JISC Conference 2008: Enabling innovation

April 9, 2008 at 11:03 am · Filed under digital humanities, e-science, events, humanities computing, internet

Start date: 15 April 2008 09:00

End date: 15 April 2008 16:00

Venue: International Convention Centre, Birmingham

Follow the conference online

If you’re not attending the conference, you can follow what’s happening on the day (15 April) with:

• Live video-streaming⁵ of the opening and closing keynote speeches
• Conference social networking site⁶ so you can network online
• Micro-blogging of the parallel sessions (Twitter) conference tag: jiscconference08
• Live image sharing of the conference day (Flickr)
• Podcasts of interviews and recordings of parallel sessions

Plus, after the conference there will be:

• Screencasts of parallel session presentations (PowerPoint and audio – Slideshare)
• Videos of some of the more popular parallel sessions

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IEEE Conference on Digital Ecosystems and Technologies

October 3, 2007 at 9:06 pm · Filed under collaboration, conferences, digital humanities, e-science, events, humanities computing, web2.0

IEEE DEST 2008
IEEE Conference on Digital Ecosystems and Technologies

26th-29th February 2008
Phitsanulok Thailand

Deadline for full paper submissions: October 14th, 2007

http://www.ieee-dest.curtin.edu.au/2008/tracks.php#trackE-humanities

eHumanities — Track Chairs: Marc Wilhelm Küster and Matthew Allen

Digital Ecosystem is defined as an open, loosely coupled, domain
clustered, demand-driven, self-organising collaborative environment,
where each species is proactive and responsive for its own benefit or
profit.
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LONDON SEMINAR IN DIGITAL TEXT AND SCHOLARSHIP

September 28, 2007 at 1:44 am · Filed under digital humanities, events, humanities computing

The London Seminar in Digital Text & Scholarship focuses on the ways in which the digital medium remakes the relationship of readers, writers, scholars, technical practitioners and designers to the manuscript and printed book. Its discussions are intended to inform public debate and policy as well as to stimulate research and provide a broad forum in which to present its results. Although the forum is primarily for those working in textual and literary studies, history of the book, humanities computing and related fields, its mandate is to address and involve an audience of non-specialists. Wherever possible the issues it raises are meant to engage all those who are interested in a digital future for the book. The Seminar is sponsored by the Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King’s College London, and the Institute of English Studies, University of London. Convenor: Dr Willard McCarty (King’s College London). NB:

Wednesday 10 October 2007; Room ST274 (Stewart House, 2^nd Floor)
David Ganz, (Professor of Palaeography, King’s College London)
‘Medieval Libraries in the Digital Age’

Thursday 15 November 2007; 6.00pm; ST274 (Stewart House, 2^nd Floor)
Paul Eggert (University of New South Wales)
‘Text as Algorithm and as Process: A Critique’

Thursday 13 December 2007; 5.30pm; NG15 (Senate House North Block)
Jan-Christoph Meister
‘The Myth of the Digital or: Why Humanities Computing is Really Business as Usual’

Thursday 17 January 2008; 5.30pm; Room ST274 (Stewart House, 2^nd Floor)
James E. Tierney
‘British Periodicals, 1660-1800: An Electronic Index’

Thursday 21 February 2008; 5.30pm; Room ST275 (Stewart House, 2^nd Floor)
Andrew Prescott
‘Digital Manuscripts: Retrospect and Prospects’

Thursday 13 March 2008; 5.30pm; Room ST274 (Stewart House, 2^nd Floor)
Charles Henry
‘The Talisman of Format: Celebrating the End of the Book’

Thursday 17 April 2008; 5.30pm; Room ST274 (Stewart House, 2^nd Floor)
Marilyn Deegan
‘I’ve read the news today, oh boy!’

