1999 Annual Conference of the  
Association for History and Computing   
(UK Branch)  
  
14-16 September 1999  
King's College London 

 

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Tuesday, 14 September | Wednesday, 15 September | Thursday, 16 September
Workshops | Posters | Exhibition
International AHC Day, Friday 17 September

 
Tuesday, 14 September 
Delegate Registration
from 10.00 AM
Main Foyer, Main Building
Session 1: Plenary: 11.30 -12.30
Room 2C
Opening ceremony AHC UK 99 'Recording the Past' 
Professor Barry Ife, Vice-Principal King's College London
Dr. Donald Spaeth, Convenor Association for History and Computing (UK Branch)
Drs. Astrid Wissenburg, local organiser 99 Conference
Keynote Address:
Gervase Hood (Public Record Office)
Preserving the national record in the digital age 
Lunch: 12:30-1:30 PM
 
Session 2: 2:00-3:30 PM 

Joint Session with Digital Resources in the Humanities Conference '99

A: St Davids Room 
Chair: Tim Crawford
B:  Room 2C 
Chair: Michael Alexander
C: Committee Room 
Chair: MacKenzie Smith
D: Council Room 
Chair: Richard Gartner
E: 17C 
Chair: Cressida Chappel
Carola Boehm (Performing Arts Data Service, Glasgow University): "MuTateD! Creating a user tool for music information retrieval (Music Tagging Type Definition)" 

Craig Sapp (CCRMA, Stanford University): "Considerations in the Representation and Storage of Musical Information" 

Eleanor Selfridge-Field (Stanford University), "Music Copyright, Music Technology, and Music Archiving: Issues  and Interpretations" 

Panel: Michael Alexander (British Library): "Access to digital resources: changing the way we see, read and hear" 

Andrew Prescott (British Library): "When Image Meets the Browser" 

Michael Pidd (University of Sheffield): "When SGML Meets the Browser" 

Speaker TBA (National Sound Archive, British Library): "Digital Sound" 

Alison Pearn (Darwin Correspondence Project): "The Darwin Correspondence Project: evolution of an electronic resource" 

Lawrence Woof (Lancaster University): "Automating the integration of facsimile-based electronic editions with editorial hypertext: the experience of the electronic edition of Ruskin's Modern Painters I" 

Arthur Lucas (King's College London): "The Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller"

Manfred Thaller (Humanities Information Technologies Programme): "On digital manuscript repositories" 

José Carlos Ramalho (University of Minho): "Recovering old paper historical documents through SGML/XML modelling" 

Kevin Ashley (ULCC/NDAD): "Preserving the history of Government computing: social and technological change"

Panel: Cressida Chappel (History Data Service): "(Re)Creating a Large-scale Digital Resource: a Case Study-- the 1881 Census" 

Pasqualino Assini (History Data Service): "Providing Flexible Online access to Large-scale Humanities Resources-- A Discussion of the Technology Behind the 1881 Census Project" 

Nigel Goose (University of Hertfordshire): "Pilot Evaluation of the Reliability of the 1881 Census Data" 

Peter Tilley (Kingston University): "Experiences of Importing and Adapting Outside Data Sources and Assessing their Reliability and Usefulness" 

Matthew Woollard (University of Essex): "Occupations, Employment and Economic Inactivity in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries"

Coffee Break: 3:30-4:00 PM
 
Session 3: 4:00-5:30 PM 

Joint Session with Digital Resources in the Humanities Conference '99

A: Room 2C 
Chair: Tony Pearson
B: Committee Rm 
Chair: Espen Ore
C: Council Room 
Chair: Julian Richard
D: Room 17B 
Chair: Steven Smith
E: St Davids Room 
Chair: Richard Hall
Robin Wright (Cinemedia): "Accessing the Moving Image in the Digital Age: Cinemedia's SWIFT digital video management system" 

