A carnival of words: The 'Dictionary of Words in the Wild' and public textuality - McCarty, 2008-08-29, University of Sydney, Quad Oriental Room S204   [id: 105584]

Event - lecture, seminar, workshop ;   updated:  12-December-2008 ;   http://hdl.handle.net/2123/3568 ;

Event name :   A carnival of words: The 'Dictionary of Words in the Wild' and public textuality ;   Event type :   Seminar ;   Summary for web :   The Dictionary of Words in the Wild is a simple online mechanism for uploading and viewing photogra... morephic 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.  hide ;   Location of event :   University of Sydney, Quad Oriental Room S204 ;   Date (start) :   2008 ;   Start time :   4 pm ;   End time :   5 pm ;   Description :   This seminar was presented in the seminar series "Visual representation in research" ;   Organisation :   University of Sydney ;   Speaker(s) :   Prof. Willard McCarty ;

Arts Faculty Research Performance Day 2008: Digital Publications   [id: 108744]

Presentation ;   updated:  31-October-2008 ;   http://hdl.handle.net/2123/3689 ;

Title :   Arts Faculty Research Performance Day 2008: Digital Publications ;   Event type :   Seminar ;   Short summary :   Research Performance Day will showcase - in a series of ten minute talks - the richness and diversi... morety of research in the Faculty, on the part of young scholars, established researchers, and postgraduates just embarking on an academic career.  hide ;   Start Date :   2008 ;   Availability :   http://www.arts.usyd.edu.au/digitalinnovation/faculty_research_performance_day_08 ;   IsParentOf:   Digital Editions of Modernist Literary Texts: Samuel Beckett’s Novel Watt (Byron) ;  Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages (Clunies-Ross, Burrows) ;  National Recording Project for Indigenous Performance in Australia (Yunupingu, James, Marika, Marett, Barwick, Corn, Langton, Gumbula, Garawirrtja, Clark, Koch, Moncour) ;  Theoretical Paper: Toward a Theory of Critical Genocide Studies (Moses) ;  Silius Italicus (Muecke) ;  Transient Languages & Cultures blog (Harris, Wilson, De Sousa, Smith, Blythe, Simpson, Barwick) ;  Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity (Poulos) ;  Confucius (Riegel) ;

Drawing Words, Writing Images   [id: 105570]

Presentation ;   updated:  12-December-2008 ;   http://hdl.handle.net/2123/3674 ;

Title :   Drawing Words, Writing Images ;   Event type :   Lecture ;   Place published :   University of Sydney, Latin 2 S225, ;   Start Date :   2008 ;   Start time :   4pm ;   End time :   5pm ;   Short summary :   I'm involved in a number of projects that cross different genres and registers - scholarly, literar... morey, 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  hide ;   Person Reference :   Jonathan Walker ;

Film Research and the non-linear environment   [id: 107855]

Presentation ;   updated:  23-October-2008 ;

Title :   Film Research and the non-linear environment ;   Event type :   Public lecture ;   Short summary :   The cinema is one of the places in contemporary culture where the spread of digital technology is ... moremost clearly felt but film studies and film theory is one of the places where the spread of digital technology is most clearly absent. There are many reasons for this not the least of which is the proprietary grip that producers and distributors have over exhibition and reproduction of cinematic images and sounds. The tools that have been developed for cinematic production is so pervasive that some of them are included as standard features of domestic laptop and desk-top computers. This paper examines some of the ways in which academic research in film studies (and moving images more generally) can take advantage of tools such as non-linear editing systems, of how these systems can be re-purposed so that the mental terrain of analysis directs the development of the software.  hide ;   Place published :   Latin 2 S225 ;   Start Date :   2008 ;   Start time :   16:00 ;   End Date :   17:00 2010 3 12 ;   Extended description :   A seminar presented in the series "Visual Representation in Research" ;   Person Reference :   Dr Richard Smith ;

Guest lecture, Archaeologists from Gotland University, Sweden   [id: 105587]

Presentation ;   updated:  23-October-2008 ;   http://hdl.handle.net/2123/3571 ;

Title :   Guest lecture, Archaeologists from Gotland University, Sweden ;   Event type :   Lecture ;   Short summary :   Helene Martinsson-Walin: Pulemelei investigations. The story of a large stone mound in Savai'i, Sam... moreoa and beyond Gustav Svedjemo: Ancient remains database, historical maps and GIS in landscape analysis (available from the Repository)   hide ;   Place published :   University of Sydney, Quadrangle Building, History Room S223 ;   Start Date :   2008 ;   Start time :   1 pm ;   End time :   3 pm ;   Extended description :   Helene Martinsson-Wallin Assoc. Professor, Department of Archaeology and Osteology, Gotland Univer... moresity Pulemelei investigations. The story of a large stone mound in Savai'i, Samoa and beyond This research project examines the origins and development of monumental architecture in West Polynesia and explores some of the issues with management and education in this area. The research covers many aspects of archaeology, including the development of methodology and uses of technology. Gustaf Svedjemo Lecturer & PhD Candidate, Gotland University Ancient remains database, historical maps and GIS in landscape analysis 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.   hide ;   Organisation :   University of Sydney ;   Discipline :   Archaeology ;   Person Reference :   A/Prof. Helene Martinsson-Wallin ;

International initiatives in the digital humanities and eScholarship   [id: 105582]

Presentation ;   updated:  23-October-2008 ;

Title :   International initiatives in the digital humanities and eScholarship ;   Event type :   Workshop ;   Short summary :   In this workshop, the presenters will discuss their recent experiences with international initiativ... morees and collaboration, and consider future developments.   hide ;   Place published :   Quad Oriental Room S204, University of Sydney ;   Start Date :   2008 ;   Start time :   2 pm ;   End time :   3:30 pm ;   Extended description :   Ross Coleman will report on a recent Library-funded trip to institutions in the United States, Unit... moreed 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.  hide ;   Organisation :   University of Sydney ;   Person Reference :   Prof. Willard McCarty ;

