Following the first
successful SDH conference in
Digital technologies
have the potential to transform the types of research questions that we ask in
the Humanities, and to allow us to address traditional questions in new and
exciting ways, but ultimately they will also allow us to answer questions that
we were not even aware we could ask, hence the title of this conference. How can digital humanities help us not just to
find the answers to our research questions more quickly and more easily, but
also to formulate research questions we would never have been able to ask
without access to large quantities of digital data and sophisticated tools for
their analysis? Supporting the Digital
Humanities will be a forum for the discussion of these innovations,
and of the ways in which these new forms of research can be facilitated and
supported.
CLARIN and DARIAH are
creating European research infrastructures for the humanities and related
disciplines. SDH2011 aims to bring together infrastructure providers and users
from the communities involved with the two infrastructure initiatives. The
conference will consist of a number of topical sessions where providers and
users will present and discuss results, obstacles and opportunities for
digitally-supported humanities research. Participants are encouraged to engage
with honest assessments of the intellectual problems and practical barriers in
an open and constructive atmosphere.
The first SDH conference
in 2010 gave a broad and multi-facetted presentation of the domains of interest
to CLARIN and DARIAH. This time we have chosen a somewhat more focussed
approach, focussing on two major themes, but not excluding other themes of
interest for the humanities. The two themes are:
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Sound and
movement – music, spoken word, dance and theatre
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Text and
things – text, and the relationship between text and material artefacts,
such as manuscript, stone or other carriers of text
Submissions are invited
for individual papers and posters, as well as panels. Focus should be on tools
and methods for the analysis of digital data rather than on digitisation
processes themselves, both from the provider and from the user perspective. We
want to pay special attention to inspiring showcases that demonstrate the
innovative power of digital methods in the humanities.
Some important dates:
July 15, 2011:
Submission of suggestion for panels
July 24, 2011:
Submission of abstracts (4 pages)
August 15, 2011:
Notification on panel proposals
September 15, 2011:
Author notification
October 15, 2011: Final
version of papers for publication (8 pages).
November 17-18:
Conference in
Programme
committee
Steven Krauwer,
Helen Bailey,
Tim Crawford,
Goldsmith’s
Matthew Driscoll,
Neil Fraistat,
Erhard Hinrichs,
Fotis Jannidis,
Helen Katsiadakis,
Krister Lindén,
Heike Neuroth,
Laurent Romary, INRIA,
France
Nina Vodopivec, Institute
for Contemporary History,
Peter Wittenburg, MPI,
Netherlands/Germany