Subject: CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENTS: CALLS FOR PROPOSALS
David Green (david@ninch.org)
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 10:58:43 -0500
Message-Id: <v02130504b0e3da4e1a9d@[192.100.21.23]> Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 10:58:43 -0500 To: ninch-announce@cni.org From: david@ninch.org (David Green) Subject: CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENTS: CALLS FOR PROPOSALS
NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
January 15, 1998
DIGITAL RESOURCES IN THE HUMANITIES '98
<drh98.hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk/>
Glasgow, Scotland
September 9-12
PROPOSAL DEADLINE: FEBRUARY 15
<drh98.hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk/submit.htm>
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MUSEUM COMPUTER NETWORK ANNUAL CONFERENCE:
Knowledge Creation, Knowledge Sharing, Knowledge Preservation
<www.mcn.edu/MCN98/>
Santa Monica, CA
September 23-26
PROPOSAL DEADLINE: MARCH 1
<www.mcn.edu/MCN98/PROPOS~1.HTM>
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DIGITAL RESOURCES IN THE HUMANITIES '98
The Third International Conference brings together the creators, users,
distributors, and curators of Digital Resources in the Humanities.
Following two successful years in Oxford the Digital Resources in the
Humanities Conference (DRH98) will be held in Glasgow in 1998. In 1999
it will be held at King's College London. DRH98 is the internationally
recognised forum for all those involved in and benefiting from the
digitisation of our common cultural heritage: the scholar producing or
using an electronic edition; the teacher using digital media in the
seminar room; the publisher finding ways to reach new markets; the
librarian, curator, art historian, or archivist wishing to improve both
access to and conservation of the digital information that characterises
contemporary culture and scholarship.
FORMAT
The conference will take up three intensive days of papers, panel
discussions, technical reports, and software demonstrations, between the
evening of 9th September 1998 and lunchtime on the 12th September 1998.
The atmosphere will, we hope, encourage a lot of energetic discussion,
both formal and informal. Leading practitioners of the application of
digital techniques and resources in the humanities, from the worlds of
scholarship, librarianship, and publishing will be there, exchanging
expertise, experience, and opinions.
SPONSORS
To date, sponsors of the conference include the British Library, the
Office for Humanities Communication, the Arts and Humanities Data
Service, the Centre for Computing in the Humanities of Kings College
London the Library of University College London, the Humanities
Computing Unit of Oxford University and the Humanities Advanced
Technology and Information Institute at the University of Glasgow.
PROPOSALS
Proposals are now invited for academic papers, sessions, discussion
panels, and reports of work in progress. Proposals (500 - 1000 words)
should be submitted by 15th February 1998. An independent panel of
reviewers will evaluate proposals, and notifications of acceptance
will be sent out by 31st March 1998. Abstracts of all the accepted
proposals from registered participants will be included in a volume
distributed at the conference. Papers will also be considered for a
post-conference publication. See
<drh98.hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk/submit.htm> for submission details.
THEMES
* Creation and management of digital resources (e.g. textual, visual,
and time-based).
* Integration of digital resources as multimedia.
* Policies and strategies for electronic delivery, both commercial and
non-commercial.
* Cataloguing and metadata aspects of resource discovery.
* Implications of digital resources and electronic delivery for teaching,
learning, and scholarship.
* Encoding standards.
* Rights management (e.g. intellectual property rights).
* Funding, cost-recovery, and charging mechanisms.
* Digitisation techniques and problems.
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MUSEUM COMPUTER NETWORK ANNUAL CONFERENCE
As modern cultures move rapidly from analog to digital media, atoms to
bits, the role of museums as preservers of artifacts becomes more
important. Information and communication technologies are important
tools for creating, sharing, and preserving cultural knowledge through
the presentation and representation of museum objects. Today, this
includes not just the atoms of real exhibitions, but the bits accessed
by remote visitors from classrooms and living rooms all over the world.
Anyone concerned with information technology and museums - educators,
registrars, curators, archivists, librarians, managers, designers,
systems analysts, writers, lawyers - will find MCN '98 a key
professional event. Technology, administration, legal issues,
design concerns, research and commercial implications will all be
discussed from the perspective of museum applications and the diverse
audiences for which they are created.
The five-day program includes:
* Pre-conference seminars and workshops on practical topics ranging from
strategic planning to communication technology tools.
* A three-day technical program on information technology and museums.
* A two-day exhibit hall showcasing commercial products.
* Special interest group meetings.
* Reception at the new Getty Center and the MCN Silent Auction.
Walking distance from downtown Santa Monica's fine restaurants and
shops, the conference will be held at the four star Loews Santa Monica
Beach Hotel with sweeping views of the Pacific. We look forward to
seeing you there!
MCN '98 session topics may address infrastructure, software tools,
hardware innovations, successful approaches to problems, or any of a
variety of technical solutions to knowledge creation, sharing, and
preservation issues. Proposals may address ideas and issues in any area
of museum computing.
For submission details see <www.mcn.edu/MCN98/PROPOS~1.HTM>
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David L. Green
Executive Director
NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE
21 Dupont Circle, NW
Washington DC 20036
www-ninch.cni.org
david@ninch.org
202/296-5346 202/872-0886 fax
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