Academic Computing

The call for proposals is now open for the Enterprise Information and Technology Conference 2008, a small-scale event ideal for making contacts with peers, engaging in discussion, and discovering new strategies and solutions for dealing with challenges facing those involved in administrative and enterprise information systems and their related technologies. The conference will be held May 28–29 in Chicago, Illinois. The program will follow these tracks:

• Demonstrating the Increasing Value of IT
• Infrastructure Evolution
• Services Evolution
• Systems Evolution

Submit a presentation proposal. The deadline for submissions is January 14, 2008.

In this 12 minute recording, we'll hear from Jeff Trzeciak about his presentation at CNI regarding museum & library collaborations, blended librarianship, and the concept of urban labs.


This interview is provided courtesy of CNI and was recorded at their 2005 Fall Task Force Meeting.  The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) is an organization dedicated to supporting the transformative promise of networked information technology for the advancement of scholarly communication and the enrichment of intellectual productivity.  You can learn more about CNI at their web site, http://www.cni.org

ESRC National Centre for e-Social Science - First International Conference on e-Social Science:
First International Conference on e-Social Science
the proceedings are online at the link above under the programme link.

Digital Humanities:

Next year’s Digital Humanities conference (the ACH/ALLC joint conference) is in Paris. Details available. The digital humanities dot org site is a new umbrella site reflecting a new umbrella organisation, The Alliance of Digital Humanities (ADHO). I’m an underperforming member of the Association of Computing Humanities, though what I do generally appears to be on the edges of most of the work these organisations do. They are serious set of computational philologists, and they’re all happy to converse in (any of) English, French, German and, I suspect, Latin!

(I’m on their margins because there is a broad concentration on text here that often expresses the oldest, grandest, anxieties about images.)

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digital humanities and humanities computing is a growing field, as humanities are generally being cut from western curriculums in high school's and colleges. The merger of the technical and humanistic disciplines is opening up a new arena for research, but as Adrian points out, the current construction of this form of humanistic studies is one of the word and text... presenting anything else will usually be ignored by the older participants.

Main Page - AoIR Wiki:I just launched the Association of Internet Researcher's Wiki. This should be an interesting demonstration of how (or not) distributed academic groups can use wiki technology to their benefit. We'll see.