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Date: 11 May 97 07:13:26 EDT
From: A.J.M.Colson <102765.1440CompuServe.COM>
Subject: Lakehead University Summer Institute For Advanced Studies

My name is Alicia Colson and as the administrator of the Lakehead University Summer Institute for Advanced Studies I am posting the following information. This summer institute would be of interest to the linguists as it addresses the method and theory of applying multimedia techniques to integrate text, still and video images and sound as a research tool.

URL: http://www.lakeheadu.ca/~lusiaswww/lusias.html

LUSIAS Lakehead University Summer Institute for Advanced Studies Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada

In July of 1997 Lakehead University will be offering graduate courses in the research application of multimedia and hypertext techniques to the humanities and social sciences. This program is offered in collaboration with the Mackenzie Ward Heritage Trust. It addresses the method and theory of applying multimedia techniques to integrate text, still and video images and sound as a research tool. Students enrol in an introductory course, and then select a maximum of two special topics courses from a list of three offered. These courses may be taken for academic credit, or as non-credit training/skills upgrading courses. The 1997 course offering includes:

Graduate Studies 5511 Introduction to the application of Multimedia Computer Systems

Graduate Studies 5115 Special Topics Introduction to Hypermedia: using and building Open Hypermedia Applications in the Humanities

Graduate Studies 5116 Special Topics Images and Manuscripts as Objects in Digital Systems

Graduate Studies 5117 Special Topics Questioning the Image: form, content and the analysis of meaning

For more information regarding this program please view the LUSIAS homepage or enquire for information via email

LUSIAS HOMEPAGE http://www.lakeheadu.ca/~lusiaswww/lusias.html EMAIL LUSIASlakeheadu.ca

Graduate Studies 5511

Introduction to the application of Multimedia Computer Systems

This course provides an introduction to the application of multimedia computer systems for analyzing large data bases consisting of text, video, audio, graphics and animation files. While specific computer methodologies are introduced, the emphasis is upon exploring the critical implications of transforming conventional text, numeric data, sound and graphic images into electronic form. This includes the process of digitally rendering the original source information without modifying its contextual meaning, and establishing logical linkages between related pieces of data.

Credit: .5 FCE Course Coordinator: Jean Colson Course Duration: July 7 to July 15, 1997 Contact Hours: 8:00 am to 12:00 pm and 2:30 pm to 6:00 pm.

Structure and Method:

Knowledge accumulation in this course is intensive and cumulative. Unless competence is continuously assessed, students will not derive full benefit from the Special Topics courses, nor be able to successfully complete the program of study. Individual assessment will be based upon demonstrated competence during session 0. During Day 2 students will be allocated to groups for remedial instruction. Subsequent days will consist of 1-2 hour lectures, followed by hands-on `workshops' supervised by the course staff. The workshops will utilize materials prepared previously by the respective tutors. Days [9] and [10] will be used for specific `remedial' tuition. Students will also prepare their essay during this period.

Materials and Library:

Workshop materials will be furnished based upon the demonstration materials prepared for the various Special Topics courses. Mini-manuals and working materials have been written, some of which will draw upon local archives. Facsimiles of documents from the Hudson's Bay Company Archives plus other local archives will be featured as part of the example exercises.

Method of Assessment: Assessment methods are twofold:

A.Daily diagnostic tests in the last session of each course module. An average of at least 70% is required for successful completion of this course. B.An essay of ca. 2,500 words on a topic to be defined at the beginning of the course. The essay will address basic issues in the field, and will have to indicate understanding of at least one of the applications addressed. It can also review or critique the pertinent literature. Topics must be approved by the Course Co-ordinator. The essay will be graded by LUSIAS staff. Pass level is 70%. The essay contributes 80% to the final grade.

Prerequisite:

Completion of initial test and any remedial work required by the Director of Studies, graduate qualification or equivalent as approved by the LUSIAS Council.

Content:

Day 1 - July 7th [0] Diagnostic tests which indicate student's understanding of basic operational procedures. [Jean Colson] [1] General introduction to computer systems [hardware storage and scanning] software and operating systems [Jean Colson]

Day 2 - July 8th [2] `Editing' and `Reading' images of evidence [text, landscape, artifact] [Jean Colson] [3] `Working' with MS Windows - attaining a working knowledge [Hugh Davies]

Day 3 - July 9th [4] Introduction to databases: structure and utility. [MS ACCESS used as example] [Jean Colson]

Day 4 - July 10th [5] Introduction to markup languages [TACT] [Jean Colson]

Day 5 - July 11th [6] Introduction to HTML and the WWW [Jean Colson]

Day 6 - July 12th [7] Introduction to Electronic Maps and GIS [LU staff, Scott Hamilton]

Day 7 - July 14th [8] Introduction to Image Processing [Manfred Thaller]

Day 8 - July 15th [9] Introduction to sound and video [Hugh] [10]Project management - case studies - [Scott Hamilton, Paddy Reid]

Graduate Studies 5115 Special Topics

Introduction to Hypermedia: using and building Open Hypermedia Applications in the Humanities

This course introduces students to the use of open hypermedia systems for organizing and retrieving multimedia information. It will concentrate on using Microcosm Plus for Windows, but will also consider the use of other delivery systems such as the World Wide Web, Toolbook and Hyper-G. During the course the students are expected to create a large digital resource of materials related to their subject, and this application will form the basis of the formal assessment.

