Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 16, No. 519.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/
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[1] From: Matt Kirschenbaum <mk235@umail.umd.edu> (144)
Subject: e(X)literature: the Preservation, Archiving and
Dissemination of Electronic Literature
[2] From: "Nancy Weitz" <nancy.weitz@computing- (53)
services.oxford.ac.uk>
Subject: Oxford 'Shock' conference -- new date!
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Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2003 09:18:26 +0000
From: Matt Kirschenbaum <mk235@umail.umd.edu>
Subject: e(X)literature: the Preservation, Archiving and
Dissemination of Electronic Literature
e(X)literature: the Preservation, Archiving and Dissemination of
Electronic Literature
University of California Santa Barbara, April 3-4, 2003
http://dc-mrg.english.ucsb.edu/conference2003.html
Thursday, April 3
9:00 - 9:15:
Welcome and Introductory Comments
Dean David Marshall (Dean of Humanities and Fine Arts, English, UCSB)
Bill Warner (English, UCSB)
Jeff Ballowe (co-founder, Electronic Literature Organization)
9:15 - 10:25
"The Opposite of Property"
Keynote Speaker: James Boyle (Duke University Law School)
10:30 - 12:00
Archiving Digital Work: Defining the Present
Commentary:
Howard Besser (Director of Moving Image Archiving & Preservation Program
at
New York University)
Alan Divack (Archivist for the Ford Foundation)
Presentation of Endangered Works:
Marjorie Luesebrink (M.D. Coverley; Hypermedia author (Califia) and
President, ELO Board of Directors)
12: 00- 1:30
Lunch
1:30 - 2:45
Library of Congress to the Rescue
Keynote Speaker: Stewart Brand (Co-founder, Global Business Network;
president, The Long Now Foundation)
2:45 - 4:15
Other Digital Preservation and Archiving Initiatives: Panel
Chair, Jeff Ballowe (co-founder, Electronic Literature Organization)
Howard Besser (Director of Moving Image Archiving & Preservation Program
at
New York University)
Julia Flanders (Women Writers Project Director, Associate Director for
Textbase Development, Brown University)
Merrilee Proffitt (Digital Library Development Specialist, The Bancroft
Library, University of California, Berkeley)
Joseph Tabbi (English, University of Illinois, Chicago)
4:30 - 5:15
The New Media Reader (MIT, 2003): Overview of Migration Strategies
Noah Wardrip-Fruin (Creative Writing Fellow Brown University)
Nick Montfort (Ph.D. Student, Department of Computer and Information
Science, University of Pennsylvania)
5:15 - 6:00
Refreshments, hors d'oeuvres
6:00 - 7:30
Good Vibrations: Writers, Artists, the Works
Producers:
Marjorie Luesebrink (M.D. Coverley; Hypermedia author (Califia) and
President, ELO Board of Directors)
Scott Rettberg (Assistant Professor of New Media Studies, Literature
Program, Richard Stockton College of New Jersey)
Presenters:
Thomas Swiss (English and Rhetoric of Inquiry, University of Iowa;
Editor of
The Iowa Review Web), Rediscovers selections from The Iowa Review Web
TIRWeb
Lisa Jevbratt (Studio Arts & Media Arts and Technology, UCSB)., Demos
Softbot 1:1
Stephanie Strickland (Print and new media poet), reveals "V:Vniverse"
George Legrady (Studio Arts & Media Arts and Technology, UCSB),
Premieres
Melanie Wein's (Media Design, BA Ravensburg) "The Fleetingness of Bits"
Jason Nelson (Author of Flash narratives), A Flash Reading
Friday, April 4
8:30-9:00
Coffee and bagels
9:00 -10:00
Chair, Bill Warner (English, UCSB)
Matt Kirschenbaum (English, University of Maryland) "The Anatomy of a
Digital Object"
Geof Bowker (Communications, UC San Diego) "Remembrance, Commemoration,
Oversight and Oblivion: Collective Cultural Archives over the Millennia"
10:00 - 11:30
The Technology of E-Literature Preservation: The Shape of a Solution
Chair, Alan Liu (English, UCSB) PAD Technology Plan Overview: Issues and
Approaches
Nick Montfort(Ph.D. Student, Department of Computer and Information
Science,
University of Pennsylvania), "Reading" Works That Are No Longer
Readable:
Emulators and Interpreters
David Durand and Liam Quin, X-Literature: Building XML Representations
of
E-Literature
Robert Kendall and Noah Wardrip-Fruin (Creative Writing Fellow Brown
University), X-Literature Authoring and Reading Solutions
11:45 - 1:00
Copyright/ Open Source roundtable
Chair, Bill Warner (English, UCSB)
Rob Swigart (English., San Jose State University)
Harvey Harrison, (UCLA and Liquid Knowledge)
Geert Lovink
Conference rationale:
At the 2002 Electronic Literature Online conference in Los Angeles,
Katherine Hayles' keynote address warned that the incessant development
of
the software and hardware is rendering old computer based works obsolete
and
inaccessible. Although obsolescence is a problem for every form of
cultural
production, the reliance of computer-based creations upon a constantly
evolving delicate matrix of software and hardware, makes preserving and
archiving digital work especially challenging. Out of last Spring's
discussions emerged the "PAD" initiative, and acronym for "preservation,
archiving, and dissemination." PAD is an effort to develop a software
standard (and perhaps eventually software products) that would give
writers
and artists some influence over the future development of the
hardware/software interface, especially with regard to three practical
goals
of preservation, archiving, and dissemination.
