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Computing and the Humanities

Introduction

CNI participates with the National Academies, the American Council of Learned Societies, and NINCH in a Steering Committee for Computer Science and the Humanities that promotes the application of the information sciences to the understanding of the human record. CNI seeks to help the community structurea new agenda for engaging the arts and humanities, given the restructuring of NINCH and the wind-down of CIMI in 2003. We will work with our partners to advance the inquiry into the potential nature and role of cyberinfrastructure to support the humanities as well as the sciences.

Activities

• CNI co-sponsored the invitational workshop, Transforming Disciplines: Computer Science and the Humanities, January 17-18, 2003, and Clifford Lynch delivered a plenary presentation.
  
• CNI co-sponsored the development of a guide to the capture and management of digital performance objects, participating in conference calls and assisting in the development of a draft of the guide with Internet2. (link to come)

Publications and Presentations

• Mark Kornbluh, Clifford Lynch, John Unsworth, Donald Waters, "Shaping a Cyberinfrastructure to Support the Humanities," Closing Plenary, CNI Fall 2003 Task Force Meeting. Portland, Oregon, December 8-9, 2003.
• Elli Mylonas and Daniel Pitti, "Applying Technology to Humanities Resources and Communication: The Cases of IATH and STG," CNI Fall 2003 Task Force Meeting. Portland, Oregon, December 8-9, 2003.
• Clifford Lynch, "Scholarly Communication in the Digital World, " presented at Texas A & M University's Glasscock Center, March 27, 2003.