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The Association for Literary and Lingustic Computing The Association for Computers and the Humanities Society for Digital Humanities — Société pour l’étude des médias interactifs Digital Humanities 2008 The 20th Joint International Conference of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing, and the Association for Computers and the Humanities and The 1st Joint International Conference of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing, the Association for Computers and the Humanities, and the Society for Digital Humanities — Société pour l’étude des médias interactifs University of Oulu, Finland 24 – 29 June, 2008 Conference Abstracts International Programme Committee • Espen Ore, National Library of Norway, Chair • Jean Anderson, University of Glasgow, UK • John Nerbonne, University of Groningen, The Netherlands • Stephen Ramsay, University of Nebraska, USA • Thomas Rommel, International Univ. Bremen, Germany • Susan Schreibman, University of Maryland, USA • Paul Spence, King’s College London, UK • Melissa Terras, University College London, UK • Claire Warwick, University College London, UK, Vice Chair Local organizers • Lisa Lena Opas-Hänninen, English Philology • Riikka Mikkola, English Philology • Mikko Jokelainen, English Philology • Ilkka Juuso, Electrical and Information Engineering • Toni Saranpää, English Philology • Tapio Seppänen, Electrical and Information Engineering • Raili Saarela, Congress Services Edited by • Lisa Lena Opas-Hänninen • Mikko Jokelainen • Ilkka Juuso • Tapio Seppänen ISBN: 978-951-42-8838-8 Published by English Philology University of Oulu Cover design: Ilkka Juuso, University of Oulu © 2008 University of Oulu and the authors. _____________________________________________________________________________Digital Humanities 2008 Introduction On behalf of the local organizers I am delighted to welcome you to the 25th Joint International Conference of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC) and the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) at the University of Oulu. This is a very special year because this is also the 1st Joint International Conference of the ALLC, ACH and the Society for Digital Humanities – Société pour l’étude des medias interactifs, as this year the SDH-SEMI joined the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO), and I wish to extend a special welcome to them. With over 16 000 students and 3000 staff members, the University of Oulu is one of the largest universities in Finland. Linnanmaa, the campus area where the conference is being held, not only houses the University, but also Technopolis, the largest technology centre in Finland, and VTT, the State Technical Research Centre. We hope that this strong infl uence of technology and the opportunities it affords for multidisciplinary research will be of particular interest to the conference delegates. Many people have contributed to putting together the conference programme. I wish to thank the International Programme Committee and particularly its Chair, Espen Ore, for all the hard work that they have put into making this conference a varied and interesting one. I also wish to thank John Unsworth and Ray Siemens, who passed on their experiences of the 2007 conference and helped us set up the conference management site. I wish to thank Riikka Mikkola, Mikko Jokelainen, Ilkka Juuso and Toni Saranpää, who have all contributed to making this conference happen. I also thank Tapio Seppänen of the Engineering Faculty for all his help and support. I hope you will fi nd the conference stimulating and useful and that you enjoy meeting the fellow humanities computing scholars from all over the world. If this is your fi rst time in northern Finland, I hope you like it and that it entices you to come and visit us again. Tervetuloa! — Welcome! Lisa Lena Opas-Hänninen Local Organizer _____________________________________________________________________________ III _____________________________________________________________________________Digital Humanities 2008 _____________________________________________________________________________ IV _____________________________________________________________________________Digital Humanities 2008 A Richness of Research and Knowledge One of the bad things one may experience in the Programme Committee for a conference under the ADHO umbrella, is that there are more good submissions than there is room for. As we read through the submissions for this year’s conference, it became clear that Humanities Computing or Digital Humanities as a fi eld is growing up. The fi eld is also growing, period. Ten years ago I was also Chair of the Programme Committee for the ALLC/ACH conference in Debrecen, Hungary. I am happy that there are now so many new names among the submittors. And there were many very good submissions for papers, panel and paper sessions and posters. The hosting institution, the University of Oulu, could luckily supply the rooms needed if we were to run up to four parallel sessions. With four parallel sessions it may seem that there is a larger possibility for a confl ict of interests: one might simultaneously wish to attend two presentations - or more. But the only way to remove this problem would be to have a single strand conference with a duration of a couple of weeks. So since this, as usual, is a multiple strand conference, I hope the Book of Abstracts may be used as a guide for which presentations to listen to and, alternatively, which authors one might seek out for an informal talk during one of the breaks. I would like to thank all the members of the PC, and especially the Vice Chair, Claire Warwick, for all their work, which has made the work on the Programme much easier than it could have been. I would also like to thank both Sara Schmidt at the University of Illinois and the local administration group at the University of Oulu who have done a tremendous amount of work in preparing for the conference programme. And last but defi nitely least, my thanks go to the Local Organizer, Lisa Lena Opas-Hänninen, who has been a great aid in the programme work and who has done everything I can imagine to help us get the rooms, people and more sorted out. But there are also those without whom there would be no conference. First, all of you who have prepared submissions, and then all of you who are attending this conference: thank you very much, and welcome to Oulu! Espen S. Ore Chair, International Programme Committee _____________________________________________________________________________ V _____________________________________________________________________________Digital Humanities 2008 _____________________________________________________________________________ VI _____________________________________________________________________________Digital Humanities 2008 Table of Contents Introduction .................................................................................................................................III Lisa Lena Opas-Hänninen A Richness of Research and Knowledge .....................................................................................V Espen S. Ore Panels Service Oriented Computing in the Humanities 3 (SOCH3) ................................................ 1 John Bradley, Elpiniki Fragkouli, Allen Renear, Monica Schraefel, Tapio Seppänen The Homer Multitext Project ..................................................................................................... 5 Casey Dué, Mary Ebbott, A. Ross Scaife, W. Brent Seales, Christopher Blackwell, Neel Smith, Dorothy Carr Porter, Ryan Baumann Defi ning an International Humanities Portal ..........................................................................12 Neil Fraistat, Domenico Fiormonte, Ian Johnson, Jan Christoph Meister, John Unsworth Beyond Search: Literary Studies and the Digital Library ...................................................... 13 Matthew Jockers, Glen Worthey, Joe Shapiro, Sarah Allison Designing, Coding, and Playing with Fire: Innovations in Interdisciplinary Research Project Management ...........................................16 Stephen Ramsay, Stéfan Sinclair, John Unsworth, Milena Radzikowska, Stan Ruecker Aspects of Sustainability in Digital Humanities ...................................................................... 21 Georg Rehm, Andreas Witt, Øyvind Eide, Christian-Emil Ore, Jon Holmen, Allen H. Renear, Richard Urban, Karen Wickett, Carole L. Palmer, David Dubin, Erhard Hinrichs, Marga Reis ALLC SESSION: e-Science: New collaborations between information technology and the humanities ........................ 29 David Robey, Stuart Dunn, Laszlo Hunyadi, Dino Buzzetti Understanding TEI(s): A Presentation and Discussion Session ............................................. 30 Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens, Peter Boot, Arianna Ciula, James Cummings, Kurt Gärtner, Martin Holmes, John Walsh DH2008: ADHO Session ‘Digital resources in humanities research: Evidence of value (2)’ ................................................................................................................. 31 Harold Short, David Hoover, Lorna Hughes, David Robey, John Unsworth The Building Blocks of the New Electronic Book ...................................................................32 Ray Siemens, Claire Warwick, Kirsten C. Uszkalo, Stan Ruecker SDH/SEMI panel: Text Analysis Developers’ Alliance (TADA) and T-REX ............................ 34 Stéfan Sinclair, Ray Siemens, Matt Jockers, Susan Schreibman, Patrick Juola, David Hoover,