Add to 1-5 July 2008, Royal Irish Academy
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Programme
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09.00 Registration/Tea & Coffee
09.30 Conceptualisation to Realisation: Managing Digital Humanities Projects; Location: Member’s Room
11-11.30 Tea & Coffee; Council Room
11.30-13.15 Cont’d. Conceptualisation to Realisation: Managing Digital Humanities Projects; Location: Member’s Room
13.15 - 14.15 Lunch
14.15-15.30 Cont’d. Conceptualisation to Realisation: Managing Digital Humanities Projects;Location: Member’s Room
15.30-15.45 Tea & Coffee; Council Room
15.45-17.30 Cont’d. Conceptualisation to Realisation: Managing Digital Humanities Projects;Location: Member’s Room
17.30 Welcom Recpetion
Wednesday 2nd July 2008
09.30 Digital Imaging Track Location: Council Room
Text Encoding Track Location: Meeting Room
11-11.30 Tea & Coffee; Members Room
11.30-13.15 Cont’d. Digital Imaging Track Location: Council Room
Text Encoding Track Location: Meeting Room
13.15 - 14.15 Lunch
14.15 - 15.30 Cont’d. Digital Imaging Track Location: Council Room
Text Encoding Track Location: Meeting Room
15.30-15.45 Tea & Coffee; Members Room
15.45-16.30 Cont’d. Digital Imaging Track Location: Council Room
Text Encoding Track Location: Meeting Room
16.30-17.30 Applying Emerging Technologies for Digital Humanities,
Douglas W. Oard, University of Maryland Location: Member’s Room
Thursday 3rd July 2008
09.30 Digital Imaging TrackLocation: Council Room
Text Encoding Track Location: Meeting Room
11-11.30 Tea & Coffee; Members Room
11.30-13.15 Cont’d. Digital Imaging Track Location: Council Room
Text Encoding Track Location: Meeting Room
13.15 - 14.15 Lunch
14.15 - 15.30 Master Class with Dean John Unsworth, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Location: Member’s Room
15.30-15.45 Tea & Coffee; Council Room
15.45-16.30 Cont’d. Master Class with Dean John Unsworth, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Location: Member’s Room
Friday 4th July 2008
09.30 Digital Imaging Track Location: Council Room
Text Encoding Track Location: Meeting Room
11-11.30 Tea & Coffee; Members Room
11.30-13.15 Cont’d. Digital Imaging Track Location: Council Room
Text Encoding Track Location: Meeting Room
13.15 - 14.15 Lunch
14.15 - 15.30 Master Class with Dr. Willard McCarty: The Pasts and Futures of Literary Computing,
King’s College, London Location: Member’s Room
15.30-15.45 Tea & Coffee; Council Room
15.45-16.30 Cont’d. Master Class with Dr. Willard McCarty: The Pasts and Futures of Literary Computing,
King’s College, London Location: Member’s Room
Saturday 5th July 2008
09.30 Digital Imaging Track Location: Council Room
Text Encoding Track Location: Meeting Room
11-11.30 Tea & Coffee; Members Room
11.30-13.15 Cont’d. Digital Imaging Track Location: Council Room
Text Encoding Track Location: Meeting Room
13.15 - 14.15 Lunch
14.15 - 15.00 Wrap Up Discussion Location: Member’s Room
Summer School Offerings
From Conceptualization to Realization: Managing Digital Humanities Projects
Instructors: Jennifer Edmond and Susan Schreibman
Digital Humanities projects, like any other, require careful management if they are to be completed on time and on budget. This workshop will give an overview of the nature of the teams, tasks, and tools needed to successfully plan, implement, promote, and deliver these kinds of projects. Particular attention will be given to the role each team member plays in each project;, motivating and managing teams;, risk assessment techniques; project lifecycles and managing change; and to management tools, such as Gantt and authority charts, which can help the project team to maintain focus over the course of a multi-year project life span.
Lectures
Applying Emerging Technologies for Digital Humanities
Douglas W. Oard
I'll demonstrate a system for integrating scanned documents and images to explore an historical event, describe techniques for providing interactive access to digitized recordings of oral history interviews, and demonstrate a system for searching text and speech in unfamiliar languages. There are two key issues that need to be thought through in each case. First, although it is important to understand what these types of systems can do, it is equally important to understand thir limitations. Second, systems with new capabilities and limitations will naturally drive us to develop new ways of working, and new ways of working will in turn reshape the way the think about what we really need our systems to do. My central thesis is, therefore, that we should think of what we are engaged in here not just as learning new skills, but also as a part of a longer journey that we are all taking together.
