[1] From: Nelson Hilton <nhilton@english.uga.edu> (55)
Subject: "(electro)poetics" issue of EBR (fwd)
[2] From: "A.J.M.Colson" <102765.1440@CompuServe.COM> (838)
From: H-CLC <nhilton@english.uga.edu> ( )
Subject: Lakehead University Summer Institute for Advanced
Studies (fwd)
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Date: Fri, 30 May 1997 12:19:59 -0400
From: Nelson Hilton <nhilton@english.uga.edu>
Subject: "(electro)poetics" issue of EBR (fwd)
The following recent posting of Robert Kendall's to ht_lit is
forwarded here with his permission:
The current "(electro)poetics" issue of the Electronic Book Review
(http://www.altx.com/ebr/) should be of interest to people on this list.
Below is a partial table of contents. Those of you unfamiliar with the
Review may also want to check out its premiere issue, "the electronic muse"
(contents also listed below).
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Electronic Book Review, ISSUE 5: (electro)poetics
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Harry Mathews . . . . . . . . Oulipo poetics and the art of translation
Stephanie Strickland. . . . . on the translation of poetry from print to screen
Issa Clubb. . . . . . . . . . on the ghost in the machine: the font as
spiritual medium in CD-ROM poetry design
John Cayley . . . . . . . . . a "cybertext" on Copeland, Gibson, and Dewdney
Eduardo Kac . . . . . . . . . on holographic poetry
Robert Kendall. . . . . . . . on the present and future of hypertext poetics
Wendy Battin . . . . . . . . a performative show and tell at the interface
of poetry and html
related reviews
Chris Funkhouser. . . . reviews Charles O. Hartmann's _Virtual Muse_ and
Eduardo Kac's _Visible Language_
John Cayley . . . . . . a view of the British hypertext conference, complete
with his own view of present and potential web
politics 1997
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Electronic Book Review, ISSUE 1: the electronic muse
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A Review of Books in the Age of Their Technological Obsolescence
[Joseph Tabbi on media theory, book reviewing, Bruce Sterling's dead
media project, and Richard Powers's _Galatea 2.2_ ]
Notes from the Digital Overground
[Mark Amerika on establishing Alternative-X in the no-man's land
between commercial, academic, and underground media]
Cyborg Ideology
[N. Katherine Hayles discusses what happens when postmodern writers
theorize in a void ]
The Maul of America
[liquid architect Marcos Novak on William Mitchell's _City of Bits_]
Sleepless in Seattle
[Paul Harris explores IN.S.OMNIA's technographies]
Cyberinthian Ways
[Linda Brigham imagines what a hypertext philosophy might be]
My Body the Library
[Michael Joyce looks at experimental hypertext, body art, body
piercing, and web culture]
Bugging the Net
[Peter Krapp riffs on the philosophy underlying his web site, foreign
body]
Carolyn Guyer checks in on the Telematik Workgroup in Hamburg, Germany
Walter Vannini investigates the effects of hypertext publishing in Italy's
literary marketplace
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Robert Kendall
e-mail: rkendall@wenet.net
home page: http://www.wenet.net/~rkendall
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Date: 29 May 97 12:14:30 EDT
From: "A.J.M.Colson" <102765.1440@CompuServe.COM>
Subject: Lakehead University Summer Institute for Advanced Studies
My name is Alicia Colson and as the administrator of the Lakehead University
Summer Institute for Advanced Studies I am posting the following information. It
would be of interest to both graduates and faculty members who use computing as
part of their research tool in their literary research.
URL: http://www.lakeheadu.ca/~lusiaswww/lusias.html
LUSIAS
Lakehead University Summer Institute for Advanced Studies
Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada
In July of 1997 Lakehead University will be offering graduate courses in the
research application of multimedia and hypertext techniques to the humanities
and social sciences. This program is offered in collaboration with the Mackenzie
Ward Heritage Trust. It addresses the method and theory of applying multimedia
techniques to integrate text, still and video images and sound as a research
tool. Students enrol in an introductory course, and then select a maximum of two
special topics courses from a list of three offered. These courses may be taken
for academic credit, or as non-credit training/skills upgrading courses. The
1997 course offering includes:
Graduate Studies 5511
Introduction to the application of Multimedia Computer Systems
Graduate Studies 5115 Special Topics
Introduction to Hypermedia: using and building Open Hypermedia
Applications in the Humanities
Graduate Studies 5116 Special Topics
Images and Manuscripts as Objects in Digital Systems
Graduate Studies 5117 Special Topics
Questioning the Image: form, content and the analysis of meaning
For more information regarding this program please view the LUSIAS homepage or
enquire for information via email
LUSIAS HOMEPAGE http://www.lakeheadu.ca/~lusiaswww/lusias.html
EMAIL LUSIAS@lakeheadu.ca
Graduate Studies 5511
Introduction to the application of Multimedia Computer Systems
This course provides an introduction to the application of multimedia computer
systems for analyzing large data bases consisting of text, video, audio,
graphics and animation files. While specific computer methodologies are
introduced, the emphasis is upon exploring the critical implications of
transforming conventional text, numeric data, sound and graphic images into
electronic form. This includes the process of digitally rendering the original
source information without modifying its contextual meaning, and establishing
logical linkages between related pieces of data.
Credit: .5 FCE
Course Coordinator:
Jean Colson
Course Duration:
July 7 to July 15, 1997
Contact Hours:
8:00 am to 12:00 pm and 2:30 pm to 6:00 pm.
