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CfP on Digital Hermeneutics in Frankfurt/Main, Germany
by Möbus, Dennis 07 Jul '23

07 Jul '23

Dear Members of the EADH-Mailingslist, we are pleased to announce our second international conference on Digital Hermeneutics, organized by the research cluster digital_culture at the FernUniversität in Hagen: Digital Hermeneutics II: Sources, Analysis, Interpretation, Annotation, and Curation The conference will take place at our side-campus in Frankfurt/Main on November 23/24. Please find the call below and attached a layout-version. Best regards, Dennis Möbus Call for Papers Digital Hermeneutics II: Sources, Analysis, Interpretation, Annotation, and Curation Annual Conference of the Research Cluster digital_culture at the FernUniversität in Hagen 23./24. November 2023, Frankfurt am Main Digitization has reached almost all areas of science and scholarship. And even in the cultural sciences and humanities, computers, databases and digital tools are increasingly important. Last year's annual conference "Digital Hermeneutics: Machines, Procedures, Meaning<https://www.fernuni-hagen.de/digitale-hermeneutik/>" of the research cluster digital_culture<https://www.fernuni-hagen.de/forschung/schwerpunkte/digitale-kultur/index.s…> dealt with the theoretical and conceptual challenges inherent in hermeneutic methods, tools, and applications. The results of the conference supported understanding and meaning, when algorithms, programs, machines, and other technical procedures contribute to it[1]. Following up on these initial theoretical and conceptual results, we now want to address more technical aspects of methods, technologies, tools, and applications supporting Digital Hermeneutics under the title "Digital Hermeneutics II: Sources, Analysis, Interpretation, Annotation, Curation" and take a look at digitally supported hermeneutic research processes and anticipate the future of digitized working practices in the cultural sciences and humanities. Without such digital support systems, it will no longer be possible to index, find, annotate, and curate the ever-growing number of digitally available resources for research data. Digital systems are also already in use for analyzing, indexing, enriching, and annotating multimedia data. But what about systems that support the analysis, annotation, and interpretation of digital research data - thus: representation of hermeneutic methods - and their results as well as supporting machine learning, reasoning, and finally automating the documentation of annotation, interpretation, and understanding? TOPICS OF INTEREST In an exchange between humanities scholars and computer scientists, we want to explore the possibilities and limits of the vision of digitally supported hermeneutics. The following questions should be understood as suggestions for contributions: · Digitization processes bear the risk of information loss or structural shifts and biases. How can these risks be dealt with? · The transformation of sources to data involves coding and enables the enrichment with information. How does one deal with the loss of the original source characteristics? Do standardizations promote a focus on unifying features of different sources or can nuances and deviations also be mapped? · Do the questions and epistemological interests of humanities, cultural studies, and social sciences change the availability, quality, and quantity of sources in the form of data? · How can algorithms and tools support, possibly even expand, research questions and epistemological interests in the humanities, cultural studies, and social sciences? · Can computer science also benefit from the discussion of methods in the humanities, social sciences, and cultural studies? The support of hermeneutic research processes by computer science can cover MultiMedia Indexing and Retrieval, Natural Language Processing (e.g. Named Entity Recognition), Knowledge Representation, Argumentation Mining, Machine Learning, Reliability, Explainability and Reproducibility. For the workshop, we are looking for contributions from both realms - computer science and humanities, also preferably in interdisciplinary tandem. Reports on current developments of digital support systems, experiences in dealing with such systems, as well as the problematization of technical and methodological challenges for the humanities and computer science are desired. Workshop Details The workshop will be held over two days covering the following panels: 23.11.2023 (12:00 - 21:00): Panel 1: "From Source to Data" Panel 2: "From Data to Scientific Questions for Digital Hermeneutics" Panel 3: "From Data to Scientific Methods for Digital Hermeneutics" Keynotes 24.11.2023 (9:00 - 13:30): Panel 4: "Sustainable Data Management for Digital Hermeneutics" Panel 5: "Costs and Benefits of Digital Hermeneutics" Scientific and Organizational Committee: Valentina Bachi, Photoconsortium Swati Chandna, SRH Univ. of Heidelberg Felix Engel, TIB - German National Library Antonella Fresa, Promoter S.r.l. Ingo Frommholz, Univ. of Wolverhampton Matthias Hemmje, FernUniversität in Hagen Helmut Hofbauer, FernUniversität in Hagen Paul Mc Kevitt, Univ. of Ulster, Belfast Almut Leh, FernUniversität in Hagen Bianca Mix, FernUniversität in Hagen Dennis Möbus, FernUniversität in Hagen Christian Nawroth, FernUniversität in Hagen Tom van Nuenen, Univ. of Cal. Berkeley Uta Störl, FernUniversität in Hagen Jan-Niklas Voigt-Antons, Univ. of Hamm-Lippstadt Binh Vu, SRH Univ. Heidelberg Joris van Zundert, Huygens Institute Amsterdam Language The workshop language is English. Abstracts can be submitted in English or German. Post-proceedings and Publication We are pleased to announce that we have been officially accepted by Springer: The papers will be published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). A German translation in the series Digitale Kultur<https://hagen-up.de/digitale-kultur/>, published by Hagen University Press, is being considered. Authors should consult Springer's Instructions for Authors of Proceedings and use either the LaTeX or the Word templates provided on the author's page for the preparation of their papers. Springer encourages authors to include their ORCIDs in their papers. For accepted papers, in addition, the corresponding author of each paper, acting on behalf of all of the authors of that paper, must complete and sign a License-to-Publish form. The corresponding author signing the copyright form should match the corresponding author marked on the paper. Once the files have been sent to Springer, changes relating to the authorship of the papers cannot be made. Submission and Deadlines September 15th 2023: Abstract (Position Paper, max. 500 words, please submit to dennis.moebus(a)fernuni-hagen.de<mailto:dennis.moebus@fernuni-hagen.de>) September 30th 2023: Notification to authors (Accept/Revise/Reject) October 30th 2023: Camera Ready Abstract 23./24. November 2023: Workshop December 15th 2023: Full Paper Submission January 15th 2024: Full Paper Review Feedback February 15th 2024: CRV Full Paper --- Dr. Dennis Möbus Oral-History.Digital Researcher Forschungsschwerpunkt digitale_kultur Coordination of the research group digital humanities - Forschen im digitalen Raum FernUniversität in Hagen dennis.moebus(a)fernuni-hagen.de<mailto:dennis.moebus@fernuni-hagen.de> https://www.fernuni-hagen.de/forschung/schwerpunkte/digitale-kultur/fg-digi… ________________________________ [1] https://hagen-up.de/publikationen/von-menschen-und-maschinen-mensch-maschin…

