Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 15, No. 479.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
<http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/>
<http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/>
[1] From: "J. Stephen Downie" <jdownie@UIUC.EDU> (54)
Subject: Special Workshop on Music IR Evaluation
[2] From: "J. Trant" <jtrant@ARCHIMUSE.COM> (34)
Subject: Grindstone Seminar: Making Playful Interfaces for
Serious Content
[3] From: "James Gifford" <gifford@ualberta.ca> (41)
Subject: CFP - Grad Students
[4] From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org> (38)
Subject: Save The Date: World Intellectual Property Day
Conference: Beyond DMCA
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Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 09:12:45 +0000
From: "J. Stephen Downie" <jdownie@UIUC.EDU>
Subject: Special Workshop on Music IR Evaluation
Dear colleagues:
INTRODUCTION
The participants of the informal session on MIR Testbed/Evaluation
Issues at ISMIR 2001 [http://ismir2001.indiana.edu] decided to explore
the possiblity of holding a special "meeting" devoted to the creation of
standardized MIR test collections, retrieval tasks, and evaluation
metrics under the rubric of the 2002 Joint Conference on Digital
Libraries [http://www.ohsu.edu/jcdl] (JCDL '02 14-18 July, 2002 in
Portland, Oregon, USA).
Gary Marchionini (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), who is
JCDL '02 Program Chair, suggested that our special "MIR Evaluation"
meeting would be best served if structured as a "Workshop" of some
substantial length (say, a day or half-day). Other options included a
"Panel" or a "Tutorial." The "Workshop" structure seems the best way to
proceed.
PRELIMINARY PLAN
We hope to engage the participation of all interested in Music IR
research and evaluation. We plan on asking all interested parties to
submit formal "white-papers" outlining their individual perspectives on
what needs to be done to create *meaningful* MIR test collections,
retrieval tasks, and evaluation metrics. We would like to hear from
musicologists, music theorists, audio-retrieval experts,
symbolic-retrieval experts, librarians, lawyers, industry and business
representatives; in short, from all the key groups in MIR research. The
compilation of the these perspectives and the discussion that follows at
the Workshop will form the bed-rock upon which a solid foundation of
future research can be built.
EXPRESSION OF INTEREST
As the first step toward making the "Workshop on MIR Testbed/Evaluation
Issues" a reality (title subject to change, of course), we need to come
up with a list of potential participants for submission with our
workshop proposal. The proposal has a deadline of 11 February, 2002.
We have created a "sign up" form to gather the names of potential
participants. The form can be found at:
http://music-ir.org/mirbib2/eval_workshop
Signing the form does not obligate your attendance but does gives us a
framework for planning. In the "comments" section of the form, we would
appreciate *brief* note outlining the perspective(s) that you would
bring to the discussion (e.g., audio-retrieval, HCI, music theory,
business, etc.)
The original Resolution of Need from which this workshop proposal sprang
can be found at:
http://music-ir.org/mirbib2/resolution
Cheers,
J. Stephen Downie
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"Research funding makes the world a better place"
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J. Stephen Downie, PhD
Assistant Professor,
Graduate School of Library and Information Science; and,
Fellow, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (2000-01)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
(217) 351-5037
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Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 09:13:47 +0000
From: "J. Trant" <jtrant@ARCHIMUSE.COM>
Subject: Grindstone Seminar: Making Playful Interfaces for Serious
Content
Archives & Museum Informatics announces the first event in the 8 week
Grindstone Island 2002 Summer Seminar Series. For full details of our
summer program see http://www.archimuse.com/grindstone/learn.html
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Making Playful Interfaces for Serious Content: June 8-14, 2002
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with Slavko Milekic, M.D., PhD, Associate Professor of Cognitive Science &
Digital Design, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, USA
-Summary-
In this five-day workshop we will play with the design and building of
non-traditional interface solutions, ranging from voice and gesture
interaction to controlling the application with your mind! Using the
current research findings from the areas of cognitive science, interface
design and social psychology you will learn how to prototype and evaluate
alternative interaction mechanisms with your content. Special emphasis will
be made on alternative interactions with Web-based content. No previous
programming experience required. A creative and open mind is a prerequisite.
The goal of this workshop is two-fold:
a) to expose you to the current research findings in the area of cognitive
science, interface design and social psychology relevant for the design of
interactive media, and
b) to demonstrate a series of non-traditional interface solutions, ranging
from voice and gesture interaction to controlling the application with your
mind;
The workshop will be conducted in eight three-hour sessions, roughly half
of which will be devoted to hands-on demonstrations. Previous
scripting/programming experience is not a necessary prerequisite for this
workshop. By the end of the workshop you will be acquainted with the wide
spectrum of alternative interaction possibilities and will be able to
design and evaluate non-traditional interfaces for various applications.
Special emphasis will be made on designing interaction with Web-based content.
The topics that will be covered in individual sessions are listed below.
Although theoretical and hands-on sessions will be presented in alternating
fashion, they are listed sequentially for clarity.
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Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 09:15:07 +0000
From: "James Gifford" <gifford@ualberta.ca>
Subject: CFP - Grad Students
My apologies for any cross-posting.
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CALL FOR PAPERS - GRADUATE STUDENTS
|| Humanities Computing in Teaching & Research ||
|| Professional Skills Conferencing and Publishing ||
http://www.cas.ucf.edu/durrell/omg12.htm
A pre-registration series of panels, directed to graduate students and the
university community, will open the conference of the International Lawrence
Durrell Society on June 20th, 2002. The conference will take place in
Canada's capital city, at the University of Ottawa.
These pre-registration panels are intended to recognize and include the
unique interests, experiences and contributions of the graduate student
community. Also, because these panels are pre-registration, participation is
open to the community and is not restricted to conference participants.
We solicit papers for two pre-conference panels. Papers from graduate
students or new scholars (5 years after completion of doctorate) will be
considered. Papers should be no more than 20 minutes in length, or 10 to 12
double-spaced typed pages. Please note any Audio-Visual equipment
requirements in your proposal.
(1) Humanities Computing in Teaching and Research:
Papers are invited on the subjects of new developments in Humanities
computing, the computer as an educational tool, the electronic text and
research computing. Archiving, concordances, online developments and
electronic publishing are all topics of interest. This general panel will
precede more specific computing panels related to the conference topic,
which are planned to take place during the conference proper.
(2) Professional Skills Conferencing and Publishing:
Experiential or traditional papers are welcome for this panel. Rather than a
professionalization 'how-to' scenario, this panel is intended to discuss and
give voice to the unique position, experiences, problems and contributions
of the new or young scholar. Papers may address any aspect of the
professional or developmental aspects of being a graduate student or new
scholar, as well as conference participation, teaching, pedagogy, publishing
and the development of professional skills. Papers from new or young
scholars are particularly welcome for this panel.
Since panels on computing, teaching and research in regard to Durrell's
works are planned for the conference proper, papers for this call need not
address the conference's authorial theme directly. Papers should be more
general in both focus and intended audience.
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For more information about the conference in general, please see:
http://www.cas.ucf.edu/durrell/omg12.htm
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Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 09:17:44 +0000
From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
Subject: Save The Date: World Intellectual Property Day
Conference: Beyond DMCA
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