Structure and Method:
Knowledge accumulation in this course is intensive and cumulative. Unless
competence is continuously assessed, students will not derive full benefit from
the Special Topics courses, nor be able to successfully complete the program of
study. Individual assessment will be based upon demonstrated competence during
session 0. During Day 2 students will be allocated to groups for remedial
instruction. Subsequent days will consist of 1-2 hour lectures, followed by
hands-on `workshops' supervised by the course staff. The workshops will utilize
materials prepared previously by the respective tutors. Days [9] and [10] will
be used for specific `remedial' tuition. Students will also prepare their essay
during this period.
Materials and Library:
Workshop materials will be furnished based upon the demonstration materials
prepared for the various Special Topics courses.
Mini-manuals and working materials have been written, some of which will draw
upon local archives. Facsimiles of documents from the Hudson's Bay Company
Archives plus other local archives will be featured as part of the example
exercises.
Method of Assessment:
Assessment methods are twofold:
A.Daily diagnostic tests in the last session of each course module.
An average of at least 70% is required for successful completion
of this course.
B.An essay of ca. 2,500 words on a topic to be defined at the
beginning of the course. The essay will address basic issues in the
field, and will have to indicate understanding of at least one of the
applications addressed. It can also review or critique the pertinent
literature. Topics must be approved by the Course Co-ordinator.
The essay will be graded by LUSIAS staff. Pass level is 70%. The
essay contributes 80% to the final grade.
Prerequisite:
Completion of initial test and any remedial work required by the Director of
Studies, graduate qualification or equivalent as approved by the LUSIAS Council.
Content:
Day 1 - July 7th
[0] Diagnostic tests which indicate student's understanding of
basic operational procedures. [Jean Colson] [1] General
introduction to computer systems [hardware storage and scanning]
software and operating systems [Jean Colson]
Day 2 - July 8th
[2] `Editing' and `Reading' images of evidence [text, landscape,
artifact] [Jean Colson] [3] `Working' with MS Windows - attaining
a working knowledge [Hugh Davies]
Day 3 - July 9th
[4] Introduction to databases: structure and utility. [MS ACCESS
used as example] [Jean Colson]
Day 4 - July 10th
[5] Introduction to markup languages [TACT] [Jean Colson]
Day 5 - July 11th
[6] Introduction to HTML and the WWW [Jean Colson]
Day 6 - July 12th
[7] Introduction to Electronic Maps and GIS [LU staff, Scott
Hamilton]
Day 7 - July 14th
[8] Introduction to Image Processing [Manfred Thaller]
Day 8 - July 15th
[9] Introduction to sound and video [Hugh]
[10]Project management - case studies - [Scott Hamilton, Paddy
Reid]
Graduate Studies 5115 Special Topics
Introduction to Hypermedia: using and building Open Hypermedia
Applications in the Humanities
This course introduces students to the use of open hypermedia systems for
organizing and retrieving multimedia information. It will concentrate on using
Microcosm Plus for Windows, but will also consider the use of other delivery
systems such as the World Wide Web, Toolbook and Hyper-G. During the course the
students are expected to create a large digital resource of materials related to
their subject, and this application will form the basis of the formal
assessment.
Credit: .5 FCE
Instructor:
Hugh Davies
Course Duration:
July 16 to July 26, 1997
Contact Hours:
Four hours per day consisting of 1 to 2 hours of
lecture and 2 to 3 hours of labs. Students may find
they need additional lab time to complete the required
material and develop sufficient expertise. The course
will run 6 days per week.
The course will be taught with each student having individual machines, each of
which runs the requisite software (Microcosm Plus for Windows). Students will
attend a presentation on the topic,followed by `hands on' laboratory sessions
using both new and prepared examples.
Assessment:
20% observation, and 80% through the `multimedia application' to be
built during the course and completed by day 10 of the course.
Content:
Day 1 - Wed July 16
Introduction to hypertext and navigation in Microcosm using
exemplar materials provided by MWT.
Day 2 - Thur July 17
Building resource-based applications in Microcosm using exemplar
materials provided by MWT
Day 3 - Fri July 18
Organizing your resources: working with texts using exemplar
materials provided by MWT
Day 4 - Sat July 19
Information Retrieval working with multimedia using exemplar
materials provided by MWT
Day 5 - Mon July 21
Working with Third Party applications (including Netscape,
Toolbook and Word) using exemplar materials provided by MWT
Day 6 - Tue July 22
The Multimedia Essay- building trails of association using
exemplar materials provided by MWT
Day 7 - Wed July 23
Working with the World Wide Web- authoring and using Webcosm
(Microcosm on the Web). Comparing Microcosm to the World Wide Web
and other systems, using new and archival materials (MWT) and
focusing on the integration of the Web in an application
Day 8 to 10 - Thur July 24, Fri July 25 and Sat July 26
Building links automatically- and identifying the `openness of a
Microcosm application
1) demonstrating student applications
2) oral presentation of media data.
Graduate Studies 5116 Special Topics
Images and Manuscripts as Objects in Digital Systems
Rapid improvement in computer technology has enabled electronic storage and
presentation of pictorial and manuscript materials at resolutions that rival
conventional photographic reproduction. New cost-effective publishing and
distribution systems have also developed using CD ROMs and computer networks.
Thus, it is now possible to create digital archives containing upwards of 50,000
to 100,000 digital objects (pages of manuscript, photographs, etc.). This course
explores some of the practical and theoretical issues involved in the
development of digital archives.
