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PhD position (or Postdoc) in Computational Literary Studies at University of Stuttgart
by Jonas Kuhn 20 Sep '21

20 Sep '21

The Institute for Natural Language Processing (IMS) at University of Stuttgart has an opening for a doctoral researcher (or a postdoc) in the context of project CAUTION [1] to work on the operationalization of concepts from the field of narratology and on tools for computer-aided analysis of a corpus of literary texts. CAUTION is a collaboration between literary studies and computational linguistics, headed by Janina Jacke (University of Göttingen) and Jonas Kuhn (University of Stuttgart) [2], which addresses the phenomenon of unreliable narration in fiction. The project aims to advance the representational means for capturing this phenomenon, to devise a framework for intersubjectively stable annotation in texts, and to develop computational tools for automatically detecting signals for unreliable narration in a corpus. The project is funded by DFG (the German Research Foundation) and is associated with the Priority Programme SPP 2207 Computational Literary Studies. The successful candidate will work (i) on the detection of text properties signaling unreliable narration using data-driven techniques from natural language processing (NLP) and (ii) on capturing systematically what reasoning leads a reader to consider the narrator of a story to be unreliable, using a symbolic knowledge representation & reasoning framework. Specifically, the project explores how the interaction between story-internal knowledge and background knowledge from various sources can be formalized in a belief-desire-intention model for intelligent agents and how such a formalization can be integrated with the practice of text annotation. An important element of the project will be a close exchange between theoretical research in literary studies and research on algorithmic modeling techniques. The candidate must have a Master's degree in computational linguistics, computer science, digital humanities, or similar. Familiarity with the data-driven modeling paradigm in current NLP research, programming skills and experience in running and evaluating corpus-based modeling experiments are a prerequisite. A reading knowledge of German is desirable, since we work on a corpus of German texts. Some background in digital humanities on the one hand, and in knowledge representation & reasoning, declarative programming (e.g. Prolog) and/or multi-agent systems on the other hand would be a plus. IMS Stuttgart offers an inspiring environment for interdisciplinary work on algorithmic text analysis in a range of research contexts; several groups work on digital humanities and computational social science projects. The position will be available for three years, starting in November 2021. All applications received until October 5, 2021 will receive full consideration, but the position will remain open until filled. Do not hesitate to get in touch when you find this opening after October 5. The salary for a doctoral researcher working on the CAUTION project is according to the German university payscale (TV-L 13 65%, see [3] for details). By contributing to teaching at the department, the 65% contract can be increased to 100% TV-L 13, which can make the project position attractive to postdoctoral researchers with the relevant qualifications. To apply, please send a CV and letter of motivation in a single PDF document to Jonas Kuhn, jonas.kuhn at ims.uni-stuttgart.de <http://ims.uni-stuttgart.de/>. Please include names of 2-3 individuals willing to write a letter of recommendation. For inquiries regarding the position, please also contact Jonas Kuhn. The University of Stuttgart aims at increasing the number of women in academia. Therefore, women are particularly encouraged to apply. Applications of severely disabled candidates with equivalent qualifications will be given priority. Information according to article 13 of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) for job application processes at University of Stuttgart can be found here: https://www.zendas.de/zendas/informationen_bewerbung.html <https://www.zendas.de/zendas/informationen_bewerbung.html> and https://www.uni-stuttgart.de/en/privacy-notice/job-application/ <https://www.uni-stuttgart.de/en/privacy-notice/job-application/>. [1] https://dfg-spp-cls.github.io/projects_en/2020/01/24/TP-Caution/ <https://dfg-spp-cls.github.io/projects_en/2020/01/24/TP-Caution/> [2] https://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/institut/arbeitsgruppen/gcl <https://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/institut/arbeitsgruppen/gcl> [3] https://oeffentlicher-dienst.info/c/t/rechner/tv-l/west?id=tv-l-2021 <https://oeffentlicher-dienst.info/c/t/rechner/tv-l/west?id=tv-l-2021>

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Community Open Principles: Before, During and After the Global Pandemic (Jun 30, 2021)
by Francesca Giovannetti 21 Jun '21

21 Jun '21

The Force11 Working Group Reimagining Educational Practices for Open (REPO) will be hosting its second webinar on Jun 30, 2021 at 13:00 UTC <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?year=2021&month=…> . *Community Open Principles: Before, During and After the Global Pandemic* Dr. Ana Persic, UNESCO, Dr. Arianna Becerril García, AmeliCA, Dr. Johanna Havemann, Open Science MOOC, Osman Aldirdiri, AfricArXiv When we talk about Open (Open Science, Open Data, Open Access) what do we mean? How can we navigate the different definitions of what it means to be a community and to be Open? How do we engage with communities and train members around Open? What evidence are we using of how we are addressing Open? How can we be more inclusive and align our Open principles to foster norms, incentives, and recognition? Have our understandings around Open shifted during the pandemic? This online webinar will address these questions via the experiences of invited open science communities, how they have designed and applied their open (science) principles before and during the pandemic, particularly with regard to outreach and training, while also looking out at the horizon, at a future beyond the pandemic. The webinar aims to include open (science) perspectives from a diverse group of communities, learn from their approaches, how they have evolved, and identify possible next steps that all, in our global community can consider. Register now <https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_dvUoVNkvR42UTVrswfwpYQ>

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Second Call for Papers: The 5th Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature
by Nils Reiter 11 Jun '21

