SDH/SEMI 2008 Programme
Abstracts and further details at www.sdh-semi.org/conftool/ Monday, 02/06/2008 8:30 - 9:45am Welcome SDH/SEMI Award: Plenary Session Room 1, Buchanan A205 Session Chairs: Dr. Raymond George Siemens, Dr. Geoffrey Rockwell • Plenary Speaker: Christian Vandendorpe
Followed by coffee/tea service in A205 10:00 - 11:15am Building Cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities in Canada Rm 1, A205 Session Chair: Dr. Ian Lancashire • • • Michael Eberle-Sinatra: “Synergies: Building a National and Open Publishing Platform” Geoffrey Rockwell: “TAPoR: Beyond publishing infrastructure to analytical infrastructure” Raymond Siemens: “Consolidated Knowledgebases and the Promise of Text Analysis in the Short Term, and Beyond: TAPoR, Synergies, CRKN”
10:30 - 11:15am Joint Keynote with the Canadian Society of Medievalists Room 2, Buchanan D201 • Keynote Speaker: John Foley: "Oral Tradition and the Internet"
11:30 - 1:00pm Pedagogy Rm 1, A205 Session Chair: Dr. Kirsten Carol Uszkalo • • • Sean Gouglas: “Computers and Games: Designing an Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Computing Science Course for Students in the Arts and Sciences, University of Alberta.” Elan Nicole Paulson: “Digital Student Engagement: Participation Beyond Classroom Borders” Christopher H. Moore: “’Everything I Need to Know I Learned in the Newbie Area’: Gaming and Virtual Pedagogy”
11:30 - 1:00pm New Directions Rm 2, D201 Session Chair: Prof. Brent L. Nelson • • • Jeff Smith and David Mould: “Constructures: A Framework for Computer-Assisted Human Creativity Tools” Jeff Smith and Yin Liu: “Collaboration Space: A Technique for Characterizing Interdisciplinary Collaboration Projects and Anticipating Their Challenges” Geoffrey Rockwell and Hugh Couchman: “A Big Bridge: High Performance Computing and the Humanities”
2:00 – 3:15pm Joint session with the Canadian Society for the Study of Rm 1, A205 Education: Learning In and From Collaborative Knowledge Communities Session Chair: Dr. Teresa M Dobson • • Teresa Dobson: “Negotiating Knowledge in Social Software Environments” Ray Siemens, et al.: “There’s no place like [“home”]: The Digital Facilitation of the SSHRC Strategic Research Cluster Development team for Implementing the New Knowledge Machine: Human Computer Interaction and the Electronic ‘Book’” Lynne Siemens: “The Balance between On-line and In-person Interactions: Methods for the Development of Digital Humanities Collaboration” Ian A. Steinberg: “Publishing Praxis: The Political Economy of Scholarly Communication, Open Access Journals and the Public Knowledge Project” John Willinsky: “Strengthening Scholarly Publishing on Web 2.0: Social Networking Meets Monograph Publishing”
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Followed by coffee/tea service in A205
2:00 – 3:15pm Navigation and Interface Rm 2, D201 Session Chair: Dr. Harvey Noel Quamen • Susan Brown, Patricia Clements, Isobel Grundy, Stan Ruecker, Jeffery Antoniuk, Sharon Balazs, Stefan Sinclair and Matt Patey: “Beyond Text: Using the Mandala Browser to Explore Orlando” Stéfan Sinclair, Andrew Macdonald, Matthew Bouchard, Mike Plouffe, Alejandro Giocometti, Amit Kumar, Milena Radzikowska, Stan Ruecker, Piotr Michura, Carlos Fiorentino, Matthew Kirschenbaum and Catherine Plaisant: “Late Nights at the Scriptorium: Interim Results from the Interface Cell of the MONK Project”
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Followed by coffee/tea service in A205
3:30 - 4:45pm Pedagogy Rm 1, A205 Session Chair: Dr. Sean Gouglas • • Kirsten Carol Uszkalo: “Data-mining with Flags and Highlighters: Interdisciplinary Pedagogy and the MONK Project” Stephane G. Levesque: “‘Terrorism plus Canada in the 1960’s equals hell frozen over’: Learning the October Crisis with the Virtual Historian in the Canadian classroom”
3:30 - 4:45pm Database and Textual Editions Rm 2, D201 Session Chair: Dr. Carolyn Guertin • • Christopher H. Moore, Alan Galey and Stan Ruecker: “’To the Great Variety of Readers’: A Usability Study of the Electronic New Variorum Shakespeare” Myungjin Michael Choi: “The Margins of an Infinite Page: Paratext Display in Digital Online Editions”
Tuesday, 03/06/2008 8:30 – 9:45am Joint Session with ACCUTE & CASBC Rm 1, A205 Thinking Beyond Borders Session Chair: Dr. Ronald Tetreault • • • Brent L. Nelson: “The Early Modern Database” Paul Henry Dyck: “Print Without Borders: The Materials of the Little Gidding Gospel Concordances” Richard Cunningham and Harvey Quamen: “Rendering Printed Marginalia: A PHP-driven Solution”