Credit: .5 FCE Instructor: Hugh Davies Course Duration: July 16 to July 26, 1997 Contact Hours: Four hours per day consisting of 1 to 2 hours of lecture and 2 to 3 hours of labs. Students may find they need additional lab time to complete the required material and develop sufficient expertise. The course will run 6 days per week.

The course will be taught with each student having individual machines, each of which runs the requisite software (Microcosm Plus for Windows). Students will attend a presentation on the topic, followed by `hands on' laboratory sessions using both new and prepared examples.

Assessment: 20% observation, and 80% through the `multimedia application' to be built during the course and completed by day 10 of the course.

Content:

Day 1 - Wed July 16 Introduction to hypertext and navigation in Microcosm using exemplar materials provided by MWT.

Day 2 - Thur July 17 Building resource-based applications in Microcosm using exemplar materials provided by MWT

Day 3 - Fri July 18 Organizing your resources: working with texts using exemplar materials provided by MWT

Day 4 - Sat July 19 Information Retrieval working with multimedia using exemplar materials provided by MWT

Day 5 - Mon July 21 Working with Third Party applications (including Netscape, Toolbook and Word) using exemplar materials provided by MWT

Day 6 - Tue July 22 The Multimedia Essay- building trails of association using exemplar materials provided by MWT

Day 7 - Wed July 23 Working with the World Wide Web- authoring and using Webcosm (Microcosm on the Web). Comparing Microcosm to the World Wide Web and other systems, using new and archival materials (MWT) and focusing on the integration of the Web in an application

Day 8 to 10 - Thur July 24, Fri July 25 and Sat July 26 Building links automatically- and identifying the `openness of a Microcosm application 1) demonstrating student applications 2) oral presentation of media data.

Graduate Studies 5116 Special Topics

Images and Manuscripts as Objects in Digital Systems

Rapid improvement in computer technology has enabled electronic storage and presentation of pictorial and manuscript materials at resolutions that rival conventional photographic reproduction. New cost-effective publishing and distribution systems have also developed using CD ROMs and computer networks. Thus, it is now possible to create digital archives containing upwards of 50,000 to 100,000 digital objects (pages of manuscript, photographs, etc.). This course explores some of the practical and theoretical issues involved in the development of digital archives.

Credit: .5 FCE Instructor: Manfred Thaller Course Duration: July 16 to July 26, 1997 Contact Hours: Four hours per day consisting of 1 to 2 hours of lecture and 2 to 3 hours of labs. Students may find they need additional lab time to complete the required material and develop sufficient expertise. The course will run 6 days per week.

Objectives:

This course will provide students with a comprehensive survey of the existing technologies used to develop digital archives, by participation in a "teaching project". Theoretical issues underlying digital archive design are also emphasized in the lecture component. Participants will be led through all stages in the creation of a small digital archive. This will culminate in the production of a CD ROM, and rendering it available through a local area network. The substance of these practical exercises will be decided in accordance with the preferences of the participants.

Assessment:

20% observation, 40% on a written test which discusses the theoretical principles involved, 40% through the `digital archives to be built during the course and completed by day 10.

Content:

Day 1 - Wed July 16 Different types of archival systems. General considerations for the design and implementation of archival and museum systems

Day 2 - Thur July 17 General considerations underlying the design and implementation of "private systems"

Day 3 - Fri July 18 The interfaces used for digital editions and archives and the availability of basic tools.

Day 4 - Sat July 19 The creation of interfaces which make the largest possible amount of source material available in a cost-effective fashion.

Day 5 - Mon July 21 The issue of longevity of digital collections will be discussed as will the strategies for insuring the physical survival of the data. This session will also discuss techniques for making data immune from problems associated with hardware and software obsolescence.

Day 6 - Tue July 22 The issue of data security will be discussed. Digital publications and/or archives must be created in a way which makes them safe from illicit copying. This issue includes concerns with protecting digital data from malevolent modification.

Day 7 to 10 - Wed July 23 to Sat July 26 The final three days will be taken up with the development of the students' own "digital archives", and examination of students' comprehension of the principles that underlie such activity.

Graduate Studies 5117 Special Topics

Questioning the Image: form, content and the analysis of meaning.

This course focuses upon issues associated with preserving and interpreting "meaning" implicit in source materials as they are developed as electronic media. While ambiguity of meaning is evident in textual sources, it is particularly apparent when the analyst addresses graphic and audio-visual data. Exploration of these semantic networks within multimedia datasets is the primary focus of this course. It reviews how multimedia technologies enable researchers to move beyond the constraints of conventional textual data, and rigorously explore subtle meanings expressed in the use of language and gesture, and preserved in audio-visual media.

