| OUTLINE
PROPOSALS History | Interdisciplinary
Studies | Language &
Literature | Performing Arts | Visual
& Media Studies
CROSS-DISCIPLINARY
Several
cross-disciplinary project ideas were discussed (see report on the
last session), notably on radically improved OCR and national or
regional humanities computing centers but no specific proposals
were put forward. [1/30/03 - David Green]
HISTORY
1.
Visualization of Historical Landscapes
- First
Draft
Key
Points: sophisticated
reusable visualization tools/templates to
allow historical modeling; Testbed: US theme
(1770s; Lewis & Clark); non-Americanist
to ensure replicability
Team: entire
field group
Lead: Univ of
Virginia/Tufts?
Funding Target: NSF/ITR
--Intermediate
Version: A Four-Dimensional Interactive Atlas
of American History - [Draft]
Key
Points: shows
movement,/process across large areas and long
chronological periods; based
on detailed textured landforms, revealing
interaction of natural environment and human
history; dynamically generated from existing
historical data (counties, towns, cities,
states) over 400 years - data underutilized
because there is no useful way to see it;
navigation across space and through time with
specialized tools to go more deeply; a medium
in which researchers interact with each other
around and through the content.
--Possible
integrating "History &
Geography" Project
Key
Points:A History
and Geography Project could have several
components, involving both the landscape
visualization and the more abstract and
comprehensive atlas: a coordinated project
approaching the issue of history, space, and
change from several distinct angles.
2.
Forum for Advancing Historical Scholarship
- First
Draft
Key
Points: encourage
better use of the new technology to advance
the field and create a new digital
scholarship by convening editors,
commissioning exemplary works; developing
standards for evaluating such work; assemble
best-practice info & open-source tools
Team: entire
field group
Lead: History
Cooperative
Funding Target: Mellon
INTERDISCIPLINARY
STUDIES
1.
Recognizing & Representing Multilingual
Texts - First
Draft
Key
Points: extend
Unicode; extend ability to locate text in a
complex document; enable identification and
searching of full range of physical contexts
in which text appears. Testbed: Creation of a
library of legal texts from around the world
Team: entire
field group
Lead: ?
Funding Target: NSF/ITR
2. Search &
Filter Technology - First
Draft
Key Points: develop a smart
filtering system to mediate between
researcher's profile and objects within peer
reviewed web sites (should contribute to the
development of coherent strategies for
searching multimedia documents and
integrating the resulting data); focus on
developing existing indexes,(Iter, LANIC,
etc) as test beds for the smart filtering
system (humanists within the learned
societies identify high quality content and
supply relevant terminology; IT specialists,
computer scientists/programmers provide
technical support.
Team: ?
Lead: ?
Funding Target: NSF/ITR
3.
International Center for Computing & the
Humanities - First
Draft
Key Points: support peer-reviewed humanities
computing projects;bring together
heterogeneous institutions, humanities
professionals, and interdisciplinary
information design and communication
specialists; website offer broad range of
open support resources (from collaborative
project consultation to clearinghouse and
support system for shareable applications).
Team: cross-disciplinary
Lead: ?
Funding Target: ?
LANGUAGE & LITERATURE
1. A New Model
for Peer Review of Electronic Scholarly
Publication -[1st
Draft] [2nd
Draft-10/11]
Key Points: model peer review
system for online scholarly resources in
language & literature that have not been
submitted to the editorial processes of
established journals and presses; to include
new & traditional genres; four-day
planning conference; create governing board
to develop/govern project for 2-yr period.
Team:
Hansen/Harris/Hawisher/Kirschenbaum/Levenson/Lyman-Hager/E.
Martin/W.
Martin/Moulthrop/Olsen/Pathak/Ryan/Salaberry/Selfe
Lead: MLA/other societies/NINCH
Funding Target: ?
2. Professional
Development - [1st Draft] [2nd Draft-10/11]
Key Points: Summer institutes and
travel/residency funding toacquaint language
and literature teachers and scholars with the
tools and methodologies of digital
environments so that they may approach
electronic technology with increased
confidence and understanding, and, as a
result, create and implement technological
projects at their home institutions.
Team: Harris/Hawisher/Kirschenbaum/Langendoen/Levenson/Lyman-Hager/E.
Martin/Ryan/Salaberry/Selfe
Lead: ?
Funding Target: ?
3. Designing
Language Learning Environments for a
Multicultural Society- [1st Draft]
Key Points: new means of encoding
lexical conceptual structures to enable the
portrayal of complex relations, including
visual and sound attributes of linguistic and
contextual data.
Team: Langendoen/Noblitt/Salaberry/Lyman-Hager
Lead:
Funding Target: ?
4. Scholar
Driven Evaluation of Digital Finding Aids -
[1st Draft] [2nd Draft-10/11]
Key Points: Humanist-computer
scientists team will evaluate the access
mechanisms of a specific digital collection/s
to determine how these access mechanisms
facilitate, hinder, and shape scholarly
inquiry; creation of methods and procedures
for evaluating access to scholarly materials
in digital collections.
Team:
Lead:
Funding Target: NSF/ITR
PERFORMING ARTS
1. Performance
Modeling - [1st Draft] [2nd Draft-10/10]
Key Points: to recreate historical
performances in a virtual reality
environment. complete a fully-functional
prototype to develop and test a
general-purpose set of techniques and
technologies for producing VR performances.
Test case: 1880 vaudeville performance at the
Tony Pastor Theatre, New York City.
