http://portal.tapor.ca:80/news-feeds/11.rssAlliance of Digital Humanities OrganizationsStéfan Sinclairfalsehttp://portal.tapor.ca:80/news-feeds/11.rss/413A meeting was held at King's College, London, on 26th and 27th October 2009, between representatives of the following networks, infrastructure projects, and planning initiatives working with digital technologies in the Arts and Humanities: * arts-humanities.net (http://www.arts-humanities.net/) * ADHO - Association of Digital Humanities Organisations (http://www.digitalhumanities.org/) * CLARIN (http://www.clarin.eu/) * centerNet (http://www.digitalhumanities.org/centernet/) * DARIAH (http://www.dariah.eu/) * NoC - Network of Expert Centres in Great Britain and Ireland (http://www.arts-humanities.net/noc/) * Project Bamboo (http://projectbamboo.org/) * TextGrid (http://www.textgrid.de/) We identified the current fragmented environment where researchers operate in separate areas with often mutually incompatible technologies as a barrier to fully exploiting the transformative role that these technologies can potentially play. We resolved that our present, proposed, and future activities are interdependent and complementary and should be oriented towards working together to overcome barriers, and to create a shared environment where technology services can interoperate and be sustained, thus enabling new forms of research in the Humanities.Sun, 15 Nov 2009 09:40:09 MST413dporterA meeting was held at King's College, London, on 26th and 27th October 2009, between representatives of the following networks, infrastructure projects, and planning initiatives working with digital technologies in the Arts and Humanities: * arts-humanities.net (http://www.arts-humanities.net/) * ADHO - Association of Digital Humanities Organisations (http://www.digitalhumanities.org/) * CLARIN (http://www.clarin.eu/) * centerNet (http://www.digitalhumanities.org/centernet/) * DARIAH (http://www.dariah.eu/) * NoC - Network of Expert Centres in Great Britain and Ireland (http://www.arts-humanities.net/noc/) * Project Bamboo (http://projectbamboo.org/) * TextGrid (http://www.textgrid.de/) We identified the current fragmented environment where researchers operate in separate areas with often mutually incompatible technologies as a barrier to fully exploiting the transformative role that these technologies can potentially play. We resolved that our present, proposed, and future activities are interdependent and complementary and should be oriented towards working together to overcome barriers, and to create a shared environment where technology services can interoperate and be sustained, thus enabling new forms of research in the Humanities. In order to achieve these goals we agreed to form the Coalition of Humanities and Arts Infrastructures and Networks – CHAIN. CHAIN will act as a forum for areas of shared interest to its participants, including: - advocacy for an improved digital research infrastructure for the Humanities; - development of sustainable business models; - promotion of technical interoperability of resources, tools and services; - promotion of good practice and relevant technical standards; - development of a shared service infrastructure; - coordinating approaches to legal and ethical issues; - interactions with other relevant computing infrastructure initiatives; - widening the geographical scope of our coalition. CHAIN will promote an open culture where experiences, including successes and failures, can be shared and discussed, in order to support and promote the use of digital technologies in research in the Humanities. Sheila Anderson, King's College, London (DARIAH) Andreas Aschenbrenner, State and University Library Göttingen (TextGrid, DARIAH) David Greenbaum, University of California, Berkeley (Project Bamboo) Seth Denbo, King's College, London (DARIAH) Neil Fraistat, University of Maryland (centerNet) Chad Kainz, University of Chicago (Project Bamboo) Steven Krauwer, Utrecht University (CLARIN) Lorna Hughes, King's College, London (ADHO, NoC) Tobias Blanke, King's College, London (DARIAH) Torsten Reimer, King's College, London (arts-humanities.net) David Robey, University of Oxford (NoC) Harold Short, King's College, London (ADHO) Katherine Walter, University of Nebraska-Lincoln (centerNet) Peter Wittenburg, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (CLARIN) Martin Wynne, University of Oxford (CLARIN, DARIAH)falsehttp://portal.tapor.ca:80/news-feeds/11.rss/412We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the Digital Humanities 2010 Conference. Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations Digital Humanities 2010 Call for Papers Abstract Deadline: Oct. 31, 2009 (extended to November 15, 2009). The International Programme Committee invites submissions of abstracts of between 750 and 1500 words on any aspect of humanities computing, broadly defined to encompass the common ground between information technology and problems in humanities research and teaching. We welcome submissions in all areas of the humanities, particularly interdisciplinary work. We especially encourage submissions on the current state of the art in humanities computing, and on recent developments.Sun, 15 Nov 2009 09:35:37 MST412dporterFor the complete CFP see http://www.cch.kcl.ac.uk/dh2010/papers/call.htmlfalsehttp://portal.tapor.ca:80/news-feeds/11.rss/411Call 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/Société pour l'étude des médias interactifs (SDH/SEMI). The first Antonio Zampolli Prize will be given at the Digital Humanities 2011 conference, which will be held at Stanford University. For the full CFP see http://digitalhumanities.org/view/Adho/ZampolliPrize2011. For a description of the Zampolli Prize see http://www.digitalhumanities.org/view/Adho/ZampolliPrizeSun, 15 Nov 2009 09:30:54 MST411dporterThe 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/Société pour l'étude des médias 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. For a complete description of the Antonio Zampolli Prize, see http://www.digitalhumanities.org/view/Adho/ZampolliPrize 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@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, Øyvind Eide Marilyn Deegan, Julia Flanders, Christian Vandendorpe John Nerbonne, Harold Short, John Walshfalsehttp://portal.tapor.ca:80/news-feeds/11.rss/323We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the Digital Humanities Conference 2009. Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations Digital Humanities 2009 Call for Papers Hosted by the Maryland institute of Technology in the Humanities (MITH) University of Maryland, College Park, USA 22-25 June, 2009 http://www.mith2.umd.edu/dh09/ Abstract Deadline: October 31, 2008 (Midnight GMT) Presentations can include: • Single papers (abstract max of 1500 words) • Multiple paper sessions (overview max of 500 words) • Posters (abstract max of 1500 words)Tue, 16 Sep 2008 18:29:31 MDT323dporterCall for Papers Announcement I. General The international Programme Committee invites submissions of abstracts of between 750 and 1500 words on any aspect of digital humanities, broadly defined to encompass the common ground between information technology and problems in humanities research and teaching. As always, we welcome submissions in any area of the humanities, particularly interdisciplinary work. We especially encourage submissions on the current state of the art in digital humanities, and on recent new developments and expected future developments in the field. Suitable subjects for proposals include, for example, * text analysis, corpora, corpus linguistics, language processing, language learning * libraries, archives and the creation, delivery, management and preservation of humanities digital resources * computer-based research and computing applications in all areas of literary, linguistic, cultural, and historical studies, including electronic literature and interdisciplinary aspects of modern scholarship * use of computation in such areas as the arts, architecture, music, film, theatre, new media, and other areas reflecting our cultural heritage * research issues such as: information design and modelling; the cultural impact of the new media; software studies; Human-Computer interaction * the role of digital humanities in academic curricula * digital humanities and diversity The range of topics covered by digital humanities can also be consulted in the journal of the associations: Literary and Linguistic Computing (LLC), Oxford University Press. The deadline for submitting paper, session and poster proposals to the Programme Committee is October 31, 2008. All submissions will be refereed. Presenters will be notified of acceptance February 13, 2009. The electronic submission form will be available at the conference site from October 1st, 2008. See below for full details on submitting proposals. Proposals for (non-refereed, or vendor) demos and for pre-conference tutorials and workshops should be discussed directly with the local conference organizer as soon as possible. For more information on the conference in general please visit the conference web site. II. Types of Proposals Proposals to the Programme Committee may be of three types: (1) papers, (2) poster presentations and/or software demonstrations, and (3) sessions (either three-paper or panel sessions). The type of submission must be specified in the proposal. Papers and posters may be given in English, French, German, Italian or Spanish. 1) Papers Proposals for papers (750-1500 words) should describe original work: either completed research which has given rise to substantial results, or the development of significant new methodologies, or rigorous theoretical, speculative or critical discussions. Individual papers will be allocated 20 minutes for presentation and 10 minutes for questions. Proposals that concentrate on the development of new computing methodologies should make clear how the methodologies are applied to research and/or teaching in the humanities, and should include some critical assessment of the application of those methodologies in the humanities. Those that concentrate on a particular application in the humanities should cite traditional as well as computer-based approaches to the problem and should include some critical assessment of the computing methodologies used. All proposals should include conclusions and references to important sources. Those describing the creation or use of digital resources should follow these guidelines as far as possible. 