Gwendal Auffret (Institut National de l'Audiovisuel (INA)): "Digitizing TV and Radio Archives: supporting scholarship by providing new means of access to audiovisual documents" 

Cristina Ribeiro (Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto/INESC): "Combining context and contents description in multimedia archives"

Panel: Espen Ore (HIT-Centre, University of Bergen): "The Complete Ibsen" 

Mária Fáskerti Lund: 
"A Digital Ibsen Bibliography" 

Řyvind Eide: "Primary Ibsen Data" 
Jon Gunnar Jřrgensen: "Henrik Ibsen's Writings 

Hilde Bře, Ingrid Falkenberg, Ellen Nessheim, Karl Johan Sćth, Stine Brenna Taugbřl and Hallvard Ystad:Encoding Ibsen: Problems concerning Text Structure 

Espen S. Ore: "Linking between Data and with the Future"

Panel: Julian Richards (Archaeology Data Service, University of York): "The preservation and re-use of digital data in archaeology" 

Harrison Eiteljorg II: "If We Build It, Will Anyone Come?" 

J D Richards: "If we give it away, will it be of any use?" 

Damian Robinson: "Digital Archiving Pilot Project: Excavation Records (DAPPER)" 

Martijn van Leusen: "Serving Archaeology: the ARGE Virtual Library management system" 

Panel: Steven Smith (Institute of Historical Research): "Work in progress--the humanities faculty `hub' within the new Resource Discovery Network Centre" 

Stuart Sutherland (CTI Centre for Textual Studies) 

Ewan Campbell (CTICH, Glasgow) 

Panel: "Evaluating the Implementation of ICT in the Learning and Teaching of History" 

Derek Harding and Richard Hall (University of Teeside): "Evaluating the Implementation of ICT in the Learning and Teaching of History: Lessons from the First Year of the Chic Project" 

Ann Gow, Pauline McCormack and Donald Spaeth (University of Glasgow): "The CHIC Project: Development of Web-based History Teaching at the University of Glasgow" 

Frank Crompton (University College Worcester): "Developing, Implementing and Evaluating Distance Learning in History Teaching: A report on the CHIC Project at University College Worcester"


Wednesday, 15 September 
Session 4: 9-10:30 AM 

Joint Session with Digital Resources in the Humanities Conference '99

A: Council Rm 
Chair: Catherine Grout
B: Room 2C 
Chair: Dominik Wujastik
C: St Davids Room 
Chair: Willard McCarty
D: Committee Rm 
Chair: Jean Anderson
E: Room 17B 
Chair: Manfred Thaller
Panel: Catherine Grout (Surrey Institute of Art & Design): "Bearing the fruit and reaping the harvest: creating, delivering and using new collections of digital images in research and teaching in the visual arts" 

Skip Cox (JIDI Project, ILRT) 

Karla Youngs (TASI, ILRT)

Briane Turley (West Virginia University): "The Collaborative Advancement of American Religions on the World Wide Web" 

Sally Jo Cunningham (University of Waikato): "A distributed digital library for Indigenous Peoples information" 

Daniel Gilfillan and Judith Musick (University of Oregon): "The Feminist Humanities Project: Gender in History through Technology"

Dion Smythe (King's College London): "The Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire" 

Gregory Crane (Tufts University): "The Electronic Bolles Archive on the History and Topography of London: Phase I" 

Alistair McCleery (Napier University): "From Guardians to Gatekeepers: the Digitisation of Book History Resources"

Elisabeth Burr (Gerhard-Mercator Universität GH Duisburg): "Corpora in the teaching of linguistics" 

Pauline McCormack (University of Newcastle): "VVV, Veni, Vidi, Vici: the development of a World Wide Web resource for the teaching of Beginners' Latin" 

Jay CJ Chiarito Mazzarella (IMPERTA): "Problems & Issues Concerning the Digital Representation/Preservation of Historic Music Documents for the Internet Medium" 

