Digital Humanities in Estonia A° 2016
Visual Digital Humanities:
Representing and Interpreting Humanities Data October 13-14, Estonian
Literary Museum, Tartu, Estonia
The digital age has brought along an increased multimediality of
communication. This concerns the source data in the field of humanities as
well as the ways to perform research and represent the results. On the one
hand humanities have to tackle the challenge of capturing the ever-changing
and fluently moving non-textual sources in order to organise them into
reproducible research data. On the other hand computational analysis enables
us to rework the data on a much bigger scale. The creative nature of digital
humanities commits researchers to explore, discover and develop new
possibilities for data analysis.
Visual representation of data (e.g. using networks, timelines and word
clouds for representing data) significantly enhances the interpretation
potential of the material. Visualisation methods developed in other
disciplines such as GIS mapping, graphs and charts have already been taken
up in the humanities. However, there is a need to reconsider the assumptions
that underlie the use of tools for data display and interpretation developed
in other disciplines in order to adjust them to for working with artistic,
literary, musical and historical corpora. New opportunities further enhance
the possibilities to obtain meaningful insights using automated methods that
complement results from more detailed but smaller scale studies. This must
be done keeping in mind that qualitative data requires methods for
presenting ambiguity and uncertainty in a nuanced way. The display of data
from the humanities must be rooted in and appropriate to the interpretative
activity being undertaken. Hence, researchers in the humanities need to
engage computer scientists to allow for a more informed and accurate use of
existing tools and the development of new ones.
The conference is the fourth in the series of conferences on digital
humanities in Estonia, and is in this year co-organized by the Estonian
Society for Digital Humanities, the Estonian Literary Museum and the Centre
of Excellence in Estonian Studies. Traditionally, the conference includes a
panel that introduces and discusses the developments in Estonian digital
humanities.
We welcome contributions in the following areas of digital humanities:
– mining, managing, analysing visual data; – interpretation of data and
knowledge discovery; – visualization of various types of data (spatial,
historical, folkloric, linguistic, etc.); – ideas, outlooks, developments
and critique of digital humanities in Estonia and elsewhere.
We welcome workshop and seminar proposals (to be held as a one- or half-day
event after the conference).
Please submit a proposal that contains your full name, institutional and
disciplinary affiliation, a brief academic CV, the title of your paper and
an abstract of 200-250 words (including references) by August 1, 2016.
Authors will be informed about acceptance by August 25, 2016. The working
language of the conference is English.
Please send your proposals to: digitaalhumanitaaria(a)gmail.com.
Homepage of the conference: http://www.folklore.ee/dh/en/dhe_2016/
Organising team:
Mari Sarv
Liisi Laineste
*** Apologies for cross-posting ***
Dear all,
I hope the following call will be of interest to some of you.
The EADH brings together, and represents, the Digital Humanities in Europe.
It includes the entire spectrum of disciplines that research, develop, and
apply digital methods and technologies to the study of art, history,
language, literature, music, archeology, etc. With the goal of gathering
representative works and promoting access, we have created a slider on our
website that will feature initiatives for a period of time: http://eadh.org/
We are seeking projects undertaken during the last five years that
contribute meaningfully to Digital Humanities in Europe. If you want to add
your Digital Humanities project to our website, please fill in our web
submission form with a description and your contact details:
http://eadh.org/projects/submit-your-project
At the moment submissions are accepted in English. All submissions will be
reviewed by the EADH executive committee.
