We begin today with the announcement of our 2010-2011 Digital Humanities Fellows Program award winners. The Digital Humanities Fellows Program seeks to reward faculty and graduate students exploring innovations in the digital humanities by providing support to promising projects that offer transformative potential in their home disciplines.
The 2010-2011 award winners are: Dr. Emily Brock, Assistant Professor, Department of History and Dr. Stanley Dubinsky, Professor of Linguistics, Department of English Language & Literature. Dr. Brock’s The Once and Future Wild: Digital History of an Oak Savanna will use multiple forms of information to create a spatial history of the environmental and human past of the Pleasant Valley Conservancy, a 300-acre oak savanna site in Southern Wisconsin. Dr. Dubinsky’s Wordify! continues preliminary development (in collaboration with Linguistics graduate student Lindsey Hudson and Computer Science Professor Duncan Buell) of a multi-platform linguistic application based on English word morphology into a robust suite of games and applications for K-12 language arts and second language acquisition. Dubinsky plans to develop Wordify! into a rich suite of language activities that will simultaneously entertain and educate students of language, providing them novel ways of understanding the language they are learning to use.
“The fellows selected for this inaugural year,” said Dr. David Lee Miller, Director of CDH, “represent the diversity of methods, approaches, and disciplinary pedagogies that are encompassed by Digital Humanities. Dr. Brock’s project combines environmental data with the technology of geographic information systems and with cultural narratives of human interactions in a way that environmental historians everywhere can learn from. Dr. Dubinsky’s project offers cutting-edge approaches to English language acquisition for upper elementary students and second-language users. CDH is pleased to support this kind of innovative research, which benefits the scholars' individual disciplines but also enriches the larger USC research community.”
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CDH had a very productive fall semester. We saw the launch of 10 new digital humanities projects that are generating some very impressive results and renewed our commitments to our existing efforts. We hosted our first open house, the first two speakers in this year's future knowledge series, welcomed new opportunities with the Digital Collections Library, the School of Library and Information Science, the A.C. Moore Herbarium, and the Simms Initative (to name just a few), as well as served as a campus-wide resource for undergraduate and graduate courses to educate them about what is possible in the digital humanities. The entire CDH staff would like to thank you for your support. It is greatly appreciated.
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To highlight some forthcoming digital humanities opportunities locally:
The Future Knowledge Series (sponsored by the Office of Information Technology) welcomes:
February 9th: Colin Allen speaking on "A Tale of Two Ontologies" (see attached poster- co-sponsored by the Department of Philosophy)
March 15: Noah Wardrip-Fruin speaking on "Meaning What We Play"
Both lectures are at 4 pm in Lumpkin Auditorium in the Moore School of Business with receptions immediately following.
And nationally/internationally:
Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2011)
June 13-17, 2011 - Ottawa, Canada
http://www.jcdl2011.org
Hosted by the University of Ottawa
Sponsored by ACM SIGIR, ACM SIGWEB, and IEEE-CS TCDL
CALL FOR PAPERS
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The ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries is a major international forum focusing on digital libraries and associated technical, practical, organizational, and social issues. JCDL encompasses the many meanings of the term "digital libraries", including (but not limited to) new forms of information institutions and organizations; operational information systems with all manner of digital content; new means of selecting, collecting, organizing, distributing, and accessing digital content; theoretical models of information media, including document genres and electronic publishing; and theory and practice of use of managed content in science and education. Digital libraries are distinguished from information retrieval systems because they include more types of media, provide additional functionality and services, and include other stages of the information life cycle, from creation through use. Digital libraries also can be viewed as a new form of information institution or as an extension of the services libraries currently provide.
The theme for JCDL 2011 is "Digital Libraries: Bringing Together Scholars, Scholarship and Research Data", in recognition of the changes the digital age is now bringing to scholarship, broadly writ. Publishing models are changing, along with the breadth of digital material that must be managed coherently in the context of users forcing the move from information silos to a landscape of interconnected systems supporting scholarship for both research and education. Additionally in a number of disciplines we are seeing funding agency directives to include with primary scholarship those materials on which the scholarship is based such as data sets both in the sciences and humanities. Further, we are seeing more focus on requirements for managing data for use in the future by other scholars.
