CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT:
THE ELECTRONIC SCRIPTORIUM
Electronic Approaches to the Imaging, Transcription
Editing, and Analysis of Medieval Manuscript Texts
A research network sponsored by the Calgary Institute
for the Humanities and the Society for Early English
and Norse Electronic Texts (SEENET), with support from
the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of
Canada.
This research network will examine the progress of
contemporary work on the electronic presentation and
analysis of medieval manuscript texts, and contribute
to ongoing developments in this exciting field of
research. Among the topics to be investigated by the
network are the difficulties of adapting modern
electronic technology to dealing with centuries-old
texts; the strengths and shortcomings of existing
electronic methods and computer standards including
encoding standards, graphics formats, hypertext and
hypermedia, and the Internet; the difficulties editors
face when they attempt to use the electronic medium and
the rewards they find; and the practicalities of
Internet publication, electronic libraries, and other
means of access to texts. This research network will
be of interest not only to medievalists and computer
applications specialists, but also to library staff,
publishers, and scholars from any field who are
interested in the production, dissemination, and use of
electronic texts.
The research network has both electronic and physical
sessions: the electronic conversation will consist of a
moderated listserver discussion from October 17 to
November 22 and of electronic (World Wide Web) posting
of papers; a physical meeting including traditionally-
delivered conference papers and electronic
demonstrations, together with roundtable discussions
starting from the wider listserver discussion, will
take place in Calgary, Alberta, from 10 - 12 November
1995.
PROGRAMME
Electronic Conference:
Listserver in Operation: 17 October to 22 November 1995
Electronic posting of conference papers: 11 - 12
November 1995
Note: Some papers will be both physically and
electronically presented; others will only be available
in electronic form.
Registration in electronic conference: Send an e-mail
message with no subject line and with the single
message line
sub scriptorium <Your Name>
(where "<Your Name>" represents your name, not your
e-mail address)
to the following address
Alternatively, you may subscribe to the listserver by
sending private e-mail to Bill Schipper
(schipper@morgan.ucs.mun.ca) requesting that you be
added to the list.
Information about World Wide Web posting of conference
papers will be sent to you when you subscribe to the
listserver.
Physical Conference:
Location: University of Calgary
Friday, 10 November 1995
18:00 - 19:00 Registration
19:00 - 19:10 Welcome on behalf of the University
Dr. Cooper Langford, Vice-President
(Research)
19:10 - 19:15 Welcome on behalf of the Calgary
Institute for the Humanities
Dr. Jane Kelley, Director
19:15 - 20:30 Reception
Saturday, 11 November 1995
SESSION 1
9:00 - 9:30 Peter Robinson and Elizabeth
Solopova, Canterbury Tales Project,
Oxford and Sheffield Universities
"The Canterbury Tales Project"
9:30 - 9:45 Discussion
9:45 - 10:15 Ian Lancashire, Centre for
Computing in the Humanities,
University of Toronto
"Early Books, RET Encoding
Guidelines, and the Limits of SGML"
10:15 - 10:30 Discussion
10:30 - 10:45 Coffee
10:45 - 11:00 William Schipper, Memorial
University of Newfoundland
Summary of Listserv Discussion,
Part 1: Transcription and Encoding
of Manuscript Texts
11:00 - 12:00 Roundtable discussion:
Transcription and Encoding
Practices
12:00 - 14:00 Lunch
SESSION 2
14:00 - 14:30 Kevin Kiernan, University of
Kentucky
"The Electronic Beowulf Project"
14:30 - 14:45 Discussion
14:45 - 15:15 Stephen Reimer, University of
Alberta
"Medieval Manuscript as WWW
Document: A Hyptertext Version of
Harley 2278"
15:15 - 15:30 Discussion
15:30 - 15:45 Coffee
15:45 - 16:00 William Schipper, Memorial
University of Newfoundland
Summary of Listserv Discussion,
Part 2: Imaging and Publication
Issues
16:00 - 17:00 Roundtable discussion: Imaging and
Publication Issues
Sunday, 12 November 1995
SESSION 3
9:00 - 9:30 Karen Arthur, University of Toronto
"The Game of Reading an Electronic
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight"
9:30 - 9:45 Discussion
9:45 - 10:15 Murray McGillivray and Carl Gutwin,
University of Calgary
"Managing Medieval Gigabytes"
10:15 - 10:30 Discussion
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee
11:00 - 11:30 Hoyt Duggan, University of Virginia
"The Electronic Piers Plowman and
SEENET"
11:30 - 11:45 Discussion
11:45 - 13:00 Lunch
13:00 - 13:15 William Schipper, Memorial
University of Newfoundland
Summary of Listserv Discussion Part
3: Form and Uses of the Electronic
Edition
13:15 - 14:15 Roundtable discussion: Form and
Uses of the Electronic Edition
14:15 Closing remarks
Dr. Jane Kelley, Director, Calgary
Institute for the Humanities
Dr. Hoyt Duggan, Director, SEENET
SESSION 4:
[Electronic Session Only: Papers in
this session will be Web-posted by
1900 MST on 12 November 1995.]
Dino Buzzetti and Andrea Tabaroni,
Department of Philosophy, University
of Bologna
"Database Edition of Non-collatable
Textual Traditions"
Carol Everest, The King's University
College
"Old Texts and New Technology: The
Speculum Naturale Project"
Olaf Pluta, University of Bochum
"Abbreviationes: The First
Electronic Dictionary of Medieval
Latin Abbreviations"
Gary Shawver, University of Toronto
"The Semantics of 'Story' and 'Tale'
in a Lemmmatized Chaucer: A
Computational Text Analysis"
Note: Web site remains open and listserv remains in
operation for continued discussion of conference papers
and issues until 22 November 1995.
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REGISTRATION INFORMATION for Physical Conference
ACCOMMODATION:
General registrants are responsible for making their own
reservations. A block of rooms is being held at the Best
Western Village Park Inn, Motel Village, 1804 Crowchild
Trail North, Calgary (403-289-0241). Reservations must
be made prior to October 30, 1995. Please inform the
Village Park Inn that you are a registrant in the
research network.
LOCATION:
Room 587, Bio Sciences Building, University of Calgary.
REGISTRATION:
The registration fee for the research network is $55
(Canadian funds, GST included); this fee covers reception
on November 10, entrance into the sessions, lunches on
November 11 and 12, and coffee. A reduced fee of $30
(Canadian funds, GST included) is available for students;
it covers the cost of the reception, two lunches and
coffee. Certification of student status must accompany
the registration form to qualify for these reduced rates.
University of Calgary faculty and students are invited to
drop in for individual sessions.
Please complete the attached Registration Form and
forward it together with your cheque or money order
payable in Canadian funds to:
The Calgary Institute for the Humanities
The University of Calgary
2500 University Dr. N.W.
Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4
Telephone: (403) 220-7238
Fax: (403) 282-7822
Registration deadline: November 8, 1995
CANCELLATIONS:
Should it be necessary for you to cancel your
registration, please contact Gerry Dyer at 403-220-7238.
Cancellations must be received prior to November 8, 1995.
No refunds will be given after this date.
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