From willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk  Sat Jan  2 07:42:40 2010
From: willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk (Humanist Discussion Group)
Date: Sat,  2 Jan 2010 07:42:40 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Humanist] 23.530 AI and other kinds of intelligence
Message-ID: <20100102074240.5253E448FA@woodward.joyent.us>

                 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 530.
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        Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2009 08:03:14 -0800 (PST)
        From: Laval Hunsucker <amoinsde at yahoo.com>
        Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.528 AI and other kinds of intelligence


> Comment?

OK, very quickly.

Willard,

I've got  little ( presumably less than you, anyway ) 
problem with chisels or hammers ;? but more with 
ideas ( forecasts ) like :? ". . . to be no more con-
scious of the computer than we are of the pencil or 
the telephone". ( When are we ever gonna get 
*there* ? ;? he was speaking twenty-five years ago, 
and it's not just a usability thing either. )? Also a 
problem with the suggestion that such is "the aim 
of their [ the experts' ] enterprise" ;? *do they* look 
at it that way ?? Oh well, he *was* ( only ) a profes-
sor of English and university president :-).

I also wonder how many good theoretical physicists 
( for example ) would not claim that much -- even 
all ? -- of what Chace attributes to art in the passage 
"Art is nothing if not . . .. Thus art?s pleasure.", in the 
second paragraph  of your quoted excerpt, applies, 
as well, to their own fields. 

> Exactly what is being denied or dismissed?

The notion that most any of us could develop a 
reasonably good grasp of how a pencil *really* 
works, should we be inclined actually to inquire 
into the matter ? ;-)

Anyway, :

Happy Sylvester, Silvester, New Year or whatever, 
to all list-followers -- however they may ( or may 
not ) celebrate it.

- Laval Hunsucker
? Antwerpen, Belgi?

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From willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk  Sat Jan  2 07:43:30 2010
From: willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk (Humanist Discussion Group)
Date: Sat,  2 Jan 2010 07:43:30 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Humanist] 23.531 job at Dumbarton Oaks
Message-ID: <20100102074330.26EEF44A89@woodward.joyent.us>

                 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 531.
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        Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:37:23 +0000
        From: Charlotte Roueche <charlotte.roueche at KCL.AC.UK>
        Subject: Job in Washington D.C.


Position Description

Title: Post-Doctoral Associate in Byzantine Sigillography and  
Numismatics, Dumbarton Oaks
Location: DUMBARTON OAKS Supervisors: Director of Byzantine Studies  
and the Museum Director
Function: Assists the Director of Byzantine Studies and the Museum  
Director in the preparation of the catalog (electronic and POD) of the  
Dumbarton Oaks collection of Byzantine seals, and the database of coins
Duties and Responsibilities: Under the direction of the Director of  
Byzantine Studies and the Museum Director

1.     Coordinates and conducts research on electronic database  
systems for coins and seals, participating in the assessment and  
preparation stages for setting up an open-access coins and seals  
database, assisting the process of international consultation;  
supervises data entry by interns where appropriate.

2.     Coordinates and supports the work of the scholars working on  
the seals to an agreed plan, providing them with access, materials,  
scans etc, contributing himself/herself to the cataloging of seals.

3.     Coordinates with the museum staff on new photography of the  
objects and provides liaison with Publications department to produce  
the catalog volumes; on request prepares contributions to exhibition  
catalogs and projects inside and outside Dumbarton Oaks; facilitates  
and supports the seals- and coins-related research of  fellows .

4.     Supports the work of the Advisors for Byzantine Sigillography  
and Numismatics, arranging meetings as required, contributing  
knowledge and expertise, and some administrative work.

Qualifications:

PhD in Byzantine Studies with a specialization in sigillography and/or  
numismatics, with experience of working in both; scholarly  
publications in the field.
High degree of proficiency in Greek required; proficiency in other  
languages desired.
Demonstrated expertise in MS Office and database experience is  
essential; familiarity with graphics programs is desired; experience  
in scholarly (electronic) publishing and in museum work is also desired.
Excellent written and oral communication skills, superb organizational  
abilities, keen attention to detail, and ability to meet deadlines are  
essential.

Term: This position is for one year, with the possibility of renewal  
for up to three years, to be determined annually. This is a benefits- 
eligible position with an annual salary of  $43,000. As an associate  
at Dumbarton Oaks, the incumbent would have access to the outstanding  
resources of the Dumbarton Oaks Library, and become part of the larger  
scholarly community of research scholars in residence at Dumbarton Oaks.

To apply: Submit resume by Monday 2 February 2010 to:
The Director of Human Resources
Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection
1703 32nd Street, NW
Washington, DC 20007
Via e-mail:  jobs2009 at doaks.org

----------------------------
Professor Charlotte Rouech?
Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies/Department of Classics
King's College
London WC2R 2LS
direct tel. + 44 20.7848 2515
fax             + 44 20.7848 2545
charlotte.roueche at kcl.ac.uk
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/depts/bmgs/staff/roueche.html




From willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk  Mon Jan  4 08:29:02 2010
From: willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk (Humanist Discussion Group)
Date: Mon,  4 Jan 2010 08:29:02 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Humanist] 23.532 a timeline
Message-ID: <20100104082902.DE3CD44B52@woodward.joyent.us>

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        Date: Sun, 3 Jan 2010 00:21:49 -0500
        From: James Rovira <jamesrovira at gmail.com>
        Subject: Timeline for Emerging Network Culture


Ran across the following very interesting timeline by Mark C. Taylor by
chance tonight:

http://www.press.uchicago.edu/books/taylor/

-- 
James Rovira
Tiffin University




From willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk  Mon Jan  4 09:29:42 2010
From: willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk (Humanist Discussion Group)
Date: Mon,  4 Jan 2010 09:29:42 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Humanist] 23.533 events: computing in the arts & humanities;
	music info retrieval
Message-ID: <20100104092942.507124348A@woodward.joyent.us>

                 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 533.
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  [1]   From:    David M.Berry <D.M.Berry at swansea.ac.uk>                   (53)
        Subject: CFP: The Computational Turn (with website)

  [2]   From:    Remco Veltkamp <Remco.Veltkamp at cs.uu.nl>                 (135)
        Subject: cfp: ISMIR 2010 - 11th International Society for Music
                Information Retrieval Conference


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        Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2010 00:51:06 +0000
        From: David M.Berry <D.M.Berry at swansea.ac.uk>
        Subject: CFP: The Computational Turn (with website)
        In-Reply-To: <865811EA-CD35-4F24-A135-C07D1EDE01FA at swansea.ac.uk>


CFP: The Computational Turn

http://www.thecomputationalturn.com/

SWANSEA UNIVERSITY http://sites.google.com/site/dmberry/home/location
9TH MARCH 2010

Keynote: N. Katherine Hayles<http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/Literature/faculty/n.hayles> (Professor of Literature at Duke University).
Keynote: Lev Manovich http://www.manovich.net/  (Professor, Visual Arts Department, UCSD).

The application of new computational techniques and visualisation technologies in the Arts & Humanities are resulting in new approaches and methodologies for the study of traditional and new corpuses of Arts and Humanities materials. This new 'computational turn' takes the methods and techniques from computer science to create new ways of distant and close readings of texts (e.g. Moretti). This one-day workshop aims to discuss the implications and applications of what Lev Manovich has called 'Cultural Analytics' and the question of finding patterns using algorthmic techniques. Some of the most startling approaches transform understandings of texts by use of network analysis (e.g. graph theory), database/XML encodings (which flatten structures), or merely provide new quantitative techniques for looking at various media forms, such as media and film, and (re)presenting them visually, aurally or haptically. Within this field there are important debates about the contrast between narrative against database techniques, pattern-matching versus hermeneutic reading, and the statistical paradigm (using a sample) versus the data mining paradigm. Additionally, new forms of collaboration within the Arts and Humanities are emerging which use team-based approaches as opposed to the traditional lone-scholar. This requires the ability to create and manage modular Arts and Humanities research teams through the organisational structures provided by technology and digital communications (e.g. Big Humanities), together with techniques for collaborating in an interdisciplinary way with other disciplines such as computer science (e.g. hard interdisciplinarity versus soft interdisciplinarity).

Papers are encouraged in the following areas:

- Distant versus Close Reading
- Database Structure versus Argument
- Data mining/Text mining/Patterns
- Pattern as a new epistemological object
- Hermeneutics and the Data Stream
- Geospatial techniques
- Big Humanities
- Digital Humanities versus Traditional Humanities
- Tool Building
- Free Culture/Open Source Arts and Humanities
- Collaboration, Assemblages and Alliances
- Language and Code (software studies)
- Information visualization in the Humanities
- Philosophical and theoretical reflections on the computational turn

+ Participation Requirements +

Workshop participants are requested to submit a position paper (approx. 2000-5000 words) about the computational turn in Arts and Humanities, philosophical/theoretical reflections on the computational turn, research focus or research questions related to computational approaches, proposals for academic practice with algorithmic/visualisation techniques, proposals for new research methods with regard to Arts and Humanities or specific case studies (if applicable) and findings to date. Position papers will be published in a workshop PDF and website for discussion and some of the participants will be invited to present their paper at the workshop.

Deadline for Position papers: February 10, 2010
Submit papers to: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tct2010

Workshop funded by The Callaghan Centre for the Study of Conflict, Power, Empire<http://www.swansea.ac.uk/humanities/ResearchCentres/CallaghanCentrefortheStudyofConflict/>, Swansea University. TheResearch Institute in the Arts and Humanities http://www.swansea.ac.uk/artsandhumanities/riah/  (RIAH) at Swansea University.

+ References +

Clement, Tanya E. (2008) ?A thing not beginning and not ending?: using digital tools to distant-read Gertrude Stein?s The Making of Americans. Literary and Linguistic Computing. 23.3 (2008): 361.

Clement, Tanya, Steger, Sara, Unsworth, John, Uszkalo, Kirsten (2008) How Not to Read a Million Books. Retrieved 10/11/09 from http://www3.isrl.illinois.edu/~unsworth/hownot2read.html

Council on Library and Information Resources and The National Endowment for the Humanities (2009) Working Together or Apart: Promoting the Next Generation of Digital Scholarship. Retrieved 10/11/09 from http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub145/pub145.pdf

Hayles, N. Katherine (2009) RFID: Human Agency and Meaning in Information-Intensive Environments. Theory, Culture and Society 26.2/3 (2009): 1-24.

Hayles, N. Katherine (2009) How We Think: The Transforming Power of Digital Technologies. Retrieved 10/11/09 from http://hdl.handle.net/1853/27680

Kittler, Fredrich (1997) Literature, Media, Information Systems. London: Routledge.

Krakauer, David C. (2007) The Quest for Patterns in Meta-History. Santa Fe Institute Bulletin. Winter 2007. Retrieved 10/11/09 from http://www.intelros.ru/pdf/SFI_Bulletin/Quest.pdf

Latour, Bruno (2007) Reassembling the Social. London: Oxford University Press.

Manovich, Lev (2002) The Language of New Media. MIT Press.

Manovich, Lev (2007) White paper: Cultural Analytics: Analysis and Visualizations of Large Cultural Data Sets, May 2007. Retrieved 10/11/09 from http://softwarestudies.com/cultural_analytics/cultural_analytics_2008.doc

McLemee, Scott (2006) Literature to Infinity. Inside Higher Ed. Retrieved 10/11/09 from http://www.insidehighered.com/views/mclemee/mclemee193

Moretti, Franco (2005) Graphs, Maps, Trees: Abstract Models for a Literary History. London: Verso.

Robinson, Peter (2006) Electronic Textual Editing: The Canterbury Tales and other Medieval Texts. Electronic Textual Editing. Modern Language Association of America. Retrieved 10/11/09 from  http://www.tei-c.org/About/Archive_new/ETE/Preview/robinson.xml

Schreibman, Susan, Siemens, Ray & Unsworth, John (2007) A Companion to Digital Humanities. London: WileyBlackwell.

Organised by Dr David M. Berry<http://www.swan.ac.uk/staff/academic/Arts/berryd/>, Department of Political and Cultural Studies, Swansea University. d.m.berry at swansea.ac.uk<mailto:d.m.berry at swansea.ac.uk?subject=The%20Computational%20Turn>

---

Dr David M. Berry
Department of Political and Cultural Studies
School of Arts and Humanities
Swansea University.
Swansea
SA2 8PP
Wales, UK

Tel: 01792 602633
Web: http://www.swansea.ac.uk/staff/academic/Arts/berryd/


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        Date: Sun, 3 Jan 2010 22:28:50 +0000
        From: Remco Veltkamp <Remco.Veltkamp at cs.uu.nl>
        Subject: cfp: ISMIR 2010 - 11th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference
        In-Reply-To: <865811EA-CD35-4F24-A135-C07D1EDE01FA at swansea.ac.uk>


1st Call for Papers and Tutorials
ISMIR 2010 - 11th International Society for Music Information Retrieval 
Conference
9-13 August 2010, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
http://ismir2010.ismir.net/
 
Submission Deadline: Wednesday, 10 March 2010
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

*Introduction*

The 11th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval, ISMIR 
2010, will be held at the Utrecht University, The Netherlands, from 
Monday, August 9 to Friday, August 13 2010.

The annual ISMIR Conference is the premier international forum for those 
working on organizing and accessing digital musical material. The ISMIR 
conferences reflect the tremendous recent growth of available 
music-related data and the consequent need to search within it to 
retrieve music and musical information efficiently and effectively. 
Music Information Retrieval (MIR) concerns are of interest to academia, 
industry, entertainment, and education. ISMIR therefore aims to provide 
a place for the exchange and discussion of MIR issues, developments and 
results, by bringing together researchers and developers, educators and 
librarians, students and professional users, working in fields that 
contribute to MIR's multidisciplinary domain. It is increasingly 
realised in the MIR community that music only becomes music by its 
processing by the human mind, and that studying the human processing of 
music is a key issue in innovative MIR research. Therefore, papers on 
musical cognition and perception that contribute to the human 
understanding and experience of music are especially welcomed.

*New Special Paper Category*

New this year, ISMIR 2010 is soliciting a special category of papers: 
State-of-the-Art Reports (STARs). Unlike regular papers which should 
focus in detail on specific aspects of MIR research, STAR papers will 
provide a state-of-the-art overview of a broader MIR problem area. Only 
a few STAR papers will be selected. A STAR paper will be presented in an 
oral presentation.

*Topics*

ISMIR solicits contributions to the field of music information retrieval 
(MIR), including, but not limited to, the following topics as they 
relate to MIR and beyond:

  music perception and cognition
  musical knowledge and meaning
  content-based querying and retrieval
  automatic classification
  music recommendation and playlist generation
  fingerprinting and digital rights management
  score following, audio alignment, and music synchronization
  transcription and annotation
  music summarisation
  music structure analysis
  optical music recognition
  music signal processing
  libraries, archives and digital collections
  database systems, indexing and query languages
  text and web mining
  compression and streaming
  modification and transformation of music data
  evaluation of MIR systems
  knowledge representation, social tags, and metadata
  melody and motives
  harmony, chords and tonality
  rhythm, beat, tempo and form
  timbre, instrumentation and voice
  genre, style and mood
  performance analysis
  similarity metrics
  computational musicology
  user interfaces and user models
  emotion and aesthetics
  applications of MIR to the performing arts and multimedia
  social, legal, ethical and business issues
  methodological issues and philosophical foundations

*Paper submission*

   * Formatting submission instructions will be made available at 
http://ismir2010.ismir.net/
   * Submission instructions for regular papers will be made available 
at http://ismir2010.ismir.net/, while STAR papers should be emailed to 
ismir2010-stars at ismir.net
   * Submission must consist of original contributions (not previously 
published and not currently being considered for publication elsewhere).
   * Submitted papers must be no longer than 6 pages long, STARs no 
longer than 12 pages.
   * All papers will be peer-reviewed according to their quality in 
terms of novelty, technical content, and presentation.
   * The reviewing process of regular papers will be double blind: the 
reviewers remain hidden to the authors, and the authors must remain 
hidden to the reviewers.
   * All accepted regular papers can be presented as a poster.
   * From the accepted papers, a selection will be chosen for oral 
presentations as well.
   * Authors of accepted papers will be asked to provide camera-ready 
copies of their papers for inclusion in the proceedings.
   * For each accepted paper, at least one author must register for the 
ISMIR 2010 conference prior to submission of the camera-ready version.

We will seek opportunities to publish selected papers in one or more 
suitable journal special issues.

 
*Call for tutorials*

It is the goal of the ISMIR 2010 Tutorial Program to offer conference 
attendees and local participants a stimulating and informative selection 
of introductory or in-depth tutorials reflecting current topics in MIR. 
These tutorials will be presented by subject matter experts and will 
reflect the high academic and research standards of the ISMIR 2010 
conference. We encourage submissions of tutorial proposals on all topics 
in the general areas of music information retrieval, especially 
tutorials bridging these areas, or presenting new perspectives in these 
areas. However, tutorials on musical cognition and perception that 
contribute to the human understanding and experience of music, or that 
make creative use of MIR research, will receive particular attention.

Tutorials will be held Monday, August 9, 2010 (the day preceding the 
main conference). Tutorial day will consist of parallel sessions of 
half-day tutorials each concentrating on a single topic and lasting 
approximately 3 hours, including a break.

Tutorial proposals should be emailed to ismir2010-tutorials at ismir.net as 
PDF files containing a 1-2 page abstract including:
   * an outline of the tutorial content,
   * the intended and expected audience,
   * short biography of the presenter(s),
   * whether the tutorial has been give before or elsewhere, and
   * any special requirements.
Presenters are strongly encouraged to include aural music examples in 
their tutorial presentations (preferably using copyright-free or 
copyright-cleared examples). Tutorial presenters are expected to create 
substantial supporting materials for distribution to participants.

*Important Dates*
   * Call for papers and tutorials: December 2009
   * Submission deadline (regular papers, STARS, tutorials): March 10, 2010
   * Notification of Acceptance: April 28, 2010

*Organization*
 
General Chair:
Frans Wiering, Utrecht University

Program Chairs:
J. Stephen Downie, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Remco Veltkamp, Utrecht University

Tutorial Chair:
Steffen Pauws,  Philips Research


From willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk  Tue Jan  5 08:56:07 2010
From: willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk (Humanist Discussion Group)
Date: Tue,  5 Jan 2010 08:56:07 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Humanist] 23.534 the next big thing
Message-ID: <20100105085608.016F245D3C@woodward.joyent.us>

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        Date: Mon, 04 Jan 2010 10:47:53 -0800
        From: Richard Heinzkill <heinzkil at uoregon.edu>
        Subject: "digital humanities" at MLA  meeting


Thought list subscribers might find this part of an article in Chronicle 
of Higher Education (accessed Jan 4, 2020) on MLA meeting 
interesting.-------Richard Heinzkill, University of Oregon Library.
======================================================

        Old School, New School

It was also interesting to see, during the convention and after, a 
debate among the Twitter crowd about the label "digital humanities" and 
whether it was accurate or useful and how to get humanists, digital and 
otherwise, to talk more (or more usefully) to one another. A catchall 
phrase comes in handy?it's hard to imagine the NEH's establishing an 
Office of Cool Scholarship Done With Digital Tools?but it doesn't do 
justice to the very different kinds of work done under that label. Maybe 
the term is just a place holder, and the day is not far off when people 
won't feel the need to make a distinction between the humanities and the 
digital humanities.

To this observer at least, the 2009 MLA did highlight how social media 
are being deployed by scholars, even if they are (temporarily) a 
minority. It will be interesting to see, when the next MLA rolls around, 
in January of 2011, how many more outside the digital-humanities crowd 
have added social media to their scholarly-communication arsenal.

Such attention to the digital world obscures the fact that the digital 
humanities are still a relatively small part of what happens at the MLA, 
even if they make some of the liveliest and most visible contributions. 
MLA 2009 had no shortage of old-school panels devoted to authors and 
genres and literary traditions.




From willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk  Tue Jan  5 08:57:02 2010
From: willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk (Humanist Discussion Group)
Date: Tue,  5 Jan 2010 08:57:02 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Humanist] 23.535 events: cultural & activity research
Message-ID: <20100105085702.C87AC45E0E@woodward.joyent.us>

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        Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2010 08:19:13 +0200
        From: "Lily Diaz" <Lily.Diaz at taik.fi>
        Subject: Conference on Cultural and Activity Research

FISCAR 2010
http://www.iscar.org/fi/5NC/
Deadline for abstracts: January 31, 2010

We invite researchers, specialists, and students in the fields of art,
design, education, health care and other professional activities to
participate in the Nordic Conference on Activity Theory and the Fourth
Finnish Conference on Cultural and Activity Research (FISCAR10). The
conference is seeking proposals on variety of perspectives on social
creativity, designing and activity. 

The sub-themes of the conference are the following:

Design as an activity
? Collaborative nature of design process, participatory design, and
co-configuration
? Representation and play as design activities
? Social creativity, new technologies and artifacts
? Inclusive design as societal activity

Theory and methodology for research on creativity and design
? Central theoretical ideas in Activity Theory and Sociocultural
Theories
? Methodologies of developmental interventions
? Ethnography of change
? Discourse and activity

Design and creativity in diverse forms of communities
? On-line and virtual communities
? Social simulation and emergence
? Social movements
? Ethnic and cultural diversity

Design and creativity in educational activities
? Social creativity in education
? Educational interventions and practice-developing research
? Inclusive education
? Education and social media

Design and creativity in work activities
? Spaces for innovation and knowledge-creation
? Design of new organizational forms
? Creativity in interventions at work
? Historically new forms of work

Digitalization of culture
?  Media as a research field
?  Digital media and digital social networks
?  Inclusive digitalization
?  Digitalization of work

Design and creativity in heath care and social services
? Work-based methods and tools of occupational health service
? Multi-actor collaborations in improving work-related wellbeing
?  Design of system of social support
?  Enhancing client agency and creativity

Please see our web pages for more information.

With best regards and best wishes for the new year,

Lily D?az
Professor
Aalto University
School of Art and Design, Media Lab




From willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk  Wed Jan  6 08:47:11 2010
From: willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk (Humanist Discussion Group)
Date: Wed,  6 Jan 2010 08:47:11 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Humanist] 23.536 the next big thing
Message-ID: <20100106084711.1123A449D9@woodward.joyent.us>

                 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 536.
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        Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 09:29:14 -0800
        From: "Bleck, Bradley" <BradB at spokanefalls.edu>
        Subject: RE: [Humanist] 23.534 the next big thing
        In-Reply-To: <20100105085608.016F245D3C at woodward.joyent.us>

It may not be the next big thing, but for those interested in the digital humanities, or whatever we might call what we do, there are certainly more panels at the Conference on College Composition and Communication dealing with this issue. I think compositionists are a somewhat ahead of many in the humanities on this. They meet in late March in Louisville, Kentucky this year. There is also the Computers and Writing conference, held this year at Purdue University May 20-23. Much of what gets looked at in these forums is applicable beyond the writing classroom. 

Bradley Bleck
English Department
Spokane Falls CC
http://biketoworkspokane.org




From willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk  Wed Jan  6 08:47:36 2010
From: willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk (Humanist Discussion Group)
Date: Wed,  6 Jan 2010 08:47:36 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Humanist] 23.537 Java job at Europeana
Message-ID: <20100106084736.6BE6544A36@woodward.joyent.us>

                 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 537.
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        Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 21:40:08 +0000
        From: Susan Schreibman <susan.schreibman at GMAIL.COM>
        Subject: Java Developer to work for Europeana


Europeana is  currently looking for Java Developer. The full job 
description can be found here: 
http://version1.europeana.eu/web/europeana-project/jobs

For further information on the role please contact Bram van der Werf 
<mailto:bram.vanderwerf at kb.nl>, Technical Director. If you would like to 
apply for this position, please send your resume and cover letter to 
jobs.edlf at kb.nl <mailto:jobs.edlf at kb.nl?Subject=Reference_GPM_0209.01>, 
with the reference no. JD-01 0110 as subject or send it by mail to:

*Europeana*
c/o the Koninklijke Bibliotheek
National Library of the Netherlands
PO Box 90407
2509 LK The Hague
The Netherlands

*Final acceptance date for application:* 27 February 2010

If you have any questions or comments regarding this position or the 
recruitment process, please do not reply to this email address, but send 
your email to jobs.edlf at kb.nl <mailto:jobs.edlf at kb.nl>.

Thank you very much for your cooperation.

Kind regards,
Martina Schoberova
EDL Foundation - Europeana
www.europeana.eu  http://www.europeana.eu

Phone: +31 (0)70 31 40 670
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From willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk  Wed Jan  6 08:48:37 2010
From: willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk (Humanist Discussion Group)
Date: Wed,  6 Jan 2010 08:48:37 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Humanist] 23.538 news: HASTAC/MacArthur competition;
	programme closure
Message-ID: <20100106084837.1A89544BEE@woodward.joyent.us>

                 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 538.
         Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
                       www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist
                Submit to: humanist at lists.digitalhumanities.org

  [1]   From:    hastac-web at duke.edu                                       (63)
        Subject: Deadline Extended for 2010 HASTAC/MacArthur Foundation
                Digital Media and Learning Competition

  [2]   From:    beadav at aol.com                                            (28)
        Subject: Mellon closes down Mackie's program


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        Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 13:08:03 -0500
        From: hastac-web at duke.edu
        Subject: Deadline Extended for 2010 HASTAC/MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning Competition


Happy New Year!

Here at the HASTAC/MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning
Competition headquarters, we are increasingly excited as the opening of the
online application system draws closer. We can't wait to see the ideas you
have percolating and the many innovative ways you are reimagining learning!

To give you some additional time to shine up those initial applications and
get them ready for prime time, we are happy to announce that we have extended
the Competition timeline. This means that the online application system will
now open and begin accepting applications on January 15th. The due date for
preliminary applications has been extended until January 22nd, while
resubmitted final first round applications (taking into consideration any
public feedback/comments received) will be due no later than February 15th.

Please check out the revised timeline here:
http://www.dmlcompetition.net/timeline.php [1] and feel free to email us
dml at hri.uci.edu [2] with any questions.

I have included below a revised call for the 2010 HASTAC/MacArthur Foundation
Digital Media and Learning Competition with the new submission deadlines.
Please help us get the word out by spreading it through your networks. We
look forward to seeing your applications on January 15th!

Best,

Digital Media and Learning Competition

?

**With apologies for cross-posting**

---PLEASE DISTRIBUTE WIDELY---

*DEADLINE EXTENDED--Application system to open January 15th*

/*****To allow applicants more time to develop their initial applications,
the Competition timeline has been extended by one week. The online
application system will now open and begin accepting applications on January
15th /. The due date for preliminary applications has been extended until
*January 22nd*, while resubmitted final first round applications (taking into
consideration any public feedback/comments received) will be due by *February
15th*. Please reference the revised timeline
here:http://www.dmlcompetition.net/timeline.php [3] *****

The theme of this year's Competition is Reimagining Learning and there are
two types of awards: 21st Century Learning Lab Designers and Game Changers.

Aligned with National Lab Day as part of the White House's Educate to
Innovate Initiative, the 21st Century Learning Lab Designer awards will range
from $30,000-$200,000. Awards will be made for learning environments and
digital media-based experiences that allow young people to grapple with
social challenges through activities based on the social nature, contexts,
and ideas of science, technology, engineering and math.

The Game Changers category?undertaken in cooperation with Sony Computer
Entertainment of America (SCEA) and Electronic Arts (EA), Entertainment
Software Assocation, and the Information Technology Industry Council?will
award amounts ranging from $5,000-$50,000 for creative levels designed with
either LittleBigPlanet? or Spore? Galactic Adventures that offer young
people engaging game play experiences and that incorporate and leverage
principles of science, technology, engineering and math for learning.

Each category will include several Best in Class awards selected by expert
judges, as well as a People?s Choice Award selected by the general public.
The online application system will open on January 15 and will include three
rounds of submissions, with public comment at each stage.

Please see www.dmlcompetition.net [4] for all details.

www.hastac.org [5]

www.dmlcompetition.net [6]

www.twitter.com/dmlComp [7]

[1] http://www.dmlcompetition.net/timeline.php
[2] mailto:dml at hri.uci.edu
[3] http://www.dmlcompetition.net/timeline.php
[4] http://www.dmlcompetition.net/
[5] http://www.hastac.org/
[6] http://www.dmlcompetition.net/
[7] http://www.twitter.com/dmlComp


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        Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 16:14:44 EST
        From: beadav at aol.com
        Subject: Mellon closes down Mackie's program



The Chronicle of Higher Education
January 05, 2010, 12:00 PM ET

In Potential Blow to Open-Source Software, Mellon Foundation Closes Grant Program

By Marc Parry

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is closing a grant program that financed a series of high-profile university software projects, leaving some worried about a vacuum of support for open-source ventures.

Mellon?s decade-old Research in Information Technology program, or RIT, helped bankroll a catalog of freely available software that includes Sakai, a course-management system used by Stanford University and the University of Michigan; Kuali, a financial-management program recently rolled out at Colorado State University; and Zotero, a program for managing research sources used by millions. 

Now the foundation plans to eliminate the RIT program as a stand-alone entity, a move that was scheduled to take effect Monday, according to a December letter to grantees obtained by The Chronicle.

Mellon described the change as part of an effort to "consolidate resources" and concentrate on core program areas like the liberal arts, scholarly communications, and museums. RIT will merge into the Scholarly Communications program, which will manage its existing grants. Ira H. Fuchs, RIT?s founder, says his position has been eliminated, as has that of Christopher J. Mackie, RIT?s associate program officer. 

?It might lead to a reduction in funding for people that want to build large-scale open-source software programs for education,? says David Wiley, an associate professor of instructional psychology and technology at Brigham Young University who reported the changes on his blog last month.

Don Waters, Mellon?s program officer for Scholarly Communications and the author of the December letter, did not return a phone call by deadline. Asked what the move would mean for the future, Mr. Fuchs says, "I think that remains to be determined. The honest answer is I don?t know."

RIT spent some $50-million or $60-million since it was established in 2000, according to Mr. Fuchs. One longtime Mellon grantee, Bradley C. Wheeler of Indiana University at Bloomington, says the investments ?will prove transformative for higher education.? Had Mellon not stepped in to help set up Sakai, colleges choosing course-management systems would face a ?highly monopolistic pricing situation,? he says.

The closure shouldn?t be read as a sign of the foundation divorcing itself from technology, adds Mr. Wheeler, vice president for information technology at Bloomington and chairman of Kuali's board. Indeed, the Scholarly Communications division will be renamed to explicitly reflect that ?technology-based grantmaking is part of its mandate,? according to Mr. Waters's letter. 

?I do see Mellon refocusing its IT investments more closely to what they view as the core scholarship of the academy,? says Mr. Wheeler. ?That means things that have to do with research and education, more so than things like administrative systems.?

Mellon invested $2.4-million in Sakai, but the founding four universities put in an even greater amount toward the software-development collaboration, Mr. Wheeler notes. The Kuali Foundation's various projects have received more than $6.4-million from Mellon. The financial-software project is "economically viable on its own," Mr. Wheeler says, with a dozen sustaining investors who contribute the equivalent of about $125,000 a year.

But while Mr. Wheeler was ready to declare victory, one outside observer was more cautious.

"I would tactfully say these are still early stage," says Kenneth C. Green, founding director of the Campus Computing Project, noting that Sakai is gaining traction while the Kuali projects are less far along. "The story's not over."

In the small world of foundations that finance higher-ed technology, especially open-education projects, the story is all about one word right now: transition.

The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the dominant source of foundation money for open-education content projects, also went through major personnel changes, Mr. Wiley notes. And the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation is closing its online-education grant program.



Prof. Richard C. Beacham, FRSA
Director, King's Visualisation Lab, www.kvl.cch.kcl.ac.uk
King's College London, 26 - 29 Drury Lane, London, WC2B 5RL
E-mail: Richard.Beacham at kcl.ac.uk  OR  beadav at aol.com
 
3D Visualisation in the Arts Network www.viznet.ac.uk/3dvisa/ 
Theatron 3 http://cms.cch.kcl.ac.uk/theatron/
The London Charter www.londoncharter.org/




From willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk  Wed Jan  6 08:51:16 2010
From: willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk (Humanist Discussion Group)
Date: Wed,  6 Jan 2010 08:51:16 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Humanist] 23.539 London Seminar 14 January
Message-ID: <20100106085116.1B11044E61@woodward.joyent.us>


                 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 539.
         Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
                       www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist
                Submit to: humanist at lists.digitalhumanities.org



        Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2010 09:02:37 +0000
        From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk>
        Subject: London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship, 14/1/2010

London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship
14 January 2010 (Thursday)
Room 275 (Stewart House), Bloomsbury, London
17:30 - 19:30

Helena Barbas, 'Interactive Fiction ? narratives without memory'

In mobile narratives ? as in any kind of interactive fiction ? 
creativity lies in the (physical or virtual) route taken by the user and 
is a consequence of the several nodes/links she chooses to navigate. 
 From this user?s agency emerges a new relationship between the literary 
concepts of story and discourse that interferes with the normal 
structure of plot and the technical traditional artifices to create 
suspense (the bifurcation). Immersed in the story ? as a 
character/avatar, narrator/drama-manager ? the user inhabits the 
diegesis. Real time and space turn into a stage where the fiction takes 
place. Reality becomes hybrid or enhanced; the users? perception of time 
and space is altered. However, in fictional terms, this interferes with 
the literary ruses to deal with time (flashback/flash-forward). As all 
the events are transposed to the present, the ?now? of the user 
experience, this kind of story has no memory.

The absence of narrative memory is one of the theoretical issues 
resulting from the practical experience with the InStory project (2006), 
specifically the creation of an interactive fiction for web mobile 
devices (pda). This project will be used as a case study for the 
questioning of other narratological issues, namely the concepts of 
author, character and plot. Also, it allows proposing some 
clarifications concerning the digital concepts of interaction, 
creativity, the role of the word in mixed realities, and the 
relationship between IF and games. As future work will be presented 
PlatoMundi-A voyage with Er, an adventure/quest browser immersive, 
multiplayer, 3D MMORPG serious video game, with basis on Plato?s ?Myth 
of Er? as narrated in Book X of the Republic (612a-621d).
-----

Helena Barbas (1951) is Professor-Lecturer of the Department of 
Portuguese Studies ? Faculdade de Ci?ncias Sociais e Humanas, 
Universidade Nova de Lisboa (F.C.S.H. ? U.N.L.). She holds a MA (1990) 
and a PhD (1998) in Comparative Literature ? Literature and the Arts. In 
2003, she attended the Master of Applied Artificial Intelligence at the 
Faculdade de Ci?ncias e Tecnologia (F.C.T. - U.N.L.), and became a 
researcher for CENTRIA in 2005. She gained her ?Habilitation? (2008) in 
Literature and Cyberarts. Helena authored books and several essays, 
translated theoretical texts, novels, drama and poetry. She has 
collaborated with diverse newspapers, magazines and with national TV 
cultural programs. She writes literary reviews for the national weekly 
broadsheet ?Expresso?.

Professor Barbas? present research interests are multimedia 
storytelling, IF, avatars, the usage of AI decision models and agents 
behaviour and serious games. She was a member of the InStory Project 
team. Presently she is preparing a project on serious games, PlatoMundi, 
aiming to introduce e-learning and ethical issues in game playing. See 
http://www2.fcsh.unl.pt/docentes/hbarbas/ for more.

-- 
Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing,
King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/;
Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist;
Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org.




From willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk  Wed Jan  6 08:59:43 2010
From: willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk (Humanist Discussion Group)
Date: Wed,  6 Jan 2010 08:59:43 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Humanist] 23.540 new publication: what to do about research data
Message-ID: <20100106085943.6AA3C4335A@woodward.joyent.us>

                 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 540.
         Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
                       www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist
                Submit to: humanist at lists.digitalhumanities.org



        Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2010 08:58:48 +0000
        From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk>
        Subject: report on research data

Ensuring the Integrity, Accessibility, and Stewardship of Research Data 
in the Digital Age,
Committee on Ensuring the Utility and Integrity of Research Data in a 
Digital Age, National Academy of Sciences (U.S.)

http://www.nap.edu/ (under Best Sellers)

Press release
-------------

Report Offers Principles for Maintaining the Integrity
And Accessibility of Research Data

WASHINGTON -- Though digital technologies and high-speed communications 
have significantly expanded the capabilities of scientists -- allowing 
them to analyze and share vast amounts of data -- these technologies are 
also raising difficult questions for researchers, institutions, and 
journals.  Because digital data can be manipulated more easily than 
other forms, they are particularly susceptible to distortion.  Questions 
about how to maintain the data generated, who should have access, and 
who pays to store and maintain them can be controversial.

Maintaining the integrity and accessibility of research data in a 
rapidly evolving digital age will take the collective efforts of 
universities and other research institutions, journals, agencies, and 
individual scientists, says a new report from the National Academy of 
Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, and Institute of Medicine, 
which recommends principles to guide these stakeholders in generating, 
sharing, and maintaining scientific data.

Research institutions need to ensure that every investigator receives 
appropriate training in conducting research and managing data 
responsibly, the report says.  And these institutions, along with 
professional societies, journals, and research sponsors, should develop 
and disseminate standards for ensuring the integrity of research data 
and update specific data-management guidelines to account for new 
technologies.  After an investigation by the Journal of Cell Biology 
revealed that a significant number of images submitted to them had been 
inappropriately manipulated, for example, the journal issued guidelines 
on acceptable and unacceptable ways to alter images.  Ultimately, 
though, researchers themselves are responsible for ensuring the 
integrity of their research data, said the committee that wrote the report.

The report recommends that researchers -- both publicly and privately 
funded -- make the data and methods underlying their reported results 
public in a timely manner, except in unusual cases where there is a 
compelling reason not to do so, such as concern about national security 
or health privacy.  In such cases, researchers should publicly explain 
why data are being withheld.  But the default position should be that 
data will be shared -- a practice that allows data and conclusions to be 
verified, contributes to further scientific advances, and allows the 
development of beneficial goods and services.

Research data can be valuable for many years after they are generated -- 
for verifying results and generating new findings -- but maintaining 
high-quality and reliable databases can be costly, the report observes. 
  Researchers should establish data-management plans at the beginning of 
each research project that provide for the stewardship of data, and 
research sponsors should recognize that financial support for data 
professionals is an appropriate part of supporting research. 
Professional societies should provide investigators with guidance about 
which data should be saved for the long term and which can be discarded.

The report was sponsored by the National Research Council, U.S. 
Department of Agriculture, NASA, U.S. Geological Survey, U.S. Department 
of Health and Human Services, U.S. Department of Energy, Eli Lilly and 
Co., Burroughs Wellcome Fund, Nature Publishing Group, the Rockefeller 
University Press, New England Journal of Medicine, American Chemical 
Society, Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, 
American Association for the Advancement of Science, American 
Geophysical Union, and IEEE.  The National Academy of Sciences, National 
Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine, and National Research 
Council make up the National Academies.  They are independent, nonprofit 
institutions that provide science, technology, and health policy advice 
under an 1863 congressional charter.
 
 

Copies of Ensuring the Integrity, Accessibility, and Stewardship of 
Research Data in the Digital Age  are available from the National 
Academies Press; tel. 202-334-3313 or 1-800-624-6242 or on the Internet 
at http://www.nap.edu.  Reporters may obtain a copy from the Office of 
News and Public Information (contacts listed above).

[ This news release and report are available at 
http://national-academies.org ]

NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING
INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE
Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy
Committee on Ensuring the Utility and Integrity of Research Data in a 
Digital Age

-- 
Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing,
King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/;
Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist;
Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org.




From willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk  Thu Jan  7 08:16:41 2010
From: willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk (Humanist Discussion Group)
Date: Thu,  7 Jan 2010 08:16:41 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Humanist] 23.541 the next big thing
Message-ID: <20100107081641.42DF73F998@woodward.joyent.us>

                 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 541.
         Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
                       www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist
                Submit to: humanist at lists.digitalhumanities.org



        Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2010 10:14:58 -0600
        From: Patricia Galloway <galloway at ischool.utexas.edu>
        Subject: the next big thing
        In-Reply-To: <mailman.1.1262174403.5255.humanist at lists.digitalhumanities.org>

A little belatedly, I'll point out that when I first started going to 
the Society of American Archivists meetings in the late 1990s, digital 
archiving was very much in the corner; now it constitutes much of the 
program at this largest meeting for the archives discipline in the US. 
So when digital humanists have things to save, the archives will be 
there; and when digital humanists want to work with digital texts and 
other media, hopefully they will already be safe and available. In other 
words, the infrastructure is being built, as a result of government and 
business needs and with the participation of major libraries and 
collecting archives. And with funding from IMLS, we are beginning to 
send digital archives and digital library graduate students to digital 
humanities centers for internships to begin making these connections 
real--see: http://www.ischooldh.org/

Pat Galloway
School of Information
University of Texas at Austin




From willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk  Thu Jan  7 08:17:49 2010
From: willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk (Humanist Discussion Group)
Date: Thu,  7 Jan 2010 08:17:49 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Humanist] 23.542 finding software?
Message-ID: <20100107081749.432833FA19@woodward.joyent.us>

                 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 542.
         Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
                       www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist
                Submit to: humanist at lists.digitalhumanities.org



        Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2010 17:48:30 +0000
        From: John Levin <john at technolalia.org>
        Subject: Finding software


Hi All,

In the course of my MA in Digital Humanities at CCH @ Kings, I'm spending
too much time trying to find suitable software for my work.

I'm thinking of advanced applications, e.g. for textual analysis and map
making, than more general tasks like text editing. Further, it's also
finding reliable, supported software. Evaluating apps takes time, and
testing software only to discard it as inadequate wastes it.

Google hasn't been useful in this respect.

There doesn't seem to be a (web-based) catalogue of software suitable for
digital humanities.

http://www.arts-humanities.net/tools is one such catalogue, but contains
only 23 entries, and those items are a mish mash (various adobe apps, apache
and sister projects, some languages, etc.) (Apparently, this is going to be
relaunched soon, and does have the merit of being based on what digihum
projects actually use.)

TEI has a wiki http://wiki.tei-c.org/index.php/Category:Tools but I find it
difficult to navigate, incomplete, and again, a bit of a mishmash.

There are various general catalogues for different platforms (versiontracker
for windows/osx; many for linux apps) - they're useful, but aren't
specifically orientated for digital humanities.

Do people think that more organised, better maintained catalogue would be
useful? Or have I overlooked one?

Or, to put it another way:

How do you find the software you use for your digital humanities projects?

Best,

John Levin

--John Levin
http://www.anterotesis.com





From willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk  Thu Jan  7 08:19:59 2010
From: willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk (Humanist Discussion Group)
Date: Thu,  7 Jan 2010 08:19:59 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Humanist] 23.543 a correction & an announcement
Message-ID: <20100107081959.6BB1A3FB03@woodward.joyent.us>


                 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 543.
         Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
                       www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist
                Submit to: humanist at lists.digitalhumanities.org

  [1]   From:    "Christopher J. Mackie" <CJM at mellon.org>                  (11)
        Subject: RE: [Humanist] 23.538 - "Mellon closes down Mackie's
                program"

  [2]   From:    I-CHASS <chass at ncsa.uiuc.edu>                             (19)
        Subject: I-CHASS and NCSA Project Awarded Funding from NSF


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        Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 18:51:00 -0500
        From: "Christopher J. Mackie" <CJM at mellon.org>
        Subject: RE: [Humanist] 23.538 - "Mellon closes down Mackie's program"
        In-Reply-To: <20100106084837.1A89544BEE at woodward.joyent.us>

Richard (and Willard and colleagues); My sincere thanks for thinking of me in the alert regarding Mellon's decision regarding the RIT program, but in the interests of accuracy I must note that, as the _Chronicle_ article mentions, the Program in Research in Information Technology was founded and led by Ira Fuchs, as whose Associate Program Officer I was privileged to serve from 2006 until this past Monday. 

Perhaps Ira will be no more excited than I am about appearing in this particular headline, but I think it is important that he be accorded full credit for his leadership and the many contributions he has made (and I expect will continue to make) to the digital humanities and to computing in general. 

All best,  --Chris

Christopher J. Mackie
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
+1 212.838.8400 (office: GMT - 5:00)
+1 609.933.1877 (mobile)
+1 646.274.6351 (fax)
cjm at mellon.org






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        Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 19:59:48 +0000
        From: I-CHASS <chass at ncsa.uiuc.edu>
        Subject: I-CHASS and NCSA Project Awarded Funding from NSF


The Institute for Computing in the Humanities, Arts, and Social Science (I-CHASS) and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) is pleased to announce that the project GroupScope: Instrumenting Research on Interaction Networks in Complex Social Contexts has been awarded funding by the Cyber-Enabled Discovery and Innovation Initiative of the National Science Foundation.  Marshall Scott Poole, Director of I-CHASS, is the PI of this project along with co-PIs David Forsyth and Mark Hasegawa-Johnson of the University of Illinois, Noshir Contractor of Northwestern University, and Feniosky Pena-Mora of Columbia University.  Peter Bacjsy, Associate Director of Image Analysis for I-CHASS, Alex Yahja, Assistant Director of Modeling for I-CHASS, and Dorothy Espelage, School of Education, are research scientists for this project.

Many of the most important functions in society are undertaken by large groups or teams.  Emergency response, product development, health care, education, and economic activity are pursued in the context of large, dynamic, interacting networks of groups.  Theory and research on such networks of groups is much less developed than research on isolated small groups or formal organizations.  A major challenge for research on networks of groups is the difficulties that accompany the collection and analysis of the huge bodies of high resolution, high volume, observational data necessary to study these large, dynamic networks of groups.  The goal of this project is to address this challenge by applying advanced computing applications to capture, manage, annotate and analyze these massive observational sets of video, audio, and other data.  The resulting data analysis system, GroupScope, will enable breakthrough research into social interaction in large, dynamic groups to be conducted much more quickly and with much higher reliability than was previously possible.  It will do this by automating as many functions as possible to the highest degree possible, including managing huge volumes of video, audio, and sensor data, transcription, parsing audio for critical discourse events, annotation and indexing of video streams, and coding interaction.  These first pass analyses can then be supplemented by human analysts (and their analyses in turn will feed into machine learning that will improve the computerized analysis).

GroupScope will be developed with the collaboration of social scientists studying emergency response teams, children?s playground behavior, distributed teams, and product development teams.  When developed, GroupScope will be deployed in a cyberenvironment, a Web 2.0 based cyberinfrastructure that enables a community of researchers to collaborate on common problems.  The cyberenvironment will enable multiple researchers to analyze and code the same group data for both small groups and large dynamic groups and networks.  Multiple analyses and codings working from diverse perspectives will enable discovery of previously unsuspected relationships among different levels and layers of human interaction.  They can also be linked to survey responses from participants, enabling linkage to the realm of perceptions and traits.

Many of the most fundamental advances in science have come through the development of new instruments, such as more powerful telescopes or microscopes that can allow scientists to view molecules.  In the same way GroupScope will shed light on the workings of critical functions performed by real world groups such as emergency response units, health care teams, stock exchanges, and military units.  GroupScope will also have applications in the training of those working in multi-team systems, such as first responders to disasters.  It can be used to record and ?grade? training sessions, giving participants feedback on both strengths and weaknesses of their approaches.

NSF has supported the four-year GroupScope project with a grant of $1.95 million.  Preliminary development of GroupScope was generously supported by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications and by the Critical Initiatives for Research and Scholarship Program of the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research at the University of Illinois.

* * *

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

From willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk  Thu Jan  7 08:22:01 2010
From: willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk (Humanist Discussion Group)
Date: Thu,  7 Jan 2010 08:22:01 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Humanist] 23.544 events: musical, lexicographical, linguistic,
	archaeological & connected
Message-ID: <20100107082201.8A2173FB9F@woodward.joyent.us>

                 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 544.
         Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
                       www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist
                Submit to: humanist at lists.digitalhumanities.org

  [1]   From:    lachance at chass.utoronto.ca                                (55)
        Subject: TCC 2010: Apr 20-22, Call for Papers & Presentation

  [2]   From:    Michael Hancher <mh at umn.edu>                              (26)
        Subject: call for proposals: The Dictionary in Print and in the Cloud

  [3]   From:    "Pasin, Michele" <michele.pasin at kcl.ac.uk>                (39)
        Subject: livecoding at the anatomy museum

  [4]   From:    "[IMCSIT] News Service" <chair.cla2010 at imcsit.org>        (37)
        Subject: Computational Linguistics - Applications (CLA'10)
                Preliminary Announcement

  [5]   From:    Gisela Eberhardt <gisela.eberhardt at oleco.net>             (66)
        Subject: cfp: Workshop on Methods for the History of Archaeology


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        Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 08:58:23 -0500 (EST)
        From: lachance at chass.utoronto.ca
        Subject: TCC 2010: Apr 20-22, Call for Papers & Presentation


TCC 2010  (Apr 20-22): Call for Papers & Presentations

15th Annual
TCC WORLDWIDE ONLINE CONFERENCE
April 20-22, 2010
Pre-conference dates: April 7-8, 2010

Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
~ Communication, Community, Ubiquitous Learning, Mobility and Best Choices ~

Submission deadline: January 15, 2010
Homepage: http://tcc.kcc.hawaii.edu

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

TCC 2010 invites faculty, support staff, librarians, counselors, student
affairs professionals, students, administrators, and educational
consultants to submit proposals for papers and general sessions.

THEME
Since the first TCC Online Conference, the Internet has evolved into a
global workspace for communication, collaboration, and community. People,
technologies, services, and perspectives have converged on a single
platform. The Internet has changed the teaching profession. How do faculty
communicate, collaborate, innovate to produce useful student learning
outcomes that differs from the past? College students place high priority
on using mobile smart phones and engaging online social communities daily.
What can we learn from our students? How do we build on our students'
expertise in digital media, personal publishing, and social networking?
Web 2.0 will continue to evolve. What effective practices have emerged in
online learning? How do we assess student learning? How will smart mobile
devices be adapted for learning? What is the institutional affect of
virtual worlds such as Second Life? TOPICS
TCC invites papers and general sessions on the continuing progress of
distance learning, virtual communities, collaborative learning, social
networking, and best choices for instructional technologies such as:

- Retrospectives and personal experiences with the evolution of learning
technologies - Perspectives and applications of Web 2.0 tools for teaching
and learning - Technology applications that facilitate communication,
collaboration, sharing, and social networking - Building and sustaining
learning communities
- Instructional applications in virtual worlds (Second Life, etc.) -
Distance learning including mobile learning
- Ubiquitous and lifelong learning
- Open content and open source
- E-portfolios and other assessment tools
- Student orientation and preparation
- Student success and assessment strategies in online learning
- Student services online (tutoring, advising, mentoring, career planning,
technology support, help desk, etc.) - Online learning resources (library,
learning centers, etc.)
- Online, hybrid, blended or other modes of technology enhanced learning -
Professional development for faculty and staff
- Accessibility for seniors and persons with disabilities
- Gender equity, digital divide, intercultural understanding, and open
access - Managing information technology and change in educational
institutions - Institutional planning and pedagogy catalyzed by technology
advances - Global learning, ubiquitous learning, and intercultural
communication - The status of educational technology around the world
- Other topics related to online learning and the application of
educational technologies



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        Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2010 09:48:16 -0600
        From: Michael Hancher <mh at umn.edu>
        Subject: call for proposals: The Dictionary in Print and in the Cloud

Call for proposals for possible Special Session at the Modern Language 
Association convention, Los Angeles, January 6-9, 2011.  Benedict 
Anderson's "philological-lexicographic revolution" and after. Cultural 
standardization and fixity in the regime of print-capitalism; 
implications of fluid lexicographical practice and access online.

In _Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of 
Nationalism_ (1983) Benedict Anderson closely identified the 
standardizing effects of lexicography with what he called 
"print-capitalism," itself linked to "the origins of national 
consciousness." Anderson's schematic references to "the lexicographical 
revolution in Europe" invite exemplification and critique. Also, in 
recent decades the lexicographical revolution has moved from print to 
cyberspace and the cloud. What do projects like dictionary.com, 
Wiktionary, le-dictionnaire.com, and DWDS, as well as Google's "define:" 
function, imply about communities constructed by "the dictionary" online 
today? Abstracts of proposed 15- or 20-minute presentations on either 
topic or both are welcome by March 15; please send them to mh at umn.edu. 
In March I'll organize a panel for the MLA program committee to 
consider. The committee reports its decisions in May.

Given sufficient interest I may edit a group of such papers for 
publication; therefore I invite proposals also from people who will not 
attend the MLA convention.

Michael Hancher
Professor of English, University of Minnesota
President, Dictionary Society of North America ( 
http://www.dictionarysociety.com )



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        Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 11:50:20 +0000
        From: "Pasin, Michele" <michele.pasin at kcl.ac.uk>
        Subject: livecoding at the anatomy museum


+++MUSICAL LIVECODING AT THE ANATOMY MUSEUM+++

Date: Thursday January 14th 2010, 7pm to 9pm circa.
Venue: The Anatomy Museum, King's College London
Website: http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~mpasin/events/livecoding/

Performers include:
Thor Magnusson, University of Sussex, UK
Michele Pasin, Kings College, UK
Andrew Brown, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Yee King, University of Sussex, UK
Alex McLean, Goldsmith University, UK

Why this event?

The purpose of this event is to let people know about a new and
exciting development in computer music research, livecoding. Several
London-based researchers in this area will perform a short piece using
livecoding techniques, thus helping the audience get a hang on this
new and cross-disciplinary approach to music creation.

What is Livecoding?
Algorithmic composition is the technique of using algorithms to create
music.
Algorithms (or, at the very least, formal sets of rules) have been
used to compose music for centuries; the procedures used to plot voice-
leading in Western counterpoint, for example, can often be reduced to
algorithmic determinacy. The term is usually reserved, however, for
the use of formal procedures to make music without human intervention,
either through the introduction of chance procedures or the use of
computers.

Live coding (sometimes known as 'interactive programming', 'on-the-fly
programming', 'just in time programming') is the name given to the
process of writing software in realtime as part of a performance.
Historically, similar techniques were used to produce early computer
art, but recently it has been explored as a more rigorous alternative
to laptop DJs who, live coders often feel, lack the charisma and
pizzazz of musicians performing live.


____________________________
Dr. Michele Pasin, Research Associate
Centre for Computing in the Humanities
King's College, London
http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~mpasin/


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        Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 16:05:46 +0000
        From: "[IMCSIT] News Service" <chair.cla2010 at imcsit.org>
        Subject: Computational Linguistics - Applications (CLA'10) Preliminary Announcement


Computational Linguistics - Applications (CLA'10)
Wis?a, Poland, October 18-20, 2010
http://CLA2010.imcsit.org
________________________________
If you have your account at Facebook you can also join a group: HERE<http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=212819479326>.
________________________________
Workshop Goals

The Computational Linguistics - Applications Workshop was created in 2008 in response to the fast-paced progress in the area.

Traditionally, computational linguistics was limited to the scientists specialized in the processing of a natural language by computers. Scientific approaches and practical techniques come from linguistics, computer science, psychology, and mathematics. Nowadays, there is a number of practical applications available. These applications are sometimes developed by smart yet NLP-untrained developers who solve the problems using sophisticated heuristics.

Computational Linguistics needs to be applied to make the full use of the Internet. There is a definite need for software that can handle unstructured text to allow search for information on the web. According to the European Commission, Human Language Technologies are one of the key research areas for the upcoming years. The priority aim of the research in this area is to enable users to communicate with the computer in their native language.

CLA'10 Workshop is a place where the parties meet to exchange views and ideas with a benefit to all involved. The Workshop will focus on practical outcome of modeling human language use and the applications needed to improve human-machine interaction.


Paper Topics

This call is for papers that present research and developments on all aspects of Natural Language Processing used in real-life applications, such as (this list is not exhaustive):


 *   information retrieval
 *   extraction of linguistic knowledge from text corpora
 *   semantic ontologies in computer linguistics
 *   lexical resources
 *   machine translation and translation aids
 *   ambiguity resolution
 *   text classification
 *   corpus-based language modeling
 *   POS-tagging
 *   parsing issues
 *   proofing tools
 *   dialogue systems
 *   machine learning methods applied to language processing
 *   ontology and taxonomy evaluation
 *   opinion mining
 *   question answering
 *   sentiment analysis
 *   speech and audio processing
 *   text summarization
 *   use of NLP techniques in practical applications

[...]

CLA - where science meets reality !


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        Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 15:48:34 +0000
        From: Gisela Eberhardt <gisela.eberhardt at oleco.net>
        Subject: cfp: Workshop on Methods for the History of Archaeology


Workshop: New historiographical approaches to archaeological research

Organisers: Gisela Eberhardt (Excellence Cluster Topoi, CSG V, Berlin); Fabian Link (Uni-versity of Basel, Department of History)
Place and date: 10.09.2010-11.09.2010, Free University Berlin, Topoi Building Dahlem
Deadline: 02.03.2010

Recent developments in the historiography of the sciences have led to the
call for a revised history of archaeology and a move away from hagiography
and presentations of scientific processes as an inevitable progression.
Historians of archaeology are beginning to utilize ap-proved and new
historiographical concepts and tools to trace how archaeological knowledge
has been produced and to reflect on the historical conditions and contexts
under which this knowledge has been generated (e. g. research network
?Archives of European Archaeology (AREA)?). For instance, recent studies
have questioned the continuity of scientific concepts in archaeology
(Andresen, Podgorny), discussed the influence on archaeological research of
biographical aspects and social dynamics (Kaeser, Gillberg & Jensen), and
explored strategies of visualization in archaeology (Klamm). However, a
powerful arsenal of concepts and me-thods for the study of knowledge
generation in archaeology is still lacking. 

This workshop aims at broadening the spectrum of available historiographical
frameworks, concepts, and methods for novel histories of archaeological
research. We ask for contributions that examine episodes from the history of
archaeology in light of recent historiographical ap-proaches to other
scientific fields. The aim is to adapt and modify these approaches to fit
our specific needs. 

Possible topics include: 

A) the impact on archaeological research processes of social dynamics.

Contributions may examine

- scientists? biographies (along the line of the recent revival of
biographical research, see e. g. S?derqvist)

- scientific groups (communities, networks, institutions etc) or the
relations between science and culture (e. g. museumvisitors or readership,
see Secord, Nyhart and Yanni, among others) Authors providing fruitful
inspiration here might also be Pierre Bourdieu
(?field-and-habitus-theory?) or Ludwik Fleck. Microhistory and
prosopography might turn out to be methodolog-ically useful as well. 

B) the nature and role of archaeological practice(s), i. e. the ?science
in action? (Latour). 

Contributions may examine 

- practices of surveys and excavations and the formation of rules and
standards for archaeo-logical work

- practices of inspecting, assessing and interpreting (features, artefacts
etc.)

- the history of tools (in the widest sense), e.g. with regard to changes
that occurred in IT

- the coming into being and passing away of scientific objects. Ian Hacking,
Hans-J?rg Rheinberger, Lorraine Daston, and Peter Galison, among others,
pro-vide frameworks for the study of the development of scientific
practices, instruments, and objects. 

C) the ways in which results of archaeological research are presented and
the possible influ-ence of such presentations on archaeological knowledge as
well as on further archaeological research.

Contributions may examine and compare verbal and visual presentation- in communications to peer audiences

- in unpublished documents
- in communications to popular audiences

Again, borrowing from the historiography of the sciences is obvious, e.g. from David Good-ing?s analysis of the structure of reports of experiments or from Martin J. Rudwick?s studies of the development of a ?visual language? for geology. An inspiring entry point to this area can be found in Begriffsgeschichte (history of terminology) (see e. g. the recent editions by Eggers & Rothe and M?ller & Schmieder; see also recent works on discourse analysis in his-torical research by Sarasin and Landwehr).

Other themes and approaches are very welcome. The workshop especially addresses junior scientists and researchers.

Initially we request abstracts in the order of 500 words (to: fabian.link at unibas.ch or gisela.eberhardt at oleco.net). Once the abstract is accepted, contributors are requested to pro-duce a text of about five pages in length, which will be circulated to the other participants a month before the workshop is held.

Abstract Deadline: March 2nd, 2010
Conference languages: English, German

----

Contact:
Fabian Link
Department of History, University of Basel
Hirschg?sslein 21, 4051 Basel, Switzerland
Tel.: +41 (0) 61 295 96 66
E-mail: fabian.link @unibas.ch




From willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk  Fri Jan  8 06:16:00 2010
From: willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk (Humanist Discussion Group)
Date: Fri,  8 Jan 2010 06:16:00 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Humanist] 23.545 finding software
Message-ID: <20100108061600.520423C6E1@woodward.joyent.us>


                 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 545.
         Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
                       www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist
                Submit to: humanist at lists.digitalhumanities.org

  [1]   From:    Ian Johnson <johnson at acl.arts.usyd.edu.au>                (79)
        Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.542 finding software?

  [2]   From:    Alan Liu <ayliu at english.ucsb.edu>                         (72)
        Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.542 finding software?

  [3]   From:    Chad Curtis <chad.curtis at nyu.edu>                         (81)
        Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.542 finding software?


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        Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2010 20:16:09 +1100 (EST)
        From: Ian Johnson <johnson at acl.arts.usyd.edu.au>
        Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.542 finding software?
        In-Reply-To: <20100107081749.432833FA19 at woodward.joyent.us>


http://echo.gmu.edu/toolcenter-wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page
http://digitalresearchtools.pbwiki.com/

and a rather grab-bag list at:

http://heuristscholar.org/heurist/?w=all&q=tag:tools+tag:software

Ian Johnson

> Hi All,
>
> In the course of my MA in Digital Humanities at CCH @ Kings, I'm spending
> too much time trying to find suitable software for my work.
>
> I'm thinking of advanced applications, e.g. for textual analysis and map
> making, than more general tasks like text editing. Further, it's also
> finding reliable, supported software. Evaluating apps takes time, and
> testing software only to discard it as inadequate wastes it.
>
> Google hasn't been useful in this respect.
>
> There doesn't seem to be a (web-based) catalogue of software suitable for
> digital humanities.
>
> http://www.arts-humanities.net/tools is one such catalogue, but contains
> only 23 entries, and those items are a mish mash (various adobe apps, apache
> and sister projects, some languages, etc.) (Apparently, this is going to be
> relaunched soon, and does have the merit of being based on what digihum
> projects actually use.)
>
> TEI has a wiki http://wiki.tei-c.org/index.php/Category:Tools but I find it
> difficult to navigate, incomplete, and again, a bit of a mishmash.
>
> There are various general catalogues for different platforms (versiontracker
> for windows/osx; many for linux apps) - they're useful, but aren't
> specifically orientated for digital humanities.
>
> Do people think that more organised, better maintained catalogue would be
> useful? Or have I overlooked one?
>
> Or, to put it another way:
>
> How do you find the software you use for your digital humanities projects?
>
> Best,
>
> John Levin
>
> --John Levin
> http://www.anterotesis.com


Ian Johnson

[johnson at acl.arts.usyd.edu.au]
 Skype: ian.johnson222
Director, Archaeological Computing Laboratory
Deputy Director, Digital Innovation Unit
Senior Research Fellow, Archaeology

Australia:

  Archaeological Computing Laboratory
    http://acl.arts.usyd.edu.au/

  Digital Innovation Unit in the Humanities and Social Sciences
    http://www.arts.usyd.edu.au/digitalinnovation

  Room 310 - 314, F09 Madsen Building, University of Sydney, NSW 2006
  +61 (0)2 9351 2552 (direct) ..3142, ..8981 (msg) 3644 (fax)
  +61 (0)402 389 190 mobile

France: (mid April - early July 2010)

  Esparoutis, St Cybranet 24250
  +33 (0)6 37 18 93 42 mobile
  Email: johnson at acl.arts.usyd.edu.au

Project URLS:

  Rethinking Timelines: http://acl.arts.usyd.edu.au/timelines
  TimeMap:  http://www.TimeMap.net
  Associate of the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative http://www.ecai.org



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        Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2010 02:39:15 -0800
        From: Alan Liu <ayliu at english.ucsb.edu>
        Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.542 finding software?
        In-Reply-To: <20100107081749.432833FA19 at woodward.joyent.us>


Lisa Spiro's excellent DIRT (Digital Research Tools):
http://digitalresearchtools.pbworks.com/



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        Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2010 12:03:21 -0500
        From: Chad Curtis <chad.curtis at nyu.edu>
        Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.542 finding software?
        In-Reply-To: <20100107081749.432833FA19 at woodward.joyent.us>

Hi:

This is one of the better indexes I have found:

http://digitalresearchtools.pbworks.com/Text-Analysis-Tools

The main wiki page has more categories useful for DH.

Chad Curtis
Librarian for Literary Studies and Digital Scholarship in the Humanities
New York University


From willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk  Fri Jan  8 06:16:57 2010
From: willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk (Humanist Discussion Group)
Date: Fri,  8 Jan 2010 06:16:57 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Humanist] 23.546 postdoc at Aalto (Finland)
Message-ID: <20100108061657.283523C761@woodward.joyent.us>

                 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 546.
         Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
                       www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist
                Submit to: humanist at lists.digitalhumanities.org



        Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2010 15:34:40 +0200
        From: "Lily Diaz" <Lily.Diaz at taik.fi>
        Subject: post-doctoral position

Post-doctoral position 1.8.2010-31.12.2012:
Experimental interfaces and interaction design

Aalto University is created through a merger between the Helsinki  
School of Economics, the University of Art and Design Helsinki and the  
Helsinki University of Technology, which will start operating on the  
1st of January 2010. www.aalto.fi

Media Lab of Aalto University School of Art and Design
The Media Lab Helsinki http://mlab.taik.fi in the School of Art and  
Design of the new Aalto University is a part of the new Department of  
Media.

Much of the world?s leading research and development in the broad  
field of new media, and within Media Labs, is characterized by work in  
the areas of physical computing and/or tangible user interfaces. The  
Media Lab Helsinki is characterized by its commitment towards the  
development of new formats and genres in art and design. In the  
digital media, these genres find their immediate form of expression in  
the interaction of the human agent with the digital matter through the  
interface.

Post doc researcher on experimental interfaces and interaction design
In the Media Lab Helsinki we?re now opening the call for a post- 
doctoral position 1.8.2010-31.12.2012. Area of research is  
experimental interfaces and interaction design. The area of research  
is dual thematic that includes on the one hand research and  
development of physical and tangible interfaces and on the other  
knowledge and experience with artistic forms of interaction  
implemented for instance, in the areas of sound/sonic interaction,  
dance and theater.

Responsibilities
The purpose of the work of the post-doctoral researcher is to support  
and further develop the research areas consistent with the  
department?s research profile. The work of the post-doctoral  
researcher includes both research as well as teaching and tutoring  
related to the field of research. In addition to this post-doctoral  
researchers may be required to undertake other tasks related to  
research and education.

Media Lab?s New Media education includes two MA programs ? (1) MA in  
New Media and (2) MA in Sound in New Media, as well as studies leading  
to the doctoral degree. The new post-doctoral researcher is expected  
to strengthen the programs by providing more solid research foundation  
? including design and artistic practice ? benefiting the education.

Qualifications
Applicants who have completed their doctoral studies quickly and  
successfully will be favored. In filling the position special emphasis  
will be given to the scientific quality of earlier research, art and/ 
or design practice, international experience, as well as a research  
plan which is convincing and which corresponds well to the  
department?s needs. The chosen person should have completed their  
doctoral studies before the start of the post-doctoral period. The  
task requires fluent skills in the use of English language.

According to the multi-disciplinary nature of the Media Lab Helsinki  
and its operations it is expected that the applicants possess multiple  
skills that include computation, research, design and artistic  
methodologies, knowledge of new media theory as well as artistic and/ 
or design activities.

Compensation
Compensations will be paid according to the new salary system at  
Finnish universities. Researcher positions are on faculty demand level  
5-6. In addition, a personal supplementary compensation of maximum 48  
% will be paid. In the beginning the salary will be 2.993-3.556  
euros / month.

Applications
The application documents, including the application, applicant?s CV  
and a portfolio, a research plan and other selected certificates are  
expected to be delivered to the address kirjaamo at taik.fi (subject:  
post doc: experimental interfaces and interaction design) or to  
Kirjaamo, Aalto University, School of Art and Design, p.o.box 31000,  
00076 Aalto, by 2.3.2010 at 15 Finnish time.

Further information
Profes




From willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk  Fri Jan  8 06:21:59 2010
From: willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk (Humanist Discussion Group)
Date: Fri,  8 Jan 2010 06:21:59 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Humanist] 23.547 new publication series & prize
Message-ID: <20100108062159.B11913C827@woodward.joyent.us>

                 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 547.
         Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
                       www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist
                Submit to: humanist at lists.digitalhumanities.org



        Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2010 14:12:24 -0500
        From: "Dwyer, Thomas" <thdwyer at umich.edu>
        Subject: U Mich Digital Humanities Series and UM/HASTAC Publication Prize


Announcement: University of Michigan Series in Digital Humanities & the Michigan Publishing/HASTAC Digital Humanities Publication Prize

The University of Michigan Press and the Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory (HASTAC) are pleased to announce the launch of The University of Michigan Series in Digital Humanities at digitalculturebooks and the UM/ HASTAC Digital Humanities Publication Prize.  The series editors are Julie Thompson  Klein  (Wayne State University), Tara McPherson (University of Sothern California) and Tom Finholt (University of Michigan).  The series advisory board members are Cathy Davidson (Duke University), Sidonie Smith (University of Michigan), Daniel Herwitz (University of Michigan), Wendy Chun (Brown University), and Kathleen Fitzpatrick (Pomona College).

The series will provide a forum for ground-breaking and benchmark work in digital humanities, forwarding the exploration of the intersections of computers and the disciplines of the arts and humanities, the professions of education and of library and information science, and the fields of media and communications studies, and cultural studies. The purpose of the University of Michigan Digital Humanities Series is to feature rigorous research that advances understanding of the nature and implications of the changing relationship between humanities and digital technologies.

Books, monographs, and experimental formats that define and display current practices, emergent trends, and future directions will receive priority. Together, they will illuminate the varied disciplinary and professional forms, broad multidisciplinary scope, interdisciplinary dynamics, and transdisciplinary potential of the field.

Works for the series and submissions to be considered for the UM/HASTAC Prize will further the following goals:

* to break new ground by defining and assessing current and emerging methodological and
theoretical approaches;
* to benchmark best practices and projects through analysis of their nature, quality, and impact;
* to present leading scholarship on the changing relationship of humanities and technology;
* to feature best work from leading networks, communities of practice, and innovative
practitioners;
* to examine key thematics and problematics of the field;
* to define and examine innovative approaches to digital teaching and learning.

For more information about this series, or to submit a proposal please contact
the Acquiring Editor: Tom Dwyer - thdwyer at umich.edu

2009 Notice for the University of Michigan Press/HASTAC Publication Prize for Notable Work in the Digital Humanities

 In conjunction with the launch of the UM Series in Digital Humanities, the University of Michigan and the Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory (HASTAC) are pleased to announce the UM Press/HASTAC Digital Humanities Publication Prize. The prize will be awarded for an innovative and important project that displays a critical and rigorous engagement in the field of Digital Humanities.

Eligible projects will be peer reviewed with the winner determined by the HASTAC Steering Committee, the general editors and the advisory board of the University of Michigan Press Series in Digital Humanities. The series editors are Julie Thompson Klein (Wayne State University), Tara McPherson (University of Southern California) and Tom Finholt (University of Michigan). The series advisory board members are Cathy Davidson (Duke University), Sidonie Smith (University of Michigan), Daniel Herwitz (University of Michigan), Wendy Chun (Brown University), and Kathleen Fitzpatrick (Pomona College).

For initial consideration, authors should provide a prospectus of the completed manuscript or emergent work describing its goals, intended audience, and significance, as well as a C.V. and sample material in a PDF. Final determination by the prize committee will be based on a review of a completed manuscript or a detailed prospectus, work plan, and sample material for projects.

Submissions will be excepted for review immediately. The prize recipient will be announced on the HASTAC and UM Press websites. The winning submission will be published by the University of Michigan Press in the UM Digital Humanities Series under the digitalculturebooks imprint in print and digital formats.
For questions, please contact the UM Press Acquiring Editor, Tom Dwyer: thdwyer at umich.edu<mailto:thdwyer at umich.edu>




From willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk  Fri Jan  8 06:29:49 2010
From: willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk (Humanist Discussion Group)
Date: Fri,  8 Jan 2010 06:29:49 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Humanist] 23.548 watch Kevin Franklin!
Message-ID: <20100108062949.55D563CA2E@woodward.joyent.us>

                 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 548.
         Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
                       www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist
                Submit to: humanist at lists.digitalhumanities.org



        Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2010 17:59:40 +0000
        From: I-CHASS <chass at ncsa.uiuc.edu>
        Subject: HPCwire names Kevin Franklin one to watch in 2010


Kevin Franklin, executive director of the Institute for Computing in Humanities, Arts and Social Science <www.chass.illinois.edu/Index/Index.html> (I-CHASS), has been named one of the 12 top people to watch in 2010 by HPCwire. The list recognizes individuals who contribute to the advancement of high-performance computing technology and the use of HPC.


HPCwire calls Franklin "that rare individual who can straddle the divide between technology and the human condition" and credits his efforts to "bridge the chasm between the technologist and the humanist." Read more at HPCwire's website<http://tinyurl.com/People-to-watch>.

* * *

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



From willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk  Fri Jan  8 06:31:18 2010
From: willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk (Humanist Discussion Group)
Date: Fri,  8 Jan 2010 06:31:18 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Humanist] 23.549 events: Dictionary in Print & Cloud; logic
Message-ID: <20100108063118.034233CB2E@woodward.joyent.us>

                 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 549.
         Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
                       www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist
                Submit to: humanist at lists.digitalhumanities.org

  [1]   From:    Geoff Sutcliffe <geoff at cs.miami.edu>                      (30)
        Subject: LPAR-16 deadline extended

  [2]   From:    Michael Hancher <mh at umn.edu>                              (26)
        Subject: cfp: The Dictionary in Print and in the Cloud


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        Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2010 05:22:43 +0000
        From: Geoff Sutcliffe <geoff at cs.miami.edu>
        Subject: LPAR-16 deadline extended


                             CALL FOR PAPERS

                                  LPAR-16
           
                 16th International Conference on Logic for
             Programming, Artificial Intelligence and Reasoning

                           April 25 - May 1, 2010
                               Dakar, Senegal
                        http://www.lpar.net/lpar-16/

                ============================================
                SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 13th JANUARY
                ============================================

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 16th 
edition will be held in Dakar, Senegal.

Logic is a fundamental organizing principle in nearly all areas in Computer 
Science. It runs a multifaceted gamut from the foundational to the applied. 
At one extreme, it underlies computability and complexity theory and the 
formal semantics of programming languages. At the other, it drives billions 
of gates every day in the digital circuits of processors of all kinds. Logic 
is in itself a powerful programming paradigm but it is also the quintessential 
specification language for anything ranging from real-time critical systems 
to networked infrastructures. 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.

[...]

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        Date: Fri, 08 Jan 2010 00:04:27 -0600
        From: Michael Hancher <mh at umn.edu>
        Subject: cfp: The Dictionary in Print and in the Cloud


Call for proposals for possible Special Session at the Modern Language 
Association convention, Los Angeles, January 6-9, 2011.  Benedict 
Anderson's "philological-lexicographic revolution" and after. Cultural 
standardization and fixity in the regime of print-capitalism; 
implications of fluid lexicographical practice and access online.

In _Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of 
Nationalism_ (1983) Benedict Anderson closely identified the 
standardizing effects of lexicography with what he called 
"print-capitalism," itself linked to "the origins of national 
consciousness." Anderson's schematic references to "the lexicographical 
revolution in Europe" invite exemplification and critique. Also, in 
recent decades the lexicographical revolution has moved from print to 
cyberspace and the cloud. What do projects like dictionary.com, 
Wiktionary, le-dictionnaire.com, and DWDS, as well as Google's "define:" 
function, imply about communities constructed by "the dictionary" online 
today? Abstracts of proposed 15- or 20-minute presentations on either 
topic or both are welcome by March 15; please send them to mh at umn.edu. 
In March I'll organize a panel for the MLA program committee to 
consider. The committee reports its decisions in May.

Given sufficient interest I may edit a group of such papers for 
publication; therefore I invite proposals also from people who will not 
attend the MLA convention.

Michael Hancher
Professor of English, University of Minnesota
President, Dictionary Society of North America 
(http://www.dictionarysociety.com )




From willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk  Fri Jan  8 06:43:12 2010
From: willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk (Humanist Discussion Group)
Date: Fri,  8 Jan 2010 06:43:12 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Humanist] 23.550 innovative use of the medium
Message-ID: <20100108064312.6CBD53CF68@woodward.joyent.us>

                 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 550.
         Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
                       www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist
                Submit to: humanist at lists.digitalhumanities.org



        Date: Fri, 08 Jan 2010 06:41:25 +0000
        From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk>
        Subject: innovative use of the online medium

Fugitives taunt their pursuers on the Internet, Facebook, MySpace

By Monica Hesse
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, January 7, 2010; C01

Craig "Lazie" Lynch was hanging out in someone's kitchen, half-naked and 
wrapped in a Christmas garland, gleefully holding a turkey while 
flipping an entirely different kind of bird.

He was supposed to be in jail.

In the past two weeks, this little paradox has made him a folk hero to 
thousands of people around the world.

He stands for something. Or he's a raging idiot.

The story so far: Lynch, a 28-year-old Brit, was serving a seven-year 
sentence for burglary at a low-security prison outside of Suffolk, 
England. He escaped in September 2009. Police issued a public appeal for 
tips to his whereabouts; in late December someone informed the local 
paper that his whereabouts were completely transparent. On Lynch's 
recently updated Facebook page, he was complaining about the weather, 
feasting on a venison steak and "thinkin, which lucky girl will be my 
first of 2010!!"

After news of his Facebooking became public but failed to lead to an 
arrest, Lynch decided to go for broke and act like a complete jerk.

"I had a funny feelin that my door was going to come off this mornin," 
he wrote in one smug post guaranteed to torque law enforcement officials 
everywhere. "Then I remembered the [police] are thick as [dung]. And 
went back to sleep."

He posted the Christmas turkey photo, plus another in which he held a 
placard encouraging people who spotted him to dial 999, the British 
equivalent of 911.

"We've got ongoing queries to locate him," Suffolk police spokeswoman 
Anne-Marie Breach says wearily. "We're asking for information on where 
he actually, physically is," not just what his virtual updates might imply.

After Facebook apparently shut down Lynch's personal profile last week, 
fan sites began springing up, one run by someone claiming to have been 
in touch with Lynch. It gained more than 40,000 members worldwide before 
Facebook removed it on Monday. A replacement group has already acquired 
more than 2,000 followers. A Facebook spokesman declined to comment on 
the site's actions, citing the ongoing investigation.

