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Date:  11 May 97 07:13:26 EDT
From:  "A.J.M.Colson" <102765.1440 at CompuServe.COM>
Subject:  Lakehead University Summer Institute For Advanced Studies

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Date:  11 May 97 07:13:26 EDT
From:  "A.J.M.Colson" <102765.1440 at CompuServe.COM>
Subject:  Lakehead University Summer Institute For Advanced Studies

My name is Alicia Colson and as the administrator of the
Lakehead University Summer Institute for Advanced Studies I am
posting the following information.  This summer institute would
be of interest to the linguists as it addresses the method and
theory of applying multimedia techniques to integrate text,
still and video images and sound as a research tool.

URL: http://www.lakeheadu.ca/~lusiaswww/lusias.html

LUSIAS
Lakehead University Summer Institute for Advanced Studies
Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada

In July of 1997 Lakehead University will be offering graduate
courses in the research application of multimedia and hypertext
techniques to the humanities and social sciences. This program
is offered in collaboration with the Mackenzie Ward Heritage
Trust. It addresses the method and theory of applying multimedia
techniques to integrate text, still and video images and sound
as a research tool. Students enrol in an introductory course,
and then select a maximum of two special topics courses from a
list of three offered. These courses may be taken for academic
credit, or as non-credit training/skills upgrading courses. The
1997 course offering includes:

Graduate Studies 5511
Introduction to the application of Multimedia Computer Systems

Graduate Studies 5115 Special Topics
Introduction to Hypermedia: using and building Open Hypermedia
Applications in the Humanities

Graduate Studies 5116 Special Topics
Images and Manuscripts as Objects in Digital Systems

Graduate Studies 5117 Special Topics
Questioning the Image: form, content and the analysis of meaning

For more information regarding this program please view the LUSIAS
homepage or enquire for information via email

LUSIAS HOMEPAGE    http://www.lakeheadu.ca/~lusiaswww/lusias.html
EMAIL			LUSIAS at lakeheadu.ca

Graduate Studies 5511

Introduction to the application of Multimedia Computer Systems

This course provides an introduction to the application of
multimedia computer systems for analyzing large data bases
consisting of text, video, audio, graphics and animation
files. While specific computer methodologies are introduced, the
emphasis is upon exploring the critical implications of
transforming conventional text, numeric data, sound and graphic
images into electronic form. This includes the process of
digitally rendering the original source information without
modifying its contextual meaning, and establishing logical
linkages between related pieces of data.

 Credit: .5 FCE
 Course Coordinator:
                   Jean Colson
 Course Duration:
                   July 7 to July 15, 1997
 Contact Hours:
                   8:00 am to 12:00 pm and 2:30 pm to 6:00 pm.


Structure and Method:

Knowledge accumulation in this course is intensive and
cumulative.  Unless competence is continuously assessed,
students will not derive full benefit from the Special Topics
courses, nor be able to successfully complete the program of
study. Individual assessment will be based upon demonstrated
competence during session 0. During Day 2 students will be
allocated to groups for remedial instruction.  Subsequent days
will consist of 1-2 hour lectures, followed by hands-on
`workshops' supervised by the course staff. The workshops will
utilize materials prepared previously by the respective tutors.
Days [9] and [10] will be used for specific `remedial' tuition.
Students will also prepare their essay during this period.

Materials and Library:

Workshop materials will be furnished based upon the
demonstration materials prepared for the various Special Topics
courses.  Mini-manuals and working materials have been written,
some of which will draw upon local archives. Facsimiles of
documents from the Hudson's Bay Company Archives plus other
local archives will be featured as part of the example
exercises.

Method of Assessment:
Assessment methods are twofold:

  A.Daily diagnostic tests in the last session of each course module.
  An average of at least 70% is required for successful completion
  of this course.
  B.An essay of ca. 2,500 words on a topic to be defined at the
  beginning of the course. The essay will address basic issues in the
  field, and will have to indicate understanding of at least one of the
  applications addressed. It can also review or critique the pertinent
     literature. Topics must be approved by the Course Co-ordinator.
     The essay will be graded by LUSIAS staff. Pass level is 70%. The
     essay contributes 80% to the final grade.

Prerequisite:

Completion of initial test and any remedial work required by the
Director of Studies, graduate qualification or equivalent as
approved by the LUSIAS Council.

Content:

Day 1 - July 7th
     [0] Diagnostic tests which indicate student's understanding of
     basic operational procedures. [Jean Colson] [1] General
     introduction to computer systems [hardware storage and scanning]
     software and operating systems [Jean Colson]

Day 2 - July 8th
     [2] `Editing' and `Reading' images of evidence [text, landscape,
     artifact] [Jean Colson] [3] `Working' with MS Windows - attaining
     a working knowledge [Hugh Davies]

Day 3 - July 9th
     [4] Introduction to databases: structure and utility. [MS ACCESS
     used as example] [Jean Colson]

Day 4 - July 10th
     [5] Introduction to markup languages [TACT] [Jean Colson]

Day 5 - July 11th
     [6] Introduction to HTML and the WWW [Jean Colson]

Day 6 - July 12th
     [7] Introduction to Electronic Maps and GIS [LU staff, Scott
     Hamilton]

Day 7 - July 14th
     [8] Introduction to Image Processing [Manfred Thaller]

Day 8 - July 15th
     [9] Introduction to sound and video [Hugh]
     [10]Project management - case studies - [Scott Hamilton, Paddy
     Reid]

Graduate Studies 5115 Special Topics

Introduction to Hypermedia: using and building Open Hypermedia
Applications in the Humanities

This course introduces students to the use of open hypermedia
systems for organizing and retrieving multimedia information. It
will concentrate on using Microcosm Plus for Windows, but will
also consider the use of other delivery systems such as the
World Wide Web, Toolbook and Hyper-G. During the course the
students are expected to create a large digital resource of
materials related to their subject, and this application will
form the basis of the formal assessment.

