http://hdl.handle.net/2123/2772 2013-05-25T11:59:57Z http://hdl.handle.net/2123/3689 Title: Arts Faculty Research Performance Day 2008: Digital Research Authors: Sukovic, Suzana Abstract: Research Performance Day showcased - in a series of ten minute talks - the richness and diversity of research in the Faculty, on the part of young scholars, established researchers, and postgraduates just embarking on an academic career. There were four panels: Digital scholarship in the Faculty; Peace and conflict; Postgraduate showcase and Histories of emotion. This year the Organising Committee invited researchers in the Faculty to present their digital research outputs. The DIU prepared a slide show with snapshots from digital publications to present a range of digital research outputs in the Faculty. Description: PowerPoint presentation includes snapshots from the following works: Mark Byron, ARC Discovery Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of English. "Digital Editions of Modernist Literary Texts:Samuel Beckett’s Novel Watt" Margaret Clunies Ross & Hannah Burrows. Margaret Clunies Ross, McCaughey Professor of English Language and Early English Literature. Hannah Burrows, Research Associate. The project team includes more than fifty international collaborators. "Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages". Aaron Corn, Research Fellow, SLAM. "The National Recording Project for Indigenous Performance in Australia". Dirk Moses, Senior Lecturer, Department of History. "Theoretical Paper: Toward a Theory of Critical Genocide Studies". Entry in the "Online Encyclopedia of Mass Violence". Frances Muecke, Department of Classics and Ancient History. "Silius Italicus", in "Repertorium Pomponianum". See Themata|Overview|Silius Italicus. PARADISEC & Department of Linguistics. Blog "Transient languages and cultures". Margaret Poulos, ARC Discovery Postdoctoral Research Fellow. "arms and the woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity". Electronic book published by Columbia University Press in 2008. Jeffrey Riegel, Professor and Head of School of Languages and Cultures. "Confucius". Entry in "Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy". Sydney eScholarship, University Library. Sydney eScholarship has a range of digital projects for and with researchers in the Faculty of Arts. 2008-10-31T00:02:42Z http://hdl.handle.net/2123/3675 Title: International initiatives in the digital humanities and eScholarship Authors: McCarty, Willard; Coleman, Ross; Johnson, Ian; Hayes, Steven Abstract: In this workshop, the presenters will discuss their recent experiences with international initiatives and collaboration, and consider future developments. Ross Coleman will report on a recent Library-funded trip to institutions in the United States, United Kingdom and Canada to present on, and monitor, developments in digital libraries and eResearch. He will discuss some issues related to mass digitisation programs (e.g., the Google project in Michigan and Oxford, and the Internet Archive in Cornell and Toronto), scholarly publishing, open access and repositories. He will consider some collaboration platforms as well as the impact of new research funding mandates in North America and Australia. Ian Johnson will talk about the Archaeological Computing Laboratory's (ACL) long-term relationship with the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative (ECAI), ACL’s work for a number of ECAI's international partners, and recent work for the network of Digital Humanities Centers (CenterNet). Steven Hayes will talk about the DIU's role as a partner in an EU project and collaboration with the Centre for Computing in the Humanities at King's College, London. He will discuss the difficulties and solutions to long-range collaboration and provide some perspective on EU-funded projects. Willard McCarty will discuss opportunities for the digital humanities in relation to experiences with previous programs. Professor McCarty suggests that the most important initiative is the establishment of institutional models for humanities computing. He will discuss why the great centres of yore have failed and are all now gone. Professor McCarty’s second initiative is to establish what a colleague has called "evidence of value", or rather, to discuss how humanists go about constructing a disciplinary rhetoric that would allow them to understand what is happening in contemporary scholarship. The participants will invite the audience to participate in a discussion about international initiatives in the digital humanities and eScholarship. 