Credit: .5 FCE Instructor: Jean Colson Course Duration: July 16 to July 26, 1997 Contact Hours: Four hours per day consisting of 1 to 2 hours of lecture and 2 to 3 hours of labs. Students may find they need additional lab time to complete the required material and develop sufficient expertise. The course will run 6 days per week.

Objectives:

Traditionally, scholars within the Humanities select representative textual data to illustrate interpretations derived from a larger body of literature. The limitations of conventional writing and publication has constrained the analysis, presentation and justification of such interpretation. However, with multimedia technologies, scholars are in a position to present a large corpus of primary documentation and simultaneously demonstrate the interpretative process using text, sound and images. This course reviews the theoretical and analytical implications of research in an electronic environment by demonstrating the process using Microcosm to draw upon textual, graphical, sound and video sources.

Method:

Daily 1 hour exposition followed by `hands-on' work with text, images, sound and video as necessary for the analysis of meaning in images. The first five sessions would be taken up with theoretical and practical techniques, including readings of relevant approaches. A selection of texts will be made available. The second five sessions will involve the construction of an application bearing in mind the theoretical perspectives offered. The final session will involve an oral exposition by the student drawing on the application which has been constructed.

Assessment: Continuous assessment - 20% observation, 50% through the multimedia application, 30% oral exposition.

Content:

Day 1 - Wednesday 16th July 1. Beyond Illustration - what is an image as `source' using an application constructed for the purpose.

Day 2 - Thursday 17th July 2. How do we derive meaning - the questions which might be asked: - who?, what? why, when? - markup and the boundaries of an image.

Day 3 - Friday 18th July 3. Exploiting an exemplar image. 4. A workshop session - in which students `mount' their `own' image and explore the ways in which meaning might be `tapped' : This will entail the exploration of the notion of different `voices' and imposed `views'. The students should also explore the issues involved in the identification of `views' and `signs - symbols' or metaphors.

Day 4 - Saturday 19th July 5. Modelling `views' and the establishment of interpretation. Students are encouraged to `model' their views in the software provided by Microcosm. The addition of `comment' and `alternative images' or `argument'.

Day 5 to 9 - Monday 21st July to Friday 25th July 6. The students will be building their own application, providing systematic exploitation of their sources and short oral expositions of their plans and completed work.

Day 10 - Saturday 26th July 7. Student presentations - students will talk to their application. An oral exposition will take not less than 20 minutes. This includes a `live' demonstration.

LUSIAS

Lakehead University Summer Institute for Advanced Studies

LUSIAS offers graduate courses in the application of computing technologies to research in the humanities and social sciences. These courses address the method and theory of multimedia techniques to integrate text, still and video images, and sound. The program of study emphasizes multimedia as a tool for research and to aid the development of digital archives, and is less concerned with conventional multimedia applications such as presentation tools.

Each summer (July) we offer an intensive 3 week program of study that encompasses about 170 hours of lecture and laboratory instruction time. Students must enroll in GS 5511 (Intro.), and can chose a maximum of 2 out of 3 Special Topics courses. Each course is valued as .5 FCE (full course equivalent). They may be taken for academic credit, or as non-credit training/skills upgrading courses.

The courses use a "case study" approach to teaching. These case studies include European and Canadian examples. Examples deriving from North America Aboriginal culture will form an integral part of the curriculum. As part of the curriculum, students are strongly encouraged to bring their own data and research problems to develop as multimedia applications.

LUSIAS is joint research and education initiative of the Mackenzie Ward Heritage Trust and Lakehead University.

For the 1997 courses descriptions and study schedule please click below:

Graduate Studies 5511 Introduction to the application of Multimedia Computer Systems Graduate Studies 5115 Special Topics Introduction to Hypermedia: using and building Open Hypermedia Applications in the Humanities Graduate Studies 5116 Special Topics Images and Manuscripts as Objects in Digital Systems Graduate Studies 5117 Special Topics Questioning the Image: form, content and the analysis of meaning

For more information please click on the following topics:

Lakehead University Homepage Thunder Bay Lakehead Computing Facilities Housing on Campus Registration Information Grad Student Regs Fee Structure and Course Timetable Registration Forms and Deadlines Contact Address Instructor Biographies Jean Colson Hugh Davies Manfred Thaller Touring Opportunities in Northern Ontario

Instructor Biographies

Jean MacKenzie Ward Colson

born 1944

Academic career:

1966 B. A [Art and Anthropology]. University of California at Davies, California, U.S.A. 1970 M.A. in Symbolic Anthropology, Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.A. 1971 Diploma in Social Anthropology, Oxford, England 1971-76 Southampton University 'Extra-mural' Lecturer in Social Anthropology. 1977-79 Lecturer in Historical Anthropology at Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Santa Catarine (state), Brazil. 1980-95 Visiting Research Fellow, Department of Spanish and Latin American Studies, Southampton University, Hampshire, U.K. 1986-94 Research Assistant History Department, University of Southampton: responsible for the development of the HiDES Project. and the teaching of research techniques using advanced hypermedia systems - developed the Arts Computing course "Questioning the Image". 1994-96 Research Assistant Digital Libraries Research Centre (DLRC): responsible for the development of hypermedia systems in Humanities Research, and the "Introduction to Humanities Computing" taught at the Schools of Research and Graduate Studies.