Master Classes
The Pasts and Futures of Literary Computing
Willard McCarty
Participants in this master class will be asked beforehand to read selected papers from the history of literary computing, ca 1960 to the present, then in class to discuss emergent themes, to diagnose chronic problems in the field and to speculate on possible futures. Each participant will take a specific literary-critical problem of his or her own choosing and work out a strategy for following it into one or more desirable futures for the field. Demands on relevant technologies will be noted and afterwards widely circulated via Humanist for comment.
Title : The Institutional Pragmatics of Humanities Computing: A Seminar
John Unsworth
This seminar will focus on the instutional pragmatics of Humanities Computing. This seminar will take the form of a dialogue with all seminar members having an opportunity to share their experiences. Advanced reading is not required, but the wikipedia entry entitled The Mythical Man-Month would be a good starting point.
Parallel Tracks
Text Encoding for Scholarly Editions
Tanya Clement and Susan Schreibman
This course will provide an introduction to the theory and practice of encoding electronic texts for the humanities. This workshop is designed for individuals embarking on a text encoding project and who would like a better understanding of the philosophy, theory, and practicalities of encoding in XML (Extensible Markup Language) using the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) guidelines. No previous knowledge of XML and the TEI is necessary. Encoding poetry and prose will be covered for literary and documentary editions. Student will also be introduced to Document Type Definitions (DTDs), schema, and XSLT.
Creating, Describing, Delivering Images
Instructors: Tim Keefe and John McDonough
This course will cover the basics of creating and maintaining an on-line collection of digital images. Topics to be covered will include scanning and image processing (including derivative file creation and best practice in file format selection); metadata and cataloguing standards; describing images (including controlled vocabularies such as Library of Congress Subject Headings and Getty Thesaurus for Graphic Materials), data management (including issues of digital curation, preservation, and migration); database and repository options; color management and copyright issues.
Instructor Details
Tanya Clement
Tanya Clement is an English PhD candidate at the University of Maryland, College Park. Her focus of study is textual and digital studies as it pertains to applied humanities computing and modernist American literature. She has an M.F.A. in fiction from the University of Virginia, where she was also trained in humanities computing at the Electronic Text Center and the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (IATH). At the University of Maryland, she has been a Program Associate at the Maryland Institute for Technologies in the Humanities (MITH), project manager for the Dickinson Electronic Archives (www.emilydickinson.org), and a graduate assistant in the Office of Digital Collections and Research. At present she is the Winnemore fellow at MITH and a research associate for MONK (Metadata Offer New Knowledge at www.monkproject.org), a Mellon-funded project which seeks to integrate existing digital library collections and large-scale, cross-collection text mining and text analysis with rich visualization and social software capabilities.
Jennifer Edmond
Jennifer completed a PhD in German Languages and Literatures at Yale University in 1998. Even before completing her dissertation, however, she became actively engaged in the delivery of complex projects, beginning in 1993 with the creation of the McDougal Graduate Student Centre at Yale University for which she chaired the Facilities and Space Development Committee. Since that time she has been involved in the delivery of virtual learning and Digital Humanities research projects from a variety of perspectives, including content specialist, project manager and technical developer. In particular, her work as the University of Nottingham's Humanities Technology Officer has shaped her understanding of the time, people and money management challenges inherent in the delivery of projects that bring technology applications to humanistic content. Since 2005 she has been working within Trinity College Dublin, first as their Research Strategy Officer, and more recently as the Executive Director of the Trinity Long Room Hub.
Tim Keefe
Tim Keefe is Head of the Digital Resources and Imaging Services (DRIS) Department at Trinity College Dublin. The Digital Resources unit is a new department dedicated to the development of digital resources and repositories from the universities special collections and treasures. Prior to this position Tim worked as an imaging scientist and program manager at the Eastman Kodak Corporation in the Research and Development Division as a member of the System Concept Centre, an innovation and product research and development think tank, as well as in the Kodak Professional Digital Capture Group in the development of innovative new professional digital capture products. Earlier work includes the position of Creative Director at a Design and Prepress Business in Portland Maine in the US.
Tim's academic background includes undergraduate studies in Photography and Graphic Design at the Rhode Island School of Design and the Maine College of Art. Graduate Studies in Image Science Engineering through the Eastman Kodak sponsored Imaging Science and Technology Development Program. And most recently, a Masters of Business Administration from St John Fisher College in Rochester New York in the United States.
