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Balisage: The Markup Conference 2010

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Got Markup? (of course you do!)

Want to get more out of it? Want to stretch it to the limit? Come to Balisage 2010, the peer-reviewed conference that makes you a markup geek (or at least feel like one)! Whether you’re into theory or practice, this is the place to be to find out where the cutting edge is-and go beyond it. Balisage looks at every aspect of markup, from its theoretical and philosophical underpinnings to the newest and coolest ways of applying it to real-world problems.

Got Something To Say About Markup? (of course you do!)

We want to hear from you at Balisage 2010. We welcome submissions on any aspect of markup and structured information in theory or practice, generic or application specific, including by not limited to:

  • principles for the design, development, and documentation of markup vocabularies
  • applications of XML, Topic Maps, and related specifications
  • use or implementation of XSLT, XQuery, XProc, and other tools for processing marked up data
  • XML and databases
  • libraries and designs for supporting XML (or other forms of descriptive markup) in general-purpose programming languages
  • efficiency in XML processing
  • techniques for quality assurance in markup systems
  • handling overlapping structures in markup
  • alternatives to XML
  • formal models of markup and structured information
  • principles and practice of data validation (including uses of XSD, Relax NG, Schematron, and other schema languages)
  • best practice in the organization of XML workflows
  • problems of data longevity and reusability
  • fundamental principles of information structure and organization
  • achieving interoperability in applications of common vocabularies

How:
Submit full papers in XML to info@balisage.net Guidelines, DTDs, schemas, and details at http://www.balisage.net/submissions.html
Apply to the Peer Review panel http://www.balisage.net/peer/ReviewAppForm.html

More Information:
Read about Balisage: http://www.balisage.net
Sign up for the Markup conference announcement list: http://www.balisage.net/MarkupAnnounce.html
Follow Balisage on Twitter: http://twitter.com/balisage

Schedule:

19  March 2010 – Peer review applications due
16  April 2010 – Paper submissions due
16  April 2010 – Applications due for student support awards
20  May 2010 – Speakers notified
9  July 2010 – Final papers due
2  August 2010 – Pre-conference Symposium
3-6 August 2010 – Balisage: The Markup Conference

Help make Balisage your favorite XML Conference. See you in Montréal!

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Balisage: The Markup Conference 2010          mailto:info@balisage.net
August 3-6, 2010                                                        http://www.balisage.net
pre-conference symposium: August 2, 2010                  Montreal, Canada
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Posted by: Roberto Rosselli Del Turco (rosselli at ling dot unipi dot it)

Registration for conference New Directions in Textual Scholarship now open

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This is just a short note to inform you that registration is now open[1] for the international conference “New Directions in Textual Scholarship”, to be held March 25 to 27 in Saitama and Tokyo, Japan.  More information about the conference and the accepted speakers can be found on the website.  We hope to see you all in Japan come March!

On behalf of the program committee and the organizing team,

Christian Wittern

[1] http://www.kyy.saitama-u.ac.jp/users/myojo/textjapan/registration.html

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Christian Wittern
Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University
47 Higashiogura-cho, Kitashirakawa, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8265, JAPAN

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Call for participation: TEI seminar on manuscript encoding

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Applications are invited for participation in an advanced TEI seminar on manuscript encoding, being held at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, July 21-23, 2010, hosted by the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities.

Application deadline is March 1, 2010. Participants will be notified by March 12.

This seminar assumes a basic familiarity with TEI, and provide an opportunity to explore manuscript encoding topics in more detail, in a collaborative workshop setting. We will focus on the detailed challenges of encoding manuscript materials, including editorial, transcriptional, and interpretive issues and the methods of representing these in TEI markup.

This seminar is part of a series funded by the NEH and conducted by the Brown University Women Writers Project. They are intended to provide a more in-depth look at specific encoding problems and topics for people who are already involved in a text encoding project or are in the process of planning one. Each event will include a mix of presentations, discussion, case studies using participants’ projects, hands-on practice, and individual consultation. The seminars will be strongly project-based: participants will present their projects to the group, discuss specific challenges and encoding strategies, develop encoding specifications and documentation, and create encoded sample documents and templates. We encourage project teams and collaborative groups to apply, although individuals are also welcome. A basic knowledge of the TEI Guidelines and some prior experience with text encoding will be assumed.