Credit: .5 FCE
Instructor:
Manfred Thaller
Course Duration:
July 16 to July 26, 1997
Contact Hours:
Four hours per day consisting of 1 to 2 hours of
lecture and 2 to 3 hours of labs. Students may find
they need additional lab time to complete the required
material and develop sufficient expertise. The course
will run 6 days per week.
Objectives:
This course will provide students with a comprehensive survey of the existing
technologies used to develop digital archives, by participation in a "teaching
project". Theoretical issues underlying digital archive design are also
emphasized in the lecture component. Participants will be led through all stages
in the creation of a small digital archive. This will culminate in the
production of a CD ROM, and rendering it available through a local area network.
The substance of these practical exercises will be decided in accordance with
the preferences of the participants.
Assessment:
20% observation, 40% on a written test which discusses the theoretical
principles involved, 40% through the `digital archives to be built
during the course and completed by day 10.
Content:
Day 1 - Wed July 16
Different types of archival systems.
General considerations for the design and implementation of
archival and museum systems
Day 2 - Thur July 17
General considerations underlying the design and implementation
of "private systems"
Day 3 - Fri July 18
The interfaces used for digital editions and archives and the
availability of basic tools.
Day 4 - Sat July 19
The creation of interfaces which make the largest possible amount
of source material available in a cost-effective fashion.
Day 5 - Mon July 21
The issue of longevity of digital collections will be discussed
as will the strategies for insuring the physical survival of the
data. This session will also discuss techniques for making data
immune from problems associated with hardware and software
obsolescence.
Day 6 - Tue July 22
The issue of data security will be discussed. Digital
publications and/or archives must be created in a way which makes
them safe from illicit copying. This issue includes concerns with
protecting digital data from malevolent modification.
Day 7 to 10 - Wed July 23 to Sat July 26
The final three days will be taken up with the development of the
students' own "digital archives", and examination of students'
comprehension of the principles that underlie such activity.
Graduate Studies 5117 Special Topics
Questioning the Image: form, content and the analysis of meaning.
This course focuses upon issues associated with preserving and interpreting
"meaning" implicit in source materials as they are developed as electronic
media. While ambiguity of meaning is evident in textual sources, it is
particularly apparent when the analyst addresses graphic and audio-visual data.
Exploration of these semantic networks within multimedia datasets is the primary
focus of this course. It reviews how multimedia technologies enable researchers
to move beyond the constraints of conventional textual data, and rigorously
explore subtle meanings expressed in the use of language and gesture, and
preserved in audio-visual media.
Credit: .5 FCE
Instructor:
Jean Colson
Course Duration:
July 16 to July 26, 1997
Contact Hours:
Four hours per day consisting of 1 to 2 hours of
lecture and 2 to 3 hours of labs. Students may find
they need additional lab time to complete the required
material and develop sufficient expertise. The course
will run 6 days per week.
Objectives:
Traditionally, scholars within the Humanities select representative textual data
to illustrate interpretations derived from a larger body of literature. The
limitations of conventional writing and publication has constrained the
analysis, presentation and justification of such interpretation. However, with
multimedia technologies, scholars are in a position to present a large corpus of
primary documentation and simultaneously demonstrate the interpretative process
using text, sound and images. This course reviews the theoretical and analytical
implications of research in an electronic environment by demonstrating the
process using Microcosm to draw upon textual, graphical, sound and video
sources.
Method:
Daily 1 hour exposition followed by `hands-on' work with text, images, sound and
video as necessary for the analysis of meaning in images.
The first five sessions would be taken up with theoretical and practical
techniques, including readings of relevant approaches. A selection of texts will
be made available. The second five sessions will involve the construction of an
application bearing in mind the theoretical perspectives offered. The final
session will involve an oral exposition by the student drawing on the
application which has been constructed.
Assessment:
Continuous assessment - 20% observation, 50% through the multimedia application,
30% oral exposition.
Content:
Day 1 - Wednesday 16th July
1. Beyond Illustration - what is an image as `source' using an
application constructed for the purpose.
Day 2 - Thursday 17th July
2. How do we derive meaning - the questions which might be asked:
- who?, what? why, when? - markup and the boundaries of an image.
Day 3 - Friday 18th July
3. Exploiting an exemplar image.
4. A workshop session - in which students `mount' their `own'
image and explore the ways in which meaning might be `tapped' :
This will entail the exploration of the notion of different
`voices' and imposed `views'. The students should also explore
the issues involved in the identification of `views' and `signs -
symbols' or metaphors.
Day 4 - Saturday 19th July
5. Modelling `views' and the establishment of interpretation.
Students are encouraged to `model' their views in the software
provided by Microcosm. The addition of `comment' and `alternative
images' or `argument'.
Day 5 to 9 - Monday 21st July to Friday 25th July
6. The students will be building their own application, providing
systematic exploitation of their sources and short oral
expositions of their plans and completed work.
Day 10 - Saturday 26th July
7. Student presentations - students will talk to their
application. An oral exposition will take not less than 20
minutes. This includes a `live' demonstration.
LUSIAS
Lakehead University Summer Institute for Advanced Studies
LUSIAS offers graduate courses in the application of computing technologies to
research in the humanities and social sciences. These courses address the method
and theory of multimedia techniques to integrate text, still and video images,
and sound. The program of study emphasizes multimedia as a tool for research and
to aid the development of digital archives, and is less concerned with
conventional multimedia applications such as presentation tools.
