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Subject: DRH'96 Programme & Registration Form
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DRH 96
digital resources for
the humanities
A Conference to be held at
Somerville College, Oxford
1st - 3rd July 1996
The conference has been sponsored by:
The British Library
Cambridge University Press
The Centre for Humanities Computing, Oxford
The Centre for Information Management and Technology for Scholarship,
London Guildhall University
Chadwyck-Healey Ltd
The CTI Centre for Textual Studies, Oxford
The Humanities Research Institute, Sheffield
The Office for Humanities Communication, Oxford
The Institute for Electronic Library Research, De Montfort University
Conference Organisation
The Conference is being organised by the Continuing Professional
Development Centre of the University of Oxford. For queries or further
information please contact:
Christine Merle
CPD Centre
Department for Continuing Education
University of Oxford
67 St Giles
Oxford, OX1 3LU
Tel: +44 1865 288166
Fax: +44 1865 288163
Email: christine.merle@conted.ox.ac.uk
URL: http://users.ox.ac.uk/~drh96/
Advances in computing affect all who work with the fundamental resources of
humanities scholarship. Long-held paradigms of scholarly resources-their
ownership, their use, their distribution-are being transformed. Archivists,
librarians, scholars, and publishers have to rework their relationships in
this new information world, without losing sight of the traditional values
of academic discourse. This conference will provide a forum to explore
these changes and to seek the best ways to exploit them together.Please
note that the programme is provisional at this stage, and that some papers,
or entire sessions may need to be rearranged. A final programme will be
provided at the conference, together with a book of abstracts. Sessions
will run in parallel strands (usually three at a time) and there will be an
exhibition running throughout the conference. Delegates wishing to
demonstrate software during the conference are asked to apply as soon as
possible to the Conference Co-ordinator.
Conference Venue
The conference will be held at Somerville College, Oxford. Somerville
College was founded in 1879 to promote the higher education of women. More
than one century later, and numbering many famous women amongst its old
members including many heads of states, the College is ideally situated for
conference delegates. It is just a few minutes from the centre of Oxford
with its many historic college and university buildings, museums, libraries
and art galleries. Oxford, which is widely regarded as one of the most
beautiful cities in Europe, has excellent rail and road links, with
frequent bus and train services to London and other major cities. For
international delegates, frequent coach services are available from the bus
stations situated at Heathrow and Gatwick airports. The journey from
Heathrow Airport takes about one hour.
Accommodation
Accommodation will be provided in single study bedrooms which are
comfortable, if unpretentious, with washbasin and shared bathroom
facilities. The cost of accommodation for two nights - 1st and 2nd July -
is included in the Conference Fee. If you would like additional
accommodation for any of the following nights this is available at an
additional charge of 30 pounds per night for bed and breakfast. Please
indicate your requirements on the Registration Form. Dinners will not be
provided at Somerville College on these additional nights. However there
are plenty of excellent restaurant close to Somerville College and list of
restaurants will be available at the Registration Desk.=20
Registration
The conference will run from lunchtime on 1st July 1996 until lunchtime on
3rd July 1996. Accommodation and meals will be provided for all delegates
at Somerville College. The full cost of the conference is 275 pounds
sterling. This price includes accommodation for 2 nights of July 1st and
2nd, registration fee, conference proceedings, and all meals including
dinner on 1st July and the conference banquet. A non-residential rate is
also available and the charge for this is 225 pounds. This price includes
the registration fee, conference proceedings, all meals including dinner
on 1st July and the banquet on 2nd July. Partner rates are also available
at 125 pounds. This price includes two nights accommodation (1st and 2nd
July), Dinner on 1st July, Welcome Reception on 1st July and the Reception
and Banquet on 2nd July (lunches and daytime refreshments are not
included). A limited number of bursaries are available to students and
non-waged persons and will be awarded in order of application. To qualify,
please apply by 5th June, stating why you want to attend and what you hope
to get out of the conference. The fee with a bursary will be half the
quoted conference price.=20
Bank Charges: Delegates paying with cheques drawn on non-UK banks or by
credit card (VISA or MASTERCARD only), should add an additional 15 pounds t=
o
cover bank charges. Please indicate on your registration form if you would
like to pay by Credit Card or Bank Transfer.
Cancellations: Full refunds of the Conference Fee, less 25% administration
costs, are payable for cancellations received in writing on or before
Monday 3rd June. After this date, no fees are refundable; however,
substitutions can be made at any time and at no extra cost.
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
MONDAY 1ST JULY
10.00-13.00 Registration
13.00-13.30 Lunch
14.00-14.15 Welcome
14.15-14.45 Introduction, Marilyn Deegan, The International Institute
for Electronic Library Research, De Montfort University,
on behalf of the programme committee.