11 Jun '21

LaTeCH-CLfL 2021: The 5th Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature to be held on-line on 11 November 2021 in conjunction with EMNLP 2021 https://sighum.wordpress.com/events/latech-clfl-2021/ Second Call for Papers (with apologies for cross-posting) Organisers: Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb, Anna Kazantseva, Nils Reiter, Stan Szpakowicz LaTeCH-CLfL 2021 is the fifth in a series of meetings for NLP researchers who work with data from the broadly understood arts, humanities and social sciences, and for specialists in those disciplines who apply NLP techniques in their work. The workshop continues a long tradition of annual meetings. The SIGHUM Workshops on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities (LaTeCH) ran from 2007 to 2016. The ACL Workshops on Computational Linguistics for Literature (CLfL) took place from 2012 to 2016. The first four joint workshops (LaTeCH-CLfL) were held from 2017 to 2020. Topics and Content In the Humanities, Social Sciences, Cultural Heritage and literary communities, there is increasing interest in, and demand for, NLP methods for semantic and structural annotation, intelligent linking, discovery, querying, cleaning and visualization of both primary and secondary data. This is even true of primarily non-textual collections, given that text is also the pervasive medium for metadata. Such applications pose new challenges for NLP research: noisy, non-standard textual or multi-modal input, historical languages, vague research concepts, multilingual parts within one document, and so no. Digital resources often have insufficient coverage; resource-intensive methods require (semi-)automatic processing tools and domain adaptation, or intense manual effort (e.g., annotation). Literary texts bring their own problems, because navigating this form of creative expression requires more than the typical information-seeking tools. Examples of advanced tasks include the study of literature of a certain period, author or sub-genre, recognition of certain literary devices, or quantitative analysis of poetry. NLP methods applied in this context not only need to achieve high performance, but are often applied as a first step in research or scholarly workflow. That is why it is crucial to interpret model results properly; model interpretability might be more important than raw performance scores, depending on the context. More generally, there is a growing interest in computational models whose results can be used or interpreted in meaningful ways. It is, therefore, of mutual benefit that NLP experts, data specialists and Digital Humanities researchers who work in and across their domains get involved in the Computational Linguistics community and present their fundamental or applied research results. It has already been demonstrated how cross-disciplinary exchange not only supports work in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Cultural Heritage communities but also promotes work in the Computational Linguistics community to build richer and more effective tools and models. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: • adaptation of NLP tools to Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and literature; • automatic error detection and cleaning of textual data; • complex annotation schemas, tools and interfaces; • creation (fully- or semi-automatic) of semantic resources; • creation and analysis of social networks of literary characters; • discourse and narrative analysis/modelling, notably in literature; • emotion analysis for the humanities and for literature; • generation of literary narrative, dialogue or poetry; • identification and analysis of literary genres; • linking and retrieving information from different sources, media, and domains; • modelling dialogue literary style for generation; • modelling of information and knowledge in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Cultural Heritage; • profiling and authorship attribution; • search for scientific and/or scholarly literature; • work with linguistic variation and non-standard or historical use of language. Information for Authors We invite papers on original, unpublished work in the topic areas of the workshop. In addition to long papers, we will consider short papers and system descriptions (demos). We also welcome position papers. • Long papers, presenting completed work, may consist of up to eight (8) pages of content plus additional pages of references; final camera-ready versions of accepted long papers will be given one additional page of content (up to 9 pages) so that reviewers’ comments can be taken into account. • A short paper / demo can present work in progress, or the description of a system, and may consist of up to four (4) pages of content plus additional pages of references. Upon acceptance, short papers will be given five (5) content pages in the proceedings. • A position paper — clearly marked as such — should not exceed six (6) pages including references. All submissions are to use the EMNLP stylesheets (for LaTeX / Overleaf and MS Word), to be announced soon at https://2021.emnlp.org/call-for-papers/. Papers should be submitted electronically, in PDF, via the LaTeCH-CLfL2021 submission website at https://www.softconf.com/emnlp2021/LaTeCHCLfL/. Reviewing will be double-blind. Please do not include the authors’ names and affiliations, or any references to Web sites, project names, acknowledgements and so on — anything that immediately reveals the authors’ identity. Self-references should be kept to a reasonable minimum, and anonymous citations cannot be used. Please see https://2021.emnlp.org/call-for-papers/#anonymity-period for the official EMNLP policy (except that our anonymity period starts later). Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings, and later available in the ACL Anthology. Important Dates Anonymity period begins on July 1, 2021. Paper submission deadline: August 5, 2021 Notification of acceptance: September 5, 2021 Camera-ready papers due: September 15, 2021 Workshop date: December 11, 2021 More on the organisers Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb, Language Science and Technology, Saarland University Anna Kazantseva, National Research Council of Canada Nils Reiter, Department for Digital Humanities, University of Cologne Stan Szpakowicz, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Ottawa Contact latech-clfl(a)googlegroups.com

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CfP for DHd 2022 (Potsdam, Germany)
by Francesca Giovannetti 09 Jun '21

09 Jun '21

### Apologies for Cross posting ### Dear all, We would like to inform you that submissions are welcome for *DHd 2022*, 7.- 11.03.2022, at *Potsdam*, Germany. DHd 2022 "Kulturen des digitalen Gedächtnisses" is the annual conference of the Verband Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum, an associative member of the European Association of Digital Humanities (EADH). Check out the website (https://www.dhd2022.de) for the Call for Papers (in German) and details about the submission procedure. Please notice that the deadline is 15.07.2021. You can also follow us on Twitter @dhd2022! Looking forward to welcome you at Potsdam, Ulrike Wuttke on behalf of the Local Organisers of DHd 2022 Dr Ulrike Wuttke Vertretungsprofessorin für Bibliotheks- und Informationstechnologien und Digitale Services | Interim professor for Library and Information Technologies and Digital Services & Internationalisierungsbeauftragte des FB5 *Aktuell ausschließlich über E-Mail erreichbar | Currently only available via e-mail.* E-Mail: ulrike.wuttke(a)fh.potsdam.de Phone: +49 331 580-4533 Twitter: UWuttke | Skype: ulrike.wuttke ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8217-4025 FH Potsdam | University of Applied Sciences Potsdam Fachbereich Informationswissenschaft | Department of Information Science Kiepenheuerallee 5 | 14469 Potsdam http://www.fh-potsdam.de/ https://ulrikewuttke.wordpress.com/ Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail.

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DH-CH Event 7. - 9. June 2021, Rome
by tobias.hodel＠wbkolleg.unibe.ch 03 Jun '21

03 Jun '21

*Apologies for crossposting* Event: dh-ch.ch Digital Humanities Workshop @ the Istituto Svizzero and the Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome next Monday, 7. - 9. June 2021 Digital Images, Metadata and Cultural Heritage Objects Metadata and semantic information are crucial for most operations with data. Enriching images with words and words with images is more important than ever. That's why the focus of a starting event is on image-based research. This can be demonstrated particularly well by the research on cultural heritage, as sources of great importance for our social and cultural identity. The change towards digital methods and tools is essential in this context in several ways since the form of capturing technology as well as the visualization of content changed greatly with the advent of the digital. We are very honored and pleased to have the following keynote speakers at dh-ch21: Dr. Heidi Amrein, Chefkuratorin, Schweizerisches Nationalmuseum Prof. Dr. Tobias Wildi, Fachochschule Graubünden Prof. Dr. Geoff Cox and Nicolas Malevé, London South Bank University Prof. Dr. Béatrice Joyeux-Prunel, Université de Genève Paola Manoni, Vatican Library Dr. Elena Chestnova, Università della Svizzera Italiana Prof. Dr. Sarah Kenderdine, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne You can register here to follow the keynote presentations of our workshop: https://www.istitutosvizzero.it/de/conferenza/digital-visual-media-and-meta… www.dh-ch.ch

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Postdoc Computational Literary Studies in Amsterdam (3 years)
by Peter Boot 12 May '21

12 May '21

Hi all, As you may have seen on other lists, we're looking for a postdoc computational literary studies. The postdoc position is part of the project 'ImpFic: The Impact of Fiction'. Within this project we investigate the impact fiction can have on readers. We use a large corpus of electronically available Dutch-language (original and translated) novels and a large collection of online book reviews. The aim of the project is to translate concepts of literary theory about how literature works into a computational form suitable for computational analysis of books and book reviews. The position is for 3 years at Huygens ING (Amsterdam) and is a collaboration with the Netherlands eScience Center. More details at: https://www.academictransfer.com/300391/ (NL) https://www.academictransfer.com/300413/ (EN) You can send your application to the Personnel & Organisation department by e-mail: sollicitaties(a)bb.huc.knaw.nl before May 25. The application consists of a motivation letter, a curriculum vitae, a publication list and where available links to digital projects that you have participated in, and/or a profile on GitHub or other public code repositories. Please contact us if you want to know more! Best wishes, Peter Boot

