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Calling all PhD students: Survey on DH training needs
by Weis, Joelle, Dr. 13 Dec '22

13 Dec '22

[we apologise for cross-posting] Dear colleagues, the DARIAH Working Group "Community Engagement" is currently conducting a short survey among PhD students in the context of a small research project. The project aims at identifying DH training needs for PhD students from various disciplines and with different levels of expertise. As diverse as the field of DH is, as diverse are the training needs for students entering the field from various backgrounds. If you are a PhD student using DH tools or interested in using them, we would love to hear from you about your training needs, skills and awareness of existing resources: https://survey.academiccloud.de/index.php/832776?lang=en Participating in our survey might be a possibility for you to attend a workshop in Mainz, Germany, for in-person focus group interviews and joint evaluation of existing training material on 2 and 3 February 2023. In the selection process for the workshop, we will consider various disciplines, different levels of expertise, and individuals' availability and willingness to attend the workshop. In-person interviews will help develop a more complete picture of the training needs of researchers in this phase of their career. If you encounter any issues or have questions about the survey, please feel free to contact us: community_engagement(a)dariah.eu<mailto:[email protected]> We are of course very grateful if you spread the survey in your networks. Many thanks for your help! Michael, Špela, and Joëlle https://dariahre.hypotheses.org/working-groups/community-engagement

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Journal of Computational Literary Studies (JCLS): first issue and current call for papers
by Journal of Computational Literary Studies 13 Dec '22

13 Dec '22

[with apologies for cross-posting] Dear colleagues, We are very happy to announce that the Journal of Computational Literary Studies (JCLS) has started publishing its first rolling issue. You can find the already published articles and those still to come on our website at https://jcls.io/ <https://jcls.io/> We also would like to remind you that the call for the next issue is currently open. It concerns submissions for both our journal-only track (open for submissions at any time) and our conference+journal track for the 2nd Annual Conference of Computational Literary Studies in June 2023 hosted by Würzburg University, Germany (deadline for submissions: January, 11). All the details of the call can be found at https://jcls.io/site/cfp/ <https://jcls.io/site/cfp/>. Enjoy reading the new contributions – and do consider submitting you own research for the next issue! Best wishes, Evelyn Gius, Christof Schöch, Peer Trilcke PS: If you want to be up to date about upcoming calls subscribe to our newsletter at https://jcls.io/site/contact/ <https://jcls.io/site/contact/> - - - - - - - - - - - Journal of Computational Literary Studies https://jcls.io <https://jcls.io/> E-Mail: info(a)jcls.io <mailto:[email protected]> Editors: Evelyn Gius, Christof Schöch, Peer Trilcke Editorial Assistants: Svenja Guhr, Élodie Ripoll, Henny Sluyter-Gäthje Production Developer: Dominik Gerstorfer Board: Katherine Bode, Anne-Sophie Bories, Amy E. Earhart, Maciej Eder, Miguel Escobar Varela, Martin Eve, Frank Fischer, José Eduardo González, Natalie M. Houston, Fotis Jannidis, Mike Kestemont, Anouk Lang, David Mimno, Borja Navarro, Roxana Patras, Glenn Roe, Richard Jean So, Tomoji Tabata, Ted Underwood, Karina van Dalen-Oskam, Paul Vierthaler

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[Reminder & Extended Deadline: 15. Dec. 2022] Call for Abstracts - 3rd Workshop Urban History in the Age of Digital Libraries - Munich, Germany - 27-28 March 2023
by Sander Münster 21 Nov '22