 Credit: .5 FCE
 Instructor:
               Hugh Davies
 Course Duration:
               July 16 to July 26, 1997
 Contact Hours:
               Four hours per day consisting of 1 to 2 hours of
               lecture and 2 to 3 hours of labs. Students may find
               they need additional lab time to complete the required
               material and develop sufficient expertise. The course
               will run 6 days per week.


The course will be taught with each student having individual
machines, each of which runs the requisite software (Microcosm
Plus for Windows). Students will attend a presentation on the
topic, followed by `hands on' laboratory sessions using both new
and prepared examples.

Assessment:
20% observation, and 80% through the `multimedia application' to
be built during the course and completed by day 10 of the
course.

Content:

Day 1 - Wed July 16
     Introduction to hypertext and navigation in Microcosm using
     exemplar materials provided by MWT.

Day 2 - Thur July 17
     Building resource-based applications in Microcosm using exemplar
     materials provided by MWT

Day 3 - Fri July 18
     Organizing your resources: working with texts using exemplar
     materials provided by MWT

Day 4 - Sat July 19
     Information Retrieval working with multimedia using exemplar
     materials provided by MWT

Day 5 - Mon July 21
     Working with Third Party applications (including Netscape,
     Toolbook and Word) using exemplar materials provided by MWT

Day 6 - Tue July 22
     The Multimedia Essay- building trails of association using
     exemplar materials provided by MWT

Day 7 - Wed July 23
     Working with the World Wide Web- authoring and using Webcosm
     (Microcosm on the Web). Comparing Microcosm to the World Wide Web
     and other systems, using new and archival materials (MWT) and
     focusing on the integration of the Web in an application

Day 8 to 10 - Thur July 24, Fri July 25 and Sat July 26
     Building links automatically- and identifying the `openness of a
     Microcosm application
          1) demonstrating student applications
          2) oral presentation of media data.



Graduate Studies 5116 Special Topics

Images and Manuscripts as Objects in Digital Systems

Rapid improvement in computer technology has enabled electronic
storage and presentation of pictorial and manuscript materials
at resolutions that rival conventional photographic
reproduction. New cost-effective publishing and distribution
systems have also developed using CD ROMs and computer
networks. Thus, it is now possible to create digital archives
containing upwards of 50,000 to 100,000 digital objects (pages
of manuscript, photographs, etc.). This course explores some of
the practical and theoretical issues involved in the development
of digital archives.

 Credit: .5 FCE
 Instructor:
               Manfred Thaller
 Course Duration:
               July 16 to July 26, 1997
 Contact Hours:
               Four hours per day consisting of 1 to 2 hours of
               lecture and 2 to 3 hours of labs. Students may find
               they need additional lab time to complete the required
               material and develop sufficient expertise. The course
               will run 6 days per week.


Objectives:

This course will provide students with a comprehensive survey of
the existing technologies used to develop digital archives, by
participation in a "teaching project". Theoretical issues
underlying digital archive design are also emphasized in the
lecture component.  Participants will be led through all stages
in the creation of a small digital archive. This will culminate
in the production of a CD ROM, and rendering it available
through a local area network. The substance of these practical
exercises will be decided in accordance with the preferences of
the participants.

Assessment:

20% observation, 40% on a written test which discusses the
theoretical principles involved, 40% through the `digital
archives to be built during the course and completed by day 10.

Content:

Day 1 - Wed July 16
     Different types of archival systems.
     General considerations for the design and implementation of
     archival and museum systems

Day 2 - Thur July 17
     General considerations underlying the design and implementation
     of "private systems"

Day 3 - Fri July 18
     The interfaces used for digital editions and archives and the
     availability of basic tools.

Day 4 - Sat July 19
     The creation of interfaces which make the largest possible amount
     of source material available in a cost-effective fashion.

Day 5 - Mon July 21
     The issue of longevity of digital collections will be discussed
     as will the strategies for insuring the physical survival of the
     data. This session will also discuss techniques for making data
     immune from problems associated with hardware and software
     obsolescence.

Day 6 - Tue July 22
     The issue of data security will be discussed. Digital
     publications and/or archives must be created in a way which makes
     them safe from illicit copying. This issue includes concerns with
     protecting digital data from malevolent modification.

Day 7 to 10 - Wed July 23 to Sat July 26
     The final three days will be taken up with the development of the
     students' own "digital archives", and examination of students'
     comprehension of the principles that underlie such activity.

Graduate Studies 5117 Special Topics

Questioning the Image: form, content and the analysis of meaning.

