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Dear colleagues,
The Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences (BBAW) kindly invites you to the next virtual DH-Kolloquium on August 7, 2020, at 5 pm. Our guest is Antonio Rojas Castro (BBAW, Proyecto Humboldt Digital, and Programming Historian) who will talk about "FAIR enough? Building DH Resources in an Unequal World".
The presentation (see the abstract below), will be pre-recorded and made available at the beginning of the Kolloquium, i.e. on August 7, 2020, at 5 pm. The link to the lecture will be posted on the Twitter account of the DH-Kolloquium (@DHBBAW). The discussion with the presenter (@RojasCastroA) will also take place on Twitter (#dhberlin).
# FAIR enough? Building DH Resources in an Unequal World
Antonio Rojas Castro (Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften)
The world that Digital Humanities practitioners inhabit is a place defined by uneven distribution of wealth and systemic oppressions. As Boaventura de Sousa Santos argues in his recent book La cruel pedagogía del virus (The Cruel Pedagogy of the Virus) (Sousa Santos, 2020), the COVID-19 has exacerbated the inequalities in the Global North and in the Global South; but the unmask of inequalities is not a new topic in the field of Digital Humanities. For the last decade many scholars have been defending a critical approach to open access, computational tools, algorithms and cultural datasets (Galina, 2014; Fiormonte, Numerico and Tomasi, 2015, Rio Grande, 2018, Earhardt, 2018, Risam, 2019, Noble, 2019). In addition to the work of individuals, group initiatives like Global Outlook::DH[1]<https://dhd-blog.org/?p=14165#_ftn1> have also enabled debates on social justice, diversity and inclusivity.
In this presentation I aim to establish a dialogue with previous interventions that critique the Digital Humanities as a universalist, not situated and scientific field whose epistemological frameworks, methods and tools can be applied anywhere, anytime and under all conditions. To do so I will examine, expand and question the FAIR Principles initiated by FORCE11.[2]<https://dhd-blog.org/?p=14165#_ftn2> These principles are four: Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability and Reusability. They implicitly suggest a moral idea of “fairness” or “justice” that should guide “data producers and publishers” to maximize the “added-value gained by contemporary, formal scholarly digital publishing” (Wilkinson et al., 2016). Although the FAIR Principles were originated in the context of e-science, they have already been adopted by library associations like LIBER[3]<https://dhd-blog.org/?p=14165#_ftn3> and some DH scholars have also evaluated them (Dunning, Smaele and Böhmer, 2017) and used them as guiding principles for developing digital archives (Calamai and Frontini, 2018).
Drawing on examples derived from the Programming Historian en español (PHes)[4]<https://dhd-blog.org/?p=14165#_ftn4> and the Proyecto Humboldt Digital (ProHD), I will argue that, while the FAIR Principles can guide how we build DH resources in the Global North, any attempt to apply them in the Global South (especially in Latin American countries) may replicate colonialist practices that ignore the digital divide and local needs and practices in favor of hegemonic standards (Priani Saisó, 2019). This caveat is especially relevant for cooperation projects that involve scholars, librarians, archivists and other professionals with different backgrounds, that are based in different countries, speak different languages and have different needs and motivations. In brief, building FAIR resources is a praiseworthy goal, but in order to produce an emancipatory knowledge, that (perhaps) will repair some inequalities, we should avoid cultural cloning and cognitive extractivism and instead sustain an ecology of knowledge.
[1]<https://dhd-blog.org/?p=14165#_ftnref1> http://www.globaloutlookdh.org/
[2]<https://dhd-blog.org/?p=14165#_ftnref2> https://www.force11.org/
[3]<https://dhd-blog.org/?p=14165#_ftnref3> https://libereurope.eu/
[4]<https://dhd-blog.org/?p=14165#_ftnref4> https://programminghistorian.org/es/
We are looking forward to the discussion,
Stefan Dumont
Susanne Haaf
Frederike Neuber
Christian Thomas
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Frederike Neuber
Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften
TELOTA (http://www.bbaw.de/telota)
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Kontakt:
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Email: frederike.neuber(a)bbaw.de<mailto:frederike.neuber@bbaw.de>
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Institut für Dokumentologie und Editorik (https://www.i-d-e.de/)
RIDE- A review journal for digital editions and resources (Managing Editor, https://ride.i-d-e.de/)
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Dear all,
I hope this message finds you well.