21 Nov '22

[cid:[email protected]] 3rd Workshop on Research and Education in Urban History in the Age of Digital Libraries March 27-28, 2023, LMU, Munich, Germany CALL FOR PAPERS Submission deadline for extended abstracts (1500-2000 words): Extended Deadline: December 15th 2022 Event information: https://www.urbanhistory4d.org/wordpress/index.php/uhdl2023<https://www.urbanhistory4d.org/wordpress/index.php/uhdl2023/> Abstract Submission: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=uhdl2023 Proceedings<https://link.springer.com/conference/uhdl> will be published with Springer-Nature in their Communications in Computer and Information Science series. We kindly invite you to submit a contribution to the 3rd workshop on “Research and education in urban history in the age of digital libraries”. The event will take place in Munich, Germany on March 27-28, 2023. DESCRIPTION Urban and architectural history are key areas in digital humanities and digital heritage. With respect to these research areas, digital repositories, data and research methods play an important role, especially when hosting visual media like photographs, paintings, or drawings, and last but not least physical and virtual models. Due to the wide field of possible research, different approaches, methods and technologies have emerged – and are still emerging. The purpose of the workshop is to provide a full picture with regards to epistemics, technology and framework conditions. We aim to discuss crucial challenges for further research and encourage exchange and debate. We would like to invite contributions on theoretical and methodological issues, application scenarios and projects, as well as novel approaches and tools. This includes the following five areas: 1. Theory, Methods, and Systematization 2. Data handling and data schemes 3. Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence 4. Visualization and Presentation 5. Education in urban history To this cause, we are seeking original and innovative contributions in theoretical and practical applications on Digital Cultural Heritage. TOPICS Theory, Methods, and Systematization Digital humanities research as an inherently interdisciplinary field has created a high demand for critically reflected methods, techniques, valid strategies, classifications, and quality standards. But do computing methods also lead to new and ground-breaking research questions, approaches, or insights into architectural and urban cultural heritage research? In most cases, the use of computing simply extends nondigital possibilities, without much change to the pre-digital approaches and research questions. Nevertheless, digitalization has dramatically altered research qualities, quantities, and workflows. We welcome contributions on: 1. relevant data for architectural and urban history in digital archives and image repositories 2. the effects of the use of digital archives and image repositories on scholarly work 3. concepts and projects for networking and cooperation 4. possible research questions regarding objects, spaces, content or historical events Data handling and data schemes The immense effort invested in digitization and rapid changes in technologies and formats has greatly increased the importance of data standards. Long-term data storage, availability of models and the interoperability of data formats are major challenges to existing digital infrastructures. We welcome contributions on: 1. 3D databases as a tool to support urban historical research 2. Metadata and paradata 3. Remote sensing approaches to support contextualization and intuitive access to data 4. Linked and semantic data related to urban historical research 5. the influence of knowledge of HCI on the design of historic models Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence During the past few years, various new technological opportunities have arisen from big data, Semantic Web technologies, and the exponential growth in data accessible via digital libraries such as EUROPEANA. Data-driven supervised and unsupervised classification approaches have been used to acquire high-level semantic concepts, especially from the interconnection of different types of data. Interdisciplinary collaborations between computer science and humanities disciplines are essential in developing methods and workflows to enable cultural heritage research to exploit machine learning approaches. We welcome contributions on: 1. use cases and best practices of applied machine learning in digital humanities research 2. novel approaches e.g., (semi-) automatic photogrammetric reconstruction of historical buildings from image databases Visualization and Presentation Historians