2) Poster Presentations and Software Demonstrations Poster presentations may include computer technology and project demonstrations. Hence the term poster/demo to refer to the different possible combinations of printed and computer based presentations. There should be no difference in quality between poster/demo presentations and papers, and the format for proposals is the same for both. The same academic standards should apply in both cases, but posters/demos may be a more suitable way of presenting late-breaking results, or significant work in progress, including pedagogical applications. Both will be submitted to the same refereeing process. The choice between the two modes of presentation (poster/demo or paper) should depend on the most effective and informative way of communicating the scientific content of the proposal. By definition, poster presentations are less formal and more interactive than a standard talk. Poster presenters have the opportunity to exchange ideas one-on-one with attendees and to discuss their work in detail with those most deeply interested in the same topic. Presenters will be provided with about two square meters of board space to display their work. They may also provide handouts with examples or more detailed information. Posters will remain on display throughout the conference, but there will also be a separate conference session dedicated to them, when presenters should be prepared to explain their work and answer questions. Additional times may also be assigned for software or project demonstrations. The poster sessions will build on the recent trend of showcasing some of the most important and innovative work being done in digital humanities. As an acknowledgment of the special contribution of the posters to the conference, the Programme Committee will award a prize for the best poster. 3) Sessions Sessions (90 minutes) take the form of either: Three papers. The session organizer should submit a 500-word statement describing the session topic, include abstracts of 750-1500 words for each paper, and indicate that each author is willing to participate in the session; or A panel of four to six speakers. The panel organizer should submit an abstract of 750-1500 words describing the panel topic, how it will be organized, the names of all the speakers, and an indication that each speaker is willing to participate in the session. The deadline for session proposals is the same as for proposals for papers, i.e. October 31st, 2008. III. Format of the Proposals All proposals must be submitted electronically using the on-line submission form, which will be available at the conference web site http://www.mith2.umd.edu/dh09/ from October 1st, 2008. Anyone who has previously used the conftool system to submit proposals or reviews should use their existing account rather than setting up a new one. If anyone has forgotten their user name and/or password please contact dh2009@digitalhumanities.org. IV. Information about the conference venue: MITH University of Maryland Celebrating its 10th anniversary as a working digital humanities center, MITH is the University of Maryland's primary intellectual hub for scholars and practitioners of digital humanities, electronic literature, and cyberculture, as well as the headquarters of the Electronic Literature Organization. Having fostered numerous early adopter projects in the field, MITH continues to innovate with new work on tools, text analysis, electronic editing, virtual worlds, digital preservation, and cyberinfrastructure. V. Bursaries for Young Scholars A limited number of bursaries for young scholars will be made available to those presenting at the conference by the Association of Digital Humanities Organisations. (AHDO) If you wish to apply for a bursary please submit a proposal and indicate your interest in the scheme by emailing dh2009@digitalhumanities.org. More information for applicants will be available from the ADHO website (http://www.digitalhumanities.org/) after November 1st 2008. International Programme Committee Brett Barney (ACH) Willard McCarty (ACH) Michael Eberle-Sinatra (SDH-SEMI) John Nerbonne (ALLC: Vice Chair) Jan Rybicki (ALLC) Paul Spence (ALLC) Allen Renear (ACH) Stéfan Sinclair (SDH-SEMI) Claire Warwick (ACH: Chair)falsehttp://portal.tapor.ca:80/news-feeds/11.rss/322Registration for the TEIMM 2008 is now open.Tue, 16 Sep 2008 18:24:28 MDT322dporterI should like to draw your attention to the TEI Members Meeting site at Kings’s College London http://www.cch.kcl.ac.uk/tei2008/ The outline of the meeting programme, from 6-8 November, is now available. There are also recommendations for hotels and advice about transport. Most importantly, registration is now open. Early registration is advised as places are limited. Please visit the site and register for the conference. We look forward to seeing you in