[SDH/SEMI Members] FW: Roberto Busa Award - Call for nominations

[Ray Siemens]

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From: Jean Anderson [mailto:J.Anderson at arts.gla.ac.uk] 

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The ADHO Roberto Busa Award
 
Call for nominations for the 2010 award
 
The Roberto Busa Award is given every three years to honour outstanding
scholarly achievement in humanities computing. It is presented by the
Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) on behalf of its
constituent organizations: the Association for Literary and Linguistic
Computing (ALLC), the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) and
the Society for Digital Humanities/Société pour l'étude des médias
interactifs (SDH/SEMI). 

The Award is named after Roberto Busa, SJ, who is regarded by many as the
founder of the field of humanities computing. The first award was given to
Father Busa himself in 1998.  Subsequent recipients have been:
*	Emeritus Professor John Burrows (2001), who helped to shape the
application of statistical methods to the analysis of textual style and
bridged the gap between traditional literary criticism and computer-aided
stylistics; 
*	Emeritus Professor Susan Hockey (2004), for her contribution to the
establishment of the field of Humanities Computing, and for her work on
computers and text;
*	Professor Dr. Wilhelm Ott (2007), creator of TUSTEP, director of the
Computing Center of the University of Tuebingen, and host of 90 seminars
over several decades in the Kolloquium uber die Anwendung der Elektronischen
Datenverarbeitung in den Geisteswissenschaften .
 
The next Busa Award will be given at the Digital Humanities 2010 conference,
which will be held at King's College London, England.
 
The Award Committee invites nominations for this award. Nominations may be
made by anyone with an interest in humanities computing and neither nominee
nor nominator need be a member of ACH, ALLC or SDH/SEMI. 

Nominators should give an account of the nominee's work and the reasons it
is felt to be an outstanding contribution to the field. A list of
bibliographic references to the nominee's work is required.

Nominators are welcome to resubmit updated versions of unsuccessful
nominations submitted in previous years.
 
Nominations should be sent no later than November 1st 2008, to the Chair of
the Busa Award Committee: 
Jean Anderson, J.Anderson at arts.gla.ac.uk
University of Glasgow, 6 University Gardens, Glasgow G12 8QH
Fax: +44 141 330 4537
Email submissions are preferred.
 
Members of the 2010 Busa Award Committee:
Jean Anderson (Chair, ALLC), Chuck Bush (ACH), Ray Siemens (SDH/SEMI)
Lorna Hughes, Matt Jockers, Lisa Lena Opas-Hanninen, Claire Warwick.

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Jean Anderson
Association for Literary & Linguistic Computing
http://www.allc.org/
University of Glasgow
6 University Gardens, Glasgow G12 8QH, UK
J.Anderson at arts.gla.ac.uk
+44 (0)141 330 4980 
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