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Support Fair OA in Linguistics
by Ernesto Priego 05 Nov '15

05 Nov '15

Dear all, With apologies if I am abusing this list. I certainly hope I am not! It would be nice to get some more signatures and comments from a variety of academics from a variety of countries in this petition... Support Fair Open Access in Linguistics http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/support-fair-open-access-in-linguistics All the best, Ernesto *Dr Ernesto Priego*Lecturer in Library Science, #citylis <https://www.city.ac.uk/department-library-information-science/information-s…> City University London Editor-in-Chief, *The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship * <http://www.comicsgrid.com/> https://epriego.wordpress.com/ Subscribe to the Comics Grid Newsletter: http://eepurl.com/iOYAj

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Fwd: [Corpora-List] PR: The Resource Management Agency (RMA) adopts the ISLRN
by Daniel O'Donnell 04 Nov '15

04 Nov '15

Daniel Paul O'Donnell Professor of English University of Lethbridge 3401 University Drive W. Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4 Canada Tel. +1 403 393 2539 Email: daniel.odonnell(a)uleth.ca Twitter: @danielPaulOD Skype: caedmon5 Blogs: http://people.uleth.ca/~daniel.odonnell/ http://dpod.kakelbont.ca/ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Singh,, Gurpreet <singhg(a)uleth.ca> Date: 4 November 2015 at 13:16 Subject: Fwd: [Corpora-List] PR: The Resource Management Agency (RMA) adopts the ISLRN To: "O'Donnell, Dan" <daniel.odonnell(a)uleth.ca> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: ELRA ELDA Information <info(a)elda.org> Date: 2 November 2015 at 07:58 Subject: [Corpora-List] PR: The Resource Management Agency (RMA) adopts the ISLRN To: *Press Release - Immediate Paris, France, November 2, 2015 * *The Resource Management Agency (RMA), an important language resource player in South Africa, adopts the International Standard Language Resource Number (ISLRN) initiative* The RMA is now a certified provider to the ISLRN system. This means that the RMA can apply for ISLRNs on behalf of the developers of the data that is managed and distributed via the RMA website. The RMA has already submitted 117 language resources to the ISLRN, including language resources for the 11 official languages of South Africa. These include text and speech resources such as text corpora (annotated, genre classification, parallel), translation memories, custom dictionaries for government domain, compound semantic and splitting datasets, frequency word lists, speech corpora, and pronunciation dictionaries. The meta-information for these language resources is also available on the ISLRN website with a broad international audience. Background As part of an international effort to document and archive the various language resource development efforts around the world, a system of assigning ISLRNs was established in November 2013. The ISLRN is a unique “persistent identifier” to be assigned to each language resource. The establishment of ISLRNs was a major step in the networked and shared world of human language technologies. Unique resources must be identified as they are, and meta-catalogues require a common identification format to manage data correctly. Therefore, language resources should carry identical identification schemes independent of their representations, whatever their types and wherever their physical locations (on hard drives, internet or intranet) (http://islrn.org/). About RMA: The Department of Arts and Culture of South Africa established the RMA to manage and distribute reusable text and speech resources developed by the National Centre for Human Language Technology from a centralised location. As many of the South African languages are deemed resource-scarce, the RMA aspires to make data resources for these languages more readily available. To find out more about RMA, please visit the RMA website: <http://rma.nwu.ac.za/>http://rma.nwu.ac.za. About ELRA: The European Language Resources Association (ELRA) is a non-profit-making organisation founded by the European Commission in 1995, with the mission of providing a clearing house for language resources and promoting human language technologies. To find out more about ELRA, please visit the website: <http://www.elra.info>http://www.elra.info Contact: info(a)elda.org _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE from this page: http://mailman.uib.no/options/corpora Corpora mailing list Corpora(a)uib.no http://mailman.uib.no/listinfo/corpora

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En marcha hacia el THATCampCuba 2016
by Yasmín S. Portales Machado 04 Nov '15