November.falsehttp://portal.tapor.ca:80/news-feeds/11.rss/236SUMMARY OF GOOGLE MEETING On Thursday, June 14, representatives from the start up committee of the centers network met for three hours at Google with Vint Cerf, Dan Clancy, and members of the Google Book Search team. Representing the U.S. centers were Matt Kirschenbaum, John Unsworth, and me. Geoffrey Rockwell represented the Canadian centers. Our purpose was to initiate a dialogue about how the centers and Google might best work together. The conversations were wide-ranging and very encouraging. We began with a brief presentation about the history of digital humanities as a field and a demonstration of some recent projects and tools. Among the ensuing topics discussed were (1) the possibility of Google providing digital humanities centers with specially focused subsets of Google Books (e.g., British novels from 1830-1870) for scholarly research and annotation; (2) the possibility of Google making available a layer of special services for scholarly analysis, perhaps to be accessed through the new international digital humanities portal that we hope will be emerging within the next year or so; (3) the possibility of Google running broad-based workshops for digital humanities scholars, or perhaps developing some larger research facility for scholars in the field; (4) the participation of Google at digital humanities conferences. Google is thinking seriously about all of these possibilities and has committed to participating in the center-related sessions at CNI next December, which are being organized by Mark Kornbluh and Kay Walter, and to similarly participate at DH 2008 in Finland. We will keep you posted as things develop. INTERNET ARCHIVE/OPEN CONTENT ALLIANCE On Friday, June 15, Matt Kirschenbaum and I met with Brewster Kahle to begin a dialogue about how the centers network might best work together with the Internet Archive and Open Content Alliance. The conversation centered on the possibility of OCA creating special subsets of its scanned books on demand. That is, if a scholarly team of researchers were to put in a request through the centers network for, say, British novels from 1820-1870, the OCA might be willing to create and share the subset. In return, scholars would help to clean the scans and share with OCA the metadata they create. Currently the OCA scans about 12,000 books each month. Talks of possible joint grants between the Internet Archive and the network of centers were begun and will continue over the summer.Wed, 27 Jun 2007 13:46:51 MDT236StefanSinclairSUMMARY OF GOOGLE MEETING On Thursday, June 14, representatives from the start up committee of the centers network met for three hours at Google with Vint Cerf, Dan Clancy, and members of the Google Book Search team. Representing the U.S. centers were Matt Kirschenbaum, John Unsworth, and me. Geoffrey Rockwell represented the Canadian centers. Our purpose was to initiate a dialogue about how the centers and Google might best work together. The conversations were wide-ranging and very encouraging. We began with a brief presentation about the history of digital humanities as a field and a demonstration of some recent projects and tools. Among the ensuing topics discussed were (1) the possibility of Google providing digital humanities centers with specially focused subsets of Google Books (e.g., British novels from 1830-1870) for scholarly research and annotation; (2) the possibility of Google making available a layer of special services for scholarly analysis, perhaps to be accessed through the new international digital humanities portal that we hope will be emerging within the next year or so; (3) the possibility of Google running broad-based workshops for digital humanities scholars, or perhaps developing some larger research facility for scholars in the field; (4) the participation of Google at digital humanities conferences. Google is thinking seriously about all of these possibilities and has committed to participating in the center-related sessions at CNI next December, which are being organized by Mark Kornbluh and Kay Walter, and to similarly participate at DH 2008 in Finland. We will keep you posted as things develop. INTERNET ARCHIVE/OPEN CONTENT ALLIANCE On Friday, June 15, Matt Kirschenbaum and I met with Brewster Kahle to begin a dialogue about how the centers network might best work together with the Internet Archive and Open Content Alliance. The conversation centered on the possibility of OCA creating special subsets of its scanned books on demand. That is, if a scholarly team of researchers were to put in a request through the centers network for, say, British novels from 1820-1870, the OCA might be willing to create and share the subset. In return, scholars would help to clean the scans and share with OCA the metadata they create. Currently the OCA scans about 12,000 books each month. Talks of possible joint grants between the Internet Archive and the network of centers were begun and will continue over the summer.falsehttp://portal.tapor.ca:80/news-feeds/11.rss/187The full-text of <I>The Companion to Digital Humanities</i> (edited by Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens, and