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SUBMISSION DEADLINE APPROACHING:*30th September 2017*

2018 Italian Conference of Digital Humanities (Bari, 31 January 2018 - 2 February 2018) Website:http://www.aiucd2018.uniba.it/index.html CfP:http://www.aiucd2018.uniba.it/cfp.html

The Italian Association of Digital Humanities (AIUCD) is pleased to announce the 2018 edition of its annual conference and invites all interested scholars to submit a proposal.

The theme of the conference is*Cultural Heritage in the Digital Age. Memory, Humanities and Technologies*. The conference addresses the critical problems of digital memory, the re-thinking of contemporary digital culture, the changing definition, enhancement, research and conservation of cultural heritage in the digital era, as well as the digital rebirth of humanistic culture.

While open to other topics related to Digital Humanities, proposals for contributions are particularly encouraged on the following:

- Interaction and integration of methods of statistical/quantitative analysis and formal logic methods in the Humanities. - Semantic web technologies and Linked Open Data in the Humanities. - Quantitative and stylometric analysis, topic modelling and clustering for literary texts, archival documents and cultural objects. - Authorship attribution and automatic text classification. - Applications of, and experiments with, data mining methodologies in historical, artistic and archaeological research. - Network analysis and sentiment analysis applied to the Humanities. - Interaction between Natural Language Processing technologies and data mining in the Humanities. - Methods and techniques of visualization and their impact on knowledge transfer in Cultural Heritage and in the Humanities. - Methodologies and applications of Natural Language and Text Processing of corpora in the Humanities. - Computational analysis of multimedia resources: images, audio and video. - Sustainability problems and strategies for research data: persistence, provenance and authenticity. - Cultural and social impact of Humanities research produced with computational methods. - Big Data methods and technologies in Cultural Heritage and in the Humanities. - Internet of Things for Cultural Heritage and the Humanities. - Landscape and long-term settlement: prospects and potential of digital cartography. - Public use, dissemination and didactic mediation of humanistic cultures in the digital age. - Digital narrative methods and techniques: story and place-telling. - Methodologies and technologies of the digitization process for the production and preservation of digital cultural heritage.

Theofficial languages of the Conference areItalian and English. However, it is possible to present in other languages if English slides are provided.