The organizing committee of CASTA 2008 invites proposals (approx. 500-700 words) from Canadian and international scholars and practitioners working on the application of digital technology to the study of material culture up to c.1700 (computer science, archaeology, anthropology, geography, history, literature, etc.) for a pre-conference seminar on “Digitizing Early Material Culture: from Antiquity to Modernity.”
May 6, 2008
The organizing committee of CaSTA 2008 invites proposals from Canadian and international scholars and practitioners working in any area of technical or textual studies addressing the conference theme, “New Directions in Text Analysis.” This will be the sixth annual CaSTA conference, held in association with TAPoR (the Text Analysis Portal). The two days of the conference (17-18 October) will feature keynote and plenary addresses, papers, panels, and posters on a wide range of topics related to the future of digital text analysis. Presentations might address such topics as:
- changing notions of what constitutes a text
- the relationship of the material text (its physical manifestation) to the ideal text (the text as an abstraction of words in a particular combination)
- editing and publishing digital texts for a changing readership
- new media and digital textual scholarship
- new tools and methodologies for text analysis
- digital texts and analysis in the scholarly mainstream
- working with graduate students and research teams
I've finished the editing of the mariage stylesheets as mentioned in my previous post. There are now 4 styles available from the style menu section. The new one is brown - title = Bois.
I have also tidied up all of the stylesheets so they are consistent in terms of format and commentary.
Bug reports welcome.
suPHP has been modified to be more restrictive in allowing php to be called in a URL which includes a symbolic link. For example, web.uvic.ca/hrd/agenda points to the lang account, but use of the hrd redirect makes the server think the php is running in the lancenrd context (which is where the agenda symbolic link is) rather than the lang context and that is no longer allowed. Result is that in the browser you get an error:
> Internal Server Error
> Directory /home/lancenrd/webext/pir is not owned by pir
> suPHP 0.6.3
To get around the problem until Ryan gets back and can investigate further, I've changed as many hrefs and redirects as I can to force the URL to include ~accountName instead of hrd.
In the pir instance, I changed each href (all were relative) on the site which pointed at :
http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/pir/Call.php
so that it points at (the absolute URL) :
http://web.uvic.ca/~pir/Call.php
In the Agenda instance, I changed the html redirect in http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/agenda/index.htm
from:
http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/agenda/web_pages/
to this:
http://web.uvic.ca/~lang/agenda/Application_Files/web_pages/
In the hotpotreg instance, I changed the link in
http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/hotpotreg/index.htm
from (relative link):
query.htm
to (absolute link):
http://web.uvic.ca/~hotpot/phpFrontEnd/query.htm
Those changes force the php to be running in the correct (e.g. lang or hotpot) context rather than the lancenrd context, but of course reveals the ~lang or ~hotpot URL in the browser.
Link: http://www.commoncraft.com/podcasting
It's that time of year when many of us start thinking about enhancing next year's courses. And with podcasting's increasing popularity--to say nothing of our students' omnipresent mp3 players--podcasting can provide an easy and inexpensive way to pass along course material.
By far the best introduction to podcasting comes from CommonCraft, who create elegantly simple videos that demysify not just podcasting, but a range of other Web 2.0 applications like blogging, social bookmarking, Twitter...
To learn more about podcasting (and those other applications), visit the CommonCraft site here:
According to a recent article in the New York Times, Philip M. Parker, Professor of Management Science at France-based INSEAD, and "author" of more than 200,00 books, claims to have “deconstruct[ed] the process of getting books into people’s hands; every single step we could think of, we automated.”
Parker has developed computer algorithms that collect publicly available information on a subject — broad or obscure — and, aided by his 60 to 70 computers and six or seven programmers, he turns the results into books in a range of genres, many of them in the range of 150 pages and printed only when a customer buys one.Read more...
May 5, 2008
I've finished a new stylesheet for the site - it's green and goes by the name Pelouse.
I've also begun cleaning up the sheets so that colours only get declared in <colourname>.css files. All other sheets only deal with layout, typography etc. This keeps the site looking the same in terms of layout no matter the colour scheme.
I'll finish the de-crufting of layout sheets next and begin working on a brown sheet (Bois?) after that. The last step will be tidying up the original and versailles sheets.
Manning the fort
The African Partnerships Network at UVic, the Victoria International Development Education Association (VIDEA) and UVic's Office of Community-Based Research are pleased to invite you to a talk by Paulo Wangoola.
Paulo Wangoola, the Nabyama of Mpambo, is a practical visionary who brings a story of a unique way forward for Afrika, a vision of hope and some magic from the ageless traditions of Afrikan indigenous thought.
Martin, Judy and I helped out with the AP exam today. The instructions from last year were great, but in the heat of moment I forgot that they did not cover the listening only portion of the exam. I'd add something to the instructions that suggests that there is a listening component that comes before the speaking component - just for clarity.
The exam seemed to go well from a technical standpoint; I drove the console while Judy and Martin kept an eye on the student machines for signs of trouble. Martin, Stew and I burned the CDs after the speaking component was done.