Travel funding is available of up to $500 per participant.

For more information and to apply, please visit http://www.wwp.brown.edu/encoding/seminars/.

The rest of the seminar schedule is as follows:

University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Hosted by the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities
July 21-23, 2010
Application deadline: March 1, 2010
This workshop will focus on the encoding of manuscript materials.

University at Buffalo
Hosted by the Digital Humanities Initiative at Buffalo
October 2010 (precise date TBA)
Application deadline: May 17, 2010
This workshop will focus on the encoding of manuscript materials.

University of Maryland
January 2011 (precise date TBA)
Application deadline: September 6, 2010
This workshop will focus on the encoding of contextual information.

Brown University
Hosted by the Center for Digital Scholarship
April 28-30, 2011
Application deadline: December 1, 2010
This workshop will focus on the encoding of contextual information.

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Julia Flanders
Director, Women Writers Project
Brown University

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Call for Papers 2010. Archeomatica, Cultural Heritage Technologies

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Call for Papers 2010
Archeomatica, Cultural Heritage Technologies
Issues 1-2-3-4 / 2010

http://www.archeomatica.it/call-for-papers

Archeomatica is a new, multidisciplinary journal, printed in Italy, devoted to the presentation and the dissemination of advanced methodologies, emerging technologies and techniques for the knowledge, documentation, safeguard, conservation and exploitation ofcultural heritage. The journal aims to publish papers of significant and lasting value written by scientists, conservators and archaeologists involved on this field with the diffusion of specific new methodologies and experimental results. Archeomatica will also emphasize fruitful discussion on the best up-to-date scientific applications and exchanging ideas and findings related to any aspect of the cultural heritage sector.

Archeomatica is intended also to be a primary source of multidisciplinary and divulgatia information for the sector of cultural heritage.

The journal is divided in three sections: Documentazione (Survey and documentation), Rivelazioni (Analysis, diagnostics and monitoring), Restauro (Materials and intervention techniques).

The issues are also published on-line at the website http://www.archeomatica.it/.

Archeomatica invites submissions of high-quality papers and interdisciplinary works for the next issues in all areas related to science and technology in cultural heritage, particularly on recent developments. If you are interested please submit an original paper to paper-submission@archeomatica.it. The papers will be subject to review by the scientific board after which they are accepted or rejected in order to maintain quality. Applicants will be notified by email as to their acceptance. Topics and trends relevant to the Archeomatica Issues include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • Methodologies and analytical techniques for the characterization and for the evaluation of the preservation state of historical masterpieces
  • On-site and remotely sensed data collection
  • Digital artefact capture, representation and manipulation
  • Experiences in cultural heritage conservation
  • Methods for data elaboration and cataloguing
  • Setting of historical architectures
  • Intelligent tools for digital reconstruction
  • Augmentation of physical collections with digital presentations
  • Applications in Education and Tourism
  • Archaeological reconstruction
  • Electronic corpora
  • XML and databases and computational interpretation
  • Three-dimensional computer modeling, Second Life and virtual worlds
  • Image capture, processing, and interpretation
  • 3-D laser scanning, synchrotron, or X-ray imaging and analysis Technology
  • Metadata of material culture
  • Optical 3D measurement
  • Cultural heritage recording
  • Terrestrial laser scanning
  • Virtual reality data acquisition
  • Photogrammetric processing
  • GPS
  • GIS
  • Remote sensing
  • Culture portals
  • Advanced systems for digital culture in museums, archives and art institutions
  • Digitalization of cultural property
  • Web 2.0 and development of social networks on the top of cultural heritage portals
  • Applications of mobile technologies for digital culture and cultural heritage
  • Ubiquitous and pervasive computing
  • Methodologies and approaches to digitization
  • Augmented reality, virtual reality and digital culture
  • Access to archives in Europe
  • Books and electronic publishing
  • 2/3/4D Data Capture and Processing in Cultural Heritage
  • Web-based museum guides
  • Applications of Semantic Web technologies in Cultural Heritage
  • Non-Destructive analytical techniques for the study of the composition and decay of cultural heritage components
  • Management of heritage knowledge and data Visualization for cultural heritage

Publication Frequency
The journal is published quarterly a year.