Each summer (July) we offer an intensive 3 week program of study that
encompasses about 170 hours of lecture and laboratory instruction time. Students
must enroll in GS 5511 (Intro.), and can chose a maximum of 2 out of 3 Special
Topics courses. Each course is valued as .5 FCE (full course equivalent). They
may be taken for academic credit, or as non-credit training/skills upgrading
courses.
The courses use a "case study" approach to teaching. These case studies include
European and Canadian examples. Examples deriving from North America Aboriginal
culture will form an integral part of the curriculum. As part of the curriculum,
students are strongly encouraged to bring their own data and research problems
to develop as multimedia applications.
LUSIAS is joint research and education initiative of the Mackenzie
Ward Heritage Trust and Lakehead University.
The 1997 courses descriptions and study schedule:
Graduate Studies 5511
Introduction to the application of Multimedia Computer
Systems
Graduate Studies 5115 Special Topics
Introduction to Hypermedia: using and building Open
Hypermedia Applications in the Humanities
Graduate Studies 5116 Special Topics
Images and Manuscripts as Objects in Digital Systems
Graduate Studies 5117 Special Topics
Questioning the Image: form, content and the analysis of
meaning
Instructor Biographies
Jean MacKenzie Ward Colson
born 1944
Academic career:
1966
B. A [Art and Anthropology]. University of California at
Davies, California, U.S.A.
1970
M.A. in Symbolic Anthropology, Princeton, New Jersey,
U.S.A.
1971
Diploma in Social Anthropology, Oxford, England
1971-76
Southampton University 'Extra-mural' Lecturer in Social
Anthropology.
1977-79
Lecturer in Historical Anthropology at Universidade Federal
de Santa Catarina, Santa Catarine (state), Brazil.
1980-95
Visiting Research Fellow, Department of Spanish and Latin
American Studies, Southampton University, Hampshire, U.K.
1986-94
Research Assistant History Department, University of
Southampton: responsible for the development of the HiDES
Project. and the teaching of research techniques using
advanced hypermedia systems - developed the Arts Computing
course "Questioning the Image".
1994-96
Research Assistant Digital Libraries Research Centre
(DLRC): responsible for the development of hypermedia
systems in Humanities Research, and the "Introduction to
Humanities Computing" taught at the Schools of Research and
Graduate Studies.
Academic Projects in the Field of Arts/Humanities Computing:
1977-79
Field work in a small fishing village, artesanal fishing,
and lace-making , Lagoa de Conceicao, Ilha de Santa
Catarina, Santa Catarina (state), Brazil. (Brazilian
Fishing Village/Lace Making) Research in State and Federal
archives - Florianopolis, Ilha de Santa Catarina, Santa
Catarina (state), Brazil. - Property and inheritance in
leading families of the 18th and 19th century Ilha de Santa
Catarina.
1979-96
Viana Project, Demographic History of the City of Viana do
Castelo, 1750 - 1931. Project work funded by:-
1996 -
present
HiDES Project, A major project designed to introduce
computing into the teaching of history in the UK
1989-94
The Winchester Project - a local history project involving
major conversion of data structures from SIR, designing
Kleio data structures. Database and data representation
work
1989-94
"Questioning the Image" The use of advanced multimedia in
the teaching of history.
1993-96
"Chicago 1919" , Project sponsored by the Newberry Library,
Chicago "Multimedia History of a year in Chicago"
1993 -
present
The Technology in the Teaching and Learning Process,
History Consortium "Core Resources for Historians"
Teaching:
1972-76
Introduction to Social Anthropology
Social Anthropology of Indigenous Peoples of North America
Indigenous Peoples and Indigenous Art of North America
1977-79
"Parentesco, Casa, e a Familia Brasileiro", Florianopolis,
Ilha de Santa Catarina, Santa Catarina (state), Brazil
(Taught in Brazilian-Portuguese)
1986-90
Visiting researcher in the Department of Spanish and
Portuguese. Courses in conjunction with that department in
Latin American Social History
1989-96
Developed a course called 'Questioning the Image'. which
introduces students how to analyze images as sources. They
are asked to implement this analysis in a multimedia
application. They create the application and at the same
time as writing a mini-thesis analyzing the meaning and the
context of the images that they have chosen to study. I
'run' the DLRC's weekly internal Seminar called The
Wishgroup which discusses the theoretical and
methodological issues of text and image processing. I help
to supervise Ph.D. students who are working with images in
their own research. Since 1995 I have co-ordinated the 'IT'
component of a yearly course entitled 'Humanities Research
Skills' to all incoming M. A. Students - it argues the
issues which arise when database management systems,
mark-up languages and HTML are used in the course of
research. I also teach a course entitled 'Historical
Computing' which is a workshop course. Students either
learn Kleio - a object/source oriented environment for the
analysis of text and images, or create an multimedia
research application of their own using Microcosm.
Summer Institutes:
I organize the annual "Microcosm Summer School" at the Annual Conference of the
International Society History and Computing, and an annual DLRC "Colloquium".
As part of the DLRC, I am engaged in research and design of large Multimedia
applications. I build multimedia applications. I am interested in the
implications of hypertext implementations and applications. I am concerned with
the theoretical issues which arise when one uses textual and image sources in
research. I work closely with the MMRG Group in Electronics and Computing
Science at Southampton.
Publications:
Colson, Jean, 1996 'CASE STUDY H : Community Reconstruction and the Viana do
Castelo database' In Charles Harvey and Jon Press, eds., Databases and the
Historian, Macmillan Basingstoke.
