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DRHA Submissiom Deadline Extended

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Extended Deadline: 14th of April 2010

CALL FOR PAPERS AND PERFORMANCES

DRHA 2010 Conference: Digital Resources for the Humanities and Arts

Sunday 5th September – Wednesday 8th September 2010

Brunel University, West London

http://www.drha2010.org.uk

CONFERENCE THEME: Sensual Technologies: Collaborative Practices of Interdisciplinarity

The conferences overall theme will be the exploration of the collaborative relationship between the body and sensual/sensing technologies across various disciplines. In this respect it will offer an interrogation of practices that are indebted to the innovative exchange between the sensual, visceral and new technologies.

At the same time, the aim is to look to new approaches offered by various emerging fields and practices that incorporate new and existing technologies. Specific examples of areas for discussion could include:

Delineation of new collaborative practices and the interchange of knowledge

Collaborative interdisciplinary practices of embodiment and technology

Integration/deployment of digital resources in new contexts

Connections and tensions that exist between the Arts, Humanities and Science

Notions of the solitary and the collaborative across the Arts, Humanities, and Sciences

eScience in the Arts and Humanities

Use of digital resources in collaborative creative work, teaching, learning and scholarship

Open source and second generation Web infrastructure

Digital media in time and space

Music and technology: composition and performance

Dance and interactive technologies

Taking inspiration from SET: imaging, GPS and mobile technologies

Evaluating the experience among providers and users / performers and audiences

Interface Design and HCI

Performative Practices in SecondLife or other virtual platforms

New critical paradigms for the conferences theme

The DRHA (Digital Resources for the Humanities and Arts) conference is held annually at various academic venues throughout the UK. This years conference is hosted by Brunel University, West London. It will take place from Sunday 5th September to Wednesday 8th September 2010. It will be held across various innovative spaces, including the newly expanded Boiler House laboratory facilities, housed in the Antonin Artaud Building, and state of the art conference facilities plus high standard accommodation.

Confirmed Keynote Speakers

– Richard Coyne – Professor of Architectural Computing at the University of Edinburgh.

– Christopher Pressler: Director of Research and Learning Resources and Director of the Centre for Research Communications, University of Nottingham.

– Thecla Schiphorst: Media Artist/Designer and Faculty Member in the School of Interactive Arts and Technology. Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada.

– STELARC, Chair in Performance Art at Brunel University and Senior Research, Fellow in the MARCS Labs at the University of Western Sydney.

We invite original papers, panels, installations, performances, workshop sessions and other events that address the conference theme, with particular attention to the Sensual Technologies focus. We encourage proposals for innovative and non-traditional session formats.

DRHA 2010 will include a SecondLife roundtable/discussion event, led by performance artist Stelarc, which will enable international participants to present performative work via Second Life. For this event, we particular encourage submission of Machinima works that can be screened as part of this panel.

Short presentations, for example work-in-progress, are invited for poster presentations.

Anyone wishing to submit a performance or installation should visit http://www.drha2010.org.uk for information about the spaces and technical equipment and support available.

All proposals – whether papers, performance or other – should reflect the critical engagement at the heart of DRHA 2010.

The deadline for submissions will now be: 14 April 2010.

At this stage, only abstracts are due and these should be between 600 – 1000 words.

Full papers can be submitted after the conference for peer-review to specifically themed issues of the Body Space and Technology Journal (Brunel University), as well as to the International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, (Intellect Publishing).

Letters of acceptance will be sent by mid/late May 2010.

Please see http://www.drha2010.org.uk more information and a link for online submission.

Franziska Schroeder

DRHA 2010 Programme Chair

Posted by: Dot Porter (dot.porter@gmail.com).

Reviews of Online Resources: Call for DM 6

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Dear all,

This is a call for contributions for the next issue of the Digital Medievalist journal (http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/journal/). As we all know, there are now many scholarly resources which have been published online as websites but which have never been reviewed as scholarly publications. This is a problem both for us as practitioners and for the discipline in general, not least because it can imply that these publications are somehow less scholarly. Furthermore, the career of academics and research departments often depends on having reviewed publications, as a result of which many online publications are inadmissible for tenure, research assessment and the like.

This problem is being addressed by bodies such as the MLA, but still there are relatively few reviews being written. To help encourage this process, the editors at DM have decided to take action and will include as many of these reviews as we can manage in our next issue (and thereafter). We therefore ask (a) for suggestions of resources that should be reviewed, and (b) offers from reviewers. Of course the ideal is to offer both a resource and a review.
As usual, reviews should be approximately 1,500 words and should consider the publication both from the ‘digital’ and ‘medieval/humanities’ standpoints. We are interested primarily in projects on medieval topics, but as always we are open to anything of interest to medievalists. See the journal’s Submission Guidelines for further details (http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/journal/1.1/submission/).

Please note also that we are thinking specifically of freely available online publications, not printed books, CD-ROM publications or subscription-only resources (although we will of course still consider reviews of these as usual). In particular, this means that we cannot promise reviewers copies of the publication being reviewed, or access to subscription-only sites.