in cultural heritage research today are enabled to explore new research directions due to the availability of multitudes of digitized historical photographs in image repositories. Moreover, novel approaches such as the photogrammetric reconstruction of historical buildings from image databases allow for contextualization and intuitive access to data. Typical motivations for accessing these archives and repositories are scientific research, pedagogical applications, and the study of historical sites. These areas require advances in methods for visualization and presentation of data to support the different target groups. We welcome contributions on: 1. Projects and investigations from urban history concerned with visualizations and presentation of spatial and/or scholarly data 2. Research scenarios for scholars using visualizations of urban history data 3. Interdisciplinarity, e.g. intersections between digital cultural heritage and (sustainable) tourism studies Education in urban history Education and support by digital libraries still only plays a minor role in scholarly discourses on cultural heritage and in particular urban history. There is still no broad consensus on specific education paradigms or a canon of didactic settings in digitally supported teaching on urban history, and as yet no larger studies have been conducted in this area. We welcome contributions on: 1. educational scenarios for teaching urban history supported by digital methods 2. approaches to employing large scale repositories for educational purposes in cultural history 3. the design of virtual experiences as e.g. city tours SUBMISSION PROCEDURE Please submit an extended abstract of 1500-2000 words in PDF format by December 15th 2022 (Extended Deadline) via the electronic upload submission procedure on the EasyChair website<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=uhdl2023>. Please use the Springer LaTeX2e, Microsoft Word 2003 or Microsoft Word 2007 templates and guidelines<https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…> for formatting your extended abstract. For more information about publishing in Springer-Nature CCIS: Anonymity Guidelines for abstract submission: 1. Remove author and institutional information from the author list on the title page. 2. Remove author information from all paper headers. 3. Remove clues from the main text that would directly identify any of the authors. All submissions will be peer reviewed for their originality, validity, methodology, writing quality and overall contribution to the research fields of the joint event. PUBLICATION PLAN Contributors are invited to submit a full paper to be included into post-conference proceedings which will be published in the Springer CCIS series<https://link.springer.com/conference/uhdl>. For the proceedings we expect to receive original contributions in one of two formats: 1. FULL PAPER presenting research outcomes (20 pages) 2. PROJECT PAPER presenting research approaches, ongoing research or theoretical perspectives (15 pages) All contributed full paper will undergo a second double-blind peer review to ensure scientific and formal quality. IMPORTANT DATES December 15th 2022 January 15th 2023 February 28th 2023 March 27th -28th 2023 End of 2023 Abstract submission deadline (Extended deadline) Acceptance notification to authors Full paper submission deadline Joint event Edited volume in press ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Prof. Sander Münster (DE) Dr. Aaron Pattee (US/DE) Cindy Kröber (DE) Prof. Florian Niebling (DE) J.Prof. Digital Humanities, FSU Jena Institut für Kunstgeschichte, LMU Munich Digital Humanities, FSU Jena Human-Computer Interaction, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg PROGRAM COMMITTEE Prof. Fabrizio Apollonio (IT) Dr. Valerie Gouet (FR) Prof. Ning Gu (AU) Prof. Marinos Ioannides (CY) Prof. Ramon Reyes Rodriguez (MX) Prof. Fulvio Rinaudo (IT) Prof. Rosa Tamborino (IT) Prof. Alex Yen (ROC) Università di Bologna – Alma mater studiorum LASTIG Lab. / Univ. Gustave Eiffel / IGN University of South Australia Digital Heritage Research Laboratory, Cyprus University of Technology Universidad de Guadalajara Politecnico di Torino Politecnico di Torino China University of Technology, Taipeh SPONSOR [cid:[email protected]] The workshop will be held in English. Registration for the workshop will be free of charge. For further information, please do not hesitate to contact us via email<mailto:'uhdl(a)urbanhistory4d.de'> or visit the official event website<https://www.urbanhistory4d.org/wordpress/index.php/uhdl2023/>. Thank you for your interest in creating a successful workshop. On behalf of the organizers Sander Münster

