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Dear all,
the new series of Seminars in Digital and Public Humanities will start
after the summer break. The series is organised by the VeDPH (Venice
Center for Digital and Public Humanities) and the Department of
Humanities of the Ca' Foscari University of Venice.
This is the …
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21 September 2022: Paolo Berti (Ca' Foscari), "Performing Hybrid Spaces:
Art, Media and Ludic Practices"
5 October: Agnese Macchiarelli (Ca' Foscari), "Medieval Latin in a
Bilingual Context Between Philology, Linguistics and Digital Humanities"
26 October: Nevio Danelon (Duke University - Ca' Foscari), "Neuroscapes
and Urban Archeology: Intervisibility Between Necropolis, Acropolis and
Urban Settlement"
16 November: Sean Williams (University of Sheffield - Ca' Foscari),
"Anecdotes, Presentism, and Public Humanities: Historical and
Theoretical Reflections on Practice"
7 December: Francesca Dolcetti (Ca' Foscari), "Values-Led Design Theory
and Praxis: A Critical Framework for Archaeology and Heritage"
All seminars will be held in person and online, starting at 5 pm (Rome
time).
Details and poster: https://www.unive.it/data/33113/2/63440
Zoom registration: https://bit.ly/3nhuuyy
Paolo Monella
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Associate member of the VeDPH - Venice Centre for Digital and Public
Humanities
DSU - Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia
Malcanton Marcorà, Dorsoduro 3484/D - 30123 Venezia
vedph(a)unive.it
www.unive.it/vedph
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Call for Papers
SUMAC 2022
The 4th workshop on Structuring and Understanding of Multimedia heritAge Contents
10 or 14 October 2021 (TBA)
Lisbon, Portugal (attendance mode TBA)
In conjunction with ACM Multimedia 2022
…
[View More]Workshop: https://sumac-workshops.github.io/2022/
Conference: https://2022.acmmm.org
Submission Portal: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sumac2022
Deadline: July 4, 2022 (11:59 p.m. AoE)
Aims and scope
The digitisation of large quantities of analogue data and the massive production of born-digital documents for many years now provide us with large volumes of varied multimedia data (images, maps, text, video, 3D objects, multi-sensor data, etc.), an important feature of which is that they are cross-domain. “Cross-domain” reflects the fact that these data may have been acquired in very different conditions: different acquisition systems, times and points of view (e.g. a 1962 postcard from the Arc de Triomphe vs. a recent street-view acquisition by mobile mapping of the same monument). These data represent an extremely rich heritage that can be exploited in a wide variety of fields, from Social Sciences and Humanities to land use and territorial policies, including smart city, urban planning, smart tourism and culture, creative media and entertainment. In terms of research in computer science and artificial intelligence, they address challenging problems related to the diversity, specificity and volume of the media, the variety of content descriptors (potentially including the time dimension), the veracity of the data, and the different user needs with respect to engaging with this rich material and the extraction of value out of the data. These challenges are reflected in various research topics such as multimodal and mixed media search, automatic content analysis, multimedia linking and recommendation, and big data analysis and visualisation where scientific bottlenecks may be exacerbated by the time dimension – which also provides topics of interest such as multimodal time series analysis. The objective of this workshop is to present and discuss the latest and most significant trends in the analysis, structuring and understanding of multimedia contents dedicated to the valorization of heritage, with the emphasis on enabling access to the big data of the past. We welcome research contributions for the following (but not limited to) topics:
* Multimedia and cross-domain data search, interlinking and recommendation• Dating and spatialization of historical data
* Mixed media data access and indexing
* Multi-modal deep learning
* Deep learning in adverse conditions (transfer learning, learning with side information, etc.)
