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2001

DIGITAL RESOURCES IN THE HUMANITIES 2001

8th -10th  JULY 2001 SCHOOL OF ORIENTAL AND AFRICAN STUDIES

Sunday 8 July

The British Library, 96 Euston Road, London NW1

2.00pm - 3.00pm         Registration and refreshments

3.00pm - 6.00pm         Lecture by Alice Prochaska, Director of Special Collections, The British Library

Monday 9th July

The Brunei Gallery, School of Oriental and African Studies, Thornhaugh St, Russell Sq, London WC1H OXG

9.00am - 10.30am        Greeting & Introduction. Prof. Colin Bundy, Director of SOAS

                                    Opening Plenary. Prof. Tim O'Shea, Master of Birkbeck College

10.30am - 11.00am
Tea and coffee

11.00am - 12.30pm

Lecture Theatre

Room 1
(B102)

Room 2
(B202)

Room 3
(B111)

AHC Thread

Panel session:
Engaging the Audience: the problems of defining, reaching and keeping an audience for high quality humanities resources on the Internet

Chair - Jane Winters (Institute of Historical Research)

Speaker 1: Nicole Harris (Institute of Historical Research) Creating a managed digital environment for the humanities: quality versus commerce?

Speaker 2: Janet Kennington (Institute of Historical Research) Capturing the Online History Audience by Harnessing Technology

Speaker 3: Anne Shepherd (Institute of Historical Research) Electronic journals: acceptance, promotion and development

Speaker 4: Simon Trafford (Institute of Historical Research) Responding to demand for on-line training and education

 

 

Panel session:
Diverse encoding and historical diversity: conceptual markup on the Orlando project Diverse encoding and historical diversity: conceptual markup on the Orlando project

Chair - Patricia Clements (University of Alberta)

Discovering Humanities Resources I

Daphne Charles (English Heritage), `Back to Front': the Implications of Public Access to Heritage Databases;

William Kilbride (Archaeology Data Service), Keeping the `S' in ADS: how the Archaeology Data Service is working to improve its service;

Mike Fraser, (title to be confirmed)

Visual Data I
 
Phill Purdy(Visual Arts Data Service), Transplanting DIAD: the re-engineering of a multimedia database for digital preservation and integrated on-line delivery;

Lawrence Woof (Lancaster University), The electronic edition of Ruskin's Modern Painters

Ronald Shook (Utah State University), Working Towards a Rhetoric of Visuals

12.30pm - 1.30pm
Lunch

1.30pm - 3.00pm

Lecture Theatre

Room 1
(B102)

Room 2
(B202)

Room 3
(B111)

AHC Thread
Digitizing Historic Sources I
Gregory C. Colati (Tufts University) and Gregory Crane (Tufts University), The Edwin C. Bolles collection: a digital archive on the history and topography of London;

Richard Higgins (Durham University Library), Pictures in print: a collaborative on-line catalogue with images of maps and topographical prints of County Durham created prior to 1860;

Christine Sandom (University of Brighton) and Peter Enser (University of Brighton), Archival Moving Imagery in a Digital Environment

Scholarly Communities

Anne Beamish (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and Shiraz Allibhai (The Aga Khan Trust for Culture), ArchNet: the Challenge of Creating and Supporting an International Professional and Scholarly Community;

Claire Warwick (University of Sheffield) and Celine Carty (University of Sheffield), Only Connect: a Study of the Problems caused by Platform Specificity and Researcher Isolation in Humanities Computing Projects

Louise Watts (Ingenta plc), The Role of the Intermediary in the Creation of Online Communities in the Humanities

Networking Digital Resources

Panel Session:
International Strategic and Policy Issues in Networking Digital Resources in the Humanities

Chairs: Lorna Hughes, (Humanities Computing Group, New York University) and David Green (National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage)

With: LeeEllen Friedland (Library of Congress)

Michael Shapiro (International Intellectual Property Institute)

Christine Sundt (University of Oregon)

John Unsworth (Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities)

 

Speaker 1: David Green, Advocacy & Public Policy/An Introduction to NINCH: the First Five Years

Speakers 2: Lorna Hughes, LeeEllen Friedland and John Unsworth, International Database of Digital Humanities Projects. A Guide to Good Practice in the Digital Representation and Management of Cultural Heritage Materials

Speakers 3: Christine Sundt; Michael Shapiro, Intellectual Property.Copyright Town Meetings Intellectual Property Action Agenda for the Cultural Community

 

Visual Data II

R. Mulholland (University of Northumbria) A. Jean, and E. Brown, A Shape Retrieval System for Watermark Images;

Paper to be confirmed
 

3.00pm - 3.30pm
Tea and coffee

3.30pm - 5.00pm

Lecture Theatre

Room 1
(B102)