Brad Scott (Routledge): "Issues in the Design and Creation of an Electronic Edition of the Calendar of State Papers" 

Nancy Cox (University of Wolverhampton): "Constructing history through a Dictionary of traded goods and commodities 1550-1800" 

Michael Smith (Wayne State University): "Great Expectations: Archival Opportunities and Realities in the Digital Age"

Coffee Break: 10:30-11:00 AM
 
Session 5: Plenary: 11:00 AM-12:30 PM 

Joint Session with Digital Resources in the Humanities Conference '99

 A: New Theatre 
DRH Keynote address: 

Christoph Nyíri (Institute of Philosophy, Hungarian Academy of Science) 
"Towards a Philosophy of Virtual Education"

B: Council Room
Annual General Meeting 
of the 
Association of History and Computing, UK branch 
Lunch: 12:30-1:30 PM
 
 
 
Session 6: 2:00-3:00 PM 
 
A: Room 2C 
Chair: Dennis Trinkle
B: Council Room 
Chair: Pauline McCormack
C: 17B 
Chair: Derek Harding
Alexandra Franklin (University of Oxford): "The Bodleian Broadside Ballads project: creating a textual and visual resource" 

Michael Hughes (University of West England, Bristol): "The National Electronic And Video Archive of the Crafts: Oral and visual history of the Crafts"

Robin B. Williams, Greg Johnson (Savannah College of Art and Design): "Documenting urban form and transformation in 4-D: The Virtual Historic Savannah Project" 
 
Recep Boztemur (Middle East Technical University): "Prospects for Interuniversity Web-Based History Teaching in Turkey. Lessons from the METU Experiment and Some Questions for Research" 
Olav Tysdal (Stavanger College): "Migration Rogaland - Study of Mobility in Rogaland County in the nineteenth and twentieth Centuries with primary emphasis on the Size and discussion of Causes (A Data Base of Emigrants for South-Western Norway)" 

Jan Broadway (University of Birmingham): "Analysing Carolingian Bureaucracy"

Coffee Break: 3:00-3:30 PM
 
Session 7: 3:30-5:00 PM 
 
A: Room 2C 
Chair: Jan Broadway
B: Council Room 
Chair: Donald Spaeth
C: 17B 
Chair: Lorna Hughes
Magnus Alexander (Bristol University): "GIS and Domesday: The Mediaeval Landscape of North Somerset" 

Dietrich Ebeling (University of Trier): "Development of a Data-Management-System" 

Lois Dean (US Department of Housing and Urban Development): "A User Friendly Geographic Information System Supports Historic Surveys, and the Visual Presentation of History" 

Andrew Sawyer (University of Southampton): "Postmodern power in a pre-modern State?  "Cutting off the king's head" in the early Dutch Republic" 

Eleanor Selfridge-Field (Stanford): "Reconciling  Historical Calendars" 

Francisco Fernández Izquierdo, Porfirio Sanz Camańes: "History on the CD-ROM: Spanish editions of historical topics for educational and research issues. A revision." 
 
 
 

Franco Niccolucci -Andrea Zorzi - Marianna Baldi - Fausto Carminati - Patrizia Salvatori - Tommaso Zoppi (University of Florence):  "Historical Text Encoding: an experiment with XML on Repetti's Historical Dictionary"  

Janet Bagg (University of Kent): "Questions and context: using dynamic encoding to explore property relations" 

Martin Stuerzlinger (University of Vienna): "Social research based on the Book of Deeds of Vienna (1521-1523). A relational database - historical research and edition"

 
 
Conference Banquet  AHC UK 99 
7. 30 
Great Hall, King's College London 
 

Thursday, 16 September
Session 8: 9-10:30 AM 
 
A: Room 2C 
Franco Niccolucci
B: Council Room 
Sonja Cameron
C: 17B 
Matthew Woolard
Anne Van Camp (The Research Libraries Group): "Enhancing International Access to Primary Research Materials" 

