[HASS-RG] [Fwd: IEEE eScience Conference - eHumanities track]

[Tobias Blanke]

Apologies for cross-posting

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IEEE eScience Conference: eHumanities Track
9-11 December 2009
Oxford


Call for Papers
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Researchers in the Humanities have embraced digital technologies for 
decades and are continuing to do so in increasing numbers. Two workshops 
at earlier IEEE eScience conferences, along with numerous other events, 
have given interesting insights into these activities. However, advances 
in the digital humanities have been rather fragmented, and have been 
tailored to specific research questions and methodologies. In an attempt 
to connect the digital islands that have thus emerged, this event will 
focus on applications and infrastructures for re-usability, integration 
and interoperability of research data for e-Humanities, addressing such 
issues as the interoperability of existing tools to enable more complex 
workflows, and shared virtual research environments for typical work 
environments of Humanities scholars.

A multiplicity of large initiatives have already started addressing the 
these issues, among them ANDS in Australia (http://ands.org.au/), 
Project Bamboo in the USA (http://projectbamboo.org/), as well as the 
ESFRI-projects CLARIN (http://www.clarin.eu/) and DARIAH 
(http://www.dariah.eu/) in Europe, to name but a few. All these 
initiatives are facing the huge problem of fragmentation and 
heterogeneity in research in the Humanities, which has repercussions on 
formats and encodings for datasets, the ways of analyzing phenomena and 
the traditions of scholarly discourse. Not surprisingly these 
initiatives in particular try to get a deeper understanding of layers of 
abstractions required which might address the goal of harmonization on 
the one hand, without ignoring the specificities of the various 
Humanities disciplines on the other hand.

This e-Humanities track aims to showcase projects that contribute to 
e-Humanities, whether by providing integrated and interoperable 
infrastructures, or by offering new types of applications making use of 
such infrastructures and connecting the digital islands. At the same 
time this track aims to trigger critical discussion and to move us 
forward in our goal to establish an international e-Humanities debate. 
Submission of papers is invited from all stakeholders: humanities 
researchers, technologists, as well as cultural heritage institutions 
and e-Humanities/e-Infrastructure researchers.

Submission
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Papers submitted for presentation on the workshop should report original 
research that has not been published elsewhere. The submission 
guidelines can be found at the official conference web-site: 
http://www.oerc.ox.ac.uk/ieee/call-for-papers.

Acceptance and Publication
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All papers submitted for presentation in the workshop will be reviewed. 
At least one author of each accepted submission must attend the 
workshop. Accepted papers will be published in pre-conference 
proceedings published by IEEE. Selected excellent work may be eligible 
for additional post-conference publication as extended papers in 
selected journals, such as FGCS. The organizers of the e-Humanities 
track are negotiating with publishers to take care that all accepted 
papers will be published in a suitable journal.

Important dates
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Deadline for submission of papers:         Friday, 31st July 2009
Notification of Acceptance: Tuesday         1st September 2009
Final submission of camera-ready papers:     Friday 18th September 2009
Conference and Workshop:             9-11 December 2009

Organizers
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Chad Kainz              Bamboo, Univ. Chicago
Heike Neuroth         DARIAH, SUB Göttingen
Peter Wittenburg      CLARIN, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen
Martin Wynne          CLARIN, Oxford Text Archive

PC
Jost Gippert, Gerhard Lauer, Fotis Iannides, Erhard Hinrichs, Heike 
Neuroth, Andreas Aschenbrenner, Claus Zinn, Gerhard Heyer, Peter 
Wittenburg (Germany), Paul Doorenbosch, Peter Doorn, Marc Kemps-Snijders 
(Netherlands), Nuria Bel (Spain), Nicoletta Calzolari (Italy), Chad 
Kainz, Sue Ellen Wright, Helen Dry, Neil Fraistaat (USA), Stelios 
Piperidis (Greece), Sheila Anderson, Tobias Blanke, Martin Wynne (UK), 
Bente Maegaard (Denmark), Marko Tadic (Croatia), Tamas Varadi (Hungary), 
Gerhard Budin (Austria), Bruna Franchetto (Brazil), Sven Strömquist 
(Sweden), Key-Sun Choi (Korea), Sadaoki Furui (Japan), Laurent Romary 
(France), Chu Ren Huang (China), Linda Barwick, Steven Bird (Australia), 
Susan Schreibman (Ireland)





-- 
Dr Tobias Blanke
Research Fellow
Arts and Humanities e-Science Support Centre
Centre for e-Research, King's College London
26-29 Drury Lane, London WC2B 5RL

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