Room 2
(B202)

Room 3
(B111)

AHC Thread
Digitizing Historic Sources II

Rene von Horvik (Delft University of Technology), About the Longevity of Digital Surrogates of Historical Sources: the importance of application profiles;

Michel Kowalewicz (CNRS-Monpellier) and Bethany Wiggin (University of Minnesota), 18th Century Letters On-line;

Alejandro Bia (University of Alicante), Automating the production of facsimiles and transactions for manuscripts and rare books at the Miguel de Cervantes digital library 

 

Panel session:
The Austrian Academy Corpus: digital resources in textual studies

Chair: Hanno Biber (Oesterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften),

Evelyn Breitender (Oesterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften)
Karheinz Moerth (Oesterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften)

Panel Session:
CHArt

Chair: Hazel Gardner (CHART)

including Kelly Richmond (Art Museum Image Consortium)

 

Discovering Humanities Resources II

Alastair Dunning (Arts and Humanities Data Service), The Question concerning Technology: Philosophy and Digital Resources;

Mirko Tavoni (Universita di Pisa) ICoN: Italian Culture on the Net: a virtual university for the teaching of Italian Language and Culture;

Alexander Huber (Library at Goettingen) Internet-based subject gateways on British and American History and Literature.

Evening Event

Drinks and canapes on the M.V. Mayflower Garden

Tuesday 10th July

The Brunei Gallery, SOAS

9.00am - 10.30pm

Lecture Theatre

Room 1
(B102)

Room 2
(B202)

Room 3
(B111)

AHC Thread

Digitizing Historic Newspapers
Juan Manuel Perez, Carlos Granell, Maria Jose Aramburu and Rafael Berlanga (Universitat Jaume I), Visual Interfaces for the temporal analysis of newspapers;

B. Gatos, S. L. Mantzaris and N. Gouraros (Lambrakis Press Archives), An integrated system for creating a digital library from newspaper archives;

Marilyn Deegan (title to be confirmed)

Digital Resources in Music

J. Craig McFeely (Royal Holloway University), Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music;

Brent Lee (University of British Columbia) and John Roeder (University of British Columbia), The Challenge of Digital Musical Archives: research within the InterPARES project;

Frans Wiering (Utrecht University), Document  structure, browsing and information retrieval in the TMI

Panel Session:
Performing Arts and the Digital Environment: a copyright hypothetical.

Chair: Catherine Owen (Performing Arts Data Service)

 

10.30-11.00am
Tea and Coffee

Lecture Theatre

Room 1
(B102)

Room 2
(B202)

Room 3
(B111)

AHC Thread

AHDS Session

Cressida Chappell (details to be confirmed)

Panel Session:
British University Film and Video Council

Chair: Luke McKernan (British Universities Film and Video Council)

Speaker 1: Linda Kaye (BUNSP), British Universities Newsree Scripts Project (BUNSP)

Speaker 2: John Riley (TRILT), Television and Radio Index for learning and teaching (TRILT)

Speaker 3: Anne Flemming (Head of Content for the Managing Agent), MAAS Media Online

Digital Preservation

Panel Session:
Digital Preservation

Chair: Maggie Jones (CEDARS)

Speaker 1: Neil Beagrie (JISC), A Digital Preservation Coalition for the UK
Speaker 2: Deborah Woodyard (British Library), Digital Preservation Developments at The British Library
Speaker 3: Stewart Granger (CAMilEON), CAMilEON: Emulation as a Digital Preservation Strategy
Speaker 4: David Holdsworth, title to be confirmed

 

12.30-1.30pm
Lunch

Lecture Theatre

Room 1
(B102)

Room 2
(B202)

Room 3
(B111)

AHC Thread

Panel session: Modelling History with XML

Chair: B. Farrimond (Liverpool Hope University College)

Lindy Parkinson (Liverpool Hope University College)

Fiona Pogson (Liverpool Hope University College)

Digitizing Medieval  Manuscripts

Murray McGillvray (University of Alberta), Representing physical texts in electronic form;

Demorah Hayes, Glossing Damaged Manuscripts: an example from Ælfric’s Lives of Saints

Third speaker to be confirmed

Extending the Boundaries

Ya-ning Chen (Academia Sinica) and Shu-jiun Chen (Academia Sinica), A practical metadata approach towards Chinese rubbings;

Colin Chinnery (British Library), Visualisation of data in the Dun-Huang project;

Christopher A. Vaughan (Rutgers University) and Daniel Grimm (Rutgers University), Extending the Digital Reach across Time and Space: Sharing the Growing Bounty.

 

3.00-3.30pm
Tea and Coffee

 

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