Please do not hesitate to contact me for further details at
rojas.castro.antonio(a)gmail.com
All the best,
--
Antonio Rojas Castro
EADH Communication Coordinator
<http://www.facebook.com/antoni.rojas>
**Apologies for cross-posting** Dear friends and colleagues, It is a pleasure for us to announce that there are only a few vacancies to enroll at our DH@Madrid Summer School 2016! This year the topic is “Digital technologies applied to the study of poetry”, and it is organized in Madrid by LINHD and UNED, and sponsored by the ERC European project POSTDATA. The Summer School offers an application of digital humanities to the study of poetry through practical learning of the latest technologies in this field and will take place between 27th of June and 1st of July 2016 at School of Economic Sciences, UNED, at "Sáenz Torrecilla" Conference Room. The course will be mainly practical and delivered in a workshop form, although some theoretical sessions are included too. The whole course can be followed in person or completely online. It will be taught in Spanish, although some supporting materials in English will be provided. Now, it is time to take action! Secure your spot on our Summer School and you will be the first to test our new Virtual Research Environment – EVI platform! Here is the link for enrollment: http://extension.uned.es/actividad/idactividad/11781 Special discounts will be provided for members of DH Associations (and especially HDH, RedHD and AAHD). A special thanks for their endorsement, difussion and support for Dariah, Clarin and Dixit. More information about the Summer school in our website: http://linhd.uned.es/p/dhsummer2016/ (Spanish) and http://linhd.uned.es/en/p/dh-summer-2016/ (English). If you need more information please do not hesitate to contact us: Elena González Blanco García egonzalezblanco(a)flog.uned.es or Mara Manailescu mmanailescu(a)linhd.uned.es . Best regards, LINHD Team & Summer School organizers Elena González-Blanco Gimena del Rio Clara Martínez
http://linhd.uned.es
----**Disculpas por la duplicidad de correos** Queridos amigos y colegas: Nos complace anunciaros que estamos cerca de agotar las últimas plazas para matricularse en nuestra escuela de verano de Humanidades Digitales DH@Madrid Summer School 2016, organizada por LINHD en la UNED. El tema del curso de este año es "Tecnologías digitales aplicadas al estudio de la poesía", y está enmarcado y cofinanciado por el proyecto europeo ERC POSTDATA. El curso ofrece una aplicación de las diferentes tecnologías que se aplican al estudio de la poesía mediante un aprendizaje práctico basado en workshops. Tendrá lugar entre los días 27 de junio y 1 de julio en la Facultad de Económicas de la UNED, Sala Saenz Torrecilla. Se podrá cursar en persona o completamente online, en directo o en diferido. La lengua de enseñanza será el español principalmente, aunque habrá alguna charla en inglés y materiales de apoyo en dicha lengua. ¡Animaos! Reservad ahora vuestra plaza en la escuela de verano y tendréis además ocasión de ser los primeros en probar nuestro nuevo Entorno Virtual de Investigación EVI-LINHD! Pinchad aquí para realizar la matrícula: http://extension.uned.es/actividad/idactividad/11781 Se aplicarán descuentos especiales a los miembros de asociaciones de Humanidades Digitales (Especialmente HDH, RedHD y AAHD). Queremos además agradecer su apoyo y esponsorización a Dariah, Clarin y Dixit. Para más información sobre el programa y detalles podéis consultar nuestra web: http://linhd.uned.es/p/dhsummer2016/ (Spanish) y http://linhd.uned.es/en/p/dh-summer-2016/ (English). Si tenéis alguna consulta, no dudéis en contactarnos: Elena González Blanco García egonzalezblanco(a)flog.uned.es o Mara Manailescu mmanailescu(a)linhd.uned.es . Un saludo muy cordial y hasta dentro de unos días El equipo de LINHD organizador de DH@Madrid Summer School Elena González-Blanco Gimena del Rio Clara Martínez
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The European University is launching a postgraduate degree in Cultural
and Creative Tourism. The course aims to update the knowledge and skills
of cultural mediation in heritage sites and museums, according to the
creative tourism requirements and parameters. Given the most
sought-after tourist experiences are related to culture and
authenticity, storytelling and pictographic methodologies emerge as new
procedures of tourism promotion, cultural mediation and immersive
experience. Therefore, the course proposes subjects in the traditional
fields of history, art history, ethnography and literature, as well as
heritage science, culture studies and digital humanities.
http://amusearte.hypotheses.org/1343
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*Dália Guerreiro*
Gmail <mailto:damague@gmail.com>; Mail UÉ <mailto:dguerreiro@uevora.pt>
CIDEHUS-UÉ/FCT <http://www.cidehus.uevora.pt/>
Sócia fundadora da AHDig <http://ahdig.org/>
Blogue Bibliotecas e Humanidades Digitais <https://bdh.hypotheses.org/>
Twitter: @DaliaGuerreiro <https://twitter.com/DaliaGuerreiro>
(apologies for cross posting)
Dear all,
This is a reminder that we are accepting proposals until *June 10 *for the
annual Digital Humanities Forum 2016 at the University of Kansas which will
take place on September 30 and October 1.
Please share far and wide!
Full details http://idrh.ku.edu/dhforum2016
All best,
Élika (on behalf of the organizing committee)
Places, Spaces, Sites: Mapping Critical Intersections in Digital Humanities
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The 2016 DH Forum will take place on Saturday, October 1, following a full
day of (gratis) Digital Humanities workshops on Friday, September 30. *Paper
proposals are due Friday, June 10.*
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Notions of place, space, and site are theorized and put into practice in
distinct ways across various academic fields. Spatial technologies and
location services and tools, along with the rise of geo-humanities work,
are bringing the tensions among ideas of place, space, and site to the
surface. Moreover, a turn towards internationalization and the global has
been taking place in Digital Humanities scholarship and practice, further
complicating our notions of space and place. Digital Humanities has the
capacity to bring these tensions together in both conflicting and
harmonious ways. The 2016 DH Forum seeks to explore the intersections,
mutual critiques and/or coincidences among fields, and their practices and
conceptual tenets.