14.45-15.30 Keynote address Sir Charles Chadwyck-Healey
15.30-16.00 Tea
16.00-17.30 1) Critical Editing in the Digital Age
Donald Broady, Royal Institute of Technology/NADA,
Stockholm, 'Digital Critical Editions. The Case of the
Swedish National Edition of August Strindberg's Collected
Works'.
David R Chesnutt, University of South Carolina, & C. M.
Sperberg-McQueen, University of Illinois at Chicago and
editor, Text Encoding Initiative, 'The Model Editions
Partnership: Creating Editions of Historical Documents for
the Digital Age'.
John Lavagnino, Women Writers Project, Brown University,
'Reference and Allusion in Scholarly Writing, and the
Problems they Pose for Digital Libraries'.
2) Digital Resources for Teaching
Christian Kay, STELLA Project, University of Glasgow
(chair).
Ann Gow, STELLA Project, University of Glasgow, 'The COMET
Project'.
Jean Anderson, STELLA Project, University of Glasgow, 'A
Guide to Scottish literature'.
Michael Fraser, CTI Centre for Textual Studies, University
of Oxford, 'Digital Resources and the Teaching of the
Humanities'.
3) Workshop, 'Capturing Digital Images'
Andrew Prescott, Manuscript Collection, British Library
(chair)
Hazel Podmore, Collections and Preservation, British
Library
Peter Carey, Collections and Preservation, British Library
David French, Collections and Preservation, British
Library
Richard Masters, Document and Image Processing, British
Library
18.30 Drinks Reception
19.30 Dinner
TUESDAY 2ND JULY
9.00-10.30 1) Resources for Medieval Studies
Michael Arnott, Iain Beavan, and Jane Geddes, University
of Aberdeen, 'The Online Aberdeen Bestiary: Text and
Hypertext'.
Martin K Foys and James Caccamo, Loyola University,
Chicago, 'A Digital Facsimile of the Bayeux Tapestry'.
Carolyn Schriber, Rhodes College, 'The Online Resource
Book for Medieval Studies'.
2) Women's Archives.
Julia Flanders, Women Writers Project, Brown University,
'Gender, Anxiety, and the Electronic Text'.
Lesley Gordon, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 'The
Gertrude Bell Archive.'
Kathryn Sutherland, University of Nottingham,' Revising
the Model: Computers, Women's Writings and the Protocols
of Editing'.
3) Electronic Publishing Panel
Andrew Rosenheim, Oxford University Press
Kevin Taylor, Cambridge University Press
Colin Day, University of Michigan Press
4) Editing Traditional Texts
Peter Donaldson, MIT, 'Shakespeare Electronic Archive'.
Timothy Finney, Baptist Theological College of Western
Australia, Murdoch, 'Transcribing New Testament
Manuscripts'.
Speaker to be announced
10.30-11.00 Coffee
11.00-12.30 1) Digital Resources and the Text Encoding Initiative
Milena Dobreva, Institute of Maths and Science, Sofia,
'Problems in Design and Use of TEI based Repertoire of
Slavic Manuscripts'.
Espen Ore, Norwegian Computing Centre for the Humanities,
'Runic Inscriptions meet TEI and its WSDs'.
C M Sperberg-McQueen, University of Illinois at Chicago
and editor, Text Encoding Initiative,'What TEI Means for
your Project'.
2) The York Doomsday Project
Meg Twycross and Paul Williams, Lancaster University.
3) Workshop, 'Making an Electronic Edition of a Text in
Many Versions'
Peter Robinson, The International Institute for Electronic
Library Research, De Montfort University.
13.00-13.30 Lunch
14.00-15.30 1) Digitizing Visual Resources
Manfred Thaller, Max-Planck Institut, G=F6ttingen, 'Objects
as Digital Resources'.
Jennifer Trant, Getty Art History Information Program,
'The Museum Educational Site Licensing (MESL) Project:
Enabling Educational Use of Digital Museum Collections'.
Joseph Viscomi, University of Virginia, 'Constructing the
Blake Archive: A Progress Report'.
2) Networked Resources
Colin Day, University of Michigan Press, 'Designing a
Networked System for Disseminating Academic Writings'.
Charles Henry, Vassar College, 'The American Arts and
Letters Network: An Experiment in Web Communities'.
Suzette Worden and Colin Beardon, Centre for Computers and
Creative Work, University of Brighton, 'The Virtual
Curator: Educational Software, the Context of
Collaborative Development and Authorship'.
