Dear all,
I am writing to follow up on the long-dormant discussion thread about the future of GO::DH with regard to ADHO. The vote in late 2017 indicated that the membership would like the exec to look into what would be involved in joining ADHO as a constituent organization (CO). At DH 2019, Barbara Bordalejo and I met with Harold Short (chair of the ADHO Admissions Committee) and Ray Siemens (also on the Admissions Committee) about the conditions under which GO::DH could join as CO of ADHO.
Since the GO::DH membership last discussed the possibility of becoming a CO, ADHO itself has undergone a massive reorganization. Most significantly, ADHO is led by a Constituent Board, where each CO has one representative -- regardless of the number of members of that CO. (Previously, EADH had the most representation because they had the most members, followed by ACH.) There is also an Executive Board, which is in charge of carrying out the decisions made by the Constituent Board. Becoming a CO would give GO::DH a voice equal to any other CO in the high-level decision-making processes of ADHO.
Barbara and I made it clear to Harold and Ray that not having a membership fee was essential for GO::DH, and while GO::DH would be the first organization with that requirement, they noted that ADHO has adapted its rules many times for new members, and didn’t see not charging a membership fee as a barrier to ADHO admission. A related requirement from the ADHO side is that COs have an official way to receive and manage money (i.e. a treasurer, bank account, etc.), but since we’re not collecting membership fees, they were also receptive to the idea of not having that as a requirement for GO::DH, either.
Currently, ADHO COs are guaranteed $3k/year if their membership fees aren’t enough to provide at least that much. Because GO::DH doesn’t collect membership fees, and wouldn’t have an official way to manage money, we talked about waiving the annual $3k subvention from ADHO, and instead requesting funds on an as-needed basis for projects. These funds could then go directly to the institution(s) organizing those projects (e.g. workshops, etc.) Instead of getting $3k from ADHO, we talked about the possibility of getting annual registration fee waivers for our members (e.g. those from countries that can receive free access to LLC) to the DH conference, and other events, workshops, and trainings. We felt that those registration fee waivers may ultimately be more valuable than the $3k, and working with other COs to obtain those waivers will help strengthen our partnerships throughout ADHO.
We welcome any thoughts or feedback from you on the possibility of admission to ADHO as a CO, now or at any point in the process. Please let me know if you have any questions. From here, the next step is to draft a proposal, get feedback from the GO::DH membership, and ideally, connect with other COs about what we might be able to do together. I started some of these discussions informally at the conference, and so far the response has been overwhelmingly warm and positive. Laura Mandell of centerNet, in particular, is excited about the possibility of having another globally-scoped organization to collaborate with.
Looking back on the discussions from 2017, I’m optimistic that GO::DH is now in a position to have the best of both worlds: giving our members a voice in international DH decision-making through becoming an ADHO CO, as well as working on projects that raise the visibility of digital humanities work going on across the globe, in many languages. As mentioned at the GO::DH meeting in Utrecht, we’re starting work on a new “Around DH” project that will run throughout 2020, as well as revisiting the 2012 infographic quantifying DH that was rightly criticized for omitting the Global South: http://www.globaloutlookdh.org/around-dh-2020-and-quantifying-dh-infographi… If you’d like to help work on either of those projects, or have your work featured in “Around DH 2020”, please fill out the form(s) on that blog post.
Thanks for reading this long note; please let us know if you have any thoughts or questions on it.
All the best,
Quinn
Dear Colleagues,
I would like to announce the launch of the Kaggle Competition "Kuzushiji
Recognition."
Kuzushiji is a set of old Japanese characters that had been used for a
thousand years in Japan, but most of the contemporary Japanese people
cannot read them due to cursive writing style and the different form of
characters.
To solve this problem, we take advantage of machine learning and AI to
develop Kuzushiji OCR algorithm for automatically extracting the type
and the location of kuzushiji characters from old Japanese books.
Kaggle is the world's largest community of data scientists, and this
competition is the first on the Kaggle platform in the area of digital
humanities.
We wish to see active participation of people with background not only
in computer vision, machine learning and artificial intelligence, but
also in Japanese studies and digital humanities.
** Period:
July 19 to October 14, 2019
** Competition official page:
https://www.kaggle.com/c/kuzushiji-recognition/
** Competition host page:
http://codh.rois.ac.jp/competition/kaggle/
** Hosts
ROIS-DS Center for Open Data in the Humanities http://codh.rois.ac.jp/
National Institute of Japanese Literature https://www.nijl.ac.jp/
National Institute of Informatics https://www.nii.ac.jp/
We will also offer opportunities for the winners of the competition to
receive awards and give talks at a Symposium on November 11 in Tokyo, Japan.
** Japanese Culture and AI Symposium 2019
http://codh.rois.ac.jp/symposium/japanese-culture-ai-2019/
We are looking forward to your participation in the competition to
develop innovative tools and datasets for improving accessibility to
Japanese culture of the past.
