DANS invites you for the colloquium 'Digging into Data - Humanities and Knowledge organization'

Date	4 October
Time	15:00 - 17:00
Location	Den Haag

The DANS R&D colloquium is a meeting place for researchers, archivists and ICT specialists. Organized by DANS, its focus is on research data and what you can do with it. You are invited to participate in discussing the challenge to keep data fixed and to invent tools that can evolve fast in a landscape that is on the move. If you have done projects in preserving and reusing data we find a slot for you to share your experiences.

The research consortium of the TA-P project 'Digging into the Knowledge Graph' is holding its consortium meeting October 3-5, 2018 in Amsterdam / The Hague.
On this occasion DANS organizes a Colloquium on the theme of Linked Data, Humanities research and the role of Knowledge Organisation Systems in it.

If you want to attend, please register online. If you have any questions, please ask Andrea Scharnhorst.  

1. Flexibility versus Interoperability
   Graphs are versatile structures able to express highly specific data, information, and interpretation. This facilitates humanities research, marked as it is by heterogeneous data, situated interpretation, complex research questions, and project-specific ephemeral research design. At the same time research institutions, data repositories, research infrastructures, and digital archives require standardization of data and interoperability of tools to facilitate their sustainability and reuse. Are these two features fundamentally at odds with each other, or can they be different sides of the same coin?
2. Generalization
   Closely related to the first key topic is the question of modelling in graph structures and possibilities of generalization. Can we define generic terms, concepts, and structures  from which discipline-specific annotation systems can then be developed? What does a minimally-sustainable humanities-oriented generic graph data structure look like, and is it possible with such a structure to support the highly specific semantics required by most humanities research?
3. Approaches to Querying and Access
   To support different research strategies it is paramount that interoperable research data repositories support adaptable query and information retrieval approaches. Several graph-oriented query languages exist (e.g. GraphQL, OpenCypher, Gremlin, SPARQL), but what requirements should be set for a graph query language geared especially towards humanities research data and questions? What can such strategies look like? Are there opportunities to find interdisciplinary approaches here?

Proposals

• Graph-based data models, theoretical and practical explorations
• Applications of graph technologies in the humanities
• Text-as-Graph (TAG)
• Solutions for query and comparison of different graph models
• Strategies for, or demonstration of, various kinds of (computational) access to humanities data and information represented as graphs
• Graph representation of specific networks of persons, objects, and information relating to humanities research questions
• Interacting with graphs and graph interaction design
• Graphs as a solution for information and data annotation in the humanities
• Graphs as models for representation of provenance and transmission of information
• Graphs as models for historical data and information, above and beyond social network analysis
• Engineering solutions to analysis, traversal, querying graph structure data in specific humanities research contexts
• The comparison and interpretation of graphs, subgraphs, and traversals

Keynote

Program Committee:

• Prof. Dr. Tara Andrews (Universität Wien)
• Dr. Andreas Kuczera (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur Mainz)
• Dr. Thomas Efer (Universität Leipzig)
• Franziska Diehr (Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin)
• Dr. Elena Spadini (University of Lausanne)
• Drs. Joris van Zundert (Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands, Amsterdam)

Date	October 29 - November 1, 2018
Location	Amsterdam Mövenpick Hotel
url	IEEE eScience 2018
Price	Early Bird tickets are available until 14 September

The 14^th IEEE eScience conference 2018 is coming up in Amsterdam!

The way in which research is carried out is undergoing a series of radical changes as a result of the digital revolution. Researchers in all disciplines are increasingly adopting digital technologies to strengthen their research. The IEEE eScience Conference promotes and encourages all aspects of eScience and its associated technologies, applications, and tools.

We are proud to announce all accepted contributions and an interesting program! 
New this year is a special day with focused sessions on:

• Advances in eScience for the Humanities and Social Sciences
• Weather & Climate Science in the Digital Era
• Data Handling and Analytics for Health
• Exascale Computing for High Energy Physics

Also, have a look at the keynote speakers and eight Workshops and Tutorials.

Don't forget to register before September 14^th and take advantage of the Early Bird discount. Registration for a single day or the workshop day is also possible at a reduced rate.

