Computing ARTS 2001
Digital Resources for Research in the Humanities
26th-28th September, 2001, The University of Sydney

- Exploring the impact of digitisation on the humanities

- Focusing on new methods of creating, using and conserving the
resources which comprise our common cultural heritage

- Examining the impact of new technologies on research and creative
endeavour, teaching and learning, publishing, conservation and curation,
librarianship and archiving

*CALL FOR PAPERS*

Computing Arts 2001 invites reports of relevant work in a broad range of
fields, including archaeology, art history, history, languages and
linguistics, literary studies, music and performing arts, as well as
work detailing techniques and issues associated with the creation and
use of digital texts, databases, images, sound, video and digital
mapping.

Suggested topics of interest include, but are not limited to: humanities
computing; scholarly editing; text encoding; text analysis; textual
studies; hypertext; text corpora; computational linguistics; GIS
mapping; digital libraries; archival description; digital imaging; image
delivery; iconic visualisation; multimedia; languages; scripts; special
characters; unicode; electronic publishing; markup languages; XML;
pedagogical applications; institutional implications of humanities
computing; national and international coordination and collaboration
issues and outcomes; funding.

Apart from papers, presentation formats will include technical
demonstrations, panels, workshops and open discussion, for which
suggestions are invited. All presentations other than keynotes will be
of 30 minutes duration.

Confirmed keynote SPEAKERS to date include Morris Eaves (Project
Director, The Blake Archive, IATH Virginia), Ian Johnson (Archaeological
Computing Laboratory, Sydney) & Mark Kornbluh (H-Net / History, Michigan
State).

DEADLINES:
Submissions due: Friday 16th February 2001
Notification Date: Friday 9th March 2001

For full information and submission format, please visit the conference
website at: http://setis.library.usyd.edu.au/drrh2001

ENQUIRIES:
Melissa McMahon, melissa.mcmahon@rihss.usyd.edu.au, (02) 9351 5344, or
Creagh Cole (Convenor), c.cole@library.usyd.edu.au, (02) 9351 7408

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Computing Arts 2001 is supported by The Australian Academy of the
Humanities National Scholarly Communications Forum and is held in
association with Digital Resources for the Humanities (DRH) (the UK's
premier conference for all those affected by the digitisation of our
common cultural heritage). It is presented by the Scholarly Electronic
Text and Image Service (SETIS), University of Sydney Library, and the
Research Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences (RIHSS), University
of Sydney, AUSTRALIA.

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