Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 16, No. 160.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
<http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/>
<http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/>
[1] From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org> (159)
Subject: European Workshops: School for Scanning, Hague;
ERPANET XML, Urbino
[2] From: "Prof S.R.L. Clark" <srlclark@liverpool.ac.uk> (87)
Subject: Reminder - Visual Representations + Liverpool (fwd)
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Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 06:47:11 +0100
From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
Subject: European Workshops: School for Scanning, Hague; ERPANET
XML, Urbino
NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources
from across the Community
August 14, 2002
School for Scanning: Creating, Managing, and Preserving Digital Assets
The Hague, The Netherlands: October 16-18, 2002
http://www.nedcc.org/hague/hague1.htm
U.S. Participation limited to 20
* * * *
ERPANET Announces Experts' Workshop on XML as Preservation Strategy
Urbino, Italy: October, 9th-11th 2002
http://www.erpanet.org/php/urbino/workshop.htm
>Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 11:22:03 -0400
>From: "Holly Houghton" <hhoughton@nedcc.org>
>The Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC) Announces:School for
Scanning: Creating, Managing, and Preserving Digital Assets
The Hague, The Netherlands
October 16-18, 2002
Koninklijke Bibliotheek - The National Library of the Netherlands
The Hague, The Netherlands
The conference, which will be presented entirely in English, is funded in
part by The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) and the
Online Computer Library Center (OCLC). It is co-sponsored by the European
Commission on Preservation and Access (ECPA) and the Koninklijke
Bibliotheek - The National Library of the Netherlands (KB).
What is the School for Scanning? This conference provides current and
essential information for collections managers who are seeking to create,
manage, and preserve digital assets. Participants will leave the
conference better equipped to make informed choices regarding management of
their digital projects. Although significant technical content will be
presented, this is not a technician-training program. Conference content
will include:
Envisioning Our Digital Future
Quality Control & Costs
Copyright & Other Legal Issues
Content Selection for Digitization
Metadata
Digital Asset Management
Standards
Digital Longevity & Preservation
Text & Image Digitization
Who Should Attend? Administrators within cultural institutions, as well as
librarians, archivists, curators, and other cultural or natural resource
managers dealing with paper-based collections, including photographs, will
find the School for Scanning conference highly relevant and
worthwhile. The complexion of this conference evolves with the
technology. Although an audience of 150+ attendees is expected, the number
of North American participants will be limited to 20.
Registration information and a detailed agenda can be found at NEDCC's
Website at
<http://www.nedcc.org/hague/hague1.htm>http://www.nedcc.org/hague/hague1.htm
. Questions specifically concerning registration procedures and
information should be directed to Ginny Hughes at
<mailto:ghughes@nedcc.org>ghughes@nedcc.org
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URBINO, ITALY: October, 9th-11th 2002
EXPERTS WORKSHOP ON XML: Urbino, 9th - 11th October
2002
ERPANET, a European Commission funded project, is pleased to announce its
second workshop event. It will address the relationship between digital
preservation and XML. This event offers experts in this subject the
opportunity to take part in an investigation of key topics in digital
preservation.
See the following details.
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WORKSHOP ON XML AS A PRESERVATION STRATEGY: Urbino, 9th - 11th October 2002
XML is increasingly being used as a means for providing access to digital
information and for preservation purposes. The focus of this second ERPANET
workshop will concentrate on using XML as a tool in preserving the
long-term value of this digital information. After introducing some key
areas of digital preservation (metadata and trusted repositories), the
workshop will facilitate a forum for discussing the strengths and
weaknesses of XML. Practical experiences so far, issues with respect to
different types of digital objects, and XML in the context of digital
preservation strategies will be covered.
The workshop will focus on six main areas:
-Introduction in digital preservation (some principles) and the
possible/potential role of XML
-The role of XML as an exchange standard (e.g. METS) for distributed archives
-XML as a preservation strategy (San Diego project; persistent objects),
including different types of digital objects.
-Some practical experiences
-Preservation metadata and XML
-Issues that should be further explored, investigated (building the
research agenda)
Who will benefit from attending the seminar?
- Digital Information providers
- Digital Information archivists
- IT practitioners and experts
- Public sector bodies
- Content providers
- Organisations with a stake in the long-term preservation of digital objects
Benefits from attendance include:
- Discussion of XML as a preservation strategy
- An understanding of the variety of uses of XML
- Access to practical examples and case studies
- Interaction with experts and practitioners
- Knowledge of tools for access
- Knowledge of tools for preservation
Programme
Opening: 9th October at 9.30
Closing: 11th October at 16:30
Introductory speakers will include among others Andreas Rauber (ECDL),
representatives from S.Diego Supercomputer Center, Ministero delleconomia e
delle finanze. Specific experience will also be presented.
