This focused event is designed to push both hypertexts and hypertext tools to new levels. Writers and system designers will meet in an intense, round-the-clock workshop. An ambitious international MOO will conclude the workshop, with satellite conferences in Norway and Australia. Participation is by invitation (and places are scarce); for information, contact Deena Larsen.

computers and creativity
the human-machine interface
dead media and science fiction
'interactivity' and cultural practices
the aesthetics and politics of new media practices
implications of the 'new media age' for cultural institutions
distribution, exhibition and the audience
preservation and access
copyright, ownership and economic models

For information, email CREATIVITY@luton.ac.uk

The first two days focus on using Help technology and tools for online documentation. Participants will learn the latest techniques and methods from some of the experienced team of speakers, and receive the latest information about WinHelp, HTML Help, NetHelp, JavaHelp, and Oracle Help. The third and last day is designed for documentation professionals involved in HTML development. Full details of the Conference can be found at: http://www.hyperwrite.com.au/conference

The premier hypertext conference. Conference home page

The Seventh International Workshop on Hypertext Functionality (HTF 7) will focus on organizational memory systems and hypertext functionality. The meeting will be held on December 12-13, 1998 at the University of Helsinki preceding ICIS '98. This one-and-half- day event provides a forum for discussing research contributions addressing the problems of supporting hypertext functionality in organizational memory systems. The workshop encourages a cross- disciplinary approach to questions at hand. The aim is to have representatives from all relevant research and development areas, and to promote discussion on topics of mutual interest. The workshop is expected to be discussion-oriented, though some paper presentations and plenaries may be organized. For the full CFP, see http://www.tol.oulu.fi/~hok/htf7/cfp.htm

"A multi-disciplinary forum for the exchange of information on the development, applications, and research on all topics related to the Web. This encompasses the use, applications and societal and legal aspects of the Internet in its broadest sense." Organized by AACE-Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education. Information.

The ghost of halloween's yet to come, and the collision of book and screen, a two day symposium with Robert Coover, Michael Joyce, Jay David Bolter, Mark Bernstein, Stephanine Strickland, Mark Amerika, and a host of leading hypertext writers. Information

The Center for Renaissance and Baroque Studies and the Committee for Creative Humanities Applications in the New Technologies (CHANT) at the University of Maryland, in conjunction with the statewide Celebration of the Arts, is issuing a call for contributions to an interdisciplinary conference for an audience of university faculty and students, K-12 faculty and administrators, artists, museum curators, archivists, and the interested public.

Proposal Deadline: December 1, 1997
email: crbs@umail.umd.edu
web: http://www.inform.umd.edu/CRBS

A gathering of multimedia producers, artists, visionaries, and writers dedicated to the discovery of the future of storytelling. Speakers include Mark Bernstein, Abbe Don, Justin Hall, Brenda Laurel, and many others. Information

The internationally recognised forum for all those involved in and benefiting from the digitisation of our common cultural heritage: the scholar producing or using an electronic edition; the teacher using digital media in the seminar room; the publisher finding ways to reach new markets; the librarian, curator, art historian, or archivist wishing to improve both access to and conservation of the digital information that characterises contemporary culture and scholarship.

Email enquiries. Information: http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/HATII/DRH98/

Important dates:
Submission deadline: March 15th, 1998
Notice of acceptance: April 15th, 1998

Diverse cultural attitudes towards technology and communication also issue in culturally distinctive ways of implementing and using CMC (Computer-Mediated Communication) technologies. Some of these culturally-grounded differences in implementation and use frustrate, rather than facilitate, hopes for greater global communication. How do diverse cultural attitudes shape the implementation and use of CMC technologies?

These conferences focus on web design and usability. Presentations can take a variety of approaches, including reports on empirical work, discussions of design and evaluation methods, or reflections on what we have learned about designing for the web.

The featured topic for this conference is "Our Global Community." We will have a panel on "Internationalization of the Web: How Do We Design for the Globe?" that will discuss issues such as formats, languages, cultures, content, the effect of English on the web, and the U.S. dominance of the global web.

This is the premier hypertext research conference, indispensable, accessible, and always fascinating. Attended annually by a fascinating mixture of scientists, engineers, and literary people, this conference always features a very selective and thoughtful program.

Conference information is available at the Hypertext '98 web site with or its European mirror.

Held immediately following Hypertext '98, Digital Libraries '98 will provide a common setting for researchers, practicing professionals and students to share experiences and to present results about system construction, human-computer interaction, hypertext, information retrieval, digital librarianship, digital identifiers and many other topics related to the field of digital libraries.

In addition to academic specialists in areas such as Art Theory and History, Cultural/Media Studies, Sociology, Philosophy, Psychology, and Literature, we would like to invite artists, technologists, art critics, art teachers as well as interested members of the public to take part in this conference. Indeed, one of our main aims is to create discussion among these different groups about art and technology in the age of information.

email: mna13@keele.ac.uk
www: http://www.keele.ac.uk/depts/stt/cstt2/tg/

VW'98 hopes to extend the scientific community by encouraging contributions from people involved in technical, philosophical and art related to the conception, design or applications of virtual worlds.