Willard McCarty
Willard McCarty (PhD, English literature, Toronto) is Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London; Editor of Humanist (1987-) and of Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (July 2008-); recipient of the Richard W Lyman Award (2006) and the SDH/SEMI Award for Outstanding Achievement (2005); and author of Humanities Computing (Palgrave, 2005). His current research interests are in modeling literary context (the subject of his current book) and in connections between the humanities and the sciences. See staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/ for more.
John McDonough
John McDonough is the Project Manager for University College Dublin's Irish Virtual Research Library and Archive (IVRLA). The IVRLA is a five year PRTLI funded project which is researching and implementing workflow practices in digitisation and digital repository development leading to the deployment of the IVRLA repository holding a critical mass of digitised primary source content from participating UCD repositories, with the development of added value researcher services. Version 1.0 of the repository was launched in 2007 with an initial 13 collections (http://ivrla.ucd.ie). The IVRLA is also developing a complimentary OAIS compliant preservation archive called SONRAI and is researching issues surrounding the long-term preservation of digital objects and associated metadata for humanities scholars.
John is a professional archivist and holds an MSc in IT Systems from DCU. Previously John has worked as Archivist (Electronic Records) in the National Archives of Ireland and managed the Radio Archive Project in RTE that saw the digitisation and cataloguing of a large body of analogue radio and sound recordings.
Douglas W Oard
is Associate Dean for Research at the College of Information Studies of the University of Maryland, College Park, where he holds joint appointments as Associate Professor in the College of Information Studies and in the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies. He earned his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland, and his research interests center around the use of emerging technologies to support information seeking by end users, with recent work on interactive techniques for cross-language information retrieval and for search and sense-making in conversational media. Additional information is available at http://www.glue.umd.edu/~oard/.
Susan Schreibman
Susan Schreibman received her PhD in Anglo-Irish Literature and Drama from University College Dublin (1997). She is the founding editor of The Thomas MacGreevy Archive , Irish Resources in the Humanities , and principle developer of The Versioning Machine. She is the co-editor of A Companion to Digital Literary Studies (Blackwell, 2007), A Companion to Digital Humanities (Blackwell, 2004), author of Collected Poems of Thomas MacGreevy: An Annotated Edition (1991), and series co-editor of Topics in the Digital Humanities (University of Illinois Press).
Dr Schreibman assumed the position of Director of the Digital Humanities Observatory in March 2008. Previously she worked as Assistant Dean and Head of Digital Collections and Research at University of Maryland Libraries, Assistant Director of Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH), Assistant Professor of Professional and Technical Communication at New Jersey Institute for Technology in the Humanities, and as a Newman Fellow, University College Dublin. Dr Schreibman is currently serving on the Board of the Text Encoding Consortium, the Executive of the Association of Computers in the Humanities, and the Modern Language Association's Committee on Information Technology. Dr Schreibman has taught TEI for nearly a decade at third level and at workshops in Ireland, the U.S., Canada, and Sweden.
John Unsworth
In 2003, John Unsworth was named Dean of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS) at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, with appointments as Professor in GSLIS, in the department of English, and on the Library faculty. During the previous ten years, from 1993-2003, he served as the first Director of the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, and a faculty member in the English Department, at the University of Virginia. For his work at IATH, he received the 2005 Richard W. Lyman Award from the National Humanities Center. He chaired the national commission that produced Our Cultural Commonwealth, the 2006 report on Cyberinfrastructure for Humanities and Social Science, on behalf of the American Council of Learned Societies, and he has supervised research projects across the disciplines in the humanities.
He has published widely on the topic of electronic scholarship, as well as co-directing one of nine national partnerships in the Library of Congress's National Digital Information Infrastructure Preservation Program, and securing grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Science Foundation, the Getty Grant Program, IBM, Sun, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and others. His first faculty appointment was in English, at North Carolina State University, from 1989 to 1993. He attended Princeton University and Amherst College as an undergraduate, graduating from Amherst in 1981. He received a Master's degree in English from Boston University in 1982 and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Virginia in 1988. In 1990, at NCSU, he co-founded the first peer-reviewed electronic journal in the humanities, Postmodern Culture (now published by Johns Hopkins University Press, as part of Project Muse). He also organized, incorporated, and chaired the Text Encoding Initiative Consortium, co-chaired the Modern Language Association's Committee on Scholarly Editions, and served as President of the Association for Computers and the Humanities and later as chair of the steering committee for the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations, as well as serving on many other editorial and advisory boards. Further information is at: http://www3.isrl.uiuc.edu/~unsworth/.