The intended community for this conference includes those interested in all aspects of digital libraries such as infrastructure; institutions; metadata; content; services; digital preservation; system design; scientific data management; workflows; implementation; interface design; human-computer interaction; performance evaluation; usability evaluation; collection development; intellectual property; privacy; electronic publishing; document genres; multimedia; social, institutional, and policy issues; user communities; and associated theoretical topics. JCDL welcomes submissions in these areas, and submissions associated with the JCDL 2011 theme of "Digital Libraries: Bringing Together Scholars, Scholarship and Research Data" are particularly welcome. The conference sessions, workshops and tutorials will cover all these aspects.
Participation is sought from all parts of the world and from the full range of established and emerging disciplines and professions including computer science, information science, data science, librarianship, data management, archival science and practice, museum studies and practice, information technology, medicine, social sciences, education and humanities. Representatives from academe, government, industry, and others are invited to participate.
JCDL 2011 invites submissions of papers and proposals for posters, demonstrations, tutorials, and workshops that will make the conference an exciting and creative event to attend. As always, the conference welcomes contributions from all the fields that intersect to enable Digital Libraries.
All contributions are to be submitted in electronic form via the JCDL 2011 submission Web page, following ACM http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html format guidelines and using the ACM template. Please submit all papers in PDF format.
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The Open Annotation Collaboration (OAC) project is pleased to announce
an open call for statements of interest in participating in the Using
the OAC Model for Annotation Interoperability Workshop. The workshop
will be held 24-25 March 20011 in Chicago, IL and will provide an in-
depth introduction to the OAC data model and ontology for describing
scholarly annotations of Web-accessible information resources. Use
cases involving a range of scholarly annotation classes and target
media types will be presented. Participants will be asked to examine,
comment on, and provide feedback on how well the OAC data model and
framework intersects (or fails to intersect) with domain-specific
needs for scholarly annotation services and with existing discipline
or repository-specific annotation tools and services. By the end of
the day and a half workshop, attendees will be better prepared to
propose and undertake implementations of annotation tools and services
exploiting the OAC data model and ontology.
The workshop is planned for 9 AM March 24 through 1 PM March 25, 2011,
in Chicago, Illinois. Limited support is available to reimburse
invited participants for reasonable travel costs. Preliminary
statements of interest & use case briefs are due by January 24, 2011.
In the event of oversubscription, these briefs will be used to select
invitees; invitations will be issued by February 7. Please see
http://www.openannotation.org/documents/CallForWorkshopParticipation.pdf
for additional details and context; contact Tim Cole (t-
cole3@illinois.edu) or Jacob Jett (jjett2@illinois.edu) for further
information.
The Open Annotation Collaboration is supported by a grant from the
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. OAC members include the University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the University of Maryland, the
University of Queensland (Australia), and the Los Alamos National
Laboratory.
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Call for Papers
The Second International Conference on Culture and Computing
(Culture and Computing 2011)
Date: October 20-22, 2011
Venue: The Clock Tower Centennial Hall, Kyoto University, Japan
http://www.ai.soc.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp/culture2011/
International communities have a myriad of problems around topics
such as: population demographic shifts, energy use and creation,
the environment, and food supply. It is necessary to build a
global consensus for resolving problems within these topic areas.
Unfortunately, there are difficulties in communication among
different cultures. Information and communication technologies
are required in order to overcome such difficulties.
There are various research directions in the relations between
culture and computing:
to archive cultural heritages via ICT (cf. digital archives),
to empower humanities researches via ICT (cf. digital humanities),
to create art and expressions via ICT (cf. media art),
to realize a culturally situated agent (cf. cultural agent),
to support multi-language, multi-cultural societies via ICT
(cf. intercultural collaboration), and to understand new cultures
born in the Internet and Web (cf. net culture).
The International Conference on Culture and Computing
(Culture & Computing) will be held in Kyoto, the cultural heart
of Japan, to provide an opportunity to share research issues and
discuss the future of culture and computing. To understand the
proceedings at the previous conference, please visit
http://www.ai.soc.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp/culture2010/index.html.
The second conference (Culture & Computing 2011) will be organized
with an exhibition on the integration of state of the art cultural
computing technologies and Japanese traditional culture,
along with a number of co-located events.
Papers are solicited on any aspect on the intersection of culture
and computing, but all papers are expected to be suitable for a
multidisciplinary audience. We have a single session Main Track
and a few parallel session Special Tracks. The Main Track will
present a collection of scientific or engineering research results.