* Multi-modal time series analysis, evolution modelling
* Multi-modal & multi-temporal data rendering
* Heritage - Building Information Modelling, Art Virtualisation
* HCI / Interfaces for large-scale datasets
* Smart digitisation of massive quantities of data
* Bench-marking, Open Data Movement
* Generative modelling of cultural heritage
Keynote Speakers
* Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Andreas Maier
Talk Theme: "Book CT (Computed Tomography) and Time Machine Projects (https://www.timemachine.eu/)"
* Prof. Georgios Artopoulos
Talk Theme: "Creating a Time Machine of future pasts: data integration and interoperability for cross-disciplinary research on urban heritage clusters."
Important dates
* Paper submission: July 4, 2022 (11:59 p.m. AoE)
* Author acceptance notification: July 22, 2022
* Camera-Ready: August 7, 2022
* Workshop date: TBA, either 10 or 14 October 2022
Submission guidelines
Submission format. All submissions must be original work not under review at any other workshop, conference, or journal. The workshop will accept papers describing completed work as well as work in progress. One submission format is accepted: full paper, which must follow
the formatting guidelines of the main conference ACM MM 2022. Full papers should be from 6 to 8 pages (plus 2 additional pages for the references), encoded as PDF and using the ACM Article Template. For paper guidelines, please visit https://2022.acmmm.org/call-for-papers/, and refer to the "Paper Format" under "Submission Instructions". Peer Review and publication in ACM Digital Library. Paper submissions must conform with the “double-blind” review policy. All papers will be peer-reviewed by experts in the field, they will receive at least two reviews. Acceptance will be based on relevance to the workshop, scientific novelty, and technical quality. Depending on the number, maturity and topics of the accepted submissions, the work will be presented via oral or poster sessions. The workshop papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library.
Organizers
Valerie Gouet-Brunet (LaSTIG Lab / IGN - Gustave Eiffel University, France)
Ronak Kosti (Germanistik und Kunstwissenschaften Fachbereichs / Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany)
Li Weng (Hangzhou Dianzi University
Regards,
Ronak Kosti,
Post Doc Researcher,
Germanistik und Kunstwissenschaften Fachbereichs / Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany
Email: ronak.kosti(a)fau.de<mailto:ronak.kosti@fau.de>
Web: https://lme.tf.fau.de/person/kosti
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Estimados compañeros,
Os hacemos llegar un curso de verano organizado por el Laboratorio de Humanidades Digitales de la UNED<https://linhd.uned.es/>. El curso lleva por título Creación de un proyecto en Humanidades Digitales basado en el análisis de textos: modelado y …
[View More]procesamiento<https://extension.uned.es/actividad/idactividad/24581> y se celebrará del 28 al 30 de junio. Puede realizarse presencialmente o en línea (en directo o en diferido), tiene una duración de 20 horas y será eminentemente práctico.
La investigación en Humanidades Digitales no ha dejado de crecer en los últimos años y son cada vez más los proyectos de historiadores, filólogos, o antropólogos que utilizan la tecnología para el análisis de corpus literarios en busca de patrones, la construcción de mapas digitales interactivos para una mejor visualización de los resultados de sus investigaciones, o la geolocalización de enclaves a los que se añaden capas de información multimedia, entre otras muchas posibilidades.
Los humanistas digitales tienen un futuro prometedor en un área en crecimiento en el que se requieren perfiles profesionales mixtos y flexibles, capaces de organizar y etiquetar objetos digitales; así como gestionar su visualización y preservación en un entorno digital. Sin embargo, para desarrollar la investigación en esta área se ha de disponer de ciertos conocimientos técnicos tales como los que se abordan en el curso que os presentamos.
El objetivo del mismo es diseñar un proyecto de humanidades digitales, desde el modelado del dominio hasta la creación de resultados y su diseminación, haciendo uso de lenguajes de programación, técnicas de modelado y visualización provenientes del mundo de la inteligencia artificial. Comenzaremos con una aproximación al mundo de las Humanidades Digitales y las problemáticas que surgen para el análisis de textos. Después, nos acercaremos a las metodologías y técnicas para resolver esos problemas mediante el modelado semántico y la perspectiva de los datos enlazados y lenguajes de marcas. Asimismo, se presentarán nuevos paradigmas computacionales relacionados con la Inteligencia Artificial como el procesamiento de textos, la estilometría, el deep learning, etc., y su aplicación. Para finalizar, se representarán los resultados obtenidos.
