simulated, approximated and generated by way of its execution. Given its widespread impact on our lives, it becomes a responsibility of the philosopher and the historian to study the science of programming. ------------------------------------------------------------------- TOPICS The historical and philosophical reflection on the science of programming is the main topic at the core of this Symposium and we expect contributions about the following topics and their intersections: 1. The history of computational systems, machines and programs 2. Foundational issues and paradigms of programming (programming logics, semantics and proof-theories for distributed, secure, cloud, functional, object-oriented, etc.) Our wish is to bring forth to the scientific community a deep understanding and critical view of the problems related to the scientific paradigm represented by the science of programming. Possible and in no way exclusive questions that might be of relevance to this Symposium are: - What was and is the significance of hardware developments for the development of software (and vice versa)? - In how far can the analogue and special-purpose machines built before the 40s programs and what does this mean for our conception of "program" today? - How important has been the hands-off vs. the hands-on approach for the development of programming? - What is the influence of models of computability like Church's lambda-calculus on the development of programming languages? - Which case studies from the history of programming can tell us today something about future directions? - Is programming a science or a technology? - In how far does it make sense to speak about programming paradigms in the sense of Kuhn? - What are the novel and most interesting approaches to the design of programs? - What are the most interesting formal properties of procedural semantics, typed systems, etc? - What is correctness for a program? Issues in Type-checking, Model-checking, etc. - What is the common structure of Proofs and Programs? Logic of Proofs and Curry-Howard Isomorphism. - What are the current logical issues in programming? - How do we understand programs as syntactical-semantical objects? - What is the nature of the relation between algorithms and programs? - What is a program? - Which problems are the most pressing ones and why are they relevant to more than just programmers? - How can epistemology profit from the understanding of programs' behavior and structure? - What legal and socio-economical issues are involved in the creation, patenting or free-distribution of programs? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SUBMISSION DETAILS: The programme will consists of 2 Invited Lectures and up to 8 Contributed Papers. It will takes place in the afternoon session of the 5th and the morning session of the 6th of July. We cordially invite researchers working in a field relevant to the main topics of the conference to submit an extended abstract of minimum 2 and maximum 5 pages to computing.conference@ugent.be Please mention "ABSTRACT HAPOP" in the subject line. Abstracts must be written in English. Please note that the format of submitted files must be .pdf or .rtf. Only unpublished material will be considered for presentation. IMPORTANT DATES: Submissions Deadline: 1 February 2012 Acceptance/rejection Decisions: 1 March 2012 Final versions of abstracts for inclusion in proceedings: 30 March 2012. Symposium: 5 July (afternoon) and 6 July (morning) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- INVITED SPEAKERS: Gerard Alberts (Universiteit van Amsterdam) Julian Rohrhuber (Robert Schumann Hochschule Duesseldorf) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- SYMPOSIUM ORGANIZERS: Liesbeth De Mol and Giuseppe Primiero? PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:? S. Artemov (City Univeristy of New York) M. Bullynck (Universite' de Paris 8) L. de Mol (CLPS UGent) V. de Paiva (Reardem Commerce) H. Durnova (Masarykova Univerzita Brno) R. Kahle (Universidade Nova de Lisbona) B. Loewe (Universiteit van Amsterdam) F. Kamareddine (Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh) G. Primiero (CLPS UGent) R. Turner (University of Essex) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- PROCEEDINGS There will be a separate proceedings for each symposium, produced before the Congress. Each delegate at the Congress will receive, on arrival, a memory stick containing the proceedings of all symposia. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CONTACT AND INFORMATION: For further information please contact us at:? computing.conference@ugent.be or have a look at our website: http://www.computing-conference.ugent.be/hapop12 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- RELATED EVENTS The Symposium on History and Philosophy of Programming will be followed by a Roundtable on topics in the Philosophy of Computer Science on the day after. Confirmed participants include: Raymond Turner, University of Essex, UK (MODERATOR) Rainhard Bengez, TU München, Germany Manfred Broy, TU München, Germany, Marcelo Dascal, University of Tel Aviv, Israel Ruth Hagengruber, University of Paderborn, Germany Giovanni Sartor, EUI -- European University Institute, Florence, Italy Dov M. Gabbay, King's College, London, UK Jean-Gabriele Ganascia, University Pierre and Marie Curie, Paris, France Gilles Dowek, l'Ècole polytechnique, Paris, France Jan van Leeuwen, Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands Lothar Philipps, University of Munich, Germany Giovanni Sartor, EUI -- European University Institute, Florence, Italy Kevin Ashley, University of Pittsburgh, USA Hennry Prakken, Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands Erich Schweighofer, University of Vienna, Austria Yoshino Hajime, Meiji Gakuin University, Tokio, Japan Douglas Walton, University of Windsor, Canada Topics include: *Philosophical approaches to Computer Science *Just Counting Machines? From Leibniz via Lovecraft and Babbage to Turing, Zuse and von Neumann. *Which kinds of logic and mathematical concepts are suitable for machines and humans to understand machines? Everyone is cordially invited _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Feb 2 07:45:06 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0176D25B3E1; Thu, 2 Feb 2012 07:45:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 4A3AA25B3D1; Thu, 2 Feb 2012 07:45:00 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120202074500.4A3AA25B3D1@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012 07:45:00 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.688 PhD funding & postdocs X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 688. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: STURDY Steven (20) Subject: PhD Funding Opportunities in Science, Technology and Innovation Studies at the University of Edinburgh [2] From: Graeme Gooday (43) Subject: University of Leeds: Five Postdoctoral Research Fellowships (Faculty of Arts) --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2012 14:28:39 +0000 From: STURDY Steven Subject: PhD Funding Opportunities in Science, Technology and Innovation Studies at the University of Edinburgh PhD Funding Opportunities in Science, Technology and Innovation Studies at the University of Edinburgh Science, Technology and Innovation Studies (STIS) in the School of Social and Political Science at the University of Edinburgh is pleased to announce a number of funding opportunities at PhD level. The University of Edinburgh has an international reputation in the study of science, technology and innovation in society. It is home to the Science Studies Unit and the ESRC Innogen Centre. We welcome prospective PhD students with interests in all aspects of science, technology and innovation studies. Research areas include: innovation in the life sciences, history and sociology of science and medicine, energy and environmental sustainability, emerging technologies, information and communication technologies, science and technology policy, and technology and international development. More information on the ongoing research in STIS can be found at http://www.stis.ed.ac.uk We are offering: * at least two studentships in the area of Science, Technology and Innovation Studies under the ESRC Scottish Doctoral Training Centre; * a studentship for our joint PhD programme with the National University of Singapore; * an ESRC CASE studentship on the role of brokerage organisations in knowledge exchange processes. For further information please see: http://www.stis.ed.ac.uk/news/2012/post-graduate_funding_opportunities_2012-13 or email info-stsres@ed.ac.uk The deadline for all applications is 30 March 2012. However, potential applicants are advised to contact us as soon as possible to discuss their research topic and potential supervision. Dr Steve Sturdy Deputy Director, ESRC Genomics Forum University of Edinburgh St John's Land, Holyrood Road Edinburgh EH8 8AQ email: s.sturdy@ed.ac.uk tel: 44 (0) 131 651 4741 http://www.genomicsnetwork.ac.uk/forum/people/academicstaff/forename,65,en.html The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2012 18:17:04 +0000 From: Graeme Gooday Subject: University of Leeds: Five Postdoctoral Research Fellowships (Faculty of Arts) Five University of Leeds Postdoctoral Research Fellowships (Faculty of Arts) Faculty of Arts Job Reference Number ARTFO0013 Application Deadline: 17th February 2012 For full job details and a link to the online application form click HERE Three year fixed term, starting 1 September 2012 Project: "Realising Innovation and Impact in the Arts and Humanities Arts Engaged, the Centre for Innovation and Impact in the Arts and Humanities, invites applications for five Postdoctoral Research Fellowships within a project funded by the University of Leeds Transformation Fund and the Faculty of Arts. Arts Engaged at Leeds seeks to develop strategic thinking and innovative methodologies for embedding innovation and impact at all stages of the research process. Its principal objectives are as follows: * To transform the quality and extent of the Faculty's research impact (social, cultural and economic) locally, nationally and globally * To build knowledge of and contacts in five innovation and impact areas of particular relevance to arts and humanities: i) Corporate and media ii) Government and public policy iii) Museums and galleries iv) Cultural organisations and industries v) Community and voluntary bodies/public awareness * To engage innovation and impact at the heart of research faculty-wide, and at all levels, from large scale collaborative programmes, through individual research and doctoral projects, to research-led teaching * To support and consolidate the development of innovative methodologies, impact resources and case studies to benefit research across the faculty and for wider use both nationally and internationally * To achieve higher rates of grant capture by capitalising on research innovation and improved impact planning The five Postdoctoral Research Fellows will divide their workloads as follows: 50% innovation and impact activities; and 50% individual and/or collaborative research within one of the Faculty's research centres (see below for list of participating centres). Each Fellow will have special responsibility for one of the following innovation and impact areas: Corporate and Media; Government and Public Policy; Museums and Galleries; Cultural Organisations and Industries; Community and Voluntary Bodies/Public Awareness. With other members of Arts Engaged, you will work on the development of policy and practice in research innovation and impact, new methodologies and resources, external contacts and partnerships, grant applications, impact plans and case studies, and the provision of Faculty-wide training and surgeries. The other half of your time you will undertake individual and/or collaborative research within one of the participating research centres (see below), and will be expected to develop an international as well as national profile through publications, grant applications, conference papers and wider social, cultural and/or economic impact. Although each fellow will formally/notionally be employed in one of the Faculty's four schools (English; History; Humanities; Modern Languages and Cultures), you will be situated in Leeds Humanities Research Institute which provides research support for the Faculty. You will be expected to have completed a PhD by 1 September 2012 in an area of research related to one of the participating research centres (see below), and to have experience of knowledge transfer or exchange, research collaboration with an external partner, or significant non-academic research impact. Participating Faculty of Arts research centres include: Centre for World Cinemas, http://www.leeds.ac.uk/arts/info/20064/centre_for_world_cinemas Centre for History and Philosophy of Science, http://www.leeds.ac.uk/info/40006/centre_for_history_and_philosophy_of_science/1146/centre_for_history_and_philosophy_of_science/1 Institute for Religion and Public Life, http://www.leeds.ac.uk/arts/info/125010/institute_for_religion_and_public_life Interdisciplinary Ethics Applied, http://www.idea.leeds.ac.uk/ Leeds Centre for Dante Studies, http://www.leeds.ac.uk/arts/info/40009/leeds_centre_for_dante_studies Institute for Colonial and Postcolonial Studies, http://www.leeds.ac.uk/arts/info/20044/institute_for_colonial_and_postcolonial_studies History of Enterprise and Cultures of Consumption Research Group, http://www.leeds.ac.uk/arts/info/125044/history_of_enterprise_and_cultures_of_consumption_research_group Legacies of War, http://www.arts.leeds.ac.uk/legaciesofwar Centre for Medical Humanities (website under construction) Information about the Faculty of Arts can be found at http://www.leeds.ac.uk/arts/ Information about Arts Engaged and Leeds Humanities Research Institute can be found at http://www.leeds.ac.uk/lhri/ - Applicants are asked in addition to their standard application to submit a CV. University Grade 7 (£29,972 - £35,788 p.a.) It is likely that an appointment will be made no higher than £31,798 p.a. since there are funding limitations which dictate the level at which the appointment can start. Informal enquiries may be made to Professor Stuart Murray, tel +44 (0)113 343 4747, email s.f.murray@leeds.ac.uk , or Dr Matthew Treherne, tel +44 (0)113 343 8612, email m.treherne@leeds.ac.uk. Closing Date: 17 February 2012 ---------------------------- _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Feb 2 07:45:42 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31CF625B417; Thu, 2 Feb 2012 07:45:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 7E76825B406; Thu, 2 Feb 2012 07:45:38 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120202074538.7E76825B406@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012 07:45:38 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.689 David Perry? 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Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2012 21:59:01 +0100 From: maurizio lana Subject: help with david perry dear friends, i am trying to get in touch with david perry, the author of cardo font (which a wonderful product). unfortunately from months the site scholarsfonts.net has broken links to the email form (they open the home page of his site provider). does anyone know how can i get in touch with david perry through email? with many thanks maurizio -- Which side are you on, boys Which side are you on (Florence Reece, Which side are you on?, 1934) ------- il mio corso di informatica umanistica: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85JsyJw2zuw ------- Maurizio Lana - ricercatore Università del Piemonte Orientale, Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici via Manzoni 8, 13100 Vercelli - tel. +39 347 7370925 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Feb 2 07:53:07 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9372725B58D; Thu, 2 Feb 2012 07:53:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 5330325B56B; Thu, 2 Feb 2012 07:53:00 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120202075300.5330325B56B@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012 07:53:00 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.690 events: learning; arts & industrial culture X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 690. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Nina Möllers (28) Subject: EXTENDED DEADLINE: Icohtec Symposium 2012 "Technology, the Arts and Industrial Culture" [2] From: UC Humanities Research Institute (130) Subject: The Future of Learning in a Connected World: DML Conference drawshundreds of researchers --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2012 08:25:02 +0100 From: Nina Möllers Subject: EXTENDED DEADLINE: Icohtec Symposium 2012 "Technology, the Arts and Industrial Culture" Please notice that the deadline for the 39th ICOHTEC SYMPOSIUM 2012 on "Technology, the Arts and Industrial Culture" in Barcelona, Spain, 10 – 14 July 2012 has been extended to Sunday 12 February 2012 at 5 pm GMT. Those who have already made their submissions can amend their proposal until the same deadline. No further extensions or amendment period will be given after February 12. Further information on the updated Call for Papers at: http://www.icohtec.org/ We prefer to receive submissions in an electronic format. Our online submission form is available at: http://www.icohtec.org/annual-meeting/cfp-system/2012-barcelona/ Start the submission process by signing up in the system and reading the instructions. The programme will announce whether your submission has been successful or not. We look forward to meeting you in Barcelona in mid-July. Timo Myllyntaus Secretary General ICOHTEC -- Dr. Nina Möllers Forschungsinstitut Deutsches Museum Museumsinsel 1 80538 München Germany n.moellers@deutsches-museum.de http://www.energiekonsum.mwn.de/ http://www.deutsches-museum.de --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2012 17:58:48 +0000 From: UC Humanities Research Institute Subject: The Future of Learning in a Connected World: DML Conference drawshundreds of researchers The Future of Learning in a Connected World: Conference in San Francisco draws hundreds of researchers, technologists, educators (IRVINE, CA) -- How must learning and education adapt to digital society? That's the question hundreds of technologists, futurists, researchers, and educators will take on in the "Beyond Educational Technology: Learning Innovations in a Connected World conference, Mar. 1-3, in San Francisco. With provocative talks, inspiring case studies, and panel conversations featuring global thought leaders, scholars, and leading practitioners, the conference will address rapidly-escalating concerns about the urgent need to reimagine education, learning, and school for the present generation and beyond. At the heart of the conference lies a challenge that is drawing the attention of activists, policymakers and social innovators everywhere: At this historical moment, people, cultures, and knowledge are coming together in unprecedented ways via the internet, digital technology, and social media -- how should learners and learning institutions change? The conference, to be held at the Wyndham Parc 55 Hotel in the Union Square district, will spotlight scores of examples of next-generation learning and innovation, including: * The exploding sector of international online social learning networks.* How YouTube is being used by youth across the world to teach other specialized subject matter. * How a group of Muslim girls is using digital media to tell the world what their lives are like. * Youth who are designing and using videogames to explore critical social issues like climate change and human rights. * Ways in which social media is being used in local communities to push back on the destructive dynamics of gangs and ethnic rivalries. * A school in northern California where teachers let go of the reins and let youth learn by designing solutions to real-world issues they care about. The conference will be dedicated to illuminating big-picture questions but also everyday ones, such as: What happens when a group of 15 teenagers from an underprivileged community in Texas are given regular access to computers and the internet? Are skills like multimedia production and credibility assessment just as important now as reading, writing, and arithmetic? Is the use of social media a classroom-essential? The first day of the conference will feature a special briefing during which researchers will outline a new model of learning especially geared to digital society. Called 'Connected Learning', it is a new vision of learning suited to the complexity, connectivity, and velocity of the new knowledge society and today's economic and political realities. A fresh approach to education, connected learning is anchored in research and the best of traditional standards, but also designed to mine the learning potential of the new social- and digital media domain. The press briefing and reception, including cocktails, will take place Thursday, Mar. 1, from 5pm to 6 pm. Members of the news media interested in attending the briefing can get more information by emailing Whitney Burke at the Digital Media and Learning Research Hub. The conference also will feature a Science Fair, produced by the Mozilla Foundation, a nonprofit organization that created the Firefox web browser and advocates worldwide for internet freedom. Mozilla's science fair will spotlight many exciting new learning-related undertakings, including: Hive Learning Networks, open, connected communities in New York and Chicago dedicated to transforming the learning landscape for youth; Mozilla Popcorn, a classroom tool for youth to produce video book reports, interactive essays, and digital-age storytelling; Peer 2 Peer University, a grassroots open education project that organizes learning outside of institutional walls; and Mozilla Open Badges, an effort to create a new way of recognizing skills and achievements for 21st century learners. The Science Fair will take place Thursday, Mar. 1, from 6pm to 7:30 pm. It's a casual event and cocktails and snacks will be served. The opening night of the conference will also see the naming of the 2011 award winners for the MacArthur Foundation-supported fourth annual Digital Media & Learning Competition. Winners will receive awards of up to $200,000. This year's competition has been designed to encourage individuals and organizations to create new forms of recognition - digital badges that identify, recognize, and account for new skills, competencies, knowledge, and achievements for 21st century learners regardless of where and when learning takes place. The conference theme, "Beyond Educational Technology: Learning Innovations in a Connected World," refers to a dramatic shift that has taken place even in the last few years: the realization that a renaissance in learning is not tied to any specific tool or platform or individual technology, but to the impact of the widespread creation and acquisition of knowledge that is now possible through observing, interacting and collaborating with others anywhere, anytime. The headline speakers include John Seely Brown, an expert in radical innovation, digital culture and ubiquitous computing; and conference chair Diana Rhoten, digital learning entrepreneur and senior vice president for strategy in the new education division at News Corp. Rhoten believes the conference topic, timing, and location (so near Silicon Valley) will be an unusual opportunity for critical, diverse voices to challenge assumptions and status quo thinking about reimagining education in the 21st century -- and to take on the compelling if controversial role of digital technology, the internet and social media in that task. "Technology is just a tool to be put in the hands of the users," Rhoten says. "So before we start talking about what technology can do to innovate education, we must back up the conversation and really understand what the primary practices and purposes of learning are. There's no other market in which products are built without significant user input. If we don't start doing that in this sector, we are failing the teachers, students, and parents who are intended to be the direct beneficiaries of entrepreneurial activity." This is the third annual conference produced by the Digital Media and Learning Research Hub, which organizes the gathering to explore what next-generation learning looks like in a world being remade by innovation, technology, and social networks. Located physically at the University of California, Irvine, and situated within the UC system's Humanities Research Institute, the Research Hub is dedicated to analyzing and interpreting the impact of the internet and digital media on education, politics, and youth. "Bringing together thought leaders, major technology developers, prominent researchers, and innovative practitioners nationally and internationally, this is a 'must attend' experience for anyone wanting to figure out where learning practices are headed, leading research in the field, and best practices in technologically-enabled learning," says David Theo Goldberg, director of the UC Humanities Research Institute and executive director of the Digital Media and Learning Research Hub. "The Digital Media and Learning Conference is a key forum for discovering leading thought and developments regarding digital media's impact on the innovation and transformation of learning and educational practice." The work of the DML Research Hub, which includes original research, websites, publications, workshops, and the conference, is funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. The Gates Foundation, the Mozilla Foundation, and Microsoft Research have also contributed to this year's conference. About the MacArthur Foundation and the Digital Media & Learning Initiative The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation supports creative people and effective institutions committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. In addition to selecting the MacArthur Fellows, the Foundation works to defend human rights, advance global conversation and security, make cities better places, and understand how technology is affecting children and society. The MacArthur Foundation launched its digital media and learning initiative in 2006 to explore how digital media are changing the way young people learn, play, socialize and participate in civic life, and what that means for their learning in the 21st century. More information on the digital media and learning initiative is available at www.macfound.org/education. Contact:Whitney Burke Digital Media & Learning Research Hub University California Humanities Research Institute e: wburke@hri.uci.edu p: 949-824-4587 University of California Humanities Research Institute | 4000 Humanities Gateway | Irvine | CA | 92697-3350 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Feb 3 06:30:54 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8161525AB56; Fri, 3 Feb 2012 06:30:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 15DE325AB3F; Fri, 3 Feb 2012 06:30:44 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120203063045.15DE325AB3F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2012 06:30:44 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.691 waiting on table? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 691. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:55:59 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: waiting on table In Cybernation: The Silent Conquest (Santa Barbara CA: Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, 1962), Donald N. Michael coins the word of his title, "cybernation", so that he can talk about the whole of the continuum from the automatic manufacture and assembly of material objects to the analysis and processing of data. Viewing the state of these arts as they had developed by the early 1960s, he writes that, > Cybernated systems perform with a precision and a rapidity unmatched > in humans. They also perform in ways that would be impractical or > impossible for humans to duplicate. They can be built to detect and > correct errors in their own performance and to indicate to men which > of their components are producing the error. They can make judgments > on the basis of instructions programmed into them. They can remember > and search their memories for appropriate data, which either has been > programmed into them along with their instructions or has been > acquired in the process of manipulating new data. Thus, they can > learn on the basis of past experience with their environment. They > can receive information in more codes and sensory modes than men can. > They are beginning to perceive and to recognize. Note the verbs and verbal compounds here: perform; detect; correct... in their own performance; indicate... which of their components; make judgments; remember and search their memories; learn on the basis of past experience; beginning to perceive and to recognize. It is easy to note and then tut-tut over the anthropomorphisms. How silly etc. But, Roy Harris points out in his brilliant The Language Machine (London: Duckworth, 1987), the important error is exactly the opposite of what we tend first to notice: > When a few years ago a computer scientist asked 'What is it about the > computer that has brought the view of man to a new level of > plausibility?' he was putting the question the wrong way round. It > should have been 'What is it about the view of man as a machine that > has brought the computer to a new level of plausibility?' (p. 95) This leads me to wonder so very often these days about our own self-congratulatory mood. What is it about our view of scholarship and scholars that has brought our inventions to their current level of plausibility? I recall from years back a certain restaurant in London, now long gone, alas, and a curious waiter who worked there. Whatever topic one was discussing with one's academic mates while waiting to order, however learned the topic might be, this waiter would begin speaking to it, highly intelligently, after a few moments of listening in. Changing what needs to be changed, would we provoke the admiration he did? Comments? Yours, WM -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor (fractional), University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Feb 3 06:31:41 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8A1725ABB4; Fri, 3 Feb 2012 06:31:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E134A25AB96; Fri, 3 Feb 2012 06:31:38 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120203063138.E134A25AB96@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2012 06:31:38 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.692 call for proposals: discourse analysis X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 692. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012 06:56:24 +0000 From: "sudweeks@murdoch.edu.au" Subject: Call for Chapter Proposals "Innovative Methods and Technologies for Electronic Discourse Analysis" A book edited by Dr Hwee Ling Lim (The Petroleum Institute, Abu Dhabi, UAE) and Dr Fay Sudweeks (Murdoch University, Perth, Western Australia) To be published by IGI Global: http://bit.ly/wdEsTW Proposals Submission Deadline: April 8, 2012 Discourse analysis (DA) is the study of language in use with descriptions of language forms and patterns of interaction that take into account the contexts in which they occur. The emergence of computer-mediated communication and Web 2.0 technologies present challenges in understanding the new communicative contexts and interaction of various media that shape meaning and language use. Advances in DA methodology have been made in response to new media but there is a need to critically reflect on recent innovations in the theory and application of electronic DA methods to identify what works and what does not. This edited book will showcase studies using qualitative, quantitative and mixed methodologies, where the application of DA methods to electronic discourse is rigorously grounded in theoretical frameworks, and where research on discourse from new media highlight the implications for theory and practice. OBJECTIVES The objective of this book is to disseminate the challenges and successes in the search for innovative and effective methods of DA towards an understanding the new communicative contexts and the interaction of various media in shaping meaning and patterns of language use. Specifically, the book will - highlight research on the application of DA methods to electronic discourse from new media that consider implications for theory and practice, hence going beyond structural description of language; - showcase studies where the application of DA methods to electronic discourse is rigorously grounded in theoretical frameworks; - include studies on the application of DA methods in e-learning contexts with implications for constructivist theory, online pedagogy, instructional design and collaborative learning; - present cases where DA methods were applied in research on society and culture with implications for issues of power, identity and gender; and - introduce innovative methodological advances in DA that outline areas for future research. TARGET AUDIENCE The collection of recent research cases in the book will appeal to academic faculty, researchers and research students in the areas of information technology, human computer interaction, linguistics, education, sociology, and communication. Also, the inclusion of innovative application of DA methods in educational and social contexts will appeal to professionals working in the fields of technology supported work groups and organizational communication. THEMES AND ORGANISATION OF THE BOOK The book will be organized into three themes: - Electronic educational discourse: Developments in theory, methods and applications - Electronic discourse analysis: Innovations in theory, methods and applications in research on society and culture - Future trends: Emergent methods for the new media The book will have three sections that reflect the themes. The first two sections consolidate studies that share experiences on the application of DA methods in research on education, society and culture. The final section presents specific examples of the experimental use of Web 2.0 tools in educational and social research that outline emerging trends and provide suggestions for future research within this rapidly changing discipline. Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following: Theoretical frameworks: - Case studies - Quantitative and qualitative research Methods and data types: - Discourse analysis - Critical discourse analysis - Computer-mediated discourse - Electronic language - Social discourse - Educational discourse - Quantitative and qualitative data analyses - Software and tools for qualitative data analysis Technologies: - Asynchronous computer-mediated communication technologies - Synchronous computer-mediated communication technologies - New media/Web 2.0 technologies - Social networks - Convergent media computer-mediated communication Education research: - Sociocultural constructivism - Collaborative learning - Discourse of online learning and teaching - Online pedagogy and instructional design Research on culture and society: - Digital communities - Computer supported cooperative work groups - Discourse of power and change - Discourse of culture and identity - Discourse of gender and status CHAPTER PROPOSAL SUBMISSION PROCEDURE You are invited to submit a 500 word proposal by April 8, 2012, containing the following information: - Theme of chapter - Proposed chapter title - Author name(s) and affiliation(s) - Overview of chapter with 4-6 keywords - Relationship between chapter and book objectives (explanation of how proposed chapter will treat the selected theme) - References - Brief biography of author(s) Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by June 8, 2012 and chapter organizational guidelines will be given. Full chapters (7,000-12,000 words) are to be submitted by August 12, 2012. Papers should be original and should not be submitted for publication or published elsewhere. Electronic submissions are required in Word format. All submitted chapters will undergo a double-blind review process by 2-3 reviewers. Contributors may be requested to serve as reviewers for this project. PUBLISHER This book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the Information Science Reference (formerly Idea Group Reference), Medical Information Science Reference, Business Science Reference, and Engineering Science Reference imprints. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com. This publication is anticipated to be released in 2013. IMPORTANT DATES - April 8, 2012: Proposal Submission - June 8, 2012: Notification of Proposal Acceptance - August 12, 2012: Full Chapter Submission - October 14, 2012: Review Results to Author(s) - November 14, 2012: Revised Chapter Submission - November 30, 2012: Final Acceptance Notification - January 13, 2013: Submission of Final Chapter Inquiries and chapter proposals can be submitted electronically (Word document) to: Hwee Ling Lim, email: hlim@pi.ac.ae and Fay Sudweeks, email: sudweeks@murdoch.edu.au _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Feb 3 06:32:46 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id C482D25AC39; Fri, 3 Feb 2012 06:32:45 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A5B0B25AC30; Fri, 3 Feb 2012 06:32:40 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120203063240.A5B0B25AC30@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2012 06:32:40 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.693 events: access to archives X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 693. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012 14:41:43 +0000 From: Milena Dobreva Subject: Policies and Practices in Access to Digital Archives (2 weeks to the application deadline) Policies and Practices in Access to Digital Archives: Towards a New Research and Policy Agenda The Central European University invite applicants for an intensive one-week summer session in Budapest from 2 July-6 July, 2012. This course has been developed to meet the specific needs of established professionals looking to deepen their impact on policy issues related to digital archives. The creation of a diverse coalition of experts is an envisioned goal of the course. Practitioners from the field of archives, research, law and policy making are encouraged to apply. The course deals with the contemporary complexities of accessibility and the long-term preservation of archival material within institutional settings. It will explore the driving/prohibitive role of IPR and various implications of the regulation of digital material: Will access to primary sources become the luxury of the few under a new type of digital divide? Do we have evidential data of the market value of digitised archival collections? What kind of policy agenda will ensure the future availability of cultural heritage content? What kind of strategy will guarantee that archives within the digital European single market are sustainable? The course will consist of intensive teaching sessions and participants will be expected to prepare a paper in advance for presentation purposes. Please note that places are limited to 30 participants and offered on a competitive basis. This summer course is able to offer a limited amount of grants. Applicants will be asked to explain what their engagement with archival material is and what particular policy-related issues they consider most challenging. The deadline for application is February 15, 2012. For further information and to apply, please visit the CEU Summer University website: http://www.summer.ceu.hu/archives-2012 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Feb 4 08:07:00 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E0A825EA71; Sat, 4 Feb 2012 08:06:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A827625EA4A; Sat, 4 Feb 2012 08:06:50 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120204080650.A827625EA4A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2012 08:06:50 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.694 job at Virginia X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 694. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2012 13:58:26 +0000 From: "Nowviskie, Bethany (bpn2f)" Subject: job opening, Scholars' Lab / Scholarly Communication Institute Senior Research Specialist, SCI http://www.scholarslab.org/announcements/sci-opening/ The Scholars’ Lab at the University of Virginia Library seeks a senior research specialist for a full-time, 18-month position with the Scholarly Communication Institute (SCI). The ideal candidate will have: excellent research, writing, and organizational skills; familiarity with humanities scholarship at the graduate level; and an interest in experimental approaches to digital authoring and publication or the education of emerging scholars and knowledge workers. Some travel is required, and there is a possibility of a work-from-home arrangement for a professional and thoroughly reliable candidate. Reporting to Bethany Nowviskie, UVa Library’s director of digital research and scholarship, the SCI research specialist will: help design, execute, and analyze a broad-based, anonymous survey of humanities professionals (together with the perceptions of their employers) to examine graduate-level preparation for so-called “alternative academic” careers (20%); attend and provide research support for three meetings and regular conference calls on new-model publishing and authoring environments, in order to take notes and help compile proceedings and recommendations (15%); attend and provide research support for two to three meetings centering on the reform of methodological training in the humanities, involving major humanities consortia, professional associations, and funders, to take notes and help compile proceedings and recommendations (15%); assist in research and organizational tasks related to the development and day-to-day operations of the Praxis Program at the University of Virginia Library, including the hosting of a gathering to foster inter-institutional collaboration on similar initiatives (20%); and perform other research and writing tasks as needed by SCI principals (10%). The SCI research specialist will join a vibrant and dedicated community of faculty and staff at the Scholars’ Lab, and as such will be eligible for the self-directed “20% time” that all team members are granted to pursue professional development and their own (often collaborative) R&D projects. This is a grant-funded position with a salary of approximately $50k per annum and full benefits as a member of the managerial and professional staff of the University of Virginia. The position begins no later than March 1st, 2012 and extends no later than August 31st, 2013. Experience and Education: Master’s degree or higher in fields related to humanities scholarship or information science. Demonstrated ability as a writer and researcher. Project management experience or experience with survey design and analysis desirable. Bethany Nowviskie, MA Ed, Ph.D Director, Digital Research & Scholarship, UVA Library Associate Director, Scholarly Communication Institute Vice President, Association for Computers & the Humanities scholarslab.org/ ● uvasci.org/ ● ach.org/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Feb 4 08:09:58 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE2DD25EB0C; Sat, 4 Feb 2012 08:09:57 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 11DDE25EAF9; Sat, 4 Feb 2012 08:09:49 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120204080950.11DDE25EAF9@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2012 08:09:49 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.695 events: women in the lab; archaeological archives; performance; preservation X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 695. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Center for Comparative Studies" (34) Subject: LIBER international workshop [2] From: Brigitte Van Tiggelen (44) Subject: CfP Women in the Laboratory - Athens nov. 2012 [3] From: Shawn Day (35) Subject: Conference: Archaeological Archives as a Resource: Creation,Curation and Access [4] From: Shawn Day (91) Subject: Symposium DANCING WITH FIRE: TECHNOLOGY, PERFORMANCE, OBJECTS &ENVIRONMENTS --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2012 11:43:16 +0100 From: "Center for Comparative Studies" Subject: LIBER international workshop 2nd LIBER international workshop on digital preservation Partnerships in curating European digital resources Florence, Italy 7-8 May 2012 The LIBER Steering Committee for Heritage Collections and Preservation and the National Library of the Netherlands, in collaboration with the Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale, is pleased to announce the 2nd LIBER international workshop on digital preservation, Partnerships in curating European digital resources, that will be held in Florence on 7 - 8 May 2012. Do not go at this game alone, was the unmistakable advice given to LIBER libraries at the end of the first LIBER workshop on digital preservation in The Hague in 2010. Since then, the euro crisis and budget cuts have only exacerbated the need to seek partnerships in securing long-term access to your digital collections. But with whom can you partner? How does it work? What are the advantages and disadvantages of various forms of partnering? And how much of the responsibility will always be yours, no matter how much of the actual work you outsource to others? This workshop will provide an overview of the best-known collaborative initiatives: the stakeholders involved, the basic set-ups, the legal foundations, the business models - and help you analyse which alternatives are best suited for your organisation, your type of collection and your national culture. We will deal with organisational issues, legal issues, financial issues and technical issues that will influence your choices. Critical questions will be asked by experts in the field, and there will be plenty of time to ask your own questions. Lastly, the workshop will showcase a number of best practices. You will go home with a keen understanding of the types of collaborative practices available which will enable you to start discussing long-term preservation policies with your management team. Venue: Auditorium - Ente Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze Via Folco Portinari 5/red Florence, Italy Details of the programme and registration: http://www.rinascimento-digitale.it/liber2012-internationalworkshop.phtml --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2012 11:26:50 +0100 From: Brigitte Van Tiggelen Subject: CfP Women in the Laboratory - Athens nov. 2012 Dear colleagues, We want to call your attention to the session "Women in the Laboratory from early modern times to the 20th century" during the 5th International Conference of the European Society of History of Science is organized in Athens, 1-3 November 2012 (seehttp://5eshs.hpdst.gr/). This is one out of the 2 symposia organized by the Commission on Women and Gender Studies of the DHST (see h*ttp://www.womenscommission-dhst.net/*). We invite you to submit an abstract through the conference website: http://5eshs.hpdst.gr/participants. The deadline for abstract submission has been set for February 24, 2012 (Notification of acceptance by 2 April 2012) Women in the Laboratory from early modern times to the 20th century The laboratory is one of the fundamental spaces for teaching and research in science and technology. Being a space of knowledge transfer and development, it is not only modelled by physical settings, materials and the uses of instruments, but also by disciplinary traditions, social hierarchies and divisions of labour. The exclusive presence of men in laboratories compared to other science spaces like the salon, the field or the home shaped the science practiced in that space as well. What happened when women entered the laboratory space? Gendered practices in e.g. radioactivity and genetics laboratories have already been subject to in-depth analyses, and more studies from these and especially from other fields and other time periods are needed/encouraged in order to shed light on the many facets of women’s presence in laboratories. Through comparative and contextual approaches we want to explore the laboratory space from a gender perspective, in the timespan that runs from early modern times to the 20th century. How did women conform to local laboratory cultures and how did their presence in turn reshape these cultures? We are interested in studying laboratories which attracted a large number of female researchers as well as individual women working in laboratory environments dominated by men. Questions we would like to discuss in the session include: What characterized the laboratories which attracted many women? What roles did the women play in the laboratories? How did these roles affect the credibility of women in exchanges and discussions in the scientific community? To which extent and in what ways were these gendered practices disseminated from one place to another? And what did the presence of women in the laboratory add to the practice of science? To find the symposium on the website of the conference, click here http://5eshs.hpdst.gr/symposia/50 . Feel free to contact us for any questions The organizers, Annette Lykknes and Brigitte Van Tiggelen --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2012 11:04:57 +0000 From: Shawn Day Subject: Conference: Archaeological Archives as a Resource: Creation,Curation and Access Archaeological Archives as a Resource: Creation,Curation and Access Venue: Royal Irish Academy, Academy House, 19 Dawson Street, Dublin Date: Thursday 23 February, 9.30 am - 6 pm It is recognised that the process of excavation is destructive and described as the ‘preservation by record’ of our national heritage. Excavation records are critical to the continuing knowledge of Ireland’s past and may comprise paper records, surveys, photos, drawings, ecofacts, artefacts and reports. Current legislation requires that artefacts are deposited with the National Museum of Ireland. What happens to the remainder of the archive? This one-day conference explores this important question. Focusing on the paper archive, it proposes that archaeological archives are a crucial national heritage resource, worthy of continued curation, which should be accessible to all researchers of Ireland’s rich past. One of the outcomes of the conference will be the first policy document on best practice in archaeological archives in Ireland. 9.30am Registration SESSION 1: CREATION OF THE ARCHIVE 10.00am Welcome and Introduction by Dr Tracy Collins (Secretary, Academy Committee for Archaeology) 10.10am Dr Andy Halpin (National Museum of Ireland): The National Museum of Ireland Perspective 10.30am Mr Edward Bourke (National Monuments Service): The National Monuments Service Perspective 10.50am Questions and Answers 11.00am Coffee Break SESSION 2: CURATION OF THE ARCHIVE 11.30am Mr Anthony Corns (Discovery Programme): Digital Archives in Archaeology in Ireland & Elsewhere 12.00pm Dr Phil MacDonald (QUB): Northern Ireland Experience of Archaeological Archiving 12.30pm Dr Stuart Jeffrey (University of York): Surviving the Digital Dark Ages: Fifteen Years of Digital Archiving at the ADS 1.00pm Questions and Answers 1.30pm Lunch SESSION 3: ACCESS TO THE RESOURCE 3.00pm Dr Ruth Johnson (Dublin City Council) An Archaeological Archive in Ireland: The Experience of Dublin City Council 3.30pm Facilitated Discussion on Best Practice, (Facilitated by Dr Finola O’Carroll, Chair of the Institute of Archaeologists in Ireland) 4.15pm Professor William O’Brien (Chair, Academy Committee for Archaeology): Future Possibilities, Summation & Closing Comments 5.00pm Conference Close 6.00pm Reception hosted by Lord Mayor of Dublin and Tour of Dublin City Council Archive For more information and to register: http://www.ria.ie/events/events-listing/archaelogy-conference.aspx --- Shawn Day --- Digital Humanities Observatory (RIA), --- Regus Pembroke House, --- 28 - 30 Pembroke Street Upper --- Dublin 2 IRELAND --- about.me/shawnday --- Tel: +353 (0) 1 2342441 --- Mob: +353 (0) 83 0024264 --- s.day@ria.ie --- http://dho.ie --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2012 17:04:12 +0000 From: Shawn Day Subject: Symposium DANCING WITH FIRE: TECHNOLOGY, PERFORMANCE, OBJECTS &ENVIRONMENTS ********* CALL FOR PROJECTS / PRESENTATIONS / PAPERS *********** Symposium DANCING WITH FIRE: TECHNOLOGY, PERFORMANCE, OBJECTS & ENVIRONMENTS. Venue: Arts and Technology Research Lab (ATRL), Trinity College, Dublin. Date: Wednesday 23 May 2012 Time: 10h00 to 18h00 Presented by the ATRL, School of Drama, Film and Music (Trinity College Dublin) in association with Dublin Dance Festival (11 — 26 May 2012). Call for projects, presentations and papers considering (but not limited to): ● dance/theatre/performance and new technologies, ● augmented reality, ● site-specific projects ● live streams & networked performances, ● dramaturgy & technology, ● politics of access, ● bio-politics. CONTEXT: The Arts and Technology Research Lab and the Digital Arts and Humanities Programme have come together with Dublin Dance Festival to explore the vibrant confluence of ideas generated by making performing arts in a digitally enabled world. This symposium is intended to prompt questions and to promote dialogue between artists, dance and performing arts makers and academics in the field of performance research. It is inspired, in part, by the Historical Avant-Garde, whose artists pushed the limits of collaborative processes between music, theatre, dance, poetry, visual art, and architecture. Artists of that time experimented with and adopted the newest technologies of the day thereby reconfiguring our perception of objects and environment. Current creative projects, particularly in the performing arts, continue to push the boundaries of recent advances in communications, audio-visual and digital technology. Our symposium is motivated by the desire to explore the ideas that will shape performance in the 21st century. What aesthetic avenues can be usefully opened up in an era of digitally enabled art practices? What are the politics, ideological concerns and social conditions that shape performance-making where technologies play active partners in creation and performance? How does our ability to augment our reality using electronic means create a new dialogue between real and performed lives, between place and time? Now, more than ever before, the collaborative nature of the performing arts demands professional cooperation from the diverse areas of science and engineering. Inspired by the power, creativity and community exemplified in projects which bring together artistic and technological invention, this symposium will provoke a multifaceted conversation aimed at increasing critical reflection on where the performing arts can take us in a technologically connected, globally engaged culture. Submissions: Proposals for presentations, performance demonstrations, panels and discussions should be emailed only (in .doc/.pdf/.rtf/.odt format) to dancingwithfire2012@gmail.com on or before 1 March 2012. Proposals should be no more than 300 words (1 page) and should include (or have links to) photographs and videos of your work. Please also enclose a short biography/biographies of the main people involved. Event Outline: Main Theatre Space: Capacity: 80 persons Stage Dimensions: 9.7m (wide) X 5.5m (deep) Presentations & Performances: The Main Theatre Space at the ATRL (Art and Technology Research Lab, Trinity College) will play host to a series of presentations of and about performances that seek to push the envelope of live arts in Ireland and abroad. Practitioners of an experimental nature, professionals, graduates and students — both domestic and international — will be given the opportunity to present and discuss their work in the intimate setting of the ATRL. Presentations of work should not last more than 20 minutes allowing ample time for question and answer sessions and feedback. There is no set formula as to how work should be presented, therefore video documentation and photographic slide shows accompanied by discussion are welcomed. Candidates should consider that talks (max duration 30mins) will take place back-to-back. Due to the tight scheduling there will be very little time for setting up and striking the work. Therefore complicated / technically difficult projects should focus on video and photo documentation. The focus of the symposium is to generate interdisciplinary collaboration, audience feedback and discussions. Enquiries to: dancingwithfire2012@gmail.com http://www.atrl.ie http://www.dublindancefestival.ie The Digital Arts and Humanities structured PhD Programme is funded under the Programme for Research in Third-Level Institutions (PRTLI) Cycle 5 and co- funded under the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). Presented in association with Dublin Dance Festival. --- Shawn Day --- Digital Humanities Observatory (RIA), --- Regus Pembroke House, --- 28 - 30 Pembroke Street Upper --- Dublin 2 IRELAND --- about.me/shawnday --- Tel: +353 (0) 1 2342441 --- Mob: +353 (0) 83 0024264 --- s.day@ria.ie --- http://dho.ie _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Feb 4 10:52:45 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5066525EEF3; Sat, 4 Feb 2012 10:52:45 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 6802825EEDB; Sat, 4 Feb 2012 10:52:40 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120204105240.6802825EEDB@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2012 10:52:40 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.696 explorations in virtual space X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 696. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 04 Feb 2012 10:44:40 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: explorations in virtual space Many here, I very much hope, will be amused, charmed and even delighted by Paul F. Starrs, "The sacred, the regional, and the digital", Geographical Review 87.2 (April 1997): 193-218 -- in JSTOR. It begins with the story of the French bishop, Jacques Gaillot, who having (as we say here) got up the nose of the Vatican in a serious way by proclaiming the duty of the French Catholic Church to be concerned with injustice and the homeless, was dismissed from his See of Évreux and, in a brilliant move by the Vatican, appointed vescovo titulare, head of a titular see of Partenia, which "currently lies underneath about 100 meters of sand near the edge of the Great Western Erg in northern Algeria" (194). But the story only begins there. Gaillot's new appointment, literally and figuratively bleak to the unimaginative, proved a perfect opportunity for Léo Scheer, friend and colleague of Jean Beaudrillard, to express his passion for hyperspace. Scheer created for Gaillot www.partenia.org. "Although there might be no living patron resident within the geographical confines of Partenia," Starrs writes, "on the World Wide Web Partenia had become a virtual diocese, with Gaillot ministering to any and all who tapped the hypertext link" (196). He goes on: > The geography of this transubstantiation--with effects on > communications technology, cyberspace, technology's power to drive > change, and far-from-subtle implications for religion--is notable. As > Scheer parsed the matter, "Instead of a metaphysical idea of a > bishop, attached to a real place, we would have a metaphysical idea > of a place, attached to a real bishop."In Scheer's words, "The mind > of God is imitated by the virtual structure of the Internet, where > the difference between physical actuality and real existence has at > last been breached" (Scheer 1996). The teleology may be uncertain, > but the message is without doubt. He quotes John Kirkland Wright, who in his presidential address to the American Geographical Society in 1947 urged geographers to turn away from the replicable and testable fare of the physical sciences to the alluring terrae incognitae of the periphery -- and so, as it happens many years later, to intercourse with that Bishop of a virtual space Jacques Gaillot. > Five decades after Wright's declaration of faith, cyberspace is one > realm where geographers ought to bestir themselves to consider how > information has become tantamount to space and is in the process of > becoming an actual place. There are not many such opportunities, and > we ignore them at our own peril. The world of information technology, > through its lively vessel, cyberspace, represents more than a > contributor to studies in the world and regional economy. Cyberspace > is assuredly a region--but oddly so, and a troubling and ill-mannered > one. Can something fundamentally electromagnetic, where "electricity > runs with intelligence," constitute a landscape? (Benedikt 1991, 2). As I often say (quoting my old professorial friend William Blissett), read it tonight! Comments? If I were commenting I'd point out how this reverses the now commonplace and increasingly boring fanfare over how application of the tools of digital geography to the humanities is so helpful etc etc. Yours, WM -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor (fractional), University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Feb 6 06:32:48 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10022261348; Mon, 6 Feb 2012 06:32:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E8BC626131F; Mon, 6 Feb 2012 06:32:41 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120206063241.E8BC626131F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2012 06:32:41 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.697 events: transnational enquiry; history writing; text mining X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 697. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Graeme Gooday (37) Subject: The Third Flying University of Transnational Humanities, July 15-18, 2012 [2] From: "Pasin, Michele" (20) Subject: DDH research seminar next Thursday 9 February: Prof. Tim Hitchcock- University of Hertfordshire [3] From: Dominic Forest (90) Subject: DEFT2012 - Appel à participation --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2012 10:35:32 +0000 From: Graeme Gooday Subject: The Third Flying University of Transnational Humanities, July 15-18, 2012 Flying University of Transnational Humanities - Summer School for Graduate Students and Young Scholars - July 15-18, 2012 Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea Introduction The Flying University of Transnational Humanities (FUTH) is an annual summer school for graduate students and young scholars interested in the transnational paradigm of humanistic inquiry. FUTH takes its name and immediate inspiration from Poland’s Flying University, an underground institution that offered an alternative education outside the confines of state control and government censorship. The program is particularly concerned with developing critical understandings that resist the ideological and conceptual hegemony of the nation-state and the epistemological and hermeneutic conventions that support it. This does not mean that FUTH seeks to dispense with the “national” and construct a reified “transnational” with which to replace it, or to foster “transnationalism” as an ideological alternative to “nationalism.” Rather, FUTH aims to free our imaginations from essentialist approaches to the nation or the state and to offer new ways of thinking about the political, social and cultural order of the world, both past and present. The Flying University of Transnational Humanities is accordingly: – Trans-cultural: FUTH not only critically examines the production and circulation of (trans-)national knowledge and culture, but it also problematizes imagined geographies of the “East” and the “West.” We explore periods, places, and subjects as fluid and hybrid, rather than as confined and constrained by geopolitical or cultural boundaries. – Trans-disciplinary: FUTH seeks to comprehend the complex nature of various trans-cultural issues through trans-disciplinary approaches. To that end, FUTH is open to scholars, educators, researchers and students from all academic specializations. – Trans-institutional: FUTH is an intellectual network, founded and run by a global consortium of scholars, departments, and institutions. With the support of this network, we hope to facilitate trans-cultural and trans-disciplinary collaborations. Program Started in 2010, the Flying University of Transnational Humanities is organized annually—usually in the summer—by the Research Institute of Comparative History and Culture (RICH), Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea. FUTH consists of a series of advanced lectures, student presentations and feedback sessions where renowned scholars from RICH’s partner and other institutions are invited to share their knowledge, insights and perspectives. Student participants are required to study the recommended readings in advance. They are also expected to present their own scholarly work related to the theme of each year. The official language of FUTH is English, although the possibility of trans-lingual practices is being considered. Graduate students and recent PhDs interested in the transnational turn in the humanities and social sciences are welcome to apply with a presentation proposal. The overarching theme for the first three years (2010-2012) is “borders.” There have been numerous studies on how borders are constructed, negotiated, and policed and how they are simultaneously transgressed, challenged, and renegotiated. Borders are no longer seen simply as physical divisions but as discursive practices and cultural institutions. However, the multiplicity and hybridity of borders (e.g., national, cultural, geographical, gender, political, economic, etc.), as well as their transnational scalability (e.g., local, national, supranational, global, etc.), have yet to be intensively investigated. To address this gap, the first FUTH “Regions and Regionalization” in 2010 examined regions as sites of bordering practices and processes. In 2011, the second FUTH “Border-crossing Self” extended the scope of discussion to explore the ways in which the construction and performance of subjectivities and identities are connected to the demarcation and transgression of borders. The third FUTH will take place at Hanyang University, July 15-18, 2012, under the title of “Borders of Knowledge.” As numerous empirical studies in intellectual history, sociology of knowledge, and history/sociology/anthropology of the social, human, and natural sciences have convincingly demonstrated for several decades, the production, dissemination and use of knowledge, though seemingly universal, are always embedded in specific social, cultural, and historical contexts. Often, the subject, the object and the modus operandi of knowledge are defined, construed, and constrained by (national) borders. Knowledge and its associated practices thus shaped may in turn reinforce, reproduce or redefine those very borders. How then, does knowledge travel across borders? Rather than following the naïve modernist assumption that knowledge is spread because it is true and/or is channeled through universally transferable methodical practices, one should approach the travels of knowledge as themselves explananda rather than merely explanans for other phenomena. For instance, one may ask, what are the ways in which locally-produced knowledge is translated, adapted, appropriated, or contested in different local contexts? By the same token, one may also ask, how does knowledge, despite its local origins, come to acquire a proclaimed universality or globality? With such questions as a basis, the third FUTH in 2012 aims to provide graduate students and young scholars with a unique opportunity to critically examine the making and unmaking of the borders of knowledge—including the social sciences, humanities, natural sciences, and other forms of knowledge. Lecturers (surname-alphabetical order) · Alice L. Conklin (Department of History, Ohio State University, U.S.A.) · Christian Fleck (Department of Sociology, University of Graz, Austria) · Sari Hanafi (Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, American University of Beirut, Lebanon) · Johan Heilbron (Centre Européen de Sociologie et de Science Politique de la Sorbonne, France / Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands) · Michael Kim (Graduate School of International Studies, Yonsei University, Korea) - And other lecturers will be announced soon. Eligibility / How to Apply FUTH 2012 welcomes applications from graduate students as well as recent PhDs of all fields who are interested in the transnational paradigm of humanistic inquiry and also currently conducting research on topics related to the theme of the making and unmaking of borders of knowledge. All student participants are expected to give a full paper presentation on their own scholarly work. Applicants should fill out the form on our website (http://www.rich.ac/eng/fly/apply.php) and send it as attachment to hk.transnational@gmail.com along with their CV, research statement and an abstract of proposed presentation. The deadline for applications is March 16, 2012. Costs / Accommodation There is a registration fee of USD 80. While accommodation including breakfast and lunch will be provided, participants are expected to arrange their own funding for travel and daily living expenses. Partial travel grants may be awarded to a limited number of applicants. For further details, please contact: Research Institute of Comparative History and Culture College of Humanities, Hanyang University Seoul 133-791, Korea E-mail: hk.transnational@gmail.com Fax: +82-2-2298-0542 Website: http://rich.ac/eng/fly/introduction.php?pageNum=5&subNum=1 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2012 14:43:40 +0000 From: "Pasin, Michele" Subject: DDH research seminar next Thursday 9 February: Prof. Tim Hitchcock- University of Hertfordshire Dear Colleagues and Students, You are invited to the Department of Digital Humanities research seminar this Thursday 9 February 2012, in our seminar room, Drury Lane, Strand Campus at 1pm. The speaker this month is Prof. Tim Hitchcock, from the University of Hertfordshire. The title of his talk is "Academic History Writing and its Disconnects: The Headache of Big Data". ============================ SUMMARY: We are now possessed of an almost infinite archive of historical texts and artefact. In just a decade the very stuff and basis of post-enlightenment scholarship has gone digital. But the discipline of academic history writing has largely failed to keep pace. We persevere in a form of research and writing made ever faster by keyword searches, but which is based in a praxis founded in Rankean methodologies, and embedded within the technology of the printed book and the logistics of the hard copy library. This paper will suggest, first, that we need to re-examine the research methodology that underpins modern academic scholarship, and second, that we need to create new means of dissemination and distribution. In the process it will suggest that 'big data' and the existence of the corpus of the western printed archive in a digital form, challenges us to find new ways of asking historically significant questions; and liberates us to reconstitute the historical project in its most basic form. It will argue that the analysis and exploration of 'big data' provides an opportunity to re-incorporate historical understandings in to a positivist analysis, while challenging historians to engage directly and critically with the tools of computational linguistics. ============================ Tim Hitchcock has been instrumental in creating a series of digital resources that make available the printed and manuscript archives of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century London. With Robert Shoemaker and others, he is responsible for The Old Bailey Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org); London Lives (www.Londonlives.org); Connected Histories (www.Connectedhistories.org) and Locating London's Past (www.Locatinglondonspast.org). In collaboration with William Turkell he is currently engaged in using the Old Bailey Proceedings with the tools of text and datamining to better understand the history of the criminal justice system. He is also co-authoring a born-digital e-monograph with Robert Shoemaker on the history of criminal and social policy in eighteenth-century London, to by published by Cambridge University Press in 2013. Hitchcock is Professor of Eighteenth-century History at the University of Hertfordshire, and has published ten books on the histories of eighteenth-century poverty, sexuality and masculinity. I hope that you can join us. Best wishes, Michele Pasin Full colloquia listings are at: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/ddh/events/newdh/index.aspx Department of Digital Humanities: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/ddh/index.aspx ____________________________ Dr. Michele Pasin, Research Associate Department of Digital Humanities King's College, London www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/ddh/ www.michelepasin.org --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 05 Feb 2012 14:37:14 -0500 From: Dominic Forest Subject: DEFT2012 - Appel à participation ******************************************************** DEFT2012 - Appel à participation Le défi DEFT est un atelier d'évaluation francophone en fouille de textes. L'édition 2012 portera sur l¹identification de mots-clés utilisés pour la description d'articles scientifiques en SHS. Site Web : http://deft.limsi.fr/2012/ Comité d'organisation : - présidents : Cyril Grouin (LIMSI-CNRS) et Dominic Forest (EBSI, Université de Montréal) - contact : deft2012@limsi.fr ******************************************************** Dates importantes : - Inscription : à partir du 4 février 2012 - Diffusion des corpus d'apprentissage : 4 février 2012 - Test : 3 jours pris entre le 9 et le 15 avril 2012 - Atelier : le 8 juin 2012 lors de la conférence JEP/TALN (sous toute réserve) ******************************************************** DEFT2012 constitue la huitième édition de la campagne d'évaluation en fouille de textes DEFT. L'atelier de clôture se tiendra sous toute réserve à Grenoble dans le cadre de la conférence JEP/TALN. Pour cette nouvelle édition, nous proposons une tâche qui se décline en deux pistes distinctes. Dans la continuité des éditions 2010 et 2011 du défi, nous offrons de nouveau l'opportunité de travailler sur l'extraction d'informations sur un corpus d'articles scientifiques en sciences humaines et sociales. La tâche consistera à identifier à partir des documents les mots-clés qui ont été utilisés, par les auteurs, pour décrire chaque article du corpus. Le nombre précis de mots-clés attendus pour chaque document sera renseigné, tant pour les documents du corpus d'apprentissage que pour ceux du corpus de test (entre 3 et 8 mots-clés par article). Cette tâche d'assistance à l'indexation est fondamentale pour la description des articles scientifiques. En effet, les bases de données bibliographiques présentes sur le Web regroupant les articles parus en revue et dans les actes de conférences permettent aux chercheurs d¹accéder facilement aux articles scientifiques de leur domaine. Compte tenu de la quantité d'articles scientifiques disponibles en format numérique, l'une des problématiques les plus cruciales consiste à accéder aux articles correspondant le mieux aux thématiques cherchées par l'utilisateur. La description et l¹indexation des articles scientifiques au moyen de mots-clés permettent de faciliter les recherches dans les bases de données documentaires. Alors que dans certains domaines, des thesaurus existent pour aider au choix des descripteurs d¹articles (le thésaurus MeSH Medical Subject Headings dans le domaine médical, par exemple), le domaine des Sciences Humaines et Sociales ne dispose pas encore de tels outils dont l¹objectif principal serait d¹assister l¹indexation des articles scientifiques. En conséquence, les auteurs choisissent eux-mêmes les mots-clés qu'ils estiment les plus à même de décrire le contenu de leur article, sans que la pertinence des mots-clés choisis ne soit toutefois garantie. Travailler sur l¹indexation des articles scientifiques en SHS constitue une première étape d¹étude de ces mots-clés, et du bien-fondé de ces choix personnels. En outre, l¹objectif de cette édition du défi consiste également à mettre en évidence les décalages qui pourraient voir le jour entre les mots-clés choisis par les auteurs et ceux qu'une machine pourrait automatiquement extraire. Deux pistes sont possibles : - la première consiste à travailler à partir des articles entiers et en disposant de la terminologie complète utilisée pour décrire les articles du corpus. - la seconde consiste à travailler à partir des articles entiers et en ne disposant pas de la terminologie complète utilisée pour décrire les articles du corpus. Les résultats seront en utilisant des méthodes classiques d¹évaluation (rappel, précision, mesure-F, etc.) en mettant en relation les mots-clés de chaque article avec ceux fournis par chaque équipe participante. Il n'y a aucune limite quant au nombre de pistes auxquelles peuvent participer les équipes. Les participants ne pourront utiliser des ressources externes (thésaurus, Web, etc.) Les équipes participant à DEFT2012 devront s'inscrire à l'aide du formulaire en ligne, et signer les accords de restriction d'usage des corpus. Des corpus d'apprentissage seront fournis aux participants inscrits à partir du 4 février 2012. Ces corpus sont composés de 60% des corpus d¹origine. Les 40% de corpus restants seront utilisés pour le test. Le test aura lieu sur la première semaine de mai. À partir de la date qu'ils auront choisie dans cet intervalle, les participants auront trois jours pour appliquer, sur les corpus de test, les méthodes mises en oeuvre sur les corpus d'apprentissage. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Feb 6 06:34:25 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA1C42613E2; Mon, 6 Feb 2012 06:34:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 5E4BE2613CA; Mon, 6 Feb 2012 06:34:21 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120206063421.5E4BE2613CA@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2012 06:34:21 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.698 film: Finnish Pavilion, Paris, 1900 X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 698. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2012 08:43:58 +0000 From: Diaz-Kommonen Lily Subject: Pavilion of Finland at the 1900 World Fair in Paris film A FILM ABOUT THE FINNISH PAVILION IN THE PARIS WORLD FAIR OF 1900 Researchers and students at the Department of Media in the School of Arts, Design, and Architecture at Aalto University have created "Le Pavilion de la Finlande à l’exposition universelle de 1900 à Paris", a film that brings together archival materials with computer generated imagery in order to render a simulation of the Pavilion of Finland and the 1900 World Exposition in Paris. The documentary, that is 8:30 minutes long, will be shown at Musèe d’Orsay in Paris, France in the Akseli Gallen Kallela, A Passion for Finland exhibition beginning February 7 until May 6, 2012. For more information: http://mlab.taik.fi/news/2012/02/02/a-film-about-the-finnish-pavilion-in-the-paris-world-fair-of-1900/ BR. Lily ---------------------------------------------------- Dr. Lily Diaz Professor of Systems of Representation and Digital Cultural Heritage Head of Research Department of Media Aalto University, School of Art & Design Finland + 358 9 47030 338 + 358 9 470 555 (FAX) _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Feb 6 09:03:21 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 511DF262A20; Mon, 6 Feb 2012 09:03:21 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id AEB24262A0D; Mon, 6 Feb 2012 09:03:16 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120206090316.AEB24262A0D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2012 09:03:16 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.699 events: London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship, 16 Feb X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 699. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2012 09:00:36 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship, 16 Feb London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship Katherine D. Harris (San José State University): 'A Supple Vocabulary for Digital Scholarly Editions' 16 February 2012 Room 265 Senate House, second floor, Malet Street, Bloomsbury 17.30-19.30 All welcome. ----- In “Googling the Victorians,” Patrick Leary writes that all sorts of digital archives about Victorian literature are springing up, archives that are not peer-reviewed per se but offer an intriguing and sanguine view of the wealth of nineteenth-century materials. Leary concludes his essay by asserting that whatever does not end up in a digital archive, represented as cyber/hypertext will not, in the future, be studied, remembered, valorized and canonized. Though this statement reflects some hysteria about the loss of the print book, it is also revealing in its recognition that digital representations have become common and widespread, regardless of professional standards. Whatever is not on the Web will not be remembered, says Leary. Does this mean that the literary canon will shift to accommodate all of those wild archives and editions? Or, does it mean that those mega projects of canonical authors will survive while the disenfranchised and non-canonical literary materials will fall further into obscurity? My focus for this seminar will be on working with small scale digital projects, like the Forget Me Not Archive (http://www.orgs.muohio.edu/anthologies/FMN/), that try to balance non-canonical women's authorship with other methodologies, such as textual criticism and bibliography. In order to attract funding, even users, these types of digital projects have to represent the stars of the literary canon. This, in effect, crushes the purposes of the archive ? to provide access to an under-represented set of authors. (This seminar is based on a recent seminar that I gave for Society for Textual Scholarship, Revising the Scholarly Edition in the Digital Age (http://triproftri.wordpress.com/2011/03/01/revising-the-scholarly-edition-in-the-digital-age-again/ ). The resulting conversation and my assessment are available here: http://triproftri.wordpress.com/2011/03/22/supple-vocabulary-for-digital-scholarly-editions/ . The reading list is also available via a password-protected wiki which I am happy to share with attendees.) Katherine D. Harris (http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/harris), a tenured Assistant Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature, San José State University, specializes in Romantic-Era and 19th-century British literature, women's authorship, the literary annual, 19th-century history print culture and history of the book, textuality, editorial theory, Digital Humanities, and pedagogy. Her work ranges from pedagogical articles on using digital tools in the classroom to traditional scholarship on a “popular” literary form in 19th-century England. She edits an online resource for the study of literary annuals, The Forget Me Not: A Hypertextual Archive (http://www.orgs.muohio.edu/anthologies/FMN/Index.htm), most of which has been re-coded into TEI and incorporated into the Poetess Archive Database (http://unixgen.muohio.edu/%7Epoetess/) edited by Laura Mandell. Harris' most current work is an edited collection of Gothic short stories from the 1820s' most popular annuals, forthcoming with Zittaw Press (Fall 2011). -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor (fractional), University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Feb 7 06:33:10 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5B49261E41; Tue, 7 Feb 2012 06:33:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B9FFF261E23; Tue, 7 Feb 2012 06:33:03 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20120207063303.B9FFF261E23@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2012 06:33:03 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.700 index to Gardiner's History online X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 700. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2012 16:22:25 -0800 (PST) From: Bob Blair Subject: Index of Gardiner's History of England I mentioned this index in a post last month. I hope that gives me enough cover to post again now that it is live. My original question was how to get the remaining errors out of the indexes described at http://bob.fooguru.org/content/gardiner/index/index.html You convinced me it should just go free. I've made a strong effort to find the errors, and if the work is valuable enough, users will tell me when they find the rest. Bob _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Feb 7 06:35:47 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62030261EE3; Tue, 7 Feb 2012 06:35:47 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 2E13D261ED1; Tue, 7 Feb 2012 06:35:41 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120207063541.2E13D261ED1@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2012 06:35:41 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.701 events: MITH Digital Dialogues X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 701. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2012 14:27:40 -0500 From: Trevor_Muñoz Subject: MITH Digital Dialogues Dear Colleagues, A new semester is here and with it comes a stellar list of speakers for the spring edition of Digital Dialogues, a speaker series hosted by The Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH). We are delighted to host this impressive list of innovative scholars, and would love for anyone in the Washington D.C. region to join us! All talks are open to the public with attendees invited to bring their own refreshments. Talks will also be distributed as audio podcasts. Please visit Digital Dialogues (http://mith.umd.edu/podcast/) for more details. 02.14 Melanie Kill, Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Maryland, College Park Knowledge and Meaning in the Information Age: A Humanist Perspective on Wikipedia co-sponsored by the Department of English Time: 12:30 pm Place: MITH Seminar Room (B0131 McKeldin Library) 02.21 Mike Witmore, Director, Folger Shakespeare Library Shakespeare from the Waist Down co-sponsored by the Department of English Time: 12:30 pm Place: 2115 Tawes Hall 02.28 Leigh Wilson Smiley, Associate Professor, School of Theatre, Dance & Performance Studies, University of Maryland, College Park Vocal Visions co-sponsored by the School of Theatre, Dance & Performance Studies Time: 12:30 pm Place: MITH Seminar Room (B0131 McKeldin Library) 02.29 Beth Plale, Professor, Computer Science, Indiana University Digital Humanities at Scale: the HathiTrust Research Center co-sponsored by University Libraries Time: 12:30 pm Place: 6137 McKeldin Library, Special Events. *Please note this talk takes place on a Wednesday. 03.06 Lynn Cazabon, Associate Chair, Department of Art, University of Maryland, Baltimore County The Archive’s Shadow co-sponsored by the Digital Cultures & Creativity Program at the Honors College and University Libraries Time: 12:30 pm Place: MITH Seminar Room (B0131 McKeldin Library) 03.13 Lisa M. Snyder, The Urban Simulation Team and Institute for Digital Research and Education, University of California at Los Angeles A Conversation about Compulsion, the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893, and Virtual Reality co-sponsored by the School of Architecture Time: 2:00 pm Place: 1111 School of Architecture (Building 145) 03.20 SPRING BREAK -- No Digital Dialogue scheduled. 03.27 Craig Saper, Associate Professor, University of Maryland, Baltimore County \R\e\a\d/i/n/g/ as a Publishing Practice Time: 12:30 pm Place: MITH Seminar Room (B0131 McKeldin Library) 04.03 Bill Ferster, Senior Scientist, Curry School of Education, University of Virginia Historical Interactive Visualization: Coaxing Data to Tell Stories co-sponsored by the Human Computer Interaction Lab (HCIL) Time: 12:30 pm Place: 2117 Hornbake, South Wing (HCIL) 04.10 Jordan Boyd-Graber, Assistant Professor, College of Information Studies, University of Maryland, College Park Making Topic Models More Human(e) co-sponsored by the Department of Computer Science Time: 12:30 pm Place: MITH Seminar Room (B0131 McKeldin Library) 04.17 Jeffrey Schnapp, Professor, Romance Languages & Literatures and Comparative Literature, Harvard University Building the Digital Public Library of America Time: 12:30 pm Place: 6137 McKeldin Library, Special Events. 04.24 Jeremy Dibbell, Head of Social Media, LibraryThing Enhancing the Bibliosphere: Bringing Historical Libraries to Life at LibraryThing Time: 12:30 pm Place: MITH Seminar Room (B0131 McKeldin Library) 05.02 Carla Peterson, Professor, Department of English, and co-presenter Seth Denbo, Project Manager, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities, University of Maryland, College Park From Print to Digital:The Black Gotham Digital Archive co-sponsored by the Departments of African-American Studies, American Studies, and English Time: 2:00pm Place: 6137 McKeldin Library, Special Events. 05.08 Mark Matienzo, Digital Archivist, Yale University Library Between Representation and Assertion: The Meaning of Archival Description co-sponsored by University Libraries Time: 12:30 pm Place: MITH seminar room (B0131 McKeldin Library) _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Feb 7 07:41:38 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id E81AF2618B9; Tue, 7 Feb 2012 07:41:37 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E93FD2618A6; Tue, 7 Feb 2012 07:41:27 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120207074127.E93FD2618A6@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2012 07:41:27 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.702 problems of long duration? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 702. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2012 07:38:09 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: problems of long duration Alexander Borst begins his article, "Fly Vision: Moving Into the Motion Detection Circuit" (Current Biology 21.24, 20 December 2011), with the following assertion, in order to call attention to the importance of what he is about to announce: > For a problem to become really famous, it needs to be important, > interesting, and unsolved for a long time. This is what happened, for > example, in mathematics, when Pierre de Fermat formulated his > innocent-looking theorem stating that for n larger than 2, no integer > solutions for x, y, and z can be found to hold the relationship x**n > + y**n = z**n. Almost 350 years had to pass before Andrew Wiles > published the proof of the theorem, a story which even found its way > into popular science books. In neuroscience, a problem was formulated > about 50 years ago that was again innocent at first sight, but which > has proved to be hard to crack. This problem deals with direction > selectivity in motion vision — the capability of nerve cells to > respond differently when a visual object moves in one or in the > opposite direction.... Here, unsurprisingly, we are in the rhetorical domain of problems and solutions that, one could say, is inappropriate for the humanities. Yet in the digital humanities, I'd think, we do have situations in which talking in terms of solutions to conceptual as well as technical problems makes sense. Take, for example, the conceptual and technical problem of interface design (in the broadest sense) for digital editions of verbal and musical texts. We have been picking at this problem, esp for verbal text, for a very long time and still are asking what a "digital edition" might look like that someone might like to look at it. As a scholarly community -- I will not be deflected from using that word to express the realities of our social arrangements -- we differ in several respects from mathematicians and biologists, but I wonder if Borst's way of identifying worthy research questions does not also hold for us. So, let me ask, what are our long-standing intellectual hard nuts to crack? Yours, WM -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor (fractional), University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Feb 8 05:41:44 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id E737B263575; Wed, 8 Feb 2012 05:41:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A6EE7263546; Wed, 8 Feb 2012 05:41:02 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120208054126.A6EE7263546@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2012 05:41:02 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.703 on criticism, making amends X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 703. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2012 12:32:41 -0600 (CST) From: Alan Corre Subject: Laurence Sterne on criticism In-Reply-To: <131562772.1221252.1328639372288.JavaMail.root@mail12.pantherlink.uwm.edu> As one who has perhaps abetted the slicing and dicing of texts by my interest in fostering the Icon Programming Language, I would like to make amends by offering the comments on criticism by Sterne in Tristram 2.V arranged by me for the benefit of the contemporary reader as an exchange between a questioner and his interlocutor as well as the brief, acid comments of the narrator, along with a modernization of the punctuation: Q. And how did Garrick speak the soliloquy last night? A. Oh, against all rule, my lord, most ungrammatically! Betwixt the substantive and the adjective, which should agree together in number, case and gender, he made a breach thus, stopping, as if the point wanted settling; and betwixt the nominative case, which your lordship knows should govern the verb, he suspended his voice in the epilogue a dozen times three seconds and three fifths by a stop watch, my lord, each time. C. Admirable grammarian! Q. But in suspending his voice, was the sense suspended likewise? Did no expression of attitude or countenance fill up the chasm? Did you narrowly look? A. I look'd only at the stop watch, my lord. C. Excellent observer! Q. And what of this new book the whole world makes such a rout about? A. Oh, 'tis out of all plumb, my lord, quite an irregular thing. Not one of the angles at the four corners was a right angle. I had my rule and compasses etc., my lord, in my pocket. C. Excellent critic! A continued. And for the epic poem your lordship bid me look at, upon taking the length, breadth, height, and depth of it, and trying them at home upon and exact scale of Bossu's ["humpback" used of a pitiable person] -- 'tis out, my lord, in every one of its dimensions. C. Admirable connoisseur! Alan Corré _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Feb 8 05:41:46 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C92B263589; Wed, 8 Feb 2012 05:41:46 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 4B8F0263553; Wed, 8 Feb 2012 05:41:33 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120208054138.4B8F0263553@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2012 05:41:33 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.703 on criticism, making amends X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 703. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2012 12:32:41 -0600 (CST) From: Alan Corre Subject: Laurence Sterne on criticism In-Reply-To: <131562772.1221252.1328639372288.JavaMail.root@mail12.pantherlink.uwm.edu> As one who has perhaps abetted the slicing and dicing of texts by my interest in fostering the Icon Programming Language, I would like to make amends by offering the comments on criticism by Sterne in Tristram 2.V arranged by me for the benefit of the contemporary reader as an exchange between a questioner and his interlocutor as well as the brief, acid comments of the narrator, along with a modernization of the punctuation: Q. And how did Garrick speak the soliloquy last night? A. Oh, against all rule, my lord, most ungrammatically! Betwixt the substantive and the adjective, which should agree together in number, case and gender, he made a breach thus, stopping, as if the point wanted settling; and betwixt the nominative case, which your lordship knows should govern the verb, he suspended his voice in the epilogue a dozen times three seconds and three fifths by a stop watch, my lord, each time. C. Admirable grammarian! Q. But in suspending his voice, was the sense suspended likewise? Did no expression of attitude or countenance fill up the chasm? Did you narrowly look? A. I look'd only at the stop watch, my lord. C. Excellent observer! Q. And what of this new book the whole world makes such a rout about? A. Oh, 'tis out of all plumb, my lord, quite an irregular thing. Not one of the angles at the four corners was a right angle. I had my rule and compasses etc., my lord, in my pocket. C. Excellent critic! A continued. And for the epic poem your lordship bid me look at, upon taking the length, breadth, height, and depth of it, and trying them at home upon and exact scale of Bossu's ["humpback" used of a pitiable person] -- 'tis out, my lord, in every one of its dimensions. C. Admirable connoisseur! Alan Corré _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Feb 8 05:43:53 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A33F26364F; Wed, 8 Feb 2012 05:43:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 3554A263632; Wed, 8 Feb 2012 05:43:47 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120208054347.3554A263632@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2012 05:43:47 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.704 job at Lafayette X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 704. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2012 15:48:00 -0500 From: Eric Luhrs Subject: Job Posting: Digital Library Developer at Lafayette College Please feel free to contact me informally with any questions about this position. Eric Luhrs Digital Initiatives Librarian, and Head of Digital Scholarship Services Lafayette College -- Job Posting: Digital Library Developer at Lafayette College http://hr.lafayette.edu/2012/02/03/digital-library-developer/ Do you enjoy exploring how new technologies can be used to create and improve access to innovative digital scholarship? Lafayette College seeks a Digital Library Developer to help design and build tools to support the teaching and research of our faculty. Our ideal candidate will possess natural curiosity, the desire to partner with scholars, the ability to articulate project deliverables to non-technical audiences, and will feel comfortable using and contributing to Open Source software projects. This position requires strong web programming experience, preferably in a Linux environment (including Mac OSX). Applicants should be comfortable working with technologies like Apache, Tomcat, PHP, Java, JavaScript, MySQL, and/or PostgreSQL. Experience with some of the following required: - Database architecture and design - Agile and test-driven software development - Web development using framework(s) such as Ruby on Rails, Django, or CakePHP - JavaScript development using framework(s) such as jQuery, or Prototype/Script.aculo.us - Source code repository management using system(s) such as Subversion or Git - Web technologies: AJAX, CSS, HTML, JSON, RDF - Metadata Schemes: Dublin Core, MARC, METS, MODS, PREMIS, VRA Core - Experience with Library web applications like DSpace, Fedora, or CONTENTdm This is a full-time, 12-month, permanent position in Lafayette College Library’s Digital Scholarship Services department. The Library strongly supports professional development and provides funding for staff to present their work at national conferences. Lafayette College offers a competitive salary and generous benefits package as compensation. While there is no advanced degree requirement for this position, suitably qualified candidates will be eligible for faculty status without rank or tenure. For consideration, please submit a resume and cover letter addressing job qualifications and three professional references to: Neil McElroy, Dean Libraries, Lafayette College, Easton, PA 18042 or via email to: castells@lafayette.edu Lafayette College is committed to creating a diverse community: one that is inclusive and responsive, and is supportive of each and all of its faculty, students, and staff. All members of the College community share a responsibility for creating, maintaining, and developing a learning environment in which difference is valued, equity is sought, and inclusiveness is practiced. Lafayette College is an equal opportunity employer and encourages applications from women and minorities. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Feb 8 05:45:33 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22A1826371D; Wed, 8 Feb 2012 05:45:33 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 8F6CC2636E7; Wed, 8 Feb 2012 05:45:27 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20120208054527.8F6CC2636E7@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2012 05:45:27 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.705 survey of digital humanities centres? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 705. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2012 11:42:01 -0800 From: Stephanie Wood Subject: Digital Scholarship Centers Hello all I am looking for updates to Diane M. Zorich's excellent "Survey of Digital Humanities Centers in the United States" published in 2008 by CLIR. Information does not have to be limited to the U.S., of course. Here are some questions for existing DHC or DSC directors who might be willing to reply... Which of your services are most in demand? Do you have to charge for your services? Do you only take complex projects that might obtain external funding? Do you have internal funding and invite competitive proposals? Who is your largest user group (faculty? grad students? undergrads?)? Thank you for any feedback. Best, Stephanie Stephanie Wood, Ph.D., Director Wired Humanities Projects Knight Library 1299 University of Oregon Eugene, Oregon 97403-1299 U.S.A. Tel. 541-346-5771 swood@uoregon.edu Office: Room 142 Knight Library Open Tues-Weds-Thurs, 10-5 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Feb 8 05:54:42 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36E35263888; Wed, 8 Feb 2012 05:54:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 625FF263875; Wed, 8 Feb 2012 05:54:31 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120208055432.625FF263875@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2012 05:54:31 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.706 events: Job for science; hypertext narrative; text; real virtual X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 706. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Tzafnat Shpak (58) Subject: cfp: MCIS 2012 Track on Real Virtual Worlds and Serious Games [2] From: (26) Subject: Tom McLeish in OXFORD [3] From: Monica Berti (24) Subject: Working with Text in a Digital Age - Reminder [4] From: "Lawrence, Faith" (84) Subject: CFP - Narrative and Hypertext 2012 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2012 09:40:33 +0000 From: Tzafnat Shpak Subject: cfp: MCIS 2012 Track on Real Virtual Worlds and Serious Games The Journal of Virtual Worlds Research (http://jvwresearch.org/) is happy to announce a special call for MCIS2012 Track on Real Virtual Worlds and Serious Games At the 7th Mediterranean Conference on Information Systems (MCIS 2012) September 2012, Guimarães, Portugal Track Chairs Ruti Gafni, Tel-Aviv Yaffo Academic College, Israel. rutigafn@mta.ac.il Nitza Geri, The Open University of Israel. nitzage@openu.ac.il Yesha Sivan, Tel-Aviv Yaffo Academic College, Israel. yesha.sivan@mta.ac.il You can access this call directly through our website. About MCIS 2012 Adopting emergent knowledge and technologies to develop innovative Information Systems (CloudWisdom) Guimarães, Portugal - September 8-10, 2012 http://www.mcis2012.org The Conference will address the design of web services, along with their business models, as well as the development and implementation of information systems that enhance the use and application of knowledge and expertise in a global scale, with the aim of supporting co-creation and the development of innovative solutions to the economic and social challenges that the World faces today. MCIS 2012 aims to: * Inspire innovative and informative IS research that promotes smart, sustainable and inclusive growth of the Mediterranean Region. * Foster ground breaking IS research to improve the quality of life in the Mediterranean Region through enacting the distributed intelligence of Mediterranean populations and promoting the value of knowledge assets they produce. * Raise the visibility of IS-related research, education, policy, and practice carried out in the Mediterranean Region. A direct link to Conference Tracks. Fast-Tracking Authors of selected high-quality papers will be invited to submit their work to a special issue of the Journal of Virtual Worlds Research. See http://jvwresearch.org. Track Information Interest in virtual worlds has increased in the last years (For example: Wasko, Teigland, Leidner, and Jarvenpaa, 2011). These artificial environments, which emerged from the gaming and role-play world, have developed to serious applications suitable for various domain such as general business, traveling, teaching (Baker, Wentz, and Woods, 2009), and more. Inexpensive commodity-based products, such as computers and high-speed internet, help making sophisticated simulation technologies affordable and more accessible. Virtual Worlds are 3D, immersive graphical environments representing realistic or imaginary worlds. A "Real Virtual World" is defined as a combination of 3D – 3C: a three- dimensional world in which Communities of real people interact, creating Content, stuff and services, and producing real economic value through e-Commerce (Sivan, Bloomfield, and Gelissen, 2009). Simulations in a virtual world have a number of advantages, for example: the possibility to simulate expensive real-world resources, performing collaborative tasks without meeting physically, and training people in risky activities that would be dangerous in the real world. Moreover, the activities are committed in a "gaming" like interaction, which motivates people to perform even routine and annoying activities. The aim of this track is to examine the opportunities and challenges that such developments pose to organizations, and their potential impacts on competitive, organizational, and legal issues. This track will be of interest to researchers, students, educators, virtual world users, and anyone interested in the potential implications of virtual worlds to organizations, businesses, and individuals. Track Submission Instructions Researchers are cordially invited to submit their full research papers (7-12 pages), research-in-progress papers or extended abstracts (3-7 pages). Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * The business value of virtual worlds * Deploying virtual worlds in the workplace * Business gaming * Virtual worlds through mobile devices * Training and evaluation in virtual worlds * Case studies of experimental projects * Traditional vs. virtual organizations * Serious games * Virtual Reality * Augmented Reality * Work-related learning in virtual worlds * New business models and strategies in virtual worlds * Virtual worlds as disruptive innovation for organizations * Products and services suitable for virtual worlds * Business activities suitable for virtual worlds (recruiting, research, development, marketing, sales, etc) * Security issues in virtual worlds All submissions must be in English and will be blind reviewed by at least two referees. Important Dates Paper submission deadline: March 9, 2012 Notification of acceptance: May 11, 2012 Final paper submission: June 1, 2012 If you have any questions please do not hesitate to e-mail the track co-chairs. BIBLIOGRAPHY Baker, S. C., Wentz, R. K., and Woods, M. M. (2009). Using Virtual Worlds in Education: Second Life® as an Educational Tool. Teaching of Psychology, 36(1), 59-64. Sivan, Y., Bloomfield, R., and Gelissen, J. (2009). Special Issue on Technology, Economy and Standards in Virtual Worlds. The Journal of Virtual Worlds Research, 2(3). ISSN: 1941-8477. Wasko, M., Teigland, R., Leidner, D., and Jarvenpaa, S. (2011). Stepping into the internet: New ventures in virtual worlds. MIS Quarterly, 35 (3), 645-652. -- =========== Tzafnat Shpak Coordinating Editor The Journal of Virtual World Research tzafnat.shpak@jvwresearch.org http://jvwresearch.org --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2012 12:51:42 -0000 From: Subject: Tom McLeish in OXFORD Professor Tom McLeish Department of Physics, Durham University 'Why is Science Such a Pain? The Book of Job and an overlooked ancient narrative for science studies' Thursday, 26 April 2012 Trinity College, Oxford 5.00 - 6.30 pm Drinks Reception Rsvp: R.Robinson1@lse.ac.uk Recent analysis of the public reception of problematic technologies (e.g. Macnaghten, J.-P. de Puy et al. the DEEPEN project) have unearthed the role that ancient narratives play beneath the surface of ostensibly technical debate around risk and acceptability. These narratives tend to support reactionary or conservative voices ("Pandora's Box", "The Sacred" etc.). Yet there are other ancient narratives that propel the human relationship with nature in quite different directions. Perhaps surprisingly, one of these is found within Old Testament Wisdom literature, and supremely within the poetic jewel of the Book of Job. The "Lord's Answer" at the close of the book is one of the outstanding cosmological texts from the ancient Middle East, but has accrued a problematic critical reception. We attempt to look at the text through the unusual lens of the natural history of grappling with order and chaos, situating it within stories both theological and epistemological. What might be the effect of reconnecting today's public debates (nanotechnology, geo-engineering) to such rich sources? Please access the attached hyperlink for an important electronic communications disclaimer: http://lse.ac.uk/emailDisclaimer --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2012 08:44:38 -0500 From: Monica Berti Subject: Working with Text in a Digital Age - Reminder "Working with Text in a Digital Age" July 23-August 10, 2012, Tufts University in Medford, MA will host "Working with Text in a Digital Age", a three-week NEH Institute for Advanced Technology in the Digital Humanities. This institute will combine traditional topics such as TEI markup with training in methods from Information Retrieval, Visualization, and Corpus and Computational Linguistics. Co-directors are Monica Berti and Gregory Crane, Tufts University; Anke LFCdeling, Humboldt University. This institute will provide participants with three weeks in which to: --develop hands on experience with TEI-XML, --apply methods from information retrieval, text visualization, and corpus and computational linguistics to the analysis of textual and linguistic sources in the humanities, --rethink not only their own research agendas but also new relationships between their work and non-specialists. Humanities researchers, consider applying to the NEH Institute, "Working with Text in a Digital Age." Faculty, graduate students, and library professionals are encouraged to apply. The deadline is February 15. For any information, please visit http://sites.tufts.edu/digitalagetext/. -- Monica Berti 321 Eaton Hall Department of Classics Tufts University Medford, MA 02155 monica.berti@tufts.edu --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2012 16:47:19 +0000 From: "Lawrence, Faith" Subject: CFP - Narrative and Hypertext 2012 Call for Papers Narrative and Hypertext 2012 Workshop on narrative systems http://nht.ecs.soton.ac.uk/ To be held in conjunction with Hypertext 2012 in Milwaukee This workshop aims to provide an interdisciplinary forum to bring together individuals from the humanities and science communities to share research and discuss state-of-the-art research on narrative from both a technical and aesthetic perspective. Narrative is a prevalent form of information common in our entertainment, communication, and understanding of the world and its events. By building better models of narrative along with methods for generation, adaption, and presentation we enable narrative systems to become more effective but also improve our understanding of narrative structures. Narrative might also be used as a discursive representation of knowledge allowing for the capture of expert understanding. The potential for grander narratives to be formed from collections of information or discourse on the web (for example from social media) means that knowledge or identity might emerge from otherwise seemingly disparate sources. There is an increasingly growing community of researchers working on narrative systems, hypertext narratives, and machine readable narrative models for which this workshop seeks to act as a hub to review advances and events over the previous year as well as, looking forward to the coming year, what the field can achieve. One of the identified challenges facing this community is the difficulty of connecting creatives with technologists, which as a topic will form the centre point of discussion, along with the effect of this issue on related projects and systems. This workshop aims to support this work, and the new research to be presented at the hypertext and narrative connections track at this year¹s conference, by providing an open interdisciplinary forum of discussion on key issues facing the field. Including (but not limited to): - Models of Narrative - Systems for the Presentation of Narratives - Adaptive and Personalised Narratives - Narrative Analysis - Narrative Generation - Narrative as a method of Knowledge Capture - Social Media as Narrative - Narrative as a lens on identity - Argumentation and Rhetoric - Interactive Fiction - Cinematic Hypertext - Authorial support systems - Novel applications of narrative systems - e-Literature - Strange Hypertext - Innovative digital narratives - Interdisciplinary collaboration on narrative Participants Researchers and practitioners working with hypertext or narrative are invited to attend this workshop. Participants are asked to submit a short (between 2 and 5 pages ACM format) position paper on their current work. Authors of papers selected for presentation will be informed 3 weeks after the submission deadline. All the position papers of participants will be made available on the workshop website initially, and later through the ACM Digital Library. Activities As with last year the workshop will be split into planned and serendipitous sessions. The planned sessions will comprise of presentations of work from those with selected submitted papers with time for questions and discussion after each. The serendipitous sessions will depend on the interests of the attendees of the workshop and will function in the style of an unconference. The preceding coffee break to each serendipitous session will allow participants to put forward suggestions for discussion topics, short presentations, or demos. The organisers will then select the most popular activities suggested as the focus for that session. Submission Details Papers should be in ACM format, be between 2 and 5 pages long and submitted as a PDF. The papers should be emailed no later than midday GMT 16th April 2012 to Charlie Hargood at cah07r@ecs.soton.ac.uk. Submitted papers will be refereed and notification of acceptance sent out 3 weeks later. Accepted papers will be included alongside the ACM Hypertext conference proceedings in the ACM Digital Library, and authors will have a week to prepare camera ready papers for submission after acceptance. Important Dates: - Papers Due 16th April 2012 - Notification of acceptance 7th May 2012 - Camera ready papers due 14th May 2012 - Workshop 25th June 2012 Contact Should you have any questions please feel free to contact the organisers: Charlie Hargood: cah07r@ecs.soton.ac.uk David Millard: dem@ecs.soton.ac.uk _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Feb 9 06:24:35 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BB7C2661BE; Thu, 9 Feb 2012 06:24:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 3CE5B2661AA; Thu, 9 Feb 2012 06:24:28 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120209062428.3CE5B2661AA@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2012 06:24:28 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.707 survey of digital humanities centres X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 707. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2012 11:07:04 -0500 From: Jennifer Vinopal Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.705 survey of digital humanities centres? In-Reply-To: <20120208054527.8F6CC2636E7@woodward.joyent.us> Hi, Stephanie, You probably already know about this, but just in case: you should look at the recently published SPEC kit done by Tim Bryson, Miriam Posner, Alain St. Pierre, and Stewart Varner of Emory University. http://www.arl.org/news/pr/spec326-6dec11.shtml Here is their brief description: The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has published *Digital Humanities*, SPEC Kit 326, which provides a snapshot of research library experiences with digital scholarship centers or services that support the humanities (e.g., history, art, music, film, literature, philosophy, religion, etc.) and the benefits and challenges of hosting them. The survey asked ARL libraries about the organization of these services, how they are staffed and funded, what services they offer and to whom, what technical infrastructure is provided, whether the library manages or archives the digital resources produced, and how services are assessed, among other questions. This survey revealed that library-based support for the digital humanities is offered predominantly on an ad hoc basis. However, as demand for services supporting the digital humanities has grown, libraries have begun to re-evaluate their provisional service and staffing models. Many respondents expressed a desire to implement practices, policies, and procedures that would allow them to cope with increases in demand for services. This SPEC Kit includes documentation from respondents that describes the mission or purpose of digital humanities centers, the services offered, policies and procedures, examples of digital projects, fellowship and grant opportunities, promotional materials, and repositories for digital projects. The table of contents and executive summary from this SPEC Kit are available online athttp://www.arl.org/bm~doc/spec-326-web.pdf. - Jennifer - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Jennifer Vinopal / vinopal@nyu.edu Librarian for Digital Scholarship Initiatives 5th floor south, Bobst Library, New York University 70 Washington Square South New York, NY 10012 v: 212.998.2522 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 12:45 AM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 705. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2012 11:42:01 -0800 > From: Stephanie Wood > Subject: Digital Scholarship Centers > > > Hello all > > I am looking for updates to Diane M. Zorich's excellent "Survey of > Digital Humanities Centers in the United States" published in 2008 by > CLIR. Information does not have to be limited to the U.S., of course. > > Here are some questions for existing DHC or DSC directors who might be > willing to reply... > > Which of your services are most in demand? > Do you have to charge for your services? > Do you only take complex projects that might obtain external funding? > Do you have internal funding and invite competitive proposals? > Who is your largest user group (faculty? grad students? undergrads?)? > > Thank you for any feedback. > > Best, > Stephanie > > Stephanie Wood, Ph.D., > Director > Wired Humanities Projects > Knight Library > 1299 University of Oregon > Eugene, Oregon 97403-1299 > U.S.A. > > Tel. 541-346-5771 > swood@uoregon.edu > Office: > Room 142 Knight Library > Open Tues-Weds-Thurs, 10-5 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Feb 9 06:28:17 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 123C926626B; Thu, 9 Feb 2012 06:28:17 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 50F1326625D; Thu, 9 Feb 2012 06:28:12 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20120209062812.50F1326625D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2012 06:28:12 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.708 Editing Modernism in Canada postdocs X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 708. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2012 14:01:39 -0500 From: Dean Irvine Subject: EMiC Postdoctoral Fellowships The Editing Modernism in Canada project, funded by a Strategic Knowledge Cluster grant (2008-15) from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, invites applications to its 2012 competition for a postdoctoral fellowship. Our first postdoctoral fellow, Meagan Timney, worked under the supervision of Ray Siemens at the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab at the University of Victoria, and in collaboration with the developers of the Text-Image Linking Environment and the Canadian Writing Research Repository, on digital tools for the production of EMiC's digital editions. Our second postdoctoral fellow, Matt Huculak, is working under the supervision of Dean Irvine at Dalhousie University, and in collaboration with developers at DiscoveryGarden and the Islandora project at the University of Prince Edward Island, on EMiC's digital repository. Our most recent postdoctoral fellow, Vanessa Lent, is working under the supervision of Paul Hjartarson at the University of Alberta on the Editing the Wilfred Watson Archive project. EMiC offers two-year postdoctoral fellowships valued at $31,500 per year to PhD students in the final year of their program and recent graduates who are engaged in research relevant to the project's mandate: to produce critically edited texts by modernist Canadian authors. The awards are tenable at any of the EMiC partner universities and are supervised by, or undertaken in collaboration with, co-applicants or collaborators. Although preference will be given to research projects most directly relevant to the task of producing critically edited texts by modernist Canadian authors, these awards are open to recently graduated postdoctoral scholars engaged in research projects relevant to one or more of the three components of this project: literary modernism, scholarly editing, and the digital humanities. We are especially interested in applicants who plan to work in collaboration with developers, partners, and researchers engaged in EMiC's digital initiatives. Applicants proposing print or electronic editions of modernist texts should indicate whether they have obtained written permission from the estate. EMiC will require proof of that permission before it can release funds to successful applicants. Applicants must not hold a tenure or tenure-track position or other full-time employment. Fellows are expected to engage in full-time postdoctoral research during the term of the award. Preference will be given to recent graduates, that is, to graduates applying within five years of receiving their doctoral degree. The awards are not renewable beyond the second year. EMiC will provide an allocation of $31,500 per year to the partner universities at which successful applicants propose to engage in their research. EMiC co-applicants or collaborators will be responsible for ensuring that those funds are administered in keeping with the guidelines established by their respective universities. In a sponsorship letter the postdoctoral supervisor should clearly indicate the university's willingness to host the EMiC postdoctoral fellow and the arrangements made regarding office space, library access, supplies and teaching that will be made available. Applications must be submitted via the online form available at the project website: http://editingmodernism.ca/funding/postdoctoral-fellows/ Application deadline: 16 April 2012 Dean IrvineDirector, Editing Modernism in Canada Bicentennial Canadian Studies Visiting Professor Department of Comparative Literature Yale University 451 College Street PO Box 208299 New Haven, CT 06520-8299 tel: 203.432.4753 email: dean.irvine@yale.edu @irvined @EMiC_project _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Feb 9 06:31:23 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24990266334; Thu, 9 Feb 2012 06:31:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A0FBA266311; Thu, 9 Feb 2012 06:31:13 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120209063113.A0FBA266311@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2012 06:31:13 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.709 events: THATCamp; modelling; narrative & hypertext X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 709. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Leif Isaksen (6) Subject: Fwd: Call for Papers: Narrative and Hypertext Workshop at ACMHypertext 2012 [2] From: "Diekmann, S." (48) Subject: CFP: VALUES AND NORMS IN MODELING (VaNiM 2012) [3] From: Quinn Warnick (20) Subject: THATCamp LAC 2012 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2012 11:02:00 +0000 From: Leif Isaksen Subject: Fwd: Call for Papers: Narrative and Hypertext Workshop at ACMHypertext 2012 In-Reply-To: The following workshop at ACM Hyptertext 2012 may well be of interest to DHers. Best Leif ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Charlie Hargood Date: Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 5:07 PM --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2012 11:57:31 +0100 From: "Diekmann, S." Subject: CFP: VALUES AND NORMS IN MODELING (VaNiM 2012) In-Reply-To: VALUES AND NORMS IN MODELING (VaNiM 2012) June 25-27, 2012. Eindhoven, The Netherlands FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS We invite submissions for the upcoming conference Values and Norms in Modeling (VaNiM 2012) which will be held at Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands, June 25-27, 2012 -- vanim2012.ieis.tue.nl. Keynote speakers: - Bas van Fraassen & Isabelle Peschard - Ilkka Niiniluoto - Stephan Hartmann - Eric Winsberg - Susan Sterrett - Athur Petersen - Wendy Parker - Marc Le Menestrel It is widely acknowledged that a large variety of values and norms (including epistemic, moral, and political values and norms) play an important role in modeling. Although the literature about the role of values in science is huge, the specific theme of values and norms exclusively focusing on modeling has not yet received the attention it should. Models are often conceived of as being approximate representations of phenomena or systems. Moreover, they are often seen as having epistemic or even non-epistemic purposes, which makes them subject to a plethora of normative influences. We are interested in questions such as: How do epistemic and non-epistemic values affect the production and assessment of models? What is the moral significance of these values and norms? To what extent, if any, does the allowance of value assessments threaten the objectivity of models? Would it be desirable and possible to eliminate epistemic or non-epistemic values and norms from models? We invite papers addressing these and related issues from a foundational as well as an applied perspective. We especially welcome contributions on non-epistemic values in engineering modeling, climate modeling and modeling in operations research. Abstracts of no more than 500 words can be sent to > vanim2012@easychair.org 2012. All proposals have to be submitted under one of the four conference > themes: 1. VALUES IN MODELING: FOUNDATIONAL ISSUES2. VALUES IN ENGINEERING MODELING 3. VALUES IN CLIMATE MODELING 4. VALUES IN OPERATIONS RESEARCH MODELING Talks will be allotted 30 minutes and will be followed by a 15 minutes discussion period. For further information visit: vanim2012.ieis.tue.nl Sven Diekmann, s.diekmann@tue.nl Department of Philosophy and Ethics Ecis - Eindhoven Centre for Innovation Studies Eindhoven, University of technology The Netherlands --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2012 10:16:48 -0600 From: Quinn Warnick Subject: THATCamp LAC 2012 In-Reply-To: Dear colleagues, From June 1-3, St. Edward's University will host the 2012 THATCamp for Liberal Arts Colleges in Austin, TX. If you're interested in the humanities, technology, and liberal arts colleges, you should attend. Is THATCamp LAC right for you? Are you: - A humanities professor who uses new technologies in your classes or research? - A humanities professor who would like to try using new technologies? - An IT professional who works with humanities faculty and staff? - A librarian who works in the humanities? - A non-traditional scholar who is interested in new technologies? - A scholar in another discipline who is interested in the place of new technologies in the academy? If you answered "yes" to any of these questions, THATCamp LAC is right for you. At THATCamp LAC, you'll get to participate in an "unconference" where you can chat with others like you. The dynamic schedule, voted on by attendees, will let you decide what you want to talk about, and let you change those topics on the fly. There are no papers presented, and there is no rigid schedule. Rather, dialogue dominates. As the main THATCamp site puts it, "An unconference is to a conference what a seminar is to a lecture; going to an unconference is like being a member of an improv troupe where going to a conference is (mostly) like being a member of an audience." When you attend, you'll also have the opportunity to attend workshops — training sessions where you can learn new software, strategies, and theories. While our workshop schedule isn't finalized yet, it's looking like we'll be offering sessions on using ebooks in the classroom, e-publishing books and journals, crowdsouring transcriptions, and using Google apps in the classroom. There's no registration fee, and many of the meals will be provided by St. Edward's. Housing options range from $54 to about $90 a night. For more information on THATCamps, visit the main THATCamp page at http://thatcamp.org. For more information about THATCamp LAC, contact any of the conference organizers. We're accepting applications for the conference until March 1. That's less than a month away, but we hope that the early date will allow you to request funding well ahead of time. Head on over to http://lac2012.thatcamp.org/apply/ and submit yours today! Sincerely, The conference organizers Ryan Hoover ryanh@stedwards.edu Drew Loewe drewml@stedwards.edu Quinn Warnick quinnw@stedwards.edu _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Feb 10 10:37:10 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EE6A26C2AB; Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:37:10 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 59C8426C29B; Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:37:07 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20120210103707.59C8426C29B@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:37:07 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.710 Gerhard Brey X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 710. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:26:24 +0000 From: "Pierazzo, Elena" Subject: Gerhard Brey Dear Colleagues, I have a very sad announcement. My former colleague Gerhard Brey died peacefully on Wednesday night. He had been fighting very bravely against a very aggressive form of cancer, which in the end was too strong for him. Gerhard was best known for his work on the history of science, and more recently on text mining and statistical analyses of language, and he made important contributions to a large number of international projects including the Wellcome Arabic Manuscript Cataloguing Partnership and the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition. He was a fine researcher, a good man, a great friend and the best colleague one could have had. I'm sure many of us who were lucky enough to get to know him and work with him will miss him a lot. Regards, Elena _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Feb 10 10:38:43 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30AA626C332; Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:38:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C9B8D26C327; Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:38:39 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120210103839.C9B8D26C327@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:38:39 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.711 PhD studentship at Manchester X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 711. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2012 10:58:36 +0000 From: Carsten Timmermann Subject: PhD studentship: Science and Museums in the People’s Republic of China and the UK since 1900. University of Manchester (UK) Science and Museums in the People’s Republic of China and the UK since 1900: Engaging people in physical science research 1+3-yr FT ESRC CASE (collaborative) MA/PhD Studentship, commencing September 2012 Centre for Chinese Studies University of Manchester in collaboration with Museum of Science and Industry, Manchester, and Centre for Museology, University of Manchester In a comparative study the project analyses and proposes how museums can engage people in the major breakthroughs in physical science and technology which shape the modern world. The focus of the project is on the historical trajectories that inform museum representations of physical science and technology in China and the UK since 1900. China recognises physics and technology research as essential for the country to play an increasingly prominent role in the global community. Since 1900, physics is a subject in which Western countries, especially Britain, have long led the way with major developments. In China, museums representing physical science and technology are a relatively recent development: since 2000, there has been a programme to create about 200 science museums throughout China, with about 100 opening in the last decade. These largely contain interactive exhibits explaining the principles and processes of science, rather than past scientific achievements and research taking place today. Historical research on Chinese museum culture is also in its infancy. The project aims to critically reflect on current methodologies and representations of physical science in China and the UK, and propose new ways of engaging people in both China and the UK in current research taking place both locally and internationally. The study will focus in particular on the local science museums of Shanghai and Zhejiang (East China) province, amongst the leading economic areas of China that can look back at a history of more than a hundred years, and the Museum of Science and Industry (MOSI) in Manchester. Both will be researched within the broader context of recent developments in science popularisation. The project has both historical and practical components. Through collaboration with MOSI, the research will feed directly into museum practice via MOSI and Chinese science museums/ science popularisation organisations in Shanghai and Zhejiang province in the first instance. The studentship is open to UK/EU undergraduates who have at least a 2:1 Honours degree in Chinese studies, History or Social Studies of Science/Technology, Museum Studies or a related subject. Proficiency in Chinese and English required (Classical Chinese advantageous). For applications for +3 yr (PhD) route an MA degree with merit or higher must be completed by September 2012. Students applying for the 1+3 year (MA+PhD) are required to undergo MA training depending on previous qualifications in the subject area. For details of MA programmes available to study in connection with this project please go to: - Museology: http://www.arts.manchester.ac.uk/museology/postgraduatestudy/taught/ - History of Science: http://www.chstm.manchester.ac.uk/postgraduate/taught/ - Languages and Cultures (research route): http://www.llc.manchester.ac.uk/postgraduate/taught/a-z/course/?code=08810 Applicants are requested to submit a letter of application (of no more than 500 words) stating an outline of their interests and relevant qualifications for the project along with a CV by 23 March 2012 to Miss Rachel Corbishley at pg.languages@manchester.ac.uk. You also need to apply online for an appropriate programme (either PhD in Chinese Studies or one of the MA programmes listed above). To apply for a place on a programme please go to: http://www.manchester.ac.uk/postgraduate/howtoapply/ Please note: you are advised to submit your programme application to the University by *7 March 2012*, to ensure that you are in receipt of an offer of a place on a programme in advance of the 23 March 2012 studentship deadline. Further information please contact: Professor Dagmar Schaefer, University of Manchester, Samuel Alexander Building, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK. Tel: +44 (0) 161 275 7052. Email: dagmar.schaefer@manchester.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 Feb 10 10:44:35 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F59826C3E8; Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:44:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id AD64726C3DE; Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:44:32 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20120210104432.AD64726C3DE@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:44:32 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.712 events: linguistics; museums X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============1529454564==" Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org --===============1529454564== Content-Type: text/plain Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 712. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Nancy Ide (52) Subject: FINAL Call for Submissions: THe LAW Challenge [2] From: (47) Subject: Museums and the Web 2012: Key Dates and Details --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2012 14:16:24 -0500 From: Nancy Ide Subject: FINAL Call for Submissions: THe LAW Challenge In-Reply-To: THE LAW CHALLENGE A Special Session of The 6th Linguistic Annotation Workshop (The LAW VI) Held in conjunction with ACL 2012 July 12-13, 2012 Jeju, Republic of Korea http://faculty.washington.edu/fxia/LAWVI/challenge.html Winner's travel support provided by The US National Science Foundation (NSF) Submission deadline : 18 March 2012 LAW VI will include a special "challenge" session, sponsored by the US National Science Foundation (IIS 0948101 Content of Linguistic Annotation: Standards and Practices (CLASP)) and the ACL Special Interest Group on Annotation (ACL SIGANN). The goals of the challenge are to promote the use and collaborative development of open, shared resources, and to identify and promote best practices for annotation interoperability. Submissions to the session will be evaluated by members of the LAW program committee. Based on their recommendations, one paper will receive an award of up to US $2500 to cover the author's (or authors') travel expenses, including air fare, local ground transportation, hotel for one or two nights, and workshop registration. All papers accepted for the session will be presented and included in the LAW VI proceedings. Evaluation criteria will include (but are not necessarily limited to) the following : * innovative use of linguistic information from different annotationlayers * demonstrable interoperability with at least one other annotation scheme or format developed by others * quality of the annotated resource in terms of scheme design, documentation, tool support, etc. * open availability of developed resources for community use * usability and reusability of the annotation scheme or annotated resource * outstanding contribution to the development of annotation best practices We invite long paper submissions describing original, innovative projects involving linguistic annotations that reflect the state-of-the-art in best practice for annotation development, creation, and/or use. Papers must follow the deadlines and format for LAW submissions, described at http://faculty.washington.edu/fxia/LAWVI. Where possible, submissions should describe projects that involve freely available, standard shared resources (e.g., MASC: http://www.anc.org/MASC/ for English). If appropriate, submitters should also register their annotation categories with ISOCat (http://www.isocat.org) or make similar efforts to provide detailed information for such categories that can be referenced by others. In the case of MASC, all new annotations or derived data should be subsequently contributed for free use by the entire community. Important datesSubmission deadline : 18 March 2012 Acceptance Notification: 15 April, 2012 Camera ready deadline : 30 April 2012 For more information about the goals of the NSF-sponsored CLASP workshop held in November 2009, please see the CLASP workshop report at http://cims.nyu.edu/~meyers/SIGANN-wiki/wiki/index.php/File:FinalClasp.pdf --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2012 11:32:15 -0800 From: Subject: Museums and the Web 2012: Key Dates and Details In-Reply-To: MW2012 WILL BE IN SAN DIEGO CA, APRIL 11-14, 2012 http://www.museumsandtheweb.com/mw2012 OUR TAG: #MW2012 BEST OF THE WEB NOMINATIONS CLOSE FEBRUARY 21, 2012 Each year at Museums and the Web we recognize the best work by museums on the web and other digital platforms. Help us to find it! Nominate a digital project for consideration by the MW2012 Best of the Web Panel. 

