[1] From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> (59)
Subject: Cataloguing South and West Asian Manuscripts
[2] From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> (32)
Subject: CALL: Language, Vision & Music, Aug. 9-11/99, GALWAY,
IRELAND
[3] From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> (40)
Subject: Reminder - Upcoming Deadlines for Museums and the
Web'99
[4] From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> (32)
Subject: CFP: SAMLA '99, Bowers' Principles at Fifty
[5] From: David Green <david@ninch.org> (80)
Subject: MUSEUM COMPUTER NETWORK CONFERENCE: Proposals Due
March 31
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Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 20:44:04 +0000
From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu>
Subject: Cataloguing South and West Asian Manuscripts
>> From: Kim_Plofker@Brown.edu (Kim Plofker)
The American Committee for South Asian Manuscripts (ACSAM)
of the American Oriental Society is pleased to announce two
workshops in non-Western palaeography and codicology, to be
held at Columbia University in New York City from 31 May
through 18 June 1999:
1. Manuscripts in Nagari and related North Indian scripts,
directed by David Pingree of Brown University.
2. Manuscripts in Arabic and Persian,
directed by Adam Gacek of McGill University.
Goal of the Workshops: ACSAM's Cataloguing Project
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The workshops will train advanced graduate students to become
data-gatherers for ACSAM's project to catalogue all Indic and Islamic
manuscripts preserved in North American collections. The resulting
Union Descriptive Catalogue will be published in printed and
electronic form: a draft of the prototype of the electronic
version is available for viewing at http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/acsam/
now. The Catalogue is a text-based electronic bibliographical tool
structured in SGML; it is currently presented via Inso's DynaWeb text
delivery system. The sample entries in the prototype describe some of
the Indic manuscripts at Columbia University. Full physical descriptions
of the manuscripts and detailed identifications of the works they
contain are presented in separate sections, with active links connecting
entries in each section to the corresponding entries in the
other, as well as to additional biographical and geographical information
about the people and places mentioned in the catalogue. Development of
the prototype is currently continuing, to enhance features such as
formatting, fonts, and searches.
Information about the Workshops
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(The following information may also be found at
http://www.brown.edu/Departments/History_Mathematics/workshops.html.)
It is expected that the process of gathering data about all relevant
North American manuscripts and completing the Union Descriptive
Catalogue therefrom will extend over twelve or more years. The
data-gatherers for the first summer will be paid their basic living
expenses and a stipend of $12.00 an hour. This compensation is contingent
on our receiving funding; we will not know the extent to which we have
been funded until April 1999. We hope to be able to employ several Arabists,
Persianists, and Sanskritists for the summer of 1999. In case we receive no
funding, the summer 1999 workshops and data-gathering will have to be cancelled.
Although the amount of funding that will be available will not be known
before next April, applications are invited now. Candidates must have completed
at least two years of a PhD program that requires substantial expertise in
one or more of the three languages, Arabic, Persian, and Sanskrit, including
at least two years of study of the language whose palaeography he or she
wishes to learn.
Each candidate must submit undergraduate and graduate transcripts, three
letters of recommendation, at least two of which should be from language
instructors, and a statement (one or two pages) of his or her interest in
and familiarity with manuscript studies.
Applications should be sent before 1 April 1999 to:
Professor David Pingree
Brown University, Box 1900
Providence, RI 02912 USA
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Kim Plofker
Technical Director, ACSAM
Kim_Plofker@Brown.edu
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Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 20:45:10 +0000
From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu>
Subject: CALL: Language, Vision & Music, Aug. 9-11/99, GALWAY, IRELAND
>> From: Paul Mc Kevitt <pmck@kom.auc.dk>
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"LANGUAGE, VISION & MUSIC"
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The Eighth International Workshop on the
Cognitive Science of Natural Language Processing (CSNLP-8)
(http://www.it.ucg.ie/csnlp8/)
"LANGUAGE, VISION & MUSIC"
National University of Ireland, Galway (NUI Galway)
GALWAY, IRELAND
Monday 9th - Wednesday 11th August, 1999
in association with:
"Mind-IV: TWO SCIENCES OF MIND"
(Monday 16th - Thursday 19th August, 1999)
(Dublin City University, Ireland)
(http://www.compapp.dcu.ie/~tdoris/mind4.html)
"LANGUAGE, VISION & MUSIC"
What common cognitive patterns underlie our competence in these
disparate modes of thought?? Language (natural & formal), vision and
music seem to share at least the following attributes: a hierarchical
organisation of constituents, recursivity, metaphor, the possibility
of self-reference, ambiguity, and systematicity. Can we propose the
existence of a general symbol system with instantiations in these
three modes or is the only commonality to be found at the level of
such entities as cerebral columnar automna?? Also, we invite papers
which examine cross-cultural experience of these modalities.
What can Engineering of software platforms for integrated Intelligent
MultiModal & MultiMedia processing of language/vision/music/etc. tell
us??
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Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 20:45:24 +0000
From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu>
Subject: Reminder - Upcoming Deadlines for Museums and the Web'99
>> From: "J. Trant" <jtrant@archimuse.com>
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MW Museums and the Web MW
MW March 11-14, 1999 MW
MW New Orleans, Louisiana MW
MW http://www.archimuse.com/mw99/ MW
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Dear Friends and Colleagues,
We'd like to remind you of some upcoming deadlines for Museums and the Web
'99, an international conference in New Orleans, March 11-14, 1999.
* This is the last week to nominate your favorite museum web site for the
"Best of the Web" award; an international panel of judges, chaired by Maria
Economou of Glasgow University, will evaluate all sites submitted. See
http://www.archimuse.com/mw99/best/ Nominations close February 5, 1999.