In the discussions of the last year, apparently available and relatively
simple solutions--for example, preserving digital works by creating
emulators that allow us to migrate them to new platforms--end up
becoming
complex, and implicated in many other issues. Here are a few: the value
of
earlier works (are they worth saving?); cost (at what expense?);
technical
feasibility (how can it be done?); ownership of works and software
platforms
(what sort of open-ness and access is necessary for this project). Such
a
project requires constant attention to creators and users (who benefits,
and
it what ways?).
The April conference has two primary purposes: to address the general
issues
surrounding an attempt to preserve, archive and disseminate works
created on
the computer, and, in dialogical spirit, by offering a public account of
the
PAD project, we hope learn from those participating in the conference.
For information contact Professor William Warner (English, UCSB) at
warner@english.ucsb.edu
Yours,
William B. Warner
Director, the Digital Cultures Project Professor English
University of California/ Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, 93106
805-685-1092
warner@english.ucsb.edu
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Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2003 09:19:31 +0000
From: "Nancy Weitz" <nancy.weitz@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk>
Subject: Oxford 'Shock' conference -- new date!
* Please forward to relevant lists and individuals *
CALL FOR PAPERS
Due to a change of date, we are reopening the CFP for
The Shock of the Old 3: Designing and Developing for the Disciplines
24th July, 2003
University of Oxford
Said Business School
The Learning Technologies Group at Oxford University Computing Services is
pleased to announce our third annual conference on educational technologies.
Shock 3 will explore the problems and issues involved in designing and
developing learning technologies for particular disciplines and subjects.
We are interested in receiving proposals for talks that consider one or more
of the following questions:
- What kinds of technologies are becoming most widely used to teach
sciences, humanities, arts, social sciences? Why?
- What are the particular requirements for creating materials suited to
various disciplines/subjects?
- Are truly generic or completely non-disciplinary materials possible (or
desirable)?
- Should we be striving for the generic "ber-tool" or making the most of
disciplinary differences?
- In seeking to make generic tools might we be imposing the methodologies of
one discipline onto another?
- How can discipline- or subject-specific materials be adapted for different
disciplines or subjects? Are there any commonalities in tools for teaching,
say, literature, chemistry, economics?
- What differences are thus exposed or created in the underlying teaching
(and research) practices?
- Conversely, can disciplinary differences expose methodological assumptions
in the technologies?
- Do disciplinary differences affect the ways new technologies are best
integrated into teaching practice?
- Are proprietary solutions and "corporatization" of learning technologies
shaping the way subjects are taught? If so, is this leading to increased or
decreased choice and flexibility?
- What are the possible benefits and/or dangers of off-the-shelf "content"?
Talks that describe or demonstrate specific projects, tools and technologies
are welcome, but we will give priority to those that do so within the
context of
the conference questions.
Please send 300-word abstracts (in-message or RTF) to ltg@oucs.ox.ac.uk
Email submissions strongly encouraged! (but address and fax below)
DUE DATE: 10th MARCH, 5:00 pm.
The conference website is: http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ltg/events/shock/
[More information and registration instructions will be added to this site
shortly.]
If you have questions, please contact the coordinator:
Dr. Nancy Weitz: nancy.weitz@oucs.ox.ac.uk
Learning Technologies Group
Oxford University Computing Services
13 Banbury Road | Oxford OX2 6NN
Tel: 01865 273221 | Fax: 01865 273275
http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ltg/
* supported by the Association for Learning Technology *
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