Academic Projects in the Field of Arts/Humanities Computing:

1977-79 Field work in a small fishing village, artesanal fishing, and lace-making , Lagoa de Conceicao, Ilha de Santa Catarina, Santa Catarina (state), Brazil. (Brazilian Fishing Village/Lace Making) Research in State and Federal archives - Florianopolis, Ilha de Santa Catarina, Santa Catarina (state), Brazil. - Property and inheritance in leading families of the 18th and 19th century Ilha de Santa Catarina. 1979-96 Viana Project, Demographic History of the City of Viana do Castelo, 1750 - 1931. Project work funded by:- 1996 - present HiDES Project, A major project designed to introduce computing into the teaching of history in the UK 1989-94 The Winchester Project - a local history project involving major conversion of data structures from SIR, designing Kleio data structures. Database and data representation work 1989-94 "Questioning the Image" The use of advanced multimedia in the teaching of history. 1993-96 "Chicago 1919" , Project sponsored by the Newberry Library, Chicago "Multimedia History of a year in Chicago" 1993 - present The Technology in the Teaching and Learning Process, History Consortium "Core Resources for Historians"

Teaching:

1972-76 Introduction to Social Anthropology Social Anthropology of Indigenous Peoples of North America Indigenous Peoples and Indigenous Art of North America 1977-79 "Parentesco, Casa, e a Familia Brasileiro", Florianopolis, Ilha de Santa Catarina, Santa Catarina (state), Brazil (Taught in Brazilian-Portuguese) 1986-90 Visiting researcher in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Courses in conjunction with that department in Latin American Social History 1989-96 Developed a course called 'Questioning the Image'. which introduces students how to analyze images as sources. They are asked to implement this analysis in a multimedia application. They create the application and at the same time as writing a mini-thesis analyzing the meaning and the context of the images that they have chosen to study. I 'run' the DLRC's weekly internal Seminar called The Wishgroup which discusses the theoretical and methodological issues of text and image processing. I help to supervise Ph.D. students who are working with images in their own research. Since 1995 I have co-ordinated the 'IT' component of a yearly course entitled 'Humanities Research Skills' to all incoming M. A. Students - it argues the issues which arise when database management systems, mark-up languages and HTML are used in the course of research. I also teach a course entitled 'Historical Computing' which is a workshop course. Students either learn Kleio - a object/source oriented environment for the analysis of text and images, or create an multimedia research application of their own using Microcosm.

Summer Institutes:

I organize the annual "Microcosm Summer School" at the Annual Conference of the International Society History and Computing, and an annual DLRC "Colloquium".

As part of the DLRC, I am engaged in research and design of large Multimedia applications. I build multimedia applications. I am interested in the implications of hypertext implementations and applications. I am concerned with the theoretical issues which arise when one uses textual and image sources in research. I work closely with the MMRG Group in Electronics and Computing Science at Southampton.

Publications:

Colson, Jean, 1996 'CASE STUDY H : Community Reconstruction and the Viana do Castelo database' In Charles Harvey and Jon Press, eds., Databases and the Historian, Macmillan Basingstoke.

J. Colson, and F. Colson, H. C. Davies and W. Hall, 1994 'Questioning "Authority". The Challenge of Multimedia' In Storia & Multimedia, Atti de Settimo Congresso Internazionale Association for History and Computing, eds. Francesca Bocchi and Peter Denley (Grafis, Bologna 1994), pp 597-605.

Colson, J. M. 1992 "The Quartim - an Exemplar", in, Fischer, M.,(ed.), Bica (Bulletin of Information on Computing and Anthropology), The University of Canterbury, Kent, issue no. 8 , June 1992 (on-line. electronic publication).

Colson, Jean, Roger Middleton, and Peter Wardley, 1991 Annual Review of Information Technology Developments for Economic and Social Historians, Economic History Review, XLIV, 2 (1991), pp. 343-393.

Colson, F., Colson, J. M. and Doulton, D., 1990 "In search of the Individual. Brazil, Portugal and London, 1841-1915', Literary and Linguistic Computing, Vol. 5, no. 4, pp 279- 296. (Oxford University Press.)

Colson, F. , Colson, J. M. and Doulton, D. 1990 'Anatomy of a Rupture. Miguelismo, Petty Aristocracy and Liberal Centralism in Portugal, 1820-1834', in, History and Computing, Vol. 1, No. 1. (Oxford, 1990). pp. 1-13.

Colson Jean, and Frank Colson, 1990 "Mercantile Migration - The Case of Viana do Castello and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil", in Oliveira Martins, Herminio, (ed.), Portuguese Studies Workshop, St. Antony's College, Oxford, Spring.