Examples of suitable paper topics for the Main Track include:
•Archiving cultural heritages
•Information environments for humanity studies
•Art and design by information technologies
•Digital storytelling
•Intercultural communication and collaboration
•Culturally situated agents and simulations
•Game and culture
•Analysis of new culture in the Internet and Web
•Culture and brain science
The Special Tracks are collections of short papers, and are
organized in coordination with the Main Track for the purpose of
encouraging discussions in hot areas. We have Special Tracks for
"Digital Humanities," "Asian Culture based Media Art" and
"Computing and Music" at this conference.
Paper
Submitted papers must report original work that has not been
previously published. A full paper with a limit of six (6) pages
and a special trackpaper with a limit of two (2) pages, should be
submitted by the paper submission deadline. Papers should follow
the formatting instructions for publishing with IEEE Computer
Society's Conference Publishing Services.
Main Track papers (full papers) should be submitted electronically
with an abstract (150 words) via EasyChair at
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=culture2011.
Submissions (PDF) must be written in English and must not exceed
6 pages in IEEE Standard template.
Special Track papers (short papers) should be submitted electronically
with an abstract (150 words) via EasyChair at
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=culture2011sp.
Submissions (PDF) must be written in English and must not exceed
2 pages in IEEE Standard template.
All submitted papers will be reviewed by three distinguished
researchers in the area of culture and computing. Accepted papers
will appear in the conference proceedings published by the IEEE
Computer Society and be included in the IEEE Computer Society
Digital Libraries (CSDL).
Important Dates
Main Track:
Deadline for titles and abstracts: April 20th, 2011
Deadline for papers for review: May 1st, 2011
Author notification: June 20th, 2011
Deadline for camera ready papers: July 20th, 2011
Special Track:
Deadline for titles and abstracts: May 20th, 2011
Deadline for papers for review: June 1st, 2011
Author notification: June 20th, 2011
Deadline for camera ready papers: July 20th, 2011
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For those looking for a fellowship opportunity:
FELLOWSHIP: TECHNOLOGY AND DEMOCRACY, CENTER OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA, CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA
The Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia invites applications for the 2011-12 Ambrose Monell Foundation Fellowship in Technology and Democracy. The Monell Fellowship is one of eight fellowships offered as part of the Miller Center National Fellowship Program, which provides support for individuals completing their dissertations on American politics, domestic and foreign policy, and the impact of global affairs on the United States. In addition to conducting cutting edge scholarship, we address critical issues facing the United States by engaging a larger public in a discussion about American political development.
The Ambrose Monell Foundation Fellows work should inform these topics through an approach broadly centered at the crosscurrents of technology and democracy, perhaps addressing public affairs and policy issues such as energy, transportation, health care, the environment, new media, urban planning, or civic engagement. The 2010-2011 Ambrose Monell Fellow in Technology and Democracy, Francesca Ammon, is completing a dissertation that explores the cultural, ideological, and technological underpinnings of post-World War II Urban Renewal demolition and clearance. Read more about her work here.
The Ambrose Monell Foundation seeks to aid religious, charitable, scientific, literary, and educational purposes around the world. In funding the Miller Centers Fellowship in Technology and Democracy, the Foundation is contributing to the broader dissemination of the newest and best scholarship on this increasingly important set of topics. The fellowship provides $20,000 grants to support one year of research and writing. Along with the fellowship grant, the Miller Center assists the fellow in choosing a senior scholar as a fellowship mentor who makes suggestions on the literature in which the fellow should frame the project, reads the fellows work, gives advice on research and provides constructive criticism over the course of the fellowship year.
The Miller Center encourages applicants from a broad range of disciplines, including but not limited to history, political science, policy studies, law, political economy, and sociology.
Requirements: An applicant must be (1) a Ph.D. candidate expecting to complete his or her dissertation by the conclusion of the fellowship year. Residence is strongly encouraged but not required. All fellows are expected to participate in and contribute to the intellectual discourse at the Center, as well as attend conferences in Fall 2011 and May 2012. These two conferences will provide a forum for presenting research and findings to the scholarly community at the Miller Center and the University of Virginia.
To Apply: Please complete our online application here. All applications must be submitted online by 1 February 2011. Applicants will be notified of the selection committees decision in April 2011. Inquiries should be directed to Anne Mulligan atacm8k@virginia.edu or 434-243-8726. Additional information is available at the Miller Centers website.
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As always, CDH is looking for promising research projects and opportunities in the Digital Humanities. Don't hesitate to let us know if we can aid your explorations in digital humanities.
We look forward to seeing you February 9th at Dr. Allen's talk.
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