World conference on educational multimedia and hypermedia. Conference home page.

Invited speakers include Michael Joyce on: "Othermindedness: Networked Learning and Post-Hypertextuality", Mark Poster (UC-Irvine) on: "Digital and Analogue Authors, or, What's the Matter with the Internet?", and N. Katherine Hayles. Information.

Sponsored by the Society for Technical Communication, this conference is huge and the program vast. Quality of papers can be inconsistent, but an abundance of case studies and empirical research on hypertext can usually be found. More information.

The journal Convergence is seeking research papers about journalism and new media technologies. Submit original research on topics related to the effects of changes in information delivery systems on news or on news workers, organisations and audiences. In addition, contributions to a debates section, features reports, and reviews of books or other materials on the same range of topics also are sought.

The deadline for research manuscripts is 30 April, 1998.
email: Convergence@luton.ac.uk
http://www.luton.ac.uk/Convergence

CHI 98: ACM Conference on Computer-Human Interaction

Issues related to the incorporation of advanced hypertext functionality into web-based applications. More information.

Speakers will include Cathy Marshall, Tim Berners-Lee, and Paul Saffo. Conference information.

1) Keynote addresses on The Web Accessibility Intiative ( Daniel Dardailler), Two Decades of Typographic Research at URW: a Retrospective (Peter Karow), Intelligent Paper (Marc Dymetman and Max Copperman) and Time-sensitive Publishing of Financial Analysis Reports (Francois Chahuneau) . information via the Web: http://www.irisa.fr/ep98/ or via e-mail: ep98@irisa.fr.

The Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR), Cologne, and GMD - German National Research Center for Information Technology, Sankt Augustin, will present the Cyberstar in 1998 for the second time. Shared Visions - Cyberstar 98 supports cooperation between artists, designers, media and computer experts. Innovative concepts for interactive scenarios in the categories television, internet and stage will be awarded. Entries presenting for example virtual communities, virtual classrooms or avatar performance worlds shall reflect and develop "Shared Visions".

An international jury will meet in May 1998 and will decide upon monetary awards a total of DM 35.000. Furthermore, the main price will include a work term of several month at GMD to develop the submitted concept. For information see http://www.wdr.de/cyberstar or email: cyberstar@wdr.de .

Home page. Hypertext panels include: "Hypertext and the Internet: An Introduction" with hypertext authors Ed Falco (A Dream With Demons), Robert Kendall (A Life Set for Two), and Stephanie Strickland (True North; forthcoming from Eastgate); "Where I'm Calling From: Online Creative Writing Courses" will include hypertext writers Robert Kendall and Robert Arellano ; "Beyond the Poetry Wars: Are Formal, Free, Confessional, Political, Language, & Computer Poetry Really Incompatible?" with Charles O. Hartman.

With content multiplying at an exponential rate, classification intelligence, especially subject classification, must be applied to voluminous search results assembled from disparate sources, in order to organize collections of data for users. Metadata, which is data about data, is a way to translate a concept or relationship within one architecture and subject organization, into the usage and context of a second, often unrelated, system or collection.

Is metadata the solution to the chaos of the World Wide Web and large data repositories? Meta-tags, akin to MARC field tags, carry additional information, whether inserted in the HTML coding of a Web page, or used to drive relationships within a data warehouse. Will metadata change the way librarians and users find, catalog, and archive electronic information? Who is creating standards, and who can we influence in the process? How do electronic publishers use metadata? Will knowing the "innards" of large data repositories help us cope? What is the future of metadata?

The annual conference of the Society for Information Technology and Techer Education includes a strand on hypertext and hypermedia. Web site.

Thryza Goodeve (NYU) and Steven Johnson (Feed magazine). information: thorburn@MIT.EDU
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The concept of a "Cooperative Building" suggests a setting made to foster human collaboration and communication. While it serves the purpose of cooperation it is at the same time "cooperative" towards its inhabitants. A Cooperative Building is an environment, which offers the people who live and work in and around it, special and unprecedented facilities for communication and cooperation purposes. It adapts dynamically as working conditions or technological conditions change.

Topics of interest include
- hypermedia/ multimedia information systems
- new forms of human-computer interaction
- multimedia conferencing
- electronic meeting rooms
- interactive electronic walls
- things that think
and many others.

It all started with people esking me how I do what I do. How do I tell stories? How do I get other people to tell me stories? How does an old lady like me know so much about the mysteries of this here World Wide Web? What gets me out of bed in the morning?

Also, people esk me to do big family histories for them. I'm not against the idea, but frankly, it's more interesting to me to teach people how to do what I do, than to do it for them. Of course, if you want to pay me a lot of cash, then maybe we can work something out.

So the Digital Story Bee(tm) is a free, three-hour workshop where people come together with a couple of family photographs and tell each other stories, face to face, in a nice circle, a bit like an old quilting bee. Each Digital Story Bee(tm) has a theme to keep everybody on the same page. Then, you shmooze a little, see a little demonstration of how all this technology works.

