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CIRSS student researcher Ana Lucic will be presenting Comparing the Similarities and Differences between Burton Pike’s and Stephen Mitchell’s Translation of The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge by Rainer Maria Rilke at the Digitial Humanities 2011 Conference in Palo Alto on June 21^st.  The paper, paper co-authored with Dr. Catherine Blake, explores the degree to which automated text analysis tools can capture the different styles used by Burton Pike and Stephen Mitchell in their respective translations of the only prose novel written by the famous German-language poet Rainer Maria Rilke, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge. An abstract of the paper is available at https://dh2011.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/DH2011_BookOfAbs.pdf.

CIRSS Research Assistant Trevor Munoz will be presenting Tasks vs. Roles: A Center Perspective on Data Curation Needs in the Humanities at the Digitial Humanities 2011 Conference in Palo Alto on June 21^st.  The paper, authored by Trevor Munoz, Virgil Varvel, Allen Renear, Kevin Trainor and Molly Dolan, presents findings from the Needs Assessment research conducted on the DCEP-H Project.  An abstract of the paper is available at https://dh2011.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/DH2011_BookOfAbs.pdf.

CIRSS Seminar Series, June 17th

LISB 126

4:00-5:00pm

Title: Comparing the Similarities and Differences between Two Translations
Session Leader: Ana Lucic

Description: Ana will be making a pre-conference presentation of the paper co-authored with Dr. Catherine Blake which will be presented at Digital Humanities 2011 conference. The paper explores the degree to which automated text analysis tools can capture the different styles used by Burton Pike and Stephen Mitchell in their respective translations of the only prose novel written by the famous German-language poet Rainer Maria Rilke, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge. Two candidate analysis tools were used to identify similarities and differences between the Pike and Mitchell translations: the first approach used a syntactic representation of the texts which was generated using the Stanford lexical parser (http://nlp.stanford.edu/index.shtml) and the second approach used principal component analysis. So far, the main areas of difference were found in the use of negation modifiers, prepositional modifiers, object of preposition, parataxis, and in the word choices for adjectival and adverbial modifiers.

Resources:

Comparing the Similarities and Differences between Two Translations, by Blake and Lucic

Stanford typed dependencies manual

McKenna, W., Burrows, J., Antonia, A. (1999). ‘Beckett’s Trilogy: Computational Stylistic and the Nature of Translation’

For more information please visit: http://cirss.lis.illinois.edu/Rtable/seminars.html

The Center for Informatics Research in Science and Scholarship (CIRSS) will host the 2011 Summer Institute on Data Curation at GSLIS, from Monday, June 6, through Thursday, June 9. Twenty-six applicants were accepted to this year’s Summer Institute, with support from the Data Conservancy and the IMLS-funded Data Curation Education Program.

For more information, please read the full story on the GSLIS webpage.

Title: Social Engineering Effects in an e-Learning Environment

When: Tuesday, May 17, 1:30-2:45

Where: Engineering Hall 106 B8

Presenter: Virgil E. Varvel Jr.

Description: Through a case study of courses taught at the same time by the
same instructor using the same content but different methods, one can begin
to comparatively analyze factors of quality in e-learning.  This research
presentation compares satisfaction and demonstration of knowledge between
socially organized and independent learning online courses.  The study
analyzed showed among other things that there are differences in terms of
satisfaction and knowledge demonstration variables between the two course
models.  The presentation will also outline how the same course could be
taught using both methods successfully when the audience is considered and
when the parameters of what is meant by success are considered.



FSI URL: http://www.regonline.com/builder/site/default.aspx?EventID=939430



This presentation is only open to registered participants of the 2011
Faculty Summer Institute.

Carole Palmer, Director of CIRSS, will participate in the Workshop on Cyberinfrastructure for Collaborative Science, an NSF-funded workshop sponsored by and hosted at NESCent, May 18-20, 2011.

