Hello List,
At Kzoo next year there are at least three groups sponsoring a total of five sessions with an electronic focus - Digital Medievalist, the Oxford Text Archive, and Research in Computing for Humanities. Dan O'Donnell and I were discussing the problem of market saturation that might come from having so many similar sessions, and he suggested that we look into organizing a mini DM conference-within-a-conference for next year's (2006) Kalamazoo Congress. This would bring together all the various people who regularly organize digital sessions and sell them to the Congress organizers as a group. The Institute for Cistercian Studies at Western Michigan has been doing something similar for years (as long as the Congress itself, I believe) with great success. I think this is a super idea - what do others think?
Dot
P.S. RCH is still accepting proposals (send them to me at dporter@uky.edu); I'll also put in a word for the OTA (contact James Cummings: James.Cummings@oucs.ox.ac.uk) and the DM (contact Murray McGillivray: mmcgilli@ucalgary.ca), though I don't know if they still have space. Deadline for submission is the 15 September!