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DH Benelux 2023 conference website and Call for Papers
by marijn Koolen 21 Nov '22

21 Nov '22

We are very pleased to invite you to contribute to the 10th edition of the DH Benelux Conference, which will take place in Belgium at KBR – the Royal Library of Belgium from 31 May -2 June, 2023. The annual DH Benelux conference serves as a platform for the community of interdisciplinary Digital Humanities researchers to meet, present and discuss their latest research findings and to demonstrate tools and projects. This year’s central theme is ‘Crossing Borders’. You can find the complete Call for Papers below. Submissions can be made via Easychair, which will be made available asap. Key dates - Deadline for submitting abstracts: Tuesday 31 January 2023 (23:59 CET) - Notification of acceptance: Wednesday 1 March 2023 - Conference: 31 May – 2 June 2023 – in Brussels and streaming online Note that one author must attend in person to present the contribution. Description The call is open to all colleagues working in the Arts & Humanities, the (Social) Sciences, and the Heritage Sector with an interest and enthusiasm in the application and use of digital technologies. Submissions are welcome from researchers at all career stages. We particularly encourage early stage researchers (MA/PhD students and postdoctoral researchers) to submit abstracts. In addition, we welcome humanities scholars, developers, computer and information scientists as well as art galleries, librarians, archivists and museum curators (GLAM). Language We accept abstracts written in English (preferred) and in any official language of the Benelux. Theme We invite submissions of abstracts on any aspect of Digital Humanities: practical experimentation, theorizing, cross- and multidisciplinary work, and new and relevant developments. This year, the conference’s central theme is “Crossing borders: digital humanities research across languages and modalities”. Of particular interest are contributions that consider multilingualism and/or integrated processing of sources in different forms as images, maps, sounds texts and datasets. Relevant subjects can be any of—but are not limited to—the following: - Digital Humanities at the intersection of disciplines within and beyond the arts and humanities. - Digital approaches to Intertextuality. - Multilingualism and/or multiculturalism from a digital humanities perspective. - Spatial Humanities, GIS, (historical) map processing, gazetteers. - Diachronic and evolutionary perspectives on society and culture from a digital humanities perspective. - Multimodal analysis of digital/digitized heritage material. - Critical, data-driven studies on the spread and trajectories of (dis- and mis)information, ideologies and/or the development of bias within and across communities. - Humanities research enabled by digital approaches, including but not limited to digital arts, architecture, music, film, theater, new media, internet language, memes; digital games and cyberculture; digital media, digitization, curation of (born-)digital objects. - Integrating (and/or discussing the challenges of integrating) quantitative, statistical and computational methods and techniques into the Arts and Humanities. - Dissemination of digital infrastructures, data, software, and/or research output in and beyond knowledge institutions. - Software studies, information design and tool criticism. - Digital Humanities in relation to pedagogy, teaching, and digital literacy. - Digital scholarly editing and ePublications. - Open Science in the Digital Humanities. - Citizen science, participatory research methods, and other forms of public engagement. - Project introductions. Formats For DH Benelux 2023, we welcome five types of proposals: (1) long papers; (2) short papers; (3) posters; (4) application and tool demonstrations; and (5) workshops. Abstracts should clearly state the title of the presentation and the names and affiliations of the authors and the presenters. If applicable, please include your Twitter username and ORCID. Please indicate for which category (or categories) of presentation you are submitting your proposal. The word length is dependent on the proposal type, see details below. References and/or bibliography are excluded from the word count. The reviewers will take word length into account. Proposals may contain graphics and illustrations. - Long papers (abstracts of 1000-1500 words, paper presentation 20 mins + 10 mins for discussion) are suitable for presenting empirical work, theorizing, cross- and multidisciplinary work, research methods and concise theoretical arguments. The research presented in a long paper should be completed or in the final stages of development. The research’s stage of completion must be clearly stated in the abstract. - Short papers (abstracts of 750-1000 words, paper presentation 10 mins + 5 mins for discussion) are well-suited for reporting on early stage and ongoing research, as well as new project presentations, technical details and the results of practical experimentation and proof of concepts. - Posters (abstracts of 500-750 words) are particularly suited for detailed technical explanations and clarifications, and for the show and tell of projects and research alike. - Demonstrations (abstracts of 500-750 words) of prototypes, work-in-progress or finished software, hardware technology, tools, datasets, digital publications and so forth. Demonstrations take place in parallel to poster sessions, and are meant to be interactive. - Workshops (abstracts of 1000-1500 words) are self-organized tracks running parallel to the main program, on the first day of the conference. Workshop proposals are welcome on relevant topics and/or innovative approaches/tools/techniques. Workshops can be organized to run in hybrid, in-person or fully virtual mode, at the discretion of the organizers. The abstracts will be peer-reviewed by the DH Benelux 2023 Programme Committee and published on the DH Benelux 2023 website. Authors of accepted abstracts will be invited to submit a full research article for the DH Benelux Journal. A separate call for journal submissions will be made after the conference. Submission Submission via Easychair will be made available here as soon as possible. Disclaimer: the DH Benelux 2023 conference is not hybrid. Organizers will arrange an option for online attendance, but minimally one speaker per submission is required to attend in person to present.

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Survey on social justice and ethical research in the digital humanities
by Scholger, Walter (walter.scholger＠uni-graz.at) 21 Nov '22

21 Nov '22

Dear Colleagues, We are developing a new course for #dariahTeach <https://teach.dariah.eu> on the topic of social justice and ethical research in the digital humanities, funded by DARIAH EU. We are keen to cast our net widely to get an overview of what digital humanities projects and research has been or is being undertaken in this space. We would be very interested in learning of your digital scholarship in the area of social justice broadly conceived, including but not limited to gender, ethnicity, religion, indigenous peoples rights and interests, postcolonial, and decolonial research. We are interested in both project-based scholarship as well as more traditional publications. To this end, we have developed a survey that should not take more than 10-15 minutes to complete to gather information from the community. We plan on converting the survey to a registry within the #dariahTeach course so the wider DH community can also have an overview of scholarship in this area. We would appreciate your filling up the survey by 30 November to have the possibility of having your research integrated into the course. The URL for the survey is https://forms.gle/N756a7BnBV2MQcYZA If you have any questions about the development of the course, please email socialjusticeDT(a)gmail.com<mailto:[email protected]> With best wishes Susan Schreibman (University of Maastricht, Netherlands) Marianne Huang (Aarhus University, Denmark) Koraljka Kuzman Šlogar (Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research, Croatia) Costas Papadopoulos (Maastricht University, Netherlands) Walter Scholger (University of Gratz, Austria)

