*** NEW DEADLINE FOR PAPER SUBMISSIONS: 18 SEPTEMBER 2020 ***
Dear colleagues,
We are pleased to announce a call for papers for the international conference ** Collect
& Connect: Archives and Collections in a Digital Age **. The new deadline for paper
submissions is 18 September 2020 11 September 2020. Due to the current COVID-19 pandemic,
the conference will be held online.
The aims of this conference which officially concludes the NWO/Brill Creative Industries
Project Making Sense of Illustrated Handwritten Archives (2016-2020) are twofold. First,
to present results of finished and original research in the field of digitized archives
and natural and cultural heritage collections. Second, to promote exchange and discussion
between researchers and heritage professionals in the field of digital natural and
cultural heritage. Papers can be submitted as regular papers (=10-12 pages) and short
papers (=5-9 pages) through EASYCHAIR. More information about the conference and the link
to the submission system can be found here:
http://cfp.makingsenseproject.org
All positively reviewed papers shall be submitted as proceedings volume to
CEUR-WS.org<http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fceur-ws.org%2F&…
for online publication. Six to eight papers presented at the conference are expected to be
selected for publication in the Journal of Computing and Cultural Heritage (JOCCH).
Scope of the conference:
In recent years, libraries, archives and museums have spent major efforts on annotating
and enriching their digitized archives and collections with contextual information, in
order to make them retrievable and interlinked in novel ways. Often institutions aim to
enhance their reach and relevance for broader user groups. A major challenge in the field
is the heterogeneous character of many of such digitized collections. Many handwritten
archives and collections of physical objects in the realms of natural history,
archaeology, history, and art history entail combinations of textual and visual elements
whose interpretation requires a range of different expertise and computational
technologies. This conference therefore welcomes papers that present, discuss, and reflect
upon the technical, social, and institutional challenges digital heritage professionals
and researchers encounter when enriching heterogeneous digitized collections with
context.
Topics include, but are not limited to:
* Semantic web approaches to interlinking digitized historical archives and
collections
* Text and image interpretation in digital collections
* Multimodal collection interpretation and access
* Handwriting recognition and heterogeneous digital collections
* Machine learning and digital collections
* Bias and digital heritage
* Computer vision and digital collections
* Digital collections' access and inclusivity
* Sharing and visualization of heterogeneous historical archives and collections
* Citizen science (including crowdsourcing) and digital archives and collections
* Challenges of enriching digitized handwritten archive material
* Digital capture and annotation of heterogeneous collections and artefacts
* Dealing with uncertainty, quality issues, data bias and collection gaps
* Geographical and spatial enrichment of collections
* Application of common vocabularies and data reconciliation
If you are not sure whether you research fits with ** Collect & Connect ** or if you
have any other question relate to the event, please do not hesitate to contact the
conference chairs:
1. Andreas Weber (a.weber@utwente.nl<mailto:a.weber@utwente.nl>)
1. Eulàlia Gassó Miracle
(eulalia.gassomiracle@naturalis.nl<mailto:eulalia.gassomiracle@naturalis.nl>)
2. Katy Wolstencroft
(k.j.wolstencroft@liacs.leidenuniv.nl<mailto:k.j.wolstencroft@liacs.leidenuniv.nl>)
4. Maarten Heerlien
(m.heerlien@rijksmuseum.nl<mailto:m.heerlien@rijksmuseum.nl>)
Kind regards,
Andreas Weber
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Dr. Andreas Weber, University of Twente |
https://www.utwente.nl/en/bms/steps/staff/weber/
Assistant professor | Department of Science, Technology and Policy Studies (STePS)
PhD training coordinator | Graduate Research School of Science, Technology, and Modern
Culture (WTMC<https://www.wtmc.eu/>)
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