John Unsworth; published by Blackwell) is now available online at <a href="http://www.digitalhumanities.org/companion/">http://www.digitalhumanities.org/companion/</a>Mon, 08 Jan 2007 11:55:31 MST187StefanSinclairThe full-text of <I>The Companion to Digital Humanities</i> (edited by Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens, and John Unsworth; published by Blackwell) is now available online at <a href="http://www.digitalhumanities.org/companion/">http://www.digitalhumanities.org/companion/</a>falsehttp://portal.tapor.ca:80/news-feeds/11.rss/36After Paris, Champagne. Digital Humanities 2007 will be co-hosted by the Graduate School of Library and Information Science and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne, June 4-7, 2007 (see http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dh2007/). Board meetings and meetings of the program committees (for 2007 and 2008), as well as meetings of the ADHO Steering Committee and its standing committees will be held June 2nd and 3rd. Registrants at DH2007 will also be able to attend the annual meeting of the Classification Society of North America, June 7-10 (see http://www.classification-society.org/csna/csna07.html).Tue, 01 Aug 2006 01:40:51 MDT36StefanSinclairAfter Paris, Champagne. Digital Humanities 2007 will be co-hosted by the Graduate School of Library and Information Science and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne, June 4-7, 2007 (see http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dh2007/). Board meetings and meetings of the program committees (for 2007 and 2008), as well as meetings of the ADHO Steering Committee and its standing committees will be held June 2nd and 3rd. Registrants at DH2007 will also be able to attend the annual meeting of the Classification Society of North America, June 7-10 (see http://www.classification-society.org/csna/csna07.html).falsehttp://portal.tapor.ca:80/news-feeds/11.rss/37<h1>RUSSIAN MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND SCIENCES</h1> <p>Izhevsk State Technical University<br/> Department of Informatics<br/> Department of Automated Systems of Control Information Processing <br/> Department of Linguistics</p> <p>The aforementioned sponsors announce an international workshop and conference in Izhevsk, Russia, entitled "Modern Informational Technologies and Written Heritage: From Ancient Manuscripts to Electronic Texts" (13-17 July 2006), dedicated to investigating modern means of storage, description, processing, analysis, and publication of ancient and medieval written-language materials. The conference organizers invite participation by anyone interested in theoretical and practical problems associated with these issues, including researchers, educators, librarians, archivists, software developers, and graduate and undergraduate students. The working languages of the workshop and conference are Russian and English.</p> <h2>Workshop Themes:</h2> <ul><li>Meta- and analytic descriptions of manuscripts and early printed books.</li> <li>Full-text data bases.</li> <li>Formats for the storage and transmission of textual data.</li> <li>Digital editions.</li> <li>Web modules for accessing collections and full-text data bases.</li> <li>Local means for textual input, storage, and processing.</li></ul> <p>Proposed panel and round-table themes:</p> <ol><li>Textological, paleographic, and linguistic problems of informational technology and computer modeling. </li> <li>Library and archival electronic collections, descriptions, and catalogues.</li> <li>Technologies for producing electronic full-text collections and libraries.</li> <li>Formats for textual storage, detailed markup, and interchange.</li> <li>Technologies and methods for identifying manuscript texts.</li> <li>Technologies for access to and navigation within electronic libraries. </li> <li>Web technologies for electronic publication.</li> <li>Methods and tools for the educational, scientific, and popular use of full-text electronic collections, libraries, descriptions, and catalogues. </li> <li>Copyright issues associated with the creation, publication, and use of electronic textual resources.</li></ol> <p>Projects that will be demonstrated at the workshop include:</p> <ul><li>Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Consortium </li> <li>Repertorium of Old Bulgarian Literature and Letters (Bulgaria, Sofia, The Institute of Bulgarian Literature of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, and USA, University of Pittsburgh)</li> <li>Thesaurus Indogermanischer Text- und Sprachmaterialien (TITUS) (Germany, Frankfort University),</li> <li>Computer Processing of Written Heritage Sources (ACT) (Czech Republic, Prague, Charles University),</li> <li>Manuscript (Russia, Izhevsk, Udmurt State University and Izhevsk State Technical University),</li> <li>Technological Decisions of Knowledge's Capitalization based on Constructional Digital Editions (INC) (Russia, Izhevsk, Izhevsk State Technical University).</li></ul> <p>The workshop will include lecture lectures and seminars on the technologies, formats, and software products of projects listed above, to be presented by the authors and developers, as well as panel sessions and round-table discussions.