04 Nov '15

Hola Colegas: Adjunta va la convocatoria a la 2da Acampada de Tecnologia y Cultura de Cuba "THATCamp Cuba 2016" Estamos cortos de plata, pues el plan es financiar a todas las personas de Cuba, pero recibiremos con los brazos abiertos a quien quiera sumarse de ADHO, siempre que este en condiciones de cubrir sus propios gastos. Eso si, como Nueva Gerona es un lugar de dificil acceso, quien no tenga pasajes ya en diciembre podria no llegar, se los advierto. La ventaja es que es pequeña, barata, BELLISIMA y con buena conectividad, para los estandares de Cuba. Tambien agradeceriamos cualquier fuente de financiamiento que nos puedan recomendar. Claro, recuerden que Cuba aun esta "fuera del mundo" para muchas transacciones, por eso nuestro puente sera Alex Gil. -- Yasmin S. Portales Machado -------------------------------------- Marxista, Feminista y Pastafari (no es una errata) Twitter: @nimlothdecuba Facebook http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=663817529 Mis blogs: https://yasminsportales.wordpress.com/ http://proyectoarcoiris.cubava.cu/ http://luchatuyucataino.cubava.cu/

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Open Data in Open Educational Resources
by Ernesto Priego 04 Nov '15

04 Nov '15

Dear all, I hope you are well. Writing with happy news of the publication of a new open access book. I was part of the committee who conducted open peer review (open as in "non-blind") of the open access book 'Open Data in Open Educational Resources: Case Studies of Emerging Practice' (Javiera Atenas and Leo Havemann, eds, Open Knowledge, 2015). The book's publication was announced officially today. I have archived my contribution to the prefaces from the committee here: https://thewinnower.com/papers/2910-reflection-on-open-data-as-open-educati… You will be able to donwload the book directly from the document above too. I don't think the book is 'perfect' (what book ever is?) and I personall wish we had been able to publish the book with a better scholarly digital infrastructure (XML, CrossRef, independent identifiers for each chapter, a github repository for the book and datasets etc.). However as I say in my preface the final document is the result of a gigantic collective effort to do the walk of open scholarship, in theory and practice, and its publication is an achievement against all odds and lack of resources. It is a happy occasion to see it available online, for free and under CC-BY. I hope this resource it is of interest to members of this list. Best regards, Ernesto *Dr Ernesto Priego*Lecturer in Library Science, #citylis <https://www.city.ac.uk/department-library-information-science/information-s…> City University London Editor-in-Chief, *The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship * <http://www.comicsgrid.com/> https://epriego.wordpress.com/ Subscribe to the Comics Grid Newsletter: http://eepurl.com/iOYAj

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Call for Applications: ADHO Webmaster
by Hannah L Jacobs 04 Nov '15

04 Nov '15

Please share widely: ADHO is seeking a Drupal expert interested in digital humanities and in exploring issues of multilingualism in an international organization's online presence. The ideal candidate would be someone who has experience maintaining Drupal websites and who could benefit from attendance at DH conferences. CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: ADHO Webmaster The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) seeks a webmaster whose primary responsibility will be maintaining and developing ADHO's content management systems. Tasks will include making necessary updates to and backups of ADHO's website; managing multilevel authorizations and potential security issues; making recommendations for improvements in the site's design and functionality; troubleshooting site issues and implementing fixes as needed; and working with the Communications and Multilingual Multicultural Committees to make the association's website a multilingual resource. The webmaster will work closely with ADHO's systems administrator and the Chairs of the Communications, Infrastructure, and Multilingual Multicultural Committees. A prospective webmaster will have a strong knowledge of and demonstrable experience in the development of both Drupal and WordPress websites. Please note that this is a volunteer position. However, the webmaster will receive as compensation expenses paid (up to €1.200) for attendance at the annual Digital Humanities conference. To apply, submit a CV/resume and a cover letter describing your interest in the position and your expertise in Drupal and WordPress development to Hannah Jacobs, chair of ADHO’s Communications Committee: HannahLJ[at]gmail.com <hannahlj(a)gmail.com?subject=ADHO%20Webmaster%20Application>. Announcement URL: http://adho.org/announcements/2015/call-applications-adho-webmaster