Submission Preparation Checklist
As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission’s compliance withall of the following items, and submissions may be returned to  authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

Copyright Notice
Copyright for articles published in this journal is transferred by the authors to the journal. By virtue of their appearance in this journal, articles can be reproduced or copied in whole or in part, with proper attribution, in educational and other non-commercial settings. Interested authors should download and read the Instructions to Authors Manual for all details of requirements, procedures, paper mechanics, referencing style, and the technical review process for submitted papers. Color diagrams, figures, and photographs are encouraged. Papers should be submitted in a plain text, single-spaced Word or RTF file. Formatting should be kept to an absolute minimum. Do not embed graphics, tables, figures, or photographs in the text, but supply them in separate files, along with captions. Papers, diagrams, tables, etc. should be emailed as attached files to the email address listed in the Instructions Manual.

December 27, 2009
Renzo Carlucci
Editor
dir@archeomatica.it

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CFP: The Computational Turn (with website)

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SWANSEA UNIVERSITY http://sites.google.com/site/dmberry/home/location
9TH MARCH 2010

http://www.thecomputationalturn.com/

Keynote: N. Katherine Hayles http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/Literature/faculty/n.hayles (Professor of Literature at Duke University).
Keynote: Lev Manovich http://www.manovich.net/ (Professor, Visual Arts Department, UCSD).

The application of new computational techniques and visualisation technologies in the Arts & Humanities are resulting in new approaches and methodologies for the study of traditional and new corpuses of Arts and Humanities materials. This new ‘computational turn’ takes the methods and techniques from computer science to create new ways of distant and close readings of texts (e.g. Moretti). This one-day workshop aims to discuss the implications and applications of what Lev Manovich has called ‘Cultural Analytics’ and the question of finding patterns using algorthmic techniques. Some of the most startling approaches transform understandings of texts by use of network analysis (e.g. graph theory), database/XML encodings (which flatten structures), or merely provide new quantitative techniques for looking at various media forms, such as media and film, and (re)presenting them visually, aurally or haptically. Within this field there are important debates about the contrast between narrative against database techniques, pattern-matching versus hermeneutic reading, and the statistical paradigm (using a sample) versus the data mining paradigm. Additionally, new forms of collaboration within the Arts and Humanities are emerging which use team-based approaches as opposed to the traditional lone-scholar. This requires the ability to create and manage modular Arts and Humanities research teams through the organisational structures provided by technology and digital communications (e.g. Big Humanities), together with techniques for collaborating in an interdisciplinary way with other disciplines such as computer science (e.g. hard interdisciplinarity versus soft interdisciplinarity).

Papers are encouraged in the following areas:

– Distant versus Close Reading
– Database Structure versus Argument
– Data mining/Text mining/Patterns
– Pattern as a new epistemological object
– Hermeneutics and the Data Stream
– Geospatial techniques
– Big Humanities
– Digital Humanities versus Traditional Humanities
– Tool Building
– Free Culture/Open Source Arts and Humanities
– Collaboration, Assemblages and Alliances
– Language and Code (software studies)
– Information visualization in the Humanities
– Philosophical and theoretical reflections on the computational turn

Participation Requirements

Workshop participants are requested to submit a position paper (approx. 2000-5000 words) about the computational turn in Arts and Humanities, philosophical/theoretical reflections on the computational turn, research focus or research questions related to computational approaches, proposals for academic practice with algorithmic/visualisation techniques, proposals for new research methods with regard to Arts and Humanities or specific case studies (if applicable) and findings to date. Position papers will be published in a workshop PDF and website for discussion and some of the participants will be invited to present their paper at the workshop.

Deadline for Position papers: February 10, 2010
Submit papers to: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tct2010

Workshop funded by The Callaghan Centre for the Study of Conflict, Power, Empire http://www.swansea.ac.uk/humanities/ResearchCentres/CallaghanCentrefortheStudyofConflict/, Swansea University. TheResearch Institute in the Arts and Humanities http://www.swansea.ac.uk/artsandhumanities/riah/ (RIAH) at Swansea University.

Organised by Dr David M. Berry http://www.swan.ac.uk/staff/academic/Arts/berryd/, Department of Political and Cultural Studies, Swansea University. d.m.berry@swansea.ac.uk

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