J. Colson, and F. Colson, H. C. Davies and W. Hall, 1994 'Questioning
"Authority". The Challenge of Multimedia' In Storia & Multimedia, Atti de
Settimo Congresso Internazionale Association for History and Computing, eds.
Francesca Bocchi and Peter Denley (Grafis, Bologna 1994), pp 597-605.
Colson, J. M. 1992 "The Quartim - an Exemplar", in, Fischer, M.,(ed.), Bica
(Bulletin of Information on Computing and Anthropology), The University of
Canterbury, Kent, issue no. 8 , June 1992 (on-line. electronic publication).
Colson, Jean, Roger Middleton, and Peter Wardley, 1991 Annual Review of
Information Technology Developments for Economic and Social Historians, Economic
History Review, XLIV, 2 (1991), pp. 343-393.
Colson, F., Colson, J. M. and Doulton, D., 1990 "In search of the Individual.
Brazil, Portugal and London, 1841-1915', Literary and Linguistic Computing, Vol.
5, no. 4, pp 279- 296. (Oxford University Press.)
Colson, F. , Colson, J. M. and Doulton, D. 1990 'Anatomy of a Rupture.
Miguelismo, Petty Aristocracy and Liberal Centralism in Portugal, 1820-1834',
in, History and Computing, Vol. 1, No. 1. (Oxford, 1990). pp. 1-13.
Colson Jean, and Frank Colson, 1990 "Mercantile Migration - The Case of Viana do
Castello and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil", in Oliveira Martins, Herminio, (ed.),
Portuguese Studies Workshop, St. Antony's College, Oxford, Spring.
Hugh C. Davies
born 1958
Academic Career:
1981
B.Sc. (Hons) in Ship Science, University of Southampton,
Hampshire, U.K.
1982
Further Education Teachers Certificate, IOWCAT, Teacher.
1988
British Computer Society Part 1, BCS
1988
M.Sc. in Computer of British Society, ICS
1992
Membership of British Computer Society, BCS 1995 Ph.D.,
Computer Science, University of Southampton, Hampshire,
U.K.
1992 -
present
Lecturer, Multimedia Research Group, Department of
Electronics and Computer Science, University of
Southampton, U.K. Founder of the Multimedia Research Group
in 1987, and one of the inventors of the Multimedia open
hypermedia system. Since 1990 I have been transferring the
technology that comes from our lab into industry. I am a
director of Multicosm Ltd., which has been set up the
University to manage this technology transfer.
My research areas are open hypermedia systems, open protocols, the applications
of hypermedia in industry and education. I am currently working on document
management systems within the digital library. I am research team manager within
our research group. I have been heavily involved in the hypermedia research
community for some years. I have been involved with dozens of firms, including
Boeing, IBM, HP, Glaxo Welcome, Shell, Unichem, concerning the applications of
hypermedia technology
Academic Projects within the field of hypermedia computing:
1990 -
present
working with a large number of applications germane to
Arts/Humanities Computing.
1992
Bath University/Sainsburys Microcosm Applications in GIS.
1993
JISC Implementation of Research Version of Microcosm
1993
SERC Remote systems application for Microcosm
1994
JISC Implementation of Research Version of Microcosm.
1994
Glaxo Microcosm Applications
1994
JISC Implementation of Academic Version of Microcosm.
1995
Unichem Microcosm Applications
1995
EPSRC Web Applications for Microcosm.
1996
EPSRC Microcosm Architecture for Video Information Systems.
1996
E.U. Memoire Project - Microcosm
Information Management Systems in Digital Libraries.
1996
EPSRC Search instruments in hypermedia environments.
1997
Co-chair of ACM Hypertext 97, which will be held at
Southampton , Member of Southern Committee of British
Computer Society
Teaching:
Teaching one regular introductory and advanced course in Computer Science and
Hypermedia. Within Southampton I am in charge of our modular M.Sc. in
Information Engineering, which is unique in that it uses the Internet as its
primary method of distributing information.
Summer Institutes:
I have given invited seminars at many major UK universities, including the Open
University. I have given courses introducing and using Microcosm at many UK and
EU universities.
Other Professional Information:
I have been a regular reviewer and referee for ACM and IEEE journals and
conferences; an invited speaker at many conferences and workshops including
"Learning Technology in Higher Education Conference", September 1993, DDG XIII
B, OII REFMOD Hypertext and Hypermedia workshop on producing an OII reference
model. January 1993., " Status User Conference", Oct. 1993, the "Workshop on
Open Hypertext Systems" at the University of Konstanz, May 1994. The "Workshop
on Open Hypermedia Systems" at the ACM Conference on Hypermedia Technology,
ECHT'94., the 21st IAMSLIC Conference (International Association of Aquatic and
Marine Science Libraries and Information Centres), the 2nd Workshop on "Open
Hypermedia Systems" at the ACM Conference on Hypermedia Technology, April 1996.
Recent Publications:
Andrew Fountain, Wendy Hall, Ian Heath and Hugh Davies. 1990 "Microcosm An Open
Model for Hypermedia with Dynamic Linking". In: A. Rizk, N. Streitz and J. Andre
eds. Hypertext: Concepts, Systems and Applications. The Proceedings of the
European Conference on Hypertext, INRIA, France, November 1990, Cambridge
University Press
Gillian Lovegrove and Hugh Davies. 1991 "Experimenting with Object-Orientated
Programming in the Curriculum". University Computing, 13 pp 163-170.