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[job] 2-year postdoc on cultural analytics/DH @Birkbeck/King’s College London
by Andrea Ballatore 07 Jul '23

07 Jul '23

[Please share with your networks] 📢 Come to work with us on museum analytics! 💡📊🏛️ URL: https://cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/postdoctoral-research-assistant-531235.html This is a full time, fixed term appointment until 30 September 2024 at Birkbeck, University of London. Please note, the successful candidate will be employed at Birkbeck for Year 1 and KCL for Year 2. Are you a recent PhD graduate or a Post Doctoral in computer science or data science, looking to work on an exciting trans-disciplinary project in the museums sector? We are seeking to appoint a Postdoctoral Research Fellow to work on the AHRC-funded project “Museum Closure in the UK 2000-2025”. You will be based at the Computer Science department at Birkbeck during the first year, and at the Digital Humanities department at King’s College London during the second year. The Museum Closure project will use trans-disciplinary methods to analyse closure and collections dispersal within the UK museums sector. Its aim is to examine the geographic distribution of closure, to better understand types of closure, and to document the flows of objects and knowledge from museums in the aftermath of closure. A Knowledge Base will be designed to model and store the collected data, and visualisations and statistical analyses of the data will be developed. Using these tools, the project team will aim to critically reassess notions of permanence and loss within the museum sector. The project builds on the earlier “Mapping Museums” and “Museums in the Pandemic” projects at Birkbeck (see http://blogs.bbk.ac.uk/mapping-museums/). It is led by Fiona Candlin, Professor of Museology at Birkbeck (Principal Investigator), Dr Andrea Ballatore (Digital Humanities, King’s College London) and Professors Alexandra Poulovassilis and Peter Wood (Computer Science, Birkbeck). As well as the Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Data/Computer Science, the project will also employ a postdoctoral research fellow in museology. You will design and implement the Knowledge Base (including software for uploading and extracting data), the statistical analyses, and the visualisations required for detailed data analysis. You will be required to collaborate with the other project members and report to the project group at regular team meetings (which may be held virtually or in person). You will be responsible for preparing refereed publications and presentations at conferences and project meetings. You may be required to travel within the UK and abroad several times a year. Essential skills include hands-on experience of programming, database design and implementation, and data analytics. The technologies used in the project include Python, R, and Neo4j. Experience in information visualisation is also highly desirable. (see URL for more info) -- Lecturer in Social and Cultural Informatics | HPL Lead Department of Digital Humanities King’s College London ✉️ andrea.ballatore(a)kcl.ac.uk<mailto:andrea.ballatore@kcl.ac.uk> 🔗 aballatore.space<http://aballatore.space/> 📅 Office Hours<https://calendly.com/andrea-ballatore-kcl/office-hours> 🐦 Twitter<https://twitter.com/a_ballatore> 👾 Computational Humanities RG<https://www.kcl.ac.uk/research/computational-humanities-research-group> 🗺️ RGS-IBG GIScience RG<https://geoinfo.science/> Pronouns: he/him Latest publications: ✅ Open access in GIScience and geographic data science link<https://aballatore.space/open-access-giscience> | 🏛️ A geography of UK museums link<https://rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/tran.12578>

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