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 deadline for paper submissions
is 11 September 2020. The conference will be held online on 23 to 24 November 2020. Naturalis Biodiversity Center in Leiden (the Netherlands) from 23 to 24 November 2020
(* see also COVID 19 note below).
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 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 special session:
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:
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)
4.
Maarten Heerlien (m.heerlien@rijksmuseum.nl)
Kind regards,
Andreas Weber
(*) COVID-19 NOTE:
Due to current COVID-19 regulations we do not yet know in what form the conference will take place. For now, we aim at a hybrid conference which will allow a small number of participants from nearby to come to Naturalis. All
other participants (including presenting authors from abroad) who cannot come to Naturalis, will get in
any event the opportunity to contribute to the conference digitally.
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Dr. Andreas Weber, University of Twente
Assistant professor | Department of Science, Technology and Policy Studies (STePS)
https://www.utwente.nl/en/bms/steps/staff/weber/
International Conference:
Collect&Connect: Archives and Collections in a Digital Age – submit a paper!
ICAART Special session on AI & Digital Cultural Heritage (ARTIDIGH 2021)
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Most recent journal paper:
Collecting Colonial Nature (BMGN, 2019, 134) – PDF
Most recent book:
Locations of Knowledge in Dutch Contexts (Brill, 2019) – TOC