</p>Tue, 21 Mar 2006 23:49:22 MST37JuliaFlanders<h1>RUSSIAN MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND SCIENCES</h1> <p>Izhevsk State Technical University<br/> Department of Informatics<br/> Department of Automated Systems of Control Information Processing <br/> Department of Linguistics</p> <p>The aforementioned sponsors announce an international workshop and conference in Izhevsk, Russia, entitled "Modern Informational Technologies and Written Heritage: From Ancient Manuscripts to Electronic Texts" (13-17 July 2006), dedicated to investigating modern means of storage, description, processing, analysis, and publication of ancient and medieval written-language materials. The conference organizers invite participation by anyone interested in theoretical and practical problems associated with these issues, including researchers, educators, librarians, archivists, software developers, and graduate and undergraduate students. The working languages of the workshop and conference are Russian and English.</p> <h2>Workshop Themes:</h2> <ul><li>Meta- and analytic descriptions of manuscripts and early printed books.</li> <li>Full-text data bases.</li> <li>Formats for the storage and transmission of textual data.</li> <li>Digital editions.</li> <li>Web modules for accessing collections and full-text data bases.</li> <li>Local means for textual input, storage, and processing.</li></ul> <p>Proposed panel and round-table themes:</p> <ol><li>Textological, paleographic, and linguistic problems of informational technology and computer modeling. </li> <li>Library and archival electronic collections, descriptions, and catalogues.</li> <li>Technologies for producing electronic full-text collections and libraries.</li> <li>Formats for textual storage, detailed markup, and interchange.</li> <li>Technologies and methods for identifying manuscript texts.</li> <li>Technologies for access to and navigation within electronic libraries. </li> <li>Web technologies for electronic publication.</li> <li>Methods and tools for the educational, scientific, and popular use of full-text electronic collections, libraries, descriptions, and catalogues. </li> <li>Copyright issues associated with the creation, publication, and use of electronic textual resources.</li></ol> <p>Projects that will be demonstrated at the workshop include:</p> <ul><li>Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Consortium </li> <li>Repertorium of Old Bulgarian Literature and Letters (Bulgaria, Sofia, The Institute of Bulgarian Literature of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, and USA, University of Pittsburgh)</li> <li>Thesaurus Indogermanischer Text- und Sprachmaterialien (TITUS) (Germany, Frankfort University),</li> <li>Computer Processing of Written Heritage Sources (ACT) (Czech Republic, Prague, Charles University),</li> <li>Manuscript (Russia, Izhevsk, Udmurt State University and Izhevsk State Technical University),</li> <li>Technological Decisions of Knowledge's Capitalization based on Constructional Digital Editions (INC) (Russia, Izhevsk, Izhevsk State Technical University).</li></ul> <p>The workshop will include lecture lectures and seminars on the technologies, formats, and software products of projects listed above, to be presented by the authors and developers, as well as panel sessions and round-table discussions.</p> <p>Program Committee: </p> <ul><li>Victor A. Baranov, Izhevsk State Technical University, Izhevsk, Russia</li> <li>Igor A. Barkov, Izhevsk State Technical University, Izhevsk, Russia</li> <li>David J. Birnbaum, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA</li> <li>Jost Gippert, Frankfort University, Frankfort, Germany</li> <li>Milena Dobreva, The Institute of Mathematics and Informatics of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria</li> <li>Sergei G. Maslov, Izhevsk State Technical University, Izhevsk, Russia</li> <li>Heinz Miklas, Vienna University, Vienna, Austria</li> <li>Anisava Miltenova, The Institute of Bulgarian Literature of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria</li> <li>Miranda Remnek, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana-Champaign, USA</li> <li>Kiril Ribarov, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic</li></ul> <p>Organizing Committee:</p> <ul><li>Dr. Ivan V. Abramov, Professor and Rector, Izhevsk State Technical University (Chairman)</li> <li>Dr. Victor A. Baranov, Chair of the Department of Linguistics, Izhevsk State Technical University (Deputy Chairman)</li> <li>Irina M. Nekipelova (Executive Secretary)</li></ul> <p>Address of Organizing Committee:<br/> Rossiya, 426069, Izhevsk<br/> ulitsa Studentcheskaya, 7<br/> Kafedra "Lingvistika"</p> <p>E-mail: filologia@istu.ru</p> <p>Telephone: +7 (3412) 585351</p> <p>Fax: +7 (3412) 503803</p> <p>To participate in the conference, please submit the application form (below) by email or fax no later than 15 May 2006 to the Organizing Committee address (above). Please be sure to include an email or fax address, which the Organizing Committee will use to send formal invitations, supplementary questionnaires for foreign participants, and bank account information for submitting registration fees. The Program Committee reserves the right to reject proposals that are not consistent with the focus of the conference. </p> <p>The Organizing Committee anticipates publishing both a conference program (with abstracts of all presentations) and conference proceedings. Participants should send abstracts to the Organizing Committee no later than 1 June.