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Webinar: Aspirations/Realities/Accommodations: Charting the Path for Governance, Mission, Interpretation, and Stewardship in a Museum-Academic Library Merger, Nov. 9, 2015, 2:30– 3:30pm ET
by Taylor,Laurie Nancy Francesca 03 Nov '15

03 Nov '15

Please forgive duplication on this. Next week is the first of the US national dialogue webinars on museum and academic library mergers, including the activities for student engagement in public scholarship for museum and library collections, building and growing communities of practice, and many other shared areas of interest, concern, and opportunity for humanities research, teaching, and service. Best wishes, Laurie Aspirations/Realities/Accommodations: Charting the Path for Governance, Mission, Interpretation, and Stewardship in a Museum-Academic Library Merger (Webinar<http://ufsmathers.adobeconnect.com/libmuseum1/>) Monday November 9, 2015; 2:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m EST Webinar, no registration required, free to attend<http://ufsmathers.adobeconnect.com/libmuseum1/> Panelists: * Judith C. Russell, Dean of University Libraries, University of Florida – Co-PI, IMLS National Leadership Grant; * Joseph J. Wood, Chair, Executive Council Friends of the Panama Canal Museum (PCM) Collection at the University of Florida [former Board Chair, Panama Canal Museum]; * Katherine E. Egolf, Vice Chair, Executive Council Friends of the Panama Canal Museum (PCM) Collection at the University of Florida [former Board Chair, Panama Canal Museum]; * Sophia Krzys Acord, Associate Director Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere; Independent Evaluator – IMLS National Leadership Grant Moderator: * David R. Curry, MSLS, Managing Principal, davidrcurryAssociates, Philadelphia; Senior Consultant – IMLS National Leadership Grant In 1998, a group of volunteers created the Panama Canal Museum in Florida to gather and showcase personal artifacts related to a significant period of American history and cultural heritage. Years later, facing economic pressures and an aging member base, the museum faced a decision: close its doors or partner with an established institution to keep its collection intact. It chose the latter. In 2012 the Institute of Museum and Library Services awarded the University of Florida George A. Smathers Libraries a three-year National Leadership Grant to document the process of integrating the former Panama Canal Museum and its community and constituents into the Smathers Libraries. It was the first known example of the full closure of a small museum and the transfer of its collections and community to an academic library. The panelists will discuss the evolution of governance from museum board to executive council. Museum boards play a range of critical roles – from governance, fundraising, and strategic direction to hands-on activities that may even include collection processing, curation, and education. But academic libraries generally do not have “boards” in this sense, and function in a more nuanced world where university missions, scale, and faculty dictate procedures. So what happens to the museum board in a museum-academic library merger? What are the options, what was implemented, and what has been learned in the on-going Smathers Libraries – Panama Canal Museum merger process? The panelists will also discuss collection interpretation vs. scholarly neutrality. Museums that have a strong collection focus may evolve a specific and deeply-held narrative which informs interpretive and curatorial decision-making and action. What happens when such a narrative – embodied as a mandate in a merger partnership agreement – encounters an academic library staff that adhere to broader inclusivity and may not exclusively share that narrative? What happens when the former museum board/now executive council continues to advocate for this narrative? What solutions are possible and practical? For more background on the institutions and the project read the original IMLS grant proposal at http://ufdc.ufl.edu/AA00009715/00001 Who Should Participate? Museum, Library and Archives leaders and board members will benefit from a candid discussion of governance options and the interpretive challenges to date in this precedent-setting merger around governance. How to participate? The webinar will be freely broadcast through Adobe Connect. Please log on athttp://ufsmathers.adobeconnect.com/libmuseum1/ to participate. You can also continue the conversation on Twitter using hashtag #UFPCM<https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&q=%23UFPCM&src=typd>.