"Fugitives since, what, Jesse James have been chiding their pursuers," 
writes Bryan Burrough, who has written several books about American 
criminals, via e-mail. You had Bonnie and Clyde leaving behind written 
odes to their exploits, the Zodiac killer sending missives to San 
Francisco newspapers. "What is genuinely fascinating now is that, while 
for years a crook might chide a cop in a phone call or handwritten note, 
they can now do it for all the world to see." As with all things on the 
Internet, the elimination of the middle man makes the story infinitely 
more personal. Imagine the follower count that would exist for Bonnie 
Parker's Twitter feed.

The fascination with fugitives "lies in our devotion to live by workaday 
rules," Burrough says. "Don't cut in line. Please the boss. . . . We all 
do this, to some degree of frustration, and thus we tend to live 
vicariously through the exploits of those like Dillinger or even Lynch."

Usually when a fugitive's acts become public on social networking sites 
it's because of stupidity, as in the case of Jonathan Parker, who paused 
in the middle of allegedly robbing a Pennsylvania home to check his 
Facebook account, then forgot to log out when he left the burgled house. 
Or Joseph Wade Northington, nabbed for a South Carolina bank robbery 
when officials were alerted to a MySpace message reading, "On tha run 
from robbin a bank Love all of yall." Or Maxi Sopo, who fled to Mexico 
after allegedly committing bank fraud, then bragged about the party 
scene there to his friends on Facebook, which included a former 
Department of Justice official.

Cases of deliberate nanny-nanny-boo-booing via technology are rare, 
according to FBI spokesman Jason Pack. But those are the ones that 
acquire mythic status.

Take the New Zealand couple who received an accidental credit of $10 
million New Zealand to their bank account. Instead of returning it, the 
two took the money and ran to Hong Kong with family members who blithely 
sent status updates about the trip while police pleaded for their 
return. Facebook group "Run, Leo, Run" was promptly founded in their honor.

Or take "barefoot burglar" Colton Harris-Moore, a Washington state teen 
whose suspected thefts have escalated from cars to private aircraft 
(they say he hot-wires them), and who has taunted police by leaving 
behind notes and a self-portrait on a digital camera (he's cute). 
T-shirts reading "Fly, Colton, Fly" were promptly created in his honor.

As for Lynch's devoted fans . . .

"I see it as where maybe Craig is trying to make a movement about 
something," writes Nikki Skouby-Bigby via e-mail. Skouby-Bigby is a 
Missouri mom who administers one of Lynch's Facebook fan pages. "But I 
don't think he's ever said, and I know everyone wants to know why. . . . 
He seems like a man that is serious about what he's trying to prove and 
not just to be out acting crazy."

Lynch's fans write speculative fan fiction about his whereabouts, 
claiming to have spotted him at football games, hanging out with singer 
George Michael, riding mechanical bulls at bars. They specialize in 
fantasy futures for Lynch that contain more freedom than his real future 
likely will.

"It's tough man," writes a fan named Jose Lorente. "You will be running 
your whole life, at least that makes you to live in present time always, 
and not sleeping like almost all of us."

Azaria Jagger, who has blogged about Lynch on Gawker.com, has another 
piece of advice: "Just don't pull a gun or anything when they come to 
get you, because then we'll all feel like jerks for cheering you on."

-- 
Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing,
King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/;
Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist;
Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org.




From willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk  Fri Jan  8 08:51:47 2010
From: willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk (Humanist Discussion Group)
Date: Fri,  8 Jan 2010 08:51:47 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Humanist] 23.551 postdoc at Aalto (Finland) -- further information
Message-ID: <20100108085147.0615A3B61E@woodward.joyent.us>

                 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 551.
         Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
                       www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist
                Submit to: humanist at lists.digitalhumanities.org



        Date: Fri, 08 Jan 2010 09:23:53 +0200
        From: "Lily Diaz" <Lily.Diaz at taik.fi>
        Subject: further information about Aalto post-doc position


[Somehow in the posting earlier this morning crucial information was cut. Apologies. This information is as follows. --WM]

Inquires should be addressed to:

Professor Philip Dean (philip.dean at taik.fi)
http://mlab.taik.fi

With best regards, and best wishes for the new year,

Lily D?az
Professor, Media Lab
Aalto University School of Art and Design




From willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk  Sun Jan 10 09:45:35 2010
From: willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk (Humanist Discussion Group)
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2010 09:45:35 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Humanist] 23.552 finding software
Message-ID: <20100110094535.6D10245A1A@woodward.joyent.us>

                 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 552.
         Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
                       www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist
                Submit to: humanist at lists.digitalhumanities.org



        Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2010 05:57:22 -0800
        From: Jockers Matthew <mjockers at stanford.edu>
        Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.542 finding software?
        In-Reply-To: <20100107081749.432833FA19 at woodward.joyent.us>


Have you not seen Lisa Spiro's very fine collection of tools at the Digital Research Tools (DIRT) wiki?
http://digitalresearchtools.pbworks.com/
--
Matthew Jockers
Stanford University
http://www.stanford.edu/~mjockers




From willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk  Sun Jan 10 09:46:43 2010
From: willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk (Humanist Discussion Group)
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2010 09:46:43 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Humanist] 23.553 job at Teeside
Message-ID: <20100110094643.8745C45AB6@woodward.joyent.us>

                 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 553.
         Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
                       www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist
                Submit to: humanist at lists.digitalhumanities.org



        Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2010 16:14:05 +0000
        From: "Cavazza, Marc" <M.O.Cavazza at tees.ac.uk>
        Subject: Job Opportunities at Teesside University


As part of the final phase of two PF6 Projects (COMPANIONS and CALLAS) and of follow-up investment from the University, the School and the Digitial Futures Institute offers several 12 month positions (Research Fellows and Research Associates) in the field of Multimodal Interfaces and Intelligent Media.

Details can be found at:

http://www.tees.ac.uk/sections/jobs/jobdetails.cfm?jobid=3249

http://www.tees.ac.uk/sections/jobs/jobdetails.cfm?jobid=3250

Group web site: http://ive.scm.tees.ac.uk/

Informal enquiries on these vacancies should be directed to Professor Marc Cavazza via e-mail: m.o.cavazza at tees.ac.uk.
Closing date: 18 January 2010 (12.00pm) 

In addition, the Group can offer funding for short-term visiting positions (< 6 months) in specific areas, via several schemes. 


From willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk  Sun Jan 10 09:48:27 2010
From: willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk (Humanist Discussion Group)
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2010 09:48:27 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Humanist] 23.554 new publication: Glottometrics 19
Message-ID: <20100110094827.3D2AE45B00@woodward.joyent.us>

                 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 554.
         Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
                       www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist
                Submit to: humanist at lists.digitalhumanities.org



        Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2010 10:21:41 +0000
        From: RAM-Verlag <RAM-Verlag at t-online.de>
        Subject: Glottometrics 19, 2009


If you are interested in Glottometrics 19, 2009, please click here: http://www.ram-verlag.de/<blocked::http://www.ram-verlag.de/> . 

Glottometrics 19, 2009 is available as:

Printed edition: EUR 30.00 plus PP

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If you have any questions,do not hesitate to contact me.

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From willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk  Sun Jan 10 09:51:47 2010
From: willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk (Humanist Discussion Group)
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2010 09:51:47 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Humanist] 23.555 events: textual scholarship; memory; DH basics;
	computability; 
Message-ID: <20100110095147.7154145D04@woodward.joyent.us>

                 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 555.
         Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
                       www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist
                Submit to: humanist at lists.digitalhumanities.org

  [1]   From:    Christian Wittern <cwittern at gmail.com>                    (12)
        Subject: Registration for conference New Directions in Textual
                Scholarship now open

  [2]   From:    Cyril Brom <brom at ksvi.mff.cuni.cz>                       (119)
        Subject: 2nd Call For Papers: Remembering Who We Are - Human Memory
                for Artificial Agents, at AISB 2010

  [3]   From:    Emily Cullen <e.cullen at RIA.IE>                            (21)
        Subject: DHO event at University College Cork, 14th/15th January

  [4]   From:    S B Cooper <pmt6sbc at maths.leeds.ac.uk>                    (65)
        Subject: CiE 2010 - Final Call for Papers


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        Date: Sat, 09 Jan 2010 10:06:14 +0900
        From: Christian Wittern <cwittern at gmail.com>
        Subject: Registration for conference New Directions in Textual Scholarship now open


This is just a short note to inform you that registration is now open[1] for
the international conference "New Directions in Textual Scholarship", to be
held March 25 to 27 in Saitama and Tokyo, Japan.  More information about the
conference and the accepted speakers can be found on the website.  We hope
to see you all in Japan come March!

On behalf of the program committee and the organizing team,

Christian Wittern

[1] http://www.kyy.saitama-u.ac.jp/users/myojo/textjapan/registration.html

-- 
 Christian Wittern
 Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University
 47 Higashiogura-cho, Kitashirakawa, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8265, JAPAN



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        Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2010 16:18:39 +0000
        From: Cyril Brom <brom at ksvi.mff.cuni.cz>
        Subject: 2nd Call For Papers: Remembering Who We Are - Human Memory for Artificial Agents, at AISB 2010


CALL FOR PAPERS

REMEMBERING WHO WE ARE ? HUMAN MEMORY FOR ARTIFICIAL AGENTS

A one day symposium on 29th March 2010
In conjunction with the AISB 2010 Convention
(http://www.aisb.org.uk/convention/aisb10/AISB2010.html)
De Montfort University, Leicester
The symposium is supported by the European FP7 Project LIREC
(http://www.lirec.eu/)

Memory gives us identity, shapes our personality and drives our
reactions to different situations in life. We actively create
expectations, track the fulfilment of these expectations and
dynamically modify our memory when new experiences demand it. Yet up
to date, many important social aspects of human memory (for instance,
emotional memory and episodic memory) to artificial intelligent agents
have not been given much attention. The challenge might lie in the
amount of memories one can have in a life time. Take a narrative agent
for example, how can we generate a lifetime?s worth of memories for
this agent? Can we easily record human experiences for this purpose?
What trust and privacy issues will this entail? On the other hand,
without this type of memory, can the agent generate believable life
stories given that it is what colors our lives in retrospect? For an
agent that continuously interacts with users or other agents, how can
we design it with the capability to generate memories worth
remembering in its lifetime? How can the agent record experiences of
others during interaction? Can the agent maintain its relationship
with others without any information about its past experiences with
them?

Artificial agent researchers have been constantly coming up with
computational cognitive models inspired by the human brain to create
characters that are more natural, believable and behave in human
plausible ways. However, memory components in these models are usually
oversimplified. Memory components which have been widely accepted and
modelled are the long-term memory including procedural and declarative
memories, the short-term memory and the sensory memory. What about the
more ?socially-aware? memory which allows us to be effectively
involved in social interactions and which fundamentally supports the
creation of our life stories including the significance of events and
their emotional impact? It is important to review artificial agents
without this kind of memory particularly those designed for social
interactions, and reflect on the effects of this shortcoming.
Additionally, many existing models do not take into consideration the
bio-mechanisms of human memory operations such as those involved in
retrieval and forgetting processes. The most commonly adopted approach
to forgetting is decay but the human brain performs other processes
such as generalisation, reconstruction and repression to list a few.

This symposium offers an opportunity for interdisciplinary discussions
on human-like memory for artificial agents including organisational
structures and mechanisms. We hope to bring together memory
researchers, psychologists, computer scientists and neurologists to
discuss issues on memory modelling, memory data collection and
application to achieve a better understanding of which, when and how
human-like memory can contribute to artificial agents modelling.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

* Role of memory in artificial agents
* Type of memory and application
* Memory and emotion modelling
* Human-agent/human-robot interaction history
* Effective memory data collection
* Privacy issues related to data collection
* Bio-inspiration to memory modelling
* Memory mechanisms for encoding, storage and retrieval
* Memory influence on reasoning and decision-making
* Modelling forgetting in episodic memory
* Ethological aspects of memory
* Spatial memory

Submission

We are seeking submissions of original papers (up to 8 pages) that fit
well with the symposium theme and topics. Papers should be submitted
through the EasyChair system
(http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rwwa10). You will have to
register with EasyChair if you do not already have an account. Please
submit your paper in PDF format (according to the AISB 2010 formatting
guidelines - templates available on the AISB 2010
convention website). All submissions will be peer reviewed. Authors of
accepted contributions will be asked to prepare the final versions (up
to 8 pages) for inclusion in the symposium proceedings. At least one
author of each accepted paper will be required to register and attend
the symposium to present their work.

Important Dates

* 15th January 2010: Submission deadline of full-length paper
* 8th February 2010: Notification for paper acceptance
* 1st March 2010: Submission of camera-ready final papers
* 29th March 2010: Symposium

Program Committee

Cyril Brom, Charles University Prague
Sibylle Enz, University of Bamberg
Stan Franklin, The University of Memphis
Wan Ching Ho, University of Hertfordshire (co-chair)
Mei Yii Lim, Heriot-Watt University (co-chair)
Andrew Nuxoll, University of Portland
Alexei Samsonovich, George Mason University
Holger Schultheis, University of Bremen
Dan Tecuci, University of Texas
Patricia A. Vargas, Heriot-Watt University

Official Website
http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/~myl/AISBRWWA.html

Contact

Dr. Mei Yii Lim
Computer Science, Heriot-Watt University, Riccarton, EH14 4AS, UK
Email: M.Lim at hw.ac.uk
Homepage: http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/~myl/
Tel: (44) 131 4514162
Fax: (44) 131 4513327

Dr. Wan Ching Ho
STRI, University of Hertfordshire,
College Lane, Hatfield, AL10 9AB, UK
Email: W.C.Ho at herts.ac.uk
Homepage: http://homepages.feis.herts.ac.uk/~comqwch/
Tel: (44) 170 7285111
Fax: (44) 170 7284185

-- 
Heriot-Watt University is a Scottish charity
registered under charity number SC000278.

-- 

Cyril Brom
Charles University in Prague
Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
Department of Software and Computer Science Education
http://ksvi.mff.cuni.cz/~brom/


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        Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2010 11:18:39 +0000
        From: Emily Cullen <e.cullen at RIA.IE>
        Subject: DHO event at University College Cork, 14th/15th January


The DHO is delighted to announce a two-day digital humanities event run in conjunction with University College Cork.

The symposia and workshops will take place on Thursday 14th and Friday 15th January at U.C.C. The first day will be devoted to digital project management and include hands-on sessions with some of the tools available for researchers. The second day will provide an introduction into markup, metadata and encoding principles, followed by a more focused afternoon workshop on TEI.

Led by the DHO's Visiting Metadata Manager, Kevin Hawkins, and Digital Humanities Specialist, Dr. K Faith Lawrence, this event offers attendees a change to gain an introduction to some of the fundamental principles and issues faced by digital humanities projects and researchers. While attendance is free and open to anyone, the afternoon sessions have limited places and registration is required. Places are allocated on a first-come-first-served basis so prompt action is recommended.

For more information and instructions on how to register, please see the event page at http://dho.ie/node/667

--
Emily Cullen, Ph.D.,
Programme Co-ordinator
Digital Humanities Observatory
28-32 Upper Pembroke Street
Dublin 2
Ireland

Tel: +353(0)1-2342442
Fax:+353(0)1-2342400
E-mail: e.cullen at ria.ie<mailto:e.cullen at ria.ie>
http://dho.ie http://dho.ie/
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        Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2010 13:57:08 +0000
        From: S B Cooper <pmt6sbc at maths.leeds.ac.uk>
        Subject: CiE 2010 - Final Call for Papers


Final call for papers

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
            COMPUTABILITY IN EUROPE 2010: Programs, Proofs, Processes
               Ponta Delgada (Azores), Portugal
                   June 30 to July 4, 2010
                  http://www.cie2010.uac.pt/

            Deadline for submissions: 20 JANUARY 2010
---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Computability in Europe provides the largest international conference 
dealing with the full spectrum of computability-related research.

CiE 2010 in the Azores is the sixth conference of the Series, held in a 
geographically unique and dramatic location, Europe's most Westerly 
outpost. The theme of CiE 2010 - "Programs, Proofs, Processes" - points 
to the usual CiE synergy of Computer Science, Mathematics and Logic, with 
important computability-theoretic connections to science and the real 
universe.

TUTORIALS: Jeffrey Bub (Information, Computation and Physics),
Bruno Codenotti (Computational Game Theory).

INVITED SPEAKERS: Eric Allender, Jose L. Balcazar, Shafi Goldwasser, 
Denis Hirschfeldt, Seth Lloyd, Sara Negri, Toniann Pitassi, and 
Ronald de Wolf.

SPECIAL SESSIONS on:

Biological Computing, organizers: Paola Bonizzoni, Krishna Narayanan
Invited speakers: Giancarlo Mauri, Natasha Jonoska, Stephane Vialette, 
Yasubumi Sakakibara

Computational Complexity, organizers: Luis Antunes, Alan Selman
Invited speakers: Eric Allender, Christian Glasser, John Hitchcock, 
Rahul Santhanam

Computability of the Physical, organizers: Barry Cooper, Cris Calude
Invited speakers: Giuseppe Longo, Yuri Manin, Cris Moore, David Wolpert

Proof Theory and Computation, organizers: Martin Hyland, Fernando Ferreira
Invited speakers: Thorsten Altenkirch, Samuel Mimram, Paulo Oliva, 
Lutz Strassburger

Reasoning and Computation from Leibniz to Boole, organizers: Benedikt Loewe, 
Guglielmo Tamburrini
Confirmed speakers: Volker Peckhaus, Olga Pombo, Sara Uckelman

Web Algorithms and Computation, organizers: Martin Olsen, Thomas Erlebach
Confirmed speaker: Debora Donato

SPECIAL TRIBUTE TO MARIAN POUR-EL: Ning Zhong.

CiE serves as an interdisciplinary forum for research in all aspects of 
computability and foundations of computer science, as well as the 
interplay of these theoretical areas with practical issues in computer 
science and with other disciplines such as biology, mathematics, 
philosophy, or physics.

Formal systems, attendant proofs, and the possibility of their 
computer generation and manipulation (for instance, into programs) 
have been changing a whole spectrum of disciplines. The conference will 
address not only the more established lines of research of 
Computational Complexity and the interplay between Proofs and 
Computation, but also novel views that rely on physical and biological 
processes and models to find new ways of tackling computations and 
improving their efficiency.

We particularly invite papers that build bridges between different parts 
of the research community. Since women are underrepresented in 
mathematics and computer science, we emphatically encourage submissions 
by female authors. The Elsevier Foundation is supporting the CiE 
conference series in the programme "Increasing representation of female 
researchers in the computability community". This programme will allow 
us to fund child-care support, a mentoring system for young female 
researchers, and also a small number of grants for junior female 
researchers (see below).

The dates around the submission process are as follows:

Submission Deadline: 20 January 2010
Notification to Authors: 18 March 2010
Deadline for Final Version: 8 April 2010

[...]


From willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk  Mon Jan 11 06:21:09 2010
From: willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk (Humanist Discussion Group)
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 06:21:09 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Humanist] 23.556 new on WWW: Institutional Repository Bibliography,
	Version 2
Message-ID: <20100111062109.E88984427A@woodward.joyent.us>

                 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 556.
         Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
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        Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2010 22:44:36 +0000
        From: "Charles W. Bailey, Jr." <cwbailey at digital-scholarship.com>
        Subject: Institutional Repository Bibliography, Version 2


Version two of the Institutional Repository Bibliography is
now available from Digital Scholarship:

http://digital-scholarship.org/irb/irb.html

The Institutional Repository Bibliography presents over 700
selected English-language articles, books, technical
reports, and other scholarly textual sources that are useful
in understanding institutional repositories. This version
significantly expands coverage of technical reports and adds
a search function (Google index update for version two may
take a few days).

Most sources have been published between 2000 and the
present; however, a limited number of key sources published
prior to 2000 are also included. Where possible, links are
provided to e-prints in disciplinary archives and
institutional repositories for published articles.

The bibliography has the following sections (revised
sections marked with an asterisk):

1 General*
2 Country and Regional Institutional Repository Surveys*
3 Multiple-Institution Repositories*
4 Specific Institutional Repositories*
5 Institutional Repository Digital Preservation Issues*
6 Institutional Repository Library Issues*
7 Institutional Repository Metadata Issues*
8 Institutional Repository Open Access Policies*
9 Institutional Repository R&D Projects*
10 Institutional Repository Research Studies*
11 Institutional Repository Software*
Appendix A. About the Author*

The following recent Digital Scholarship publications may
also be of interest:

(1) Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography, Version
77: http://bit.ly/GdDqp

(2) Google Book Search Bibliography, Version 5:
http://bit.ly/4zllz8

(3) Electronic Theses and Dissertations Bibliography,
Version 4: http://bit.ly/1eyLv5

(4) Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography: 2008
Annual Edition (print/Kindle): http://bit.ly/2X8zKF

Translate (oversatta, oversette, prelozit, traducir,
traduire, tradurre, traduzir, or ubersetzen) this message:

http://bit.ly/5n4T8T

-- 

Best Regards,
Charles

Charles W. Bailey, Jr.
Publisher, Digital Scholarship
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From willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk  Mon Jan 11 06:22:53 2010
From: willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk (Humanist Discussion Group)
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 06:22:53 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Humanist] 23.557 stylometric study wins
Message-ID: <20100111062253.DF88A444A0@woodward.joyent.us>

                 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 557.
         Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
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                Submit to: humanist at lists.digitalhumanities.org



        Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 06:10:16 +0000
        From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk>
        Subject: prize-winning computational analysis of Agatha Christie's novels

U of T research tops N.Y. Times' 2009 Ideas list:
Analysis shows that Agatha Christie likely suffered from Alzheimer's
By Elaine Smith, posted Wednesday, December 16, 2009

University of Toronto News
www.news.utoronto.ca/arts/u-of-t-research-tops-ny-times-2009-ideas-list.html
-----

Research by U of T professors Ian Lancashire and Graeme Hirst has 
garnered top spot in the N.Y. Times' 9th Annual Year in Ideas.

Lancashire, a professor of English, and Hirst, a computer scientist, 
provide evidence that famed mystery novelist Agatha Christie suffered 
from Alzheimer's-related dementia during the final years of her life. 
It's a conclusion some of her biographers have reached, but the U of T 
duo offers proof.

The pair digitized 14 of her novels and used textual analysis software 
to determine the richness and size of the vocabulary used, as well as 
phrases often repeated and an increase in the use of indefinite words, 
an indicator of the disease.

Their results, published in a paper titled Vocabulary Changes in Agatha 
Christie's Mysteries as an Indication of Dementia, were statistically 
significant. They showed that her final two books use a much smaller 
vocabulary than her earlier works, with differences as large as 31 per 
cent. Other later works compared with her last two volumes also show a 
much richer vocabulary.

"This publicity -- and the honour it bestows -- reflects a hope that an 
aging society has for ways to detect Alzheimer's disease, a human 
scourge, earlier than possible now," said Lancashire. "People in all 
walks of life can understand, and even become conscious of, a change in 
their personal language. People have a horde of e-mail or blog entries 
now that go back some years. The simple vocabulary measures used in the 
poster, the graph and the brief paper can be grasped and applied by 
anyone, privately, non-invasively. The findings astonished me when I 
found them two years ago. If the N.Y. Times recognition brings more 
medical researchers to study language, I'll be delighted.

Lancashire said the New York Times publicity is also a recognition of 
the value of interdisciplinary research and the role the humanities have 
to play in such projects.

"At Toronto, the N.Y.Times notice highlights the deep strength of this 
university in interdisciplinary research. Even English professors may 
have a role to play in practical research of broad public interest. I 
could not have presented and interpreted my findings properly without 
the collaboration of Graeme Hirst in computational linguistics and 
Regina Jokel at Baycrest. I am so fortunate to work in a team now with 
these colleagues and Graeme's student Xuan Le."

Lancashire and Hirst plan to continue their textual analysis work, 
examining the writings of mystery novelist P.D. James, who continues to 
be prolific as she ages, and mystery writers such as Ross MacDonald, who 
is known to have suffered from Alzheimer's disease.

-- 
Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing,
King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/;
Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist;
Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org.




From willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk  Mon Jan 11 06:44:35 2010
From: willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk (Humanist Discussion Group)
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 06:44:35 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Humanist] 23.558 events: digital humanities at Yale
Message-ID: <20100111064435.12D4B44A31@woodward.joyent.us>

                 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 558.
         Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
                       www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist
                Submit to: humanist at lists.digitalhumanities.org



        Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 06:42:43 +0000
        From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk>
        Subject: The Past's Digital Presence

The Past's Digital Presence: Database, Archive, and Knowledge Work in 
the Humanities
Yale University
19-20 February 2010
http://digitalhumanities.yale.edu/pdp/

How is digital technology changing methods of scholarly research with 
pre-digital sources in the humanities? If the ?medium is the message,? 
then how does the message change when primary sources are translated 
into digital media? What kinds of new research opportunities do 
databases unlock and what do they make obsolete? What is the future of 
the rare book and manuscript library and its use? What biases are 
inherent in the widespread use of digitized material? How can we correct 
for them? Amidst numerous benefits in accessibility, cost, and 
convenience, what concerns have been overlooked?

Keynote Speaker: Peter Stallybrass, Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg 
Professor in the Humanities, University of Pennsylvania

Colloquium Speaker: Jacqueline Goldsby, Associate Professor, University 
of Chicago

Closing Roundtable

Rolena Adorno, Reuben Post Halleck Professor of Spanish, Yale University
Edward Ayers, President, University of Richmond
Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King?s College London
George Miles, Curator, Western Americana Collection, Beinecke Rare Book 
and Manuscript Library

-- 
Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing,
King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/;
Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist;
Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org.




From willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk  Mon Jan 11 09:14:13 2010
From: willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk (Humanist Discussion Group)
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 09:14:13 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Humanist] 23.559 why history?
Message-ID: <20100111091413.1403B44BED@woodward.joyent.us>

                 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 559.
         Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
                       www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist
                Submit to: humanist at lists.digitalhumanities.org



        Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 09:13:09 +0000
        From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk>
        Subject: why history?

I am looking for strongly positive statements about the value of 
studying and writing history. I'd prefer something far more positive 
than Santayana's ?Those who ignore history are compelled unknowingly to 
relive it?, from Reason in Common Sense (1905: 284), to counterbalance 
Stephen Daedalus' ?History... is a nightmare from which I am trying to 
awake?, Ulysses I, and Karl Marx's "The tradition of all the dead 
generations weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living [wie ein 
Alp auf dem Gehirne der Lebenden],? The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis 
Bonaparte (1852).

Any suggestions?

Thanks.

Yours,
WM
-- 
Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing,
King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/;
Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist;
Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org.




From willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk  Tue Jan 12 06:32:56 2010
From: willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk (Humanist Discussion Group)
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 06:32:56 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Humanist] 23.560 why history
Message-ID: <20100112063256.E2C6524C14@woodward.joyent.us>


Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 560.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist
Submit to: humanist at lists.digitalhumanities.org

[1]   From:    Igor Kramberger <k at aufbix.org>                            (14)
Subject: Re: why history?

[2]   From:    renata lemos <me at renatalemos.org>                          (8)
Subject: why history?

[3]   From:    "Brian A. Bremen" <bremen at uts.cc.utexas.edu>              (56)
Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.559 why history?

[4]   From:    Todd Lawson <todd.lawson at utoronto.ca>                     (86)
Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.559 why history?

[5]   From:    "Helena Barbas" <hebarbas at fcsh.unl.pt>                     (7)
Subject: RE: [Humanist] 23.559 why history?

[6]   From:    "Rabkin, Eric" <esrabkin at umich.edu>                       (60)
Subject: RE: [Humanist] 23.559 why history?

[7]   From:    "Bleck, Bradley" <BradB at spokanefalls.edu>                 (11)
Subject: RE: [Humanist] 23.559 why history?

[8]   From:    Sterling Fluharty <phdinhistory at gmail.com>                (50)
Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.559 why history?

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Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 10:24:16 +0100
From: Igor Kramberger <k at aufbix.org>
Subject: Re: why history?

Good morning,

I would suggest to read some of the studies published in this book:

Reinhart Koselleck, Futures Past: On the Semantics of Historical Time
(Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought.)

http://www.amazon.com/Futures-Past-Semantics-Historical-Contemporary/dp/0231127715/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1263201655&sr=1-4

Kind regards,

--
Igor
-----
Igor Kramberger, raziskovalec-urednik
http://www.ff.uni-mb.si/index.php?page_id=81&person=89
Koro'ska cesta 63, SI-2000 Maribor
pri Tom'si'c, Ulica Toma Brejca 11 a, SI-1241 Kamnik
Slovenija, Evropa

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Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 10:48:45 -0200
From: renata lemos <me at renatalemos.org>
Subject: why history?

RT @longnow Seminar: "The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the
Modern World" with Wade Davis - 1/13/10. Tickets available:
http://bit.ly/4xViqb
http://bit.ly/4xViqb
http://twitter.com/longnow
--
renata lemos
http://www.renatalemos.org

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Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 06:54:48 -0600
From: "Brian A. Bremen" <bremen at uts.cc.utexas.edu>
Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.559 why history?
In-Reply-To: <20100111091413.1403B44BED at woodward.joyent.us>

Napoleon Bonaparte said: "What is history but a fable agreed upon?"

not overly positive, but interesting.
cheers,
brian

Brian A. Bremen
Associate Professor
English Department
1 University Station, B5000
The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX   78712-0195

Office:  Parlin 127                       
email:  bremen at uts.cc.utexas.edu
Phone:  512-471-7842                                     
Fax: 512-471-4909

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Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 10:06:39 -0500
From: Todd Lawson <todd.lawson at utoronto.ca>
Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.559 why history?
In-Reply-To: <20100111091413.1403B44BED at woodward.joyent.us>

Dear Willard,

I copy  herewith two excerpts that speak to the great question. With
the first I obviously carry coals to Newcastle. Please forgive.

Happy New Year!

Todd

I
It would perhaps be difficult to prove completely the axiom that objects do
not cease to exist when we have stopped looking at them. Yet it is hard to
see how we could maintain a consistent sense of reality without assuming it,
and everyone does so assume it in practice and would even assert it as the
first article of common sense. For some reason it is more difficult to
understand that events do not necessarily cease to exist when we have
stopped experiencing them, and those who would assert, as an equally obvious
fact, that all things do not dissolve in time any more than they do in space
are very rare. Frye. FS[1969].247

II
Because it has not had to confront the problems raised by what we
call the 'historical consciousness', philosophical thought in Islam
moves in two counter yet complementary directions: issuing from the
Origin (mabda'), and returning [ma'ad) to the Origin, issue and return
both taking place in a vertical dimension. Forms are thought of as being
in space rather than in time. Our thinkers perceive the world not as
'evolving' in a horizontal and rectilinear direction, but as ascending:
the past is not behind us but 'beneath our feet'. From this axis stem
 the meanings of the divine Revelations [...].

Henry Corbin. History of Islamic Philosophy. Translated by Liadain Sherrard
with the assistance of Philip Sherrard. London, 1993 [originally published
as Histoire de la  philosophie islamique. Paris, 1964 (p.18) &1986 (pp.
25-6) for the French.]

*************************B. Todd Lawson, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Islamic Thought
Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations
University of Toronto
Bancroft Hall
4 Bancroft Avenue
Toronto, Ontario M5S 1C1
Canada
Telephone +4169783080

http://toddlawson.ca

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Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 15:40:09 -0000
From: "Helena Barbas" <hebarbas at fcsh.unl.pt>
Subject: RE: [Humanist] 23.559 why history?
In-Reply-To: <20100111091413.1403B44BED at woodward.joyent.us>

From my literary bias I can recall two books: ?What is History?? (1961) - E. Hallett Carr: ?The belief in a hard core of historical facts existing objectively and independently of the interpretation of the historian is a preposterous fallacy, but one which it is very hard to eradicate? and ?By and large, the historian will get the kind of facts he wants. History means interpretation.? Followed by the ?Nouvelle Histoire? group, namely Paul Veyne - ?Comment on ?crit l'histoire: essai d'?pist?mologie? (1970) - roughly: ?History is a narrative of events, and all the rest results from this fact.? and ?History is a narration just like the novel, it selects, simplifies and reorganizes its events.?  The resulting problematic is summarized in Peter Brooke's preface to ?New Perspectives on Historical Writing? (1992) - http://www.kowa.euv-frankfurt-o.de/iba_european_history/iba_european_history_text_p_burke_new_history.PDF
In spite of all this, it seems that history writing is till more useful (and serious) than just writing novels.

Best regards
Helena Barbas

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Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 11:17:12 -0500
From: "Rabkin, Eric" <esrabkin at umich.edu>
Subject: RE: [Humanist] 23.559 why history?
In-Reply-To: <20100111091413.1403B44BED at woodward.joyent.us>

Willard, in Borges' "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote," a fictional essayist analyzes a line from the fictional eponymous writer that begins "...truth, whose mother is history, rival of time, depository of deeds, witness of the past, exemplar and adviser to the present, and the future's counselor."  The analysis that follows is, to me, paradigmatic of the way this great story problematizes knowledge.

I found a pdf of it online at http://www.vahidnab.com/menard.pdf.

Enjoy!

Eric

----------------------------------------
Eric S. Rabkin
Arthur F. Thurnau Professor
Department of English
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1003
www.umich.edu/~esrabkin

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Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 08:21:24 -0800
From: "Bleck, Bradley" <BradB at spokanefalls.edu>
Subject: RE: [Humanist] 23.559 why history?
In-Reply-To: <20100111091413.1403B44BED at woodward.joyent.us>

Not sure if this qualifies as strongly positive, or even about history, but In Nature, Emerson writes in the introduction that "The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. [Hence, the connection to history that I'm seeing. BB] Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe? Why should we not have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?"

It would seem that we can't have this original relationship without knowledge of the previous relationships, so, a call of sorts to understand the value of studying history.

Bradley Bleck
English Department
Spokane Falls CC
http://bleckblog.org
http://biketoworkspokane.org

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Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 13:14:41 -0500
From: Sterling Fluharty <phdinhistory at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.559 why history?
In-Reply-To: <20100111091413.1403B44BED at woodward.joyent.us>

Willard,

You might find this useful:

http://www.historians.org/pubs/free/WhyStudyHistory.htm

Best wishes,
Sterling Fluharty

On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 4:14 AM, Humanist Discussion Group <
willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk> wrote:

>                 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 559.
>         Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
>                       www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist
>                Submit to: humanist at lists.digitalhumanities.org
>
>
>
>        Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 09:13:09 +0000
>        From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk>
>        Subject: why history?
>
> I am looking for strongly positive statements about the value of
> studying and writing history. I'd prefer something far more positive
> than Santayana's ?Those who ignore history are compelled unknowingly to
> relive it?, from Reason in Common Sense (1905: 284), to counterbalance
> Stephen Daedalus' ?History... is a nightmare from which I am trying to
> awake?, Ulysses I, and Karl Marx's "The tradition of all the dead
> generations weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living [wie ein
> Alp auf dem Gehirne der Lebenden],? The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis
> Bonaparte (1852).
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Yours,
> WM
> --
> Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing,
> King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/;
> Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist;
> Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org.



From willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk  Tue Jan 12 06:35:23 2010
From: willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk (Humanist Discussion Group)
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 06:35:23 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Humanist] 23.561 more on the stylometry of Christie's dementia
Message-ID: <20100112063523.4DDAC24C8E@woodward.joyent.us>

                 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 561.
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                Submit to: humanist at lists.digitalhumanities.org



        Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 11:33:21 -0800
        From: "Dr. Katherine D. Harris" <katherine.harris at sjsu.edu>
        Subject: Using Digital Tools to Discover Author's Dementia
        In-Reply-To: <37b656b91001111130m4ac8449dleccd30d6eda3bf50 at mail.gmail.com>


[Here follows a second, somewhat different notice of the attention given to the Lancashire and Hirst project. --WM]

Dear All,

Here's an interesting tidbit about the use of digital tools to attribute
dementia and Alzheimer's to Agatha Christie's later novels. This research
has been circulating all over Canadian and British news outlets as well as
through health organizations.  The primary author's poster & paper are
available here (scroll down some): http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~ian/

***************

Did Agatha Christie, who wrote several dozen mystery novels during her
53-year career, suffer from Alzheimer's-related dementia? Though some of her
biographers have suspected as much, actual evidence was advanced in March by
a research team led by Ian Lancashire and Graeme Hirst, professors at the
University of Toronto, in a paper called "Vocabulary Changes in Agatha
Christie's Mysteries as an Indication of Dementia."

The professors digitized 14 Christie novels (and included two more available
in the Gutenberg online text archive), and then, with the aid of
textual-analysis software, analyzed them for "vocabulary size and richness,"
an increase in repeated phrases (like "all sorts of") and an uptick in
indefinite words ("anything," "something") ? linguistic indicators of the
cognitive deficits typical of Alzheimer's disease. The results were
statistically significant; Christie's lexicon decreased with age, while both
the number of vague words she employed and phrases she repeated increased.
Her penultimate novel, "Elephants Can Remember," exhibits a "staggering drop
in vocabulary" ? of 31 percent ? when compared with "Destination Unknown," a
novel she wrote 18 years earlier. For Agatha Christie fans, the findings may
be proof of a truth they have long recognized: the author's final two books,
written in her early 80s, do not hold up against her earlier ones.
Christie's body of work lends itself to such analysis because it spans the
bulk of an adult life, from age 28, when Christie wrote her first novel, to
age 82, when she wrote her last. Still, Hirst cautions, "the question is not
early style versus late style, but the late style of someone who is elderly
but healthy versus the late style of someone who is elderly but not
cognitively healthy." To contextualize their evidence, Lancashire and Hirst
plan to analyze the work of P.D. James, a still-healthy writer who has
continued to publish into her 80s, as well as the writings of authors like
Ross Macdonald who are known to have had Alzheimer's. AMANDA FORTINI

http://www.nytimes.com/projects/magazine/ideas/2009/

**************************
Dr. Katherine D. Harris
Editor, Forget Me Not Hypertextual Archive
http://www.orgs.muohio.edu/anthologies/FMN/

Assistant Professor
Department of English & Comparative Literature
San Jose State University
One Washington Square
San Jose, CA 95192-0090

Email: katherine.harris at sjsu.edu
Phone: 408.924.4475




From willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk  Tue Jan 12 06:35:59 2010
From: willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk (Humanist Discussion Group)
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 06:35:59 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Humanist] 23.562 events: DH lecture series at TAMU
Message-ID: <20100112063559.BDB2124CE1@woodward.joyent.us>

                 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 562.
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                Submit to: humanist at lists.digitalhumanities.org



        Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 06:49:23 +0000
        From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk>
        Subject: DH lecture series, Glasscock Center, Texas A&M

The Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research
Texas A&M University

Digital Humanities Lecture Series, Spring 2010
glasscock.tamu.edu/Programs_Activities/digitalhumanitieslectures.htm

16 February, Tuesday, 4 p.m.
Evans Library, Room 204E
Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing,
King's College, London
"The pasts, present and futures of the digital humanities"

26 February, Friday, 4 p.m.
Geren Auditorium, Architecture Building
Bernard Frischer, Professor of Art History and Classics, University of 
Virginia and Director of the Virtual World Heritage Laboratory
"'Rome Reborn': A Case Study in Digital Documentation and Publication"

-- 
Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing,
King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/;
Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist;
Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org.




From willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk  Wed Jan 13 06:09:16 2010
From: willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk (Humanist Discussion Group)
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 06:09:16 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Humanist] 23.563 why history
Message-ID: <20100113060916.1E1304576D@woodward.joyent.us>


                 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 563.
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  [1]   From:    James Rovira <jamesrovira at gmail.com>                       (9)
        Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.560 why history

  [2]   From:    John Lavagnino <John.Lavagnino at kcl.ac.uk>                 (13)
        Subject: Re: Why history?


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        Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 09:28:14 -0500
        From: James Rovira <jamesrovira at gmail.com>
        Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.560 why history
        In-Reply-To: <20100112063256.E2C6524C14 at woodward.joyent.us>


>From Kierkegaard's Concluding Unscientific Postscript:

"The historian seeks to reach the greatest possible certainty, and the
historian is not in any contradiction, because he is not in passion; at most
he has the research scholar's objective passion.  As a research scholar, he
belongs to a major endeavor from generation to generation; it is at all
times objectively and scientifically important for him to come as close to
certainty as possible, but it is not subjectively important to him." (p.
575, Hongs' translation, 1992)

Jim R



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        Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 16:09:34 +0000
        From: John Lavagnino <John.Lavagnino at kcl.ac.uk>
        Subject: Re: Why history?
        In-Reply-To: <20100112063256.E2C6524C14 at woodward.joyent.us>

Carl Becker's "Everyman His Own Historian" is still worth reading: with 
its clever strategy of talking about how everybody is a historian:

http://www.historians.org/info/AHA_history/clbecker.htm

John

-- 
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Reader in Digital Humanities
Centre for Computing in the Humanities and Department of English
King's College London
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London WC2B 5RL
+44 20 7848 2453
www.lavagnino.org.uk




From willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk  Wed Jan 13 06:13:17 2010
From: willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk (Humanist Discussion Group)
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 06:13:17 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Humanist] 23.564 finding software
Message-ID: <20100113061317.0563945889@woodward.joyent.us>

                 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 564.
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                Submit to: humanist at lists.digitalhumanities.org



        Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 18:49:57 -0700
        From: Geoffrey Rockwell <geoffrey.rockwell at ualberta.ca>
        Subject: Finding Software

On the subject of lists of tools:

There are actually a number of places where you can discover tools.  
Others have sent links to some of the lists out there, mentioning for  
example DIRT. I have maintained a list of lists at:

http://tada.mcmaster.ca/view/Main/TaAbout#Lists_of_Tools

What strikes me, however, is how often I hear people calling for a  
definitive list of tools despite the existence of well maintained  
finding aides like intute (http://www.intute.ac.uk/) that everyone  
should know about. I want to propose that the problem is not what we  
think it is - that the perfect list of tools will not solve the  
problem of discovery and that we will find there are always more lists  
cropping up.

Some possible reasons for saying this are:

- The people who want to find tools don't know what they are called  
and those who create them don't know what to call them. A  
"Collocation" tool might be useful, but would someone new to  
humanities computing know it was what they wanted? For that matter, it  
isn't even clear that the word tool is right.

- People always prefer to ask someone knowledgeable (or pose a  
question on HUMANIST) rather than find a resource and comb through it.  
Saves time and is more convivial.

- Those who create lists do so for a purpose and then stop maintaining  
them (with a few exceptions that will cease to be maintained if not  
funded.) Most lists are therefore more about what someone wanted to  
keep track of at a particular time.

- Those who create tools will contribute information to lists for a  
while and then get bored and stop maintaining the information. This is  
especially true when you have many lists you have to update every time  
your tool changes.

- Tools off a list are fairly useless without a lot of context.  
Finding one on a list and adapting it to your needs is rarely how  
researchers do things.

- What people want from a list is an absence. We want to show is that  
there isn't already the tool we imagined because that justifies the  
funding to build it. Too much information would spoil the fun.

- The creation of lists is itself an interesting act worthy of study.  
The list has its own rhetorical structure and can be a tool for  
defining who/what is in and what is out. There will always be another  
list as long as there are ambitions.

Best,

Geoffrey Rockwell




From willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk  Wed Jan 13 06:15:02 2010
From: willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk (Humanist Discussion Group)
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 06:15:02 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Humanist] 23.565 events: linguistic annotation, mss encoding,
	mobility
Message-ID: <20100113061502.E4F6345957@woodward.joyent.us>

                 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 565.
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                       www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist
                Submit to: humanist at lists.digitalhumanities.org

  [1]   From:    Julia Flanders <Julia_Flanders at brown.edu>                 (53)
        Subject: call for participation: TEI seminar on manuscript encoding

  [2]   From:    Charles Ess <cmess at drury.edu>                             (74)
        Subject: CATaC'10 second CFP

  [3]   From:    Nianwen Xue <xuen at brandeis.edu>                          (138)
        Subject: Call for Papers: the Fourth Linguistic Annotation Workshop
                (LAW IV)


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        Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 16:17:26 -0500
        From: Julia Flanders <Julia_Flanders at brown.edu>
        Subject: call for participation: TEI seminar on manuscript encoding

Applications are invited for participation in an advanced TEI seminar  
on manuscript encoding, being held at the University of Nebraska- 
Lincoln, July 21-23, 2010, hosted by the Center for Digital Research  
in the Humanities.

Application deadline is March 1, 2010. Participants will be notified  
by March 12.

This seminar assumes a basic familiarity with TEI, and provide an  
opportunity to explore manuscript encoding topics in more detail, in a  
collaborative workshop setting. We will focus on the detailed  
challenges of encoding manuscript materials, including editorial,  
transcriptional, and interpretive issues and the methods of  
representing these in TEI markup.

This seminar is part of a series funded by the NEH and conducted by  
the Brown University Women Writers Project. They are intended to  
provide a more in-depth look at specific encoding problems and topics  
for people who are already involved in a text encoding project or are  
in the process of planning one. Each event will include a mix of  
presentations, discussion, case studies using participants' projects,  
hands-on practice, and individual consultation. The seminars will be  
strongly project-based: participants will present their projects to  
the group, discuss specific challenges and encoding strategies,  
develop encoding specifications and documentation, and create encoded  
sample documents and templates. We encourage project teams and  
collaborative groups to apply, although individuals are also welcome.  
A basic knowledge of the TEI Guidelines and some prior experience with  
text encoding will be assumed.

Travel funding is available of up to $500 per participant.

For more information and to apply, please visit http://www.wwp.brown.edu/encoding/seminars/ 
.

The rest of the seminar schedule is as follows:

University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Hosted by the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities
July 21-23, 2010
Application deadline: March 1, 2010
This workshop will focus on the encoding of manuscript materials.

University at Buffalo
Hosted by the Digital Humanities Initiative at Buffalo
October 2010 (precise date TBA)
Application deadline: May 17, 2010
This workshop will focus on the encoding of manuscript materials.

University of Maryland
January 2011 (precise date TBA)
Application deadline: September  6, 2010
This workshop will focus on the encoding of contextual information.

Brown University
Hosted by the Center for Digital Scholarship
April 28-30, 2011
Application deadline: December 1, 2010
This workshop will focus on the encoding of contextual information.

Best wishes, Julia

Julia Flanders
Director, Women Writers Project
Brown University



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        Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 05:39:46 +0100
        From: Charles Ess <cmess at drury.edu>
        Subject: CATaC'10 second CFP
        In-Reply-To: <20100112063559.BDB2124CE1 at woodward.joyent.us>


Dear HUMANISTs, 

It is with particular pleasure that I forward to you the second CFP for
CATaC'10 - please distribute to potentially interested students and
colleagues!

- charles ess
Institut for Informations- og Medievidenskab
Helsingforsgade 14
8200 ?rhus N.
Denmark
mail: <imvce at hum.au.dk>
tel: (+45) 8942 9250

Distinguished Research Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies
Drury University, Springfield, Missouri 65802 USA

Exemplary persons seek harmony, not sameness. -- Analects 13.23

==
diffusion 2.0: computing, mobility, and the next generations
 
On behalf of the Local and Program Chairs, and the CATaC Executive
Committee, we are very pleased to announce the (second) Call for Papers for
CATaC 2010, ?Diffusion 2.0: Computing, mobility, and the next generations?.
(Please see <www.catacconference.org> for further details regarding
accommodations, venue, and more about visiting Vancouver.)
 
PLEASE NOTE: extended submissions deadline - February 18th 2010.
See the Submissions page  http://blogs.ubc.ca/catac/submissions/  for dates,
formatting requirements, and link to our OCS submissions site.
 
VENUE: The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
DATES: 15-18 June 2010
 
CATaC 20?10 will feature keynote addresses by Dr Linc Kesler (First Nations
Studies, The University of British Columbia) and Dr John Willinsky (Stanford
University School of Education).
 
The biennial CATaC conference series provides a premier international forum
for current research on how diverse cultural attitudes shape the
implementation and use of information and communication technologies (ICTs).
The conference series brings together scholars from around the globe who
provide diverse perspectives, both in terms of the specific culture(s) they
highlight in their presentations and discussions, and in terms of the
discipline(s) through which they approach the conference theme.
 
Original full papers (especially those which connect theoretical frameworks
with specific examples of cultural values and practices) and short papers
(e.g. describing current research projects and preliminary results) are
invited. Topics of particular interest include but are not limited to:
 
Mobile technologies in developing countries
New layers of imaging and texting interactions fostering and/or threatening
cultural diversity
Theoretical and practical approaches to analyzing ?culture?
Impact of mobile technologies on privacy and surveillance
Gender, sexuality and identity issues in social networks
Cultural diversity in e-learning and/or m-learning
Both short (3-5 pages) and long (10-15 pages) original papers are sought.
See submissions for information about submitting papers and formatting
guidelines.
 
You may also purchase the conference proceedings from previous conferences
by visiting the Proceedings page.
 
We look forward to receiving your submissions and to welcoming you to
Vancouver in 2010!
 
Local Co-Chair: Leah Macfadyen (UBC)
Local Co-Chair: Kenneth Reeder (UBC)
Program Chair: Herbert Hrachovec (University of Vienna)
 
Executive Committee:
Lorna Heaton (Universit? de Montr?al, Canada)
Maja van der Velden (University of Oslo, Norway)
 
Fay Sudweeks (Co-Chair, CATaC)
Charles Ess (Co-Chair, CATaC)



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        Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 16:41:17 +0000
        From: Nianwen Xue <xuen at brandeis.edu>
        Subject: Call for Papers: the Fourth Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW IV)
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                               First Call for Papers
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        The Fourth Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW IV)

               Held in conjunction with ACL-2010
                              Uppsala, Sweden
                              15-16 July 2010
              http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~clp/LAW4

Linguistic annotation of natural language corpora is the backbone of supervised methods for statistical natural language processing. The Fourth LAW will provide a forum for presentation and discussion of innovative research on all aspects of linguistic annotation, including the 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 serve as a venue for annotation researchers to work towards standardization, best practices, and interoperability of annotation information and software. Specifically,
the goals of this workshop include:

(1) The exchange and propagation of research results with respect to
the annotation, manipulation and exploitation of corpora, taking into
account different applications and theoretical investigations in the
field of language technology and research;

(2) Working towards the harmonization and interoperability from the
perspective of the increasingly large number of tools and frameworks
that support the creation, instantiation, manipulation, querying, and
exploitation of annotated resources;

(3) Pushing the frontier of linguistic annotation and of human language technology by extending the range of linguistic phenomena for which reliable annotation techniques exist.
(4)  Working towards a consensus on all issues crucial to the
advancement of the field of corpus annotation.

We invite submissions of long papers and posters, and demonstrations relating to any aspect of the linguistic annotation. Long papers should reflect work in an advanced state, but posters may describe more preliminary work and pilot studies. Posters and proposals for a system demonstration are to be submitted in the form of a short paper. A demonstration proposal should provide an overview of the system to be demonstrated, including functionality, supported input/output formats or structures, supported languages and modalities, etc. Accepted proposals will also appear in the proceedings and are intended to provide background for the demonstration. Papers are invited to address issues in all aspects of linguistic annotation, including but not limited to: 

Annotation schemes:
?	New and innovative annotation schemes
?	Comparison of annotation schemes
Annotation procedures:
?	Innovative automated and manual strategies for annotation
?	Creation, maintenance, and interactive exploration of annotation structures and annotated data
Annotation software and frameworks:
?	Machine learning and knowledge-based methods for automation of corpus annotation
?	Development, evaluation and/or innovative use of annotation software frameworks
?	Using games and ?human computation? (e.g., Mechanical Turk) for annotation
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
The special themes for LAW IV are:
?	Demands on annotation for machine-learning purposes, such as the size and composition of annotated corpora, the granularity of the linguistic categories that are amenable to supervised machine learning
?	Annotation of text transcripts of informal modalities: spoken language, blogs, correspondence, etc. 
?	Annotation of figurative language (metaphor, metonymy, etc.)


Submissions
---------------
Long paper submissions should not exceed 8 pages in length. Posters and demo descriptions should not exceed 4 pages. Format requirements are the same as for full papers of ACL 2010.  See http://acl2010.org/authors.html
for style files.  Submission will be electronic, using the Workshop's
submission webpage at START: https://www.softconf.com/acl2010/LAW/

Please indicate on the front page:
- long paper,  poster, or demonstration proposal;
- all applicable paper categories from the following list (indicate
   multiple categories if appropriate): annotation frameworks and/or
   physical formats, annotation scheme design (on linguistic grounds),
   annotation tools and systems, corpus annotation, syntax, semantics,
   predicate-argument structure, morphology, anaphora, discourse,
   opinion/sentiment, annotation for machine learning, informal modalities, figurative languages;
- language(s) your work applies to, as well as those you plan to
   handle in the future. If your work is language independent, indicate
   this as well;
- any non-standard equipment needed for your paper or demonstration.

All papers must be written and presented in English.


Reviewing
-------------
The reviewing of the papers will be blind. The paper should not
include the authors' names and affiliations. Furthermore,
self-citations and other references (e.g. to projects, corpora, or
software) that could reveal the author's identity should be
avoided. For example, instead of "We previously showed (Smith, 1991)
...", write "Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...".


Important Dates
-------------------
Papers due: April 5, 2010
Acceptance/rejection notification: May 6, 2010
Camera-ready final version due: May 16, 2010
Workshop Dates: July 15-16, 2010



Organizers
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Nancy Ide (Vassar College)
Adam Meyers (New York University)
Chu-Ren Huang (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)                                         
Antonio Pareja-Lora (SIC, UCM / OEG, UPM)
Sameer Pradhan (BBN Technologies)                                                                             
Manfred Stede      (Universit?t Potsdam)                                                                      
Nianwen Xue (Brandeis University)

Program Committee 
-----------------
co-chairs:                                                                                                                                                            
Nianwen Xue (Brandeis University)
Massimo Poesio (University of Trento)

Program committee Members:

Nicoletta Calzolari        (ILC/CNR)
Steve Cassidy              (Macquarie University)
Tomaz Erjavec              (Josef Stefan Institute)
Katrin Erk                 (University of Texas at Austin)
Alex Chengyu Fang          (City University of Hong Kong)
Chu?Ren Huang              (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
Nancy Ide                  (Vassar College)
Richard Johansson          (University of Trento)
Aravind Joshi              (University of Pennsylvania)
Sandra Kubler              (Indiana University)
Seth Kulick                (University of Pennsylvania)
Adam Meyers                (New York University)
Eleni Miltsakaki           (University of Pennsylvania)        
Martha Palmer              (University of Colorado)
Antonio Pareja?Lora        (SIC, UCM / OEG, UPM)
Rebecca J. Passonneau      (Columbia University)
Marta Recasens Potau       (Universitat de Barcelona)        
Sameer Pradhan             (BBN Technologies)
Rashmi Prasad              (University of Pennsylvania) 
James Pustejovsky          (Brandeis University)
Arndt Riester              (IMS Universit?t Stuttgart)
Kepa Rodriguez             (University of Trento)      
Anna Rumshisky             (Brandeis University)
Manfred Stede              (Universit?t Potsdam)
Marc Verhagen              (Brandeis University)
Theresa Wilson             (University of Edinburgh)
Andreas Witt               (Universit?t T?bingen)



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From willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk  Thu Jan 14 06:12:56 2010
From: willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk (Humanist Discussion Group)
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 06:12:56 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Humanist] 23.566 finding software, or perhaps not
Message-ID: <20100114061256.5D62F46714@woodward.joyent.us>

                 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 566.
         Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
                       www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist
                Submit to: humanist at lists.digitalhumanities.org



        Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 22:34:48 +0000
        From: Richard Lewis <richardlewis at fastmail.co.uk>
        Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.564 finding software
        In-Reply-To: <20100113061317.0563945889 at woodward.joyent.us>

At Wed, 13 Jan 2010 06:13:17 +0000 (GMT),
Geoffrey Rockwell wrote:
> On the subject of lists of tools:
> 
> There are actually a number of places where you can discover tools.  
> Others have sent links to some of the lists out there, mentioning for  
> example DIRT. I have maintained a list of lists at:
> 
> http://tada.mcmaster.ca/view/Main/TaAbout#Lists_of_Tools
> 
> What strikes me, however, is how often I hear people calling for a  
> definitive list of tools despite the existence of well maintained  
> finding aides like intute (http://www.intute.ac.uk/) that everyone  
> should know about. I want to propose that the problem is not what we  
> think it is - that the perfect list of tools will not solve the  
> problem of discovery and that we will find there are always more lists  
> cropping up.
> 
It may also be the case that people don't really want tools at
all. And that most tools that have been provided aren't up to the
job. (Of course, someone will find an exception to this sweeping
generalisation in a tool for their home discipline.)

But I'm increasingly of the opinion that end user application style
software is not really what scholars who are serious about exploring
the possibilities of using technology to enhance their research or
open new avenues of research require. Rather, I'm beginning to feel
that a good grounding in programming, a simple, expressive language,
and good provision of libraries for abstracting over data encodings
and difficult algorithms required in each discipline will be much more
conducive to interesting computational scholarship.

The things that make computational scholarship interesting can't, I
think, be packaged up in an end user application. Like scholarship
conducted in any paradigm, computational scholarship is interesting
and worthwhile when it's exploratory. But the restrictions of an end
user application seriously stiffle any possibility for exploration.
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From willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk  Thu Jan 14 06:14:42 2010
From: willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk (Humanist Discussion Group)
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 06:14:42 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Humanist] 23.567 why history
Message-ID: <20100114061442.2F00346780@woodward.joyent.us>

                 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 567.
         Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
                       www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist
                Submit to: humanist at lists.digitalhumanities.org



        Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 11:09:48 -0500
        From: "Geoffrey C. Bowker" <gbowker at pitt.edu>
        Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.563 why history


Hi folks,

I like this one from Braudel - it's pretty much as true today as it was 
64 years ago:

"Surely history need not simply be condemned to the study of well-walled 
gardens?  If it is, will it not fail in one of its present tasks, of 
responding to the agonizing problems of the hour and of keeping in touch 
with the human sciences, which are at once so young and so 
imperialistic?  Can there be any humanism at the present time, in 1946, 
without an ambitious history, conscious of its duties and its great 
powers?  'It is the fear of History, of history on the grand scale, 
which has killed History,' wrote Edmond Faral in 1942.  May it be 
reborn!"  pp. 4-5 of _On History_ by Fernand Braudel

take care,

geof

Humanist Discussion Group wrote:
>                  Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 563.
>          Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
>                        www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist
>                 Submit to: humanist at lists.digitalhumanities.org
>
>   [1]   From:    James Rovira <jamesrovira at gmail.com>                       (9)
>         Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.560 why history
>
>   [2]   From:    John Lavagnino <John.Lavagnino at kcl.ac.uk>                 (13)
>         Subject: Re: Why history?
>
>
> --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------
>         Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 09:28:14 -0500
>         From: James Rovira <jamesrovira at gmail.com>
>         Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.560 why history
>         In-Reply-To: <20100112063256.E2C6524C14 at woodward.joyent.us>
>
>
> >From Kierkegaard's Concluding Unscientific Postscript:
>
> "The historian seeks to reach the greatest possible certainty, and the
> historian is not in any contradiction, because he is not in passion; at most
> he has the research scholar's objective passion.  As a research scholar, he
> belongs to a major endeavor from generation to generation; it is at all
> times objectively and scientifically important for him to come as close to
> certainty as possible, but it is not subjectively important to him." (p.
> 575, Hongs' translation, 1992)
>
> Jim R
>
>
>
> --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------
>         Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 16:09:34 +0000
>         From: John Lavagnino <John.Lavagnino at kcl.ac.uk>
>         Subject: Re: Why history?
>         In-Reply-To: <20100112063256.E2C6524C14 at woodward.joyent.us>
>
> Carl Becker's "Everyman His Own Historian" is still worth reading: with 
> its clever strategy of talking about how everybody is a historian:
>
> http://www.historians.org/info/AHA_history/clbecker.htm
>
> John
>
>   

--Boundary_(ID_2OwyGyyRbT4o6adlmIBs7Q)
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Hi folks,<br>
<br>
I like this one from Braudel - it's pretty much as true today as it was
64 years ago: <br>
<br>
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 style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; page-break-after: avoid;"><span
 style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;">"Surely
history need not simply be condemned to the study of well-walled
gardens?<span style="">?? </span>If it is, will it not fail in one of
its
present tasks, of responding to the agonizing problems of the hour and
of
keeping in touch with the human sciences, which are at once so young
and so
imperialistic?<span style="">?? </span>Can there be any humanism
at the present time, in 1946, without an ambitious history, conscious
of its
duties and its great powers?<span style="">?? </span>'It is
the fear of History, of history on the grand scale, which has killed
History,' wrote Edmond Faral in 1942.<span style="">??
</span>May it be reborn!"<span style="">?? </span>pp. 4-5
of <u>On History</u> by Fernand Braudel<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<br>
<br>
take care,<br>
<br>
geof<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
Humanist Discussion Group wrote:
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  [1]   From:    James Rovira <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:jamesrovira at gmail.com">&lt;jamesrovira at gmail.com&gt;</a>                       (9)
        Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.560 why history

  [2]   From:    John Lavagnino <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:John.Lavagnino at kcl.ac.uk">&lt;John.Lavagnino at kcl.ac.uk&gt;</a>                 (13)
        Subject: Re: Why history?

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        Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 09:28:14 -0500
        From: James Rovira <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:jamesrovira at gmail.com">&lt;jamesrovira at gmail.com&gt;</a>
        Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.560 why history
        In-Reply-To: <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:20100112063256.E2C6524C14 at woodward.joyent.us">&lt;20100112063256.E2C6524C14 at woodward.joyent.us&gt;</a>

&gt;From Kierkegaard's Concluding Unscientific Postscript:

"The historian seeks to reach the greatest possible certainty, and the
historian is not in any contradiction, because he is not in passion; at most
he has the research scholar's objective passion.  As a research scholar, he
belongs to a major endeavor from generation to generation; it is at all
times objectively and scientifically important for him to come as close to
certainty as possible, but it is not subjectively important to him." (p.
575, Hongs' translation, 1992)

Jim R

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        Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 16:09:34 +0000
        From: John Lavagnino <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:John.Lavagnino at kcl.ac.uk">&lt;John.Lavagnino at kcl.ac.uk&gt;</a>
        Subject: Re: Why history?
        In-Reply-To: <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:20100112063256.E2C6524C14 at woodward.joyent.us">&lt;20100112063256.E2C6524C14 at woodward.joyent.us&gt;</a>

Carl Becker's "Everyman His Own Historian" is still worth reading: with 
its clever strategy of talking about how everybody is a historian:

<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.historians.org/info/AHA_history/clbecker.htm">http://www.historians.org/info/AHA_history/clbecker.htm</a>

John

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From willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk  Thu Jan 14 06:16:48 2010
From: willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk (Humanist Discussion Group)
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 06:16:48 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Humanist] 23.568 ESF call for proposals
Message-ID: <20100114061648.DC5A9467E0@woodward.joyent.us>


                 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 568.
         Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
                       www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist
                Submit to: humanist at lists.digitalhumanities.org



        Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 16:54:07 +0100
        From: Arianna Ciula <ACiula at esf.org>
        Subject: ESF Call for Proposals for the European Collaborative Research Projects (ECRP) scheme in the Social Sciences


The European Science Foundation has published a Call for Proposals for the European Collaborative Research Projects (ECRP) scheme in the Social Sciences. The responsive-mode ECRP scheme supports investigator-driven, international collaborative research in all fields of the social sciences in 19 countries in Europe.

The Social Sciences Unit at the ESF would be pleased if you would circulate this announcement within your institution or among your personal or professional networks.
------

European Collaborative Research Projects (ECRP) in the Social Sciences
Website: http://www.esf.org/ecrp
Launch of call: 12 January 2010
Deadline for submission of proposals: 10 March 2010, 16.00 CET

For general inquiries about the ECRP scheme, please contact:
Ms. Sarah Moore, email: ecrp at esf.org<mailto:ecrp at esf.org>

The European Science Foundation (ESF) provides a platform for its Member Organisations to advance European research and explore new directions for research at the European level.

Established in 1974 as an independent non-governmental organisation, the ESF currently serves 79 Member Organisations across 30 countries.

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From willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk  Fri Jan 15 08:40:25 2010
From: willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk (Humanist Discussion Group)
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 08:40:25 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Humanist] 23.569 finding software, or perhaps not
Message-ID: <20100115084025.97F0D4669F@woodward.joyent.us>


                 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 569.
         Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
                       www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist
                Submit to: humanist at lists.digitalhumanities.org

  [1]   From:    Alan Corre <corre at uwm.edu>                                (29)
        Subject: Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 566

  [2]   From:    Jockers Matthew <mjockers at stanford.edu>                   (78)
        Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.566 finding software, or perhaps not

  [3]   From:    Amanda Gailey <amanda.gailey at gmail.com>                   (42)
        Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.566 finding software, or perhaps not

  [4]   From:    Martin Mueller <martinmueller at northwestern.edu>           (46)
        Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.566 finding software, or perhaps not


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        Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 04:04:05 -0600
        From: Alan Corre <corre at uwm.edu>
        Subject: Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 566

In response to the comment of Richard Lewis: "The things that make 
computational scholarship interesting can't, I think, be packaged up in 
an end user application?" I should like to quote from the preface to my 
book *Icon Programming for Humanists* (1990):

"The Icon programming language is a good choice for those whose main 
interest is the written word. It is structured so that it emphasizes 
proper programming principles, yet it does not carry the philosophy of 
structuring to the lengths of Pascal. It strikes a reasonable balance 
between structure and freedom, between being a disciplinarian like 
Pascal and an easygoing but perhaps overindulgent friend like SNOBOL-4, 
the unstructured ancestor of Icon. It has excellent facilities for 
handling strings of characters, which is the essence of this type of 
programming; flexible structures such as lists, tables, and sets; and 
useful built-in sort capabilities?All these features add up to making 
Icon the language of choice for humanistic programming."

I have prepared an updated second edition of this book, including two 
entirely new chapters on employing Unicode and on the Text Encoding 
Initiative. New programs include examples in Russian, Tamil, and Hebrew 
to demonstrate its usefulness for non-Roman script languages. The 
manuscript has passed between me and the editor, Clinton Jeffery, 
Professor of Computer Science at the University of Idaho, several times, 
and the final redaction is now in his hands. It will initially appear as 
an e-book, and the price will be right, namely $0.00. You can get a peek 
at the cover at https://pantherfile.uwm.edu/corre/public/Humanist_Cover.jpg

God willing, before the end of the year, you should be able to look inside.

Alan D. Corre
Emeritus Professor of Hebrew Studies
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
USA



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        Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 05:50:28 -0800
        From: Jockers Matthew <mjockers at stanford.edu>
        Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.566 finding software, or perhaps not
        In-Reply-To: <20100114061256.5D62F46714 at woodward.joyent.us>

Richard makes a number of very good points here.  I wonder if our "tool-building" efforts have been a bit misdirected in favor of GUIs and web-based applications.  We might learn from the NLP-oriented linguists, statisticians, and others (including even the Drupal community) who have moved in the direction of open-source solutions and user-contributed modules.  Two such "tools" that I use daily include R (the stats package) and NLTK (the Python-based Natural Language Toolkit).   Both R and NLTK are just programming languages for which a number of methods/functions/tools/packages have been developed to address the sorts of challenges those communities encounter.  Many (perhaps most) of these methods/functions/tools/packages were developed not because some programmer thought to himself, "hmm, I bet the folks could use a ____ tool."  But rather because some researcher needed to overcome a particular challenge in order to complete some research goal.  Some modules in R and NLTK and other such "apps" are hardly ever used, others are bread and butter. Though I do send newbies to the wonderfully easy to understand projects such as Tapor, I find I require a more malleable workbench.
Thoughts?      
--
Matthew Jockers
Stanford University
http://www.stanford.edu/~mjockers



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        Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 10:19:36 -0600
        From: Amanda Gailey <amanda.gailey at gmail.com>
        Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.566 finding software, or perhaps not
        In-Reply-To: <20100114061256.5D62F46714 at woodward.joyent.us>

Richard,

I find your thoughts on this intriguing, and you articulate something
that has given me pause about tool-building.  Largely--with
exceptions, of course--tool-building seems to benefit the builder more
than the imagined end-users, who don't engage the materials as the
builder did and don't have the cognitive benefit of working through
the problem-solving process.  (I think the same is true of text
encoding.)  In some ways these perhaps are not *tools* at
all--repurposable implements like hammers--but performances, which
other people can mimic in their own contexts but without the
freshness, authenticity, excitement, or risk of the original.  If all
this is true, I don't know that it should diminish the place of
tool-building within digital humanities, but ask us to think about it
as a different kind of activity than how it is often cast.

Amanda

> It may also be the case that people don't really want tools at
> all. And that most tools that have been provided aren't up to the
> job. (Of course, someone will find an exception to this sweeping
> generalisation in a tool for their home discipline.)
>
> But I'm increasingly of the opinion that end user application style
> software is not really what scholars who are serious about exploring
> the possibilities of using technology to enhance their research or
> open new avenues of research require. Rather, I'm beginning to feel
> that a good grounding in programming, a simple, expressive language,
> and good provision of libraries for abstracting over data encodings
> and difficult algorithms required in each discipline will be much more
> conducive to interesting computational scholarship.
>
> The things that make computational scholarship interesting can't, I
> think, be packaged up in an end user application. Like scholarship
> conducted in any paradigm, computational scholarship is interesting
> and worthwhile when it's exploratory. But the restrictions of an end
> user application seriously stiffle any possibility for exploration.

-- 
Amanda Gailey
Assistant Professor
Department of English
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities
University of Nebraska
202 Andrews Hall
Lincoln, NE 68588



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        Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 10:53:21 -0600
        From: Martin Mueller <martinmueller at northwestern.edu>
        Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.566 finding software, or perhaps not
        In-Reply-To: <20100114061256.5D62F46714 at woodward.joyent.us>

> 
> 
> But I'm increasingly of the opinion that end user application style
> software is not really what scholars who are serious about exploring
> the possibilities of using technology to enhance their research or
> open new avenues of research require. Rather, I'm beginning to feel
> that a good grounding in programming, a simple, expressive language,
> and good provision of libraries for abstracting over data encodings
> and difficult algorithms required in each discipline will be much more
> conducive to interesting computational scholarship.
> 
> The things that make computational scholarship interesting can't, I
> think, be packaged up in an end user application. Like scholarship
> conducted in any paradigm, computational scholarship is interesting
> and worthwhile when it's exploratory. But the restrictions of an end
> user application seriously stiffle any possibility for exploration.
> -- 

Richard Lewis' comment raises a central problem, even though his conclusion may be a little too pessimistic. I have from time to time warned about the Devil User-Friendly.  It takes a little while to learn how to ride a bicycle, not to speak of learning how to play the violin. But people think that you should be able to perform all manner of complex computational operation by just pushing a button, or at most two. 

This is possible if the complex operations serve goals that have been previously and narrowly defined. But that is not what happens in research, where you constantly adjust your goals and methods as you go along.  However gifted you are as an interface designer, you will never be able to anticipate all the things that users will want to do. Applications designed for business or entertainment can hone in on the half dozen most popular or useful operations and perfect them. But that is not  a plausible model for research. 

On the other hand, Richard Lewis may state the opposition in somewhat too stark terms. In Ellen Ullman's splendid book 'Closer to Machine' there is a page where she contrasts Microsoft Word as a program that makes users stupid with Microsoft Excel as a program that encourages ingenious data exploration. You don't need to be a programmer to do interesting things with Excel, but you do need to think about your data, and more is involved than pushing buttons. 

There is not much software in the Humanities that operates at an Excel level.  There is also very little work on maintaining and delivering data in formats that support post-processing and encourage users to pick up data manipulation skills that can be learned in days or fewer weeks than can be counted on the fingers of one hand. As a result, we live in an either-or world. 

On the one hand, there are the hackers, often with experience that stretches back into their teens and skill levels that are virtually impossible to replicate once you're twenty. Somewhere in this world there may be a person who started playing the piano at 20 and played the Appassionata at speed at 23. But there aren't too many of them. And it may be the same with programming skills. 

On the other hand, there are the users and the interface designers who believe that humanities computing operations must follow a 'thirty-second model': if it takes more than 30 seconds to formulate the commands for an operation or wait for its results, FORGET IT. Not much good will come from such an approach. 

Somewhere between these extremes is an 80/20 solution where you start from more realistic, i.e. higher expectations of what users need to bring to the table but also do your best to lower the time and expertise cost of working with digital data. I remember reading in some manual of the R language that performing a statistical operation is often simpler than wrangling the data into shape.  But R the last time I looked at it didn't have a built-in or black box routine for importing Excel data -- a small but striking example of an unnecessary obstacle. 

So I agree with Richard Lewis that "the things that make computational scholarship interesting can't, I think, be packaged up in an end user application." But there are still a lot of things that can be done to lower the entry barriers for scholarly and exploratory analysis of primary humanities data in digital form. 






From willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk  Fri Jan 15 08:45:01 2010
From: willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk (Humanist Discussion Group)
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 08:45:01 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Humanist] 23.570 why history
Message-ID: <20100115084501.4EFC946824@woodward.joyent.us>


                 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 570.
         Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
                       www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist
                Submit to: humanist at lists.digitalhumanities.org

  [1]   From:    lachance at chass.utoronto.ca                                (21)
        Subject: Re: why history

  [2]   From:    "Brian A. Bremen" <bremen at uts.cc.utexas.edu>             (105)
        Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.567 why history


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        Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 09:00:09 -0500 (EST)
        From: lachance at chass.utoronto.ca
        Subject: Re: why history
        In-Reply-To: <20100114061442.2F00346780 at woodward.joyent.us>

Willard,

History writing teaches us the gentle art of sorting. Or so one gathers
from the concluding words from an interview with American poet Edward
Sanders in New Letters, Volume 76, Number 1

<quote>
I've learned, is that historians are not a violent group, but they're
contentious. Each point in history can be debated. There's a fact
blizzard, an unbelievable amount of facts in the timelines of history.
There's an unbelievable number, trillions of factional units one can
choose. Then your own taste and your own abilities, your own historical
outlook, your own politics, your own ethics, your own set of what's right
and wrong, your own beliefs about the goodness or badness of something,
your upbringing, your belief in spirituality and the afterlife, your
non-belief in spirituality and the afterlife, your education, and
everything comes into play as you choose to pluck the heart of your verse
with all those possible notes. So in writing my history, I reject a lot of
stuff. I agonize about this stuff. You have to say no. Like when you're
selecting poems for a book. You're always breaking the hearts of your
poems, if they were alive, when you don't put them in a book. It's the
same way with history.
</quote>



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        Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 10:45:09 -0600
        From: "Brian A. Bremen" <bremen at uts.cc.utexas.edu>
        Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.567 why history
        In-Reply-To: <20100114061442.2F00346780 at woodward.joyent.us>

I can't believe I almost forgot my very favorite-  Kenneth Burke's,  
"The Conversation of History":

Imagine that you enter a parlor.  You come late.  When you arrive,  
others have long preceded you, and they are engaged in a heated  
discussion, a discussion too heated for them to pause and tell you  
exactly what it is about.  In fact, the discussion had already begun  
long before any of them got there, so that no one present is qualified  
to retrace for you all the steps that had gone before.  You listen for  
a while, until you decide that you have caught the tenor of the  
argument;  then you put in your oar.  Someone answers;  you answer  
him;  another comes to your defense;  another aligns himself against  
you, to either the embarrassment or gratification of your opponent,  
depending upon the quality of your ally's assistance.  However, the  
discussion is interminable.  The hour grows late, you must depart.   
And you do depart, with the discussion still vigorously in progress.

             Kenneth Burke, The Philosophy of Literary Form (1941)

Cheers,

Brian



Brian A. Bremen
Associate Professor
English Department
1 University Station, B5000
The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX   78712-0195

Office:  Parlin 127                       email:  bremen at uts.cc.utexas.edu
Phone:  512-471-7842                                      Fax:   
512-471-4909




From willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk  Fri Jan 15 08:48:15 2010
From: willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk (Humanist Discussion Group)
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 08:48:15 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Humanist] 23.571 job at Athabasca (Canada)
Message-ID: <20100115084815.7951F468AC@woodward.joyent.us>


                 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 571.
         Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
                       www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist
                Submit to: humanist at lists.digitalhumanities.org



        Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 10:44:37 -0700
        From: Darren James Harkness <webmaster at staticred.net>
        Subject: Job at Athabasca University


Athabasca University is looking to hire a full time temporary web 
developer and project coordinator to work with the Centre for Research.  
This position works closely with researchers on many innovative 
technology projects..

This position is required to coordinate the technical requirements of 
web based research projects originating from the Research Centre.  The 
incumbent will be responsible for both the technical aspects of project 
coordination/management and its required web development and ongoing 
maintenance. The technical aspects of this position will include web 
site development and the integration of various software platforms.  The 
incumbent will be required to manage the project planning, organisation 
and implementation of timelines, schedules, and reporting in relation to 
the technical needs of the assigned projects.

Web/Technical Development & Site Maintenance (70%)

-- Responsbile for creating, updating and maintaining web pages based 
on content provided by others.
-- Coordinating and incorporating appropriate content and structure to 
enhance web sites.
-- Responsible for choosing and integrating the appropriate software 
applications that will meet the project needs.
-- Providing ongoing support and enhancement for various websites and 
research projects. This may include some database work and online 
development requiring more advanced web site coding (php, java mysql, 
javascript, JSP and CSS)
-- Accurate coding of XHTML and CSS in a fast paced environment.
-- Edits content  of web pages.
-- Creates unique content for web pages (various digital formats).
-- Ensures design and content meet project requirements (mobile users, 
desktop users, browser compatibility, accessibility needs, etc) .
-- Takes necessary steps to ensure that out-of-date web pages are 
updated or removed.

Project Coordination (20%)

-- Meeting with project leaders to determine project scope and its 
technical requirements
-- Creating a technical project plan and timeline
-- Keeping detailed notes on project meetings and tracking work/tasks
-- Regular reporting to project leaders
-- Identifying and initiating related project needs as they may arise.

Support Work (10%)

-- Provides training and subsequent support to those requiring 
assistance to access and update project data, their web sites, and 
access/use software applications related to their project.

The position is based in Edmonton, Alberta.   For further information 
regarding this position, please contact Mr. Rory McGreal at (780) 
675-6821 or via email:  rory at athabascau.ca 

Please view and apply for the position at the following URL:
https://athabascau.hua.hrsmart.com/ats/js_job_details.php?reqid=3D612

--
Darren James Harkness
webmaster at staticred.net

"Ever Tried? Ever Failed? No Matter. Try Again. Fail Again. Fail 
Better." 96 Samuel Beckett. 



From willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk  Fri Jan 15 08:49:07 2010
From: willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk (Humanist Discussion Group)
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 08:49:07 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Humanist] 23.572 new publication: Pelican Journal for January
Message-ID: <20100115084907.7B1394691A@woodward.joyent.us>

                 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 572.
         Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
                       www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist
                Submit to: humanist at lists.digitalhumanities.org



        Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 01:15:04 -0500
        From: Luis Gutierrez <luisgutierrez at peoplepc.com>
        Subject: Pelican Journal of Sustainable Development - January 2010

Happy new year and happy new decade!

Pelican Journal of Sustainable Development - January 2010
http://www.pelicanweb.org/solisustv06n01page1.html

This issue is a directory of selected online resources on sustainable
development and related issues. The directory is minimally annotated and
compiles links to research and data resources under the following
categories:

   1. Population and Human Development
   2. Cultural, Social, and Security Issues
   3. Financial, Economic, and Political Issues
   4. Ecological Resources and Ecosystem Services
   5. Renewable and Nonrenewable Energy
   6. Pollution, Climate Change, and Environmental Management
   7. Land, Agriculture, Food Supply, and Water Supply
   8. Current State of the Planet and Human Civilization
   9. Transition from Consumerism to Sustainability

This issue also includes a supplement:
http://www.pelicanweb.org/solisustv06n01supplement.html

   1. Suggestions for Prayer, Study, and Action
   2. Recent News, Publications, and Tools
   3. Climate Interactive Scoreboard (Courtesy of the Climate Institute)
   4. Carbon Dioxide Calculator (Courtesy of Carbonify and Michael Bloch)
   5. Education for Sustainable Development 2009 Surveys
   6. Catherine of Siena Virtual College (Winter Courses)
   7. Open Source Framework for Sustainability
   8. International Ecumenical Peace Convocation (WCC 2011)
   9. The Lord's Prayer in Aramaic (Courtesy of Spirit Quest)

Invited papers this month:

Institutional Trappings, by Alan Fox
http://www.pelicanweb.org/solisustv06n01page2alanfox.html

Durable Economics, by Barry Brooks
http://www.pelicanweb.org/solisustv06n01page3barrybrooks.html

Bridging the Gulf: Education as Implementation, by Catherine King
http://www.pelicanweb.org/solisustv06n01page4catherineking.html

It Is Time for the Churches to Declare Jubilee, by Britt Johnston
http://www.pelicanweb.org/solisustv06n01page5brittjohnston.html

Sincerely,
Luis

Luis T. Gutierrez, Ph.D.
The Pelican Web
Editor, PelicanWeb Journal of Sustainable Development




From willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk  Fri Jan 15 08:50:42 2010
From: willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk (Humanist Discussion Group)
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 08:50:42 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Humanist] 23.573 events: inaugural lecture; summer seminar
Message-ID: <20100115085042.E1CD446995@woodward.joyent.us>

                 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 573.
         Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
                       www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist
                Submit to: humanist at lists.digitalhumanities.org

  [1]   From:    Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk>          (20)
        Subject: inaugural lecture 2 February at King's College London

  [2]   From:    Sean Latham <sean-latham at utulsa.edu>                      (40)
        Subject: NEH Summer Seminar: Magazine Modernism


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        Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 12:38:17 +0000
        From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk>
        Subject: inaugural lecture 2 February at King's College London

Inaugural Lecture
Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing,
2 February, 17.00, Great Hall, Strand Campus, King's College London

'Attending from and to the Machine'

Abstract

Though a graybeard verging on his institutional retirement, I celebrate 
the role of computing in inaugurating investigations, my own and those 
of others, into what we do not know but are curious to find out. I 
celebrate computing as one of our most potent speculative instruments, 
for its enabling of competent hands to force us all to rethink what we 
trusted that we knew. Like generations of our wiser predecessors, I 
celebrate learning for its own sake, but by other means than they had. I 
celebrate our responsibilities to those whom we teach, not merely to 
prepare them for the world as it is but more to open up, with the help 
of computing, "the alternativeness of human possibility".

-- 
Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing,
King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/;
Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist;
Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org.



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        Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 13:32:10 -0600
        From: Sean Latham <sean-latham at utulsa.edu>
        Subject: NEH Summer Seminar: Magazine Modernism


Dear Humanist Discussion Members,

Given the intersection with some aspects of the digital humanities, I
thought this NEH seminar might be of some interest to the list?s readers:

I?d like to invite you to consider applying for "Magazine Modernism", a
Summer Seminar for College and University Teachers sponsored by the National
Endowment for the Humanities.  The seminar will be directed by Sean Latham
and hosted at the University of Tulsa from 12 July to 6 August 2010.

This broad-ranging, interdisciplinary seminar will bring together modernist
scholars and digital humanists to explore the emerging field of periodical
studies.  As a group, the seminar will explore the this vigorous new
intellectual field that thrives both within and between the disciplines of
literature, history, art, print culture, and sociology. At the same time, we
will experiment with cutting-edge tools in the digital humanities.
Throughout the seminar, you will have access to McFarlin Library?s renowned
Special Collections as well as the Modernist Journals Project, the Journal
of Modern Periodical Studies, and the James Joyce Quarterly. Drawing on
these resources, you?ll be able to pursue interdisciplinary research and
pedagogical projects of your own choosing using a diverse array of primary
print and digital materials. In intensive seminar sessions, we?ll draw on
one another?s unique strengths while also working with the expert scholars,
teachers, and archivists who will be on hand. By the seminar?s end, you?ll
will emerge with new ideas for teaching and research on magazines and with a
richer sense of modernism?s rise in the English-speaking world.

Information about the seminar (including a schedule of events and speakers)
as well as eligibility requirements can be found online at
 http://www.utulsa.edu/jjq/MagazineSeminar/program.html .  Participants will
receive generous stipends designed to defray the costs of housing, travel,
and research while in residence.  For the first time, some slots in the
seminar will be specifically set aside for graduate students whose research
intersects with the seminar?s topic.

For more information or if you have any questions, please feel free to
contact me at <sean-latham at utulsa.edu>.  And please do share this message
anyone you know who might be interested.  The deadline for application is 2
March 2010.

Regards,
Sean Latham
Professor of English
Director, Modernist Journals Project
Editor, James Joyce Quarterly
University of Tulsa




From willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk  Sun Jan 17 09:42:40 2010
From: willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk (Humanist Discussion Group)
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 09:42:40 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Humanist] 23.574 finding software, or perhaps not
Message-ID: <20100117094240.AC9CB31766@woodward.joyent.us>


                 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 574.
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  [1]   From:    Susan Brown <sbrown at uoguelph.ca>                         (125)
        Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.569 finding software, or perhaps not

  [2]   From:    Virginia Knight <Virginia.Knight at bristol.ac.uk>           (27)
        Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.564 finding software


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        Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 10:06:01 -0500
        From: Susan Brown <sbrown at uoguelph.ca>
        Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.569 finding software, or perhaps not
        In-Reply-To: <20100115084025.97F0D4669F at woodward.joyent.us>


I find this an extremely interesting thread, not least because I am  
just now teaching a graduate course in digital textuality, outside of  
a dedicated DH program, for the first time, and am faced with the  
question of how to get people who are keen and curious but for the  
most part untrained technically up and running with projects that will  
allow them to see the potential of DH tools for their future work.  
It's one thing to read about what others have done, and another to try  
something that connects with your own research and get some  
interesting results.

I think that having tools that can help such people is essential, in  
order to help those who are " serious about exploring the  
possibilities of using technology" take the first step, and also for  
helping DH methods to push out further into the disciplines. No, these  
students won't be able to do the kinds of highly sophisticated  
analysis that someone like Matt can engage in, but I hope that they  
will leave the course excited about the possibilities and keen to  
learn more (including, perhaps, some programming), rather than  
discouraged at having encountered tools that are not--yes--user- 
friendly enough that students can, first of all, grasp them well  
enough to get them to work on their stuff and, secondly, transparent  
enough in how they work that the methodological implications can be  
grasped without a background in statistics.

I don't think we want anything as stupid-making as MS Word, and I  
agree strongly with Martin that we need some software systems that  
have enough flexibility in terms of application and good enough  
interfaces that they really do offer people a way to get started  
without their having to take on faith that once they invest a year or  
two to learn some programming they will be able to use computers to  
aid in their research. What, after all, is the point of investing all  
that the time in standards-compliant digital materials if we are not  
aiming to make it possible for others to repurpose, for example, those  
lovely TEI-encoded texts to other ends? If we do not strive for this,  
we will leave the DH community isolated and its relevance always  
questionable from beyond that group of techies, because others will  
not have the chance to experience what computational techniques can do  
for their own inquiries. This would be a great pity both for DH and  
for the mainstream humanities disciplines. We need, as Martin  
suggests, to be aiming towards a spectrum of tools that would allow  
people to move from the simple ones that provide instant gratification  
but not a great deal of analysis, through those that require a little  
more investment of time and effort but that still seem doable from a  
novice perspective and that really do provide some serious analytical  
purchase, to those that require the kind of lengthy (and early?)  
training that the more cutting-edge work undoubtedly does.

I think there will always be research trajectories that demand a  
lengthy process of training and practice similar to that of learning  
to play a musical instrument, but I think we should be working to  
provide a range of accessible and well-documented applications (I  
think of TAPoR recipes here) that help people move from making toast  
(30 seconds), to sauces, to (pace _Julie and Julia_) deboning a duck.

cheers,
Susan

On 15-Jan-10, at 3:40 AM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote:

> Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 10:53:21 -0600
>        From: Martin Mueller <martinmueller at northwestern.edu>
>        Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.566 finding software, or perhaps not
>        In-Reply-To: <20100114061256.5D62F46714 at woodward.joyent.us>
> -
>
> Richard Lewis' comment raises a central problem, even though his  
> conclusion may be a little too pessimistic. I have from time to time  
> warned about the Devil User-Friendly.  It takes a little while to  
> learn how to ride a bicycle, not to speak of learning how to play  
> the violin. But people think that you should be able to perform all  
> manner of complex computational operation by just pushing a button,  
> or at most two.
>
> This is possible if the complex operations serve goals that have  
> been previously and narrowly defined. But that is not what happens  
> in research, where you constantly adjust your goals and methods as  
> you go along.  However gifted you are as an interface designer, you  
> will never be able to anticipate all the things that users will want  
> to do. Applications designed for business or entertainment can hone  
> in on the half dozen most popular or useful operations and perfect  
> them. But that is not  a plausible model for research.
>
> On the other hand, Richard Lewis may state the opposition in  
> somewhat too stark terms. In Ellen Ullman's splendid book 'Closer to  
> Machine' there is a page where she contrasts Microsoft Word as a  
> program that makes users stupid with Microsoft Excel as a program  
> that encourages ingenious data exploration. You don't need to be a  
> programmer to do interesting things with Excel, but you do need to  
> think about your data, and more is involved than pushing buttons.
>
> There is not much software in the Humanities that operates at an  
> Excel level.  There is also very little work on maintaining and  
> delivering data in formats that support post-processing and  
> encourage users to pick up data manipulation skills that can be  
> learned in days or fewer weeks than can be counted on the fingers of  
> one hand. As a result, we live in an either-or world.
>
> On the one hand, there are the hackers, often with experience that  
> stretches back into their teens and skill levels that are virtually  
> impossible to replicate once you're twenty. Somewhere in this world  
> there may be a person who started playing the piano at 20 and played  
> the Appassionata at speed at 23. But there aren't too many of them.  
> And it may be the same with programming skills.
>
> On the other hand, there are the users and the interface designers  
> who believe that humanities computing operations must follow a  
> 'thirty-second model': if it takes more than 30 seconds to formulate  
> the commands for an operation or wait for its results, FORGET IT.  
> Not much good will come from such an approach.
>
> Somewhere between these extremes is an 80/20 solution where you  
> start from more realistic, i.e. higher expectations of what users  
> need to bring to the table but also do your best to lower the time  
> and expertise cost of working with digital data. I remember reading  
> in some manual of the R language that performing a statistical  
> operation is often simpler than wrangling the data into shape.  But  
> R the last time I looked at it didn't have a built-in or black box  
> routine for importing Excel data -- a small but striking example of  
> an unnecessary obstacle.
>
> So I agree with Richard Lewis that "the things that make  
> computational scholarship interesting can't, I think, be packaged up  
> in an end user application." But there are still a lot of things  
> that can be done to lower the entry barriers for scholarly and  
> exploratory analysis of primary humanities data in digital form.

__________________________________________________________

Susan Brown
Professor, School of English and Theatre Studies, University of Guelph                                      				
Visiting Professor, English and Film Studies, University of Alberta
sbrown at uoguelph.ca / susan.brown at ualberta.ca



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        Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 16:31:27 +0000
        From: Virginia Knight <Virginia.Knight at bristol.ac.uk>
        Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.564 finding software
        In-Reply-To: <20100113061317.0563945889 at woodward.joyent.us>

It's good to see an appreciative user of Intute drawing the list's 
attention to it. However, I'm sorry to say that JISC is cutting funding for 
Intute from August 2010. 'After this date, Intute will still be available 
but with minimal maintenance.' It is likely that certain parts of Intute 
such as the Virtual Training Suite will continue, but unless alternative 
funding is found there will be no further additions to the database of 
resources after that point.

 http://www.intute.ac.uk/blog/2009/12/16/jisc-announces-intute-funding-cut/ 

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 at bristol.ac.uk
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Personal homepage: http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/~cmvhk/virginia.html
ILRT homepage: http://www.ilrt.bristol.ac.uk




From willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk  Sun Jan 17 09:44:14 2010
From: willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk (Humanist Discussion Group)
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 09:44:14 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Humanist] 23.575 why history
Message-ID: <20100117094414.65472317FB@woodward.joyent.us>

                 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 575.
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        Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2010 11:46:46 -0500
        From: Haines Brown KB1GRM ET1 <brownh at historicalmaterialism.info>
        Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.567 why history
        In-Reply-To: <20100114061442.2F00346780 at woodward.joyent.us>

Russell Jacoby in The Last Intellectuals (1987) makes a strong case 
that the post WWII expansion of the university in the U.S. killed 
much of any public intellectual life. An implication might be that 
once historiography was securely embedded in academia, it no longer 
required justification, such as any possible utility of historic 
consciousness. Is this the reason why what one would think would be 
the most important issue in historiography is largely ignored these 
days? So perhaps a cynical response to the original query is that a 
justification for the study of history is either no longer needed or
is impossible. 

Does historiography come down to just showing and saying, to a 
narcistic establishing of one's relation to something else and 
an objectification of self?  

Not persuaded of this, I here offer a comment or two because there was 
not the outpouring of replies one would expect when the justification 
of what we do is brought into question. Am I to conclude from the 
thinness of this response that the question is best ignored?  

It seems difficult not to address it in Western (Eurocentric) terms, 
perhaps because the West couched the issue in such a contradictory 
way that it has remained problematic. For example, one might argue, 
following a hint of Georg Iggers, that the inheritance of the 
Enlightenment was a contradiction between a French (rationalist) 
conception of history and the German (historicist) conception. 

The former sees history as governed by necessity in the sense of 
a coherence or regularity, and so historic consciousness 
conveys knowledge of the necessities to which we must trim our sails. 
Santayana's aphorism about not forgetting the past presumes the 
historical process is governed by rules that should inform action in 
the present.

Iggers nicely defines the "historicist" conception that prevailed in 
Germany until WWII, but it seems clear that behind it is the 
assumption that history is an emergent process rather than the 
closed system of the French conception. Here historical outcomes are 
the effect of contingencies rather than of the past, and so they 
cannot be explained by reference to rules or laws, but only intuited 
as something that transcends the determination of circumstance.

It strikes me that neither pole can be defended on its own, and we 
must somehow transcend the Enlightenment conceptual contradiction. 
This is probably what is involved in the concern of contemporary 
science for the "explanation" of emergent processes. There is a 
hint in the literature that a reductionist explanation must include in 
the definition of an initial state non-local factors 
("unobservables"). For example, Arthur Koestler's "holon" and David 
Bohm's "implicate order". A more recent example is Jaegon Kim's 
studies of the relation of mind and world. The usual approach in the 
social sciences has been a functionalist explanation, but people now 
tend to reject it as implicitly teleological. 

Another approach is the suggestion that historic consciousness 
refers to a way to see things as processes. For example, Theodor 
Schieder, "The Role of Historical Consciousness in Political Action", 
History and Theory 17 (1978), 1-18. Unfortunately, neither Schieder 
nor anyone else that I am aware of has provided a cogent argument as 
to just what this means. I made a very preliminary stab at it in 
_Critical Studies in History_
(http://sites.google.com/site/historytheory/02Brown120308.pdf). I have 
the feeling that historic consciousness is a project yet to be 
realized. 

Haines Brown   
Central Connecticut State University, Emeritus




From willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk  Sun Jan 17 09:44:32 2010
From: willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk (Humanist Discussion Group)
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 09:44:32 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Humanist] 23.576 lists and curating?
Message-ID: <20100117094433.8910531821@woodward.joyent.us>

                 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 576.
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                Submit to: humanist at lists.digitalhumanities.org



        Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2010 17:09:31 -0500 (EST)
        From: Francois Lachance <lachance at chass.utoronto.ca>
        Subject: Lists and curating


Willard, 

Geoffrey Rockwell recently invited us to consider the activity of list
making. The question arose in the context of lists of software and the
thread, as it often does, went off into the direction of the fabrication of
tools. I would like to take up Geoffrey's invitation in the context of list
making per se and argue that the humble list should be an important "genre"
in the universe of scholarship.

First allow me to begin via a tangent and to quote Aldous Huxley at the
beginning of <i>Heaven and Hell</i>. He argues for the work of gathering which I take
to be a species of list making (or vice versa). 

<quote>
However lowly, the work of the collector must be done, before we can proceed to the higher scientific tasks of classification, analysis, experiment and theory making.
 </quote>
 
I am reminded of the memes that circulate often among blogs, memes that call
for the generation of lists. In observing such list creation behaviour one
comes to understand a list as an itinerary. A list maker is in a sense a map
maker. Huxley's is a fitting beginning to an essay about the transporting
properties of art.

As humble as it may be, list making is an exercise in judgement (choices are
to be made) and it is also an exercise in communicating results (annotations
aim to guide the reader of the list). Lists are not only generated by human
beings they are also beasts of the machines that mine the WWW. 

In a saturated world of creativity lists can be tedious. They can also guide
one to marvellous experiences. I leave you with one example (and in so doing
begin a list)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAKAGMtZ6BM

A mashup called "Meta presentation" posted to YouTube by someone going under
the handle zzthex. It's a mashup of lectures given at UC Berkeley with as
accompanying music Grace by Bobby McFerrin and Yo-Yo Ma. I found it by
searching for "Robin Blaser" who is a poet featured in the mashup. Most
importantly for the audience of Humanist is not that I wish to make the case
for data mining YouTube but that judicious use of metadata allows neat stuff
to be found. It's a lesson to impart with some exercises in list making.

Francois Lachance, 
Scholar-at-large
http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance





From willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk  Sun Jan 17 09:47:37 2010
From: willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk (Humanist Discussion Group)
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 09:47:37 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Humanist] 23.577 events: digital humanities at the ALA
Message-ID: <20100117094737.2DAEA318CD@woodward.joyent.us>

                 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 577.
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        Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 12:41:45 -0500
        From: Julia Flanders <Julia_Flanders at brown.edu>
        Subject: Digital Humanities at ALA midwinter meeting


Come join the ACH at "Showcasing Digital Humanities", table 2628 in  
the vendor exhibits at the ALA [American Library Association] midwinter meeting!

The exhibition starts in the evening on Friday, January 15, and runs  
through Monday, January 18 at the Convention Center in Boston,  
Massachusetts. We'll be demonstrating projects and publications from a  
range of leading digital humanities centers and organizations including:

Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska- 
Lincoln
Center for Digital Scholarship, Brown University
Indiana University Library
MITH, University of Maryland
NINES, University of Virginia
Society of Architectural Historians
University of Chicago
University of North Carolina
University Press of Virginia

For a full list, please visit http://www.ach.org/ala2010.html

If you're planning to be at ALA, please stop by and say hello!

Best wishes, Julia

Julia Flanders
President, ACH
Director, Women Writers Project
Brown University




From willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk  Tue Jan 19 06:14:20 2010
From: willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk (Humanist Discussion Group)
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 06:14:20 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Humanist] 23.578 tools and lists
Message-ID: <20100119061420.658284668E@woodward.joyent.us>


                 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 578.
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  [1]   From:    Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk>          (28)
        Subject: teaching beginners

  [2]   From:    Sterling Fluharty <phdinhistory at gmail.com>               (105)
        Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.576 lists and curating?


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        Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 10:04:29 +0000
        From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk>
        Subject: teaching beginners

Like Susan Brown (in Humanist 23.574) I particularly favour very simple, 
off-the-shelf tools that give a beginner some insight into computing. 
For a number of years I have been teaching a course at MA-level called 
"Corpus-analysis of text". Almost all of the students I get are at or 
very close to beginner's level -- otherwise, as you'd expect, quite 
bright and sophisticated, but not adept with tools. The aim of this 
course is (borrowing a phrase from Ian Hacking) to "clear a space" for 
the literary computing by considering what nearby fields do with 
computers and text -- i.e. computer science (computational linguistics, 
natural language processing), lexicography and corpus linguistics -- 
then to ask what's not being done from a literary perspective that might 
be done. To get them started I have them use Michael Barlow's Monoconc, 
which any moderately intelligent person can learn in about 10 minutes.

There's another reason I stick to the simplest of tools. It's not just 
that these beginners would be stumped by Perl or Python, say, it's that 
their attention would be diverted from the intersection of the literary 
problem with computing to tool-making itself. For them I want the 
struggle to be focused on that intersection and with a specific literary 
problem. I want them to get very frustrated with what elegant Monoconc 
cannot do. I want them not to be seduced by the problem-solving 
paradigm, which does so much damage to our cause.

Yours,
WM
-- 
Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing,
King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/;
Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist;
Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org.



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        Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 18:43:54 -0700
        From: Sterling Fluharty <phdinhistory at gmail.com>
        Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.576 lists and curating?
        In-Reply-To: <20100117094433.8910531821 at woodward.joyent.us>

Willard,

I think listmaking captures our fascination because bibliography has  
almost become a lost art among humanists and information  
professionals.  Perhaps we yearn with some nostalgia for the years  
before information overload when keeping tabs on citations within  
certain areas was much more manageable.  With the impending arrival of  
the semantic web, I hope we will seize the opportunity to develop  
tools that can at least partially automate the process of constructing  
and updating lists within specific domains.  And perhaps our  
professions will return once again to rewarding this valuable skill,  
albeit this time around it will be for scientific acumen as much as it  
is for artistic talent.

Best wishes,
Sterling Fluharty

Sent from my iPhone

On Jan 17, 2010, at 2:44 AM, Humanist Discussion Group <willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk 
 > wrote:

>                 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 576.
>         Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
>                       www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist
>                Submit to: humanist at lists.digitalhumanities.org
>
>
>
>        Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2010 17:09:31 -0500 (EST)
>        From: Francois Lachance <lachance at chass.utoronto.ca>
>        Subject: Lists and curating
>
>
> Willard,
>
> Geoffrey Rockwell recently invited us to consider the activity of list
> making. The question arose in the context of lists of software and the
> thread, as it often does, went off into the direction of the  
> fabrication of
> tools. I would like to take up Geoffrey's invitation in the context  
> of list
> making per se and argue that the humble list should be an important  
> "genre"
> in the universe of scholarship.
>
> First allow me to begin via a tangent and to quote Aldous Huxley at  
> the
> beginning of <i>Heaven and Hell</i>. He argues for the work of  
> gathering which I take
> to be a species of list making (or vice versa).
>
> <quote>
> However lowly, the work of the collector must be done, before we can  
> proceed to the higher scientific tasks of classification, analysis,  
> experiment and theory making.
> </quote>
>
> I am reminded of the memes that circulate often among blogs, memes  
> that call
> for the generation of lists. In observing such list creation  
> behaviour one
> comes to understand a list as an itinerary. A list maker is in a  
> sense a map
> maker. Huxley's is a fitting beginning to an essay about the  
> transporting
> properties of art.
>
> As humble as it may be, list making is an exercise in judgement  
> (choices are
> to be made) and it is also an exercise in communicating results  
> (annotations
> aim to guide the reader of the list). Lists are not only generated  
> by human
> beings they are also beasts of the machines that mine the WWW.
>
> In a saturated world of creativity lists can be tedious. They can  
> also guide
> one to marvellous experiences. I leave you with one example (and in  
> so doing
> begin a list)
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAKAGMtZ6BM
>
> A mashup called "Meta presentation" posted to YouTube by someone  
> going under
> the handle zzthex. It's a mashup of lectures given at UC Berkeley  
> with as
> accompanying music Grace by Bobby McFerrin and Yo-Yo Ma. I found it by
> searching for "Robin Blaser" who is a poet featured in the mashup.  
> Most
> importantly for the audience of Humanist is not that I wish to make  
> the case
> for data mining YouTube but that judicious use of metadata allows  
> neat stuff
> to be found. It's a lesson to impart with some exercises in list  
> making.
>
> Francois Lachance,
> Scholar-at-large
> http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance

From willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk  Tue Jan 19 06:15:53 2010
From: willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk (Humanist Discussion Group)
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 06:15:53 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Humanist] 23.579 reminder: Zampolli nominations
Message-ID: <20100119061553.F261E46792@woodward.joyent.us>


                 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 579.
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        Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 08:05:58 -0800
        From: "Ray Siemens" <siemens at uvic.ca>
        Subject: call for Zampolli nominations [reminder, 15 Feb deadline]

Call for Nominations for the 2011 Antonio Zampolli Prize

The Antonio Zampolli Prize is an award of the Alliance of Digital Humanities
Organisations (ADHO).  Now in its inaugural year, the prize will be given
every three years to honour an outstanding scholarly achievement in
humanities computing. It is presented by the Alliance of Digital Humanities
Organizations (ADHO) on behalf of its constituent organizations: the
Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC), the Association
for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) and the Society for Digital
Humanities/Soci?t? pour l'?tude des m?dias interactifs (SDH/SEMI).

The prize is named in honour of the late Professor Antonio Zampolli
(1937-2003), who was one of the founding members of the Association for
Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC) in 1973, and ALLC President
1983-2003. He was a major figure in the development of literary and
linguistic computing from the 1960s, and an enthusiastic supporter of the
joint international conferences of ALLC and the Association for Computers
and the Humanities (ACH), which were initiated in 1989. He was also a prime
mover in the Text Encoding Initiative, both in the initial 11-year project,
and in the establishment of the TEI Consortium.

The Zampolli Prize is given to recognise a single outstanding output in the
digital humanities by any scholar or scholars at any stage in their career.
The output must involve the innovative use of information and communications
technologies and may take the form of published research and/or the
development of research-related tools or resources. The award will be made
on the basis of the output's importance as a contribution to the digital
humanities, taking into account the significance both of its use of
information and communication technologies and of its actual or potential
contribution to the advancement of humanities research.

The first Antonio Zampolli Prize will be given at the Digital Humanities
2011 conference, which will be held at Stanford University.

The Award Committee invites nominations for this award. Nominations may be
made by anyone with an interest in humanities computing and neither nominee
nor nominator need be a member of ACH, ALLC or SDH/SEMI.

Nominators should give an account of the nominee's work and the reasons it
is felt to be an outstanding contribution to the field. A list of
bibliographic references to the nominee's work is required.

Nominations should be sent no later than 15 February 2010, to the Chair of
the Antonio Zampolli Prize Committee:
    Ray Siemens, siemens at uvic.ca
    University of Victoria, PO Box 3070 STN CSC, 
    Victoria, BC, Canada. V8W 3W1.
    Email submissions are preferred.

Members of the 2011 Antonio Zampolli Prize Committee:
    Ray Siemens (Chair)
    Jean Anderson, Chuck Bush, Matt Jockers, ?yvind Eide
    Marilyn Deegan, Julia Flanders, Christian Vandendorpe
    John Nerbonne, Harold Short, John Walsh




From willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk  Tue Jan 19 06:16:48 2010
From: willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk (Humanist Discussion Group)
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 06:16:48 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Humanist] 23.580 scholarships for DHSI 2010
Message-ID: <20100119061648.381D1469AE@woodward.joyent.us>

                 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 580.
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        Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 13:18:02 -0800
        From: Caroline Leitch <cmleitch at uvic.ca>
        Subject: 2010 Digital Humanities Summer Institute Tuition Scholarships


[Please redistribute / please excuse cross-posting]

*Tuition Scholarships for the 2010 Digital Humanities Summer Institute*
University of Victoria, June 7-11, 2010
http://www.dhsi.org

We are pleased to announce that funding from the Social Sciences and
Humanities Research Council of Canada, and other partners, makes it possible
for us to offer of a limited number of tuition scholarship spots in the 2010
Summer Institute.  The scholarships are open to everyone and are awarded on
the basis of need and merit; scholarships cover all tuition costs, with the
exception of a small administration fee.

 The application form is available online at
http://www.dhsi.org/home/scholarships.  The application deadline for this
year is February 14th, with news of scholarships returned no later than the
end of February.  Please note that scholarships are awarded on a rolling
basis, to expedite travel planning and other arrangements, and there are a
limited number of scholarship spots in each course.  Please apply early as
some courses are full already!

*Additional ACH Travel Bursary*

The Association for Computers and the Humanities (http://www.ach.org) is
again offering several bursaries to assist graduate students in defraying
travel and lodging costs. You may apply for this bursary at the same time as
for DHSI scholarships by indicating on the scholarship application form that
you are a graduate student member of the ACH and would like to be considered
for the ACH bursary.

*About the DHSI*

The Digital Humanities Summer Institute at the University of Victoria
provides an ideal environment for discussing and learning about new
computing technologies and how they are influencing the work of those in the
Arts, Humanities and Library communities. The institute takes place across a
week of intensive coursework, seminar participation, and lectures. It brings
together faculty, staff, and graduate students from different areas of the
Arts, Humanities, Library and Archives communities and beyond. During the
DHSI, we share ideas and methods, and develop expertise in applying advanced
technologies to our teaching, research, dissemination and preservation.

*Courses for 2010*

Introductory Courses:

   - Text Encoding Fundamentals and their Application with Julia Flanders
   (Brown U) and Syd Bauman (Brown U)
   - Digitisation Fundamentals and their Application with Robin Davies
   (Vancouver Island U) and Michael Nixon (Vancouver Island U)

Intermediate Courses:

   - Transcribing and Describing Primary Sources with Matthew Driscoll
   (Arnamagnaean Institute, Copenhagen)
   - Multimedia: Design for Visual, Auditory, and Interactive Electronic
   Environments
   - with Aimee Morrison (U Waterloo)
   -  Online Journal Publishing Using PKP's Open Journals System (OJS)
   - with Alec Smecher and James MacGregor (PKP Staff)
   -  SEASR in Action: Data Analytics for Humanities Scholars with Loretta
   Auvil (NCSA, UIUC) and Boris Capitanu (NCSA, UIUC)
   -  Geographical Information Systems in the Digital Humanities with Ian
   Gregory (Lancaster U)

Advanced Consultations:

   - Issues in Large Project Planning and Management with Lynne Siemens (U
   Victoria)
   - Out-of-the-Box Text Analysis for the Digital Humanities with David
   Hoover (NYU)
   - Scaling Digital Humanities, in Discipline and Interdiscipline with Ray
   Siemens (U Victoria)

*Institute Lectures (to be confirmed)*

   - Susan Brown (U Guelph/U Alberta)
   - Ken Coates (U Waterloo)
   - St?fan Sinclair (McMaster)
   - John Unsworth (UIUC)
   - Kay Walter (CDRH, U Nebraska-Lincoln)

*Registration Fees*

Early registration fees for the institute are $500 CDN for students and $950
CDN for non-students. After April 1, 2010, fees will be $575 CDN (student)
and $1250 CDN (non-student). The SSHRC tuition scholarship covers this fee
minus a small administration fee ($100 for students / $175 for
non-students).

 *Host and Sponsors*

Now in its ninth 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, its Humanities Computing and Media Centre
and its Electronic Textual Cultures Lab, and is sponsored by the University
of Victoria and its Library, University of British Columbia Library ,
College of Arts, University of Guelph, the Editing Modernism in Canada
project, the Society for Digital Humanities / Soci?t? pour l'?tude des
m?dias interactifs, the Association for Computers and the Humanities, the
Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada's Image, Text,
Sound and Technology Program, and others.

For more information, please visit http://www.dhsi.org. You can contact Ray
Siemens (Director) and Cara Leitch (Assistant Director) at institut at uvic.ca.

--
Cara Leitch
Assistant Director, DHSI
University of Victoria
Victoria BC  Canada
cmleitch at uvic.ca




From willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk  Tue Jan 19 06:25:46 2010
From: willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk (Humanist Discussion Group)
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 06:25:46 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Humanist] 23.581 news from Australia
Message-ID: <20100119062546.710CA46EE8@woodward.joyent.us>

                 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 581.
         Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
                       www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist
                Submit to: humanist at lists.digitalhumanities.org



        Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2010 14:59:04 +1100
        From: Paul Eggert <p.eggert at adfa.edu.au>
        Subject: news from Australia


News from Australia:

1. The Book Logic conference linked below: 19-20 March 20102 in Sydney:
http://www.unsw.adfa.edu.au/hass/conferences/book_logic.html

2. Recent appointments in digital humanities:

The digital hums area seems to be growing: a
new senior lectureship at the ANU is advertised: half research position,
and a recent chair on digital history at Uni of Queensland (Paul Turnbull).

3. Also a new vol from Sydney UP called /Resourceful Reading/, ed. Robert Dixon and Katherine Bode (Sydney: Sydney University Press, 2010)

Paul Eggert FAHA   | Australian Research Council Professorial Fellow | School of Humanities & Social Sciences  |  University of New South Wales at ADFA   |  Canberra ACT 2600  |  AUSTRALIA  |   
+61 (0)2 6268 8900  +61 (0)2 6268 8879  (fax)       
 http://www.unsw.adfa.edu.au/ASEC       
p.eggert at adfa.edu.au

The website for the Book Logic master class and conference (19-20 March  2010 in Sydney) is at  http://www.unsw.adfa.edu.au/hass/conferences/book_logic.html




From willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk  Tue Jan 19 06:26:35 2010
From: willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk (Humanist Discussion Group)
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 06:26:35 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Humanist] 23.582 events: mobility, design
Message-ID: <20100119062635.17B954704D@woodward.joyent.us>

                 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 582.
         Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
                       www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist
                Submit to: humanist at lists.digitalhumanities.org

  [1]   From:    Jose Abdelnour-Nocera <Jose.Abdelnour-Nocera at tvu.ac.uk>   (62)
        Subject: cfp: IWIPS Growing Global Design Communities - London 2010

  [2]   From:    "sudweeks at murdoch.edu.au" <sudweeks at murdoch.edu.au>       (42)
        Subject: Call for Papers - CATaC'10 - Vancouver, Canada


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        Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 23:32:35 +0000
        From: Jose Abdelnour-Nocera <Jose.Abdelnour-Nocera at tvu.ac.uk>
        Subject: cfp: IWIPS Growing Global Design Communities - London 2010


9th International Workshop of Internationalisation of Products and
Systems
www.iwips2010.org
London, England, 7 - 10 July 2010
to be held in Thames Valley University.

IWIPS 2010 committee is seeking submissions on the topics of
localization and globalization, with an emphasis on this year's theme:
Growing Global Design Communities. The objective of the 2010 theme is to
focus on the impact of international design teams on the design,
evaluation, and development of products and systems.? IWIPS invites
several types of submissions, including papers, case studies,
research-in-progress and tutorials.? All submissions are due 15 February
2010, unless indicated otherwise. Accepted submissions (except
tutorials) will be published in the IWIPS 2010 proceedings.

Suggested Topics for Submissions
As the world's economy recovers from the downturn, the need increases
for effective, efficient, and socially responsible strategies for
supporting global design communities. Strategies that address both
business and human issues are of great importance. Topics of interest
for IWIPS 2010 include, but are not limited to the following:

Cross-cultural issues in IT design
User centric strategies for economic and community development IT projects 
Revised models for global IT off-shoring, outsourcing and distributed
resources
Sociotechnical design and evaluation frameworks 
Methods for software localization / globalization 
Designing for trust 
Dealing with intercultural issues in participatory design
The impact of Social Networks and other CMC tools across cultural boundaries
Interactions between culture and user-centred design
Managing geographically dispersed? multicultural design communities
Localising usability evaluation and requirements gathering techniques

Submission Types

Papers - Papers are formal reports of completed research, organized on amodified APA model. The length of the paper should be no more than 10
pages in the proceedings format.

Case Studies - Case studies are structured descriptions of the lessons
learned in applied design, evaluation, or development of products or
systems within industry. The length of case studies should be between 4
to 8 pages in the proceedings format.

Research-in-Progress - Research-in-Progress briefs should provide a
description of the background, procedures and methodology, anticipated
results, and preliminary findings (if any) of ongoing research or
applied product design, evaluation or development. The length of the
Research-in-Progress brief should be 6 to 10 pages in the proceedings
format. (Graduate students are encouraged to submit a brief based on
their theses or dissertations.)

Tutorials - A tutorial is a comprehensive delivery, in an interactive
and applied style of a core set of internationalisation or localisation
skills methodologies or procedures. Tutorials should be interactive and
applied in the nature of their delivery. Initial proposals should be 3
to 5 pages in length and do not have to be submitted in the proceedings
format. The final submission will be between 15 to 30 pages, in the
proceedings format, due on 15th of April 2010.

Important Dates

Papers, case studies, and research-in-progress briefs
Submission deadline 15 February 2010
Notification to authors 15 March 2010
Camera ready copies of papers 5 April 2010

Tutorials
Initial proposal 15 January 2010
Final submissions 15 April 2010

More info on http://www.iwips2010.org/calls.html



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        Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 00:46:44 +0000
        From: "sudweeks at murdoch.edu.au" <sudweeks at murdoch.edu.au>
        Subject: Call for Papers - CATaC'10 - Vancouver, Canada


CATaC'10 CALL FOR PAPERS
"Diffusion 2.0: Computing, mobility, and the next generations"
Papers due 18 February 2010
 
On behalf of the Local and Program Chairs, and the CATaC Executive Committee, we are very pleased to announce the (second) Call for Papers for CATaC 2010: 
"Diffusion 2.0: Computing, mobility, and the next generations". 
(Please see www.catacconference.org for further details regarding accommodation, venue, and more about visiting Vancouver.)
 
PLEASE NOTE: extended submissions deadline - 18 February 2010.
See the Submissions page http://blogs.ubc.ca/catac/submissions for dates, formatting requirements, and link to our OCS submissions site.
Both short (3-5 pages) and long (10-15 pages) original papers are sought.
 
VENUE: The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
DATES: 15-18 June 2010
 
CATaC 2010 will feature keynote addresses by Dr Linc Kesler (First Nations Studies, The University of British Columbia) and Dr John Willinsky (Stanford University School of Education).
 
The biennial CATaC conference series provides a premier international forum for current research on how diverse cultural attitudes shape the implementation and use of information and communication technologies (ICTs). The conference series brings together scholars from around the globe who provide diverse perspectives, both in terms of the specific culture(s) they highlight in their presentations and discussions, and in terms of the discipline(s) through which they approach the conference theme.
 