This workshop brings together participants with a diverse set of perspectives, background, and experiences on enabling multi-disciplinary research collaborations that often rely heavily on informatics to succeed. These include informatics practitioners, social scientists, technology experts, and biologists. The workshop provides an opportunity for these groups to meet and exchange their experiences and challenges in designing and using cyberinfrastructure to enable research collaborations. The event is designed to facilitate the emergence of new targets for better coordination, and to forge new collaborations into how cyberinfrastructure can enable scientific culture change.

For more information: https://www.nescent.org/wg_collabsci/Main_Page

When: May 11, 12:30pm
Where: LISB 242

Title: Europeana Data Model
Session Leaders: Katrina Fenlon and Peter Organisciak

Description: With more than 10 million items, Europeana is Europe's largest aggregation of digital cultural heritage resources from libraries, archives, and museums. This session will explore the Europeana Data Model, a new proposal for structuring the data that Europeana will be ingesting, managing and publishing. The Europeana Data Model is designed to replace the Europeana Semantic Elements (ESE), the basic data model that Europeana began life with. Each of the different heritage sectors represented in Europeana uses different data standards, and ESE reduced these to the lowest common denominator. EDM reverses this reductive approach and is an attempt to transcend the respective information perspectives of the sectors that are represented in Europeana – the museums, archives, audiovisual collections and libraries. EDM is not built on any particular community standard but rather adopts an open, cross-domain Semantic Web-based framework that can accommodate the range and richness of particular community standards such as LIDO [LIDO] for museums, EAD1 for archives or METS2 for digital libraries.

Resource: Europeana Data Model primer

What: Units, measures, and physical quantities in WolframAlpha

When: April 27th, 12:30 pm

Session Leader: Michael Trott (Content manager for physics at Wolfram|Alpha)

Where: 242 LISB

Description: All quantitative measurement values come with units (like meters, kilograms, pascals, volts, ...) . In addition to the modern SI, there are thousands of different units in use, sometimes for historical, sometimes for geographic reasons. Recognizing units and converting between them is very important for dimensional calculations, data statistics, and more. The structure of the unit system of Wolfram|Alpha and the statistics about the use of units will be discussed.

April 13th -- Enabling Long-Term Access to Born-Digital Materials on CD-ROMs: Migration, Emulation, and Imperative to Pool Technical Knowledge
Session Leader: Geoffrey Brown, Professor of Computer Science at the School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University


Description: For the past 20 years, CD-ROMs have been the primary media for distributing key economic, scientific, environmental, and societal data as well as educational and scholarly work. Indeed, 10,000's of titles have been published including thousands distributed by the United States and other governments. Yet no viable strategy has been developed to ensure that these materials will be accessible to future generations of scholars. In the short term, these materials are subject to physical degradation which will make them ultimately unreadable and, in the long-term, technological obsolescence will make their contents unusable.

The diaries of H.R. Haldeman, Richard Nixon's chief of staff, were published in their entirety on CD-ROM, but only in abridged form on paper. References by Haldeman to Mark Felt, who was unveiled as the Watergate source, appear only on the CD-ROM version. This CD-ROM no longer operates in modern Windows environments, but can be accessed, with some effort, in an emulation environment. In other cases, the files on a CD-ROM can still be accessed, but may be in obsolete formats. Finally, many publications of government agencies are available only for local use in a few libraries.

I will discuss two aspects of our work in digital preservation – the creation of a browsable networked archive of the approximately 5000 CD-ROMs published by the United States Government Printing Office, and the development of emulation technologies to enable future scholars ready access to materials such as the Haldeman diaries.

The goals for this roundtable are to discuss the limits of the available technological solutions, the social implications their implementation, and the legal constraints on deploying them.

Location: 341 LISB

Resources:

Kam Woods and Geoffrey Brown. Creating Virtual CD-ROM Collections

Stuart Granger. "Emulation as a Preservation Strategy".

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