Hugh Davies, Wendy Hall, Ian Heath, Gary Hill and Rob Wilkins. 1992 Towards an
Integrated Information Environment with Open Hypermedia Systems. In: D.
Lucarella, J. Nanard, M. Nanard, P. Paolini. eds. The Proceedings of the ACM
Conference on Hypertext, ECHT'92, Milano, ACM, 1992.
Hugh Davies, Wendy Hall, and Ian Heath. 1993 Media Integration Issues within
Open Hypermedia Systems. The Proceedings of the International Symposium on
Multimedia Technologies and Future Applications. IEEE, 1993.
Hugh Davies, Gerard Hutchings and Wendy Hall. 1993 A Framework for Delivering
large-scale Hypermedia Learning Material. In: Hermann Maurer. ed. Educational
Multimedia and Hypermedia Annual 1993, of ED-MEDIA'93, Orlando, Florida, USA,
pp. 115-122. AACE. 1993.
Les Carr, Hugh Davies and Wendy Hall. 1993 Experimenting with HyTime
Architectural Forms for Hypertext Interchange. Journal of Information Services &
Use 13(2) pp. 111-119, 1993
Hall, W., Hill, G. J. & Hall, W. Why Use HyTime?. EP-ODD, Vol. 7 No. 1. 1994.
Hugh Davies, Wendy Hall and Ian Heath. 1994 Media Integration Issues within Open
Hypermedia Systems. In: R. I. Damper, W. Hall & J. Richards: eds. Multimedia
Technologies and Future Applications. Pentech Press Ltd. ISBN 0-7273- 13207,
1994.
Hutchings, G. A., Hall, W., Davies, H. C. & White, S. 1994 "Resource Based
Learning: Creating Reusable Hypermedia for Education" In: The Proceedings of
MediaActive, Liverpool, May 1994.
Carr, L. A., Hall, W., Davies, H. C. & Hollom, R. J. 1994 The Microcosm Link
Service and its Application to the World Wide Web. in: Cailliau, R., R.
Nierstrasz, O. & Ruggier, M. eds. The Proceedings of the First International
World Wide-Web Conference. Geneva, May 1994 pp 25-34. CERN 1994.
Hall, W. & Davies, H. C. 1994 Hypermedia Link Services and Their Application to
Multimedia Information Management. Journal of Information and Software
Technology. pp. 197-202, 36(4).
Davies, H. C., Knight, S. J. Hall, W. Light 1994 "Hypermedia Link Services" In:
The Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Hypermedia Technology. ECHT'94.
Edinburgh. ACM Press 1994.
Davies, H. C. & Hey, J. M. R. 1995 "Automatic Extraction of Hypermedia Bundles
from the Digital Library" In: Shipman, F. M. III, Furuta, R., & Levy, D. M. The
Proceedings of Digital Libraries `95. Texas A&M University, June 1995.
Davies, H. C. 1995 "To Embed or Not to Embed..." Communications of the ACM, Vol.
38(8), pp 108-109. August 1995.
Lewis, P. H., Davies, H. C., Griffiths, S. R., Hall, W. & Wilkins, R. J. 1996
"Media-based Navigation with Generic Links" In: Proceedings of the Seventh ACM
Conference on Hypertext, Hypertext `96, pp. 215-223, ACM, March 1996.
Davies, H. C., Lewis, A. J. & Rizk, A. 1996 "OHP: A Draft Proposal for Standard
Open Hypermedia Protocol" In: Wiil, U.K. & Demeyer, S. (eds). The Proceedings of
the 2nd Workshop on Open Hypermedia Systems, at Hypertext' 96, Washington D.C.
UCI-ICS Tech Report 96- 10, University of California, Irvine, April 1996.
Hall, W. Davies, H.C., & Hutchings, G. A. 1996 Rethinking Hypermedia : The
Microcosm Approach. ISBN 0-7923-9679-0. Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Manfred Thaller
born 1950
Academic career:
1970
History (originally History and Ancient Oriental Studies)
at the University of Graz, Austria.
1975
Ph.D. in Modern History "Studien zum Europaischen
Amerikabild. Darstellung und Beurteilung der Politik und
inneren Entwicklung der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika in
Deutschland, Gro3britannien und Osterreich zwischen 1840
und 1941 im Vergleich." Postgraduate study of (empirical)
sociology as "scholar" of the Institute for Advanced
Studies in Vienna; special interest, study of historical
mobility studies. Participation in research projects on the
history of the family, study of the daily life of the
Middle Ages and interlocking directorates of German and
Austrian companies.
1978 -
present
Research Fellow at the Max-Planck-Institut fur Geschichte,
Goettingen. Responsible for the design and implementation
of a general database oriented programming system for
history "Kleio". At the same time research on a general
methodology of historical computer science.
1995 -
present
Part-time Professor at the University of Bergen, Norway.
Responsible for development of M.A. / Ph.D. program in
"Historical Computer Science". Visiting professorships at
the Hebrew University, Jerusalem (1987), Queen Mary and
Westfield College, London (1993) and the European
University Institute, Florence (1993).