Team: Saltz/Kattwinkel/Mohler/Maciag/Burke/Pizzato/Zellner/Worster/Hildy/Blood
Lead: Univ of Georgia/Georgia Tech ?
Funding Target: NSF/ITR
2. Institute
for Digital Scholarship in the Performing
Arts - [1st Draft]
Key Points: creation of digital
scholarship that integrates theatre, music,
and dance; board from supporting learned
societes develop guidelines for digital
projects, promote them, adjudicate among
applicants, and administer grants to
individual scholars and humanities computing
centers; would develop & promote
standards for scholarly recognition of
digital projects. See preliminary details
below.
Team: Hildy/McConachie/Strow/Kellers/Blood/Kattwinkel/Saltz/Mohler/Pizzato/Burke
+ international consultants; Edward Price, research
director of the Interactive Media Technology
Center at the Georgia Institute of
Technology,
Lead:
Funding Target: Rockefeller/Ford?
3.
International Dissertations in Music Online
- [1st Draft] Final Outline
Key Points: expand existing
Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology--Online
into a full digital archive of dissertations
in all aspects of music. Computing challenges
include indexing,
cross-linguistic searching, and creating
digital media for dissertations; problems
include handwritten dissertations and index
and display of non-Roman type and languages
that read from right to left and top to
bottom (e.g., Cyrillic, Greek, Japanese,
Hebrew, Arabic).
Team: Thomas J. Mathiesen & David
Crawford; Add to existing partners (American
Musicological Society, International
Musicological Society, the Royal Musical
Association, the Dissertationsmeldestellung
(M¸nster), and the Center for the History of
Music Theory and Literature at Indiana
University (CHMTL) new partners, such as:
UMI, Center for Research Libraries, Moscow
Conservatory, and comparable groups in other
countries.
Lead: Indiana University
Funding Target: NSF/ITR
4. Online
Access to 19th
Century Music - [1st Draft]
Key Points: to provide
bibliographic access to, and ultimately
preservation of, music published in America
from 1826-1898 ; develop thesaurus for
conceptual access to both music and
illustrations; board will design coordinated
approach; distributed cataloging, using
guidelines developed by Music Library
Association, and widely available standards
and bibliographic utilities (e.g., OCLC and
RLIN). Funds will be distributed directly to
institutions where cataloging is currently
being accomplished.
Team: Mary Wallace Davidson, Kate Van
Winkle Keller, Laura Gayle Green
Lead: Indiana University?
Funding Target: NEH?
5. Digital
Dance Database - [1st Draft]
Key Points: searchable multimedia
archive of primary resource dance materials,
freely accessible for research and teaching.
Team: Mary Strow /Robert M. Keller
Lead: ?
Funding Target: ?
6. Digital
Brief Case - [1st Draft]
Key Points: develop
hardware/software package enabling
simultaneous presentation of one resource
stream while previewing others across various
media types. Develop interfaces that allow
flexible and continuous presentation of a
large variety of resource types; explore
pedagogical applications of rich resource
delivery systems; investigate the impact of
these technologies on the learning process
Team: Gary Maciag/Larry Worster
Lead: ?
Funding Target: ?
7. American
Variety Theatre Project - [1st Draft]
Key Points: to create digital
content and tools for study of American
Variety Theatre; consortium of scholars in
theatre, music and dance, librarians and
computer scientists would digitize image,
print and aural sources relevant to specific
performance events from 1830 - 1930 and
create interactive teaching/research site
Team: Bruce McConachie, Susan
Kattwinkel
Lead: ?
Funding Target: ?.
8.
Performance in History Associates - [1st
Draft]
Key Points: to further the work of
PIHA and especially to build a searchable
multimedia database that could display
multiple media side by side for comparison,
facilitate new understandings of performing
arts and make it as widely available as
possible.
Team: Current PIH Associates plus Mary
Strow, Mary Davidson, Gary Maciag, Susan
Kattwinkel.
Lead: SUNY/Geneseo?
Funding Target: ?.
9. Center for
Distributed Scholarly Resources in the
Humanities - [1st Draft] [2nd Draft-10/10]
Key Points: to establish a database to function
as a gateway for networked scholarly
resources in the Humanities, nominated by
scholarly societies whose representatives
would serve on a Board of Directors to
establish policies and oversee development of
the project. Partnerships could also be
developed between the Center and electronic
publishers, for Team: Robert Keller
Lead: Virginia Polytechnic Institute
and State University
Funding Target: ?.
10. Humanities
Search Engine - [1st Draft]
Key Points: to create a
configurable humanities search engine that
would allow searching by multiple filtration
levels, domain levels (e.g. .edu) and
language levels.
Team: Larry Worster, Laura
Gayle Green
VISUAL ARTS & MEDIA
STUDIES
1.
Federating Digital Image
Repositories and Interpretive Information- [1st Draft] [2nd Draft-10/13]
Key
Points: to create
a new model for collaborative work
between universities, museums and archives;
to produce, through this collaboration, an
extensible, expandable, annotatable federated
collection of visual and multimedia materials
(widely accessible and free of charge) &
to develop related bodies of interpretive
information and sets of tools for research
and pedagogy.
Team: entire
field group
Lead: Univ of
Virginia/University of Maryland?
Funding Target: NSF/ITR
(Getty?)
2. Pooling
Technology Resources - [1st Draft]
Key Points: to strengthen the network of
existing institutional resources such as
humanities technology centers by fostering
communication and sharing.
Team: entire field
group/cross-disciplinary
Lead: Univ
of Virginia/University of Maryland?
Funding Target: ?
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