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CHArt (COMPUTERS AND THE HISTORY OF ART) TWENTY-THIRD ANNUAL CONFERENCE

May 28, 2007 at 11:47 pm · Filed under art, conferences, design, digital humanities, events, history, humanities computing, web2.0

DIGITAL ARCHIVE FEVER

Thursday 8 - Friday 9 November 2007
Central London Venue to be confirmed

Museums, galleries, archives, libraries and media organisations such as publishers and film and broadcast companies, have traditionally mediated and controlled access to cultural resources and knowledge. What is the future of such ‘top-down’ institutions in the age of ‘bottom-up’ access to knowledge and cultural artifacts through what is generally known as Web 2:0 - encompassing YouTube, Bittorrent, Napster, Wikipedia, Google, MySpace and more. Will such institutions respond to this threat to their cultural hegemony by resistance or adaptation? How can a museum or a gallery or, for that matter, a broadcasting company, appeal to an audience which has unprecedented access to cultural resources? How can institutions predicated on a cultural economy of scarcity compete in an emerging state of cultural abundance?

For the twenty-third CHArt conference we are looking for papers that reflect upon these issues, particularly in relation to visual culture. We particularly welcome contributions from those working in either ‘traditional’ cultural organisations or those involved in new forms of cultural access and distribution.

We welcome contributions from all sections? of the CHArt community: Art Practice; Art History; Museums; Galleries; Curation; Archives; Libraries; Education; Media and Broadcast Production; Cultural Assets Management and Access; Hardware; Software; Theory.

CHArt also hopes to offer a bursary scheme again this year (supported by the AHRC ICT Methods Network) to Post Graduate students presenting papers.

Please email submissions (a three hundred word synopsis of the proposed paper with brief CV of presenter/s and other key figures) by 30 June 2007 to Hazel Gardiner (hazel.gardiner@kcl.ac.uk).

Dr Charlie Gere
Chair, CHArt

CHArt
c/o Centre for Computing in the Humanities Kings College, University of London Kay House
7 Arundel Street
WC2R 3DX

- CALL FOR PAPERS - DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 30 JUNE 2007 -? CALL FOR PAPERS -

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International Workshop on Virtual Research Environments and Collaborative Work Environments

May 18, 2007 at 1:52 am · Filed under conferences, digital humanities, e-science, events, humanities computing, internet, web2.0

The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers working in the areas of virtual research environments¹ (VREs) and collaborative work environments (CWEs). Both concepts are characterised as providing consistent and dependable work environments for particular kinds of work organisation, emphasising the dynamic establishment of collaborative work contexts between independent partners. Further aspects such as the mobility of work activities and requirements such as security and confidentiality also play a role in both concepts. Despite these similarities, it would seem that the development of research programmes and the establishment of research communities within these fields has to date progressed independently. As a consequence, there is a danger of wasteful duplication of effort, conceptual divergence and technical incompatibility. The workshop’s aim is to address these concerns by soliciting contributions from the research community dealing with topics such as (link).

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400 Years of Jamestown and ‘Virtual Jamestown’

May 9, 2007 at 9:06 am · Filed under digital humanities, education, events, history, humanities computing

It is 400 years since the British first landed in North America and none other than the Queen of England is in the United States to celebrate. And here is a site that I worked on some years ago produced by the Virginia Centre for Digital History at the University of Virginia. I did the navigation for the site way back in the year 2000 and it seems to have moved about a little since then (but I had yet to learn about CSS). Sorry about that…hope you can look beyond the design because the site contains some extraordinarily important documents about one of America’s most important events (link).

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JISC Workshop at EVA Conference, London: New directions in e-Science and visual perceptions

May 2, 2007 at 9:53 pm · Filed under art, digital humanities, e-science, events, humanities computing, web2.0

This free workshop is part of the EVA Conference held in London on the 11th July at the London School of Communication in Elephant and Castle.

This proposal is led by JISC (www.jisc.ac.uk) and the Arts & Humanities e-Science Support Centre (AHeSSC – www.ahessc.ac.uk ) to profile and encourage discussion around the creative and research uses of e-Science tools and methods in the Arts & Humanities within the UK.

Within this context, e-Science is defined as a specific set of advanced technologies for collaboration and sharing resources across highly distributed network environments: so-called grid technologies, and technologies integrated with them, for instance for data-mining, simulation and visualization.

