Category Archive: Representing Knowledge Conference

Jul 20

List of Presenters for Representing Knowledge conference


Representing Knowledge in the Digital Humanities (Saturday, September 24, 2011)
Conference Schedule


Paper Presentations

Aist, Gregory. Assistant Professor, Communication Studies Program, Iowa State University

Baym, Nancy. Associate Professor, Communication Studies, University of Kansas

Birnbaum, David. Professor and Chair, Dept. of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Pittsburgh

Buchsbaum, Julianne. Humanities Librarian, University of Kansas

Clement, Tanya. Assistant Professor, School of Information, University of Texas

Egbert, Stephen. Department of Geography, University of Kansas

Green, Harriett. English and Digital Humanities Librarian, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Hill, DaMaris. Doctoral Student, English-Creative Writing Program, University of Kansas

Page, Michael. Geospatial Coordinator, Robert W. Woodruff Library, Emory University

Pasin, Michele. Research Associate, Kings College, London

Roekard, Karen. Independent Scholar

Shaw, Ryan. Assistant Professor, School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Sperberg-McQueen, Michael. Black Mesa Technologies (keynote presentation)

Stinson, Philip. Assistant Professor, Department of Classics, University of Kansas

Varner, Stewart. Digital Scholarship Coordinator, Robert W. Woodruff Library, Emory University

Welzenbach, Rebecca. Text Creation Partnership Project Outreach Librarian, MPublishing, University of Michigan Library

Poster Sessions

Frej, Mohamed. Student, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, South Korea

Garrison, Wade. Assistant Librarian, Center for Digital Scholarship, University of Kansas

Hanrath, Scott. Web Services Manager, University of Kansas Libraries

Ireton, Daniel. Assistant Professor/Undergraduate and Community Services Librarian, Kansas State University

Monaco, Greg. Director for Research and Cyberinfrastructure Initiatives, Great Plains Network

Palmer, Scott. Professor of History, Western Illinois University

Perkins, Jonathan. Director, Ermal Garinger Academic Resource Center, University of Kansas

Schulte, Becky. University Archivist, University of Kansas

Thiel, Sarah. Imaging Librarian, University of Kansas Libraries

Urton, Ellen. Associate Professor/Visual Literacy Librarian, Kansas State University

Ward, Doug. Associate professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communications, University of Kansas

Williams, Sheryl. Curator of Collections, Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas

Jul 20

Exploring Issues at the Intersection of Humanities and Computing with LADL


Representing Knowledge in the Digital Humanities (Saturday, September 24, 2011)
Conference Schedule


Aist, Gregory. Assistant Professor, Communication Studies Program, Iowa State University (KR conference presentation)

Title: Exploring Issues at the Intersection of Humanities and Computing with LADL.

Abstract: This presentation focuses on a key aspect of intellectual engagement in the humanities: encountering, examining, and learning from multiple texts, both traditional written texts and multimedia. LADL, the Learning Activity Description Language, provides a way to consistently describe both the information structure and the interaction structure of an interactive experience, and allows for automatically constructing a single interactive Web page that allows for viewing and comparing of multiple source documents together with online tools and custom–‐written components as well. For example, an interactive exploration of historical and cultural material from Roman Britain that involves the examination of several different online artifacts –‐ such as a virtual tour of part of Hadrian’s Wall (1), an online edition of writing tables from a Roman fort in northern England (2), and a classical biography of Hadrian (3) –‐ might be designed and built in LADL. Written reflections that a reader produces when encountering a text are carried forward in the experience, through Javascript code that LADL produces automatically from the interaction structure. LADL is designed to support a variety of scholarly and pedagogical purposes in the humanities.

This presentation focuses on an area where issues in the humanities such as ethics and culture come in contact with information and computing technologies: the use of the computational support provided by LADL and the theoretical framework of culturally relevant pedagogy to design exercises that explore how ethical and cultural issues of interest to girls of color – young women of Black, Hispanic, or Native origin – relate to computer science topics. The fourteen exercises present a sample of topics from each of fourteen areas identified in a recent curriculum outline by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the IEEE Computer Society, two leading computing societies. The issues linked to the topics by the exercises include ethical issues such as racial profiling, language issues such as representing names with accent marks in computer systems, issues of place and space such as challenges to Internet access in poor or rural areas, and cultural issues such as what kinds of relationships between simulated characters are supported by computer games. The exercises include custom–‐written explanations of concepts as well as the examination of video and written texts from online sources that are germane to the matter at hand.

In terms of knowledge representation and the humanities, LADL addresses several of the issues raised by the workshop. First, LADL is designed to support scholarly integrity (and respect of copyright) by providing views of online documents through inline frames and linked windows; LADL neither captures nor rehosts content. Second, the underlying LADL elements that display of existing online texts also allow for (simple) annotation of their sources and a minimal form of digital curation to keep links alive and sources consistent. Finally, activities written in the LADL language are themselves a form of knowledge representation in that they describe both the information structure of a document – how the parts are logically related – and the interaction structure – ways in which the reader may experience the document.

1 Housesteads Forts, www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/romans/launch_vt_housesteads.shtml

2 Vindolanda Tablets Online, vindolanda.csad.ox.ac.uk/

3 Life of Hadrian, penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Historia_Augusta/Hadrian/1.html

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