LINGUIST List 16.1838
Fri Jun 10 2005
Calls: Comp Ling/Corpus Ling/USA; Comp Ling/Slovakia
Editor for this issue: Megan Zdrojkowski
<meganlinguistlist.org>
Directory
1. Arienne
Dwyer,
Summit on Digital Tools for the Humanities
2. Alexander
Horak,
Computer Treatment of Slavic and East European Languages
Message 1: Summit on Digital Tools for the Humanities
Date: 08-Jun-2005
From: Arienne Dwyer <anthlinguist
ku.edu>
Subject: Summit on Digital Tools for the Humanities
Full Title: Summit on Digital Tools for the Humanities
Short Title: DT-Summit
Date: 28-Sep-2005 - 30-Sep-2005
Location: Charlottesville, VA, United States of America
Contact Person: Sarah Wells
Meeting Email: digitaltoolssummit
virginia.edu by June 20, 2005
Participation in this summit will be by invitation only and will be restricted
to 35-50 people, depending upon funding support. (We have requested support from
the National Science Foundation.) Those who wish to participate should submit a
short - one page - issue paper that presents one idea or issue that should be
discussed at the summit. An issue paper should not present an individual's own
project: participants will not be asked to present their own research but to
participate in the summit's dialog, bringing the expertise gained from their own
development and use of digital tools for research and education. Each issue
paper should be accompanied by a short (one page or less) biography.
Based on the issue papers submitted, the organizing committee will select a
diverse group of participants from a variety of scholarly fields. Participants
will be asked to read a package of preparatory materials, so as to give everyone
a common starting place for discussion and debate.
The summit will assess the state of development of digital tools for humanities
research, as well as the effectiveness of the supporting and integrating
cyberinfrastructure. Tools serve many purposes: analysis, creative development
of new material, education, presentation, as well as productivity enhancement.
Text-based tools are perhaps the most widespread and familiar among humanities
scholars, but the summit will address textual and non-textual media (audio,
video, 3-D and 4-D visualization).
In the past, collections of scholarly and creative materials were found mainly
in libraries and museums, and these organizations developed tools for access and
analysis. Today, individuals can export their creative works to a broad
audience. Individuals and small groups of scholars are able to build tailored
collections, as well as digital tools to support those collections, and to make
them widely and inexpensively accessible. Cyberinfrastructure has dramatically
democratized access to materials and resources used by humanities scholars and
students. But it has not brought with it sufficient tailored tools needed to use
those resources in sophisticated ways. It is this phenomenon that gives rise to
the need for this summit.
Digital tools in the humanities are - for the most part - in their infancy. The
summit will address issues that derive from the state of tool design and
development. This includes the proliferation of new data formats; effective
markup language annotation; integration of multiple modes of media; tool
interoperability, especially when tools are shared across multiple disciplines;
open source for shared and evolving tools; tools with low (easily mastered by an
untrained end user) and high (usable only by expert personnel) thresholds of
usability; data mining, representation, and visualization of data in the
geo-spatial framework; measurement; game technology; and simulation.
We seek participants from a broad community spanning such disciplines as
history, anthropology, literature, archaeology, linguistics, classics,
philosophy, and psychology, together with some social scientists and computer
scientists who work with these communities.
Program
The summit will meet from September 28-30, 2005. It will begin on Wednesday
evening, September 28, with a keynote speech and discussion. Discussions will
continue on Thursday and end mid-afternoon Friday. Discussion topics and the
structure of the sessions will be determined based on the issue papers submitted
by participants.
Product
The Organizing Committee will produce a final report, which will give an
overview of the opportunities, challenges and recommendations raised during the
summit sessions. It is our hope that the summit will produce charettes for new
tools as well as recommendations that will attract funding sponsorship, and that
new and existing interdisciplinary collaborations will be facilitated by the
summit to build a more effective community focused on the challenges of
cyberinfrastructure and digital tools.
Support
Participants will be housed at the Darden Business School and in local hotels.
Local meals and lodging will be paid by the summit sponsors. Limited support for
travel costs is available upon request.
Message 2: Computer Treatment of Slavic and East European Languages
Date: 08-Jun-2005
From: Alexander Horak <alexh
korpus.juls.savba.sk>
Subject: Computer Treatment of Slavic and East European Languages
Full Title: Computer Treatment of Slavic and East European Languages
Short Title: Slovko 2005
Date: 10-Nov-2005 - 12-Nov-2005
Location: Bratislava, Slovakia
Contact Person: Alexander Horak
Meeting Email: alexh
korpus.juls.savba.sk