CULTURAL RESOURCES IN THE ELECTRONIC ERA

Conference sessions will be held in the Malka Brender Hall of Justice, Buchmann Faculty of Law, Trubowicz Building

The increasing role of computers and information technology in the use of cultural resources is creating new challenges for the liberal arts. Although traditionally Humanists have eschewed technology in their research and teaching, a tidal wave of digitization is transforming the texts, images, artifacts and manuscripts that are the basic materials of humanistic scholarship. Libraries, archives, museums and galleries can now be accessed electronically, and their most valuable holdings are being reproduced digitally. Ease of access, dissemination, and preservation are major advantages of the electronic format. The possibility of computer-assisted analysis and information retrieval from huge textual corpora are only possible for resources preserved or converted into an electronic format.

The purpose of this Conference is to place these developments into perspective, and to raise critical questions concerning the purposes, means and impact of this "revolution". The speakers, from the major Humanities computing centers and digitizing projects in Europe and the USA, will examine the impact of the information revolution and the new technology on research and teaching of our cultural resources.

The Conference is organized jointly by the Faculty of the Humanities Computing Initiative, Tel Aviv University, and the Office for Humanities Communication, Oxford University.

During the Conference, there will be a display of Israeli software and digitizationprojects that are relevant to Humanities research (in lobby of Carter building, adjacent to the Diaspora Museum)

Schedule:

MONDAY 5 JUNE
SESSION 1: 9.00-11.00 THEMES AND ISSUES

	Welcome, Professor Anita Shapira, Dean

	Introduction: Themes and Issues
	Dr Ronald W. Zweig, Tel Aviv University

	Humanities Computing After 20 Years: the Perspective of a Computer 
	Scientist
	Professor Ya'akov Choueka, Bar-Ilan University

	Looking and Knowing: Delivering Virtual Scholarship
	Professor Kathryn Sutherland, Nottingham University, UK

	Humanities Computing: What is It Exactly? 
	Dr Allen Renear, Brown University, USA
	
COFFEE	11.00-11.30

SESSION 2: 11.30-13.00 HUMANITIES COMPUTING CENTRES 

	Advanced Scholarly Computing in the Humanities: the University of 
	Virginia Approach
	Professor John Unsworth, University of Virginia

	The Electronic Scroll: Japanese Literature in a Digital Age
	Professor Andrew Armour, Keio University, Japan

	Projects and Prospects: the Oxford Centre for Humanities Computing
	Dr Marilyn Deegan, Oxford University, UK
	
LUNCH	13.00-14.30 

SESSION 3: 14.30-16.00 ARCHIVES

	Emerging Paradigms for Electronic Archives, the Future of the 
	Archiving Profession and Historical Research,
	Dr. Edward Higgs, Oxford University, UK

	Retrospective Digitizing of Existing Archives: the Ben-Gurion 
            Archives Project, 
	Dr Tuvia Friling, Ben-Gurion University

	Electronic Records in Israeli Archives
	Mrs Edna Mokady, Israel State Archives

	An Underground in Modern Garb: New Technology in the Hagana Archives
	Dr. Irit Keynan, Hagana Archives
	
RECEPTION AND DISPLAYS: 16:30 

	Display of Humanities Computing Projects and Israeli software products.
	(in lobby of the Carter Building, next to Diaspora Museum)


TUESDAY 6 JUNE 1995

SESSION 4: 9.00-10.30 SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING
	
	The Publication of Large Corpora
	Sir Charles Chadwyck-Healey, Chadwyck-Healey Ltd, UK

	University Presses and Electronic Publishing, 
	Dr Ruth Glynn, Oxford University Press, UK

	Initiatives for Access: the Preservation and Distribution of 
	Cultural Resources
	Michael Alexander, The British Library, UK
	
COFFEE 10.30-11.00

SESSION 5: 11:00-12:30 ARTIFACTS AND MUSEUMS

	Computerizing Artifacts
	Dr Seamus Ross, The British Academy, UK

	Virtual Museums: The Foundation of the Hellenic World Project, 
	Dr Costis Dallas, Director, Foundation of the Hellenic World, Athens 

	Reclaiming Cyberspace for Scholarship: The Role of an Arts 
             and Humanities Data Service
	Lou Burnard, Oxford University, UK

	Digitizing Large Textual Corpora
	Dr Yannick Maignien, Bibliotheque National de France

	Computerization and Preservation of the Jewish Artistic Heritage
	Prof. Bezalel Narkiss, Hebrew University, Jerusalem

LUNCH 12.30-14.00

SESSION 6: 14:00-14:45 HUMANITIES COMPUTING AND THE UNIVERSITY

	Teaching the Disciplines
	Dr Peter Denley, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of 
              London, UK

	New Partnerships for Humanities Computing 
	Dr Deian Hopkin, London Guildhall University
	
PANEL: 14:45-16:00   THE FUTURE OF HUMANITIES COMPUTING

	Deegan, Denley, Hopkins, Renear, Sutherland, Unsworth, Zweig

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