Podéis obtener más información sobre el mismo y matricularos en este enlace.<https://www.fundacion.uned.es/actividad/idactividad/24581>
Un cordial saludo
Beatriz Tejada Carrasco
Subdirectora de Planificación, Calidad y Comunicación
Biblioteca UNED
C/ Paseo de la senda del rey, 5
28040 Madrid
Teléfono: 91 398 61 67
email: btejada(a)pas.uned.es
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The evaluation period for HTREC Challenge has been extended until July 1st, 2022.
Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) concerns the conversion of digital images of handwritten text into machine-encoded text. HTR Error-Correction (HTREC) can improve the results and speed up human …
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The HTREC Challenge is using recent advancements in Natural Language Processing (NLP) for the correction of errors, focusing on Greek papyri and Byzantine manuscripts. Simple rules may make a positive difference. Interdisciplinary teams of IT specialists, Byzantinists, historians and philologists are particularly encouraged to join the challenge.
All details and data sets: https://www.aicrowd.com/challenges/htrec-2022
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Franz Fischer
Direttore, Venice Centre for Digital & Public Humanities (VeDPH)
Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici
Università Ca' Foscari
Palazzo Malcanton Marcorà
Dorsoduro 3484/D - 30123 Venezia
Tel.: +39 041 234 6266 (ufficio), +39 041 234 9863 (segreteria del centro)
https://www.unive.it/vedphhttps://www.i-d-e.de/https://journal.digitalmedievalist.org/
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The editors of Manuscript Studies: A Journal of the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries are pleased to make the following announcements:
* The Spring 2022 issue is out! Abstracts are available here: https://mss.pennpress.…
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* We are seeking submissions for the Spring 2023 issue and beyond. Peer-reviewed articles for possible publication in the Spring 2023 issue should be submitted no later than June 30, 2022. Non-peer reviewed Annotations featuring recent discoveries, project reports, etc. (ca. 3000 words) can be submitted up to August 31, 2022, for the Spring 2023 issue. Articles and Annotations can be submitted here: https://manuscriptstudies.scholasticahq.com/for-authors
* Thanks to a generous agreement with the University of Pennsylvania Press, all Articles and Annotations in Manuscript Studies are made available on an open-access basis after one year from the date of publication. Articles and Annotations from Vol. 6.1 (Spring 2021) are now available for downloading and sharing on Penn’s Scholarly Commons repository. To access the pdfs, go to: http://repository.upenn.edu/mss_sims/
*
Manuscript Studies brings together scholarship from around the world and across disciplines related to the study of pre-modern manuscript books and documents. This peer-reviewed journal is open to contributions that rely on both traditional methodologies of manuscript study and those that explore the potential of new ones. We publish articles that engage in a larger conversation on manuscript culture and its continued relevance in today’s world and highlight the value of manuscript evidence in understanding our shared cultural and intellectual heritage. Studies that incorporate digital methodologies to further understanding of the physical and conceptual structures of the manuscript book are encouraged. A separate section, entitled Annotations, features research in progress and digital project reports.
For more information and to subscribe, go to http://mss.pennpress.org. For direct inquiries, please don't hesitate to contact the editors at sims-mss(a)pobox.upenn.edu<mailto:sims-mss@pobox.upenn.edu>.
