Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 15, No. 377.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
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[1] From: "Ana Alice Baptista" <analice@dsi.uminho.pt> (25)
Subject: CFP - Electronic Publishing - ElPub2002
[2] From: Stevan Harnad <harnad@cogprints.soton.ac.uk> (186)
Subject: Call for Commentary: http://www.text-e.org/debats/
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Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 10:31:16 +0000
From: "Ana Alice Baptista" <analice@dsi.uminho.pt>
Subject: CFP - Electronic Publishing - ElPub2002
This message is cross-posted to several lists - We apologize for
possible duplicate postings!
CALL FOR PAPERS
ICCC / IFIP
6th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING
at Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic
ELPUB2002 - "Technology Interactions"
http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/elpub02/
Hosted by the Institute for Print and Media Technology of Chemnitz Technical
University, Germany and by the Department for Computer Science and
Engineering, University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, Czech Republic
November 06 -09th, 2002
Electronic Publishing is an area that is crossed over other areas such as
E-commerce, Digital Libraries, Distance Learning, etc. New technologies keep
appearing everyday in the Electronic Publishing arena. These interact not
only among them, but also with all these areas, and not always in the same
way. The "What, Where, How, and Why" questions about these technologies
interactions is the main theme of the 2002 ElPub conference.
ELPUB2002 is the 6th in a series of annual international conferences on
Electronic Publishing. The objective of ELPUB2002 is to bring together
researchers, managers, developers, and users working on the issues related
to electronic publishing for public, scientific and commercial applications.
The conference will continue the tradition of the previous conferences
which took place in Great Britain in 1997, Hungary in 1998, Sweden in 1999,
Russia in 2000 and England in 2001.
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Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 10:32:04 +0000
From: Stevan Harnad <harnad@cogprints.soton.ac.uk>
Subject: Call for Commentary: http://www.text-e.org/debats/
Nov 15 - 30 is the Virtual Symposium is focussing on a paper by me.
All interested commentators are invited to contribute (in any of three
languages!) http://www.text-e.org/debats/
Skyreading and Skywriting for Researchers:
A Post-Gutenberg Anomaly and How to Resolve it
Stevan Harnad
ABSTRACT: There will be a profound and fundamental dividing line in
the PostGutenberg Galaxy, between non-give-away work (books,
magazines, software, music) and give-away work (of which the most
important representative is refereed scientific and scho larly
research papers). It is the failure to make this distinction that
causes so much confusion, and that is delaying the inevitable
transition of the give-away work to what is the optimal solution
for scholars and scientists: that the annual 2,000,000+ articles in
all 20,000+ refereed journals across disciplines and languages and
around the world should be freed on line through author/institution
self-archiving: http://www.eprints.org. This paper tries to show
how questions about copyright, peer review and other controversial
issues can be clarified if the give-away/non-give-away distinction
is made.
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Press Release for the Symposium as a whole:
Screens and networks: towards a new relationship with the written word
(October 2001-March 2002)
A virtual symposium on the Web, at www.text-e.org Organized by the
Bibliothque publique d’information (BPI) - Centre Pompidou,
the Institut Jean Nicod (CNRS) and EURO-EDU in association with
GiantChair.com Sponsored by UNESCO
New Information and Communication Technologies (NICT) are transforming
our world as radically as did the invention of the printing press. How
will this affect the written word and its uses in society? There may
be no immediate answers to these questions, but we can -and should-
investigate the issues involved.
In this context, the Bibliothque publique d’information (BPI),
the Institut Jean Nicod (CNRS and EHESS), the non-profit organization
EURO-EDU and GiantChair, have decided to set up a virtual symposium in
French, Italian and English. Launched on October 15th, 2001, it will
focus on the impact of NITC on our relationship with information and
the written word.
This international symposium should contribute to enriching current
debates about the emergence of hybrid tools of communication (e-books,
Internet and e-mail) and the social changes that accompany them. The
contributors’ papers will be published directly on the
symposium’s host site, www.text-e.org and will be accessible
from the BPI’s main site (www.bpi.fr). It will involve theorists
and other professionals affected by changes in their professional and
personal lives brought about by e-mail and the Internet, and it will
examine the impact of these technologies on reading, journalism,
scholarship, libraries, archives, literature and so on. The symposium
will provide participants with a forum for the discussion of all
points of view.
Through this program, we aim at once to engage in a collective
research project, to enact the new relationship to the written word
and to stage a public event using Web-based communication. The result
will be published in book as well as in electronic format.
PROGRAM
The focal point of the project is the establishment of a Web-based
event, beginning on October 15th, 2001 and ending in March 2002.
Ten contributors, including theorists and those involved in new
information technologies, will be invited to submit a paper for
discussion. A new paper will be published on the site every two
weeks.
Each paper will be discussed on-line for the two weeks following its
publication by some forty participants, comprising the ten
contributors and thirty guests. Discussions will be chaired by the
organizers.
These papers, together with the ensuing discussions, will be made
available to the public. Those wishing to follow the symposium will be
able to register, receive the papers by e-mail and participate in a
forum.
Initial perspectives on the event will be debated at the Paris book
fair, the Salon du livre, in March 2002.