This course focuses upon issues associated with preserving and
interpreting "meaning" implicit in source materials as they are
developed as electronic media. While ambiguity of meaning is
evident in textual sources, it is particularly apparent when the
analyst addresses graphic and audio-visual data. Exploration of
these semantic networks within multimedia datasets is the
primary focus of this course. It reviews how multimedia
technologies enable researchers to move beyond the constraints
of conventional textual data, and rigorously explore subtle
meanings expressed in the use of language and gesture, and
preserved in audio-visual media.

 Credit: .5 FCE
 Instructor:
               Jean Colson
 Course Duration:
               July 16 to July 26, 1997
 Contact Hours:
               Four hours per day consisting of 1 to 2 hours of
               lecture and 2 to 3 hours of labs. Students may find
               they need additional lab time to complete the required
               material and develop sufficient expertise. The course
               will run 6 days per week.

Objectives:

Traditionally, scholars within the Humanities select
representative textual data to illustrate interpretations
derived from a larger body of literature. The limitations of
conventional writing and publication has constrained the
analysis, presentation and justification of such
interpretation. However, with multimedia technologies, scholars
are in a position to present a large corpus of primary
documentation and simultaneously demonstrate the interpretative
process using text, sound and images. This course reviews the
theoretical and analytical implications of research in an
electronic environment by demonstrating the process using
Microcosm to draw upon textual, graphical, sound and video
sources.

Method:

Daily 1 hour exposition followed by `hands-on' work with text,
images, sound and video as necessary for the analysis of meaning
in images.  The first five sessions would be taken up with
theoretical and practical techniques, including readings of
relevant approaches. A selection of texts will be made
available. The second five sessions will involve the
construction of an application bearing in mind the theoretical
perspectives offered. The final session will involve an oral
exposition by the student drawing on the application which has
been constructed.

Assessment:
Continuous assessment - 20% observation, 50% through the multimedia
application, 30% oral exposition.

Content:

Day 1 - Wednesday 16th July
     1. Beyond Illustration - what is an image as `source' using an
     application constructed for the purpose.

Day 2 - Thursday 17th July
     2. How do we derive meaning - the questions which might be asked:
     - who?, what? why, when? - markup and the boundaries of an image.


Day 3 - Friday 18th July
     3. Exploiting an exemplar image.
     4. A workshop session - in which students `mount' their `own'
     image and explore the ways in which meaning might be `tapped' :
     This will entail the exploration of the notion of different
     `voices' and imposed `views'. The students should also explore
     the issues involved in the identification of `views' and `signs -
     symbols' or metaphors.

Day 4 - Saturday 19th July
     5. Modelling `views' and the establishment of interpretation.
     Students are encouraged to `model' their views in the software
     provided by Microcosm. The addition of `comment' and `alternative
     images' or `argument'.

Day 5 to 9 - Monday 21st July to Friday 25th July
     6. The students will be building their own application, providing
     systematic exploitation of their sources and short oral
     expositions of their plans and completed work.

Day 10 - Saturday 26th July
     7. Student presentations - students will talk to their
     application. An oral exposition will take not less than 20
     minutes. This includes a `live' demonstration.

LUSIAS

Lakehead University Summer Institute for Advanced Studies

LUSIAS offers graduate courses in the application of computing
technologies to research in the humanities and social
sciences. These courses address the method and theory of
multimedia techniques to integrate text, still and video images,
and sound. The program of study emphasizes multimedia as a tool
for research and to aid the development of digital archives, and
is less concerned with conventional multimedia applications such
as presentation tools.

Each summer (July) we offer an intensive 3 week program of study
that encompasses about 170 hours of lecture and laboratory
instruction time. Students must enroll in GS 5511 (Intro.), and
can chose a maximum of 2 out of 3 Special Topics courses. Each
course is valued as .5 FCE (full course equivalent). They may be
taken for academic credit, or as non-credit training/skills
upgrading courses.

The courses use a "case study" approach to teaching. These case
studies include European and Canadian examples. Examples
deriving from North America Aboriginal culture will form an
integral part of the curriculum. As part of the curriculum,
students are strongly encouraged to bring their own data and
research problems to develop as multimedia applications.

LUSIAS is joint research and education initiative of the
Mackenzie Ward Heritage Trust and Lakehead University.

For the 1997 courses descriptions and study schedule please
click below:

     Graduate Studies 5511
          Introduction to the application of Multimedia Computer
          Systems
     Graduate Studies 5115 Special Topics
          Introduction to Hypermedia: using and building Open
          Hypermedia Applications in the Humanities
     Graduate Studies 5116 Special Topics
          Images and Manuscripts as Objects in Digital Systems
     Graduate Studies 5117 Special Topics
          Questioning the Image: form, content and the analysis of
          meaning


For more information please click on the following topics:

     Lakehead University Homepage
     Thunder Bay
     Lakehead Computing Facilities
     Housing on Campus
     Registration Information
     Grad Student Regs
     Fee Structure and Course Timetable
     Registration Forms and Deadlines
     Contact Address
     Instructor Biographies
          Jean Colson
          Hugh Davies
          Manfred Thaller
     Touring Opportunities in Northern Ontario


Instructor Biographies


Jean MacKenzie Ward Colson

born 1944

Academic career:

