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----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Forwarded from the NINCH list. Judy -------------Forwarded Message----------------- From: INTERNET:[log in to unmask], INTERNET:[log in to unmask] To: Multiple recipients of list, INTERNET:[log in to unmask] Date: 5/20/97 3:10 PM RE: Roundtable PRESS RELEASE WASHINGTON, DC Spring 1997 COMPUTING AND THE HUMANITIES: PROMISE AND PROSPECTS A National Arts and Humanities Computing Roundtable A national effort to foster programmatic interaction between the humanities and the computer science communities could significantly enrich both disciplines. This was the unanimous sentiment of a recent roundtable involving a diverse group of researchers and executives from the arts, humanities and computing and communications communities on March 28, 1997, held at the National Academy of Sciences building in Washington, D.C. This lively brainstorming meeting was hosted by the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board of the National Research Council and convened by an extraordinary collaboration of the Board with the Coalition for Networked Information, the National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage, and the Two Ravens Institute. Unequivocally, participants urged further and wider multi-disciplinary discussions as a prelude to possible practical action. The Computing and the Humanities roundtable confirmed the organizers' expectations that further progress requires mutual focus on several key issues: DIGITIZING CULTURAL WORKS Understanding the intrinsic qualities of arts and humanities material to enable appropriate conversion to electronic media; the development of a critical mass of electronic works; and the encouragement of the generation of new material that may only be possible via electronic media; INTEROPERABILITY Developing cross-disciplinary and cross-media interoperability of systems and formats to enable researchers and the general public to search, find, and appraise a wide selection of humanities material in disparate physical locations, and to do so easily and creatively; PRESERVATION & ACCESS Facilitating the preservation of and access to relevant information resources over time and across a range of systems and media; PLANNING Planning for the new capabilities and new organization of resources that newer technology will continue to make possible; INSTITUTIONAL ISSUES Understanding the need for institutional support for the deployment and maintenance of technical infrastructure, including networks, libraries of electronic material, and computer-based tools for working with humanities materials, as well as the nurturing of relevant human infrastructure, such as the support for cross-disciplinary collaboration; and COLLABORATION Identifying mutually satisfying mechanisms enabling humanists to work more effectively with industry and academic technologists to generate software and systems of value to humanists that also challenge computer scientists. A summary report on the Roundtable proceedings will be published in the fall of 1997 by the National Research Council. The report will also be distributed by the American Council of Learned Societies as an ACLS occasional paper. AGENDA AND DESCRIPTION OF ORGANIZERS AVAILABLE AT <http://www-ninch.cni.org/projects/C&H/roundtable.html> =============================================================== David L. Green Executive Director NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE 21 Dupont Circle, NW Washington DC 20036 www-ninch.cni.org [log in to unmask] 202/296-5346 202/872-0884 fax ============================================================== Subscribe to the NINCH-ANNOUNCE public listserv for news on networking cultural heritage. Send message "Subscribe NINCH-Announce Your Name" to <[log in to unmask]>. ==============================================================