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Description
| RUSSIAN MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND SCIENCES
Izhevsk State Technical University
Department of Informatics
Department of Automated Systems of Control Information Processing
Department of Linguistics
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.
Workshop Themes:
- Meta- and analytic descriptions of manuscripts and early printed books.
- Full-text data bases.
- Formats for the storage and transmission of textual data.
- Digital editions.
- Web modules for accessing collections and full-text data bases.
- Local means for textual input, storage, and processing.
Proposed panel and round-table themes:
- Textological, paleographic, and linguistic problems of informational technology and computer modeling.
- Library and archival electronic collections, descriptions, and catalogues.
- Technologies for producing electronic full-text collections and libraries.
- Formats for textual storage, detailed markup, and interchange.
- Technologies and methods for identifying manuscript texts.
- Technologies for access to and navigation within electronic libraries.
- Web technologies for electronic publication.
- Methods and tools for the educational, scientific, and popular use of full-text electronic collections, libraries, descriptions, and catalogues.
- Copyright issues associated with the creation, publication, and use of electronic textual resources.
Projects that will be demonstrated at the workshop include:
- Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Consortium
- 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)
- Thesaurus Indogermanischer Text- und Sprachmaterialien (TITUS) (Germany, Frankfort University),
- Computer Processing of Written Heritage Sources (ACT) (Czech Republic, Prague, Charles University),
- Manuscript (Russia, Izhevsk, Udmurt State University and Izhevsk State Technical University),
- Technological Decisions of Knowledge's Capitalization based on Constructional Digital Editions (INC) (Russia, Izhevsk, Izhevsk State Technical University).
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. |
RUSSIAN MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND SCIENCES
Izhevsk State Technical University
Department of Informatics
Department of Automated Systems of Control Information Processing
Department of Linguistics
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.
Workshop Themes:
- Meta- and analytic descriptions of manuscripts and early printed books.
- Full-text data bases.
- Formats for the storage and transmission of textual data.
- Digital editions.
- Web modules for accessing collections and full-text data bases.
- Local means for textual input, storage, and processing.
Proposed panel and round-table themes:
- Textological, paleographic, and linguistic problems of informational technology and computer modeling.
- Library and archival electronic collections, descriptions, and catalogues.
- Technologies for producing electronic full-text collections and libraries.
- Formats for textual storage, detailed markup, and interchange.
- Technologies and methods for identifying manuscript texts.
- Technologies for access to and navigation within electronic libraries.
- Web technologies for electronic publication.
- Methods and tools for the educational, scientific, and popular use of full-text electronic collections, libraries, descriptions, and catalogues.
- Copyright issues associated with the creation, publication, and use of electronic textual resources.
Projects that will be demonstrated at the workshop include:
- Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Consortium
- 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)
- Thesaurus Indogermanischer Text- und Sprachmaterialien (TITUS) (Germany, Frankfort University),
- Computer Processing of Written Heritage Sources (ACT) (Czech Republic, Prague, Charles University),
- Manuscript (Russia, Izhevsk, Udmurt State University and Izhevsk State Technical University),
- Technological Decisions of Knowledge's Capitalization based on Constructional Digital Editions (INC) (Russia, Izhevsk, Izhevsk State Technical University).
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.
Program Committee:
- Victor A. Baranov, Izhevsk State Technical University, Izhevsk, Russia
- Igor A. Barkov, Izhevsk State Technical University, Izhevsk, Russia
- David J. Birnbaum, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA
- Jost Gippert, Frankfort University, Frankfort, Germany
- Milena Dobreva, The Institute of Mathematics and Informatics of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria
- Sergei G. Maslov, Izhevsk State Technical University, Izhevsk, Russia
- Heinz Miklas, Vienna University, Vienna, Austria
- Anisava Miltenova, The Institute of Bulgarian Literature of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria
- Miranda Remnek, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana-Champaign, USA
- Kiril Ribarov, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
Organizing Committee:
- Dr. Ivan V. Abramov, Professor and Rector, Izhevsk State Technical University (Chairman)
- Dr. Victor A. Baranov, Chair of the Department of Linguistics, Izhevsk State Technical University (Deputy Chairman)
- Irina M. Nekipelova (Executive Secretary)
Address of Organizing Committee:
Rossiya, 426069, Izhevsk
ulitsa Studentcheskaya, 7
Kafedra "Lingvistika"
E-mail: filologia@istu.ru
Telephone: +7 (3412) 585351
Fax: +7 (3412) 503803
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.
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.
Registration fees for participation in the conference -- 500 rub.
Registration fees for participation in the workshop -- 500 rub.
Arrival and registration: 12 July 2006. Workshop and conference dates: 13-17 July 2006.
APPLICATION FORM
For Participation in the Modern Informational Technologies and Written Heritage Workshop and Conference
Last name, first name (and, if applicable, patronymic):
Professional affiliation, including postal address:
Position:
Highest academic degree:
Academic title or status:
Contact information:
Postal address:
Telephone number (with country and city codes):
Fax (with country and city codes):
E-mail:
Title of proposed presentation:
Last name, first name (and, if applicable, patronymic) of main speaker:
Technical equipment required:
The Form of Participation (check one)
____ plenary report (no longer than 30 minutes)
____ sectional report (no longer than 20 minutes)
____ demonstration of software products
____ participation in workshop
Reservation required for accommodations (check one):
____ Yes (single hotel room) ____ Yes (double hotel room)
____ Yes (dormitory room) ____ No
Anticipated date of arrival:
Summary (no more then 500 characters)
Date:
Signature (for non-electronic submissions):
Requirements for Formatting Abstracts
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:
[first-word-of-title publication-date, volume-or-edition-or-part-number: page-number]
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
section-number_last-name-of-author_tez.rtf
(for example, 2_Smith_tez.rtf). If you do not know your likely section number, use "0".
Abstract template:
Title of Presentation
Initials and last name (last names) of the author (authors)
Affiliation (full, without abbreviation), city, country
Summary (no more then 500 characters; abstracts in Russian should have summaries in English and vice versa)
Text of the abstract
Literature
List of cited works with full bibliographic information
Signature (for printed version) |
