6.14 FYI: CETH, Brazilian lang, I-E(=)Uralic Interactions

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The following posting was made to LINGUIST recently and I wanted to
distribute it as far and wide as I could.  I attended the workshop last
summer and can answer specific questions about a linguist's perspective
on the workshop.  Feel free to mail me (billings at princeton.edu) for
comments.  --Loren Billings
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LINGUIST List:  Vol-6-14. Thu 12 Jan 1995. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines: 295
From: Susan Hockey (HOCKEY at zodiac.rutgers.edu)
Subject: CETH Summer Seminar on Electronic Texts in the Humanities

Electronic Texts in the Humanities: Methods and Tools

The Fourth Annual CETH Summer Seminar, 11-23 June 1995, Princeton University

organized by Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities,
Princeton and Rutgers Universities and co-sponsored by
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, University of Toronto

Seminar Directors: Susan Hockey, Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities
                   Willard McCarty, Centre for Computing in the Humanities

An intensive two-week seminar is again being offered by the Center for
Electronic Texts in the Humanities (CETH) in June 1995. The seminar will
address a wide range of challenges and opportunities that electronic texts
and software offer to teachers, scholars, and librarians in the humanities.
The focus will be practical and methodological, with the immediate aim of
assisting participants in their teaching, research and advising.

In response to demand, we are expanding the seminar in 1995 to allow for
sixty participants. There will be plenary sessions and six parallel tracks
devoted to specific areas of humanities computing. Participants attend
all plenary sessions and select one parallel track for more detailed study.
They will work on their own projects and will have the opportunity to present
them at the end of the seminar.

Schedule (PL=Plenary Session)

Sunday, June 11
6 pm    Registration, reception and introductions.
Monday, June 12
am      PL: What electronic texts are and where to find them
pm      PL: Creating and capturing texts in electronic form;
Tuesday, June 13
am      PL: Introduction to concordances and text retrieval
pm      PL: Overview of the Text Encoding Initiative and SGML
Wednesday, June 14
am      PL: Large text databases. ARTFL. Dartmouth Dante Project, OED
pm      Parallel Tracks
Thursday, June 15
am      PL: Electronic editions and scholarly publishing (panel).
pm      Parallel Tracks
Friday, June 16
am      PL: Introduction to structured databases.
pm      Parallel Tracks
Monday, June 19
am      PL: Hypertext for the humanities.
pm      Parallel Tracks
Tuesday, June 20
am      PL: Overview of digital imaging techniques. Demonstrations.
pm      Individual project work.
Wednesday, June 21
am      PL: Institutional support for electronic texts (panel).
pm      Parallel Tracks
Thursday, June 22
am      PL: Discussion on the limitations of existing software.
pm      PL: Presentation of participants' projects.
6 pm    Cocktails and banquet.
Friday, June 23
am      PL: Presentation of participants' projects.
pm      PL: Concluding discussion of basic questions. What from a
        scholarly and methodological perspective is to be gained?

Parallel Tracks

1. Textual Analysis
An intensive study of textual analysis tools and their applications. Indexed
interactive retrieval vs batch concordance generation. Using TACT and
Micro-OCP. Applications: stylistics, corpus linguistics, literary criticism,
Instructors:  Susan Hockey, Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities
              Willard McCarty, Centre for Computing in the Humanities

2. Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) and SGML
Using the TEI's application of the Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML).
Document structure and SGML elements, DTDs SGML entities, TEI core tags and
base tag sets, TEI header, additional tag sets. Processing TEI encoded texts.
Instructor:  C. M. Sperberg-McQueen, Editor-in-Chief of the TEI.

3. Scholarly Editing
Computer tools for the preparation and publication of scholarly editions.
Transcription and computer imaging of sources; collation; use of the TEI
guidelines for scholarly editions; making hypertext electronic editions
Instructor:  Peter Robinson, Oxford University Centre for Humanities Computing.

4. Hypertext for the Humanities
An introduction to developing hypertexts for the humanities. Building and
using HyperCard stacks and World Wide Web documents. Design and use of example
hypertexts. Examination of their role in humanities research and teaching.
Instructor: Geoffrey Rockwell, Head of Humanities Computing, McMaster Univ

5. Tools for Historical Analysis
A survey of the methods most frequently used by historians in their
computer-aided teaching and research, focusing on database and statistical
processing, also content analysis, corpus creation and image processing.
Instructor: Daniel Greenstein, Senior Lecturer in Modern History, Glasgow Univ

6. Setting up an Electronic Text Center
The practical aspects of setting up and managing electronic text centers.
Hardware and software for stand-alone and networked resources, collection
development, training, budget, licensing, and institutional relations.
Instructor: Anita Lowry, Head of the Information Arcade, University of Iowa

Details

Dates: June 11-23, 1995
Cost: $1275 for Nonstudents. $1075 for Students. The fee includes tuition,
   use of computer facilities, printed seminar materials, opening reception,
   lunches (Monday through Friday both weeks), and a closing banquet.
   Payment is requested at the time of acceptance.
Location:  Princeton University, the fourth oldest college in North America,
   was founded in 1746. During their stay, seminar participants have access
   to the university's extensive computing systems, as well as the Princeton
   Art Museum and the library system which houses about five million books,
   and nearly 35,000 journals, manuscripts, and papyri. All classrooms, lab
   facilities, and dormitories are within walking distance on the historic and
   picturesque Princeton, New Jersey campus.
Accommodation: Bed and breakfast accommodation is available Princeton
   University student housing facilities at a cost of $25 per day. CETH
   will assist participants in finding hotel accommodations if preferred.

Application
Enrollment is limited to sixty participants. Application requires two parts:
a cover sheet and a statement of interest. Current students applying for
the reduced rate must also include a photocopy of their valid student ID.
E-mail submissions must have the subject line "Summer Seminar Application."
Applications will be reviewed by a committee consisting of members of CETH's
Governing Board.

On your cover sheet include: your name, current institutional affiliation and
your position, postal and e-mail addresses, telephone and fax numbers, natural
language interest and computing experience, and parallel tracks you are
interested in attending, listed in order of preference. You may indicate up
to three parallel tracks. If your first choice is full, you will be assigned
to your second choice and so on.

In statement of interest include how your participation in the seminar would
be relevant for your teaching, research, advising, or administrative work, and
possibly that of your colleagues; what particular project you would like to
undertake during the seminar or what area of the humanities your would like
most to explore; and the extent of your computing experience.

Application Deadline:  FEBRUARY 21, 1995
Notification of acceptance by March 21, 1995

Send all applications to:
CETH Summer Seminar 1995, Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities,
169 College Avenue, New Brunswick, New Jersey  08903 U.S.A.
Phone: 908/932-1384; Fax: 908/932-1386; E-mail ceth at zodiac.rutgers.edu

[A longer version of this notice is on the CETH WWW server at
http://cethmac.princeton.edu]

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