TOPICS AND SCHEDULE
15-31 October 2001
1. Readers and Reading in the Age of Electronic Texts
(Roger Chartier, EHESS, Paris)
1-14 November 2001
2. What the Internet tells us about the Real Nature of
the Book (Roberto Casati, Institut Jean Nicod,
C.N.R.S., Paris)
15-30 November 2001
3. Skyreading/writing in the Post-Gutenbergian Galaxy
(Stevan Harnad, Behavioral and Brain Sciences)
1-14 December 2001
4. Digital Journalism: Virtual Journalism? (Bruno
Patino, Le Monde Interactif)
15-31 December 2001
5. Personal and Professional Conversation (Theodore
Zeldin, Oxford)
1-14 January 2002
6. Reading: The Digital Future (Jason Epstein, Random
House)
15-31 January 2002
7. Babel and the Vintage Selection: Libraries in the
Digital Age (Bibliothque publique dinformation, Centre
Pompidou)
1-14 February 2002
8. Reading without Writing (Dan Sperber, Institut Jean
Nicod, C.N.R.S., Paris)
15-28 February 2002
9. The New Architecture of Information (Stephana
Broadbent and Francesco Cara, IconMedialab, Paris)
1-14 March 2002
10. Authors and Authority (Umberto Eco, University of
Bologna)
15 March 2002
Conclusions
THE ORGANIZERS
THE BIBLIOTHEQUE PUBLIQUE DINFORMATION (BPI – FRENCH PUBLIC
INFORMATION LIBRARY)
The Bibliothque publique dinformation is a major French public
reference library, providing the general public with open access to
virtually all of its holdings, whatever the type of media. In addition
to Internet access, the library offers on-site consultation of books,
newspapers and magazines, documentary films, records,
language-learning methods and software programs covering all fields of
knowledge. Holdings are constantly updated, and librarians are
available to help readers locate material. The library organizes
training on the use of NICTs, especially the Internet, as well as
talks, screenings and exhibitions.
www.bpi.fr E-mail address: bpi-info@bpi.fr
Isabelle BASTIAN-DUPLEIX Danielle CHATEL Grald GRUNBERG, Director
Philippe GUILLERME
THE BPI’S SERVICE ETUDES ET RECHERCHES (STUDIES AND RESEARCH
DEPARTMENT)
The BPI’s studies and research department carries out and/or
steers sociological studies on books, reading and cultural practises.
Extending beyond the immediate context of the BPI, the department
plays a dual role of carrying out assessments and research. At the
request of the Direction du Livre et de la Lecture (DLL), it initiates
and monitors studies, offers expert services outside the BPI and
conducts its own internal research on subjects of interest to both the
BPI and other public libraries. It also acts as a publisher and heads
the ‘studies and research’ collection of the BPI’s
publications.
Agns CAMUS-VIGUE Christophe EVANS Franoise GAUDET
THE INSTITUT JEAN NICOD
The Institut Jean Nicod (CNRS) brings together researchers working on
the relationship between the cognitive and the social sciences. The
main areas of study include philosophy, linguistics, cognitive
anthropology and political science. While philosophy is the leading
discipline, the group’s investigations go beyond pure theory, as
the Institute also aims at reconciling conceptual thinking with an
empirical approach.
www.institutnicod.org
Roberto CASATI Dan SPERBER
EURO-EDU
The recently created EURO-EDU (Association Europenne pour le
Dveloppement de lEnseignement Suprieur et de la Recherche sur Internet
– the European association for the development of higher
education and research on the Internet), a non-profit organization, is
devoted to studying the impact of NICTs on the development and
transmission of knowledge. It aims at developing web tools, web
workshops, discussion groups and research papers around the changes of
educational systems and the diffusion of culture.
www.euro-edu.com
Gloria ORIGGI (Chair) Noga ARIKHA
GIANTCHAIR, sponsor
Screens, networks, the distribution of knowledge and the
transformation of our relationship with the written word are all key
issues for GiantChair, which specializes in helping publishing houses,
libraries, universities and academic communities with the
implementation of new methods of publishing and distribution. With a
presence on both sides of the Atlantic, GiantChair is playing an
active role in compiling a catalogue of digital publications from such
publishers as the Paris-based Eyrolles, Arcade Publishing and Seven
Stories Press in New York, and is already involved in the distribution
of the first ebooks from these publishers.
info@giantchair.com www.giantchair.com
Chlo BENAROYA, partner. Pierre COHEN-TANUGI, Administrateur. Cory
MCCLOUD, Prsident. Aalam WASSEF , partner.
MODERATORS
Noga ARIKHA
Noga Arikha has recently completed a doctorate at the Warburg
Institute, London. She is a historian of ideas with an interest in the
philosophy of mind, the cognitive sciences and the history of life
sciences. She is also concerned with the establishment of dialogues
between disciplines, between the academic and the public spheres, and
between the sciences and the humanities.
Gloria ORIGGI
Gloria Origgi is researcher in philosophy at the University of
Bologna, where she teaches philosophy and cognitive science. In 2000
she founded the EURO-EDU Association for developing Internet-based
research projects. She is author of essays in philosophy of mind and
epistemology. She is also in the faculty of the Graduate School in
Information and Communication Technologies Almaweb, Bologna Italy.
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