<Please do not reply to the list> DRH96 : DIGITAL RESOURCES FOR THE HUMANITIES =20 A Conference to be held at Somerville College, Oxford July 1-3 1996=20 Sponsoring Institutions The Centre for Humanities Computing, Oxford; The Humanities Research Institute, Sheffield; The British Library; The Office for Humanities Communication, Oxford; The Institute for Electronic Library Research, De Montfort University; The Centre for Information Management and Technology for Scholarship, London Guildhall University =20 The Conference Theme Advances in computing affect all who work with the fundamental resources of humanities scholarship. Archivists are learning new ways to conserve their holdings of primary materials, ranging from manuscripts through electronic texts to video. Electronic materials are becoming increasingly important to librarians, who are developing new forms of structured access to them. Scholars explore these materials with new tools, and produce new kinds of scholarship with them. As electronic publication increasingly gives individual archives and scholars the power to publish, the traditional role of the publisher is also changing. Long-held paradigms of scholarly resources--their ownership, their use, their distribution--are being transformed. Archivists, librarians, scholars and publishers have to rework their relationships in this new information world, without losing sight of the traditional values of academic discourse. =20 The Conference This conference will provide a forum for archivists, librarians, scholars and publishers to explore these changes, and to seek the best ways to exploit them together. The conference will have four strands, as follows: * News from the front: papers and sessions on work done and in progress, focusing on innovation in resource handling, scholarship, and in delivery systems. * As we may think: papers and sessions on the intellectual framework, discussing (for example) issues of standards design, copyright and wider social implications. * Hard answers to practical problems: workshop sessions pitched at various levels, from novice to expert. Suitable workshop topics might include: project management, fund-raising strategies, encoding design, resource discovery, Internet publishing, digitization, copyright management, time-based media, image recognition, application of international standards. * For sale or rent: an exhibition of computer software and electronic publications. =20 Who should Attend? All who are concerned with the impact of computing on work with the fundamental resources of humanities scholarship =D1 traditional primary textual and still image material, and newer sound and moving image media also =D1 will find this conference of interest. Some conference presentations will be addressed to those engaged in projects addressing large-scale scholarly resources. Other presentations will be addressed to those interested in the legal or cultural aspects of these developments. Others will be suitable for those seeking the best way to begin a project in this area. =20 Call for Proposals Conference sessions will be of ninety minutes, with up to three sessions at once, and at least one plenary session on each of the three days of the conference. The conference will open and close with addresses from distinguished invited speakers. We invite proposals for the four strands of the conference outlined above, as follows: * Formal papers of 20-25 minutes for the News from the front and As we may think strands * Session proposals of 90 minutes length for the News from the front and As we may think strands * Workshop proposals for the Hard answers to practical problems strand * Exhibition proposals for the For sale or rent strand =20 A particular theme of the conference will be standards and their power to unite the worlds of archivists, librarians, scholars, and publishers. Papers, workshops or exhibitors focusing on standards and open systems will be especially welcome. =20 Submission of Proposals Proposals should be submitted in the following form: Formal papers: abstracts of 500-1000 words * Session proposals: a session abstract of 500-1000 words, with session title; full details of all session participants with abstracts of their papers (where relevant) * Workshop proposals: a 500-1000 word summary of the workshop content together with the following: a 40 word short description; statement of prerequisite knowledge for workshop attendees; description of materials to be provided to attendees; who is to take the workshop and whether he or she has given this workshop before. * Exhibition proposals: exhibitors should describe what they wish to exhibit, detailing space and any other requirements (e.g. internet access). All paper, session and workshop proposals must be prefixed with: =20 proposal title; proposer's name, academic affiliation and address, =20 phone, fax and email. All proposals will be reviewed by the programme committee. Proposers are invited to submit names of one or more referees (with contact details) where they think this may help the programme committee reach an informed decision All proposals must be submitted by Friday 15 December. The programme committee will advise acceptances by Friday 15 March 1996. Submission, preferably by email, may be made to [log in to unmask], or by post to: DRH96 Conference Oxford University Computing Services 13 Banbury Road Oxford OX2 6NN, UK. The conference URL is http://info.ox.ac.uk/~drh96/ =20 The Conference Venue The conference will be held at Somerville College, Oxford. Somerville is situated just a few minutes from the centre of Oxford, which is widely regarded as one of the most beautiful cities in Europe. Oxford has excellent rail and road links, with frequent bus and train services to and from London and all other major cities in the UK. For international delegates, frequent coach services are available from the bus stations situated at Heathrow and Gatwick airports. The journey from Heathrow Airport takes about one hour. =20 Accommodation and meals will be provided for all delegates at Somerville College. The accommodation will be in single study bedrooms which are comfortable, if unpretentious, with washbasin and shared bathroom facilities. =20 Conference Organization The conference is being organised by the Continuing Professional Development Centre of the University of Oxford. For further information, please contact: Anna Morris CPD Centre Oxford University Centre for Continuing Education 67 St Giles Oxford OX1 3LU Tel: +44 (1865) 288 169. Fax: +44 (1865) 288 163. THE PROGRAMME COMMITTEE =20 * Norman Blake, University of Sheffield * Andrea Bozzi, CNR Pisa * Lou Burnard, University of Oxford * Vito Cappellini, University of Florence * Charles Chadwyck-Healey, Chadwyck-Healey * Mel Collier, De Montfort University * David Cooper, University of Oxford * Colin Day, University of Michigan Press * Marilyn Deegan, De Montfort University (Chair) * Robert Faber, University of Oxford * Richard Gartner, Bodleian Library Oxford * Susan Hockey, Rutgers University * Claus Huitfeldt, Bergen University * Mary Keeler, Indiana University * Donna Kurtz, University of Oxford * Stuart Lee, University of Oxford * Ann Leer, University of Oxford * Peter Lyman, University of California, Berkeley * Chris Mullings, Office for Humanities Communication * Charles Oppenheim, University of Strathclyde * Andrew Prescott, British Library * Julian Raby, University of Oxford * Peter Robinson, University of Oxford * Seamus Ross, British Academy * Andrew Rosenheim, Oxford University Press * Harold Short, Kings College London * Anthony Smith, University of Oxford * Geoff Tagg, Oxford Brookes University * Kevin Taylor, Cambridge University Press * Manfred Thaller, Max-Planck-Institut, Goettingen