COMPUTER SCIENCE & THE HUMANITIES: ACLS/NINCH BUILDING BLOCK WORKSHOPS 2000-2001

WORKSHOP I PLANNING

November 5, 1999

Day One
Morning 1	Plenary Speaker
Morning 2	Field meetings: How do we work?
Lunch
Afternoon 1	Topical sessions (concurrent)
Afternoon 2	Plenary
Dinner
Day Two
Morning 1	Field meetings: What do we need?
Morning 2	Topical sessions
Lunch
Afternoon 1	Topical sessions
Afternoon 2	Topical sessions
Dinner
Evening	Plenary Speaker
Day Three
Morning 1	Field meetings: Projects and collaborations to meet needs
Morning 2
Lunch
Afternoon 1	Plenary

SUGGESTIONS FOR TOPICAL SESSIONS

• Cooperation beyond individual projects (linkages, larger collaborations, etc.)
• Imaging: helping users move across projects
• Imaging: creating a consensus on standards? Encouraging communication across projects
• Imaging: linking image databases to textual ones
• Textual databases: Creating consensus on standards?
• Textual databases: collaborative humanities projects to reshape knowledge dissemination
• Textual databases: new roles, new materials for teaching and researching (beyond individual projects)
• Interactive databases &endash; teaching and researching
• Visualization/reconstituting information in visual form, and links to teaching
• Shared intellectual trajectories: uses of visual evidence
• Shared intellectual trajectories: interactive databases
• Shared intellectual trajectories: (other directions identified by field committees)
• Interconnections of journal publishing and IT projects
• Copyright and cost recovery: balancing access and the need to keep nonprofit institutions "in the business"

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November CAO meeting

November 9-11, Pittsburgh

Building Blocks Sessions
Session One	Presentations on issues, possibilities, patterns identified during workshop(s) &endash; issues for the academy, and how societies can address these
Session Two	Round Table by societies already working on projects and by funders, on the policy issues "beyond" the academy (linking the academy and larger worlds)