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EADH 2022 Call for Hosts
by Fabio Ciotti 11 May '21

11 May '21

EADH 2022 Call for Hosts The EADH Executive Committee invites proposals for Local Organisers (LO) to host the 2022 EADH Conference. The EADH Conference is organised each year that the annual ADHO Digital Humanities conference takes place outside of Europe, and has the objective to strengthen the scientific, institutional and cultural relations between the members of the DH communities in Europe and the Mediterranean area. EADH is particularly interested in proposals from institutions and regions that: • Have recently developed or are developing digital humanities communities and organizations; • Have not previously hosted an ADHO or the EADH Digital Humanities conference. Please note that the lead applicant must be a direct member of the EADH or of one of its Associate Organisations (currently AIUCD [Italy], DHD [Germany], DHN [Nordic Countries], CzADH [Czechia], and DH Russia). Organisation EADH Conferences are co-organised by two committees: The scientific organisation is conducted by a Programme Committee (PC) between 8 and 14 members and one Chair, appointed by the EADH Executive Committee. The local organiser may appoint up to two members of the PC. The PC decides the main theme of the conference, identifies and invites keynote speakers, produces and issues the Call for Papers, manages the review process, and decides the academic conference programme. The logistical organization will be the responsibility of a Local Organisation Committee, whose members and chair are appointed by the Local Organisers. Time Period and Venue Conference dates are decided by the Local Organiser, in consultation with EADH Executive committee. It is recommended that the conference takes place in the autumn of 2022. Other large DH-related conferences in Europe should be taken into account when fixing the precise dates. The venue must be an academic or cultural institution in the European and Mediterranean area in its broadest sense. The hosting institution should be able to accommodate a minimum of 300 delegates (including plenaries), at least three parallel sessions, and a communicative poster session. The Local Organizers must also have the infrastructure and organizational staff to guarantee online access to delegates and speakers. The availability of accommodations at accessible prices is an element that will be considered in the evaluation of the bid. Bids Bids should contain a preliminary budget and up to two pages describing the motivations and logistical opportunities offered by the proposed venue. Bidders must take into account the EADH diversity and inclusivity statement and the ADHO code of conduct. The venue for the 2022 conference will be decided by the EADH Executive Committee on the basis of: • Academic and social impact of the conference for the LO; • Logistical and economical adequacy of the venue (including costs of accommodations and availability of a childcare program); • The overall quality of the proposal. Bids should be submitted to secretary(a)eadh.org and CC to fabio.ciotti(a)uniroma2.it no later than June 30, 2021. Structure of the Conference The Conference should be a 2/3-day event, avoiding weekends. Workshops and training events can precede the official conference days, depending on the availability of the LO. Presentations will be organized in 90-minute slots. The conference should have two keynote plenary talks. Typical presentations are: • Long papers for theoretical or highly relevant methodological or technical issues; • Short papers to present research ideas, approaches and projects; • Panel or roundtable for one relevant topic discussed under different perspectives by 5/6 presenters; • Posters. One session of the conference is reserved for short poster presentations. Bidders in coordination with the Programme Committee are encouraged to propose alternative formats and innovative organization of the conference in addition to this general framework. Budget The conference must be financially self-sustaining or create a small surplus. Surpluses and deficits for conference finances are distributed at a ratio to EADH and to the local organizer according to this formula: 60% ADHO / 40% LOs. In case of loss, EADH backstop funding will not exceed €5,000. The EADH will also provide bursaries for young scholars. At least 50% of ADHO’s share of surpluses will be earmarked specifically for future conference travel bursaries and other pro-inclusion actions. The local organizers are expected to set six levels of registration fees: • Faculty and staff with a permanent contract, members of the EADH, associate organizations, and other constituent organizations of ADHO; • Faculty and staff with a permanent contract, non-members; • Faculty and staff with a fixed-term contract, members of the EADH, associate organizations, and other constituent organizations of ADHO; • Faculty and staff with a fixed-term contract, non-members; • Students, members of the EADH, associate organizations, and other constituent organizations of ADHO; • Students, non-members. Local Organisers are expected to set member/non-member rates so that the difference between member/non-member rates are higher than the EADH membership costs. Registration fees are recommended not to exceed €300 for the highest level of non-member fees to make the conference more accessible to the community. Social Programme Local Organisers are expected to arrange a diverse social programme, including a social dinner, that can contribute to the EADH community building. Usually, this social programme will highlight the local culture of the conference venue. Synergies and Possible Sponsorship Suggested collaborative activities range from hosting of workshops and tutorials to co-organisation of the conference or financial support. Private in-kind and financial sponsorship is welcome, provided that any activity from sponsoring organizations is clearly distinct from, and does not influence, the academic program. -- Fabio Ciotti Department of "Studi letterari, Filosofici e di Storia dell’arte" - University of Roma "Tor Vergata" Chair, European Association for Digital Humanities Chief Editor, "Umanistica Digitale" https://umanisticadigitale.unibo.it/ @Fabio_Ciotti f.ciotti(a)pec.it

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Digital Humanities Research Hub seminar series (School of Advanced Study, University of London)
by Naomi Wells 04 May '21

04 May '21

Digital Humanities Research Hub Seminar Series (School of Advanced Study, University of London) We cordially invite you to the inaugural seminar series of the School of Advanced Study’s Digital Humanities Research Hub in the 2021 summer term (convened by Gabriel Bodard). Please come to hear from the Hub’s faculty and some of our close collaborators at these lunchtime events. * Thurs May 6, 13:00–14:00 (BST): Gethin Rees and Valeria Vitale (British Library) - Locating a National Collection through Audience Research (book now<https://www.sas.ac.uk/events/event/24361>) * Thurs May 20, 13:00–14:00 (BST): Christopher Ohge (SAS) - Editorial Transformations and Minimal Computing at the Melville Electronic Library (book now<https://www.sas.ac.uk/events/event/24369>) * Thurs Jun 3, 13:00–14:00 (BST): Gabriel Bodard (SAS) - Teaching Digital Approaches to Cultural Heritage as an International Collaboration (book now<https://www.sas.ac.uk/events/event/24362>) * Thurs Jun 17, 12:30–13:30 (BST): Ruth Ahnert (QMUL) - “Stop, collaborate and listen”: Lessons on interdisciplinary collaboration from the Living with Machines Project (book now<https://www.sas.ac.uk/events/event/24363>) * Thurs July 1, 13:00–14:00 (BST): Naomi Wells (SAS), Nayana Dhavan (KCL) and Rhiannon Lewis (SAS) - Researching Social Media in the Digital Humanities (book now<https://www.sas.ac.uk/events/event/24367>) Attendance is free but booking is essential. Zoom links will be sent to registered attendees a few days before each seminar. ALL WELCOME. Dr Naomi Wells Lecturer in Italian and Spanish with Digital Humanities Institute of Modern Languages Research/Digital Humanities Research Hub School of Advanced Study | University of London Senate House | Malet Street | London WC1E 7HU | UK Email: naomi.wells(a)sas.ac.uk http://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/ https://digitalmodernlanguages.wordpress.com/

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CFP for UbiComp 2021
by KRISTIN BREANNE CORNELIUS WAY 03 May '21

