Dear GLAM professionals,
Reimagining Annotation for Multimodal Cultural Heritage is an international conference
that will be held in Rennes, France from 7th-9th February 2024. [
https://reimagining-amch.sciencesconf.org/ |
https://reimagining-amch.sciencesconf.org/ ]
. The conference looks to explore questions around digital annotation in the humanities
and the GLAM sector (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums) across three primary axes:
tools , methods and projects . We seek to discover the extent of digital tools for the
navigation of multimodal document networks, the creation of data-driven interfaces and the
implementation of close and / or distant reading techniques; the epistemological questions
that these tools allow to emerge and how research in the humanities is changing; and
projects that make use of these tools.
Here is the call for papers:
CALL FOR PAPERS
Rapid advances in digital technology are constantly expanding the ways in which we can
annotate multimodal documents, be they texts, images, videos, sounds, web pages or code.
Cultural heritage institutions have embarked on ambitious campaigns to digitize their
collections; at the same time, born digital heritage joins archival collections. The
valorisation of digital heritage, especially audiovisual documents and multimodal corpora,
is becoming a major issue for both cultural institutions and researchers. One of the
answers consists of creating annotation interfaces or automating annotation thanks to
computational techniques, both for close and / or distant viewing analysis.
Reimagining annotation for multimodal cultural heritage makes for an exciting and
stimulating landscape, but also engenders a host of epistemological questions. How can we
engage with and organize the informational hierarchies that emerge from these methods?
What are the affordances and limits of close and distant reading methods and how can we
articulate these two approaches? Faced with a multiplication of approaches and interfaces,
how can we consolidate research and resources to encourage cumulative, collaborative work
to occur? What becomes of the document’s ontology — notably in the context of time-based
media and the analysis of creative processes — when it integrates a network of
annotations, readings and decompositions?
This conference seeks to interrogate these questions across three primary axes :
*
Axis 1: Tools . We wish to interrogate the tools available for the annotation of
multimodal data and cultural heritage. What is the state of the art, what tools are
available to researchers? What are the issues developers face when dealing with multimodal
data and especially audiovisual data? How do developers overcome the friction between
powerful computational methods and users?
*
Axis 2: Methods . We wish to interrogate the methodologies for engaging with multimodal
data and cultural heritage. How has annotation in the digital humanities developed with
the emergence of computational techniques? What are the new approaches they allow for? How
will the field develop from an epistemological point of view?
*
Axis 3: Projects . We wish to shine a light on projects that have interrogated these first
two axes in academia and the GLAM sector.
We encourage researchers and cultural professionals from a large number of fields who work
along these axes to contribute: the digital humanities and GLAM professionals, the
performing arts, theater, cinema, music, visual art, history, video games, conservation
and archival professionals, as well as cultural heritage institutions.
LOCATION
The conference will be hosted at Rennes 2 University and the MSHB (Maison des Sciences de
l’Homme en Bretagne) (Rennes, France). It will be possible to attend the conference
online. Prior to the conference, the participants will have the possibility to attend a
day-long workshop which will be the opportunity to showcase a new tool based on IIIF for
the annotation of multimodal corpora. More information about the workshop shall be
communicated soon.
CALENDAR
11/04/2023: Publication of call.
15/09/2023: Abstract submission deadline.
23/10/2023: Notification of accepted abstracts.
SUBMISSION
Papers : Abstract of 500 words.
Posters : Abstract of 500 words.