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----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Forwarded from the NINCH list. Judy ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- From: David Green, INTERNET:[log in to unmask] TO: Multiple recipients of list, INTERNET:[log in to unmask] DATE: 12/13/96 1:07 PM RE: NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT: DRH'97 >X-To: Humanist Discussion Group <[log in to unmask]> > > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 10, No. 515. > Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities (Princeton/Rutgers) > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London > Information at http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/ > > [1] From: Lou Burnard <[log in to unmask]> (61) > Subject: Conference Announcement: please post > > > > ****************************** > DRH97 CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT > ****************************** > > D R H '97 > > St Annes College Oxford > 14-17 September 1997 > > http://users.ox.ac.uk/~drh97 > > Bringing together the creators, users, > distributors, and custodians of Digital > Resources in the Humanities. > >Mission: DRH97 aims to become a new forum for all those affected by >the digitization of our common cultural heritage: the scholar producing >or using an electronic edition; the teacher using digital media in the >seminar room; the publisher finding new ways to reach new markets; the >librarian, curator, art historian, or archivist wishing to improve both >access to and conservation of the digital information that >characterizes contemporary culture and scholarship. > >Format : The conference will take up three intensive days of academic >papers, panel discussions, technical reports, and software >demonstrations, held this year in a comfortable Oxford college. The >atmosphere will, we hope, encourage a lot of energetic discussion, both >formal and informal. Leading practitioners of the application of >digital techniques and resources in the Humanities, from the worlds of >scholarship, librarianship, and publishing will be there, exchanging >expertise, experience, and opinions. > >Sponsors: The conference is sponsored by the British Library, the >Office for Humanities Communication, the Arts and Humanities Data >Service, the Centre for Computing in the Humanities of Kings College >London, the International Institute for Electronic Library Research >of de Montfort University, the Library of University College >London, and the Humanities Computing Unit of Oxford University. > >Timetable: Proposals are invited for academic papers, themed panel >sessions and reports of work in progress. Extended abstracts (1500 to two >thousand words) should be submitted by April 7th 1997. All proposals >will be reviewed by an independent panel. Full versions (2 to 4 >thousand words) of accepted papers will be required by July 7th 1997 >for inclusion in the conference proceedings. > >Themes: creation of digital resources, textual, visual, and >time-based; integration of digital resources as multimedia; policies >and strategies for electronic delivery, both commercial and >non-commercial; cataloguing and metadata aspects of resource discovery; >pedagogic implications of digital resources and electronic delivery; >encoding standards; intellectual property rights; funding, >cost-recovery, and charging mechanisms; digitization techniques and >problems. > >Cost and accommodation: We hope to hold the conference fee at last year's >level (225 pounds, covering lunches, dinners, and the whole academic >programme). For accommodation, delegates can choose between ensuite rooms at 45 >pounds/day or study/bedrooms with shared bathroom at 30 pounds/day for B & B. >All accommodation is on campus in modern purpose-built blocks adjoining the >quadrangle and within a few minutes walk of all conference facilities. The >conference banquet will cost an additional 40 pounds. > >Further information: The conference web site at >http://users.ox.ac.uk/~drh97 will be regularly updated, and will >include full details of the procedure for submitting proposals, the >programme, and registration information. Bookmark it now! >