The half day workshop will be comprised of several thematic areas which will focus on how the take-up of e-Science is developing new areas of research in the Arts & Humanities community, including the performing arts and humanities research.

There will be three plenary sessions to introduce key topics and provide contextual background information to a variety of work being undertaken. A set of presentations will further offer demonstrative examples of activity by projects funded by JISC, AHRC and EPSRC under the e-Science ‘umbrella’.

The outcomes of the workshop will contribute directly to a special issue in the Digital Humanities Quarterly, and a THES themed article (link).

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e-Science Institute Public Lecture: A Potential for All: e-Science for the Arts and Humanities

April 24, 2007 at 8:20 pm · Filed under digital humanities, e-science, events, humanities computing, web2.0

Ms Sheila Anderson (AHDS and AHeSSC) and Professor David Robey (AHRC ICT Programme)

The first lecture of the Arts and Humanities e-Science Theme at the e-Science Institute in Edinburgh will be held on April 30th at the eSI, 15 South College Street, Edinburgh. Tea and coffee will be served at 1.30, and the lecture will begin at 2 pm. Sheila Anderson and David Robey will deliver a lecture entitled ‘A Potential for All: e-Science for the Arts and Humanities’. More details, including directions and an abstract, are available at http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/events/760/.

This public lecture is open to all interested parties in academia and industry. There is no requirement to register.

The lecture will be available via webcast, with an interactive ‘jabber room’ facility so that those participating remotely can take part in the discussion. Please see the website for more details. The on-demand webcast of the lecture will be available after the lecture from the events material page.

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Democratisation and the Networked Public Sphere

April 12, 2007 at 8:32 pm · Filed under events, political communication, social media, software, web2.0

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Digital Futures: from digitization to delivery

April 5, 2007 at 8:24 pm · Filed under digital humanities, events, humanities computing, web2.0

21st - 25th May 2007, London, UK.
King’s College London is pleased to announce the Digital Futures 5-day training event.Led by experts of international renown, Digital Futures focuses on the creation, delivery and preservation of digital resources from cultural and memory institutions. Lasting five days, Digital Futures is aimed at managers and other practitioners from the library, museum, heritage and cultural sectors looking to understand the strategic and management issues of developing digital resources from digitisation to delivery (link)

Items of special note for 2007 are:

• Visit to the National Gallery to see digital camera and digital delivery systems
• Visit to another major national cultural organisation to see digitisation activities

Digital Futures will cover the following core areas:

• Planning and management
• Fund raising and sustainability
• Copyright
• Key technical concepts
• Creating and delivering textual resources
• Visual and image based resource creation and delivery
• Metadata - introduction and implementation
• Implementing digital resources
• Digital preservation

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2nd International Conference on the Pragmatic Web

April 2, 2007 at 11:10 pm · Filed under deliberation, design, events, web2.0

A European conference for you pragmatic deliberators out there.

THE PRAGMATIC WEB CONFERENCE is a unique forum to envision and debate how the emerging social, semantic, multimedia Web mediates the ways in which we construct shared meaning. While there is much research and development into topics relevant to this challenge such as collaboration, usability, knowledge representation, and social informatics, the Pragmatic Web conference provides common ground for dialogue at the nexus of these topics.

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Activities and Funding from the Methods Network

March 30, 2007 at 10:42 pm · Filed under digital humanities, events, humanities computing

(The Methods Network is an organisation here at King’s that seeks to promote the use of ICTS and ‘advanced methods’ within the Arts and Humanities). Here is a list of their activities)

Apply for Funding from the AHRC ICT Methods Network – Deadline 30 June 2007

The AHRC ICT Methods Network invites the arts and humanities Higher
Education community in the UK to submit proposals for Methods Network
activities. Activities may include workshops, seminars, focused workgroups,
postgraduate training events and publications.

The Methods Network is keen to support both single- and cross-disciplinary
proposals and those that encourage new collaborative frameworks between
technical specialists and arts and humanities researchers. The primary
emphasis is on the use and reuse of digital resources.