3) First Panel on 'Resource Providers and Services'
The UK Arts and Humanities Data Service
Harold Short, King's College, London (chair)
Lou Burnard, Oxford University
Daniel Greenstein, Director AHDS Executive
15.30- 16.00 1) Retrieving Digital Resources
Rachel Heery, UKOLN, University of Bath, 'Resource
Discovery Tools'.
Lynn F Marko, Judith A. Ahronheim, and Kevin L.
Butterfield, University of Michigan Library, 'The
Humanities Text Initiative: A Collaboration Among Text
Producers, Editors, and Cataloguers'.
Jackie Shieh, University of Virginia Library, 'Overview on
Organizing the Seemingly Unorganizable: Remote Access
Files'.
2) Second Panel on 'Resource Services and Providers'
International Aspects
Daniel Greenstein, Director AHDS Executive (chair)
Peter Doorn and Annuska Graver, Netherlands Historical
Data Archive, 'Providing Digital Information for
Historians'.
David Green, Director American National Initiative for a
Networked Cultural Heritage.
Lyn Elliot Sherwood, Director Canadian Heritage
Information Network.
3) Workshop 'Using Digital Images '
Andrew Prescott, Manuscript Collection, British Library
(chair)
Clive Izard, British Library
Leona Carpenter, Computing and Telecommunications, British
Library
Phil Barden, Document Supply Centre, British Library
19.00 Drinks Reception
19.30 Conference Banquet
After-dinner speaker Ron Zweig, Tel Aviv University
WEDNESDAY 3RD JULY
9.00-10.30 1) Digital Case Histories
David L Gants, Electronic Text Center, University of
Virginia, 'Commercial Printing in Early Modern London: A
Digital Case History'.
Mary Keeler and Christian Kloesel '"Kantinuity" and the
Evolution of Pragmatism in C S Peirce's Manuscripts'.
Maria Sollohub, the Wittgenstein Archives, 'Choices in the
Preparation of Electronic Manuscript Resources-the
Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Bergen'.
2) Editions for the Future
Peter Robinson, The International Institute for Electronic
Library Research, De Montfort University (chair)
Richard Finneran, 'The Hypermedia Yeats'.
Hoyt M Duggan, 'The Parts of an Electronic Archive:
Documentary and Facsimile Editions of Piers Plowman
Manuscripts'.
George Landow, Brown University, Title to be advised.
3) The New Dictionary of National Biography (DNB):
Computation and a large Cooperative Project
Colin Matthew, Elizabeth Baigent, and Robert Faber.
10.30-11.00 Coffee
11.00-12.00 Keynote address David Greetham
12.00-12.30 Close of Conference
13.00-13.30 Lunch and departure
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Conference Registration Form
[A WWW form is available at http://users.ox.ac.uk/~drh96]
Please register the following delegate for the conference (for multiple
registrations or partners please complete seperate forms):
Title (Dr/Mr/Ms etc)..................................................
First Name............................................................
Family Name/Surname...................................................
Position/Job Title....................................................
Organisation..........................................................
Full Mailing Address..................................................
Postcode..............................................................
Country...............................................................
Telephone.............................................................
Fax...................................................................
Please indicate registration fee payable:
[ ] Registration Fee @ 275 pounds
[ ] Registration Fee (non-residential) @ 225 pounds
[ ] Partner Registration Fee @ 125 pounds
Bank Charge @ 15 pounds (cheques drawn on non-UK banks and credit card=20
payments)
Accommodation
Please reserve additional accommodation as follows:
[ ] Bed and Breakfast for Saturday 30th June @ 30 pounds
[ ] Bed and Breakfast for Sunday 30th June @ 30 pounds
[ ] Bed and Breakfast for Wednesday 3rd July @ 30 pounds
Bed and Breakfast for Monday 1st July and Tuesday 2nd July are included in
the Registration Fee.
Total Fee Payable =A3......................................................
Please indicate method of payment:
[ ] Cheque enclosed
[ ] Institutional Purchase Code (please specify).........................
[ ] Please Invoice
[ ] Credit Card Form Required
[ ] Bank Transfer - Please send necessary form
Please debit my VISA [ ] MASTERCARD [ ]
CARD NUMBER..............................................................
EXPIRY DATE..............................................................
Signature:...............................................................
Card Holders Address.....................................................
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Please return printed forms to Christine Merle, CPD Centre, University of
Oxford, 67 St Giles, Oxford, OX1 3LU, UK. Tel: +44 (1865) 288166=20
Fax: +44 (1865) 288163.=20
Electronic forms may emailed to christine.merle@conted.ox.ac.uk