HART Spring Forum

The Humanities and Arts Research Technologies (HART) Steering Committee would like to invite you and your colleagues to the HART Spring Forum.  This half-day event will be held on Friday, April 24, from 9 AM – 1 PM, in 110 South Hall. The Forum has the following goals:

• Demonstrate successful technologies for research or teaching.
• Highlight interdisciplinary projects on campus.
• Offer individual consultation with technology experts.
• Help faculty and technologists team up.
• Provide information about tech programs for the arts, humanities and social sciences.

The preliminary agenda is listed below; it is also attached as pdf file . As you look through the agenda, you will note that there is opportunity for anyone to host an information table about a project on which s/he are currently working.  Feel free to use this opportunity to share your work, get input from your colleagues, and/or seek collaboration.  Further, throughout the forum, an ad hoc discussion board will be set up for researchers seeking discussion on a given topic, seeking collaboration on a project, seeking technology support for a given project, or seeking a project toward which to apply their technology. Feedback requested To help us make the the proper food and facility arrangements, please contact us at hart_spring_forum@lists.berkeley.edu

• If you plan on attending some or all of the forum; or
• If you wish to host an information table.

Humanities & Arts Reseach and Technologies (HART) Program The HART Program is a campus initiative designed to advance research and teaching in the arts, humanities, and interpretive social sciences through technology and campus collaboration.
HART Steering Committee Janet Broughton, Dean of Arts and Humanities Susan Schweik, Associate Dean, Arts and Humanities Anthony Cascardi, Director of Townsend Center Charles Faulhaber, Director of Bancroft Library Stuart Russell, Chair of Computer Science AnnaLee Saxenian, Dean of the School of Information David Greenbaum, Director of IST-Data Services. ———————————- Preliminary Agenda

9:00 Breakfast and Browsing the Tables and Displays

• Continental breakfast
• Information tables and poster displays will be set up to foster discussion and answer questions in two major categories:
  • General technologies that can be used in research and/or teaching;
  • Faculty projects seeking support, feedback, and/or potential collaboration.

Here is a list of information tables to date:

General Information Tables

• 1. Media Vault Program (http://mediavault.wordpress.com/)
  2. Zotero (http://www.zotero.org/)
  3. Wikis
  4. Blogs
  5. Library Services

Projects (1-6 are HART-funded projects)

1. 1. Berkeley Prosopography Services (http://inews.berkeley.edu/articles/Spring2009/BPS)
   2. Townsend Humanities Labs
   3. CNMAT Collaborative Technology for Multidisciplinary Research and Training (http://cnmat.berkeley.edu/)
   4. Full-Spectrum Photography and Image Processing
   5. Portable Durable Tele-Immersion Technology for Teaching, Artistic Global Networking, and Experiments in Creativity and Collaboration
   6. Developing spatial analysis tools for the collaborative study of linguistic phenomena
   7. TBD
   8. TBD
   9. TBD
   10. TBD

10:00 Presentations

• 10:00 Introduction
• 10:20 Presentations
  • Successful uses of blogs
  • Successful uses of wikis
  • Media Vault Program
  • Library Services
  • Zotero
  • Berkeley Prosopography Services
  • Townsend Labs

12:00 Ad hoc discussions at information tables and poster displays We will provide a discussion board to enable ad-hoc discussions. There will be at least three categories:

• I am looking for help, input, technology for my specific project;
• I am looking to apply my technology to a project; and
• I want to talk about a specific idea.