Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 18, No. 002.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/
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Date: Fri, 07 May 2004 06:52:22 +0100
From: John Unsworth <unsworth@uiuc.edu>
Subject: ACLS Commission, May meeting
With generous support from Northwestern University's Office of Research and
Office of Information Technology, and from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation,
the American Council of Learned Societies' Commission on
Cyberinfrastructure for Hmanities and Social Sciences will hold its second
public hearing in Evanston, Illinois, on Saturday, May 22nd, 2004. The
meeting will be held from 10 am until 1 pm, in the Allen Center on the
campus of Northwestern University. Maps of the campus are online at
http://www.northwestern.edu/campus/maps.html. The meeting is open to the
public. The closest hotel is the Hilton Garden Inn Hotel, in
Evanston. For more hotel information, see:
http://www.hiltongardeninn.com/en/gi/hotels/index.jhtml?ctyhocn=ORDEVGI
O'Hare airport is the closest air terminal. A cab ride from O'Hare to the
Evanston campus of Northwestern is about $24.
In January, 2003, the National Science Foundation issued a report
recommending significant changes to support greatly enhanced
cyberinfrastructure to support research in science and engineering
(http://www.communitytechnology.org/nsf_ci_report/).
The current ACLS commission is charged with identifying and articulating
similar challenges and solutions for the humanities and social sciences,
and they will be working on the following elements of their charge
throughout this year:
* Describe and analyze the current state of humanities and social
science cyberinfrastructure
* Articulate the requirements and the potential contributions of the
humanities and the social sciences in developing a
cyberinfrastructure for information, teaching, and research
* Recommend areas of emphasis and coordination for the various
agencies and institutions, public and private, that contribute to
the development of this cyberinfrastructure
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