  1966
           B. A [Art and Anthropology]. University of California at
           Davies, California, U.S.A.
  1970
           M.A. in Symbolic Anthropology, Princeton, New Jersey,
           U.S.A.
  1971
           Diploma in Social Anthropology, Oxford, England
  1971-76
           Southampton University 'Extra-mural' Lecturer in Social
           Anthropology.
  1977-79
           Lecturer in Historical Anthropology at Universidade Federal
           de Santa Catarina, Santa Catarine (state), Brazil.
  1980-95
           Visiting Research Fellow, Department of Spanish and Latin
           American Studies, Southampton University, Hampshire, U.K.
  1986-94
           Research Assistant History Department, University of
           Southampton: responsible for the development of the HiDES
           Project. and the teaching of research techniques using
           advanced hypermedia systems - developed the Arts Computing
           course "Questioning the Image".
  1994-96
           Research Assistant Digital Libraries Research Centre
           (DLRC): responsible for the development of hypermedia
           systems in Humanities Research, and the "Introduction to
           Humanities Computing" taught at the Schools of Research and
           Graduate Studies.


Academic Projects in the Field of Arts/Humanities Computing:

  1977-79
           Field work in a small fishing village, artesanal fishing,
           and lace-making , Lagoa de Conceicao, Ilha de Santa
           Catarina, Santa Catarina (state), Brazil. (Brazilian
           Fishing Village/Lace Making) Research in State and Federal
           archives - Florianopolis, Ilha de Santa Catarina, Santa
           Catarina (state), Brazil. - Property and inheritance in
           leading families of the 18th and 19th century Ilha de Santa
           Catarina.
  1979-96
           Viana Project, Demographic History of the City of Viana do
           Castelo, 1750 - 1931. Project work funded by:-
  1996 -
  present
           HiDES Project, A major project designed to introduce
           computing into the teaching of history in the UK
  1989-94
           The Winchester Project - a local history project involving
           major conversion of data structures from SIR, designing
           Kleio data structures. Database and data representation
           work
  1989-94
           "Questioning the Image" The use of advanced multimedia in
           the teaching of history.
  1993-96
           "Chicago 1919" , Project sponsored by the Newberry Library,
           Chicago "Multimedia History of a year in Chicago"
  1993 -
  present
           The Technology in the Teaching and Learning Process,
           History Consortium "Core Resources for Historians"


Teaching:

  1972-76
           Introduction to Social Anthropology
           Social Anthropology of Indigenous Peoples of North America
           Indigenous Peoples and Indigenous Art of North America
  1977-79
           "Parentesco, Casa, e a Familia Brasileiro", Florianopolis,
           Ilha de Santa Catarina, Santa Catarina (state), Brazil
           (Taught in Brazilian-Portuguese)
  1986-90
           Visiting researcher in the Department of Spanish and
           Portuguese. Courses in conjunction with that department in
           Latin American Social History
  1989-96
           Developed a course called 'Questioning the Image'. which
           introduces students how to analyze images as sources. They
           are asked to implement this analysis in a multimedia
           application. They create the application and at the same
           time as writing a mini-thesis analyzing the meaning and the
           context of the images that they have chosen to study. I
           'run' the DLRC's weekly internal Seminar called The
           Wishgroup which discusses the theoretical and
           methodological issues of text and image processing. I help
           to supervise Ph.D. students who are working with images in
           their own research. Since 1995 I have co-ordinated the 'IT'
           component of a yearly course entitled 'Humanities Research
           Skills' to all incoming M. A. Students - it argues the
           issues which arise when database management systems,
           mark-up languages and HTML are used in the course of
           research. I also teach a course entitled 'Historical
           Computing' which is a workshop course. Students either
           learn Kleio - a object/source oriented environment for the
           analysis of text and images, or create an multimedia
           research application of their own using Microcosm.


Summer Institutes:

I organize the annual "Microcosm Summer School" at the Annual
Conference of the International Society History and Computing, and an
annual DLRC "Colloquium".

As part of the DLRC, I am engaged in research and design of large
Multimedia applications. I build multimedia applications. I am
interested in the implications of hypertext implementations and
applications. I am concerned with the theoretical issues which arise
when one uses textual and image sources in research. I work closely
with the MMRG Group in Electronics and Computing Science at
Southampton.

Publications:

Colson, Jean, 1996 'CASE STUDY H : Community Reconstruction and
the Viana do Castelo database' In Charles Harvey and Jon Press,
eds., Databases and the Historian, Macmillan Basingstoke.

J. Colson, and F. Colson, H. C. Davies and W. Hall, 1994
'Questioning "Authority". The Challenge of Multimedia' In Storia
& Multimedia, Atti de Settimo Congresso Internazionale
Association for History and Computing, eds. Francesca Bocchi and
Peter Denley (Grafis, Bologna 1994), pp 597-605.

Colson, J. M. 1992 "The Quartim - an Exemplar", in, Fischer,
M.,(ed.), Bica (Bulletin of Information on Computing and
Anthropology), The University of Canterbury, Kent, issue no. 8 ,
June 1992 (on-line.  electronic publication).

Colson, Jean, Roger Middleton, and Peter Wardley, 1991 Annual
Review of Information Technology Developments for Economic and
Social Historians, Economic History Review, XLIV, 2 (1991),
pp. 343-393.

Colson, F., Colson, J. M. and Doulton, D., 1990 "In search of
the Individual. Brazil, Portugal and London, 1841-1915',
Literary and Linguistic Computing, Vol. 5, no. 4, pp 279-
296. (Oxford University Press.)