03 May '21

Hi all-- Here is a CFP for a workshop that I am co-chairing for UbiComp 2021. Please apply or send to relevant colleagues or mailing lists. If you have any questions, you can email me or visit the website. All the best, Dr. Kristin Cornelius Visiting Research, Compliant and Accountable Systems Group Cambridge University, UK =================== Call for papers ================== Workshop on Reviewable and Auditable Pervasive Systems (WRAPS) Website: https://wraps-workshop.github.io/ Location: Virtual In conjunction with UbiComp (https://www.ubicomp.org) Important dates: - Paper submission: 15th June, 2021 - Author notification: 15th July, 2021 - Final camera ready due: 23rd July, 2021 - Workshop date: 25/26th September, 2021 (exact date/time to be confirmed) All deadlines are 23:59 AoE. ================================================== *** This workshop will bring together a range of perspectives into how we can better audit and understand the complex, sociotechnical systems that increasingly pervade our world. >From tools for data capture and retrieval, technical/ethical/legal challenges, and early ideas on concepts of relevance – we are calling for submissions that help further our understanding of how pervasive systems can be built to be reviewable and auditable, helping to bring about more transparent, trustworthy, and accountable technologies.*** Emerging technologies (e.g. IoT, AR/VR, AI/ML, etc.) are increasingly being deployed in new and innovative ways – be it in our homes, vehicles, or public spaces. Such technologies have the potential to bring a wide range of benefits, blending advanced functionality with the physical environment. However, they also have the potential to drive real-world consequences through decisions, interactions, or actuations, and there is a real risk that their use can lead to harms, such as physical injuries, financial loss, or even death. These concerns appear ever-more prevalent, as a growing sense of distrust has led to calls for *more transparency and accountability* surrounding the development and use of emerging technologies. A range of things can—and often do—go wrong, be they technical failure, user error, or otherwise. As such, means for the ability to *review, understand and act upon* the inner workings of how these systems are built/developed and used are crucial to being able to determine the cause of failures, prevent re-occurrences, and/or to identify parties at fault. Yet, despite the wider landscape of societal and legal pressures for record keeping and increased accountability (e.g. GDPR and CCPA), implementing transparency measures face a range of challenges. This calls for different thinking into how we can better understand (interpret) the emerging technologies that pervade our world. As such, this workshop aims to explore new ideas into the nascent topic, collating some of the outstanding challenges and potential solutions to implementing more meaningful transparency throughout pervasive systems. We look to bring together experts from a range of disciplines, including those of technical, legal, and design-oriented backgrounds. ============================================ Submissions: We invite papers of varying length from 2 to 6 pages (excluding refs) using the ACM sigconf template ( https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template) Submissions can be made via PCS at https://new.precisionconference.com/submissions. Accepted papers will be published in the UbiComp/ISWC 2021 adjunct proceedings, which will be included in the ACM Digital Library. All submissions will be peer reviewed, and should be properly anonymised. Some suggested topics include (but are not limited to): - Tools, techniques, and frameworks to assist in providing greater transparency & oversight over the workings of pervasive systems - Methods for explaining & understanding systems/models - Methods for fostering trust & transparency in pervasive systems - The usability of audit data - Performance implications of capturing audit data - Privacy, security and data protection implications of auditability mechanisms - Vocabularies and frameworks for modelling relevant information to support auditability & explainability - Data aggregation and consolidation - Legal considerations relating to record keeping & auditing mechanisms - Access controls & data sharing regimes - Audit log verification methods

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CFP: Eighth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2021)
by Sprugnoli Rachele (rachele.sprugnoli) 03 May '21

03 May '21

Dear All, we are happy to announce the first Call for Paper of the Eighth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2021): https://clic2021.disco.unimib.it/calls/first-call-for-paper/ Please note that the conference has a track dedicated to CL and NLP for the Humanities. Paper submission deadline: 13/9/2021 Website: https://clic2021.disco.unimib.it/ Twitter account: https://twitter.com/CLiC_it_conf Best regards, Rachele Sprugnoli ---- Rachele Sprugnoli, PhD Postdoctoral Researcher at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano LiLa: Linking Latin ERC-funded project [ERC n. 769994] https://lila-erc.eu/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/RSprugnoli ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rachele_Sprugnoli Associazione Italiana di Linguistica Computazionale (AILC): http://www.ai-lc.it/en/association/ Associazione per l’Informatica Umanistica e la Cultura Digitale: http://www.aiucd.it/ Tel: +390272344928 [cid:b08770b1-92aa-49d9-af90-dda9b532cfe6] [cid:3c953e4b-1fe9-4476-b361-05eeff098091] [http://static.unicatt.it/ext-portale/FirmaOutlook.jpg]<http://www.unicatt.it/>

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Happy Digital Humanities Day!
by Alice Borgna 28 Apr '21

28 Apr '21

Digital Humanities Day 2021: today is the day! Participating is simple: - Tweet what you are doing (hashtag #dayofdh2021) - Peruse our Instagram hashtag #dayofday2021 and add your own. - Use the Day of Dh 2021 Graphics and Zoom background - Join a session of the floating Meet-up in your time zone or elsewhere in the world - Follow what your fellow digital humanists are up to - Play a few rounds of Digital Humanities Bingo with colleagues (be sure to post when you reach “bingo"!) For a list of events and all the graphics see https://dhcenternet.org/initiatives/day-of-dh/2021

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RIDE Tools - Call for reviews
by Elena Spadini 23 Apr '21