I was browsing through the DH2020 events and saw a couple that might be of interest to this group.
July 23rd 15 UTC to 16:30 UTC Digitizing and Curating Colonial Records from the Caribbean and Central and South America for Public Records
July 24th 12 UTC to 14 UTC: Africa Forum
Registration for DH2020, which will run virtually, closes July 19th. You can find all the information here: https://dh2020.hcommons.org/register-for-the-conference/
Wishing you all the best,
BB
P.S.: Regrettably, I missed the conversations on 𝐓𝐨𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐬 𝐚𝐧 𝐈𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐃𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐚𝐥/ 𝐏𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐃𝐇, but you can watch a video here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLJgOsC-8ds
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Dear Global Outlook (ADHO DH) Community,
We are organizing a workshop which focuses on the multimedia data
related to our digital cultural heritage. We think that this data has
huge implications, from storing, analyzing, studying, scholarship and
dissemination. The focus is on the digital part.
We think that there are certain common topics for the group and the
workshop theme that deserve bigger audience. In light of that, we think
that this workshop can/might prove to be a good place for disseminating
few of the group's ideas.
Please, find the "updated" call for papers below. The workshop will have
keynotes from:
1. André Araujo (https://andrefaraujo.github.io/)
2. Livio de Luca(http://www.map.cnrs.fr/ldl/)
The first edition of the workshop attracted lot of papers from variety
of topics. The related articles could be found at this link:
https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3347317
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Call for Papers
SUMAC 2020 - The 2nd workshop on Structuring and Understanding of
Multimedia heritAge Contents
In conjunction with ACM Multimedia 2020
12 - 16 October 2020, Seattle, United States
Note that according to the policy chosen by ACM Multimedia 2020 facing
potential travel restrictions in the fall due to covid-19, SUMAC 2020
may happen as a virtual workshop.
https://sumac2020.ec-lyon.frhttps://2020.acmmm.org
*** Aims and scope
The digitization 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,
multisensor 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 SSH to land use and
territorial policies, including smart city, urban planning, tourism,
creative media and entertainment. In terms of research in computer
science, they address challenging problems related to the diversity and
volume of the media across time, 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 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 the second edition 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 emphasis on the unlocking of and access
to the big data of the past. We welcome research contributions related
to the following (but not limited to) topics:
- Multimedia and cross-domain data interlinking and recommendation
- Dating and spatialization of historical data
- Mixed media data access and indexing
- Deep learning in adverse conditions (transfer learning, learning with
side information, etc.)
- Multi-modal time series analysis, evolution modelling
- Multi-modal and multi-temporal data rendering
- HCI / Interfaces for large scale data sets
- Smart digitization of massive quantities of data
- Benchmarking, open data movement
*** Keynote speakers
- Andre Araujo (Google, US): Deep Image Features for Instance-level
Recognition and Matching.
- Livio de Luca (CNRS, France): modelling, semantisation and restitution
of 3D digital heritage objects - application to digital restoration of
Notre-Dame de Paris
*** Important dates
Submission Due: 30 July 2020 (11:59 p.m. AoE)
Author acceptance notification: 26 August 2020
Camera Ready Submission: 2 September 2020
Workshop Date: 12 or 16 October 2020 (TBA)
*** 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 2020. 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://2020.acmmm.org/call-for-paper.html
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
Valérie Gouet-Brunet (LaSTIG Lab / IGN – Gustave Eiffel University, France)
Liming Chen (LIRIS Lab / Centrale Lyon, France)
Xu-Cheng Yin (University of Science and Technology Beijing, China)
Ronak Kosti (Pattern Recognition Lab / FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany)
Margarita Khokhlova (LaSTIG/LIRIS Labs, IGN & Centrale Lyon, France)
Looking forward to seeing you at the workshop and at the conference!
The workshop organizers
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Regards,
Ronak Kosti, PhD
Chair of Computer Science 5 (Pattern Recognition)
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Erlangen-Nürnberg
Fax number: +49 9131 85 27270
Email: ronak.kosti(a)fau.de
Website: https://lme.tf.fau.de/person/kosti/