Colson, F. , Colson, J. M. and Doulton, D. 1990 'Anatomy of a
Rupture.  Miguelismo, Petty Aristocracy and Liberal Centralism
in Portugal, 1820-1834', in, History and Computing, Vol. 1,
No. 1. (Oxford, 1990).  pp. 1-13.

Colson Jean, and Frank Colson, 1990 "Mercantile Migration - The
Case of Viana do Castello and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil", in
Oliveira Martins, Herminio, (ed.), Portuguese Studies Workshop,
St. Antony's College, Oxford, Spring.


Hugh C. Davies

born 1958

Academic Career:

  1981
           B.Sc. (Hons) in Ship Science, University of Southampton,
           Hampshire, U.K.
  1982
           Further Education Teachers Certificate, IOWCAT, Teacher.
  1988
           British Computer Society Part 1, BCS
  1988
           M.Sc. in Computer of British Society, ICS
  1992
           Membership of British Computer Society, BCS 1995 Ph.D.,
           Computer Science, University of Southampton, Hampshire,
           U.K.
  1992 -
  present
           Lecturer, Multimedia Research Group, Department of
           Electronics and Computer Science, University of
           Southampton, U.K. Founder of the Multimedia Research Group
           in 1987, and one of the inventors of the Multimedia open
           hypermedia system. Since 1990 I have been transferring the
           technology that comes from our lab into industry. I am a
           director of Multicosm Ltd., which has been set up the
           University to manage this technology transfer.


My research areas are open hypermedia systems, open protocols,
the applications of hypermedia in industry and education. I am
currently working on document management systems within the
digital library. I am research team manager within our research
group. I have been heavily involved in the hypermedia research
community for some years.  I have been involved with dozens of
firms, including Boeing, IBM, HP, Glaxo Welcome, Shell, Unichem,
concerning the applications of hypermedia technology

Academic Projects within the field of hypermedia computing:

  1990 -
  present
           working with a large number of applications germane to
           Arts/Humanities Computing.
  1992
           Bath University/Sainsburys Microcosm Applications in GIS.
  1993
           JISC Implementation of Research Version of Microcosm
  1993
           SERC Remote systems application for Microcosm
  1994
           JISC Implementation of Research Version of Microcosm.
  1994
           Glaxo Microcosm Applications
  1994
           JISC Implementation of Academic Version of Microcosm.
  1995
           Unichem Microcosm Applications
  1995
           EPSRC Web Applications for Microcosm.
  1996
           EPSRC Microcosm Architecture for Video Information Systems.
  1996
           E.U. Memoire Project - Microcosm
           Information Management Systems in Digital Libraries.
  1996
           EPSRC Search instruments in hypermedia environments.
  1997
           Co-chair of ACM Hypertext 97, which will be held at
           Southampton , Member of Southern Committee of British
           Computer Society


Teaching:

Teaching one regular introductory and advanced course in
Computer Science and Hypermedia. Within Southampton I am in
charge of our modular M.Sc. in Information Engineering, which is
unique in that it uses the Internet as its primary method of
distributing information.

Summer Institutes:

I have given invited seminars at many major UK universities,
including the Open University. I have given courses introducing
and using Microcosm at many UK and EU universities.

Other Professional Information:

I have been a regular reviewer and referee for ACM and IEEE
journals and conferences; an invited speaker at many conferences
and workshops including "Learning Technology in Higher Education
Conference", September 1993, DDG XIII B, OII REFMOD Hypertext
and Hypermedia workshop on producing an OII reference
model. January 1993., " Status User Conference", Oct. 1993, the
"Workshop on Open Hypertext Systems" at the University of
Konstanz, May 1994. The "Workshop on Open Hypermedia Systems" at
the ACM Conference on Hypermedia Technology, ECHT'94., the 21st
IAMSLIC Conference (International Association of Aquatic and
Marine Science Libraries and Information Centres), the 2nd
Workshop on "Open Hypermedia Systems" at the ACM Conference on
Hypermedia Technology, April 1996.

Recent Publications:

Andrew Fountain, Wendy Hall, Ian Heath and Hugh Davies. 1990
"Microcosm An Open Model for Hypermedia with Dynamic
Linking". In: A.  Rizk, N. Streitz and J. Andre eds. Hypertext:
Concepts, Systems and Applications. The Proceedings of the
European Conference on Hypertext, INRIA, France, November 1990,
Cambridge University Press

Gillian Lovegrove and Hugh Davies. 1991 "Experimenting with
Object-Orientated Programming in the Curriculum". University
Computing, 13 pp 163-170.

Hugh Davies, Wendy Hall, Ian Heath, Gary Hill and Rob
Wilkins. 1992 Towards an Integrated Information Environment with
Open Hypermedia Systems. In: D. Lucarella, J. Nanard, M. Nanard,
P. Paolini. eds. The Proceedings of the ACM Conference on
Hypertext, ECHT'92, Milano, ACM, 1992.

Hugh Davies, Wendy Hall, and Ian Heath. 1993 Media Integration
Issues within Open Hypermedia Systems. The Proceedings of the
International Symposium on Multimedia Technologies and Future
Applications. IEEE, 1993.

Hugh Davies, Gerard Hutchings and Wendy Hall. 1993 A Framework
for Delivering large-scale Hypermedia Learning Material. In:
Hermann Maurer. ed. Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia Annual
1993, of ED-MEDIA'93, Orlando, Florida, USA,
pp. 115-122. AACE. 1993.