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Director, Digital Medievalist<https://digitalmedievalist.wordpress.com/> (2020-2022)
Curator of Programs, Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies<https://schoenberginstitute.org/>
Project Director, Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts<https://sdbm.library.upenn.edu/pages/SDBM%20Name%20Authority>
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Call for Papers
SUMAC 2022
The 4th workshop on Structuring and Understanding of Multimedia heritAge Contents
10 or 14 October 2021 (TBA)
Lisbon, Portugal (attendance mode TBA)
In conjunction with ACM Multimedia 2022
…
[View More]Workshop: https://sumac-workshops.github.io/2022/
Conference: https://2022.acmmm.org
Aims and scope
The digitisation of large quantities of analogue data and the massive production of born-digital documents for many years now provide us with large volumes of varied multimedia data (images, maps, text, video, 3D objects, multi-sensor data, etc.), an important feature of which is that they are cross-domain. “Cross-domain” reflects the fact that these data may have been acquired in very different conditions: different acquisition systems, times and points of view (e.g. a 1962 postcard from the Arc de Triomphe vs. a recent street-view acquisition by mobile mapping of the same monument). These data represent an extremely rich heritage that can be exploited in a wide variety of fields, from Social Sciences and Humanities to land use and territorial policies, including smart city, urban planning, smart tourism and culture, creative media and entertainment. In terms of research in computer science and artificial intelligence, they address challenging problems related to the diversity, specificity and volume of the media, the variety of content descriptors (potentially including the time dimension), the veracity of the data, and the different user needs with respect to engaging with this rich material and the extraction of value out of the data. These challenges are reflected in various research topics such as multimodal and mixed media search, automatic content analysis, multimedia linking and recommendation, and big data analysis and visualisation where scientific bottlenecks may be exacerbated by the time dimension – which also provides topics of interest such as multimodal time series analysis. The objective of this workshop is to present and discuss the latest and most significant trends in the analysis, structuring and understanding of multimedia contents dedicated to the valorization of heritage, with the emphasis on enabling access to the big data of the past. We welcome research contributions for the following (but not limited to) topics:
* Multimedia and cross-domain data search, interlinking and recommendation• Dating and spatialization of historical data
* Mixed media data access and indexing
* Multi-modal deep learning
* Deep learning in adverse conditions (transfer learning, learning with side information, etc.)
* Multi-modal time series analysis, evolution modelling
* Multi-modal & multi-temporal data rendering
* Heritage - Building Information Modelling, Art Virtualisation
* HCI / Interfaces for large-scale datasets
* Smart digitisation of massive quantities of data
* Bench-marking, Open Data Movement
* Generative modelling of cultural heritage
Keynote Speakers
* Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Andreas Maier
Talk Theme: "Book CT (Computed Tomography) and Time Machine Projects (https://www.timemachine.eu/)"
* Prof. Georgios Artopoulos
Talk Theme: "Creating a Time Machine of future pasts: data integration and interoperability for cross-disciplinary research on urban heritage clusters."
Important dates
* Paper submission: July 4, 2022 (11:59 p.m. AoE)
* Author acceptance notification: July 22, 2022
* Camera-Ready: August 7, 2022
* Workshop date: TBA, either 10 or 14 October 2022
Submission guidelines
Submission format. All submissions must be original work not under review at any other workshop, conference, or journal. The workshop will accept papers describing completed work as well as work in progress. One submission format is accepted: full paper, which must follow
the formatting guidelines of the main conference ACM MM 2022. Full papers should be from 6 to 8 pages (plus 2 additional pages for the references), encoded as PDF and using the ACM Article Template. For paper guidelines, please visit https://2022.acmmm.org/call-for-papers/, and refer to the "Paper Format" under "Submission Instructions". Peer Review and publication in ACM Digital Library. Paper submissions must conform with the “double-blind” review policy. All papers will be peer-reviewed by experts in the field, they will receive at least two reviews. Acceptance will be based on relevance to the workshop, scientific novelty, and technical quality. Depending on the number, maturity and topics of the accepted submissions, the work will be presented via oral or poster sessions. The workshop papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library.