Place in Digital Humanities has largely been explored in terms of its
relevance or pertinence in departments, on campuses, in classrooms, in
libraries, etc. In a global perspective, places can be viewed as sites of
distinct academic practice (DH and otherwise), influenced by geopolitical,
linguistic and social asymmetries, colonial histories, and neocolonial
exploitation. The web, virtual spaces of collaboration, and online
communities are reinventing and complicating our understanding of space and
our place in the world. Furthermore, various notions surrounding the ideas
of place, space, and site are at the center of the geo-spatial turn seen in
many areas of Digital Humanities.
Still, what place, space, and site are remains subject to deeper reflection
and articulation, even more so as their traditional definitions intersect
with the digital. What are the implications of digital media and forms of
data collection and encoding place/space/site? What are the challenges
posed by historical notions of place/space/site to current thinking and
technologies? Places/spaces/sites have overlapping physical, symbolic,
affective, cultural, political, or metaphorical dimensions--how do spatial
technologies help or hinder how we interrogate and represent them? What is
the role of networked technologies to delineate, imagine, and create
places/spaces? How does place determine our place in the world? What is the
impact of race, gender and gender expression, age, able bodiedness and
disability, language, ethnicity, and geopolitics on ideas of
place/space/site? Does a place/site exist in a world we perceive to be in
constant movement? How do notions of the local and the global complicate
our thinking about place/space/site?
We welcome proposals on projects, research results, or critical/theoretical
approaches that address such questions. Topics may include (but are not
limited to) the following:
- Locative and spatial narratives
- Location aware technologies
- Migration and refugee digital studies
- Border digital studies
- Local/global uses of digital media
- DH infrastructure and practice in global/local contexts
- Commemorative sites, collective memory and the digital humanities
- Online communities
- Placemaking
- Community building
- Digital archaeology
- Methodologies for analyzing unstructured data in a spatial context
- Virtual worlds
- Recreations of historical and fictional places/spaces
- Indigenous, queer, and/or feminist mapping strategies or projects
- GIS and historical GIS applications in the humanities
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*DH Forum Student Showcase:* We encourage graduate students to submit
abstracts of papers or poster presentations. Up to three of the student
presentations will be selected for a Student Showcase based on the quality,
originality, clarity of the written abstracts, along with their alignment
with the DH Forum theme and expected future impact. The presenters will be
awarded $200 each at the conference. Students should identify themselves as
such at the time of abstract submission to be considered for the showcase
and award. For a paper to be eligible, at least fifty percent of the
research reported in the paper must be performed by one or more student
authors, and the student must be the primary presenter of the paper at the
conference.
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*Please submit 500 word abstracts in PDF format to idrh(a)ku.edu
<idrh(a)ku.edu> by June 10, 2016*
Caros,
É já no dia 1 de Junho que se realiza o workshop "Bibliotecas Digitais" na
FCSH (
http://atlas.fcsh.unl.pt/docs/Bibliotecas_Digitais_Conhecimento_Cientifico_…).
Cremos que será muito útil para todos aqueles que estão a fazer ou a
iniciar uma investigação. Em qualquer nível. Saber como funcionam e o que
nos podem oferecer as Bibliotecas Digitais é hoje uma competência essencial
de qualquer aluno, investigador ou docente, em qualquer área do
conhecimento. Ficam desde já convidados, não é preciso inscrição, pois é um
workshop livre e aberto a todos os que quiserem participar. Será dado um
certificado de frequência no final. Tragam as vossas questões e sugestões
para o debate.
Até quarta!
*Dália Guerreiro*http://bdh.hypotheses.org/
Membro fundador da AHDig
Associação das Humanidades Digitais <http://ahdig.org/>
**Apologies for cross-posting***
Dearcolleagues,
We arepleased to announce our DH@Madrid Summer School 2016 at LINHD-UNED from 27 Juneto 1st July. This year the central topic is: “Digital Technologiesapplied to the study of poetry”. It will cover different technologies andapproaches to DH standards and methods, as TEI-XML, semantic web tecnnologies,and some smaller approaches to stylometry and R.