Followed by coffee/tea service in A205 8:30 - 9:45am Text Analysis and Data Mining Rm 2, D201 Session Chair: Dr. William Glenn Winder • • • Ollivier Dyens, Dominic Forest, Mondou Patric, Johnston David and Cools Valérie: “Information Visualization and Text Mining as Applied to a PostHumanism Corpus” Karl Leif Anvik: “The pragmatics of a thesaurus-based multilingual information retrieval system” Jean-Guy Meunier, Jean Danis and Jean-François Chartier: “CARCAT: Computer Assisted Reading and Conceptual Analysis of Texts”
Followed by coffee/tea service in A205
10:00 11:15am Rm 1, A205
Short Paper Presentations for Poster/Demos Session Chair: Dr. Richard Cunningham [Those presenting in the poster/demo session have the opportunity to present a short paper, a 5-8 minute overview of their work, to the end of encouraging high-level engagement during the poster/demo session.] • • • Corey James Slumkoski: “Breaking Down Barriers in Atlantic Canada with Humanities Computing: The Atlantic Canada Portal” Melanie Jean Chernyk: “‘Apothegmatically bundled vp and garbled’: Re-presenting the Early Modern Jest Book for the Web 2.0 Reader” James Lee Dixon, Angelsea Marie Saby, Michael John Elkink, Ray Siemens, Karin Armstrong and Cara Leitch: “Social Networking and Online Collaborative Research with REKn and PReE” Angelsea Marie Saby, Ray Siemens, Karin Armstrong, James Lee Dixon and Mike Elkink: “Interface Design Principles for a Professional Reading Environment (PReE)” James Lee Dixon, Ray Siemens, Mike Elkink and Karin Armstrong: “Down-and-Dirty Text Analysis -> The TAPoR Googlizer -> REKn Crawler for Professional Reading Environments” Maite Taboada, Mary Ann Gillies, Paul McFetridge and Robert Outtrim: “Tracking Literary Reputation with Text Analysis Tools” Philippe Lacour: “EUGENIO: A Computer Assisted Translation Open-Source Software Project” Cara Leitch, Karin Armstrong and Ray Siemens: “Social Networking Tools for Professional Readers in the Humanities”
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11:30 - 1:00pm Poster/Demo Session Rm 2, D201 [Poster/demos provide opportunity to engage in detailed, hands-on discussion -- supplementing the short paper presentations.] • • • Corey James Slumkoski: “Breaking Down Barriers in Atlantic Canada with Humanities Computing: The Atlantic Canada Portal” Melanie Jean Chernyk: “‘Apothegmatically bundled vp and garbled’: Re-presenting the Early Modern Jest Book for the Web 2.0 Reader” James Lee Dixon, Angelsea Marie Saby, Michael John Elkink, Ray Siemens, Karin Armstrong and Cara Leitch: “Social Networking and Online Collaborative Research with REKn and PReE” Angelsea Marie Saby, Ray Siemens, Karin Armstrong, James Lee Dixon and Mike Elkink: “Interface Design Principles for a Professional Reading Environment (PReE)” James Lee Dixon, Ray Siemens, Mike Elkink and Karin Armstrong: “Down-and-Dirty Text Analysis -> The TAPoR Googlizer -> REKn Crawler for Professional Reading Environments” Maite Taboada, Mary Ann Gillies, Paul McFetridge and Robert Outtrim: “Tracking Literary Reputation with Text Analysis Tools” Philippe Lacour: “EUGENIO: A Computer Assisted Translation Open-Source Software Project” Cara Leitch, Karin Armstrong and Ray Siemens: “Social Networking Tools for Professional Readers in the Humanities”
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2:00 – 3:15pm Into Something Rich and Strange: The Digital Humanities in the Rm 1, A205 Humanities Session Chair: Dr. Stan Ruecker • • • Ray Siemens: “Digital Humanities Work, Presented inDiscipline” Geoffrey Rockwell: “Evaluation of Digital Media Work in the Humanities” Harvey Quamen: “Learning About Digital Humanities: The Student Experience”
2:00 – 3:15pm Social Computing Rm 2, D201 Session Chair: Dr. Richard Cunningham • • Marshall Ian Soules and Michael Nixon: “The Image Dialogue: Agile Computing and Social Commentary” Douglas A Stetar, Paris Polydorou and Marshall Soules: “Combining Social Networking and Massive Multi Player Online Gaming with Mobile Devices to Promote Sustainable Travel” Jon Saklofske: “Plays well with Others: The Value of developing Multiplayer Digital Gamespaces for Humanities Teaching and Research”
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3:15 - 3:45pm SDH/SEMI Members' Wine and Cheese Reception Rm 1, A205 3:45 – 4:45pm 2.5.2: SDH/SEMI Annual General Meeting (Open to All) Rm 1, A205 Presiding: Dr. Raymond George Siemens, Dr. Christian Vandendorpe • With special guests Elliot Phillipson (CFI), Jean-Claude Guedon and Denise Rudnicki (CFHSS), David Moorman (SSHRC), and others.