Organizers
Valerie Gouet-Brunet (LaSTIG Lab / IGN - Gustave Eiffel University, France)
Ronak Kosti (Germanistik und Kunstwissenschaften Fachbereichs / Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany)
Li Weng (Hangzhou Dianzi University
Regards,
Ronak Kosti,
Post Doc Researcher,
Germanistik und Kunstwissenschaften Fachbereichs / Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany
Email: ronak.kosti(a)fau.de<mailto:ronak.kosti@fau.de>
Web: https://lme.tf.fau.de/person/kosti
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Call for Papers - TEI 2022
The TEI2022 Program Committee is pleased to announce its call for proposals for the 22th annual Conference and Members’ Meeting of the Text Encoding Initiative Consortium (TEI), which will be held 13-16 September 2022 (Tue-Fri) at Newcastle University, …
[View More]Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom with pre-conference workshops 12-13 September 2022 (Mon-Tue).
https://conferences.ncl.ac.uk/tei2022/
This year’s theme is:
Text as data
The past decade has seen a huge increase of data produced by (social)media platforms, digital literary outputs, and various mass digitization efforts of cultural heritage and administrative records. Though these vast data collections hold enormous potential for diverse research, collecting and analyzing text-based data also presents unique challenges that need to be addressed. The increasing quantity of the textual data coincides with its improved availability and accessibility, but also the continuously progressing development of data models, tools, text-mining, and machine-learning techniques. The TEI community is working at the intersection of many of these areas.
If we want the computer to “understand” a text we must either mark textual phenomena or instruct a computer to identify them. In their acclaimed work “The Shape of Data in the Digital Humanities” from 2018, Julia Flanders and Fotis Jannidis refer to this as “a choice between an algorithmic approach […] or what we might call a “metatextual” approach, in which information is added to the text in some explicit form that enables it to be processed intelligently”.
This call invites contributions dealing with text-related tasks in all aspects of the research process: discovery, analysis, representation, visualization, prediction, causal inference, etc.
Possible topics related to this theme include:
* TEI for analysis, annotation or visualization
* TEI and machine learning, data science, or text mining
* TEI and literary analysis
* TEI and linked open data
* TEI and complex data structures
* TEI and computer-mediated communication or social media
* TEI and computer vision or handwritten text recognition
* TEI and formal ontologies or stand-off annotation
* TEI and models of text
* TEI and galleries/libraries/archives/museums
but submissions in other areas are also welcome.
Submission Information
Each submission should include a title, an abstract, up to five keywords, and a brief biography for each of the authors. (Each biography should be no more than 500 characters, and should include current affiliation, research interests, and projects).
The following word counts apply to the text of the abstract excluding titles, bibliography, keywords, and biographies.
Language
The proposals must be submitted in English. The conference language is English.
Submission Procedure
* Proposals must be submitted online via ConfTool: https://www.conftool.pro/tei2022/. You will need a (free) account to submit a proposal.
* The deadline for submissions is 20 June 2022 by 23:59 HAST.
* All proposals will be peer-reviewed by the Program Committee.
* Notifications of acceptance will be sent out by 25 July 2022.
* The deadline for submissions of the final abstracts is 22 August 2022.
* Final abstracts have to be in DOCX or ODT format.
* For further information please contact the local organizers at tei2022(a)ncl.ac.uk<mailto:tei2022@ncl.ac.uk>
Short papers
Speakers will be given 15 minutes each: 10 minutes for presentation, 5 minutes for discussion. This type of presentation is suited for the introduction of tools, raising of new ideas, and experimental topics. Proposals should not exceed 300 words.
Long papers
Speakers will be given 30 minutes each: 20 minutes for presentation, 10 minutes for discussion. Proposals should not exceed 500 words. This presentation type is suitable for substantial research, theoretical or critical discussions.