Les Carr, Hugh Davies and Wendy Hall. 1993 Experimenting with
HyTime Architectural Forms for Hypertext Interchange. Journal of
Information Services & Use 13(2) pp. 111-119, 1993

Hall, W., Hill, G. J. & Hall, W. Why Use HyTime?. EP-ODD, Vol. 7
No.  1. 1994.

Hugh Davies, Wendy Hall and Ian Heath. 1994 Media Integration
Issues within Open Hypermedia Systems. In: R. I. Damper, W. Hall
& J.  Richards: eds. Multimedia Technologies and Future
Applications.  Pentech Press Ltd. ISBN 0-7273- 13207, 1994.

Hutchings, G. A., Hall, W., Davies, H. C. & White, S. 1994
"Resource Based Learning: Creating Reusable Hypermedia for
Education" In: The Proceedings of MediaActive, Liverpool, May
1994.

Carr, L. A., Hall, W., Davies, H. C. & Hollom, R. J. 1994 The
Microcosm Link Service and its Application to the World Wide
Web. in: Cailliau, R., R. Nierstrasz, O. & Ruggier, M. eds. The
Proceedings of the First International World Wide-Web
Conference. Geneva, May 1994 pp 25-34. CERN 1994.

Hall, W. & Davies, H. C. 1994 Hypermedia Link Services and Their
Application to Multimedia Information Management. Journal of
Information and Software Technology. pp. 197-202, 36(4).

Davies, H. C., Knight, S. J. Hall, W. Light 1994 "Hypermedia
Link Services" In: The Proceedings of the ACM Conference on
Hypermedia Technology. ECHT'94. Edinburgh. ACM Press 1994.

Davies, H. C. & Hey, J. M. R. 1995 "Automatic Extraction of
Hypermedia Bundles from the Digital Library" In: Shipman,
F. M. III, Furuta, R., & Levy, D. M. The Proceedings of Digital
Libraries `95. Texas A&M University, June 1995.

Davies, H. C. 1995 "To Embed or Not to Embed..." Communications
of the ACM, Vol. 38(8), pp 108-109. August 1995.

Lewis, P. H., Davies, H. C., Griffiths, S. R., Hall, W. &
Wilkins, R.  J. 1996 "Media-based Navigation with Generic Links"
In: Proceedings of the Seventh ACM Conference on Hypertext,
Hypertext `96, pp. 215-223, ACM, March 1996.

Davies, H. C., Lewis, A. J. & Rizk, A. 1996 "OHP: A Draft
Proposal for Standard Open Hypermedia Protocol" In: Wiil, U.K. &
Demeyer, S. (eds).  The Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Open
Hypermedia Systems, at Hypertext' 96, Washington D.C. UCI-ICS
Tech Report 96- 10, University of California, Irvine, April
1996.

Hall, W. Davies, H.C., & Hutchings, G. A. 1996 Rethinking
Hypermedia : The Microcosm Approach. ISBN 0-7923-9679-0. Kluwer
Academic Publishers.



Manfred Thaller

born 1950

Academic career:

  1970
           History (originally History and Ancient Oriental Studies)
           at the University of Graz, Austria.
  1975
           Ph.D. in Modern History "Studien zum Europaischen
           Amerikabild. Darstellung und Beurteilung der Politik und
           inneren Entwicklung der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika in
           Deutschland, Gro3britannien und Osterreich zwischen 1840
           und 1941 im Vergleich." Postgraduate study of (empirical)
           sociology as "scholar" of the Institute for Advanced
           Studies in Vienna; special interest, study of historical
           mobility studies. Participation in research projects on the
           history of the family, study of the daily life of the
           Middle Ages and interlocking directorates of German and
           Austrian companies.
  1978 -
  present
           Research Fellow at the Max-Planck-Institut fur Geschichte,
           Goettingen. Responsible for the design and implementation
           of a general database oriented programming system for
           history "Kleio". At the same time research on a general
           methodology of historical computer science.
  1995 -
  present
           Part-time Professor at the University of Bergen, Norway.
           Responsible for development of M.A. / Ph.D. program in
           "Historical Computer Science". Visiting professorships at
           the Hebrew University, Jerusalem (1987), Queen Mary and
           Westfield College, London (1993) and the European
           University Institute, Florence (1993).


Academic Projects in the field of Arts/Humanities Computing:

  1987-88
           Project director: "WORM's als Editionsmedium fur
           historische Datenbanken", (funded: IBM Germany)
  1988-92
           "Entwicklung fachspezifischer Software fur die Historischen
           Wissenschaften", (Grant support - VW Stiftung)
  1996-99
           "Digitale Archive", (Grant support -VW Stiftung)
  1991
           Project co-ordinator:- "Sicherstellung der Archive in
           Auschwitz"
  1992
           "Autumn School for New Historical Methods at the Moscow
           State University"
  1995
           "Technology, Skills and Resources for Historians of the
           Former Soviet Union"
  1991-94
           President of the International Association for History and
           Computing


Teaching:

  1979 -
  present
           Historical Computer Science at the Universities of
           Gottingen (since 1984) and Munich (since 1985); lectures
           and seminars at the Universities of Graz, Hamburg,
           Salzburg, Siegen and Vienna. Intensive courses, primarily
           on the usage of various software packages at the
           Universities of Freiburg, Koln, Odense, Utrecht, the
           Institute of Historical Research, London., Queen Mary and
           Westfield College, London.