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ELE2 consortium launched an open call for SRIA Contribution Projects
by Jan Hajic 16 Nov '22

16 Nov '22

Dear all, just gentle reminder, that deadline for the ELE2 open call for SRIA Contribution Projects is slowly approaching ( November 29th, 2022). For more details see the text below, full information including the call documentation and related annexes is available on the [ https://european-language-equality.eu/open-call/ | open call website ] . With best regards, Jana Hamrlova ELE Open Call for SRIA Contribution Projects Management Team [ mailto:[email protected] | open-call(a)european-language-equality.eu ] BQ_BEGIN [ https://european-language-equality.eu/ | European Language Equality initiative ] launched an [ https://european-language-equality.eu/open-call/ | open call for SRIA Contribution Projects ] . TOPICS The SRIA contribution projects are meant to provide me aningful, so far missing, convincing and compelling input for the Strateg ic Agenda and Roadmap for achieving full digital language equality in Europe by 2030 . The projects should provide defined use cases and feasibility studies for concrete application scenarios in one of the following topics: 1. Data sets for more robust speech technology 2. Study of language coverage for text mining and natural language understanding in key European industrial sectors 3. Legal Assessment (Desk Research) 4. General NLP/LT/AI Landscaping (Desk Research) 5. General NLP/LT Domains (Desk Research) 6. Analysis of AI and LT in European news media 7. Computing facilities for LT (Desk Research) 8. Demonstrably Greener Models of MT 9. Survey of the use of LT in the hospital sector 10. Basic LAnguage Resource Kit (BLARK) (re)definition (Desk Research) TIMELINE Publication of the call: 29 September 2022 Submission deadline: 29 November 2022 (23:59 CET) Evaluation and selection of the submitted proposals: December 2022 Contract signing and projects start: December 2022 – January 2023 Project duration: 2-3 months ELIGIBLE APPLICANTS * research organisations (including but not limited to higher education organisations and independent research organisations), NGOs, incorporated associations and companies * legally established in EU member states * one organisation per project only (mono-beneficiary projects) FUNDING * € 185,000 allocated for the call * maximum amount of eligible costs per single project: €25,000, funding rate: 90% * financial support will be provided in the form of a lump sum after completing all project activities HOW TO APPLY Apply via the [ https://opencall.european-language-equality.eu/ | open call submission platform ] , follow the Call documentation and related annexes on the [ https://european-language-equality.eu/open-call/ | open call website ] CONTACT open call management team: [ mailto:[email protected] | open-call(a)european-language-equality.eu ] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BQ_END _______________________________________________ open-call.european-language-equality.eu mailing list open-call.european-language-equality.eu(a)dfki.de https://www.dfki.de/mailman/cgi-bin/listinfo/open-call.european-language-eq…

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[CfP] Extended Semantic Web Conference: Call for Proposals of Tutorials and Workshops
by Web and Publicity ESWC'23 15 Nov '22