Academic Projects in the field of Arts/Humanities Computing:
1987-88
Project director: "WORM's als Editionsmedium fur
historische Datenbanken", (funded: IBM Germany)
1988-92
"Entwicklung fachspezifischer Software fur die Historischen
Wissenschaften", (Grant support - VW Stiftung)
1996-99
"Digitale Archive", (Grant support -VW Stiftung)
1991
Project co-ordinator:- "Sicherstellung der Archive in
Auschwitz"
1992
"Autumn School for New Historical Methods at the Moscow
State University"
1995
"Technology, Skills and Resources for Historians of the
Former Soviet Union"
1991-94
President of the International Association for History and
Computing
Teaching:
1979 -
present
Historical Computer Science at the Universities of
Gottingen (since 1984) and Munich (since 1985); lectures
and seminars at the Universities of Graz, Hamburg,
Salzburg, Siegen and Vienna. Intensive courses, primarily
on the usage of various software packages at the
Universities of Freiburg, Koln, Odense, Utrecht, the
Institute of Historical Research, London., Queen Mary and
Westfield College, London.
Summer Institutes:
Summer school "Neue Methoden in der Geschichtswissenschaft"; originally at the
University of Linz, later at the University of
Salzburg, since 1994 at the Universities of Bergen and Salzburg.
1987 - 1992, 1994 and 1996 organizer of a summer school on source orientated
data processing in Goettingen.
Publications - since 1986
As author
1986 "Can We Afford to Use the Computer; Can We Afford not to Use it?" In: H.
Millet (Ed.) Informatique et Prosopographie, Paris
1986 "A Draft Proposal for the Coding of Machine Readable Sources", in
Historical Social Research / Historische Sozialforschung. 40 (October1986).
1987 "Methods and Techniques of Historical Computation" in: Peter Denley and
Deian Hopkin (Eds.): History and Computing, Manchester 1987.
1987 "Auf dem Weg zu einem Standard fur maschinenlesbare Quellen", in Friedrich
Hausmann et. al. (Eds.): Datennetze fur die Historischen Wissenschaften , Graz .
1987 "The Daily Life of the Middle Ages, Editions of Sources and Data
Processing", in: Medium Aevum Quotidianum 10 (1987).
1987 "Secundum Manus. Zur Datenverarbeitung mehrschichtiger Editionen", in
Gunther Cerwinka et al. (Ed.): Beitrage zur Geschichte und Ihren Grundlagen,
Festschrift Friedrich Hausmann zum 70. Geburtstag, Graz
1988 "Vom Beleg zum Begriff. Der Beitrag der Datenverarbeitung zur Losung von
Terminologieproblemen", in: G. M. Dienes et al. (Eds.): Ut populus ad historiam
trahatur., (Graz ,1988).
1988 "Gibt es eine fachspezifische Datenverarbeitung in den historischen
Wissenschaften? Quellenbanktechniken in der Geschichtswissenschaft", in: H.
Kaufhold and J. Schneider (Eds.): Geschichtswissenschaft und elektronische
Datenverarbeitung (Wiesbaden 1988.)
1988 "A Draft Proposal for a Format Exchange Program", in: Jean-Philippe Genet
(Ed.): Standardisation et echange des bases de donnees historiques., Actes de la
troiseme Table Ronde Internationale tenue au L.I.S.H. (Centre Nationale de
Recherches Scientifique), (Paris 1988).
1988 "Was sind `fortgeschrittene Kenntnisse' in formalen Verfahren fur
Historiker", in: Manfred Thaller, Gerhard Botz et al. (Eds.): Qualitat und
Quantitat. Zur Praxis der Methoden der Historischen Sozialwissenschaft,
(Frankfurt / New York Qualitat und Quantitat. Zur Praxis der Methoden der
Historischen Sozialwissenschaft, Frankfurt / New York .
1989 Kleio "Ein Datenbanksystem" St. Katharinen 1989 and later editions
(Halbgraue Reihe zur Historischen Fachinformatik B 1). (St. Katharinen 1989,
(Halbgraue Reihe zur Historischen Fachinformatik B 2).
1989 "Have Very Large Data Bases Methodological Relevance?", in: Otto Opitz
(Ed.): Conceptual and Numerical Analysis of Data, Berlin
1989 "Warum brauchen die Geschichtswissenschaften fachspezifische
datentechnische L'osungen? Das Beispiel kontextsensitiver Datenbanken", in:
Manfred Thaller and Albert Muller (Eds.): Computer in den Geisteswissenschaften.
Konzepte und Berichte, Frankfurt a. Main Studien zur Historischen
Sozialwissenschaft 7 .
1989 "The Need for a Theory of Historical Computing", in: Peter Denley et al.
(Eds.): History and Computing II, Manchester and New York .
1990 "Sphragid`Geographische Angaben in einer Historischen Datenbank", in:
Eratosthene e 2 (1990).
1990 "Databases and Expert Systems as Complementary Tools for Historical
Research", in: Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis 103 (1990).
1990 "Entzauberungen. Die Entwicklung einer fachspezifischen historischen
Datenverarbeitung in der Bundesrepublik", in: W. Prinz und P. Weingart (Eds.):
Die sogenannten Geisteswissenschaften: Innenansichten. Frankfurt a. Main
1990 "The Need for Standards: Data Modelling and Exchange", in: Daniel
Greenstein (Ed.): Modelling Historical Data, St. Katharinen 1991 Halbgraue Reihe
zur Historischen Fachinformatik A 11.
1991 "The Historical Workstation Project", in: Historical Social Research /
Historische Sozialforschung 16 (1991).
1991 "The Historical Workstation Project", in: Computers and the Humanities 25
(1991).
1992 "The Historical Workstation Project", in: Josef Smets (Ed.): Histoire et
Informatique, Montpellier 1992.
