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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: 7/27/98 12:44 PM RE: ACLS/NINCH ORGANIZING MEETING FOR DISCIPLINE-BASED "BUILDING BLOCK" INVESTIG NINCH BULLETIN July 27, 1998 ACLS/NINCH ORGANIZING MEETING FOR DISCIPLINE-BASED "BUILDING BLOCK" INVESTIGATIONS: JULY 28 <http://www-ninch.cni.org/projects/building/1.html> Members might be interested in the agenda and background material for a meeting of learned societies that NINCH is coordinating with the American Council of Learned Societies this Tuesday July 28. The meeting is designed to assist the societies begin a process of deep thinking about their disciplines (what are their chief intellectual and methodological issues; how do scholars, teachers, librarians and publishers within the field study, represent, teach, organize and create knowledge?) as a first step towards systematic planning for effective development and use of the digital environment. We propose a set of four or five parallel workshop series with their own final reports, a cross-discipline report and a phase-two engagement with computer scientists and engineers to explore how humanists and scientists can work together to create new tools and new vehicles that can use the potential of digital technology more effectively than they are currently doing. This series should prove a worthy response to the challenge issued by ACLS President John D'Arms in a recent address at a meeting of the Association of Research Libraries: "Still, hard conceptual thought within the broader Humanities community...needs to go on before we can speak with full confidence about how humanistic scholarship will be conducted in the brave new world sketched out by the more visionary of this meeting's speakers. Hard thought, discipline by discipline, about what, substantively and methodologically, is at the heart of what we do. Hard work in persistently rethinking traditionally categories, in order to be confident when we reaffirm...their enduring value. Hard work, finally, to better inform the computer scientists and engineers, who have to date designed most of our technology, what the Humanities, in essence, are and how we Humanists conduct our scholarship." The webpage for this organizing meeting can be found at <http://www-ninch.cni.org/projects/building/1.html>