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Vol. 3, n. 1 - Materialidades da literatura / Materialities of Literature
by Antonio Rojas Castro 03 Nov '15

03 Nov '15

Hi there, I do not know when this issue was released but you might be interested in some of the articles: http://impactum-journals.uc.pt/index.php/matlit/issue/view/118/showToc Best, -- Antonio Rojas Castro <http://goog_1138293057> www.antoniorojascastro.com https://www.zotero.org/groups/humanidades_digitales <http://www.facebook.com/antoni.rojas>

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RV: The Facebook-ization of academic reputation? [ The Citation Culture ]
by igalina 30 Oct '15

30 Oct '15

I found this post interesting and contains food for thought, especially as Digital Humanists. Best Isabel ---------- Dra. Isabel Galina Russell Instituto de Investigaciones Bibliográficas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) igalina(a)unam.mx @igalina ________________________________ De: SCIELO MEXICO <scielo(a)dgb.unam.mx> Enviado: miércoles, 28 de octubre de 2015 01:06 p. m. Para: scielo(a)dgb.unam.mx Asunto: The Facebook-ization of academic reputation? [ The Citation Culture ] Publicado en: The Citation Culture https://citationculture.wordpress.com/2015/10/28/the-facebook-ization-of-ac… The Facebook-ization of academic reputation? October 28, 2015 — Sarah de Rijcke Guest blog post by Alex Rushforth<http://www.cwts.nl/People/AlexRushforth> The Facebook-ization of academic reputation? ResearchGate, Academia.edu and Everyday neoliberalism How do we explain the endurance of neoliberal modes of government following the 2008 financial crisis, which could surely have been its death-knoll? This is the question of a long, brilliant, book by historian of science and economics Philip Mirowski, called ‘Never let a serious crisis go to waste’<http://www.versobooks.com/books/1613-never-let-a-serious-crisis-go-to-waste>. Mirowski states that explanations of the crisis to date have accounted for only part of the answer. Part of the persistence of neo-liberal ideals of personhood and markets comes not just directly from ‘the government’ or particular policies, but is a result of very mundane practices and technologies which surround us in our everyday lives. I think this book can tell us a lot about new ways in which our lives as academics are increasingly being governed. Consider web platforms like ResearchGate and Academia.edu: following Mirowski, these academic professional networking sites might be understood as technologies of ‘everyday neoliberalism’. These websites share a number of resemblances with social networking sites like Facebook – which Mirowski takes as an exemplar par excellence of this phenomenon. He argues Facebook teaches its users to become ‘entrepreneurs of themselves’, by fragmenting the self and reducing it to something transient (ideals emanating from the writings of Hayek and Friedman), to be actively and promiscuously re-drawn out of various click-enabled associations (accumulated in indicators like numbers of ‘likes’, ‘friends’, comments) (Mirowski, 2013, 92). Let us briefly consider what kind of academic Academia.edu and ResearchGate encourages and teaches us to become. Part of the seductiveness of these technologies for academics, I suspect, is that we already compete within reputational work organisations (c.f. Whitley, 2000), where self-promotion has always been part-and-parcel of producing new knowledge. However, such platforms also intensify and reinforce dominant ideas and practices for evaluating research and researchers, which – with the help of Mirowski’s text – appear to be premised on neoliberal doctrines. Certainly the websites build on the idea that the individual (as author) is the central locus of knowledge production. Yet what is distinctly neoliberal perhaps is how the individual – through the architecture and design of the websites – experiences their field of knowledge production as a ‘marketplace of ideas’ (on the neo-liberal roots of this idea, see Mirowski, 2011). This is achieved through ‘dashboards’ that display a smorgasbord of numerical indicators. When you upload your work, the interface generates the Impact Factor of journals you have published in and various other algorithmically-generated scores (ResearchGate score anyone?). There are also social networking elements like ‘contacts’, enabling you to follow and be followed by other users of the platform (your ‘peers’). This in turn produces a count of how well ‘networked’ you are. In short, checking one’s scores, contacts, downloads, views, and so on is supposed to give an impression of an individual user’s market standing, especially as one can compare these with scores of other users. Regular email notifications provide reminders to continue internalizing these demands and to report back regularly to the system. These scores and notices are not final judgments but a record of accomplishments so far, motivating the user to carry on with the determination to do better. Given the aura of ‘objectivity’ and ‘market knows best’ mantra these indicators present to us, any ‘failings’ are the responsibility of the individual. Felt anger is to be turned back inward on the self, rather than outwards on the social practices and ideas through which such ‘truths’ are constituted. A marketplace of ideas indeed. Like Facebook, what these academic professional networking sites do seems largely unremarkable and uncontroversial, forming part of background infrastructures which simply nestle into our everyday research practices. One of their fascinating features is to promulgate a mode of power that is not directed to us ‘from above’ – no manager or formal audit exercise is coercing researchers into signing-up. We are able to join and leave of our own volition (many academics don’t even have accounts). Yet these websites should be understood as component parts of a wider ‘assemblage’ of metrics and evaluation techniques with which academics currently juggle, which in turn generate certain kinds of tyrannies (see Burrows, 2012). Mirowski’s book provides a compelling set of provocations for digital scholars, sociologists of science, science studies, higher education scholars and others to work with. Many studies have been produced documenting reforms to the university which have bared various hallmarks of neoliberal political philosophical doctrines (think audits, university rankings, temporary labour contracts, competitive funding schemes and the like). Yet these latter techniques may only be the tip of the iceberg: Mirowski has given us cause to think more imaginatively about how ‘everyday’ or ‘folk’ neoliberal ideas and practices become embedded in our academic lives through quite mundane infrastructures, the effects of which we have barely begun to recognise, let alone understand. References Burrows, R. 2012. Living with the h-index? Metric assemblages in the contemporary academy. Sociological Review, 60, 355-372. Mirowski, P. 2011. Science-mart : privatizing American science, Cambridge, Mass. ; London, Harvard University Press. Mirowski, P. 2013. Never let a serious crisis go to waste : how neoliberalism survived the financial meltdown, New York, Verso. Whitley, R. 2000. The intellectual and social organization of the sciences, Oxford England ; New York, Oxford University Press.