23 Apr '21

*Apologies for cross posting* Dear textual scholars, The Institute for Documentology and Scholarly Editing (IDE) is calling for reviews for a special issue of the journal RIDE <https://ride.i-d-e.de/>, dedicated to *Tools and Environments for Digital Scholarly Editing (DSE)*. The first issue <https://ride.i-d-e.de/issues/issue-11/> of RIDE dedicated to Tools and Environments was published in January 2020. *Reviews for the second issue will be accepted until the 30st of September 2021.* To guide reviewers through the review process and to create a structure for the evaluation, we provide *Criteria for Reviewing Digital Tools and Environments for DSE* that are supposed to be applicable to various types of resources. The guidelines (Version 1.0) can be found here <https://www.i-d-e.de/publikationen/weitereschriften/criteria-tools-version-…> . We kindly ask you to email us before start reviewing a tool at *ride-tools (at) i-d-e.de <http://i-d-e.de/>* with a suggestion of which resource you would like to review and with a short explanation of your affiliation and area of expertise. This is important in order to avoid multiple reviews of the same tool. *Background* In the introduction to his book *Software takes command *(Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013) Lev Manovich states that “software has become our interface to the world, to others, to our memory and our imagination”. Is the same happening in the world of digital scholarly editing? Certainly we cannot ignore their fundamental role in our daily scholarly practices and in the interactions with our objects of study. Insofar as tools shape scholarly editions, they also shape scholarly editing. A new RIDE issue is devoted to tools for digital scholarly editing. The aim of this issue is to: - contribute to the discussion about tooling in Digital Humanities, - bring to the forefront the instruments instead of the final products, - provide a venue for discussing best practices in the development and usage of tools, - list useful resources for all those involved in scholarly editing. Beyond that, we hope that the critical examination of digital tools draws greater attention to the (scholarly) achievements that their creation and maintenance imply. The journal *RIDE* was founded in 2014 to “provide a forum in which expert peers criticise and discuss the efforts of digital editors in order to improve current practices and advance future developments” (RIDE Editorial). RIDE is Open Access, reviews are published as HTML and downloadable as TEI. All reviews will be peer reviewed in order to reach a high quality level of the evaluations. The special issue on Digital Tools and Environments for DSE will be edited by Anna-Maria Sichani (University of Sussex) and Elena Spadini (University of Lausanne). *Submission details* Reviews are accepted in English, French, Italian, and Spanish. The length of the review can vary depending on how much the resource offers that is worthy of discussion (approximately 2000-5000 words). Please submit your review at *ride-tools (at) i-d-e.de <http://i-d-e.de/>* as an editable text file (preferably, but not necessarily docx to facilitate the conversion to TEI). Please send illustrations as separate image files (jpg or png) and leave a note in the text as a placeholder for each image. In addition to the text, we collect keywords. Each review should be accompanied by a short abstract in English, independently of the language used in the main text. For further information please check the general RIDE guidelines for writing and submitting <http://ride.i-d-e.de/reviewers/writing-and-submitting/>. The questionnaire mentioned in the submission checklist has been designed for scholarly digital editions so far. We will keep you informed about how to proceed with the questionnaire for this special issue. All reviews will be peer reviewed in order to reach a high quality level of the evaluations. We believe that this is important because the evaluation of digital scholarly resources usually requires a double expertise in digital methods as well as in individual disciplines. This is also to increase the credit for reviews. *Suggestions for review* The following list is merely alphabetically and not comprehensive: - Annotation Studio <http://www.annotationstudio.org/> - Apache OpenNLP <https://opennlp.apache.org/> - CATview <http://catview.uzi.uni-halle.de/> - Classical Text Editor <http://cte.oeaw.ac.at/> - CorrespSearch <https://correspsearch.net/> - CWRC-Writer <https://github.com/cwrc/CWRC-WriterBase> - ecdosis <http://ecdosis.rocks> - eLaborate <http://elaborate.huygens.knaw.nl/> - EVT <http://evt.labcd.unipi.it/> - FreeLing 4.0 <http://nlp.lsi.upc.edu/freeling/> - FromThePage <https://fromthepage.com/> - FuD <https://fud.uni-trier.de/> - Image Markup Tool <https://tapor.uvic.ca/~mholmes/image_markup/> - Isilex <https://isilex.github.io/easy-xml/> - Kiln <http://kcl-ddh.github.io/kiln/> - LombardPress <http://lombardpress.org/> - ManuscriptDesk <https://manuscriptdesk.uantwerpen.be/md/Main_Page> - MOM-CA <https://github.com/icaruseu/mom-ca/wiki> - New Testament Virtual Manuscript Room (NTVMR) < http://ntvmr.uni-muenster.de/de/manuscript-workspace> - oXygen <http://oxygenxml.com/> - PhiloEditor <http://site1705.web.cs.unibo.it/phed/> - Scripto <http://scripto.org/> - Stanford NLP <https://nlp.stanford.edu/software/> - Stylo <https://stylo.ecrituresnumeriques.ca/> - T-Pen <http://www.t-pen.org/TPEN/> - TEI Critical Apparatus Toolbox <http://teicat.huma-num.fr/> - TextGrid <https://textgrid.de/en/> - Pundit <http://thepund.it/> - Transcribo <http://transcribo.org/en/> - Transkribus <https://transkribus.eu/Transkribus/> - Versioning Machine <http://v-machine.org/> - WMRCRE <http://vmrcre.org/> - Zooniverse <https://www.zooniverse.org/> More Digital Tools and Environments can be found on dedicated lists and in catalogs, for example: - TEI-Wiki Editing Tools < https://wiki.tei-c.org/index.php/Category:Editing_tools> ( last modified on 2015-02-20) - DIRT <http://dirtdirectory.org> (last update 2015-04-24) - TAPOR 3.0 <http://tapor.ca/home> -- Elena Spadini Postdoc, Université de Lausanne elespdn.github.io/io/

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Shared Task on Scene Segmentation in German Narratives
by Nils Reiter 21 Apr '21

21 Apr '21

1st Shared Task on Scene Segmentation in German Narratives We invite contributions to the 1st Shared Task on automatic Scene Segmentation (STSS) for German narrative texts. Scenes are time-, location- and plot-wise coherent units of a story, and can predominantly be found in narrative texts like novels or biographies. Scene segmentation is needed for a high-level content analysis of longer texts, but also for many subsequent tasks for NLP applied in longer narrative texts, since even modern methods struggle with processing text longer than a couple of sentences or paragraphs. All the details can be found here: http://go.uniwue.de/stss2021. The shared task is co-located with KONVENS 2021: https://konvens2021.phil.hhu.de ## Important Dates June 7, 2021: Registration Deadline June 30, 2021: Start of final evaluation July 7, 2021: End of final evaluation July 15, 2021: Paper submission due August 10, 2021: Camera ready due September 6-9, 2021: KONVENS conference ## Contact stss2021(a)informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de ## Organizers Albin Zehe, University of Würzburg Leonard Konle, University of Würzburg Lea Dümpelmann, University of Heidelberg Evelyn Gius, Technical University of Darmstadt Svenja Guhr, Technical University of Darmstadt Andreas Hotho, University of Würzburg Fotis Jannidis, University of Würzburg Lucas Kaufmann, University of Würzburg Markus Krug, University of Würzburg Frank Puppe, University of Würzburg Nils Reiter, University of Cologne Annekea Schreiber, TU Darmstadt

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1-year Research Fellowship (+1 year extension) - Università di Torino, Dipartimento di Informatica - H2020 Project SPICE
by Antonio Lieto 15 Apr '21

15 Apr '21

Open position at the University of Turin on “Semantic services for knowledge extraction, reasoning and integration in the cultural heritage domain” We are seeking a candidate for a one-year (renewable) research fellowship (from June/July 2021) to work on EU H2020 Project SPICE (Social Participation and Inclusion through Cultural Engagement - https://spice-h2020.eu) The candidate will be in charge of designing and deploying a semantic service for knowledge extraction, reasoning and integration in the field of cultural heritage. This service will be integrated into the socio-technical infrastructure of the SPICE project (2020-23), allowing third parties to perform reasoning tasks on the representation of the artworks and of the responses provided by the audience, with the ultimate goals of enabling advanced curation processes. Requirements for this position are a Master degree or Doctorate in Computer Science. The salary is €19.541. The call for application is available on the website of the University of Turin: https://pica.cineca.it/unito/assegni-di-ricerca-unito-2021-ii/file/Bando.pdf (REF INF.2021.10) Deadline: April 22 1:00 pm (CET). Online application at https://pica.cineca.it/unito/assegni-di-ricerca-unito-2021-ii/ Please write to Rossana Damiano for information (rossana.damiano(a)unito.it) ------------- Antonio Lieto, Ph.D Tenure-track Researcher (RTD-B) in Computer Science University of Turin, Department of Computer Science, Italy ICAR-CNR, Palermo, Italy Home: http://www.di.unito.it/~lieto/ ACM Distinguished Speaker: https://speakers.acm.org/speakers/lieto_12489 Vice-President of the Italian Association of Cognitive Science http://www.aisc-net.org/home/association/governing-board/ Deputy Editor in Chief of JETAI (Journal of Exp. & Theor. Artif. Intell., T&F) https://www.tandfonline.com/jetai <https://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?show=editorialBoard&j…> Author of "Cognitive Design for Artificial Minds" (2021), Routledge, Taylor & Francis. https://www.routledge.com/Cognitive-Design-for-Artificial-Minds/Lieto/p/boo…