</p> <p>Registration fees for participation in the conference -- 500 rub.</p> <p>Registration fees for participation in the workshop -- 500 rub.</p> <p>Arrival and registration: 12 July 2006. Workshop and conference dates: 13-17 July 2006.</p> <h2>APPLICATION FORM</h2> <p>For Participation in the Modern Informational Technologies and Written Heritage Workshop and Conference</p> <p>Last name, first name (and, if applicable, patronymic):</p> <p>Professional affiliation, including postal address:</p> <p>Position:</p> <p>Highest academic degree:</p> <p>Academic title or status:</p> <p>Contact information:</p> <p>Postal address:</p> <p>Telephone number (with country and city codes):</p> <p>Fax (with country and city codes):</p> <p>E-mail:</p> <p>Title of proposed presentation:</p> <p>Last name, first name (and, if applicable, patronymic) of main speaker:</p> <p>Technical equipment required:</p> <p>The Form of Participation (check one)</p> <p>____ plenary report (no longer than 30 minutes)</p> <p>____ sectional report (no longer than 20 minutes)</p> <p>____ demonstration of software products</p> <p>____ participation in workshop</p> <p>Reservation required for accommodations (check one):</p> <p>____ Yes (single hotel room) ____ Yes (double hotel room) </p> <p>____ Yes (dormitory room) ____ No</p> <p>Anticipated date of arrival:</p> <p>Summary (no more then 500 characters)</p> <p>Date:</p> <p>Signature (for non-electronic submissions):</p> <h2>Requirements for Formatting Abstracts</h2> <p>Abstracts of no more then 8500 characters must be sent electronically in RTF format readable by Microsoft Word and in printed form (or PDF format) using a 13-pt. Arial Unicode font, 1-1/2 line spacing, 2 cm. margins on all four sides, 1 cm. paragraph indentation, justification, and no hard hyphenation at ends of lines. Emphasized text should be marked with italics or bolding (avoid underlining and the use of all caps for emphasis). Glosses, where needed, should be given in inverted commas (single quotation marks, ' '). Bibliographic citations should be given in line in squares brackets, as follows:</p> <p>[first-word-of-title publication-date, volume-or-edition-or-part-number: page-number]</p> <p>Use additional title words where needed to avoid ambiguity. Full bibliographic information should be included in an unnumbered alphabetized list at the end of the abstract, following the subtitle "Literature." Footnotes should be reserved for explanatory comments (not bibliographic citations), and should be formatting at the foot of each page (not as endnotes) using the automated numbering feature supported by Microsoft Word. If your abstract requires characters not available in the Arial font, please submit all additional fonts together with your abstract (either on a floppy disk for postal submission or as email attachments). The filename of your abstract should take the form</p> <p>section-number_last-name-of-author_tez.rtf</p> <p>(for example, 2_Smith_tez.rtf). If you do not know your likely section number, use "0".</p> <h3>Abstract template: </h3> <p>Title of Presentation</p> <p>Initials and last name (last names) of the author (authors)</p> <p>Affiliation (full, without abbreviation), city, country</p> <p>Summary (no more then 500 characters; abstracts in Russian should have summaries in English and vice versa)</p> <p>Text of the abstract </p> <p>Literature</p> <p>List of cited works with full bibliographic information</p> <p>Signature (for printed version)</p>falsehttp://portal.tapor.ca:80/news-feeds/11.rss/38The Austrian Presidency of the European Union invites to the international conference on the digitisation of cultural heritage: "An Expedition to European Digital Cultural Heritage Collecting, Connecting – and Conserving?" 21-22 June, 2006 | Salzburg, Austria. For full information on the conference such as programme, online-registration, accommodation and travelling advices, please visit the conference website at: http://www.kulturleben.at/dhc2006.Sat, 11 Feb 2006 22:25:46 MST38StefanSinclairfalsehttp://portal.tapor.ca:80/news-feeds/11.rss/39The Canadian Symposium on Text Analysis in 2006 will be held at the University of New Brunswick. The <a href="http://www.lib.unb.ca/casta2006/callforpapers.phpCA">Call for Papers (PDF)</a> is up. For more information see <a href="http://www.lib.unb.ca/casta2006/">CaSTA 2006: Breadth of Text</a>.Sat, 11 Feb 2006 09:46:08 MST39StefanSinclairThe keynote speakers will be William Arms, Johanna Drucker, Willard McCarty and Ian Munro. The conference will be a joint Computer Science and Humanities Computing conference.falsehttp://portal.tapor.ca:80/news-feeds/11.rss/40The 