Venue: Facolta' di giuridsprudenza, Aula magna, Urbino
To register:
Registration costs: 100 Euros. To receive joining instructions, please
register before 20th September at: www.erpanet.org/php/urbino/workshop.htm
For more details, contact: Italian.Editor@erpanet.org
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Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 06:46:30 +0100
From: "Prof S.R.L. Clark" <srlclark@liverpool.ac.uk>
Subject: Reminder - Visual Representations + Liverpool (fwd)
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Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 16:33:46 +0100
From: R.C.Paton@csc.liv.ac.uk
To: srlclark@liverpool.ac.uk
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
2nd International Workshop on
VISUAL REPRESENTATIONS AND INTERPRETATIONS (VRI 2)
Liverpool, September 9 - 12, 2002
VRI 2 brings together researchers working in a wide range of
subjects whose work concerns visual representations and
interpretations.
The programme, a preliminary version of which is available at
http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~vri2/programme.html,
includes talks from artists, art historians, biologists,
cognitive scientists, computer scientists, engineers, linguists,
logicians, mathematicians, medical scientists, philosophers,
physicists, psychologists and social scientists.
You can register for VRI 2 on-line: see
http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~vri2/registration.html
for details.
SCOPE AND AIMS OF THE WORKSHOP
The value of multi-disciplinary research, the exchanging of ideas
and methods across traditional discipline boundaries, is well
recognised. It could be argued that many of the advances in
science and engineering take place because the ideas, methods
and the tools of thought from one discipline become re-applied in
others.
The topic of "the visual" has become increasingly important as
advances in technology have led to multi-media and multi-modal
representations, and extended the range and scope of visual
representation and interpretation in our lives. Under this broad
heading there are many different perspectives and approaches,
from across the entire spectrum of human knowledge and activity.
The development of advanced graphics for computer games and film
animations, for example, has drawn on and led developments in
computational geometry. Even outside the technological sphere,
recent controversies over artworks which some have considered to
be blasphemous show the power of the visual to manifest wildly
different interpretations, and to become a topic of everyday
conversation and a focus of political activity.
One goal of this workshop on Visual Representations and
Interpretations is to break down cross-disciplinary barriers, by
bringing together people working in a wide variety of disciplines
where visual representations and interpretations are exploited.
The first Workshop on Visual Representations and Interpretations
was held in Liverpool in 1998. Contributions to the workshop came
from researchers actively investigating visual representations and
interpretations in a wide variety of areas including:
art, architecture, biology, chemistry, clinical medicine,
cognitive science, computer science, education, engineering,
graphic design, linguistics, mathematics, philosophy, physics,
psychology and social science.
VRI 2 aims to build on this good beginning, and to provide a forum
for wide-ranging and multi-disciplinary discussion on visual
representations and interpretations.
REGISTRATION
The Conference will take place at the Moathouse Hotel in the centre
of Liverpool. Registration details, and the on-line registration form,
which also allows you to book accommodation, is available at
http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~vri2/registration.html
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
Caroline Baillie (Liverpool, UK)
Michael Biggs (Hertfordshire, UK)
Ernst Binz (Mannheim, Germany)
Nicola Dioguardi (Milan, Italy)
Andree Ehresmann (Amiens, France)
Paul Fishwick (Gainesville, USA)
ean-Louis Giavitto (Evry, France)
Joseph Goguen (San Diego, USA)
David Goodsell (La Jolla, USA)
Leo Groarke (Waterloo, Canada)
Rom Harre (Oxford, UK and Washington, USA)
Robin Hendry (Durham, UK)
Mike Holcombe (Sheffield, UK)
John Lee (Edinburgh, UK)
Charles Lund (Newcastle, UK)
Michael Leyton (New York, USA)
Peter McBurney (Liverpool, UK)
Grant Malcolm (Liverpool, UK; Conference Chair)
Mary Meyer (Los Alamos, USA)
Irene Neilson (Liverpool, UK)
Ray Paton (Liverpool, UK)
Walter Schempp (Seigen, Germany)
Questions and inquiries should be directed to:
Grant Malcolm or Ray Paton
Department of Computer Science
University of Liverpool
Email: G.R.Malcolm@csc.liv.ac.uk or R.C.Paton@csc.liv.ac.uk
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