Hugh C. Davies

born 1958

Academic Career:

1981 B.Sc. (Hons) in Ship Science, University of Southampton, Hampshire, U.K. 1982 Further Education Teachers Certificate, IOWCAT, Teacher. 1988 British Computer Society Part 1, BCS 1988 M.Sc. in Computer of British Society, ICS 1992 Membership of British Computer Society, BCS 1995 Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Southampton, Hampshire, U.K. 1992 - present Lecturer, Multimedia Research Group, Department of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, U.K. Founder of the Multimedia Research Group in 1987, and one of the inventors of the Multimedia open hypermedia system. Since 1990 I have been transferring the technology that comes from our lab into industry. I am a director of Multicosm Ltd., which has been set up the University to manage this technology transfer.

My research areas are open hypermedia systems, open protocols, the applications of hypermedia in industry and education. I am currently working on document management systems within the digital library. I am research team manager within our research group. I have been heavily involved in the hypermedia research community for some years. I have been involved with dozens of firms, including Boeing, IBM, HP, Glaxo Welcome, Shell, Unichem, concerning the applications of hypermedia technology

Academic Projects within the field of hypermedia computing:

1990 - present working with a large number of applications germane to Arts/Humanities Computing. 1992 Bath University/Sainsburys Microcosm Applications in GIS. 1993 JISC Implementation of Research Version of Microcosm 1993 SERC Remote systems application for Microcosm 1994 JISC Implementation of Research Version of Microcosm. 1994 Glaxo Microcosm Applications 1994 JISC Implementation of Academic Version of Microcosm. 1995 Unichem Microcosm Applications 1995 EPSRC Web Applications for Microcosm. 1996 EPSRC Microcosm Architecture for Video Information Systems. 1996 E.U. Memoire Project - Microcosm Information Management Systems in Digital Libraries. 1996 EPSRC Search instruments in hypermedia environments. 1997 Co-chair of ACM Hypertext 97, which will be held at Southampton , Member of Southern Committee of British Computer Society

Teaching:

Teaching one regular introductory and advanced course in Computer Science and Hypermedia. Within Southampton I am in charge of our modular M.Sc. in Information Engineering, which is unique in that it uses the Internet as its primary method of distributing information.

Summer Institutes:

I have given invited seminars at many major UK universities, including the Open University. I have given courses introducing and using Microcosm at many UK and EU universities.

Other Professional Information:

I have been a regular reviewer and referee for ACM and IEEE journals and conferences; an invited speaker at many conferences and workshops including "Learning Technology in Higher Education Conference", September 1993, DDG XIII B, OII REFMOD Hypertext and Hypermedia workshop on producing an OII reference model. January 1993., " Status User Conference", Oct. 1993, the "Workshop on Open Hypertext Systems" at the University of Konstanz, May 1994. The "Workshop on Open Hypermedia Systems" at the ACM Conference on Hypermedia Technology, ECHT'94., the 21st IAMSLIC Conference (International Association of Aquatic and Marine Science Libraries and Information Centres), the 2nd Workshop on "Open Hypermedia Systems" at the ACM Conference on Hypermedia Technology, April 1996.

Recent Publications:

Andrew Fountain, Wendy Hall, Ian Heath and Hugh Davies. 1990 "Microcosm An Open Model for Hypermedia with Dynamic Linking". In: A. Rizk, N. Streitz and J. Andre eds. Hypertext: Concepts, Systems and Applications. The Proceedings of the European Conference on Hypertext, INRIA, France, November 1990, Cambridge University Press

Gillian Lovegrove and Hugh Davies. 1991 "Experimenting with Object-Orientated Programming in the Curriculum". University Computing, 13 pp 163-170.

Hugh Davies, Wendy Hall, Ian Heath, Gary Hill and Rob Wilkins. 1992 Towards an Integrated Information Environment with Open Hypermedia Systems. In: D. Lucarella, J. Nanard, M. Nanard, P. Paolini. eds. The Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Hypertext, ECHT'92, Milano, ACM, 1992.

Hugh Davies, Wendy Hall, and Ian Heath. 1993 Media Integration Issues within Open Hypermedia Systems. The Proceedings of the International Symposium on Multimedia Technologies and Future Applications. IEEE, 1993.

Hugh Davies, Gerard Hutchings and Wendy Hall. 1993 A Framework for Delivering large-scale Hypermedia Learning Material. In: Hermann Maurer. ed. Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia Annual 1993, of ED-MEDIA'93, Orlando, Florida, USA, pp. 115-122. AACE. 1993.

Les Carr, Hugh Davies and Wendy Hall. 1993 Experimenting with HyTime Architectural Forms for Hypertext Interchange. Journal of Information Services & Use 13(2) pp. 111-119, 1993

Hall, W., Hill, G. J. & Hall, W. Why Use HyTime?. EP-ODD, Vol. 7 No. 1. 1994.