The coursecan be followed in person or virtually (completely online!). Registration isthe same in both cases, but virtual students will have streaming videos andpresentations online.
The courseis sponsored by HDH (Asociación Hispánica de Humanidades Digitales, www.humanidadesdigitales.org),AAHD (Asociación Argentina de Humanidades Digitales) www.aahd.org, and DIXIT (Digital ScholarlyEditing Initial Training Network) www.dixit.uni-koeln.de.Members of all these groups will receive a 10% discount over the registrationfees.
Please,find attached the complete program and registration information:
Dates: 27June to 1st July 2016
Place: Sala Sáenz Torrecilla, Facultad de Económicas, UNED,Madrid – or your own computer…
More informationregistration process and program:
http://linhd.uned.es/p/dhsummer2016/
Best regards
Elena González Blanco: egonzalezblanco(a)flog.uned.es
Gimena del Rio Riande: gdelrio.riande(a)linhd.uned.es
Clara Martínez Cantón cimartinez(a)flog.uned.es
Dpto. de Literatura Española y Teoría de la Literatura,Despacho 722
Facultad de Filología, UNED
Paseo Senda del Rey 7
28040 MADRID
tel. 91 3986873
www.uned.es/remetcahttp://filindig.hypotheses.org/http://linhd.uned.eswww.uned.es/personal/elenagonzalezblanco
@linhduned
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Queridos amigos:
Me complace anunciar que ya está abierto el plazo para lainscripción en nuestro curso de verano de este año “Tecnologías aplicadas alestudio de la poesía”, organizado por LINHD en el marco de los cursos de veranode la UNED. Se trata de un curso de humanidades digitales que, centrándose enel tema del análisis poético, realizará un recorrido panorámico a través de lasprincipales tecnologías del ámbito de las humanidades digitales, desde eletiquetado de textos con XML-TEI, a la web semántica, introduciendo además laestilometría y el procesamiento del lenguaje natural como tecnologías que,combinadas, pueden arrojar novedosos e incentivadores resultados deinvestigación.
Se podrá seguir de forma presencial o virtual, en directo yen diferido, con foros especíifiso para consulta con los profesrores.
El curso está patrocinado por la HDH (Asociación Hispánica de HumanidadesDigitales, www.humanidadesdigitales.org),la AAHD (Asociación Argentina de Humanidades Digitales) www.aahd.org, y DIXIT (Digital Scholarly EditingInitial Training Network) www.dixit.uni-koeln.de.Los miembros vinculados a alguna de estas organizaciones contarán con un 10% dedescuento adicional sobre el precio de la matrícula.
Fechas: 27de junio al 1 de Julio de 2016
Place: Sala Sáenz Torrecilla, Facultad de Económicas, UNED,Madrid – o tu propio ordenador…
Moreinformation, matrícula y programa en:
http://linhd.uned.es/p/dhsummer2016/
¡Os esperamos!
Elena González Blanco: egonzalezblanco(a)flog.uned.es
Gimena del Rio Riande: gdelrio.riande(a)linhd.uned.es
Clara Martínez Cantón cimartinez(a)flog.uned.es
Dpto. de Literatura Española y Teoría de la Literatura,Despacho 722
Facultad de Filología, UNED
Paseo Senda del Rey 7
28040 MADRID
tel. 91 3986873
www.uned.es/remetcahttp://filindig.hypotheses.org/http://linhd.uned.eswww.uned.es/personal/elenagonzalezblanco
@linhduned
Daniel Paul O'Donnell
Professor of English and Associate Member of the University Library Academic Staff
Department of English and University Library
University of Lethbridge
4401 University Drive West
Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4
Canada
Tel. +1 (403) 329-2377
http://people.uleth.ca/~daniel.odonnell
@danielPaulOD
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Subject: [DHSI] First International Conference of the Argentine Association of Digital Humanities (AAHD)
Dear colleagues,
The Argentine Association of Digital Humanities/Asociación Argentina de Humanidades Digitales (AAHD) invites researchers, professors and students to participate in its International Conference: Digital Humanities. Local Constructions in Global Contexts, to be held at Centro Cultural General San Martin in Buenos Aires, 7-9 November, 2016.
We invite the scholarly community in the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences to join this first international conference on the subject in our country. Journalists, makers, programmers, computer scientists are also welcome to attend. The aim is to discuss the characteristics both of global and local Digital Humanities.
The deadline to submit proposals is June 1 st, 2016. Abstracts must be sent via our online system at Acta Academica, http://www.aacademica.org/aahd.congreso (see Envíos de resúmenes).