15 Nov '22

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * The 20th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2023) May 28th - June 1st, 2023, in Hersonissos, Crete, Greece. Web Page: https://2023.eswc-conferences.org/eswc-2023/ Twitter: @eswc_conf Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ESWCCONF LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/8843932/ * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * https://2023.eswc-conferences.org/call-for-tutorials/ <https://2022.eswc-conferences.org/call-for-tutorials/> https://2023.eswc-conferences.org/call-for-workshops/ Submission via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eswc202 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eswc2022>3 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Important Dates * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Tutorials proposals due: November 24th, 2022 Notification of acceptance: December 8th, 2022 Tutorials website due: December 15th, 2022 Tutorials material due (online): April 11th, 2023 Tutorials days: May 28th or 29th, 2023 All deadlines are 23:59 anywhere on earth (UTC-12). * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * CALL FOR TUTORIALS * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ESWC 2023 invites tutorials and workshops that address the interests of its varied audience: people new to the Semantic Web, Semantic Web researchers and practitioners that wish to learn new technologies, users of Semantic Web technologies, and representatives of government and funding agencies as well as potential private investors in Semantic Web technologies. We welcome submissions of tutorial proposals on all major topics related to semantic technologies. We especially solicit proposals for tutorials of the following types: - Introduction to new semantic technologies, methods, techniques, tools, and trends (e.g. Knowledge Graphs, semantic data integration, reasoning, question answering, ontology-based data access, ontology design principles, provenance, trust, etc.). - Tutorials describing the application of semantic technologies in specific domains (e.g., life sciences, e-government, e-commerce, Industry 4.0, cultural heritage, education, mobile, music, emergency management, etc.). - Tutorials presenting techniques from other fields that are of relevance for Semantic Web research, including social sciences, digital humanities, biomedical research, HCI, Information Retrieval, databases, NLP, Internet of Things, data visualization, etc. - Post mortems in the Semantic Web, best practices, and things learned from past experiences and projects. What did you want to achieve and what Semantic Technologies couldn’t do? What were their limitations and how did you work them around? While tutorials may focus on theoretical topics, the organizers should incorporate hands-on exercises to engage the audience. The organizers are invited to include real-world examples of the topics handled, illustrating their relevance to the Semantic Web community. The tutorial should reach a good balance between the topic coverage and its relevance to the community. Tutorials can be half-day or full-day. We suggest having up to two presenters for half-day and up to four presenters for full-day tutorials, preferably from different institutions, contributing different perspectives to the tutorial topic. We privilege diversity in the organizing team as well as the presence of young researchers and PhD students. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * CALL FOR WORKSHOPS * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ESWC is a premier venue for discussing the latest scientific results and innovations in the field of semantic technologies on the Web and Linked Data, attracting a high number of participants from academia and industry alike. Co-located workshops at the ESWC conferences are essential meeting points for discussing on-going work and current results, as well as shaping new ideas and research fields. We particularly invite workshop proposals looking at topics related to Semantic Web from an interdisciplinary standpoint, proposals focussing on novel aspects of the Semantic Web and Web of Data, and proposals aiming at gathering existing and forming new sub-communities. We encourage the submission of workshop proposals on: - Fundamental technical and theoretical problems of the Semantic Web / Linked Data and Knowledge Graphs - Applications of Semantic Web technologies in domains such as Mobility and Smart Cities, Life Sciences, Industry 4.0, Earth Science, Digital Humanities, Law, Media, etc. - Key enabling technologies and their adaptation to the needs of the Semantic Web - Aspects of Semantic Web research that have been neglected or underrepresented so far - Techniques and methods from other research fields that are of relevance for Semantic Web research (e.g., artificial intelligence, databases, NLP, big data analytics, machine learning, human-computer interaction, information retrieval, web science, etc.) - Making the Semantic Web & Linked Data more accessible to end-users and developers alike - New emerging topics and areas -- Kind regards, Eleni and Romana Web and Publicity team of ESWC 2023 https://2023.eswc-conferences.org

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Call for abstracts: Museum Analytics, new directions - 18 May 2023
by Ballatore, Andrea 14 Nov '22

