Provisional Program (updated 12/1/00)
Ancient Studies -- New Technology:
The World Wide Web and Scholarly Research, Communication, and Publication in Ancient, Byzantine, and Medieval Studies
Salve Regina University, Newport, RI
December 8-10, 2000
Sponsored by:
Philosophy Department, Salve Regina University
An Online Encyclopedia of Roman Emperors
The Perseus Project
The Stoa Consortium
Conveners: Michael DiMaio, Jr. (SRU), Ralph Mathisen (USC)
Details subject to change.
PROGRAM
REGISTRATION December 8, 2000 (Friday) 7:30-8:45am
WELCOME and INTRODUCTION Friday, 8:30-8:45am
PART I: TOOLS FOR RESEARCH AND TEACHING
SESSION I: CONTEXTUALIZING ARCHAEOLOGY ON THE WEB
Friday, 8:45-11:00am
Organizers: Staff of the Perseus Project
Chair: Amy C. Smith (Perseus Project, Tufts University)
"Digging for Data," Amy C. Smith (Perseus Project, Tufts University)
"Building Geographic Information Systems for the Ancient World," Robert F. Chavez (Perseus Project, Tufts University)
"New Approaches to Old Excavations: The Museum of Fine Arts,Boston, and the Giza Pyramids," Peter Der Manuelian (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
"Spacing Out: Web 3D and the Reconstruction of Archaeological Sites," Thomas L. Milbank (Perseus Project, Tufts University)
"Images as Content and Interface: TVR and Image Cataloging in a Digital Library," Genevieve Gessert (Yale University)
SESSION II: TECHNICAL ISSUES
BREAK 11:00-11:15am
Friday, 11:15am-12:15pm
Chair: Richard Weigel (Western Kentucky University)
"Optimizing Graphics for Web Delivery," Samuel B. Fee (Centre College)
"An Historical Event Mark-up Scheme," Bruce G. Robertson, Arthur Miller (Mount Allison University)
LUNCH: 12:15-1:30.pm
SESSION III. PEDAGOGY
Friday, 1:30-3:45pm
Chair: Ralph W. Mathisen (Univ. of South Carolina)
"The Assyrian Palaces at Nimrud --Digital Publication Projects and the Implications for Archaeology and Education on the Web," Donald H. Sanders (Learning Sites, Inc.); Samuel M. Paley(SUNY, Buffalo); Thenkurussi Kesavadas (SUNY, Buffalo)
"RealAudio for Class WEB Materials (or, Going it Alone)," Dale Grote (University of North Carolina -- Charlotte)
"King Alfred: New Software for Old English," Michael D. C. Drout, with David Dudek and Rachel Kapelle (Wheaton College, Norton, MA)
"Web Design for the Average Professor: A Discussion of the 'Rood and Ruthwell' Web Site," Alexander M. Bruce (Florida Southern College)
"Pedagogical Uses of Information Technology in Classics at Cambridge University," John Lewis (Cambridge University)
BREAK 3:45-4:15pm
SESSION IV. DATABASES.
Friday, 4:15-5:15pm
Chair: Michael DiMaio (Salve Regina University)
"The Georgian Icons Electronic Register Project," Irakli Iakobashvili (Institute of Manuscripts, Academy of Science, Tbilisi, Georgia)
"The Thesaurus Musicarum Latinarum: A Full-Text Database of Latin Music Theory," Thomas J. Mathiesen (Center for the History of Music Theory and Literature, Indiana University)
BANQUET AND FRIDAY KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Friday, 5:45 PM
"'Laboring in the Vineyard': Working with the WEB, Past, Present, and Future," Ralph W. Mathisen (University of South Carolina)
Salve Regina University Chorus Holiday Concert
Friday, 8:00 PM
December 9, 2000 (Saturday)
SESSION V: "DIES LONGAE ET NOCTES BREVES: THE DE IMPERATORIBUS ROMANIS WEB SITE"
Saturday, 8:30-9:45am
Organizer: Michael DiMaio (Salve Regina University)
Chair: Wendy Mayer (Australian Catholic University)
"The Labors of a Junk Yard Dog," Michael DiMaio (Salve Regina University)
"Sitting on a WEB Site Editorial Board," Richard Weigel (Western Kentucky University)
"Keeping it Going: Administering the DIR," Jacqueline Long (Loyola University -- Chicago)
BREAK 9:45-10:00am
SESSION VI. SCHOLARLY DIALOGUE AND INTERCHANGE.
Saturday, 10:00am-12:00pm
Chair: Nina Coppolino (Holy Cross)
"Web Resources and Scholarly Readers," Steven Muhlberger (Nipissing University)
"The 'Drunkard's Search' and the 'Philosopher's Salon': The Web as an Effective Research Resource for Ancient and Medieval Studies," R. Laval Hunsucker (University of Amsterdam)
LUNCH: 12:00-1:15pm
PART II: PUBLICATION
SESSION VII. SCHOLARLY PUBLICATION ON THE WEB: ISSUES AND ANSWERS
Saturday, 1:15-3:30pm
Organizer: Ross Scaife (Univ. of Kentucky)
Chair and Commentator: Thomas Martin (Holy Cross)
"Creating the Infrastructure for Scholarly Publication," Anne Mahoney (Perseus Project, Tufts University)
"Bringing Athenian Democracy to 21st Century Readers," Chris W. Blackwell (Furman University)
"Cross Project Resource Discovery for American Numismatic Society Publications," Sebastian Heath (American Numismatic Society, New York)
"Editorial Strategies for the Suda On-Line Project," Bill Hutton (William and Mary)
"Electronic Publication and the Classics: Thinking about Copyright," Ross Scaife (Univ. of Kentucky)
"Digital Workflow Concepts for Dynamic Reference Works " Edward N. Zalta (Stanford University)
BREAK 3:30-3:45pm
SESSION VIII. LANGUAGE, TEXTS, AND ELECTRONIC EDITIONS
Saturday, 3:45-5:15pm
Chair: Jacqueline Long (Loyola University -- Chicago)
"The Archimedes Project: A Test Case for the Digital Research Community," Brian Fuchs (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin)
"Linking Past and Future: An Application of Dynamic HTML for Electronic Manuscript Editions," Robert Sanderson (University of Liverpool)
SATURDAY KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Willard McCarty (Univ. of London)
Saturday, 5:45 PM
December 10, 2000 (Sunday)
SESSION IX. WEB-BASED JOURNALS
Sunday, 8:30-9:30am
Chair: Gregory Crane (Perseus Project, Tufts University)
"Indo-European Studies Bulletin: A Case Study for Publishing with XML and Unicode," Deborah W. Anderson (University of California -- Berkeley)
"Running an Electronic Journal: The Medieval Review," Deborah Deliyannis (Western Michigan University)
PART III: THE WWW IN THE FIELD
SESSION X: Integrating Archaeological Field Work via the WWW
Sunday, 9:45am-12:00pm
Organizer and Chair: Neel Smith (College of the Holy Cross)
"The Archaeological Field Director and the WWW," Ilknur Ozgen (Bilkent University) and Mark Garrison (Trinity University)
"An On-line Archaeology Course based on the Hacimusalar Project," Suzanne Bonefas (Associated Colleges of the South)
"The Classification and Chronology of Ceramics Using the WWW," Hal Haskell (Southwestern University)
"Archaeological Data Collection Using the WWW," Kenny Morrell (Rhodes College), Pedar Foss (DePauw University)
"Integration of Information Technologies in the Field using the WWW," Neel Smith (College of the Holy Cross)