Gavan McCarthy (University of Melbourne): "The Structuring of Context: new possibilities in an XML enabled World Wide Web" 

Christopher Fleet (National Library of Scotland): "Project Pont - an evaluation of the lessons learned in creating, using and disseminating digital images of early manuscript maps" 
 
 

Rachid Anane, Susan Laflin (University of Birmingham): "The Role of Projects in Teaching Students to Create and Use Historical Databases" 

Marcel Ras, Janneke van Kersen (University of Leiden): "Postgraduate Programme Historical Information Processing" 

Jan Rae (The Open University): "Chicago - Windy City to Sim City(tm) Evaluating an example of Interactive Multimedia teaching of History using CD-ROM at the UK Open University"

Graham Jones (University of Leicester): "TASC: Towards a trans-national database and atlas of saints' cults" 

Ken Dvorak (Bowling Green State University): "America in the 1890s: A Chronology:" An Electronic Timeline of an Unsettled Decade."  

Dennis Trinkle (DePauw University): "Historians and Y2K" 

Coffee Break: 10:30-11:00 AM
 
Session 9: Plenary: 11:00 AM-12:30 PM 
Room 2C 
 
Keynote address: 
Chair: Deian Hopkin 
Panel: Patricia Methven (Archives, King's College London), Sheila Anderson (History Data Service, Data Archive), Donald Spaeth (University of Glasgow) 
"Historians and access to Archives in the Digital Age"
Closing ceremony
 
 
WORKSHOPS I: 9:30-12:30 AM 
Please note that some of these workshops overlap with the main conference programme 

Jointly with Digital Resources in the Humanities Conference '99

A: St Davids Room B: Committee Room
"Music Description, Representation and Information Retrieval" (includes lunch). Organized by Tim Crawford (King's College London) and Carola Boehm (University of Glasgow). "Steps to a Succesful Bid - AHRB Funding Applications." Organized by the Arts and Humanites Data Service and the Arts and Humanities Research Board.
Lunch: 12:30-1:30 
WORKSHOPS II: 1:30-4:30 PM 
A: St Davids Room B: Committee Room
"Music Description, Representation and Information Retrieval" - continued. "Designing Flexible Digital Representations of Historical Source Materials." Organized by the History Data Service. 


 
Mon 13th - Wed 15th September 
POSTERS 
Posters will be on display throughout the conference in B Corridor, Main Building 
Poster presenters will be available for discussion of their work, and in some cases have computer demonstrations they can present in the Great Hall (e.g. 5:30-6:30 PM on Mon 13th) 

Jointly with Digital Resources in the Humanities Conference '99

Wendy Shaw (University of Wales, Aberystwyth): "The Use of the Internet by Academics in the Discipline of English Literature" 
Crandall Shifflett (Virginia Tech): "Virtual Jamestown: Creating a Digital Archive on Seventeenth-Century Virginia" 
Chris Stephens (University of Oxford): "Virtual Seminar's Path Creation System" 
Nigel Williamson (University of Sheffield): "Heritage is Hypertext: The use of Information Technology as a Tool for Accessing History" 
Hugh Buchanan (University of Edinburgh): "EDINA - Digimap: details tba" 
EXHIBITION
Exhibitions will take place in the Great Hall in the Strand Campus of King's College London. Exhibitors will demonstrate their electronic resources and show relevant books to conference delegates. Sales of commercial products at the conference has been encouraged. 
 Hours. The exhibition area will be open as follows: 
Monday: 8.30 a.m. to 6.30 p.m. 
Tuesday: 8.30 a.m. to 4.30 p.m. 
Wednesday: 8.30 a.m. to 4.30 p.m. 
 
Jointly with Digital Resources in the Humanities Conference '99
 


Friday, 17 September
Special meeting  of the International Association for History and Computing to include 
 the International AHC Annual General Meeting and a round table discussion on the 'Future of the IAHC and its activities'. 
 
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