14 Nov '22

📢 Call for abstracts: https://kingsdh.net/museum-analytics/ 🐦 Tweet: https://twitter.com/kingsdh/status/1592082797610647552 💡 Organisers: Dr. Andrea Ballatore, King’s College London, UK • Dr. Jamie Larkin, Chapman University, CA 🌎 Location (hybrid): King’s College London (The Strand, London, UK) and online ⏰ Submission deadline: Friday 20 January 2023 🗓 Event date: Thursday 18 May 2023 Museum Analytics: New directions Call for abstracts Data science has the capacity to revitalise our understanding of the museum sector, through reframing the history of museum development, charting museum geographies, and highlighting new data relationships in innovative and dynamic ways (e.g. Ballatore & Candlin, 2022). It can also illuminate broader relationships between museums, society, and the wider Creative and Cultural Industries (e.g. Me|Mind, 2021), to help produce more joined-up cultural policy and strategy (Centre for Cultural Value, 2022). The application of data analytics presents growing opportunities for institutions and researchers across the cultural sector. While museums often use data to develop visitor profiles and drive income generation, there is tremendous scope to leverage data in ways that reimagine the cultural work of the museum and knowledge of the museum sector. Within museums, work has taken place to use data to enhance curatorial decision-making (Tate, 2016), to personalise collections databases (Noehrer et al., 2022), and to enrich and improve visitor experiences (e.g. Villaespesa & Murphy, 2021). Stemming from the Mapping Museums project (http://www.mappingmuseums.org<http://www.mappingmuseums.org/>), this one-day conference seeks to draw together museum studies scholars, data scientists, cultural policymakers, and geographers to discuss and debate the role and scope of museum analytics and to frame the development of this area of research and practice. We seek presentations of 15 minutes that examine new directions and applications for museum analytics. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * Applications of data analytics in new areas of museum practice * Innovative data collection methods in museums * Social media analytics and user-generated content * New methods for audience analytics and profiling * Data-driven museum marketing * Artificial intelligence (AI) and museums * Ethical considerations surrounding data practices and datafication in museums * Innovative data applications in digital museum contexts * Museum analytics and cultural policy * Data vocabularies and linked data for museums * Data infrastructures and capacity across the museum sector * Quantitative geographies and histories of museums * History of data science methods to study museums Please send an abstract of c300 words outlining your proposed contribution by 20th January 2023 by using this form: https://forms.office.com/r/EYEBFMUdkY Decisions on abstracts will be made by 20 February 2023. We will select abstracts in terms of relevance and originality, also considering the balance between in-person and online speakers. The objectives of the event include the development and promotion of a sector-wide agenda and, more modestly, a special issue in an international journal. The event will be free to all participants, in person and online (£0). If you have any questions regarding this call, or the suitability of a proposed submission, please contact the conference organisers: andrea.ballatore(a)kcl.ac.uk<mailto:[email protected]> and jlarkin(a)chapman.edu<mailto:[email protected]> Organising committee * Chiara Bonacchi (School of History, Classics and Archaeology and Edinburgh Futures Institute, University of Edinburgh) * Fiona Candlin (History of Art, Birkbeck, University of London) * Mark Liebenrood (History of Art, Birkbeck, University of London) * Oonagh Murphy (Institute for Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurship, Goldsmiths, University of London) * Alex Poulovassilis (Computer Science and Information Systems, Birkbeck, University of London) * Peter Wood (Computer Science and Information Systems, Birkbeck, University of London) * Chiara Zuanni (Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities, University of Graz) -- Lecturer in Social and Cultural Informatics | HPL Lead Department of Digital Humanities King’s College London Email: andrea.ballatore(a)kcl.ac.uk<mailto:[email protected]> | aballatore.space<http://aballatore.space/> | Office Hours<https://calendly.com/andrea-ballatore-kcl/office-hours> Twitter<https://twitter.com/a_ballatore> | ResearchGate<https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Andrea_Ballatore> | RGS-IBG GIScience Research Group<https://geoinfo.science/> | KCL Covid19 policy<https://www.kcl.ac.uk/coronavirus/campus> Pronouns: he/him Latest publications: Open access in GIScience and geographic data science link<https://aballatore.space/open-access-giscience> | Los Angeles as a digital place: The geographies of user-generated content link<https://aballatore.space/2019/10/31/los-angeles-as-a-digital-place-mapping-…>

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Creative Lab Technologist & Research Software Engineer in the Humanities & Social Sciences, Maastricht University
by Costas Papadopoulos 12 Nov '22