Summer Institutes:

Summer school "Neue Methoden in der Geschichtswissenschaft";
originally at the University of Linz, later at the University of
Salzburg, since 1994 at the Universities of Bergen and Salzburg. 1987
- 1992, 1994 and 1996 organizer of a summer school on source
orientated data processing in Goettingen.

Publications - since 1986

As author

1986 "Can We Afford to Use the Computer; Can We Afford not to
Use it?"  In: H. Millet (Ed.) Informatique et Prosopographie,
Paris

1986 "A Draft Proposal for the Coding of Machine Readable
Sources", in Historical Social Research / Historische
Sozialforschung. 40 (October 1986).

1987 "Methods and Techniques of Historical Computation" in:
Peter Denley and Deian Hopkin (Eds.): History and Computing,
Manchester 1987.

1987 "Auf dem Weg zu einem Standard fur maschinenlesbare
Quellen", in Friedrich Hausmann et. al. (Eds.): Datennetze fur
die Historischen Wissenschaften , Graz .

1987 "The Daily Life of the Middle Ages, Editions of Sources and
Data Processing", in: Medium Aevum Quotidianum 10 (1987).

1987 "Secundum Manus. Zur Datenverarbeitung mehrschichtiger
Editionen", in Gunther Cerwinka et al. (Ed.): Beitrage zur
Geschichte und Ihren Grundlagen, Festschrift Friedrich Hausmann
zum 70.  Geburtstag, Graz

1988 "Vom Beleg zum Begriff. Der Beitrag der Datenverarbeitung
zur Losung von Terminologieproblemen", in: G. M. Dienes et
al. (Eds.): Ut populus ad historiam trahatur., (Graz ,1988).

1988 "Gibt es eine fachspezifische Datenverarbeitung in den
historischen Wissenschaften? Quellenbanktechniken in der
Geschichtswissenschaft", in: H. Kaufhold and J. Schneider
(Eds.): Geschichtswissenschaft und elektronische
Datenverarbeitung (Wiesbaden 1988.)

1988 "A Draft Proposal for a Format Exchange Program", in: Jean-
Philippe Genet (Ed.): Standardisation et echange des bases de
donnees historiques., Actes de la troiseme Table Ronde
Internationale tenue au L.I.S.H. (Centre Nationale de Recherches
Scientifique), (Paris 1988).

1988 "Was sind `fortgeschrittene Kenntnisse' in formalen
Verfahren fur Historiker", in: Manfred Thaller, Gerhard Botz et
al. (Eds.): Qualitat und Quantitat. Zur Praxis der Methoden der
Historischen Sozialwissenschaft, (Frankfurt / New York Qualitat
und Quantitat. Zur Praxis der Methoden der Historischen
Sozialwissenschaft, Frankfurt / New York .

1989 Kleio "Ein Datenbanksystem" St. Katharinen 1989 and later
editions (Halbgraue Reihe zur Historischen Fachinformatik B
1). (St.  Katharinen 1989, (Halbgraue Reihe zur Historischen
Fachinformatik B 2).

1989 "Have Very Large Data Bases Methodological Relevance?", in:
Otto Opitz (Ed.): Conceptual and Numerical Analysis of Data,
Berlin

1989 "Warum brauchen die Geschichtswissenschaften
fachspezifische datentechnische L'osungen? Das Beispiel
kontextsensitiver Datenbanken", in: Manfred Thaller and Albert
Muller (Eds.): Computer in den Geisteswissenschaften. Konzepte
und Berichte, Frankfurt a. Main Studien zur Historischen
Sozialwissenschaft 7 .

1989 "The Need for a Theory of Historical Computing", in: Peter
Denley et al. (Eds.): History and Computing II, Manchester and
New York .

1990 "Sphragid`Geographische Angaben in einer Historischen
Datenbank", in: Eratosthene e 2 (1990).

1990 "Databases and Expert Systems as Complementary Tools for
Historical Research", in: Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis 103
(1990).

1990 "Entzauberungen. Die Entwicklung einer fachspezifischen
historischen Datenverarbeitung in der Bundesrepublik", in:
W. Prinz und P. Weingart (Eds.): Die sogenannten
Geisteswissenschaften: Innenansichten. Frankfurt a. Main

1990 "The Need for Standards: Data Modelling and Exchange", in:
Daniel Greenstein (Ed.): Modelling Historical Data,
St. Katharinen 1991 Halbgraue Reihe zur Historischen
Fachinformatik A 11.

1991 "The Historical Workstation Project", in: Historical Social
Research / Historische Sozialforschung 16 (1991).

1991 "The Historical Workstation Project", in: Computers and the
Humanities 25 (1991).

1992 "The Historical Workstation Project", in: Josef Smets
(Ed.): Histoire et Informatique, Montpellier 1992.

1992 "The Processing of Manuscripts", in: Manfred Thaller (Ed.)
Images and Manuscripts in Historical Computing, St. Katharinen
1992 Halbgraue Reihe zur Historischen Fachinformatik A 14

1991 "Bildanalyse in der Geschichtswissenschaft", in:
W. Neubauer und K.-H. Meier (Eds.): Deutscher Dokumentartag 1991

1992 "On the Conception, Training and Employment of Historical
Data and Knowledge Daemons", in: Jan Oldervoll (Ed.): Eden or
Babylon?, St.  Katharinen .