Thanks, and we look forward to your suggestions,

The Editors, Digital Medievalist
editors@digitalmedievalist.org

Digital Medievalist is an international web-based Community of Practice for medievalists working with digital media (http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/). Our on-line, refereed Journal accepts work of original research and scholarship, notes on technological topics (markup and stylesheets, tools and software, etc.), commentary pieces discussing developments in the field, bibliographic and review articles, and project reports.

Posted by: Peter Stokes (pas53@cam.ac.uk).

2 PhD Positions in Text Analysis and Speech Synthesis, Trinity College Dublin

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[Apologies for multiple postings; please circulate as appropriate.]

2 Phd Positions involving speech and text analysis are open within TCD.

http://www.tcd.ie/Graduate_Studies/InnovationBursaries/

The bursaries include payment of fees, some research costs, and a stipend of 16K per annum. The funding covers four years of study within a structured PhD program. This funding is equivalent to that provided by IRCSET awards.

Position 1: Speaking the 1641 Depositions

This innovative project under the theme of  “Digital Humanities and Sustainable Records” will attract candidates who are interested in independent and advanced research linking speech synthesis and important historical documents. It will involve application of advanced linguistic and statistical methods, using the latest tools and technologies, for the analysis and rendering into speech of large bodies of annotated historical text. The project will last for four years and research costs, a stipend, and coverage of fees, etc., will be offered. Successful applicants will have a background in either history or computing. They will have keen analytical skills and will join a small team of researchers with similar interests in the way people speak and present information. They will be especially interested in expressing personality through speech synthesis, and in attempting to render historical texts in order to express character through the synthesised voices.

Further details:
http://www.tcd.ie/Graduate_Studies/InnovationBursaries/
Apply for course: http://www.pac.ie/tcd (code — TRB01)

Position 2: Technology for harmonising interpersonal communication

We explore how contemporary modes of interaction, typically at a distance via electronic devices, can be supplemented to support the sorts of information flow and inference that evolution has endowed humans sensitivity to in face-to-face communications. The research entails that various prototype applications be constructed, deployed and analyzed. A successful candidate will have demonstrable expertise in computer programming, preferably with experience of end-user application delivery. The candidate will be engaged in the delivery of software alongside performance of quantitative and qualitative analysis of linguistic data. The background research topic is in discerning sentiment and other non-propositional content of textual communications (such as text messages) and projecting the same through appropriate vocal synthesis. Prior expertise in text and dialogue analysis as well as speech synthesis will be an advantage. Candidates should be comfortable with computational theoretical frameworks for syntax and formal semantics, as well as statistically oriented approaches to language analysis.

Further details:
http://www.tcd.ie/Graduate_Studies/InnovationBursaries/
Apply for course: http://www.pac.ie/tcd (code — TRB08)

Corpus Release: Corpus OVI dell’Italiano antico

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A new version of Corpus OVI dell’italiano antico is now available online! After this update, this corpus consists of 1978 texts with 21,817,929 words, 443,810 different word forms, 116,224 lemmas and 3,615,478 lemmatized occurrences.

Corpus TLIO aggiuntivo

For not yet lemmatized texts awaiting inclusion in the Corpus OVI, an additional corpus has been created, the Corpus TLIO aggiuntivo, which at present contains 306 texts with 1,189,808 words and 71,900 different word forms.

Archivio Datini

In collaboration with the Archivio di Stato of the Tuscan town of Prato, OVI has developed a lemmatized database containing all published letters (3000 texts with 1,100,987 words and 50,139 different word forms, 7,591 lemmas and 146,741 lemmatized occurrences) in the archive of the great Tuscan merchant Francesco di Marco Datini (1335-1410).

Corpus ARTESIA

Corpus ARTESIA, created by University of Catania, is hosted on the OVI server. It consists of 239 early Sicilian texts, with currently 1,025,367 words.

Further informations

http://www.vocabolario.org

Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche

Institute Opera del Vocabolario Italiano

Firenze, via di Castello 46

I-50141

tel. +39 055 452841

fax +39 055 452843

e-mail ovi@ovi.cnr.it

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Symposium on TEI and Scholarly Publishing * Dublin, Ireland * 28 April 2010

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*Please circulate*

Symposium on TEI and Scholarly Publishing
http://dho.ie/node/673

Wednesday, 28 April 2010
Royal Irish Academy, 19 Dawson Street, Dublin 2

The TEI Council and the Digital Humanities Observatory, a project of the Royal Irish Academy, invite you to participate in a one-day Symposium on TEI and Scholarly Publishing, to be held 28 April 2010 in conjunction with a meeting of the TEI Council. Invited speakers from universities, publishing organizations, and private industry will identify current difficulties in making publication systems interoperable and identify priority actions for the TEI to intervene in this arena.

During the presentations, there will be simultaneous discussion in the backchannel #teipublishing and in a publicly readable and editable Google Docs file for collaborative identification of priority actions for the TEI. To avoid infestation by spambots, we will not include the actual URL in announcements. Please type “docs.google.com” into your browser and then paste the following after it:

/Doc?id=dv3dx7h_12gtqzjxg5

We encourage participation on the backchannel and in this collaborative writing exercise by all, even those unable to attend in person.

Registration to attend in person is free but required. For further information, please see http://dho.ie/node/673

Posted by: Kevin Hawkins (kevin.s.hawkins@ULTRASLAVONIC.INFO).