Hugh Davies, Wendy Hall and Ian Heath. 1994 Media Integration Issues within Open Hypermedia Systems. In: R. I. Damper, W. Hall & J. Richards: eds. Multimedia Technologies and Future Applications. Pentech Press Ltd. ISBN 0-7273- 13207, 1994.

Hutchings, G. A., Hall, W., Davies, H. C. & White, S. 1994 "Resource Based Learning: Creating Reusable Hypermedia for Education" In: The Proceedings of MediaActive, Liverpool, May 1994.

Carr, L. A., Hall, W., Davies, H. C. & Hollom, R. J. 1994 The Microcosm Link Service and its Application to the World Wide Web. in: Cailliau, R., R. Nierstrasz, O. & Ruggier, M. eds. The Proceedings of the First International World Wide-Web Conference. Geneva, May 1994 pp 25-34. CERN 1994.

Hall, W. & Davies, H. C. 1994 Hypermedia Link Services and Their Application to Multimedia Information Management. Journal of Information and Software Technology. pp. 197-202, 36(4).

Davies, H. C., Knight, S. J. Hall, W. Light 1994 "Hypermedia Link Services" In: The Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Hypermedia Technology. ECHT'94. Edinburgh. ACM Press 1994.

Davies, H. C. & Hey, J. M. R. 1995 "Automatic Extraction of Hypermedia Bundles from the Digital Library" In: Shipman, F. M. III, Furuta, R., & Levy, D. M. The Proceedings of Digital Libraries `95. Texas A&M University, June 1995.

Davies, H. C. 1995 "To Embed or Not to Embed..." Communications of the ACM, Vol. 38(8), pp 108-109. August 1995.

Lewis, P. H., Davies, H. C., Griffiths, S. R., Hall, W. & Wilkins, R. J. 1996 "Media-based Navigation with Generic Links" In: Proceedings of the Seventh ACM Conference on Hypertext, Hypertext `96, pp. 215-223, ACM, March 1996.

Davies, H. C., Lewis, A. J. & Rizk, A. 1996 "OHP: A Draft Proposal for Standard Open Hypermedia Protocol" In: Wiil, U.K. & Demeyer, S. (eds). The Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Open Hypermedia Systems, at Hypertext' 96, Washington D.C. UCI-ICS Tech Report 96- 10, University of California, Irvine, April 1996.

Hall, W. Davies, H.C., & Hutchings, G. A. 1996 Rethinking Hypermedia : The Microcosm Approach. ISBN 0-7923-9679-0. Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Manfred Thaller

born 1950

Academic career:

1970 History (originally History and Ancient Oriental Studies) at the University of Graz, Austria. 1975 Ph.D. in Modern History "Studien zum Europaischen Amerikabild. Darstellung und Beurteilung der Politik und inneren Entwicklung der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika in Deutschland, Gro3britannien und Osterreich zwischen 1840 und 1941 im Vergleich." Postgraduate study of (empirical) sociology as "scholar" of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna; special interest, study of historical mobility studies. Participation in research projects on the history of the family, study of the daily life of the Middle Ages and interlocking directorates of German and Austrian companies. 1978 - present Research Fellow at the Max-Planck-Institut fur Geschichte, Goettingen. Responsible for the design and implementation of a general database oriented programming system for history "Kleio". At the same time research on a general methodology of historical computer science. 1995 - present Part-time Professor at the University of Bergen, Norway. Responsible for development of M.A. / Ph.D. program in "Historical Computer Science". Visiting professorships at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem (1987), Queen Mary and Westfield College, London (1993) and the European University Institute, Florence (1993).

Academic Projects in the field of Arts/Humanities Computing:

1987-88 Project director: "WORM's als Editionsmedium fur historische Datenbanken", (funded: IBM Germany) 1988-92 "Entwicklung fachspezifischer Software fur die Historischen Wissenschaften", (Grant support - VW Stiftung) 1996-99 "Digitale Archive", (Grant support -VW Stiftung) 1991 Project co-ordinator:- "Sicherstellung der Archive in Auschwitz" 1992 "Autumn School for New Historical Methods at the Moscow State University" 1995 "Technology, Skills and Resources for Historians of the Former Soviet Union" 1991-94 President of the International Association for History and Computing

Teaching:

1979 - present Historical Computer Science at the Universities of Gottingen (since 1984) and Munich (since 1985); lectures and seminars at the Universities of Graz, Hamburg, Salzburg, Siegen and Vienna. Intensive courses, primarily on the usage of various software packages at the Universities of Freiburg, Koln, Odense, Utrecht, the Institute of Historical Research, London., Queen Mary and Westfield College, London.

Summer Institutes:

Summer school "Neue Methoden in der Geschichtswissenschaft"; originally at the University of Linz, later at the University of Salzburg, since 1994 at the Universities of Bergen and Salzburg. 1987 - 1992, 1994 and 1996 organizer of a summer school on source orientated data processing in Goettingen.