1992 "Von der Miverst andlichkeit des Selbstverst andlichen",
in: Rudolf Vierhaus et al. (Eds.): Fruhe Neuzeit-Fruhe Moderne.
Forschungen zur Vielschichtigkeit von Ubergangsprozessen,
Gottingen 1992 Veroff. des MPI fur. Geschichte 104.

1993 "Kleio A Database System", St. Katharinen 1993 Halbgraue
Reihe zur Historischen Fachinformatik B 11.

1993 "The Archive on the Top of your Desk? On Self-Documenting
Image Files", in: Jurij Fikfak and Gerhart Jaritz (Eds.): Image
Processing in History: towards Open Systems, St. Katharinen
Halbgraue Reihe zur Historischen Fachinformatik A 16.

1993 "Historical Information Science: Is there such a Thing? New
Comments on an Old Idea", in: Tito Orlandi (Eds.): Seminario
Discipline Humanistiche e Informatica. Il problema dell'
integrazione, (Roma 1993 ) Contributi Del Centor Linceo
Interdisciplinare `Beniamo Segre' 87.

1994 "Source Oriented Data Processing", in: Informatik Forum 8.
(1994).

1994 "Die Herausforderung groSer Korpora unstrukturierter
Texte", in: Max-Planck-Gesellschaft Berichte und Mitteilungen 1
1994.

1994 "Bilder und Manuskripte als Gegenstand der rechnergstutzten
Bearbeitung", in: EDV-Tage Theuern 1993. Kolloquiumsbericht,
Munich 1994.

1995 "Source Oriented Data Processing and Quantification:
Distrustful Brothers", in: Manfred Thaller et. al: Statistics
for Historians: Standard Packages and Specific Historical
Software, St. Katharinen 1995 Halbgraue Reihe zur Historischen
Fachinformatik A 26.

1995 "The Archive on Top of Your Desk: An Introduction to Self-
Documenting Image Files", in: Historical Methods 28 (1995).

1996 "L'immagine del passato: Accesso e memorizzazione delle fonti
della cultura visiva", in: Immagini e memoria elettronica, Bologna.

1996 "Inventare und Forschungssysteme: Zwei Seiten einer Munze oder
unterschiedliche Wahrungen?", in: EDV-Tage Theuern Kolloquiumsbericht,
Munchen.

As Editor

1981 - 1984 Software Editor for Historical Social Research /
Historische Sozial -forschung: Quarterly reports.

Since 1989 Series Editor of the Halbgraue Reihe zur Historischen
Fachinformatik: so far ca. 30 volumes.

Die Praxis der Quantifizierung in der osterreichischen
Geschichtsforschung, abgedruckt in Bericht uber den 16 .
Osterreichische Historikertag, Wien 1985.

Datenbanken als Werkzeug Historischer Sozialforschung St. Katharinen
1986 Historisch-Sozialwissenschaftliche Forschungen 20.

with Ursula Klenk und Peter Scherber: Computerlinguistik und
philologische Datenverarbeitung, Hildesheim etc. 1987 Linguistische
Datenverarbeitung 7.

with Gerhard Botz et. al. Qualitat und Quantitat. Zur Praxis der
Methoden der Historischen Sozialwissenschaft, Frankfurt / New York
1988.

with Albert Muller: "Computer in den Geisteswissenschaften. Konzepte
und Berichte", Frankfurt a. Main 1989 Studien zur Historischen
Sozialwissenschaft 7.

with Heino Best und Ekkehard Mochmann: Computers in the Humanities and
Social Sciences Munchen etc. 1991.

Images and Manuscripts in Historical Computing, [St. Katharinen
1992] Halbgraue Reihe zur Historischen Fachinformatik A 14.

with Leonid Borodkin and John Turner: Statistics for Historians:
Standard Packages and Specific Historical Software,
St. Katharinen 1995 Halbgraue Reihe zur Historischen
Fachinformatik A 26.

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Fee Structure, Course Timetable

The LUSIAS courses are offered as graduate programming. Students may
also enroll on a non-credit basis. Credit and non-credit registration
forms are available by clicking to go to the appropriate on-line
registration form. Additional information can be sought from the
contact addresses at the bottom of this page.

A limited number of bursaries will be offered to students
enrolled in three courses for academic credit. These bursaries
will be awarded on the basis of academic performance.

Course Timetable

 July 7 to 15, 1997
  GS 5511
            Introduction to the application of Multimedia Computer
            Systems


 July 16 to 26, 1997
  GS 5115
            Introduction to Hypermedia: using and building Open
            Hypermedia Applications in the Humanities
  GS 5116
            Images and Manuscripts as Objects in Digital Systems
  GS 5117
            Questioning the Image: form, content and the analysis of
            meaning.



Fee Structure

 1 course (.5 FCE)
                       $1,000 Canadian
 2 courses (1.0 FCE)
                       $2,000 Canadian
 3 courses (1.5 FCE)
                       $2,500 Canadian


$200 is payable on registration, with the balance due at the
start of the course. Make cheques payable to Lakehead University
and send to the Office of the Dean of Graduate Studies and
Research.



Registration Deadlines

May 31, 1997



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