You get your own URL (web address) that you can give out to your friends and family. You also get a little taste of the joys of family storytelling and realize that this web stuff is not so complicated. And I'll tell you more than you need to know (only if you want) so you can keep going on your own.

Hope to see you there,
Bubbe
contact: Abbe Don, abbe@abbedon.com.

Articles and reviews are invited for the next issue of Computers & Texts, the newsletter of CTI Textual Studies. Articles may concern any aspect of the use of computers in literature, linguistics, theology, classics, philosophy, film studies, theatre arts and drama.

Articles should not normally exceed 2,500 words and reviews should be between 800-1,500 words. Submissions may be made by electronic mail to ctitext@oucs.ox.ac.uk or mike.fraser@oucs.ox.ac.uk.

Marjorie Luesebrink will read from her hypertext novel, Califia, at the Newport Beach Public Library at 7 PM. Califia is forthcoming from Eastgate. For information, call Tracy Keys, (714) 717-3890.

Hypertext 98: Papers due. Proposals for Panels, Briefings, Workshops, and Courses are due.

Several sessions will be held in cooperation with the Association for Computing in the Humanities. Especially relevant to hypertext are sessions on Computers and Theory and on Spatial and Geometric Metaphors for Text.

A convenient overview of other relevant sessions is here.

Marjorie Luesbrink, author of the forthcoming hypertext novel Calfia will speak at the University of Redlands. For more information (909)335-5103.

proposals due for State of The Arts.

An all-day workshop on using hypertext and internet tools for teaching English, including extensive discussion of the use of Storyspace for analyzing prose and poetry, for tracking research sources, and for "mindmapping" papers. Facilitators include Dene Grigar, John Barber, Eric Branscomb, Rod Winters, and Geoff Wickersham. At the Detroit Public Library, 9:30-4:00.

Noted hypertext critic N. Katherine Hayles speaks at the Guggenheim Museum, Soho. 7pm.

Registration and Program available at http:www.stg.brown.edu/webs/tei10.

To commemorate the tenth anniversary of its founding, the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) is sponsoring its first user conference, to be held 14-16 November 1997 at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.

The TEI Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding and Interchange were published in spring of 1994. They provide an extensive SGML-based scheme for encoding electronic texts across a wide spectrum of text types and suitable for any kind of application. The Guidelines have already achieved wide-scale implementation in projects throughout North America and Europe.

The TEI conference will bring together users of the TEI Guidelines in order to share ideas, experiences, and expertise, provide a forum for technical discussion and evaluation of the Guidelines as they have been implemented across a variety of applications. A portion of the conference will also be devoted to consideration of the future of the TEI.

For information, contact Elli Mylonas, elli_mylonas@brown.edu.

A panel discussion, followed by dialogue with the audience. Among the speakers: Amy Bruckman, founder of MediaMOO,a virtual site for media researchers, and MOOSE Crossing, designed as a learning environment for children; Marc A. Smith, co-editor, Communities in Cyberspace; Barry Wellman, Professor of Sociology, University of Toronto; and Howard Rheingold, author of The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier. more information here

Alan Corre
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
7:00 pm, Wednesday Oct. 29 1996
STG Conference Room (Grad Center, Tower E)

Professor Corre recently published on the World Wide Web "A Glossary of Lingua Franca." Based on the only previously published vocabulary of the language (Marseilles, 1830) and words culled by him from Jewish Arabic texts it tries to restore the vocabulary of this unwritten language which was in use around the Mediterranean for hundreds of years before it disappeared almost totally under the onslaught of French, which was then the major language of international and polite communication. He will discuss the development of this project, and how he came to publish it without a shred of paper. The cybergraph may be seen at http://www.uwm.edu/^corre/franca/go.html .
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Hypertext demonstrations and Storyspace writing labs have become entrenched in the Denver Sci-Fi community. Deena Larsen will demonstrate hypertexts and Storyspace both Saturday and Sunday, October 24 and 25 at the Mile Hi Con. This annual con will be at the Sheraton Hotel (4th and Union). If you're in the neighborhood, please drop by.

Submission deadline for Ed-Media 98.

The conference will consider the ways in which digital technologies are transforming traditional literary and humanistic materials. Pioneering scholars and designers will demonstrate hypertext and web-based projects involving some of the landmark texts and materials of humanist culture. The event will cover a fascinating range: from classical literature, Chaucer and Shakespeare to Hitchcock's films. Other presentations will center on the visual arts, and on Friday evening two leading hypertext fiction writers, Michael Joyce and Shelley Jackson, will discuss their work and the future of the cyber-novel. Other speakers include Peter Robinson, co-editor of the Canterbury Tales Project; Jerome McGann, Director of the Rosetti hypermedia archive at the University of Virginia; Robert Stein, founder of the Voyager Company, leading producer of serious CD ROM and videodisc materials; and William J. Mitchell, author of The Reconfigured Eye and Dean of MIT's School of Architecture and Planning.

The complete schedule, brief sketches of the participants and a registration form are available on the "Media in Transition" web site.

You may also register by sending email to Ann Rowbotham (annr@mit.edu), listing name, address, email address and your plans for attending on a single day or for the entire conference. There is no charge for registration.