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ETCL Seminar: Social Media and the Scholarly Edition

The Electronic Textual Cultures Lab presents an afternoon of interdisciplinary presentations and discussion focusing on social media, textual modeling, modern Canadian literature, and the scholarly edition in its emerging forms. Our speakers include Ray Siemens (U Victoria), Pierre Levy (U Ottawa), Malte Rehbein (U Wurzburg), Meagan Timney and Cara Leitch (U Victoria), and Dean Irvine (Dalhousie U).

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Invited Talk: Huygens Institute

While in the Hague, Ray was invited to give a talk at the Huygens Institute (website: http://www.huygensinstituut.knaw.nl/__eng/). The talk was titled “Notes Toward the Social Edition.”

Conference: Texts and Literacy in the Digital Age

Ray was in the Hague, Netherlands for LIBER’s conference: “Texts and Literacy in the Digital Age: Assessing the future of scholarly communication” (website: http://www.libereurope.eu/event/texts-and-literacy-in-the-digital-age). He delivered the closing remarks for the conference, with a presentation titled “Articulating Models and Frames for Knowledge and Scholarship in Scale, Scope, and Iterative Method.”

Conference: INKE 2010

Ray, Julie Meloni, and Melanie Chernyk were in the Hague to organize the INKE conference, titled “Research Foundations for Understanding Books and Reading in the Digital Age.” You can find more information about this conference here: http://etcl.uvic.ca/2010/10/19/conference-research-foundations-for-understanding-books-and-reading-in-the-digital-age/.

We are very grateful to all of the wonderful participants, and to our kind hosts at the Netherlands National Library (Koninklijke Bibliotheek; website: http://www.kb.nl/) and LIBER (website: http://www.libereurope.eu/). We had a wonderful time and can’t wait to go back! Read the rest of this entry »

Digital Humanities Day at Sheffield Hallam University

Ray attended the Digital Humanities Day at Sheffield Hallam University (for more information, see: http://etcl.uvic.ca/2010/10/18/conference-a-digital-humanities-day-at-sheffield-hallam-university/).

While there, he delivered two talks: “How to get at more of what lies Beyond the Facsimile, or, Forgetting Heffalumps, Jackalopes, and other imaginary creatures, and focusing on what we know” and “Electronic Scholarly Editing and its Contexts, with Examples from the Devonshire Manuscript (BL Add Ms 17492).

Lecture: UVic Computer Science

Ray was in the UVic Computer Science department to give a talk called “A Humanistic View of A/Synchronous Communication in Print and Electronic Media.” The department website is here: http://www.csc.uvic.ca/.

Lecture: HUMA 150 Symposium

Ray visited Dr. Meagan Timney’s HUMA 150 class today, to participate in a symposium called “The Future of Digital Humanities: Digital Humanities & Computing Research at UVic.” Ray delivered a talk titled “A New Look for the Book? Rethinking our Approach to Electronic Reading.” The class website is available here: http://mdouglas.etcl.uvic.ca/huma150/.

Conference: BooksOnline 2010 Workshop at CIKM 2010

Ray and Julie Meloni were in Toronto for the BooksOnline 2010 Workshop at CIKM 2010, hosted by Microsoft Research (event website: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/events/booksonline10/). While there, they delivered a presentation titled “Implementing New Knowledge Environments: Building Upon Research Foundations for Understanding Books and Reading in the Digital Age.”

The full conference paper is available at: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/events/booksonline10/siemens-meloni.pdf

Lecture: U Waterloo, SAGE

Ray was at the University of Waterloo to give a lecture titled “Coterie and Miscellaneous contribution: A Computationally-Modeled Approach Toward Understanding the Inter-Personal Networks in the Devonshire Manuscript (BL Add MS 17,492).” The advertisement can be found on the Student Association for Graduates in English (SAGE) website, here: http://sage.uwaterloo.ca/node/2.

Keynote: eBooks in the Contemporary Humanities

Ray was in Nanaimo to give the Keynote presentation at Vancouver Island University’s conference: “eBooks in the Contemporary Humanities: Advantages and Challenges for Teaching and Research.”

Ray’s talk was titled “An Approach to Understanding The History of the Book in the Context of its Future & The Future of the Book in the Context of its History.”