SOCRATES THEMATIC NETWORK PROJECTS
SPEECH COMMUNICATION SCIENCES &
ADVANCED COMPUTING IN THE HUMANITIES
Co-operation in the framework of a 4th dissemination year
(Nov 1, 1999 - Nov 1, 2000)
WORKING GROUP II: CURRENT SITES AND COURSES
Coordinator: Karel Oliva (proposed)
Working group members:
To be developed:
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pointers to sites with higher education curricula descriptions (will eventually
point to the institution's own course descriptions, but preferably via
some standardized initial interface)
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pointers to summer school type training events
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pointers to other course programmes (including commercial programmes)
-
pointers to internet courses (but this is really the responsibility of
WG III)
Sites
The main body of information concerns a directory of all sites in Europe
that provide education in the area. The directory needs to have the form
of a searchable database. Agreement needs to be reached on which
(searchable) fields this database will have. Proposed fields are:
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institution
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unit (department)
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webpage
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country
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location (town)
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discipline
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type of education in this discipline (full curriculum / one year course
/ a few courses)
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degrees offered in this discipline
A welcome page will be prepared (with our own house style and our logos)
that will be made available for all sites that want to join the directory.
This welcome page should be placed under the own home pages of the site
and should contain living links to all items required. Only when these
conditions are fullfilled the site will be included in the JEWELS directory.
What mechanism should be used to get departments involved? If we provide
a 'welcome' page
which each department has to mount and to fill with links, what should
such a page look like, i.e. what is the minimum information a site should
provide? How do we come into contact with all possible sites? What kind
of restrictions do we impose? What language(s) should be used?
Proposed links from the welcome page
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local general characteristics
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research interests
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available infra structure and (measurement) equipment
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schedule of the curriculum, degrees that can be given
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language issues
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course list and course descriptions (key words)
per course (optional)
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title
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short contents (keywords)
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lecturer(s)
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months during which course is delivered
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prerequisites
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type of course (lecture, seminar, practicals,..)
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books and materials used
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information on student exchange
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contact at department / at international office
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formalities / accommodation
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coordinates and local contact person
A search engine should be able to find pages in local sites that contain
information on a keyword (or even free text).
Available material:
Phonetics and Speech Communication:
CL:
NEL:
Although in first phase we may limit ourselves to Europe, this structure
allows the inclusion of sites from all over the globe.