2008-10-23T03:22:14Z http://hdl.handle.net/2123/3674 Title: Drawing Words, Writing Images Authors: Walker, Jonathan Abstract: I'm involved in a number of projects that cross different genres and registers - scholarly, literary, fictional and non-fictional - but the one thing they all have in common is that they combine words and images. I'll be talking about how each project involves altering the relationship between these two media, and about how choices relating to one medium affect or suggest what it's possible to do in the other. In particular, I'll be discussing the online version of my photography project, and its relationship to the printed original. For more information, see www.letusburnthegondolas.com. 2008-10-23T01:38:57Z http://hdl.handle.net/2123/3571 Title: Ancient remains database, historical maps and GIS in landscape analysis Authors: Svedjemo, Gustav Abstract: Sweden has two valuable resources that can be used in landscape analyses. The first of these is the Board of Antiquities Ancient Remains GIS Database (FMIS) which catalogues around 1.7 million remains in 600 000 locations across Sweden. The second is the vast collection of historical maps, representing a 400 year period and covering most of Sweden's populated areas. This lecture will present these two sources and show examples of GIS analysis performed with data from them. Description: Guest lecture, Archaeologists from Gotland University, Sweden on 19 August 2008. The lecture had two parts: 1. Assoc.Prof. Helene Martinsson-Walin: "Pulemelei investigations. The story of a large stone mound in Savai'i, Samoa and beyond" 2. Svedjemo's lecture 2008-10-08T05:33:24Z http://hdl.handle.net/2123/3569 Title: The Alliance software: a kinship database and graphical approach to genealogy Authors: Sugito, Shigenobu Abstract: The kinship database and genealogy software “Alliance” has been funded by the Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research of the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science from 2000 until 2008. The Alliance was originally developed and used as a fieldwork tool in cultural anthropology, but it has moved beyond this function to be utilised for a range of different purposes besides research. The Alliance is user-friendly software, which represents multiple family lines and marital linkages in a single database. Genealogies are graphically displayed in a two-dimensional formation. In my presentation, I would like to show you a recent development of the time-line function and to describe some plans for a web application and three-dimensional expressions. This guest lecture was presented on 11 September 2008. Description: Shigenobu Sugito is Professor of Cultural Anthropology in the School of Human Sciences and Graduate School of Human Relations Study at Sugiyama Jogakuen University, Nagoya, Japan. He has worked with Australian Indigenous people, and conducted ongoing fieldwork in Arnhem Land, since 1984. His current concern is with Indigenous knowledge, information, and social values, especially focusing on the development of software for the kinship database and genealogy for anthropological research: the Alliance Project. His project URL is http://study.hs.sugiyama-u.ac.jp/alliance/ . 2008-10-08T03:26:56Z http://hdl.handle.net/2123/3568 Title: A carnival of words: The 'Dictionary of Words in the Wild' and public textuality Authors: McCarty, Willard Abstract: The Dictionary of Words in the Wild is a simple online mechanism for uploading and viewing photographic images of words as they are found, wherever they are found and in whatever condition in the daily environment. Typically while out and about a contributor photographs words or phrases as these catch the eye, most often in passing, sometimes with necessary discretion, sometimes without knowing what exactly may have been caught in the moment. Later, uploading the catch of images, he or she tags each with the words or phrases shown in it. A cropping tool allows for a certain degree of framing in order best to represent what was fleetingly glimpsed. The Dictionary now contains about 3000 images and 4000 unique words ­­– enough to allow speculation on what research might be done with it or with a more deliberately crafted tool. But the Dictionary was not built with any particular theory of language in mind. Rather those responsible are interested in seeing what might come of it, what theories might apply and what demands might be made on the technology. In this talk I will describe the Dictionary, demonstrate it, relate my experiences as one of the major contributors and invite discussion of its significance. Description: Willard McCarty is Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London. This seminar was presented in the seminar series "Visual representation in research" on 29 August 2008. 2008-10-08T02:34:38Z http://hdl.handle.net/2123/3567 Title: Rebuilding Shakespeare’s theatre (and how to show your workings) Authors: Fitzpatrick, Tim Abstract: This is an attempt to use—and assess the usefulness of—PowerPoint as a means of presenting research which involves a high degree of visual imaging. Working from the only available 17 th century sketch of Shakespeare’s second Globe playhouse, the research project attempted to theorise the architectural structure of the sketched building, and then use computer-aided design to build and test the validity of that theorised structure. When the resultant artifact was then compared with the original sketch, the congruences and discrepancies were very interesting. Powerpoint (which I generally loathe and detest when used inexpertly in lecturing) turns out to be a reasonably flexible tool for presenting this sort of research. Description: Tim Fitzpatrick is Associate Professor in the Department of Performance Studies. This seminar was presented as part of the series "Visual representation in research" on 15 August 2008. 2008-10-08T02:17:33Z