Original full papers (especially those which connect theoretical frameworks with specific examples of cultural values and practices) and short papers (e.g. describing current research projects and preliminary results) are invited. Topics of particular interest include but are not limited to:
 
- Mobile technologies in developing countries
- New layers of imaging and texting interactions fostering and/or threatening cultural diversity
- Theoretical and practical approaches to analyzing ?culture?
- Impact of mobile technologies on privacy and surveillance Gender, sexuality and identity issues in social networks 
- Cultural diversity in e-learning and/or m-learning 
 
You may also purchase the conference proceedings from previous conferences by visiting the Proceedings page.
 
We look forward to receiving your submissions and to welcoming you to Vancouver in 2010!
 
Local Co-Chair: Leah Macfadyen (UBC)
Local Co-Chair: Kenneth Reeder (UBC)
Program Chair: Herbert Hrachovec (University of Vienna)
 
Executive Committee: 
Lorna Heaton (University of Montreal, Canada) and Maja van der Velden (University of Oslo, Norway)

Fay Sudweeks (Co-Chair, CATaC) and Charles Ess (Co-Chair, CATaC)

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From willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk  Wed Jan 20 06:16:43 2010
From: willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk (Humanist Discussion Group)
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 06:16:43 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Humanist] 23.583 why history
Message-ID: <20100120061643.B4906478AE@woodward.joyent.us>

                 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 583.
         Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
                       www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist
                Submit to: humanist at lists.digitalhumanities.org



        Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 16:47:56 -0500
        From: Wendell Piez <wapiez at mulberrytech.com>
        Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.570 why history
        In-Reply-To: <20100115084501.4EFC946824 at woodward.joyent.us>

Dear Willard,

What about T.S. Eliot:

   Some one said: "The dead writers are remote from us because we *know* so
   much more than they did." Precisely, and they are that which we know.

 From "Tradition and the Individual Talent" (1922).

Cheers,
Wendell

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Mulberry Technologies, Inc.                http://www.mulberrytech.com
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From willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk  Wed Jan 20 06:17:06 2010
From: willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk (Humanist Discussion Group)
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 06:17:06 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Humanist] 23.584 Irish postdocs
Message-ID: <20100120061706.8928847945@woodward.joyent.us>

                 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 584.
         Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
                       www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist
                Submit to: humanist at lists.digitalhumanities.org



        Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 10:51:03 +0000
        From: "John G. Keating" <John.Keating at nuim.ie>
        Subject: IRCHSS Fellowships


Colleagues,

I would like to draw your attention to The Irish Research Council for Humanities and Social Sciences (IRCHSS) 2010-2011 Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellowships and the European Commission co-funded Government of Ireland CARA Postdoctoral Mobility Fellowships. There are three types of fellowship available, including a CARA mobility fellowship which involves spending a two-year research period in an non-Irish HEI and the third year in an Irish HEI. To be eligible to apply to the scheme, applicants must have been awarded their doctoral degree within the five-year period before 31 January 2010 (viva date not graduation date, exceptions include verified maternity or illness leave). The closing date is 19th February 2010. Full details are available here:

http://www.irchss.ie/schemes/scheme02/index.html

Fellowships must be held at a recognised higher education institution in the Republic of Ireland. An Foras Feasa (at National University of Ireland Maynooth)would be pleased to host and mentor successful Postdoctoral Fellows availing of  these schemes. Furthermore, we would be pleased to assist prospective applicants with application preparation. AFF develops theoretical and practical components necessary for successful digital library and digital archival projects.  Projects typically aim to create preservation-quality Digital Humanities objects to support further Humanities research and can include manuscript studies, high-resolution and hyperspectral scanning, data modeling, XML encoding, repository building, software engineering and development, RDMS, and theoretical contextualisation.

AFF's Digital Imaging Laboratory is central to its activities in preservation, conservation and digitisation of historical documents and material culture objects. We have secured advanced imaging equipment which is housed in a purpose-built imaging laboratory.  In 2010 the laboratory will relocate to a high-specification climate controlled facility (27.62 sq metres) in a new Humanities and Social Science building (to be completed in mid-2010).  Currently the laboratory contains the following imaging equipment and accompanying computing facilities: Digital Imaging Equipment, Large Object High Resolution Imaging Unit (32 Megapixel), Macrophotography High Resolution Imaging, Hyperspectral Scanner (Reflectance), Hyperspectral Scanner (Florescence), Portable High Resolution Imaging Unit (32 Megapixel), Rexan III Portable 3D Scanner, Geomagic Software Suite (complete).

The institute is particularly interested in supporting postdoctoral studies in the following areas, and has the experience, infrastructural and intellectual capabilities to contribute to collaborative projects: (i) Fedora Commons, DSpace and DuraSpace, Repository design, construction and management; (ii) Digital Object and associated Metadata design, generation and management; (iii) Preservation Quality Image acquisition, including Hyperspectral imaging; (iv) Design and development of novel chaos-based Digital Watermarking of image and audiovisual material; (v) XML Mark-up of digital objects for inclusion in digital libraries, for example, historical texts, audiovisual material; (vi) Software development, Software Engineering for Humanities and Digital Libraries; (vii) Data modeling for Humanities and Digital Libraries research and development; (vii) Virtual Learning and Collaborative Writing Environments leveraging digital objects.

Please email me (john.keating at nuim.ie) if you are interested in applying for an IRCHSS fellowship to be hosted at An Foras Feasa.

Best wishes, John.
------

Best wishes, 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 at nuim.ie
Tel: 		+353 1 708 3854
FAX:	+353 1 708 4797




From willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk  Wed Jan 20 06:17:32 2010
From: willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk (Humanist Discussion Group)
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 06:17:32 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Humanist] 23.585 D-Lib for January/February
Message-ID: <20100120061732.064034797A@woodward.joyent.us>

                 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 585.
         Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
                       www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist
                Submit to: humanist at lists.digitalhumanities.org



        Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 21:20:35 +0000
        From: Larry Lannom <llannom at cnri.reston.va.us>
        Subject: The January/February 2010 issue of D-LibMagazine is now available


Greetings:

The January/February 2010 issue of D-Lib Magazine (http://www.dlib.org/) is now available.

This issue contains eight articles, two conference reports, the 'In Brief' column, excerpts from recent press releases, and news of upcoming conferences and other items of interest in 'Clips and Pointers'. This month, D-Lib features The Swingle Plant Anatomy Reference Collection, a historical collection of plant anatomical microscope slides, courtesy of University of Miami Libraries.

The Articles are:

Digital Object Repository Server: A Component of the Digital Object Architecture by Sean Reilly and Robert Tupelo-Schneck, Corporation for National Research Initiatives
http://dx.doi.org/10.1045/january2010-reilly

Technologies Employed to Control Access to or Use of Digital Cultural Collections: Controlled Online Collections by Kristin R. Eschenfelder, University of Wisconsin-Madison and Grace Agnew, Rutgers University
http://dx.doi.org/10.1045/january2010-eschenfelder

The Use of Metadata for Educational Resources in Digital Repositories: Practices and Perspectives by Dimitrios A. Koutsomitropoulos, Andreas D. Alexopoulos, Georgia D. Solomou, and Theodore S. Papatheodorou, University of Patras
http://dx.doi.org/10.1045/january2010-koutsomitropoulos

RDA Vocabularies: Process, Outcome, Use by Diane Hillmann, Information Institute of Syracuse, Metadata Management Associates; Karen Coyle, kcoyle.net; Jon Phipps, JES & Co., Metadata Management Associates; Gordon Dunsire, University of Strathclyde
http://dx.doi.org/10.1045/january2010-hillmann

D-Lib Magazine: Its First 13 Years by Taemin Kim Park, Indiana University Libraries
http://dx.doi.org/10.1045/january2010-park

Tagging Full Text Searchable Articles: An Overview of Social Tagging Activity in Historic Australian Newspapers August 2008 - August 2009 by Rose Holley, Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program (ANDP), National Library of Australia
http://dx.doi.org/10.1045/january2010-holley

FERPA and Student Work: Considerations for Electronic Theses and Dissertations by Marisa Ramirez, California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo and Gail McMillan, Virginia Tech
http://dx.doi.org/10.1045/january2010-ramirez

The Virtual Journals of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics by Richard H. Cyburt, Sam M. Austin, Timothy C. Beers, Alfredo Estrade, Ryan M. Ferguson, Alexander Sakharuk, Hendrik Schatz, Karl Smith, and Scott Warren, Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics (JINA)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1045/january2010-cyburt

The Conference and Workshop Reports are:

e-Science for Musicology Workshop Report by Richard Lewis, Goldsmiths College, University of London
http://dx.doi.org/10.1045/january2010-lewis

Cloud Computing, Big Data, and Open Access at EDUCAUSE 2009 by Carol Minton Morris, DuraSpace and Cornell University
http://dx.doi.org/10.1045/january2010-morris

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 2010 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.)

Laurence Lannom
Editor-in-Chief
D-Lib Magazine



From willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk  Wed Jan 20 06:18:44 2010
From: willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk (Humanist Discussion Group)
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 06:18:44 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Humanist] 23.586 cfp: Balisage 2010
Message-ID: <20100120061844.5FAD547A38@woodward.joyent.us>


                 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 586.
         Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
                       www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist
                Submit to: humanist at lists.digitalhumanities.org



        Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 16:43:24 -0500
        From: Balisage Conference Information <info at balisage.net>
        Subject: Balisage 2010 Call for Participation

Call for Participation
Balisage: The Markup Conference 2010

Got Markup? (of course you do!)

Want to get more out of it? Want to stretch it to 
the limit? Come to Balisage 2010, the 
peer-reviewed conference that makes you a markup 
geek (or at least feel like one)! Whether you're 
into theory or practice, this is the place to be 
to find out where the cutting edge is-and go 
beyond it. Balisage looks at every aspect of 
markup, from its theoretical and philosophical 
underpinnings to the newest and coolest ways of 
applying it to real-world problems.

Got Something To Say About Markup? (of course you do!)

We want to hear from you at Balisage 2010. We 
welcome submissions on any aspect of markup and 
structured information in theory or practice, 
generic or application specific, including by not 
limited to:

     * principles for the design, development, and documentation of
       markup vocabularies
     * applications of XML, Topic Maps, and related specifications
     * use or implementation of XSLT, XQuery, XProc, and other tools for
       processing marked up data
     * XML and databases
     * libraries and designs for supporting XML (or other forms of
       descriptive markup) in general-purpose programming languages
     * efficiency in XML processing
     * techniques for quality assurance in markup systems
     * handling overlapping structures in markup
     * alternatives to XML
     * formal models of markup and structured information
     * principles and practice of data validation (including uses of XSD,
       Relax NG, Schematron, and other schema languages)
     * best practice in the organization of XML workflows
     * problems of data longevity and reusability
     * fundamental principles of information structure and organization
     * achieving interoperability in applications of common vocabularies

How:
     Submit full papers in XML to info at balisage.net
     Guidelines, DTDs, schemas, and details at
        http://www.balisage.net/submissions.html
     Apply to the Peer Review panel
        http://www.balisage.net/peer/ReviewAppForm.html

More Information:
     Read about Balisage: http://www.balisage.net
     Sign up for the Markup conference announcement list:
        http://www.balisage.net/MarkupAnnounce.html
     Follow Balisage on Twitter: http://twitter.com/balisage

Schedule:

     19  March 2010 - Peer review applications due
     16  April 2010 - Paper submissions due
     16  April 2010 - Applications due for student support awards
     20  May 2010 - Speakers notified
      9  July 2010 - Final papers due
      2  August 2010 - Pre-conference Symposium
     3-6 August 2010 - Balisage: The Markup Conference

Help make Balisage your favorite XML Conference. See you in Montr?al!

--
=========================================================
Balisage: The Markup Conference 2010          mailto:info at balisage.net
August 3-6, 2010                               http://www.balisage.net
pre-conference symposium: August 2, 2010              Montreal, Canada
=========================================================




From willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk  Sat Jan 23 09:34:29 2010
From: willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk (Humanist Discussion Group)
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 09:34:29 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Humanist] 23.587 the case against digital humanities
Message-ID: <20100123093429.AB37548CDD@woodward.joyent.us>

                 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 587.
         Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
                       www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist
                Submit to: humanist at lists.digitalhumanities.org



        Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 11:33:33 -0500
        From: "Vallee, Jean-Francois" <jfvallee at cmaisonneuve.qc.ca>
        Subject: The case against digital humanities

Another view of digital humanities:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VREJV--VHSw



From willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk  Sat Jan 23 09:35:39 2010
From: willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk (Humanist Discussion Group)
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 09:35:39 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Humanist] 23.588 postdocs
Message-ID: <20100123093539.7827348D47@woodward.joyent.us>


                 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 588.
         Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
                       www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist
                Submit to: humanist at lists.digitalhumanities.org

  [1]   From:    Alan Galey <galey.lists at gmail.com>                        (54)
        Subject: INKE Postdoctoral Fellowship: History and Future of the Book

  [2]   From:    Bill Kapralos <Bill.Kapralos at uoit.ca>                     (91)
        Subject: [IFIP-EC-NEWS] Post-doctoral Fellowship


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        Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 10:26:32 -0500
        From: Alan Galey <galey.lists at gmail.com>
        Subject: INKE Postdoctoral Fellowship: History and Future of the Book

Job Posting:
Postdoctoral Fellow in the History and Future of the Book (2010-11, renewable)

The Implementing New Knowledge Environments (INKE) project, funded by
a Major Collaborative Research Initiative grant from the Social
Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), seeks a
post-doctoral fellow in the History and Future of the Book, with
expertise in Textual Studies and Digital Humanities. This position is
based in the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto, in
partnership with the Jackman Humanities Institute. The successful
candidate is anticipated to work closely with team members at U
Toronto, Acadia U, U Saskatchewan, U Victoria, U Western Ontario, and
beyond. The postdoctoral fellow will work with digital manifestations
of historical textual features, collaborating with INKE?s Textual
Studies team and others, consulting with project stakeholders and
potential stakeholders, and liaising with other INKE researchers
located in North America and the UK. The fellow will be expected teach
a light course load in the Faculty of Information and the
collaborative program in Book History and Print Culture, to be
remunerated in addition to the fellowship?s salary.

The successful candidate will have skills and aptitudes in
humanities-oriented research, textual studies and book
history/bibliography, including training or demonstrated experience
working with a variety of digital humanities resources, including
digital archives, scholarly editions, journals and monographs, and
text analysis and visualization tools.  Organizational skills are
essential. Interest and aptitude in research planning and management
would be an asset. The ability to work in concert with our existing
team is a critical requirement.

Examples of technologies employed in INKE projects are as follows: TEI
P5 ; XML, XSLT, XSL and XHTML encoding; XQuery; eXist XML databases;
JavaScript; and Ruby on Rails.  Experience in some or all technologies
in use in INKE-related projects and similar areas would be an asset,
but is not a requirement, though hands-on aptitude with -- as distinct
from merely interest in -- digital tools is required.

Our current team members pride themselves on a passionate interest in
both the humanities and their computational engagement. Our ideal
candidate is someone with similar passions who can introduce the team
to new ideas and provide new perspectives on existing digital
humanities issues. The salary for this position is competitive in the
Canadian context, and is governed in part by SSHRC practices.
Applications comprising a brief cover letter, CV, and the names and
contact information for three referees may be sent electronically to
inke.ischool at utoronto.ca. The contract can begin as early as 1
September 2010; it is for a one-year term, with the possibility of
renewal. The position is subject to budgetary approval.

Interviews may be conducted via Skype, or in person at the Congress of
the Humanities and Social Sciences (Montr?al), the Digital Humanities
Summer Institute (Victoria), and other venues at which INKE team
members are present.  Applications will be reviewed until the position
is filled.

http://www.inke.ca	
http://ischool.utoronto.ca
http://humanities.utoronto.ca
http://bookhistory.fis.utoronto.ca



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        Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 12:51:18 +0000
        From: Bill Kapralos <Bill.Kapralos at uoit.ca>
        Subject: Post-doctoral Fellowship


The Interactive Systems Research Group in the Department of Computer
Science and Engineering and the Play:CES studio in the Faculty of
Education at York University, Toronto, Ontario are seeking applicants
for a Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Computer Science and Engineering,
beginning as soon as February 1, 2010 and ending April 1, 2011.

The applicant will join an interdisciplinary team of researchers led by
Dr. Jen Jenson, Faculty of Education at York University and will be
co-supervised by Dr. Jenson and Dr. Wolfgang Stuerzlinger. In the
collaborative project, the applicant will participate in a major role in
an intensive work for theorizing and implementing innovative software
development projects, relating both to digital game development and
qualitative research. These include, primarily, a multi-media database
for use by researchers, for uploading, synchronizing and analyzing
multiple strands of qualitative and quantitative research data
(including sound, video, text transcripts, and surveys) for a research
project on Massively Multiplayer Online Game (MMOG) players and
communities. Other potential projects include educational game
development for either the iPhone/iPod Touch and/or Flash.

Applicants must have finished or be demonstrably close to finishing a
relevant PhD. Fluency in both written and spoken English is necessary.
The successful applicant should have extensive experience with web
development and on-line database systems. A proven track record that
demonstrates high-quality work is necessary. Familiarity and/or fluency
with some tools for digital game development on hand-held devices or WWW
pages is also desired. Competency with game tool and knowledge
of/enthusiasm for independent, casual, small-scale games and game
development is a bonus.

Please send a brief letter of application, including a curriculum vitae,
and digital portfolio (in PDF format or as WWW links) to Wolfgang
Stuerzlinger <wolfgang at cse.yorku.ca>. Three reference letters should be
sent independently to the same address. We will begin reviewing
applications immediately.

The Interactive Systems Research Group is a rich community of students,
researchers, and faculty investigating many aspects of Human Computer
Interaction, 3D User Interfaces and Virtual Reality in Toronto. The
group is one of the largest Human-Computer Interaction research groups
in Canada. It is based within the Department of Computer Science and
Engineering, and has established connections with many other disciplines
at York, including the world-renowned Centre for Vision Research, which
also hosts the strongest Virtual Reality research group in Canada. This
forms an ideal environment for young researchers.
http://www.cse.yorku.ca/~isrg

The Play:CES studio in the Faculty of Education has produced over 10
play-based educational software resources. These include ?Ethics and
Legal Studies in Education?, an online tutorial for teachers-in-training
to learn the ethical and legal issues facing classroom teachers;
?Contagion?, a health-related adventure game, for which we developed one
of the first isometric game engines for Flash; and, more recently,
?Quest for the Arundo Donax: A Baroque Adventure?, a game commissioned
by the Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra to teach music and culture through
historically-themed rhythm and music mini-games. The studio is also home
to a number of qualitative research projects that explore the
intersections of digital play, education (both formal and informal), and
issues around gender and identity.

http://edu.apps01.yorku.ca/profiles/main/jenson-jennifer

-------------------------------------------------------------------
Bill Kapralos, Ph.D
Assistant Professor
Faculty of Business and Information Technology
University of Ontario Institute of Technology
2000 Simcoe Street North
Oshawa, Ontario, Canada. L1H 7K4
Phone: 905-721-8668 x2882
Fax: 905-721-3167
bill.kapralos at uoit.ca
http://faculty.uoit.ca/kapralos

FuturePlay @ GDC Canada 2009
http://futureplay.org/

From willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk  Sat Jan 23 09:36:58 2010
From: willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk (Humanist Discussion Group)
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 09:36:58 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Humanist] 23.589 computing and thinking
Message-ID: <20100123093658.6CD6048E98@woodward.joyent.us>


                 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 589.
         Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
                       www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist
                Submit to: humanist at lists.digitalhumanities.org

  [1]   From:    Wendell Piez <wapiez at mulberrytech.com>                    (21)
        Subject: Chess, the machine and the mind

  [2]   From:    Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk>          (11)
        Subject: computational thinking


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        Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 11:43:19 -0500
        From: Wendell Piez <wapiez at mulberrytech.com>
        Subject: Chess, the machine and the mind

Dear Willard,

Here's an engaging and thoughtful essay that reflects on many of the 
issues of interest to HUMANIST:

The Chess Master and the Computer
By Garry Kasparov
Review of Chess Metaphors: Artificial Intelligence and the Human Mind
by Diego Rasskin-Gutman, translated from the Spanish by Deborah Klosky
MIT Press, 205 pp., $24.95

New York Review of Books (57 no. 2, Feb 11 2010)
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/23592

Cheers,
Wendell

========================================================
Wendell Piez                            mailto:wapiez at 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
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   Mulberry Technologies: A Consultancy Specializing in SGML and XML


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        Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 22:04:27 +0000
        From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk>
        Subject: computational thinking

Many here will be interested in a new publication of the U.S. National 
Academies Press, Report of a Workshop on the Scope and Nature of 
Computational Thinking, ISBN: 0-309-14958-4. It is available freely by 
download from www.nap.edu/catalog/12840.html.

Yours,
WM
-- 
Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing,
King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/;
Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist;
Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org.




From willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk  Sat Jan 23 09:44:40 2010
From: willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk (Humanist Discussion Group)
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 09:44:40 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Humanist] 23.590 events too various for brief summary
Message-ID: <20100123094440.F0B9848919@woodward.joyent.us>


                 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 590.
         Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
                       www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist
                Submit to: humanist at lists.digitalhumanities.org

  [1]   From:    Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk>          (65)
        Subject: International Meeting on Graphic Archaeology and
                Informatics, Cultural Heritage and Innovation

  [2]   From:    "Engel, Maureen" <maureen.engel at ualberta.ca>             (113)
        Subject: CeCL2010 - Call for Proposals

  [3]   From:    Dominic Forest <dominic.forest at umontreal.ca>             (123)
        Subject: DEFT 2010 - Appel ? participation

  [4]   From:    Sara Schmidt <saschmidt8 at gmail.com>                       (63)
        Subject: Re: JCDL 2010 paper submission deadline extended to February
                1st

  [5]   From:    Marian Dworaczek <marian.dworaczek at USASK.CA>               (9)
        Subject: Library Related Conferences


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        Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 06:12:46 +0000
        From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk>
        Subject: International Meeting on Graphic Archaeology and Informatics, Cultural Heritage and Innovation


*2nd. International Meeting on Graphic Archaeology and Informatics,
Cultural Heritage and Innovation*
*
**ARQUEOL?GICA 2.0*
 http://www.arqueologiavirtual.com 

Cultural Center of Villa, La Rinconada
Roman City of It?lica
16-19 June 2009
Seville. Spain

On behalf of the Organisation Comittee of the **2nd International
Meeting on Graphic Archaeology and Informatics, Cultural Heritage and
Innovation ARQUEOL?GICA 2.0,** it is a pleasure to invite colleagues
from all over the World to come to La Rinconada, Seville, Spain, from
16th to 19th June, 2010. This will be the second International meeting
held in Spain, where researchers from Archaeology and Graphics fields
will work together on Virtual Archaeology, concerning all its
posibilities. The participation of well-known researchers on this field
will shape a very interesting meeting.

*ARQUEOL?GICA 2.0* will analize both the present and future of
reconstruction and computer aided render techniques, applied to
archaeological heritage and culture. The main aim is to offer an updated
overview about the Archeology of XXI Century: research and development
on virtual archaeology, performed and planned projects, new render
techniques, development of innovative methods and procedures.

Besides, it is also important to provide both the scientific community
and the related companies with a suitable meeting point, in order to
share the latest research projects and professional frameworks. Thus,
*ARQUEOL?GICA 2.0* is the place to exchange ideas and information, as
well as seek for cooperation and chances of participation in common
projects.

The official languages are Spanish, English and Italian. Scientific
communications and lectures can be held in any of those three languages.
Simultaneous translation into Spanish and English will be provided at
all sessions.

**CALL FOR PAPERS**

Participants from any discipline are encouraged to contribute in order
to create an open forum for knowledge exchange and a fertile environment
for discussion relating to the topic of Graphic Archaeology and
Informatics, Cultural Heritage and Innovation.

Researchers or practitioners are invited to submit papers on original
work from within archaeology although contributions are particularly
encouraged from other disciplines which address and inform key issues in
the context of the following sub-themes:

Virtual reconstruction or virtual anastilosys
of archaeological heritage
Virtual and zoomed reality applied to Archaeology
3D digitalization of archaeological heritage
CAD tools on virtual Archaeology. Render techniques
Archaeological visualization
Applied theory of virtual archaeology
Virtual Archaeology and museums. Virtual museums and visits

The communications abstracts must fit within 120 text rows, in English
or Spanish, including pictures and images.

The complete communication paper will be submitted according to the
indications set up by the Scientific Committee, in maximum 6 DIN A4
pages, keeping to the previously delivered document template.

Posters accepted by the Scientific Committee shall be submitted in
digital format with a real A1 size.

Abstracts and posters must be submitted to the Secretary by the
following email address. The deadline is 1st march 2010

[...]

-- 
Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing,
King's College London: staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/



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        Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 13:10:47 -0700
        From: "Engel, Maureen" <maureen.engel at ualberta.ca>
        Subject: CeCL2010 - Call for Proposals

Call for Proposals

CeLC2010:rEvolution

Canadian e-Learning Conference June 22-25, 2010 University of Alberta,
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada 

Deadline for Submissions: Jan 31, 2010
Notification: March 31, 2010
Submission URL: www.celc2010.ualberta.ca
 

Launched in 2003, the Canadian e-Learning Conference has developed into
an engaging venue for practitioners, instructors, administrators, and
students alike to share ideas and evidence on  technology enhanced
learning and teaching.  In 2010, in keeping with our conference theme of
"rEvolution," the conference comes full circle and returns to its origins at the
University of Alberta.

In choosing the word rEvolution to guide and define this year's
conference, we hope to inspire thinking on a number of fronts: on the
one hand, revolution is a marker of radical change, progress, and new
and innovative thinking; on the other, revolution speaks to the cyclical
nature of time and progress, where a full revolution (of a wheel, even
of the globe) brings us back to where we began.  Contained within
"revolution", and perhaps in contrast to the sense of radical and
fast-paced change, we find "evolution" which helps us to recognize that
change can happen incrementally and at a much more guarded and
methodical pace.  Each of these connotations gives us fruitful ways to
think through the relationships between and among teaching, learning,
discovery, and technology.

We invite you to submit a proposal to the 2010 conference program.  Like
e-Learning tools, the program is flexible and allows for innovation. 

Proposals must specify one of the conference formats listed below, and
are encouraged to engage with one of the key conference themes.

Conference Themes

Imagine the Possibilities
These presentations will focus on the near and distant futures of
e-Learning.  What will e-Learning be like in 20 years?  Tomorrow?  
 
Reality  Check
How feasible is innovation in e-Learning? What are the impacts of
current fiscal, administrative, political and educational realities on
the implementation of e-Learning?  These sessions should be rooted in
current realities and, where possible, based on evidence-based practice.

Keeping Our Feet on the Ground
"Teaching is teaching." How should the scholarship of teaching drive
developments in e-Learning?  What is the empirical evidence?  

We're Listening
We strongly encourage student presenters to share how they understand,
critique, and analyse their relationship to e-Learning.

Case Studies and Demonstrations
These sessions highlight specific experiences with e-Learning : specific
assignments, courses, or innovations.  We particularly encourage
submissions under the headings "My best failure" and "My greatest
success." 

[...]
Questions?  celc2010 at ualberta.ca

 
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        Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 17:57:20 -0500
        From: Dominic Forest <dominic.forest at umontreal.ca>
        Subject: DEFT 2010 - Appel ? participation

DEFT 2010 - Appel ? participation
 
~~ O? et quand un article de presse a-t-il ?t? ?crit ? ~~
 
Atelier d'?valuation en fouille de textes sur l'identification de la p?riode
et du lieu de publication d'articles de presse francophone
 
Date de l?atelier : 23 juillet 2010 (conjointement ? TALN 2010)
Lieu : Montr?al (Canada)
 
Site Internet : http://www.groupes.polymtl.ca/taln2010/deft.php
Contact : deft10 at limsi.fr
 
Cette campagne d'?valuation b?n?ficie du soutien de CEDROM-SNi,
du CNRTL et de ELDA.
 
********************************************************
 
DEFT2010, sixi?me ?dition de la campagne d'?valuation en fouille de textes,
portera sur les variations diachroniques et g?ographiques en corpus de
presse francophones. L'atelier de cl?ture se tiendra ? Montr?al dans le
cadre de la conf?rence TALN 2010.
 
Un locuteur francophone natif est capable de d?tecter dans une conversation
des expressions sp?cifiques ? un pays (par exemple au niveau des nombres
"septante" et "nonante" en Belgique et en Suisse contre "soixante-dix et
"quatre-vingt-dix" en France et au Qu?bec, et "huitante" en Suisse vs.
"quatre-vingts" dans les trois autres pays).
 
Un lecteur est ?galement capable de mobiliser des connaissances
linguistiques, culturelles et historiques pour identifier la p?riode (sur
une ?chelle plus ou moins grande) de parution d'un article (en identifiant
un ?v?nement particulier et/ou des tournures linguistiques ou des entit?s
nomm?es jug?es repr?sentatives d'une p?riode donn?e).
 
Comme tout acte de communication, les documents ont une origine et un public
vis? ; leur nature, c'est-?-dire leurs contenu, niveaux de langue, etc. en
d?pend fortement. Dans cette ?dition du d?fi fouille de textes, nous nous
int?ressons ? l'origine des documents, plus particuli?rement ? l'?poque et
au lieu de leur cr?ation.
 
Dans ce cadre, nous proposons plusieurs pistes distinctes et ind?pendantes.
 
* Piste 1.
Cette piste, relative ? la variation diachronique, concerne l'identification
de la d?cennie de publication d'extraits d'articles fran?ais d'une taille de
300 mots. Les extraits de ce corpus couvrent une p?riode comprise entre 1800
et 1944.
 
Le corpus d'apprentissage se composera d'extraits (300 mots) d'articles de
quatre titres de journaux diff?rents, le corpus de test int?grera des
extraits provenant de ces quatre m?mes titres plus un cinqui?me titre absent
du corpus d'apprentissage, de mani?re ? ?prouver la robustesse des syst?mes.
 
* Piste 2.
L'identification de l'origine g?ographique de chaque document (pays
d'origine) constituera la seconde piste de cette campagne. Elle reposera sur
des corpus de presse rassemblant plusieurs titres provenant de France et du
Qu?bec.
 
Pour ces deux pistes, les participants auront la possibilit? d'utiliser des
ressources externes (linguistiques, historiques, etc.) qu'ils devront
obligatoirement d?clarer lors de la soumission des r?sultats. En ce qui
concerne plus sp?cifiquement la piste 1, les ressources provenant de Gallica
ne seront pas autoris?es.
 
Nous invitons les participants ? participer aux deux pistes. Il est
cependant possible de ne participer qu'? une seule des pistes.
 
Des corpus d'apprentissage seront fournis aux participants inscrits, ?
partir du 26 f?vrier 2010. Ces corpus sont compos?s de 60% des corpus
d'origine. Les 40% de corpus restants seront utilis?s pour le test. Le test
aura lieu sur une fen?tre d'un mois, ? partir de la mi-mars.  ? partir de la
date qu'ils auront choisie dans cet intervalle, les participants auront
trois jours pour appliquer, sur les corpus de test, les m?thodes mises au
point sur les corpus d'apprentissage et nous retourner leurs r?sultats
d'analyse.
 
********************************************************
 
Dates importantes :
 
- Inscription : ? partir du 25 janvier 2010. Les ?quipes souhaitant
participer ? DEFT 2010 devront s'inscrire ? l'aide du formulaire en ligne et
signer les accords de mise ? disposition des corpus.
- Diffusion des corpus d'apprentissage : 26 f?vrier 2010
- Test : au choix, 3 jours pris entre mi-mars et mi-avril 2010
- Atelier : le 23 juillet 2010 lors de la conf?rence TALN
 
********************************************************
 
Comit? d'organisation :
- Dominic Forest (EBSI, UdeM)
- Cyril Grouin (LIMSI)
- Lyne Da Sylva (EBSI, UdeM)
 
********************************************************
 

Dominic Forest, Ph. D.
Professeur adjoint 
 
Adresse postale : 
?cole de biblioth?conomie et des sciences de l'information
Universit? de Montr?al
C.P. 6128, succursale Centre-ville
Montr?al (Qu?bec) H3C 3J7
 
Adresse g?ographique :
?cole de biblioth?conomie et des sciences de l'information
Universit? de Montr?al
Pavillon Lionel-Groulx
3150, rue Jean-Brillant, bureau C-2046
Montr?al (Qu?bec) H3T 1N8
 
T?l?phone : (514) 343-6119
T?l?copieur : (514) 343-5753
 
Courrier ?lectronique : dominic.forest at umontreal.ca
Sites Internet : www.dominicforest.name  et www.ebsi.umontreal.ca


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        Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 19:40:47 -0600
        From: Sara Schmidt <saschmidt8 at gmail.com>
        Subject: Re: JCDL 2010 paper submission deadline extended to February 1st


Dear Collegues:

Please disseminate the following to your colleagues:

Call for Papers http://www.jcdl-icadl2010.org/
Joint Conference on Digital Libraries JCDL 2010
June 21-25, 2010  Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.
http://www.jcdl2010.org

Paper Submission Deadline Extended to February 1

Sponsored by ACM SIGIR, ACM SIGWEB, ASIS&T, and IEEE-CS TCDL

The ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) is the
major international research forum focused on digital libraries and
associated technical, practical, and social issues. JCDL encompasses the
many meanings of the term "digital libraries", including (but not
limited to) new forms of information institutions; operational
information systems with all manner of digital content; new means of
selecting, collecting, organizing, distributing, and evaluating digital
content; and theoretical models of information media, including document
genres and electronic publishing. Digital libraries are distinguished
from information retrieval systems because they include more types of
media, provide additional functionality and services, and include other
stages of the information life cycle, from creation through use. Digital
libraries can also be viewed as an extension of the services libraries
currently provide.

The theme of JCL 2010 is ?Digital Libraries ? 10 years past, 10 years
forward, a 2020 vision?. This theme reflects the fact that the context
in which digital libraries were originally conceived has significantly
changed in the context of new information models embodied in Web 2.0 and
popular social networking applications. In this spirit, we are
especially interested in papers that address and demonstrate new models
of collaborative, participatory information interaction increasingly
ubiquitous in the Web 2.0 context.

JCDL 2010 invites submissions of papers and proposals for posters,
demonstrations, tutorials, and workshops that will make the conference
an exciting and creative event to attend. As always, the conference
welcomes contributions from all the fields that intersect to enable
Digital Libraries. Topics include, but are not limited to:

?       Collaborative and participatory information environments
?       Cyberinfrastructure architectures, applications, and deployments
?       Data mining/extraction of structure from networked information
?       Digital library and Web Science curriculum development
?       Evaluation of online information environments
?       Impact and evaluation of digital information in education
?       Information policy and copyright law
?       Personal digital information management
?       Retrieval and browsing
?       Social networks and networked information
?       Social-technical perspectives of digital information
?       Studies of human factors in networked information
?       Systems, algorithms, and models for data preservation
?       Theoretical models of information interaction and organization
?       Visualization of large-scale information environments

Important Dates

?         All papers are due Monday, February 1, 2010 at 5 PM EST.
?         Demonstration submissions are due Monday, February 8, 2010 at
5 PM EST.
?         Tutorial proposals are due Monday, February 8, 2010 at 5 PM EST.
?         Poster submissions are due Monday, February 15, 2010 at 5 PM EST.
?         Workshop proposals are due Monday, February 22, 2010 at 5 PM EST.
?         Notification of acceptance to authors by March 15, 2010.
?         Doctoral consortium abstracts are due Wednesday, March 31, 2010.

Submission and Formatting Instructions are available at:

http://www.jcdl2010.org/submitformat.php

Best regards.

Carl



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        Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 13:50:35 +0000
        From: Marian Dworaczek <marian.dworaczek at USASK.CA>
        Subject: Library Related Conferences


Library Related Conferences - updated to January 21, 2010

Available at:

    http://library2.usask.ca/~dworacze/CONF.HTM

Marian Dworaczek
University of Saskatchewan Library

From willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk  Sun Jan 24 08:50:07 2010
From: willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk (Humanist Discussion Group)
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 08:50:07 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Humanist] 23.591 the case against digital humanities
Message-ID: <20100124085007.290E84868D@woodward.joyent.us>

                 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 591.
         Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
                       www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist
                Submit to: humanist at lists.digitalhumanities.org



        Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 09:32:27 -0500
        From: James Rovira <jamesrovira at gmail.com>
        Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.587 the case against digital humanities
        In-Reply-To: <20100123093429.AB37548CDD at woodward.joyent.us>


Very funny, and I'm amused at how well and for how many different things
that video clip has been used (anyone know its origin?), but I'm curious if
the people who created it distinguish between being able to get information
online and being able to get an education online?  If there was nothing more
to education than "getting the content," then there is no distinction
between the two, but that's just not the case.  I currently work at an
institution that supports and encourages online learning and makes a great
deal of money from it.  The trajectory that I see for online learning is
that it's only significant from a monetary standpoint: the goal is for one
underpaid professor to create a course shell that can "educate" thousands of
students with a minimum of guidance at the highest possible price that
available financial aid will allow.  The spread of online learning will
therefore lead to an additional tier within US higher ed: online college
will become the slums servicing the great mass of our poorest students while
traditional, seated classes will be reserved for the upper classes with
money.  The name over your degree will become more important than ever in
determining your future possibilities.

I think the first thing that we need to do is separate the two following
concepts:

-the availability of educational materials online; books, manuscripts, etc.
-the availability of an education online.

The first is an unequivocal good in my opinion, the second varies in good
depending upon kind and content and context.

I see a distinction between the two because I was an autodidact for some
years before I started college, and learned what difference the organization
of knowledge makes for its acquisition, as well as the difference that
personal contact with other and more educated people can make -- not just in
the classroom, but in the lunchroom, around campus, etc.

Jim R

On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 4:34 AM, Humanist Discussion Group
>
>
> Another view of digital humanities:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VREJV--VHSw
>
>
>




From willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk  Sun Jan 24 08:50:41 2010
From: willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk (Humanist Discussion Group)
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 08:50:41 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Humanist] 23.592 Kasparov's wolf
Message-ID: <20100124085041.2090C486D2@woodward.joyent.us>

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        Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 10:20:08 +0000
        From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk>
        Subject: sometimes there is a wolf


We highly educated sorts have all kinds of sophisticated mental routines for
turning aside just about anything whose point would discomfort us. (Milton's
portrait of Satan comes to mind.) We have the "o tempora, o mores" gambit
covered in all its variations. Since we've lost the conventional language
for expressing the idea that humanity is damned but not the evidence which
still suggests that idea, "o tempora, o mores" hasn't much of an edge to
begin with. It's bound to be unpopular in a techno-centric age.  And since
it's usually the older ones who proclaim it -- those who are themselves
speedily going to Hell in a handbasket -- the lament really does have an
uphill battle to wage before attention can be drawn to whatever the problem
is. But sometimes, you know, there really is somethingto pay attention to.

My thanks to Wendell Piez, as so often in the past, for the pointer to
something worthy of our attention, in this case to Gary Kasparov's review of
Diego Rasskin-Gutman's Chess Metaphors in the NYRB for 11 February, 57.2,
www.nybooks.com/articles/23592. His observation that humans are now playing
chess more and more like computers adds to the accumulating store of
observations and arguments along those lines. But what grabs me even more is
his explication of "our last chess metaphor":

>  a metaphor for how we have discarded innovation and creativity in
> exchange for a steady supply of marketable products. The dreams of
> creating an artificial intelligence that would engage in an ancient
> game symbolic of human thought have been abandoned. Instead, every
> year we have new chess programs, and new versions of old ones, that
> are all based on the same basic programming concepts for picking a
> move by searching through millions of possibilities that were
> developed in the 1960s and 1970s. Like so much else in our
> technology-rich and innovation-poor modern world, chess computing has
> fallen prey to incrementalism and the demands of the market.
> Brute-force programs play the best chess, so why bother with anything
> else? Why waste time and money experimenting with new and innovative
> ideas when we already know what works? Such thinking should horrify
> anyone worthy of the name of scientist, but it seems, tragically, to
> be the norm. Our best minds have gone into financial engineering
> instead of real engineering, with catastrophic results for both
> sectors.