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Day of DH 2021 - April 29 - Save the date!
by Alice Borgna 15 Apr '21

15 Apr '21

Day of DH is a way to show how digital humanities happens in many different ways and is practised by a varied group of people. This Day of DH comes after a year of living in the virtual space and for that, it is more special. We have had a year of seeing human life and technology intersect intimately and seen its affordances and its limitations come to the fore virtual meeting after virtual meeting. So #dayofdh2021 provides us with an opportunity to share and reflect upon how a global pandemic changed DH, its directions, your research questions, and more. *The day of DH 2021 will take place on April 29.* This year the organizing committee is led by Loyola University Chicago and UCLA in the USA, the University of Guelph in Canada, and Università del Piemonte Orientale in Italy. Day of DH 2021 theme is MULTILINGUAL DH. We aim to open up conversations about projects being undertaken in the various languages and put together a list of non-English tools, libraries, software products, tips, hacks, and resources available for researchers and institutions. --------- *How can I participate in the Day of DH 2021?* As in the years before, Day of DH will take place primarily on *Twitter* (please follow @dayofdh). If you or your centre will be writing a blog post or sharing news on some other medium, please tweet the URL of your blog post or web page. Please post about your workday, your plans and your daily activities. Also, Day of DH 2021 finally hits *Instagram*! This year, we’ll collect the visual stories and images of the day even on Instagram (please follow @dayofdh), with the shared hashtag #dayofdh2021. Show off your projects, visualizations, exhibits, your work-from-home setup, record a reel to share, set up a guide to DH related studies. Please share pictures as you share your day! Besides, since universities, research centres, and workplaces may still be closed for in-person gatherings, we also encourage hosting virtual lectures, project presentations or stream keynote lectures from past DH conferences. Advertising this with the #dayofdh or #dayofdh2021 hashtag might bring many more attendees to your event than in our former, embodied times. ------- For further information and materials (i.e. DH graphics or Zoom backgrounds), please visit https://dhcenternet.org/initiatives/day-of-dh/2021 and follow the official accounts (@dayofdh) on Instagram and Twitter. See you on April 29! -- Alice Borgna Senior Assistant Professor (RTD-B), Latin Language and Literature DISUM - Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici Università del Piemonte Orientale https://unipmn.academia.edu/AliceBorgna

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ESU DH 2021: Application phase 05.04. - 15.05.2021
by Ulrike Fußbahn 09 Apr '21

09 Apr '21

11th EUROPEAN SUMMER UNIVERSITY IN DIGITAL HUMANITIES "CULTURE & TECHNOLOGY" - 3 to 13 August 2021 UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG The 11th European Summer University in Digital Humanities "Culture & Technology"[1] (ESU DH C&T) takes place at the University of Leipzig from 3 to 13 August 2021. It is organised by the Institute for Romance Studies[2] together with the Forum Digital Humanities Leipzig[3] (FDHL). Interest in the ESU DH C&T can be expressed already by creating an account with the ConfTool of the Summer University https://www.conftool.org/esu2021/[4]. Applications for a place at the Summer University are welcomed between 5 April 2021 and 15 May 2021. Information on how to apply can be found here: https://esu.fdhl.info/application/. The Summer University takes place across 11 whole days. The intensive programme consists of workshops, teaser sessions, public lectures, regular project presentations, a poster session and a panel discussion. The following workshops are offered (for more information see: https://esu.fdhl.info/workshops/) * Michael Dahnke (München, Germany) / Florian Langhanki (University of Würzburg, Germany): OCR4all – An Open Source Tool Providing a Full OCR Workflow For Creating Digital Corpus From Printed Sources (2 x 1 week) * Alex Bia (University Miguel Hernández, Elche, Spain): XML-TEI document encoding, structuring, rendering and transformation (2 weeks) * Carol Chiodo (Harvard University, USA) / Lauren Tilton (University of Richmond, USA): Hands on Humanities Data Workshop – Creation, Discovery and Analysis (2 weeks) * Jan Horstmann (Research Association Marbach Weimar Wolfenbüttel, Germany) / Marie Flüh (University of Hamburg, Germany) / Mareike Schumacher (University of Hamburg, Germany): Digital Annotation and Analysis of Literary Texts with CATMA 6 (2 weeks) * Bernhard Fisseni (University Duisburg-Essen, Germany) / Andreas Witt (University of Mannheim, Germany): Corpus Linguistics for Digital Humanities. Introduction to Methods and Tools (2 weeks) * Maciej Eder (Polish Academy of Sciences / Pedagogical University, Cracow, Poland) / Jeremi Ochab (Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland): Stylometry (2 weeks) * Simone Rebora (University of Basel, Switzerland) / Giovanni Pietro Vitali (University College Cork, Ireland): Distant Reading in R. Analyse the text & visualize the Data (2 weeks) * Peter Bell (University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany) / Fabian Offert (University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany): Image Processing and Machine Learning for the Digital Humanities (2 weeks) * David Joseph Wrisley (New York University Abu Dhabi, UAE) / Randa El Khatib (University of Victoria, Canada): Humanities Data and Mapping Environments (2 weeks) * Katarzyna Anna Kapitan (Museum of National History, Frederiksborg Castle, Hillerød, Denmark) / N. Kıvılcım Yavuz (Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas, USA): Manuscripts in the Digital Age: XML-Based Catalogues and Editions (2 weeks) * Yael Netzer (Ben Gurion University, Israel) / Renana Keydar (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel): Digital Archives: Reading and Manipulating Large-Scale Catalogues, Curating and Creating Small-Scale Archives (2 weeks) Each workshop consists of a total of 18 sessions or 36 week-hours. The number of participants in each workshop is limited to 10. Workshops are structured in such a way that participants can either take the two blocks of one workshop or two blocks from different workshops. The "workload" of the active participation in the European Summer University corresponds to 6 ETCS points. Like in the former years the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) makes available generous support to up to 20 alumni / alumnae of German universities. As soon as other scholarships are confirmed, we will send out a separate announcement. The Summer University is directed at 60 participants from all over Europe and beyond. It wants to bring together (doctoral) students, young scholars and academics from the Arts and Humanities, Library Sciences, Social Sciences, the Arts and Engineering and Computer Sciences as equal partners to an interdisciplinary exchange of knowledge and experience in a multilingual and multicultural context and thus create the conditions for future project-based co-operations. The Leipzig Summer University is special because it not only seeks to offer a space for the discussion and acquisition of new knowledge, skills and competences in those computer technologies which play a central role in Humanities Computing and which determine every day more and more the work done in the Humanities and Cultural Sciences, as well as in publishing, libraries, and archives etc., but because it tries to integrate also linguistics with the Digital Humanities, which pose questions about the consequences and implications of the application of computational methods and tools to cultural artefacts of all kinds. It is special furthermore because it consciously aims at confronting the so-called Gender Divide, i.e. the under-representation of women in the domain of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in Germany, Europe and many parts of the world, by relying on the challenges that the Humanities with their complex data and their wealth of women represent for Computer Science and Engineering and the further development of the latter, on the overcoming of the borders between the so-called hard and soft sciences and on the integration of Humanities, Computer Science and Engineering. For all relevant information please consult the Web-Portal of the European Summer School in Digital Humanities “Culture & Technology” https://esu.fdhl.info/ which will be continually updated and integrated with more information as soon as it becomes available. To get some insight into what you can expect from the European Summer University please consult its former website https://esu.culintec.de/ and especially the year 2019. With my best regards and wishes Prof. (em.) Dr. phil. Elisabeth Burr French, Francophone and Italian Linguistics Director of the European Summer University in Digital Humanities "Culture & Technology" University of Leipzig Beethovenstr. 15 D-04107 Leipzig https://home.uni-leipzig.de/burr/ Links: ------ [1] https://esu.fdhl.info/ [2] https://romanistik.philol.uni-leipzig.de/ [3] https://fdhl.info/ [4] https://www.conftool.org/esu2021/