 For full details and deadlines see the Nomination, Review and People's Choice Voting Process at http://www.museumsandtheweb.com/mw2012/best


MW2012 PROGRAM ONLINE The full program for Museums and the Web 2012 is online. Start browsing from the Sessions page, and follow the links through to Paper Abstracts and Speaker Profiles. Full papers will be online before the conference. 

See http://www.museumsandtheweb.com/mw2012/sessions 


 PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS FILLING UP All of the Pre-Conference workshops at MW2011 have limited enrollment to ensure that they are great learning experiences. If you've been thinking about including a workshop in your registration, do so soon to avoid disappointment. 

 See http://www.museumsandtheweb.com/mw2012/workshops


MW2012 REGISTRATION ONLINE You can complete your conference registration quickly and easily online at http://www.museumsandtheweb.com/mw2012/register


MW2012 CONFERENCE HOTEL Museums and the Web 2012 takes place at the Sheraton San Diego Hotel & Marina at the edge of spectacular San Diego Bay, just 10 minutes from renowned attractions including the San Diego Zoo, Old Town and Balboa Park. More local info: http://www.museumsandtheweb.com/mw2012/local-information Make your hotel reservation online by March 20 to reserve the conference rate at https://www.starwoodmeeting.com/StarGroupsWeb/booking/reservation?id=1110139217&key=ACE64 THE MW COMMUNITY ONLINE As we get closer to the conference, conversation heats up on the network. Join it by setting up a profile in the MW online community at http://www.museumsandtheweb.com/ You are welcome to participate the Community Forum year-round, whether or not you're coming to MW2012! You can also connect with the Museums and the Web community on other social network platforms: * We're @museweb on Twitter. Follow our tags: #MW2012 for conference-related things or #museweb for general items. * Find us on Facebook at: http://www.facebook.com/museweb * Connect with our LinkedIn Group: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=725107 We're looking forward to another great international gathering in San Diego. We hope to see you there for the 16th Museums and the Web! Nancy Proctor & Rich Cherry
 Co-chairs, Museums and the Web 2012 Museums and the Web LLC info@museumsandtheweb.com @museweb Phone: (240) 839-1114 Fax: (240) 986-9546 703 Dale Drive Silver Spring, MD 20910 USA --===============1529454564== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php --===============1529454564==-- From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Feb 11 08:10:38 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 485D526B63F; Sat, 11 Feb 2012 08:10:37 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 81E8126B635; Sat, 11 Feb 2012 08:10:31 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120211081031.81E8126B635@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2012 08:10:31 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.713 illusions and errors X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 713. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:51:01 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: illusions and errors For Gerhard Brey: In the "Pretext" to his magnificent Mind in Science: A History of Explanations in Psychology and Physics, neuropsychologist and AI pioneer Richard L Gregory, explains that, > I have spent twenty years studying illusions of vision and some of > the other senses. This may seem bizarre -- why illusions? Why study > error when truth is the aim of the experimenter? Illusions appealed > to me because they are measurable discrepancies between what we > believe from scientific knowledge to be true and what we see as true. > Illusions uniquely allow us to compare what we believe with what we > see. This strikes at the heart of Empiricism and allows ancient > philosophical questions to be tackled by experiment. (1981: 3) Is this not precisely what happens (or could happen) when we use our machine analytically? Comments? Yours, WM -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor (fractional), University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Feb 11 08:11:49 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id F387726B691; Sat, 11 Feb 2012 08:11:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D459326B67F; Sat, 11 Feb 2012 08:11:42 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120211081142.D459326B67F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2012 08:11:42 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.714 call for contributors and testers X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 714. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2012 08:41:39 -0500 From: Julia Flanders Subject: Call for TAPAS test contributors and beta-testers Call for TAPAS test contributors and beta-testers Do you have TEI data and an adventurous spirit? The TEI Archiving, Publishing, and Access Service (TAPAS) is seeking participants to help us test early versions of the TAPAS service, now under development with generous funding from the IMLS and NEH. Over time, TAPAS will provide a full set of repository and publishing services for TEI projects. In the first year, our goal is to permit contributors to upload TEI files and associated data to a Fedora repository, create metadata, and perform basic file management. Here’s how beta-testers and test contributors can help during the course of the coming year: 1. In summer 2012, we will be developing the ingestion interface through which TEI data can be submitted to TAPAS. We’ll be looking for feedback on usability and required features, as well as basic information about your TEI data. 2. In fall 2012, we will be testing the submission and ingestion interface. We will need test contributors with TEI data willing to upload it to TAPAS and tell us how we can improve the process. 3. In late summer and early fall 2012, we will be working on documentation and will need readers who can help us identify areas that need explanation, and help us clarify difficult points. 4. Throughout the development process, we'll be glad of thoughtful test users of all kinds interested in being part of a "virtual focus group." We welcome participants willing to help with any or all of these activities. Even if you don’t have any TEI data right now, but will have some soon, we would be glad to hear from you. And if you'd just like to be kept on our mailing list for when we start recruiting TAPAS members, you can sign up for that as well. A few caveats are important here. Our long-term goal is to provide a fully functional repository and publishing service for TEI data. However, in this phase of the project we are building and testing the service in a very preliminary way. Data contributed by beta-testers will be used for testing purposes to help us develop schemas, stylesheets, and interface features, but we cannot make any guarantees about functionality, long-term storage, or anything else at this early stage. Test data and projects will be visible (and visibly thanked!) on the TAPAS site. To express your interest, please register here: http://bit.ly/ufjOFO Thanks and best wishes on behalf of the TAPAS team, Julia Flanders, Brown University Scott Hamlin, Wheaton College _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Feb 11 08:12:46 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57FFC26B6DF; Sat, 11 Feb 2012 08:12:46 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 5A54926B6C7; Sat, 11 Feb 2012 08:12:40 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120211081240.5A54926B6C7@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2012 08:12:40 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.715 events: Preservation Research Exchange X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 715. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2012 10:01:01 -0800 (PST) From: Carol Brock Subject: Preservation Research Exchange  We invite you to attend the Preservation Research Exchange (PREx) held February 17-19, 2012 at the School of Information, University of Texas at Austin. PREx is the third annual symposium hosted by Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) preservation doctoral fellows. The symposium provides graduate students, faculty, alumni, and other scholars an opportunity to come together and share ideas about the many facets of preserving digital artifacts. The three-day event will feature panel presentations, guest speakers, and social events. If you are not able to attend in-person, the PREx symposium will be also be broadcasted live via Adobe Connect. For the full program schedule and to get more information on accessing the symposium remotely, please visit the symposium website: http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/prex. We hope you can join us!   Carol Brock for the PREx Planning 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 Sun Feb 12 08:33:15 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5ACE725EAD9; Sun, 12 Feb 2012 08:33:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id CE36E25EAC4; Sun, 12 Feb 2012 08:33:11 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120212083311.CE36E25EAC4@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2012 08:33:11 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.716 illusions and errors X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 716. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2012 10:52:21 -0800 From: Jascha Kessler Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.713 illusions and errors In-Reply-To: <20120211081031.81E8126B635@woodward.joyent.us> I am not sure what this statement actually says: "between what we believe from scientific knowledge to be true and what we see as true." Believing what we see [seeing is believing, runs the adage...erroneously?] is believing we see what we see. But knowledge is not something given by the senses, but abstracted from moment to moment existence, or the sensorium in action. I think it might be suggested that Freud ran into this question [Freud the student of neurology in early training years, some flatworm or other], when he was summing up what he had learned in his 1898 first major work, INTERPRETATION OF DREAMS. He ended up with two categories of "seeing" in the dream: Manifest Content and Latent Content. The latent had to be deduced from the process of free associations of images/thoughts/emotions to the reflection on the Manifest content, which of course turned out to be what we get in movies, a presentation well and dramatically formed and edited. Jascha Kessler On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 12:10 AM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > between what we > > believe from scientific knowledge to be true and what we see as true. > -- Jascha Kessler Professor of English & Modern Literature, UCLA Telephone/Facsimile: 310.393.4648 www.jfkessler.com www.xlibris.com _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Feb 12 08:33:49 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FFB025EB30; Sun, 12 Feb 2012 08:33:49 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id CE0BA25EB0B; Sun, 12 Feb 2012 08:33:45 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120212083345.CE0BA25EB0B@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2012 08:33:45 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.717 publication: Formal Methods in Poetics X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 717. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2012 14:22:42 +0000 From: Ram-Verlag Subject: Formal Methods in Poetics Just published (Dec. 2011) Formal Methods in Poetics. A Collection of Scholarly Works Dedicated to the Memory of Professor M.A. Krasnoperova. Edited by: Barry P. Scherr, James Bailey Evgeny V.Kazartsev. Published by: RAM-Verlag http://www.ram-verlag.de/ ISBN 978-3-942303-09-5 Contents: See [below] The book is available as: Printed edition: 75.00 EUR plus PP CD edition: 45.00 EUR plus PP Internet download: (PDF file) 30.00 EUR. If you have any questions do not hesitate to contact me. Best regards Jutta Richter-Altmann For: RAM-Verlag RAM-Verlag Jutta Richter-Altmann Medienverlag Stüttinghauser Ringstr. 44 58515 Lüdenscheid Germany Tel.: + 049 (0) 2351 / 973070 Fax: + 049 (0) 2351 / 973071 Mail: RAM-Verlag@t-online.de Web: www.ram-verlag.de http://www.ram-verlag.de/ Steuer-Nr.: 332/5002/0548 MwsT/VAT/TVA/ID no.: DE 125 809 989 ----- Contents In memory of Professor M.A. Krasnoperova III Publications of M.A. Krasnoperova V Russian verse Еvgeny Kazartsev (Russia) The Rhythm of Mikhail V. Lomonosov’s Odes of 1743 1 Andrew Davis (USA) Syntax in Aleksandr Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin: A Statistical Perspective 14 Sergei Andreev (Russia) The Interrelation of Formal Characteristics in the Lyrics of Fedor Tiutchev 36 Emily Klenin (USA) ‘Sie feiern die Auferstehung des Herrn’: The Osterspaziergang and Its Place in the Metrical Repertory of Fet’s Translation of Goethe’s Faust Part I 46 Venera Kayumova (Uzbekistan) The Rhythm of Hypermetrical Stressing in Russian Poetry of the 19th and Early 20th Centuries (With Reference to the Iambic Tetrameter) 56 Igor Karlovsky (Estonia) Maximilian Voloshin’s Vers Libre: Free Verse or Variable Verse? 72 Georgii Vasiutochkin (Russia) The Death Groan of the Poet 119 Barry P. Scherr (USA) Tarkovskii’s Sonnets 125 Saule Abisheva (Kazakhstan) On the Heterogeneity of David Samoilov’s Classical Verse 145 Georgii Vasiutochkin (Russia) The Russian Trochaic Hexameter and the Rhythm of “Letters to a Roman Friend” by Joseph Brodsky 162II Svetlana Efimova (Russia) The Metrical and Stanzaic Forms of Konstantin Vasiliev 171 European Verse Vladimir A. Plungian (Russia) Two Requiems, or the English Dolnik on Russian Soil 193 Reuven Tsur (Israel) The Rhythmical Performance of Milton’s “On his Blindness”: Problems and Solutions 202 Alfred Behrmann (Germany) The Paradox of Verse and Rhyme: Observations on Shakespeare’s Verbal Artistry in the Plays 224 Vadim Andreev (Russia) A Quantitative Analysis of Edgar Allan Poe’s Evolving Style 237 Viktor Levitskii and Olga Naidesh (Ukraine) The Phonosemantic Properties of a Poetic Text 247 Mihhail Lotman and Maria-Kristiina Lotman (Estonia) Toward a Statistical Analysis of Accentual Rhythm (With Reference to the Estonian Trochaic Tetrameter) 256 Robert Ibrahim and Petr Plecháč (Czech Republic) Toward Automatic Analysis of Czech Verse 295 Ján Mačutek (Austria) Regularity of Rhythmic Patterns in Examples from Slovak Poetry 306 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Feb 12 08:35:12 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4EB225EB9E; Sun, 12 Feb 2012 08:35:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C666B25EB8C; Sun, 12 Feb 2012 08:35:08 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120212083508.C666B25EB8C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2012 08:35:08 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.718 events: critique, philosophy and democracy X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 718. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2012 22:15:40 +0000 From: Christian Fuchs Subject: 2nd Call: Conference "Critique, Democracy and Philosophy in 21st Century Information Society" Critique, Democracy, and Philosophy in 21st Century Information Society. Towards Critical Theories of Social Media. The Fourth ICTs and Society-Conference. Uppsala University. May 2nd-4th, 2012. Information about abstract submission (deadline: February, 29th, 17:00, CET; early submission is recommended) and further information: http://www.icts-and-society.net/events/uppsala2012/ Opening Plenary: * Vincent Mosco (Queen’s University, Canada): Marx is Back, but Will Knowledge Workers of the World Unite? On the Critical Study of Labour, Media, and Communication Today * Graham Murdock (Loughborough University, UK): The Digital Lives of Commodities: Consumption, Ideology and Exploitation Today With plenary talks by Andrew Feenberg, Catherine McKercher, Charles Ess, Christian Christensen, Christian Fuchs, Gunilla Bradley, Mark Andrejevic, Nick Dyer-Witheford, Peter Dahlgren, Tobias Olsson, Trebor Scholz, Ursula Huws, Wolfgang Hofkirchner. This conference provides a forum for the discussion of how to critically study social media and their relevance for critique, democracy, politics and philosophy in 21st century information society. We are living in times of global capitalist crisis. In this situation, we are witnessing a return of critique in the form of a surging interest in critical theories (such as the critical political economy of Karl Marx, critical theory, etc) and revolutions, rebellions, and political movements against neoliberalism that are reactions to the commodification and instrumentalization of everything. On the one hand there are overdrawn claims that social media (Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, mobile Internet, etc) have caused rebellions and uproars in countries like Tunisia and Egypt, which brings up the question to which extent these are claims are ideological or not. On the other hand, the question arises what actual role social media play in contemporary capitalism, power structures, crisis, rebellions, uproar, revolutions, the strengthening of the commons, and the potential creation of participatory democracy. The commodification of everything has resulted also in a commodification of the communication commons, including Internet communication that is today largely commercial in character. The question is how to make sense of a world in crisis, how a different future can look like, and how we can create Internet commons and a commons-based participatory democracy. This conference deals with the question of what kind of society and what kind of Internet are desirable, what steps need to be taken for advancing a good Internet in a sustainable information society, how capitalism, power structures and social media are connected, what the main problems, risks, opportunities and challenges are for the current and future development of Internet and society, how struggles are connected to social media, what the role, problems and opportunities of social media, web 2.0, the mobile Internet and the ubiquitous Internet are today and in the future, what current developments of the Internet and society tell us about potential futures, how an alternative Internet can look like, and how a participatory, commons-based Internet and a co-operative, participatory, sustainable information society can be achieved. Questions to be addressed include, but are not limited to: * What does it mean to study the Internet, social media and society in a critical way? What are Critical Internet Studies and Critical Theories of Social Media? What does it mean to study the media and communication critically? * What is the role of the Internet and social media in contemporary capitalism? * How do power structures, exploitation, domination, class, digital labour, commodification of the communication commons, ideology, and audience/user commodification, and surveillance shape the Internet and social media? * How do these phenomena shape concrete platforms such as Google, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc? * How does contemporary capitalism look like? What is the role of the Internet and social media in contemporary capitalism? * In what society do we live? What is the actual role of information, ICTs, and knowledge in contemporary society? Are concepts like network society, information society, informational capitalism, etc adequate characterizations of contemporary society or overdrawn claims? What are the fundamental characteristics of contemporary society and which concept(s) should be used for describing this society? * What is digital labour and how do exploitation and surplus value generation work on the Internet? Which forms of exploitation and class structuration do we find on the Internet, how do they work, what are their commonalities and differences? How does the relation between toil and play change in a digital world? How do classes and class struggles look like in 21st century informational capitalism? * What are ideologies of the Internet, web 2.0, and social media? How can they be deconstructed and criticized? How does ideology critique work as an empirical method and theory that is applied to the Internet and social media? * Which philosophies, ethics and which philosophers are needed today in order to understand the Internet, democracy and society and to achieve a global sustainable information society and a participatory Internet? What are perspectives for political philosophy and social theory in 21st century information society? * What contradictions, conflicts, ambiguities, and dialectics shape 21st century information society and social media? * What theories are needed for studying the Internet, social media, web 2.0, or certain platforms or applications in a critical way? * What is the role of counter-power, resistance, struggles, social movements, civil society, rebellions, uproars, riots, revolutions, and political transformations in 21st century information society and how (if at all) are they connected to social media? * What is the actual role of social media and social networking sites in political revolutions, uproars, and rebellions (like the recent Maghrebian revolutions, contemporary protests in Europe and the world, the Occupy movement, etc)? * How can an alternative Internet look like and what are the conditions for creating such an Internet? What are the opportunities and challenges posed by projects like Wikipedia, WikiLeaks, Diaspora, IndyMedia, Democracy Now! and other alternative media? What is a commons-based Internet and how can it be created? * What is the role of ethics, politics, and activism for Critical Internet Studies? * What is the role of critical theories in studying the information society, social media, and the Internet? * What is a critical methodology in Critical Internet Studies? Which research methods are needed on how need existing research methods be adapted for studying the Internet and society in a critical way? * What are ethical problems, opportunities, and challenges of social media? How are they framed by the complex contradictions of contemporary capitalism? * Who and what and where are we in 21st century capitalist information society? How have different identities changed in the global world, what conflicts relate to it, and what is the role of class and class identity in informational capitalism? * What is democracy? What is the future of democracy in the global information society? And what is or should democracy be today? What is the relation of democracy and social media? How do the public sphere and the colonization of the public sphere look like today? What is the role of social media in the public sphere and its colonization? The conference is the fourth in the ICTs and Society-Conference Series (http://www.icts-and-society.net). The ICTs and Society-Network is an international forum that networks scholars in the interdisciplinary areas of Critical Internet Studies, digital media studies, Internet & society studies and information society studies. The ICTs and Society Conference series was in previous years organized at the University of Salzburg (Austria, June 2008), the University of Trento (Italy, June 2009) and the Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (Spain, July 2010). _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Feb 13 06:21:43 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 173F526B292; Mon, 13 Feb 2012 06:21:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 2A30B26B27D; Mon, 13 Feb 2012 06:21:32 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20120213062133.2A30B26B27D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2012 06:21:32 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.719 call for submissions: Topics in the Digital Humanities X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 719. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2012 14:11:40 +0000 From: Ray Siemens Subject: Topics in the Digital Humanities, seeking submissions In-Reply-To: Topics in the Digital Humanities A contemporary series from the University of Illinois Press SERIES EDITORS: Susan Schreibman and Raymond G. Siemens Humanities computing is undergoing a redefinition of basic principles by a continuous influx of new, vibrant, and diverse communities or practitioners within and well beyond the halls of academe. These practitioners recognize the value computers add to their work, that the computer itself remains an instrument subject to continual innovation, and that competition within many disciplines requires scholars to become and remain cur- rent with what computers can do. Topics in the Digital Humanities invites manuscripts that will advance and deepen knowledge and activity in this new and innovative field. Preparation and submission guidelines are available at www.press.uillinois.edu/authors/ Questions or proposals should be directed to Susan Schreibman or Ray Siemens --- Susan Schreibman Long Room Hub Associate Professor in Digital Humanities School of English Trinity College Dublin Dublin 2, IRELAND susan.schreibman@tcd.ie Raymond G. Siemens Distinguished Professor, Canada Research Chair in Humanities Computing Department of English University of Victoria PO Box 3070 STN CSC Victoria, BC V8W 3W1 CANADA siemens@uvic.ca _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Feb 13 06:22:23 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0068526B2C1; Mon, 13 Feb 2012 06:22:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 2F51026B2AF; Mon, 13 Feb 2012 06:22:15 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120213062216.2F51026B2AF@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2012 06:22:15 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.720 events: info society; natural computing X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 720. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: GRLMC (43) Subject: SSNC 2012: 1st announcement [2] From: "G.Akmayeva" (39) Subject: International Conference on Information Society --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2012 18:20:41 +0000 From: GRLMC Subject: SSNC 2012: 1st announcement 2012 INTERNATIONAL SPRING SCHOOL IN NATURAL COMPUTING SSNC 2012 Tarragona, Spain May 28 – June 1st, 2012 Organized by: Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC) Rovira i Virgili University http://grammars.grlmc.com/ssnc2012/ ********************************************************************* AIM: SSNC 2012 offers a broad and intensive series of lectures at different levels on selected topics in nature-inspired computing. The students choose their preferred courses according to their interests and background. Instructors are top names in their respective fields. The School intends to help students initiate and foster their research career. ADDRESSED TO: Graduate (and advanced undergraduate) students from around the world. Most appropriate degrees include: Computer Science, Biology, Neuroscience, Physics and Mathematics. Other students (for instance, from Engineering or Logic) are welcome too. The School is appropriate also for people more advanced in their career who want to keep themselves updated on developments in the field. There will be no overlap in the class schedule. COURSES AND PROFESSORS: - Eric Bonabeau (Icosystem, Cambridge MA), Self-Organization in Natural and Artificial Systems [introductory, 4 hours] - David W. Corne (Heriot-Watt), Swarm Intelligence Algorithms [introductory, 6 hours] - Hisao Ishibuchi (Osaka Prefecture), Introduction to Fuzzy Rule-Based Classifier Design [introductory, 4 hours] - Xiaodong Li (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology), Advances in Particle Swarm Optimization [introductory/advanced, 6 hours] - Martin Middendorf (Leipzig), Social Insects and Organic Computing [introductory, 6 hours] - Stefano Nolfi (CNR, Roma), Evolution and Development of Language in Robots [introductory/intermediate, 6 hours] - Leandro Nunes de Castro (Mackenzie Presbiterian, São Paulo), Introduction to Evolutionary Data Clustering [introductory/intermediate, 10 hours] - Tatsuya Suda (University Netgroup Inc., Irvine), Molecular Communication and the Bio-networking Architecture [introductory/intermediate, 6 hours] - L. Darrell Whitley (Colorado State), Evolutionary Algorithms and Elementary Landscapes [introductory/intermediate, 6 hours] - Xin Yao (Birmingham), Evolutionary Optimization and Co-evolutionary Learning [intermediate/advanced, 6 hours] [...] QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION: Lilica Voicu: florentinalilica.voicu@urv.cat WEBSITE: http://grammars.grlmc.com/ssnc2012/ POSTAL ADDRESS: SSNC 2012 Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC) Rovira i Virgili University Av. Catalunya, 35 43002 Tarragona, Spain Phone: +34-977-559543 Fax: +34-977-558386 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: Diputació de Tarragona Universitat Rovira i Virgili --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2012 03:39:10 +0000 (GMT) From: "G.Akmayeva" Subject: International Conference on Information Society CALL FOR WORKSHOPS AND TUTORIALS ******************************************************************* International Conference on Information Society (i-Society 2012), Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE UK/RI Computer Chapter 25-28 June, 2012, London, UK www.i-society.eu ******************************************************************* The i-Society is a global knowledge-enriched collaborative effort that has its roots from both academia and industry. The conference covers a wide spectrum of topics that relate to information society, which includes technical and non-technical research areas. The i-Society 2012 encourages you to submit Workshop or Tutorial proposals. The Workshop or Tutorial duration can be 90 minutes. All the accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings. You can consider organising a Workshop or Tutorial that is related to i-Society 2012 topics. ******************************************************************* Important Dates: Workshop or Tutorial Proposal Submission: March 1, 2012 Notification of Workshop or Tutorial Acceptance: March 15, 2012 ******************************************************************* The proposal must include: 1. The name of the Workshop/Tutorial. 2. A statement of goals for the Workshop/Tutorial. 3. The names and addresses of the organisers. 4. The names of potential participants, such as program committee members. 5. A description of the plans for call for participation (e.g., call for papers). 6. The expected number of attendees and the planned length of the Workshop/Tutorial. 7. The topic of the Workshop/Tutorial should be relevant to the main conference. 8. The URL of the Workshop/Tutorial web site. If you are interested in organising Workshop for the i-Society 2012, please email your proposal to workshop@i-society.eu If you are interested in organising Tutorial for the i-Society 2012, please email your proposal to tutorial@i-society.eu For further details, please visit http://www.i-society.eu/Workshops.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 Feb 13 08:23:20 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id F311426F578; Mon, 13 Feb 2012 08:23:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 035A126F567; Mon, 13 Feb 2012 08:23:14 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120213082315.035A126F567@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2012 08:23:14 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.721 events: DH2012 news X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 721. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2012 08:21:18 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: DH2012 news > From: DH2012 > Date: Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 5:48 AM > Subject: [DH2012] News February: Hotel Booking Form, Student Assistant Bursaries, ADHO Bursaries Dear DH folks, while we are eagerly awaiting for more results from the DH program committee about the acceptance of submissions, let’s spread some other great news. You can now book your hotel rooms for DH2012. An online booking form is available on our website. In order to make your travel plans, you may have a look at the preliminary conference program (still subject to changes): http://www.dh2012.uni-hamburg.de/conference/schedule/ We would like to encourage especially the young academics to participate in the DH2012. In the spirit of the conference theme „Digital Diversity: Cultures, languages and methods“ we hope to welcome students from all over the world. There are two award schemes to gain financial support: If your submission for DH2012 was accepted, you can apply for the ADHO bursary award. If you have not submitted a paper or were unlucky and not selected, you still have the opportunity to get a student assistant bursary award for DH2012. This bursary is in exchange for a little help during the conference. Further detailed information can be found below. We will keep you updated with more DH2012 news soon and are looking forward to seeing you in Hamburg! Best wishes from your local hosts, Chris and Katrin ----- Hotel Online Booking Form We have blocked a large contingent of reservations for conference members at several hotels near the campus. Our conference support division, the University of Hamburg Marketing GmbH, will be handling the hotel reservations directly. The online booking form is now available on the DH2012 website, for more information, click here. The university campus is situated right in the heart of Hamburg. There are lots of different places to stay. We will update you with some alternative suggestions for short-term apartments and budget accommodations soon. Student Assistant Bursaries The student assistant bursary scheme is designed to enable up to 12 international students to participate in the Digital Humanities conference 2012 at the University of Hamburg. Successful applicants will be required to support the running of the conference for a duration of up to four and a half hours each day, but will otherwise be free to participate at no cost in all conference sessions and receptions. Each international student assistant will form a team with a local Hamburg student. For further information and instructions please visit: http://www.dh2012.uni-hamburg.de/conference/call-for-student-assistant-bursaries/ If you would like to apply for a student assistant bursary for the Digital Humanities conference, please register via ConfTool at: https://secure.digitalhumanities.org/ ADHO Bursaries The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) makes bursary awards to students and young scholars who have submissions accepted for presentation at the Digital Humanities 2012 conference. Both paper and poster submissions qualify for consideration. The recipients receive a cash award of 500 GBP to help defray expenses incurred in attending the conference such as the conference registration, airline/train fare, lodging, and meals paid by the recipient. Certificates are presented at the Conference Banquet, which winners are invited to attend free of charge, as guests of ADHO. For further information and instructions please visit http://www.allc.org/ Twitter Hashtag Please note that the official twitter hashtag for the DH conference was changed to #dh2012. -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor (fractional), University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Feb 14 06:27:12 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id E67D026E838; Tue, 14 Feb 2012 06:27:11 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 8059226E822; Tue, 14 Feb 2012 06:27:08 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120214062708.8059226E822@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 06:27:08 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.722 PhD studentship: folktale classification & clustering X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 722. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:47:22 +0000 From: "Lawrence, Faith" Subject: Ph.D. position in folktale classification and clustering > From: Antal van den Bosch > Date: 12 February 2012 16:03 > Subject: [Amicus] Ph.D. position in folktale classification and clustering PhD-position in folktale classification and clustering *************************************** Applications are invited for a PhD-student in the FACT project (Folktales As Classifiable Texts), funded under the CATCH programme of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). This is a multidisciplinary research project involving collaboration between computer science and humanities researchers. The PhD-student will work on automatic classification of Dutch folktales by their international folktale type and on unsupervised clustering of folktales, to provide new input for humanities research. For this position, familiarity with the Dutch language is a plus. The PhD-student will be employed at the University of Twente, but will spend most of his/her time "on site" at the Meertens Institute in Amsterdam, which maintains a large collection of Dutch folktales. The PhD-student will be part of a larger team within the e-Laboratory on Oral Culture at the Meertens Institute. For more information and the application form, visit this link: http://www.utwente.nl/vacatures/?VacatureID=199425 The closing date for applications is 4 March 2012. Meertens Institute: http://www.meertens.knaw.nl Dutch Folktale Database: http://www.verhalenbank.nl -- Antal van den Bosch a.vandenbosch@let.ru.nl Center for Language Studies, Radboud University Nijmegen _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Feb 14 06:28:21 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCED426E8A4; Tue, 14 Feb 2012 06:28:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 4A82426E890; Tue, 14 Feb 2012 06:28:19 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120214062819.4A82426E890@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 06:28:19 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.723 call for textual collaborations X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 723. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2012 17:54:07 +0000 From: Sam Leon Subject: Get Involved with TEXTUS Dear All, The Open Knowledge Foundation http://okfn.org [1] is currently looking for organisations from the digital humanities community who are interested in a project we're running called TEXTUS http://textusproject.org [2]. TEXTUS is user-centric, open source platform for collaborating around collections of texts, the initial development of which is being funded by JISC and will lead to the deployment of OpenPhiloosphy.org. See our recent blog post http://blog.okfn.org/2012/02/10/lets-make-openphilosophy-org/ [3]. We're interested in speaking to NGOs, universities and SMEs from the digital humanities community who are involved in developing tools or technologies that are relevant to the TEXTUS project and would like to become involved in future development of the platform, expanding its functionality and rolling it out to communities from disciplines beyond just philosophy. Please register your interest on the Google Form [4] or, alternatively, just drop me an email on sam.leon@okfn.org. All the best and look forward to hearing from some of you, Sam [1] http://okfn.org [2] http://textusproject.org [3] http://blog.okfn.org/2012/02/10/lets-make-openphilosophy-org/ [4] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dDBER2Jrd0JlSTNna2tjdnlRN3phMUE6MQ -- Sam Leon Community Coordinator Open Knowledge Foundation http://okfn.org/ Skype: samedleon _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Feb 14 06:29:01 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 182DD26E8D1; Tue, 14 Feb 2012 06:29:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 10CC426E8C2; Tue, 14 Feb 2012 06:28:57 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120214062857.10CC426E8C2@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 06:28:57 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.724 news from ESF Humanities X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 724. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:38:41 +0000 From: European Science Foundation Subject: ESF Humanities Update New € 18.5 million HERA Joint Research Programme “Cultural Encounters” Call for Proposals is now open Deadline for submission of Outline Proposals: Friday 4 May, 14:00 Central European Time/13:00 Greenwich Mean Time The HERA (Humanities in the European Research Area) Network is pleased to announce a new Joint Research Programme (JRP) on Cultural Encounters. Nineteen research councils from 18 countries and the European Commission are making up to €18.5 million available. The research programme will fund new and exciting humanities-centred projects on Cultural Encounters involving researchers from three or more participating countries. The researchers based in the following countries can apply: Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Sweden and United Kingdom. For more information please click here. Upcoming ESF-LiU Conferences Images and Visualisation: Imaging Technology, Truth and Trust Norrköping, Sweden, 17-21 September 2012 Chair: Brigitte Nerlich - University of Nottingham, UK Application Deadline: 6 June For more information see: http://www.esf.org/index.php?id=9115 Children's Literature and European Avant-Garde Norrköping, Sweden, 26-30 Septembr 2012 Chair: Professor Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer - Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany Application Deadline: 1 March For more information see: http://www.esf.org/index.php?id=9078 ESF/STOA Conference: The Science of Innovation Is innovation always good? Will the financial crisis impact innovation? Does innovation lead to inequalities? Do we really understand innovation? This conference will present state-of-the-art, thought-provoking insights from the cutting edge of 'the science of innovation' on crucial issues for today's policy makers. It will take place on 28 February 2012 in Brussels. For more information on the programme and speakers, see www.esf.org/innovation Registration is open New ESF Report available: “Asian Studies in the Humanities: Visions for the Future” The recently published ESF report is the outcome of the second Humanities Spring meeting of 2009 “Young researchers Forum: New perspectives for Asian Studies in the Humanities” which was organised under the leadership of the Standing Committee for the Humanities (SCH) at the International Sinological Centre of Charles University in Prague with the support of the Taiwan Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange (CCKF). The document “is a synthesis of many, often different, positions resulting in a common vision for the future of Asian studies”, writes Professor Milena Žic-Fuchs in the Foreword. You can download the report here. Humanities Spring webpage Research Networking Programmes (RNPs) PALATIUM NEWS First PALATIUM Summer School, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 1-11 July 2012 Deadline for applications: 15 April 2012 More information here. NeDiMAH NEWS The National Research Council of Romania (CNCS) has recently joined the programme and offers financial support to Romanian scientists. COMSt NEWS The January newsletter can be downloaded here. DRUGS NEWS "Drugs and the birth of scientific marketing", Berlin, 4-5 June 2012 Call for Papers Deadline for applications: 29 February 2012 More information here. More information on current RNPS in the Humanities can be found here. Master’s Degree Thesis Award of the EUROCORES programme on European Comparisons in Regional Cohesion, Dynamics and Expressions - EuroCORECODE Deadline for submissions: 14 December 2012 The goal of the award is to recognise and reward distinguished scholarship and research at Master’s Degree level. Submitted theses must be relevant to the scope and aims of the EuroCORECODE programme, and fit under the programme’s original Call for Proposals. Nominated theses should deal with at least one of the scientific goals of the programme as a whole. Further details, including information on the scope of the award and details of eligibility, submission procedures and evaluation can be found here. Call for Papers: "The Making of the Humanities III" The third international conference on the history of the humanities, "The Making of the Humanities III", will take place at the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome, from 1 till 3 November 2012. This is the third of a biennially organised conference that brings together scholars and historians of humanities disciplines to draw the outlines for a comparative history of the humanities. Although histories of single humanities disciplines exist for quite some time, a comparative history has only very recently been investigated and the first monographs have just appeared. The theme of the meeting in 2012 will be "The Making of the Modern Humanities", focusing on the period 1850-2000, as well as four general panel themes that cross all periods. Topics include all aspects of the history of philology, linguistics, literary studies, musicology, historiography, art history, theatre studies, (new) media studies and other humanities disciplines, with an emphasis on their mutual influences. For more information see: http://makingofthehumanitiesiii.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 Feb 14 06:29:54 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5743B26E927; Tue, 14 Feb 2012 06:29:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 31A8726E917; Tue, 14 Feb 2012 06:29:49 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120214062949.31A8726E917@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 06:29:49 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.725 events: visualisation; accessibility X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 725. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Shawn Day (25) Subject: Registration Now Open for DHO Data Visualisation for Analysis Workshop [2] From: Ray Siemens (14) Subject: Registration open for INKE's "Beyond Accessibility" conference @ DHSI (8-10 June 2012) --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2012 12:27:44 +0000 From: Shawn Day Subject: Registration Now Open for DHO Data Visualisation for Analysis Workshop DHO Digital Humanities Tech Skills Workshop: Getting to Know Your Data Better: An Introduction to Data Visualisation for Analysis in the Digital Humanities Date: Wednesday 22 February 2012 Place: Royal Irish Academy, 19 Dawson Street, Dublin 2 Time: 10:00 am -14:00 pm Lecturer: Mr Shawn Day - Project Manager DHO (RIA) This workshop will provide post-graduate and doctoral researchers in the digital humanities an overview of the rich variety of techniques and tools available to digital humanities scholars for data visualisation and analysis. This workshop will explore a best practice data visualisation cycle, suggest a variety of tools available to assist in the analysis process through visualisation and to have a sense of where you can look for more information. This interactive session will allow participants to learn from others experiences and to increase your own appreciation of how the data visualisation process can aid in your research efforts. Topics will include: • Data and Analysis : A Foundation and Basic Overview • The Data Visualisation Process • Tools and Methods • Extending your Toolset • Directions for Future Exploration There are no technical prerequisites for this workshop. It is intended to be introductory in nature and aid those currently assembling or considering collecting data for academic research use. Wifi access will be available. Registration is essential and spaces are limited and no-cost spaces are offered on a first come first served basis beginning 13 February 2012. To register please visit: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dEhaTk8tWlRyNzYxQUdwYXJ3TjNyaXc6MA --- Shawn Day --- Digital Humanities Observatory (RIA), --- Regus Pembroke House, --- 28 - 30 Pembroke Street Upper --- Dublin 2 IRELAND --- about.me/shawnday --- Tel: +353 (0) 1 2342441 --- s.day@ria.ie --- http://dho.ie --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 03:20:46 +0000 From: Ray Siemens Subject: Registration open for INKE's "Beyond Accessibility" conference @ DHSI (8-10 June 2012) Beyond Accessibility: Textual Studies in the 21st Century (8-10 June 2012, U Victoria) Register at http://www.regonline.ca/beyondaccessibility This year, DHSI will be immediately followed by a conference on digital textual studies, led by the Textual Studies group of the Implementing New Knowledge Environments (INKE) project, and sharing our Friday DHSI Institute lecture. Keynote speakers: Adriaan van der Weel (Leiden University) and Sydney Shep (Victoria University of Wellington). At the end of the 20th century, textual studies witnessed a revolution in accessibility to texts with the explosion of the internet. Now we simply take it for granted that digital processes infuse every step of our study, editing, production, and dissemination of texts. The Textual Studies team of INKE invites presentations that address the questions "What is the state of textual studies in the 21st century? What is the important work of textual studies in the 21st century? What are the outstanding issues, challenges, concerns, emerging trends, methods, attitudes, and exciting developments in textual scholarship? Papers may address such questions as - What is the state of the scholarly edition after the transition from print to print and digital? - What is the impact on the material book and on book history of the different kinds of access enabled by the digital medium? - How have authorship attribution studies been transformed by access to so many more searchable texts? - How has the new age of access to materials affected the state of textual studies in various regions of the globe? - How well are scholars being served by traditional and emerging infrastructures for the study, creation, production, and dissemination of texts? - What is the future of, for example, the study of readership and letter writing, genetic editing, and reception history? INKE is a multi-national, multi-disciplinary research initiative, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and partnering organizations, to study, develop, and implement digital environments for reading and research (www.inke.ca). The Textual Studies Team of INKE is researching ways in which the age of manuscript and print production can inform our development and implementation of electronic reading technologies. Potential participants in the conference, particularly those coming from abroad, might be interested to take advantage of the Digital Humanities Summer Institute, which will just before our conference, from 4-8 June, also at the University of Victoria. A limited number of scholarships for workshop tuition will be available for graduate students participating in the Beyond Accessibility conference. Also of potential interest is the annual conference of the Society for Digital Humanities (SDH/SEMI) at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences at Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, 28-30 May, 2012. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Feb 15 08:02:47 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2185027088C; Wed, 15 Feb 2012 08:02:47 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 394C727087E; Wed, 15 Feb 2012 08:02:42 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120215080242.394C727087E@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 08:02:42 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.726 PhD studentships at Sunderland; CRUMB workshop X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 726. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 22:24:49 +0000 From: Beryl Graham Subject: Professional Development in Distribution, and Funded PhDstudentship in Curating Dear Mailing List, A Professional Development Workshop, and a Funded Studentship: ------ A rare opportunity for a funded PhD studentship with CRUMB Curatorial Resource. Deadline: 12 noon, Friday 9 March 2012. Full details, see: http://nuweb.northumbria.ac.uk/nebgp/d4fineart.php ------ Distribution and Dissemination after New Media Professional Development Workshop organised by CRUMB, http://www.crumbweb.org/ WHEN: 5 March 2012, 9:30am-12:30pm WHERE: Literary and Philosophical Society Library, Loftus Room 23 Westgate Road, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 1SE - United Kingdom http://www.litandphil.org.uk/index.shtml CRUMB are happy to announce a new Professional Development Workshop for contemporary art curators, Distribution and Dissemination after New Media, as part of AV Festival 2012 and following on from their opening weekend, http://www.avfestival.co.uk/. The connected new media of streaming, web broadcasting and narrowcasting, smartphone apps and augmented reality offer intriguing opportunities for art and culture. This professional development workshop brings together experts from across Europe, to share real practical experience of dealing with issues of: What happens to ideas of the 'live', over time? What kinds of audiences? How are artists using distributive media? Speakers/workshop leaders: Robert Sakrowski is an Art Historian, Artist and Curator based in Berlin. From 1999–2003 he headed the project netart-datenbank.org at TU Berlin and curated several exhibitions in the field of Net-based art. After working at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute Media.Art.Research in Linz, since 2007 he has created various exhibitions dealing with questions circling art and art practices connected to the web 2.0 of which themes are the main focus of his blog, http://curatingyoutube.net/ Ajay RS Hothi is Manager & Curator of tank.tv 'the only online museum of contemporary artists’ moving image'. Tank.tv invites guest curators to create an exhibition from their permanent collection, has held live events at Tate Modern, the ICA, ZKM Karlsruhe and Kulturhuset Stockholm, and has worked with Pipilotti Rist, Vito Acconci, Hans Ulrich Obrist, and Kutlug Ataman. Roger McKinley is Research and Innovation Manager at FACT, Liverpool, and has led on the Artplayer.tv, an Arts Council supported project which is 'a free to use national media player for the arts'. Aimed at National Portfolio and Regional Funded Organisations, it aims towards online programme creation and generate opportunities for venues and artists to create their own 'channels'. At a time when the Arts Council and NESTA are considering funding structures for new media as a means of distribution, this a key workshop for curators, artists, educators and others interested in how media might meet their audiences, and how new media might be distributive art in itself, as well as a means to an end. This professional development workshop builds on the highly successful CRUMB event led by former Guggenheim curator Caitlin Jones concerning 'Documenting New Media Art', http://www.crumbweb.org/getSeminarDetail.php?id=9 The workshop is FREE, but places are strictly limited and BOOKING IN ADVANCE IS ESSENTIAL. - - HOW TO BOOK: DEADLINE for booking is 29th February at the latest. Please send an email to Marialaura Ghidini at marialaura.ghidini@research.sunderland.ac.uk including the following information: 1. Contact details 2. Up to 50 words on your particular area of practice in relation to this workshop, and what you hope to get from attending. Please include a URL 3. Any special needs Workshop web page: http://www.crumbweb.org/getPresentation.php?presID=78&semID=17&id=17 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Beryl Graham, Professor of New Media Art Research Student Manager, Art and Design MA Curating Course Leader Faculty of Arts, Design, and Media, University of Sunderland Ashburne House, Ryhope Road Sunderland SR2 7EE Tel: +44 191 515 2896 Fax: +44 191 515 2132 Email: beryl.graham@sunderland.ac.uk CRUMB web resource for new media art curators http://www.crumbweb.org CRUMB's latest books: Rethinking Curating: Art After New Media from MIT Press http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=12071 A Brief History of Curating New Media Art, and A Brief History of Working with New Media Art from The Green Box http://www.thegreenbox.net _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Feb 15 08:03:27 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 518BC2708E4; Wed, 15 Feb 2012 08:03:27 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 6D89E2708D5; Wed, 15 Feb 2012 08:03:24 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120215080324.6D89E2708D5@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 08:03:24 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.727 Anvil: new digital academic publishing programme X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 727. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 13:25:09 -0600 From: Rebecca Davis Subject: CLIR and NITLE Launch Anvil Academic Digital Academic Publishing Program The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) and the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education (NITLE) announce the formation of Anvil Academic (http://www.nitle.org/help/anvil.php), a digital publisher for the humanities. Anvil will focus on publishing new forms of scholarship that cannot be adequately conveyed in the traditional monograph. Works published through Anvil will be available through Creative Commons licenses on the Web and as apps on portable devices. The title production system will be developed jointly by NITLE and CLIR for use by other institutions, each of which would have the opportunity to publish under its own imprint. It is expected that Anvil will publish its first title in late 2012. All of Anvil’s scholarly works will conform to the standards and protocols articulated by the Digital Public Library of America; Anvil will also work closely with the technical requirements of Europeana and Open Access Publishing in the European Network (OAPEN) guidelines. The program received startup funding from the Brown Foundation, Inc., in Houston, Texas. Stanford University, the University of Virginia, Washington University in St. Louis, Bryn Mawr College, Amherst College, Middlebury College, and Southwestern University will also provide funds and staffing. Anvil Academic Publishing will work closely with innovative programs developed by the University of Michigan, especially MPublishing, and draw on Johns Hopkins University’s exemplary experience with digital humanities project development. NITLE and CLIR will enlist additional publishers, scholarly societies, librarians, administrators, and faculty from member schools to participate in planning and developing Anvil-forged college and university publishing enterprises. Publishers or collaborators who are interested in collaborating in this effort should contact Anvil Editor-in-Chief Fred Moody (fmoody@nitle.org). Anvil’s Board of Directors includes - Edward Ayers, President, University of Richmond - Sam Black, Attorney, Washington, D.C. - Charles Henry, President, CLIR, and Co-Chair of the Board - Michael Keller, University Librarian, Publisher, Highwire, Stanford University - Shana Kimball, Interim Head, MPublishing, University of Michigan - W. Joseph King, Executive Director, NITLE, and Co-Chair of the Board - Fred Moody, Program Officer for Libraries and Scholarly Communication, NITLE; Editor-in-Chief, Anvil Academic Publishing - Stephen G. Nichols, James M. Beall Professor of French and Humanities Emeritus, and Research Professor, Department of German and Romance Languages, Johns Hopkins University - Katherine Rowe, Chair, English Department, Bryn Mawr College - Michael Roy, L. Douglas and Laura J. Meredith Dean of Library and Information Services, and Chief Information Officer, Middlebury College - Elliott Shore, Chief Information Officer and Professor of History, Bryn Mawr College - Andrew Stauffer, Director, NINES, Department of English, University of Virginia - Gary Wihl, Dean of Arts and Sciences, Washington University, St. Louis Rebecca Frost Davis, Ph.D. Program Officer for the Humanities National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education (NITLE) 1001 East University Avenue | Georgetown, Texas 78626 http://www.nitle.org | tel. 512 863-1734 | fax 512 819-7684 Delicious: rebeccadavis | Twitter: @FrostDavis Diigo: rebeccadavis _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Feb 15 08:04:03 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8871927091C; Wed, 15 Feb 2012 08:04:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A3358270909; Wed, 15 Feb 2012 08:03:59 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120215080359.A3358270909@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 08:03:59 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.728 ACH election results X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 728. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 09:55:04 -0500 From: Julia Flanders Subject: ACH election results Dear Colleagues, I am very pleased to announce the results from the 2012 elections for the Association for Computers and the Humanities: Officers, to serve 2012-2013: - President: Bethany Nowviskie - Vice-President: Stéfan Sinclair ACH Executive Council, to serve 2012-2015: - Johanna Drucker - Matt Gold - Glen Worthey Thanks very much to all the candidates and to these individuals for being willing to serve - and thanks also to all who voted. Thanks are also due to the nominations committee (Dot Porter [chair], Neil Fraistat, Brian Pytlik Zillig, and Bill Turkel) for preparing such a strong slate, and to all those who agreed to stand as candidates. Finally, we offer our warm thanks to the outgoing members of the Council, Paul Caton, Bethany Nowviskie, Stéfan Sinclair, and Susan Schreibman, for their many years of service and their contributions to the ACH. For more information on the ACH please see: http://www.ach.org/ With best wishes Julia Flanders (outgoing President, ACH) Dot Porter (Secretary, ACH) _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Feb 15 08:05:07 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AC3327097F; Wed, 15 Feb 2012 08:05:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0990127095B; Wed, 15 Feb 2012 08:05:04 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120215080505.0990127095B@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 08:05:04 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.729 events: CATaC in Aarhus; lecture at the RIA Dublin X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 729. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Charles Ess (28) Subject: CATaC'12 - Aarhus - Submission deadline extended [2] From: Shawn Day (23) Subject: RIA Lunchtime Lecture --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 12:47:34 +0100 From: Charles Ess Subject: CATaC'12 - Aarhus - Submission deadline extended Dear Humanists, In response to a number of requests, we are happy to announce a two-week extension to our original submission date, i.e., from Friday, Feb. 17, to Friday, 2. March, 2012. We continue to solicit either full papers (10-15 formatted pages), short papers (3-5 formatted pages), and/or panel proposals. To submit a paper and/or panel proposal, please find your way to , click on the Submissions tab, and then find the red-lettered "Click here to submit your papers and panel proposals" which will take you to the submission site. Please note that the deadlines for notification of acceptance and submission of final accepted papers will also shift. Further information regarding accommodation, travel, payment of registration fees, list of reviewers, etc. will also be available within the next two weeks. We look forward to receiving your proposals and to welcoming you to Aarhus - the happiest city in this happiest country in the world - in June. Charles Ess (IMV, Aarhus University, Denmark), Chair Fay Sudweeks (Professor Emerita, Murdoch University, Australia), honorary chair Herbert Hrachovec (University of Vienna, Austria) Leah Macfadyen (University of British Columbia, Canada) Jose Abdelnour Nocera (University of West London, UK) Kenneth Reeder (University of British Columbia, Canada) Ylva Hård af Segerstad (Gothenburg University, Gothenburg, Sweden) Michele M. Strano (Bridgewater College, Virginia, USA) Andra Siibak (University of Tartu, Estonia) Maja van der Velden (University of Oslo) --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 16:26:29 +0000 From: Shawn Day Subject: RIA Lunchtime Lecture The following may be of interest to many on this list: Dear Colleagues The first lecture in our Lunchtime Lecture Series takes place tomorrow. Come along and learn more about this wonderful collection and the role of pamphlets in Irish history. The second draft of history: the Haliday pamphlets and Daniel O’Connell Kevin Whelan, Keough-Naughton Notre Dame Centre, Dublin Venue : Meeting Room Time: 1pm Regards, Sophie Evans Assistant Librarian Royal Irish Academy 19 Dawson St Dublin 2 Ireland Tel: 353-1-6762570 Email: s.evans@ria.ie www.ria.ie The Royal Irish Academy is subject to the Freedom of Information Acts 1997 & 2003 and is compliant with the provisions of the Data Protection Acts 1998 & 2003. For further information see our website www.ria.ie _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Feb 16 06:26:39 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95F3821FB46; Thu, 16 Feb 2012 06:26:39 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 49EBC21FB36; Thu, 16 Feb 2012 06:26:35 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120216062635.49EBC21FB36@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 06:26:35 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.730 publication: digital futures X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 730. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 09:41:48 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: "Digital Humanities, Digital Futures" The latest issue of Arts and Humanities Research 11.1-2 (February-April 2012) is a double issue entitled 'Digital Humanities, Digital Futures', ed. Jan Parker, with articles by Alan Liu ("The state of the digital humanities: A report and a critique"), Patrik Svensson ("The digital humanities as a humanities project"), Andrew Prescott ("Consumers, creators or commentators?: Problems of audience and mission in the digital humanities") and several others. See http://ahh.sagepub.com/content/current/. Yours, WM -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor (fractional), University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Feb 16 06:30:57 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CFA421FC0F; Thu, 16 Feb 2012 06:30:57 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 12E3621FBF4; Thu, 16 Feb 2012 06:30:46 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120216063047.12E3621FBF4@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 06:30:46 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.731 APEnet X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 731. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 20:33:40 +0000 From: Daniel Pitti Subject: Fwd: APEnet project newsletter 5 APENET www.apenet.eu I pass along the following message for two reasons. First, this is an emerging and very important resource for research involving primary resources in Europe. While not complete by any means, it already provides intellectual access to a large number of archival resources, and in some cases, digital representations of the resources. And so you specialize in European history, you might want to bookmark the page. Second, IATH provided assistance in developing the portal, providing guidance on standards, technological infrastructure, and "community building" strategies, and instruction with respect to standards and methods. I hope some of you will find it useful and will keep an eye on it as it builds the community of archives participating with its second round of funding from the European Commission. Regards, Daniel Begin forwarded message: > From: "[APEnet project website]" > > Subject: APEnet project newsletter 5 > Date: February 13, 2012 3:56:15 PM EST Newsletter 13 Feb 2012 The APEnet project is over – Long live the Archives Portal Europe The APEnet project presents the Archives Portal Europe – A single gateway to the original documents of European history. The APEnet project has come to a successful conclusion and the main goal of the project – the Archives Portal Europe – is a fully functional portal now up and running at www.archivesportaleurope.eu. At the moment the portal contains more than 14 million descriptive units linked to approximately 64 million digitised pages of archival material. Currently featuring the materials of 60 institutions from 14 European countries, the portal is now a major actor on the European cultural heritage scene. Jef Schram, Jill Cousins and Martin Berendse on the APEnet developments: Jef Schram at the Secretariat-General of the European Commission has followed the development of the project closely and says that the Archives Portal Europe is one of the keystones of cooperation between the National Archives of the EU member states and is supported by a Council recommendation of November 2005. The European Commission warmly welcomes the creation of the portal by the APEnet project consortium as an important step towards providing online access to our joint European archival heritage. The European archival community intends to build further on the success of APEnet in the ambitious new APEX project. Jill Cousins, the Executive Director of the Europeana Initiative states that: Archives Portal Europe is a wonderful initiative, opening up the world of archives to the world. It has brought together major archives across Europe to solve interoperability issues to create ease of access for the user. It is also a major contributor to the success of Europeana. By ensuring that the archival material is also available alongside our other cultural heritage material from museums and libraries Archives Portal Europe gives breadth and depth to Europeana in a sustainable way. Martin Berendse, National Archivist of the Netherlands and President of ICA believes that the goal to provide joint access to European archives through a common portal has been broad and ambitious. It is an achievement to have the basic infrastructure set up, including an already impressive amount of content made available via an appealing interface. This could only be accomplished by a strong consortium of partners by combining their interests and skills. The overwhelming amount of colleague National Archival institutions wanting to join the follow-up project APEX is proof of the success of the overall concept as laid down by the APEnet consortium. The next challenge is to expand the Archives Portal Europe as a publication platform for all European institutions holding archival material and the 'de facto' archives domain aggregator for Europeana. Contents: First production release of the Archives Portal Europe With the major functionality upgrade of the intermediate November release as a basis, the APEnet team continued improving and fine-tuning the Archives Portal Europe, focusing on usability and multilingualism,, resulting in a fully functional and well documented portal containing state-of-the-art features such as: • Extensive auto-completion and auto-suggestion functionalities based on the full content of the portal, to assist users by suggesting related or similar search terms when they enter their own. This helps them to navigate the huge amount of archival material already available and shows them the richness of the content as well as representing a first step towards multilingualism. • A navigated search, an innovative way of searching, enabling the users to select countries and archives for their search. It furthermore allows users to browse the archival material within the framework of its original structures and to directly access the full display of all holdings guides and finding aids available, in order to evaluate these documents before including them in a search. With this new approach users can easily select all kinds of combinations of whole countries and particular institutions and include all their material in a search via a single step. • A user-friendly list view for giving access to search results in a Google-like way, offering a variety of options to either sort or refine search results as best fitting the user's needs to narrow down as quickly as possible to those results in which he/she is most interested. • A smart preview function giving access to additional details of the search results in the pages of the “list view” and the “context view” via ‘mouse-over’ functionality, which also enables users to immediately switch to a particular search result in the full context of its finding aid. • A basic user registration functionality for users to register themselves in order to be able to store search queries to be used later. • An extensive help facility or navigation guide in several languages, explaining the most important functionality of the portal in detail as well as how to use it in the best possible way. • An improved Directory section which now also facilitates the inclusion of information on archival institutions not yet contributing to the Archives Portal Europe as well as links to national and regional portals and overviews of archival institutions, thus starting to fully document the European archival landscape, visualised by capturing all that information in a Google map. Dashboard access handed over to partners The most visible part of the Archives Portal Europe is of course the front-end but the APEnet team has not forgotten to improve the portal’s back-end as well. The “Dashboard”, which gives content providers the opportunity to upload, convert, validate, index and publish their data themselves, is also more user-friendly now and in addition, it is loaded with many extra features which makes it much easier for content providers to manage the data they want to publish via the Archives Portal Europe and Europeana. During the Communicating Archival Metadata conference in Stockholm in June and the CITRA conference in Toledo in October of last year, the APEnet team organised workshops to show the partners and representatives of other interested archival institutions how to use the Archives Portal Europe’s Dashboard. As a result of this, the APEnet team had already transferred the responsibility for the data administration to each individual partner after the intermediate November release of the Archives Portal Europe, providing them with full control over the processing of their data via the Dashboard. With the release of the first production version and representatives of the APEnet consortium partners behind the buttons of the Dashboard, the Archives Portal Europe can now truly fulfill its role as a publication platform for European archives. Update of the Data Preparation Tool to be released In order to enable the content providers to integrate the preparation of data for the Archives Portal Europe and for Europeana as much as possible in their usual workflows, the APEnet project has – in addition to the centrally used Dashboard – developed a standalone version of the project’s tools, the Data Preparation Tool. This desktop application can be downloaded and installed on any local standalone computer in order to enable content providers to convert finding aids from locally used data formats to the formats as defined for the use within the Archives Portal Europe, to create holdings guides based on their finding aids or to create information pages on the archival institutions themselves ecnoded in EAG (Encoded Archival Guide). In the upcoming release of the Data Preparation Tool, these functionalities will be further enhanced by steps to prepare data for publication on the Europeana portal. The tool will become available for download as version 1.1 via the project website www.apenet.eu (section “About us > Developments"). Europeana interoperability now ESE v3.4 compatible and fully active Finalising the interoperability with Europeana, the APEnet team has upgraded the APEnet EAD to ESE functionality to make it compatible with the current Europeana metadata format, ESE v3.4, and has successfully tested the Archives Portal Europe's OAI-PMH interface in cooperation with the Europeana ingestion team. So the APEnet consortium partners can now start using the built-in APEnet EAD to ESE functionality in the Archives Portal Europe’s Dashboard to forward their data to Europeana. It is envisaged to transfer data from at least two more APEnet project partners –Sweden and Spain – to Europeana via this facility during the next few weeks. Content Checker remains available In addition to the Stockholm and Toledo workshops and in order to enable the APEnet consortium partners to familiarise themselves with the functionality of the Archives Portal Europe’s Dashboard before they embarked on managing their data in the intermediate November release, the APEnet team had set up a complete demo environment of the Archives Portal Europe software on a dedicated webserver of the Nationaal Archief in the Netherlands. This demo environment, called Content Checker, contained all functionality of the "real" Archives Portal Europe (except for the OAI-PMH functionality) and provided the partners with the opportunity to educate themselves in using the possibilities of data administration and publication via the Archives Portal Europe without any consequence for their "real" data set in the November release. The APEnet team is happy to announce that this demo service will be continued and not only for all APEnet consortium partners, but also for any institution interested in exploring the possibilities of the Archives Portal Europe as a publication platform for archival content. 4th and Final General Assembly held in Madrid The first production release of the Archives Portal Europe with all its accompanying tools and facilities was presented to the APEnet project partners during the 4th and Final General Assembly of the APEnet project held on 12 January 2012 in Madrid. All partners present at this meeting will continue to work jointly on the further enhancement of the Archives Portal Europe with regard to its functionalities and the content available via the portal within the framework of the APEX project. Therefore the last General Assembly was not only an occasion to show and discuss the common goals achieved so far, but also to look to the future of the Archives Portal Europe. APEnet goes APEX While the entire APEnet technical team was finalising the Archives Portal Europe’s production release, the APEnet Project Management Team negotiated with the European Commission on the terms for the follow-up project, APEX (Archives Portal Europe network of eXcellence). The APEX project will continue the work of the APEnet project but will also focus on expanding the Archives Portal Europe network by getting more partners/countries on board, helping regional and local institutions holding archival content to publish their data via the Archives Portal Europe and thus forwarding more archival data towards Europeana. The first stated objective has already been reached (more or less) because the APEX consortium will consist of the national archival institutions of 28 European countries, plus ICARUS. The fact that all those institutions – among which almost all APEnet consortium partners – were very eager to cooperate within the new project can be considered as a major success of the APEnet project. It is expected that the ongoing negotiations will be concluded successfully with the signing of the APEX Grant Agreement mid-February, after which the project will officially start on 1 March 2012 and will be kicked-off by a series of meetings mid-March in The Hague, to be organised by the Nationaal Archief (The Netherlands), which will take the lead in the new project. More details about the APEX project will be made available in due course at www.apex-project.eu http://www.apex-project.eu/ . You can find a comprehensive overview of the Archives Portal Europe here (PDF-document). Read more about the APEnet project development in the public reports here. APEnet is a collaboration between nineteen European national archives and Europeana http://www.europeana.eu/ . _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Feb 16 06:32:26 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0D6A21FC94; Thu, 16 Feb 2012 06:32:26 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id ABA6221FC6C; Thu, 16 Feb 2012 06:32:22 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120216063222.ABA6221FC6C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 06:32:22 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.732 Scalable Research Challenge 2012 winners X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 732. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 21:24:39 +0000 From: UIUC I-CHASS Subject: Scalable Research Challenge 2012 The Institute for Computing in Humanities, Arts, and Social Science (I-CHASS) is pleased to announce the winners of the Scalable Research Challenge 2012. The following nine projects have been selected to collaborate closely with the I-CHASS and National Center for Supercomputing Applications to shape their research projects to take advantage of advanced computing resources such as large-scale parallel processing, algorithmic development, and new interface design: Therese Tierney, PhD DE:New Media, Assistant Professor, Design, School of Architecture, UIUC Professor Tierney’s [i-metro], a locative information commons, project advances the position that information, as both a resource and an integral component of the public sphere, should be equally available to all. To address the inequality of information access, [i-metro], an interactive information portal to be situated within metro transit stations, provides free, comprehensive locative and other travel-related information in real time. [i-metro] will display information on a touchscreen--like a vastly oversized iPhone- providing access to maps, timetables, and ticket reservations---thus transforming the urban experience with layered opportunities and data most useful on the go. Transit riders will also participate by uploading their own content through messaging and geo-tagging. [i-metro]contributes to new forms of public engagement by creating socially rich nodes for public benefit by linking the functionality of the Web to the scale of the city in real time. Michael Regenwetter, Professor, Department of Psychology, UIUC Chris Zwilling, doctoral student, Department of Psychology, UIUC Professor Regenwetter and Mr. Zwilling’s research aims to further our understanding of human decision-making processes. Their lab focuses on another important part of this larger picture: developing and testing models of human decision-making processes at a higher level of detail thanks to advanced methodologies. In particular, the approach allows looking at both the commonalities, as well as the differences between people in their underlying decision making processes. This proposal specifically, does not aim to solve the ubiquitous shortcomings of human decision-making in the world. Kahneman’s research revealed far-reaching insights into human-decision making, which then allowed others to apply his results to the real world. Their work on models of decision-making, especially if propelled forward by contemporary high-level computing resources, has the potential for many broad and tangible real-world applications, hence it can have a real impact on the human condition. Harriett Green, English and Digital Humanities Librarian, Assistant Professor of Library Administration, UIUC Professor Green’s work engages how researchers use libraries. The Maximum Exposure project will examine a library user’s decision points in the search process that provide data for incorporating into the search itself. With this data, hedonic regression and multi-armed bandit model as analytical methods to determine which items have high relevancy but low use by digital library users. The resulting items that fit these parameters will be exposed to the user in a separate “Understudied” list to accompany the main search results set. The relevancy of the Understudied items will be determined by the correlation of the metadata to subject headings and search key terms. Ruby Mendenhall, Assistant Professor of African American Studies, Sociology, UIUC Professor Mendenhall’s project focuses to address a critical barrier to decreasing depression among low-income Black single mothers who live in segregated, high-risk neighborhoods by investigating how ecological risk and protective factors moderate the effects of role strain and coping strategies on depression. Mara R. Wade, Chair, Society for Emblem Studies, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, UIUC The Emblematica Online project is digitizing two of the world's largest and most important Renaissance emblem book collections, thereby establishing a digital subject library shared across two institutions, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the Herzog August Bibliothek. The project aims to digitize, index and build a new portal providing integrated access to our digital emblem book collections and eventually those of other major emblem book collections worldwide. The project will serve as a prototype for similar digitized image-text related projects in the humanities. Victor Masayesva, Owner/Director, IS Productions Victor's project is in the intersection of agricultural scientific approaches to corn and the sorts of corn farming he does as a Hopi person and that other Indigenous peoples in North and Meso America do. He has met with a lot of people on campus about various aspects of the project, including people at the Visualization Lab at Beckman, IGB faculty, and ACES faculty (Crop Sciences, Ag Econ). We are working toward an agreement on supporting one thread of the project through the R&D phase into preproduction and another thread that will probably be based here at Illinois that will hopefully involve video documentation of a test field in South Campus across a planting-harvest cycle next year. The project will create a documentary on the relationship of corn, its migration and the people that carried it from it’s equatorial roots, to the latest chapter in the story: the development of corn for mass agriculture here at UIUC. Gabriel Solis, Associate Professor and Chair of Musicology Division, School of Music, UIUC The project seeks to create a valuable program that would allow for a comparison of a large number of recordings in terms of a number of measurable sonic features, and that will create systematic, three- and four-dimensional visualizations of those sonic features for the process of interpretation of the results and representation of results in scholarship and teaching. One of the most compelling things about this project is that it would fulfill a long-standing desire in the community of musicians and music scholars for precisely such a tool. Maria E. Cotera, Associate Professor of American Culture and Women's Studies, Director, Latina/o Studies Program, University of Michigan Linda Garcia Merchant, Independent Film Maker, Las Pilonas Productions Chicana por Mi Raza is a digital humanities project that involves the collection, digitization, and display of archival materials and oral histories related to the development of Chicana Feminist thought and praxis over the long civil rights era. The project proposes both the collection of documents related to this history--photographs, posters, correspondence, written material (both published and unpublished), ephemera--and the development of a flexible user interface that can allow users, both professional and novice, to access these materials through interactive timeline and mapping utilities. Richard Hindle, Assistant Professor, Department of Landscape Architecture, UIUC This project began through accidentally finding a ‘missed’ reference in the patent system. A patent was awarded without referencing an existing patent. The project is to develop visualization methods for patent relationships in multiple databases, and show relationships between innovations in locations and among technologies. * * * Founded in 2004 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, I-CHASS charts new ground in high-performance computing and the humanities, arts, and social sciences by creating both learning environments and spaces for digital discovery. I-CHASS presents path-breaking research, computational resources, collaborative tools, and educational programming to showcase the future of the humanities, arts, and social sciences. For more information on I-CHASS, please visit: http://www.ichass.illinois.edu _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Feb 16 06:34:37 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB5B621FD23; Thu, 16 Feb 2012 06:34:36 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C904021FD19; Thu, 16 Feb 2012 06:34:30 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120216063430.C904021FD19@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 06:34:30 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.733 events several & various X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 733. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Craig Bellamy (17) Subject: DHA2012: Registration Open [2] From: "Johnson, Eric (ej9k)" (13) Subject: Announcing THATCamp Virginia 2012 [3] From: "E. Natalie Rothman" (113) Subject: Call for Participants: Roots & Routes 2012 Summer Institute at theUniversity of Toronto [4] From: Willard McCarty (198) Subject: Heritage in the Age of Digital Humanities conference [5] From: Joris van Zundert (26) Subject: Symposium Scholarly Digital Editions, Tools and Infrastructure - Registration Open --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 19:07:15 +1100 From: Craig Bellamy Subject: DHA2012: Registration Open Dear Humanist, The inaugural Digital Humanities Australasia conference is shaping-up to be a very exciting event. There are a range of excellent international speakers and all the workshops preceding the conference are now confirmed. The registration for the conference is now open. Please register for DHA2012 here: http://aa-dh.org/conference-2/ If you would like to receive a substantial discount to the conference, please consider jointing the aaDH before you register. http://aa-dh.org/member/ And finally, if you would like to attend the workshops preceding the conference, registration will open this Friday the 17th February (to allow broad participation, workshop registration is a separate process to the conference). http://aa-dh.org/conference/workshops/ We look forward to seeing you in March! Kind regards, Craig Bellamy (for the Programme Committee) --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 15:42:59 +0000 From: "Johnson, Eric (ej9k)" Subject: Announcing THATCamp Virginia 2012 Colleagues-- We’re excited to say that registration is now open for approximately 75 participants at THATCamp Virginia 2012 (http://virginia2012.thatcamp.org/)! Slots will be filled on a first-come, first-served basis, so register early (http://virginia2012.thatcamp.org/apply-to-attend/). Registration will close March 1, 2012. What’s this now? You know, a regional THATCamp (see: http://thatcamp.org/about/). "THATCamp" stands for "The Humanities and Technology Camp," a free, Barcamp-style, user-generated unconference for anybody who is interested in the creative intersection of the humanities and technology. When? THATCampVA will be held on Friday and Saturday, April 20-21, 2012. Friday will open at 3:00 with your choice of two-hour workshops, one focusing on Do-it-yourself Aerial Photography and the other on the newly-launched Neatline project (http://neatline.org/. And then on Saturday the THATCampVA unconference itself, with sessions generated by the participants, will be held 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Opportunities for social time with friends old and new will be available on Friday night, April 20, at nearby establishments. Where? Charlottesville, Virginia (at UVA Library’s Scholars’ Lab: http://www.lib.virginia.edu/scholarslab/) Who? Organizers include digital humanities folks from UVA, Mary Washington, and other central Virginia institutions — but this is your unconference! Anybody with energy and an interest in the humanities and/or technology should attend: graduate students, scholars, librarians, archivists, museum professionals, developers and programmers, administrators, managers, and funders; people from the non-profit sector, the for-profit sector, and interested amateurs. We say any- and everybody, and especially those who would find this interesting but who may never have been to a THATCamp or anything like it before. Attendees from Virginia are welcome, of course, but so too are any other interested parties. Questions in the meantime? Email us at thatcamp@collab.itc.virginia.edu! Watch http://virginia2012.thatcamp.org/ for more news soon — and follow us on Twitter at @THATCampVA. --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 15:14:01 -0500 From: "E. Natalie Rothman" Subject: Call for Participants: Roots & Routes 2012 Summer Institute at theUniversity of Toronto *Roots & Routes II: Translation, Mediation, and Circulation in the Premodern Mediterranean* *A Summer Institute at the University of Toronto Scarborough, April 30-May 11, 2012* *Application deadline: March 1, 2012* Dear colleagues and students, We are delighted to announce the second of three annual summer institutes at the University of Toronto on knowledge production in the premodern Mediterranean and in the Digital Age. This year's theme is translation, mediation, and circulation. We hope you can join us! Please keep reading for details on the institute, its format, and how to apply, or go directly to the application website: http://ocs.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/utsc/. *Format: *The Roots & Routes Summer Institute aims to facilitate a more coherent and explicitly transdisciplinary analytical framework for Mediterranean studies using digital tools and methodologies. The institute, hosted by the University of Toronto Scarborough, features a combination of individual presentations, seminar-style discussions of shared materials, hands-on workshops on a variety of digital tools, and small-group project development sessions. Participants will explore new formats for conducting research and presenting their findings. By teaming up with information technology specialists and digital scholarship experts working outside the Mediterranean, participants will have a chance to develop long-term collaborative projects to enhance their ongoing individual research agendas.In order to maximize the potential for future collaboration and broad, thematic conversations, groups will be composed of participants from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds and at different stages of their scholarly careers, from senior scholars to advanced undergraduates. Participants are encouraged to engage each other's materials, bring insights from their own field of expertise to a broader methodological and conceptual discussion, and begin to draw out connections between what are often seen as disparate fields of knowledge. *Annual theme*: This second annual summer institute will focus on Translation, Mediation, and Circulation. Specifically, it seeks to address processes of cultural mediation in the Mediterranean by attending to the ways in which language served as a central site for the elaboration and contestation of sociocultural boundaries from the eighth century to the Scientific Revolution. Participants, drawn from Toronto area-based faculty and graduate students as well as internationally, will consider the various practices involved in the transmission, adaptation, and contestation of scholarly knowledge across boundaries, and experiment with different forms of "translation" within and between different media and genres. In this context, special attention will be paid to digital technologies and the potential synergies between textual and multimedia digital humanities projects. *Application process*: Your application should include a current CV and a brief proposal (up to 500 words), which discusses your current research and a specific object you would like to present and further develop digitally. This object may be a text, an artifact, a database, or a combination of any of the above. Once accepted, you will be asked to compile a bibliography of relevant readings to share with others in advance, as well as to install and become familiar with a few digital tools (e.g. Zotero), to allow us to explore more advanced features and digital skills at the institute itself. *Participants are not expected to have prior programming knowledge or other advanced digital skills*, but should be genuinely interested in the potential of digital tools to challenge and transform current research practices. Proposals may address (but are not limited to) one or more of the following five clusters of questions: 1. What role did institutions such as chancelleries, academies, universities, and schools, play in developing, defining, and standardizing "official" vernacular languages and in distinguishing them from other language varieties? What role did such institutions play in processes of language instruction and socialization across metropolitan and peripheral settings? How were these institutions themselves shaped by the range of (often multilingual) milieus in which they operated? 2. To what extent, in the contexts of colonial expansion, imperial consolidation and inter-imperial rivalry, did specialized cadres---including diplomatic interpreters, commercial brokers, missionaries, court scribes, notaries, lexicographers, and philologists---develop to regulate linguistic and cultural difference? 3. What language ideologies and practices emerged in the inherently bilingual contexts of imperial borderlands, such as medieval Iberia and North Africa, Venetian Dalmatia, the Eastern Mediterranean, and Ottoman Bosnia? 4. How were linguistic and cultural differences objectified and mapped onto one another through a range of genres, from court records and commercial manuals to travelogues and polyglot comedies? 5. How do the histories of premodern translation, mediation, and circulation speak to current debates about knowledge production in the digital age and the role of scholarly networks in the acquisition and dissemination of texts and technologies? The deadline for applications is*March 1, 2012*. Applications must be submitted online at http://ocs.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/utsc/. Selection announcements will be made by March 15. For more information about the Institute, check out the Q&A section at http://ocs.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/utsc/RRSI2/about/editorialPolicies#custom-1 http://ocs.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/utsc/ and the institute's websitehttp://humrp.utsc.utoronto.ca/ePorte/summer-institutes http://ocs.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/utsc/ (which will be updated periodically between now and May to reflect the evolving program and roster of workshops). Please contact the organizers by email (rrsi@utsc.utoronto.ca ) for further information or to get involved in the organizing process. ***Travel bursaries and full room and board are available for out-of-town graduate student participants.***** *The /Roots & Routes /summer institute is generously supported by the Connaught Fund at the University of Toronto* We look forward to hearing from you! Natalie Rothman On behalf of the /Roots & Routes/ Summer Institute organizers ___________ E. Natalie Rothman Assistant Professor of History University of Toronto rothman@utsc.utoronto.ca http://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/~rothman --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 22:07:16 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Heritage in the Age of Digital Humanities conference *** Attachments: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1329343644_2012-02-15_willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk_14575.2.doc Heritage in the Age of Digital Humanities : How should training practices evolve? 21, 22, 23 June 2012, French National Archives (Pierrefitte, near Paris), Université Paris 8. Training in heritage issues has always been closely dependent on how heritage itself is defined. After the French Revolution, museums were regarded as contributing to public education and developing notions of citizenship, so when the École du Louvre opened in 1882 it was given the responsibility of training “curators, missionaries and archeologists”. The purpose of promoting national history lay behind the creation of The École des Chartes in 1821 and the French Board of Inspectors of Historic Monuments in 1830. After natural heritage became a matter of interest in 1906, the French National Horticultural School opened in 1945 (it was replaced in 1976 by the National School for Landscaping at Versailles in 1976). The National Heritage Institute, which opened in 1990, and the French National School for Information Technology and Libraries, 1992, both testify to changes in training programs, in response to evolutions in the field of heritage that made it necessary for future curators to acquire new technical and managerial skills. Teaching programs have also had to come to terms with evolving notions of heritage, as recorded in a series of UNESCO conventions – from the Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage in 1972 to the Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage in 2003 and the Charter on the Preservation of Digital Heritage the same year. The effects of digital technology on the social organization of information are now sufficiently recognized to enable analysis of their implications for professional skills and practices and to encourage investigations into the ensuing changes in relations between heritage institutions (museums, archives, libraries, heritage sites) and the public. Two issues at least are at stake here. The first is the digitalization of heritage and its effects. The second is the very definition of digital heritage. They are of interest to heritage institutions and higher education and research alike. New practices are being put into place. These relate to the skills involved in the field of documentation, to how digital documents are published and communicated to the public, and to how digital data and documentation are exploited, preserved and conserved within the institutions themselves. However, the effect, both on long-standing institutional responsibilities and on the changing environment of training programs in heritage issues, has not yet been properly thought through. In this context, there is an urgent need to consider how far the norms, instruments and practices governing the creation and management of digital documents by institutions are open to evolving practices in the public environment of the World Wide Web. Furthermore, it is important to take into account the fact that digital documentation is also playing a major role in changes in practice currently being implemented in universities and research institutes. Our conference proposes to consider both the new issues facing training programs in the heritage industries and the transformations taking place on a wider scale in university and research cultures. Digital humanities suggest a new approach for studying the relations between the way heritage is defined and the manner in which digital resources circulate and are appropriated, and how they are absorbed into society. Four conference streams are planned to tackle these issues. Stream n° 1: Investigating the epistemology of the concept of heritage in the 21st century. What are the criteria according to which “digital heritage” can be established as a new category? Is it just a matter of identifying documents, whether digitally-born or converted into digital formats, that lay claim to the attention both of heritage institutions and their conservation policies, and of social groups and communities? To consider heritage in this way is to view it as the result of legitimating processes. However, this involves setting aside what might be described as the open dynamics involved in the making and transformation of heritage – something that digital media bring to the forefront, to the extent that they blur the distinctions between an object, its documentation and its distribution. The concept of digital heritage has a heuristic value insofar as it brings together heritage theory and the question of reproduction. The culture of digital networks makes it necessary to rethink Benjamin’s categories. What will be the impact of these issues on training programs? How does the notion of digital heritage challenge traditional disciplinary boundaries, both from an institutional point of view and with regard to the production of knowledge? What effect will digital heritage have on professional training and doctoral programs? Should technology be approached in terms of new skills or should it be recognized as instituting a digital culture? Stream n°2: The production, distribution and appropriation of digital resources. The digitalization of heritage is motivated by considerations of public interest, involving the conservation (documentation and preservation) of source objects and the organization of resources targeting the public. However, the criteria governing what is to be digitalized are much less clear. Compliance of data and documents with accessibility and interoperability standards (metadata, encoding, etc.), as required by developments in digital environments, is improving. However, issues regarding the use and appropriation of the various levels of documentation produced by archives, libraries and museums give rise to conflicting interpretations. Digital publication in any medium involves questions of data structuring, the use of documentary languages and the design of user interfaces. The push to put entire collections on-line ensures that documentary resources have a major role to play in the way documentation is exploited, especially in an academic context. What is to be done with the increasing glut of documentation? What interfaces are required – and for what professional uses? Furthermore, current developments in connection with Web 2.0 are redefining relations between institutions and their audiences and destabilizing the core expert practices of heritage institutions. What room is there for new indexing practices (folksonomies)? Stream n° 3: Heritage institutions, teaching and research: inventing new forms of digital publication. New forms of digital publication are emerging. Different way to access specific documentary corpuses are being tested, in response to a variety of research requirements, including the treatment of large masses of data and documents, visualization, knowledge presentation, timelines and dynamical spatialization. The means of accessing and publishing documents are being constantly renewed and complexified. Research practices in heritage institutions and higher education are being brought up to date, assuming new forms and provoking changes in the ways researchers and experts collaborate. Heritage institutions have a knowledge-producing function, which has led a number of them to engage in the production of digital materials from their own resources but also from pooled documentary resources. They facilitate the exploitation of a given corpus, in response to requests from research teams. Such agreements go beyond putting digital sources at the disposal of interested parties. They imply partnerships between heritage institutions and research communities. How can these new forms of cooperation between curators, archivists and librarians, engineers, technicians, researchers in the humanities and social sciences, be conceptualized, given that they involve institutions and professional bodies, as well as individuals with different skills and cultures? The development of new publishing strategies requires space for experimentation. It needs openness to new ideas. How will institutions make room for all this? How are training programs in heritage-related professions and doctoral programs in human and social sciences responding to these new perspectives? Stream n° 4: New economic and legal models. Digitalization is creating new working conditions in heritage professions. The structure of digital projects involves a variety of professional bodies. However, no clear norms exist. What benchmarks could be used as guidelines for setting up cultural projects in digital environments? The Europeana project gives an insight into the changes in working conditions currently underway, and into their legal implications, especially with regard to intellectual property. Digitalization also requires new financial resources. New models are emerging. These involve both new forms of public investment and public-private initiatives, in which the responsibilities of the public sector must be safeguarded. How do the issues raised by Open Data impinge on digital heritage? Heritage institutions are by definition knowledge-producing institutions. Have they not also become a service industry within the economy of the Web, existing alongside search engines but also in competition with them? The conference welcomes submissions from professionals working in heritage institutions or the heritage service sector, as well as from academics involved in heritage programs and scholars in the humanities and social sciences with an interest in digital culture. Deadlines and practical information: - March 2, 2012: deadline for submissions of not more than 1000 words (+ bibliography). These should be sent to bernadette.dufrene@orange.fr and should include a cover page containing the following information: name, title, professional function and institution of author and/or contributors; postal and e-mail address, phone and fax numbers; - March 30, 2012: communication of the program committee’s decisions; - June 1, 2012: deadline for submitting completed papers. It is planned to publish conference papers. Program committee: Labex Arts H2H: Yves Abrioux, Paris 8 Denis Bruckmann,BnF Bernadette Dufrene, Paris 8 Madjid Ihadjadene, Paris 8 Remi Labrusse, Paris10 Elsa Marguin, Archives nationales Isabelle Moindrot, Paris 8 CNAM : Ghislaine Chartron Dominique Ferriot Manuel Zacklad Ecole de restauration et de conservation des biens culturels d'Alger : Nacéra Benseddik Institut national du Patrimoine: Gennaro Toscano Institut du Patrimoine, Tunis: Soumaya Gharsallah Université de Laval: Philippe Dubé Milad Doueihi Université Paris1: Corinne Welger Université de Poitiers : Nabila Oulebsir Organizing committee: Marie-Cécile Bouju, Paris 8, Bernadette Dufrene, Paris 8, Elsa Marguin, Archives nationales, Axel Bourgeois, Paris 8, Muriel Flicoteaux, Benjamin Barbier. -- Andrew Prescott Head of Department Department of Digital Humanities King's College London 26-29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL +44 (0)20 7848 2651 www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/ddh --[5]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 01:03:39 +0100 From: Joris van Zundert Subject: Symposium Scholarly Digital Editions, Tools and Infrastructure - Registration Open = Announcement: Interedition Symposium - Registration Open = = Scholarly Digital Editions, Tools and Infrastructure = = The Huygens ING, The Hague, The Netherlands, 19-20 March 2012 = Huygens ING is pleased to host a symposium to mark the achievements of Interedition, COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) Action IS0704. This event will also serve as a springboard for further work based on the principles of interoperability promoted by Interedition within the domain of digital scholarly editing and research. Programme and practical information are available at http://www.interedition.eu Registration for the symposium is now open at http://www.interedition.eu/?page_id=203 It's our pleasure to invite everybody interested in digital infrastructure for interoperable digital editions to join us in The Hague for a two day high quality academic event. The symposium offers a good and comprehensive overview of current trends in practices of building digital editions, related digital tools and infrastructures, digital text analysis and annotation, and community aspects. About Interedition: http://www.interedition.eu About the Huygens ING: http://www.huygens.knaw.nl/en/over-ons/ About COST and Interedition: http://www.cost.esf.org/domains_actions/isch/Actions/IS0704 -- Drs. Joris J. van Zundert Researcher & Developer Digital and Computational Humanities Chair COST Action IS0704 'Interedition' _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Feb 17 07:54:16 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C7E627029E; Fri, 17 Feb 2012 07:54:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 5CB4527027E; Fri, 17 Feb 2012 07:54:09 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120217075409.5CB4527027E@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 07:54:09 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.734 events: mss; history & philosophy; Irish novel; Theory Dessert X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 734. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: STELLA FRANCESCO (59) Subject: Medioevo Europeo. Medieval Cultures and Technological Resources [2] From: Liesbeth De Mol (80) Subject: CfPs Area of History and Philosophy of Computing [3] From: Shawn Day (12) Subject: Public Talk: Macroanalysis and the 19th-Century Irish Novel in English [4] From: Sarah Wells (31) Subject: "Theory Dessert" at the Institute of the Humanities and Global Cultures --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 09:46:11 +0100 From: STELLA FRANCESCO Subject: Medioevo Europeo. Medieval Cultures and Technological Resources Workshop MEDIEVAL CULTURES ON THE WEB. INTEROPERABILITY THROUGH TEXT AND MANUSCRIPT DATABASES. [A COST Action, for which see http://www.cost.eu/about_cost] In Europe and in North-America several projects are trying to handle the problem of the multitude of data-bases concerning medieval texts and manuscripts. Different aims and standards are proposed by networks of philologists, codicologists, librarians. The research about medieval cultures will depend more and more on such decisions. Presenting an Italian project of interoperability, the workshop will provide a discussion about goals and practices for the next future. COST Action IS1005 Medioevo Europeo. Medieval Cultures and Technological Resources. Chair Agostino Paravicini Bagliani www.medioevoeuropeo.eu The main objective of the Action is to increase accessibility to and integration of medieval research results and tools through improved technological instruments and skills. Achieving the Action's objectives is made possible through the collaboration of key European institutes that have developed large scale databases, become familiar with related problems and attempted to identify targeted solutions. WORKING GROUP 2 - MANUSCRIPTS AND TEXTUAL TRADITION. Chair Matthew Driscoll From the Memorandum of Understanding: In keeping with the over-all aims of the COST Action, Working Group 2 seeks to develop proposals for standardising data pertaining to manuscripts and texts in order to facilitate dialogue between existing and emerging electronic resources such as manuscript catalogues and digital text editions. VENUES 7 march: Università degli Studi di Firenze Rettorato - Aula Magna, Piazza San Marco 4, 50121 Firenze 8-9 march: Istituto Gould, Via de' Serragli 49, 50124 Firenze ORGANISING COMMITTEE Emiliano Degl'Innocenti, Matthew Driscoll, Lino Leonardi, Agostino Paravicini Bagliani LOCAL ORGANISER Fondazione Ezio Franceschini onlus, Certosa del Galluzzo, 50124 Firenze, http://www.fefonlus.it CONTACT Silvia Agnoletti (COST Action IS1005) silvia.agnoletti@sismelfirenze.it [2] Questo indirizzo e-mail è protetto dallo spam bot. Abilita Javascript per vederlo. Marinella Tucci (Fondazione Ezio Franceschini onlus) mtucci.formazione@fefonlus.it [3] Questo indirizzo e-mail è protetto dallo spam bot. Abilita Javascript per vederlo. INVITED EXPERTS Guglielmo Bartoletti (Biblioteca Marucelliana), Marco Bellandi (Università di Firenze), Pietro Beltrami (CNR-OVI, Firenze), Vicenç Beltran (IEC, Barcelona), Marco Biffi (Accademia della Crusca), Andrea Bozzi (CNR-ILC, Pisa), Teresa De Robertis (Università di Firenze), Simon Gaunt (King's College, London), Giovanna Lazzi (Bibl. Riccardiana, Firenze), Lucia Pinelli (SISMEL, Firenze), Gabriella Pomaro (SISMEL, Firenze), Ida Giovanna Rao (Bibl. Medicea Laurenziana, Firenze), Wolfram Seidler (Universität Wien) Program: http://www.fefonlus.it/it/seminari-e-convegni/item/262 Links: ------ [1] http://www.medioevoeuropeo.eu [2] mailto:silvia.agnoletti@sismelfirenze.it [3] mailto:mtucci.formazione@fefonlus.it --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 11:18:40 +0100 From: Liesbeth De Mol Subject: CfPs Area of History and Philosophy of Computing Dear colleagues, this is a reminder for the forthcoming three deadlines for Call for Papers related to the area of the History and Philosophy of Computing. best wishes, Liesbeth (1) ------------------------------ Symposium on the History and Philosophy of Programming 5-6 July 2012 http://www.computing-conference.ugent.be/hapop12 part of AISB/IACAP World Congress 2012 - Alan Turing 2012 2-6 July 2012 We expect contributions about the following topics and their intersections: 1. The history of computational systems, machines and programs 2. Foundational issues and paradigms of programming (programming logics, semantics and proof-theories for distributed, secure, cloud, functional, object-oriented, etc.) SUBMISSION DETAILS: The programme will consists of 2 Invited Lectures and up to 8 Contributed Papers. It will takes place in the afternoon session of the 5th and the morning session of the 6th of July. We cordially invite researchers working in a field relevant to the main topics of the conference to submit an extended abstract of minimum 2 and maximum 5 pages to computing.conference@ugent.be Please mention "ABSTRACT HAPOP" in the subject line. Abstracts must be written in English. Please note that the format of submitted files must be .pdf or .rtf. Only unpublished material will be considered for presentation. IMPORTANT DATES: Submissions Deadline: 2 March 2012 Acceptance/rejection Decisions: 2 April 2012 Final versions of abstracts for inclusion in proceedings: 4 May 2012. Symposium: 5 July (afternoon) and 6 July (morning) (2) --------------------- Special Issue of Journal "History and Philosophy of Logic" TITLE: Logical Issues in the History and Philosophy of Computing GUEST EDITORS: Liesbeth De Mol& Giuseppe Primiero http://www.computing-conference.ugent.be/specialissues We solicit submissions of papers that combine both historical and systematic aspects of the computational sciences, in particular related to the logical and philosophical foundations of: computational systems and machines; models of computability; physical Church-Turing Thesis; semantic theories of programming languages; epistemology of computing. TIMETABLE: April 15, 2012: Deadline paper submission July 15, 2012: Deadline reviews papers October 15, 2012: Deadline revised papers 2013: Publication of the special issue SUBMISSION DETAILS: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/journal.asp?issn=01445340&linktype=44 and mention "Special Issue History and Philosophy of Computing in the subject line of your submission email. (3) ------------------------- Special Issue of Journal "Philosophy& Technology" TITLE: Trends in the History and Philosophy of Computing GUEST EDITORS: Liesbeth de Mol& Giuseppe Primiero http://www.computing-conference.ugent.be/specialissues We solicit submissions of papers that explore the philosophical relevance of issues in the technology and in particular that do so in a historical perspective. Areas of relevance are the birth, evolution and future of machines, algorithms and programs; the foundational and practical issues related to models of computability and programming languages; computer experiments and simulations, computer-aided systems, math- and engineering software, e-learning, scientific databases, computer and the arts. TIMETABLE: April 15, 2012: Deadline paper submission July 15, 2012: Deadline reviews papers September 15, 2012: Deadline revised papers 2013: Publication of the special issue SUBMISSION DETAILS: http://www.editorialmanager.com/phte/ and select "Special Issue History and Philosophy of Computing" from the Type of Submission menu. ------------------------------------ To remove your address from this mailing list send a message toiacap-announce-unsubscribe@ia-cap.org --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 11:22:55 +0000 From: Shawn Day Subject: Public Talk: Macroanalysis and the 19th-Century Irish Novel in English Thursday 16th February 3:30 - 5:00 PM Neill/Hoey Lecture Theatre, Trinity Long Room Hub Macroanalysis and the 19th-Century Irish Novel in English Dr Matthew Jockers, Lecturer and Academic Technology Specialist, Department of English, Stanford University Dr. Jockers leverages text and data mining techniques to discuss how and why the 19th-century Irish novel (in English) is distinct from the British and American novel of the same period. In doing so he grapples with several current theories about the Irish novel and its relationship, for better or for worse, to the English realist novel of the same period. In doing so, Jockers catalogs a number of specifically Irish habits of style and theme and discusses how an Irish voice can be detected and heard amid a cacophony of 3500 Irish, British, and American novels from the period. -- Matthew L. Jockers is Lecturer and Academic Technology Specialist in the Department of English at Stanford. Jockers is a graduate in English of Montana State University (B.A. 1989), University of Northern Colorado (M.A. 1993), and Southern Illinois University (Ph.D. 1997). Jockers is the Co-Founder and Co-Director, with Franco Moretti, of the Stanford Literary Lab (http://litlab.stanford.edu/). His published work includes essays on computational approaches to authorship attribution, as well as papers on Irish and Irish-American literature. His book, Macroanalysis: Methods for Digital Literary History, is under contract with the University of Illinois Press. Jockers's research involves computational approaches to the study of large collections of literature, what he calls ''macroanalysis." His approach has much in common with corpus linguistics and borrows from text-mining, information retrieval, and natural language processing. His research focus, however, is on strictly literary questions, especially questions related to literary history and the nature of literary change over time. At Stanford Jockers teaches Irish literature and both introductory and advanced courses in humanities computing. He holds the distinction of being the first English Professor to assign 1200 novels in one class (see http://chronicle.com/article/The-Humanities-Go-Google/65713/). Jockers blogs about his research at http://www.stanford.edu/~mjockers where recent entries include "The LDA Buffet is Now Open; or Latent Dirichlet Allocation for English Majors," "Machine-Classifying Novels and Plays by Genre," "Panning for Memes" and "Auto Converting Project Gutenberg Text to TEI." He can be found on twitter via @mljockers and contacted via email at mjockers@stanford.edu. --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 16:49:05 +0000 From: Sarah Wells Subject: "Theory Dessert" at the Institute of the Humanities and Global Cultures The Institute of the Humanities and Global Cultures and the _Hedgehog Review_ present Theory Dessert, Institute of the Humanities and Global Cultures and the Hedgehog Review Friday, 2 p.m., Solarium, Colonnade Club http://www.virginia.edu/humanities/2012/02/february-17-theory-dessert/ Our subject will be ‘information in the digital age’: How do the technologies that humans make to engage the world come in turn to shape us? Are there historical precedents to our current situation? What forms of human agency might be particular to our digital age? Chad Wellmon and Chris Forster will open the conversation. Chad’s short essay in the Hedgehog Review is available online at http://www.virginia.edu/humanities/ --------------------- Sarah Wells Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities spw4s@virginia.edu 434-924-4370 or 434-924-4527 O proud left foot, that ventures quick within Then soon upon a backward journey lithe. Anon, once more the gesture, then begin: Command sinistral pedestal to writhe. Commence thou then the fervid Hokey-Poke, A mad gyration, hips in wanton swirl. To spin! A wilde release from Heavens yoke. Blessed dervish! Surely canst go, girl. The Hoke, the poke -- banish now thy doubt Verily, I say, 'tis what it's all about. (Jeff Brechlin, Potomac Falls. Stolen from the Washington Post's Style Invitational Week CLXI) _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Feb 17 08:13:39 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id C961A270610; Fri, 17 Feb 2012 08:13:39 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id BCC4E2705FC; Fri, 17 Feb 2012 08:13:34 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120217081334.BCC4E2705FC@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 08:13:34 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.735 cfp Shakespearean International Yearbook: digital Shakespeares X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 735. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 16:02:28 +0800 From: "Brett D. Hirsch" Subject: cfp: Digital Shakespeares Digital Shakespeares: Innovations, Interventions, Mediations A Special Issue of The Shakespearean International Yearbook Edited by Hugh Craig and Brett D. Hirsch If data is "the next big idea in language, history and the arts", as Patricia Cohen has suggested, where are we now in Shakespeare studies? Are we being "digital" yet? The guest editors of this special issue of The Shakespearean International Yearbook invite papers to critically explore digital innovations, interventions, and mediations in Shakespeare studies, in particular, the application of digital technologies and methodologies -- such as computational stylistics, data mining and visualization, 3D virtual modelling, electronic publishing, etc. -- and their impact on Shakespeare research, performance, and pedagogy. Papers theorizing "digital", "networked", or "new media" Shakespeares, as well as papers interrogating the ways in which the digital influences the performance of Shakespeare on both stage and screen, are also welcomed. Abstracts of c.200 words should be emailed to Hugh Craig and Brett D. Hirsch by 10 April 2012. Full articles of accepted abstracts will be expected by August 2012 to allow for review, revision, and publication in 2013. -- Dr. Brett D. Hirsch University Postdoctoral Research Fellow Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (M208) The University of Western Australia http://www.notwithoutmustard.net/ Coordinating Editor, Digital Renaissance Editions http://digitalrenaissance.arts.uwa.edu.au/ Co-Editor, Shakespeare http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/shakespeare _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Feb 18 08:10:59 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 651C2272695; Sat, 18 Feb 2012 08:10:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 479E127267C; Sat, 18 Feb 2012 08:10:51 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120218081052.479E127267C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012 08:10:51 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.736 jobs at NYPL; TAMU X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 736. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Doug Reside (47) Subject: Job at NYPL: Digital Curatorial Assistant [2] From: "Mandell, Laura" (22) Subject: Assoc Director, IDHMC at TAMU --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 09:29:54 -0500 From: Doug Reside Subject: Job at NYPL: Digital Curatorial Assistant Hi all, If you're a theatrically-inflected digital humanist, come to NYC to help me build the world's best online collection of theater archival material. This position will probably report to me. Feel free to email me if you have any questions. Doug https://jobs-nypl.icims.com/jobs/6780/job The New York Public Library seeks an extremely organized, detail-oriented person to serve as the Library’s Digital Curatorial Assistant. The successful candidate will work closely with the Library’s curators, permissions office, attorneys, and collections strategy department to: (i) assist the Library in its efforts to make its myriad collections more broadly available to researchers and to the public and (ii) work with rights holders to obtain permission to place in-copyright items on NYPL’s website. Other responsibilities will include: Working closely with the diverse items in the Library’s collections (including photos, books, manuscripts, recordings, and videos) in connection with the Library’s efforts to digitize and make its holdings available to the widest possible audience on its website and on third party websites. Negotiating and securing releases from third parties to use materials in NYPL’s online exhibits. Working closely with the metadata coordinator to enter metadata for items in NYPL’s in-house metadata system. Transcribing and encoding in XML short documents from NYPL’s archival collections Preparing items for shipment to the Digital Imaging Unit, and refiling items after they’ve been digitized. Other duties as required External Qualifications: BA/BS required, (JD, MLS or another Master’s Degree preferred) Extremely organized, detail-oriented, meticulous, analytical individual Willingness to be proactive and to solve problems independently Facility with entering information into databases Ability to work independently on large, complex projects Excellent research and writing skills Excellent communication skills Ability to organize large bodies of information effectively and to distinguish relevant from irrelevant issues Good judgment and problem solving skills Knowledge of copyright law. Commitment to the Library’s programs and mission Knowledge of XML standards used by Digital Humanities/Digital Libraries projects (TEI/EAD) preferred Experience clearing rights for digital projects preferred Knowledge of 20th century Performing Arts History preferred --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 19:19:09 +0000 From: "Mandell, Laura" Subject: Assoc Director, IDHMC at TAMU Dear List: I write to advertise a job opening for an Associate Director of the Initiative for Digital Humanities, Media, and Culture. Chosen as one of 8 landmark research areas or “Initial University Multidisciplinary Research Initiatives,” the IDHMC will be shaped by the Associate Director’s interests, from visualization to data-mining, as it is indeed following Director Laura Mandell’s interests in digital textual studies. The advertisement for the position is available at http://idhmc.tamu.edu/blog/2012/02/07/job-listing-associate-director/, and below, but first, a few words about the IDHM and Texas A&M University. The Initiative for Digital Humanities, Media, and Culture was created by Texas A&M faculty who have fostered major DH projects such as Digital Concord, the Cervantes Project, and Digital Donne. In the very early stages of development, the IDHMC has a threefold mission: 1. To perform research on the global impact of computing, digitization, cyber-worlds, and digital communication on culture by fostering collaboration among various disciplines housed in different colleges across the University; 2. To participate in creating a cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities, which is to say, a structure capable of making the human record accessible and usable by new computing technologies that will allow performing the new kinds of research that have been impossible up to now; 3. To foster among faculty at Texas A&M University inter-institutional and international relationships for the sake of maximizing the use of expertise and resources devoted to research in the Humanities, new media, and art. Texas A&M is very serious about starting this initiative and is putting major resources into its development. Founded in 1876 as the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, Texas A&M was ranked 3rd in the US in terms of Research Expenditures. Home to more than 50,000 students, ranking as the sixth-largest university in the country, TAMU has an endowment valued at more than $5 billion, which ranks fourth among U.S. public universities and 10th overall. Home to the Center for the Study of Digital Libraries (http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/), the Dwight Look College of Engineering was ranked 9th in the country in 2012 by US News and World Report. Texas A&M University has the first and only Department of Visualization in its College of Architecture, and that department has just been granted an MFA program to complement its BS and MS degrees in Visualization (http://vvvvvv.viz.tamu.edu/). The Departments of Computer Science and Engineering, Communication, English, Education, and History collectively offer a Digital Humanities Certificate to Graduate students at the Master’s and Ph.D. levels (http://dhcertificate.tamu.edu). TAMU is also top 20 nationally for number of doctoral degrees awarded to minority students. Here follows a short version of the advertisement—please go to http://idhmc.tamu.edu -- then recent posts -- to see the full version, or use the link given above. _____________________________________________________________________________ Texas A&M University seeks to hire at the level of Associate or Full Professor a scholar with an established record in digital humanities research and leadership to participate as Associate Director in establishing an interdisciplinary Institute for Digital Humanities, Media, and Culture (IDHMC). The appointment would be hired with tenure in an academic department that is closely associated with the candidate’s main research direction. Candidates must be working at an advanced level in a discipline such as Visualization, Computer Science, Anthropology, Architecture, Digital Rhetorics, Ethics, or Philosophy, and the successful candidate is expected to teach in that discipline. We are interested in scholars who bridge the gap between critical and creative studies and those who have an interest in developing grant-funded projects. For further information, please go to http://idhmc.tamu.edu. Send a letter, CV, and 4-6 recommendation letters to Laura Mandell, Director, 4227 TAMU, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX, 77843-4227. Minorities and women are encouraged to apply. TAMU is an AA/EEO employer, committed to diversity, and responds to the needs of dual-career couples. See further http://idhmc.tamu.edu/ . Applications considered until the position is filled. -- Laura Mandell Professor of English Director, Initiative for Digital Humanities, Media, and Culture Texas A&M University 237 Blocker, MS 4227 College Station, TX 77843-4227 (979) 845-8345 mandell@tamu.edu _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Feb 18 08:19:23 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA823272839; Sat, 18 Feb 2012 08:19:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 089E6272818; Sat, 18 Feb 2012 08:19:18 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120218081919.089E6272818@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012 08:19:18 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.737 events: cultural collaborative exchange; 18C spoken English; preservation X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 737. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: STELLA FRANCESCO (32) Subject: LIBER Workshop on Digital Preservation [2] From: "Summerfield, Michelle" (20) Subject: seminar on cultural collaborative exchange, 23 Feb, DDH King's [3] From: Seth Denbo (40) Subject: seminar on 18C spoken English, IHR London, 21 Feb --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 12:22:44 +0100 From: STELLA FRANCESCO Subject: LIBER Workshop on Digital Preservation FROM FONDAZIONE RINASCIMENTO DIGITALE , FIRENZE. The LIBER Steering Committee for Heritage Collections and Preservation and the National Library of the Netherlands, in collaboration with the Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale, is pleased to announce the 2ND LIBER INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON DIGITAL PRESERVATION, PARTNERSHIPS IN CURATING EUROPEAN DIGITAL RESOURCES, that will be held in FLORENCE ON 7 - 8 MAY 2012. _Do not go at this game alone_, was the unmistakable advice given to LIBER libraries at the end of the first LIBER workshop on digital preservation in The Hague in 2010. Since then, the euro crisis and budget cuts have only exacerbated the need to seek partnerships in securing long-term access to your digital collections. But with whom can you partner? How does it work? What are the advantages and disadvantages of various forms of partnering? And how much of the responsibility will always be yours, no matter how much of the actual work you outsource to others? This workshop will provide an overview of the best-known collaborative initiatives: the stakeholders involved, the basic set-ups, the legal foundations, the business models - and help you analyse which alternatives are best suited for your organisation, your type of collection and your national culture. We will deal with organisational issues, legal issues, financial issues and technical issues that will influence your choices. Critical questions will be asked by experts in the field, and there will be plenty of time to ask your own questions. Lastly, the workshop will showcase a number of best practices. You will go home with a keen understanding of the types of collaborative practices available which will enable you to start discussing long-term preservation policies with your management team. VENUE: Auditorium - Ente Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze Via Folco Portinari 5/red Florence, Italy DETAILS OF THE PROGRAMME AND REGISTRATION: http://www.rinascimento-digitale.it/liber2012-internationalworkshop.phtml --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 15:56:49 +0000 From: "Summerfield, Michelle" Subject: seminar on cultural collaborative exchange, 23 Feb, DDH King's New Directions in Digital Humanities Seminar series, Upcoming Seminar Claire Ross (UCL) and Tom Grinsted (Imperial War Museum) Cultural Collaborative Exchange: Collections, Social Interpretation, Partnerships and Project Management Thursday 23 February 2012, 1pm Social Interpretation and ongoing Cultural Exchange (SICE) explores how social media models can be applied to museum collections and interpretation, offering new frameworks for engagement and social interpretation. By applying successful social media intellectual and technical models SICE is developing a platform that provides accessible, extensible, and open technology to aggregate, share and augment cultural data and social interpretation. The SICE Project, Led by the Imperial War Museum, Knowledge Integration and UCL, utilises Agile project management principles and a user-centred approach to provide museum objects with profiles, social circles, crowdsourced comments, and community moderation tools: creating truly social, shared objects. This approach guarantees appropriate solutions by embedding users, stakeholders and the entire project team at every point of the development process, leading to advocacy and ownership. This paper presents the progress of SICE so far, highlights the collaborative project process and user-centred development activities, its opportunities, challenges and provides an outlook on the next steps of the Project. This paper aims to stress the necessity in including users, stakeholders and the project team into a systems design process. Although this paper will concentrate on tools and the development of the SICE project, issues of user-led design, agile project management and collaborative working are applicable to the development of cultural technology projects by any institution. Claire Ross is undertaking a PhD at UCL Centre Digital Humanities in user experience in digital cultural contexts. She is a HASTAC Scholar, Chair of the committee of the Digital Learning Network for Museums, Libraries and Archives as well as a committee member for Ignite London and, previously, Interface 2011. Tom Grinsted is the Multimedia Media Manager at the Imperial War Museum and has also undertakes freelance consultancy in interactive design and development for the cultural heritage, education and publishing sectors. Previously he was Interactive Design Manager at the Guardian. The Seminar is promoted by the Department of Digital Humanities (DDH), and is held in DDH's own seminar room in the building at 26-29 Drury Lane (five minutes' walk from the main Strand building of King's College London). For further information; http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/ddh/events/newdh/next.aspx For further information contact; Dr Michele Pasin Digital Humanities King's College London 26-29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL Email: michele.pasin@kcl.ac.uk Tel: (0)20 7848 7144 --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 15:25:03 -0500 From: Seth Denbo Subject: seminar on 18C spoken English, IHR London, 21 Feb *Institute of Historical Research Seminar in Digital History* Time: Tuesday, 21 February, 5.15 pm GMT Venue: ST276 (Stewart House, second floor) and streamed live on the web at historyspot.org.uk* * *Magnus Huber (Giessen), **'The Old Bailey Corpus: Spoken English in the 18th and 19th centuries' * On Tuesday Magnus Huber will be talking about the use of historical court records in the investigation of language change.The *Proceedings of the Old Bailey*, London's central criminal court, were published between 1674 and 1913 and constitute a large body of texts from the beginning of Present Day English (almost 200,000 trials, ca. 134 million words). The *Proceedings* were digitalized by the social historians Robert Shoemaker (University of Sheffield) and Tim Hitchcock (University of Hertfordshire) and are searchable at the excellent *Old Bailey Proceedings Online* ( http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/), which also provides detailed background information on the Old Bailey and the publication history of the * Proceedings*. This talk reports on a project that turned the *Proceedings* into the linguistic *Old Bailey Corpus* (*OBC*). Corpus linguistics relies on the statistical analysis of large collections of electronic texts to investigate language variation and/or language change. In the absence of recorded speech samples before the invention of the phonograph, language historians have turned to written text types that are close to spoken language. The *Proceedings of the Old Bailey* are particularly suitable for the study of spoken English as they were taken down by shorthand scribes, and their verbatim passages are arguably as near as we can get to the spoken word of the 18th and 19th centuries. The *OBC* identifies about 114 million words as direct speech from the 1720s onwards, of which 22 million words have received detailed mark-up for sociolinguistic (sex, profession, age, residence of speaker, role in the court-room) and textual variables (the shorthand scribe and publisher of individual *Proceedings*). ------ The IHR Seminar in digital history is actively engaged in presenting and discussing new methodologies which have been made possible through the development of computational methods for the study of history. Further information can be found on the IHR Seminar page at http://www.history.ac.uk/events/seminars/321. Follow us on twitter @IHRDigHist or join the mailing list for seminar announcements: http://groups.google.com/group/ihr-digital-history-seminar-announce _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Feb 18 08:31:53 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD3542729B8; Sat, 18 Feb 2012 08:31:52 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 9AEE12729A8; Sat, 18 Feb 2012 08:31:48 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120218083148.9AEE12729A8@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012 08:31:48 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.738 requirements for big projects X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 738. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012 08:31:07 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: requirements for big projects As anyone who has read the writings of Roberto Busa will know, he had a genius for putting wisdom in a nutshell. The following is an example, from "Computer processing of over ten million words: Retrospective Criticism", in The Computer in Literary and Linguistic Studies (Proceedings of the Third International Symposium), ed. Alan Jones and R. F. Churchhouse (Cardiff: Univ of Wales Press, 1970), pp. 114-17. Speaking of his work for the Index Thomisticus, he concludes, > if I consider the vast amount of human work demanded by processing > texts of this size in this way, I think that such initiatives are > better based on a strongly systemized team, supported by an > institution able to keep alive its efficiency for decades. (p. 117) We know how to do teams, though much work is needed on problems of credit, career and the like. But how about the institution "able to keep alive its efficiency for decades" -- or longer? What happens when an "initiative" becomes (a priceless) old hat? Comments? Yours, WM -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor (fractional), University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Feb 20 06:23:19 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4814926BF5A; Mon, 20 Feb 2012 06:23:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 577B326BF4C; Mon, 20 Feb 2012 06:23:16 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120220062316.577B326BF4C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 06:23:16 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.739 tools X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 739. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2012 20:16:42 -0500 (EST) From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca Subject: Two Takes on Tools In-Reply-To: <20120216063047.12E3621FBF4@woodward.joyent.us> Willard You might like these two bits that I have come across -- your discourse on tools and machines pops up when I come across passages such as these. Lori Emerson in "A Brief History of Dirty Concrete by Way of Steve McCaffery's _Carnival_ and Digital D.I.Y." in _Open Letter_ 14:7 draws a parallel between the ethos of dirty concrete poetry making and the D.I.Y. movement as represented by the Homebrew Computing Club and the Whole Earth Catalog. In note #6 she quotes from from Fred Turner (_From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the rise of digital utopianism_) who in turn quotes a reader of the catalog: [...] I suddenly understood the Whole Earth Catalogue meaning of 'tool.' I always thought tools were objects, things: screw drivers, wrenches, axes, hoes. Now I realize that tools are a process: using the right-sized and shaped object in the most effective way to get a job done. J. David Bolter in _Turing's Man: Western Culture in the Computer Age_ distinguishes an epoch of tool use from one of machine use. It is useful to be reminded of such a distinction when the common discourse often conflates tools and machines. He moves from speculating about the ancients and their failure to adopt machines to a set of considerations about the imbrication of technology and world view. [T]here was something in the world outlook of the ancients (perhaps the reliance on slavery) that kept them satisfied with traditional sources of power and did not compel them, like later Europeans, to seek to increase efficiency, invent new prime movers, and in general expand their control and domination of nature. The result was a simple but elegant technology of the hand rather than of the machine. The ancient craftsman worked with tools that became extensions of his hands in the manipulation of his materials. There was no real mass production. Although a pottery shop in Athens might employ seventy men who worked from specified designs, each thrown pot carried to some extent the impress of the hand that made it. Also, all technical discoveries were the product of clever observation and innovation without a theoretical basis, for the relationship between science and technology, so much a part of our own industrial society, did not exist. I am willing to speculate that the move from thinking about hand-held tools to thinking about electronic machines led to more emphasis on the processual nature of cultural products. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Feb 21 07:54:23 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFEFB2736E2; Tue, 21 Feb 2012 07:54:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 5A4BF2736C4; Tue, 21 Feb 2012 07:54:18 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120221075418.5A4BF2736C4@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 07:54:18 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.740 ancient technology X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 740. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 10:30:42 -0800 From: Jascha Kessler Subject: Perhaps not enough is known about ancient technology For example, those tremendous columns in, say, Rome's Pantheon were turned on a huge lathe. That is technology. Electronics as we know it was utterly unknown when my own grandfather was born, just yesterday, the year the Origin of Species was published. People invoke the term "Science," a tremendously inflated honorific, when they really mean Technology. And from the first, technology was based on the art of measurement — let's think about the drawings of the phases of the moon in a paleolithic cave. Measurement, in short. The Greeks termed it Tekhne. Latin Scientia, for knowing. What is done in labs and by our satellite telescope is measurement. That includes the suggested geometry of a Black Hole, as described by the late Barrett O'Neill, an avid poker player until the end. And counting cards is technology, not science. Measuring chance, in short. -- Jascha Kessler Professor Emeritus of Modern English & American Literature, UCLA Telephone/Facsimile: 310.393.4648 www.jfkessler.com www.xlibris.com _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Feb 21 07:55:41 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06F7727374C; Tue, 21 Feb 2012 07:55:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B776F27373E; Tue, 21 Feb 2012 07:55:33 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120221075533.B776F27373E@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 07:55:33 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.741 events: digital/cultural; inheritance; Turing; CL for literature X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 741. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Geoff Sutcliffe (93) Subject: The Alan Turing Centenary Conference [2] From: Charles Muller (93) Subject: CFP> JADH-2012 (U of Tokyo, 9/15-9/17) [3] From: Charles Muller (111) Subject: CFP: Beyond the Digital/Cultural Divide [4] From: Anna Kazantseva (73) Subject: Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Literature --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 14:10:44 +0000 From: Geoff Sutcliffe Subject: The Alan Turing Centenary Conference THE TURING CENTENARY CONFERENCE Manchester, UK, June 22-25, 2012 http://www.turing100.manchester.ac.uk/ First announcement and call for submissions Features: (1) Ten Turing Award winners, a Templeton Award winner and Garry Kasparov as invited speakers (2) 20,000 pounds worth best paper award program, including 5,000 pounds best paper award (3) Three panels and two public lectures (4) Turing Fellowship award ceremony (5) and many more ... For more details please check http://www.turing100.manchester.ac.uk/. SPEAKERS Confirmed invited speakers: - Fred Brooks (University of North Carolina) - Rodney Brooks (MIT) - Vint Cerf (Google) - Ed Clarke (Carnegie Mellon University) - Jack Copeland (University of Canterbury, New Zealand) - George Francis Rayner Ellis (University of Cape Town) - David Ferrucci (IBM) - Tony Hoare (Microsoft Research) - Garry Kasparov (Kasparov Chess Foundation) - Don Knuth (Stanford University) - Yuri Matiyasevich (Institute of Mathematics, St. Petersburg) - Roger Penrose (Oxford) - Adi Shamir (Weizmann Institute of Science) - Michael Rabin (Harvard) - Leslie Valiant (Harvard) - Manuela M. Veloso (Carnegie Mellon University) - Andrew Yao (Tsinghua University) Confirmed panel speakers: - Ron Brachman (Yahoo Labs) - Steve Furber (The University of Manchester) - Carole Goble (The University of Manchester) - Pat Hayes (Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, Pensacola) - Bertrand Meyer (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) - Moshe Vardi (Rice University) SUBMISSIONS: Submissions are welcome in all areas related to the work of Alan Turing in computer science, mathematics, cognitive science and mathematical biology. A non-exclusive list of topics is shown below: - computation theory - logic in computation - artificial intelligence - social aspects of computation - models of computation - program analysis - mathematics of evolution and emergence - knowledge processing - natural language processing - cryptography - machine learning See http://www.turing100.manchester.ac.uk/index.php/submission for more details. BEST PAPER AWARDS: A subset of poster session submissions will be selected as candidates for best paper awards: - The best paper award of 5,000 pounds - The best young researcher best paper award of 3,000 pounds - The second best paper award of 2,500 pounds - The second best young researcher best paper award of 1,500 pounds - Sixteen (16) awards of 500 pounds each See http://www.turing100.manchester.ac.uk/index.php/submission/bestpaper for more details. REGISTRATION: The number of participants is limited. Register early to avoid disappointment! DATES: February 23: Paper submission opens March 1: Registration opens March 15: Extended abstract submission deadline March 29: Poster session notification and selection of candidates for the best paper awards April 20: Full versions of papers selected for the best paper awards May 1: Final versions of poster session papers May 21: Best paper award decisions May 28: Final versions of papers selected for the best paper awards June 22-25: Conference CHAIRS: Honorary Chairs: Rodney Brooks (MIT) Roger Penrose (Oxford) Conference Chairs: Matthias Baaz (Vienna University of Technology) Andrei Voronkov (The University of Manchester) Turing Fellowships Chair: Barry Cooper (University of Leeds) Programme Chair Andrei Voronkov (The University of Manchester) --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 10:22:59 +0900 From: Charles Muller Subject: CFP> JADH-2012 (U of Tokyo, 9/15-9/17) In-Reply-To: <20120220062316.577B326BF4C@woodward.joyent.us> Call for Papers “Inheriting Humanities” The Japanese Association for Digital Humanities is pleased to announce its second annual conference, to be held at the University of Tokyo, Japan, 15-17 September, 2012. The conference will feature posters, papers and panels. We invite proposals on all aspects of digital humanities internationally, and especially encourage papers treating topics that deal with the ways that humanistic studies are being inherited by humanities scholars in the digital age. In this decade, the digitization of cultural resources has been carried out extensively by various projects and organizations, taking the ever-growing Internet as the main infrastructure. However, in Japan, such activities have tended to be carried out by practitioners and researchers of information technology--often without sufficient cooperation with humanities scholars. Therefore, one of the aims of JADH2012 is to raise awareness regarding the efforts of humanities researchers and to have some discussion about this area, so that we may provide new support for various approaches toward inheriting humanities in the digital age. Proposals might relate to the following aspects of digital humanities: Research issues, including data mining, information design and modeling, software studies, and humanities research enabled through the digital medium; computer-based research and computer applications in literary, linguistic, cultural and historical studies, including electronic literature, public humanities, and interdisciplinary aspects of modern scholarship. Some examples might include text analysis, corpora, corpus linguistics, language processing, language learning, and endangered languages; the digital arts, architecture, music, film, theater, new media and related areas; the creation and curation of humanities digital resources; the role of digital humanities in academic curricula; The range of topics covered by digital humanities can also be consulted in the journal: LLC. The Journal of Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, Oxford University Press. The deadline for submission of abstracts is 15 April 2012. Presenters will be notified of acceptance on 16 May 2012. Abstracts should be of approximately 500 words in length in English, and should clearly state: 1. The type of presentation (poster, short paper, long paper or panel) 2. A title 3. A list of keywords (up to five) 4. The name, status and affiliation of the presenter (s) 5. A contact email address 6. A postal address 7. A biography of no more than 100 words Please send abstracts to conf2012 [ at ] jadh.org by 15 April 2012. Type of proposals: 1. Poster presentations Poster presentations may include work-in-progress on any of the topics described above as well as demonstrations of computer technology, software and digital projects. A separate poster session will open the conference, during which time presenters will need to be available to explain their work, share their ideas with other delegates, and answer questions. Posters will also be on display at various times during the conference, and presenters are encouraged to provide material and handouts with more detailed information and URLs. 2. Short papers Short papers are allocated 10 minutes (plus 5 minutes for questions) and are suitable for describing work-in-progress and reporting on shorter experiments and software and tools in early stages of development. 3. Long papers Long papers are allocated 20 minutes (plus 10 minutes for questions) and are intended for presenting substantial unpublished research and reporting on significant new digital resources or methodologies. 4. Panels Panels (90 minutes) are comprised of either: (a) Three long papers on a joint theme. All abstracts should be submitted together with a statement, of approximately 500 words, outlining the session topic and its relevance to current directions in the digital humanities; or (b) A panel of four to six speakers. The panel organize should submit a 500-words outline of the topic session and its relevance to current directions in the digital humanities as well as an indication from all speakers of their willingness to participate. Contact: Please direct enquires about any aspect of the conference to: conf2012 [ at ] jadh.org [Note: the above CFP is posted at http://www.jadh.org/ and The Twitter feed will be https://twitter.com/#!/jadh2012. Please redistribute to the relevant information organs. -- Chuck] --------------------------- A. Charles Muller Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology Faculty of Letters University of Tokyo 7-3-1 Hongō, Bunkyō-ku Tokyo 113-8654, Japan Office Phone: 03-5841-3735 Web Site: Resources for East Asian Language and Thought http://www.acmuller.net Twitter: @acmuller4 --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 10:42:19 +0900 From: Charles Muller Subject: CFP: Beyond the Digital/Cultural Divide In-Reply-To: <636b4c35a777152c2d74f5b84e9f013b.squirrel@mail.h-net.msu.edu> Call for Papers Theme: Beyond the Digital/Cultural Divide Subtitle: In/Visibility and New Media Type: Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Communication Conference 2012 (CATaC'12) Institution: Aarhus University Location: Aarhus (Denmark) Date: 18.–20.6.2012 Deadline: 2.3.2012 __________________________________________________ The biennial CATaC conference series, begun in 1998, has become a premier international forum for current research on the complex interactions between culturally-variable norms, practices, and communication preferences, and interaction with the design, implementation and use of information and communication technologies (ICTs). Our 2012 conference, as the title suggests, begins with the recognition that the ongoing issues and challenges clustering around digital divides – often involving mutually reinforcing cultural divides – extends beyond classic and stubborn problems of access to new media and communication technologies. For example, matters of representation come into play, issuing in a cluster of questions: - Whose images and words are seen/presented/promoted and whose aren’t? And why? - If activists are using new media to represent realities of, say, oppressed indigenous people in a given country, is this better than no visibility at all, even if the people in question do not have access or skills to present themselves as subjects? In particular: - Local and indigenous HCI/ID is about making visible the semiotic scripts and political processes of meaning construction that shape the process of technology design and knowledge representation from a sociotechnical perspective. Making visible these scripts enables the assessment of the value of these tools and frameworks from indigenous and/or local perspectives. Key concerns here are (1) to examine the meaning and validity of democratic values that drive participatory design as a discipline, and (2) to question ‘exported’ representations of what constitutes good usability and user experience. - How do new practices of cloaking messages in otherwise public or semi-public media; for example, the strategies of online steganography work to create intentional invisibility in otherwise visible spaces? Are there important culturally-variable elements in these practices that, when brought to the foreground, help illuminate and clarify them in new ways? - What are the role(s) of (culturally) diverse understandings and representations of gender in structuring the frameworks and practices of design and implementation. How do these roles foster the visibility of some vis-à-vis the invisibility of “others” (in Levinas’ sense, in particular)? Additional submissions are encouraged that address further conference points of emphasis: - Theoretical and practical approaches to analyzing “culture” - New layers of imaging and texting interactions fostering and/or threatening cultural diversity - Impact of mobile technologies on privacy and surveillance - Gender, sexuality and identity issues in social networks - Cultural diversity in e-learning and/or m-learning - Culturally-variable approaches to online identity management/creation, privacy, trust Copyright and intellectual property rights – recent developments, culturally-variable future directions? - Culturally-variable responses to commodification in online nvironments Both short (3-5 pages) and long (10-15 pages) original papers are sought for presentation. Panel proposals addressing a specific theme or topic are also encouraged. Provisional Schedule - Submission of papers (short or full), panel proposals: 2 March 2012 - Notification of acceptance: 30 March 2012 - Final formatted papers (for conference proceedings): 3 May 2012 Further details regarding program (including keynote speakers and pre-conference activities), registration fees, travel and accommodations will be available soon on the conference website: http://www.catacconference.org Keynote Speakers Dr. Rasha Abdulla (Associate Professor and Chair of the Journalism & Mass Communication Department, The American University in Cairo) “Lessons from Egypt: The roles and limits of social media in political activism and transformation” Dr. Randi Markussen (Associate Professor and Head of Group, Technologies in Practice, IT University of Copenhagen) “E-Voting and Public Control of Elections” Committee Charles Ess (IMV, Aarhus University, Denmark), Chair Fay Sudweeks (Professor Emerita, Murdoch University, Australia) – honorary chair Herbert Hrachovec (University of Vienna, Austria) Leah Macfadyen (The University of British Columbia, Canada) José Abdelnour Nocera (University of West London, UK) Kenneth Reeder (The University of British Columbia, Canada) Ylva Hård af Segerstad (Göteborgs universitet, Göteborg, Sweden) Michele M. Strano (Bridgewater College, USA) Andra Siibak (University of Tartu, Estonia) Maja van der Velden (University of Oslo, Norway) Conference website: http://www.catacconference.org _______________________________________ Costica Bradatan, PhD Assistant Professor Texas Tech University The Honors College PO Box 41017 Lubbock, TX 79409 http://www.webpages.ttu.edu/cbradata --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 23:53:11 -0500 From: Anna Kazantseva Subject: Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Literature In-Reply-To: <636b4c35a777152c2d74f5b84e9f013b.squirrel@mail.h-net.msu.edu> Final Call for Papers Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Literature Co-located with The 2012 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies June 8, 2012 Montréal, Québec, Canada All information, including announcements and updates, can be found on the workshop's Web site: https://sites.google.com/site/clfl2012/ MOTIVATION AND SCOPE The amount of literary material available on-line keeps growing rapidly. Not only are there machine-readable texts in libraries, collections and e-book stores, but there is also more and more “live” literature – e-zines, blogs, self-published e-books and so on. There is a need for tools to help users navigate, visualize and appreciate high volume of available literature. Literary texts are quite different from technical and formal documents, which have been the focus of NLP research thus far. Most forms of statistical language processing rely on lexical information in one way or another. In literature, the primary mode is narrative rather than exposition. Stories may be cognitively easier to read than certain expository genres, such as scientific documents, but it is a challenging form of discourse for NLP tools and methods. For instance, literary prose lacks overt lexical clues and structural markers typically leveraged in the processing of more structured genres. Also, even conventional literary texts exhibit far less unity of time, space and topic than most formal discourse. Learning to handle these challenges in literary data may help move past heavy reliance on surface clues in general. Literature also differs from other genres because of the needs of its typical audience. For instance, reading, searching or browsing literature online is a different task than searching for the latest news on a particular topic. Search criteria would be rather abstract: not a keyword, but a literary style, similarity to another work, point of view and so on. When looking for a summary or a digest, a reader may prefer to know or visualize a text's broad characteristics than facts which summarize the plot. We invite papers that touch upon these areas, but also welcome other ideas which promote the processing of literary narrative or related forms of discourse. TOPICS OF INTEREST Note: Papers on other closely related topics will also be considered * the needs of the readers and how those needs translate into meaningful NLP tasks; * searching for literature; * recommendation systems for literature; * computational modelling of narratives, computational narratology; * summarization of literature; * differences between literature and other genres as relevant to computational linguistics; * discourse structure in literature; * emotion analysis for literature; * profiling and authorship attribution; * identification and analysis of literature genres; * building and analysing social networks of characters; * generation of literary narrative, dialogue or poetry; * modelling dialogue literary style for generation. SUBMISSION We invite submission of long and short papers, describing completed or ongoing research on systems, studies, theories and models which can inform the area of computational linguistics for literature. Long papers should be at most 8 pages, plus unlimited space for references. Short papers should be at most 4 pages plus references, and can be appropriate for either oral or poster presentation. Accepted long papers, and perhaps selected short papers, will be presented as talks. In addition, we encourage submission of position papers -- mapping out research ideas and programs -- of up to 6 pages plus references. There will be double-blind review: submissions must be anonymized. Style files and sample PDFs are available on this page: http://www.naaclhlt2012.org/conference/conference.php Submission page: please visit later IMPORTANT DATES (all deadlines 11:59 pm. Hawaii Time) Submission deadline: March 12, 2012 Notification of acceptance: April 13, 2012 Camera-ready version due: May 1, 2012 Workshop: June 8, 2012 PROGRAM COMMITTEE * Cecilia Ovesdotter Alm (Rochester Institute of Technology) * Nicholas Dames (Columbia University) * Hal Daumé III (University of Maryland) * Anna Feldman (Montclair State University) * Mark Finlayson (MIT) * Pablo Gervás (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) * Roxana Girju (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) * Amit Goyal (University of Maryland) * Katherine Havasi (MIT Media Lab) * Matthew Jockers (Stanford University) * James Lester (North Carolina State University) * Inderjeet Mani (Children's Organization of Southeast Asia) * Kathy McKeown (Columbia University) * Saif Mohammad (National Research Council, Canada) * Vivi Nastase (HITS gGmbH) * Rebecca Passonneau (Columbia University) * Livia Polanyi (LDM Associates) * Owen Rambow (Columbia University) * Michaela Regneri (Saarland University) * Reid Swanson (University of California, Santa Cruz) * Marilyn Walker (University of California, Santa Cruz) * Janice Wiebe (University of Pittsburgh) CO-ORGANIZERS * David Elson (Google) * Anna Kazantseva (University of Ottawa) * Rada Mihalcea (University of North Texas) * Stan Szpakowicz (University of Ottawa) CONTACT INFORMATION Send general inquiries to clfl.workshop@gmail.com Anna Kazantseva Ph.D. Candidate University of Ottawa School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Feb 21 08:32:41 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id D567E273BC1; Tue, 21 Feb 2012 08:32:40 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E7138273BAF; Tue, 21 Feb 2012 08:32:35 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120221083235.E7138273BAF@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 08:32:35 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.742 events: archaeological archives (Dublin, Thursday) X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 742. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 08:12:52 +0000 From: Shawn Day Subject: Reminder: Archaeological Archives as a Resource: Creation, Curation and Access Conference: Archaeological Archives as a Resource: Creation, Curation and Access Venue: Royal Irish Academy, Academy House, 19 Dawson Street, Dublin Date: Thursday 23 February, 9.30 am - 6 pm It is recognised that the process of excavation is destructive and described as the ‘preservation by record’ of our national heritage. Excavation records are critical to the continuing knowledge of Ireland’s past and may comprise paper records, surveys, photos, drawings, ecofacts, artefacts and reports. Current legislation requires that artefacts are deposited with the National Museum of Ireland. What happens to the remainder of the archive? This one-day conference explores this important question. Focusing on the paper archive, it proposes that archaeological archives are a crucial national heritage resource, worthy of continued curation, which should be accessible to all researchers of Ireland’s rich past. One of the outcomes of the conference will be the first policy document on best practice in archaeological archives in Ireland. For more information and to register: http://www.ria.ie/events/events-listing/archaelogy-conference.aspx --- Shawn Day --- Digital Humanities Observatory (RIA), --- Regus Pembroke House, --- 28 - 30 Pembroke Street Upper --- Dublin 2 IRELAND --- about.me/shawnday --- Tel: +353 (0) 1 2342441 --- s.day@ria.ie --- http://dho.ie _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Feb 22 08:46:15 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB946272FAF; Wed, 22 Feb 2012 08:46:14 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B9479272F9F; Wed, 22 Feb 2012 08:46:11 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120222084611.B9479272F9F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2012 08:46:11 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.743 postdoc at Hendrix X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 743. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 15:41:09 -0600 From: Rebecca Davis Subject: Position in Digital Humanities and Pedagogy In-Reply-To: <9F3B003643FC5F42930EFB83E276C86001BC286D66DD@HNXEXCH.hendrix.local> Greetings! ** ** ** Please feel free to disseminate information regarding the following opening at Hendrix College, Conway, AR:**** ** ** Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital Humanities and Pedagogy**** ** ** The Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital Humanities and Pedagogy will work as a catalyst for faculty innovation bridging learning resources, curricula, and scholarly opportunity with appropriate academic technologies. The Fellow will plan, promote, and implement strategies to encourage faculty discourse about pedagogy, e-learning tools, and the integration of digital media into teaching and scholarship. The Postdoctoral Fellow is a two-year academic appointment reporting to the Chief Information Officer/Executive Vice President. Depending upon credentials, the Postdoctoral Fellow may also be affiliated with an academic department and will be assigned a mentor. The Fellow is expected to commit approximately 50% of her or his time to professional development, which may include teaching at the Fellow’s discretion.**** ** ** Application should include a letter, a curriculum vitae, three letters of recommendation (including the phone numbers and email addresses of the referees), and transcripts of all graduate and undergraduate work. Application materials should be sent to the Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital Humanities Position Search at Hendrix College, 1600 Washington Avenue, Conway, AR 72032. Applications may also be sent via email to hr@hendrix.edu. The application deadline is March 30, 2012.**** ** ** Hendrix is a distinguished liberal arts college with an endowment of $145 million, sheltering a chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, located in Conway, Arkansas, thirty miles from Little Rock at the foothills of the Ozark Mountains. The College, related to the United Methodist Church, has a strong commitment to excellence in teaching liberal arts. Hendrix is an equal opportunity employer. Women and memembers of minority groups are especially encouraged to apply. Please visit our website at www.hendrix.edu. **** _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Feb 22 08:47:24 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12E3B270011; Wed, 22 Feb 2012 08:47:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 143B9272FFC; Wed, 22 Feb 2012 08:47:21 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20120222084721.143B9272FFC@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2012 08:47:20 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.744 awards at 2012 iConference X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 744. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 18:41:29 +0000 From: "Reilly, Maeve J" Subject: Illinois faculty and students receive awards at iConference Faculty and doctoral students at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois were honored at the 2012 iConference that was held from February 7-10, 2012, and was hosted by the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto. A Best Paper Award was given to doctoral student Noah Lenstra and Professor Abdul Alkalimat for their paper, "Networked Cultural Heritage and Socio-Digital Inequalities: A Case Study in an African-American Community." Also receiving honors were doctoral student Karen Wickett and Professor and Interim Dean Designate Allen Renear who were named runners-up in the Best Poster category for their poster, "Towards a Logical Form for Descriptive Metadata." For a full list of papers delivered by faculty and students at Illinois, see http://www.lis.illinois.edu/articles/2012/02/gslis-faculty-students-honored-2012-iconference Maeve Reilly Research Services Coordinator Graduate School of Library and Information Science University of Illinois Rm 219 LIS 501 E. Daniel Champaign, IL 61820 mjreilly@illinois.edu (217) 244-7316 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Feb 22 08:51:46 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A871270102; Wed, 22 Feb 2012 08:51:46 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 7F9122700ED; Wed, 22 Feb 2012 08:51:42 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120222085142.7F9122700ED@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2012 08:51:42 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.745 DHSI: thanks to sponsors X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 745. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 15:54:40 +0000 From: Ray Siemens Subject: DHSI Tuition Scholarships and ACH Travel Bursaries for DHSI2012 (Thanks!) Hi Folks, At DHSI, we are immensely grateful to all our partners and sponsors for their immense support in the many ways they offer it! The DHSI is sponsored by the University of Victoria http://www.uvic.ca/ and its Library http://gateway.uvic.ca/index.html , the University of British Columbia Library http://www.library.ubc.ca/ , the College of Arts, University of Guelph http://www.uoguelph.ca/arts/ , Texas A&M University, the Centre for Digital Humanities, Department of English, Ryerson University http://www.ryerson.ca/cdh/index.html , the Faculty of Arts, University of Waterloo http://arts.uwaterloo.ca/ , the Brittain Fellowship at Georgia Tech http://www.lcc.gatech.edu/writingcomm/brittain/ , the Simpson Center for the Humanities, University of Washington , the Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology/Faculty of Letters, University of Tokyo http://www.l.u-tokyo.ac.jp/eng/index.html , the Editing Modernism in Canada http://editingmodernism.ca (EMiC) project, NINES http://www.nines.org , and INKE; its organisational sponsors include the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organisations (ADHO), the Society for Digital Humanities / Société pour l'étude des médias interactifs (SDH/SEMI) http://www.sdh-semi.org/ , the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) http://www.ach.org/ , the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) , and others. It is this group, and beyond, that allow us to offer our Tuition Scholarship program, a program that in 2012 alone will facilitate the attendance of well over 100 members of our community – a remarkable contribution! Supplementing these Tuition Scholarships is the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) http://www.ach.org/ Travel Bursary for DHSI, specifically to assist ACH graduate students to attend the summer institute. This year, there were over 50 strong applicants for the ACH bursary, and 10 bursaries have now been awarded from among this very deserving group (they will be presented at DHSI in June). I hope you will join me in thanking all our partners and sponsors for their generous contributions to our community in this way, and in congratulating all those who have benefited directly from their very strong support! With all best wishes, Ray ____________ R.G. Siemens, English, University of Victoria, PO Box 3070 STN CSC, Victoria, BC, Canada. V8W 3W1. Clearihue C315 & B043b P:250.721.7255 F:250.721.6498 siemens@uvic.ca http://web.uvic.ca/~siemens/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Feb 22 08:52:46 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id AECB727015E; Wed, 22 Feb 2012 08:52:46 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 3970827013D; Wed, 22 Feb 2012 08:52:44 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120222085244.3970827013D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2012 08:52:44 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.746 events: an ontology of creativity X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 746. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 17:06:50 +0000 From: Stuart Dunn Subject: CeRch seminar, 28th Feb: Building an Ontology of Creativity Centre for e-Research Seminar: Building an Ontology of Creativity: a language processing approach Anna Jordanous, King's College London and Bill Keller, University of Sussex Tuesday 28 February, 6.15pm, Anatomy Museum (directions: http://atm.kcl.ac.uk/location) Followed by drinks. Please register to attend at: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/2658490617 Abstract Creativity is a complex and multi-dimensional concept that encompasses many related aspects, abilities, properties and behaviours and can be viewed from many different perspectives. Difficulties in identifying a comprehensive, widely-accepted definition of creativity have hindered progress in computational creativity research as researchers have no baseline to evaluate against or standards to aim towards. An important, related issue is that of defining creativity in a machine-readable format, such that a computational creativity system has a sufficient understanding of the concept to permit self-evaluation. This paper presents an ontology of creativity and its publication as Linked Data within the Semantic Web. Using techniques from statistical natural language processing, we analysed discussions of creativity and identified fourteen distinct themes or components. The components provide an ontology of creativity: a set of building blocks that collectively define creativity. This ontological definition of creativity makes the concept more tractable to study and evaluate, both for humans and machines. About the speakers Anna Jordanous trained as a computer scientist and has an MSc in Artificial Intelligence from Edinburgh University. Her PhD work proposes and applies a methodological tool to evaluate the creativity of computational creativity systems: SPECS (Standardised Procedure for Evaluating Creative Systems). Anna has also published research in in computational creativity, music information retrieval and computational linguistics, and has been involved in research projects on applying technology in educational contexts. She joined the Centre for e-Research in August 2011 as a post-doctoral researcher on the Sharing Ancient Wisdoms (SAWS) project. Bill Keller is a Senior lecturer in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence in the Department of Informatics at the University of Sussex. He has a background in computational linguistics and has published on a wide range of topics in natural language processing, including logical approaches to natural language semantics, formalisms for linguistic knowledge representation, statistical approaches to machine learning of language and distributional accounts of meaning. His current research interests include graph-based methods for word sense discovery and concept extraction and approaches to phrasal similarity and paraphrase -- Dr Stuart Dunn Lecturer Centre for e-Research Department of Digital Humanities King's College London www.stuartdunn.wordpress.com Tel +44 (0)207 848 2709 Fax +44 (0)207 848 1989 stuart.dunn@kcl.ac.uk 26-29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL UK Geohash: http://geohash.org/gcpvj1zm7yp1 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Feb 23 11:44:32 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF38F270F7E; Thu, 23 Feb 2012 11:44:31 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 7ABF4270F6B; Thu, 23 Feb 2012 11:44:29 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120223114429.7ABF4270F6B@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 11:44:29 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.747 jobs at Indiana-Bloomington X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 747. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2012 08:32:02 -0500 From: Dot Porter Subject: Open posts: Lecturers in Informatics The School of Informatics and Computing at Indiana University Bloomington is hiring three lecturers. http://www.soic.indiana.edu/about/hiring/index.shtml "Now Hiring Lecturers! The School of Informatics and Computing at Indiana University, Bloomington, invites applications for three lecturer positions to teach technical courses in programming or math and logical foundations. Requirements: Master's degree in Computer Science, Informatics, Information Technology, Information Science, or related, plus 2 academic years experience (may be part-time) teaching technical courses in math or logical foundations. Adherence to the School's teaching mission through excellence in pedagogical practice, service to the school and academic programs, and inquiry into and advancement of pedagogy in computing." Applications must be received by March 23 [I have nothing to do with these positions, but I thought they might be of interest to the Humanist group. Please direct any questions to contacts provided through the link above.] -- *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Dot Porter (MA, MSLS) Digital Medievalist, Digital Librarian Email: dot.porter@gmail.com *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Feb 23 11:46:22 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A000273040; Thu, 23 Feb 2012 11:46:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B776A27300A; Thu, 23 Feb 2012 11:46:18 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120223114618.B776A27300A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 11:46:18 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.748 events: internet culture; ludic pedagogy X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 748. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Oya Yildirim Rieger (45) Subject: Internet Culture and the Academy [2] From: Brian Croxall (49) Subject: CFP: Teaching with Games - MLA 2013 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2012 18:04:22 +0000 From: Oya Yildirim Rieger Subject: Internet Culture and the Academy Dear All - Please see the appended press release about an upcoming institute to discuss the Internet culture and the academy. Kathleen Fitzpatrick is one of the keynotes and there will a session on humanities scholarship and new media. The program is available at: http://icpl.cornell.edu Best, - Oya ================== Thought Leaders to Discuss Internet Culture and the Academy at the 2012 Institute for Computer Policy and Law The Institute for Computer Policy and Law: Internet Culture and the Academy September 19-21, 2012 Cornell University, Ithaca, NY Register now at http://icpl.cornell.edu The Cornell University Institute for Computer Policy and Law (ICPL) is the go-to conference for incisive, innovative thinking about Internet culture's rapidly evolving legal, policy, and social significance in the academic environment. ICPL's scope has broadened to address issues vital to faculty in the humanities and sciences, university administrators, academic librarians, and IT, legal, policy, and student life professionals. You will be a dynamic part of the experience! Through presentations, informed and facilitated discussion, the posing of uncomfortable questions and challenging ideas, we will talk about: --Internet law and policy: Struggles over copyright, piracy, and privacy in a globally connected world --Internet privacy as social policy and the significance of social networking and online identity for students and academic professionals --Scholarly publications: Institutional funding, intellectual property, and peer review challenges --Integration of new media with teaching, learning, and research --Academic integrity in the digital age, including debates around how to define plagiarism and the value of technological detection systems) --Knowledge production, collection, and dissemination for academic librarians, and digital and information literacy for all --How the Internet is shaping the culture of the Academy This year, the following experts will discuss issues and opportunities for higher education and academic libraries and what they mean for students, staff, and faculty: Lori Andrews Distinguished professor of law at the Chicago-Kent College of Law; director of the Illinois Institute of Technology's (IIT) Institute for Science, Law and Technology; associate vice president of IIT; and author of I Know Who You Are and I Saw What You Did: Social Networks and the Death of Privacy. W. Gardner Campbell Director of professional development and innovative initiatives and English professor at Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Frye Leadership Institute Fellow, former chair of the Electronic Campus of Virginia, advisory board member for the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education, and chair of the board of directors for the New Media Consortium. Kathleen Fitzpatrick Director of scholarly communication at the Modern Language Association, professor of media studies at Pomona College, and founder and editor of MediaCommons. Deanna Marcum Managing director of Ithaka S+R, former associate librarian for Library Services at the Library of Congress, former president of the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR), and American Library Association Melvil Dewey Medal awardee. Howard Rheingold (Presenting virtually) Writer, critic, and virtual community pioneer; Stanford University visiting lecturer on digital journalism, virtual communities, and social media; non-resident fellow of the Annenberg School for Communication; visiting professor at the Institute of Creative Technologies at De Montfort University; and MacArthur Foundation's Digital Media and Learning competition winner. Enrollment is limited. Attendees who register by July 21, 2012 will receive $100 off the program fee of $975. For more information or to register, visit http://icpl.cornell.edu, e-mail cusp@cornell.edu, or call 607.255.7259. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Oya Y. Rieger, Ph.D. Associate University Librarian Digital Scholarship Services Cornell University Library http://vivo.cornell.edu/individual/vivo/individual23129 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2012 15:25:07 -0500 From: Brian Croxall Subject: CFP: Teaching with Games - MLA 2013 *Call for Papers for a Committee-Sponsored Session on “Teaching and Games” at MLA 2013*** Building on several panels at the 2012 MLA Convention that separately considered digital pedagogy (“Building Digital Humanities in the Undergraduate Classroom http://www.briancroxall.net/buildingDH ,” “Digital Pedagogy http://mla12.org/sessions/#/s349 ,” and “New Media, New Pedagogies http://mla12.org/sessions/#/s442 ”) and games (“Digital Narratives and Gaming for Teaching Language and Literature http://mla12.org/sessions/#/s332 ” and “Close Playing: Literary Methods and Video Game Studies http://mla12.org/sessions/#/s736 “), this electronic roundtable will generate discussions about the use of games in the teaching of literature, languages, and/or writing. More than simple discussion, however, we will highlight concrete implementations of games in the classroom. Presenters will engage in informal discussion or offer interactive electronic demonstrations, lasting no more than 4 minutes. These presentations will take place at stations with appropriate audiovisual equipment around the meeting room. The remainder of the session’s time will allow the audience to circulate among stations, asking questions of the presenters. Those attending the session will leave with discrete assignments, activities, or ideas that they could build on in designing their own courses. We welcome abstracts for presentations on any topic linking games and pedagogy, including the following practices: - Games for language acquisition - Interpretive games (e.g., the Ivanhoe game) - Games as platforms for discussions or activities - Gamification (as subject, as method); critiques of gamification (as subject, as method) - Student- or group-designed games - Games played inside/outside the classroom - Game modification - Social games in the context of a social/classroom space Types of games may include but are not limited to the following: - Video games - Board / card games - Virtual Worlds / MMORPGs - Alternate Reality Games (ARGs) - Social games (e.g., Cow Clicker, Farmville, The Nethernet) - Spatial Games (e.g., foursquare, Shadow Cities, geocaching) This roundtable session will feature up to eight presenters. Presenters are welcome from a broad range of institutions with a range of contexts and budget demands. Selection of participants will be based on a cross-spectrum of styles, classrooms, student experience, successes, and failures. Send 300-word abstracts and bio to brian [dot] croxall [at] emory [dot] edu by 15 March 2012. N.B. All panelists will need to be MLA members (or have their membership waived) by April 7th. I am organizing this session on behalf of the MLA’s Committee on Information Technology http://www.mla.org/comm_id . _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Feb 24 08:57:16 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D17A2739B2; Fri, 24 Feb 2012 08:57:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id E017F27399C; Fri, 24 Feb 2012 08:57:12 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120224085712.E017F27399C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 08:57:12 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.749 the media intellectual? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 749. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 08:48:02 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: the media intellectual Somewhere someone has called Slavoj Žižek a "media intellectual", or one whose important work is mostly performed in public, via the various media (also "the world’s hippest philosopher", in today's Telegraph -- which, I hasten to add, I don't read). This leads me to wonder whether it is possible to detect a shift in what might reasonably be called scholarship, in one or more fields of the humanities, from print not merely to digital but all the way to online forms. I certainly would not want to posit a one-way causal relationship between the availability of the online medium and changes in scholarship, but a relationship between this medium and scholarship exists. What effects is it having? What effects do we want it to have? Not want it to have? As we view the changes happening in the academy and to it, what is the status of the drawing of lines? Sitting at the crossroads where computing and the humanities variously meet, with no immediate and direct commitment to what is happening in any field of the humanities other than our own, or a direct and immediate commitment to all of them simultaneously (in some sense yet to be determined) how can we responsibly draw any line at all as long as digital tools and methods are being intelligently used? (And, one has to ask, what does "intelligently" mean in this case?) A medieval historian, say, can look from his or her perch at what is happening in, say, cultural studies and pronounce it deviant because that is indeed how it looks by his or her lights in all the honesty of which that person is capable. But how can we do that (presuming one would want to)? Comments? Yours, WM -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor (fractional), University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Feb 24 08:58:04 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B848273A1F; Fri, 24 Feb 2012 08:58:04 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id EBADB273A07; Fri, 24 Feb 2012 08:58:00 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20120224085800.EBADB273A07@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 08:58:00 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.750 WWO free for Women's History Month X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 750. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 10:01:50 -0500 From: Julia Flanders Subject: WWO free for Women's History Month I'm happy to announce that once again Women Writers Online will be free and open to the public for the month of March, in celebration of Women's History Month. Please come visit us at: http://www.wwp.brown.edu Browse and enjoy! We'll also be offering a sneak preview of the new WWO interface. best wishes, Julia Julia Flanders Director, Women Writers Project Brown University Library _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Feb 24 09:03:54 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0ADFF273BB2; Fri, 24 Feb 2012 09:03:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id F0BEF273BA3; Fri, 24 Feb 2012 09:03:50 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120224090350.F0BEF273BA3@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 09:03:50 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.751 events: Turing at Cambridge; race and DH at the MLA; Hugh Craig at LFAS X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 751. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Marcus Dahl (16) Subject: LFAS MEETING 28th FEB with Professor Hugh Craig (Univ Newcastle,Australia) [2] From: Seth Denbo (33) Subject: MLA13 Special Session CFP: Race and the Digital Humanities [3] From: S B Cooper (187) Subject: Call for Informal Presentations for Turing Centenary Conference in Cambridge --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 14:53:28 +0000 From: Marcus Dahl Subject: LFAS MEETING 28th FEB with Professor Hugh Craig (Univ Newcastle,Australia) Dear Friends, On this Lovely London Spring(like) Day, it is my pleasure to remind you of our next LFAS meeting, with Professor Hugh Craig: 2012-13 28 February 2012 (Tuesday) Venue: Room 349 (Senate House) Time: 17:30 - 19:30 Professor Hugh Craig (University of Newcastle, Australia): 'Thomas Nashe and Dido, Queen of Carthage' Hope to see you there! And with Nashe on our minds... [Spring, the sweete spring, is the yeres pleasant King, Then bloomes eche thing, then maydes daunce in a ring, Cold doeth not sting, the pretty birds doe sing, Cuckow, iugge, iugge, pu we, to witta woo. ...] All best, Marcus --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 20:31:49 +0000 From: Seth Denbo Subject: MLA13 Special Session CFP: Race and the Digital Humanities Adeline Koh has recently posted this CfP for an MLA panel that should be of interest to subscribers to the Humanist. > Subject: MLA13 Special Session CFP: Race and the Digital Humanities > From: Adeline Koh > Date: 20 February, 2012 9:16:07 AM EST CFP: Race and the Digital Humanities (MLA13 Special Session Proposal) This MLA spe­cial ses­sion panel will focus on dis­cus­sions of race, eth­nic­ity and access within the dig­i­tal human­i­ties. Schol­ars such as Alan Liu, Tara McPher­son and Lisa Naka­mura have argued that cul­tural stud­ies approaches and method­olo­gies have been con­sis­tently over­looked by much of DH scholarship. *Race and the Dig­i­tal Human­i­ties* will explore how race and eth­nic­ity are impor­tant struc­tural cat­e­gories of analy­sis in the dig­i­tal human­i­ties. How do race and eth­nic­ity fac­tor into ques­tions of access within the dig­i­tal human­i­ties? How are dig­i­tal human­i­ties tools cal­i­brated to take into account the effects of race and eth­nic­ity? How is race con­fig­ured in dif­fer­ent types of social media? How can silences and ellipses in dis­cus­sions on race in the dig­i­tal human­i­ties be mapped onto priv­i­lege in white­ness stud­ies? Finally, how are newly emer­gent move­ments such as #trans­for­mDH (‘trans­form dig­i­tal human­i­ties’) cre­at­ing change in this method­olog­i­cal divide, and in which fields? To be con­sid­ered for this spe­cial ses­sion panel, please sub­mit a one-page abstract and CV to ade­linekoh [at] gmail.com by 9 March 2012. http://www.adelinekoh.org/?p=515 http://www.mla.org/cfp_review&id=4619&exit_page=cfp_main Adeline Koh, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Literature Richard Stockton College Email: Adeline.Koh@stockton.edu Twitter: @adelinekoh w: http://adelinekoh.org project: http://wp.stockton.edu/postcolonialstudies --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 20:42:46 +0000 From: S B Cooper Subject: Call for Informal Presentations for Turing Centenary Conference in Cambridge CALL FOR INFORMAL PRESENTATIONS: TURING CENTENARY CONFERENCE http://www.cie2012.eu Computability in Europe 2012: How the World Computes University of Cambridge Cambridge, 18-23 June 2012 CiE 2012 is one of a series of special events, running throughout the Alan Turing Year, celebrating Turing's unique impact on mathematics, computing, computer science, informatics, morphogenesis, artificial intelligence, philosophy and computational aspects of physics, biology, linguistics, economics and the wider scientific world. CiE 2012 is planned to be an event worthy of the remarkable scientific career it commemorates, and will be the largest ever conference centred on the Computability Theoretic legacy of Turing and his contemporaries. PLENARY SPEAKERS include: Andrew Hodges (Oxford, Special Invited Lecture), Ian Stewart (Warwick, Special Public Lecture), Dorit Aharonov (Jerusalem), Veronica Becher (Buenos Aires), Lenore Blum (Carnegie Mellon, The 2012 APAL Lecture), Rodney Downey (Wellington), Yuri Gurevich (Microsoft, The EACSL Lecture), Juris Hartmanis (Cornell), Richard Jozsa (Cambridge, jointly organised lecture with King's College), Stuart Kauffman (Vermont/ Santa Fe), James Murray (Oxford/Princeton, Microsoft Research Lecture), Stuart Shieber (Harvard), Paul Smolensky (Johns Hopkins) and Leslie Valiant (Harvard, jointly organised lecture with King's College). SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS OF INFORMAL PRESENTATIONS are now invited for this historic event. For submission details, see: http://www.mathcomp.leeds.ac.uk/turing2012/WScie12/give-page.php?12 SUBMISSION DEADLINE for Informal Presentations: MAY 11, 2012 Authors will be notified of acceptance, usually within two weeks of submission. All accepted papers become eligible for consideration for post-conference journals: COMPUTABILITY will consider journal versions of papers presented at CiE conferences as a general rule; and there will be special issues of Logical Methods in Computer Science (LMCS) and Annals of Pure and Applied Logic (APAL). CiE 2012 CONFERENCE TOPICS include, but not exclusively - * Admissible sets * Algorithms * Analog computation * Artificial intelligence * Automata theory * Bioinformatics * Classical computability and degree structures * Cognitive science and modelling * Complexity classes * Computability theoretic aspects of programs * Computable analysis and real computation * Computable structures and models * Computational and proof complexity * Computational biology * Computational creativity * Computational learning and complexity * Computational linguistics * Concurrency and distributed computation * Constructive mathematics * Cryptographic complexity * Decidability of theories * Derandomization * DNA computing * Domain theory and computability * Dynamical systems and computational models * Effective descriptive set theory * Emerging and Non-standard Models of Computation * Finite model theory * Formal aspects of program analysis * Formal methods * Foundations of computer science * Games * Generalized recursion theory * History of computation * Hybrid systems * Higher type computability * Hypercomputational models * Infinite time Turing machines * Kolmogorov complexity * Lambda and combinatory calculi * L-systems and membrane computation * Machine learning * Mathematical models of emergence * Molecular computation * Morphogenesis and developmental biology * Multi-agent systems * Natural Computation * Neural nets and connectionist models * Philosophy of science and computation * Physics and computability * Probabilistic systems * Process algebras and concurrent systems * Programming language semantics * Proof mining and applications * Proof theory and computability * Proof complexity * Quantum computing and complexity * Randomness * Reducibilities and relative computation * Relativistic computation * Reverse mathematics * Semantics and logic of computation * Swarm intelligence and self-organisation * Type systems and type theory * Uncertain Reasoning * Weak systems of arithmetic and applications We particularly welcome submissions in emergent areas, such as bioinformatics and natural computation, where they have a basic connection with computability. CiE 2012 will have a special relationship to the scientific legacy of Alan Turing, reflected in the broad theme: How the World Computes, with all its different layers of meaning. Contributions which are directly related to the visionary and seminal work of Turing will be particularly welcome. SPECIAL SESSIONS include: * Cryptography, Complexity, and Randomness Chairs: Rod Downey and Jack Lutz Speakers so far: Eric Allender, Lance Fortnow, Valentine Kabanets, Omer Reingold, Alexander Shen + Panel Discussion on Future Directions * The Turing Test and Thinking Machines Chairs: Mark Bishop and Rineke Verbrugge Speakers: Bruce Edmonds, John Preston, Susan Sterrett, Kevin Warwick, Jiri Wiedermann + Panel Discussion on Future Directions * Computational Models After Turing: The Church-Turing Thesis and Beyond Chairs: Martin Davis and Wilfried Sieg Speakers: Giuseppe Longo, Peter Nemeti, Stewart Shapiro, Matthew Szudzik, Philip Welch, Michiel van Lambalgen * Morphogenesis/Emergence as a Computability Theoretic Phenomenon Chairs: Philip Maini and Peter Sloot Speakers: Jaap Kaandorp, Shigeru Kondo, Nick Monk, John Reinitz, James Sharpe, Jonathan Sherratt * Open Problems in the Philosophy of Information Chairs: Pieter Adriaans and Benedikt Loewe Speakers: Patrick Allo, Luis Antunes, Mark Finlayson, Amos Golan, Ruth Millikan + Panel Discussion on Future Directions * The Universal Turing Machine, and History of the Computer Chairs: Jack Copeland and John Tucker Speakers so far: Steven Ericsson-Zenith, Ivor Grattan-Guinness, Mark Priestley, Robert I. Soare + Panel Discussion Information of funding for students (including ASL grants) and the attendance of female researchers is at: http://www.mathcomp.leeds.ac.uk/turing2012/WScie12/give-page.php?14 There will be the annual Women in Computability Workshop, supported by a grant from the Elsevier Foundation. CiE 2012 will be associated/co-located with a number of other Turing centenary events, including: * ACE 2012, June 15-16, 2012 * Computability and Complexity in Analysis (CCA 2012), June 24-27, 2012 http://cca-net.de/cca2012/ * Developments in Computational Models (DCM 2012), June 17, 2012 http://www.math.uni-hamburg.de/home/loewe/DCM2012/ * THE INCOMPUTABLE at Kavli Royal Society International Centre Chicheley Hall, June 12-15, 2012 http://www.mathcomp.leeds.ac.uk/turing2012/inc/ PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: * Samson Abramsky (Oxford) * Pieter Adriaans (Amsterdam) * Franz Baader (Dresden) * Arnold Beckmann (Swansea) * Mark Bishop (London) * Paola Bonizzoni (Milan) * Luca Cardelli (Cambridge) * Douglas Cenzer (Gainesville) * S Barry Cooper (Leeds, Co-chair) * Ann Copestake (Cambridge) * Anuj Dawar (Cambridge, Co-chair) * Solomon Feferman (Stanford) * Bernold Fiedler (Berlin) * Luciano Floridi (Hertfordshire) * Martin Hyland (Cambridge) * Marcus Hutter (Canberra) * Viv Kendon (Leeds) * Stephan Kreutzer (Oxford) * Ming Li (Waterloo) * Benedikt Loewe (Amsterdam) * Angus MacIntyre (London) * Philip Maini (Oxford) * Larry Moss (Bloomington) * Amitabha Mukerjee (Kanpur) * Damian Niwinski (Warsaw) * Dag Normann (Oslo) * Prakash Panangaden (Montreal) * Jeff Paris (Manchester) * Brigitte Pientka (Montreal) * Helmut Schwichtenberg (Munich) * Wilfried Sieg (Carnegie Mellon) * Mariya Soskova (Sofia) * Bettina Speckmann (Eindhoven) * Christof Teuscher (Portland) * Peter van Emde Boas (Amsterdam) * Jan van Leeuwen (Utrecht) * Rineke Verbrugge (Groningen) The PROGRAMME COMMITTEE cordially invites all researchers (European and non-European) in computability related areas to submit abstracts of their proposed presentations (in PDF-format, max 1 page) for CiE 2012. We particularly invite papers that build bridges between different parts of the research community. ORGANISING COMMITTEE: Arnold Beckmann (Swansea), Luca Cardelli (Cambridge), S Barry Cooper (Leeds), Ann Copestake (Cambridge), Anuj Dawar (Cambridge, Chair), Bjarki Holm (Cambridge), Martin Hyland (Cambridge), Benedikt Loewe (Amsterdam), Arno Pauly (Cambridge), Andrew Pitts (Cambridge) The conference is sponsored by the ASL, EACSL, EATCS, Elsevier Foundation, IFCoLog, King's College Cambridge, The University of Cambridge and Microsoft Research. For a small poster to download and display: http://www.mathcomp.leeds.ac.uk/turing2012/WScie12/Images/cie12.poster.1000x1400.png Contact: Anuj Dawar - anuj.dawar(at)cl.cam.ac.uk _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Feb 24 09:06:12 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id D060D273C32; Fri, 24 Feb 2012 09:06:11 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 2F9F9273C1B; Fri, 24 Feb 2012 09:06:08 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20120224090608.2F9F9273C1B@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 09:06:08 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.752 tools/methods for critical discourse analysis? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 752. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 09:01:02 +0000 (GMT) From: J Pascal da Rocha Subject: Question related to analysis of stories (coding) Dear Humanists! Trusting that this Email finds you well, I am reaching out to you all for the first time in order to receive some guidance from the learned network about useful tools or indicators on how to analyze narratives or stories. Can you guide me to some useful books, research and analysis tools, and other related instruments that can help me decode the narration into something useful? I am trying to refine Critical Discourse Analysis! Thank you. Best, Pascal _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Feb 25 08:18:56 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id F28E22707C2; Sat, 25 Feb 2012 08:18:55 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 14A322707AF; Sat, 25 Feb 2012 08:18:52 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120225081852.14A322707AF@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2012 08:18:52 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.753 the media intellectual X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 753. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: D.Allington (22) Subject: RE: [Humanist] 25.749 the media intellectual? [2] From: Jascha Kessler (110) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.749 the media intellectual? [3] From: Alan Corre (2) Subject: The Ziz --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 09:55:26 +0000 From: D.Allington Subject: RE: [Humanist] 25.749 the media intellectual? In-Reply-To: <20120224085712.E017F27399C@woodward.joyent.us> Interesting question. I'm not sure that Zizek in himself represents any particular change - to me at least, he seems a fairly typical representative of a long line of celebrity intellectuals (e.g. Barthes and Rousseau) - but there are huge issues around how to conduct real scholarship via online media (as opposed to online surrogates for print media). Does scholarship require peer review, for example? The success of celebrity intellectuals suggests that it does not. But then again, perhaps 'scholarship' is not the best word for what celebrity intellectuals engage in. So what is it that we who are not celebrities engage in when we turn aside from usual scholarly channels of communication and (say) post to a blog? I for one find that to be immensely difficult because, when I engage in it, I'm never sure in who (or what) I am writing as. best wishes Daniel Dr Daniel Allington Lecturer in English Language Studies and Applied Linguistics Centre for Language and Communication The Open University +44 (0) 1908 332 914 http://open.academia.edu/DanielAllington ________________________________________ Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 08:48:02 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: the media intellectual Somewhere someone has called Slavoj Žizek a "media intellectual", or one whose important work is mostly performed in public, via the various media (also "the world’s hippest philosopher", in today's Telegraph -- which, I hasten to add, I don't read). This leads me to wonder whether it is possible to detect a shift in what might reasonably be called scholarship, in one or more fields of the humanities, from print not merely to digital but all the way to online forms.... -- The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 000391), an exempt charity in England & Wales and a charity registered in Scotland (SC 038302). --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 11:44:16 -0800 From: Jascha Kessler Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.749 the media intellectual? In-Reply-To: <20120224085712.E017F27399C@woodward.joyent.us> A curious, albeit interesting question Willard McC. asks. Perhaps it might taken up by referring first to that specious creature who appeared, in Europe say after WW I: the "Public Intellectual." Notorious for glib and sophistical skills in France especially, and culturally speaking concurrent with the end of first class poetry, except for a small few interesting figures, like Char during WW II and shortly after. Such figures belonged mainly to the world of Journalism, the self-selected and self-created "Fourth Estate," the other three having had their anointment, sacral, from ancient times.[Vide the "tauf tauf" in FINNEGANS WAKE, and the raucous bird cry of "quark quark."] The 18th Century saw that development in England and France. But, before the current banking of increasingly large servers, journalism meant writing for the shredder, and papers were useful after three days, for wrapping fish, as Franklin put it. The notion of a media intellectual may perhaps assuage those "inties" [intellectuals] who would hope to outlast the shredder, if Ther [to quote Pooh] Cloud has durability and can survive the nuclear age cloud looming. But it might be remarked, briefly, that it is commonly held by some — including myself — that the Last Intellectual, public or not, died over a quarter of a century ago. ["The Last Intellectual" was a sardonic and delightful short story by Saul Bellow in his last collection [HIM WITH HIS FOOT IN HIS MOUTH], a portrait of Harold Rosenberg, both Bellow's and my friend. That term being defunct, the question asked is well put as looking for perspective on The Scholar, whose cachet originated with the ancientmost scribes, east and west. What function[s] in a digital era does "scholarship" fulfill? In pedagogy, in politics, in humanistic research, which itself encompasses the study of all recorded studies? I think obviously the convenience that digitization affords for pursuing lines of study into the past and present productions of the scholar is remarkable. A genie of the amanuensis genre of Homo sapiens. At this point what comes to my mind is an essay I read decades ago in which a fine scholar of English literature reviewed as he prepared for retirement from teaching and study in the cloistered university/college realm what books he would take to his cabin on a little isle off the coast of Australia, say [he was thinking to hope to outlast the then oncoming MAD]. He ended up less than a few books: Shakespeare, the Bible, perhaps the current OED, and with luck the then 11th Brittanica Encyclopedia. A Thoreauvian conclusion. In any case, the main distinction sought for is clarity: the difference between the scholar and the journalist, the permanent and the 24/7 labilities of news and opinions. Still, Willard's question is not about Ends, but the maelstrom of current Means in which we are paddling as we are whirled around in the vortex of these days. Jascha Kessler -- Jascha Kessler Professor of English & Modern Literature, UCLA Telephone/Facsimile: 310.393.4648 www.jfkessler.com www.xlibris.com --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 10:59:49 -0600 (CST) From: Alan Corre Subject: The Ziz In-Reply-To: <20120224085712.E017F27399C@woodward.joyent.us> see http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/7916506/Living-in-the-End-Times-by-Slavoj-Zizek-review.html _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Feb 25 08:19:52 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 289F7270800; Sat, 25 Feb 2012 08:19:52 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 5D5902707E7; Sat, 25 Feb 2012 08:19:48 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120225081948.5D5902707E7@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2012 08:19:48 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.754 tools/methods for critical discourse analysis X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 754. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 10:23:18 +0000 From: "Lawrence, Faith" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.752 tools/methods for critical discourse analysis? In-Reply-To: <20120224090608.2F9F9273C1B@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Pascal, It depends a little on what exactly you are trying to achieve but you might find some of the following useful to you: Contextus - Describing Narrative in the Digital World (site includes ontologies with examples for describing narrative, especially fictional narratives, with linked data and links to related projects and papers on this work) http://contextus.net/ (related discussion group - http://groups.google.com/group/digital-narrative) Automated Motif Discovery in Cultural Heritage and Scientific Communication Texts (AMICUS) Network (includes links to their work and papers given at their previous workshops - particularly the paper by Anita de Waard in their first workshop might be of interest) http://ilk.uvt.nl/amicus/ Computational Models of Narrative Conference (the page also contains links to reports on previous events) http://narrative.csail.mit.edu/ws12/ International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling (slightly off topic but with some of the tools mentioned in previous papers might be of interest) http://icids.org/ That should give you a few possible places to start. I am involved with the Contextus group (first link) and if you have any questions I would be happy to answer them. Yours, Faith -----Original Message----- From: Humanist Discussion Group Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 09:06:08 +0000 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 Feb 25 08:21:15 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 957F0270872; Sat, 25 Feb 2012 08:21:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 37E4027085C; Sat, 25 Feb 2012 08:21:12 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120225082112.37E4027085C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2012 08:21:12 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.755 social network analysis for prosopography? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 755. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 11:09:41 +0000 From: "Bradley, John" Subject: Social network analysis for structured prosopography We at the department of Digital Humanities at King's College London have been partners in a number of structured prosopographical projects including the Prosopography of AngloSaxon England (PASE), the Prosopography of the Byzantine World (PBW), the Clergy of the Church of England (CCE), the Breaking of Britain (BoB), and most recently Making Charlemagne's Europe (MkCheur -- just getting underway). All of these, by being prosopographies, sort out individual people from names of peoples, and the formal model we use for our prosopographies also records a good range of different kinds of relationships between them. I've been interested in exploring the potential of Social Network Analysis for these datasets for some time, and have done a tiny bit of preliminary exploring myself. Is there anyone out there with experience who I could talk to about this further, or who knows someone with experience? Many thanks! ... John Bradley --------------------------------------------- John Bradley Senior Lecturer Department of the Digital Humanities King's College London Tel +44 (0)20 7848 2680 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Feb 25 08:22:33 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 219422708BA; Sat, 25 Feb 2012 08:22:33 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D655C2708A5; Sat, 25 Feb 2012 08:22:28 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120225082228.D655C2708A5@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2012 08:22:28 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.756 publications: marginal e-text cfp; heritage visualisation X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 756. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Faith Lawrence (46) Subject: cfp: In the Margin: e-text and its readers [2] From: Willard McCarty (20) Subject: book on heritage visualisation --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 09:45:54 +0000 From: Faith Lawrence Subject: cfp: In the Margin: e-text and its readers ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > In the Margin:  e-text and its readers > > We solicit contributions for an edited collection of scholarly essays entitled In the Margin: e-Text and its readers. Considerable scholarship of the past three decades has addressed the history, readership, and materiality of the book. The architecture of the page, paperstock, fount, blank spaces, and readerly annotation have been the subject of economic, material, and theoretical analysis. Attention to how books have been copied, signed, and annotated has illuminated a history of reading and literary activity. The codex, in short, has been invaluable to the material turn in bibliographic and literary scholarship.  But what of the digital turn?> > > As books increasingly are published as digital artefacts, the margin as we know it is changing. This collection seeks to analyze and theorize the reader’s engagement with the digital book. > > Essays will consider what it means to “write in the margin” of a digital hypertext—that space integral to the experience of reading because it is, literally and figuratively, where the reader marks presence, signals engagement, and makes the text one’s own.  We are interested in papers that address the literal margin as it exists in hypertext and also the margin, more figuratively, as the navigable interactive space between the reader and the text. > > The collection will cross-disciplinary boundaries and problematise conventional ways of thinking about active reading instantiated in digital culture. Essays are welcome from disciplines such as textual scholarship, hypertext studies, history of the book, pedagogy, theory, computer science, information management, digital humanities, and instructional design. > > Topics of interest include: > > Hypertext editions and the margin > Designing text and apparatus in hypertext > The expanding apparatus > Teaching hypertext > Designing hypertext for the classroom > Reading, links, and nodes > The gendered hypertext > The body and hypertext > Interactive world in hypertext and game theory, fan fiction, etc. > Hypertext and philosophies of literature > The centre and the margin > Queer hypertext > > Proposals of no more than 500 words should be submitted to Drs. Ann-Barbara Graff annbg@nipissingu.ca or Kristin Lucas kristinl@nipissingu.ca by 30 April 2012.  Please indicate the intended length of the paper and include a brief biography. > > Accepted papers (short papers of 1500-2000 words or long papers of 5000 words) will be due by 1 November 2012. > > -- > Dr. Ann-Barbara Graff > Associate Dean, Faculty of Arts & Science > Associate Professor, English Studies > Nipissing University > 100 College Drive > North Bay, Ontario > P1B 8L7 > > T:  705-474-3450 x 4234 > F:  705-474-1947 > > W:  www.nipissingu.ca/artsandscience > "A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning" (Benjamin Disraeli,1873) > 2012:  The Alan Turing Centenary --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 15:06:41 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: book on heritage visualisation Paradata and Transparency in Virtual Heritage Anna Bentkowska-Kafel, Hugh Denard and Drew Baker, King's College London, UK Computer-Generated Images (CGIs) are widely used and accepted in the world of entertainment but the use of the very same visualization techniques in academic research in the Arts and Humanities remains controversial. The techniques and conceptual perspectives on heritage visualization are a subject of an ongoing interdisciplinary debate. By demonstrating scholarly excellence and best technical practice in this area, this volume is concerned with the challenge of providing intellectual transparency and accountability in visualization-based historical research. Addressing a range of cognitive and technological challenges, the authors make a strong case for a wider recognition of three-dimensional visualization as a constructive, intellectual process and valid methodology for historical research and its communication. Further details: http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9780754675839 -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor (fractional), University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Feb 26 09:10:49 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B2E22747F1; Sun, 26 Feb 2012 09:10:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C66E62747CD; Sun, 26 Feb 2012 09:10:39 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120226091040.C66E62747CD@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2012 09:10:39 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.757 social network analysis for prosopography X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 757. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Kirsten C. Uszkalo" (47) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.755 social network analysis for prosopography? [2] From: David Zeitlyn (21) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.755 social network analysis for prosopography? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2012 08:30:25 -0700 From: "Kirsten C. Uszkalo" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.755 social network analysis for prosopography? In-Reply-To: <20120225082112.37E4027085C@woodward.joyent.us> Dear John, We have experimented with an HTML5 network diagram here at the Witches in Early Modern England project for our "Reading Leaves" one of the three main visualizations of our prosospography. Most of the project information can be found at http://witching.org. We are rewriting the code on the project now, but the existing viz for Reading Leaves can be found at http://witching.org/throwing-bones/#HTMLF. I think we might change to Jplumb, but we have to squish one or two other bugs that are slowing is down first. I'd be happy to chat about using these diagrams, and put you in contact with my programmers, especially since we modelled our prosopography off of PASE in the early days. Best, Kirsten ___ Dr. Kirsten C. Uszkalo - Project Lead | Witches in Early Modern England Project | http://witching.org - Editor | Preternature: Critical and Historical Studies in the Preternatural | http://preternature.org - Project Lead: Usability | TAPoR Project | http://portal.tapor.ca/portal/portal - CIRCA Scholar | University of Alberta | http://circa.ualberta.ca/ "Sure this woman is no witch, for she speaks many good words, which the witches could not" On 2012-02-25, at 1:21 AM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 755. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 11:09:41 +0000 > From: "Bradley, John" > Subject: Social network analysis for structured prosopography > > > We at the department of Digital Humanities at King's College London have been partners in a number of structured prosopographical projects including the Prosopography of AngloSaxon England (PASE), the Prosopography of the Byzantine World (PBW), the Clergy of the Church of England (CCE), the Breaking of Britain (BoB), and most recently Making Charlemagne's Europe (MkCheur -- just getting underway). All of these, by being prosopographies, sort out individual people from names of peoples, and the formal model we use for our prosopographies also records a good range of different kinds of relationships between them. > > I've been interested in exploring the potential of Social Network Analysis for these datasets for some time, and have done a tiny bit of preliminary exploring myself. Is there anyone out there with experience who I could talk to about this further, or who knows someone with experience? > > Many thanks! ... John Bradley > > --------------------------------------------- > John Bradley > Senior Lecturer > Department of the Digital Humanities > King's College London > Tel +44 (0)20 7848 2680 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2012 16:56:00 +0000 From: David Zeitlyn Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.755 social network analysis for prosopography? In-Reply-To: <05148784-7afd-4ed6-a144-c8c369b476e2@exht04.ad.oak.ox.ac.uk> Dear John and fellow humanists one example of the sort of thing I think you are talking about is what I did with colleagues working on the history of the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford We wrote this up as: Larson F, Petch A, Zeitlyn D. 2007. Social Networks and the Creation of the Pitt Rivers Museum. Journal of Material Culture 12:211–39 best wishes davidz -- David Zeitlyn, Professor of Social Anthropology (research) Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, 51 Banbury Road, Oxford, OX2 6PF, UK http://www.isca.ox.ac.uk/about-us/staff/academic/professor-david-zeitlyn/ http://users.ox.ac.uk/~wolf2728/ http://about.me/david.zeitlyn Google Scholar profile including h-index: http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=lYK4auAAAAAJÊ Oxford's open online anthropology journal: JASO online. http://www.isca.ox.ac.uk/publications/JASO/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Feb 26 09:12:59 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1DAA274844; Sun, 26 Feb 2012 09:12:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 3A54F27483A; Sun, 26 Feb 2012 09:12:55 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120226091255.3A54F27483A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2012 09:12:55 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.758 the media intellectual X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 758. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Willard McCarty (34) Subject: media-intellectual behaviour [2] From: James Rovira (22) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.753 the media intellectual --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2012 08:55:33 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: media-intellectual behaviour What lay behind my question sparked by The Ziz (as Alan Corre called him) was rather a different sort of behaviour than an academic P. T. Barnum would find profitable to capture for his circus. It seems to me that someone who merely proclaims, thrashes his arms and (to follow the Telegraph reporter's metaphor) dances sweatily before us online or via YouTube, however important his message to us, is still in the mode of communication as transmission, i.e. the Shannon-Weaver model applied to "how... men communicate, one with one another" (Weaver, Scientific American 181.1, July 1949). One-way, whether designed to wow, blow the mind, or just transmit facts. A very old fashioned thing, essentially. One lesson that Jerome McGann taught me or confirmed has to do with the value and possible centrality of conversation to the life of the mind: not proclaiming what one thinks to be true but venturing thoughts, sometimes half-baked or less, in order to engage others in finding things out. Doing this -- really the evolved purpose of Humanist -- seems to me far more radical than performing before the video-camera. I see a future for a new kind of media intellectual who does that. Do you? I should say that it's quite another thing to watch Dame Gillian Beer talk about Darwin in a lecture recorded and provided on YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuJrEzKHLb0), or Father Leonard Boyle caught in a video also via the Web talking about the Dominican life (I found this once but cannot now). I am profoundly grateful for such as those, and perhaps should be grateful for The Ziz thus provided, though I cannot say I am. But as far as doing more with what we have, exploring the conversational dimension of this life of the mind seems to me to be very promising indeed. Comments? Yours, WM -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor (fractional), University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2012 09:52:02 -0500 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.753 the media intellectual In-Reply-To: <20120225081852.14A322707AF@woodward.joyent.us> Once again, Willard asks a very good question. I would say that Zizek is an exception, not the rule (even though we could point to many similar figures), so should be excluded from any consideration about the future of scholarship. I would also say that any work of scholarship is written for peer review -- for an audience of peers -- and not for the general public. I think that we need to distinguish the work of public intellectuals like Zizek from the work of scholars writing for peers, all the more so since Zizek increasingly gives the impression of needing to spend more time reading and less time writing: he tends not to consider even some fairly high-profile work that considers some of the same questions that he does, so writes and speaks as if he were the first person to think about the subject. That's not scholarship. That's armchair philosophizing. It's acceptable as the work of a public intellectual. It's not acceptable as scholarship. I'm talking about a -reading- audience when I say that scholarship is written for peers, though, not about access. I would like to see all scholarship on all subjects -- especially journal articles -- freely and publicly accessible through the internet but vetted through the same peer review process that we have now. Public universities need to be behind this initiative, using the public funds that they receive to support the widest dissemination of information possible. Jim R _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Feb 26 09:14:24 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92B832748D0; Sun, 26 Feb 2012 09:14:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C81072748BA; Sun, 26 Feb 2012 09:14:18 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120226091418.C81072748BA@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2012 09:14:18 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.759 events: TEI at Victoria X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 759. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2012 16:08:40 +0000 From: Ray Siemens Subject: Introduction to TEI, 2-Day Workshop @ UVic! (24-25 March2012) Via DHSI (dhsi.org): Introduction to TEI, 2-Day Workshop! 24-25 March 2012 Register for the workshop. In response to considerable demand for TEI training, instructor Malte Rehbein (U Wurzburg) is working with DHSI, ETCL, and UVic Humanities to offer a 2-day workshop introducing the basics of Text Encoding Initiative markup and functionality. The workshop will take place 10.00 am - 5.00 pm Saturday and Sunday 24-25 March 2012, on the U Victoria campus in Clearihue 108. Thanks to the generosity of our sponsors and hosts, all spots in this workshop are made available via DHSI Tuition Scholarship, requiring only the payment of a small non-refundable administrative fee ($40 students, $60 non-students). Spots in this workshop are limited, and anticipated to go quickly; please register early! _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Feb 27 06:51:32 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id A59062746B0; Mon, 27 Feb 2012 06:51:31 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 3749D27469D; Mon, 27 Feb 2012 06:51:21 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120227065122.3749D27469D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 06:51:21 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.760 scholarship and peer-review X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 760. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2012 17:29:04 -0800 From: Jascha Kessler Subject: re Scholarship and peer review Jim R. suggests peer-to-peer vetting as one way to keep scholarship standards, vs. journalism on the internet by "intellectuals." His comment reminded me of an essay of skeptical import I published online in 2009, titled, "In the Great Dismal Swamp." I found my text and copied one paragraph I had written as part of a longish introduction to my views about the situation we found developing in the last 1/3 of the 20th C. It is a skeptical comment on high-level scholarship, and "vetting by peers." Does the Internet favor peer review? For what it's worth, I paste it here: "Parenthetically, today one may also ask if the very idea of history as a narrative of truth - the standard iterated by a major figure of such historical writing in the 19th Century, Leopold von Ranke - can be accepted uncritically. For example, although Ranke asserted that what he wrote was a narration that described "how it actually was" - wie es eigentlich gewesen ist - the phrase, "how it actually was," was not original with Ranke, but is a quotation from Thucydides. Thucydides, who did not believe the past could be written about, seems seldom to have based his work on documents; moreover he never disclosed his sources of information, except where he suggests he himself was personally involved. Concerning documents, which are the basis of Ranke's "objective," "scientific" historical narratives about the way things were, it is odd that even in his most successful work, the 3-volume history of the popes, there is rarely specific citation of the sources he consulted (a catalogue of 185 manuscripts from between 1453 and 1783). It is difficult today to know why or how these sources were cited; in fact, without reading everything Ranke read, there is no way to check his narrative. In other words, no matter how honest we may suppose he was, who can know how well he grasped the essential in each of the many thousands of handwritten documents he consulted in the various archives of Europe, or how accurate were the notes he took? So much for the notion of an "objective" history about the past, at least as exemplified by the sort of narration the 19th Century was so proud of.* As for 20th Century historical prose, history composed after Marx, Darwin, and Max Weber, it takes many forms and uses a variety of "methodologies." Unfortunately, it is not much read by other than the professional, usually academic, historian, except when popularized. Popular history, however, is much closer to journalism than to history as it has been traditionally written and understood." -- Jascha Kessler Professor Emeritus of Modern English & American Literature, UCLA Telephone/Facsimile: 310.393.4648 www.jfkessler.com www.xlibris.com _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Feb 27 06:52:41 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0616F2746EC; Mon, 27 Feb 2012 06:52:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 7FDEC2746CE; Mon, 27 Feb 2012 06:52:32 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120227065232.7FDEC2746CE@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 06:52:32 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.761 call for abstracts: critical theories of social media X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 761. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2012 14:20:41 +0000 From: Christian Fuchs Subject: Final CfA: Conference "Critique, Democracy and Philosophy in 21st Century Information Society" Critique, Democracy, and Philosophy in 21st Century Information Society. Towards Critical Theories of Social Media. The Fourth ICTs and Society-Conference. Uppsala University. May 2nd-4th, 2012. Abstract Submission Deadline: Wednesday, Feb 29th, 17:00 CET Submission guidelines: http://www.icts-and-society.net/events/uppsala2012/ With plenary talks by Vincent Mosco, Graham Murdock, Andrew Feenberg, Catherine McKercher, Charles Ess, Christian Christensen, Christian Fuchs, Gunilla Bradley, Mark Andrejevic, Nick Dyer-Witheford, Peter Dahlgren, Tobias Olsson, Trebor Scholz, Ursula Huws, Wolfgang Hofkirchner. This conference provides a forum for the discussion of how to critically study social media and their relevance for critique, democracy, politics and philosophy in 21st century information society. We are living in times of global capitalist crisis. In this situation, we are witnessing a return of critique in the form of a surging interest in critical theories (such as the critical political economy of Karl Marx, critical theory, etc) and revolutions, rebellions, and political movements against neoliberalism that are reactions to the commodification and instrumentalization of everything. On the one hand there are overdrawn claims that social media (Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, mobile Internet, etc) have caused rebellions and uproars in countries like Tunisia and Egypt, which brings up the question to which extent these are claims are ideological or not. On the other hand, the question arises what actual role social media play in contemporary capitalism, power structures, crisis, rebellions, uproar, revolutions, the strengthening of the commons, and the potential creation of participatory democracy. The commodification of everything has resulted also in a commodification of the communication commons, including Internet communication that is today largely commercial in character. The question is how to make sense of a world in crisis, how a different future can look like, and how we can create Internet commons and a commons-based participatory democracy. This conference deals with the question of what kind of society and what kind of Internet are desirable, what steps need to be taken for advancing a good Internet in a sustainable information society, how capitalism, power structures and social media are connected, what the main problems, risks, opportunities and challenges are for the current and future development of Internet and society, how struggles are connected to social media, what the role, problems and opportunities of social media, web 2.0, the mobile Internet and the ubiquitous Internet are today and in the future, what current developments of the Internet and society tell us about potential futures, how an alternative Internet can look like, and how a participatory, commons-based Internet and a co-operative, participatory, sustainable information society can be achieved. Questions to be addressed include, but are not limited to: * What does it mean to study the Internet, social media and society in a critical way? What are Critical Internet Studies and Critical Theories of Social Media? What does it mean to study the media and communication critically? * What is the role of the Internet and social media in contemporary capitalism? * How do power structures, exploitation, domination, class, digital labour, commodification of the communication commons, ideology, and audience/user commodification, and surveillance shape the Internet and social media? * How do these phenomena shape concrete platforms such as Google, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc? * How does contemporary capitalism look like? What is the role of the Internet and social media in contemporary capitalism? * In what society do we live? What is the actual role of information, ICTs, and knowledge in contemporary society? Are concepts like network society, information society, informational capitalism, etc adequate characterizations of contemporary society or overdrawn claims? What are the fundamental characteristics of contemporary society and which concept(s) should be used for describing this society? * What is digital labour and how do exploitation and surplus value generation work on the Internet? Which forms of exploitation and class structuration do we find on the Internet, how do they work, what are their commonalities and differences? How does the relation between toil and play change in a digital world? How do classes and class struggles look like in 21st century informational capitalism? * What are ideologies of the Internet, web 2.0, and social media? How can they be deconstructed and criticized? How does ideology critique work as an empirical method and theory that is applied to the Internet and social media? * Which philosophies, ethics and which philosophers are needed today in order to understand the Internet, democracy and society and to achieve a global sustainable information society and a participatory Internet? What are perspectives for political philosophy and social theory in 21st century information society? * What contradictions, conflicts, ambiguities, and dialectics shape 21st century information society and social media? * What theories are needed for studying the Internet, social media, web 2.0, or certain platforms or applications in a critical way? * What is the role of counter-power, resistance, struggles, social movements, civil society, rebellions, uproars, riots, revolutions, and political transformations in 21st century information society and how (if at all) are they connected to social media? * What is the actual role of social media and social networking sites in political revolutions, uproars, and rebellions (like the recent Maghrebian revolutions, contemporary protests in Europe and the world, the Occupy movement, etc)? * How can an alternative Internet look like and what are the conditions for creating such an Internet? What are the opportunities and challenges posed by projects like Wikipedia, WikiLeaks, Diaspora, IndyMedia, Democracy Now! and other alternative media? What is a commons-based Internet and how can it be created? * What is the role of ethics, politics, and activism for Critical Internet Studies? * What is the role of critical theories in studying the information society, social media, and the Internet? * What is a critical methodology in Critical Internet Studies? Which research methods are needed on how need existing research methods be adapted for studying the Internet and society in a critical way? * What are ethical problems, opportunities, and challenges of social media? How are they framed by the complex contradictions of contemporary capitalism? * Who and what and where are we in 21st century capitalist information society? How have different identities changed in the global world, what conflicts relate to it, and what is the role of class and class identity in informational capitalism? * What is democracy? What is the future of democracy in the global information society? And what is or should democracy be today? What is the relation of democracy and social media? How do the public sphere and the colonization of the public sphere look like today? What is the role of social media in the public sphere and its colonization? SUBMISSION a) For submission, please first register your profile on the ICTs and Society platform: http://www.icts-and-society.net/register/ b) Please download the abstract submission form: http://fuchs.uti.at/wp-content/uploads/ASF.doc , insert your presentation title, contact data, and an abstract of 200-500 words. The abstract should clearly set out goals, questions, the way taken for answering the questions, main results, the importance of the topic for critically studying the information society and/or social media and for the conference. Please submit your abstract until February 29th, 2012, per e-mail to Marisol Sandoval: marisol.sandoval@uti.at Notifications about acceptance or rejection of abstracts will be sent out within one week after the end of the deadline. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Feb 28 06:32:32 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C55F2DBAA; Tue, 28 Feb 2012 06:32:32 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 226382DB98; Tue, 28 Feb 2012 06:32:28 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120228063229.226382DB98@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 06:32:28 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.762 PhD studentships at Imperial X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 762. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 13:07:52 +0000 From: Rosemary Wall Subject: Hans Rausing PhD and 1+3 Scholarships in History of Science and Technology, Imperial College London The Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine at (CHoSTM) at Imperial College London invites applications for Hans Rausing Scholarships to begin in October 2012. The scholarships are available to students from overseas, the EU, and the UK to study history of science and/or technology at the Centre. Scholarships are available as: • a one-plus-three year award ("1+3 award"), which funds the student on the one-year London MSc programme run jointly by Imperial College and University College London, with progression to doctoral study at CHoSTM subject to satisfactory completion of the MSc; or • a three-year award ("+3 award"), to fund doctoral study only, for students who already have a Master’s degree in the history of science, technology, and/or medicine (HSTM), or a Master’s degree in history or a related humanities or social science field with an HSTM taught component or HSTM research experience. Applicants should have an exceptional academic track record and outstanding research potential in the history of science and/or technology. They should expect to qualify for additional funding from other British/EU or overseas awarding bodies. The award covers fees (at home or overseas rates) and a stipend equivalent to that offered by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). About the Centre and the postgraduate programmes The history of science and technology has been taught and researched at Imperial since the early 1960s. We are a vibrant intellectual community of approximately 20 faculty, postdoctoral fellows, and PhD students, regularly hosting visiting researchers and visiting doctoral students. The Master’s programme numbers around 30 students, and we teach 400 undergraduates from all departments at Imperial College. In the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise, the Centre was awarded the highest rating of all 83 UK history departments: 40 per cent of its research was classed as world-leading in terms of originality, significance and rigour, with another 40 per cent judged internationally excellent. Areas of research strength are history of modern medicine and medical and veterinary science; technological risk and the environment 18th c - 20th c; science and technology in the 20th c; government and expertise; the military and war; agriculture. Recent alumni of the Centre’s PhD programme hold positions at Birkbeck College, York University, King’s College London, ETH Zurich, and the Center for Human and Social Sciences, Madrid. For further information about the Centre, please visit: http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/historyofscience The PhD programme features an innovative doctoral training seminar in addition to two regular seminar speaker series. The taught MSc programme is the largest of its kind in the UK. PhD students attend seminars and workshops at other London institutions, such as the Institute of Historical Research, and use the Wellcome Library, the British Library, and London’s many other academic libraries for their research. The Centre is located in the Imperial College Library which includes the UK’s Science Museum Library, one of the world’s foremost collections of printed sources and secondary literature on science, technology, and medicine. Application procedure for +3 award Applicants for a +3 award are advised to contact a prospective supervisor to discuss research interests and proposal. For research interests of staff and of recent and current doctoral students, please visit: http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/historyofscience/chostmstaff. Application is to the PhD programme via the Imperial College electronic application system, which requests a curriculum vitae and two letters of reference: http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/pgprospectus/howtoapply There is no separate form for the Rausing Scholarship. To be considered for the +3 award, applicants must submit with their electronic application a sample of written work, a brief personal statement of academic interests and reasons for undertaking doctoral research, and a research proposal. The research proposal should be around 1,000-1,500 words plus bibliography and should outline the historical questions being addressed and their significance, relevant historiography, and sources. Review of +3 award applications for entry in October 2012 (or exceptionally in January 2013) will begin 15 March 2012. Applicants will usually be called for interview unless overseas. Applications received after 15 April 2012 may not be considered. Rausing awards will be announced in May 2012. Application procedure for 1+3 award Applicants for a 1+3 award for entry in October 2012 apply to the MSc programme via the Imperial College electronic application system: http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/pgprospectus/howtoapply There is no separate form for the Rausing Scholarship. To be considered for the award, applicants must submit with their electronic application a sample of written work and a 1-2 page personal statement of academic interests, reasons for undertaking postgraduate study in history of science and technology, and possible areas of doctoral research. Applications for the MSc programme are currently being reviewed and applicants are usually interviewed unless overseas. Applications received after 15 April 2012 may not be considered for a Rausing studentship. Awards will be announced in May 2012. Contacts General enquiries: CHOSTM Administrator MSc Admissions Tutor: Dr Rosemary Wall, r.wall@imperial.ac.uk PhD Programme Tutor: Dr Andrew Mendelsohn, a.mendelsohn@imperial.ac.uk Please note: candidates seeking funding for scientific or medical research are not eligible for these scholarships. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Feb 28 06:33:00 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79DB82DBC9; Tue, 28 Feb 2012 06:33:00 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C3F122DBC1; Tue, 28 Feb 2012 06:32:58 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20120228063258.C3F122DBC1@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 06:32:58 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.763 TEI & Omeka? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 763. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 21:10:59 -0600 From: Tanya Clement Subject: TEIDisplay: Displaying TEI documents in Omeka Dear TEI and Omeka enthusiasts, Are you hankering for an easy way to incorporate TEI documents into your Omeka installation? I am advising two of my graduate students, Carin Yavorcik and Zane Schwarzlose, at the iSchool at the University of Texas at Austin who are working with UVA's Scholars' Lab (under the direction of Bethany Nowviskie and Wayne Graham) to update the Omeka plug-in TEIDisplay (see more at http://www.scholarslab.org/announcements/collaborative-mentoring-at-ut-and -uva-co-developing-an-updated-teidisplay-for-omeka/). Carin and Zane are working to make the tool useful such that users can upload TEI documents that will display within the Omeka interface. As well they are creating simplified templates and documentation for teaching or at cultural heritage institutions with few resources for training new users. I hope those who are interested in such a tool (and documentation) might visit their post at DHanswers to let them know what might be useful: http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/topic/how-do-you-display-tei-documents-online Thank you in advance for your time-- Tanya Tanya Clement Assistant Professor, School of Information University of Texas, Austin tclement@ischool.utexas.edu 512.232.2980 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Feb 28 06:35:21 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53C222DC61; Tue, 28 Feb 2012 06:35:21 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C33422DC4D; Tue, 28 Feb 2012 06:35:16 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120228063516.C33422DC4D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 06:35:16 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.764 events: info law & ethics; Turing; THATCamp X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 764. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: MARIA (6) Subject: 5th International Conference on Information law and ethics 2012 Greece June 29-30, 2012 [2] From: S B Cooper (97) Subject: Alan Turing Centenary Conference, University of Manchester, 22-25 June, 2012 [3] From: Cherice Montgomery (17) Subject: THATCamp Rocky Mountain, March 30-31, 2012 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 10:31:48 +0000 From: MARIA Subject: 5th International Conference on Information law and ethics 2012 Greece June 29-30, 2012 In-Reply-To: <4F184A04.6080902@univie.ac.at> Reminder: 5th International Conference on Information Law and Ethics 2012 Equity, Integrity and Beauty in Information law and ethics Corfu, Greece, June 29-30, 2012 http://conferences.ionio.gr/icil2012 deadline for abstracts: March 15, 2012 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 13:29:44 +0000 From: S B Cooper Subject: Alan Turing Centenary Conference, University of Manchester, 22-25 June, 2012 In-Reply-To: <4F184A04.6080902@univie.ac.at> THE TURING CENTENARY CONFERENCE Manchester, UK, June 22-25, 2012 http://www.turing100.manchester.ac.uk/ First announcement and call for submissions Features: (1) Ten Turing Award winners, a Templeton Award winner and Garry Kasparov as invited speakers (2) 20,000 pounds worth best paper award program, including 5,000 pounds best paper award (3) Three panels and two public lectures (4) Turing Fellowship award ceremony (5) and many more ... For more details please check http://www.turing100.manchester.ac.uk/. SPEAKERS Confirmed invited speakers: - Fred Brooks (University of North Carolina) - Rodney Brooks (MIT) - Vint Cerf (Google) - Ed Clarke (Carnegie Mellon University) - Jack Copeland (University of Canterbury, New Zealand) - George Francis Rayner Ellis (University of Cape Town) - David Ferrucci (IBM) - Tony Hoare (Microsoft Research) - Garry Kasparov (Kasparov Chess Foundation) - Don Knuth (Stanford University) - Yuri Matiyasevich (Institute of Mathematics, St. Petersburg) - Roger Penrose (Oxford) - Adi Shamir (Weizmann Institute of Science) - Michael Rabin (Harvard) - Leslie Valiant (Harvard) - Manuela M. Veloso (Carnegie Mellon University) - Andrew Yao (Tsinghua University) Confirmed panel speakers: - Ron Brachman (Yahoo Labs) - Steve Furber (The University of Manchester) - Carole Goble (The University of Manchester) - Pat Hayes (Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, Pensacola) - Bertrand Meyer (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) - Moshe Vardi (Rice University) SUBMISSIONS: Submissions are welcome in all areas related to the work of Alan Turing in computer science, mathematics, cognitive science and mathematical biology. A non-exclusive list of topics is shown below: - computation theory - logic in computation - artificial intelligence - social aspects of computation - models of computation - program analysis - mathematics of evolution and emergence - knowledge processing - natural language processing - cryptography - machine learning See http://www.turing100.manchester.ac.uk/index.php/submission for more details. BEST PAPER AWARDS: A subset of poster session submissions will be selected as candidates for best paper awards: - The best paper award of 5,000 pounds - The best young researcher best paper award of 3,000 pounds - The second best paper award of 2,500 pounds - The second best young researcher best paper award of 1,500 pounds - Sixteen (16) awards of 500 pounds each See http://www.turing100.manchester.ac.uk/index.php/submission/bestpaper for more details. REGISTRATION: The number of participants is limited. Register early to avoid disappointment! DATES: February 23: Paper submission opens March 1: Registration opens March 15: Extended abstract submission deadline March 29: Poster session notification and selection of candidates for the best paper awards April 20: Full versions of papers selected for the best paper awards May 1: Final versions of poster session papers May 21: Best paper award decisions May 28: Final versions of papers selected for the best paper awards June 22-25: Conference CHAIRS: Honorary Chairs: Rodney Brooks (MIT) Roger Penrose (Oxford) Conference Chairs: Matthias Baaz (Vienna University of Technology) Andrei Voronkov (The University of Manchester) Turing Fellowships Chair: Barry Cooper (University of Leeds) Programme Chair Andrei Voronkov (The University of Manchester) __________________________________________________________________ The Alan Turing Year http://www.turingcentenary.eu/ --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 23:32:12 +0000 From: Cherice Montgomery Subject: THATCamp Rocky Mountain, March 30-31, 2012 In-Reply-To: <4F184A04.6080902@univie.ac.at> There is still time to sign up for Rocky Mountain THATCamp, a free, user-generated “unconference” that brings together researchers, practitioners, technologists, and scholars working in the digital arts, humanities, and technologies. Technology is reshaping the reading and writing tools and spaces in which “texts” are created, stored, distributed, and consumed. Changes related to the digitization of information, the democratization and commodification of participation, and the modification and distribution of creative works are challenging extant notions of authority, authorship, creativity, education, intellectual property rights, publication, and tenure and promotion. This “unconference” brings researchers, practitioners, technologists, and scholars working in the digital arts, humanities, and technologies together to identify and explore the possibilities that openness offers for working, playing, living, and learning in the 21st Century. Our theme is OpenTHAT. During the conference, you’ll collaborate with colleagues to discuss the extent to which “openness” matters as you:  experience the creative possibilities of open access, open APIs, open data initiatives, open courseware, open education, open peer review, open publishing, and open source tools  explore the implications of phenomenon such as crowdsourcing, mashups, and transliteracy for communicating, collaborating, and creatively contributing to work in the Digital Humanities  engage with questions about the social and cultural impact of the changing nature of reading and writing spaces and related issues of access, authority, authorship, intellectual property laws, participation, privacy, and publication  envision new possibilities for working, playing, living and learning in a 21st Century world  enlarge/extend definitions of the Digital Humanities  expand your perspectives on designing powerful learning environments and experiences in the humanities There is no cost to participate. Applications are being accepted from February 1-28, 2012 (or until all slots are filled). Apply online at our registration page: http://rockymountain2012.thatcamp.org/registration/ (If you are only able to attend for portions, please indicate that when you register.) Follow us on Twitter: #THATCampUtah Cherice Montgomery, Ph.D. Dept. of Spanish & Portuguese 3177 Joseph F. Smith Building Brigham Young University Provo, Utah  84602 801-422-3465  (Office) cherice_montgomery@byu.edu _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Feb 29 07:24:02 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32E6E2D569; Wed, 29 Feb 2012 07:24:02 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 90C7A2D555; Wed, 29 Feb 2012 07:23:55 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120229072355.90C7A2D555@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 07:23:55 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.765 TEI: Omeka; correspondence; & taking it further X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 765. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Constantinescu Nicolaie (53) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.763 TEI & Omeka? [2] From: Julia Flanders (39) Subject: call for participation: Taking TEI Further [3] From: Mandy Gagel (7) Subject: TEI correspondence mark-up examples --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 11:07:32 +0200 From: Constantinescu Nicolaie Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.763 TEI & Omeka? In-Reply-To: <20120228063258.C3F122DBC1@woodward.joyent.us> Thank you for this! On 28 February 2012 08:32, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: >                 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 763. >            Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London >                       www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist >                Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > >        Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 21:10:59 -0600 >        From: Tanya Clement >        Subject: TEIDisplay: Displaying TEI documents in Omeka > > > Dear TEI and Omeka enthusiasts, > > Are you hankering for an easy way to incorporate TEI documents into your > Omeka installation? I am advising two of my graduate students, Carin > Yavorcik and Zane Schwarzlose, at the iSchool at the University of Texas > at Austin who are working with UVA's Scholars' Lab (under the direction > of Bethany Nowviskie and Wayne Graham) to update the Omeka plug-in > TEIDisplay (see more at > http://www.scholarslab.org/announcements/collaborative-mentoring-at-ut-and > -uva-co-developing-an-updated-teidisplay-for-omeka/). Carin and Zane are > working to make the tool useful such that users can upload TEI documents > that will display within the Omeka interface. As well they are creating > simplified templates and documentation for teaching or at cultural > heritage institutions with few resources for training new users. > > I hope those who are interested in such a tool (and documentation) might > visit their post at DHanswers to let them know what might be useful: > http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/topic/how-do-you-display-tei-documents-online > > Thank you in advance for your time-- > Tanya > > Tanya Clement > Assistant Professor, School of Information > University of Texas, Austin > tclement@ischool.utexas.edu > 512.232.2980 -- Constantinescu Nicolaie Information Architect http://www.kosson.ro --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 12:54:36 -0500 From: Julia Flanders Subject: call for participation: Taking TEI Further In-Reply-To: <20120228063258.C3F122DBC1@woodward.joyent.us> The Brown University Women Writers Project is now accepting applications for three advanced NEH-funded institutes on "Taking TEI Further": Taking TEI Further: TEI Customization Brown University, June 25-27, 2012 Application deadline: April 1, 2012 Taking TEI Further: Teaching with TEI Brown University, August 20-22, 2012 Application deadline: June 1, 2012 Taking TEI Further: Publishing and Transforming TEI Data Brown University, December 10-12, 2012 Application deadline: September 1, 2012 **Travel funding is available of up to $500 per participant, up to $1000 for graduate student participants.** These seminars assume a basic familiarity with TEI, and provide an opportunity to explore specific topics in more detail, in a collaborative workshop setting. These seminars are part of a series funded by the NEH and conducted by the Brown University Women Writers Project. They are aimed at people who are already involved in a text encoding project or are in the process of planning one, and are intended to provide a more in-depth look at specific challenges in using TEI data effectively. Each event will include a mix of presentations, discussion, case studies using participants' projects, hands-on practice, and individual consultation. The seminars will be strongly project-based: participants will present their projects to the group, discuss specific challenges and solutions, develop encoding specifications and documentation, and create sample materials (such as syllabi, docmentation, etc., as appropriate to the event). We encourage project teams and collaborative groups to apply, although individuals are also welcome. A basic knowledge of the TEI Guidelines and some prior experience with text encoding will be assumed. For more detailed information and to apply, please visit http://www.wwp.brown.edu/encoding/seminars/ Best wishes, Julia Julia Flanders Director, Women Writers Project Brown University --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 20:08:36 -0600 From: Mandy Gagel Subject: TEI correspondence mark-up examples In-Reply-To: <20120228063258.C3F122DBC1@woodward.joyent.us> Hello all, I am currently researching different ways to markup a series of 19th correspondence in TEI. I keep in touch with the TEI SIG wiki for it and have looked at projects I admire, but I would really like to find some digital editions of letters that show their tei/xml markup, i.e, ones where you can choose this view as an option when reading their transcriptions of the letters. Any suggestions would be helpful! Mandy Gagel, phd Loyola University, Chicago feel free to email me at mandygagel@gmail.com Sent from my iPad _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Feb 29 07:24:45 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE5582D5A6; Wed, 29 Feb 2012 07:24:45 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 40D7A2D59B; Wed, 29 Feb 2012 07:24:38 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20120229072438.40D7A2D59B@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 07:24:38 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.766 job at De Montfort X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 766. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 16:52:04 +0100 (CET) From: "fmeschini@tin.it" Subject: Job at De Montfort University, Leicester UK This is the ad for a position as a Lecture in English Literature/Digital Humanities at DMU in Leicester which looks quite interesting https://jobs.dmu.ac.uk/webrecruitment/Default.asp?Section=Vacancy&VacID=7158 Fede _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Feb 29 07:25:21 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7FBE2D5E0; Wed, 29 Feb 2012 07:25:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 2C6662D5D0; Wed, 29 Feb 2012 07:25:18 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120229072518.2C6662D5D0@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 07:25:18 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.767 events: AI doctoral consortium X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 767. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 17:53:42 +0000 From: Daniel Sonntag Subject: KI 2012 - Doctoral Consortium KI 2012 DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM =========================== KI 2012, Saarbrücken, Germany, 24-27 September, http://www.dfki.de/KI2012/ CALL FOR APPLICATIONS The German Conference on Artificial Intelligence traditionally brings together academic and industrial researchers from all areas of AI. The technical program of presentations, workshops, and tutorials is complemented by a doctoral consortium that invites participation by PhD students at any stage and from any subject area within AI. The goals of the doctoral consortium are - to provide PhD students with the opportunity to present their ongoing research and receive feedback from established researchers; - to promote networking among PhD students and AI researchers in general, both on a national and an international level; - to support students with information and advice on academic, research, and industrial careers. The doctoral consortium is implemented as a student mentoring program that introduces students to senior researchers in the relevant fields. Students accepted for the Doctoral Consortium will participate also in the main KI 2012 conference and are waived registration fee. SUBMISSION INFORMATION To apply for the KI 2012 doctoral consortium, please send the following documents by email to clu@uni-bremen.de: - An abstract of your thesis, formatted according to the KI guidelines, that describes the problem being addressed, the motivation for addressing the problem, the progress made to date, the proposed plan of further research, and related work. The abstract is limited to three pages. - A short CV (at most 2 pages) that covers background (name, university, supervisor), education (degree sought, year/status in degree, previous degrees), employment, and relevant experience in research (publications, presentations, conferences attended). - Optionally, you can suggest potential mentors who could give you advice on technical aspects of your work and on your career. IMPORTANT DATES July 9, 2012 Application deadline August 31, 2012 Acceptance notification September 24-27, 2012 Doctoral consortium (one day) For inquiries, please contact Carsten Lutz Universität Bremen clu@uni-bremen.de _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Feb 29 07:49:22 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3878C2D939; Wed, 29 Feb 2012 07:49:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 72C842D928; Wed, 29 Feb 2012 07:49:19 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120229074919.72C842D928@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 07:49:19 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.768 CS and the disciplines? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 768. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 07:42:32 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: relations Peter Denning, who has spent considerable energies on explaining computer science to others, published an article, "The Great Principles of Computing" in The American Scientist for September-October 2010 that is decorated with an interesting cartoon. I attach it here (see below, with apologies for the poor quality of the image). Apart from the amusing assignment of the disciplines of the humanities and interpretative social sciences to (I presume) "natural history", which has nothing better to do than to eat grapes, note the position of computing (his name for computer science). How much consensus would you suppose that such positioning of CS would have among practitioners in that discipline? I find it interesting that in 2010 the organizing principles of computer science remain a topic for debate. Not a bad thing to be anxious about one's discipline, apparently. Comments? Yours, WM -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor (fractional), University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ *** Attachments: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1330501358_2012-02-29_willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk_23903.2.jpeg _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Mar 1 08:18:36 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 979232D7BE; Thu, 1 Mar 2012 08:18:36 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 28E6F2D79E; Thu, 1 Mar 2012 08:18:29 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120301081829.28E6F2D79E@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2012 08:18:29 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.769 computer science --> computing X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 769. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 06:44:30 -0600 (CST) From: Alan Corre Subject: 25.768 Relations In-Reply-To: <1955431154.1495965.1330518408626.JavaMail.root@mail12.pantherlink.uwm.edu> The first century Jewish sage Hillel, asked by a heathen to explain the whole Torah while standing on one foot replied: "What is hateful to you, do not do to others. This is the whole Torah, the rest is but commentary. Go study." Peter Denning did us a favour by giving the term 'computer science' a haircut. We have watched biology become biological sciences, physical training become motion sciences without any real addition to the sum of knowledge. The fact that computing stands on the tripod: sequence--iteration--condition was recognized moons ago by such minds as Babbidge, Ada, Turing, not to mention simple weavers. My friend and iconoclast George Davida, the cryptologist, whom government wonks once tried to muffle, commented to me that he wished his students would study the humanities and learn computing on the job, because the *details* change constantly. There is wisdom there. Alan Corre Emeritus professor of Hebrew Studies, UW-Milwaukee http://people.uwm.edu/corre *** In re: Peter Denning, who has spent considerable energies on explaining computer science to others, published an article, "The Great Principles of Computing" in The American Scientist for September-October 2010 that is decorated with an interesting cartoon. I attach it here (see below, with apologies for the poor quality of the image). Apart from the amusing assignment of the disciplines of the humanities and interpretative social sciences to (I presume) "natural history", which has nothing better to do than to eat grapes, note the position of computing (his name for computer science). How much consensus would you suppose that such positioning of CS would have among practitioners in that discipline? I find it interesting that in 2010 the organizing principles of computer science remain a topic for debate. Not a bad thing to be anxious about one's discipline, apparently. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Mar 1 08:21:01 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF09A2D869; Thu, 1 Mar 2012 08:21:00 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 935CF2D855; Thu, 1 Mar 2012 08:20:56 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120301082056.935CF2D855@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2012 08:20:56 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.770 TEI for correspondence: the Weber Gesamtausgabe X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 770. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 11:05:11 +0100 From: Peter Stadler Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.765 TEI: Omeka; correspondence; & taking it further In-Reply-To: <20120229072355.90C7A2D555@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Mandy, although our project is listed on the TEI SIG correspondence wiki I repeat to promote it here since it offers exactly the required functionality in providing "digital editions of letters that show their tei/xml markup". Here's a direct link to a letter from January 1817 (switch the different views by clicking the appropriate tab): http://www.weber-gesamtausgabe.de/de/A002068/Korrespondenz/A041001 All the best Peter Am 29.02.2012 um 08:23 schrieb Humanist Discussion Group: > --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 20:08:36 -0600 > From: Mandy Gagel > Subject: TEI correspondence mark-up examples > In-Reply-To: <20120228063258.C3F122DBC1@woodward.joyent.us> > > Hello all, > > I am currently researching different ways to markup a series of 19th correspondence in TEI. I keep in touch with the TEI SIG wiki for it and have looked at projects I admire, but I would really like to find some digital editions of letters that show their tei/xml markup, i.e, ones where you can choose this view as an option when reading their transcriptions of the letters. > > Any suggestions would be helpful! > > Mandy Gagel, phd > Loyola University, Chicago > feel free to email me at mandygagel@gmail.com -- Peter Stadler Carl-Maria-von-Weber-Gesamtausgabe Arbeitsstelle Detmold Gartenstr. 20 D-32756 Detmold Tel. +49 5231 975-665 Fax: +49 5231 975-668 stadler at weber-gesamtausgabe.de www.weber-gesamtausgabe.de _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Mar 1 08:21:43 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1A492D8A2; Thu, 1 Mar 2012 08:21:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id CA8E12D895; Thu, 1 Mar 2012 08:21:38 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120301082138.CA8E12D895@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2012 08:21:38 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.771 publications: rhetoric; scholarly editing X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 771. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Jim Ridolfo (30) Subject: Reminder: CFP: Rhetoric and the Digital Humanities deadline April 1, 2012 [2] From: Wim Van-Mierlo (66) Subject: Debut of Scholarly Editing: The Annual of the Association for Documentary Editing --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 16:12:34 +0200 From: Jim Ridolfo Subject: Reminder: CFP: Rhetoric and the Digital Humanities deadline April 1, 2012 Dear Colleagues, This is a reminder that the deadline for submitting chapter proposals for the edited collection _Rhetoric and the Digital Humanities_ is April 1, 2012. Please find the CFP information below and apologies for cross-posting. ------ Call For Proposals: _Rhetoric and the Digital Humanities_ Edited by Jim Ridolfo and William Hart-Davidson This edited collection will consist of an editors’ introduction and three sections. The first section will consist of eight to twelve chapters that define field connections between rhetoric and the digital humanities. The second section will consist of eight to twelve chapters focused on research methodology. The third section will include eight to twelve short vision statements, modeled after the NEH white paper genre, which offer several paths for exploring interdisciplinary trajectories between rhetorical studies and the digital humanities. Deadline for 500-750 word chapter proposals: April 1, 2012 (Notification by June 1, 2012) Date for full manuscripts: January, 2013 (Responses to manuscripts by April, 2013) Please find the full CFP here: http://rid.olfo.org/cfp/ Regards, Jim and Bill -- Jim Ridolfo, PhD 2012 Fulbright Middle East and North Africa Regional Research Scholar Assistant Professor of Composition and Rhetoric University of Cincinnati http://rid.olfo.org | twitter.com/ridolfoj | +1 (740) RID-OLFO --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 19:24:03 +0000 From: Wim Van-Mierlo Subject: Debut of Scholarly Editing: The Annual of the Association for Documentary Editing -----Original Message----- > From: SHARP-L Society for the History of Authorship, Reading & Publishing [mailto:SHARP-L@LISTSERV.INDIANA.EDU] On Behalf Of Germaine Warkentin > Sent: 25 February 2012 19:33 > Subject: Debut of Scholarly Editing: The Annual of the Association for > Documentary Editing We are delighted to announce the debut of Scholarly Editing: The Annual of the Association for Documentary Editing, now online at scholarlyediting.org http://scholarlyediting.org/ . Published for over 30 years as a print publication titled Documentary Editing, Scholarly Editing continues to publish articles about the theory and practice of editing and reviews of new editions. In addition to this material, Scholarly Editing offers new, innovative content: the journal is among the first--if not the first--to publish peer-reviewed *editions* of primary source materials of cultural significance. We are pleased not only to present editors with a rigorously peer-reviewed publication platform, but also to share fascinating documents from cultural history with the reading public. All of this material is available freely online and is completely open-access. Sincerely, Amanda Gailey and Andrew Jewell, editors Contents for the 2012 issue: Introduction: * "Introduction to the First Issue of /Scholarly Editing: The Annualof the Association for Documentary Editing/" by Amanda Gailey (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) and Andrew Jewell (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) Editions: * "The Inscription of Walt Whitman's 'Live Oak, with Moss' Sequence: A Restorative Edition" edited by Steven Olsen-Smith (Boise State University) * "Selection from Harriet Beecher Stowe's /Uncle Tom's Cabin/: A Digital Critical Edition: 'Topsy'" edited by Wesley Raabe (Kent State University) and Les Harrison (Virginia Commonwealth University) * "'The Firstling/Erstling/He Complex' by Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven" edited by Tanya Clement (University of Texas, Austin) and Gaby Divay (University of Manitoba) Essays: * "Musical Works, Musical Texts, and Musical Editions: A Brief Overview" by Ronald Broude (The Broude Trust) * "A 'Succession of Little Occurrences': Scholarly Editing and the Organization of Time in John Tanner's /Narrative"/ by John Fierst (Central Michigan University) * "The Common Pot: Editing Native American Materials" by Paul Grant-Costa (Yale University), Tobias Glaza (Yale University), and Michael Sletcher (Yale University) * "Documentary Editing in the New Scholarly Ecosystem" (Presidential Address, Association for Documentary Editing Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2011) by Susan H. Perdue (University of Virginia) Reviews: * /The Having of Negroes Is Become a Burden: The Quaker Struggle to Free Slaves in Revolutionary North Carolina/ By Michael J. Crawford. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2010. Reviewed by Donna E. Kelly (North Carolina Office of Archives and History) * /Reminiscences & Traditions of Boston/. By Hannah Mather Crocker. Edited by Eileen Hunt Botting and Sarah L. Houser. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2011. Reviewed by Beverly Wilson Palmer (Pomona College) * Recent Editions. Compiled by W. Bland Whitley, Reviews Editor (Princeton University) -- Amanda Gailey Assistant Professor Department of English Center for Digital Research in the Humanities University of Nebraska 202 Andrews Hall Lincoln, NE 68588 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Mar 1 08:22:27 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 644F52D8EE; Thu, 1 Mar 2012 08:22:27 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 5AB692D8D8; Thu, 1 Mar 2012 08:22:22 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120301082222.5AB692D8D8@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2012 08:22:22 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.772 events: Rockwell & Wong in Dublin X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 772. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 13:56:42 +0000 From: Shawn Day Subject: DH Forum Event - 'Geoffrey Rockwell & Curtis Wong: In Conversation' DH Forum Event Please join us for 'Geoffrey Rockwell & Curtis Wong: In Conversation' Moderated by Patrick Geoghegan Date: Tuesday 6th March Time: 2:30 - 4:00 p.m. Location: Neill/Hoey Lecture Theatre, Trinity Long Room Hub Narrative has always been shaped by technology, from the beginnings of written traditions through the newspaper serial and the rise of cinema. Modern information and communication technologies have also changed our expectations about narrative, privileging the non-linear, hypertextual, exploratory and the visual. No longer bound by the conventions of print or film, narrative in the digital age is multi-modal and multivalent. Geoffrey Rockwell (Professor of Philosophy and Humanities Computing at the University of Alberta, Canada) and Curtis Wong (Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research) will be exploring the impact of new modes of storytelling, from serious gaming to text-message novels, on modes of learning and teaching, on the creation of web resources, and on our expectations of older media. Dr. Geoffrey Martin Rockwell is a Professor of Philosophy and Humanities Computing at the University of Alberta, Canada. From 1994 to 2008 he was at McMaster University where he was the Director of the Humanities Media and Computing Centre (1994 - 2004) and he led the development of an undergraduate Multimedia program. He has published and presented papers in the area of philosophical dialogue, textual visualization and analysis, humanities computing, instructional technology, computer games and multimedia including a book, Defining Dialogue: From Socrates to the Internet. He is currently the Director of the Canadian Institute for Research in Computing and the Arts and a network investigator in the GRAND Network of Centres of Excellence that is studying gaming, animation and new media. Curtis Wong is a Principal Researcher in eScience at Microsoft Research. Curtis is the co-creator of the WorldWide Telescope, an interactive virtual learning environment with the highest resolution multispectral imagery of the universe. He collaborated with Bill Gates to create Project Tuva, featuring the lectures of Nobel Laureate Richard Feynman in an interactive, richly annotated hypermedia player for just in time learning. Curtis’s work has been recognized with a British Academy Award for Online Learning, Emmy nominations and twice selected by Time Magazine for the “Best of the Web” and many other industry awards. Dr Patrick Geoghegan is an Associate Professor and Senior Lecturer in History at Trinity College Dublin and an expert on the Anglo-Irish relationship in the late-eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Committed to all aspects of outreach and engagement with society, he also presents the award-winning weekly history programme, Talking History, on Newstalk radio. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Mar 2 09:07:42 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 379EB2DB7F; Fri, 2 Mar 2012 09:07:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 95A182DB70; Fri, 2 Mar 2012 09:07:37 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120302090737.95A182DB70@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2012 09:07:37 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.773 CS and the disciplines X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 773. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2012 12:42:06 +0100 From: procchi@luiss.it Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.768 CS and the disciplines? Why digital humanists make a lot of discussion about potentialities and limitations of digital equipment? About the relations between ancient techniques and new technologies? About their own roles? Etc. The answer is easy. This large amount of queries arises within the digital-humanist community basically because of the lack of clear principles on computing. The difference between the principles of a science and the common knowledge on that science is similar to the difference extant between gold and the gravel of a river bed. The principles of a scientific discipline sum up the knowledge of that discipline. The principles reveal the substantial advantages carried on by the technologies derived by that discipline. Computer theorists did not yet define clear principles; that’s why humanists often merge futile details with heavy topics, they see a rather fuzzy professional scenario, etc. Researchers on the principles of CS are still in progress and digital humanists should push toward the conclusion of this activity which will provide precious outcomes for them as the principles of computing will enrich all of us both in technical and cultural terms. Paolo Rocchi Docent Emeritus IBM via Shangai 53, 00144 Roma Professor LUISS University via Alberoni 7, 00198 Roma ----- Original Message ----- From: Humanist Discussion Group Date: Wednesday, February 29, 2012 8:49 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 Fri Mar 2 09:14:24 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21EDD2DC8B; Fri, 2 Mar 2012 09:14:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A9A612DC62; Fri, 2 Mar 2012 09:14:18 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120302091418.A9A612DC62@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2012 09:14:18 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.774 events: media work at MLA2013; language & facts of what we could be for X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 774. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Jascha Kessler (9) Subject: Fwd: "The (Technological) University We Could Be For," March 7, 2012 [2] From: dene grigar (249) Subject: Call for Media Work--MLA 2013 Convention --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 20:10:45 -0800 From: Jascha Kessler Subject: Fwd: "The (Technological) University We Could Be For," March 7, 2012 Dear Willard, I just got this local announcement. The lingo is all hifalutin technogabble, and you can recognize it in your bailiwick; but....to talk about "Bishop Newman" tells me I can have nothing to do with those who start from simple nescience.... I hope this gives you a little knowing chuckle. Jascha K. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- "The (Technological) University We Could Be For" Wednesday, March 7, 2012 | 3:30-5:30 PM 135 Humanities Instructional Building, UC Irvine - with - Geof Bowker, Informatics, UC Irvine Beth Coleman, Comparative Media Studies, MIT Johanna Drucker, Information Studies, UCLA Christopher Newfield, English, UC Santa Barbara Nishant Shah, Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore The academy has been under considerable pressure recently, both fiscally and fueled by new pressures on knowledge formation, pedagogical delivery, and organizational form. This has understandably prompted both anxiety and critical responses among faculty, students, research and administrative staff. The university has come into question, both within and without. By contrast, there has been much less elaboration about the university to which we should be for, that which we aspire to work together to promote, whether in the tradition of Bishop Newman's or Jaroslav Jan Pelikan's reflections on "the idea of the university" or in Jacques Derrida's critical conception of the university without condition. There has been considerable discussion about long-distance learning, but but other technological impacts have been arguably more far-reaching and profound. This distinguished panel will lead a discussion of "the university we are for," focusing especially on the impacts new technologies are having on pedagogy and institutional structure, on research and engagement in and across the academy. Please join us in this series on what should be a dynamic discussion of a set of issues crucial to the contemporary academy. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2012 16:33:11 -0800 From: dene grigar Subject: Call for Media Work--MLA 2013 Convention Call for Works “Avenues of Access: A Juried Exhibit & Online Archive of New ‘Born Digital’ Literature” January 3-6, 2013 Boston, MA Exhibit Website: http://dtc-wsuv.org/elit/mla2013 (Coming March 15, 2012) Curated by Dr. Dene Grigar, Vice President, Electronic Literature Organization; Associate Professor and Director, The Creative Media & Digital Culture Program, dgrigar@vancouver.wsu.edu, http://www.nouspace.net/dene; and Dr. Kathi Inman Berens, Visiting Professor of Communication, Annenberg School of Communication at the University of Southern California, kathiberens@gmail.com; kathiiberens.com; @kathiiberens Description “Avenues of Access: A Juried Exhibit & Online Archive of New ‘Born Digital’ Literature” is a media art exhibit that will be held in conjunction with the MLA 2013 Convention and feature new works of born digital literature. In particular, we are looking for works in five different categories: *Multimodal Narrative *Multimodal Poetry *Literary Games *E-Essay *Mobile/Locative Works The length of works (e.g. videos, animations) should not exceed 20 minutes viewing time per entry. Because of the limitation of space, all works must be able to be exhibited via a computer screen or mobile device. We cannot accommodate live performances or large installations requiring projections at the exhibit site. We will accept no more than two works per author. Special Note: All submissions must be accessible via the web. If accepted, desktop works must be made available via CD or DVD. Because we are asking for new works, submissions must not have been previously published. Mobile works submitted to the show must be made available for free to jurors. The MLA will not purchase works for this exhibit. For insights into the kind of work to submit or for examples of born digital work, visit the website for “Electronic Literature: MLA 2012” located at http://dtc-wsuv.org/mla2012. Archived at that site are 160 works featured at last year’s conference. Born Digital Literature Defined Born digital literature, or what is also referred to as “electronic literature,” is an emergent literary form and academic field, within the digital humanities, whose genesis in the U.S. can be traced to the 1989 work by Michael Joyce, afternoon: a story. Defined as works created with the use of a computer in such a way that they cannot be experienced without the mediation of an electronic device and, so, is considered “born digital,” electronic literature may feature sound, images, animation, and video––along with “the written word.” As a field it has been built through organizations like the Electronic Literature Organization (eliterature.org), which sponsors meetings and conferences, publishes works, and leads projects for developing, archiving, and promoting this genre of literature; online journals like The New River (www.cddc.vt.edu/journals/newriver/10fall/index.html), Drunken Boat (www.drunkenboat.com/ ) and Hyperrhiz (www.hyperrhiz.net/); print publications like N. Katherine Hayles’ Writing Machines and Electronic Literature, Nick Montfort’s Twisty Little Passages, and Jan Van Looy and Jan Baetens’ Close Reading New Media; and online sites like ALTX (www.altx.com/home.html) and Authoring Software (www.narrabase.net). Exhibit Features The 2013 exhibit will feature: *A rich, online archive of the event that will make resources easily accessible for research and teaching *Undergraduate docents who will help visitors to the exhibit with access to the technology and works *A special evening of readings and performances by artists selected for the show *A formal launch party that will build excitement for the exhibit and build community among MLA members To gain a better understanding of the way this exhibit will be organized, visit last year’s exhibit website at http://dtc-wsuv.org/mla2012. Exhibit Dates and Times Friday, 4 January, 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Saturday, 5 January, 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Sunday, 6 January, 9:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. The exhibit closes on Sunday afternoon. It will not be open on Thursday. Visiting the Exhibit/Membership All visitors to the exhibit must pay appropriate conference fees. As in the case of presentations at the conference, all authors who have work accepted to the exhibit must become members of the MLA (or have their membership waived by special petition) by April 7, 2013. From "Convention Participant FAQs" http://www.mla.org/conv_sessionpartfaqs “At the discretion of the executive director, waivers of the membership requirement may be granted for nonscholars (e.g., medical doctors, visual artists, etc.) and scholars who work in disciplines other than language and literature. An individual may be granted a waiver once every five years. Waived nonmembers cannot organize or chair a session. If you are not an MLA member and think you are eligible for a waiver of membership, contact your session organizer as soon as possible. The request for a waiver of membership must be made by the session organizer and must be submitted on the Request for a Waiver of Membership form by 1 April for the following January's convention. If a waiver is not granted, the prospective participant may still become an MLA member by the 7 April membership deadline to participate in the session.” Jury Process The jury for this exhibit will be comprised of experts of born digital literature drawn from the MLA membership. They will be organized into teams and assigned to evaluate a category relating to their own areas of expertise. Works chosen will reflect excellence in several categories, including originality, professional quality, compelling content, accessibility, and appropriateness to the categories outlined in the call for works. Authors who have works accepted will be required to provide 1) description of work, 2) thumbnail of the work, and 3) author bio for each work accepted for the exhibit website. Expenses No funds are available to cover authors’ expenses. Authors are responsible for shipping CDs and DVDs. Authors who want materials returned must provide a SASE. Guidelines for Submissions Submissions will be taken beginning February 25, 2012 and are due April 15, 2012, by 11:59 p.m. To submit, send URLs to mla13elit@gmail.com. Please do not email work samples. No work will be considered if it arrives via email. Works must be finished at the time of jurying. Deadlines Submission: April 15, 2012, by 11:59 p.m. Materials in for Web Archive: September 1, 2012 For more information, contact Dr. Dene Grigar & Kathi Inman Berens dgrigar@vancouver.wsu.edu 360-546-9487 Dene Grigar, Director and Associate Professor DTC@Creative Media and Digital Culture Washington State University Vancouver 14202 NE Salmon Creek Ave. Vancouver, WA 98686 360-546-9487 dgrigar@mac.com http://www.nouspace.net/dene _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Mar 4 08:22:35 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8EC52740D5; Sun, 4 Mar 2012 08:22:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 08AFE2740C0; Sun, 4 Mar 2012 08:22:29 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20120304082230.08AFE2740C0@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2012 08:22:29 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.775 CS and the disciplines X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 775. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2012 17:14:10 +0000 From: Richard Lewis Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.768 CS and the disciplines? In-Reply-To: <20120229074919.72C842D928@woodward.joyent.us> At Wed, 29 Feb 2012 07:42:32 +0000, Willard McCarty wrote: > I find it interesting that in 2010 the organizing principles of > computer science remain a topic for debate. Not a bad thing to be > anxious about one's discipline, apparently. Two things to mention: 1) Hal Abelson's first lecture in the Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs series begins with a good introduction deconstructing the title of the discipline: I'd like to welcome you to this course on computer science. Actually it's a terrible way to start. "Computer Science" is a terrible name for this business, first of all, it's not a "science", it might be "engineering" or it might be "art", but I actually see that computer, so-called science, has a lot in common with magic. And you will see that in this course. So it's not a science, it's also not very much about computers. And it's not about computers in the same sense that physics is not really about particle accelerators. and biology is not really about microscope and petri dishes. and it's not about computer in the same sense that geometry is not really about using surveying instrument. In fact, there is a lot of commonality between computer science and geometry. Geometry, first of all, is another subject with a lousy name. For the name comes from gaia, meaning the Earth, and metro- meaning 'to measure', Geometry originally meant measuring Earth, or surveying And the reason for that was that thousands of years ago, the Egyptian priesthood developed the rudiment of geometry in order to figure out how to restore the boundaries of fields that were destroyed by the annual flood of the Nile. And to the Egyptians who did that, Geometry really was the use of surveying instruments. Now the reason that we think computer science is about computers is pretty much the same reason the Egyptians thought Geometry was about surveying instruments and that is, when some field is just getting started and you don't really understand it very well its very easy to confuse the essence of what you're doing with the tools that you use and indeed, on some absolute scale of things we probably know less about the essence of Computer Science than the ancient Egyptians really knew about Geometry. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQLUPjefuWA (transcript from http://dotsub.com/view/d337c688-0500-4b38-aba5-c3c67f17f7a7) 2) The Computing Department at Goldsmiths' was deliberately so called when renamed from Mathematics because the intended emphasis was on applied computing. It seems someone felt that computer science was not the same thing as its applications. Richard -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Richard Lewis ISMS, Computing Goldsmiths, University of London Tel: +44 (0)20 7078 5134 Skype: richardjlewis JID: ironchicken@jabber.earth.li http://www.richardlewis.me.uk/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Mar 4 08:24:06 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EB27274123; Sun, 4 Mar 2012 08:24:05 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C01CA274112; Sun, 4 Mar 2012 08:23:59 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20120304082359.C01CA274112@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2012 08:23:59 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.776 job at North Texas X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 776. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2012 13:49:59 +0000 From: Gail McMillan Subject: Position Opening: Digital Preservation Programmer, UNT Libraries Greetings, Apologies for cross-posting. We are seeking a programmer for an exciting group of projects. Come join our team at one of the top ten digital libraries in North America! POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT TITLE: Digital Preservation Programmer (IT Programmer Analyst II), University of North Texas Libraries Apply at: http://jobs.unt.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=57581 Reporting directly to the Dean of Libraries, this position leads the technical development efforts for several major collaborative digital preservation initiatives being separately funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), and the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). The Chronicles in Preservation project (NEH), and the Lifecycle Management of Electronic Theses and Dissertations project (IMLS) are studying curation/preservation needs and workflows related to two types of digital content of priority and importance to research libraries and cultural heritage institutions-digital newspapers and Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs). SUMMARY OF POSITION This position will implement and refine digital preservation software systems and solutions in collaboration with extended project teams at multiple institutions, develop and deploy a suite of tools, services, and workflows for the curation and preservation of selected digital materials, test and refine all project programming developments, install, maintain and upgrade computer software on workstations and servers for purposes of research and development, and provide assistance to project staff and partners as appropriate for computer support of project-related research and development. Other duties and tasks will be assigned and completed accordingly. The incumbent in this position will possess strong software engineering skills and enjoy thriving in a fast-paced environment of change. This position will need an individual to have a strong service orientation with a desire to stay abreast of leading technology information. Minimum qualifications for the position: The successful candidate will possess a Bachelor's Degree with coursework in computing or information systems and three years of progressively responsible computer programming and analysis experience; or any equivalent combination of education, training and experience. See position description on http://jobs.unt.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=57581 for full details on position qualifications. Special Instructions to Applicants: Please submit a resume, cover letter and three professional references with the online application. **Willing to consider applicants located in other cities that are able to periodically come on campus for coordination of work assignments** About UNT: The digital library repository of the UNT Libraries is ranked in the top 10 repositories in North America. The University Libraries house print and electronic collections of almost 6 million cataloged items, in five libraries located in five separate facilities. For more information, about our department and strategic vision please visit our website at http://digital.library.unt.edu/ POSITION AVAILABLE: March 1, 2012. Applications will be reviewed until position is closed. To apply, please submit a letter of application, vita, and names, addresses (e-mail address helpful if available), and phone numbers of at least three professional references to http://jobs.unt.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=57581 The University of North Texas is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Institution committed to diversity in its employment and educational programs, thereby creating a welcoming environment for everyone. Best regards, Martin Halbert, PhD, MLIS Dean of Libraries and Associate Professor University of North Texas, 1155 Union Circle #305190, Denton, TX, 76203 (ph) 940-565-3025 (web) http://dean.library.unt.edu Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness. - Martin Luther King -- <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> Gail McMillan Director, Digital Library and Archives http://scholar.lib.vt.edu (540) 231-9252 University Libraries, Virginia Tech _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Mar 4 08:25:06 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD6A327418F; Sun, 4 Mar 2012 08:25:05 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 7BFDA274172; Sun, 4 Mar 2012 08:25:01 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120304082501.7BFDA274172@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2012 08:25:01 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.777 children's stories online? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 777. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2012 14:41:49 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: the Three Little Pigs In a witty promotion of their open journalism policy, The Guardian has created a 21st-century urban version of The Three Little Pigs, which you may view at http://tinyurl.com/6qx8ttw. Apart from being too brief for bedtime viewing with one's small children, I wonder how they would react. And this leads to a bigger question: how has bedtime reading been affected by our beloved medium? Yours, WM -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor (fractional), University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Mar 4 08:28:24 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id B94B827426B; Sun, 4 Mar 2012 08:28:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 4337A27425B; Sun, 4 Mar 2012 08:28:20 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120304082820.4337A27425B@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2012 08:28:20 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.778 events: H-Net; archaeology; Victorian books; social media X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 778. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Florin Isaila (52) Subject: Call for Papers: Workshop on Social Media Processing (SocMP) -Deadline: 13th of March [2] From: Tom Brughmans (87) Subject: The Connected Past: registration ends 12 March [3] From: Seth Denbo (28) Subject: Seminar Reminder - Tuesday 6 March, 2012 - Dan Cohen 'Finding Meaning in a Million Victorian Books' [4] From: Charles Muller (83) Subject: CFP: H-Net at 20 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2012 09:54:39 +0000 From: Florin Isaila Subject: Call for Papers: Workshop on Social Media Processing (SocMP) -Deadline: 13th of March Second Call for Papers: Workshop on Social Media Processing (SocMP) ============================================================ Held in Conjunction with ACM HPDC'12, Delft, the Netherlands, June 18/19, 2012. Workshop Theme User-generated social media such as blogs, podcasts, shared photos and videos, wikis, online gaming communities and online social networks have grown to over half a billion users today. To exploit the massive amount of social data exposed by such systems requires not only social network analysis, but also large-scale image processing, video encoding, generic information retrieval and management, knowledge mining and discovery, building and matching user profiles for web advertising, etc. Processing information about a world-wide, loosely-connected network of social media users poses a diverse set of challenges, ranging from traditional high-performance distributed computing topics (e.g., scalability, elasticity, reliability) to domain-specific processing (e.g., methods for big data analytics and graph mining at scale.) The First Workshop on Social Media Processing (SocMP'12) solicits papers that address the data management and processing challenges raised by running and mining large-scale social media platforms from a systems and infrastructure-oriented perspective. The workshop will be co-located with ACM/IEEE HPDC [ http://www.hpdc.org/2012/ ] and will take place in June 2012 in Delft, The Netherlands. SocMP'12 will bring together researchers and practitioners in discussing and creating new knowledge about the social media infrastructure and methods of the future. Topics of Interest The topics of interest for SocMP'12 include, but are not limited to: * Techniques for the collection of social media data; * System architectures for social media processing; * Methods for Social Media pre-processing and processing; * System architectures and methods for online or near-realtime social media processing; * Methods for multi-source social media processing; * Mechanisms that support specific data consistency models across multiple data centers; * Business logic and programming models for social media processing systems; * Autonomic management of social media processing systems; * Green computing and sustainability in social media processing systems; * Economic aspects of social media processing systems, in particular for third-party data processing; * Benchmarks, workload characterization and modeling, and testbeds for designing and analyzing social media processing systems; * Use cases, applications of social media processing (i.e., to science, engineering, and business), and experience with deployed artifacts focusing on the infrastructure; * Mathematical and analytical tools for designing and analyzing social media processing systems; * Simulation methods and tools for designing and analyzing social media processing systems. Important Dates * Submission deadline-March 13, 2012; * Author notification deadline-after March 26, 2012; * Camera-ready papers due-April 16, 2012; * The SocMP'12 Workshop: June 18 or 19. Organizing Committee, Program Committee Co-Chairs * Adriana Iamnitchi, University of South Florida, Florida, USA. Contact: anda@cse.usf.edu , http://www.cse.usf.edu/~anda/ * Alexandru Iosup, Delft University of Technology, Delft, the Netherlands. Contact: A.Iosup@tudelft.nl , http://www.pds.ewi.tudelft.nl/~iosup/research.html Program Committee * Pablo Cesar, CWI, the Netherlands * Tyson Condie, Yahoo! Research, USA * Anwitaman Datta, NTU Singapore, Singapore * Pawel Garbacki, Google, Mountain View Campus, USA * Florin Isaila, U. Carlos III de Madrid, Spain * Sameh Elnikety, Microsoft Research, USA * Thomas Karagiannis, Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK * Anne Marie Kermarrec, INRIA, Rennes Campus, France * Mayank Lahiri, Facebook, USA * Jussara Marques de Almeida, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil. Author Guidelines Authors are invited to submit technical papers of at most 6 pages in PDF format, including figures, tables, and references. Papers should be formatted in the ACM Proceedings Style [ http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates ] and submitted via the dedicated EasyChair-based web site [ http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=socmp2012 ]. All papers will receive at least three reviews. Accepted workshop papers will appear in the HPDC conference proceedings and will be incorporated in the ACM Digital Library. Submitted papers must be original work that has not appeared in and is not under consideration for another conference or journal. For more details, see the ACM Prior Publication Policy [ http://www.acm.org/publications/policies/sim_submissions ]. More Information For more information, check the workshop web site: [ http://www.pds.ewi.tudelft.nl/~iosup/socmp2012/index.html ] --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2012 12:51:11 +0000 From: Tom Brughmans Subject: The Connected Past: registration ends 12 March Hi all, In just a few weeks 'The Connected Past: people, networks and complexity in archaeology and history' will take place at the University of Southampton's Faculty of Humanities (24-25 March 2012). There are still a few places available, registration will remain open until Monday 12 March (http://connectedpast.soton.ac.uk/registration/). The full schedule is now available online (http://connectedpast.soton.ac.uk/schedule/) and included below this email. We are looking forward to contributed papers and posters by scholars from a wide range of disciplines, as well as to our keynote speakers Carl Knappett, Irad Malkin and Alex Bentley. More information on the event can be found online: http://connectedpast.soton.ac.uk/ Kind regards, Tom, Anna and Fiona http://connectedpast.soton.ac.uk/ Saturday 24 March 8-9.00 Registration 9-9.15 Introductions 9.15-10.00 First keynote 10-10.15 Coffee 10.15-11.30 First session: Theoretical and methodological concerns Tom Brughmans “Networks of networks: A critical review of formal network methods in archaeology through citation network analysis and close reading” Johannes Preiser-Kappeller “Luhmann in Byzantium. A systems theory approach for historical network analysis” Andrew Bevan “When nodes and edges dissolve. Incorporating geographic uncertainty into the analysis of settlement interactions” 11.30-11.45 Coffee 11.45-1 First session: Theoretical and methodological concerns Astrid Van Oyen “Actors as networks? How to make Actor-Network-Theory work for archaeology: on the reality of categories in the production of Roman terra sigillata” Søren Sindbæk “Contextual network synthesis: Reading communication in archaeology” Marten Düring “How reliable are centrality and clustering measures for data collected from fragmentary and heterogenuous historical sources? A case study” 1-1.45 Lunch and poster session 1.45-3 Second session: Big data and archaeology Barbara Mills et al. “Dynamic Network Analysis: Stability and Collapse in U.S. Southwest, A.D. 1200-1500″ Herbert Maschner et al. “Food-webs as network tools for investigating historic and prehistoric roles of humans as consumers in marine ecosystems” Mark Depauw and Bart Van Beek “Authority and Social Interaction in Graeco‐Roman Egypt” 3-3.15 Tea 3.15-4.55 Second session: Big data and archaeology Eivind Heldaas Seland “Travel and religion in late antiquity” Alessandro Quercia and Lin Foxhall “Weaving networks in pre-Roman South Italy. Using loom weight data to understand complex relationships and social identities” Angus Mol and Corinne Hofman “Networks Set in Stone: Lithic production and exchange in the early prehistoric northeastern Caribbean” Craig Alexander “Networks and intervisibility: a study of Iron Age Valcamonica” 4.55-5.10 Break 5.10-5.55 Second keynote (and wine reception) 6.00-7.00 Reception 7 onwards Dinner and drinks in The Crown pub Sunday 25 March 9-9.45 Third keynote 9.45-10 Coffee 10-11.15 Third session: Dynamic networks and modelling Ray Rivers “‪Can we always get what we want?” Anne Kandler and Fabio Caccioli “The effects of network structure on cultural change” Qiming Lv et al. “Network-based spatial-temporal modelling of the first arrival of prehistoric agriculture” 11.15-11.30 Coffee 11.30-12.45 Third session: Dynamic networks and modelling Tim Evans “Which Network Model Should I Use? A Quantitative Comparison of Spatial Network Models in Archaeology” Juan A. Barceló et al. “Simulating the Emergence of Social Networks of Restricted Cooperation in Prehistory. A Bayesian network approach” Marco Büchler “Generation of Text Graphs and Text Re-use Graphs from Massive Digital Data” 12.45-1.30 Lunch and poster session 1.30-2.45 Fourth session: Personal, political and migration networks Wilko Schroeter “The social marriage network of Europe’s ruling families from 1600-1900″ Ekaterini Mitsiou “Networks of state building: State collapses and aristocratic networks in the 13th century Eastern Mediterranean” Evi Gorogianni “Marrying out: a consideration of cultural exogamy and its implications on material culture” 2.45-3 Tea 3-4.35 Fourth session: Personal, political and migration networks Elena Isayev “Edging beyond the shore: Questioning Polybius’s view of Rome and Italy at the dawn of the ‘global moment’ of the 2nd century BC” Claire Lemercier and Paul-André Rosental “Networks in time and space. The structure and dynamics of migration in 19th-century Northern France” Amara Thornton “Reconstructing Networks in the History of Archaeology” Katherine Larson “Sign Here: Tracing Spatial and Social Networks of Hellenistic Sculptors” 4.35-4.45 Break 4.45-5.30 Discussion (and wine reception) 5.30 onwards Dinner and drinks at The Crown pub --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2012 17:42:32 -0500 From: Seth Denbo Subject: Seminar Reminder - Tuesday 6 March, 2012 - Dan Cohen 'Finding Meaning in a Million Victorian Books' Institute of Historical Research Seminar in Digital History Time: Tuesday, 6 March, 5.15 pm GMT Venue: ST261 (Stewart House, second floor PLEASE NOTE ROOM IS DIFFERENT FROM LAST WEEK) and streamed live on the web at historyspot.org.uk Dan Cohen, 'Finding Meaning in a Million Victorian Books' On Tuesday Dan Cohen, Director of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media and an Associate Professor of History at George Mason University, will be presenting on his work on text mining Victorian literature. This live streamed seminar, however, will be different from our usual set-up, as Dan will be presenting from Fairfax, Virginia so participants in Senate House will therefore be joining watching Dan give his paper on a big screen projector. This is something of an experiment as we’ve never tried to stream live online at the same time as watch remotely from Senate House, but fits with the seminar's aim to be as innovative in presenting as the scholars are in their work. So please do join us for a paper that promises to be highly interesting, from one of the experts in the field, but also for something slightly different. A paper presented in America to an audience in England whilst streamed live to the rest of the world. The live stream will start around 5.15pm GMT (12.15pm in Washington) ------ The IHR Seminar in digital history is actively engaged in presenting and discussing new methodologies which have been made possible through the development of computational methods for the study of history. Further information can be found on the IHR Seminar page at http://www.history.ac.uk/events/seminars/321. Follow us on twitter @IHRDigHist or join the mailing list for seminar announcements: http://groups.google.com/group/ihr-digital-history-seminar-announce --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2012 12:16:58 +0900 From: Charles Muller Subject: CFP: H-Net at 20 In-Reply-To: <4F51BFD9.9010603@ualberta.ca> Subject: CFP H-Net at 20 From: Melanie Shell-Weiss March 2, 2012 Call for Papers: H-Net at 20 Deadline: Friday, April 6 2013 marks the 20th anniversary of H-Net: Humanities & Social Sciences Online. In those twenty years H-Net grew from a half-dozen listservs with a few thousand subscribers to a scholarly society with over 180,000 subscribers across 186 networks edited by over 600 scholars backed by almost two thousand advisory board members. Founded at the University of Illinois-Chicago in 1993, H-Net initially appealed to historians, but soon it broke through disciplinary walls to welcome people of all ranks and fields in the humanities and social sciences from around the world. Now based at Michigan State University, H-Net’s discussion archive comprises almost 2 million messages that record the profession’s first encounters with the digital era. H-Net Reviews, still the internet’s largest repository of scholarly reviews generated on the web, grows at the rate of over 1,000 new reviews per year and now stands at over 30,000. H-Net’s Job Guide is the first stop for humanists and social scientists seeking professional employment. H-Announce distributes tens of thousands of calls for papers, publication notices, conference announcements, and other bulletins. In the end, scholars from around the world made their first and lasting connections to colleagues, students, readers, and employers through H-Net. To celebrate and reflect on H-Net’s remarkable history, we hope you will join us at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association in New Orleans, January 3-6, 2013. Events in the planning stage include a reception for H-Net Reviews, a reunion celebration for editors and board members, sessions co-sponsored with the AHA, and sessions from H-Net networks about their work, the challenges ahead, and the changes wrought by the digital era on scholarly teaching, networking, and publishing. A program committee comprising H-Net’s past presidents is vetting session proposals to be submitted as an affiliate of the AHA. Please consider submitting a session proposal; panels can be across networks, among editors, involving board and editors, on any of the following topics: * H-Net as mentor: grad students and professionalization * our network and the discipline: changes and challenges * international perspectives on networking and H-Net * H-Net in Africa, Asia, and Latin America: Building new online audiences * H-Net’s affiliates: scholarly societies and networking through H-Net * Scholarly communications and copyright * Reconsidering the Classroom with H-Net * From “subscriber” to “member”: the changing online habits of H-Net users * Online reviewing before and after it was de rigueur * H-Net editing and the profession: incentives and disincentives in the Academy * From discourse to discipline: structured discussions and a new form of publication Feel free to discuss proposal ideas on this list. Any proposal is welcome, but full panels are especially helpful to the committee. To submit, contact Douglas Priest at hnet20@mail.h-net.msu.edu. Proposals should be submitted to H-Net by Friday April 6, 2012 and not directly to the AHA; prepare the proposal as a word-processed document, in accordance with Section 4 of the AHA’s session guidelines: http://www.historians.org/annual/guidelines.cfm H-Net is also awarding 15 scholarships worth up to $200 toward conference costs to editors who present at the conference. Details on applying for a scholarship will be posted here. Join us! Melanie Shell-Weiss, Ph.D Grand Valley State University President-elect, H-Net: Humanities & Social Sciences Online Chair, H-Net 20th Anniversary Planning Committee: Bob Cherny Frank Conlon Julie Hofmann Richard Jensen Peter Knupfer Mark Kornbluh Marilyn Levine Kris Lindenmeyer Steve Mintz Gene Preuss Gus Seligmann Jean Stuntz Sara Tucker Paul Turnbull Kelly Woestman Jim Niessen _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Mar 5 07:50:44 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E22C273815; Mon, 5 Mar 2012 07:50:44 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 9FFF82737E4; Mon, 5 Mar 2012 07:50:34 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120305075035.9FFF82737E4@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2012 07:50:34 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.779 children's stories online X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 779. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2012 13:28:56 -0500 From: Mark Wolff Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.777 children's stories online? In-Reply-To: <20120304082501.7BFDA274172@woodward.joyent.us> My kids watch videos and play games on my iPhone or iPad before going to bed. They also read an occasional book with me :-) mw On Mar 4, 2012, at 3:25 AM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 777. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2012 14:41:49 +0000 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: the Three Little Pigs > > In a witty promotion of their open journalism policy, The Guardian has > created a 21st-century urban version of The Three Little Pigs, which you > may view at http://tinyurl.com/6qx8ttw. Apart from being too brief for > bedtime viewing with one's small children, I wonder how they would > react. And this leads to a bigger question: how has bedtime reading been > affected by our beloved medium? > > Yours, > WM > -- > Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's > College London; Professor (fractional), University of Western Sydney; > Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, > Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ -- Mark B. Wolff Associate Professor of French Chair, Modern Languages One Hartwick Drive Hartwick College Oneonta, NY 13820 (607) 431-4615 http://bumppo.hartwick.edu/~mark/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Mar 5 07:51:25 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 438BB27384C; Mon, 5 Mar 2012 07:51:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B93AD273836; Mon, 5 Mar 2012 07:51:19 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120305075119.B93AD273836@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2012 07:51:19 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.780 jobs: Canada Research Chair at Waterloo X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 780. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2012 21:09:40 +0000 From: Christine McWebb Subject: Canada Research Chair, Tier 1, at Waterloo Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) Digital Media and Digital Cultures The University of Waterloo’s Faculty of Arts is seeking applicants for a unique Tier I Canada Research Chair position. The successful candidate will pursue outstanding research exploring impacts of human and social factors on the design, development, distribution, and/or reception of digital media technologies. While excelling in his/her own particular field of expertise, the successful candidate will also bring to the position a demonstrated commitment to interdisciplinary, trans-disciplinary and collaborative research, and will articulate an exceptional, long-term research agenda. S/he will develop an exemplary scholarly and creative presence, complement current research and scholarship by faculty and graduate students, and participate in local, national, and international research networks. The successful candidate will be a full professor (or equivalent) based in the humanities, social sciences, languages and culture, or fine and performing arts with a proven record of digital/new media research. Solid grounding in digital applications and global business issues is an asset. Well known for its strengths in math, computer science, and engineering, the University of Waterloo is also home to a thriving Faculty of Arts, which hosts an array of well-funded technology and digital media research groups, including the Games Institute, the Critical Media Lab, the Canadian Centre of Arts and Technology, the Research Lab for Immersive Virtual Environments, and the MARGOT digitization project. Pursuing his/her own research within this dynamic context, the successful candidate will also play a leading role in coordinating this diverse research talent. S/he will participate in graduate and/or undergraduate teaching both on Waterloo’s main campus and in one of several digital media-focused programs at the University of Waterloo’s Stratford Campus. The Chair will be based in a department within the Faculty of Arts, and candidates are encouraged to identify the most appropriate fit. The Chair will also play a vital role in advancing the research culture at Waterloo’s new Stratford Campus, a hub of digital media education, research, and industry-connected innovation located in the culture-rich community of Stratford, just 130km west of Toronto. Host of events like the annual Canada 3.0 conference, and home of innovative graduate and undergraduate programs, Waterloo’s Stratford Campus, combined with resources available on Waterloo’s nearby main campus, will provide the successful candidate with a vibrant and forward-thinking working environment within which to pursue her/his research. This appointment is subject to approval by the CRC program review process. Eligibility criteria and CRC program information can be found at the following website: http://www.chairs-chaires.gc.ca. Benefits associated with such Chairs include teaching release, startup funds, and ongoing research/student support appropriate to the research program. The anticipated start date for this position is July 1, 2013. Initial consideration of applications will begin on May 22, 2012; however, applications will continue to be accepted until the position is filled. Applicants should submit a detailed curriculum vitae, a teaching statement and outline of research plans, three examples of scholarly work, and the names of five referees (referees will not be contacted without prior permission of the candidate) to: Dr. Bruce Muirhead, Search Committee Chair Online submission form: http://artsonline.uwaterloo.ca/OFAS/CRC All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority. The University of Waterloo encourages applications from all qualified individuals, including women, members of visible minorities, native peoples, and persons with disabilities. Christine McWebb, PhD Director, Academic Programs Associate Professor for French University of Waterloo Stratford Campus 6 Wellington Street Stratford, Ontario Canada, N5A 2L2 Ph.: 519-888-4567x32465 or x23008 Fax:519-275-2771 University of Waterloo Stratford http://stratfordcampus.uwaterloo.ca MARGOT http://margot.uwaterloo.ca _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Mar 5 07:52:15 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB80D2738A5; Mon, 5 Mar 2012 07:52:14 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A4152273895; Mon, 5 Mar 2012 07:52:11 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120305075211.A4152273895@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2012 07:52:11 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.781 events: TEI at Brown for 2012 X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 781. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2012 22:01:33 -0500 From: Julia Flanders Subject: Introductory TEI workshops at Brown: 2012 schedule I'm happy to announce that registration is now open for the WWP's two upcoming introductory TEI workshops. For more information and to register, please visit: http://www.wwp.brown.edu/outreach/seminars/ *********************** Introduction to Manuscript Encoding with TEI Brown University, May 7-9, 2012 Cost: $450/$300 for TEI members and students This seminar will introduce participants to text encoding with the Text Encoding Initiative Guidelines, with emphasis on manuscript texts. Through a combination of hands-on practice, presentation, and discussion, participants will work through the essentials of TEI manuscript encoding and tackle topics and issues including: • how to represent revision processes and editorial perspectives • how to represent documents that are both manuscript and print • how to represent information about handwriting • how to capture details of the physical document • how we might use this information in a digital environment No prior experience is necessary. *********************** Introduction to Contextual Encoding with TEI Brown University, October 15-17, 2012 Cost: $450/$300 for TEI members and students Texts are important, but sometimes they are also an entry point to a larger interconnected universe of data about people, places, history and ideas. This seminar provides an introduction to the TEI with an emphasis on representing the contextual information that surrounds our documents. Through a combination of hands-on practice, presentation, and discussion, participants will work through the essentials of TEI markup and discover how to create detailed information about the entities named in primary sources: people, places, organizations, and any other context of interest. Topics covered include: • Text markup languages as an instrument of humanities scholarship • Basics of TEI markup: essential text structures and genres • Advanced TEI markup: personography, placeography, and the other 'ographies No prior experience is necessary. We hope to see you in Providence! best wishes, Julia Julia Flanders Director, Women Writers Project Center for Digital Scholarship, Brown University Library _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Mar 6 07:51:18 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 301F22748A6; Tue, 6 Mar 2012 07:51:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 40ACA27488A; Tue, 6 Mar 2012 07:51:14 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120306075114.40ACA27488A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 07:51:14 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.782 CS and the disciplines X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 782. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2012 17:55:00 +0100 From: Hartmut Krech Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.775 CS and the disciplines In-Reply-To: <20120304082230.08AFE2740C0@woodward.joyent.us> Hal Abelson's commentary, as passed along by Richard Lewis, expands the difficult question of CS's relation to the other disciplines, not the least by asking if it is a science by itself. Or is it magic? My heart keeps being flooded with feelings of gratitude and joy, every time my PC is starting up in the morning, although its OS was installed almost four years ago and has been running ever since with few complications. Things become more complicated, as soon as you try to translate the names in question. Computer science would amount to Computerwissenschaft in German, but the French have kept their language free from too many Anglicisms. I wonder what name they may have found for the same study and practice. Not only that, it is well understood that, in the English language, "science" is only short for "natural science," while most other subjects of academic study are lumped together under the general heading of the humanities or "the arts". The German equivalent would be "Geisteswissenschaften" (notably "Wissenschaften" or "sciences") that have variously been translated as "sciences of the mind," mental or even moral sciences. And how does computing relate to Poliziano's calculatoria of 1491? Things become less complicated if they are observed and described in detail. Then one may agree with Aristotle's definition of science as the knowledge of the first principles and the means and ends in human practice (Met. 981 b 5). A clear definition of the subject and practices of any field of study becomes important when the boundaries of that field are expanding or need to be expanded, because in those cases a well defined discipline may offer status and protection to practices as a social institution. Of course, a minimum definition for a certain science would be anything that certain scientists do, but that is unsatisfactory. As there are regional or cultural differences worthy of note, I have found it necessary to speak of an "ethnology of science" in 2000. Any rational undertaking should be communicable. Sometimes a beginning is made by simply noting and stating a problem. How much more if you could harvest the results of thirty years of research . Hartmut http://ww3.de/krech Am 04/03/2012 09:22, schrieb Humanist Discussion Group: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 775. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2012 17:14:10 +0000 > From: Richard Lewis > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.768 CS and the disciplines? > In-Reply-To:<20120229074919.72C842D928@woodward.joyent.us> > > > At Wed, 29 Feb 2012 07:42:32 +0000, > Willard McCarty wrote: > >> I find it interesting that in 2010 the organizing principles of >> computer science remain a topic for debate. Not a bad thing to be >> anxious about one's discipline, apparently. > Two things to mention: > > 1) Hal Abelson's first lecture in the Structure and Interpretation of > Computer Programs series begins with a good introduction > deconstructing the title of the discipline: > > I'd like to welcome you to this course on computer science. Actually > it's a terrible way to start. "Computer Science" is a terrible name > for this business, first of all, it's not a "science", it might be > "engineering" or it might be "art", but I actually see that > computer, so-called science, has a lot in common with magic. And you > will see that in this course. So it's not a science, it's also not > very much about computers. And it's not about computers in the same > sense that physics is not really about particle accelerators. and > biology is not really about microscope and petri dishes. and it's > not about computer in the same sense that geometry is not really > about using surveying instrument. In fact, there is a lot of > commonality between computer science and geometry. Geometry, first > of all, is another subject with a lousy name. For the name comes > from gaia, meaning the Earth, and metro- meaning 'to measure', > Geometry originally meant measuring Earth, or surveying And the > reason for that was that thousands of years ago, the Egyptian > priesthood developed the rudiment of geometry in order to figure out > how to restore the boundaries of fields that were destroyed by the > annual flood of the Nile. And to the Egyptians who did that, > Geometry really was the use of surveying instruments. Now the reason > that we think computer science is about computers is pretty much the > same reason the Egyptians thought Geometry was about surveying > instruments and that is, when some field is just getting started and > you don't really understand it very well its very easy to confuse > the essence of what you're doing with the tools that you use and > indeed, on some absolute scale of things we probably know less about > the essence of Computer Science than the ancient Egyptians really > knew about Geometry. > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQLUPjefuWA > > (transcript from http://dotsub.com/view/d337c688-0500-4b38-aba5-c3c67f17f7a7) > > 2) The Computing Department at Goldsmiths' was deliberately so called > when renamed from Mathematics because the intended emphasis was on > applied computing. It seems someone felt that computer science was not > the same thing as its applications. > > Richard _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Mar 6 07:52:18 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B3C8274902; Tue, 6 Mar 2012 07:52:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 691DD2748EF; Tue, 6 Mar 2012 07:52:14 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120306075214.691DD2748EF@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 07:52:14 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.783 children's stories online X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 783. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: James Rovira (4) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.779 children's stories online [2] From: Rebecca Davis (85) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.779 children's stories online --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2012 05:23:55 -0500 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.779 children's stories online In-Reply-To: <20120305075035.9FFF82737E4@woodward.joyent.us> Many thanks to Willard for posting that entertaining rendition of the Three Little Pigs. Our children read books before bed. My wife is a Luddite when it comes to books. It's print or nothing. Jim R --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2012 14:24:43 -0600 From: Rebecca Davis Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.779 children's stories online In-Reply-To: <20120305075035.9FFF82737E4@woodward.joyent.us> I love reading on my iPad and thought it would be great for bedtime reading for my son. But, we had to switch to paper because every time one of us pointed to a word, it turned the page (wouldn't be a problem with the kindle). On the other hand, apps like "The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore" show where interactive books on the iPad could go. All the Best, Rebecca Rebecca Frost Davis, Ph.D. Program Officer for the Humanities National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education (NITLE) 1001 East University Avenue | Georgetown, Texas 78626 http://www.nitle.org | tel. 512 863-1734 | fax 512 819-7684 Delicious: rebeccadavis | Twitter: @FrostDavis Diigo: rebeccadavis _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Mar 6 07:53:02 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AA44274949; Tue, 6 Mar 2012 07:53:02 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0E5E9274938; Tue, 6 Mar 2012 07:53:00 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120306075300.0E5E9274938@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 07:53:00 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.784 fair citation practices? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 784. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2012 11:52:21 +0000 From: Adam Crymble Subject: Towards Fair DH citation practices (Faircite) Dear Colleagues, Like it or not citation in the humanities is still a common measure of scholarly impact for individual researchers. Yet unlike fields such as the sciences or the academic publishing industry, our field whose output is so often collaborative has not yet developed a coherent set of guidelines for whose names to include as citeable contributions to a project. As previously discussed on this list, it is still relatively common for large web-based projects to be cited without anyone's name included: *The Project*. http://project.com (accessed 5 March 2012). This practice has particular consequences for those members of the "alt-ac" community such as project managers, students, programmers, and designers, who are effectively excluded from the academic culture of citation despite their valuable contributions. Apart from being an unfair practice unique to those scholars who work on digital outputs, for those who do decide to try and obtain an academic position in the future, this lack of obvious "impact" in a format familiar to academia may put these candidates at a disadvantage over those who followed a more traditional path. *Faircite* is a community-driven initiative to work towards a set of practical standards that can be used by project teams to determine "authorship" - for want of a better word - in digital projects. The goal is to come up with a solution that both acknowledges the contribution of those who put in sigificant amounts of work, while maintaining the integrity of academic authorship, with the emphasis being put on "practical" guidelines. I'd ask that you take a moment and contribute your thoughts to our open call for ideas available on the DH Questions and Answers website ( http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/topic/faircite-who-should-we-cite-in-collaborative-dh-projects ) Please also pass this along to colleagues who may be interested, including those whose outputs fall into more traditional categories. We greatly appreciate your contributions and with your help hope we can make a small change to the way some of our more vulnerable colleagues are credited. Thank you, Adam Crymble PhD Candidate, King's College London History / Digital Humanities _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Mar 6 07:53:55 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81E0F2749AF; Tue, 6 Mar 2012 07:53:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C80D9274998; Tue, 6 Mar 2012 07:53:50 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120306075350.C80D9274998@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 07:53:50 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.785 McKenzie's legacy X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 785. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2012 21:08:07 +0800 From: Arianna Ciula Subject: SHARP blog: McKenzie's Legacy in the Digital Age Some Humanist readers might find the latest SHARP blog by Edmund King of the Open University interesting. It is from the Open University/IES Landmarks in Book History seminar series, and reports on Prof David Finkelstein's talk 'Assessing D F McKenzie's Legacy in the Digital Age': http://www.sharpweb.org/en/discussion/blog-example/assessing-don-mckenzies-legacy-in-the-digital-age.html Best Arianna Ciula _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Mar 6 07:57:17 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B684274A41; Tue, 6 Mar 2012 07:57:17 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 49211274A32; Tue, 6 Mar 2012 07:57:13 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120306075713.49211274A32@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 07:57:13 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.786 events several & various X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 786. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Charles Ess (60) Subject: Submission deadline for CATaC'12 extended + URGENT housing information [2] From: Kai Jakobs (74) Subject: Extended Deadline: 17th Int. Conference of the European Academy for Standardization (EURAS) [3] From: "Viggo Hansen" (70) Subject: Call for Papers - 3rd International IPWARE-SUMMIT [4] From: Richard Lewis (35) Subject: Fwd: Mark Bishop - Radical Post Cognitivism: new approaches to intelligence and the mind --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2012 10:44:46 +0100 From: Charles Ess Subject: Submission deadline for CATaC'12 extended + URGENT housing information Dear Colleagues, In response to continuing requests, we are extending the submission deadline for CATaC'12 to March 31, 2012, with final notification of acceptance by April 5, 2012. Deadline for earlybird registration, as noted below, is April 20, 2012. We continue to solicit either full papers (10-15 formatted pages), short papers (3-5 formatted pages), and/or panel proposals. To submit a paper and/or panel proposal, please find your way to , click on the Submissions tab, and then find the red-lettered "Click here to submit your papers and panel proposals" which will take you to the submission site. The conference website has also been updated with new information regarding travel, accommodations, and conference venue. (These are accessed via links on the right side of the page.) Please see the fee schedule and earlybird deadline information below. The conference registration page on the website will open before the week is out. PLEASE ALSO NOTICE: FOR THOSE CONSIDERING ATTENDING CATaC'12, we strongly encourage you to go ahead and book your preferred accommodations *NOW*. CATaC'12 will be simply one among many (and in some cases, much larger) conferences taking place in Aarhus in June and accommodation possibilities are already becoming quite tight. We are fortunate to have a block of rooms for CATaC participants reserved in the Hotel Mercur at Viby Torv ( http://www.hotel-mercur.dk/uk/ ). The hotel, however, is a convenient but 25-minute bus ride from the conference venue. * Several other possibilities, closer in town, are listed and linked to from the accommodation page.* Bookings made now, of course, can be cancelled later - usually up until a day or two before arrival - without penalty. Even if you are not certain of attending - e.g., you need to await final decision on a proposal, etc. - it would be better to book now and decide to cancel later (should it come to that) than encounter every-growing difficulty in acquiring a room reservation. Conference Fees    Discounted Conference Fee - $515 Regular Conference Fee - $565 (after 20 April 2012) Deductions      Presenting author - deduct $20   (One author only per presented paper - presenter discount does not apply to Student Fee) Reviewer - deduct $20       (Reviewer discount does not apply to Student Fee) Student Fee (full-time students, ID required, no further discount on student fee if author/reviewer)     Discounted Student Fee - $400  Regular Student Fee - $450 (after 20 April 2012) We look forward to welcoming you to Aarhus this coming June. On behalf of the organizing committee, Charles Ess (Media Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark), Chair Fay Sudweeks (Professor Emerita, Murdoch University, Australia), honorary chair Herbert Hrachovec (University of Vienna, Austria) Leah Macfadyen (University of British Columbia, Canada) Jose Abdelnour Nocera (University of West London, UK) Kenneth Reeder (University of British Columbia, Canada) Ylva Hård af Segerstad (Gothenburg University, Gothenburg, Sweden) Michele M. Strano (Bridgewater College, Virginia, USA) Andra Siibak (University of Tartu, Estonia) Maja van der Velden (University of Oslo) --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2012 11:08:33 +0100 From: Kai Jakobs Subject: Extended Deadline: 17th Int. Conference of the European Academy for Standardization (EURAS) FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS 17th EURAS Annual Standardisation Conference - Standards and Innovation - 18 - 20 June 2012 Kosice, Slovakia ------------------------------------------ *****EXTENDED DEADLINE: 18 March 2012***** ------------------------------------------ Organised by the ---------------- Faculty of Economics at Matej Bel University in Banska Bystrica (UMB) Faculty of Economics at the Technical University of Kosice (TUKE). We welcome original and innovative submissions papers from all areas of standardisation. But the theme of the 17th EURAS conference is the significance of standards and standardisation for innovation. At this point in our history, innovation is critical for helping to move forward from the global economic crisis, mitigate the impact of climate change, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and help resolve the food crisis. The critical role of standards and standardisation for innovation has long been recognised. As codified knowledge, standards acquire an even greater role in the development of the global knowledge economy. We particularly welcome theoretical and empirical papers that will contribute to greater awareness of how and where standards can facilitate, hamper, or otherwise impact on innovation in all its many dimensions. Examples include, but are not limited to: * Standardisation & infrastructure development * Standards, globalisation and national authenticity * Conformity assessment for innovation * The relation between standards and the development of science/technology/society/economy * Standardisation, globalisation and innovation * Education on standardisation and innovation * Legal and regulatory issues in standardisation * Standards setting and implementation processes * History and future of standards * Standardisation policies * Economics of standardisation * Management of standards * Research and standardisation * Standards and technology transfer * Quality standards and management strategies * Markets and dominant technologies * International accounting standards Full papers (up to 40 double-spaced pages; pdf, rtf, or .doc format) should be submitted to Kai Jakobs at Kai.Jakobs@cs.rwth-aachen.de. Authors of accepted papers are expected to serve as discussants upon request. All papers will be reviewed (double blind) by members of the Programme Committee. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, as part of the 'EURAS Contributions to Standardisation Research' book series. Particularly good and relevant papers will be fast-tracked to the review process of either the EURAS- Yearbook or the Int. Journal of IT Standards and Standardization Research (JITSR). The conference provides the opportunity to get feedback on standardisation education papers intended for the special issue of the International Journal of Technology and Design Education. For more detailed information please consult the EURAS website (www.EURAS.org). [...] Kai Jakobs RWTH Aachen University Computer Science Department Informatik 4 (Communication and Distributed Systems) Ahornstr. 55, D-52074 Aachen, Germany Tel.: +49-241-80-21405 Fax: +49-241-80-22222 Kai.Jakobs@comsys.rwth-aachen.de http://www.comsys.rwth-aachen.de/team/kai-jakobs/ EURAS - The European Academy for Standardization. http://www.euras.org The International Journal of IT Standards and Standardization Research. http://www.igi-global.com/ijitsr The 'Advances in Information Technology Standards and Standardization Research' book series. http://www.igi-global.com/Bookstore/TitleDetails.aspx?TitleId=37142 --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2012 11:51:19 +0100 From: "Viggo Hansen" Subject: Call for Papers - 3rd International IPWARE-SUMMIT (We apologize for multiple postings) Call for Papers - 3rd International IPWARE-SUMMIT The third IPWARE-SUMMIT (www.ipware-summit.com) will take place in Saint-Raphael, France 3 - 5 October 2012, in the beautiful environment of the French Riviera between Cannes and Saint-Tropez. The IPWARE-SUMMIT event is an international conference on Information Processing including but not limited to intellectual property handling. The conference is accompanied by a software exhibition. IPWARE-SUMMIT 2012 will survey the international state of the art and practice in information processing with 1. General issues of information processing track including but not limited to a. Information retrieval b. Keyword extraction, document indexing and search c. Document authoring d. Information extraction and summarization e. Machine translation f. Text mining g. Spoken language processing 2. An intellectual property track including but not limited to a. Strategic management of intellectual property b. Intellectual property valuation c. Intellectual property knowledge management i. Case Handling, Cost Calculation d. Patent analysis, composition and translation e. Patent and Trademark Search and Processing IPWARE-SUMMIT 2012 will feature a comprehensive programme including reports on developers' and users' experiences, research papers, discussions of policy issues, invited talks, panels and exhibits. We define information processing in the broadest possible sense, to include not just fully automatic unilingual and multilingual systems but tools for human processing support as well. IPWARE-SUMMIT 2012 is of special interest for information managers, searchers, analysts, consultants and persons responsible for selecting service providers and computer software products to support information processing activities. During the whole conference vendors will have the opportunity to exhibit, demonstrate and market their software. We invite all those with an interest in software solutions for any kind of information processing to participate in this conference. IPWARE-SUMMIT 2012 hereby invites submissions on all aspects of information processing. To submit a paper to the IPWARE SUMMIT it is necessary to write a brief abstract in English outlining the proposed presentation and send it via email to program@ipware-summit.com along with a personal biography and proposed presentation title. The deadline for submission of papers is April 30, 2012. Only a limited amount of speaking space may be available after this date. Please visit our website www.ipware-summit.com for more information about this event. Important Dates March 1, 2012 Registration for the conference is open April 30, 2012 Deadline for submission of papers May 15, 2012 Notification of acceptance August 2, 2012 Early bird registration closing date September 28, 2012 On-line registration closing date October 3 - 5, 2012 Conference --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2012 13:13:09 +0000 From: Richard Lewis Subject: Fwd: Mark Bishop - Radical Post Cognitivism: new approaches to intelligence and the mind Dear all, Mark Bishop invites you to his inaugural Professorial lecture, "Radical Post Cognitivism: new approaches to intelligence and the mind", at the Ian Gulland Lecture Theatre, Whitehead Building, Goldsmiths College, at 5:30pm Tuesday 13th March 2012. http://www.gold.ac.uk/find-us/ . An abstract for the lecture is appended below; if you would also like to attend the Warden's reception after the lecture, please reply to . Hope you can make it! Best wishes, - bish ABSTRACT: In this presentation i will illustrate how the hegemony of the computational metaphor enabled the paths of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Cognitive Science to run hand in hand for much of the last 60 years. Subsequently, with reference to specific elements of my own research, I will review arguments that suggest computational explanations of mind will ultimately fail and conversely argue that cognitivist approaches to the most complex, real-world, engineering problems have long been overtaken by newer, more powerful AI methods grounded in the world of large data sets and statistics. Stressing the importance of the body, I will conclude my talk by sketching a new, radical, post-cognitivist metaphor for cognitive processes that shifts emphasis from "abstract computations" to "embodied interactions". --------------------------- Dr. J.M. Bishop, - Professor of Cognitive Computing, - Chair, Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour (AISB), Goldsmiths, University of London, London, UK, SE14 6NW http://www.gold.ac.uk/computing/staff/m-bishop/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Mar 7 06:36:49 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B9A9275436; Wed, 7 Mar 2012 06:36:49 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 5B3E3275422; Wed, 7 Mar 2012 06:36:44 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20120307063644.5B3E3275422@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2012 06:36:44 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.787 CS and the disciplines X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 787. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 07:15:38 -0600 From: Solveig Zempel Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.782 CS and the disciplines In-Reply-To: <20120306075114.40ACA27488A@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Colleagues, In Norwegian universities this is known as informatikk, or informatics. I would not be surprised if German universities used a similar term. Solveig Zempel -- Solveig Zempel Professor of Norwegian Boldt Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Humanities St. Olaf College 1520 St. Olaf Avenue Northfield, MN 55057-1098 Office: Tomson 337 tel 507 786-3471 fax 507 786-3732 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Mar 7 06:38:51 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB32F275479; Wed, 7 Mar 2012 06:38:51 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 7D02B275462; Wed, 7 Mar 2012 06:38:48 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120307063848.7D02B275462@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2012 06:38:48 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.788 events: THATCamp; the Day; dissent; texts & mss; Oxford Summer School X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 788. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Seth Denbo (17) Subject: Announcing THATCamp ASECS2012 [2] From: "Asciutti, Valentina" (5) Subject: Next week's CeRch seminar [3] From: Geoffrey Rockwell (16) Subject: Day of Digital Humanities [4] From: James Cummings (35) Subject: Digital.Humanities@Oxford Summer School 2012 [5] From: Willard McCarty (22) Subject: Digital analysis of ancient and medieval texts and manuscripts --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 08:47:38 -0500 From: Seth Denbo Subject: Announcing THATCamp ASECS2012 On Wednesday March 21, 2012in San Antonio Texas there will be a free one-day THATCamp at ASECS 2012. This will be an opportunity to discuss and debate issues in the digital humanities, learn about digital tools for research and teaching, or even build something of your own. What happens at THATCamp is completely up to you! For anyone who is new to the idea of THATCamp, the event will be an unconference. THATCamps are self-organizing, free events ‘where humanists and technologists meet to work together for the common good’. For more information go to THATCamp.org. THATCamp ASECS will be an opportunity for anyone who wants to join in to participate and suggest their own ideas for sessions. Whether you're a humanist, a computer scientist, a cultural heritage professional, a student or even a hacker, if you have an interest in the use of technology and culture you are welcome to participate. To find out more and register for the event go to asecs2012.thatcamp.org. Please distribute this as widely as possible. Follow us on Twitter: @thatcampasecs --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 14:05:34 +0000 From: "Asciutti, Valentina" Subject: Next week's CeRch seminar Next week's seminar in the Centre for e-Research Seminar Series for 2012, "Dissenting Academies Online. Digitization and Collaboration in the Study of Religious History: Rethinking the Dissenting Academies in Britain, 1660-1860" by Simon Dixon and Rosemary Dixon (Queen Mary, University of London), is on Tuesday 13 March, 6.15pm in the Anatomy Museum, King's College London. For more information and to register, please go to http://www.kcl.ac.uk/innovation/groups/cerch/events/seminars/dixon.aspx ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The writing of religious history has generally been the preserve of individual scholars, conducting their research alone in libraries and archives, using traditional research methods. Humanities computing, however, not only facilitates but also demands collaborative work. Bringing together humanists and scientists based at different institutions to work on collaborative research projects allows more ambitious schemes to be undertaken, new methodologies to be developed, and new histories to be written. The creation of online databases as a means of studying the history of religion aids collaboration not just on an individual project, but between discrete research projects addressing related subject matter. This chapter discusses the planning and implementation of two closely related projects, both of which are making significant advances in understanding the historical significance of religious dissent in the British Isles: A History of the Dissenting Academies in the British Isles, 1660-1860; and Dissenting Academy Libraries and their Readers, 1720-1860. At the heart of the projects is a pressing need to develop a greater understanding of the significance of dissenting academies in the history of British Protestant dissent. The academies, first established in the 1660s, were intended to provide Protestant students dissenting from the Church of England with a higher education similar to that available in the English universities (Oxford and Cambridge). The first of the two projects, which ran from 2008-2011, involved the collection of reliable empirical evidence about the academies and the creation of an online relational database containing information about the institutions, their tutors and students, and surviving archival material. This work underpins the research for a new multi-authored study: A History of the Dissenting Academies in the British Isles, 1660-1860. The libraries of the academies were central to the teaching they offered, and the Dissenting Academies Libraries project (2009-2011) involved the digital reconstruction of their holdings and loans through the creation of a Virtual Library System. As well as providing valuable data for contributors to the Dissenting Academies project, the project will change our understanding of the role of books within dissenting culture and education. In describing their work on these two projects, Rosemary Dixon and Simon Dixon will reflect on the potential of digital humanities methodologies to fundamentally alter the way in which historians of religion approach their work. --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 14:12:37 +0000 From: Geoffrey Rockwell Subject: Day of Digital Humanities To all digital humanists or people working on humanities computing projects, Please join us for the fourth annual Day of Digital Humanities that will take place on March 27th, 2012. A Day in the Life of the Digital Humanities (Day of DH) is a project looking at a day in the work life of people involved in humanities computing. Every year it draws people from across the world together to document, with text and image, the events and activities of their day. The goal of the project is to weave together the journals of participants into a resource that seeks to answer, “Just what do computing humanists really do?" Please sign up for the project here: http://dayofdh2012.artsrn.ualberta.ca/register/ More detailed information about the project, as well as links to the blogs that have been created over the past three years is available here: http://tapor.ualberta.ca/taporwiki/index.php/Day_in_the_Life_of_the_Digital_Humanities_2012 The twitter hashtag is #dayofdh The Day of DH is now a centreNet initiative Yours, Megan Meredith-Lobay Julianne Nyhan Peter Organisciak Kamal Ranaweera Geoffrey Rockwell Stan Ruecker --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 23:07:46 +0000 From: James Cummings Subject: Digital.Humanities@Oxford Summer School 2012 (Apologies for cross-posting, but feel free to forward!) Save the date! The Digital.Humanities@Oxford Summer School (DHOXSS) 2012 is scheduled for the first week of July! From the 2nd - 6th of July 2012 DHOXSS delegates visiting the University of Oxford, UK, will be introduced to a range of topics suitable for researchers, project managers, research assistants, and students who are interested in the creation, management, or publication of digital data in the humanities. Delegates will follow one of our 5 day workshops on: * An Introduction to XML and the Text Encoding Initiative * Working with TEI Texts (Advanced) * An Introduction to Digital Humanities Tools and Approaches * A Humanities Web of Data: Publishing, Linking, Querying and Visualisation on the Semantic Web Each day will also contain plenary guest lectures by experts in their fields, plus a number of sessions on a wide variety of Digital Humanities topics. There will be morning surgery sessions to discuss projects and possibilities with tutors. The summer school is a collaboration for Digital.Humanities@Oxford between Oxford University Computing Services (OUCS), Oxford e-Research Centre (OERC), with the assistance of the Humanities Division, the Bodleian Library, the Oxford Internet Institute, and e-Research South. The Summer School will be located at Merton College, OUCS, and the OeRC, all of which situated in the centre of the city of Oxford, UK. Booking for this event will open in April 2012 and more information can be found at: http://digital.humanities.ox.ac.uk/dhoxss/ including a general outline of the schedule, workshop descriptions, and registration fees. Further information will be published there as it becomes available. courses@oucs.ox.ac.uk @dhoxss on twitter --[5]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2012 06:33:47 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Digital analysis of ancient and medieval texts and manuscripts -------- Original Message -------- > Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2012 01:01:01 +0100 > From: Tara Andrews Dear colleagues, Registration is now open for the workshop "Methods and means for digital analysis of ancient and medieval texts and manuscripts", to be held at the KU Leuven and the Royal Flemish Academy in Brussels on 2-3 April 2012. Please see the programme in attachment. To register, please send an email before 26 March to tara.andrews@arts.kuleuven.be with your name and institutional affiliation, the day(s) you expect to attend, and whether you will join us for lunch. Best wishes, Tara Andrews -- Dr. Tara Andrews Post-doctoral Researcher, OE Griekse Studies Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Blijde-Inkomststraat 5 / bus 3316, 3000 Leuven, Belgium *** Attachments: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1331078480_2012-03-07_humanist-owner@lists.digitalhumanities.org_15689.2.pdf _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Mar 8 06:28:55 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C029274BB6; Thu, 8 Mar 2012 06:28:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 4489B274B9D; Thu, 8 Mar 2012 06:28:48 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120308062848.4489B274B9D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2012 06:28:48 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.789 CS and the disciplines X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 789. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Stefan Gradmann (59) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.787 CS and the disciplines [2] From: Hartmut Krech (35) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.787 CS and the disciplines --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2012 09:40:35 +0100 From: Stefan Gradmann Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.787 CS and the disciplines In-Reply-To: <20120307063644.5B3E3275422@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Colleagues, yes, indeed: the German term is "Informatik". "Computerwissenschaft" isn't widely used, if at all. Best -- Stefan Gradmann Am 07.03.2012 um 07:36 schrieb Humanist Discussion Group: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 787. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 07:15:38 -0600 > From: Solveig Zempel > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.782 CS and the disciplines > In-Reply-To: <20120306075114.40ACA27488A@woodward.joyent.us> > > > Dear Colleagues, > > In Norwegian universities this is known as informatikk, or informatics. I > would not be surprised if German universities used a similar term. > > Solveig Zempel > > > > -- > Solveig Zempel > Professor of Norwegian > Boldt Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Humanities > St. Olaf College > 1520 St. Olaf Avenue > Northfield, MN 55057-1098 > > Office: Tomson 337 > tel 507 786-3471 fax 507 786-3732 ____________________________________ Prof. Dr. Stefan Gradmann Präsident der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Informationswissenschaft und Informationspraxis (DGI) Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Berlin School of Library and Information Science Sitz: Dorothenstrasse 26 / Post: Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin Tel.: +49 30 2093-4481 Sekr.: +49 30 2093-4466 Fax : +49 30 2093-4335 GSM : +49 170 8352623 e-mail: stefan.gradmann@ibi.hu-berlin.de ____________________________________ Je est un autre. (Arthur Rimbaud, Lettres du Voyant) ____________________________________ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2012 15:10:00 +0100 From: Hartmut Krech Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.787 CS and the disciplines In-Reply-To: <20120307063644.5B3E3275422@woodward.joyent.us> Querying the German Wikipedia for "Computerwissenschaft," one is re-directed to Informatik. The complicated semantics of the field has been touched by Jörg Desel in "Das ist Informatik" (Berlin etc.: Springer, 2001, 3-5). Desel traces the origin of the name informatics back to 1957. It was allegedly used by Philippe Dreyfus in France as early as 1962. Apart from Hans Wellisch's 1972 article, there is an ERIC document by Gordon Cook from 1976 available online at http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/contentdelivery/servlet/ERICServlet?accno=ED146919 Best regards, Hartmut _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Mar 8 06:29:59 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06707274C1E; Thu, 8 Mar 2012 06:29:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D142B274C07; Thu, 8 Mar 2012 06:29:52 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120308062952.D142B274C07@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2012 06:29:52 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.790 books in the digital humanities? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 790. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2012 12:24:54 +0000 From: Leif Isaksen Subject: DH books Hi all (and apologies for x-posting) I know this question comes up periodically but we'd like to expand Southampton University Library's Digital Humanities holdings so I was wondering if people could suggest their thoughts on 'classic' or 'must-have' print titles (feel free to self-advertise ;-) ). Links to online biblios are also welcome, as are digital editions online. All the best and thanks in advance Leif -------------------- Leif Isaksen Lecturer in Digital Humanities University of Southampton _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Mar 8 06:32:23 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80EB9274CF3; Thu, 8 Mar 2012 06:32:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 36721274CD1; Thu, 8 Mar 2012 06:32:15 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120308063215.36721274CD1@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2012 06:32:15 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.791 cfp: journal issue on world lit. X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 791. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2012 09:47:14 -0500 From: "Totosy de Zepetnek, Steven" Subject: cfp: journal issue on world literature incl. digital humanities Call for papers: World Literatures from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-first Century. Ed. Marko Juvan. Special issue CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 15.5 (December 2013): http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb. Deadline of submission is 31 December 2012 to Marko Juvan at marko.juvan@zrc-sazu.si . Papers are minimum 6000 words and maximum 7000 words in the style of the journal http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweblibrary/clcwebstyleguide. The long version of the call for papers is available at http://isllv.zrc-sazu.si/en/dogodki#v. In every national literature or region, or in today's multicultural societies, different concepts and/or practices of "world literature" exist(ed). Contributors to the special issue (re)examine the concept of world literature as proposed by Goethe and similar concepts and practices which occurred later and address the following issues: mappings of world literature in different literary systems; the development of the notion of world literature in literary periodicals, reviews, learned journals, encyclopedias, anthologies, book series, and on the world wide web in digital humanities, etc.; intertextual references to and rewritings of world literature in the canonized texts of national revivals; the concept and practices of world literature in modernism, postmodernism, and postcolonialism; the development of world literature canons in curricula of education; the presence of peripheral or semi-peripheral "top authors" outside their own (source) culture: their translation and reception in neighboring countries and regions (i.e., interliterary communities, literary centrism) and their inclusion in the canons of world literature in literary systems and major world languages. Articles published in CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture are indexed in the Thomson-Reuters ISI Arts and Humanities Citation Index. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Mar 8 06:33:58 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F63C274D4D; Thu, 8 Mar 2012 06:33:58 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 5BC04274D3A; Thu, 8 Mar 2012 06:33:49 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20120308063349.5BC04274D3A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2012 06:33:49 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.792 Russian text-analytic software X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 792. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2012 10:31:02 +0200 From: "Vladyslav Mukherjee" Subject: Grammatica - A tool for analyzing Russian texts Hi, I would like to introduce Grammatica - a tool that can analyze grammar and automatically insert stress marks in any Russian text. Here is what Grammatica can do: . Display stress marks for all Russian words in any text . Display all inflected forms for any selected word . Type in Russian without a Russian keyboard layout . Turn any text into learning material and more. You can download our software from our website: www.grammatica.eu. Currently Grammatica runs on Windows XP/Vista/7. Feel free to forward this to your colleagues and students. You're also welcome to contact me via email or use the phone number below. Your feedback would be very useful for us. Best regards, Vladyslav Mukherjee www.grammatica.eu +1 (646) 652-6547 (USA) +44 (20) 8144-8711 (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 Mar 8 06:36:14 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF889274DD6; Thu, 8 Mar 2012 06:36:13 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id CD875274DC1; Thu, 8 Mar 2012 06:36:09 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120308063609.CD875274DC1@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2012 06:36:09 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.793 events: visualisation; modelling space & time X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 793. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Annamaria Carusi (21) Subject: ESF Conference on Images and Visualisation in Science [2] From: Leif Isaksen (67) Subject: CFP: 2nd NeDIMAH Space & Time workshop (satellite workshop of DH2012, Hamburg) --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2012 12:36:07 +0000 From: Annamaria Carusi Subject: ESF Conference on Images and Visualisation in Science Images and Visualisation: Imaging Technology, Truth and Trust 17-21 September 2012 Norköping, Sweden Deadline 6th June Both Leonardo da Vinci and John Constable claimed that painting is a science. This science has been explored extensively in traditional aesthetics and art history. Given recent advances in science and visual engineering, creating images for science, of science and for the translation (interpretation) of science has become at one and the same time commonplace, even easy, and even more scientific. The aim of this conference is to bring together experts from across the natural and social sciences, with curators, artists, producers and users of images based on advanced visual engineering. By exploring emerging challenges at the interface between advanced visualisation technologies, truth and trust we want to stimulate talk, interaction and collaboration between the arts, humanities and (natural, medical, engineering, computer) sciences, in a context where both science and (visual) art are increasingly converging and, at the same time, disciplinary boundaries still separate those working across them. To learn more about this conference, go to http://www.esf.org/index.php?id=9115 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2012 22:12:48 +0000 From: Leif Isaksen Subject: CFP: 2nd NeDIMAH Space & Time workshop (satellite workshop of DH2012, Hamburg) 1st Call for Papers Second Workshop of the NeDiMAH Space and Time Working Group: Here and There, Then and Now - Modelling Space and Time in the Humanities A Satellite Workshop of Digital Humanities 2012, Hamburg, Germany. Tuesday 17th July Spatio-temporal concepts are so ubiquitous that it is easy for us to forget that they are essential to everything we do. All cultural expressions are related to the dimensions of space and time in the manner of their production and consumption, the nature of their medium and the way in which they express these concepts themselves. This workshop seeks to identify innovative practices among the Digital Humanities community that explore, critique and re-present these spatial and temporal aspects. Although space and time are closely related, there are significant differences between them which may be exploited when theorizing and researching the Humanities. Among these are the different natures of their dimensionality (three dimensions vs. one), the seemingly static nature of space but enforced 'flow' of time, and the different methods we use to make the communicative leap across spatial and temporal distance. Every medium, whether textual, tactile, illustrative or audible (or some combination of them), exploits space and time differently in order to convey its message. The changes required to express the same concepts in different media (between written and performed music, for example), are often driven by different spatio-temporal requirements. Last of all, the impossibility (and perhaps undesirability) of fully representing a four-dimensional reality (whether real or fictional) mean that authors and artists must decide how to collapse this reality into the spatio-temporal limitations of a chosen medium. The nature of those choices can be as interesting as the expression itself. We invite those working with digital tools and techniques that manage, analyse and exploit spatial and temporal concepts in the Humanities to present a position paper at this workshop. Position papers should discuss a generalized theme related to use of spatio-temporal methods in the Digital Humanities with specific reference to one or more concrete applications or examples. Position papers will be separated into multiple panel sessions according to emergent themes. Those not wishing to present a paper are warmly encouraged to attend the workshop and take part in the extended discussion which will follow the presentations. This workshop is part of the ESF-funded NEDIMAH Network and organised by its Working Group on Space and Time (STWG). Papers are invited on any topic that furthers these objectives. Topics could be, but are not limited to: ∗ Spatial History ∗ Temporal analysis of ephemera ∗ Online contextualization of resources with data from related eras or regions ∗ Augmented reality applications ∗ Non-linear representations of space and time ∗ Digital analyses of fictional or mythical spaces or eras ∗ Modelling cultural dynamics and diffusion ∗ Comparisons between narrative, observer and 'real' times Papers that are accepted will have their workshop fees covered. Separate NeDiMAH STWG workshops cover GIS, Webmapping and ontological approaches to representing space and time and the Humanities. While these may naturally be an aspect of accepted submissions they should therefore not form the main focus of the paper. Papers should be submitted before 21st March 2012. We will endeavour to decide on the final workshop programme by the end of March. Please address submissions and queries to: l.isaksen@soton.ac.uk STWG WG Committee are: Daniel Alves Jens Andresen Shawn Day Øyvind Eide Leif Isaksen Eetu Mäkelä Eero Hyvönen _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Mar 8 06:55:40 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BB91275221; Thu, 8 Mar 2012 06:55:40 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 86172275210; Thu, 8 Mar 2012 06:55:34 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120308065534.86172275210@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2012 06:55:34 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.794 new journal: Interactive Technology & Pedagogy X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 794. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2012 01:52:48 -0500 From: "Matthew K. Gold" Subject: New Publication: Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy Greetings, We are pleased to announce the launch of the inaugural issue of the Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy: http://cuny.is/jitp The CFP for our second issue is located at http://cuny.is/jitpguidelines. We are committed first and foremost to teaching and learning, and intend that the journal itself – both in process and in product – provide opportunities to reveal, reflect on, and revise academic publication and classroom practice. We would appreciate it if you would help spread the word about this new publication and we thank you for your participation and continued support. Please send us your feedback via email at jitp@gc.cuny.edu, via Twitter @JITPedagogy, or via the comments sections on the site. The JITP Editorial Collective _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Mar 9 06:24:34 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03A95275B4A; Fri, 9 Mar 2012 06:24:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 62F31275B39; Fri, 9 Mar 2012 06:24:28 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120309062428.62F31275B39@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2012 06:24:28 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.795 CS and the disciplines X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 795. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2012 12:18:36 +0100 From: Jeppe Eimose Larsen Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.787 CS and the disciplines In-Reply-To: <20120307063644.5B3E3275422@woodward.joyent.us> In Denmark the word "datalogy" (da: datalogi) has been used since the end of the sixties along with datamatons, datamatics etc. The word was chosen by Peter Naur to emphasize that the field should be concerned with the study of data and it's uses, not computers (as in Dijkstra's famous sentence "Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes."). See http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/1966/7/13131-the-science-of-datalogy/abstract And for a deeper discussion of the name and tradition: www.naur.com/Datalogy-Naur.pdf Jeppe Eimose > In Norwegian universities this is known as informatikk, or informatics. I > would not be surprised if German universities used a similar term. > > Solveig Zempel > > > -- *Jeppe Eimose Larsen BSc, datalogi jeppe@eimose.dk +45 51 53 82 40* _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Mar 9 06:25:48 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64BA0275B7E; Fri, 9 Mar 2012 06:25:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 124B9275B6B; Fri, 9 Mar 2012 06:25:44 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120309062544.124B9275B6B@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2012 06:25:44 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.796 postdoc at Dickinson X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 796. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2012 18:52:31 +0000 From: "Francese, Christopher" Subject: Post-doc. position in digital classics at Dickinson College Postdoctoral Fellowship in Digital Classics Applications are invited for a one year postdoctoral fellowship for the 2012-2013 academic year in classical studies and digital humanities at the Department of Classical Studies at Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, USA. The position calls for teaching one classical studies course per semester (Classical Mythology in the Fall, Ancient Worlds on Film in the Spring). In addition to teaching and pursuing his or her own research, the successful candidate will be expected to make substantive contributions to the ongoing development of the digital project Dickinson College Commentaries. The DCC integrates text, historical data, literary and interpretive perspectives, and graphic, video and audio elements, with the goal of making classical texts richer and more accessible to readers of Latin and Greek. This project is flexible enough that it is anticipated that work on the DCC will likely be complementary with the Fellow’s research interests. The Fellow will collaborate with an assigned Dickinson faculty mentor and paid student assistants working on the DCC. A PhD in classical studies and a strong interest in and experience with digital humanities are required. The Fellow must normally have received the PhD by August 31, 2012 and within the last four years, and not have held a tenure-track position. All candidates should submit a letter of application and a curriculum vitae by April 20, 2012. Applicants should arrange for three letters of reference to be submitted by the application deadline. Review of applications will begin April 9 and will continue until the position it closed or filled. To apply, please visit: jobs.dickinson.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=51422. For further information contact Professor Christopher Francese, Chair, Department of Classical Studies, Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA 17013. Email: francese@dickinson.edu. Phone: (717) 245-1202. Dickinson College is committed to building a representative and diverse faculty, administrative staff, and student body. We encourage applications from all qualified persons. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Mar 9 06:26:24 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31518275BBD; Fri, 9 Mar 2012 06:26:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 156D1275B9C; Fri, 9 Mar 2012 06:26:19 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120309062619.156D1275B9C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2012 06:26:19 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.797 classical Greek OCR? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 797. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2012 12:39:30 +0100 From: maurizio lana Subject: classical greek OCR software? In-Reply-To: <20120308063349.5BC04274D3A@woodward.joyent.us> dear all, i would like to know if anyone knows, or has experience of, OCR software for polytonic greek. and specifically, has anyone used Anagnostis? not only proprietary but also open source solutions are interesting and welcome. many many thanks maurizio -- Camminare camminare scarpe rotte eppure andare Camminare camminare non curarsi di inciampare Con lo zaino o nudi nati gambe in spalla e poi sudare Camminare camminare per la voglia di scoprire turnèr mai indrèe! (Modena City Ramblers, Camminare, 2011) ------- il mio corso di informatica umanistica: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85JsyJw2zuw ------- Maurizio Lana - ricercatore Università del Piemonte Orientale, Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici via Manzoni 8, 13100 Vercelli - tel. +39 347 7370925 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Mar 9 06:28:30 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00F8B275C6F; Fri, 9 Mar 2012 06:28:30 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 2FDD6275C1F; Fri, 9 Mar 2012 06:28:26 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120309062826.2FDD6275C1F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2012 06:28:26 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.798 books in the digital humanities X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 798. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Lorna M. Hughes" (53) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.790 books in the digital humanities? [2] From: Richard Lewis (38) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.790 books in the digital humanities? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2012 11:05:14 +0000 From: "Lorna M. Hughes" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.790 books in the digital humanities? In-Reply-To: <20120308062952.D142B274C07@woodward.joyent.us> Leif, There is a bibliography at: http://arts-humanities.net/library/search/results/content_type%3Abiblio I'd recommend the Ashgate series, "Digital Research in the Arts and Humanities": http://www.ashgate.com/digitalresearch (yes, that was a plug!). Lorna Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 790. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2012 12:24:54 +0000 > From: Leif Isaksen > Subject: DH books > > Hi all (and apologies for x-posting) > > I know this question comes up periodically but we'd like to expand > Southampton University Library's Digital Humanities holdings so I was > wondering if people could suggest their thoughts on 'classic' or > 'must-have' print titles (feel free to self-advertise ;-) ). Links to > online biblios are also welcome, as are digital editions online. > > All the best and thanks in advance > > Leif > > -------------------- > Leif Isaksen > Lecturer in Digital Humanities > University of Southampton -- Professor Lorna M. Hughes University of Wales Chair in Digital Collections Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru National Library of Wales Lorna.Hughes@llgc.org.uk Ffôn / Phone 01970 632 499 http://www.llgc.org.uk/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2012 12:14:21 +0000 From: Richard Lewis Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.790 books in the digital humanities? In-Reply-To: <20120308062952.D142B274C07@woodward.joyent.us> At Wed, 7 Mar 2012 12:24:54 +0000, Leif Isaksen wrote: > so I was wondering if people could suggest their thoughts on > 'classic' or 'must-have' print titles A few things I've read/browsed recently: @book{Bartscherer11, title = {Switching Codes: Thinking through Digital Technology in the Humanities and the Arts}, editor = {Thomas Bartscherer and Roderick Coover}, publisher = {University of Chicago Press}, address = {Chicago}, year = {2011} } @book{vanPeer07, title = {Muses and Measures: Empirical Research Methods for the Humanities}, author = {Willie van Peer and Jèmeljan Hakemulder and Sonia Zyngier}, publisher = {Cambridge Scholars Publishing}, address = {Newcastle}, year = {2007} } @book{Berry11, title = {The Philosophy of Software: Code and Mediation in the Digital Age}, author = {David M. Berry}, publisher = {Palgrave MacMillan}, address = {Basingstoke}, year = {2011} } Best, Richard -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Richard Lewis ISMS, Computing Goldsmiths, University of London Tel: +44 (0)20 7078 5134 Skype: richardjlewis JID: ironchicken@jabber.earth.li http://www.richardlewis.me.uk/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Mar 9 06:32:57 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42584275DE0; Fri, 9 Mar 2012 06:32:57 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D66CB275DCC; Fri, 9 Mar 2012 06:32:53 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120309063253.D66CB275DCC@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2012 06:32:53 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.799 events: space & time; web'd living; visualisation; literature X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 799. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Shawn Day (27) Subject: Registration Now Open for DHO Data Visualisation for Analysis Workshop [2] From: Shawn Day (77) Subject: Second Workshop of the NeDiMAH Space and Time Working Group: Hereand There, Then and Now - Modelling Space and Time in the Humanities [3] From: Katrin Weller (73) Subject: DGI-Conference 2012: Social Media & Web Science [4] From: Anna Kazantseva (75) Subject: deadline extension: NAACL Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Literature --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2012 08:17:32 +0000 From: Shawn Day Subject: Registration Now Open for DHO Data Visualisation for Analysis Workshop DHO Digital Humanities Tech Skills Workshop: New Perspectives on Old Data: An Introduction to Structured Data Presentation for Digital Humanities Scholars Date: Thursday 15 March 2012 Place: Royal Irish Academy, 19 Dawson Street, Dublin 2 Time: 10:00 am -14:00 pm Lecturer: Mr Shawn Day - Project Manager DHO (RIA) Register at: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dEJLVmhESDdhSk80UUZDWXhlQTN2ZXc6MA This workshop will provide post-graduate and doctoral researchers in the digital humanities an overview of best practice and methods relating to data visualisation and structured data presentation. As a companion workshop to the data visualisation for analysis this workshop builds on the elements of the visualisation cycle by examining the basic tenets that inform the data presentation process. We will explore a number of tools available to assist in the process and to gain an appreciation of where you can look for more information. This interactive session will allow participants to learn from others experiences and to increase your own appreciation of how data visualisation can aid in the communication of your research efforts. Topics will include: • Data Visualisation for Presentation versus Analysis • The Process and Ethos of Presenting Data • Tools and Methods Used for Data Visualisation for Presentation in the Humanities • Directions for Future Exploration There are no technical prerequisites for this workshop. It is intended to be introductory in nature and aid those currently assembling or considering collecting data for academic research use. Wifi access will be available. Registration is essential and spaces are limited and no-cost spaces are offered on a first come first served basis beginning 8 March 2012. To register please visit: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dEJLVmhESDdhSk80UUZDWXhlQTN2ZXc6MA --- Shawn Day --- Digital Humanities Observatory (RIA), --- Regus Pembroke House, --- 28 - 30 Pembroke Street Upper --- Dublin 2 IRELAND --- about.me/shawnday --- Tel: +353 (0) 1 2342441 --- s.day@ria.ie --- http://dho.ie --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2012 09:17:15 +0000 From: Shawn Day Subject: Second Workshop of the NeDiMAH Space and Time Working Group: Hereand There, Then and Now - Modelling Space and Time in the Humanities 1st Call for Papers Second Workshop of the NeDiMAH Space and Time Working Group: Here and There, Then and Now - Modelling Space and Time in the Humanities A Satellite Workshop of Digital Humanities 2012, Hamburg, Germany. Tuesday 17th July Spatio-temporal concepts are so ubiquitous that it is easy for us to forget that they are essential to everything we do. All cultural expressions are related to the dimensions of space and time in the manner of their production and consumption, the nature of their medium and the way in which they express these concepts themselves. This workshop seeks to identify innovative practices among the Digital Humanities community that explore, critique and re-present these spatial and temporal aspects. Although space and time are closely related, there are significant differences between them which may be exploited when theorizing and researching the Humanities. Among these are the different natures of their dimensionality (three dimensions vs. one), the seemingly static nature of space but enforced 'flow' of time, and the different methods we use to make the communicative leap across spatial and temporal distance. Every medium, whether textual, tactile, illustrative or audible (or some combination of them), exploits space and time differently in order to convey its message. The changes required to express the same concepts in different media (between written and performed music, for example), are often driven by different spatio-temporal requirements. Last of all, the impossibility (and perhaps undesirability) of fully representing a four-dimensional reality (whether real or fictional) mean that authors and artists must decide how to collapse this reality into the spatio-temporal limitations of a chosen medium. The nature of those choices can be as interesting as the expression itself. We invite those working with digital tools and techniques that manage, analyse and exploit spatial and temporal concepts in the Humanities to present a position paper at this workshop. Position papers should discuss a generalized theme related to use of spatio-temporal methods in the Digital Humanities with specific reference to one or more concrete applications or examples. Position papers will be separated into multiple panel sessions according to emergent themes. Those not wishing to present a paper are warmly encouraged to attend the workshop and take part in the extended discussion which will follow the presentations. This workshop is part of the ESF-funded NEDIMAH Network and organised by its Working Group on Space and Time (STWG). Papers are invited on any topic that furthers these objectives. Topics could be, but are not limited to: ∗ Spatial History ∗ Temporal analysis of ephemera ∗ Online contextualization of resources with data from related eras or regions ∗ Augmented reality applications ∗ Non-linear representations of space and time ∗ Digital analyses of fictional or mythical spaces or eras ∗ Modelling cultural dynamics and diffusion ∗ Comparisons between narrative, observer and 'real' times Papers that are accepted will have their workshop fees covered. Separate NeDiMAH STWG workshops cover GIS, Webmapping and ontological approaches to representing space and time and the Humanities. While these may naturally be an aspect of accepted submissions they should therefore not form the main focus of the paper. Papers should be submitted before 21st March 2012. We will endeavour to decide on the final workshop programme by the end of March. Please address submissions and queries to: l.isaksen@soton.ac.uk STWG WG Committee are: Daniel Alves Jens Andresen Shawn Day Øyvind Eide Leif Isaksen Eetu Mäkelä Eero Hyvönen --- Shawn Day --- Digital Humanities Observatory (RIA), --- Regus Pembroke House, --- 28 - 30 Pembroke Street Upper --- Dublin 2 IRELAND --- about.me/shawnday --- Tel: +353 (0) 1 2342441 --- s.day@ria.ie --- http://dho.ie --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2012 13:34:19 +0100 From: Katrin Weller Subject: DGI-Conference 2012: Social Media & Web Science CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ---------------------------------------------------------------- DGI-CONFERENCE 2012 - EUROPEAN AFTERNOON 22 March 2012 SOCIAL MEDIA AND WEB SCIENCE The Web as a Living Space Co-located with the 2nd DGI-Conference and 64. Annual Meeting March 22 and 23, 2012 and with DIATA12 - Düsseldorf Workshop on Interdisciplinary Approaches to Twitter Analysis, March 21, 2012 http://www.nfgwin.uni-duesseldorf.de/diata12 Düsseldorf/Germany --------------------------------------------------------------------- View the complete conference programme at: http://dgi-info.informationsassistent.de/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=288&Itemid=122 Register here: http://dgi-info.informationsassistent.de/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=302&Itemid=129 Twitter hashtag: #dgi2012 We are happy to announce following keynotes: * Dame Wendy Hall (University of Southampton & Web Science Trust): The Development of Web Science: Research, Education and Diversity * Imogen Levy (Westminster Abbey): How Westminster Abbey created world-wide audience engagement around the royal wedding with online and social media. Topical foci of the European Afternoon are: * Social Media Platforms & Models * E-Learning & Knowledge Distribution * Politics 2.0 The upcoming DGI-Conference, hosted by the German Society of Information Science and Information Practice, will take place on March 22nd and 23rd in Düsseldorf, Germany. DGI-Conference continues the long tradition of annual meetings by the DGI, being held regularly since its foundation in 1948. This time, the conference topic is “Social Media & Web Science”. While the presentations of the main conference will be held in German, there is also a special research track in English language. This “European Afternoon” will take place on March 22nd. We would like to welcome researchers and practitioners interested in the social dimensions of Web developments and information technologies, e.g. from the fields of information science, library and documentation science, computer science, digital humanities, linguistics, psychology, political science, law and economics. Previous to the main conference, the #DIATA12 workshop (Düsseldorf Workshop on Interdisciplinary Approaches to Twitter Analysis) will be held on March 21st, 2012. There a no registration fees for #DIATA12, but a registration via email is required. Details can be found at http://nfgwin.uni-duesseldorf.de/en/diata12. PROGRAMME CHAIRS Katrin Weller & Isabella Peters (Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf) ORGANISER Deutsche Gesellschaft für Informationswissenschaft und Informationspraxis e.V. (DGI) / German Society of Information Science and Information Practice Windmühlstraße 3 60329 Frankfurt am Main, Germany Fon +49 (0)69 430313 Fax +49 (0)69 4909096 e-mail: mail@dgi-info.de www.dgi-info.de CONTACT Nadja Strein -- Dr. Katrin Weller Institute for Language and Information Department of Information Science Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf Universitätsstr. 1, Building 23.21.04.68 D-40225 Düsseldorf Phone: +49 (0) 211 81 10803 E-Mail: weller@uni-duesseldorf.de Events: DGI-Conference "Social Media& Web Science" (#dgi2012), Düsseldorf, March 22-23, 2012: http://tiny.cc/dgi2012-programme Conference on Sciene and the Internet (#cosci12),Düsseldorf, August 1-3, 2012: http://nfgwin.uni-duesseldorf.de/de/cosci12 --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2012 15:06:09 -0500 From: Anna Kazantseva Subject: deadline extension: NAACL Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Literature Deadline extended to March 30, 2012 =========================== Due to several requests we are extending the deadline to be more in line with the rest of NAACL workshops. The new deadline is March 30, 2012. Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Literature Co-located with The 2012 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies June 8, 2012 Montréal, Québec, Canada All information, including announcements and updates, can be found on the workshop's Web site: https://sites.google.com/site/clfl2012/ MOTIVATION AND SCOPE The amount of literary material available on-line keeps growing rapidly. Not only are there machine-readable texts in libraries, collections and e-book stores, but there is also more and more “live” literature – e-zines, blogs, self-published e-books and so on. There is a need for tools to help users navigate, visualize and appreciate high volume of available literature. Literary texts are quite different from technical and formal documents, which have been the focus of NLP research thus far. Most forms of statistical language processing rely on lexical information in one way or another. In literature, the primary mode is narrative rather than exposition. Stories may be cognitively easier to read than certain expository genres, such as scientific documents, but it is a challenging form of discourse for NLP tools and methods. For instance, literary prose lacks overt lexical clues and structural markers typically leveraged in the processing of more structured genres. Also, even conventional literary texts exhibit far less unity of time, space and topic than most formal discourse. Learning to handle these challenges in literary data may help move past heavy reliance on surface clues in general. Literature also differs from other genres because of the needs of its typical audience. For instance, reading, searching or browsing literature online is a different task than searching for the latest news on a particular topic. Search criteria would be rather abstract: not a keyword, but a literary style, similarity to another work, point of view and so on. When looking for a summary or a digest, a reader may prefer to know or visualize a text's broad characteristics than facts which summarize the plot. We invite papers that touch upon these areas, but also welcome other ideas which promote the processing of literary narrative or related forms of discourse. TOPICS OF INTEREST Note: Papers on other closely related topics will also be considered * the needs of the readers and how those needs translate into meaningful NLP tasks; * searching for literature; * recommendation systems for literature; * computational modelling of narratives, computational narratology; * summarization of literature; * differences between literature and other genres as relevant to computational linguistics; * discourse structure in literature; * emotion analysis for literature; * profiling and authorship attribution; * identification and analysis of literature genres; * building and analysing social networks of characters; * generation of literary narrative, dialogue or poetry; * modelling dialogue literary style for generation. SUBMISSION We invite submission of long and short papers, describing completed or ongoing research on systems, studies, theories and models which can inform the area of computational linguistics for literature. Long papers should be at most 8 pages, plus unlimited space for references. Short papers should be at most 4 pages plus references, and can be appropriate for either oral or poster presentation. Accepted long papers, and perhaps selected short papers, will be presented as talks. In addition, we encourage submission of position papers -- mapping out research ideas and programs -- of up to 6 pages plus references. There will be double-blind review: submissions must be anonymized. Style files and sample PDFs are available on this page: http://www.naaclhlt2012.org/conference/conference.php Submission page: please visit later IMPORTANT DATES (all deadlines 11:59 pm. Hawaii Time) Submission deadline: March 30, 2012 Notification of acceptance: April 24, 2012 Camera-ready version due: May 4, 2012 Workshop: June 8, 2012 PROGRAM COMMITTEE * Cecilia Ovesdotter Alm (Rochester Institute of Technology) * Nicholas Dames (Columbia University) * Hal Daumé III (University of Maryland) * Anna Feldman (Montclair State University) * Mark Finlayson (MIT) * Pablo Gervás (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) * Roxana Girju (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) * Amit Goyal (University of Maryland) * Katherine Havasi (MIT Media Lab) * Matthew Jockers (Stanford University) * James Lester (North Carolina State University) * Inderjeet Mani (Children's Organization of Southeast Asia) * Kathy McKeown (Columbia University) * Saif Mohammad (National Research Council, Canada) * Vivi Nastase (HITS gGmbH) * Rebecca Passonneau (Columbia University) * Livia Polanyi (LDM Associates) * Owen Rambow (Columbia University) * Michaela Regneri (Saarland University) * Reid Swanson (University of California, Santa Cruz) * Marilyn Walker (University of California, Santa Cruz) * Janice Wiebe (University of Pittsburgh) CO-ORGANIZERS * David Elson (Google) * Anna Kazantseva (University of Ottawa) * Rada Mihalcea (University of North Texas) * Stan Szpakowicz (University of Ottawa) CONTACT INFORMATION Send general inquiries to clfl.workshop@gmail.com Anna Kazantseva Ph.D. Candidate University of Ottawa School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Mar 10 08:18:19 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33090276E67; Sat, 10 Mar 2012 08:18:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 98BC7276E52; Sat, 10 Mar 2012 08:18:13 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120310081813.98BC7276E52@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2012 08:18:13 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.800 books in the digital humanities X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 800. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Susan Schreibman (17) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.798 books in the digital humanities [2] From: Susan Barribeau (17) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.798 books in the digital humanities - SwitchingCodes --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2012 09:17:34 +0000 From: Susan Schreibman Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.798 books in the digital humanities In-Reply-To: <20120309062826.2FDD6275C1F@woodward.joyent.us> The Companion to Digital Humanities and the Companion to Digital Literary Studies are both still available (Blackwell). Also, the books published by the Topics in the Digital Humanities Series (University of Illinois Press). susan -- Susan Schreibman, PhD Long Room Hub Associate Professor in Digital Humanities School of English Trinity College Dublin Dublin 2, Ireland email: susan.schreibman@tcd.ie phone: +353 1 896 3694 fax: +353 1 671 7114 check out the new MPhil in Digital Humanities at TCD http://www.tcd.ie/English/postgraduate/digital-humanities/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2012 12:10:08 -0600 From: Susan Barribeau Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.798 books in the digital humanities - SwitchingCodes In-Reply-To: <20120309062826.2FDD6275C1F@woodward.joyent.us> Hello, I found some of the chapters in this book useful. Switching codes : thinking through digital technology in the humanities and the arts / edited by Thomas Bartscherer and Roderick Coover. Publisher: Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2011. Description: 333 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/S/bo6027946.html Susan Barribeau -- ******************************************************************* Susan Barribeau English Literature/Journalism/Media/Linguistics Bibliographer University of Wisconsin - Madison, Memorial Library, Room 278D 728 State Street, Madison WI 53706-1494 Phone: (608)262-9585 FAX: (608)265-2754 Email: sbarribeau@library.wisc.edu _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Mar 10 08:18:51 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1995276EA7; Sat, 10 Mar 2012 08:18:51 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B7C4C276E9C; Sat, 10 Mar 2012 08:18:48 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120310081848.B7C4C276E9C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2012 08:18:48 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.801 classical Greek OCR X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 801. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2012 11:46:27 +0000 From: Gabriel Bodard Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.797 classical Greek OCR? In-Reply-To: <20120309062619.156D1275B9C@woodward.joyent.us> This question is more or less a FAQ on the Digital Classicist list (http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/digitalclassicist), but since the landscape is changing so quickly it's probably worth asking there again. (If you'd prefer not to join the list, let me know privately and I'll forward your question and summarize the results back here.) Best, Gabby On 2012-03-09 06:26, maurizio lana wrote: > dear all, > i would like to know if anyone knows, or has experience of, OCR software > for polytonic greek. > and specifically, has anyone used Anagnostis? > not only proprietary but also open source solutions are interesting and > welcome. -- Dr Gabriel BODARD (Research Associate in Digital Epigraphy) Department of Digital Humanities King's College London 26-29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL Email: gabriel.bodard@kcl.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 1388 Fax: +44 (0)20 7848 2980 http://www.digitalclassicist.org/ http://www.currentepigraphy.org/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Mar 10 08:24:09 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26D32276F66; Sat, 10 Mar 2012 08:24:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 162C2276F5B; Sat, 10 Mar 2012 08:24:05 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120310082406.162C2276F5B@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2012 08:24:05 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.802 events: holography; methods; community X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 802. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Melissa Terras (30) Subject: Community-powered digital transformations - workshop with Jim Richardson, John Naughton [2] From: Klaus Staubermann (40) Subject: Understanding Technology lecture [3] From: Ray Siemens (4) Subject: cfp: MLA 2013 Special Session: Adapting Social Science Methods to Humanities Research --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2012 12:38:55 +0100 From: Melissa Terras Subject: Community-powered digital transformations - workshop with Jim Richardson, John Naughton In-Reply-To: <8CFA149C469A95428981B65112BFE6883269833F@isls-ex-2.intranet.wmin.ac.uk> You are warmly invited to this (free) event: COMMUNITY-POWERED DIGITAL TRANSFORMATIONS Production and Creativity workshop 29 March 2012 University of Westminster, London http://bit.ly/digital29march Digital transformations mean that cultural and media organisations now find themselves in a new environment in which communities of participants interact to create, curate, organise and support cultural experiences. This is the first in a series of AHRC-funded events where practitioners and researchers will come together to consider innovative practices, and develop new ideas together. This workshop will consider: * How can the creativity of interested communities be unlocked for maximum benefit? * To what extent can the creativity of enthusiasts be channelled and organised to achieve specific goals? * What is the role of the professional producer as they find themselves in a community of enthusiast producers, fans, and other practitioners? Speakers include: * John Naughton, technology writer for The Observer, author of From Gutenberg to Zuckerberg: What You Really Need to Know About the Internet, former Professor of the Public Understanding of Technology at the Open University. * Jim Richardson, founder and director of MuseumNext, Europe's major conference on social media and museums. * Frances Taylor, British Library, responsible for connecting the British Library with the creative industries. * Neil Cummings, artist, and Professor at Chelsea College of Art and Design, University of the Arts London. * Daniel Nathan, chairman, totallyradio.com. * David Gauntlett, author of Making is Connecting, Professor of Media and Communications at University of Westminster. The day will involve presentations, discussions, and smaller-group conversations. The event, including refreshments and lunch, is free, but you must register online. (Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council - Digital Transformations Programme). INFORMATION AND REGISTRATION AT: http://bit.ly/digital29march Arrive from 10.30am for tea or coffee. Starts at 11.00am, ends at 4.30pm. Venue: The Boardroom, University of Westminster, 309 Regent Street, London. ------------------------------------------------ David Gauntlett - http://www.theory.org.uk/david Professor of Media and Communications, and Co-Director of the Communications and Media Research Institute, University of Westminster d.gauntlett@westminster.ac.uk --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2012 15:01:11 -0000 From: Klaus Staubermann Subject: Understanding Technology lecture In-Reply-To: <8CFA149C469A95428981B65112BFE6883269833F@isls-ex-2.intranet.wmin.ac.uk> National Museums Scotland and Institute for the Study of Science, Technology and Innovation, the University of Edinburgh UNDERSTANDING TECHNOLOGY Public lecture Thursday 29 March 2012, 3:00 pm Dr Sean Johnston (University of Glasgow): THE SECRECY AND COUNTERCULTURE OF HOLOGRAPHY What links the Cold War, Pop Art, American car manufacturers and communes? Holography, the technology of three-dimensional imaging, bridged these events and entities. This talk will explore the environments in which holography developed, and the new experts who evolved with it. It will argue that the subject grew into dissimilar forms to suit the distinct goals of its various communities. Holograms embodied scientific preconceptions, engineering judgements, aesthetic values, market assumptions and, for a time, political dimensions. The talk will suggest that this co-development by separate technical groups can reveal cultural assumptions about progress, and why our technological stories can too easily misrepresent a hidden history. This lecture is held in memory of Dr Stewart Russell (1955-2011) Learning Centre Seminar Room, National Museum of Scotland Admission free Please register with Maureen Kerr on 0131 247 4274 or m.kerr@nms.ac.uk If you happen to be in the vicinity you might want to visit our two latest exhibitions: http://www.nms.ac.uk/our_museums/war_museum/reconstructing_lives.aspx http://www.nms.ac.uk/our_museums/national_museum/exhibitions/see_scotlan d_by_train.aspx Best, Klaus Dr Klaus Staubermann Principal Curator of Technology National Museums Scotland Chambers Street Edinburgh EH1 1JF Tel (0)131-247-4357 Fax (0)131-247-4312 e-mail k.staubermann@nms.ac.uk http://www.nms.ac.uk http://www.nms.ac.uk/ --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2012 16:32:52 +0000 From: Ray Siemens Subject: cfp: MLA 2013 Special Session: Adapting Social Science Methods to Humanities Research In-Reply-To: <8CFA149C469A95428981B65112BFE6883269833F@isls-ex-2.intranet.wmin.ac.uk> CFP, MLA 2013 Special Session: Adapting Social Science Methods to Humanities Research This session examines emerging overlap between the humanities and sociological, ethnographic, and related methods (generally and at level of specific techniques;e.g., use analytics, interviewing). 500-750 word abstracts by 15 March 2012 to Monica Bulger (monica.bulger@oii.ox.ac.uk) and Ray Siemens (siemens@uvic.ca) _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Mar 11 08:50:42 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33FA5275BFC; Sun, 11 Mar 2012 08:50:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 376E9275BE3; Sun, 11 Mar 2012 08:50:35 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120311085036.376E9275BE3@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2012 08:50:35 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.803 job at UVic X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 803. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2012 15:28:37 +0000 From: Ray Siemens Subject: Job posting: Coordinator / Assistant Director @ ETCL, UVictoria The ETCL Seeking a Coordinator / Assistant Director! The Electronic Textual Cultures Lab at UVic (http://etcl.uvic.ca/) is looking for someone to join its team as full-time Coordinator or Assistant Director. As a candidate for this position, you are an organised, self-starting, natural manager and planner who takes initiative; you have good facility with computing, and understand the value of literary, historical, and/or language studies; you understand what it means to support and participate in innovative work within larger structures; you are a team player, and engender a positive work environment; you have auniversity degree, and documented experience in the areas above; you want to join a dynamic environment in which you can make a difference, drawing on your experience with operations, research-facilitation, and outreach. Candidates with advanced experience will be considered at the level of Assistant Director. To apply, send a brief cover letter, CV, and the names and contact details for three referees to etcl.jobs@gmail.com. Applications will be reviewed as received, beginning 21 March, until the position is filled. Salary for this position is highly competitive in the Canadian academic context. (Please note that only candidates selected for interview will be contacted.) About the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab @ UVic: TheETCL (http://etcl.uvic.ca/) engages in cross-disciplinary study of the past, present, and future of textual communication, and acts as a hub for digitalhumanities activities across the University of Victoria campus, from coast-to-coast, and around the world. ETCL acts as an intellectual centre for the activities of some twenty local faculty, staff, and students as well asvisiting scholars who work closely with research centers, libraries, academic departments, and projects locally and in the larger community. Through a series of highly collaborative relationships, ETCL’s international research community comprises over 300 researchers. Our teaching and training initiatives like the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI; http://dhsi.org) bring together faculty, staff, and students from the Arts, Humanities, Library, and archives communities as well as independent scholars and participants from industry and government sectors; in its tenth year, the DHSI had welcomed more than 1200people from around the world to its warm, collegial training environment. Our conferences and speaker series have brought more than 200 faculty and graduate student speakers to our campus. Researchers, post-doctoral fellows, and graduate student assistants affiliated with the ETCL have gone on to further positions in industry and academia, including: tenure track faculty member,post-doctoral fellow, doctoral student, software developer, solution architect, director of technology, academic librarian, project manager, professional writer, multimedia consultant, web designer, and research director. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Mar 11 09:05:05 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id E89CC275F3B; Sun, 11 Mar 2012 09:05:04 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 08D86275F2A; Sun, 11 Mar 2012 09:04:59 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120311090500.08D86275F2A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2012 09:04:59 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.804 books in the digital humanities X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 804. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Leif Isaksen (78) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.800 books in the digital humanities [2] From: Willard McCarty (50) Subject: books *in* the digital humanities? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2012 09:30:03 +0000 From: Leif Isaksen Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.800 books in the digital humanities In-Reply-To: <20120310081813.98BC7276E52@woodward.joyent.us> Thanks all, very much appreciated. :-) Best Leif On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 8:18 AM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: >                 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 800. >            Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London >                       www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist >                Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > >  [1]   From:    Susan Schreibman             (17) >        Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.798 books in the digital humanities > >  [2]   From:    Susan Barribeau             (17) >        Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.798 books in the digital humanities - >                SwitchingCodes > > > --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ >        Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2012 09:17:34 +0000 >        From: Susan Schreibman >        Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.798 books in the digital humanities >        In-Reply-To: <20120309062826.2FDD6275C1F@woodward.joyent.us> > > > The Companion to Digital Humanities and the Companion to Digital > Literary Studies are both still available (Blackwell). Also, the books > published by the Topics in the Digital Humanities Series (University of > Illinois Press). > > susan > > > > -- > Susan Schreibman, PhD > Long Room Hub Associate Professor in Digital Humanities > School of English > Trinity College Dublin > Dublin 2, Ireland > > email: susan.schreibman@tcd.ie > phone: +353 1 896 3694 > fax:  +353 1 671 7114 > > check out the new MPhil in Digital Humanities at TCD > http://www.tcd.ie/English/postgraduate/digital-humanities/ > > > > --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ >        Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2012 12:10:08 -0600 >        From: Susan Barribeau >        Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.798 books in the digital humanities - SwitchingCodes >        In-Reply-To: <20120309062826.2FDD6275C1F@woodward.joyent.us> > > > Hello, > I found some of the chapters in this book useful. > > Switching codes : thinking through digital technology in the humanities > and the arts / edited by Thomas Bartscherer and Roderick Coover. > Publisher: Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2011. > Description: 333 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. > http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/S/bo6027946.html > > Susan Barribeau > > > -- > ******************************************************************* > Susan Barribeau > English Literature/Journalism/Media/Linguistics Bibliographer > University of Wisconsin - Madison, Memorial Library, Room 278D > 728 State Street, Madison WI  53706-1494 > Phone:  (608)262-9585     FAX:  (608)265-2754 > Email:  sbarribeau@library.wisc.edu --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2012 09:02:21 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: books *in* the digital humanities? In-Reply-To: <20120310081813.98BC7276E52@woodward.joyent.us> I am stopped from contributing to the list of books in the digital humanities by two problems, one of them interesting. The boring one is lack of time, which is to say, unwillingness to devote the amount of time it would take for an adequate response. The interesting one is what makes being adequate so demanding: where to stop? What is *not* in the digital humanities? (Only a relatively small fraction of the books on my shelves are in the usual sense about the digital humanities. I know if I tried to identify which ones actually qualify I'd be bemused and possibly never finish.) Recently I made an attempt in the opposite direction, more or less, that is, to compile a list that would fit on one page, circulate it and as suggestions came in keep it to one page by deleting the least worthy entries. Rather than a bibliography as such I aimed at starting points for those who want to know what the digital humanities is. This is what I came up with: > A one-page bibliography for digital humanities > > The aim here is to provide branching points only. References are to be followed. > > Articles, books, edited collections > Kirschenbaum, Matthew G. 2008. Mechanisms: New Media and the Forensic Imagination. Cambridge MA: MIT Press. > McCarty, Willard. 2005. Humanities Computing. Basingstoke: Palgrave. > McGann, Jerome, ed. 2010. Online Humanities Scholarship: The Shape of Things to Come. Houston TX: Connexions. cnx.org/content/col11199/latest/ > Schreibman, Susan, Ray Siemens and John Unsworth, eds. 2004. A Companion to Digital Humanities. Oxford: Blackwell. www.digitalhumanities.org/companion/. > Williams, Raymond. 2003/1974. Television: Technology and Cultural Form. Ed. Ederyn Williams. London: Routledge. > > Journals > Digital Humanities Quarterly (digitalhumanities.org/dhq/) > Literary and Linguistic Computing (llc.oxfordjournals.org/) > > Conversations > Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/) > Blogs & Twitter: google for “blogs digital humanities”; “twitter digital humanities” or substitute the name of your primary discipline. Many fellow students and scholars are eager to help. Talk to them. > > Guides &c > Experiment by googling for whatever subject-area interests you, e.g. “digital history”; for courses, e.g. “digital humanities syllabus”. > > Organizations > Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (www.digitalhumanities.org) Apologies to those who do not find their books listed here, esp given the fact that I put one of mine on it :-). Would this be a valuable exercise to continue? I also made similar lists for computational stylistics and for text-analysis. Yours, WM -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor (fractional), University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Mar 11 09:05:36 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D944275F66; Sun, 11 Mar 2012 09:05:36 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id AA497275F58; Sun, 11 Mar 2012 09:05:32 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120311090532.AA497275F58@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2012 09:05:32 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.805 CS and the disciplines X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 805. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2012 10:05:13 -0800 (PST) From: Laval Hunsucker Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.789 CS and the disciplines In-Reply-To: <20120308062848.4489B274B9D@woodward.joyent.us> Hartmut Krech wrote : > Desel traces the origin of the name informatics back to 1957. As does the _OED_. But more interesting seems its observation that "it is likely that the Russian [informatika], German [Informatik], and French [informatique] nouns were coined independently of each other." -- all the more so, seeing that they are imho an even less appropriate designation for the field  ( in terms of what it actually does )  than "computer science". English "informatics" derives, according to that same OED, from the above-mentioned Russian term. As to the German term, mentioned by Stefan and Hartmut, we can note what Klaeren and Sperber write ( under "Was ist Informatik?", on p.5 ) in their _Die Macht der Abstraktion_ (Teubner, 2007) : "Die deutsche Bezeichnung wurde damals in Anlehnung an den von der Académie Française geprägten Begriff „informatique“ gewahlt, die dort als „traitement rationnel de Vinformation“ (rationale Behandlung der Information) definiert wurde."  Worth quoting perhaps also is Friedrich Bauer's fuller version in his _Historische Notizen zur Informatik_ (Springer, 2009) : "Unter dem heutigen Namen kennt man die Informatik, englisch computer science, noch kaum ein halbes Jahrhundert. . . . Durch die Einführung der modernen, programmgesteuerten elektronischen Rechenanlagen, der computer, bekam das Gebiet ein wissenschaft- liches Eigenleben, eine überragende wirtschaftliche Bedeutung und konsequenterweise auch einen einprägsamen Namen. Der Ausdruck ‘informatique’ im Französischen gab den Hintergrund für die Bezeichnung ‘Informatik-Werk’ einer Fabrik der Firma Standard Elektrik. Nachdem jedoch die academie francaise 1968 eine sozusagen amtliche Definition des Begriffs ‘informatique’ vorgenommen hatte: ‘L’ informatique: Theorie et traitement de l’ information à l’aide de programmes mis en oevre sur ordinateurs’, wurde in Deutschland der Ausdruck Informatik, parallel zu Mathematik, salonfähig. Bundes- minister Stoltenberg gebrauchte 1968 das neue Wort erstmals bei einer Fachtagung in Berlin, und die Presse griff es fast begierig auf: so war es bald in aller Munde, und niemand litt unter Verständnisschwierigkeiten."   - Laval Hunsucker   Berlin-Mitte _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Mar 11 09:06:08 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81854275FE2; Sun, 11 Mar 2012 09:06:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 3BEEB275FCB; Sun, 11 Mar 2012 09:06:03 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120311090603.3BEEB275FCB@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2012 09:06:03 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.806 jobs at UCL X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 806. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2012 08:51:22 +0000 From: "Cain, Joe" Subject: UCL offers Research Associates in arts and humanities - includes HPS and STS UCL is offering "Research Associates in arts and humanities" (3 posts) Grade: UCL Grade 7 Salary: £32,055 - £38,744 per annum inclusive of £2,806 London Allowance Reports to: Vice-Dean for Research in Arts and Humanities, or Vice-Dean for Research in Social and Historical Sciences Summary of Role: An interdisciplinary research associateship in the arts and humanities to be held within the newly created UCL Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in the Humanities. Successful candidates will carry out collaborative, interdisciplinary research in the arts and humanities and undertake a limited amount of teaching. Each associateship may be held for a period of two or three years. For more information: http://tinyurl.com/6lswcpm Deadline: 27 Apr 2012 Proposals for collaborations with staff in STS should begin with direct contact with them. Joe _______________________ Dr Joe Cain Head of Department Department of Science and Technology Studies University College London | Gower Street | London | WC1E 6BT | UK J.Cain@ucl.ac.uk | www.ucl.ac.uk/sts/cain | 0207 679 3041 (int'l +44 207 679 3041) Twitter: @drjoecain Follow Cain's publications: www.ucl.ac.uk/sts/staff/cain/pubs _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Mar 12 06:40:00 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF70A276E1D; Mon, 12 Mar 2012 06:39:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 498FC276E0D; Mon, 12 Mar 2012 06:39:57 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120312063957.498FC276E0D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 06:39:57 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.807 books in the digital humanities X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 807. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Alan Corre (5) Subject: Books *in* digital humanities [2] From: Marijana_Tomić (215) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.804 books in the digital humanities [3] From: "Matthew K. Gold" (27) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.804 books in the digital humanities [4] From: Igor Kramberger (31) Subject: Re: books *in* the digital humanities? [5] From: "William R. Bowen" (237) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.804 books in the digital humanities --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2012 08:53:48 -0500 (CDT) From: Alan Corre Subject: Books *in* digital humanities My recent book *Icon Programming for Humanists* should be of particular interest to those involved with digital stylistics. It discusses various statistical modes of handling such matters, and relieves the tedium of individual calculations. There is a new chapter in this second edition which explains how Unicode can now be employed for digital texts in non-Latin scripts such as Cyrillic and Indic. Unicode is truly a masterly achievement. A free e-book version may be had at unicon.com/books/humanist.pdf Hard copy is available from the publisher. Alan D. Corré http://people.uwm.edu/corre --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2012 16:54:41 +0100 From: Marijana_Tomić Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.804 books in the digital humanities I would like to recommend: Debates in the digital humanities / ed. by Matthew K. Gold. Minneapolis; London : University of Minnesota Press, 2012 Best regards Marijana -- *Marijana Tomić, asistentica* *Sveuciliste u Zadru* *Odjel za informacijske znanosti * *Ulica dr. Franje Tudjmana 24i* *23000 Zadar* *+38523/345-054* * * *Marijana Tomić, research assistant University in Zadar Departement for Library and Information Sciences Dr. Franje Tuđmana 24i 23000 Zadar +38523/345-054* --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2012 14:14:25 -0400 From: "Matthew K. Gold" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.804 books in the digital humanities In-Reply-To: <20120311090500.08D86275F2A@woodward.joyent.us> Hi All, Here are a few other recent titles to consider: Cohen, Dan and Scheinfeldt, Tom. *Hacking the Academy*. (University of Michigan Press, 2011) [web; print forthcoming] Gold, Matthew K. *Debates in the Digital Humanities *(University of Minnesota Press, 2012) Fitzpatrick, Kathleen. *Planned Obsolescence* (NYU Press, 2011) Kirschenbaum, Matthew. *Mechanisms: New Media and the Forensic Imagination *(MIT Press, 2007) Nowviskie, Bethany.* alt-academy*. (MediaCommons, 2011) [web] Ramsay, Steve. *Reading Machines: Towards an Algorithmic Criticism* (University of Illinois Press, 2011) Forthcoming titles to look out for (a list that will certainly grow!): David Berry's *Understanding Digital Humanities* (Palgrave, 2012), Katherine Hayles, *How We Think: Digital Media and Contemporary Technogenesis* (Chicago UP, 2012), and Matthew Jockers, *Macroanalysis: Methods for Digital Literary History *(Illinois, forthcoming). Best, Matt -- Matthew K. Gold, Ph.D. Advisor to the Provost for Master's Programs & Digital Initiatives, CUNY Graduate Center Assistant Professor of English, City Tech | Interactive Technology & Pedagogy Program, CUNY Graduate Center Director, CUNY Academic Commons | mkgold.net | @mkgold --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2012 21:42:40 +0100 From: Igor Kramberger Subject: Re: books *in* the digital humanities? In-Reply-To: <20120311090500.08D86275F2A@woodward.joyent.us> Good evening and thank you for your list of publications! I found it interesting that you included one book from Raymond Williams. It is a great book -- I read it with my students in quite a different context (list of books). And it contains a lot of statements which are surprsingly actual -- even more if we consider that the subject of the book is television and not the computers (and what is related to the contents of each media / technology: its production, distribution, and consumption). But, nevertheless, I would consider this book perhaps more as an historic source (and you have posted to the list in last months a lot of quotes from different articles and books: how people perceived the actual position of the technology and its uses and how people were able to imagine a new ways of use, something what the near or distant future will make possible). My question is for this reason: what makes this book from the year 1974 as exceptional that it is worth or meaningful to include it in the context of books published for the first time in the year 2004 or later? And I would like to add on your list at least one book from Ted Nelson: Literary Machines, edition 93.1 (although his other title is perhaps better known and better suited in the context of your list: ComputerLib. Dream Machines). Kind regards, -- Igor ----- Igor Kramberger, raziskovalec-urednik Koro'ska cesta 63, SI-2000 Maribor pri Tom'si'c, Ulica Toma Brejca 11 a, SI-1241 Kamnik Slovenija, Evropa --[5]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2012 19:19:59 -0400 From: "William R. Bowen" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.804 books in the digital humanities In-Reply-To: <20120311090500.08D86275F2A@woodward.joyent.us> You might also consider the more narrowly focused series New Technologies in Medieval and Renaissance Studies published by ACMRS (http://www.acmrs.org/publications/catalog?tid=3DAll&keys=3Dnew+technologies+in+medieval+and+renaissance+studies) and online by Iter (http://www.itergateway.org/) cheers, Bill William R. Bowen, Chair Department of Humanities University of Toronto Scarborough 1265 Military Trail, H528 Scarborough, Ontario, M1C 1A4 tel: 416 287-7127 fax: 416 287-7116 humanities-chair@utsc.utoronto.ca _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Mar 12 06:41:58 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F1CC276E72; Mon, 12 Mar 2012 06:41:58 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 18D91276E60; Mon, 12 Mar 2012 06:41:55 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120312064155.18D91276E60@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 06:41:55 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.808 books that surprise? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 808. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2012 10:53:07 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: books that surprise the author I am compiling a list of books whose reception greatly outstripped the expectations of the authors, and so demonstrated (as Pierre de Latil says in Thinking by Machine, La Pensée Artificielle), something very significant "in the air... [a] way of thought... so very present everywhere, though unperceived, that the spark caused by such a book was sufficient to touch off an explosion" (1956/1953: 17). His example is Norbert Wiener's Cybernetics (1947). But the same can also be said of the following: The Kinsey Report (1948) C. P. Snow, The Two Cultures (1959) Thomas S. Kuhn, Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962) What others should be on my list? Yours, WM -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor (fractional), University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Mar 12 06:42:37 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E28D276EA3; Mon, 12 Mar 2012 06:42:37 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id F1F8B276E93; Mon, 12 Mar 2012 06:42:34 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120312064234.F1F8B276E93@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 06:42:34 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.809 cfp: Journal of Virtual Worlds Research X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 809. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2012 20:42:35 +0000 From: Tzafnat Shpak Subject: Journal of Virtual Worlds Research - Combined Call 2012-2013 Dear members, This is a combined call for all of the Journal of Virtual Worlds Research 2012-2013 current CFPs (Call For Papers), including general call for papers, special topics calls (Asian, Managerial and Commercial Applications, and Law), as well as fast track relating to AIS conferences in AIS e-Commerce Wuhan, China; AMCIS Seatle, USA; MCIS Guimarães, Portugal and ICIS 2012, Orlando Florida, USA. (Also including a general call for reviewers and editors). Volume 5, Number 2 (2012): Asian Perspectives CFP: Asian Perspective Guest Editors: * Kenneth Y T Lim, National Institute of Education, Singapore * Young Hoan Cho, National Institute of Education, Singapore * Michael Vallance, Future University, Hakodate, Japan Links: http://jvwresearch.org/index.php/component/content/article/8-about-jvwr/23 Publication: 2012 Q3 Status: Call done. Please Submit. A Special Seminar on Virtuallity as a Frontier for MIS Research as part of The Eleventh Wuhan International Conference on E-Business Volume 5, Number 3 (2012): Managerial and Commercial Applications CFP: Managerial and Commercial Applications Guest Editors: * Shu Schiller, Wright State University * Brian Mennecke, Iowa State University * Fiona Fui-Hoon Nah, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Links: http://jvwresearch.org/index.php/component/content/article/10-cfps/27 Publication: 2012 Q4 Status: Call done. Please Submit. Connection with Americas' Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS) MCIS 2012 Special Call: Real Virtual Worlds and Serious Games September 2012, Guimarães, Portugal CFP: Real Virtual Worlds and Serious Games Links: http://jvwresearch.org/index.php/component/content/article/10-cfps/28 ICIS 2012: JVWR Reception (December 16-19, 2012) Stay tuned for details about our event as part of the 2012 International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2012), to be held in Orlando Florida, USA from December 16-19, 2012. 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Sivan Managing Editor The Journal of Virtual Worlds Research http://www.jvwresearch.org http://www.jvwresearch.org/ =========== Tzafnat Shpak Coordinating Editor The Journal of Virtual World Research tzafnat.shpak@jvwresearch.org http://jvwresearch.org http://jvwresearch.org/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Mar 12 06:43:17 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73FDF276ED3; Mon, 12 Mar 2012 06:43:17 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 91627276EC3; Mon, 12 Mar 2012 06:43:14 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120312064314.91627276EC3@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 06:43:14 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.810 events: Museums and the Web 2012 X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 810. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2012 10:42:24 -0800 From: info@museumsandtheweb.com Subject: Museums and the Web 2012 Just in Time registration and hotel discount is expiring Escape to sunny San Diego while joining your favorite museum people from around the world for the largest international conference devoted to the exploration of art, science, natural and cultural heritage online. More than 200 presenters from 30 countries giving workshops, sessions, and demonstrations that will keep you current on cultural technology. 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Nancy & Rich MW2012 program co-chairs _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Mar 13 06:47:59 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2AA63275214; Tue, 13 Mar 2012 06:47:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 72E212751FB; Tue, 13 Mar 2012 06:47:56 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120313064756.72E212751FB@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 06:47:56 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.811 books that surprise X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 811. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 12:14:05 -0400 From: "Vallee, Jean-Francois" Subject: RE : [Humanist] 25.808 books that surprise? In-Reply-To: <20120312064155.18D91276E60@woodward.joyent.us> McLuhan's "Gutenberg Galaxy" (1962), followed closely by his "Understanding Media" (1964), certainly seem to have hit a nerve, and "greatly outstripped expectations", in the early and mid-60s. Jean-François V. ________________________________________ Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 808. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2012 10:53:07 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: books that surprise the author I am compiling a list of books whose reception greatly outstripped the expectations of the authors, and so demonstrated (as Pierre de Latil says in Thinking by Machine, La Pensée Artificielle), something very significant "in the air... [a] way of thought... so very present everywhere, though unperceived, that the spark caused by such a book was sufficient to touch off an explosion" (1956/1953: 17). His example is Norbert Wiener's Cybernetics (1947). But the same can also be said of the following: The Kinsey Report (1948) C. P. Snow, The Two Cultures (1959) Thomas S. Kuhn, Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962) What others should be on my list? Yours, WM -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor (fractional), University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Mar 13 06:48:42 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46524275256; Tue, 13 Mar 2012 06:48:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1B9FE275245; Tue, 13 Mar 2012 06:48:40 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120313064840.1B9FE275245@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 06:48:40 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.812 books in the digital humanities: correction X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 812. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 09:54:19 -0500 (CDT) From: Alan Corre Subject: Correction The book Icon Programming for Humanists is available free at: unicon.org/books/humanist.pdf I regret the error in the original post. 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 Tue Mar 13 06:52:48 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 741312752D3; Tue, 13 Mar 2012 06:52:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C56A82752CB; Tue, 13 Mar 2012 06:52:46 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120313065246.C56A82752CB@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 06:52:46 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.813 events: decoding; archaeology & ancient places; digital humanities X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 813. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Michael Pidd (26) Subject: Digital Humanities Congress 2012 - Call for Papers [2] From: "Stewart, Deb" (21) Subject: CFP: Managing Archaeological Data in the Digital Age [3] From: Willard McCarty (55) Subject: London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship [4] From: Richard Lewis (24) Subject: DDH London Meeting 28 March --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 14:33:36 +0000 From: Michael Pidd Subject: Digital Humanities Congress 2012 - Call for Papers Dear Colleagues, Apologies for cross-posting. I'm pleased to announce the Call for Papers for a new bi-annual conference, hosted by the Humanities Research Institute, which will take place in Sheffield during September 2012: http://hridigital.shef.ac.uk/dhc2012 I would be grateful if you could circulate this link and the attached Call document to other interested colleagues. With best wishes Mike -- Michael Pidd HRI Digital Manager Humanities Research Institute University of Sheffield 34 Gell Street Sheffield S3 7QY Tel: 0114 222 6113 Fax: 0114 222 9894 Email: m.pidd@sheffield.ac.uk Web: http://www.shef.ac.uk/hri Times Higher Education University of the Year ----- *** Attachments: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1331562618_2012-03-12_humanist-owner@lists.digitalhumanities.org_105.2.pdf --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 13:15:09 +0000 From: "Stewart, Deb" Subject: CFP: Managing Archaeological Data in the Digital Age > From: "Stewart, Deb" > > Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2012 20:49:19 +0000 > Subject: CFP: Managing Archaeological Data in the Digital Age At the last business meetings, the Medieval and Post-Medieval Archaeology of Greece interest group of the Archaeological Institute of America (MAPMAG) and the Forum for Classics, Libraries, and Scholarly Communications group of the American Philological Association (FCSLC) agreed to co-sponsor a colloquium at the 2013 APA/AIA annual meeting, Seattle, January 3-6 on a topic related to the management of archaeological datasets. The proposed colloquium is described below (please note: a fuller abstract for the colloquium as a whole will be prepared based on individual paper proposals). Our goal is to attract archaeologists, IT professionals, librarians, and other members of the AIA/APA community as presenters and as audience members with the hope that shared experiences and shared knowledge can benefit current and future projects. We need to submit the colloquium abstract and information on the individual papers by March 25th. If you have a suitable paper or idea, please send Deb (BrownD@doaks.org or deb1130@gmail.com) your contact information, paper title, the approximate length of time for your presentation, and an abstract (no more than 400 words and further instructions below) by March 20th. Please feel free to forward this notice to anyone who might be interested. Sorry for the late notice! Deborah Brown, Dumbarton Oaks, BrownD@doaks.org Lucie Wall Stylianopoulos, University of Virginia, lws4n@virginia.edu Managing Archaeological Data in the Digital Age: Best Practices and Realities: CALL FOR PAPERS In recent decades, archaeological projects have been inundated with digital data - spreadsheets, databases, GIS data, CAD files, digital images, and the like. Not only is it hard to stay informed about the latest technologies, it is also a challenge to design strategies for the collection, storage, and sharing of copious and complex digital data. This colloquium aims to bring together archaeologists and information professionals to share experiences, discuss best practices, and offer workable solutions for the benefit of current and future projects. We invite papers that address the following topics: * What technologies are projects using in the field, in the dig-house, and at home? What has worked and what hasn't worked? * How can projects take advantage of the Web for collaborative research? For public outreach? * How do projects curate digital data in the long-term? * Why do we need metadata standards for data from archaeological projects? How can archaeologists contribute to these discussions? * Where can projects find support and funding to help with technologies and with data management? Especially welcome are papers that discuss these issues based on the experiences of specific projects (excavations, surveys, an individual's research project, institutional archives). Guidelines for abstracts: >From the AIA website: "The title of a proposed presentation should indicate its specific content in clear terms. The abstract must not exceed 400 words and must conform to the "AIA Style Guidelines for Annual Meeting Abstracts," available in PDF format in the Annual Meeting section of the AIA website. The research described should be referred to in the present tense rather than in the future tense. (e.g., "I present an analysis of three sealed deposits," rather than, "I will present an analysis of three sealed deposits."). While limited use of in-text citations (in author:year format) is acceptable, bibliographical references and footnotes should not be included and will be removed. "An abstract for a paper session presentation or a poster presentation should indicate in a clear and succinct fashion the problem addressed in the presentation, the materials and/or data analyzed in relation to this problem, the analytical method employed, the results obtained, and the conclusions reached as a result of this work. As relevant, it should also indicate in a clear fashion the culture, site or region, and time period with which the presentation is concerned." --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 17:07:17 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship Thursday, 15 March, 17.30-19.30 Senate House, room 265 tiny.cc/LondonSeminar/ All welcome. Discovering and using ancient place data Elton Barker (Open University) and Leif Isaksen (University of Southampton) Digital resources are fast revolutionising the way that books can be mined for data and how information can be usefully displayed. In two digital projects, we are bringing together these approaches in the discovery of data relating to ancient places and the visualization of the results: GAP (Google Ancient Places) aims to find ancient places in the Google Books corpus; Pelagios (Pelagios: Enable Linked Ancient Geodata In Open Systems) brings together a consortium of projects exploring the ancient world in order to link all kinds of data (not limited to texts) related to ancient places. In both cases we are interested in exploiting the digital medium to display the data that can be retrieved. In this paper we outline the background to both projects, the approaches that we have taken in order to facilitate the discovery of places, and some of the technologies that we have been developing in order to visualise and make use of the results. We will be particularly concerned to highlight the challenges that we have faced in identifying ancient places, to explain the role of the Geoparser, which tags places in texts and then resolves them to a gazetteer, and to showcase some of the uses to which finding out about ancient places can be put. Bios: Elton Barker is a lecturer in Classical Studies at The Open University. He has published widely on ancient Greek literature, and is Principal Investigator of three digital classics projects: as well as the Google-funded GAP project and JISC-funded Pelagios project, he won an Early Career Fellowship with the Arts and Humanities Research Council for the HESTIA project, which employs the latest digital technology to examine the ways in which Herodotus talks about places in his narrative of the war between Greeks and Persians. Elton Barker is a lecturer in Classical Studies at The Open University. He has published widely on ancient Greek literature, and is Principal Investigator of three digital classics projects: as well as the Google-funded GAP project and JISC-funded Pelagios project, he won an Early Career Fellowship with the Arts and Humanities Research Council for the HESTIA project, which employs the latest digital technology to examine the ways in which Herodotus talks about places in his narrative of the war between Greeks and Persians. Leif Isaksen is a Research Fellow in Archaeology at the University of Southampton and specialises in digital approaches to problems of place and geography in the Ancient World. He is Co-Investigator on the Google Ancient Places and Pelagios projects and completing a PhD in Computer Science (also at Southampton). Leif Isaksen is a Research Fellow in Archaeology at the University of Southampton and specialises in digital approaches to problems of place and geography in the Ancient World. He is Co-Investigator on the Google Ancient Places and Pelagios projects and completing a PhD in Computer Science (also at Southampton). -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor (fractional), University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 22:46:07 +0000 From: Richard Lewis Subject: DDH London Meeting 28 March Decoding Digital Humanities (DDH) London will be meeting again on * Wednesday 28 March 18:00 * at The Plough, 27 Museum Street, London, WC1A 1LH http://g.co/maps/vftpw This month we will be reading: Carlson, S., and Anderson, B. (2007). What are data? The many kinds of data and their implications for data re-use. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 12(2), article 15. http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol12/issue2/carlson.html Please feel free to disseminate this announcement, which is encapsulated in the following page: http://tinyurl.com/6oukjsj . We look forward to seeing you in The Plough. Best wishes, Richard -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Richard Lewis ISMS, Computing Goldsmiths, University of London Tel: +44 (0)20 7078 5134 Skype: richardjlewis JID: ironchicken@jabber.earth.li http://www.richardlewis.me.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Mar 14 08:15:46 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73B2F271AB2; Wed, 14 Mar 2012 08:15:45 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0EE04271A93; Wed, 14 Mar 2012 08:15:38 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120314081539.0EE04271A93@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 08:15:38 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.814 books that surprise X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 814. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Laval Hunsucker (29) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.808 books that surprise? [2] From: Laval Hunsucker (38) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.808 books that surprise? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 11:25:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Laval Hunsucker Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.808 books that surprise? In-Reply-To: <20120312064155.18D91276E60@woodward.joyent.us> Willard wrote, _in re_ "books that surprise?" : > I am compiling a list of books whose reception greatly > outstripped the expectations of the authors > . . . > But the same can also be said of the following: > > The Kinsey Report (1948) > C. P. Snow, The Two Cultures (1959) > Thomas S. Kuhn, Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962) Right. And at least Kuhn's surprise, and presumably the outstripping of his expectation, seems to have consisted to a considerable extent in his subsequent realization that his message had been fundamentally misunderstood. He later attempted to put this straight, but the genie, *not* all that surprisingly, could no longer be got back into the bottle. > . . . > something very significant "in the air... [a] way of thought... > so very present everywhere, though unperceived, that the > spark caused by such a book was sufficient to touch off an > explosion" In Kuhn's case, this aspect would appear all the more significant when we consider the faint reception accorded the book from which he lifted ( without due acknowledgement ) much of what he had to say -- Ludwik Fleck's _Entstehung und Entwicklung einer wissenschaftlichen Tatsache : Einführung in die Lehre vom Denkstil und Denkkollektiv_, which had come out already twenty-seven years earlier. - Laval Hunsucker   Breukelen, Nederland --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 15:35:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Laval Hunsucker Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.808 books that surprise? In-Reply-To: <20120312064155.18D91276E60@woodward.joyent.us> Willard wrote : > The Kinsey Report (1948) > C. P. Snow, The Two Cultures (1959) > Thomas S. Kuhn, Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962) > > What others should be on my list? As far as a publication's reception greatly outstripping the ( presumed ) expectations of the author is concerned, one that quickly occurred to me was Ferdinand de Saussure, _Cours de linguistique générale_ (1916) but of course he's disqualified by your criteria, since he wasn't around to be surprised and to see his expectations outstripped by the ( eventual ) reception -- or even to see the thing published. Something similar might be said about Ludwig Wittgenstein, _Philosophische Untersuchungen / Philosophical investigations_ (1953) and perhaps something like George Kingsley Zipf, _Human behavior and the principle of least effort_ (1949). But I wonder whether an appropriate addition to your list might indeed be something like Rachel Carson, _Silent spring_ (1962). And would there be a place for things such as Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels, _Das kommunistische Manifest_   (1848) Harriet Beecher Stowe, _Uncle Tom's cabin_ (1852) Charles Darwin, _On the origin of species by means of natural   selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for   life_ (1859) Karl Marx(/Friedrich Engels), _Das Kapital_ (1867-1894) Sigmund Freud, _Die Traumdeutung_ (1900) Herbert Simon, _Administrative behavior_ (1947) Simone de Beauvoir, _Le deuxième sexe_ (1949) These are all sort of off the cuff. Others will probably have more pertinent suggestions.   - Laval Hunsucker   Breukelen _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Mar 14 08:18:14 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31ACA271B54; Wed, 14 Mar 2012 08:18:14 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B6CC8271B43; Wed, 14 Mar 2012 08:18:09 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20120314081809.B6CC8271B43@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 08:18:09 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.815 grants: preservation & access X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 815. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 09:49:06 -0400 From: "Sternfeld, Joshua" Subject: NEH Grant Opportunity - Preservation and Access Research and Development - May 16 Deadline NEH Grant Opportunity - Preservation and Access Research and Development The National Endowment for the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access will be accepting applications for grants in its Research and Development program. The revised 2012 guidelines, which include new sample proposal narratives, can be found at: http://neh.gov/grants/guidelines/PARD.html. Please note the deadline for submission: May 16, 2012 for projects beginning January 2013. Grants in this program support projects that address major challenges in preserving or providing access to humanities collections and resources. These challenges include the need to find better ways to preserve materials of critical importance to the nation's cultural heritage-from fragile artifacts and manuscripts to analog recordings and digital assets subject to technological obsolescence-and to develop advanced modes of searching, discovering, and using such materials. Maximum awards are $350,000 for up to three years. Applications addressing one of the following three areas of special interest are eligible for a maximum award of $400,000 for up to three years: * Digital Preservation: how to preserve digital humanities materials, including born-digital materials; * Recorded Sound and Moving Image Collections: how to preserve and increase access to the record of the twentieth century contained in these formats; and * Preventive Conservation: how to protect and slow the deterioration of humanities collections through the use of sustainable preservation strategies. Eligible activities for Research and Development projects include: * the development of technical standards, best practices, and tools for preserving and creating access to humanities collections; * the exploration of more effective scientific and technical methods of preserving humanities collections; * the development of automated procedures and computational tools to integrate, analyze, and repurpose humanities data in disparate online resources; and * the investigation and testing of new ways of providing digital access to humanities materials that are not easily digitized using current methods. All applications to NEH must be submitted electronically through Grants.gov; see guidelines for details. Prospective applicants seeking further information are encouraged to contact the Division at 202-606-8570 or preservation@neh.gov. Program staff will read draft proposals submitted electronically up to six weeks before the deadline. Please note that the Division is also accepting applications this summer for two other grant programs: Preservation Assistance Grants for Smaller Institutions (May 1, 2012 deadline) and Humanities Collections and Reference Resources (July 19, 2012 deadline). Details of these programs, as well as the full slate of funding opportunities in Preservation and Access, can be found at: http://www.neh.gov/grants/grantsbydivision.html#preservation To receive grant program updates and other Preservation and Access-related news, please follow us on Twitter: @NEH_PresAccess. __________________________________________________________ The National Endowment for the Humanities is a grant-making agency of the United States (U.S.) federal government that supports projects in the humanities. U.S. nonprofit associations, institutions, and organizations are eligible applicants. NEH's Division of Preservation and Access supports projects that will create, preserve, and make available cultural resources of importance for research, education, and lifelong learning. To learn more about NEH, please visit www.neh.gov . _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Mar 14 08:19:11 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA12C271B91; Wed, 14 Mar 2012 08:19:10 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 7BCAC271B85; Wed, 14 Mar 2012 08:19:07 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120314081907.7BCAC271B85@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 08:19:07 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.816 publication: Swinburne Project X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 816. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 11:32:03 -0400 From: John Walsh Subject: New Edition of The Swinburne Project I am pleased to announce a new edition of the online Algernon Charles Swinburne Project http://www.swinburneproject.org/ , with a new design, architecture, and most importantly, a great deal of new content. This new edition includes over 440 documents (poems, essays, reviews, visualizations, etc.). Some highlights of the new edition include: * The complete contents of the six-volume collected _Poems_ (London: Chatto and Windus, 1904), with facsimile page images. * Swinburne's one finished novel, _Love's Cross-Currents_ (London: Chatto and Windus, 1905), with facsimile page images. * A contemporary review from the _John Bull_ magazine of Swinburne's _The Queen-Mother and Rosamond_, his first published volume. The review is noteworthy in that it seems to have escaped the attention of earlier Swinburne scholarship. For example, the unsigned _John Bull_ review is not mentioned in Clyde K. Hyder's _Algernon Swinburne: The Critical Heritage_ (1970) or Kirk H. Beetz's _Algernon Charles Swinburne: A Bibliography of Secondary Works, 1861-1980_ (1982). * A brief Introduction to Swinburne's life and work. * An updated Chronology implemented as an interactive timeline and in a more conventional tabular view. * A significantly expanded version of Terry Meyers' “Supplementary Material” to his _Uncollected Letters of Algernon Charles Swinburne_, 3 vols. (London: Pickering and Chatto, 2005). The revised material includes a number of previously unpublished letters and an illustrated essay on the controversy surrounding Swinburne's funeral. * “Swinburne's Study,” a new area of the project that features a collection of digital encounters with the edited and encoded text corpus of the Swinburne Project: visualizations, image and text analysis tools, and creative works. * Expanded “Project Information” documentation. * Downloads of XML and XSLT code from the Project. * A new site design and information architecture. Please send any comments or suggestions to me at jawalsh@indiana.edu Supported Browsers ================== The Swinburne Project uses current Web standards and technologies and requires a recent browser. Internet Explorer 8 or later and recent versions of Safari, Firefox, and Chrome are all supported. -- | 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 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Mar 14 08:21:01 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DE19271C30; Wed, 14 Mar 2012 08:21:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A16E3271C0A; Wed, 14 Mar 2012 08:20:55 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120314082055.A16E3271C0A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 08:20:55 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.817 events: performing arts; data modelling; CLARIN/DARIAH X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 817. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Christiane Fritze Subject: CfP: DH2012 Joint CLARIN/DARIAH-Workshop [2] From: Doug Reside (49) Subject: CFP: Digital Humanities and the Performing Arts [3] From: Julia Flanders (35) Subject: Workshop on data modeling in the humanities: join the virtual audience --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 11:24:59 +0100 From: Christiane Fritze Subject: CfP: DH2012 Joint CLARIN/DARIAH-Workshop Apologies for Cross Posting Call for Papers *Service‐oriented Architectures (SOAs) for the Humanities: Solutions and Impacts* Joint CLARIN-D/DARIAH Workshop at Digital Humanities Conference 2012 Motivation -------------- Large research infrastructure projects in the Humanities and Social Sciences such as Bamboo, CLARIN, DARIAH, eAqua, Metanet and Panacea increasingly offer their resources and tools as web applications or web services via the internet. Such web‐based access has a number of crucial advantages over traditional means of service provision via downloadable resources or desktop applications. Since web applications can be invoked from any browser, downloading, installation, and configuration of individual tools on the user's local computer is avoided. The paradigm of service‐oriented architectures (SOA) is often used as a possible architecture for bundling web applications and web services. While the use of web services and SOAs is quickly gaining in popularity, there are still a number of open technology and research questions which await more principal answers. The purpose of this joint CLARIN/DARIAH workshop is to provide a forum to address these issues. We especially encourage submissions on one or more of the following topics: integration of multimodal resources, standardization of workflows and data formats, interactivity and collaborative research in a SOA, impacts of emerging web technologies on future SOAs, the pros and cons of web-based versus desktop applications. Submission Details -------------------------- Submitted abstracts of papers for oral or demo presentations should consist of 1500-2000 words. Abstracts will be submitted electronically using the conference tool ConfTool. Further detail will be given in the second call for paper. The accepted papers will be published as electronically available workshop proceedings. Invited Speaker --------------------- Eric Nyburg (Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh), title to be announced Program Committee --------------------------- Nuria Bel ((Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona; Projects CLARIN, MetaNet4U, PANACEA), Tobias Blanke (Centre for e‐Research, Kings College London, Project DARIAH), Travis Brown (Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities; Project Bamboo), Matej Durco (University of Vienna, Projects CLARIN and DARIAH), Erhard Hinrichs (Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen, Project CLARIN), Heike Neuroth (SUB, University of Göttingen, Project DARIAH), Laurent Romary (INRIA/CNRS, Project DARIAH), Eric Nyburg (Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh), Peter Wittenburg (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen), Martin Wynne (Oxford University, Projects CLARIN and DARIAH), Thomas Zastrow (Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen, Project CLARIN) Workshop Organizers ------------------------------ - Erhard Hinrichs - Heike Neuroth - Peter Wittenburg - Thomas Zastrow Workshop Venue ----------------------- http://www.dh2012.uni-hamburg.de/venue/university-of-hamburg/ Important Dates ---------------------- - April 02: Second Call for Papers - April 15: Final Call for Papers - April 23: *Deadline* for Submission - May 15: Notification of Acceptance - June 26: Deadline for Proceedings Papers - July 16 or 17: Workshop Workshop Homepage ----------------------------- http://clarin-d.de/index.php/de/news/veranstaltungen-2/workshops/104-workshopdh2012 -- Christiane Fritze Georg-August-Universität Göttingen Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen Abteilung Forschung & Entwicklung (FE) Papendiek 14 37073 Göttingen Tel: +49 551 39 9061 Fax: +49 551 39 3856 fritze@sub.uni-goettingen.de http://www.sub.uni-goettingen.de/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 10:36:11 -0400 From: Doug Reside Subject: CFP: Digital Humanities and the Performing Arts Theatre Library Association – Working Session -- Call for Panelists 2012 Annual Conference of the American Society for Theatre Research – Theatre Library Association Nashville, Tennessee, November 1-4, 2012 DIGITAL HUMANITIES AND THE PERFORMING ARTS The performing arts have had a long, distinguished tradition of practice, recently enhanced by creative use of emerging technologies. Diverse collections representing print, electronic, multimedia, visual resources, and ephemera support our research. While Digital Humanities is currently a frequently discussed topic, how does this affect libraries, archives, museums, teaching and learning, and new scholarship in the performing arts? We invite panelists to respond to the following questions: ·         How should we define or approach Digital Humanities for the performing arts? ·         How can innovative application of Digital Humanities support teaching and learning of performing arts and cultural history? ·         How do librarians, archivists, and curators promote productive, collaborative relationships with scholars, researchers, and students? ·         How should libraries and archives adjust traditional practices of curation and access? ·         How can libraries, museums, and archives consider and respond to shifts in scholarship to remain relevant? ·         How are we reimagining the library and archive? ·         How can we apply new developments in arts technologies to reinvent research and scholarship? ·         How will emerging technologies impact existing publishing models? ·         How should we educate future professional librarians and archivists in Digital Humanities: technologies, applications, teaching and learning requisites? ·         What kind of information technology skill sets should we develop to adapt to these transformations? Please submit a 200-word statement in response to one (or more) of the above questions by April 15th to: Nancy Friedland, Chair, Conference Planning and Vice President, Theatre Library Association Send submissions by email with subject line TLA Working Session to: nef4@columbia.edu -- Nancy E. Friedland Librarian for Butler Media, Film Studies & Performing Arts Columbia University Butler Library, Room 206 535 West 114th Street New York, New York 10027 Phone: 212.854.7402 Twitter: Nancy Friedland @rashomondo Blog: Features and Shorts --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 16:18:54 -0400 From: Julia Flanders Subject: Workshop on data modeling in the humanities: join the virtual audience Please join us virtually for Knowledge Organization and Data Modeling in the Humanities March 14-16, Brown University A workshop co-sponsored by: Center for Digital Editions, University of Würzburg Center for Digital Scholarship, Brown University Women Writers Project, Brown University With generous funding from National Endowment for the Humanities Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft Brown University Library The goal of this workshop is to foster a more expert, synthetic and interdisciplinary discussion of the information models that underlie the common tools and technologies of digital humanities research and structure our representations of the fundamental materials of digital scholarship. The workshop brings together invited participants from Europe and the US for a program of presentations, case studies, panels, and discussion. You can see the full schedule here: http://datasymposium.wordpress.com/schedule/ Assuming that all goes well, the event will be videotaped and streamed live here: http://www.brown.edu/web/livestream/ and you can also follow the twitter stream via the hashtag #kodm. We welcome questions and comments from virtual participants, either via twitter or to datasymposium@gmail.com. Following the workshop, we will be publishing a white paper with a record of the presentations and discussion, and papers will also be published as a special journal issue. Best wishes, Julia and Fotis Julia Flanders Director, Women Writers Project Brown University Fotis Jannidis Professor of Literary Computing and German Literature University of Würzburg _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Mar 15 06:28:28 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id D32CB27633C; Thu, 15 Mar 2012 06:28:28 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A814A27632B; Thu, 15 Mar 2012 06:28:26 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120315062826.A814A27632B@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 06:28:26 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.818 future of workstations? ethnographic/qualitative research online? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 818. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Simon Moreton (28) Subject: Looking for Literature: methods for conductingethnographic/qualitative work online [2] From: Geoffrey Rockwell (5) Subject: Imagining the Future of the Scholar's Workstation --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 08:54:47 +0000 From: Simon Moreton Subject: Looking for Literature: methods for conductingethnographic/qualitative work online Dear all, Apologies for cross posting. We are currently searching for literature that considers methods for conducting ethnographic/qualitative work online. This includes work on ethics, approaches, methodological issues and examples of work that engages with online communities, such as chatrooms or discussion fora, and social media platforms such as Facebook. If anyone on this list could recommend any work on this topic we would be most grateful. The review is for an AHRC-funded Connecting Communities Scoping Study entitled 'Crafting communities: connecting 'online' and 'offline' making practices'. The remit of the project is to conduct a literature review and fieldwork to explore the relationship between everyday creative practices and the use of digital technologies among craft practitioners. It also interrogates experiences of connectivity, and how (dis)connection affects the contours and experiences of everyday life. We will compile and circulate a bibliography in due course. Any suggestions greatly appreciated! Best wishes Dr Simon Moreton, Dr Nicola Thomas, Dr Roberta Comunian, Dr Caroline Chapain. -- Dr Simon Moreton Associate Research Fellow School of Geography College of Life& Environmental Sciences University of Exeter EX4 4RJ http://geography.exeter.ac.uk/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 14:49:10 +0000 From: Geoffrey Rockwell Subject: Imagining the Future of the Scholar's Workstation Dear colleagues, Vannevar Bush in "As We May Think" imagined a workstation for the future researcher, the Memex. I'm interested in tracing the ways scholars, especially humanists, have imagined the ideal workstation or ideal environment for study. Web sites like blogs.smithsonianmag.com/paleofuture/ and retronaut.co are full of imagined historical futures. What futures did humanities computing imagine for itself? What did we think would be the effects of our work? I would appreciate any pointers to materials on possible futures for humanities computing. Yours, Geoffrey Rockwell _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Mar 15 06:30:20 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2300276601; Thu, 15 Mar 2012 06:30:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id DDF31276AFD; Thu, 15 Mar 2012 06:30:18 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20120315063018.DDF31276AFD@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 06:30:18 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.819 events: objects in research X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 819. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 14:33:45 -0000 From: Klaus Staubermann Subject: Reminder: CfP Artefacts 2012 REMINDER Call for Papers: ARTEFACTS 2012 ARTEFACTS is an international network of academic and museum-based scholars of science, technology and medicine interested in promoting the use of objects in research. The network was established in 1996 and since then has held annual conferences examining the role of artefacts in the making of science and technology and related areas. The next conference will be held in Edinburgh, Scotland, 7-9 October 2012. It aims to discuss the entanglement of national styles and identity and scientific, technical and medical artefacts in a global context. Topics could cover questions such as - Between inventors and the nation: who makes and owns artefacts? - Do artefacts embody national styles or distinct communities of practice? - Do artefacts reflect particular national attitudes on the relationship between science and technology? - Do artefacts act as signifiers of nationhood and how are they enlisted in the construction of nationalist agendas? - National, international or local: how do museums aim at audiences through artefacts stories? ARTEFACTS conferences are friendly and informal meetings with the character of workshops. There is plenty of time for open discussion and networking. Each contributor is allocated a 20 minutes slot for her or his talk plus ample of time for questions and discussion. If you want to present a paper please contact Klaus Staubermann at k.staubermann@nms.ac.uk not later than 30 April 2012. Please remember that the focus of presentations should be on artefacts. The conference will be held at the award-winning refurbished National Museum of Scotland. For information about travel, accommodation, and holidays in Scotland visit www.visitscotland.com http://www.visitscotland.com/ Dr Klaus Staubermann Principal Curator of Technology National Museums Scotland Chambers Street Edinburgh EH1 1JF Tel (0)131-247-4357 Fax (0)131-247-4312 e-mail k.staubermann@nms.ac.uk http://www.nms.ac.uk http://www.nms.ac.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Mar 16 07:20:24 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1707B278278; Fri, 16 Mar 2012 07:20:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 800E6278267; Fri, 16 Mar 2012 07:20:22 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120316072022.800E6278267@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 07:20:22 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.820 ethnographic/qualitative research online X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 820. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "N.Jankowski" (79) Subject: RE: [Humanist] 25.818 ethnographic/qualitative research online? [2] From: jeremy hunsinger (27) Subject: ethnographic/qualitative research online? [3] From: Lynne Siemens (15) Subject: RE: [Humanist] 25.818 future of workstations?ethnographic/qualitative research online? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 07:50:06 +0100 From: "N.Jankowski" Subject: RE: [Humanist] 25.818 ethnographic/qualitative research online? Regarding literature on qualitative research in online settings, there is a small library of available material, dating back to the early days of Internet research (see, e.g., the Jones volumes from the second half of the 1990s). Some of this literature is addressed in a chapter that seems to touch on the substantive area of the query, community on- and offline, and that reference is noted below. A touchstone in this area, albeit highly contested, is Hine's volume about virtual ethnography. More recent is an collection edited by two scholars, Markham and Baym, that contributed significantly to the interpretative approach to understanding community. Nick Jankowski ************************************** Nicholas W. Jankowski The e-Humanities Group, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences ehumanities.nl/ E: nickjan@xs4all.nl ************************************** References Markham, A. N. & Baym, N. K. (2009). Internet inquiry: Conversations about method. London: SAGE. Hine, C. (2000). Virtual ethnography. London: SAGE. Jankowski, N. W. (2006). "Creating community with media: History, theories and scientific investigations." In L. A. Lievrouw & S. Livingstone (eds.) The Handbook of New Media. Updated student ed. London: SAGE. --[1]----------------------------------------------------------------------- - Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 08:54:47 +0000 From: Simon Moreton Subject: Looking for Literature: methods for conductingethnographic/qualitative work online Dear all, Apologies for cross posting. We are currently searching for literature that considers methods for conducting ethnographic/qualitative work online. This includes work on ethics, approaches, methodological issues and examples of work that engages with online communities, such as chatrooms or discussion fora, and social media platforms such as Facebook. If anyone on this list could recommend any work on this topic we would be most grateful. The review is for an AHRC-funded Connecting Communities Scoping Study entitled 'Crafting communities: connecting 'online' and 'offline' making practices'. The remit of the project is to conduct a literature review and fieldwork to explore the relationship between everyday creative practices and the use of digital technologies among craft practitioners. It also interrogates experiences of connectivity, and how (dis)connection affects the contours and experiences of everyday life. We will compile and circulate a bibliography in due course. Any suggestions greatly appreciated! Best wishes Dr Simon Moreton, Dr Nicola Thomas, Dr Roberta Comunian, Dr Caroline Chapain. -- Dr Simon Moreton Associate Research Fellow School of Geography College of Life& Environmental Sciences University of Exeter EX4 4RJ http://geography.exeter.ac.uk/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 06:01:02 -0400 From: jeremy hunsinger Subject: ethnographic/qualitative research online? In-Reply-To: <20120315062826.A814A27632B@woodward.joyent.us> The association of internet researchers is one home for ethnographic/qualitative research online http://aoir.org and the conferences: http://aoir.org/2000 http://aoir.org/2001/ http://aoir.org/2002 http://aoir.org/2003 http://aoir.org/2004 http://aoir.org/conferences/past/ir-6-2005/ http://aoir.org/conferences/past/ir-7-2006/ http://aoir.org/conferences/past/ir-8-2007/ http://ir9.aoir.org/ http://ir10.aoir.org/ http://ir11.aoir.org/ http://ir12.aoir.org http://ir13.aoir.org and those 13 conference are really just a drop in the bucket there are the books: http://www.springer.com/computer/general+issues/book/978-1-4020-9788-1 3 annuals http://www.peterlang.com/index.cfm?event=cmp.ccc.seitenstruktur.detailseiten&seitentyp=produkt&pk=45898&concordeid=66840 http://www.amazon.ca/Internet-Inquiry-Conversations-About-Method/dp/1412910013 and now an annual journal special issue with iCS the research ethics groups: http://aoir.org/documents/ http://internetresearchethics.org/ http://ijire.net/ --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 07:23:12 -0700 From: Lynne Siemens Subject: RE: [Humanist] 25.818 future of workstations?ethnographic/qualitative research online? In-Reply-To: <20120315062826.A814A27632B@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Simon, you might be interested in a new book coming out from SAGE. It is entitled Netnography: Doing Ethnographic Research Online. More information can be found at http://www.sagepub.com/books/Book233748. Cheers Lynne Lynne Siemens Assistant Professor Masters of Community Development (publicadmin.uvic.ca/macd) School of Public Administration University of Victoria Telephone: (250) 721-8069 Fax: (250) 721-8849 Email: siemensl@uvic.ca _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Mar 16 07:21:11 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FF0E278391; Fri, 16 Mar 2012 07:21:11 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 77B44278381; Fri, 16 Mar 2012 07:21:10 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120316072110.77B44278381@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 07:21:10 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.821 postdocs & PhD studentships: how physicians know X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 821. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 22:42:50 +0000 From: Andrew Mendelsohn Subject: Postdoc & PhD Fellowships ERC-funded project: How Physicians Know, 1550-1950 Applications are invited for 2 postdoctoral positions (E13) and 2 doctoral positions (65% E13) to be held for up to five years from 1 October 2012 at the Institute for the History of Medicine, Charité Berlin, for the research project “Ways of Writing: How Physicians Know, 1550-1950” funded by the European Research Council. Observation in the clinic, testing in the laboratory, curve-tracing machines: we may think we know how physicians know. We don’t. That is because we have, until recently, ignored the primary medium in which medical knowledge occurs, namely, writing and its organisation and reorganisation on paper. Written patient records are almost as old as medicine itself and still central to its practice. Remarkably unexamined is how these have generated knowledge. The project aims to address a question of interest for understanding science, technology and medicine in the broadest sense: How are generalizations drawn from particulars? Key techniques appear to be those of mastering on paper. These are shared across clinical, natural historical, pedagogical, forensic, accounting, administrative and other activity. To learn how paper technology works and how this has shaped knowledge over time, to show how human beings know and deal with the physical world through operations of pen and paper: the project aims to contribute to this wider goal through its focus on medicine. Successful applicants will join Volker Hess, Andrew Mendelsohn, and Ruth Schilling to complete a seven-person research group by focusing on one of the following areas: 1. Physici and Protophysici. Physicians in administration in early modern northern Italy and the Spanish court. Writing practices at intersections of government, university, and natural history. Languages: Latin, Italian and/or Spanish required. 2. Republic of letters, medicine in the 17th and 18th centuries. Natural historical practices at work in medical practice and the learned world. Languages: German, French, and English required; Latin preferred. 3. Birth of the clinic revisited. Knowledge practices from bedside to handbook at Montpellier, Leiden, Edinburgh, Vienna, 1700-1800. Languages: Latin, English, and French required; reading knowledge of Dutch preferred. 4. The Laboratory in the Clinic, 1850-1950. Role of modern experimental sciences in observation and understanding of disease(s). Languages: English and German required. 5. Constructing clinical cases, 1900-1950. Medical knowing from clinical recording to scientific publication. Languages: English and German required. Experience in historical research on patient records preferred. Applicants should have a strong academic track record and research potential in history or history of science and/or medicine as well as specific knowledge and skills needed to work on one of the research areas listed above. Teamwork ability, readiness for cooperative research, and openness to multiple disciplinary approaches are essential. Project members will communicate in English and German. Applicants with at least a listening knowledge of German will be at an advantage. Project members will have the opportunity to gain academic qualifications – PhD or Habilitation – through their work on the project. Preference will be given to equally qualified female applicants. Enquiries: Volker Hess volker.hess@charite.de or Andrew Mendelsohn a.mendelsohn@imperial.ac.uk To apply, please send full CV, sample of written work, and two-page proposal (in English or German) for research in one of the areas listed above by 25 March 2012 to: Ms. Stefanie Voth, Sekretariat electronically stefanie.voth@charite.de, or by post Institut für Geschichte der Medizin Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin Ziegelstraße 10 10117 Berlin Applicants will be interviewed in the week of 16 April 2012, with decisions announced the following week. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Mar 17 07:25:11 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16CD62774DE; Sat, 17 Mar 2012 07:25:11 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 3577C2774D2; Sat, 17 Mar 2012 07:25:09 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120317072509.3577C2774D2@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 07:25:09 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.822 DH2012 student bursaries X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 822. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 15:17:28 +0100 From: Jan Christoph Meister Subject: DH 2012 Student Assistant Bursaries: new March 25 deadline for applications In-Reply-To: <408EB1F4-AFB8-43C5-9A76-993595A4476D@uni-hamburg.de> Please note that the deadline for the DH 2012 student assistant applications has been extended to March, 25. We would like to encourage you all to keep spreading the word: http://www.dh2012.uni-hamburg.de/conference/call-for-student-assistant-bursaries/ Notifications will be mailed to successful candidates by 21 April. Chris Meister & Katrin Schönert DH 2012 Local Organizers _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Mar 17 07:27:23 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5350A2788BE; Sat, 17 Mar 2012 07:27:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 9E7C92788B6; Sat, 17 Mar 2012 07:27:21 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120317072721.9E7C92788B6@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 07:27:21 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.823 events: history; semantic web X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 823. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Oshani Seneviratne (72) Subject: Call for Tutorial Proposals - ISWC 2012 [2] From: Seth Denbo (20) Subject: IHR Seminar in Digital History: Round Table 'The Future of the Past' Tuesday 20 March, 2012 5:15PM --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 15:43:37 +0000 From: Oshani Seneviratne Subject: Call for Tutorial Proposals - ISWC 2012 Call for Tutorial Proposals http://iswc2012.semanticweb.org/call-tutorial-proposals In conjunction with the 11th International Semantic Web Conference http://iswc2012.semanticweb.org/ Boston - USA November 11-15, 2012 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) is the primary conference on the use of semantic technologies on the web and linked data, constantly attracting a high number of high quality submissions participants from academia and industry. It brings together researchers from different areas of computer science, like artificial intelligence, databases, natural language process, information retrieval and others that aim at the development and use of novel technologies for accessing, interpreting and using information on the web in a more effective way. Besides the main technical program, ISWC will host a number of tutorials on all major topics related to the Semantic Web / Linked Data research, enabling attendees to fully appreciate current issues, main schools of thought, and possible application areas. In order to meet these goals, tutorials should address topics that satisfy the following criteria: - the topic falls in the general scope of ISWC 2012, - there is a clear focus on a specific technology, problem or - application, and - there is a sufficiently large community interested in the topic. In particular, we encourage the submission of tutorial proposals on: - fundamental problems of the Semantic Web/Linked Data such as ontology mining, heterogeneity, scalability and distribution, - applications of Semantic Web technologies in specific domains and trends, - important enabling technologies and their adaptation to the needs of the Semantic Web, - aspects of semantic web research that have been neglected so far, and - techniques from other research fields that are of relevance for Semantic Web research (e.g., machine learning, NLP). Additionally, we expect tutorials to: - have practical parts in terms of examples or preferably exercises to be carried out by the participants Proposers of accepted tutorials have to prepare a tutorial webpage containing detailed information about the tutorial. Submission Guidelines ----------------------------------- Tutorial proposals should be submitted via EasyChair https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iswc2012tutorials as a single PDF file of no more than 5 pages and should contain the following information: - Title - Abstract (200 words) - Motivation on why the topic is of particular interest at this time - Overview of content, description of the aims, presentation style, potential/preferred prerequisite knowledge - Indication on whether the tutorial should be considered for a half-day or full-day - Intended audience and expected number of participants - Audio-visual or technical requirements and any special room requirements (for hands-on sessions, any software needed and download sites must be provided by the tutorial presenters) - Data of the presenters (name, affiliation, email address, homepage) and short description of their expertise, experiences in teaching and in tutorial presentation Important Dates -------------------------- - Event: November 11 & 12, 2012 - Tutorial proposal due: May 6, 2012 - Tutorial Notifications: May 20, 2012 Chairs -------------- Claudia d’Amato, Unversity of Bari Thomas Scharrenbach, University of Zurich --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 20:17:08 -0400 From: Seth Denbo Subject: IHR Seminar in Digital History: Round Table 'The Future of the Past' Tuesday 20 March, 2012 5:15PM Institute of Historical Research Seminar in Digital History Round Table, 'The Future of the Past' Time: Tuesday, 20 March, 5:15 pm GMT (People from US watching the live stream keep in mind time difference is 1 hour less than usual) Venue: S261 (Senate House, second floor) and streamed live on the web at historyspot.org.uk The IHR Seminar in Digital History this week will be a special round table on 'The Future of the Past'. Several leading scholars will provide perspectives on the changing nature of historical enquiry in the digital age and reflect upon the ways in which engagement with digital sources and methodologies is leading to new knowledge about the past. The panel includes the following distinquished scholars: Dr Melissa Terras is co-Director of the UCL Centre for Digital Humanities, and Reader in Electronic Communication in the Department of Information Studies at University College London. Dr Adam Farquhar is Head of Digital Scholarship at the British Library. The session will be Chaired by Dr Richard Deswarte. Richard is Head of the History Data Service and one of the convenors of the seminar. (Our third speaker has unfortunately had to withdraw at the last minute due to illness. We are working on finding a replacement.) _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Mar 17 09:09:01 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5583277463; Sat, 17 Mar 2012 09:09:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id EA9652772D9; Sat, 17 Mar 2012 09:08:59 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120317090859.EA9652772D9@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 09:08:59 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.824 what is self-evident? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 824. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 09:05:32 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: what is self-evident? I want to ask what it is that we take for granted, in the strong sense of an unconscious belief of the sort that a person who has never experienced an earthquake makes about the earth we stand on. Since we use a techno-scientific instrument for our research, I want to ask about the scientific cultural ground we as digital humanists imagine solid. In her brilliant essay, "Language and ideology in evolutionary theory" (in Boundaries of Humanity, ed Sheehan and Sosna), Evelyn Fox Keller argues that now fashionable arguments for an alien world, in which humans are less than insignificant, are as guilty of anthropomorphism as any. She quotes, for example, physicist Steven Weinberg's declaration that the world as we imagine it is more or less a farce, that in reality it is the result of pure accident within the first three minutes after the Big Bang ("Reflections of a working scientist", Daedalus 103.3), and biologist Jacques Monod, on the reality of the human, "like a gypsy… on the boundary of an alien world; a world that is deaf to his music, and as indifferent to his hopes as it is to his suffering or his crimes" (Chance and Necessity, p. 160). Her argument is essentially that the language of such statements shows anthropomorphisms read into natural law, then read back to us as if they were pure deduction from physical fact. The rhetorical force at work here is well illumined by Monod, for example, who is essence argues that we had better grow up, wake up, clean up our room, stop our fantasies and come to terms with reality. (I am making light of a serious argument, but the parental tone is audible.) In other words, it is a instance of moral righteousness backed by the cultural authority of science. What, then, about science as a moral force, as the basis for doing the right thing as scholars? I wonder whether our situation is any different from that of Galileo and Bacon, for both of whom, as Alastair Crombie says of the former, science was “the moral enterprise of freedom for the enquiring mind … a therapeutic experience offering perhaps the greatest moral contribution of science to mankind” (Styles of Scientific Thinking, p. 8). Even a bit of time reading Bacon, for example, makes one wonder about his obsession with the afflictions of our minds that, he argues, cause us to see the world other than it is -- "the idols of the tribe", he called them. His vision of human nature, Peter Harrison has shown in The Fall of Man and the Foundations of Science (esp pp 171ff) was profoundly informed by the theology of the time, by the deep and pervasive conviction of being in a state of sin as a result of the Fall, and so cognitively damaged. Jean Delumeau's Sin and Fear: The Emergence of a Western Guilt Culture 13th-18th Centuries (Le Péché et La Peur) provides a supportive historical context. So, I wonder, are we any the less conditioned by our de facto theology? What specifically in our work in the digital humanities do we take as self-evidently true? Apart from keeping people like me out of mischief, or out of other kinds of mischief, what comes from poking at our self-evident truths? Is there a possibility that we could unstick ourselves from unproductive obsessions by questioning the fundamentals as we take them to be? Comments? Yours, WM -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor (fractional), University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Mar 17 09:25:49 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55930277293; Sat, 17 Mar 2012 09:25:49 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1AAEA277D5F; Sat, 17 Mar 2012 09:25:47 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120317092547.1AAEA277D5F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 09:25:47 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.825 cfp: London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship 2012-13 X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 825. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 09:24:48 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: call for proposals, London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship Call for proposals London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship 2012-13 tiny.cc/LondonSeminar/ The London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship, held monthly at Senate House, Bloomsbury, focuses on the ways in which the digital medium remakes the relationship of readers, writers, scholars, technical practitioners and designers to the manuscript and printed book. Its discussions are intended to inform public debate and policy as well as to stimulate research and provide a broad forum in which to present its results. Although the forum is primarily for those working in textual and literary studies, history of the book, digital humanities and related fields, its mandate is to address and involve an audience of non-specialists. Wherever possible the issues it raises are meant to engage all those who are interested in a digital future for the book and the book in a digital future. Proposals for seminars are invited for the 2012-13 academic year, from October through April. These should take the form of a title and abstract, though preliminary expressions of interest are most welcome. Normally seminars are held on Thursday evenings, 17.30-19.30. Seminars are (with the seminar leader's permission) recorded and put online, by the School for Advanced Study, as podcasts. See http://www.sas.ac.uk/support-research/events/videos-and-podcasts/cat/culture-language-literature for those available to date. The convenors of the London Seminar are Professor Willard McCarty (KCL) and Professor Claire Warwick (UCL). The Seminar is sponsored by the Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, the University College London Centre for Digital Humanities and the Institute of English Studies, University of London. Please send all enquiries to willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk. -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor (fractional), University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Mar 17 09:51:08 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5A20277772; Sat, 17 Mar 2012 09:51:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 1CC3127776A; Sat, 17 Mar 2012 09:51:06 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120317095106.1CC3127776A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 09:51:06 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.826 publication: LLC 27 (2012) X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 826. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 09:50:24 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Literary and Linguistic Computing 27 (2012) Literary and Linguistic Computing Vol. 27, No. 1 April 2012 http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/content/vol27/issue1/index.dtl?etoc Editorial Edward Vanhoutte 1-2 Original Articles Retrieving relatives from historical data Marianne Hundt, David Denison, and Gerold Schneider 3-16 A Naive Bayes classifier for Shakespeare's second-person pronoun Kyle Mahowald 17-23 The Potosi principle: religious prosociality fosters self-organization of larger communities under extreme natural and economic conditions Juan Luis Suarez, Shiddarta Vasquez, and Fernando Sancho-Caparrini 25-38 Natural language processing and early-modern dirty data: applying IBM Languageware to the 1641 depositions Mark S. Sweetnam and Barbara A. Fennell 39-54 The liberty of invention: alchemical discourse and information technology standardization John A. Walsh and Wallace Edd Hooper 55-79 Looking for translator's fingerprints: a corpus-based study on Chinese translations of Ulysses Qing Wang and Defeng Li 81-93 Reviews Scalability Issues in Authorship Attribution. * Kim Luyckx. Shlomo Argamon 95-97 Embodied Music Cognition and Mediation Technology. * Marc Leman. David Borgo 97-99 Text Comparison and Digital Creativity. The Production of Presence and Meaning in Digital Text Scholarship * Wido Van Peursen, Ernst D. Thoutenhoofd, Adriaan Van Der Weel (eds). Arianna Ciula 99-102 Interfaces of Performance. * Maria Chatzichristodoulou, Janis Jefferies, and Rachel Zerihan (eds). Liesbeth Groot Nibbelink 102-104 The Lambda-structure of Texts. Ioan-Iovitz Popescu, Radek Cech, and Gabriel Altmann. Peter Grzybek and Emmerich Kelih 104-106 Art Practice in a Digital Culture * Hazel Gardiner and Charlie Gere (eds). Timothy Allen Jackson 106-108 The American Literature Scholar in the Digital Age * Amy E. Earhart, Andrew Jewell (eds). Kerry Kilner 109-111 Emerging Practices in Cyberculture and Social Networking. * Daniel Riha and Anna Maj (eds). Adrienne L. Massanari 111-113 Digital Research in the Study of Classical Antiquity. * Gabriel Bodard and Simon Mahony. Matteo Romanello 113-115 Managing and Growing a Cultural Heritage Web Presence. A strategic guide. Mike Ellis. Claire Ross 115-117 -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor (fractional), University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Mar 19 06:46:53 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BC0A2B0C7; Mon, 19 Mar 2012 06:46:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C9E872B0B6; Mon, 19 Mar 2012 06:46:51 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120319064651.C9E872B0B6@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 06:46:51 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.827 self-evident X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 827. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 11:12:55 +0100 From: maurizio lana Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.824 what is self-evident? In-Reply-To: <20120317090859.EA9652772D9@woodward.joyent.us> Il 17/03/2012 10:08, Humanist Discussion Group ha scritto: > I want to ask what it is that we take for granted, in the strong sense > of an unconscious belief of the sort that a person who has never > experienced an earthquake makes about the earth we stand on. Since we > use a techno-scientific instrument for our research, I want to ask > about the scientific cultural ground we as digital humanists imagine > solid. > [...] these are the messages which constitute, for me, the main value of Humanist. no flattening at all, but simple parrhesia. > What specifically in our work in the digital humanities do we take as > self-evidently true? behind texts there are people, near or remote in time and space, and studying texts we get in touch with them, we can ask them and they answer to us. they can't protect themselves from inappropriate questions and from 'forced answers', so we are responsible towards them. maurizio -- mio fratello, con lui ho corso ------- il mio corso di informatica umanistica: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85JsyJw2zuw ------- Maurizio Lana - ricercatore Università del Piemonte Orientale, Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici via Manzoni 8, 13100 Vercelli - tel. +39 347 7370925 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Mar 20 06:39:07 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38A0B279C9A; Tue, 20 Mar 2012 06:39:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B5B09279C88; Tue, 20 Mar 2012 06:39:05 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120320063905.B5B09279C88@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 06:39:05 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.828 what is self-evident X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 828. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Jascha Kessler (37) Subject: re WMcC's question... [2] From: harry diakoff (196) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.824 what is self-evident? [3] From: Jascha Kessler (26) Subject: re M Lana's statement --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 12:05:15 -0700 From: Jascha Kessler Subject: re WMcC's question... How can one not be fond of our moderator/leader/thinker, the Willard? Today's question concerns the preservation and maintenance of an inevitable, ineluctable, and, one hopes, indestructible skepticism in the face of what has become a veritable tidal wave running up the world's rivers to drown the highlands of the human heart, which ought to be ice-cold, that wave being engendered by the "authority of scientists", culturally no different from that of ancient priesthoods, and the College of Cardinals who condemned Galileo Galilei. The term he stumbles over is "self-evident." What a tricky term that is! The very same phenomenon is what one sees, for diversion, in sleight-of-hand card displays. The magician will tell us, if he likes, how he does his trick. Technology is our tool for prying open what the world and space and time one inhabits can reveal. [Below is] a recent letter (26 February) I wrote to a major newspaper (redacted from an article published in 2009, entitled "Whatever? — Whatever!), which of course did not publish it. It presents an image which I assure all is quite something that was real. Still, though it is self-evident, I can say nothing about what it reveals. Like so many events of its kind, it is a singularity. Science means "knowing." What is known here. Technology means doing, as in craft or art (spark from flint). Neither serves one in this instance. Jascha Kessler ----- Tuesday, March 20, 2012 Letters to the Editor THE WALL STREET JOURNAL New York City Dear Letters Editor: A raft of letters objecting to de Botton’s “secular communalism” proposed to replace not only religiosity but institutions that tie people together, which is what the Latin root means. All assert the social necessity of “a living God.” Whatever that may mean remains always something only an individual might know — or experience. I have never served any party of any faith. Still, I am wary of atheists or agnostics. Here’s why: We have an apricot tree I planted in 1962. The other year when I heard birds’ clamor outside I knew it was time to pick. I brought down about 15 pounds taken from the top of the tree with a basket pole to stew for compote. They filled the kitchen sink. Sorting them under running water, I turned one up and found a message. That apricot presented me with the inexplicable. The photograph I promptly took shows a two-letter word imprinted as by a blunt stylus. Uncanny! By a bird? Unlikely. Oddly, I heard in my thoughts my long-dead mother’s voice at that moment. ----- -- Jascha Kessler Professor Emeritus of Modern English & American Literature, UCLA Telephone/Facsimile: 310.393.4648 www.jfkessler.com www.xlibris.com --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 11:21:30 -0400 From: harry diakoff Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.824 what is self-evident? In-Reply-To: <20120317090859.EA9652772D9@woodward.joyent.us> Willard McCarty challenges us to review what could be thrown out of the balloon that might permit it to rise a bit higher and gain a wider horizon than the baggage of our implicit "self-evident" assumptions about the humanities currently permits. Otto Neurath's famous nautical metaphor, which one might paraphrase roughly as "We are all like sailors at sea who must rebuild our ship as we sail her" is usually cited as a vivid expression of the inescapable relativism of all human endeavor, a reminder that there is no Archimedian vantage point from whose first principles philosophy can begin. Today, when science suggests that nature herself can dispense with all essences and absolute categories, even being and nothingness, in favor of ubiquitous probability waves, the message seems even more poignant. But the metaphor also draws attention, with perhaps equal vividness, to the hazards of such an enterprise- try to replace the wrong board at the wrong time, and the ship sinks. In the humanities a great many planks have been replaced recently. Most of us no longer believe that man has a soul, that the world has a god, or that man is fundamentally rational. Indeed, the impression is gaining ground quickly that the distinction between man and other animals is more one of degree than one that resides in any essential "human" quality. What planks then remain at this moment for constructing a leaner, less assumption-laden, base for the humanities and digital humanities in particular? It is difficult to deny that no animal uses symbols with the reckless enthusiasm that humans do. We create signs, turn them into symbols, compare symbols by means of metaphors, and link the metaphors together into myths. And then we forget that we made them and treat them with deadly seriousness. Manipulation of symbols has given us maps, calendars and power over nature in general, but it has also allowed us to become symbol fetishists. What Whitehead called "the fallacy of misplaced concreteness" still informs much of human discourse. In the fourteenth century whole schools of philosophers devoted themselves, more or less, to pointing out that the existence of a name was no guarantee of the existence of the thing named. Today it scarcely seems an exaggeration to claim that there is an inverse relationship between the public significance of a word and the reality of what it claims to refers to: "terrorism," "socialism," "addiction," "austerity". What does exist is the text itself- viewed broadly as the visible fabric of interdependent ways that man has attempted to communicate meaning to others and to himself: all the words and images and gestures and the narratives that interrelate them, as they have developed over time and throughout space and as they have left both accidental and tendentious traces in the archaeological and then the historical record. Since this is really all we have, it doesn't seem all that inappropriate to try to pay close attention to the factors that affect the creation, survival, transmission and interpretation of texts. This process of course itself involves the creation of new texts, whether deeply hermeneutic ones or "merely" emendations and annotations. When literacy was rare, appreciation of the magical power of texts was perhaps more realistic... In a very real sense there is indeed "nothing beyond the text" at least as far as effable human experience is concerned. But rather than a license for uncritical relativism this rather lytic perspective provides even greater motivation to focus on how texts can be compared with each other. Texts can clearly differ from each other quite dramatically in many interesting ways, among them coherence and comprehensiveness. Scientific texts typically are willing to sacrifice comprehensiveness for coherence, while the humanities often appear to sacrifice coherence for comprehensiveness. There are, after all, questions that science has not yet answered for which humans demand answers, and human needs that knowledge alone cannot satisfy, as Troeltsch noticed with some chagrin. But ultimately, texts, and the human agendas they represent, find the existence of contrasting agendas disquieting and explore various means to reduce or eliminate the dissonance. The texts of the social sciences, humanities and even the physical sciences continue tirelessly to explore opportunities for increased proximity, like moths to flames, and with about the same results. But the process is not over and all texts like to have the last word. We now recognize that texts are the outcome of complex interactions between individual agendas and the opportunities and constraints that the cultural environment imposes, so that texts, in theory at least, can be used to illuminate either the culture or the individual. This slippery research agenda, that has for so long resisted proffers of assistance from the social sciences, is beginning to receive some possibly useful help from cognitive psychology and its congress with genetics, neurophysiology and the visualization of cerebral events. We are some way from bringing the text of a Cavafy poem into meaningful communication with the text of an fMRI study, but already the study of the origin of symbolic and metaphorical thoughts and the development of emotional associations with them is being visualized and quantified. Michael Gazzaniga shows us how much of what we identify as our self is in fact a narrative created by an an interpretive faculty that tries to make a coherent story out of what we find ourselves doing, while Daniel Kahneman shows us how little of what we find ourselves doing is mediated by reason alone. The artificiality and contingency of all our texts becomes increasingly clear the more we learn how to compare them without preconceptions, and the more self-conscious we become about the text of our own comparisons. The irony of course is that while the sophistication of our appreciation of the antecedents and consequences of the text increases, commercial motives and technological advances in communications have made increasingly large segments of our fellow citizens into slaves to slogans. As we learn progressively how language leads, we see our family and friends led off into pointless wars, religions and consumer fads. In the last few centuries the study of the text has been freed from various encumbrances, such as divinely inspired authorship. In the later twentieth century it became apparent that even the notion of human authorship distorted our appreciation of the text, since it tended to exaggerate the originality of a text and made use of a largely mythical construct, the human, which had itself arisen from developments in the text. In this broad sense, text precedes the birth of every member of our species and survives his or her demise. While one lives, it flows through one's consciousness with its current mixture of information and illusion, some selection from which we call our own, indeed, ourself. Digitization of large quantities of texts of the most diverse sorts, has now given us the opportunity to study texts much more closely, comparatively and objectively- allowing us to test old theories quantitatively and challenging us to create new theories by identifying patterns of which the authors themselves were presumably unaware and which we can ourselves not yet interpret. Digitization has helped us appreciate and explore both the deep interdependence of all texts and the precise degree of autonomy and internal coherence that text itself has shown over time in different places. Thus it clearly helps us appreciate the special characteristics of text itself throughout history. But to fully learn what it can teach us would seem to require that we remind ourselves periodically of the origins of text in the fitful but cumulative attempts by one ingenious primate to shelter and entertain itself. With recognition of the relatively fundamental role of the text for all the humanities, we appear to have reached a plank whose removal would be much more prejudicial to the effective study of the humanities than would the removal of the concept of the "human" itself. Would anyone care to defend the utility of the notion of "human" for the humanities? On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 5:08 AM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 824. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 09:05:32 +0000 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: what is self-evident? > > I want to ask what it is that we take for granted, in the strong sense > of an unconscious belief of the sort that a person who has never > experienced an earthquake makes about the earth we stand on. Since we > use a techno-scientific instrument for our research, I want to ask about > the scientific cultural ground we as digital humanists imagine solid. > > In her brilliant essay, "Language and ideology in evolutionary theory" > (in Boundaries of Humanity, ed Sheehan and Sosna), Evelyn Fox Keller > argues that now fashionable arguments for an alien world, in which > humans are less than insignificant, are as guilty of anthropomorphism as > any. She quotes, for example, physicist Steven Weinberg's declaration > that the world as we imagine it is more or less a farce, that in reality > it is the result of pure accident within the first three minutes after > the Big Bang ("Reflections of a working scientist", Daedalus 103.3), and > biologist Jacques Monod, on the reality of the human, "like a gypsy… on > the boundary of an alien world; a world that is deaf to his music, and > as indifferent to his hopes as it is to his suffering or his crimes" > (Chance and Necessity, p. 160). Her argument is essentially that the > language of such statements shows anthropomorphisms read into natural > law, then read back to us as if they were pure deduction from physical > fact. > > The rhetorical force at work here is well illumined by Monod, for > example, who is essence argues that we had better grow up, wake up, > clean up our room, stop our fantasies and come to terms with reality. (I > am making light of a serious argument, but the parental tone is > audible.) In other words, it is a instance of moral righteousness backed > by the cultural authority of science. What, then, about science as a > moral force, as the basis for doing the right thing as scholars? I > wonder whether our situation is any different from that of Galileo and > Bacon, for both of whom, as Alastair Crombie says of the former, science > was “the moral enterprise of freedom for the enquiring mind … a > therapeutic experience offering perhaps the greatest moral contribution > of science to mankind” (Styles of Scientific Thinking, p. 8). Even a bit > of time reading Bacon, for example, makes one wonder about his obsession > with the afflictions of our minds that, he argues, cause us to see the > world other than it is -- "the idols of the tribe", he called them. His > vision of human nature, Peter Harrison has shown in The Fall of Man and > the Foundations of Science (esp pp 171ff) was profoundly informed by the > theology of the time, by the deep and pervasive conviction of being in a > state of sin as a result of the Fall, and so cognitively damaged. Jean > Delumeau's Sin and Fear: The Emergence of a Western Guilt Culture > 13th-18th Centuries (Le Péché et La Peur) provides a supportive > historical context. > > So, I wonder, are we any the less conditioned by our de facto theology? > What specifically in our work in the digital humanities do we take as > self-evidently true? Apart from keeping people like me out of mischief, > or out of other kinds of mischief, what comes from poking at our > self-evident truths? Is there a possibility that we could unstick > ourselves from unproductive obsessions by questioning the fundamentals > as we take them to be? > > Comments? > > Yours, > WM > -- > Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's > College London; Professor (fractional), University of Western Sydney; > Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, > Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 12:47:05 -0700 From: Jascha Kessler Subject: re M Lana's statement In-Reply-To: <20120317090859.EA9652772D9@woodward.joyent.us> Lana posts: "about the scientific cultural ground we as digital humanists imagine solid. 1) "We"? Who is or are that we? Well, a plural nomination: "digital humanists." Strange beasts those. Singularities associated in a virtual community. Ok. 2) What evidences itself to itself? Evidence is evidenced to someone, or to a commonalty. Evidence is not a self to evidence to itself then. 3) And that leads us to to the singletons or singularity. I take it as a valid opinion of that physicist who remarked long ago that had Einstein not wondered about what he saw "evidenced" in time and space, or space-time, no one might ever have come up with the Relativity hypothesis. We might all have remained in Flatland, but for some lens-grinders, who probably were at work 3000 years ago, if not more. I am chary of whatever is declared to be self-evident, since each has individual eyes and experience unique to see what is evidently evidenced. But only for that moment, it would appear, since Heraclitus noted that the physical world flows past our point of observation, and the same person is not the same person who saw the stream that morning. I am talking in metaphor, but this community evidences itself as quick-witted. Jascha Kessler -- Jascha Kessler Professor Emeritus of Modern English & American Literature, UCLA Telephone/Facsimile: 310.393.4648 www.jfkessler.com www.xlibris.com _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Mar 20 06:40:17 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC902279CE0; Tue, 20 Mar 2012 06:40:17 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 57AFE279CD8; Tue, 20 Mar 2012 06:40:16 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120320064016.57AFE279CD8@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 06:40:16 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.829 recursive-reflective? iPad for teaching? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 829. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: maurizio lana (21) Subject: use of iPad for teching? [2] From: Willard McCarty (17) Subject: recursive-reflective --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 18:35:25 +0100 From: maurizio lana Subject: use of iPad for teching? dear all, could anyone point me to reports about the use of iPad's in teaching courses? and/or about innovative didactic ebook products for iPad ? in the sense that many innovative 'books' exist, speaking of interface; but do they produce measurable/evident advantages for students? many thanks maurizio -- But just one question still remains To which we must respond Two roads lead from where we are, Which side are you on? (Arlo Guthrie, Which side, 1979) ------- il mio corso di informatica umanistica: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85JsyJw2zuw ------- Maurizio Lana - ricercatore Università del Piemonte Orientale, Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici via Manzoni 8, 13100 Vercelli - tel. +39 347 7370925 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 22:16:54 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: recursive-reflective I am looking for a word, preferably not my clumsy "recursive-reflective", to denote an ongoing, repetitive process between inventor and invention. The idea to be communicated is that the invention in some non-trivial sense mirrors the inventor, and the inventor seeing this self-image reflected back adopts it as his or her identity, then having changed changes the invention, and so on and so forth. Feedback and feed-forward (I. A. Richards' contribution) don't really do it, because the cybernetic process, as I understand it, aims at homeostasis, whereas I want to denote ongoing metamorphosis. Any ideas? Yours, WM -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor (fractional), University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Mar 20 06:40:51 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0059E279D08; Tue, 20 Mar 2012 06:40:51 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 22195279D00; Tue, 20 Mar 2012 06:40:50 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120320064050.22195279D00@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 06:40:50 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.830 the Medical Heritage Library X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 830. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 15:40:54 -0400 From: Medical Heritage Library Subject: MHL Blog Digest The Medical Heritage Library (MHL) is a digital curation collaborative among some of the world’s leading medical libraries. The collection resides at the Internet Archive (http://www.archive.org/details/medicalheritagelibrary). The Medical Heritage Library is a content centered digital community supporting research, education, and dialog that enables the history of medicine to contribute to a deeper understanding of human health and society. MHL serves as the point of access to a valuable body of quality curated digital materials and to the broader digital and nondigital holdings of its members. Through active community building and coordinated content selection, the MHL facilitates much needed discourse around the contemporary practice of medicine and human health. Activities: “The MHL Welcomes the Gerstein.” ( http://www.medicalheritage.org/2012/03/the-mhl-welcomes-the-gerstein/). The University of Toronto Gerstein Science Information Centre adds content to the MHL. “Lightning Round Presentation on the MHL.” ( http://www.medicalheritage.org/2012/03/lightning-round-presentation-on-the-mhl-lori-jahnke-and-kathryn-hammond-baker/) Video of Lori Jahnke and Kathryn Hammond-Baker talking about the MHL in September 2011 at the NEH Office of Digital Humanities Project Director’s Meeting. “Blog Carnival Coming to the MHL!” ( http://www.medicalheritage.org/2012/02/blog-carnival-coming-to-the-mhl/) The Giant’s Shoulders History of Science Blog Carnival will be hosted by the MHL blog in May! Digital Highlights: “The Nightless City.” ( http://www.medicalheritage.org/2012/02/digital-highlight-the-nightless-city/) Post on a late nineteenth century expose of the geisha quarter in Tokyo. “Eugenic Tracts.” ( http://www.medicalheritage.org/2012/01/digital-highlight-eugenic-tracts/) Post on one of the “New Tracts for the Times” series, *The Problem of Race-Regeneration*, by Havelock Ellis. Contact the MHL: Email: medicalheritage@gmail.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/MedicalHeritage Website: www.medicalheritage.org Internet Archive collection: http://www.archive.org/details/medicalheritagelibrary Thank you! -Hanna Clutterbuck Project Co-Ordinator, Medical Heritage Library _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Mar 20 06:42:16 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id D37F0279D54; Tue, 20 Mar 2012 06:42:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id CCEF6279D44; Tue, 20 Mar 2012 06:42:14 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120320064214.CCEF6279D44@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 06:42:14 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.831 events: formal models of communication X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 831. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 17:36:53 +0000 From: "A. Herzig" Subject: ESSLLI 2012 Workshop on Formal Models of Communication --- newdeadline Call for papers -- new deadline Workshop on Formal Models of Communication European Summer School on Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI) 2012 06-10 August, Opole, Poland http://www.esslli2012.pl/files/CFP/cfpJonesK_ESSLLI%202012_Workshop_on_Formal_Models_of_Communication.pdf Workshop Co-Chairs: Andrew J I Jones (Department of Informatics, King’s College London) and Steven O Kimbrough (Wharton Business School, University of Pennsylvania). Invited Speakers: to be confirmed. The workshop is organized in conjunction with the activity in SINTELNET Working Group No. 2, on Communicative Interaction. (SINTELNET is the European Network for Social Intelligence, FET Open Coordination Action: www.sintelnet.eu) Summary of the three principal workshop themes 1. Critical assessment of approaches to ACLs: in multi-agent systems research, a number of different approaches have been taken to the formal-logical characterisation of Agent Communication Languages (ACLs), including the FIPA [2002] language, the commitment-based models of Colombetti [2000] and Singh [1998], and the Jones & Parent [2007] convention-based approach. (For an overview see Chopra et al. [in press].) 2. Theories of signalling: philosophical analyses of communicative action, in the tradition of Austin, Grice and Searle, formed the principal background to work on ACLs. However, the prospect of alternative foundations is emerging from theories of signalling, informed by – in particular – games theory and evolutionary biology. (See, e.g., Skyrms [2010].) 3. Deception: there exist a number of philosophical and formal-logical analyses of deception - see, e.g., Adler [1997], Sakama & Caminada [2010]. It would be of interest to compare these with the accounts offered in signalling theory, and to raise the question of whether the phenomenon of deception has been adequately accommodated in models of ACLs. We invite papers (not exceeding 15-20 pages) on topics relating principally to one or more of those three themes. Submission Procedure papers (pdf) should be submitted to Andrew Jones: andrewji.jones@kcl.ac.uk Deadline for submissions: 23 March 2012 Notification: by 01 June 2012 Publication: it is possible that the proceedings of the workshop may be published in the FOLLI subseries of Springer’s LNCS, or in the Journal of Logic, Language and Information (JOLLI). REFERENCES FIPA [2002] FIPA Communicative Act Library Specification. http://www.fipa.org/specs/fipa00037/index.html Colombetti [2000] Colombetti, M., "A commitment-based approach to agent speech acts and conversations", Proceedings of the Workshop on Agent Languages and Communication Policies, 4th International Conference on Autonomous Agents (Agents 2000), Barcelona, Spain, pp.21-29, 2000. Singh [1998] Singh, M.P., "Agent Communication Languages: Rethinking the Principles", IEEE Computer 31, 12 (Dec.), pp.40-47, 1998. Jones & Parent [2007] Andrew J I Jones and Xavier Parent, "A Convention-based Approach to Agent Communication Languages", Group Decision and Negotiation 16, pp. 101-14, 2007. Chopra et al. [in press] Amit Chopra, Alexander Artikis, Jamal Bentahar, Marco Colombetti, Frank Dignum, Nicola Fornara, Andrew J I Jones, Munindar P. Singh, Pinar Yolum, "Research Directions in Agent Communication", ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, 26 pp., in press. Skyrms [2010] Brian Skyrms, Signals – Evolution, Learning & Information, Oxford University Press, Oxford UK, 2010. Adler [1997] Adler, J.E., "Lying, deceiving, or falsely implicating", Journal of Philosophy 94(9), pp.435-452, 1997. Sakama & Caminada [2010] Chiaki Sakama and Martin Caminada, "The Many Faces of Deception" in: Proceedings of the Thirty Years of Nonmonotonic Reasoning (NonMon@30), Lexington, KY, USA, October 2010. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Mar 21 07:14:56 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5092027615B; Wed, 21 Mar 2012 07:14:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 5276B276148; Wed, 21 Mar 2012 07:14:54 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120321071454.5276B276148@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 07:14:54 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.832 ethnographic/qualitative research online X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 832. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 17:28:33 +0000 From: "Lawrence, Faith" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.820 ethnographic/qualitative research online In-Reply-To: <20120316072022.800E6278267@woodward.joyent.us> Dear Simon, Nicola Thomas, Roberta and Caroline, You've already had a bunch of very useful suggestions (I second the link to http://aoir.org) but in the interest of 'what not to do' you may find http://fanlore.org/wiki/SurveyFail an interesting story of how not to approach an online community about their creative practices (I would say morality tale but sadly the moral seems to be questionable: http://anivad.livejournal.com/1200578.html). Yours, Faith Lawrence _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Mar 21 07:15:36 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6AFFF2761BA; Wed, 21 Mar 2012 07:15:36 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 8B5E02761A8; Wed, 21 Mar 2012 07:15:34 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120321071534.8B5E02761A8@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 07:15:34 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.833 call for PhD applications X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 833. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 12:20:17 +0000 From: Poul Holm Subject: Applications Invited for Ireland's digital structured PhD programme Digital Arts and Humanities Programme Applications Invited for Ireland’s digital structured PhD programme (Four years full-time, six years part-time) A structured doctoral research-training programme designed to enable students to carry out research in the arts and humanities at the highest level using new media and computer technologies. The Digital Arts and Humanities programme (DAH) is an innovative inter-disciplinary structured PhD programme co-ordinated by an all-Irish university consortium, funded through Cycle 5 of the Government's Programme for Research in Third-Level Institutions. The programme is open for registration with Trinity College Dublin, University College Cork, National University of Ireland, Galway, and National University of Ireland, Maynooth. Teaching resources are also provided by the Royal Irish Academy and the Northern Ireland universities Queen’s University Belfast and University of Ulster. DAH opened last year as the world’s largest digital arts and humanities doctoral programme with 46 students. We are creating the research platform, the structures, partnerships and innovation models by which fourth-level researchers can engage with a wide range of stakeholders in order to contribute to the developing digital arts and humanities community world-wide, as participants and as leaders. Further information about the programme is available on our website: www.dahphd.ie http://www.dahphd.ie . Students will choose to enter the program within either the ARTS or the HUMANITIES strands. In both strands you are required to complete core, training and career development modules, including main modules shared across the consortium and others institutionally-based. The overall aim of the taught modules are threefold: 1) to introduce students to the history and theoretical issues in digital arts/humanities; 2) to provide the skills needed to apply advanced computational and information management paradigms to humanities/arts research; 3) to provide an enabling framework for students to develop generic and transferable skills to carry out their final research projects/dissertations. The aim of the research is to enable students to develop and synthesise a PhD dissertation. High-calibre candidates holding, or expecting to receive, a first-class or upper second-class honours degree in an appropriate discipline are encouraged to apply. We would like to receive your application by 15 May 2012. Prospective students MUST apply directly to the institution that best suits their project and circumstances. Students will be expected to participate fully in the research community of the institution in which they are registered. Your application must be submitted electronically based on instructions obtained from your chosen university. You are strongly urged to contact one of the contact persons listedbelow well in advance of applying. Further information about the participating DAH universities: The DAH programme at NUI Galway is shared between the Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Studies and the Huston School of Film & Digital Media. The ambition for Digital Humanities at the Moore Institute is to create synergies between humanities research, digital technology and innovation. Students enrolling in the DAH at the Moore Institute will undertake integrated projects combining humanities scholarship with the creation of digital tools and applications. Projects that focus on bringing the academic and creative cultures of Galway and itsregion to international visibility in partnership with local communities are particularly welcome. The Huston School of Film & Digital Media has a dynamic approach to creativity in film and digital media training in conjunction with rigorous film and critical studies. The DAH research programme aims to support highly creative and excellently trained individuals develop advanced artistic practice in digital media at regional, national, and international levels. At the Huston School DAH will contribute knowledge and understanding in digital media, film, and television by means of enquiry conducted through practice-based research methods. The integrated aim of DAH @ NUI Galway will be to support and envision first class humanities research that is informed by the best teaching and support in digital theory and culture. PhDs in the Humanities steam of the programme (hosted by the Moore Institute) are under the direction of Professor Sean Ryder, sean.ryder@nuigalway.ie or www.nuigalway.ie/mooreinstitute. PhDs in the Arts steam of the programme (hosted by the Huston School of Film & Digital Media) are under the direction of Professor Rod Stoneman, rod.stoneman@nuigalway.ie or www.filmschool.ie/ http://www.filmschool.ie/ . DAH students at NUI Maynooth are part of An Foras Feasa's research institute which has state-of-the-art research and teaching facilities in the university's newly-opened Iontas building and a dynamic postgraduate community. Studentsparticipate in a collaborative Structured Phd Programme with co-registration in An Foras Feasa and a participating academic department (e.g. English, Music, Media Studies, History, Celtic Studies, Modern Languages). An Foras Feasa specialises in the integration of humanities research with information and communications technologies; particular research strengths in the Institute and its partner departments include digital imaging, digital critical editions,data modeling, digital archives and repository development, humanities computing, software engineering, music technology and multimedia. Competitive funding for a limited number of applicants is available through the University's Hume Scholarship programme. For more information about the programme please visit www.learndigitalhumanities.ie. For further inquiries contact Dr Maggie O'Neill, phdapplications@forasfeasa.ie. DAH students at Trinity College Dublin will be supported by two of the Universities flagship research units, the Trinity Long Room Hub and the Arts Technology Research Lab, each with their own bespoke facilities on Trinity's ancient city-centre campus. You should register for the programme through one of the participating schools: the Schools of Drama, Film and Music, English, Histories and Humanities, Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies, Linguistic, Speech and Communications Sciences, Computer Science and Statistics, Religions, Theology and Ecumenics, and the Department of Philosophy. You may find information about Trinity College Graduate Studies funding, cost of registration, and further information about the TCD programme at http://www.tcd.ie/longroomhub/DAH/. For further inquiries contact Ms Joanne D’Arcy darcyjo@tcd.ie. At University College Cork, participating subunits include English, Music, History, Languages Literatures and Cultures, Computer Science, and the Boole Library. UCC staff has wide experience in digital arts and humanities, especially in regard to Irish and European history and culture and music technology. Some current projects and collaborations in the field at UCC include: CELT, a corpus of online texts for Irish history, literature and politics; LOCUS a new Historical Dictionary of Irish place names and tribal names Online; CELTIC DIGITAL INITIATIVE, which aims to make scarce resources (such as texts, images and bibliographies) available in an electronic format to students and scholars; ArCH which aims to create a series of facsimile editions online of the major historical Irish manuscripts; and the ongoing digitisation of the papers of the world famousCork-based mathematician George Boole. In addition, UCC's School of Music is particularly strong in practice-based research in composition and performance using digital media (e.g., computer-based and electronic resources for composition, sound and video art, and improvisation). Applications are invited on any relevant topic. In particular, for the 2012-3 cohort five special scholarships are available on specific topics concerning the following Boole Library collections: the Grehan Family Papers, the Bantry Estate Collection, the George Boole Papers, the Sean Ó Riada Collection, The FrankO’Connor Archive, and the Murphy's Brewery Collection. For information concerning the program and available scholarships, visit http://www.ucc.ie/en/cacsss/grads/grep/dah/. For further information contact Brendan Dooley: b.dooley@ucc.ie. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Mar 21 07:16:23 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 283172761F7; Wed, 21 Mar 2012 07:16:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 387232761E5; Wed, 21 Mar 2012 07:16:21 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120321071621.387232761E5@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 07:16:21 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.834 events: social; digital girls; knowledge engineering X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 834. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Judith Simon (139) Subject: cfp: SOCIAL TURN - DEADLINEEXTENDED (April 8, 2012) [2] From: "Lawrence, Faith" (58) Subject: CFP: Girls and Digital Culture: Transnational Reflections, September 2012 [3] From: Annette ten Teije (77) Subject: CfP: 18th Int. Conf. on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management --EKAW 2012-- --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 07:21:42 +0000 From: Judith Simon Subject: cfp: SOCIAL TURN - DEADLINEEXTENDED (April 8, 2012) EXTENDED DEADLINE: Symposium on SOCIAL COMPUTING / SOCIAL COGNITION / SOCIAL NETWORKS AND MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS @ AISB/IACAP 2012 July 2nd 3rd , 2012. https://sites.google.com/site/socialturnsnamasaisbiacap2012/ CALL FOR PAPERS Extended deadline: April 8, 2012. The symposium is part of the AISB/IACAP World Congress 2012 in honour of Alan Turing, held on July 2nd to 6th, 2012. University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.http://events.cs.bham.ac.uk/turing12/ & http://www.aisb.org.uk/convention/aisb12/ The event is jointly organized by The Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour (AISB) [http://www.aisb.org.uk http://www.aisb.org.uk/ ] and The International Association for Computing and Philosophy (IACAP) [http://www.ia-cap.org ] ------------------------------- INVITED SPEAKERS Bernhard Rieder, New Media, University of Amsterdam. Marek Sergot, Imperial College, London.GRANTS: ------------------------------- GRANTS The European Network for Social Intelligence is offering a limited number of travel grants for PhD students and early stage researchers. Please indicate in your paper submission if you want to apply for the travel grants. Further information will be made available on the symposium website. ------------------------------- SYMPOSIUM CHAIRS Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic, Mälardalen University, Sweden. Antonino Rotolo, CIRSFID, U. di Bologna, Italy. Giovanni Sartor, EUI and CIRSFID, Italy. Judith Simon, University of Vienna, Austria and & Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany. Clara Smith, UNLP and UCALP, Argentina. --------------------------------- This 2012 symposium merges the symposium entitled Social Turn: Social Computing - Social Cognition - Social Intelligence; and the SNAMAS symposium, focused on Social Networks and Multi-Agent Systems, which have precursor symposia in Social Computing at IACAP and the SNAMAS in AISB conferences. ---------------------------------- TOPICS The field of social computing has two different foci: social and computational. There is the focus on socialness of social software or social web applications. Widespread examples of social software are blogs, wikis, social bookmarking services, instant messaging services, and social networking sites. Social computing often uses various types of crowdsourcing techniques for aggregation of input from numerous users (public at large). Tools such as prediction markets, social tagging, reputation and trust systems as well as recommender systems are based on collaborative filtering and thus a result of crowdsourcing. Another focus of social computing is on computational modeling of social behavior, among others through Multi-agent systems (MAS) and Social Networks (SN). MAS have an anchoring going beyond social sciences even when a sociological terminology is often used. There are several usages of MAS: to design distributed and/or hybrid systems; to develop philosophical theory; to understand concrete social facts, or to answer concrete social issues via modelling and simulation. MAS aim at modelling, among other things, cognitive or reactive agents who interact in dynamic environments where they possibly depend on each other to achieve their goals. The emphasis is nowadays on constructing complex computational systems composed by agents which are regulated by various types of norms, and behave like human social systems. Finally, Social networks (SN) are social structures made of nodes (which are, generally, individuals or organizations) that are tied by one or more specific types of interdependency, such as values, visions, idea, financial exchange, friends, kinship, dislike, conflict, trade, web links, disease transmission, among many others. Social networks analysis plays a critical role in determining the way specific problems are solved, organizations are run, and the degree to which individuals succeed in achieving their goals. Social networks analysis has addressed also the dynamics issue, called dynamic networks analysis. This is an emergent scientific field that brings together traditional social network analysis, link analysis and multi-agent systems. The symposium addresses, but is not limited to, the following topics: - Conceptual issues such as Socialness (notions of the social used and/or enforced in social computing and research on social cognition or social intelligence) and Computational Models and mechanisms of social computing (information processing) as well as models and social mechanisms of cognition and intelligence. - Agency & Action in social computing systems: How can agency be understood and/or modeled in systems consisting of human and non-human agents? - Social Coordination & Norms: Emergence of norms (e.g. in Wikipedia) and compliance including their computational modeling in socio-technical systems. - Interaction & Communication in socio-technical systems and their computational models - Knowledge: the epistemological and ethical consequences of distributed knowledge creation in social computing and its computational models - Relations between the individual and the social: Forming of individual existence in relation to social computing (e.g. digital identity), including its computational modeling. - Agreement technologies. - Electronic Institutions. - Empirical and/or theoretical studies on a specific social or legal relationship (power, solidarity, legitimity, dependency...). - Empirical and/or theoretical studies on social relations' regulations. - Formalization of Normed Systems. - Logical frameworks for representing, describing and analysing agent's social or legal relationships. - Relations between the individual and the social: Forming of individual existence in relation to social computing (e.g. digital identity), including its info-computational modeling. - Responsibility, Accountability & Liability. What is epistemically and ethically responsible behavior with respect to social software and how can it be supported? What are the responsibilities of different human agents (e.g. software users, designers, researchers, etc)? - Rules and standards. - Social Networking Sites: philosophical implications of socialness in social networking sites (e.g., privacy, social structures, etc.). - Info-computational models of social networking sites. - The role of agents´ attributes in structuring social and legal relationships. - The role of specific social relationships in structuring groups and organizations. - Trust in social computing. Differences and similarities between notions of trust e.g. in multi-agent systems, social networking sites, recommender systems, etc. Differences and similarities between trust online and offline. How can trust be supported by a computational system itself? ------------------------------ IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline: April 8, 2012. Notification of acceptance: April 30, 2012. Camera ready version deadline: June 1, 2012. Symposium: 2nd – 3rd July, 2012. --------------------------------- PAPER SUBMISSION Guidelines for paper submission are as follows: - The paper should be written in English. - The maximum length of a paper is 6 A4-sized pages in ECAI format (format download: http://www.aisb.org.uk/convention/aisb08/download.html). - The paper should be in PDF format. - Please choose one track between SOCIAL TURN and SNAMAS, and submit via the online paper submission system to the corresponding track at: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=socialturnmasaisbiac [...] --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 12:45:48 +0000 From: "Lawrence, Faith" Subject: CFP: Girls and Digital Culture: Transnational Reflections, September 2012 In-Reply-To: Call for Papers: Girls and Digital Culture: Transnational Reflections An international interdisciplinary conference hosted by the Centre for Culture, Media and Creative Industries and the Department of Digital Humanities, King¹s College, London. September 13 & 14 , 2012, King¹s College London, Strand Campus This conference seeks to bring together current research exploring the relationship between contemporary girlhood and digital culture, in a transnational frame. Drawing on approaches from the arts, humanities and social sciences the conference will look at how contemporary transformations and transnational interconnections may be challenging existing social and cultural categories, power structures and global hegemonies. The conference will consider the following questions: * What are the key debates in current research on girls, young women and digital culture? * How might a transnational lens raise new questions, and what new ideas does it make thinkable? * Is digital culture global culture? * How does the development of new digital technologies affects notions and experiences of girlhood? * How are girls using new digital technologies? * How do ideas and practices move across national borders? * What effects do transnational interconnections have on girlhood and digital culture? Speakers include: Lisa Nakamura Shani Orgad Kalpana Wilson Jessica Ringrose Rupa Huq Simidele Dosekun Papers will be welcomed from across the social sciences, arts and humanities, including sociology, geography, media and communication studies, digital humanities, web science, gender studies, queer studies, cultural studies and postcolonial theory, as well as from artists, activists, grassroots and community initiatives and policy makers/think tanks. Themes of the conference include: Girls experiences of digital culture Gender and social media Sexuality Activism and politics Identity and subjectivity Development Gender and blogging Gender, play and digital culture Power and digital divisions Convergence Intersectional and transnational approaches Abstracts of up to 200 words should be sent to girlsanddigitalculture@gmail.com, by 31st March 2012 For further details and updates see http://girlsanddigitalculture.cch.kcl.ac.uk/ Please forward on to any interested parties/lists, Yours, Girls and Digital Culture Organisation Committee Dr. Ofra Koffman Dr. K Faith Lawrence Prof. Rosalind Gill --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 15:41:41 +0000 From: Annette ten Teije Subject: CfP: 18th Int. Conf. on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management --EKAW 2012-- In-Reply-To: NOTICE: deadline 18th of April 2012 (Abstract), 25th of April 2012 (Paper) Call for Papers: 18th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW 2012) National University of Ireland Galway Quadrangle October 8-12, 2012. http://ekaw2012.ekaw.org The 18th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management is concerned with all aspects of eliciting, acquiring, modeling and managing knowledge, and its role in the construction of knowledge-intensive systems and services for the semantic web, knowledge management, e-business, natural language processing, intelligent information integration, etc. The special focus of the 18th edition of EKAW will be on "Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management that matters". We are explicitly calling for papers that have a potentially high impact on a specific community or application domain (e.g. pharmacy and life sciences), as well as for papers which report on the development or evaluation of publicly available data sets relevant for a large number of applications. Moreover, we welcome contributions dealing with problems specific to modeling and maintenance of real-world data or knowledge, such as scalability and robustness of knowledge-based applications, or privacy and provenance issues related to organizational knowledge management. In addition to the main research track, EKAW 2012 will feature a tutorial and workshop program, as well as a poster and demo track. Moreover, there will be a Doctoral Consortium giving new PhD students a possibility to present their research proposals, and to get feedback on methodological and practical aspects of their planned dissertation. The proceedings of the conference will be published by Springer Verlag in the LNCS series. The LNCS volume will contain the contributed research papers as well as descriptions of the demos presented at the conference. Papers published at any of the workshops will be published in dedicated workshop proceedings. EKAW 2012 welcomes papers dealing with theoretical, methodological, experimental, and application-oriented aspects of knowledge engineering and knowledge management. In particular, but not exclusively, we solicit papers about methods, tools and methodologies relevant with regard to the following topics: 1) “Knowledge Management and Knowledge Engineering that matters” • Real-world applications of methods for knowledge management and engineering in domains such as - e-Government and public administration - Life sciences, health and medicine - Automotive and manufacturing industry - Cultural heritage applications - Digital libraries • Development and evaluation of publicly available knowledge repositories for new applications or domains • Methods and methodologies addressing the challenges of real-world data, e.g., - Scalability, robustness etc. - Maintenance costs and financial risks - Privacy and data security • Lessons learned from case studies, e.g., - Knowledge management in large organizations - Adoption of semantic web technologies - Maintenance of corporate knowledge repositories 2) Knowledge Management • Methodologies and tools for knowledge management • Knowledge sharing and distribution, collaboration • Best practices and lessons learned from case studies • Provenance and trust in knowledge management • Methods for accelerating take-up of knowledge management technologies • Corporate memories for knowledge management • Evolution, maintenance and preservation of knowledge • Web 2.0 technologies for knowledge management • Incentives for human knowledge acquisition (e.g. games with a purpose) 3) Knowledge Engineering and Acquisition • Tools and methodologies for ontology engineering • Ontology design patterns • Ontology localization • Ontology alignment • Knowledge authoring and semantic annotation • Knowledge acquisition from non-ontological resources (thesauri, folksonomies etc.) • Semi-automatic knowledge acquisition, e.g., ontology learning • Mining the Semantic Web and the Web of Data • Ontology evaluation and metrics • Uncertainty and vagueness in knowledge representation • Dealing with dynamic, distributed and emerging knowledge 4) Social and Cognitive Aspects of Knowledge Representation • Knowledge representation inspired by cognitive science • Synergies between humans and machines • Knowledge emerging from user interaction and networks • Knowledge ecosystems • Expert finding, e.g., by social network analysis • Trust and privacy in knowledge representation • Collaborative and social approaches to knowledge management and acquisition • Crowdsourcing in knowledge management As last EKAW conference we will accept different types of papers. The papers will all have the same status and follow the same formatting guidelines in the proceedings but will receive special treatment during the reviewing phase. In particular, each paper type will be subject to own evaluation criteria. The PC will also make sure that there is a reasonable balance of the paper types accepted. At submission time the paper has to be clearly identified as belonging to one of the following categories. • Research papers: These are “standard” papers presenting a novel method, technique or analysis with appropriate empirical or other types of evaluation as proof-of concept. The main evaluation criteria here will be originality, technical soundness and validation. • In-use papers: Here we are expecting papers describing applications of knowledge management and engineering in real environments. Applications need to address a sufficiently interesting and challenging problem on real-world datasets, involving many users etc. The focus is less on the originality of the approach and more on presenting systems that solve a significant problem while addressing the particular challenges that come with the use of real-world data. Evaluations should involve a representative subset of the actual users of the system. • Position papers: We invite researchers to also publish position papers which describe novel and innovative ideas. Position papers may also comprise an analysis of currently unsolved problems, or review theses problems from a new perspective, in order contribute to a better understanding of these problem in the research community. We expect that such papers will guide future research by highlighting critical assumptions, motivating the difficulty of a certain problem or explaining why current techniques are not sufficient, possibly corroborated by quantitative and qualitative arguments. Submissions of research and in-use papers should comprise a maximum of 15 pages formatted according to Springer Verlag LNCS guidelines and uploaded using Easychair ( http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ekaw2012). Position papers are required to have at most 5 pages in the same format. We will select the best papers from EKAW and invite the authors for a special edition of Journal of Data Semantics. Important Dates: Abstract Submission: 18th of April 2012 Paper Submission: 25th of April 2012 Notification: 6th of June 2012 Camera Ready: 30 of June 2012 Organizing Committee: General chair: Heiner Stuckenschmidt Co-chair and local organizer: Siegfried Handschuh Program chairs: Annette ten Teije, Johanna Voelker Workshop and tutorials chairs: Claudia d’Amato, Krysztof Janowicz Demo and poster chairs: Mathieu d’Aquin, Andriy Nikolov Doctoral consortium chairs: Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles, Nathalie Hernandez Sponsor chair: Christian Bizer _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Mar 22 05:49:10 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 348A32589F4; Thu, 22 Mar 2012 05:49:10 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 22A482589E2; Thu, 22 Mar 2012 05:49:08 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20120322054908.22A482589E2@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 05:49:08 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.835 Lexicons of Early Modern English X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities 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. 25, No. 835. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 00:22:04 +0000 From: UTP Journals Subject: Recent entries in Lexicons of Early Modern English Lexicons of Early Modern English - Word of the day Glossator, or Glossographer, he that makes a Glosse or Comment to interpret the hard meaning of words or things. Edward Phillips, The New World of English Words (1598) Locating historical references and accessing manuscripts can be difficult with countless hours spent searching for a single text for the sparsest of contributions to your research. Lexicons of Early Modern English is a growing historical database offering scholars unprecedented access to early books and manuscripts documenting the growth and development of the English language. With more than 580,000 word-entries from 176 monolingual, bilingual, and polyglot dictionaries, lexical encyclopedias, hard-word glossaries, spelling lists, and lexically-valuable treatises surviving in print or manuscript from the Tudor, Stuart, Caroline, Commonwealth, and Restoration periods, LEME sets the standard for modern linguistic research on the English language. Use Modern Techniques to Research Early Modern English! - 176 Searchable lexicons - 122 Fully analyzed lexicons - 588,721 Total word entries - 368,372 Fully analyzed word entries - 60,891 Total English modern headwords "Firstly, I want to say what an extraordinary and wonderful resource the LEME is. It is invaluable to the academic community who work on these periods and the ways in which you have developed in from the EMDD are formidable. Thank you!" (Charlotte Scott, researcher and LEME user) Lexicons recently added to LEME - http://leme.library.utoronto.ca/ Anonymous, Catholicon Anglicum: The Remedy for all Diseases (ca. 1475), an English-Latin dictionary from Lord Monson's manuscript, reconstructed from a 19th-century Early English Text Society edition. The earliest such lexicon surviving in the language holding some 7,180 word-entries, distinguishes itself by the extensive use of Latin synonyms in explanations. John Lydgate, The Horse the Ghoos and the Sheep (1477) William Caxton, French and English (ca. 1480) Anonymous, The Fromond List of Garden Plants (ca. 1525),a list of about 138 plants associated with Thomas Fourmond / Formond of Carssalton, Surrey (died March 21, 1542/43). The list has nine sections: for a garden, for pottage, for sauce, for the cop, for salad, to still, for savour and beauty, roots, and for an herber. Niels Hemmingsen, A Postle, or Exposition of the Gospels (1569), a translation of Niel Hemmingsen's Postilla seu enarratio Evangeliorum (Copenhagen, 1561) John Florio, Florio his First Fruits (1578), parallel Italian-English dialogues, followed by a brief Italian-English glossary and a grammar Anonymous, The Academy of Pleasure (1656) William Lucas, A Catalogue of Seeds, Plants, &c. (ca. 1677)a trade-list in eleven sections: seeds of roots, sallad seeds, potherb seeds, sweet herb seeds, physicall seeds, flower seeds, seeds of evergreen & flowering trees, sorts of pease, beans, &c., seeds to improve land, flower roots, and sorts of choice trees & plants Peter Levins, Manipulus Vocabulorum (London, 1570), a dictionary of 8,940 English-Latin word-entries, organized by English rhyme-endings (with accentuation). This analyzed text owes much to Huloet (added in 2009) and replaces the simple transcription now in the LEME database. Coming soon to LEME Henry Hexham's Copious English and Netherduytch Dictionarie (English-Dutch; 1647-48) John Rider's Bibliotheca Scholastica, an English-Latin dictionary first published by the University of Oxford in 1589. University of Toronto Press Journals 5201 Dufferin St., Toronto, ON, Canada M3H 5T8 Tel: (416) 667-7810 Fax: (416) 667-7881 journals@utpress.utoronto.ca www.utpjournals.com/leme http://www.utpjournals.com/leme http://leme.library.utoronto.ca/ posted by T Hawkins _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Mar 22 05:51:03 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 144CF258A95; Thu, 22 Mar 2012 05:51:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 4AC26258A8D; Thu, 22 Mar 2012 05:51:01 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120322055101.4AC26258A8D@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 05:51:01 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.836 events several & various X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 836. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Stuart Dunn (41) Subject: DEST-CEE 2012: call for Digital Humanities track [2] From: "Asciutti, Valentina" (11) Subject: CeRch seminar: Enhanced Publications in the Social Sciences andHumanities [3] From: Craig Bellamy (8) Subject: DHA2012: Final program available [4] From: Franz Fischer (114) Subject: 2. CfP - Wikipedia Academy 2 [5] From: "Pierazzo, Elena" (62) Subject: TEI Conference and Members' Meeting 2012: Call for Papers --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 09:39:08 +0000 From: Stuart Dunn Subject: DEST-CEE 2012: call for Digital Humanities track IEEE International conference on Digital Ecosystem Technologies - Complex Engineering Environment (IEEE DEST-CEE 2012) 18th-20th June 2012, Campione d'Italia, Italy Deadline for abstracts; April 2nd 2012 TRACK E: DIGITAL HUMANITIES The digital humanities form a bridge between the traditional practices of scholarship and the opportunities afforded by advances in technology, enabling researchers to reconsider old problems in new ways, and providing the methods, tools and frameworks to support them in developing new modes of enquiry. On the one hand, the humanities are faced with ever greater volumes of complex data and digital resources, for example from the increasing mass digitisation of historical records. On the other hand, research in the humanities is moving away from the model of individual scholars to one in which international and inter-disciplinary teams of researchers collaborate actively within a diverse ecosystem of digital resources, tools, and services, not forgetting of course the users themselves – the rapid evolution of Web technologies continues to privilege the human as a key agent, both as provider and consumer of content, and this in turn is investing humanities scholarship with an increasing awareness of vast new audiences and potential participants. We are looking for papers that address medium-scale/large-scale and medium-term/long-term challenges for digital humanities, and indicate/demonstrate potential solutions. For more details, and information on how to submit a paper, see the conference website: http://sesar.dti.unimi.it/DEST2012/index.php/tracks/track-e -- Dr Stuart Dunn Lecturer Centre for e-Research Department of Digital Humanities King's College London www.stuartdunn.wordpress.com Tel +44 (0)207 848 2709 Fax +44 (0)207 848 1989 stuart.dunn@kcl.ac.uk 26-29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL UK Geohash: http://geohash.org/gcpvj1zm7yp1 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 10:15:51 +0000 From: "Asciutti, Valentina" Subject: CeRch seminar: Enhanced Publications in the Social Sciences andHumanities Next week's seminar in the Centre for e-Research Seminar Series for 2012, "Enhanced Publications in the Social Sciences and Humanities: tensions, opportunities and problems" by Andrea Scharnhorst, Nick Jankowski, Clifford Tatum, and Sally Wyatt (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Netherlands), is on Tuesday 27 March, 6.15pm in the Anatomy Museum, King's College London. For more information and to register, please go to http://www.kcl.ac.uk/innovation/groups/cerch/events/seminars/scharnhorst.aspx ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scholars in the humanities and social sciences are increasingly exploring ways to make their research available on the Web, not only by providing lists of publications but increasingly providing supplementary or original research materials. The term ‘enhanced publications’ (EP) reflects this development and constitutes the focus of a range of initiatives in the Netherlands that explores possibilities and solutions for publishing scholarship in a Web environment. In this seminar we will present the e-Humanities Group Enhanced Publication Project, which developed Web venues to complement four books (see http://ep-books.ehumanities.nl/). Fundamental to this approach is a focus on Web-based texts as dynamic and evolving discourses rather than completed works. This focus is on engagement with emerging scholarly practices, particularly with regard to the blending of formal and informal scholarly communication. The aim of the project is to introduce book-related texts, and associated materials, as digital proxies to scholarship. It is common to find a wide variety of reviews and associated discussions about books on the Web. However, it is still uncommon to find the full text of books on the Web. From this perspective, scholarly work published in book format can be viewed as a less influential contribution to Web-based discourses. We will also discuss the technical features of the project, including preparation of the WordPress platform and two plugins developed for the platform. In particular, we report on our experiences with MIT Press as related to development of an enhanced publication for the book Virtual Knowledge, to be published by MIT Press in 2012. --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 22:13:30 +1100 From: Craig Bellamy Subject: DHA2012: Final program available Dear Humanists, The final Program for Digital Humanities Australasia (DHA2012); the inaugural conference of the Australasian Association for Digital Humanities (28-30 March) is now available. http://aa-dh.org/conference/program/ Twitter #DHA2012 Kind regards, Craig --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 17:03:44 +0100 From: Franz Fischer Subject: 2. CfP - Wikipedia Academy 2 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS - Wikipedia Academy 2012: Research and Free Knowledge. June 29 - July 1, 2012 | Berlin, Germany Conference Website: http://wikipedia-academy.de/2012/wiki/Main_Page Submit your papers here: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wpac2012 The “Wikipedia Academy 2012: Research and Free Knowledge” provides a platform for the research community and the Wikipedia community to connect, present, discuss and advance research on Wikipedia in particular and on free knowledge in general. The Wikipedia Academy 2012 is organized by Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. in collaboration with the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society and Freie Universität Berlin. The conference will take place in Berlin, 29 June to 1 July 2012. The event will be open to all interested parties and features a variety of session formats ranging from workshops, panel discussions and tracks with traditional paper and poster presentations to break-out sessions, lightning talks, speed geeking and a free culture brunch. We particularly invite young doctoral and postdoctoral researcher to participate and to submit extended abstracts. For research paper and poster sessions, we would like to encourage the submission of extended abstracts addressing issues in the overall nexus of Wikipedia and free knowledge. == Dates == * Submission of extended abstracts: 31 March 2012 * Notification of acceptance: 1 May 2012 * Submission of full papers: 1 June 2012 * Event: 29 June - 1 July 2012 == Topics of interest == Submissions are invited for the categories following below. http://wikipedia-academy.de/2012/wiki/Submission_process === Research on Users of and Contributors to Wikipedia === * Diversity among users of and contributors to Wikipedia (e.g. gender gap) * Influencing participation by adapting user interfaces in open collaborative settings * Using information visualization as information instrument to users and contributors === Wikipedia Global === * Relations and Differences between national Wikipedias * Differences between and critique of free/open knowledge ideologies * Regional studies of Wikipedia and free knowledge with global lessons === Sharing Cultures and Practices === * Sharing culture(s) in Wikipedia and other projects of commons-based peer production * Incentives, innovation and community dynamics in open collaborative peer production * Wiki theory and wiki practices === Economic and Regulatory Aspects of Free Knowledge === * Economic, regulatory and societal implications of (increased) access to free knowledge * Different Modes of Governance: Emergence of Order and Coordination in Wikipedia * The role of licensing decisions for Wikipedia and other collaborative forms of knowledge production === Wikipedia Analytics === * Wikis and Wikipedia as a research tool * Analyzing Wikipedia as a source of "Big Data" * Assessing and measuring the quality of Wikipedia articles == Submission Guidelines == Extended Abstracts must be submitted by the given deadline for peer review. Conference language is English, exceptions can be made on a case-by-case basis. Submission entails a commitment that at least one author will attend the event in the case of acceptance and deliver a full paper version prior to the event. Also, authors grant the organizers the right to publish accepted papers in the form of online proceedings or a similar format, to be determined at a later stage. In addition, accepted submissions will be automatically licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license unless the authors explicitly state in their submission that they wish to opt out of this licensing agreement. We encourage authors to use said license in order to promote open access to scholarly work although decisions to opt out will be respected and will not influence the review process in any way. In any case, authors of accepted submissions cannot opt out from the basic condition that they grant the organizers the right to publish at least the extended abstract online. Please submit your extended abstract (about 2-3 pages) in PDF, Open Document Format (ODF) or plain text format at: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wpac2012 Note: You will need an easychair account to submit. You can create one on the spot if you do not have one yet. In case of further questions don't hesitate to contact us via academy-oc@wikimedia.de. Best regards, Angelika -- Angelika Adam Projektmanagerin Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Eisenacher Straße 2 10777 Berlin Tel.: +49 30 219158260 http://wikimedia.de Helfen Sie mit, dass WIKIPEDIA von der UNESCO als erstes digitales Weltkulturerbe anerkannt wird. Unterzeichnen Sie die Online-Petition! ****Unterstützen Sie Freies Wissen mit einer SMS. Senden Sie einfach WIKI an 81190. Mit 5 Euro sichern Sie so die Verfügbarkeit und Weiterentwicklung von Wikipedia.**** Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985. -- Dr. des. Franz Fischer Cologne Center for eHumanities / Thomas-Institut Universität zu Köln, Universitätsstr. 22, D-50923 Köln Telefon: +49 - (0)221 - 470 - 6883/1750 Email: franz.fischer@uni-koeln.de -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.cceh.uni-koeln.de/ http://www.i-d-e.de/ http://www.thomasinstitut.uni-koeln.de/ http://ti-intern.uni-koeln.de/sdoe/ http://confessio.ie/ --[5]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 16:54:11 +0000 From: "Pierazzo, Elena" Subject: TEI Conference and Members' Meeting 2012: Call for Papers Call for papers and proposals TEI and the C(r|l)o(w|u)d 2012 Annual Conference and Members’ Meeting of the TEI Consortium Texas A&M University, Initiative for Digital Humanities, Media, and Culture * Deadline for submissions: May 15, 2012 * Meeting dates: Wed 7 November to Sat 10 November, 2011 * Workshop dates: Mon 5 November to Wed 7 November, 2012 (see separate call) The Programme Committee of the 2012 Annual Meeting of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI - www.tei-c.org) Consortium invites individual paper proposals, panel sessions, poster sessions, and tool demonstrations particularly, but not exclusively, on digital texts, scholarly editing or any topic that applies TEI to its research. Submission Topics Topics might include but are not restricted to: TEI and Google Books Handicraft vs. Large Scale Digitization: a False Dichotomy? TEI and massive digital collections TEI and Recording Document Corrections TEI and “Dirty” OCR TEI Schemas and Document Publication History Text vs. Document: Can the TEI semantics express both? TEI and text corpora The relation between representation (encoded text) and presentation (visualisation, user-interface) TEI encoded data in the context of quantitative text analysis Integrating the TEI with other technologies and standards TEI as metadata standard TEI as interchange format: sharing, mapping, and migrating data (in particular in relation to other formats or software environments) In addition, we are seeking proposals for 5 minute micropaper presentations focused on experiences with the TEI guidelines gained from running projects and discussing one specific feature. Submission Types Individual paper presentations will be allocated 30 minutes: 20 minutes for delivery, and 10 minutes for questions & answers. Panel sessions will be allocated 1.5 hours and may be of varied formats, including: * three paper-panels: 3 papers on the same or related topics * round table discussion: 5-8 presenters on a single theme. Ample time should be left for questions & answers after brief optional presentations. Posters (including tool demonstrations) will be presented during the poster session. The local organizer will provide flip charts and tables for poster session/tool demonstration presenters, along with wireless internet access. Each poster presenter is expected to participate in a slam immediately preceding the poster session. Micropapers will be allocated 5 minutes. Submission Procedure All proposals should be submitted via conftool, the availability of which will be announced shortly. Please submit your proposals by May 15, 2012. If you don’t have already one, you will need to create an account (i.e., username and password) in order to file a submission. For each submission, you may upload files to the system after you have completed filling out demographic data and the abstract. * Individual paper or poster proposals (including tool demonstrations): Supporting materials (including graphics, multimedia, etc., or even a copy of the complete paper) may be uploaded after the initial abstract is submitted. Submission should be made in the form of an abstract of 750-1500 words (plus bibliography). * Micropaper: The procedure is the same as for an individual paper, however the abstract should be no more than 500 words. Please be sure the abstract mentions the TEI feature to be presented! * Panel sessions (three paper panels): The panel organizer submits a proposal for the entire session, containing a 500-word introduction explaining the overarching theme and rationale for the inclusion of the papers, together with a 750-1500 words section for each panel member. * Panel sessions (round table discussion): The panel organizer submits a proposal of 750-1500 words describing the rationale for the discussion and includes the list of panelists. Panelists need to be contacted by the panel organizer and have expressed their willingness in participation before submission. All proposals will be reviewed by the program committee and selected external reviewers. Those interested in holding working paper sessions outside the meeting session tracks should contact the meeting organizers at meeting@tei-c.org to schedule a room. Please send queries to meeting@tei-c.org. Conference submissions will be considered for conference proceedings, edited as a special issue of the Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative. Further details on the submission process will be forthcoming. For the International Programme Committee, Elena Pierazzo (programme committee chair) ------- Dr Elena Pierazzo Lecturer in Digital Humanities Chair of the Teaching Committee Department of Digital Humanities King's College London 26-29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL Phone: 0207-848-1949 Fax: 0207-848-2980 elena.pierazzo@kcl.ac.uk http://www.kcl.ac.uk/ddh _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Mar 23 08:38:45 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31EC6275944; Fri, 23 Mar 2012 08:38:45 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 783642758F0; Fri, 23 Mar 2012 08:38:43 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120323083843.783642758F0@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 08:38:43 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.837 recursive-reflective again X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 837. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 08:36:24 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: recursive-reflective again In Humanist 25.829, I asked, > I am looking for a word, preferably not my clumsy > "recursive-reflective", to denote an ongoing, repetitive process between > inventor and invention. The idea to be communicated is that the > invention in some non-trivial sense mirrors the inventor, and the > inventor seeing this self-image reflected back adopts it as his or her > identity, then having changed changes the invention, and so on and so > forth. Feedback and feed-forward (I. A. Richards' contribution) don't > really do it, because the cybernetic process, as I understand it, aims > at homeostasis, whereas I want to denote ongoing metamorphosis. Two responses have come in, as follows (but to me rather than to Humanist): > Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 22:26:42 -0500 > From: amsler@cs.utexas.edu > > Let's see... > > self-sensing manfacturing > self-sensing inventing > man-machine synthesis > recombinant inventing > man-machine feedback loop > artifact-self co-creation > inventor-invention co-creation and > Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 10:38:29 +0000 > From: Virginia Knight > > Mirrored evolution? 'Evolution' comes to mind anyway as the word to > describe the 'ongoing metamorphosis' you speak of. The suggestions that come closest are "recombinant inventing", "artifact-self co-creation", "inventor-invention co-creation" and "mirrored evolution". "Recursive-reflective" has two problems: like the other hyphenated compounds, it is clunky; and it is already a term for the process of design that proceeds recursively through thinking about (reflecting on) the design. Mirroring is definitely involved but not mirroring in the strictly optical sense, rather more in the ancient sense attested by the Latin (speculum) and Greek (katoptron) words of becoming what one beholds. The process as historically attested in the development of our very own digital machine is definitely evolutionary. Can one capture a murky idea with a simple expression of one or at most two words, or allowing a preposition, three? So, with your indulgence, I ask again. Help! Yours, WM -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor (fractional), University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Mar 23 08:40:23 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C1BB275A2C; Fri, 23 Mar 2012 08:40:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0AF7E275A20; Fri, 23 Mar 2012 08:40:22 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120323084022.0AF7E275A20@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 08:40:22 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.838 publications: scholarly publishing; human IT X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 838. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Jonas_Söderholm (32) Subject: Human IT 11.3 [2] From: UTP Journals (42) Subject: Essential JSP: Critical Insights into the World of ScholarlyPublishing --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 11:24:02 +0100 From: Jonas_Söderholm Subject: Human IT 11.3 Dear all, A new glossy issue of digital humanities journal Human IT is now available at http://etjanst.hb.se/bhs/ith/3-11/ The four articles (two of which are peer reviewed) cover a foucauldian discussion of knowledge ideals and the wiki; web spaces for youth well-being; collaborative personalization in information retrieval strategies; and the decline of the e-commerce discipline in Australia. The issue also includes a review of the anthology History of Participatory Media. 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Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Francesca Benatti (20) Subject: Seminar - Digital scholarship in practice in the Humanities - 27 March [2] From: Shawn Day (42) Subject: The Battle for Books - SHARP 2012 Conference in Dublin [3] From: Oshani Seneviratne (95) Subject: CFP: Semantic Web Challenge 2012 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 11:00:39 +0000 From: Francesca Benatti Subject: Seminar - Digital scholarship in practice in the Humanities - 27 March Open University Digital Humanities in Practice Seminar "Digital scholarship in practice in the humanities" Time: Tuesday 27 March 2012, 12 noon – 2pm Venue: Ambient Lab, Jennie Lee building, the Open University, Milton Keynes Speakers: Martin Weller http://iet.open.ac.uk/people/m.j.weller (IET, Open University) - Digital Scholarship: 10 lessons in 10 videos Eileen Scanlon http://iet.open.ac.uk/people/e.scanlon (IET, Open University) - Digital Literacies in the Humanities Liz Fitzgerald http://iet.open.ac.uk/people/e.j.fitzgerald (IET, Open University) - The Pelagios http://pelagios-project.blogspot.co.uk/ project experience Lunch and refreshments will be provided for those who confirm their attendance to Heather Scott (h.scott@open.ac.uk) by Monday 26 March Organised by the Open University Digital Humanities group http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/digital-humanities/index.shtml Francesca Benatti Research Associate in Digital Humanities Faculty of Arts The Open University --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 15:39:42 +0000 From: Shawn Day Subject: The Battle for Books - SHARP 2012 Conference in Dublin Dear Colleagues, Forgive me for intruding into your inboxes, but you may be interested to know that registration for the much-anticipated conference of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP) has now opened at http://sharp2012.org/. This international conference will bring leading practitioners in the field from across the world to Ireland, and will contribute more than 500,000 Euro to the economy of Dublin. The conference is limited to an absolute maximum of 400 delegates. Please do register early in order to avoid disappointment. The organising committee of SHARP 2012 is grateful to Failte Ireland for its assistance in the preparation of the bid to bring this conference to Dublin. Sincerely, Jason McElligott The 20th annual SHARP conference The Battle for Books 26-29 June 2012 Trinity College Dublin, Ireland The Theme In a city like Dublin, which has been home to Swift, Wilde and Joyce one naturally thinks of ‘The Battle for Books’ in terms of censorship, constraint and restraint. While these will be significant topics at the conference, scholars have been invited to examine the theme as broadly as possible. On the production side of the industry we will consider the financial, emotional and organisational struggles of authors, printers and publishers to bring books to market. Papers will also analyse the distribution, sale and reception of books across a range of time periods and geographical locations. There is plenty of scope to develop ‘The Battle for Books’ in a historical context, but speakers will also examine the future for books, the book-trade and the printing industry in the context of current and future technological innovations. Registration is now open at http://sharp2012.org/ Topics of particular importance at the conference include (but are not limited to): * Lost and endangered skills related to the printing industry and book-trade * Battles between/among authors, printers and publishers * Censorship, constraint and restraint * Contestation and cultural struggle * Constructions and deconstructions of national and local identities * The digital book and digital futures * Library futures The full conference programme will be available next week. ____________ Dr Jason McElligott The Keeper Marsh's Library St Patrick's Close Dublin 8 Ireland Ph: +353 (0)1 454-3511 Mobile: +353 (0)87 689 4801 www.marshlibrary.ie http://www.marshlibrary.ie/ --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 22:16:32 +0000 From: Oshani Seneviratne Subject: CFP: Semantic Web Challenge 2012 Semantic Web Challenge 2012 - Call for Participation http://challenge.semanticweb.org/2012 Boston - USA November 13-15, 2012 *************************************************************** Submissions are now invited for the 10th Semantic Web Challenge, the premier event for demonstrating practical progress towards achieving the vision of the Semantic Web. The 10th Semantic Web Challenge which will take place at the 11th International Semantic Web Conference in Boston, USA. As in previous years, the Semantic Web Challenge will consist of two tracks: the Open Track and the Billion Triples Track. The key difference between the two tracks is that the Billion Triples Track requires the participants to make use of the data set that has been crawled from the Web and is provided by the organizers. The Open Track has no such restrictions. The Challenge is open to everyone from industry and academia. The authors of the best applications will be awarded prizes and featured prominently at special sessions during the conference. Important Dates ********************* Friday October 12, 2012, 23:59 CET: Submissions due November 13-15: Semantic Web Challenge takes place at ISWC 2012 Challenge Criteria ********************* The Challenge is defined in terms of minimum requirements and additional desirable features that submissions should exhibit. The criteria for the Semantic Web Challenge 2012 are described here: http://challenge.semanticweb.org/2012/criteria.html. How to Participate ********************* Visit http://challenge.semanticweb.org/ in order to participate and register for the Semantic Web Challenge by submitting the required information as well as a link to the application on the online registration form. The form will open in August 2012 and will be open until Friday October 12, 2012. The following information must be provided: 1. Abstract: no more than 200 words. 2. Description: The description should show details of the system, including why the system is innovative, which features or functions the system provides, what design choices were made and what lessons were learned. The description must include an appendix of 1-2 pages summarising explicitly how participants have addressed the evaluation requirements (including mandatory and any relevant desirable criteria). Papers should not exceed eight pages (including the appendix) and must be formatted according to the same guidelines as the papers in the Research Track (see http://iswc2012.semanticweb.org/). 3. Web access: The application should be accessible via the web. If the application is not publicly accessible, passwords should be provided. A (short) set of instructions on how to start and use the application should also be provided on the web page. Descriptions (including the appendix) will be published in the form of online proceedings on the Semantic Web Challenge website. Judging and Prizes *********************** In addition to submitting a system description and working demo, all participants are required to present their systems at the posters and demos session at the ISWC 2012 conference. A jury consisting of experts from industry and academia will be appointed to judge the systems at the conference. In the first round of judging, the jury will take into consideration the descriptions submitted, the online demos, and the presentation at the conference, in order to determine an initial set of 8 finalists. The entries will be scored by the judges and the 8 highest scoring entries will then proceed to the second round of the competition. The split between the two tracks will be determined according to the proportion of entries in each track. The 8 finalists will proceed to the second round of the competition, where they will have to present their work in an open session the following day. They will have a slot of approximately 15 minutes to present their work. The judges will be present and will evaluate the systems in more detail, according to the specific criteria detailed on the website. The judges will then meet in private to discuss the entries and to determine the winners. A monetary prize will be provided to the winners of each track, along with publicity for their work. There will normally be 3 winners of the Open Track and 1 winner of the BTC track. However, the organisers reserve the right to merge the tracks in the event of insufficient submissions in either category. The winners will be announced and prizes awarded during the Closing Ceremony of ISWC 2012. All 8 finalists will also be offered the opportunity to submit their work to a Special Issue of the Journal of Web Semantics. In the event that one of the tracks receive less than a minimal number of submissions, the organizers reserve the right to merge the two tracks of the competition. Billion Triples Challenge 2012 Data Set *********************************************** The participants of the Billion Triple Track of the Semantic Web Challenge need to use a data set provided by the organizers. The data set is currently being prepared and will be available on the website in April 2012. Contact ************** Diana Maynard, University of Sheffield, diana@dcs.shef.ac.uk Andreas Harth, KIT, harth@kit.edu _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Mar 24 07:22:44 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE260258809; Sat, 24 Mar 2012 07:22:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 848312587F8; Sat, 24 Mar 2012 07:22:42 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120324072242.848312587F8@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2012 07:22:42 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.840 recursive-reflective again X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 840. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: John Laudun (31) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.837 recursive-reflective again [2] From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (10) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.837 recursive-reflective again [3] From: Jascha Kessler (6) Subject: I am but half-serious/half-jesting... [4] From: "dennis c.l." (84) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.837 recursive-reflective again --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 09:16:38 -0500 From: John Laudun Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.837 recursive-reflective again In-Reply-To: <20120323083843.783642758F0@woodward.joyent.us> > In Humanist 25.829, I asked, > >> I am looking for a word, preferably not my clumsy >> "recursive-reflective", to denote an ongoing, repetitive process between >> inventor and invention. The idea to be communicated is that the >> invention in some non-trivial sense mirrors the inventor, and the >> inventor seeing this self-image reflected back adopts it as his or her >> identity, then having changed changes the invention, and so on and so >> forth. Feedback and feed-forward (I. A. Richards' contribution) don't >> really do it, because the cybernetic process, as I understand it, aims >> at homeostasis, whereas I want to denote ongoing metamorphosis. > > Two responses have come in, as follows (but to me rather than to Humanist): > > The suggestions that come closest are "recombinant inventing", > "artifact-self co-creation", "inventor-invention co-creation" and > "mirrored evolution". "Recursive-reflective" has two problems: like the > other hyphenated compounds, it is clunky; and it is already a term for > the process of design that proceeds recursively through thinking about > (reflecting on) the design. Mirroring is definitely involved but not > mirroring in the strictly optical sense, rather more in the ancient > sense attested by the Latin (speculum) and Greek (katoptron) words of > becoming what one beholds. The process as historically attested in the > development of our very own digital machine is definitely evolutionary. > > Can one capture a murky idea with a simple expression of one or at most > two words, or allowing a preposition, three? > > So, with your indulgence, I ask again. Help! It sounds a bit like what Fennell describes about Heaney's poetic output in "Why Seamus Heaney is No. 1." I can't recall if he gave it a defining term. In moments like this one wishes one could revisit terms like Sartre's "regressive-progressive method" and do something more with it. You would have thought the phenomenologists would have struck upon this at some point in the twentieth century. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 13:38:38 -0400 (EDT) From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.837 recursive-reflective again In-Reply-To: <20120323083843.783642758F0@woodward.joyent.us> Willard One place to begin for an adequate term or suggestions of a neologism that could be invented is the literature on participatory design. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Participatory_design which leads the reader to the notion of "permaculture" which is deployed in an ecological and agriculture context but might by prefix be adapted to the design and development of technology: techno-permaculture. Francois Lachance Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 18:01:49 +0000 From: Jascha Kessler Subject: I am but half-serious/half-jesting... In-Reply-To: <20120323083843.783642758F0@woodward.joyent.us> ...but the first thing that came to mind is the mechanic's alarm shouted to Bottom in A MIDSUMMER'S NIGHT DREAM: "Why, Bottom, thou art translated!" that is an older usage but handy because it meant metamorphosed. Digital-translation will be mistaken from linguistic reinvention of one language into another, and I have published essays pointing out that nothing is the same when a word is "translated," though I am opposed to the lazy "what's lost in translation.." In essence, when one translates into English, say, one tries to say a thing in one's own language. As for meaning? A good portion of original meaning is always unavailable per se, since we cannot inhabit, per se, another's life experience. So I wonder if you cannot play with the notion of [digital] transmogrification...? Which accounts for the reinvention and utter change when anything whatever is assimilated. A process that goes on momently is the life of the cell, and the bags of cells in billions living things are. Cheers, Jascha Kessler Professor Emeritus of Modern English & American Literature, UCLA www.jfkessler.com http://www.jfkessler.com --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 23:01:57 -0300 From: "dennis c.l." Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.837 recursive-reflective again In-Reply-To: <20120323083843.783642758F0@woodward.joyent.us> reflective coevolution dennis cintra leite _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Mar 24 07:28:09 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 810D625890A; Sat, 24 Mar 2012 07:28:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 4D0552588DB; Sat, 24 Mar 2012 07:28:07 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120324072807.4D0552588DB@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2012 07:28:07 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.841 publications: scholarly publishing; biological computing X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 841. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: UTP Journals (44) Subject: Now Available Online - Journal of Scholarly Publishing 43.3 April2012 [2] From: Nathaniel Bobbitt (5) Subject: Cognitive Computation 4.1 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 19:46:42 +0000 From: UTP Journals Subject: Now Available Online - Journal of Scholarly Publishing 43.3 April2012 Now available online… Journal of Scholarly Publishing Volume 43, Number 3 / April 2012 http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/x86jj6p15754/ This issue contains: Sustainability and the Scholarly Enterprise John T. Seaman, Jr., Margaret B. W. Graham This article analyses the origins, development, and impact of Gutenberg-e, a digital publishing program in historical scholarship sponsored by the American Historical Association (AHA), with the support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Intended as an experiment in developing and legitimizing new modes of historical scholarship, Gutenberg-e quickly evolved, under pressure to become economically sustainable, into a traditional publishing enterprise bent on making books cheaper and paying for itself in the process. Digital technology, which had the power to transform the whole scholarly enterprise, instead became a means to shore up the existing system of scholarly publishing, with all its flaws intact. Though Gutenberg-e has much to teach us about the costs and consequences of that system, especially for the scholars it is meant to serve, it also offers a glimpse of an alternative future. Almost in spite of itself, Gutenberg-e produced a handful of innovative works of digital scholarship, experimented with new forms of scholarly collaboration and community, and highlighted the opportunities of an expanded audience for specialized academic work. These modest achievements suggest the potential of digital technology to create things which scholars value and thereby sustain the scholarly enterprise over the long term. http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/6216u305605t7740/?p=786ad60e6e7744e49a4a615d8237afcb&pi=0 DOI: 10.3138/jsp.43.3.257 Lester J. Cappon, Scholarly Publishing, and the Atlas of Early American History, 1957–1976 Richard J. Cox The Atlas of Early American History: The Revolutionary Era 1760–1790, published in 1976, remains one of the lasting legacies of the US Bicentennial. Funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and a variety of private foundations, the publication was only incidentally a product of the celebration of the birth of a nation. The Atlas was the product of twenty years of effort by Lester J. Cappon—historian, archivist, and documentary editor—and because of his commitment to maintaining his own personal archives, we can learn more about this scholarly publishing venture than most. His rich diaries, personal papers, and Atlas archives enable us to follow the trials and tribulations of this publishing venture. We also learn that the kinds of issues facing scholarly publishing today, with a few differences (such as e-publishing), are not unique at all from those of half a century ago. http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/w6w807047jk71111/?p=786ad60e6e7744e49a4a615d8237afcb&pi=1 DOI: 10.3138/jsp.43.3.294 Peer Review As Boundary Work Graham Howard The concept of peer review, in the form of the submission of manuscripts to refereed journals, is analysed. Standard received sociological and philosophical accounts of the place of peer review in the production of knowledge are summarized and critiqued. An alternative ‘constructivist’ account is given, and this account is also critiqued. An account of the ‘Social Text Affair’ is given, and it is argued that the affair is instructive for understanding the place of peer review in the production of knowledge. An account of the author's communications with the editors of Ulrich's International Directory of Periodicals about Social Text is given. Finally, the sociological concept of ‘boundary work’ is introduced, and it is concluded that peer review is a form of ‘boundary work.’ http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/d82jn230g70q84n6/?p=786ad60e6e7744e49a4a615d8237afcb&pi=2 DOI: 10.3138/jsp.43.3.322 Reviews Steven E. Gump http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/e7874t658528883w/?p=786ad60e6e7744e49a4a615d8237afcb&pi=3 DOI: 10.3138/jsp.43.3.336 Letter to the Editor Bonnie Wheeler http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/d8237p8089173051/?p=786ad60e6e7744e49a4a615d8237afcb&pi=4 DOI: 10.3138/jsp.43.3.344 Journal of Scholarly Publishing A must for anyone who crosses the scholarly publishing path – authors, editors, marketers and publishers of books and journals. For more than 40 years, the Journal of Scholarly Publishing has been the authoritative voice of academic publishing. The journal combines philosophical analysis with practical advice and aspires to explain, argue, discuss and question the large collection of new topics that continuously arise in the publishing field. The journal has also examined the future of scholarly publishing, scholarship on the web, digitalization, copyrights, editorial policies, computer applications, marketing and pricing models. 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 www.facebook.com/utpjournals www.twitter.com/utpjournals posted by T Hawkins, UTP Journals --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 17:15:10 -0700 From: Nathaniel Bobbitt Subject: Cognitive Computation 4.1 In-Reply-To: <4D3F1B75020000E50003D544@hermes.cwu.edu> TABLE OF CONTENTS ALERT: Cognitive Computation Journal Vol. 4 No. 1 Special Issue: Pointing at Boundaries: Integrating Cognition and Computation on Biological Grounds Eduardo Massad, Alfredo Pereira, Jr., Nathaniel Bobbitt http://www.springerlink.com/content/n14743648186 [Some years ago the historian of computing Mike Mahoney remarked to me that the metaphors rapidly coming into circulation among computer scientists he knew and at conferences were shifting to the biological. I pass along this notice of publication because it seems a good measure of how far the biological talk has gone. More along these lines would be welcome, esp overviews meant for outsiders, please! 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 Mar 24 07:38:15 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 384B1258FF5; Sat, 24 Mar 2012 07:38:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 01D04258FDB; Sat, 24 Mar 2012 07:38:13 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120324073814.01D04258FDB@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2012 07:38:13 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.842 events: space & time; editing; TEI X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 842. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Shawn Day (29) Subject: Call for participation, 2nd NeDiMAH infoviz workshop [2] From: Shawn Day (67) Subject: Deadline Extended: 2nd NeDIMAH Space & Time Workshop (satelliteworkshop of DH2012, Hamburg) [3] From: Peter Boot (46) Subject: CfP ESTS conference: Editing Fundamentals (Nov. 22-24, Amsterdam) [4] From: Julia Flanders (31) Subject: Taking TEI Further: TEI Customization (deadline, April 1) --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 11:11:59 +0000 From: Shawn Day Subject: Call for participation, 2nd NeDiMAH infoviz workshop Call for participation, 2nd NeDiMAH infoviz workshop Visual Tools and Methods in Digital Humanities: Representing, Reading, and Thinking about Knowledge Creation... 21st of July 2012 in Hamburg alongside the DH conference. Exploring the shifting intersection between more descriptive and analytical uses of visual components in digital environments and interpretative research tools - we will theorize 'new' readings and question shifts in representation within the digital sphere. The barriers between more descriptive and more analytical approaches are also constantly shifting as researchers become more and more acquainted with formulating research needs in a digital context, but also as a result of technologies becoming increasingly user-friendly and hence inviting collaboration between specialists and non-specialists within the same context. The workshop’s general aim will be to define critical reading principles both for research itself but also for creating digital tools for different aspects of the research process. We will aim at understanding how different research questions can arise from these methods in terms of open data, collaboration, remediation, place, space and performance, impact and outreach. We invite teams of researchers and developers where knowledge of information visualization is used as a key component of their work. We encourage participants to elaborate on the tensions and added-values when working across disciplines - both humanities and information sciences. Contributions should contain well defined technical and scholarly research considerations. The synergy effect of working together needs to be well defined. Objectives: - To create an understanding of why visualization is used, to what end? - How does the visualization relate to the theoretical orientation of the research? - To critically analyze the impact of the methods for visualization both in terms of finding new knowledge as well as better communicating the result of research.-To investigate how digital visual methods can be utilized to support unanticipated research questions. - Collaborative work for explorative methods and research with structured datasets (complex or simple, large or small) Duration of the workshop The workshop is intended to be for 1 day, 8.30 - 4.30 on the 21st of July 2012 in Hamburg alongside the DH conference. Dates and submission: Participants are expected to contribute with a short paper of max 1,000 words describing their contributions. The deadline for the submission will be the 13th of April and notification to accepted contributors will be by the 23rd April. Successful contributors will have their travel and accommodation funded by NeDiMAH . Target audience (12-15 participants) Examples could be: Travel narratives - linguistic research Textual analysis Network Analysis Internet Culture Studies Archaeology, Environmental and Site Reconstructions Historical Narratives and Cultural Heritage Studies Illustration/Visual Art Research Exhibitions Urban History Population Studies Place Name & Culture Studies Program committee : 1. Fredrik Palm, HUMlab, Umeå University 2. Stuart Dunn (DARIAH), Kings College London 3. Simon Lindgren, Professor in Sociology Umeå University 4. Orla Murphy, University College Cork o.murphy@ucc.ie The workshop is part of the NEDIMAH-network. The NeDiMAH Network will examine the practice of, and evidence for, advanced ICT methods in the arts and humanities across Europe, and articulate these findings in a series of outputs and publications. To accomplish this, NeDiMAH will provide a locus of networking and interdisciplinary exchange of expertise among the trans-European community of digital arts and humanities researchers, as well as those engaged with creating and curating scholarly and cultural heritage digital collections. NeDiMAH will maximise the value of national and international e-research infrastructure initiatives by developing a methodological layer that allows arts and humanities researchers to develop, refine and share research methods that allow them to create and make best use of digital methods and collections. Better contextualization of ICT Methods will also build human capacity, and be of particular benefit for early stage researchers. For more information about NeDiMAH see http://www.nedimah.eu --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 16:30:16 +0000 From: Shawn Day Subject: Deadline Extended: 2nd NeDIMAH Space & Time Workshop (satelliteworkshop of DH2012, Hamburg) **** Deadline Extended until 31st March 2012 **** Call for Papers: Second Workshop of the NeDiMAH Space and Time Working Group: Here and There, Then and Now - Modelling Space and Time in the Humanities A Satellite Workshop of Digital Humanities 2012, Hamburg, Germany. Tuesday 17th July Spatio-temporal concepts are so ubiquitous that it is easy for us to forget that they are essential to everything we do. All cultural expressions are related to the dimensions of space and time in the manner of their production and consumption, the nature of their medium and the way in which they express these concepts themselves. This workshop seeks to identify innovative practices among the Digital Humanities community that explore, critique and re-present these spatial and temporal aspects. Although space and time are closely related, there are significant differences between them which may be exploited when theorizing and researching the Humanities. Among these are the different natures of their dimensionality (three dimensions vs. one), the seemingly static nature of space but enforced 'flow' of time, and the different methods we use to make the communicative leap across spatial and temporal distance. Every medium, whether textual, tactile, illustrative or audible (or some combination of them), exploits space and time differently in order to convey its message. The changes required to express the same concepts in different media (between written and performed music, for example), are often driven by different spatio-temporal requirements. Last of all, the impossibility (and perhaps undesirability) of fully representing a four-dimensional reality (whether real or fictional) mean that authors and artists must decide how to collapse this reality into the spatio-temporal limitations of a chosen medium. The nature of those choices can be as interesting as the expression itself. We invite those working with digital tools and techniques that manage, analyse and exploit spatial and temporal concepts in the Humanities to present a position paper at this workshop. Position papers should discuss a generalized theme related to use of spatio-temporal methods in the Digital Humanities with specific reference to one or more concrete applications or examples. Position papers will be separated into multiple panel sessions according to emergent themes. Those not wishing to present a paper are warmly encouraged to attend the workshop and take part in the extended discussion which will follow the presentations. This workshop is part of the ESF-funded NEDIMAH Network and organised by its Working Group on Space and Time (STWG). Papers are invited on any topic that furthers these objectives. Topics could be, but are not limited to: -- Spatial History -- Temporal analysis of ephemera -- Online contextualization of resources with data from related eras or regions -- Augmented reality applications -- Non-linear representations of space and time -- Digital analyses of fictional or mythical spaces or eras -- Modelling cultural dynamics and diffusion -- Comparisons between narrative, observer and 'real' times Papers that are accepted will have their workshop fees covered. Separate NeDiMAH STWG workshops cover GIS, Webmapping and ontological approaches to representing space and time and the Humanities. While these may naturally be an aspect of accepted submissions they should therefore not form the main focus of the paper. Papers should be submitted before 31st March 2012. We will endeavour to decide on the final workshop programme by the end of March. Please address submissions and queries to: l.isaksen@soton.ac.uk STWG WG Committee are: Daniel Alves Jens Andresen Shawn Day Øyvind Eide Leif Isaksen Eetu Mäkelä Eero Hyvönen --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 15:51:21 +0100 From: Peter Boot Subject: CfP ESTS conference: Editing Fundamentals (Nov. 22-24, Amsterdam) On November 22-24, 2012 the Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands organizes the 9th conference of the European Society for Textual Scholarship. This conference, which will take place in Amsterdam, will be an international academic forum for communication between different approaches to historical and literary source editing. It aims at bringing together academics working in disciplines that have so far worked within independently operating scholarly traditions, promoting innovative, multidisciplinary exchange and dialogue. The Call for Papers is now available. CALL FOR PAPERS The 9th Conference of the European Society for Textual Scholarship 2012 Editing Fundamentals: Historical and Literary Paradigms in Source Editing Amsterdam, November 22-24, 2012 Deadline for paper proposal submissions: May 15, 2012 Keynote speakers: Manfred Thaller (University of Cologne) Godfried Croenen (University of Liverpool) Andrew Jewell (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) The 9th conference of the European Society for Textual Scholarship will be an international academic forum for communication between different approaches to historical and literary source editing. Edited source texts, documents and databases are essential to literary, political, historical scholarship, as well as to social studies, art history, music, philosophy or theology. The conference aims at bringing together academics working in disciplines that have so far worked within independently operating scholarly traditions, promoting innovative, multidisciplinary exchange and dialogue. The conference will examine the transformation of traditional editorial practice into a digital environment and the creation of innovative opportunities like the use of digital tools and media. Scholars of any discipline related to editing texts and data nowadays have at their disposal almost limitless possibilities to present texts and data to the public. Traditionally reflection and practice show seemingly different approaches to textual scholarship and documentary editing of historical sources. The aim of this conference is to debate these topics and to strive for a common approach towards the challenges of publishing. Key concepts are heuristic, selection, representativeness and presentation to the user. The conference is organized by the European Society for Textual Scholarship (ESTS) and the Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands (Huygens ING), a Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences institute. For more information about appropriate subjects and practical details, please see http://www.textualscholarship.nl/?p=10313. More information about registration and possibilities of accommodation will be published soon on a conference website. --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 16:25:16 -0400 From: Julia Flanders Subject: Taking TEI Further: TEI Customization (deadline, April 1) The April 1 registration deadline is coming soon for: Taking TEI Further: TEI Customization Brown University, June 25-27, 2012 Application deadline: April 1, 2012 **Travel funding is available of up to $500 per participant, up to $1000 for graduate student participants.** These seminars assume a basic familiarity with TEI, and provide an opportunity to explore specific topics in more detail, in a collaborative workshop setting. These seminars are part of a series funded by the NEH and conducted by the Brown University Women Writers Project. They are aimed at people who are already involved in a text encoding project or are in the process of planning one, and are intended to provide a more in-depth look at specific challenges in using TEI data effectively. Each event will include a mix of presentations, discussion, case studies using participants' projects, hands-on practice, and individual consultation. The seminars will be strongly project-based: participants will present their projects to the group, discuss specific challenges and solutions, develop encoding specifications and documentation, and create sample materials (such as syllabi, docmentation, etc., as appropriate to the event). We encourage project teams and collaborative groups to apply, although individuals are also welcome. A basic knowledge of the TEI Guidelines and some prior experience with text encoding will be assumed. For more detailed information and to apply, please visit http://www.wwp.brown.edu/encoding/seminars/ http://www.wwp.brown.edu/outreach/seminars/seminar_list.html#ttf_customization 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 Mar 25 07:56:47 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id C171727530A; Sun, 25 Mar 2012 07:56:47 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 270582752F9; Sun, 25 Mar 2012 07:56:46 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20120325075646.270582752F9@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2012 07:56:46 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.843 recursive-reflective again X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 843. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 07:27:31 -0600 From: Allison Muri Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.837 recursive-reflective again Could something like "reflective coevolution" capture the process you= are describing? >From Wikipedia: In biology, coevolution is "the change of a biological object trigger ed by the change of a related object." Coevolution can occur at many biological levels: it can be as microscopic as correlated mutations between amino acids in a protein, or as macroscopic as covarying traits between different species in an environment. Each party in a coevolutionary relationship exerts selective pressures on the other, thereby affecting each other's evolution. -Allison Muri University of Saskatchewan _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Mar 25 07:57:23 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AD7D2753CE; Sun, 25 Mar 2012 07:57:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id BCAF3275339; Sun, 25 Mar 2012 07:57:21 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120325075721.BCAF3275339@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2012 07:57:21 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.844 interfaces and fingers X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 844. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2012 08:51:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Laval Hunsucker Subject: Interfaces and fingers In-Reply-To: <20120324073814.01D04258FDB@woodward.joyent.us> I just ran across an opinion piece by Eduard Kaeser ( a Swiss physics and philosophy teacher ) in the "Literatur und Kunst" section of today's Neue Zürcher Zeitung Online which I thought might well be interesting also to many a digital humanist. It's called "Intelligenz braucht Finger : Über die Haptik des Schreibens und das Schicksal des Körpers im digitalen Zeitalter" and can be found at http://www.nzz.ch/nachrichten/kultur/literatur_und_kunst/intelligenz_braucht_finger_1.16040351.html - Laval Hunsucker   Breukelen, Nederland   24 March 2012 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sun Mar 25 07:57:55 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5563A275404; Sun, 25 Mar 2012 07:57:55 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 816042753F3; Sun, 25 Mar 2012 07:57:53 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120325075753.816042753F3@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2012 07:57:53 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.845 events: TEI X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 845. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2012 07:56:57 +0100 From: "Pierazzo, Elena" Subject: TEI Conference and Members' Meeting - Call for workshops and tutorials Call for pre-conference workshop and tutorial proposals TEI and the C(r|l)o(w|u)d 2012 Annual Conference and Members’ Meeting of the TEI Consortium Texas A&M University, Initiative for Digital Humanities, Media, and Culture * Workshop proposals due Wed 15 May 2012 * Meeting dates: Wed 7 November to Sat 10 November, 2012 * Workshop dates: Mon 5 November to Wed 7 November, 2012 (see separate call) The TEI Conference and Members' Meeting will be preceded by educational tutorials or workshops. The goal of the tutorials is to give an opportunity to learn more about the use of TEI markup under the guidance of experienced instructors and practitioners, whereas workshops are an opportunity for specific groups to meet and work together on a TEI related subject. Workshops and tutorials range in length from a single morning or afternoon to a maximum of two days. Tutorials are run on a cost-recovery basis: a separate fee is charged of participants that is intended to cover the costs of running the tutorial. Workshops are expected to be free of charges. If you are interested in proposing either a workshop or a tutorial for the 2012 Members’ Meeting and Conference, please submit your proposal as early as possible and before 15 May 2012 via conftool, the availability of which will be announced shortly. Expressions of interest should include as much as possible of the following information (the committee is willing to work with proposers in developing their proposals): * A proposed topic * A rationale explaining why this topic is likely to draw sufficient attention to the TEI community * Preferred length of the event * Infrastructural requirements * (In the case of a tutorial) A proposed instructor or slate of instructors including brief discussion of relevant experience, as well as a preliminary budget of your anticipated costs (if any). * (In the case of a workshop) A core list of people who are likely to participate, keeping in mind that workshops are by essence open for participation Organisational and infrastructure costs (e.g. coffee breaks and the like) will be determined later in conjunction with the local organising committee. Tutorial proposals will be evaluated by the programme committee primarily on the basis of their likely appeal to the TEI community, the quality of the proposed instructors and method of instruction, and cost. The committee will work with selected organizers after this date to refine the details of their proposals. Please send queries to meeting@tei-c.org. For the International Programme Committee, Elena Pierazzo (chair) ------- Dr Elena Pierazzo Lecturer in Digital Humanities Chair of the Teaching Committee Department of Digital Humanities King's College London 26-29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL Phone: 0207-848-1949 Fax: 0207-848-2980 elena.pierazzo@kcl.ac.uk http://www.kcl.ac.uk/ddh _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Mar 26 06:00:35 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20714257D1E; Mon, 26 Mar 2012 06:00:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 4B2D2257D15; Mon, 26 Mar 2012 06:00:34 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120326060034.4B2D2257D15@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 06:00:34 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.846 recursive-reflective X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 846. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Martin Mueller (42) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.843 recursive-reflective again [2] From: Willard McCarty (30) Subject: co-evolution [3] From: Jascha Kessler (52) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.843 recursive-reflective again --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2012 11:49:32 +0000 From: Martin Mueller Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.843 recursive-reflective again In-Reply-To: <20120325075646.270582752F9@woodward.joyent.us> I wonder whether the simple 'iterative' doesn't describe the phenomenon well enough. You have a project, and you go through some routines. Yu need to do thing over again, but just as you never step into the same river twice, the iteration is different, both in terms of the data you work with and in terms of the tools you use and how you use them. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2012 15:10:32 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: co-evolution In-Reply-To: <20120325075646.270582752F9@woodward.joyent.us> Allison Muri's suggestion of "co-evolution" in Humanist 25.843 is, I think, the term I will use. As it happens this term has already been in circulation outside biology for quite some time. Bruce Mazlish used it in the subtitle of his 1993 book, The Fourth Discontinuity: The Co-Evolution of Humans and Machines, but as far as I can determine he does not discuss it, though he does talk about the metaphor of evolution. JoAnne Yates' 1993 article, “Co-Evolution of Information-Processing Technology and Use: Interaction between the Life Insurance and Tabulating Industries”, The Business History Review 67.1: 1-51, defines the term “to denote contemporaneous and interacting developments of a technology and its use…” (p 5 fn 9); she points to Joel Baum's and Jitendra Singh's 1994 collection, Evolutionary Dynamics of Organizations, Oxford: Oxford University Press. So, in the end, it was a matter of finding where the idea had started and in what fields it has surfaced. One aspect of it is very old and has to do with Doppelgängers, magic mirrors and the like; the literature in which one finds the ancient Greek katoptron and Latin speculum has plenty of this sort of thing. But the transformations that recur, if I remember correctly, are one-offs. I gather that this is what Käte Meyer-Drawe is up to in Menschen im Spiegel ihrer Maschinen (2007). I am dealing with a developmental process, however, and so the biological-ecological metaphor is just right. But I now wonder, did Stuart Brand discuss his use of the term in the Co-Evolution Quarterly? Many thanks to everyone who pondered this on my behalf. Yours, WM -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor (fractional), University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2012 12:33:19 -0700 From: Jascha Kessler Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.843 recursive-reflective again In-Reply-To: <20120325075646.270582752F9@woodward.joyent.us> Evolution as a "co-"? I have been under delusion or have been illuded to assume that organisms that remain unreflected, simply fall into nothingness. A few remain to be, say, more virulent or successful, thanks to a chance mutation that accept in certain amounts a new protein...? Ms Muri's hypothesis is hopeful in its take on processes. Evolution may not be all that positive, except that what lives has been successful forever, as it were. Jascha Kessler -- Jascha Kessler Professor of English & Modern Literature, UCLA Telephone/Facsimile: 310.393.4648 www.jfkessler.com www.xlibris.com _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Mar 26 06:01:18 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D37D257E34; Mon, 26 Mar 2012 06:01:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 2A598257E0C; Mon, 26 Mar 2012 06:01:16 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120326060116.2A598257E0C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 06:01:16 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.847 interfaces and fingers X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 847. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2012 11:05:15 +0000 From: Martin Mueller Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.844 interfaces and fingers In-Reply-To: <20120325075721.BCAF3275339@woodward.joyent.us> An excellent and charming piece in best tradition of a German Feuilleton. At the end it quotes the title of a Swiss book "Head and Hand: about the inseparability of man," which is not a bad summary of the whole thing. On 3/25/12 2:57 AM, "Humanist Discussion Group" wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 844. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2012 08:51:11 -0700 (PDT) > From: Laval Hunsucker > Subject: Interfaces and fingers > In-Reply-To: <20120324073814.01D04258FDB@woodward.joyent.us> > >I just ran across an opinion piece by Eduard Kaeser ( a Swiss >physics and philosophy teacher ) in the "Literatur und Kunst" >section of today's Neue Zürcher Zeitung Online which I thought >might well be interesting also to many a digital humanist. It's called >"Intelligenz braucht Finger : Über die Haptik des Schreibens und >das Schicksal des Körpers im digitalen Zeitalter" and can be found >at >http://www.nzz.ch/nachrchtenakultur/literatur_und_kunst/intelligenz_brauch >t_finger_1.16040351.html >cht_finger_1.16040351.html> > >- Laval Hunsucker > Breukelen, Nederland > 24 March 2012 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Mar 26 06:03:29 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C62E257EDD; Mon, 26 Mar 2012 06:03:29 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id C7728257EC8; Mon, 26 Mar 2012 06:03:27 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120326060327.C7728257EC8@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 06:03:27 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.848 events: DH2014; Day of DH; natural computing X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 848. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: GRLMC (60) Subject: TPNC 2012: 2nd call for papers [2] From: Neil Fraistat (30) Subject: centerNet's Day of DH [3] From: John Unsworth (18) Subject: call for proposals to host Digital Humanities 2014 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2012 11:37:35 +0100 From: GRLMC Subject: TPNC 2012: 2nd call for papers 2nd Call for Papers 1st INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF NATURAL COMPUTING TPNC 2012 Tarragona, Spain October 1-5, 2012 http://grammars.grlmc.com/tpnc2012/ ********************************************************************* AIMS: TPNC is the first event in a series to cover the wide spectrum of computational principles, models and techniques inspired by information processing in nature. TPNC 2012 will reserve significant room for young scholars at the beginning of their career. It aims at attracting contributions about nature-inspired models of computation, synthesizing nature by means of computation, nature-inspired materials, and information processing in nature. VENUE: TPNC 2012 will take place in Tarragona, less than 100 kms. to the south of Barcelona. SCOPE: Topics of either theoretical, experimental or applied interest include, but are not limited to: * Nature-inspired models of computation: - amorphous computing - cellular automata - chaos and dynamical systems based computing - evolutionary computing - membrane computing - neural computing - optical computing - swarm intelligence * Synthesizing nature by means of computation: - artificial chemistry - artificial immune systems - artificial life * Nature-inspired materials: - computing with DNA - nanocomputing - physarum computing - quantum computing and quantum information - reaction-diffusion computing * Information processing in nature: - developmental systems - fractal geometry - gene assembly in unicellular organisms - rough/fuzzy computing in nature - synthetic biology - systems biology * Applications of natural computing to: algorithms, bioinformatics, control, cryptography, design, economy, graphics, hardware, learning, logistics, optimization, pattern recognition, programming, robotics, telecommunications etc. A flexible "theory to/from practice" approach would be the perfect focus for the expected contributions. STRUCTURE: TPNC 2012 will consist of: ‐ invited talks ‐ invited tutorials ‐ peer‐reviewed contributions INVITED SPEAKERS: To be announced [...] FURTHER INFORMATION: florentinalilica.voicu@urv.cat POSTAL ADDRESS: TPNC 2012 Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC) Rovira i Virgili University Av. Catalunya, 35 43002 Tarragona, Spain Phone: +34‐977‐559543 Fax: +34‐977‐558386 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2012 11:03:56 -0400 From: Neil Fraistat Subject: centerNet's Day of DH PLEASE RECIRCULATE! Dear all, * * Here is a reminder that CenterNet's A Day in the Life of the Digital Humanities (Day of DH) is fast approaching. Please join us on Tuesday, March 27 for this important event. Day of DH is a project looking at a day in the work life of people involved in humanities computing. Every year it draws people from across the world together to document, with text and image, the events and activities of their day. The goal of the project is to weave together the journals of participants into a resource that seeks to answer, “Just what do computing humanists really do?" Please sign up for the project here: http://dayofdh2012.artsrn.ualberta.ca/register/ More detailed information about the project, as well as links to the blogs that have been created over the past three years is available here: http://tapor.ualberta.ca/taporwiki/index.php/Day_in_the_Life_of_the_Digital_Humanities_2012 The twitter hashtag is #dayofdh Best, Neil -- Neil Fraistat Professor of English & Director Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) University of Maryland 301-405-5896 or 301-314-7111 (fax) http://www.mith.umd.edu/ http://twitter.com/ fraistat --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 15:17:12 +1100 From: John Unsworth Subject: call for proposals to host Digital Humanities 2014 Call for proposals to host Digital Humanities 2014 (please share with those you think might be interested) Digital Humanities (DH) is the annual international conference of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organisations (AHDO), whose constituent organisations are the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC), the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH), the Society for Digital Humanities/Société pour l'étude des médias interactifs (SDH-SEMI) and, most recently, the Australasian Association for Digital Humanities. The next DH conference will be at Hamburg University in Germany, July 16-22. 2012 (http://www.dh2012.uni-hamburg.de/). DH2013 will be held at the University of Nebraska. The committees of DH and its constituent organizations now invite proposals to host DH in 2014. Digital Humanities aspires to be a global organization, and so it moves the conference to different parts of the world in different years. Traditionally, the conference has alternated between North America and Europe, and it will be held in the United States in 2013, so we are particularly interested in proposals from outside the U.S. for 2014. Those proposals could be for hosting the conference in Europe, but also in Asia, Australia, or other areas where there are developed or developing Digital Humanities communities or organizations. In any case, the local organizer must be a member of one of the ADHO constituent organizations (ALLC, ACH or SDH/SEMI, aa-DH). The conference normally attracts 300-500 attendees with 3-4 days of papers and posters. There are normally 3-5 parallel sessions per time slot, and a small number of plenary presentations. Meetings of the committees of the constituent organizations precede the conference, and lunchtime slots are normally used for member meetings of constituent organizations. The academic programme is selected and planned by an international Programme Committee appointed by ADHO constituent organizations. The local organizer at the host institution is responsible for the conference web site, provision of facilities, the production of a book of abstracts, a conference banquet, and any other social events that the local host thinks would be appropriate. The conference is entirely self-financed through conference fees and any other financial contributions that the local organizer is able to arrange. ADHO expects no payment from the local host in the event that the conference makes a profit, but no financial support is provided for the conference by ADHO or its constituent organizations, except in relation to the recipient of ADHO awards, such as named prizes or bursaries, and a modest incentive to ensure that the membership status of registrants is validated by the local host. In consultation with the Program Committee, the local organizer may invite other plenary speakers whose travel, subsistence and registration must be funded from the conference budget. The local organizer is expected to set (and verify) three levels of fees: members of ADHO constituent organizations, non-members, and students. The difference between the fee levels for members and non-members should be no less than the cost of an individual subscription to ADHO's main print journal, Literary and Linguistic Computing, because subscription to the journal is what qualifies an individual for the member rate. ADHO uses the conference management system Conftool, and the ADHO Conference Coordinating Committee provides support for this system, including access to data from previous conferences. Local organizers are required to use the Conftool system for registering participants, including participants in special events such as the banquet, but actual credit card payments are often processed outside Conftool, by the local organizer. Proposals should include * overview of facilities at the host institution * overview of local institutional engagement and support for the local organizer * possible arrangements for social events, to include the conference banquet * options for accommodation (with provisional costs) * travel information and advice * a provisional budget, with a provisional registration fee * options for payment (credit card, foreign currency etc) by participants Proposers must be prepared to give a short presentation and to answer questions at the ADHO Steering Committee meeting at the DH2012 conference in Hamburg, Germany, on July 15th, 2012, and at the meetings of constituent organizations on July 16, 2012. Budgets and other information about past conferences can be made available on request, for planning purposes. For further information, proposers are invited to discuss their plans informally with the Chair of the ADHO Conference Co-ordinating Committee, John Unsworth (unsworth@brandeis.edu). Proposals should be shared in draft form with the Chair by the end of May. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Mar 27 05:06:01 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DFA0276110; Tue, 27 Mar 2012 05:06:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id ADF3B2760F9; Tue, 27 Mar 2012 05:05:58 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120327050558.ADF3B2760F9@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 05:05:58 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.849 jobs at UCL X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 849. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 13:41:56 +0000 From: "Warwick, Claire" Subject: Lectureships at UCL Dear humanists, This is just a reminder of two academic jobs that we are currently advertising at UCL Department of Information Studies - the home Department for UCL Centre for Digital humanities. One is a Senior Lectureship in Publishing and the other a Lectureship in Archives and Records Management. I thought it was important to draw these to your attention, because although at first glance they don't seem to be relevant to digital humanities, in fact we are very interested in applicants who work on the digital aspects of both of these areas. As we are all very well aware, publishing is now almost completely reliant on things digital and the whole issue of archiving, preserving, and curating digital data is becoming ever more important. Details can be found at http://www.ucl.ac.uk/infostudies/kerstin-michaels/vacancies/. Please do contact me, though, if you would like to make an informal enquiry about either post. The closing dates are relatively soon, however we may be able to be flexible for outstanding candidates. Best wishes, Claire ****************************************** Professor Claire Warwick MA, MPhil, PhD Head: UCL Department of Information Studies Director: UCL Centre for Digital Humanities Vice Dean Research: Faculty of Arts and Humanities University College London Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT phone: 020 7679 2548, email: c.warwick@ucl.ac.uk websites: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/dh http://www.ucl.ac.uk/dis _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Mar 27 05:06:44 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A72D276684; Tue, 27 Mar 2012 05:06:44 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A787A276192; Tue, 27 Mar 2012 05:06:42 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120327050642.A787A276192@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 05:06:42 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.850 classifying grammatical structures? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 850. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 17:08:48 +0100 From: Tom Salyers Subject: Classifying grammatical structures? Dear Humanist, I'm in the middle of a thesis involving computational stylistics and authorship attribution, and the method I'm attempting to use is based on the distribution of the grammatical structures of sentences in the texts. The problem I've got at the moment is how to collect and enumerate a number of structures that's large enough to allow for classification of my data, but small enough that individual structures will still have statistical significance, given how modular English can be. For example, say that there are two sentences in my corpus that are grammatically structurally identical except Sentence A has one adjective ("The black cat slept") and Sentence B has two ("The old decrepit house collapsed"). Should I count them as two distinct types, or put them in one category labeled something like "Determiner + non-zero number of adjectives + noun + verb"? Does anyone have any recommendations for papers or books by anyone who's done this sort of structural classification? My own searches aren't turning up much, but it's entirely possible I'm not using the right keywords. Any and all advice is appreciated. Thanks in advance! -- Tom Salyers _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Mar 27 05:10:14 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25B1527688F; Tue, 27 Mar 2012 05:10:14 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 4979E27686F; Tue, 27 Mar 2012 05:10:01 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120327051003.4979E27686F@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 05:10:01 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.851 call for chapters: Emerging Software X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 851. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 04:57:58 +0000 From: Willard Mccarty Subject: call for chapters: Emerging Software for Interactive Interfaces, Database, Computer Graphics and Animation In-Reply-To: <20120326235339.19155.qmail@webmaildh4.aruba.it> Call for Short Chapters Deadline 27 April 2012 -------------------- On an Edited Handbook to be Published by Blue Herons Editions (Human-Computer Interaction collection) in May 2012 Title: "Emerging Software for Interactive Interfaces, Database, Computer Graphics and Animation: Pixels and the New Excellence in Communicability, Cloud Computing and Augmented Reality" http://www.blueherons.net/home_en_9.html The proposal is expected to be 2 - 4 pages, submitted in .doc or .pdf format, composed of title, author(s) (name, affiliation, phone number, and e-mail address), extended abstract (background, related work, principal contributions, references and so on), table of contents, and contact author/s. :: All contributions should be of high originality, quality, clarity, significance, impact and not published elsewhere or submitted for publication during the review period. Main areas are solicited on, but not limited to: :: 2D and 3D Computer Graphics :: 3D Scanning :: Advances in Programming Languages and Techniques :: Artificial Intelligence :: Artificial Life :: Audio-visual Communication :: Augmented Reality :: Behaviour Computer Animation :: Biometrics Techniques :: Cartography Digital :: Cinema 3D :: Cloud Computing :: Coherence in Ray Tracing :: Color Mapping, Imaging, Illumination and Texture Mapping in Computer Graphics :: Communicability :: Compression Methods of the Dynamic and Static Media Databases :: Computer Animation :: Computer Art :: Computer-Aided Design – CAD :: Computer-Aided Education – CAE :: Computer-Aided Manufacturing – CAM :: Cross-Cultural Interfaces :: Data Mining and Machine Learning :: Data Mining Tools and Software :: Digital Imaging for Film and TV :: Digital Libraries and Digital Image Collections :: Digital Sound :: Digital Typography :: Distributed Multimedia :: Dynamic and Static Information for Scientific Visualization :: E-entertainment :: Efficiency and Complexity Issues in Graphics Algorithms :: Emerging Audio-Visual Layout and Content :: Emotional Design :: Engines for Graphics and Virtual Reality :: Ergonomics :: Face, Voice and Signature Recognition Systems for Security :: Finite Element Methods in Graphics :: Flow Visualization :: Forward Ray Tracing :: Fractals and Chaos: Theory and Experiments :: Fundamentals of Human Perception :: Geographical Information Systems – GIS :: Geometric and Volume Modelling in Computer Graphics :: Graph Theory in Image Processing and Vision :: Graphics Optimization Techniques :: Holographic Displays and Interaction :: Human and Social Factors in Computer Science :: Human Perception and Graphics :: Human-Computer Communication – HCC :: Human-Computer Interaction – HCI :: Hyperbase and Compression Methods of the Information :: Hypermedia Sensory Interfaces and Smart Environments :: Illumination Techniques and Reflectance Modeling :: Illustration and Photography Digital :: Image Generation, Acquisition and Processing :: Image Restoration for Cultural and Natural Heritage :: Image Based Modeling and Algorithms :: Immersive Multimedia and Virtual Reality :: Indexing and Search of Multimedia Data :: Industrial Design and Simulation :: Integration of Virtual Reality in Hypermedia Systems :: Intelligent Graphics :: Intelligent User Interface :: Interaction Paradigms and Human Factors :: Interactive Design :: Interactive Geometric Processing :: Interactive Systems and Intelligent Agents :: Textual Information: Discursive Analysis :: Knowledge Acquisition and Representation :: Machine Learning Technologies for Vision :: Massively Multiplayer Games :: Mixed Reality :: Mobile and Ubiquitous Games :: Modeling Natural Phenomena :: Modeling Non-rigid Objects :: Molecular Graphics :: Morphing :: Motion Capture :: Multimedia Immersive Networked Environments :: Multimodal Interfaces :: Music and Audio Processing for Hypermedia On-line and Off-line :: Natural Phenomena and Computer Graphics Emulation :: Non-Photorealistic Rendering :: Object-Oriented Graphics :: Open-Source Software :: Particle Systems :: Perceptual Based Techniques in Computer Vision, Graphics and Imaging :: Perceptual Quality in Image :: Pervasive Software Engineering :: Procedural Modelling :: Quality Attributes and Metrics for Communicability :: Radiosity :: Realtime Video Processing Applied to Games :: Real-World Deployment Experience of Multimedia Distribution Platforms :: Rendering Methods :: Scientific visualization :: Secure Databases and Computer Graphics Applications :: Semiotics in Computing :: Shape Analysis :: Simulation and Emulation in Virtual Reality :: Social Impact of Art and Culture in Interactive Design :: Software Security Engineering :: Software Tools for Computer Graphics :: Special Effects :: Speech and Natural Language Interfaces :: Stereo Vision :: Surface Appearance, Formation and Enhancement :: Technologies and Applications Emerging for Microinformatics Systems :: Texture Mapping :: Three-dimensional Reconstruction for Cultural Heritage :: Three-dimensional Software Accelerators for Games on the Internet :: Three-dimensional Television :: Touch Interfaces :: Ubiquitous Computing :: Usability of New Technologies :: User-Centered Design :: Video Games :: Virtual Actors :: Virtual Reality :: Virtual World Creation for Real Simulation, Education and Entertainment :: Visual Effects and Computer-Generated Imagery :: Visualization Tools and Systems for Simulation and Modeling :: Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 :: Web TV :: Wireless and Mobile Computer Science Main editor: Francisco V. Cipolla-Ficarra, PhD Editorial assistants: Emma Nicol (Glasgow, UK), Mary Brie (La Valletta, Malta), and Doris Edison (Vancouver, Canada) Important Dates (new deadline): :: Full Chapter Submission Deadline: Friday, 27th April 2012 :: Planned Publishing Date: May 2012 P.S. 1) In case you are not interested for this handbook, we would be grateful if you can pass on this information/email to another interested person you see fit (thanks a lot). 2) Our apologies once again for the people with send us a email with “remove” and maybe had received this email. If you wish to be removed from this mailing list, please send an email to info[at]blueherons.net with “remove” in the subject line. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Mar 27 05:14:38 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9D5E276951; Tue, 27 Mar 2012 05:14:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 3903D276941; Tue, 27 Mar 2012 05:14:37 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120327051437.3903D276941@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 05:14:37 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.852 events: New Directions in the Humanities X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 852. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 08:58:03 +0900 From: Charles Muller Subject: New Directions in the Humanities, 14-16 June 2012 In-Reply-To: <05b9e862c2d8d172a2aea9cdb7e5a255.squirrel@mail.h-net.msu.edu> Dear Colleague, On behalf of the international Advisory Board, we would like to inform you of the: TENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NEW DIRECTIONS IN THE HUMANITIES Centre-Mont Royal, Montreal, Canada 14-16 June 2012 http://www.TheHumanities.com/Conference/ We are pleased to announce the Call-for-Papers for the Tenth International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities. The conference and its companion journal provide vibrant, intellectually stimulating spaces for scholars from all geographic and disciplinary areas to learn, converse, and create. The aim is to generate new knowledge about the nature of the humanities, building strongly on the past traditions of the humanities while setting a renewed agenda for the future. Plenary speakers, who will address our special theme 'Looking Forward: Humanities for the Future', include: * Diana Brydon - Canada Research Chair in Globalization and Cultural Studies; Director of the Research Centre for Globalization and Cultural Studies, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada * Jean-Claude Guedon, Department of Comparative Literature, University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada * Donna Palmateer Pennee - Dean, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Western Ontario (Western University), London, Canada * Stefan Sinclair, Digital Humanities, McGill University, Montreal, Canada The Humanities Conference is held annually in different locations around the world. Over the past nine years, the Humanities Conference has established a reputation as a focal point for new ideas and new practices in humanities research and teaching. The conference was held at the Universidad de Granada, Spain in 2011; at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA in 2010; in Beijing, China in 2009; at the Fatih University, Istanbul, Turkey in 2008; at the American University of Paris in 2007; at the University of Carthage in Tunis in 2006; at Cambridge University in the UK in 2005; at the Monash University Centre in Prato, Italy in 2004; and at the University of the Aegean in Rhodes, Greece in 2003. In addition to plenary speakers, the conference will also include numerous paper, workshop and colloquium presentations by practitioners, teachers and researchers. We invite you to respond to the conference Call-for-Papers. Presenters may choose to submit written papers for publication in The International Journal of the Humanities. If you are unable to attend the conference in person, virtual registrations are also available, which allow you to submit a paper for refereeing and possible publication in the journal. Whether you are a virtual or in-person presenter at this conference, we also encourage you to present on the Humanities YouTube playlist. Please select the Online Sessions link on the conference website for further details. Additionally, please join our online conversation by subscribing to our monthly email newsletter and subscribing to our Facebook, RSS, or Twitter feeds at http://www.TheHumanities.com/ . The deadline for the next round in the call for papers (a title and short abstract) is 5 April 2012. Future deadlines will be announced on the conference website after this date. Proposals are reviewed within two weeks of submission. Full details of the conference, including an online proposal submission form, may be found on the conference website at http://www.TheHumanities.com/Conference/ . Submissions are also open for Spanish language proposals and presentations. We look forward to receiving your proposal and hope you will be able to join us in Montreal this June. Yours Sincerely, Tom Nairn Globalism Institute, RMIT University Melbourne, Australia For the Advisory Board, International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities and International Journal of the Humanities _______________________________________ Costica Bradatan, PhD Assistant Professor Texas Tech University The Honors College PO Box 41017 Lubbock, TX 79409 http://www.webpages.ttu.edu/cbradata _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Mar 27 05:32:46 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82252275544; Tue, 27 Mar 2012 05:32:46 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 30F4C27540C; Tue, 27 Mar 2012 05:32:44 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120327053244.30F4C27540C@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 05:32:44 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.853 new track, MA in Liberal Studies, CUNY Graduate Center X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 853. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 01:18:11 -0400 From: "Matthew K. Gold" Subject: New degree program: Digital Humanities track in the M.A. in LiberalStudies Program, CUNY Graduate Center (NYC) MALS Track in Digital Humanities, CUNY Graduate Center http://liberalstudies.gc.cuny.edu/digital-humanities-mals-track-description The digital humanities is an emerging field of scholarly endeavor that has come into prominence in recent years. Defined broadly as the application of digital technologies to humanities scholarship and teaching, the digital humanities involves a range of approaches that include algorithmic literary criticism, new models of “distant reading,” the use of network theory to examine historical events, the digital encoding and analysis of archival manuscripts, the incorporation of geospatial data into scholarly projects, the uses of social media and networked platforms to enhance classroom instruction, among others. The field, as a whole, explores the ways in which traditional scholarly activities are being reshaped by the new methodologies made possible through data-driven inquiry. The two core courses in the DH track introduce students to broad trends in DH scholarship and give them practical experience in using DH methods and tools. This mix of theoretically informed analysis with hands-on practice reflects the popular sentiment that DH is, at least in part, about building. After taking the two core courses in the track and the introductory MALS course, students will be able to pursue deeper knowledge through doctoral courses in a particular humanities discipline. In their thesis projects, students will take advantage of this mix of specialized discipline-specific knowledge and research methodologies to create projects that will be of value to the larger digital humanities community. The MALS track in digital humanities builds upon already-existing digital humanities projects at the CUNY Graduate Center, including the CUNY Digital Humanities Initiative, the CUNY Academic Commons, the Interactive Technology and Pedagogy Certificate Program, the New Media Lab, and the American Social History Project. By allowing MALS students to explore both digital humanities methodologies and to apply those methodologies to a humanities field of their choosing, the track enables graduates to apply for a broad range of jobs upon graduation. For more information, please visit our website: http://liberalstudies.gc.cuny.edu/digital-humanities-mals-track-description -- Matthew K. Gold, Ph.D. Advisor to the Provost for Master's Programs & Digital Initiatives, CUNY Graduate Center Assistant Professor of English, City Tech | Interactive Technology & Pedagogy Program, CUNY Graduate Center Director, CUNY Academic Commons | mkgold.net | @mkgold _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Mar 28 05:24:15 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68A752751F4; Wed, 28 Mar 2012 05:24:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 883A32751E2; Wed, 28 Mar 2012 05:24:14 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120328052414.883A32751E2@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 05:24:14 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.854 classifying grammatical structures X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 854. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 21:33:40 +0200 From: "Center for Comparative Studies" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.850 classifying grammatical structures? Dear Tom, some suggestions for your issue could be found in the Instructions for the Linguistical Annotations of the Prague Dependency Treebank http://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/pdt2.0/doc/manuals/en/a-layer/html/index.html , used also by other projects. Best wishes Francesco Stella ----- Original Message ----- From: "Humanist Discussion Group" To: Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2012 7:06 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 Wed Mar 28 05:25:30 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD3C02752B0; Wed, 28 Mar 2012 05:25:30 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 3AAD62752A0; Wed, 28 Mar 2012 05:25:29 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120328052529.3AAD62752A0@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 05:25:29 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.855 Sheila Anderson and CeRCH X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 855. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 20:58:54 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Sheila Anderson and CeRCH The Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, is delighted to announce that Sheila Anderson, Director of the Centre or e-Research (CeRCH) at the College, has been awarded a personal chair, becoming Professor of e-Research, in recognition of her exceptional vision and leadership in successfully building up the Centre. CeRCH has recently merged with the Department; for more on the merger see http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/ddh/news/items/cerch-ddh.aspx. Professor Andrew Prescott Head of Department Department of Digital Humanities King's College London 26-29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL +44 (0)20 7848 2651 www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/ddh -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor (fractional), University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Wed Mar 28 05:42:47 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 080FD27574E; Wed, 28 Mar 2012 05:42:47 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id BF166275739; Wed, 28 Mar 2012 05:42:44 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120328054244.BF166275739@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 05:42:44 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.856 events: consciousness; corpora; new media; 16C; law X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 856. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Alexandra Franklin (28) Subject: Law and technology: Annual Marconi Lecture [2] From: Charles Ess (28) Subject: Registration for CATaC'12 is now open [3] From: Passarotti Marco Carlo (12) Subject: ACRH-2: First Call for Papers [4] From: Diane Jakacki (12) Subject: CFP: Sixteenth Century Studies and New Technologies [5] From: Stevan Harnad (116) Subject: Turing Memorial Summer Institute on Evolution and Function of Consciousness --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 07:43:59 +0100 From: Alexandra Franklin Subject: Law and technology: Annual Marconi Lecture Friday, 11 May, 2012 Owning and Disowning Wireless: Inventions, Experts and the Law Courts, 1890s-1920s Efstathios Arapostathis (University of Athens) The Annual Douglas Byrne Marconi Lecture 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm Museum of the History of Science, Broad Street, Oxford http://www.mhs.ox.ac.uk/ All welcome. Information: bookcentre@bodleian.ox.ac.uk In 2011 Dr Arapostathis was holder of the Douglas Byrne Marconi Fellowship http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowships.htm at the Bodleian Libraries and the Museum of the History of Science. During his research in the Marconi Archives he studied the management of disputed patents in the wireless industry in the early 20th century. Dr. Alexandra Franklin Project Coordinator Centre for the Study of the Book Bodleian Library Oxford OX 1 3BG tel. (01865) 277006 alexandra.franklin@bodleian.ox.ac.uk www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/csb http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/csb --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 10:12:39 +0200 From: Charles Ess Subject: Registration for CATaC'12 is now open Dear Humanists, Registration for CATaC'12 - to take place at Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, this coming June 18-20 - is now open on the conference website: http://www.catacconference.org/ On the right side of the page is an Index, underneath which you'll find the link to registration. As a reminder: because of several large conferences taking place during this time in Aarhus, accommodation space is quite limited. We encourage anyone who is considering attending to go ahead and book accommodations now (following the guidance on the "Accommodation Options" page (also linked from the Index); they can be cancelled later on without penalty if you change your plans (though the specifics regarding cancellation deadlines will vary, of course - please look carefully at the relevant site). We look forward to welcoming you to Aarhus, "the city of smiles," this coming June. On behalf of the organizing committee, Charles ess (Media Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark), Chair Fay Sudweeks (Professor Emerita, Murdoch University, Australia), honorary chair Herbert Hrachovec (University of Vienna, Austria) Leah Macfadyen (University of British Columbia, Canada) Jose Abdelnour Nocera (University of West London, UK) Kenneth Reeder (University of British Columbia, Canada) Ylva Hård af Segerstad (Gothenburg University, Gothenburg, Sweden) Michele M. Strano (Bridgewater College, Virginia, USA) Andra Siibak (University of Tartu, Estonia) Maja van der Velden (University of Oslo) --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 17:28:08 +0200 From: Passarotti Marco Carlo Subject: ACRH-2: First Call for Papers The second Workshop on Annotation of Corpora for Research in the Humanities ACRH-2 will take place in Lisbon, Portugal on November 29 2012, and is hosted by CLUL at the university of Lisbon. ----- Deadline for Paper submission: September 2, 2012 Notification of acceptance: October 7, 2012 Camera-ready paper submission: October 28, 2012 Conference Registration deadline: October 31, 2012 ----- The workshop aims at building a tighter collaboration between people working in various areas of the Humanities (such as literature, philology, history etc.) and the research community involved in developing, using and making annotated corpora accessible. Addressing topics related to annotated corpora for research in the Humanities is an interdisciplinary task, which involves corpus and computational linguists (mostly those working in literary computing), philologists, scholars in the Humanities and computer scientists. However, this interdisciplinarity is not fully realised yet. Indeed, philologists and scholars are not used to exploit NLP tools and language resources such as annotated corpora; in turn, computational linguists are more prone to develop language resources for NLP purposes only. [For more information and useful links see http://alfclul.clul.ul.pt/crpc/acrh2/] --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 17:08:50 +0100 From: Diane Jakacki Subject: CFP: Sixteenth Century Studies and New Technologies Sixteenth Century Studies and New Technologies (SCSC Cincinnati Conference, 25-28 October 2012) Since 2001, William Bowen and Ray Siemens have organized conference sessions that document innovative ways in which computing technology is being incorporated into the scholarly activity of our community. They also co-edit a publication series entitled New Technologies in Medieval and Renaissance Studies. The 3rd and 4th volumes of the NTMRS, published by Iter and Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, will be coming out this year. At the 2012 SCSC meeting (25-28 October), we will continue to pursue this interest across several key projects, through a number of thematic touchstones, and in several emerging areas. For these sessions, we seek proposals in the following general areas, and beyond: a) New technology and research (individual or group projects) b) New technology and teaching (individual or group projects) c) New technology and publication (e.g. from the vantage point of authors, traditional and non-traditional publishers) We invite proposals of 200-300 words for papers, panels, demonstrations, and/or workshop presentations that focus on these issues. Please send proposals before April 10 to @diane.jakacki@lcc.gatech.edu. Through the support of Iter, we are pleased to be able to offer travel subventions on a competitive basis to graduate students who present on these panels. Those wishing to be considered for a subvention should indicate this in their abstract submission. For details of the SCSC conference see http://www.sixteenthcentury.org/conference.shtml. William R Bowen, University of Toronto Scarborough Ray Siemens, University of Victoria Diane Jakacki, Georgia Institute of Technology --[5]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 15:41:10 +0100 From: Stevan Harnad Subject: Turing Memorial Summer Institute on Evolution and Function of Consciousness Summer Institute June 29 - July 11 on: The Evolution and Function of Consciousness http://www.summer12.isc.uqam.ca/page/renseignement.php?lang_id=2 Among the 54 lecturers: Dennett, Damasio, Searle, Ledoux, Edelman, Baron-Cohen...) In Commemoration of the Centenary of the birth of Alan Turing Theme: When, where, how and why - since the origin of life on Earth about 4 billion years ago - did organisms' input/output functions become conscious input/output functions? What is the causal role of consciousness? Registration is open Scholarships are available Posters submissions are open (and a requirement for scholarships) Place: Montreal, Canada (Institute of Cognitive Sciences, UQaM) Dates: June 29 to July 11, 2012 (followed by an optional 2-day practical workshop on imaging techniques for measuring consciousness July 10-11) The Institute is intended for: Graduate and post-graduate students from the participating disciplines: cognitive science, neuroscience, evolutionary biology, artificial intelligence, robotics, psychology, philosophy Faculty, scholars, engineers, and professionals from interested disciplines. Themes: Felt Function Turing Testing Know-how High-Level Know-How What's Feeling for? Feelings and Firing Doing Things Because You Feel Like It Consciousness and Causality Evolutionary Advantages of Felt Functions Measuring Consciousness (Satellite Workshop on Measuring Consciousness) OPENING LECTURES: DAN DENNETT - A Phenomenal Confusion About Access and Consciousness ANTONIO DAMASIO - Feelings and Sentience JACK COPELAND - Alan Turing: Code Breaker and AI Pioneer MARK MITTON - (Surprise) CLOSING LECTURE: JOHN SEARLE - Consciousness and Causality CAMPBELL, JOHN - What does Visual Experience Have to do with Visual Science? JOSEPH LEDOUX - The Perplexing Relationship Between Emotions and Consciousness WOLF SINGER - Consciousness: Unity in Time Rather Than Space? DAVID ROSENTHAL - Does Consciousness Have any Utility? STEVAN HARNAD - How and Why the Problem of Explaining the Causal Role of Consciousness is Hard JORGE ARMONY - Neural Bases of Emotion INMAN HARVEY - No Hard Feeling Why Would An Evolved Robot Care? AXEL CLEERMANS - Consciousness and Learning PATRICK HAGGARD - Volition and Agency: What is it, and What is it For? ERIK COOK - Are Neural Fluctuations in Cortex Causally Linked to Visual Perception? GREGORY DUDEK - Autonomous Robotics FERNANDO CERVERO - Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms of Pain DAVID FREEDMAN - Brain Mechanisms of Visual Categorization and Decision-Making BJORN BREMBS - Behavoral Freedom and Decision- Making in Flies: Evolutionary precursor of "Free Will"? BJORN MERKER - The Brain's Need for Sensory Consciousness: From Probabilities to Estimates SHIMON EDELMAN - Being in Time DARIO FLOREANO - Evolution of Adaptive Behavior in Autonomous Robots PHILLIP JACKSON - The Brain Response to the Pain of Others: Fleeing Versus Caring JULIO MARTINEZ - Voluntary Attention and Working Memory in The Primate Bain: Recording from Single Cells BERNARD BAARS - Psycho-Biological Risks/Benefits of Consciousness MICHAEL GRAZIANO - Consciousness and the Attention Schema CHRISTOPHER PACK - Neural Correlates of Consciousness in Primate Cortex WAYNE SOSSIN - Aplysia: If we Understand the Cellular Mechanisms Underlying Sensation and Learning, What Do we Need Consciousness for? ROY BAUMEISTER - The Why, What and How of Consciousness KARIM NADER - Fear and Motivational Memory CATHERINE TALLON-BAUDRY - Is Consciousness an Executive Function? DAVID EDELMAN - Studying Consciousness in Cephalopods MICHAEL SHADLEN - Consciousness as a Decision to Engage BARBARA FINLAY - Continuities/Discontinuities in Vertebrate Brain Evolution and Cognitive Capacities: Implications for Concsiousness ? SIMON BARON-COHEN - Mind Reading ALAIN PTITO - Neural Mechanisms of Blindsight after Hemispherectomy: Tapping into the Unconscious ALFRED MELE - Do Conscious Decisions Ever Play a Role in Action Production STEFANO MANCUSO - Evolution of Plant Intelligence GUALTIERO PICCININI - Is Consciousness a Spandrel? AMIR SHMUEL - Functional Neuro-Imaging: Neuroshysiological Mechanisms of Hemodynamic GARY COMSTOCK - Feeling Matters HAKWAN LAU - Volition and the Function of Consciousness DAVID JACOBS - Evolution of Sense Organs LUIZ PESSOA - Cognitive-Emotional Interactions GILLES PLOURDE - General Anesthetics for the Study Consciousness EZEQUIEL MORSELLA - The Primary Function of Consciousness in the Brain MARK BALAGUER - A Scientifically Reputable Version of Indeterministic Libertarian Free Will AMIR RAZ - Hypnosis as Experimental Tool to Study Metacognition, Causality and Volition MALCOLM MACIVER - Sensory and Motor Spaces and the Emergence of Multiple Futures JENNIFER MATHER - Evolutionary Pressures and Cephalopod Consciousness ADRIAN WARD - The Feeling of Willing PAUL CISEK - The Vanishing Central Executive: Distributed Neural Mechanisms for Decision-Making EVA JABLONKA - Evolutionary Origins of Experiencing CLOSING LECTURE: JOHN SEARLE - Consciousness and Causality OPTIONAL WORKSHOP July 10th, am: Functional Connectivity July 10th, pm: Transcranial Stimulation July 11th, am: Sleep and Dreams July 11th, pm: Magnetoencephalography http://www.summer12.isc.uqam.ca/page/intro.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 Mar 29 05:19:17 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9332527966B; Thu, 29 Mar 2012 05:19:17 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id CCC8B279661; Thu, 29 Mar 2012 05:19:15 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120329051915.CCC8B279661@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 05:19:15 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.857 research fellowships X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 857. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 17:12:03 +0100 From: Shawn Day Subject: Marsh Library Research Fellowships Available Research Fellowships for 2012, 2013, and 2014 Marsh’s Library in Dublin announces its programme of Research Fellowships for 2012, 2013, and 2014. The Library is located in the heart of Dublin, and houses important collections of early-modern (1450-1800) Irish, British, and European books and manuscripts. It also contains items of significant interest to scholars of the medieval period. Scholars are invited to apply for Research Fellowships of between one month and three months at any point between 1 June 2012 and 30 September 2014. Successful applicants will receive a stipend of €2,000 per fellowship month. For terms and conditions, and details of how to apply, go towww.marshlibrary.ie/research/fellowships ____________ Dr Jason McElligott The Keeper Marsh's Library St Patrick's Close Dublin 8 Ireland _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Mar 29 05:19:54 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20AB72796A0; Thu, 29 Mar 2012 05:19:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 54C96279690; Thu, 29 Mar 2012 05:19:52 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120329051952.54C96279690@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 05:19:52 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.858 digital humanities and diversity? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 858. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 16:11:45 +0800 From: Arianna Ciula Subject: Who are you, Digital Humanists? The Centre for Open Publishing (Cleo) and openEdition.org have launched a (multilingual) survey on digital humanities and diversity. Please disseminate this link! https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?pli=1&formkey=dG9vVGJTeERuOUtCdVFRRVZQQWp6Nmc6MQ # gid = 0 Best, Arianna Ciula _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Mar 29 05:20:50 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A8FA2796F5; Thu, 29 Mar 2012 05:20:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0A3AC2796ED; Thu, 29 Mar 2012 05:20:49 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120329052049.0A3AC2796ED@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 05:20:49 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.859 call for essays: Scholarly Editing 2013 X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 859. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 10:07:16 -0500 From: Andrew Jewell Subject: Reminder: Essays for Scholarly Editing This is just a brief reminder that there is still time if you wish to submit to *Scholarly Editing: The Annual of the Association for Documentary Editing* for the 2013 issue. We will continue to receive submissions for essays on the theory and practice of scholarly editing until *April 15, 2012 *. Please see the full call for papers below. Thanks, Amanda Gailey and Andrew Jewell Co-editors, *Scholarly Editing: The Annual of the Association for Documentary Editing *(www.scholarlyediting.org) Essays Scholarly Editing welcomes submissions of articles discussing any aspect of the theory or practice of editing, print or digital. Please send submissions via email to the editors and include the following information in the body of your email: 1) Names, contact information, and institutional affiliations of all authors; 2) Title of the article; and 3) Filename of article. Please omit all identifying information from the article itself. Send proposals as Rich Text Format (RTF), MS Word, or PDF; if you wish to include image files or other addenda, please send all as a single zip archive. For questions of style and citation format, please consult the current edition of The Chicago Manual of Style. Submissions must be received by April 1, 2012, for consideration for the 2013 issue. Please, no simultaneous submissions. Feel free to contact us if you have questions. Amanda Gailey Department of English Center for Digital Research in the Humanities University of Nebraska-Lincoln agailey2@unlnotes.unl.edu Andrew Jewell University Libraries Center for Digital Research in the Humanities University of Nebraska-Lincoln ajewell2@unl.edu _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Mar 29 05:23:03 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20C2E2797A6; Thu, 29 Mar 2012 05:23:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id A6775279794; Thu, 29 Mar 2012 05:23:00 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120329052300.A6775279794@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 05:23:00 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.860 events: textual studies; museums X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 860. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: info@museumsandtheweb.com (22) Subject: Museums and the Web 2012 Just in Time registration and hotel discount is expiring [2] From: "Allison, Jonathan" (11) Subject: cfp: Textual Studies: SAMLA CONVENTION, 9-11 November 2012 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 01:10:41 -0700 From: info@museumsandtheweb.com Subject: Museums and the Web 2012 Just in Time registration and hotel discount is expiring Escape to sunny San Diego while joining your favorite museum people from around the world for the largest international conference devoted to the exploration of art, science, natural and cultural heritage online. More than 200 presenters from 30 countries giving workshops, sessions, and demonstrations that will keep you current on cultural technology. Museums and the Web 2012 April 11-14 Save $100 with Just in Time registration when you register for Museums and the Web 2012 before March 31st, 2012: http://www.museumsandtheweb.com/mw2012/registration Read more: Museums and the Web 2012 (MW2012): Local Information | museumsandtheweb.com Full Program is online: http://www.museumsandtheweb.com/mw2012/workshops http://www.museumsandtheweb.com/mw2012/sessions http://www.museumsandtheweb.com/mw2012/demonstrations Bring the family for an extended stay and enjoy LEGOLAND, SeaWorld, Balboa Park and the San Diego Zoo: http://www.museumsandtheweb.com/mw2012/family We're looking forward to seeing you in San Diego April 11-14, 2012! Nancy & Rich MW2012 program co-chairs --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 19:47:52 +0100 From: "Allison, Jonathan" Subject: cfp: Textual Studies: SAMLA CONVENTION, 9-11 November 2012 CALL FOR PAPERS The Future of Textual Studies? Society for Textual Scholarship Affiliate Group session SAMLA Convention 2012, November 9-11, Research Triangle Park, Durham, North Carolina 27709 The Future of Textual Studies? Papers are welcome on any topic relevant to how technological change and theoretical debates have impacted Textual Studies and Digital Humanities during the last decade, and how you see the future of Textual Studies and Digital Humanities in the coming years. The area of discussion is broad, and your contribution may focus on textual editing, manuscript studies, digital textuality and/or editorial theory. Presentations may focus on single or multiple texts or case studies, or may explore theoretical questions on these and related issues. By 1st June 2012, please submit 250-word abstract to the Society for Textual Scholarship at SAMLA Panel Chair, Jonathan Allison, University of Kentucky, or at jalliso@uky.edu Jonathan Allison Department of English 1323 Patterson Office Tower University of Kentucky Lexington KY 40506 jalliso@uky.edu _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Thu Mar 29 05:32:05 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12787279882; Thu, 29 Mar 2012 05:32:05 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id D9AEA27987A; Thu, 29 Mar 2012 05:32:03 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120329053203.D9AEA27987A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 05:32:03 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.861 one question? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 861. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 06:31:36 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: one question? If you had to choose one question whose pursuit is or could be central to the digital humanities *and* would engage research in the greatest number of other disciplines, what would that be? I do not mean technical matters such as better retrieval mechanisms, image analytics, encoding structures and the like, which I would think are really for computer science, rather a question in the humanities that is or could be central to the digital humanities. Comments? Yours, WM -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor (fractional), University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Mar 30 05:07:51 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 374C027771D; Fri, 30 Mar 2012 05:07:51 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 52ED3277706; Fri, 30 Mar 2012 05:07:48 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120330050748.52ED3277706@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 05:07:48 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.862 one question X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 862. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: orlandi@rmcisadu.let.uniroma1.it (11) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.861 one question? [2] From: Geoffrey Rockwell (11) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.861 one question? [3] From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (16) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.861 one question? [4] From: peter jones (20) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.861 one question? Conceptual Space(s) --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 09:56:08 +0200 (CEST) From: orlandi@rmcisadu.let.uniroma1.it Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.861 one question? In-Reply-To: <20120329053203.D9AEA27987A@woodward.joyent.us> > If you had to choose one question whose pursuit is or could be central > to the digital humanities *and* would engage research in the greatest > number of other disciplines, what would that be? I do not mean technical > matters such as better retrieval mechanisms, image analytics, encoding > structures and the like, which I would think are really for computer > science, rather a question in the humanities that is or could be central > to the digital humanities. Simple. It is a question which is BOTH a humanities AND (as you say) a technical question, viz.: what is computation? Cordially, Tito Orlandi ----------------------------------------------------------------- Tito Orlandi (olim Univ. di Roma La Sapienza) Centro Linceo Interdisciplinare Beniamino Segre - Roma Hiob Ludolf Zentrum (Asien-Afrika-Institut, Univ. Hamburg) Institutum Patristicum Augustinianum, Roma http://rmcisadu.let.uniroma1.it/~orlandi --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 08:56:30 +0100 From: Geoffrey Rockwell Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.861 one question? In-Reply-To: <20120329053203.D9AEA27987A@woodward.joyent.us> Great question. Here is my candidate: How might we think? Yours, Geoffrey R. --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 08:53:04 -0400 (EDT) From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.861 one question? In-Reply-To: <20120329053203.D9AEA27987A@woodward.joyent.us> Willard One question: How can computers be used to understand cross-modal processing (auditory and visual) of textual objects? It may not be a central question but it does have the potential of touching upon a number of disciplines. Francois Lachance Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 17:12:10 +0100 (BST) From: peter jones Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.861 one question? Conceptual Space(s) In-Reply-To: <20120329053203.D9AEA27987A@woodward.joyent.us> My question would be (is): If each discipline can lay claim to 'threshold concepts' (those concepts that lie at that discipline's core - what students must master) then is there a ('grand'?)* conceptual space such that the overlap across and the distinct conceptual boundaries between disciplines would be exposed? Background sources: Gärdenfors, P. Conceptual Spaces: The Geometry of Thought, Cambridge; 2000. Threshold Concepts Conference: http://www.nairtl.ie/index.php?pageID=27&eventID=310 *Influence of emerging Giant Global Graph & Semantic Web Peter Jones Lancashire UK -- Blogging at "Welcome to the QUAD" http://hodges-model.blogspot.com/ Hodges Health Career - Care Domains - Model http://www.p-jones.demon.co.uk/ h2cm: help 2C more - help 2 listen - help 2 care http://twitter.com/#!/h2cm _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Mar 30 05:09:02 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id C265327798E; Fri, 30 Mar 2012 05:09:02 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 91187277957; Fri, 30 Mar 2012 05:09:00 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120330050900.91187277957@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 05:09:00 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.863 research fellowships at Glasgow X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 863. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 21:07:54 +0100 From: Ian Ruffell Subject: Kelvin Smith Fellowship in Digital Economy and Culture at Glasgow Can I draw the list's attention to today's announcement by the University of Glasgow that it is offering 36 Lord Kelvin Adam Smith research fellowships, of three to five years in duration. In addition to an open competition, there will also be specific fellowships in some specific areas, one of which is "Digital Economy & Culture". Classics is part of a School with the humanities computing unit/subject area in Glasgow ("HATII") and so we are well-placed institutionally to support a research fellow working within digital classics. There are three application deadlines, the first of which is 31 May 2012. Fuller details are available at: http://www.gla.ac.uk/research/lordkelvinadamsmithfellowshipsandleadershipfellows/lordkelvinadamsmithfellowships/ The announcement is available here: http://www.gla.ac.uk/news/headline_228988_en.html Please could you draw the attention of these fellowships to anyone you think might be interested in applying. Thanks, Ian -- Dr Ian A Ruffell Lecturer In Classics, School of Humanities Room 407, 65 Oakfield Avenue, University of Glasgow G12 8QQ tel. +44 (0)141 330 5379 www.gla.ac.uk/schools/humanities/staff/ianruffell _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Fri Mar 30 05:12:07 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E159276024; Fri, 30 Mar 2012 05:12:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 85AD9276010; Fri, 30 Mar 2012 05:12:05 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20120330051205.85AD9276010@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 05:12:05 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.864 publication cfp: serious games & cultural heritage X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 864. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 22:23:37 +0100 From: Michela Mortara Subject: special issue: Serious Games for Cultural Heritage Special Issue of the ACM Journal of Computing and Cultural Heritage: Serious Games for Cultural Heritage http://jocch.acm.org/seriousgames Deadline: June 15 ICTs provide powerful tools to build Cultural Heritage applications enabling a better understanding and appreciation of our present and past both by specialists and the general public, supportingthe preservation, reproduction, representation and fruition of artifacts, sites and intangible goods in the form of Virtual Heritage. While multimedia archives and the digitization of artefacts and sites offer easy access of cultural content to people regardless of space and time constraints, it is through game mechanics that a much larger public could be motivated to explore such impressive resources.For this reason, games with educational purposes, namely /Serious Games/ (SG), are becoming more and more popular. The target of SGs in the Cultural Heritage domain is to actually spread cultural content at its maximum extent by exploiting this medium's intrinsic features.// The goal of this Special Issue is to collect papers on case studies, perspective applications, technological and methodological issues related to SGs for Cultural Heritageto define the best practices and highlight both the challenges and benefits of SGs in the Cultural Heritage sector.Authors are invited to submit papers on original and unpublished research and practical applications concerning SGs for a range of educational objectives related to tangible and intangible heritage, including history, archaeology, art, cultural awareness, natural/environmental heritage. In particular, we call for contributions on topics including but not limited to: */Challenges and trends in Serious Games for Cultural Heritage / */User engagement and motivation/ */Assessment of the learning impact/ */Human-Computer Interaction/ */Game mechanics suited for CH education/ */Personalization, adaptivity and Artificial Intelligence/ */Game architectures/ */Psychology and pedagogy/ */Best practices in the development and adoption of SGs for CH/ */Generation and representation of cultural content in games/ */Culturally relevant Non-Player Characters/ */Applications and case studies/ // Accepted papers will be published in the ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage. See http://www.acm.org/pubs/jocch Guest Editors: Michela Mortara (CNR-IMATI, Italy) michela@ge.imati.cnr.it Francesco Bellotti (DIBE, University of Genova, Italy) franz@elios.unige.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 Fri Mar 30 05:13:55 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5714276098; Fri, 30 Mar 2012 05:13:55 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 0F3C7276088; Fri, 30 Mar 2012 05:13:54 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120330051354.0F3C7276088@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 05:13:54 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.865 events: sound & music; visualisation & the arts X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 865. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Mcdaid, Sarah" (26) Subject: EVA London 2012: Registration open [2] From: "sts@imi.aau.dk" (62) Subject: Final call for submissions - Sound and Music Computing 2012 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 08:30:57 +0000 From: "Mcdaid, Sarah" Subject: EVA London 2012: Registration open ELECTRONIC VISUALISATION AND THE ARTS LONDON 2012 Tuesday 10th July - Thursday 12th July 2012 Venue: British Computer Society, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7HA www.eva-london.org Registration is now open Early Bird rates are available until 11th May 2012 For registration details, keynote speakers and the latest conference programme visit: www.eva-london.org *********************************************************** EVA London 2012 will debate the issues, discuss the trends and demonstrate the digital possibilities in culture, heritage and the arts. If you are interested in new technologies in the cultural sector - if you are an artist, policy maker, manager, researcher, practitioner, or aheducator - then this conference is for you. Three days of presentations, workshops, demos and exhibition on a spectrum of themes from electronic arts to experiencing history. This year's conference includes sessions on: * Museums in a new world * Seeing data * The place and the digital * Digital art and research * Sound and life * Building the virtual * Visualisation, maps and structures * Digital art and networked culture * Art and performance * Imaging * Digital imaging ** Plus five full sessions featuring live demonstrations ** Please note: as London is also hosting the Olympics this summer, we are suggesting that delegates book their hotel accommodation as soon as possible. A number of hotel rooms have been reserved for EVA London delegates through our accommodation partner innov8 Conference Services. Please find further details of this and other accommodation options at www.eva-london.org If this message was forwarded to you, join our mailing list to receive EVA London announcements (only) directly. Send an email to: listserv@jiscmail.ac.uk. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 22:29:48 +0100 From: "sts@imi.aau.dk" Subject: Final call for submissions - Sound and Music Computing 2012 In-Reply-To: <19227978.345641332743682352.JavaMail.root@diego.external.imi.aau.dk> 9th Sound and Music Computing Conference 11th-14th July 2012, Copenhagen, Denmark http://smc2012.smcnetwork.org/ Papers, posters and demos deadline is one week away! Department of Architecture, Design and Media Technology, Aalborg University Copenhagen SMC 2012 and Computer Music Journal (CMJ) are happy to announce that the two most highly rated papers presented at this year's conference will be selected for expansion and publication in a future issue of CMJ. The SMC Conference is the forum for international exchanges around the core interdisciplinary topics of Sound and Music Computing. SMC2012 will feature paper, poster and demos sessions, three keynote speakers, tutorials, musical concerts, and other satellite events. We invite submissions examining all core areas of sound and music computing, such as Automatic music generation/accompaniment systems Computer environments for sound/music processing/composition Networked music generation Physical modeling for sound generation Sound/music signal processing algorithms Digital audio effects Musical sound source separation and recognition Automatic music transcription Music information retrieval Musical pattern recognition and modeling Music and robotics Computational musicology Sonic interaction design 3D sound/music Data sonification Visualization of sound/music data Interfaces for music creation Interactive performance systems Musical performance modeling Sound/music perception and cognition Multimodality in sound and music computing Web 2.0 and mobile music and audio All submissions are peer-reviewed according to their novelty, technical content, presentation, and contribution to the overall balance of topics represented at the conference. Paper submissions should be no longer than 8 pages, including figures and references. Accepted papers will be designated to be presented either as posters, or lectures possibly augmented with a demo session. Authors are encouraged to state whether they wish to have a poster, or a lecture, with or without an additional demo session. The paper submissions will be done electronically by the submission deadline of Monday 2nd of April 2012. The notification of acceptance will be Wednesday 2nd of May 2012. The deadline for submissions of the camera-ready papers will be on Monday 4th of June 2012. At least one of the paper authors has to be registered to the conference for the paper to be accepted and published. All accepted papers, independently of the presentation format, will be included in the conference Proceedings which will be distributed as an electronic publication. For more information, including templates, please check http://smc2012.smcnetwork.org/info-for-authors/ ================Important dates================= Deadline for submissions of music and sound installations: DONE Deadline for paper submissions: Monday 2 April, 2012 Deadline for submission of final music and sound installation materials: Friday, March 30, 2012 Deadline for applications to the Summer School: Friday March 30, 2012 Notification of acceptance to Summer School: Monday April 16, 2012 Notification of paper acceptances: Wednesday 2 May, 2012 Deadline for submission of camera-ready papers: Monday 4 June, 2012 SMC Summer School: Sunday 8 – Wednesday morning 11 July, 2012 SMC Workshops: Wednesday afternoon 11 July, 2012 SMC 2012: Thursday 12 – Saturday 14 July, 2012 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Mar 31 07:37:40 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FABD2754E6; Sat, 31 Mar 2012 07:37:40 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id EDFFE275475; Sat, 31 Mar 2012 07:37:37 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120331073737.EDFFE275475@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2012 07:37:37 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.866 job at Trinity Dublin X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 866. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 11:12:00 +0100 From: Shawn Day Subject: Project Officer position at Trinity College Dublin for EU digital infrastructure Project Officer position at Trinity College Dublin for EU digital infrastructure The Trinity Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin, is recruiting a full time project manager to assist in the coordination of the 48-month Collaborative EuropeaN Digital Archival Infrastructure (CENDARI) project. Bringing together 14 institutional partners from across 7 European countries, CENDARI has been funded by the European Commission create an integrated research infrastructure for digital archival collections relevant for the study of medieval and modern history. In this context, it will increase and enhance access to previously fragmented European information resources, such as archives and libraries. The project manager will be a central person in the project team, dedicated to the smooth running of project coordination activities including project reporting to the European Commission. As such, experience in a digital humanities context and/or in a European funded project are considered highly desirable areas of experience for this role. For further details on CENDARI, Trinity College and the Long Room Hub, please see the full details at: http://jobs.tcd.ie (search for the keyword CENDARI) The closing date for applications is 12 noon on Thursday, 19th April 2012. -- Dr Jennifer Edmond Trinity Long Room Hub Trinity College Dublin Ireland Phone: +353 1 896 4224 http://www.tcd.ie/longroomhub Trinity Long Room Hub is the Trinity College Dublin Arts and Humanities Research Institute. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Sat Mar 31 07:40:55 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00B2D2756BB; Sat, 31 Mar 2012 07:40:55 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 80A5A2756B3; Sat, 31 Mar 2012 07:40:53 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120331074053.80A5A2756B3@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2012 07:40:53 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.867 events: context; annotation; controlled language; Turing X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 867. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Willard McCarty (151) Subject: Second Workshop on Annotation of Corpora for Research in the Humanities [2] From: ARCOE Announcement (110) Subject: ARCOE-12: Second Call for Papers [3] From: Geoff Sutcliffe (156) Subject: The Turing Centenary Conference in Manchester: 2nd Call for Papersand Call For Participation [4] From: Tobias Kuhn (98) Subject: CNL 2012: Final Call for Papers / Deadline Extended to 13 April --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 10:36:47 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Second Workshop on Annotation of Corpora for Research in the Humanities CALL FOR PAPERS ---- Second Workshop on Annotation of Corpora for Research in the Humanities (ACRH-2) ---- The second edition of the workshop on ìAnnotation of Corpora for Research in the Humanitiesî (ACRH-2) will be held on November 29, 2012 at the University of Lisbon (Portugal) (http://alfclul.clul.ul.pt/crpc/acrh2/index.html). Submissions are invited for oral presentations and posters (with or without demonstrations) featuring high quality and previously unpublished research on the topics described below. Contributions should focus on results from completed as well as ongoing research, with an emphasis on novel approaches, methods, ideas, and perspectives, whether descriptive, theoretical, formal or computational. Proceedings will be published in time for the workshop by the Centro de LinguÌstica da Universidade de Lisboa (CLUL). Publication will be online only. The workshop will be co-located with the Eleventh International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT-11), which will be held on November 30 - December 1, 2012 (http://tlt11.clul.ul.pt/). MOTIVATION AND AIMS Like in its first edition (held in Heidelberg on 5 January, 2012: proceedings available here: http://www.jlcl.org/index.php?modus=aktuelle_ausgabe&language=en), the ACRH workshop aims at building a tighter collaboration between people working in various areas of the Humanities (such as literature, philology, history etc.) and the research community involved in developing, using and making accessible annotated corpora. Addressing topics related to annotated corpora for research in the Humanities is an interdisciplinary task, which involves corpus and computational linguists (mostly those working in literary computing), philologists, scholars in the Humanities and computer scientists. However, this interdisciplinarity is not fully realised yet. Indeed, philologists and scholars are not used to exploit NLP tools and language resources such as annotated corpora; in turn, computational linguists are more prone to develop language resources for NLP purposes only. For instance, although many corpora that play a relevant role for research in Humanities are today available in digital format (theatrical plays, contemporary novels, critical literature, literary reviews etc.), only a few of them are linguistically tagged, while most still lack linguistic tagging at all. Historical corpora are also a case of special interest, since their creation demands a strong interplay between computational linguistics and more traditional scholarship. Over the past few years a number of historical annotated corpora have been started, among which are treebanks for Middle, Early Modern and Old English, Early New High German, Medieval Portuguese, Ugaritic, Latin, Ancient Greek and several translations of the New Testament into Indo-European languages. The experience of these ever-growing group of projects can provide many suggestions on the methodology as well as on the practice of interaction between literary studies, philology and corpus linguistics. We believe that a tighter collaboration between people working in the Humanities and the research community involved in developing annotated corpora is now needed because, while annotating a corpus from scratch still remains a labor-intensive and time-consuming task, today this is simplified by intensively exploiting prior experience in the field. Indeed, such a collaboration is still quite far from being achieved, as a gap still holds between computational linguists (who sometimes do not involve humanists in developing and exploiting annotated corpora for the Humanities) and humanists (who sometimes just ignore that such corpora do exist and that automatic methods and standards to build them are today available). TOPICS To overcome the above mentioned issues, ACRH-2 aims at covering a wide range of topics related to the annotation of corpora for research in the Humanities. The topics to be addressed in the workshop include (but are not limited to) the following: - specific issues related to the annotation of corpora for research in the Humanities - annotated corpora as a basis for research in the Humanities - diachronic, historical and literary annotated corpora - use of annotated corpora for stylometrics and authorship attribution - philological issues, like different readings, textual variants, apparatus, non-standard orthography and spelling variation - annotation principles and schemes of corpora for research in the Humanities - adaptation of NLP tools for older language varieties. Specific features of tools for accessing and retrieving annotated corpora to address various research topics in the Humanities - examples of fruitful collaboration between Computational Linguistics and Humanities in building and exploiting annotated corpora INVITED SPEAKER Martin Wynne (University of Oxford, UK) IMPORTANT DATES Deadlines: always midnight, UTC ('Coordinated Universal Time'), ignoring DST ('Daylight Saving Time'): - Deadline for paper submission: September 2, 2012 - Notification of acceptance: October 7, 2012 - Final version of paper for workshop proceedings: October 28, 2012 - Workshop: November 29, 2012 INSTRUCTIONS FOR SUBMISSION We invite to submit full papers describing original, unpublished research related to the topics of the workshop. Papers should not exceed 12 pages. The language of the workshop is English. All papers must be submitted in well-checked English. Papers should be submitted in PDF format only. Submissions have to be made via the EasyChair page of the workshop at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acrh2. Please, first register at EasyChair if you do not have an EasyChair account. The style guidelines follow the specifications required by TLT. They can be found here: http://alfclul.clul.ul.pt/crpc/acrh2/submission.html. Please, note that as reviewing will be double-blind, the papers should not include the authors' names and affiliations or any references to web-sites, project names etc. revealing the authors' identity. Furthermore, any self-reference should be avoided. For instance, instead of "We previously showed (Brown, 2001)...", use citations such as "Brown previously showed (Brown, 2001)...". Each submitted paper will be reviewed by three members of the program committee. Submitted papers can be for oral or poster presentations (with or without demo). There is no difference between the different kinds of presentation both in terms of reviewing process and publication in the proceedings (the limit of 12 pages holds for both oral and poster presentations). ORAL PRESENTATION The oral presentations at the workshop will be 30 minutes long (25 minutes for presentation and 5 minutes for questions and discussion). PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRS - Francesco Mambrini (University of Cologne, Germany) - Marco Passarotti (Universit‡ Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy) - Caroline Sporleder (Saarland University, Saarbr¸cken, Germany) PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS - David Bamman (USA) - Gabriel Bodard (UK) - Lars Borin (Sweden) - Antonio Branco (Portugal) - Helma Dik (USA) - Anette Frank (Germany) - Dag Haug (Norway) - Erhard Hinrichs (Germany) - Be·ta Megyesi (Sweden) - Martha Nell Smith (USA) - Petya Osenova (Bulgaria) - Martin Reynaert (the Netherlands) - Victoria RosÈn (Norway) - Jeff Rydberg Cox (USA) - Melissa Terras (UK) - Manfred Thaller (Germany) - Martin Volk (Switzerland) LOCAL ORGANIZATION - Amalia Mendes - Iris Hendrickx - Sandra Antunes - Aida Cardoso - Sandra Perreira All CLUL, University of Lisbon, Portugal -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor (fractional), University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 07:57:49 +0100 From: ARCOE Announcement Subject: ARCOE-12: Second Call for Papers Acquisition, Representation and Reasoning with Contextualized Knowledge, 4th International Workshop (ARCOE-12) http://www.arcoe.org/2012 held in collocation with 20th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI-12) Montpellier, France -- Important Dates -- Submission deadline: 28 May 2012 Notification: 28 June 2012 Camera ready: 15 July 2012 Early registration: [TBA] Late registration: [TBA] Workshop dates: 27-28 August 2012 -- Description of the workshop -- Dealing with context is one of the most interesting and most important problems faced in Artificial Intelligence (AI). Traditional AI applications often require to model, store, retrieve and reason about knowledge that holds within certain circumstances - the context. Without considering this contextual information, reasoning can easily run to problems such as: inconsistency, when considering knowledge in the wrong context; inefficiency, by considering knowledge irrelevant for a certain context; incompleteness, since an inference may depend on knowledge assumed in the context and not explicitly stated. Contextual information is also relevant in many tasks in knowledge representation and reasoning such as common-sense reasoning, dealing with inconsistency, ambiguity, and uncertainty, evolution, etc. In recent years, research in contextual knowledge representation and reasoning became more relevant in the areas of Semantic Web, Linked Open Data, and Ambient Intelligence, where knowledge is not considered a monolithic and static asset, but it is distributed in a network of interconnected heterogeneous and evolving knowledge resources. The ARCOE workshop aims to provide a dedicated forum for researchers interested in these topics to discuss recent developments, important open issues, and future directions. -- Topics -- ARCOE-12 welcomes submissions on the topics below as well as on their intersection and other topics related to acquisition, representation, reasoning with context and its applications. Philosophical and theoretical foundations of context: 1. What is context and how should it be represented. 2. Relevant types of contextual information and their properties. 3. Combining contextual information with object information for reasoning. 4. Context and common-sense reasoning. 5. Exploiting context in inconsistency and uncertainty handling, defeasible reasoning and argumentation. 6. Contextual logic programming. 7. Updating contextual knowledge and context-aware belief revision. 8. Frameworks for formalizing context and context-aware knowledge representation. Context modeling and contextual knowledge engineering: 1. Modeling of user's/agent's context. 2. Context driven organization of knowledge and modeling. 3. Ontologies for context modeling. 4. Context-aware modeling tools and methodology. 5. Comparisons to context-unaware modeling techniques. Effective reasoning with context: 1. Effective context-aware reasoning algorithms. 2. Distributed reasoning with context. 3. Context-driven heuristics in classical reasoning systems. 4. Reasoning under uncertainty and inconsitency. 5. Defeasible reasoning. 4. Hybrid formalisms for reasoning with context, including sub-symbolic contexts Applications of context in areas such as: 1. Agent communication and coordination. 2. Semantic Web and Linked Open Data. 3. Knowledge modularization. 4. Ontology matching. 5. Ontology fault diagnosis and repair. 6. Ontology evolution and versioning. 7. Information integration. 8. Ambient intelligence and pervasive computing. 9. Exploiting context in Web 2.0 applications, e-commerce, and e-learning. -- Submission Requirements -- Papers of two types can be submitted. Regular papers are intended for research reports and surveys. ARCOE also welcomes reports on significant work in progress which has already achieved some interesting partial results, as well as papers recently submitted or published elsewhere as long as their topic is in line with the workshop. Regular papers should not exceed 12 pages in length including references. Position papers are intended for presentation of interesting new open issues and challenges, and opinions on the status of the field. Position papers are limited to 6 pages including references. All papers must be formatted using the Springer LNCS style: http://www.springer.com/comp/lncs/Authors.html and submitted in PDF format via EasyChair using: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=arcoe12 The distinction during the selection-phase will be based on 1) Relevance, significance and quality of the submission; 2) The contribution's potential to foster cross-pollination and discussions on ARCOE main themes during the event. Accepted papers will be presented either as oral presentations or as posters, depending on the choice of the program committee. However, all accepted papers will be included in the Working Notes in their full form and will be accessible via the Internet. -- Workshop Co-Chairs -- * Michael Fink, Vienna University of Technology * Martin Homola (primary contact), Comenius University, Bratislava * Alessandra Mileo, DERI, National University of Ireland * Ivan Jose Varzinczak, Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research, South Africa -- Steering Committee -- * Alan Bundy, University of Edinburgh * Thomas Eiter, Vienna University of Technology * Luciano Serafini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento -- Resources -- ARCOE-12 website: http://www.arcoe.org/2012/ EasyChair submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=arcoe12 ARCOE workshop series: http://www.arcoe.org/ ECAI-12 website: http://www2.lirmm.fr/ecai2012/ Enquiries about the ARCOE workshop: arcoe [at] arcoe [dot] org --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 13:28:04 +0100 From: Geoff Sutcliffe Subject: The Turing Centenary Conference in Manchester: 2nd Call for Papersand Call For Participation THE TURING CENTENARY CONFERENCE Manchester, UK, June 22-25, 2012 http://www.turing100.manchester.ac.uk/ Second announcement, call for submissions and call for participation. Features: (1) Ten Turing Award winners, a Templeton Award winner and Garry Kasparov as invited speakers (2) GBP 20,000 worth best paper award program, including GBP 5,000 best paper award (3) Two panels and two public lectures (4) Turing Fellowship award ceremony (5) Computer chess programme (6) Competition of programs proving theorems (7) and many more ... For more details please check http://www.turing100.manchester.ac.uk/. Note that the registration is now open. SPEAKERS Confirmed invited speakers: - Fred Brooks (University of North Carolina) - Rodney Brooks (MIT) - Vint Cerf (Google) - Ed Clarke (Carnegie Mellon University) - Jack Copeland (University of Canterbury, New Zealand) - George Francis Rayner Ellis (University of Cape Town) - David Ferrucci (IBM) - Tony Hoare (Microsoft Research) - Garry Kasparov (Kasparov Chess Foundation) - Samuel Klein (Wikipedia) - Don Knuth (Stanford University) - Yuri Matiyasevich (Institute of Mathematics, St. Petersburg) - Hans Meinhardt (Max-Planck Institute for Developmental Biology) - Roger Penrose (University of Oxford) - Adi Shamir (Weizmann Institute of Science) - Michael Rabin (Harvard University) - Leslie Valiant (Harvard University) - Manuela M. Veloso (Carnegie Mellon University) - Andrew Yao (Tsinghua University) Confirmed panel speakers: - Ron Brachman (Yahoo Labs) - Steve Furber (The University of Manchester) - Carole Goble (The University of Manchester) - Pat Hayes (Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, Pensacola) - Bertrand Meyer (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) - Moshe Vardi (Rice University) SUBMISSIONS: The Turing Centenary Conference will include invited talks and a poster session. Submissions are sought in several areas of computer science, mathematics and biology. Submissions of two kinds are welcome: - Regular papers - Research reports All submitted papers must be in the PDF format and between 3 and 15 pages long. All submissions will be evaluated by the programme committee. Submission is through the EasyChair system, https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=turing100. Regular papers must include original work not submitted before or during the Turing-100 reviewing period to any other event with published proceedings or a journal. All submitted regular papers will be considered eligible for the best paper awards. Research reports can contain work in progress and/or be based on previously submitted work. They will not be eligible for the best paper awards. *** Areas *** Submissions are welcome in all areas of computer science, mathematics and biology listed below: - computation theory - logic in computation - artificial intelligence - social aspects of computation - models of computation - program analysis - mathematics of evolution and emergence - knowledge processing - natural language processing - cryptography - machine learning - cognitive science - mathematical biology *** Schedule and conference proceedings *** The submission deadline is April 16. All submissions will be evaluated by the programme committee. Authors will be notified by acceptance or rejection on or before May 1st. At least one author of every accepted paper must register for the conference, attend it and present the paper at the poster session. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings and available at the conference. The instructions on preparing final versions for the proceedings will appear on the Turing-100 Web site. *** Submissions and Best paper awards *** A subset of accepted regular papers will be selected by the programme committee for the second round of reviewing. The authors of the selected papers will be invited to submit revised versions of their papers by May 16. The programme committee will make decisions on best paper awards by June 14. All papers receiving the award will be published in a book dedicated to the conference and published after the conference. This book will also contain some papers by invited and panel speakers. In the case of doubts about the relevance of your paper to the conference and for all other queries please contact programme chair Andrei Voronkov at andrei@voronkov.com. See http://www.turing100.manchester.ac.uk/index.php/submission for more details. BEST PAPER AWARDS: A subset of poster session submissions will be selected as candidates for best paper awards: - The best paper award of GBP 5,000 - The best young researcher best paper award of GBP 3,000 - The second best paper award of GBP 2,500 - The second best young researcher best paper award of GBP 1,500 - Sixteen (16) awards of GBP 500 each See http://www.turing100.manchester.ac.uk/index.php/submission/bestpaper for more details. REGISTRATION: The number of participants is limited. Register early to avoid disappointment! To register, access https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=turing100 and click on "Registration". *** Registration fees *** All fees are in Pound Sterling. early (on or before May 3) late (May 4 or later) Student 280 330 Regular 380 450 To qualify for a student registration you must be a full-time student on June 23, 2012. The registration fees include - Attendance of sessions - Conference reception - Conference dinner - Coffee breaks and lunches - Poster session proceedings There will be a travel support programme for students and attendees from countries where getting funding for travel is hardly possible. For more details about registration check http://www.turing100.manchester.ac.uk/index.php/registration. DATES: April 16: Poster session submission deadline May 1: Poster session notification and selection of candidates for awards May 15: Final versions of poster session papers May 16: Submission of full versions of papers selected for awards June 14: Best paper award decisions June 22-25: Conference July 15: Final versions of papers selected for awards CHAIRS: Honorary Chairs: Rodney Brooks (MIT) Roger Penrose (Oxford) Conference Chairs: Matthias Baaz (Vienna University of Technology) Andrei Voronkov (The University of Manchester) Turing Fellowships Chair: Barry Cooper (University of Leeds) Theorem Proving Competition Chair: Geoff Sutcliffe (University of Miami) Programme Chair Andrei Voronkov (The University of Manchester) --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 20:16:46 +0100 From: Tobias Kuhn Subject: CNL 2012: Final Call for Papers / Deadline Extended to 13 April Final Call for Papers: - DEADLINE EXTENDED to 13 April *** THIRD WORKSHOP ON CONTROLLED NATURAL LANGUAGE (CNL 2012) *** 29-31 August 2012 Zurich, Switzerland http://attempto.ifi.uzh.ch/site/cnl2012/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- A controlled natural language (CNL) is based on natural language but comes with restrictions on vocabulary, grammar, and/or semantics. The general goal is to reduce or eliminate ambiguity and complexity. Some of these languages are designed to improve communication among humans, especially for non-native speakers of the respective natural language. In other cases, the restrictions on the language are supposed to make it easier for computers to analyze such texts in order to improve computer-aided, semi-automatic, or automatic translations into other languages. A third group of CNL has the goal to enable reliable automated reasoning on seemingly natural texts. Such languages have a direct mapping to some sort of formal logic and should improve the accessiblity of formal knowledge representations or specifications for people unfamiliar with formal notations. All these types of CNL are covered by this workshop. Topics ------ Possible topics for CNL 2012 include: - CNL for knowledge representation - CNL for question answering - CNL for specifications - CNL for business rules - CNL for interactive systems - CNL for machine translation - CNL for improved understandability of texts - design of CNLs - CNL applications - CNL evaluation - usability and acceptance of CNL - CNL grammars and lexica - reasoning in CNL - spoken CNL - CNL in the context of the Semantic Web and Linked Open Data - CNL in the government - CNL in industry - CNL use cases - theoretical properties of CNL Important Dates --------------- Submission deadline (extended): 13 April 2012 Notification of acceptance: 28 May 2012 Deadline for revised papers: 18 June 2012 Workshop: 29-31 August 2012 Submissions and Proceedings --------------------------- We invite researchers to submit papers with novel contributions in the area of CNL. These research papers should be formatted according to the Springer LNCS format and should not exceed 15 pages (but shorter papers are highly welcome too). Papers should be submitted in PDF format via the EasyChair conference system: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cnl2012 Accepted papers will be included in the printed workshop proceedings to be published by Springer within the LNAI series. Authors of accepted papers will be invited to present their research at the workshop. Unlike the previous CNL workshops, the final papers will be reviewed and published before the workshop (there are no extended abstracts anymore). Venue ----- The workshop will take place at the Department of Informatics and the Institute of Computational Linguistics of the University of Zurich in Switzerland. Organization Committee ---------------------- - Tobias Kuhn (Yale University, USA), kuhntobias@gmail.com - Norbert E. Fuchs (University of Zurich, Switzerland), fuchs@ifi.uzh.ch Program Committee ----------------- - Johan Bos (University of Groningen, Netherlands) - Peter E. Clark (Vulcan Inc, USA) - Rogan Creswick (Galois, USA) - Danica Damljanovic (University of Sheffield, UK) - Brian Davis (DERI / National University of Ireland) - Norbert E. Fuchs (University of Zurich, Switzerland) - Normunds Gruzitis (University of Latvia) - Stefan Hoefler (University of Zurich, Switzerland) - Kaarel Kaljurand (University of Zurich, Switzerland) - Peter Koepke (University of Bonn, Germany) - Tobias Kuhn (Yale University, USA) - Hans Leiss (University of Munich, Germany) - Reinhard Muskens (Tilburg University, Netherlands) - Gordon Pace (University of Malta) - Richard Power (The Open University, UK) - Laurette Pretorius (University of South Africa) - Mike Rosner (University of Malta) - Aarne Ranta (Chalmers University, Sweden) - Rolf Schwitter (Macquarie University, Australia) - Geoff Sutcliffe (University of Miami, USA) - Silvie Spreeuwenberg (LibRT, Netherlands) - Uta Schwertel (imc, Germany) - Yorick Wilks (University of Sheffield, UK) - Adam Wyner (University of Liverpool, UK) _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Mon Apr 2 09:05:07 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC3A52798C7; Mon, 2 Apr 2012 09:05:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id 68E9527982A; Mon, 2 Apr 2012 09:05:05 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120402090505.68E9527982A@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2012 09:05:05 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.868 CFPs: ontology-based annotation (DH2012); grand challenges (DH2013) X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 868. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Christian-Emil Ore (74) Subject: cfp: preconference workshop “Ontology based annotation” for DH2012 [2] From: Willard McCarty (33) Subject: cfp: grand challenges for the digital humanities (DH2013) --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2012 09:50:34 +0200 From: Christian-Emil Ore Subject: cfp: preconference workshop “Ontology based annotation” for DH2012 CALL FOR PAPERS Preconference workshop “Ontology based annotation” July 17th 2012 in connection with DH2012 in Hamburg, Germany The Network for Digital Methods in the Arts and Humanities (NeDiMAH) , www.nedimah.eu, is a research network running from 2011 to 2015, funded by the European Science Foundation, ESF. The network will examine the practice of, and evidence for, advanced ICT methods in the arts and humanities across Europe, and disseminate findings in a series of outputs and publications. The NeDiMAH WG3, Linked data and ontological methods, will organise a half day preconference workshop “Ontology based annotation” in connection with the conference Digital Humanities 2012 in Hamburg. Workshop format: Short presentations 15 – 20 minutes including discussion. Deadline for submission April 30th. We will endeavour to decide on the final workshop programme by May 15th. Submission format: Extended abstract, ca 1000 – 1500 words Contact address: c.e.s.ore@iln.uio.no Presenters of accepted papers will have their workshop fees covered. Successful contributors will also be considered for having their travel and accommodation expenses covered by NeDiMAH. The full papers should be circulated before the workshop. Motivation and background The use of computers as tools in the study of textual material in the humanities and cultural heritage goes back to the late 1940s, with links back to similar methods used without computer assistance, such as word counting in the late nineteenth century and concordances from the fourteenth century onwards. In the sixty years of computer assisted text research, two traditions can be seen. One is that which includes corpus linguistics and the creation of digital scholarly editions, while the other strain is related to museum and archival texts. In the former tradition, texts are commonly seen as first class feasible objects of study, which can be examined by the reader using aesthetic, linguistic or similar methods. In the latter tradition, texts are seen mainly as a source for information; readings concentrate on the content of the texts, not the form of their writing. Typical examples are museum catalogues and historical source documents. In the end of the 1980s the historian Manfred Thaller developed Kleio, a simple ontological annotation system for historical texts. Later in the 1990s hypertext with inline links, not databases, became the tool of choice for textual editions (Vanhoutte 2010). In the last decade the stand-off database approach has been reintroduced, this time in the form of ontologies (conceptual models) often expressed in the RDF formalism to enable its use in the linked data world, and the semantic web. A basic assumption is that reading a text includes a process of creating a model in the mind of the reader. Reading a novel and reading a historical source document both result in models. These models will be different, but they can all be manifested as explicit ontologies expressed in computer formats. The external model stored in the computer system will be a different model from the one stored in the mind, but it will still be a model of the text reading. By manipulating the computer based model new things can be learned about the text in question, or it can be compared to other similarly-treated texts. An objective of the workshop is to throw light on consequences and experiences of the renewed database approach in computer assisted textual work, based on the development in text encoding over the last decade as well as in ontological systems. Short discussion papers are invited on any topic that looks at the theory or practice of ontology-based annotation, including (but not limited to): • How do we create models, and what ontologies should we use? • To what extent can new insight be gained by linking together the models based on information from the texts? • How do we relate models back to the source text? • Can we manage an ontology-based annotation of a text in different editions and translations? • How do we model uncertainty in annotation, and multiple annotations? • Can ontology based annotation be combined with crowdsourcing, and does this ask for special types of crowds? Programme Committee Øyvind Eide, King's College, London UK Faith Lawrence, King's College, London UK Sebastian Rahtz, University of Oxford UK Christian-Emil Ore, University of Oslo Norway Alois Pichler, University of Bergen, Norway --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2012 09:35:32 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: cfp: grand challenges for the digital humanities (DH2013) Call for expressions of interest: A panel/session on grand challenges for the digital humanities from the humanities for DH2013 This is a call for expressions of interest from potential contributors to a panel or session of brief papers that I would like to propose for DH2013. Ideally I'd like to have about half a dozen contributions, each of which would articulate an as yet unfulfilled vision for computing within the context of a single discipline. I'd like a spread of disciplines represented, e.g. literary studies (including but not confined to English), history, philosophy, classics, music, anthropology, cultural studies. The perspective taken should be from whatever single discipline the proposer speaks for but be informed by sufficient knowledge of computing to connect with the digital humanities. A state-of-the-art report is definitely not what is called for here, rather a state-of-the-imagination. Changing what needs to be changed, it should be, as David Hilbert said when he proposed problems for mathematicians to work on, "difficult in order to entice us, yet not completely inaccessible, lest it mock at our e fforts. It should be to us a guide post on the mazy paths to hidden truths, and ultimately a reminder of our pleasure in the successful solution" (transl. "Mathematical Problems", Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society 37.4: 407-36). At this stage all that is needed is a note to me outlining what you'd like to do. Many thanks. Yours, WM -- Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor (fractional), University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/); www.mccarty.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php From humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Tue Apr 3 05:18:34 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@digitalhumanities.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver-digitalhumanities@woodward.joyent.us Received: from woodward.joyent.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B633279BB5; Tue, 3 Apr 2012 05:18:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: by woodward.joyent.us (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B4C09279BA4; Tue, 3 Apr 2012 05:18:32 +0000 (GMT) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120403051832.B4C09279BA4@woodward.joyent.us> Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2012 05:18:32 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Humanist] 25.869 jobs at Alberta, Brown X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 25, No. 869. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Ashton, Andrew" (69) Subject: Job: Data Visualization Coordinator, Brown University Library [2] From: Susan Brown (28) Subject: Job Posting: Project Manager, Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2012 16:38:16 -0400 From: "Ashton, Andrew" Subject: Job: Data Visualization Coordinator, Brown University Library In the fall 2012, the Brown University Library will open a state-of-the-art Digital Scholarship Lab, which will feature a high-resolution tiled video display wall, surround sound, and the ability to interact with the wall using peripheral devices. The Digital Scholarship Lab will provide the facilities for scholars across the disciplines to engage with research data using advanced visualization software, to examine and compare high-resolution digital content, and to experience audiovisual media in a setting unique on Brown’s campus. The Lab will complement other visualization resources on campus, including the Center for Computing and Visualization’s CAVE and the Granoff Center for the Creative Arts. The Data Visualization Coordinator oversees the operation of the Digital Scholarship Lab (DSL) and identifies, installs, and supports software to facilitate information visualization across multiple disciplines within the context of the DSL. The position is responsible for providing instruction and outreach to faculty, students, and interdisciplinary campus groups in their use of the DSL, and will support individual and course-based visualization projects. S/He provides leadership in developing visualization services in concert with complementary services on campus and responds to student and faculty teaching and learning needs as well as research computing strategies as they make use of the DSL. The position reports to the Director of Library Digital Technologies and is a member of the Center for Digital Scholarship within the Brown University Library. Responsibilities: - Ensures that the DSL space and equipment are fully functional and accessible to campus users - Advises, supports, and trains students and faculty from all academic disciplines in the visualization of data - Leads workshops and training sessions on information visualization tools and techniques, in the context of the DSL - Identifies, installs, and supports relevant software packages - Advises on specifications for DSL equipment and rendering hardware - Maintains a current awareness of emerging trends in data visualization - Creates guides and interfaces to enhance the usability of data within the DSL - Supports the development of research proposals for external funding for visualization activities - Collaborates on projects in the Center for Digital Scholarship and other library units as needed Qualifications: - Master’s degree in a field related to information visualization or equivalent combination of education and experience. Preference for a second advanced degree in a related field - At least three years of experience working in the area of information visualization or demonstrated technical experience in a related area - Ability to work with data from a variety of sources (e.g., XML, relational databases, web services) - Experience with at least one or more programming languages (e.g., C, C++, Java, Perl, Python, R, Processing) - Experience with data visualization tools and programming libraries - Previous experience supporting information visualization in a research setting - Experience working with scientific data; geospatial/geo-referenced data collections - Knowledge of data presentation technologies and interactive touch technologies - Ability to work effectively with large data sets - Excellent interpersonal, oral and written communication skills - Ability to work independently and as a member of a team To apply for this position (JOB #B01394), please visit Brown’s Online Employment website (https://careers.brown.edu), complete an application online, attach documents, and submit for immediate consideration. Documents should include cover letter, resume, and the names and e-mail addresses of three references. Review of applications will continue until the position is filled. *Brown University is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer*. -- Andrew Ashton Director of Digital Technologies Brown University Library --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2012 20:55:47 -0400 From: Susan