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Asanobu KITAMOTO
ROIS-DS Center for Open Data in the Humanities
National Institute of Informatics
http://researchmap.jp/kitamoto/
Dear all,
people interested in Global South & Digital Humanities will find of special interest this special issue of the LIINC Brazilian journal:
"Humanidades digitais: olhares do sul | Humanidades digitales: miradas del sur | Digital Humanities: views from
the South": http://revista.ibict.br/liinc/issue/view/275
This special issue was edited by Ricardo Pimenta y Gimena del Rio Riande, to whom I'm extremely grateful.
Enjoy!
All the best
Domenico
After receiving a plethora of requests for extra time to submit abstracts,
we're happy to announce that we've extended the deadline for abstract
submissions for the CLI 2019 Congres in Paris 8 University. The extended
deadline is now Sunday, 15 July 2019.
Dates et registration
https://colloque-cli.univ-paris8.fr/submission.html
July 15th, 2019 - Deadline EXTENDED for the proposals reception
July 25th, 2019 - Beginning of notifications (acceptance or decline) and
return of the double blind expertises to every authors
August 5th, 2019 - Reception of the identified abstracts
September 21st, 2019 - Registration for the workshop (free, but mandatory)
October 10th and 11th, 2019 - CLI 2019 workshop
Web Site
https://colloque-cli.univ-paris8.fr/home-eng.html
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*Luis Torres-Yepez*
Patrimoine Immatériel à l'ère du numérique
<http://citu-paragraphe.fr/index.php/projets/patrimoine-immateriel/>
Département Humanités Numériques
<http://www.humanites-numeriques.univ-paris8.fr/>
Laboratoire CITU-Paragraphe <http://citu-paragraphe.fr/>
Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint Denis
@luiy
Global Outlook:: Digital Humanities invites all DH 2019 participants who are interested in DH in the Global South and in languages beyond English to attend the GO::DH meeting on Thursday during lunchtime at Drift 25, room 201. We will be discussing numerous new initiatives with opportunities for the community to get involved, including a series of articles in (Digital Studies/ Le champ numérique), and revisiting "Around DH" and the 2012 DH infographic in 2020. We'll also discuss the current state of our conversations with ADHO about the possibility of becoming a Constitutent Organization with voting privileges, rather than a Special Interest Group.
If you won't be at DH or can't make it to the meeting, we'll be live-tweeting the meeting from @globaloutlookdh and posting live notes; check the Global Outlook DH website (http://www.globaloutlookdh.org<http://www.globaloutlookdh.org/>/) on July 11th for the link to the notes.
Please let us know if you have any questions, and we hope to see you there in person or virtually.
All the best,
Quinn Dombrowski, for the GO::DH exec
*With apologies for cross-posting*
We are delighted to announce the launch of a new mailing list called 'Digital Modern Languages' which is intended to provide a forum for research and teaching across Modern Languages which engages with digital culture, media and technologies. We hope it will allow for communication across different languages and language-related disciplines, with a primary focus on languages other than English.
You can subscribe to the list here:
https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=DIGITALMODERNLANGUAGES
We invite you to use the list to share announcements about your own events and initiatives, and hope it will provide the opportunity to share knowledge and experiences across the languages community.
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Following the successful launch of the Digital Modern Languages seminar series, we are also delighted to announce below the details of the next seminar on Tuesday 25 June, with Mandana Seyfeddinipur (Director of the SOAS World Languages Institute and Head of the Endangered Languages Archive).
Tuesday 25 June 2019 - Mandana Seyfeddinipur (SOAS) - Two Sides of the Same Coin: Why the Digital is Blessing and Curse for Endangered Languages
6-8pm, Tuesday 25 June, Bush House Lecture Theatre 2, King's College London
https://digitalmodernlanguages.wordpress.com/2019/05/14/tuesday-25-june-201…
Abstract: Globalisation, urbanisation and climate change are affecting people's lives all over the world drastically. Languages are falling silent at an alarming rate because people migrate to cities and give up their languages for more prestigious major language promising social and economic mobility. Linguists estimate that half of the world's 7000 languages spoken today will be gone by the end of this century. And with these languages humanity's knowledge about our own history, the local knowledges about flora and fauna and medicine, about social systems and cosmologies.
At the same time the advent of digital technology has allowed linguists all over the world to record these disappearing languages and to preserve them in digital archives around the world. But while the internet held the promise of democratising access to knowledge, it is also the demise for linguistic diversity as the knowledge represented is heavily skewed towards the knowledge of the usual subjects and is only accessible in English or Chinese. The youth who are the hope for the survival of small languages wants to participate in the modern world and for that their small languages are not effective. Revitalisation and maintenance interventions try to utilise digital tools, games and phone apps but also their effects are limited. A digital multilingual and linguistically diverse world is the desire but the reality of it is complicated.
The seminar will be followed by a wine reception. The lecture theatre is located on the Fourth Floor of Bush House (R on the campus map). Please register in advance at: https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/19928
Paul Spence (King's College London) and Naomi Wells (Institute of Modern Languages Research)
This series is part of the AHRC-funded Open World Research Initiative, and is supported by the Cross-Language Dynamics: Reshaping Community and Language Acts and Worldmaking projects, and by the AHRC Leadership Fellow for Modern Languages (Janice Carruthers).
Best wishes
Paul
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Paul Spence
Senior Lecturer, Department of Digital Humanities
King's College London | Strand | London | WC2R 2LS
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