Instead of Cicero's lament perhaps we should address those who shape
our part of the world with "For shame!" and ourselves feel ashamed
whenever the shoe fits?

But a moment more of your time. No doubt that sense of shame would be
healthy all around as a corrective to the shameless commercialisation of
universities, but I wonder if more isn't involved here. 

What would delight the Kasparovs among us? What would we regard as a
scientifically or intellectually respectable result? Clearly the opposite of
"brute-force" automation: an mathematically elegant algorithm, the simpler
the better, that would with a minimum number of steps artifically reason its
way to check-mate. We'd then forgive the massive computing power required
and rejoice in the brilliance of the (human) idea, yes? Because this is how
we think we work. This is our intelligence (neverminding the fact that we
don't know the steps by which it is achieved).

But is this the way, or the only way, that computing behaves when it is most
successful? Compare, for example, how we once thought perfect
information-retrieval would work -- before Google. (Somewhere Terry Winograd
speaks of his great surprise as a conventionally trained computer scientist
by the success of its approach.) Consider the effects of very dumb searches
in JSTOR and its kind, precisely due to the fact that their "precision" is
so poor.

So, if your interest is on the cognitive science side of things, wanting to
know what computing can tell us about cognition, isn't the gulf between
brute-force chess and Kasparovian chess valuable? Do we welcome the wolf?

Comments?

Yours,
WM

--
Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing,
King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/;
Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist;
Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org.





From willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk  Sun Jan 24 08:51:10 2010
From: willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk (Humanist Discussion Group)
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 08:51:10 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Humanist] 23.593 postdoc at Stanford
Message-ID: <20100124085110.D5D2E48747@woodward.joyent.us>

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        Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 06:42:06 -0800
        From: Jon Christensen <jonchristensen at stanford.edu>
        Subject: Job Posting: Postdoctoral Fellow in Environmental (and Digital) Humanities at Stanford

Stanford University Postdoctoral Fellowship: Cultures of Nature in the
American West

The Environmental Humanities Project, in collaboration with the Woods
Institute for the Environment and the Bill Lane Center for the
American West at Stanford University, seeks applicants for a
postdoctoral fellowship focusing on cultures of nature in the American
West. Applicants' research should focus on how cultures shape
conceptions of nature, the natural, species boundaries, uses of plants
and animals and natural resources, the human body in its environmental
dimensions, or environmental health and illness; how cultures of
nature form and dissolve; how cultures map nature, literally and
metaphorically; how cultures of nature rooted in particular places
develop dimensions beyond that place (e.g. in the virtual realm); and
what practical differences such cultures make for human uses of the
environment and in shaping nature.

The postdoctoral fellow will be a leader in the Environmental
Humanities Project, a new initiative at Stanford designed to develop
an interdisciplinary community across departments, programs and
research areas in the Humanities involving environmental issues. This
community will also seek to build bridges to the social and natural
sciences. Fellows should be committed to this goal and will be
expected to participate actively in building such a community. In
addition, they will teach one class and participate in workshops and
seminars. The appointment is for one year but may be renewed for an
additional year. Applicants must have their doctoral degree in hand 30
days prior to the appointment start date.

The concept of "cultures of nature" is conceived broadly to include
indigenous, ethnic, class-based, local, professional formations and
subcultures. The American West is understood as the United States west
of the Mississippi, western Canada, Mexico, and their interfaces with
the Pacific region. We welcome applicants from anthropology, history,
literary and cultural studies, political science, sociology and urban
studies, as well as candidates from the natural sciences with a strong
interest in multidisciplinary methods and the humanities. We
particularly encourage applicants who are interested in working with a
variety of sources, including data, maps, images, and multimedia
visualization techniques. Applicants should be comfortable working in
a collaborative research setting. The fellowship research project will
be developed by the candidate in collaboration with scholars from a
variety of related disciplines, and will have an associated public
outreach dimension.

For further information please contact Ursula K. Heise
<uheise at stanford.edu>, Professor of English, Director of the Program
in Modern Thought and Literature and faculty coordinator of the
Environmental Humanities Project, or Jon Christensen
<jonchristensen at stanford.edu>, Executive Director, Bill Lane Center
for the American West, Stanford University.

Applicants should submit the following materials by April 1, 2010:
Cover letter, CV, 1000-word project proposal, dissertation abstract,
25-page writing sample, three letters of recommendation. Send
application materials to: Prof. Ursula K. Heise, Department of
English, 450 Serra Mall Bldg. 460, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
94305-2087.




From willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk  Mon Jan 25 06:29:12 2010
From: willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk (Humanist Discussion Group)
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 06:29:12 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Humanist] 23.595 the case against digital humanities
Message-ID: <20100125062912.1B0F84812D@woodward.joyent.us>


                 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 595.
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  [1]   From:    Dennis Moser <moser.dennis at gmail.com>                     (30)
        Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.591 the case against digital humanities

  [2]   From:    "Markus Wust" <markus_wust at ncsu.edu>                      (53)
        Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.591 the case against digital humanities


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        Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 10:12:54 -0700 (MST)
        From: Dennis Moser <moser.dennis at gmail.com>
        Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.591 the case against digital humanities
        In-Reply-To: <20100124085007.290E84868D at woodward.joyent.us>

The original film from which the clip is taken is the 2004 "Der Untergang"...I'd been wondering about that myself for some time and had been lazy. This use of the clip is by far one of the best I've seen (but a slight misnomer, as it can't seem to decide if it's against digital humanities or digital scholarship). Jim's point is well-taken.

Best,

Dennis

----- Original Message -----
[VERY BIG SNIP] ...

        Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 09:32:27 -0500
        From: James Rovira <jamesrovira at gmail.com>
        Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.587 the case against digital humanities
        In-Reply-To: <20100123093429.AB37548CDD at woodward.joyent.us>

Very funny, and I'm amused at how well and for how many different things
that video clip has been used (anyone know its origin?), but I'm curious if
the people who created it distinguish between being able to get information
online and being able to get an education online?  If there was nothing more
to education than "getting the content," then there is no distinction
between the two, but that's just not the case.  

... [ANOTHER VERY BIG SNIP] ...

Jim R


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        Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 12:33:19 -0500
        From: "Markus Wust" <markus_wust at ncsu.edu>
        Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.591 the case against digital humanities
        In-Reply-To: <20100124085007.290E84868D at woodward.joyent.us>


The source of the clip is "Der Untergang" (Downfall, 2004): http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0363163/ 
Markus Wust



From willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk  Mon Jan 25 06:30:41 2010
From: willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk (Humanist Discussion Group)
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 06:30:41 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Humanist] 23.596 Kasparov's wolf
Message-ID: <20100125063041.7A8EC48202@woodward.joyent.us>

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        Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 08:23:45 -0700
        From: Sterling Fluharty <phdinhistory at gmail.com>
        Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.592 Kasparov's wolf
        In-Reply-To: <20100124085041.2090C486D2 at woodward.joyent.us>


Willard,

I was intrigued by the point you shared about humans now playing chess  
more and more like computers.  Of course the noble dream of AI has  
long been that computers would make breakthroughs in figuring out and  
emulating how humans play chess.  I actually subscribe to neither of  
these views.  For me, human chess players have now entered a self- 
feedback loop where they are imitating cariactures of themselves that  
computer scientists invented in the 1960s and 1970s when they grossly  
underestimated what it meant to be human.  As I see it, chess offers a  
reductionist view of humans by privileging a militaristic mindset  
that, in its most extreme forms, is cold, calculating, and  
constraining.  After all, the game of chess was designed so that  
language, perhaps our greatest hallmark as humans, was superfluous. So  
I take exception when chess is characterized as an "ancient game  
symbolic of human thought." As long as AI and chess researchers ignore  
the ways of human thought that flourish within the humanities, they  
will fail in their quest for the singularity.  And so it comes as no  
surprise to me that innovation and creativity in AI and chess research  
have given way to incrementalism and capitalistic thinking.  But it  
would sure be great to see more digital and computational humanists  
weighing in on this stalemate debate and offering solutions that help  
set AI free from the cages of its cariacture constructions.

Best wishes,
Sterling Fluharty

Sent from my iPhone

On Jan 24, 2010, at 1:50 AM, Humanist Discussion Group <willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk 
 > wrote:

>                 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 592.
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>
>
>
>        Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 10:20:08 +0000
>        From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk>
>        Subject: sometimes there is a wolf
>
>
> We highly educated sorts have all kinds of sophisticated mental  
> routines for
> turning aside just about anything whose point would discomfort us.  
> (Milton's
> portrait of Satan comes to mind.) We have the "o tempora, o mores"  
> gambit
> covered in all its variations. Since we've lost the conventional  
> language
> for expressing the idea that humanity is damned but not the evidence  
> which
> still suggests that idea, "o tempora, o mores" hasn't much of an  
> edge to
> begin with. It's bound to be unpopular in a techno-centric age.  And  
> since
> it's usually the older ones who proclaim it -- those who are  
> themselves
> speedily going to Hell in a handbasket -- the lament really does  
> have an
> uphill battle to wage before attention can be drawn to whatever the  
> problem
> is. But sometimes, you know, there really is somethingto pay  
> attention to.
>
> My thanks to Wendell Piez, as so often in the past, for the pointer to
> something worthy of our attention, in this case to Gary Kasparov's  
> review of
> Diego Rasskin-Gutman's Chess Metaphors in the NYRB for 11 February,  
> 57.2,
> www.nybooks.com/articles/23592. His observation that humans are now  
> playing
> chess more and more like computers adds to the accumulating store of
> observations and arguments along those lines. But what grabs me even  
> more is
> his explication of "our last chess metaphor":
>
>> a metaphor for how we have discarded innovation and creativity in
>> exchange for a steady supply of marketable products. The dreams of
>> creating an artificial intelligence that would engage in an ancient
>> game symbolic of human thought have been abandoned. Instead, every
>> year we have new chess programs, and new versions of old ones, that
>> are all based on the same basic programming concepts for picking a
>> move by searching through millions of possibilities that were
>> developed in the 1960s and 1970s. Like so much else in our
>> technology-rich and innovation-poor modern world, chess computing has
>> fallen prey to incrementalism and the demands of the market.
>> Brute-force programs play the best chess, so why bother with anything
>> else? Why waste time and money experimenting with new and innovative
>> ideas when we already know what works? Such thinking should horrify
>> anyone worthy of the name of scientist, but it seems, tragically, to
>> be the norm. Our best minds have gone into financial engineering
>> instead of real engineering, with catastrophic results for both
>> sectors.
>
> Instead of Cicero's lament perhaps we should address those who shape
> our part of the world with "For shame!" and ourselves feel ashamed
> whenever the shoe fits?
>
> But a moment more of your time. No doubt that sense of shame would be
> healthy all around as a corrective to the shameless  
> commercialisation of
> universities, but I wonder if more isn't involved here.
>
> What would delight the Kasparovs among us? What would we regard as a
> scientifically or intellectually respectable result? Clearly the  
> opposite of
> "brute-force" automation: an mathematically elegant algorithm, the  
> simpler
> the better, that would with a minimum number of steps artifically  
> reason its
> way to check-mate. We'd then forgive the massive computing power  
> required
> and rejoice in the brilliance of the (human) idea, yes? Because this  
> is how
> we think we work. This is our intelligence (neverminding the fact  
> that we
> don't know the steps by which it is achieved).
>
> But is this the way, or the only way, that computing behaves when it  
> is most
> successful? Compare, for example, how we once thought perfect
> information-retrieval would work -- before Google. (Somewhere Terry  
> Winograd
> speaks of his great surprise as a conventionally trained computer  
> scientist
> by the success of its approach.) Consider the effects of very dumb  
> searches
> in JSTOR and its kind, precisely due to the fact that their  
> "precision" is
> so poor.
>
> So, if your interest is on the cognitive science side of things,  
> wanting to
> know what computing can tell us about cognition, isn't the gulf  
> between
> brute-force chess and Kasparovian chess valuable? Do we welcome the  
> wolf?
>
> Comments?
>
> Yours,
> WM
>
> --
> Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing,
> King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/;
> Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist;
> Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org.



From willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk  Tue Jan 26 06:34:20 2010
From: willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk (Humanist Discussion Group)
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 06:34:20 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Humanist] 23.597 why chess for AI
Message-ID: <20100126063420.43BAC49297@woodward.joyent.us>

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        Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 08:30:09 +0000
        From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk>
        Subject: why chess for AI

The fascination with chess as a problem for artificial intelligence goes
back at least as far as a paper by Claude Shannon (who famously also
provoked interest in machine translation a couple of years earlier),
"Programming a Computer for Playing Chess", Philosophical Magazine, ser.
7, 41.314 (March 1950). "Although perhaps of no practical importance,"
he wrote, "the question is of theoretical interest, and it is hoped that
a satisfactory solution of this problem will act as a wedge in attacking
other problems of a similar nature and of greater significance." He then
lists these:

 > (1)  Machines for designing filters, equalizers, etc.
 > (2)Machines for designing relay and switching circuits.
 > (3) Machines which will handle routing of telephone calls based on 
the individual
 > circumstances rather than by fixed patterns.
 > (4) Machines for performing symbolic (non-numerical) mathematical 
operations.
 > (5) Machines capable of translating from one language to another.
 > (6) Machines for making strategic decisions in simplified military 
operations.
 > (7) Machines capable of orchestrating a melody.
 > (8) Machines capable of logical deduction.

He points out that chess is a good place to start because,

 > (1) the problem is sharply defined both in allowed operations (the
 >  moves) and in the ultimate goal (checkmate);
 > (2) it is neither so simple as to be trivial nor too
   difficult for satisfactory solution;
 > (3) chess is generally considered to require "thinking" for skilful
 > play; a solution of this problem will force us either to admit the
 > possibility of a mechanized thinking or to further restrict our
 > concept of "thinking";
 > (4) the discrete structure of chess fits well
 > into the digital nature of modern computers.

Feigenbaum and Feldman, Computers and Thought (1963): 4-6, also discuss
the reasons for going after chess; they emphasize how great a problem it is.

In his great lecture in Paris in 1900, "Mathematische Probleme", in
which he set out the programme for mathematics for the next generations,
David Hilbert wisely invoked the second of Shannon's principles --
neither too difficult nor too easy -- to justify his choice of problems:
"a mathematical problem should be difficult in order to entice us, yet
not completely inaccessible, lest it mock our efforts". A wise
principle, I think (which I'd do well better to respect!).

But there's another essential point, made by Pamela McCorduck in 
Machines Who Think, pp. 146f: Games, she points out, are at the heart of 
us and at the heart of AI. "Games are models of situations in life, just 
as physical models imitate, simplify, and express the essence of 
physical phenomena." Or, put another way, games simplify life by 
reducing roles into rules (which approach algorithms). As children we 
learn about life by playing games; I'd suppose that the rules then teach 
us about the roles we observe. But I also suppose that much more has 
been written along these lines, and perhaps someone familiar with the 
literature would care to comment?

Yours,
WM
-- 
Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing,
King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/;
Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist;
Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org.




From willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk  Tue Jan 26 06:37:47 2010
From: willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk (Humanist Discussion Group)
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 06:37:47 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Humanist] 23.598 whatever happened to Second Life?
Message-ID: <20100126063747.BF6C949503@woodward.joyent.us>

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        Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 09:55:31 +0000
        From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk>
        Subject: whatever happened to Second Life?


Some here will be interested in the gloomy report on and discussion of 
Second Life, at 
www.pcpro.co.uk/features/354457/whatever-happened-to-second-life/1. Does this decline in popularity matter? What, do you suppose, does it tell us about VR techniques generally?

Comments?

Yours,
WM
-- 
Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing,
King's College London, staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/;
Editor, Humanist, www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist;
Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, www.isr-journal.org.




From willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk  Tue Jan 26 06:38:11 2010
From: willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk (Humanist Discussion Group)
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 06:38:11 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Humanist] 23.599 two new books
Message-ID: <20100126063811.46B7B49542@woodward.joyent.us>

                 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 599.
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  [1]   From:    Dolores_Romero_L?pez <doloresromerolopez at gmail.com>     (140)
        Subject: new book: Literatures in the Digital Era: Theory and Praxis

  [2]   From:    Dolores_Romero_L?pez <doloresromerolopez at gmail.com>      (67)
        Subject: new book: Literaturas del texto al hipermedia


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        Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 11:06:54 +0100
        From: Dolores_Romero_L?pez <doloresromerolopez at gmail.com>
        Subject: new book: Literatures in the Digital Era: Theory and Praxis
        In-Reply-To: <20100125063041.7A8EC48202 at woodward.joyent.us>


*Literatures in the Digital Era: Theory and Praxis*
 Edited by Amelia Sanz and Dolores Romero
(LEETHI Group)

This book first published 2007 by
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 1-84718-291-7; ISBN 13: 9781847182913

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction
.................................................................................................
1

*Amelia Sanz and Dolores Romero*

*Part I:
Hyper-Paradigm..........................................................................
17*

*Mar?a Goicoechea*

Chapter
One...............................................................................................
23

Comparative Literature From Text to Hypertext or What do Electronic

Media have to Offer Discipline?

*George Landow*

Chapter
Two..............................................................................................
41

Always Already-Known Hypertexts: a Recent Debate in Old Terms

*Apostolos Lampropoulos*

Chapter Three
............................................................................................
51

Ludology meets Hypertext

*Susana Pajares Tosca*

Chapter
Four..............................................................................................
61

Actualizing Allusions: Hypertext and Cognitive Literary Research

*Ziva Ben-Porat*

*Part II:
Hyper-(W)reader.......................................................................
81*

*Mar?a Goicoechea*

Chapter Five
..............................................................................................
85

The Boundaries of Digital Narrative: a Functional Analysis

*Juan B. Guti?rrez*

Chapter
Six..............................................................................................
103

Some Notes on the Reading of Digital Literary Works.

*Alckmar L. Dos Santos*

Table of Content

vi

Chapter
Seven..........................................................................................
123

?Lector in machina?: towards an Erotic of Reading

*Laura Borr?s*

Chapter
Eight...........................................................................................
151

Reading Guidelines For Electronic Literature

*Alexandra Saemmer*

*Part III:
Hyper-Editing.........................................................................
167*

*Mar?a Goicoechea*

Chapter
Nine............................................................................................
171

Aspects of Scholarship and Publishing in the Age of New Media

Technology

*Steven T?t?sy de Zepetnek*

Chapter Ten
.............................................................................................
185

A Dynamic Authenticity of Texts in E-Archives: On Digitized Cultural

Resources in Comparative Literatury Studies

*Jola Skulj*

Chapter Eleven
........................................................................................
201

Postmodernity and Critical Editions of Literary Texts: Towards

the Virtual Presence of the Past

*Marko Juvan*

Chapter Twelve
.......................................................................................
221

The Hypertextual Structure of Writing Processes

*Dirk Van Hulle*

Chapter
Thirteen......................................................................................
235

Digital Text: Conceptual and Methodological Frontiers

*Mar?a Clara Paix?o de Sousa*

*Part IV:
Hyper-Praxis...........................................................................
253*

*Mar?a Goicoechea*

Chapter Fourteen
.....................................................................................
257

The Hyper in Calligraphy and Text

*Marie-Th?r?se Abdel-Messih*

Literatures in the Digital Era: Theory and Praxis

vii

Chapter
Fifteen........................................................................................
267

Hypertext: An Alternative Route to Short Stories Theorizing

*Anastasia Natsina*

Chapter Sixteen
.......................................................................................
277

The Echo of Narcissism in Interactive Arts

*Lee Scrivner*

Chapter Seventee
n...................................................................................
289

Hypertext and Collective Authorship. The Influence of the Internet

on the Formation of New Concepts of Authorship

*Florian Hartling*

Chapter Eighteen
.....................................................................................
297

Hypermedia Narratives: Paratactic Structures and Multiple Readings

*Ana Pano Alam?n*

Chapter Nineteen
.....................................................................................
305

?Salaam Baghdad?: Warblogs in the Textual and Social Economies

of the Internet

*Priscilla Ringrose*

Chapter Twenty
.......................................................................................
319

>From Hypertexts to Blogs: ?El primer vuelo de los Hermanos Wright?

and ?M?s respeto que soy tu madre?

*Perla Sass?n-Henry*

Contributors.............................................................................................
329



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        Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 11:15:56 +0100
        From: Dolores_Romero_L?pez <doloresromerolopez at gmail.com>
        Subject: new book: Literaturas del texto al hipermedia
        In-Reply-To: <20100125062912.1B0F84812D at woodward.joyent.us>


Romero L?pez, D. Sanz Cabrerizo, A (2008). *Literaturas del texto al
hipermedia*. Barcelona: Anthropos.

 *?NDICE *

Introducci?n, por *Dolores Romero y Amelia
Sanz*..............................................

Pr?logo, por *Tania Franco
Carvalhal*...................................................................

*INTERDISCIPLINARIEDAD *

Literatura comparada del texto al hipertexto, o ?qu? pueden ofrecer los
medios electr?nicos a la disciplina?, por *George
Landow*...............................................

*HIPERDIFUSI?N *

Aspectos acad?micos y editoriales en la ?poca de los nuevos medios
tecnol?gicos, por *Steven T?t?sy de
Zepetnek*................................................................................

Investigaci?n y difusi?n de la literatura y el teatro en relaci?n con las
nuevas tecnolog?as: algunos ejemplos publicados en castellano en Espa?a, por
*Jos? Nicol?s Romera
Castillo*..........................................................................................

Hacia nuevos paradigmas textuales: edici?n y difusi?n de los textos
literarios en el siglo XXI, por *Jos? Manuel Luc?a
Meg?as*..............................................................

Posibilidades de la edici?n del romancero hisp?nico en hipertexto, por *Ignacio
Ceballos*....................................................................................................................

Cultura medi?tica, autor?a y derechos de autor, por *Felip Vidal
Auladell*................

*LECTOESCRITURA *

Algunas notas sobre las lecturas de obras literarias digitales, por *Alckmar
Luiz Dos Santos*..............................................................................................................

La actualizaci?n de las alusiones: el hipertexto y la investigaci?n
cognitiva literaria, por *Ziva
Ben-Porat*..................................................................................

El hipertexto: ejemplos did?cticos para un aprendizaje integrador en la
ense?anza de la literatura, por *Isabella
Leibrandt*.....................................................................

*HIPERCREACI?N *

Hipertextualidad y experimentaci?n textual: v?nculos (y rupturas) en la
literatura catalana, por *Merc? Picornell Belenguer y Margalida Pons
Jaume*.........................

Literatura espa?ola en el siglo XXI: hacia la nueva creaci?n digital,
por *Dolores
Romero L?pez*.............................................................................................................

Fragmentaci?n, espacio y ciberpoes?a, por *Teresa
Vilari?o*...................................

Los tortuosos caminos de la blognovela, por *David Felipe Arranz
Lago*................

*LA (EST)?TICA DEL HIPERPARADIGMA *

Sujetos mutantes: nuevas identidades en la cultura, por *Virgilio
Tortosa*.............

Pero ?hay realmente un cambio de paradigma? Un an?lisis apresurado mientras
la literatura pierde los papeles, por *Laura Borr?s
Castanyer*....................................

La ludolog?a frente al hipertexto, por *Susana Pajares
Tosca*.................................

Videojuegos, cine y literatura: especificidad versus remediaci?n, por *Domingo
S?nchez Mesa*........................................................................................................

La est?tica posthipertextual, por *Carlos Scolari*


-- 
Dr?. Dolores Romero L?pez
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Facultad de Filolog?a (Edificio D)
Dept. de  Literatura Espa?ola
Despacho 1/331
Ciudad Universitaria s/n
28040 Madrid (Espa?a)
Telf. 34+91+3945863




From willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk  Wed Jan 27 08:26:46 2010
From: willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk (Humanist Discussion Group)
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 08:26:46 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Humanist] 23.600 why chess for AI
Message-ID: <20100127082646.1E17548BD0@woodward.joyent.us>


                 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 600.
         Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
                       www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist
                Submit to: humanist at lists.digitalhumanities.org

  [1]   From:    James Rovira <jamesrovira at gmail.com>                       (7)
        Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.597 why chess for AI

  [2]   From:    Amanda Gailey <amanda.gailey at gmail.com>                  (131)
        Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.597 why chess for AI

  [3]   From:    Wendell Piez <wapiez at mulberrytech.com>                    (61)
        Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.597 why chess for AI


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        Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 02:10:30 -0500
        From: James Rovira <jamesrovira at gmail.com>
        Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.597 why chess for AI
        In-Reply-To: <20100126063420.43BAC49297 at woodward.joyent.us>

There's a story, perhaps apocryphal, about the invention of a
chess-playing "mechanical man" who was pitted against Napoleon.
Napoleon exposed the robot as a fraud by repeatedly making illegal
moves until the midget hiding inside got angry and swept the pieces
off of the board.  At any rate, game playing as a problem for AI may
predate the 20thC.  It may predate the 19thC.

Jim R



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        Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 11:40:15 -0600
        From: Amanda Gailey <amanda.gailey at gmail.com>
        Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.597 why chess for AI
        In-Reply-To: <20100126063420.43BAC49297 at woodward.joyent.us>


Hi, Willard--

I'd like to point out that chess as a problem for artificial intelligence
has captured the imagination long before artificial intelligence had any
hope of tackling chess, as evidenced by "The Turk" (the 18th-century
automaton hoax in which a concealed man operated a contraption in such a way
that a mechanical "Turk" outside the box appeared to play chess).

One interesting aspect of this is how, to 18th- and 19th-century western
audiences at least, artificial intelligence seemed bound up with orientalism
and the occult: creators of automata were more interested in developing an
atmosphere of mystique and mysticism (culminating, maybe, in the
fortune-telling machines in Depression-era penny arcades?) than in calling
attention to the cleverness of the technology.  Perhaps one reason chess
lent itself to early AI was that unlike tic-tac-toe or checkers (more
suitable subjects from a practical standpoint), chess, with its eastern
origins and vaguely anthropomorphic pieces, seemed more suited to the
aesthetic.

In 1836 Edgar Allen Poe--so perfectly combining the occult with
ratiocination himself--wrote an editorial for The Southern Literary
Messenger in which he considers the Turk alongside Babbage's difference
engine. (Full article available here:
http://www.eapoe.org/works/essays/maelzel.htm)  Ultimately, Poe claims, if
the Turk were indeed fully automated, it would be a far more impressive
machine than Babbage's: Babbage's would use the simple logic of a machine to
proceed unerringly from raw data to a single inevitable output, while with
the Turk "there is no determinate progression. No one move in chess
necessarily follows upon any one other."  Poe concludes that if the Turk
proves to be "pure machine," it would, unlike Babbage's, have a mind.

This is, of course, exactly what Kasparov regrets: modern chess programs are
powerful but ultimately not much closer to truly mimicking the mind than
when Poe reflected on the problem 174 years ago.

Thanks,

Amanda

-- 
Amanda Gailey
Assistant Professor
Department of English
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities
University of Nebraska
202 Andrews Hall
Lincoln, NE 68588


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        Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 12:52:25 -0500
        From: Wendell Piez <wapiez at mulberrytech.com>
        Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.597 why chess for AI
        In-Reply-To: <20100126063420.43BAC49297 at woodward.joyent.us>

Dear Willard,

At 01:34 AM 1/26/2010, you wrote:
>[Shannon] points out that chess is a good place to start because,
>
>  > (1) the problem is sharply defined both in allowed operations (the
>  >  moves) and in the ultimate goal (checkmate);
>  > (2) it is neither so simple as to be trivial nor too
>    difficult for satisfactory solution;
>  > (3) chess is generally considered to require "thinking" for skilful
>  > play; a solution of this problem will force us either to admit the
>  > possibility of a mechanized thinking or to further restrict our
>  > concept of "thinking";
>  > (4) the discrete structure of chess fits well
>  > into the digital nature of modern computers.

I think (3) here is very interesting. It's especially interesting 
that he suggests the alternative to "admit[ting] the possibility of 
machine thinking" (presumably because we wish thinking, by 
definition, to be something machines can't do) is "to further 
restrict our concept of thinking".

That is, either the chess-playing machine is a member of the set of 
thinkers, or chess playing is not sufficient to qualify one as a 
member of the set.

I might be tempted to choose the second option, but I'm not sure I'd 
describe this as a "restriction" of my concept of thinking. 
"Refinement" might be more like it.

Yet on the other hand, I think the point is important, particularly 
in a world in which entities other than individual people, such as 
cats or dogs, or basketball teams, bureaucracies, stock markets, 
voting publics, or entire genomes (which "learn" from one generation 
to the next) seem also to be "thinking". I would sooner say that all 
of these are thinking than I would that computers are thinking. 
Thinking is certainly involved in what the computers are doing. But 
I'm not sure the computer is quite as autonomous as we pretend, even 
after we push the button and it starts playing chess: I think its 
thinking is an extension of and largely limited by its programmers' 
and user's thinking.

>But there's another essential point, made by Pamela McCorduck in
>Machines Who Think, pp. 146f: Games, she points out, are at the heart of
>us and at the heart of AI. "Games are models of situations in life, just
>as physical models imitate, simplify, and express the essence of
>physical phenomena." Or, put another way, games simplify life by
>reducing roles into rules (which approach algorithms). As children we
>learn about life by playing games; I'd suppose that the rules then teach
>us about the roles we observe.

Indeed. I wrote about this, in the context of markup languages, last 
year. It will be more interesting to those concerned with the 
practice and politics of markup technologies than to others, but it 
also speaks more generally about games and technologies:

http://www.balisage.net/Proceedings/vol3/html/Piez01/BalisageVol3-Piez01.html

(Check out the slides, too. They're fun.)

Cheers,
Wendell

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From willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk  Wed Jan 27 08:28:00 2010
From: willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk (Humanist Discussion Group)
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 08:28:00 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Humanist] 23.601 Second Life
Message-ID: <20100127082800.50D8548C6F@woodward.joyent.us>


                 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 601.
         Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
                       www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist
                Submit to: humanist at lists.digitalhumanities.org

  [1]   From:    "Wlodzimierz Sobkowiak" <sobkow at amu.edu.pl>               (66)
        Subject: whatever happened to Second Life?

  [2]   From:    David Golumbia <dgolumbia at gmail.com>                      (49)
        Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.598 whatever happened to Second Life?


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        Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 15:05:17 +0100
        From: "Wlodzimierz Sobkowiak" <sobkow at amu.edu.pl>
        Subject: whatever happened to Second Life?

> Some here will be interested in the gloomy report on and discussion of 
> Second Life, at
> www.pcpro.co.uk/features/354457/whatever-happened-to-second-life/1.
> Does this decline in popularity matter? What, do you suppose, does it tell 
> us about VR techniques generally?

There's been some discussion of this article/issue on SLED, the SL Educators 
listserv.
I've reacted in my own blog here: 
http://zakajek.ning.com/profiles/blogs/whatever-happened-to-second.
I first quoted excerpts from the paper:

The first thing I notice upon dropping out of the Second Life sky once more 
is how empty the place is. On my first visit back in 2006, I couldn't walk 
through the training level without clumsily bumping into the throng of 
fellow newbies. Now, there's enough room to swing the contents of Noah's 
ark, let alone a cat. I walk and then fly around the landscape for ten 
minutes or so, but can't find a single soul to shoot the breeze with.
[...]
In fact, Second Life seems so increasingly obsessed with aping the real 
world that it's in danger of becoming an interactive version of those creepy 
model villages you only find in English holiday resorts.
[...]
And yet, I still can't help wondering what the point of all this is? Yes, 
these virtual recreations are magnificent and impressive, but once you've 
wandered around and seen the sights, what else is there to do? There are no 
goals, no objectives, no points to be won or levels to be completed. Yes, 
there's a degree of social interaction - although precious little of it in 
these glossy showcase areas. [...] Three years on, and Second Life seems no 
closer to finding a respectable reason for being than it did in 2006. It 
might try and shuffle sex into a corner, and pretend that it's a melting pot 
of creativity, business and academia, but it ultimately serves no purpose.

Now, there are at least three point here worth discussing... Briefly on 
each:

(1) That SL is empty: there's been loads of rebuttals here, using statistics 
(like RL venues, such as discos, shops, bars, etc., are deserted most of the 
time, too: they're simply closed) to show that this impression is erroneous, 
even if subjectively overwhelming (but then some of our overwhelming 
impressions about RL have proved to be patently untrue :-)

(2) SL can do better than ape RL: here I agree... See my "added value" 
discussion thread on this ning 
(http://zakajek.ning.com/forum/topics/added-value-of-sl-for-flt), where I 
talk about replicating (or not) RL teaching in-world.

(3) The point of SL? The point od SL is that there is no God-given point at 
all :-) This is exactly like in RL: there's no sense in it except what you 
make of it yourself. YOU give life sense, both in RL and SL. It is profound 
misunderstanding to expect that somebody will do it for you, in either 
world. So SL has no obligation to "find a respectable reason for being", jut 
like RL does not. Indeed, either "serves no purpose". If that bothers you, 
quit.

WS
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        Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 09:36:50 -0500
        From: David Golumbia <dgolumbia at gmail.com>
        Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.598 whatever happened to Second Life?
        In-Reply-To: <20100126063747.BF6C949503 at woodward.joyent.us>


earlier this month there was a really thorough discussion of this topic,
including quite a few SL artists, over in the [idc] part of the world,
starting with andreas schiffler's question, "anyone using SL?":
https://lists.thing.net/pipermail/idc/2010-January/004138.html

David



-- 
David Golumbia
dgolumbia at gmail.com




From willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk  Wed Jan 27 08:28:47 2010
From: willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk (Humanist Discussion Group)
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 08:28:47 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Humanist] 23.602 events: Nebraska Digital Workshop cfp
Message-ID: <20100127082847.8CD6548CFA@woodward.joyent.us>

                 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 602.
         Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
                       www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist
                Submit to: humanist at lists.digitalhumanities.org



        Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 15:37:33 -0600
        From: Katherine L Walter <kwalter at unlnotes.unl.edu>
        Subject: Nebraska Digital Workshop Call for Proposals


The Center for Digital Research in the Humanities (CDRH) at the University 
of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) will host the 5th Annual Nebraska Digital 
Workshop from Oct. 1-2, 2010.  We are seeking proposals for digital 
presentations by pre-tenure faculty, post-doctoral fellows, and advanced 
graduate students working in digital humanities. 

The goal of the Workshop is to enable the best early career scholars in 
the field of digital humanities to present their work in a forum where it 
can be critically evaluated, improved, and showcased.  Under the auspices 
of the Center, the Workshop will bring nationally recognized senior 
scholars in digital humanities to UNL to participate and work with the 
selected scholars.  Selected early-career scholars will receive travel 
reimbursement and an honorarium for presenting their work at the Nebraska 
Digital Workshop. 

Selection criteria include:  significance in primary disciplinary field, 
technical innovation, theoretical and methodological sophistication, and 
creativity of approach. 

Please send an abstract, curriculum vitae, and a representative sample of 
digital work via a URL or disk on or before April 23, 2008 to:
Katherine L. Walter, Co-Director, UNL Center for Digital Research in the 
Humanities, at kwalter1 at unl.edu or 319 Love Library, UNL, Lincoln, NE 
68588-4100 USA.

Thanks for your assistance in distributing this call,

Kay Walter and Ken Price
*****************************************
Katherine L. Walter and Kenneth M. Price
Co-Directors, Center for Digital Research in the Humanities
Chair, Digital Initiatives & Special Collections Dept.
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
319 Love Library 
Lincoln NE 68588-4100
voice: (402) 472-3939
kwalter1 at unl.edu
http://cdrh.unl.edu




From willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk  Thu Jan 28 05:30:45 2010
From: willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk (Humanist Discussion Group)
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 05:30:45 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Humanist] 23.603 why chess for AI
Message-ID: <20100128053045.838D147D22@woodward.joyent.us>


                 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 603.
         Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
                       www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist
                Submit to: humanist at lists.digitalhumanities.org

  [1]   From:    Alexander Hay <alexander.hay at gmail.com>                  (198)
        Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.600 why chess for AI

  [2]   From:    Wendell Piez <wapiez at mulberrytech.com>                    (41)
        Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.600 why chess for AI


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        Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 10:17:47 +0000
        From: Alexander Hay <alexander.hay at gmail.com>
        Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.600 why chess for AI
        In-Reply-To: <20100127082646.1E17548BD0 at woodward.joyent.us>


Chess also has a lot in common with boxing - they both feature a limited
range of moves but can involve an almost infinite range of strategies and
combinations. Both can take years of training and still yield no real
mastery. Both possess and often destroy their exponents. And both are
impossible for a computer (or a robot) to properly emulate, precisely
because they depend so much on human psychology, imprecision and nuance.

With this in mind, 'Chess Boxing' seems less an eccentric passtime, and more
like kicking computers when they're down..




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        Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 11:14:16 -0500
        From: Wendell Piez <wapiez at mulberrytech.com>
        Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.600 why chess for AI
        In-Reply-To: <20100127082646.1E17548BD0 at woodward.joyent.us>

Willard and HUMANIST:

At 03:26 AM 1/27/2010, James wrote:
>There's a story, perhaps apocryphal, about the invention of a
>chess-playing "mechanical man" who was pitted against Napoleon.
>Napoleon exposed the robot as a fraud by repeatedly making illegal
>moves until the midget hiding inside got angry and swept the pieces
>off of the board.  At any rate, game playing as a problem for AI may
>predate the 20thC.  It may predate the 19thC.

This is a great story. Apart from whether it's true, part of the 
reason it's so compelling is that it retells the story of Alexander 
and the Gordian Knot.

As conquerors, both Napoleon and Alexander knew the way to win the 
game was to rewrite its rules.

One way of putting it is that both Alexander and Napoleon refused to 
be automata, accepting the rules as given. By this reasoning -- 
turning Shannon on his head -- chess playing, which Napoleon refused 
to do, may not be a form of intelligence so much as a form of its sublimation.

Of course, having cut the knot -- and conquered Asia -- Alexander 
found he held a rope that could no longer bind. And so his empire did 
not hold together. The same might arguably be said of Napoleon.

"Intelligence" perhaps means to take initiative within a situation 
neither perfectly deterministic, nor perfectly entropic, a world of 
matter and energy mixed. The machine is a structure and relates to 
structure; as such, it is a means of harnessing or channeling energy, 
but not, by itself, a creative force, destroying old orders and 
creating new ones. So far at least, no machine has broken the rules 
by which it was made -- even while its makers and users have. Or has it?

It's interesting that while Napoleon exposed the chess-playing 
mechanism as a fraud, he did so by revealing that it was, in fact, 
intelligent -- that it understood what was going on.