Publications - since 1986

As author

1986 "Can We Afford to Use the Computer; Can We Afford not to Use it?" In: H. Millet (Ed.) Informatique et Prosopographie, Paris

1986 "A Draft Proposal for the Coding of Machine Readable Sources", in Historical Social Research / Historische Sozialforschung. 40 (October 1986).

1987 "Methods and Techniques of Historical Computation" in: Peter Denley and Deian Hopkin (Eds.): History and Computing, Manchester 1987.

1987 "Auf dem Weg zu einem Standard fur maschinenlesbare Quellen", in Friedrich Hausmann et. al. (Eds.): Datennetze fur die Historischen Wissenschaften , Graz .

1987 "The Daily Life of the Middle Ages, Editions of Sources and Data Processing", in: Medium Aevum Quotidianum 10 (1987).

1987 "Secundum Manus. Zur Datenverarbeitung mehrschichtiger Editionen", in Gunther Cerwinka et al. (Ed.): Beitrage zur Geschichte und Ihren Grundlagen, Festschrift Friedrich Hausmann zum 70. Geburtstag, Graz

1988 "Vom Beleg zum Begriff. Der Beitrag der Datenverarbeitung zur Losung von Terminologieproblemen", in: G. M. Dienes et al. (Eds.): Ut populus ad historiam trahatur., (Graz ,1988).

1988 "Gibt es eine fachspezifische Datenverarbeitung in den historischen Wissenschaften? Quellenbanktechniken in der Geschichtswissenschaft", in: H. Kaufhold and J. Schneider (Eds.): Geschichtswissenschaft und elektronische Datenverarbeitung (Wiesbaden 1988.)

1988 "A Draft Proposal for a Format Exchange Program", in: Jean- Philippe Genet (Ed.): Standardisation et echange des bases de donnees historiques., Actes de la troiseme Table Ronde Internationale tenue au L.I.S.H. (Centre Nationale de Recherches Scientifique), (Paris 1988).

1988 "Was sind `fortgeschrittene Kenntnisse' in formalen Verfahren fur Historiker", in: Manfred Thaller, Gerhard Botz et al. (Eds.): Qualitat und Quantitat. Zur Praxis der Methoden der Historischen Sozialwissenschaft, (Frankfurt / New York Qualitat und Quantitat. Zur Praxis der Methoden der Historischen Sozialwissenschaft, Frankfurt / New York .

1989 Kleio "Ein Datenbanksystem" St. Katharinen 1989 and later editions (Halbgraue Reihe zur Historischen Fachinformatik B 1). (St. Katharinen 1989, (Halbgraue Reihe zur Historischen Fachinformatik B 2).

1989 "Have Very Large Data Bases Methodological Relevance?", in: Otto Opitz (Ed.): Conceptual and Numerical Analysis of Data, Berlin

1989 "Warum brauchen die Geschichtswissenschaften fachspezifische datentechnische L'osungen? Das Beispiel kontextsensitiver Datenbanken", in: Manfred Thaller and Albert Muller (Eds.): Computer in den Geisteswissenschaften. Konzepte und Berichte, Frankfurt a. Main Studien zur Historischen Sozialwissenschaft 7 .

1989 "The Need for a Theory of Historical Computing", in: Peter Denley et al. (Eds.): History and Computing II, Manchester and New York .

1990 "Sphragid`Geographische Angaben in einer Historischen Datenbank", in: Eratosthene e 2 (1990).

1990 "Databases and Expert Systems as Complementary Tools for Historical Research", in: Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis 103 (1990).

1990 "Entzauberungen. Die Entwicklung einer fachspezifischen historischen Datenverarbeitung in der Bundesrepublik", in: W. Prinz und P. Weingart (Eds.): Die sogenannten Geisteswissenschaften: Innenansichten. Frankfurt a. Main

1990 "The Need for Standards: Data Modelling and Exchange", in: Daniel Greenstein (Ed.): Modelling Historical Data, St. Katharinen 1991 Halbgraue Reihe zur Historischen Fachinformatik A 11.

1991 "The Historical Workstation Project", in: Historical Social Research / Historische Sozialforschung 16 (1991).

1991 "The Historical Workstation Project", in: Computers and the Humanities 25 (1991).

1992 "The Historical Workstation Project", in: Josef Smets (Ed.): Histoire et Informatique, Montpellier 1992.

1992 "The Processing of Manuscripts", in: Manfred Thaller (Ed.) Images and Manuscripts in Historical Computing, St. Katharinen 1992 Halbgraue Reihe zur Historischen Fachinformatik A 14

1991 "Bildanalyse in der Geschichtswissenschaft", in: W. Neubauer und K.-H. Meier (Eds.): Deutscher Dokumentartag 1991

1992 "On the Conception, Training and Employment of Historical Data and Knowledge Daemons", in: Jan Oldervoll (Ed.): Eden or Babylon?, St. Katharinen .