Media arts and digital technology: some practical studies   [id: 107445]

Presentation ;   updated:  23-October-2008 ;

Title :   Media arts and digital technology: some practical studies ;   Event type :   Seminar ;   Short summary :   Mamoru Endo is Associate Professor at the School of Information Science and Technology, Chukyo Univ... moreersity, Japan. His research interests include network systems, computer graphics, virtual reality and their application in real society. He received a B.E. degree in information engineering from Shinshu University, and a M.E. and Ph.D. degree in human informatics from Nagoya University. In his guest lecture, Endo will discuss his studies of computer graphics and virtual reality as well as network systems and their applications to the construction of an electronic society. The lecture will be based on a variety of examples from the use of computer graphics for archaeological restoration to e-learning in astronomy and the Alliance Project: Digital Kinship Database and Genealogy.  hide ;   Start Date :   2008 ;   Start time :   13:00 ;   End time :   14:00 ;   Person Reference :   A/Prof. Mamoru Endo ;

Pattern narration   [id: 107888]

Presentation ;   updated:  23-October-2008 ;

Title :   Pattern narration ;   Event type :   Seminar ;   Short summary :   Over the past fifteen years I’ve been developing a deliberately intuitive understanding of a large ... morephotographic collection. I’ve taken care to ensure that this intuitive understanding is aligned to a computational method of organising what I know. One way of explaining my approach is to say that I ‘sense’ certain narrative patterns in the collection and then the computer ‘makes sense’ of these hunches and reports them back to me. This nourishes a feedback loop that has given rise to at least eight different artworks. I’ll talk about this process and show some examples of the artworks.  hide ;   Place published :   Latin 2 S225 ;   Start Date :   2008 ;   Start time :   16:00 ;   End time :   17:00 ;   Extended description :   Seminar presented in the series "Visual representation in research" ;   Discipline :   History ;   Images :   view image ;   Person Reference :   Prof. Ross Gibson ;

Rebuilding Shakespeare’s theatre (and how to show your workings)   [id: 107430]

Presentation ;   updated:  23-October-2008 ;   http://hdl.handle.net/2123/3567 ;

Title :   Rebuilding Shakespeare’s theatre (and how to show your workings) ;   Event type :   Seminar ;   Short summary :   This is an attempt to use—and assess the usefulness of—PowerPoint as a means of presenting research... more 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.  hide ;   Place published :   University of Sydney, Latin 2 S225 ;   Start Date :   2008 ;   Start time :   16:00 ;   End time :   17:00 ;   Organisation :   Digital Innovation Unit ;   Discipline :   Theatre Studies ;   Extended description :   A seminar in the series "Visual representation in research" ;   Person Reference :   A/Prof. Tim Fitzpatrick ;

Representing the Structure of Cultural Time   [id: 108966]

Presentation ;   updated:  10-November-2008 ;

Title :   Representing the Structure of Cultural Time ;   Event type :   Seminar ;   Short summary :   Despite its primacy in archaeological and historical studies the temporal structure of cultural tim... moree has largely been neglected both because of a focus on events and because the reality of much cultural time prior to the 19th C CE is that nothing much happened most of the time. Cultural analysis needs, however, to encompass this condition since it sets the scene for all periods of relatively abrupt change and indeed defines their degree of abruptness. The larger theoretical context is that, as yet, the rates and magnitudes of cultural change have been noticed but not systematically analysed. Visualisation is essential to grasping the nature and significance of this persepective on cultural time and change.  hide ;   Place published :   University of Sydney, History Room S223 ;   Start Date :   2008 ;   Start time :   16:00 ;   Extended description :   This seminar was presented in the seminar series "Visual representation in research" ;   Organisation :   Digital Innovation Unit ;   Discipline :   Archaeology ;   Person Reference :   Prof. Roland John Fletcher ;

The Alliance software: a kinship database and graphical approach to genealogy   [id: 107441]

Presentation ;   updated:  23-October-2008 ;   http://hdl.handle.net/2123/3569 ;

Title :   The Alliance software: a kinship database and graphical approach to genealogy ;   Event type :   Seminar ;   Short summary :   The kinship database and genealogy software “Alliance” has been funded by the Grants-in-Aid for Sci... moreentific 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.  hide ;   Place published :   University of Sydney, Education Bldg., Seminar Room 436 ;   Start Date :   2008 ;   Start time :   13:00 ;   End Date :   14:00 2010 3 12 ;   Person Reference :   Prof. Shigenobu Sugito ;

Why a historian needs the DIU: some informal case-studies   [id: 107442]

Presentation ;   updated:  23-October-2008 ;

Title :   Why a historian needs the DIU: some informal case-studies ;   Event type :   Seminar ;   Short summary :   Professor McCalman will give a brief and informal explanation of why he thinks the DIU will prove ... moreuseful to a wide range of humanities and social science scholars with examples of his uses of the Centre’s resources and expertise. He will speak about three of his current projects: a study of an eighteenth-century British artist and spectacle expert; a variety of books, exhibitions and films associated with Charles Darwin and scientific voyaging; and an ecological film and digital archive project associated with Indigenous people and the Western Arnhem Land Plateau.  hide ;   Place published :   University of Sydney, Oriental Room S204 ;   Start Date :   2008 ;   Start time :   16:00 ;   End time :   17:00 ;   Extended description :   Seminar presented for the launch of the DIU. Part of the seminar series "Visual representation in r... moreesearch".   hide ;   Person Reference :   Prof. Iain McCalman ;