12 Nov '22

The newly established 'Playground & Laboratory for New Technologies: The Plant', a research and education infrastructure at the Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences at Maastricht University is hiring a Creative Lab Technologist and a Research Software Engineer to contribute to its mission. The Plant aims to support researchers, educators, and students in engaging with technologies and opening up new societally relevant research and teaching paths, through collaboration, exchange, and experimentation. The Plant will add to the digital infrastructure at Maastricht University by catering to needs that are specific to the humanities and social sciences, while also fostering ground-breaking interdisciplinary research and education: group-based and technology-oriented with diverse and atypical outputs, including but not limited to podcasts, (online) digital exhibitions and collections, videos, datasets, interactive 2D/3D visualisations, databases, prototypes, and software. The PLANT will also support current and future efforts in the areas of Open Science, data management, FAIR data and data-related ethical and legal requirements. Further information: Creative Lab Technologist: <https://www.academictransfer.com/en/319253/creative-lab-technologist/> https://www.academictransfer.com/en/319253/creative-lab-technologist/ Research Software Engineer: <https://www.academictransfer.com/en/319255/research-software-engineer-in-hu manities-and-social-sciences/> https://www.academictransfer.com/en/319255/research-software-engineer-in-hum anities-and-social-sciences/ Deadline to apply: 15 November 2022 Application Documents: Motivation Letter, CV, Portfolio (if applicable) Interviews: early December 2022 Starting date: 9th January 2023 or soon thereafter Duration of appointment: 1 year full-time, with a possibility of tenure Remuneration: According to Collective Labour Agreement (see specifics for each position) + Holiday allowance 8% + End-of-Year Bonus 8.3%, Pension Scheme, Parental Leave, 40 days off per year, Bicycle plan etc. If you have any questions, please contact the Coordinator of the PLANT Executive Cooperative Group, Dr Costas Papadopoulos (k.papadopoulos[AT]maastrichtuniversity.nl) -- Costas Papadopoulos BA, MSc, PhD Assistant Professor in Digital Humanities & Culture Studies <https://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/research/maastricht-young-academy> Maastricht Young Academy Department of Literature & Art Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASoS) Maastricht University Principal Investigator: <https://pure3d.eu/> PURE3D Coordinator: <https://twitter.com/PlantFasos> The Plant: Playground and Laboratory for New Technologies UM Profile: <https://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/k.papadopoulos> https://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/k.papadopoulos ResearchGate: <https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Costas_Papadopoulos5> https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Costas_Papadopoulos5 Academia: <https://maastrichtuniversity.academia.edu/CostasPapadopoulos> https://maastrichtuniversity.academia.edu/CostasPapadopoulos Twitter: <https://twitter.com/Papadopoulos_C> @Papadopoulos_C Please note, my typical working hours are 9am-5pm Monday to Friday, though I may send emails outside these hours. Please do not feel obligated to reply outside of your normal working hours.

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UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in Safe and Trusted Artificial Intelligence
by Albert Meroño Peñuela 12 Nov '22

12 Nov '22

Dear Colleagues The UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Safe and Trusted Artificial Intelligence (STAI) is a joint collaboration between AI experts at King’s College and Imperial College, London. We have a number of fully-funded PhD scholarships available, commencing October 2023. We think these opportunities may be of great interest to those on your mailing list and we would appreciate your support in sharing the below information. With thanks and best wishes STAI CDT Admissions Team UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in Safe and Trusted AI -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Are you interested in becoming an expert in methods of safe and trusted artificial intelligence? <https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsafeandtr…> The UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Safe and Trusted Artificial Intelligence (STAI) (https://safeandtrustedai.org <https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsafeandtr…>) will fully-fund 12 PhD studentships to start in October 2023. The application deadline for Round A is 28 November 2022 : https://safeandtrustedai.org/apply-now/ <https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsafeandtr…> For more information and a chance to ask any questions, please sign up for our next online information session on Tuesday 15th November 2022 1-2pm: UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in Safe and Trusted AI - Info Session Tickets, Tue 15 Nov 2022 at 13:00 | Eventbrite <https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.event…> *About us* The UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Safe and Trusted Artificial Intelligence (STAI) <https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsafeandtr…> brings together world leading experts from King’s College London and Imperial College London to train a new generation of researchers in safe and trusted artificial intelligence (AI). As a student at the CDT, you will engage in various training activities alongside your individual PhD project, ensuring that not only are you trained in state-of-the-art AI techniques, but also that you acquire a deep understanding of ethical, societal, and legal implications of AI in a research and industrial setting. You will graduate as an expert in safe and trusted AI, able to consider the implications of AI systems in a deep and serious fashion, to recognise this as a key part of the AI development process and equipped to meet the needs of industrial and public sector organisations. *Funding* Our fully-funded studentships are 4 year awards that include tuition fees, a tax-free stipend of over £17,000 (set at the UKRI rate <https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ukri.…> plus London-weighting), and a generous allowance for research consumables and conference travel. *How to Apply* Applications are now open! The CDT will consider applications in several rounds, until all places have been filled. Round A deadline is 28 November 2022 Apply Now - Safe & Trusted AI (safeandtrustedai.org) <https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsafeandtr…> Best wishes, UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in Safe and Trusted AI

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