Proposals for hybrid activities such as workshop/seminar/workgroup
combinations are also welcomed, as are proposals for any other activity
which falls within the Methods Network remit to support and promote the uses
of advanced ICT methods in academic research.

Funding of up to £5000 is available for workshops and hybrid activities.
Workshops provide training in advanced ICT methods for community members
within academic institutions. They engage with issues such as: formal
methods in analysis of source data and the creation of technical models;
working with multiple technologies; and other matters of vital practical
interest to the community.

Funding of up to £2000 is available for seminars. These may concentrate on
highly-defined topics of interest and also problem areas within the
community or may have a more general focus.

For information on eligibility and how to apply for funding see the Methods
Network website (www.methodsnetwork.ac.uk).

Please be aware that all applicants are expected to submit fully-formed
proposals with full programme, budget and projected outcome details and with
particular emphasis on the research significance of the proposed activity.
Applications that fail to provide all required details will not be
considered for funding. For further information about submitting a proposal
contact Hazel Gardiner (hazel.gardiner@kcl.ac.uk).

Forthcoming Methods Network Funded Activities

We welcome applications from individuals who would like to attend Methods
Network workshops and seminars, but must emphasise that registration is
essential for these activities. Participants are also expected to make an
active contribution to the activity. Occasionally a Methods Network event
will be by invitation only, but all resulting materials, including (where
appropriate) podcasts, wikis, training workbooks, reports and publications
will be made freely available to the community via the Methods Network
website. All enquiries about registration for the Methods Network
activities listed below should be sent by email to methnet@kcl.ac.uk. For
further information about the following activities see the Methods Network
website.

Annotating Image Archives To Support Literary Research – A workshop
organized by Omer Rana, University of Cardiff. (May 2007)

Developing an International Framework for Audit and Certification of Trusted
Digital Repositories - A seminar organized by Joy Davidson, HATII,
University of Glasgow. (June 2007)

New Protocols for Electroacoustic Music Analysis - A workshop organized by
Leigh Landy, De Montfort University. (12 June 2007)

Data Sans Frontiers: Web Portals and the Historic Environment A workgroup
organized by Stuart Jeffrey, ADS/AHDS Archaeology, University of York. (25
May 2007)

From Abstract Data Mapping to 3D Photorealism: Understanding Emerging
Intersections in Visualisation Practices and Techniques – A workshop
organized by Julie Tolmie, 3DVisA, Kings College, University of London.
(June/July 2007)

Real-time Collaborative Art Making - A workshop organized by Gregory
Sporton, University of Central England. (20 July 2007)

Space/Time: Methods in geospatial computing for mapping the past – A
workgroup organized by Stuart Dunn, AHESSC, Kings College, University of
London. (23 - 24 July 2007)

Text Mining for Historians - A workshop organized by Zoe Bliss, AHDS
History, University of Essex. (17 – 18 July 2007)

Opening the Creative Studio – a hybrid activity comprising presentations and
workshops, organized by David Gorton, Royal Academy of Music. (10 September
- 30 November 2007)

INTIMACY: Performing the Intimate in Proximal and Hybrid Environments - a
hybrid workshop/seminar activity, organized by Maria Chatzichristodoulou.
(22 - 24 November 2007)

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doing digital: using digital resources in the arts and humanities

March 27, 2007 at 1:39 am · Filed under digital humanities, events, humanities computing, web2.0

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

doing digital: using digital resources in the arts and humanities

DRHA07 : Dartington College of Art : 9 - 12 September 2007
http://www.dartington.ac.uk/drha07/

Bringing together creators, practitioners, users, distributors,
and custodians of Digital Resources in the Arts and Humanities

Over the last decade the annual Digital Resources for the Humanities and
Arts (DRHA) conferences have constructed an unusual kind of meeting
place: a space in which researchers, curators, and distributors of
digital resources could meet and share perspectives on their
complementary agendas.

Last year, that forum was expanded to include
participants from the creative and performing arts, giving the event a
new flavour and a new direction. This year, the conference aims to
explore further major issues at the interface between traditional
humanities scholarship and the creative arts, by focussing on their
differing or complementary approaches to the deployment of digital
technologies.