Session proposals
Proposed sessions will be given 90 minutes, which can be used flexibly to include, for example, 3 individual papers followed by questions, or a roundtable discussion. This type of presentation is suited to coordinated approaches or discussions relating to a single theme. Proposals for a session must include a list of speakers and their biographies. Proposals for a session should not exceed 800 words in total.
Posters
A “poster slam” session will be dedicated to poster presentations of 1 minute each. Subsequently, poster presenters will have the chance to tell interested parties more about their project during the poster exhibition, where the audience can browse freely. This type of presentation is suited to introducing new work, projects, or software. Proposals for poster presentations should not exceed 300 words. Accepted poster presenters will be eligible to present in the Virtual Poster session as well and do not need to submit a separate proposal for this.
Virtual Posters
A Virtual Poster session will be held in https://gather.town/ on the Thursday after the conference (September 22, 2022) to enable people to participate who are not able to physically attend the conference. Accepted poster presenters from the conference will automatically be eligible to present in the Virtual Poster session as well. Scheduling of the Virtual Poster Session(s) will be based on timezones of presenters. Proposals for virtual poster presentations should not exceed 300 words.
Demonstrations
A dedicated demonstration session will provide presenters of tools or software outputs with an opportunity to show the software they are working on and with. Demonstrators will be given 10 minutes: 8 minutes each for presentation with 2 minutes for quick follow-up questions. Proposals for demonstrations should not exceed 300 words.
Workshops
Workshops will be held before the conference, September 12–13, 2022 (Mon-Tue). They provide an opportunity for participants to work together on TEI-related topics. Proposals for workshops should not exceed 800 words (excl. bibliography, biography etc.) and must include:
* A brief outline of the proposed topic and its appeal to the TEI community
* The duration of the proposed workshop or seminar (half day, full day)
* Any special requirements (e.g. participant-supplied laptops, projector, flipchart)
A list of proposed workshop leader(s) with a brief biography of each one is required too. Each biography should be no more than 500 characters, and should include current affiliation, research interests, and projects.
Registration to the workshops is handled via the conference registration. The conference organisers will not charge for the workshops. Any fees considered by the workshop organisers will have to be managed by themselves.
Special Interest Groups (SIGs)
If you are interested in holding a SIG meeting during the conference, please contact the local hosts to book a room: tei2022(a)ncl.ac.uk<mailto:tei2022@ncl.ac.uk>.
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Digital Classicist London Seminar
Historical Ecology of Southern Burgundy
Scott Madry, UNC Chapel Hill
Friday June 10, 2022. 17:00 (UK time).
Online only. Watch live at https://youtu.be/5noIaELDgps<https://youtu.be/5noIaELDgps>
For some forty years now I have conducted, …
[View More]along with several colleagues, a long-term regional study of the relationships between peoples and their cultures and the environment in the region that is now southern Burgundy, France. We have, using an inherently interdisciplinary, even trans-disciplinary approach, investigated how people interact with the landscape over a period of 2,000 years, from the Iron Age to the present day. We have brought together archaeologists, historians, ecologists, geologists and more, focusing on how peoples both influence and are influenced by their environment using the approach of Historical Ecology. I have focused much of my part of this larger, on-going work on the application of advanced technologies to such regional and temporal studies. These include historical cartography, aerial photography and remote sensing, Global Navigation Satellite Systems (like the U.S. GPS), digital data archiving, and the integration of disparate data derived from many sources in our long-standing Geographic Information Systems (GIS). I see GIS as an integrative context where the data from many research disciplines and approaches can be both stored and analyzed, displayed and shared.
We have found that our Historical Ecology approach to this work allows us to bring together disciplinary approaches, data, and perspectives, and to synthesize these in ways that are not possible within any single discipline or suite of technologies. I am also a very strong proponent of Free and Open Source (FOSS) software, and the great majority of our technical work is done using open source tools that can be freely shared, modified, and adapted.
ALL WELCOME
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