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Euporia (annotation tools based on DSLs) has been released
by federico.boschetti＠yahoo.com 25 Mar '21

25 Mar '21

Dear all,we are glad to inform you that Euporia 0.1-alpha, an annotation tools based on Domain-Specific Languages parsing, has been released: https://github.com/CoPhi/euporia The current version is an applet for eXist-db 5.3.0 If you desire more information, you can write us. Best regards,Federico and Luigi

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Call for Papers - First International Workshop on Multisensory Data & Knowledge
by Albert Meroño Peñuela 19 Mar '21

19 Mar '21

Call for Papers First International Workshop on Multisensory Data & Knowledge in conjunction with LDK 2021 https://odeuropa.github.io/mdk21/ <https://odeuropa.github.io/mdk21/> Important dates: Workshop papers submissions - April 23, 2021 - 23:59 AOE Notification - May 14, 2021 Camera Ready Submission - June 14, 2021 Workshop Day - September 1, 2021 About: Our senses are the gateways to our memories and emotions. However, they are under-represented in language technology and semantic web research. In this workshop, two recently awarded H2020 projects, Odeuropa and Polifonia, are teaming up to advance our understanding of how smells and music are represented in texts and structured data. The topics we want to address revolve around extracting references to smells, music, context, and visual information from text as well as relevant data describing their cultural, historical and political context, and model them in the form of interlinked knowledge graphs. This research has a strong interdisciplinary character, hence the workshop has the potential to attract researchers from diverse disciplines from both social sciences and humanities and computer science. Its potential impact is significant to many application areas including: preservation and valorisation of cultural heritage, data-driven policy making in cultural heritage, urban planning, artistic performances, applications for scholars in musicology and history, applications for museums, innovation in teaching, maintenance and exploitation of large catalogues, archives and libraries. We aim at creating a reference venue where new ideas and results can be shared and lead the way towards a technological and cultural shift in how we understand and experience our cultural heritage. Topics of interest: The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Olfactory, musical and visual information extraction from text Olfactory, musical and visual knowledge representation Resources for olfactory, musical and visual knowledge Extraction of socio-cultural and historical context information from text Extraction of time, space, events, people and (musical, olfactory and visual) artifacts from text Knowledge graphs integrating olfactory, musical and visual knowledge Multilingual text corpora on musical and olfactory heritage Automatic and semi-automatic generation of language descriptions of sensory experience Methods and approaches to represent degrees of sensorial experiences (e.g. intensity, dissipation) Applications for teaching/training/valorisation of multisensory data and knowledge Submission: We welcome submissions of long and short papers covering a wide range of NLP and semantic web topics dealing with the extraction and analysis of information from multisensory data. Papers presenting collaborations among researchers with different backgrounds or from different research communities are particularly welcome. All submissions must be in PDF and written in English, single-blind and formatted in the style of the OASIcs template as the main LDK 2021 conference (see the instruction for authors). Long papers should be between 10 and 15 pages, while short papers should include 6 to 8 pages and present a more focused contribution or a position paper. The MDK 2021 proceedings will be published with CEUR-WS.org. The submission web site is https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mdk2021 <https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mdk2021> For any questions, please feel free to contact the organisers directly, or via mdk2021(a)easychair.org <mailto:[email protected]>. Organisers: Marieke van Erp, KNAW Humanities Cluster, the Netherlands Valentina Presutti, University of Bologna, Italy Raphaël Troncy, EURECOM, France Albert Meroño-Peñuela, King's College London, UK Sara Tonelli, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy Enrico Daga, the Open University, UK Programme Committee: Elena Cabrio, INRIA, France Ilja Croijmans, Utrecht University, The Netherlands Marilena Daquino, University of Bologna, Italy Tommaso Di Noia, Politecnico di Bari, Italy Desmond Elliot, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Asifa Majid, the University of York, UK Barbara McGillivray, The Alan Turing Institute & Cambridge University, UK Stefano Menini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy Dunja Mladenic, Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia Philippe Rigaux, Conservatoire national des arts et métiers (CNAM), France Marco Rospocher, University of Verona, Italy Serra Sinem Tekiroğlu, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy Rachele Sprugnoli, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy Chiara Veninata, The Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities, Italy Valeria Zotti, University of Bologna, Italy

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ESU DH 2021: Announcement of dates
by Ulrike Fußbahn 09 Mar '21

09 Mar '21

11th EUROPEAN SUMMER UNIVERSITY IN DIGITAL HUMANITIES "CULTURE & TECHNOLOGY" - 3rd to 13th of August 2021 UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG As some may remember the 11th European Summer University in Digital Humanities “Culture & Technology” to be held last summer in Leipzig had to be postponed to 2021 because of the COVID-19 pandemic. This is to inform you that given that the DAAD has agreed to support the European Summer University again for two years, we have decided to hold ESU DH 2021 from the 3rd to 13th of August 2021 in Leipzig as promised. It will be organised together with the Forum Digital Humanities Leipzig[1] (FDHL). Although we are aware that the pandemic may hold still many challenges in store for us all, we are planning to meet with everybody in person in Leipzig. Should this not be possible we will put a plan B in place which could either mean having a hybrid event or, if the worst comes to the worst, a fully virtual one. We will just have to see what the next months bring. As in former years the Summer University is supposed to take place across 11 whole days. The intensive programme should consist of workshops, teaser sessions, public lectures, regular project presentations, a poster session and a panel discussion. At the moment a new ConfTool is being installed. All users of ESU’s 2020 ConfTool[2] as well as all the application documents submitted there in 2020 will be transferred to the new installation. As soon as the new installation is ready and we have updated ESU’s website[3] with information about the workshops which will be offered, we will come back with more information. With my very best wishes Elisabeth Burr Prof. (em.) Dr. phil. Elisabeth Burr French, Francophone and Italian Linguistics Director of the European Summer University in Digital Humanities "Culture & Technology" University of Leipzig Beethovenstr. 15 D-04107 Leipzig https://home.uni-leipzig.de/burr/ Links: ------ [1] https://fdhl.info/ [2] https://www.conftool.org/esu2020/ [3] https://esu.fdhl.info/

