Lecture Series

New Directions in Humanities Research, 2004-2005

Creative Commons

4:00 p.m. Wednesday October 20 - Levinthal Hall

Glenn Brown Director, Creative Commons
Glenn Otis Brown has been Executive Director of Creative Commons since Summer 2002. Before that, he served as Assistant Director. Glenn is also a lecturer at Stanford Law School, where he teaches a class on Creative Commons and free and open-source software licensing with Lawrence Lessig.
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Text Encoding for the Brown Women Writers Project

4:00 p.m. Wednesday November 3 - Levinthal Hall

Julia Flanders, Brown University
Julia is the chair of the TEI Consortium, vice-president of the Association for Computers and the Humanities, director of the Women Writers Project at Brown University, and a consultant at Brown's Scholarly Technology Group, where her work focuses on text encoding, electronic editing and publishing, and SGML/XML.
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Text Analysis Tools

4:00 p.m. Monday November 15 - Levinthal Hall

Stefan Sinclair, University of Alberta
is Assistant Professor in the department of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies and co director of the M.A. in Humanities Computing at U Alberta. He has published articles in a variety of fields including computer assisted text analysis, French literary criticism, educational technologies, literary databases and the humanities computing curriculum; he has also developed software such as HyperPo: Text Analysis and Exploration Tools and SatorBase.
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Browser Tools for Digital Collections

4:00 p.m. Wednesday December 1 - Levinthal Hall

David Rumsey
David Rumsey is President of Cartography Associates, a digital publishing company based in San Francisco, and is a director of Luna Imaging, a provider of enterprise software for online image collections. His collection, of North and South American historical maps and related cartographic materials is one of the largest private map collections in the United States. In 1995, Rumsey began the task of making his collection public by building the online David Rumsey Historical Map Collection (www.davidrumsey.com).
Rumsey has lectured widely regarding his online library work and has contributed to several publications on cartography and the advent of GIS. ESRI Press has just published his new book, Cartographica Extraordinaire.
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