The languages of the conference are Spanish, English and Portuguese.
More information in our website: http://aahd.com.ar/ or through our email congresoaahd(a)gmail.com<mailto:congresoaahd@gmail.com>
We will wait for you.
Asociación Argentina de Humanidades Digitales (AAHD)
Dear colleagues,
the current issue of the AHR includes an article about the impact of
digitized sources on historical research.
The AHA has made the article available OA for about two months
http://ahr.oxfordjournals.org/content/121/2/377.abstract
Best wishes,
Dagmar Riedel
*The Transnational and the Text-Searchable: Digitized Sources and the
Shadows They CastLara Putnam*
Lara Putnam is UCIS Research Professor and Chair of the Department of
History at the University of Pittsburgh. She is the author of Radical
Moves: Caribbean Migrants and the Politics of Race in the Jazz Age (UNC
Press, 2013), The Company They Kept: Migrants and the Politics of Gender in
Caribbean Costa Rica, 1870–1960 (UNC Press, 2002), and more than two dozen
articles and chapters exploring labor migration and its consequences, from
the very intimate to the very public. She is currently Vice
President/President-Elect of the Conference on Latin American History.
This essay explores the consequences for historians’ research of the
twinned transnational and digitized turns. The accelerating digitization of
primary and secondary sources and the rise of full-text web-based search to
access information within them has transformed historians’ research
practice, radically diminishing the role of place-specific prior expertise
as a prerequisite to discovery. Indeed, we can now find information without
knowing where to look. This has incited remarkably little reflection among
mainstream historians, but the consequences are profound. What has become
newly possible? How do the new digital affordances relate to the current
boom in transnational topics and approaches? How do the reach, speed, and
granularity of digitized search impact our ability to reconstruct the
supranational past? This essay heralds the novel forms of
knowledge-generation made possible by technological transformations. It
also attempts an accounting of all the ancillary learning that
international research in an analog world once required. What kinds of
knowledge and insight did place-based research across borders instill? What
are the intellectual and political consequences of leaving that behind?
This is CERTAINLY of interest to this list!
Daniel Paul O'Donnell
Professor of English and Associate Member of the University Library Academic Staff
Department of English and University Library
University of Lethbridge
4401 University Drive West
Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4
Canada
Tel. +1 (403) 329-2377
http://people.uleth.ca/~daniel.odonnell
@danielPaulOD
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Subject: [SCHOLCOMM] #BUDSC16: Negotiating Borders through Digital Collaboration
***Apologies for cross posting***
Proposals are due May 31st!
Bucknell University, with support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, will host its third annual digital scholarship conference on October 28-30, 2016. The theme of the conference is "Negotiating Borders through Digital Collaboration."
This conference will bring together a broad community of practitioners--faculty, researchers, librarians, educational technologists, and students--who are using technology to rethink seemingly intractable borders within and outside of the university. We define "borders" as boundaries that limit access; conditions that differentiate insiders from outsiders; or any obstacle that impairs open communication and collaboration.
We invite proposals that explore or critique digital modes of scholarly, cultural, and political intersectionality. Special consideration will be given to proposals that demonstrate how crossing institutional boundaries, whether within or beyond the university, can facilitate the expansion of borders, broadly conceived.
Some topics may include:
* Digital tools that bridge the gap between scholarship and teaching
* Computational methods that explore intersections of identity, power, and social justice
* Global and multilingual aspects of digital scholarship
* The role of technology in creating communities of practice that bridge cultural, racial, and economic divides
* Digital technologies that facilitate equitable collaborations between faculty and students, or that bridge the town/gown divide
* New modes of inquiry that negotiate and rethink normative ideas of gender and sexuality
* Forms of digital scholarship that allow for increased accessibility
Presentations may take the form of interactive presentations, project demos, electronic posters, panel discussions, work-in-progress sessions, workshops, or lightning talks.
We look forward to building on the success of the last two years, in which instructional technologists, librarians, archivists, faculty, students, and community members came together to discuss challenges, share working models, reflect on projects, and inspire new avenues for actively including students in public scholarly pursuits. For more information, please view our video<https://youtu.be/KZgCaUB34Cw> from the 2015 meeting and visit the conference website<http://budsc16.scholar.bucknell.edu/>.
Proposals due May 31, 2016 via the online application form<https://goo.gl/1Y1evq>.
Thanks,
Courtney
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Courtney Paddick
Librarian for the Arts and Humanities
Bucknell University
(570) 577-3242
cmp018(a)bucknell.edu<mailto:cmp018@bucknell.edu>