[Corpora-List] OTA at 30: free one-day conference

[Martin Wynne]

Call for participation

** Oxford Text Archive 1976-2006 **

Thursday 21st September 2006
Oxford University Computing Services
University of Oxford, 13 Banbury Road, Oxford, OX2 6NN
http://ota.ox.ac.uk/OTA30/index.html

The Oxford Text Archive is celebrating its 30th birthday this year and, 
as part of this celebration, it is holding a one-day conference on 
electronic text archives and humanities computing.

All welcome. Registration for this free event is required; simply email: 
OTA30 at ota.ox.ac.uk

The programme is as follows:

     * 09:30 -- Arrival, coffee
     * 10:00 -- Martin Wynne on " Welcome and Introduction: The OTA and 
the AHDS today" .
     * 10:30 -- Alan Morrison on "From dustbin policy to data service"
     * 11:00 -- Coffee Break
     * 11:30 -- Lou Burnard on "Autolycus wired: three decades of 
snapping up unconsidered trifles"
     * 12:30 -- Buffet Lunch (including birthday cake!)
     * 13:30 -- Julia Flanders on "Historicizing humanities computing"
     * 14:00 -- Edward Vanhoutte on "Electronic scholarly editing"
     * 14:30 -- Claire Warwick on "A Dubious Legacy: Problems of the 
re-use of data for digital humanities research"
     * 15:00 -- Coffee Break
     * 15:30 -- Willard McCarty on "Smell of food on the wind, then and now"
     * 16:00 -- Panel Session: The future of electronic text archives, 
featuring Yorick Wilks, and surprise guest stars
     * 17:00 -- End

More details at http://ota.ox.ac.uk/OTA30/


-- 
Martin Wynne
Head of the Oxford Text Archive and
AHDS Literature, Languages and Linguistics

Oxford University Computing Services
13 Banbury Road
Oxford
UK - OX2 6NN
Tel: +44 1865 283299
Fax: +44 1865 273275
martin.wynne at oucs.ox.ac.uk


-- 
Martin Wynne
Head of the Oxford Text Archive and
AHDS Literature, Languages and Linguistics

Oxford University Computing Services
13 Banbury Road
Oxford
UK - OX2 6NN
Tel: +44 1865 283299
Fax: +44 1865 273275
martin.wynne at oucs.ox.ac.uk