* February 15 marks the last day of the "regular" registration period. This
is also the 'cut off date' for hotel registration at the special MW99 rate.
See
http://www.archimuse.com/mw99/register/ for full details. Also, please note
that "MW Money", from the 1998 conference in Toronto, expires on February
15.
* Early registration is advised for all pre-conference workshops.
Attendance at these sessions is limited. See
http://www.archimuse.com/mw99/workshops/ for workshop descriptions and
outlines.
For those of you who can't make it to New Orleans, the papers to be
presented will begin to be linked from the Speakers Page of the conference
web site (http://www.archimuse.com/mw99/speakers/) in early February. If
you are coming, review the papers, plan your time, and prepare your
questions for speakers now.
We're looking forward to seeing everyone in New Orleans!
jennifer and David
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J. Trant and D. Bearman mw99@archimuse.com
Co-Chairs, Museums and the Web New Orleans, Louisiana
Archives & Museum Informatics March 11-14, 1999
2008 Murray Ave, Suite D http://www.archimuse.com/mw99/
Pittsburgh, PA 15217 phone +1 412 422 8530
USA fax +1 412 422 8594
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Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 20:45:39 +0000
From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu>
Subject: CFP: SAMLA '99, Bowers' Principles at Fifty
Call For Papers
1999 SAMLA Convention (Atlanta, GA, 4-6 November)
Textual and Bibliographical Studies
The Textual and Bibliographical Studies section of the South Atlantic Modern
Language Association is seeking papers for its
session at the 1999 SAMLA convention. The session will mark the fiftieth
anniversary of the publication of Fredson Bowers'
landmark Principles of Bibliographical Description. The organisers are
particularly interested in papers that extend the
ideas initiated by Bowers and developed further by scholars like G. Thomas
Tanselle. Possible subjects might include:
* How has the practice of descriptive bibliography evolved
in different literary periods or genres?
* Do different authors, booksellers or publishers require
different descriptive models?
* How does descriptive bibliography fit into the larger field
of graduate education?
* Is it possible to accommodate emerging digital technologies
into traditional descriptive practices?
* How might we use Principles to describe electronic texts and
literary databases?
Ideally the session will look ahead to the ways in which Bowers' Principles
might be employed in the next 50 years.
The deadline for proposals is 15 April 1999, and speakers must be members of
SAMLA in order to participate. Please send a
brief (250-500 word) proposal for a 15-20 minute paper to:
dgants@english.uga.edu
with the subject line "SAMLA 99" or by post to:
David L. Gants
Department of English
254 Park Hall
University of Georgia
Athens, GA 30602-6205
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Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 20:47:25 +0000
From: David Green <david@ninch.org>
Subject: MUSEUM COMPUTER NETWORK CONFERENCE: Proposals Due March 31
NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
February 8,1999
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Annual Museum Computer Network Conference
October 27-30, 1999: Philadelphia, PA
<http://www.mcn.edu>
DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS FOR SESSIONS AND WORKSHOPS: MARCH 31, 1999
>Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 11:00:16 -0500
>From: "Julie Haifley" <julie@nmafa.si.edu>
>To: david@ninch.org
>
And Access for All: Integrating Cultural Heritage, Media, and Technology
DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS FOR SESSIONS AND WORKSHOPS: MARCH 31, 1999
Museums are on the verge of delivering on the promise that new media and
technology will bring their resources out of the storerooms and galleries
to an ever-expanding global audience.
This conference explores how cultural heritage institutions are succeeding
in forging a more perfect union between their traditional missions and new
ways to communicate. MCN '99 offers a broad overview of opportunities,
workshops for in-depth learning, and the chance to meet the people who are
creating and managing the most innovative projects and discussing the most
interesting new ideas.
Special emphasis will be placed on new media initiatives, information
integration, knowledge management, and organizational and cultural change,
as we explore the confluence of information, technology, and media in
today's evolving museums and cultural institutions. MCN'99 is for everyone
interested in using new technologies and media to help us all better
understand and appreciate cultural heritage collections.
Proposals may address ideas and issues in any area of computing relating to
museums or heritage. Please check the categories that best describe the
subject of this proposal:
__Administration
__Cataloguing & description
__Collections management
__Conservation
__Disciplinary computing (Art, Humanities, Sci.)
__Educational programs
__Events management
__Exhibits
__Facilities design and management
__Fundraising & development
__Imaging
__Membership
__Multimedia
__Networks & integrated systems
__Photo services & image rights
__Professional development
__Publications
__Standards
__Systems administration
__Technologies & research
__User services & training
__Other (Please specify__________________)
Level of technical knowledge of intended audience: __Beginning
__Intermediate __Advanced
This is a proposal for a:
__Presentation/paper (specify length in minutes: ___)
__Panel (90 min.)
__full-day workshop
__Half-day workshop
__Other (Specify: _______________)
Title:
Proposal submitted by:
(Provide name, title, institution, full mailing address, phone, fax, and
e-mail)
Description: Summarize the relevance of the topic, the content to be
covered, and the subjects to be addressed by individual speakers.
Goals: Express how the intended audience will benefit from the presentation.
Participants: List, the name, title, institution, address, phone, fax, and
e-mail address of each speaker or panelist, and indicate whether their
participation is confirmed or proposed. For panels, indicate which
participant is the chair.
A/V and information technology requirements for session:
Proposals should be directed to:
Julie Link Haifley, MCN'99 Program Chair National Museum of African Art
950 Independence Ave., SW
Washington, DC 20560-0708
Tel: (202) 357-4600, ext. 240
Fax: (202) 357-4879
E-mail: <mailto:julie@nmafa.si.edu>
For more conference information, see the MCN website at: <http://www.mcn.edu>
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