Can the Arts and the Humanities share expertise? Are they
divided by a common tongue? To what extent are they developing common
technical solutions to different problem areas? As in previous years,
the conference will articulate these questions by showcasing the very
best in current practice across the widest spectrum of digital
applications in the arts and humanities and by fostering informed but
accessible debate amongst professionals.

The Programme Committee for DRHA07 is now soliciting imaginative and
provocative contributions for the conference addressing such topics as:

* the benefits and the challenges of using digital resources in
creative work, in teaching and learning, and in scholarship;
* the challenges and opportunities associated with scale and
sustainability in the digital arena;
* new insights and new forms of expression arising from the
integration of digital resources in the arts, humanities, and sciences;
* social and political issues surrounding digital resource
provision in the context of global ICT developments;
* the implications of “born-digital” resources for curators,
consumers, and performers;
* training methods and best practice for digital arts and
humanities practitioners.

Other themes include: interactivity and performance; digital media in
time and space; integration and deployment of existing digital resources
in new contexts; policies and strategies for digital deployment, both
commercial and non-commercial; cataloguing and metadata aspects of
resource discovery; digital repositories; Web 2.0 and other new
technologies; encoding standards; intellectual property rights; funding,
cost-recovery, and charging mechanisms; digitization techniques and
problems.

Format: The conference will take up three intensive days, comprising
presentation of academic papers and technical reports, performance and
installation events, software and product demonstrations, debates and
training events. The atmosphere will be informal, the discussion
energetic. Leading practitioners and representatives of key funding
agencies, such as the the Arts Council, the AHRC, the JISC
will be amongst the participants. We hope that from this occasion a
new consensus will emerge based on real life experience of the
application of digital techniques and resources in the Humanities and Arts.

Timetable: Proposals are now invited for academic papers, themed panel
sessions and reports of work in progress.Your proposal should be no
smaller than 500 words and no longer than 2000; closing date for
proposals is May 2nd 2007. All proposals will be reviewed by an
independent panel of reviewers, and notifications of acceptance will be
sent out by 13th June 2007. All accepted proposals will be included in
the Conference preprint volume, and will also be considered for a
post-conference publication.

Cost: The all-in conference rate covering all meals and accomodation as
well as conference registration and proceedings will not exceed £400.
Reduced rates for early registration, and partial rates for one-day or
non-residential attendance will be announced shortly on the conference
website.

Further information: The conference web site at
http://www.dartington.ac.uk/drha07/ will be regularly updated, and
includes full details of the procedure for submitting proposals, the
programme, and registration information. Bookmark it now!

(Sent on behalf of DHRA07 Progamme Chair, Lou Burnard, Oxford University)

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E Research in Australia Conference

March 23, 2007 at 9:14 pm · Filed under digital humanities, events, humanities computing, web2.0

There is an E Research Conference coming up in Brisbane, Australia on June 26-29. There is a stream on E Research in the Arts and Humanities for those who are interested (link)

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Text and Grid: Research Questions for the Humanities, Sciences and Industry

March 16, 2007 at 10:59 pm · Filed under digital humanities, e-science, education, events, humanities computing

AHeSSC workshop at UK All Hands meeting
10-13th September 2007, East Midlands Conference Centre, Nottingham

MINI-WORKSHOP CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
Text and Grid: Research Questions for the Humanities, Sciences and Industry

http://www.allhands.org.uk/news/textgridws_call.cfm

Textual resources play a pivotal role not only in research, but also in business. In 2003 alone, 300 Terabytes of textual data were produced, without counting more dynamic texts like blogs, wikis, websites, etc. Google, Microsoft and Yahoo are all working on creating gigantic digital libraries for textual resources that would both be more accessible and comprehensible than any other digital library in history. Project partners in “Cultural Heritage Language Technologies” like the Perseus Project promote the use of modern computational and storage techniques to integrate tools and data for research on and with texts in different formats. In the UK, the AHRC E-Science Scoping Study expert seminars in textual studies, linguistics and history have discussed the potential of Virtual Organisation and Grid technologies for humanist textual analysis.
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