AUDIO ARCHIVES AT THE CROSSROADS OF
SPEECH SCIENCES, DIGITAL HUMANITIES AND DIGITAL HERITAGE

The Italian Association of Speech Sciences (AISV) is happy to announce the AISV Annual Conference 2019 and the call for the submission of extended abstracts.

What	AISV 2019
Where	Arezzo, Italy
When	14-16 February 2019
About	Dipartimento di Scienze della formazione, scienze umane e della comunicazione interculturale, audio archives at the crossroads of speech sciences, digital humanities and digital heritage

Important dates

• Abstract submission: 25 sept. 2018
• Notification of acceptance: 30 oct. 2018
• Conference dates:  14-16 febr. 2019
• Full papers submission: 15 march 2019

Links

• AISV Annual Conference 2019 website:  in [English] and [Italian]
• AISV Website
• EasyChair submission: https://easychair.org/my/conference.cgi?a=12905134;conf=aisv2019
• Contact for general information on the conference:

Conference Topics

Audio archives are common in different disciplines within the social sciences and humanities and Information and Communications Technology, from the various fields of linguistics (phonetics, phonology, dialectology, sociolinguistics, corpus linguistics, etc) and speech technologies (natural language processing, automatic speech recognition, etc), to oral history, ethnography, sociology, anthropology, and psychology.

They contain vast amounts of information relevant to social sciences and humanities but at the same time they are underutilized material of intangible cultural heritage. Crucially, the fragmentation of archives, repositories, and data centres undermines the accessibility and reuse of oral archives.

The conference aims at discussing possibilities for a closer collaboration between speech scientists, conversation analysists, speech technologists and oral historians.

Potential questions include

• What are the challenges involved in the re-use of speech and oral archives collected for other purposes?
• What kind of opportunities do oral archives provide for speech technology?
• What do linguistic uses of historical narratives look like? What are the opportunities and challenges of using oral history archives in linguistic research? What are the opportunities and challenges of phonetic tools for oral history and social sciences? In what ways could oral historians profit from a closer collaboration?
• What are the challenges involved in the long-term preservation and in the metadata description of digital archives? What are the challenges and the risks associated to legal and ethical issues?
• What are the opportunities and the threats associated to online audio archives sharing? What are the long-established standards and the welcomed ones? What are the online share-platforms and the forthcoming projects? What are the opportunities at EU level for the preservation and maintenance of audio archives?

Following the tradition of AISV conferences, the programme will also include open sessions on any aspect of speech science research.

The languages of the conference are Italian and English. Power Point presentations and posters should be written in English.

How to submit your abstract

Authors are invited to submit an abstract by 25 September. Abstracts should be written in English or Italian, and should be restricted to 4000 characters (including spaces) and two pages in A4 format, including graphs and references. Abstracts should be submitted in .pdf format via https://easychair.org/my/conference.cgi?a=12905134;conf=aisv2019

Invited speakers

• Franciska de Jong| Universiteit Utrecht | Executive Director CLARIN ERIC
  “Spoken Word Archives as Societal and Cultural Data”
  special session (supported by CLARIN ERIC)
• Christoph Draxler, Florian Schiel – Bavarian Archive for Speech Signals Ludwig Maximilian University Munich, Germany
  "Creating, Managing and Analysing Speech Databases using BAS Services and Emu: A Hands-On Tutorial"

Previous AISV Conferences

Proceedings of selected papers from previous AISV Conferences

• STUDI AISV 1
• STUDI AISV 2
• STUDI AISV 3

Organizing Committee

• Fabio Ardolino (Università di Pisa)
• Silvia Calamai (Università degli Studi di Siena)
• Letizia Cirillo (Università degli Studi di Siena)
• Caterina Pesce (Università degli Studi di Padova)
• Duccio Piccardi (Università di Pisa)

Dear CLARIAH-particpators,

we would like to distribute the call for Steven Krauwer Awards 2018:

https://office.clarin.eu/v/CE-2018-1232-Steven-Krauwer-Awards-2018-call.docx

Please, take into account that CLARIN agreed on a possibility of awarding more than one candidate per a category and also that there is a possibility to give an award to a team.

Maciej Piasecki