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Arts and Humanities top 100
by Ernesto Priego 22 Oct '15

22 Oct '15

Dear all, I hope you are all well. Today saw the publication of the *Times Higher Education* World University Rankings “Subject Ranking 2015-2016: Arts and humanities top 100 in partnership with Elsevier”. I took some time to look at the date to write a blog post, which I share with you here: https://epriego.wordpress.com/2015/10/21/mapping-the-and-elseviers-2015-201… Happy International Open Access Week! Best regards, Ernesto *Dr Ernesto Priego*Lecturer in Library Science, #citylis <https://www.city.ac.uk/department-library-information-science/information-s…> City University London Editor-in-Chief, *The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship * <http://www.comicsgrid.com/> https://epriego.wordpress.com/ Subscribe to the Comics Grid Newsletter: http://eepurl.com/iOYAj

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MITACS fellowships for Canadian students to work in France, India, or Tunisia
by Daniel O'Donnell 20 Oct '15

20 Oct '15

Mitacs also announced sponsorships for Canadian students to work on projects in France, India, or Tunisia. I don't know the rules for faculty in those countries interested in benefiting from these programmes, but here's the information I have: *For students in Canada to do research abroad:* · Globalink Research Award – MHRD India <https://www.mitacs.ca/en/programs/globalink/globalink-research-award-mhrd-i…> o Open to senior undergraduate and graduate students o 12-week projects at one of seven Indian Institutes of Technology o $5,000 award and a local grant equivalent to $5,000 · Globalink Research Award – Campus France <https://www.mitacs.ca/en/programs/globalink/globalink-research-award-campus…> o Open to senior undergraduates and graduate students o 12- to 24-week projects at accredited universities in France o $10,000 award · Globalink Research Award – Inria <https://www.mitacs.ca/en/programs/globalink/globalink-research-award-inria?…> o Open to graduate students o 12- to 24-week projects at an Inria Research Centre in France o $5,000 award and a monthly stipend · Globalink Research Award – MHESR Tunisia <https://www.mitacs.ca/en/programs/globalink/globalink-research-award-mhesr-…> o Open to senior undergraduates and graduate students o 12- to 24-week projects at accredited universities in Tunisia o $7,000 award

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