Cheers,
Wendell

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From willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk  Thu Jan 28 05:31:15 2010
From: willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk (Humanist Discussion Group)
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 05:31:15 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: 23.604 new publication: Digital Studies / Le champ numérique
Message-ID: <20100128053115.102D847DA3@woodward.joyent.us>

                 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 604.
         Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
                       www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist
                Submit to: humanist at lists.digitalhumanities.org



        Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 13:56:52 -0800
        From: "Ray Siemens" <siemens at uvic.ca>
        Subject: Digital Studies / Le champ num?rique: The Computer and Canadian Scholarship


[please redistribute / please excuse x-posting]

Digital Studies / Le champ num?rique
http://www.digitalstudies.org 

Vol 1, No 2 (2009) http://bit.ly/7vndr

The Computer and Canadian Scholarship: Recent Trends in the Humanities and
Social Sciences

* John Bonnett and Kevin Kee.  Transitions: A Prologue and Preview for
Digital Humanities Research in Canada

* Robert C. H. Sweeny.  Rethinking Boundaries: Interdisciplinary Lessons
from the Montr?al l?avenir du pass? (MAP) Project.
* Anthony Di Mascio and Adam J. Green.  The Canadian Century Research
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* Shawn Graham.  Behaviour Space: Simulating Roman Social Life and Civil
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* Steve High and David Sworn.  After the Interview: The Interpretive
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* L?on Robichaud.  L'histoire, le patrimoine et le public : la diffusion de
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Environments
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promote and reflect the community's best emergent and longstanding
practices.




From willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk  Thu Jan 28 05:31:47 2010
From: willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk (Humanist Discussion Group)
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 05:31:47 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Humanist] 23.605 CATMA 2.01 released
Message-ID: <20100128053147.E188F47DEE@woodward.joyent.us>

                 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 605.
         Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
                       www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist
                Submit to: humanist at lists.digitalhumanities.org



        Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 13:58:19 +0100
        From: Jan Christoph Meister <jan-c-meister at uni-hamburg.de>
        Subject: CATMA 2.01 - fully JAVA based version released

*** Attachments:
    http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1264597105_2010-01-27_humanist-owner at lists.digitalhumanities.org_6101.2.txt


13:48
27.01.2010

In June 2009 we released CATMA (Computer Aided Textual Markup and Analysis) version 1.0 which was also presented to interested parties at the DH 2009. Inspired by the well known program ?Usebase? (from the TACT suite, a DOS based tool set developed at Toronto University) CATMA provides a variety of functions by way of a seamless integration of a Tagger and an Analyzer component. CATMA places a strong emphasis on usability and is designed for users with little experience in digital text analysis. 

It took a bit longer than we had hoped, but - our next release, the fully JAVA based version CATMA 2.01 and further information is now available for download at

http://www.slm.uni-hamburg.de/catma/

  
*******************************

Jan Christoph Meister
Professor f?r Neuere deutsche Literatur
(Literaturtheorie, Textanalyse, Computerphilologie)
Universit?t Hamburg
Department SLM I - Institut f?r Germanistik II
Von-Melle-Park 6
D-20146 Hamburg

Mail:     jan-c-meister at uni-hamburg.de
Office:   +49 - 40 - 42838 2972
Cell:     +49 - 0172 40 865 41
Web:      www.jcmeister.de
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From willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk  Thu Jan 28 05:33:10 2010
From: willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk (Humanist Discussion Group)
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 05:33:10 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Humanist] 23.606 events: visual interpretations; London Seminar;
	i-Society
Message-ID: <20100128053310.CB4B147E85@woodward.joyent.us>

                 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 606.
         Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
                       www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist
                Submit to: humanist at lists.digitalhumanities.org

  [1]   From:    Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk>          (60)
        Subject: London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship for February

  [2]   From:    David Brown <d.brown at i-society.eu>                       (137)
        Subject: Call for Papers: i-Society 2010!

  [3]   From:    Kurt Fendt <fendt at MIT.EDU>                                (44)
        Subject: MIT humanities + digital Conference on Visual
                Interpretations - CallFor Proposals


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        Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 11:40:43 +0000
        From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk>
        Subject: London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship for February

John Bradley, 'Pliny: providing tools for traditional scholarship'
4 February 2010, Thursday, Room 275 (Stewart House),
Bloomsbury, London, 17:30 - 19:30
All are welcome; refreshments provided.

 From its beginnings about 60 years ago, the often stated purpose of the 
digital humanities has been to transform how scholarship is done. The 
recent claim made in the report from the Summit on Digital Tools for the 
Humanities is typical: ?humanists are on the verge of [...] a 
revolutionary change in their scholarship, enabled by information 
technology" (www.iath.virginia.edu/dtsummit/). My experience during the 
last 35 years in the field now called the Digital Humanities suggests a 
rather different reality and outcome. While the tools and techniques 
developed and proposed are exciting and full of possibilities for some 
kinds of scholarly investigation, I argue that they are not grounded 
sufficiently in mainstream humanities scholarship to effect the 
envisioned transformation. Many have noticed that the digital humanities 
has so far failed in its transformative mission. Many of the key people 
seem to believe that more of the same will finally make a difference. I 
disagree.

Pliny represents an attempt to express in software and to augment 
central aspects of what scholars actually do when they read a text, take 
notes on it and develop an interpretation from their reading. Pliny is 
indebted to tools available for many years in the social sciences and to 
more recent research in computer science but models humanistic scholarly 
practices. It is in and of the digital humanities but marks a 
significant break from traditional software development for the 
humanities. Its design is deeply indebted to the ideas of Douglas 
Engelbart, inventor of the mouse, who argued that software with the 
least obvious presence has the greatest chance of making a difference to 
how things are done.

In my talk, I will introduce Pliny and present some of the intellectual 
foundations upon which it is built. I will also describe Pliny's second 
agenda: to bring some of the radical new research technologies somewhat 
closer to the methods of traditional scholarship.

Biography

John Bradley is a Senior Analyst for Humanities Computing at King?s 
College London and has worked on problems in the digital humanities 
since the 1970s. He came to the Centre for Computing in the Humanities 
(CCH) at King?s in March 1997, having worked previously at the 
University of Toronto (Canada). A significant element of his work at CCH 
includes the management, design and analysis of a number of major 
multi-year collaborative research projects with discipline-specific 
partners from the humanities. These projects are funded by bodies such 
as the AHRC and the Mellon Foundation. They range in subject from music 
to history, and focus on issues that arise from modelling, collecting 
and presenting highly structured data and text from complex humanities 
sources. Mr Bradley also teaches in CCH?s academic program at both the 
undergraduate and MA level.

Personal research interests have centred on exploring the impact of 
digital tools on humanities research. Bradley was the principal designer 
for the TACT text analysis system in the 1980s and 1990s - a system that 
although now over 15 years old still has today an influence upon 
thinking about text-based tools within the digital humanities community. 
In more recent work, on Pliny (pliny.cch.kcl.ac.uk), he has proposed and 
demonstrated a new role for computer tools to support scholarly research 
derived from an analysis of scholarly notetaking and its significance. 
In 2008 this work was awarded a MATC prize from The Mellon Foundation.

-- 
Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing,
King's College London: staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/



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        Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 21:04:48 +0100 (CET)
        From: David Brown <d.brown at i-society.eu>
        Subject: Call for Papers: i-Society 2010!


Apologies for cross-postings. Please send it to interested
colleagues and students. Thanks!

CALL FOR PAPERS

*******************************************************************
International Conference on Information Society (i-Society 2010),
Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE UK/RI Computer Chapter
28-30 June, 2010, London, UK
www.i-society.eu
*******************************************************************
The International Conference on Information Society (i-Society 2010)
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 2010 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 2010 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, 2010
Notification of Paper Acceptance /Rejection: February 28, 2010
Camera Ready Paper Due: March 15, 2010
Early Bird Attendee registration: January 01, 2010
Late Bird Attendee registration: February 28, 2010
Conference Dates: June 28-30, 2010
For more details, please visit www.i-society.eu


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        Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 22:51:02 -0500
        From: Kurt Fendt <fendt at MIT.EDU>
        Subject: MIT humanities + digital Conference on Visual Interpretations - CallFor Proposals

humanities + digital Conference 2010

"Visual Interpretations" - Aesthetics, Methods, and Critiques of Information Visualization in the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

May 20-22, 2010 at Massachusetts Institute of Technology/HyperStudio 
 
http://hyperstudio.mit.edu/h-digital/
 
How do visual representations of complex data help humanities scholars ask new questions? How does visual rhetoric shape the way we relate to documents and artifacts? And, can we recompose the field of digital humanities to integrate more dynamic analytical methods into humanities research?
HyperStudio?s Visual Interpretations conference will bring digital practitioners and humanities scholars together with experts in art and design to consider the past, present, and future of visual epistemology in digital humanities. The goal is to get beyond the notion that information exists independently of visual presentation, and to rethink visualization as an integrated analytical method in humanities scholarship. By fostering dialogue and critical engagement, this conference aims to explore new ways to design data and metadata structures so that their visual embodiments function as "humanities tools in digital environments.? (Johanna Drucker)

We welcome submissions from practitioners and theorists of digital humanities as well as such connected disciplines as art, design, visual culture, museum studies, and computer science.
 
Possible topics include:
?       Expressive and artistic dimensions of visualizations
?       Subjectivity and objectivity in information visualization
?       Dynamic/multidimensional visualizations and user collaboration
?       Social media and contextualized visualization
?       Cultural history of visual epistemology
?       Limits and affordances of the translation from data to visualization
?       2D and 3D visualizations of historical/social/political data
?       Visualization across media and the archive
?       Digital visual literacy & accessibility
?       Relationships between database and interface
?       Alternative modes of data representation.
 
Submissions:
We are inviting submissions for the following conference formats:
?       Papers with 15minutes of presentation and short discussions (12 slots)
?       Short presentations, so called ?6/4s? with 6 minutes of presentation and 4 minutes of discussion (18 slots available)
?       Mini-Workshops, 30 minutes each (6 slots)
?       Demos and Posters (30 slots)

Deadline for submissions:  March 31, 2010
  
Organizers:
MIT HyperStudio for Digital Humanities (http://hyperstudio.mit.edu)
MIT Communications Forum (http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum/)

For more information: http://hyperstudio.mit.edu/h-digital/ or contact: h.digital at mit.edu

Thank you for distributing this call.

Dr. Kurt E. Fendt, 
Executive Director, HyperStudio - Digital Humanities at MIT
Research Director, Comparative Media Studies/Foreign Languages and Literatures
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Mail: Room 14N-305 (Office: 16-635)
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
Phone: (617) 253-4312, Fax: (267) 224-6814
HyperStudio: http://hyperstudio.mit.edu/




From willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk  Fri Jan 29 06:31:08 2010
From: willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk (Humanist Discussion Group)
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 06:31:08 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Humanist] 23.607 why chess for AI
Message-ID: <20100129063108.CE5F748EA5@woodward.joyent.us>


                 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 607.
         Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
                       www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist
                Submit to: humanist at lists.digitalhumanities.org



        Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 11:21:02 -0600
        From: amsler at cs.utexas.edu
        Subject: Re: [Humanist] 23.597 why chess for AI
        In-Reply-To: <20100126063420.43BAC49297 at woodward.joyent.us>

Chess has an interesting history in AI. It was more a case of trying  
to explore the limits of reasoning by machine than anything else--or  
at least forcing opponents of the idea that machines could "think" to  
clarify what they meant.

Most famously, there was a gauntlet thrown down by those who said, "A  
computer could never defeat a human at chess"; later refined to "A  
computer could never defeat a grand master at chess". It became a  
demonstration task for the computer folks. However, as with many other  
tasks, the solution revealed that computers and human beings are  
different.

At first the task was simply to build computer programs that could  
play chess, i.e., make legal moves. This became a standard artificial  
intelligence graduate course class assignment by the late 1960s, to  
teach students about game playing techniques. Once computers played  
"legal" chess there were a variety of approaches to improving their  
game. Some pursued modeling the strategies of human chess experts.  
However, it soon became apparent that there was another strategy  
available through brute force. I.e., the computer could simply look  
ahead to see what the consequences of EVERY move were. And then, the  
consequences of every countermove by its opponent, and the  
consequences of every counter-countermove to those moves.... all the  
way through to a checkmate. Once this strategy was determined to be  
solely limited by the computing capacity of the machine it was  
apparent that a computer could eventually beat human players--all that  
had to be done was to build it. Additional criteria were added to the  
challenge, such as requiring the machine to make its moves in real  
time, in a real chess match.

Frankly, it seemed a bit silly because it was very much like  
questioning whether a locomotive could outrace a horse and anyone  
claiming that it would never happen clearly didn't understand how  
engineering works.

So, what finally happened is that computer folks decided to build  
special purpose hardware to play chess. This is always available as an  
option when general purpose computing is too slow. (However,  
surprisingly, it is often a short-lived necessity, as general purpose  
computers eventually overtake the capability of the  
special-hardware--which cannot economically continue to be developed  
since it only does one task). The "chess machine" was created with the  
sole purpose of playing chess using look-ahead to greater depths than  
any human could reach.

An interesting sidenote was that once all these circumstances were set  
up, i.e., computer engineers figured out how to build and run special  
hardware to play chess in real time against real chess masters, the  
human chess masters began to interpret the machine's performance as  
evidence of it having a personality. I suppose this was an integral  
part of their strategy in playing against human chess players that  
gave them a means to see further ahead by guessing what moves their  
opponent would favor---but I can't but help find it misplaced  
inference when used against a machine. True, the problem of being able  
to see all the way to the end of the game was too difficult for even  
the best hardware of the day, so effort was put into improving the  
software to not have the computer waste its time with analysis of  
legal but dumb moves that no chess expert would execute, but the  
principle that this was a finite game that had a computable end really  
meant eventually there was no doubt of the computer's eventual mastery  
of the problem and no reason to believe in "personality" being a factor.

So, when it became apparent that all but grand masters could easily be  
beaten by a computer playing chess, it became a matter of finding a  
use for this capability. The obvious answer was to market a  
chess-playing computer for human players to test their skill  
against--and that was done, with graded levels of expertise so it  
could be played and beaten at each level.

I guess the humanist lesson is that one shouldn't assume all tasks  
performed by human beings REQUIRE "thinking", just because we use  
"thinking" to do them.

The computer that plays chess well doesn't "think" any more than the  
toaster-oven that cooks food using a timer to shut off when done  
"thinks" about the food being done. "Thinking" is thus a rather vague  
term that has swept up a number of tasks humans perform that could  
readily be done without "thought" at all.

The questions that remain are still challenging. How can we decide  
when a task cannot be performed by "reasoning" alone. In hindsight, I  
believe we've gotten considerably more sophisticated in our  
understanding of the boundary between "reasoning" and "thinking". Of  
course, the mathematical understanding of game theory and the  
realization that many 'games' are completely solvable by reasoning  
alone, advanced our understanding of where the boundary was.

The movie "Wargames" is instructive. In it a computer programmed to  
fight a nuclear war is hacked into by a kid thinking it's a harmless  
game-playing machine with this novel game called "thermonuclear war".  
The computer doesn't know or care that it's about to launch a real  
nuclear war using the hardware it controls. In the end, it runs a  
massive number of scenarios in terms of the outcome and (in a  
Hollywood ending) "learns" that "thermonuclear war" is an odd game,  
because as it says, "The only way to win is not to play" and then  
suggests a nice game of chess instead. Learning of this kind is still  
a mystery in AI. I.e., recasting the problem intitially given as an  
instance of a high-level concept.



From willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk  Fri Jan 29 06:32:07 2010
From: willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk (Humanist Discussion Group)
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 06:32:07 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Humanist] 23.608 postdoc at INKE; jobs at King's College London
Message-ID: <20100129063207.CAAD148FA1@woodward.joyent.us>

                 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 608.
         Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
                       www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist
                Submit to: humanist at lists.digitalhumanities.org

  [1]   From:    "Spence, Paul" <paul.spence at kcl.ac.uk>                    (24)
        Subject: Three jobs at King's College London (CCH)

  [2]   From:    Richard Cunningham <richard.cunningham at acadiau.ca>        (60)
        Subject: Post-doc sought


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        Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 17:14:37 +0000
        From: "Spence, Paul" <paul.spence at kcl.ac.uk>
        Subject: Three jobs at King's College London (CCH)

Job posting: three Project Research Associates required

[With apologies for cross-posting]

The Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London is looking for three highly motivated and technically sophisticated individuals to work on its text-based research projects. The positions will involve using computer tools and methods to facilitate digital scholarship.

CCH is both a department with responsibility for its own academic programme and a research centre promoting the appropriate application of computing in humanities research. Its research projects cover a wide range of humanities disciplines, including medieval studies, history, literature and linguistics, and music, and also include a number of more general information management projects in both humanities and the social sciences.

The successful candidates will possess strong analytical and problem solving skills: they will be required to identify and engage with the core scholarly questions in a highly collaborative research context; to analyse a wide variety of humanities materials and to model them using XML-related technologies; to design and develop systems for editing and delivering text-based scholarly materials and to collaborate in the design of integrated HTML-based publication. Experience in creating and manipulating XML documents in a range of XML-related standards and technologies (DTDs, XPath, XSLT) is highly desirable, in particular textual materials encoded according to the Text Encoding Initiative's guidelines.

All successful candidates will need to have a good understanding of how research is conducted in the humanities and social sciences and will be expected to make a strong contribution to the departmental research profile. They will need to be able to work effectively as part of a team, as well as independently. They must have good communication skills and the ability to document their work in clear written English.

One position is for one year on Fixed Term Contract (Maternity Cover) - within the Grade 5 scale, currently ?28,074 to ?32,176, inclusive of London Allowance.

Two positions are for one year on Fixed Term Contract - within the Grade 6 scale, currently ?30,070 to ?39,038 per annum, inclusive of London Allowance.

Closing date: 12th February 2010

Please view and apply for positions at the following URLs:

http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/pertra/vacancy/external/pers_detail.php?jobindex=8594
and
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/pertra/vacancy/external/pers_detail.php?jobindex=8595

----------------------------------------
Paul Spence
Project Manager (Digital Text)
Centre for Computing in the Humanities
King's College London
26-29 Drury Lane
London
WC2B 5RL

paul.spence at kcl.ac.uk
www.kcl.ac.uk/cch/
http://www.cch.kcl.ac.uk/research/projects/



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        Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 13:21:41 +0000
        From: Richard Cunningham <richard.cunningham at acadiau.ca>
        Subject: Post-doc sought


With apologies for cross-posting, please circulate this to anyone you  
believe might be interested and qualified.

A pdf of the ad is attached, and we would ask you to post it where  
qualified applicants might see it.  Thank you.

   Job Posting:
   Postdoctoral Fellow in the History and Future of the Book
   (2010-11, renewable)

   The Implementing New Knowledge Environments (INKE) project,
   funded by a Major Collaborative Research Initiative grant from
   the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC),
   seeks a post-doctoral fellow in the History and Future of the
   Book, with expertise in Textual Studies and Digital Humanities.
   This position is based in the Faculty of Information at the
   University of Toronto, in partnership with the Jackman
   Humanities Institute. The successful candidate is anticipated to
   work closely with team members at U Toronto, Acadia U, U
   Saskatchewan, U Victoria, U Western Ontario, and beyond. The
   postdoctoral fellow will work with digital manifestations of
   historical textual features, collaborating with INKE?s
   Textual Studies team and others, consulting with project
   stakeholders and potential stakeholders, and liaising with other
   INKE researchers located in North America and the UK. The fellow
   will be expected teach a light course load in the Faculty of
   Information and the collaborative program in Book History and
   Print Culture, to be remunerated in addition to the
   fellowship?s salary.

   The successful candidate will have skills and aptitudes in
   humanities-oriented research, textual studies and book
   history/bibliography, including training or demonstrated
   experience working with a variety of digital humanities
   resources, including digital archives, scholarly editions,
   journals and monographs, and text analysis and visualization
   tools. Organizational skills are essential. Interest and
   aptitude in research planning and management would be an asset.
   The ability to work in concert with our existing team is a
   critical requirement.

   Examples of technologies employed in INKE projects are as
   follows: TEI P5 ; XML, XSLT, XSL and XHTML encoding; XQuery;
   eXist XML databases; JavaScript; and Ruby on Rails. Experience
   in some or all technologies in use in INKE-related projects and
   similar areas would be an asset, but is not a requirement,
   though hands-on aptitude with--as distinct from merely interest
   in--digital tools is required.

   Our current team members pride themselves on a passionate
   interest in both the humanities and their computational
   engagement. Our ideal candidate is someone with similar passions
   who can introduce the team to new ideas and provide new
   perspectives on existing digital humanities issues. The salary
   for this position is competitive in the Canadian context, and is
   governed in part by SSHRC practices. Applications comprising a
   brief cover letter, CV, and the names and contact information
   for three referees may be sent electronically to
   inke.ischool at utoronto.ca. The contract can begin as early as 1
   September 2010; it is for a one-year term, with the possibility
   of renewal. The position is subject to budgetary approval.

   Interviews may be conducted via Skype, or in person at the
   Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences (Montr?al),
   the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (Victoria), and other
   venues at which INKE team members are present. Applications will
   be reviewed until the position is filled.




From willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk  Fri Jan 29 06:34:20 2010
From: willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk (Humanist Discussion Group)
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 06:34:20 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Humanist] 23.609 invitation to say how you use digital resources
Message-ID: <20100129063420.40C4149030@woodward.joyent.us>

                 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 609.
         Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
                       www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist
                Submit to: humanist at lists.digitalhumanities.org



        Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 18:38:35 +0000
        From: Karen Taylor <katay164 at interchange.ubc.ca>
        Subject: Invitation to Participate in a Digital Humanities Study


Dear Colleague,

Implementing New Knowledge Environments (INKE) is a large-scale collaborative research project in the digital humanities directed by Dr. Ray Siemens, Department of English, University of Victoria, and funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). Our research team is examining the complex processes of human engagement with information that is available digitally. Specifically, we are interested in identifying and understanding the ways in which social sciences and humanities readers engage with forms such as the electronic scholarly edition, the academic monograph, scholarly journal and essay collections, and electronic literature.

With this letter, we are inviting you to complete a short survey about how you experience and use digital resources in the context of your research. The findings of this survey will be used to improve existing digital tools and to derive requirements for prospective tools and resources that we hope will be of benefit to you and other researchers.

The questionnaire should take approximately twenty minutes to complete. If you are willing to participate, you will find it online at <http://infopoll.net/live/surveys/s34325.htm>. Your answers to this questionnaire will be kept strictly confidential.

In consideration of your time you may enter a draw for a $150.00 gift certificate from an online bookstore upon completion of the questionnaire.

We look forward to the prospect of your participation in this study. Please feel free to contact the INKE Graduate Research Assistant, Karen Taylor, at any time if you have questions about this research: 604-737-2873 (British Columbia, Canada) or <katay164 at interchange.ubc.ca<mailto:katay164 at interchange.ubc.ca>>.

Best regards,

Dr. Teresa Dobson for the INKE Team
Associate Professor
Director, Digital Literacy Centre
University of British Columbia
c/o Department of Language & Literacy
2125 Main Mall,
Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Z4



From willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk  Fri Jan 29 06:34:39 2010
From: willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk (Humanist Discussion Group)
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 06:34:39 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Humanist] 23.610 new book
Message-ID: <20100129063439.D47854907A@woodward.joyent.us>

                 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 610.
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        Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 20:34:43 +0000
        From: "mktgtwo at umn.edu" <mktgtwo at umn.edu>
        Subject: new book: What is Posthumanism?


Beyond humanism and anthropocentrism

WHAT IS POSTHUMANISM?
By Cary Wolfe
University of Minnesota Press | 392 pages | 2010
ISBN 978-0-8166-6614-0| hardcover | $75.00
ISBN 978-0-8166-6615-7| paperback | $24.95
Posthumanities Series, volume 8

Can a new kind of humanities-posthumanities-respond to the redefinition of humanity's place in the world by both the technological and the biological or "green" continuum in which the "human" is but one life form among many? Exploring this radical repositioning, Cary Wolfe ranges across bioethics, cognitive science, animal ethics, gender, and disability to develop a theoretical and philosophical approach responsive to our changing understanding of ourselves and our world.

"What Is Posthumanism? is an original, thoroughly argued, fundamental redefinition and refocusing of posthumanism. Firmly distinguishing posthumanism from discourses of the 'posthuman' or 'transhumanism,' this book will be at the center of discussion for a long time to come." - Donna Haraway, author of When Species Meet

For more information, including the table of contents, visit the book's webpage:
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From willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk  Fri Jan 29 06:36:18 2010
From: willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk (Humanist Discussion Group)
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 06:36:18 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Humanist] 23.611 events: digitisation; language technology
Message-ID: <20100129063618.A121849115@woodward.joyent.us>

                 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 611.
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  [1]   From:    Shawn Day <day.shawn at GMAIL.COM>                            (6)
        Subject: AFF workshop, 'Digitisation in a Day', 3 February 2010

  [2]   From:    "Kalliopi A. Zervanou" <k.zervanou at uvt.nl>               (107)
        Subject: LaTeCH-2010: Language Technology for Cultural Heritage,
                Social Sciences, and Humanities


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        Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 09:48:51 +0000
        From: Shawn Day <day.shawn at GMAIL.COM>
        Subject: AFF workshop, 'Digitisation in a Day', 3 February 2010

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With apologies for cross-posting, members of this list may find the following of interest:

From: foras.feasa at nuim.ie<mailto:foras.feasa at nuim.ie>
Date: 27 January 2010 16:54:41 GMT
To: foras.feasa at nuim.ie<mailto:foras.feasa at nuim.ie>

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        Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 16:57:45 +0000
        From: "Kalliopi A. Zervanou" <k.zervanou at uvt.nl>
        Subject: LaTeCH-2010: Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities


                  First CALL FOR PAPERS

                     ECAI Workshop on
           Language Technology for Cultural Heritage,
         Social Sciences, and Humanities (LaTeCH 2010)

           http://ilk.uvt.nl/LaTeCH2010/index.html

              Submission deadline: 7 May 2010

*********************************************************************

The 4th Workshop on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social
Sciences, and Humanities will be held in conjunction with ECAI 2010,
which takes place from 16-20 August 2010 in Lisbon, Portugal
(http://ecai2010.appia.pt).

==================
About the Workshop
==================

With the advent of the digital age, museums, archives, libraries and other
cultural heritage (CH) institutes are gradually moving away from a
predominantly pen-and-paper based collection management; more and more CH
institutes are aiming to make their collections widely accessible to both
experts and laypersons. A first step in this endeavour is the digitisation
of existing data. Several large-scale digitisation efforts have been
launched in recent years.

A similar development can also be seen in the 'soft' sciences, such as
social sciences and humanities (SH), where increasing amounts of relevant
texts are being made available in electronic form, either being produced
digitally, or being digitised as part of efforts directed at digitising
archival material.

However, information access should not be restricted to simple key-word
based search on digitised data. To truely unlock the knowledge contained
in CH and SH collections, it is necessary to develop novel technologies
that support the information and entertainment needs of individual users.
Techniques from artificial intelligence are particularly well suited to
help users to make the best possible use of these digitised collections.
As information access is often obtained via the (mostly textual) metadata
level, language technology in particular plays an important role. Other
areas of AI, including knowledge representation, multi-modal systems and
user modelling, are also relevant.

===============
Workshop Topics
===============

Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished papers on all aspects
of language technology, machine learning, pattern recognition, knowledge
representation, multi-modal systems, recommender systems, and other
neighbouring fields in NLP and AI applied to cultural heritage (CH),
social sciences and humanities (SH). We also invite contributions from the
cultural heritage institutes themselves in the form of use cases and usage
scenarios. We thereby hope to bring together both communities (NLP/AI and
CH/SH) and foster an exchange of ideas.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

* Automatic error detection and cleaning of digitised data
* Data enrichment and linking
* Adapting existing tools to the CH/SH domain
* Knowledge representation, ontologies, metadata and data models
* Knowledge discovery and text mining
* Machine learning and pattern recognition
* Multi-modal and interactive systems
* Personalisation and recommender systems
* Text simplification, text summarisation, and (hyper)text generation
* Transdisciplinary research on CH and SH data
* User scenarios and use cases

For more details see: http://ilk.uvt.nl/LaTeCH2010/cfp.html

===============
Important Dates
===============

Paper submission deadline:      May 7, 2010
Notification of acceptance:     June 7, 2010
Early registration deadline:     June 15, 2010
Camera-ready papers due:     June 21, 2010
LaTeCH full-day workshop:     August, 2010 (exact date to be confirmed)

===================
Programme Committee
===================

Ion Androutsopoulos, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece
Tim Baldwin, University of Melbourne, Australia
David Bamman, Tufts University, USA
Toine Bogers, Royal School of Library & Information Science, Copenhagen,  
Denmark
Paul Buitelaar, DERI Galway, Ireland
Kate Byrne, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
Milena Dobreva, HATII, University of Glasgow, Scotland
Mick O'Donnell, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
Julio Gonzalo, Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia, Spain
Claire Grover, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
Ben Hachey, Macquarie University, Australia
Dominik Heckmann, DFKI, Germany
Christer Johansson, University of Bergen, Norway
Jaap Kamps, Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Vangelis Karkaletsis, NCSR "Demokritos", Greece
Michael Kipp, DFKI, Germany
Stasinos Konstantopoulos, NCSR "Demokritos", Greece
Veronique Malaise, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Barbara McGillivray, Universit?  degli Studi di Pisa, Italy
John McNaught, National Centre for Text Mining (NaCTeM), UK
Ruslan Mitkov, University of Wolverhampton, UK
John Nerbonne, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands
Katerina Pastra, ILSP, Greece
Marco Pennacchiotti, Yahoo! Research, USA
Georg Rehm, vionto GmbH, Germany
Martin Reynaert, Universiteit van Tilburg, The Netherlands
Svitlana Zinger, TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands

============
Organisation
============

Caroline Sporleder, Saarland University, Germany
Kalliopi Zervanou, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
Lars Borin, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Piroska Lendvai, Academy of Sciences, Hungary
Antal van den Bosch, Tilburg University, The Netherlands




From willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk  Sat Jan 30 07:38:10 2010
From: willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk (Humanist Discussion Group)
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 07:38:10 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Humanist] 23.612 postdocs at EMiC (Canada)
Message-ID: <20100130073810.5377749216@woodward.joyent.us>

                 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 612.
         Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
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        Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 14:45:54 -0500
        From: Dean Irvine <dean.irvine at dal.ca>
        Subject: EMiC Postdoctoral Fellowship (deadline: 1 March 2010)


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 2010 competition for a postdoctoral 
fellowship. Our current EMiC postdoctoral fellow, Meagan Timney, is 
working under the supervision of Ray Siemens at the Electronic Textual 
Cultures Lab at the University of Victoria, and in collaboration with 
Martin Holmes at UVic's Humanities Computing and Media Centre, on the 
development of the Image Markup Tool and publication engine for the 
production of the project's digital editions and archives.

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. 

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/postdoc_funding.html

Application deadline: 1 March 2010

Dean Irvine
Associate Professor
Director, Editing Modernism in Canada (EMiC)
Collection Director, Canadian Literature Collection/Collection de 
litt?rature canadienne (University of Ottawa Press)
Department of English
Dalhousie University
6135 University Avenue
Halifax, NS      B3H 4P9
tel: 902.494.6903
email: dean.irvine at dal.ca


From willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk  Sat Jan 30 07:38:50 2010
From: willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk (Humanist Discussion Group)
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 07:38:50 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Humanist] 23.613 a new home for the Wired Humanities Projects?
Message-ID: <20100130073850.40C7349280@woodward.joyent.us>

                 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 613.
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        Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:00:05 -0800
        From: Stephanie Wood <swood at uoregon.edu>
        Subject: Mesoamerica & digital humanities


The Wired Humanities Projects at the University of Oregon (with 90% of  
our digital humanities research projects having a Mesoamerican focus  
-- see http://whp.uoregon.edu/ ) is looking for a new home.  We have  
been very successful at winning external funding, and would like to be  
able to continue writing grant proposals.  We are open to  
collaboration.  Any leads would be much appreciated.  Please direct  
your replies to me off list.  I apologize for any duplication and I  
hope people won't mind my using the listserv to make this inquiry.

Thanks very much!

Stephanie Wood, Ph.D.,
Director
Wired Humanities Projects
Yamada Language Center
1236 University of Oregon
Eugene, Oregon 97403-1236
U.S.A.

Tel. 541-346-5771
swood at uoregon.edu
Office:
UO Annex, Suite 4
876 E. 12th Avenue




From willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk  Sat Jan 30 07:39:42 2010
From: willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk (Humanist Discussion Group)
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 07:39:42 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Humanist] 23.614 new on WWW: Blake Archive update
Message-ID: <20100130073942.13EC34930D@woodward.joyent.us>

                 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 614.
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        Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 14:20:17 -0500 (EST)
        From: William S Shaw <wsshaw at email.unc.edu>
        Subject: Update to the William Blake Archive

29 January 2010

The William Blake Archive <www.blakearchive.org> is pleased to announce 
the publication of the electronic edition of _Milton a Poem_ copy D. Only 
four copies of _Milton_, Blake's most personal epic, are extant. Copy D, 
from the Rosenwald Collection, Library of Congress, joins copies A, B, and 
C, previously published in the Archive, enabling the Archive to display 
the complete production history of this illuminated book.

Blake etched forty-five plates for _Milton_ in relief, with some full-page 
designs in white-line etching, between c. 1804 (the date on the title 
page) and c. 1810. Six additional plates (a-f) were probably etched in 
subsequent years up to 1818. No copy contains all fifty-one plates. The 
prose "Preface" (plate 2) appears only in copies A and B. Plates a-e 
appear only in copies C and D, plate f only in copy D. The first printing, 
late in 1810 or early in 1811, produced copies A-C, printed in black ink 
and finished in water colors. Blake retained copy C and added new plates 
and rearranged others at least twice; copy C was not finished until c. 
1821. Copy D was printed in 1818 in orange ink and elaborately colored.

Like all the illuminated books in the Archive, the text and images of 
_Milton_ copy D are fully searchable and are supported by our Inote and 
ImageSizer applications. With the Archive's Compare feature, users can 
easily juxtapose multiple impressions of any plate across the different 
copies of this or any of the other illuminated books. New protocols for 
transcription, which produce improved accuracy and fuller documentation in 
editors' notes, have been applied to all copies of _Milton_ in the 
Archive.

With the publication of _Milton_ copy D, the Archive now contains fully 
searchable and scalable electronic editions of seventy-three copies of 
Blake's nineteen illuminated books in the context of full bibliographic 
information about each work, careful diplomatic transcriptions of all 
texts, detailed descriptions of all images, and extensive bibliographies. 
In addition to illuminated books, the Archive contains many important 
manuscripts and series of engravings, sketches, and water color drawings, 
including illustrations to Thomas Gray's _Poems_, water color and engraved 
illustrations to Dante's _Divine Comedy_, the large color printed drawings 
of 1795 and c. 1805, the Linnell and Butts sets of the _Book of Job_ water 
colors and the sketchbook containing drawings for the engraved 
illustrations to the _Book of Job_, the water color illustrations to 
Robert Blair's _The Grave_, and all nine of Blake's water color series 
illustrating the poetry of John Milton.

As always, the William Blake Archive is a free site, imposing no access 
restrictions and charging no subscription fees. The site is made possible 
by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the continuing support 
of the Library of Congress, and the cooperation of the international array 
of libraries and museums that have generously given us permission to 
reproduce works from their collections in the Archive.

Morris Eaves, Robert N. Essick, and Joseph Viscomi, editors
Ashley Reed, project manager, William Shaw, technical editor
The William Blake Archive




From willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk  Sat Jan 30 07:42:43 2010
From: willard.mccarty at mccarty.org.uk (Humanist Discussion Group)
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 07:42:43 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Humanist] 23.615 cfp: Conference on Editorial Problems, Toronto
Message-ID: <20100130074243.1F017493B6@woodward.joyent.us>

                 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 23, No. 615.
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        Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 14:47:38 -0500
        From: Dean Irvine <dean.irvine at Dal.Ca>
        Subject: EMiC Conference on Editorial Problems


Call for Papers
EMiC] Editing Modernism in Canada
Conference on Editorial Problems
University of Toronto
23-24 October  10

The past two decades have witnessed a resurgence in transnational 
modernist studies and the emergence of a new generation of scholars 
working on Canadian modernist literature and drama. This period has seen 
the publication of critical monographs, biographies, essay collections, 
anthologies, and critical editions, the organization of several 
international conferences, and the launch of major collaborative 
research projects. The Editing Modernism in Canada (EMiC) project plays 
a leading role in this emergent generation of modernist studies. For its 
first major public event, EMiC is hosting the Conference on Editorial 
Problems at the University of Toronto, 23-24 October 2010. Sean Latham, 
Past President of the Modernist Studies Association, will deliver the 
keynote address.

We invite proposals not only from EMiC-affiliated researchers 
(co-applicants, collaborators, postdocs, and graduate fellows) but also 
from unaffiliated scholars whose work in the fields of modernist 
literature and theatre, scholarly editing, book history, and the digital 
humanities intersects with our project. Topics may include, but are not 
limited to, the following: case studies of digital or print editions in 
progress; rationales for prospective or hypothetical editions in print 
or digital media; exhibitions of collaborative digital editing tools and 
publication engines; reports on experiential-learning pedagogies used to 
train students and new scholars in editorial theory and practice; 
strategies for the development of relationships among universities, 
publishers, the media, public libraries and non-profit cultural 
organizations (book clubs, reading groups, reading series, literary 
festivals) to promote Canada's modernists; re-assessments of canons and 
curricula posed by the introduction and/or reinterpretation of Canadian 
modernist texts in new critical editions; analyses of series of editions 
(New Canadian Library, Laurentian Library, Collected Works of A.M. 
Klein, Collected Works of E.J. Pratt, etc.) and how these series have 
shaped editorial and critical practice; findings based on research into 
the archives of modernist authors, their editors and anthologists, and 
their publishers.

We welcome proposals for 20-minute papers for panels or 5-minute 
position papers for roundtables. Panel sessions will feature the 
standard sequence of 3 or 4 speakers delivering 15-20 minute talks 
followed by a question period and discussion. Roundtables will consist 
of 5 or 6 speakers gathered around issues or topics of common concern in 
order to generate discussion among the participants and with the 
audience. Roundtable participants will be asked to deliver short (5 
minute) position statements in response to questions distributed in 
advance by the session organizer, and they will take turns responding to 
the moderator's and audience's questions and comments.

Selected papers by conference participants will be collected in a 
planned volume of conference proceedings, which will be published as 
part of the University of Toronto Press's Conference on Editorial 
Problems series and co-edited by the conference convenors. In addition 
to this collection, we will publish a special issue of Essays on 
Canadian Writing with contributions from a select group of the 
conference's panel and roundtable participants.

A limited number of subventions for EMiC participants (co-applicants, 
collaborators, postdocs, and graduate fellows) and affiliated students 
will be available to defray travel and accommodation expenses. For 
eligibility guidelines see the Travel Subventions page of the project 
website.

Please submit 500-word proposal, 100-word abstract, and 50-word 
biographical statement via email to the conference organizers, Dean 
Irvine (dean.irvine at dal.ca) and Colin Hill (colin.hill at utoronto.ca), by 
15 March 2010.

For more information about the EMiC project, please visit our website at 
http://editingmodernism.ca or contact us at emic at dal.ca.

EMiC is funded by a Strategic Knowledge Cluster grant from the Social 
Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

Dean Irvine
Associate Professor
Director, Editing Modernism in Canada (EMiC)
Collection Director, Canadian Literature Collection/Collection de 
litt?rature canadienne (University of Ottawa Press)
Department of English
Dalhousie University
6135 University Avenue
Halifax, NS      B3H 4P9
tel: 902.494.6903
email: dean.irvine at dal.ca