10th ICCC International Conference on Electronic Publishing, "Digital Spectrum: Integrating Technology and Culture", will be held in Bansko, Bulgaria on June 14-16, 2006. More information is available at www.elpub.net, or email elpub2006@elpub.net.Fri, 09 Dec 2005 04:30:50 MST40JuliaFlandersThe 10th ICCC International Conference on Electronic Publishing, "Digital Spectrum: Integrating Technology and Culture", will be held in Bansko, Bulgaria on June 14-16, 2006. More information is available at www.elpub.net, or email elpub2006@elpub.net.falsehttp://portal.tapor.ca:80/news-feeds/11.rss/41The joint conference of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing and the Association for Computers and the Humanities is the oldest established meeting of scholars working at the intersection of advanced information technologies and the humanities, annually attracting a distinguished international community at the forefront of their fields. See <a href="http://www.allc-ach2006.colloques.paris-sorbonne.fr/AllcCall.htm">http://www.allc-ach2006.colloques.paris-sorbonne.fr/AllcCall.htm</a>. The call for papers and link for submissions is at <a href="https://webcgi.oulu.fi/dh2006/">https://webcgi.oulu.fi/dh2006/</a>.Fri, 09 Dec 2005 04:21:00 MST41StefanSinclairThe joint conference of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing and the Association for Computers and the Humanities is the oldest established meeting of scholars working at the intersection of advanced information technologies and the humanities, annually attracting a distinguished international community at the forefront of their fields. See <a href="http://www.allc-ach2006.colloques.paris-sorbonne.fr/AllcCall.htm">http://www.allc-ach2006.colloques.paris-sorbonne.fr/AllcCall.htm</a>. The call for papers and link for submissions is at <a href="https://webcgi.oulu.fi/dh2006/">https://webcgi.oulu.fi/dh2006/</a>.falsehttp://portal.tapor.ca:80/news-feeds/11.rss/42<a href="http://www.tei-c.org/Activities/ETE/" target="_top"><i>Electronic Textual Editing</i></a>, edited by Lou Burnard, Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe, and John Unsworth is available free, online at the <a href="http://www.tei-c.org/" target="_top">TEI Web Site</a>; it will be published in book form by the Modern Language Association in late 2005.Fri, 09 Dec 2005 04:19:53 MST42StefanSinclairfalsehttp://portal.tapor.ca:80/news-feeds/11.rss/43<a href="http://bowland-files.lancs.ac.uk/staff/andrewh/drh05reg.htm" target="_top">Registration for Digital Resources in the Humanities</a> is now open.Fri, 09 Dec 2005 04:17:53 MST43StefanSinclairfalsehttp://portal.tapor.ca:80/news-feeds/11.rss/44New Book Series: The University of Illinois Press is pleased to announce a new book series, Topics in the Digital Humanities, under the general editorship of Susan Schriebman and Ray Siemens. <a href="http://lists.village.virginia.edu/lists_archive/Humanist/v19/0053.html" target="_top">More information available from Humanist</a>Fri, 09 Dec 2005 04:17:08 MST44StefanSinclairfalsehttp://portal.tapor.ca:80/news-feeds/11.rss/45<a href="http://lists.village.virginia.edu/lists_archive/Humanist/v19/0174.html" target="_top">ACLS Digital Innovation Fellowships</a>: These fellowships, created with the generous help of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, are intended to support an academic year dedicated to work on a major scholarly project of a digital character that advances humanistic studies and best exemplifies the integration of such research with use of computing, networking, and other information technology-based tools. The online application for the fellowship program is located at <a href="http://ofa.acls.org" target="_top">http://ofa.acls.org/</a>; applications must be completed by November 10, 2005 (decisions to be announced in late March 2006).Fri, 09 Dec 2005 04:16:26 MST45StefanSinclairfalsehttp://portal.tapor.ca:80/news-feeds/11.rss/46<a href="http://www.mith2.umd.edu/about/katrina.php" target="_top">Immediate Residential Fellowship for a Scholar Impacted by Katrina</a>: The Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) at the University of Maryland, College Park is pleased to be able to offer an immediate residential fellowship available to any one faculty member or ABD doctoral candidate at an institution closed by Hurricane Katrina.Fri, 09 Dec 2005 04:15:02 MST46StefanSinclairfalsehttp://portal.tapor.ca:80/news-feeds/11.rss/47CLiP 2006: The 7th Computers, Literature and Philology (CLiP) conference: 'Literatures, Languages and Cultural Heritage in a digital world' Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London, UK Thursday 29 June - Saturday 1 July 2006 The international Computers, Literature and Philology (CLiP) conference focuses on the integration of Philology and Information Technology relevant to humanities computing communities involved in the study of Romance languages. For the call for paper in different European languages and further details visit the conference website at <a href="http://www.cch.kcl.ac.uk/clip2006/">http://www.cch.kcl.ac.uk/clip2006/</a>Fri, 09 Dec 2005 04:14:03 MST47StefanSinclairfalse