1992 "The Processing of Manuscripts", in: Manfred Thaller (Ed.) Images and
Manuscripts in Historical Computing, St. Katharinen 1992 Halbgraue Reihe zur
Historischen Fachinformatik A 14
1991 "Bildanalyse in der Geschichtswissenschaft", in: W. Neubauer und K.-H.
Meier (Eds.): Deutscher Dokumentartag 1991
1992 "On the Conception, Training and Employment of Historical Data and
Knowledge Daemons", in: Jan Oldervoll (Ed.): Eden or Babylon?, St. Katharinen .
1992 "Von der Miverst andlichkeit des Selbstverst andlichen", in: Rudolf
Vierhaus et al. (Eds.): Fruhe Neuzeit-Fruhe Moderne. Forschungen zur
Vielschichtigkeit von Ubergangsprozessen, Gottingen 1992 Veroff. des MPI fur.
Geschichte 104.
1993 "Kleio A Database System", St. Katharinen 1993 Halbgraue Reihe zur
Historischen Fachinformatik B 11.
1993 "The Archive on the Top of your Desk? On Self-Documenting Image Files", in:
Jurij Fikfak and Gerhart Jaritz (Eds.): Image Processing in History: towards
Open Systems, St. Katharinen Halbgraue Reihe zur Historischen Fachinformatik A
16.
1993 "Historical Information Science: Is there such a Thing? New Comments on an
Old Idea", in: Tito Orlandi (Eds.): Seminario Discipline Humanistiche e
Informatica. Il problema dell' integrazione, (Roma 1993 ) Contributi Del Centor
Linceo Interdisciplinare `Beniamo Segre' 87.
1994 "Source Oriented Data Processing", in: Informatik Forum 8. (1994).
1994 "Die Herausforderung groSer Korpora unstrukturierter Texte", in:
Max-Planck-Gesellschaft Berichte und Mitteilungen 1 1994.
1994 "Bilder und Manuskripte als Gegenstand der rechnergstutzten Bearbeitung",
in: EDV-Tage Theuern 1993. Kolloquiumsbericht, Munich 1994.
1995 "Source Oriented Data Processing and Quantification: Distrustful Brothers",
in: Manfred Thaller et. al: Statistics for Historians:
Standard Packages and Specific Historical Software, St. Katharinen 1995
Halbgraue Reihe zur Historischen Fachinformatik A 26.
1995 "The Archive on Top of Your Desk: An Introduction to Self-Documenting Image
Files", in: Historical Methods 28 (1995).
1996 "L'immagine del passato: Accesso e memorizzazione delle fonti della cultura
visiva", in: Immagini e memoria elettronica, Bologna.
1996 "Inventare und Forschungssysteme: Zwei Seiten einer Munze oder
unterschiedliche Wahrungen?", in: EDV-Tage Theuern Kolloquiumsbericht, Munchen.
As Editor
1981 - 1984 Software Editor for Historical Social Research / Historische Sozial
-forschung: Quarterly reports.
Since 1989 Series Editor of the Halbgraue Reihe zur Historischen Fachinformatik:
so far ca. 30 volumes.
Die Praxis der Quantifizierung in der osterreichischen Geschichtsforschung,
abgedruckt in Bericht uber den 16 .
Osterreichische Historikertag, Wien 1985.
Datenbanken als Werkzeug Historischer Sozialforschung St. Katharinen 1986
Historisch-Sozialwissenschaftliche Forschungen 20.
with Ursula Klenk und Peter Scherber: Computerlinguistik und philologische
Datenverarbeitung, Hildesheim etc. 1987 Linguistische
Datenverarbeitung 7.
with Gerhard Botz et. al. Qualitat und Quantitat. Zur Praxis der Methoden der
Historischen Sozialwissenschaft, Frankfurt / New York
1988.
with Albert Muller: "Computer in den Geisteswissenschaften. Konzepte und
Berichte", Frankfurt a. Main 1989 Studien zur Historischen
Sozialwissenschaft 7.
with Heino Best und Ekkehard Mochmann: Computers in the Humanities and Social
Sciences Munchen etc. 1991.
Images and Manuscripts in Historical Computing, [St. Katharinen 1992]
Halbgraue Reihe zur Historischen Fachinformatik A 14.
with Leonid Borodkin and John Turner: Statistics for Historians: Standard
Packages and Specific Historical Software, St. Katharinen
1995 Halbgraue Reihe zur Historischen Fachinformatik A 26.
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Fee Structure, Course Timetable
The LUSIAS courses are offered as graduate programming. Students may
also enroll on a non-credit basis. Credit and non-credit registration
forms are available by clicking to go to the appropriate on-line
registration form. Additional information can be sought from the
contact addresses at the bottom of this page.
A limited number of bursaries will be offered to students enrolled in
three courses for academic credit. These bursaries will be awarded on
the basis of academic performance.
Course Timetable
July 7 to 15, 1997
GS 5511
Introduction to the application of Multimedia Computer
Systems
July 16 to 26, 1997
GS 5115
Introduction to Hypermedia: using and building Open
Hypermedia Applications in the Humanities
GS 5116
Images and Manuscripts as Objects in Digital Systems
GS 5117
Questioning the Image: form, content and the analysis of
meaning.
Fee Structure
1 course (.5 FCE)
$1,000 Canadian
2 courses (1.0 FCE)
$2,000 Canadian
3 courses (1.5 FCE)
$2,500 Canadian
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the course. Make cheques payable to Lakehead University and send to
the Office of the Dean of Graduate Studies and Research.
Registration Deadlines
May 31, 1997
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Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada P7B 5E1
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