SPEECH COMMUNICATION SCIENCES &
ADVANCED COMPUTING IN THE HUMANITIES
Socrates Thematic Network Projects, 4th year (Nov. 1, 1999 - Oct. 31, 2000).
Meeting notes of the joint TNP meeting on JEWELS at Northern College (Barnsley,
UK) , September 29 - October 1, 2000
1. General
The meeting evaluated current work on the dissemination effort. The
JEWELS
pages implemented until now by VDIVDE, in cooperation with ELSNET,
were reviewed. Adjustments were proposed and outputs were finalized.
Action plans were made. Future goals were discussed.
2. Reports from the working groups
Materials which were output at this meeting have been collected in the
following archive: ftp://ftp.let.uu.nl/pub/socrates/jewels-northerncollege.zip
(member
list, tasks)
Finalized guidelines for JEWELS structure and navigation.
(member
list, tasks)
Adjusted database design for inventory of all sites in Europe with education
in language and/or speech
Adjusted database design for collection of (commented) materials and tools
(member
list, tasks)
Publication of existing documents and creation of new policy documents
aimed at decision makers, including:
-
Collected recommendations;
-
Phonetics main page;
-
Linguistics
curriculum page;
-
Student
awareness plan;
WG5: PROMOTION AND FACILITIES
Creation of webpages that promote the disciplines in language and speech
(and the JEWELS site)
3. Action list
The following action items need to be distinguished in the finalization
of the working groups' outputs:
(1) Structural implementations that concern VDIVDE-IT should
be sent before October 5 to:
Gerrit.Bloothooft@let.uu.nl,
desmedt@uib.no, Klaedtke@vdivde-it.de. All structural changes
as proposed by working groups should be realised by VDIVDE-IT by October
19.
(2) Textual output should be handled by section editors. Please
take care that all documents have an author name in it. The editors are:
Gerrit Bloothooft (editor in chief), Andy Way (recommendations), and Eva
Wigforss (general / promotion). Editors will add the texts to the
JEWELS site by 31 October. In case of problems this could be restricted
to level 1 only (further levels down externally).
(3) All textual changes to the database sections on Institutions&Courses
and Materials&Tools will be handled through VDIVDE-IT, because of the
interference with the databases. Send these proposals to: Gerrit Bloothooft
(for institutions&courses) or Koenraad deSmedt (materials&tools)
who will forward it to VDIVDE-IT.
The web-interface for the Staps system had too many bugs to be used
at NC. These bugs will be repaired by VDIVDE-IT before October 5.
VDIVDE-IT will produce instructions for editors, also by October 5. A template
that does NOT affect the sliding menu tree should become available.
An action for translation of important pages will be organised as soon
as the pages in English are available on the web.
4. Successor TNP
It was discussed which kinds of new topics would be suitable in an application
for a new TNP project on Speech and Language:
-
Evaluation of the effect of Bachelor Master structure on education in Language
and Speech
-
Evaluation and comparison of European Masters inititatives (Speech &
Language, Non EU Languages, Computational Linguistics, Clinical Linguistics)
-
Analysis of needs and possibilities for tighter integration of the different
fields of study in Speech and Language
-
Evaluation of initiatives for multilingual term banks for education in
Speech & Language
-
Reflection on methods for level comparison in education at degree and course
level
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Role of new media in education (distance learning, life long learning)
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Introduction of new techniques with lecturers
-
Current state of Internationalisation and relation between Europe and non-European
countries
-
Education on multimodal / wireless communication
Old phasing might be useful again: Analysis - Proposals - Recommendations.
The information at the Commission's
Socrates TNP web site should be read carefully.
5. List of participants present at the meeting
| SCS |
Gerrit Bloothooft |
| SCS |
Florien J. van Beinum |
| SCS |
Mick Perkins |
| SCS |
Sarah Howard |
| SCS |
Eva Wigforss |
| SCS |
María Lecumberri |
| SCS |
Anders Eriksson |
| SCS |
Joaquim Llisterri |
| SCS |
Reijo Aulanko |
| SCS |
Anu Klippi |
| SCS |
Anette Lohmander |
| SCS |
Mircea Giurgiu |
| SCS |
Georgeta Ciobanu |
| SCS |
Klaus Fellbaum |
| SCS |
Jan Uhlir |
| SCS |
Bojan Petek |
| SCS |
Ruediger Hoffmann |
| SCS |
Phil Green |
| SCS |
Mark Tatham |
| SCS |
Tom Brondsted |
| ACO |
Koenraad de Smedt |
| ACO |
Maddalena Toscano |
| ACO |
Jacques Souillot |
| ACO |
Andy Way |
| ACO |
Karel Oliva |
| ACO |
Gosse Bouma |
| ACO |
Arvi Hurskainen |
| ACO |
Bill Black (only Friday) |
| VDIVDE |
Uwe Klädtke |
| OWN |
Mike Rosner |
Report by Gerrit Bloothooft and Koenraad de Smedt