1992 "Von der Miverst andlichkeit des Selbstverst andlichen", in: Rudolf Vierhaus et al. (Eds.): Fruhe Neuzeit-Fruhe Moderne. Forschungen zur Vielschichtigkeit von Ubergangsprozessen, Gottingen 1992 Veroff. des MPI fur. Geschichte 104.

1993 "Kleio A Database System", St. Katharinen 1993 Halbgraue Reihe zur Historischen Fachinformatik B 11.

1993 "The Archive on the Top of your Desk? On Self-Documenting Image Files", in: Jurij Fikfak and Gerhart Jaritz (Eds.): Image Processing in History: towards Open Systems, St. Katharinen Halbgraue Reihe zur Historischen Fachinformatik A 16.

1993 "Historical Information Science: Is there such a Thing? New Comments on an Old Idea", in: Tito Orlandi (Eds.): Seminario Discipline Humanistiche e Informatica. Il problema dell' integrazione, (Roma 1993 ) Contributi Del Centor Linceo Interdisciplinare `Beniamo Segre' 87.

1994 "Source Oriented Data Processing", in: Informatik Forum 8. (1994).

1994 "Die Herausforderung groSer Korpora unstrukturierter Texte", in: Max-Planck-Gesellschaft Berichte und Mitteilungen 1 1994.

1994 "Bilder und Manuskripte als Gegenstand der rechnergstutzten Bearbeitung", in: EDV-Tage Theuern 1993. Kolloquiumsbericht, Munich 1994.

1995 "Source Oriented Data Processing and Quantification: Distrustful Brothers", in: Manfred Thaller et. al: Statistics for Historians: Standard Packages and Specific Historical Software, St. Katharinen 1995 Halbgraue Reihe zur Historischen Fachinformatik A 26.

1995 "The Archive on Top of Your Desk: An Introduction to Self- Documenting Image Files", in: Historical Methods 28 (1995).

1996 "L'immagine del passato: Accesso e memorizzazione delle fonti della cultura visiva", in: Immagini e memoria elettronica, Bologna.

1996 "Inventare und Forschungssysteme: Zwei Seiten einer Munze oder unterschiedliche Wahrungen?", in: EDV-Tage Theuern Kolloquiumsbericht, Munchen.

As Editor

1981 - 1984 Software Editor for Historical Social Research / Historische Sozial -forschung: Quarterly reports.

Since 1989 Series Editor of the Halbgraue Reihe zur Historischen Fachinformatik: so far ca. 30 volumes.

Die Praxis der Quantifizierung in der osterreichischen Geschichtsforschung, abgedruckt in Bericht uber den 16 . Osterreichische Historikertag, Wien 1985.

Datenbanken als Werkzeug Historischer Sozialforschung St. Katharinen 1986 Historisch-Sozialwissenschaftliche Forschungen 20.

with Ursula Klenk und Peter Scherber: Computerlinguistik und philologische Datenverarbeitung, Hildesheim etc. 1987 Linguistische Datenverarbeitung 7.

with Gerhard Botz et. al. Qualitat und Quantitat. Zur Praxis der Methoden der Historischen Sozialwissenschaft, Frankfurt / New York 1988.

with Albert Muller: "Computer in den Geisteswissenschaften. Konzepte und Berichte", Frankfurt a. Main 1989 Studien zur Historischen Sozialwissenschaft 7.

with Heino Best und Ekkehard Mochmann: Computers in the Humanities and Social Sciences Munchen etc. 1991.

Images and Manuscripts in Historical Computing, [St. Katharinen 1992] Halbgraue Reihe zur Historischen Fachinformatik A 14.

with Leonid Borodkin and John Turner: Statistics for Historians: Standard Packages and Specific Historical Software, St. Katharinen 1995 Halbgraue Reihe zur Historischen Fachinformatik A 26.

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Fee Structure, Course Timetable

The LUSIAS courses are offered as graduate programming. Students may also enroll on a non-credit basis. Credit and non-credit registration forms are available by clicking to go to the appropriate on-line registration form. Additional information can be sought from the contact addresses at the bottom of this page.

A limited number of bursaries will be offered to students enrolled in three courses for academic credit. These bursaries will be awarded on the basis of academic performance.

Course Timetable

July 7 to 15, 1997 GS 5511 Introduction to the application of Multimedia Computer Systems

July 16 to 26, 1997 GS 5115 Introduction to Hypermedia: using and building Open Hypermedia Applications in the Humanities GS 5116 Images and Manuscripts as Objects in Digital Systems GS 5117 Questioning the Image: form, content and the analysis of meaning.

Fee Structure

1 course (.5 FCE) $1,000 Canadian 2 courses (1.0 FCE) $2,000 Canadian 3 courses (1.5 FCE) $2,500 Canadian

$200 is payable on registration, with the balance due at the start of the course. Make cheques payable to Lakehead University and send to the Office of the Dean of Graduate Studies and Research.

Registration Deadlines

May 31, 1997

For more information please contact:

Office of the Dean of Graduate Studies and Research Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada P7B 5E1 telephone (807)343-8785 fax (807)346-7749 email LUSIASlakeheadu.ca