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Survey and invitation: 'Digital Humanities and Advocacy' - UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Network workshop
by Tupman, Charlotte 02 Mar '21

02 Mar '21

Dear All, The UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Network would like to bring to your attention our second workshop, organised by Prof. Lorna Hughes and Dr Paul Gooding (University of Glasgow), on communicating the value and impact of DH in teaching, research, and infrastructure development. It will be held on Tues 16th March; full details below. All welcome! For a place at the workshop please register via EventBrite<https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/digital-humanities-and-advocacy-tickets-1396…>. We are also conducting a short survey of those working in DH in the UK or Ireland to discern gaps in capacity and training strategies, and to inform discussions around the creation of a future Association. We would love to hear your views and would be very grateful if you would consider completing our short survey<https://dariah-ireland.org/pollsurvey/index.php/1> by 15th March: many thanks indeed. We hope to see as many of you as possible for the workshop on the 16th. Please feel free to join us for all or part of the day, as your schedule allows. For full details and for future events please see our network website at https://dhnetwork.org/. Best wishes, Charlotte --- Digital Humanities and advocacy: communicating the value and impact of DH in teaching, research, and infrastructure development UK-Ireland DH Network workshop Tues 16th March, 10:00-16:00 Please register via Eventbrite<https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/digital-humanities-and-advocacy-tickets-1396…>. How should a DH Association for the UK and Ireland carry out advocacy? How can we ensure that any Association that emerges has both the authority and representation to speak on behalf of DH communities of practice? What are the entities that need expert input from the DH community, and how can the Association ensure that it informs and shapes policy and other decision making processes? The aim of this workshop is to discuss the policy areas in which DH interests need to be heard, and discuss some shared, strategic challenges where a united voice of those working in DH is needed. The workshop will explore the key issues that affect DH development in the UK and Ireland that have policy implications, areas where expert opinions and guidance may be needed, and the audiences for these views. We will focus on three key areas where advocacy is needed in DH: Research, teaching, and infrastructure. In research, these issues include the way that DH tools, methods, and outputs are assessed for national research assessment exercises and peer review of digital content, tools, methods and research outputs, and the impact of open access publishing on DH research outputs. For teaching, central issues have emerged around shared curricula and teaching assessment, especially the lessons learned from recent experimentation with online course delivery. In terms of infrastructure development, what are areas for investment that will impact the development and uptake of DH? And what can we do to effect engagement with those shaping policy regarding key infrastructure investment? Is there a need for a shared view? How can we advocate for DH, and to whom? How best can we facilitate international cooperation and collaboration: in the UK’s post-Brexit landscape, how can we stay connected despite the loss of schemes like Erasmus? How can we ensure continued UK DH involvement in H2020? And structurally, what model of DH Association in the UK and Ireland would underpin an advocacy agenda? What membership models would support an organisation that has a resonant and authoritative ‘voice’ for our field? Event Schedule 10.00 - 10.30 -- Welcome to participants 10.30 - 11.30 -- Reshaping Research 11.30-11.45 -- Comfort break 11.45 - 12.45 -- Transforming Teaching 12.45 - 13.45 -- Lunch 13.45 -14.45 -- Innovating Infrastructure 14.45 - 15.00 -- Comfort break 15.00 - 15.45 -- Panel and open discussion 15.45 - 16.00 -- Summary and next steps Reshaping Research * Jane Winters (Chair) * Andrew Prescott * Marc Alexander * Tom O'Conner * Simon Hettrick Transforming Teaching * Justin Tonra (Chair) * Julianne Nyhan * Paul Gooding * Catherine Cronin * Francesca Benatti Innovating Infrastructure * Jennifer Edmond * Stuart Lewis Panel & Open Discussion * Mike Pidd (Chair) * Tao-Tao Chang * Chiara Loda * Alan Bowman * Andrew Prescott * Jane Ohlmeyer For more information visit our website at: https://dhnetwork.org/ -- Dr Charlotte Tupman Research Fellow in Digital Humanities Department of Classics and Ancient History College of Humanities University of Exeter EX4 4QH Tel. +44 (0)1392 72 4243 Please note that I will be unable to answer calls to this number at present, although I should be able to retrieve voicemail. <https://humanities.exeter.ac.uk/staff/tupman/> <https://humanities.exeter.ac.uk/staff/tupman/>https://humanities.exeter.ac.uk/staff/tupman/ I will usually be able to respond to emails Tue-Fri. Please note that although my working pattern means that I might send you an email outside of normal office hours, I do not expect a response outside the hours of your own working pattern. If your email relates to an application for funding, please send initial enquiries to digitalhumanities(a)exeter.ac.uk and a member of the team will normally respond within three working days. This email and any attachment may contain information that is confidential, privileged, or subject to copyright, and which may be exempt from disclosure under applicable legislation. It is intended for the addressee only. If you received this message in error, please let me know and delete the email and any attachments immediately. The University will not accept responsibility for the accuracy/completeness of this email and its attachments.

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Humanist mailing list is up and running again
by Fabio Ciotti 25 Feb '21

25 Feb '21

Dear Colleagues, I am pleased to let you know that the Humanist mailing list is active again, after a long hiatus. Following is the first welcome message from Willard McCarty, explaining how this important discussion venue for the Digital Humanities community will work in the future. The past members of the list have not been automatically migrated to the new mail-server, so both old and new members will have to apply for subscription. Yours sincerely. Fabio Ciotti. ---------- Forwarded message --------- Dear colleagues, Welcome to Humanist! We begin with this message after 200 days of silence and a great amount of cooperative work between Cologne and London to accomplish its migration to Universitt zu Kln. Thanks are due to all those involved, without whom the undesirable would be a fact. But it isn't, and I am grateful. Allow me first some housekeeping. Then other messages will follow. So, two matters for your attention. (1) Where it is. From now on Humanist lives at the same web address as before, dhhumanist.org, which is the only one you should use for it. The web system is likely to be moved to another server in the future, in which case <dhhumanist.org> will continue to work, whereas a server-based address will stop working. (2) How it goes. Humanist now has an editorial policy and an Editorial Board, for which see the About page (https://dhhumanist.org/announcement.html) The policy, worked out with the help of the Board, is as brief as I could get it and as close as I could make it to Humanist's de facto practices over the last three decades. My preference was to leave the policy implicit, but I've concluded that Humanist must have an explicit one and that it has to be spelled out for all to see. The Editorial Board is intended to function in much the same way as for journals, to provide the Editor with colleagues on whom to rely, and by its membership to signify the reach of Humanist in several dimensions. The Board also marks a transition that was accomplished years ago: from a clearing house of information to a form of scholarly publication. Now for the good stuff. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor emeritus, King's College London; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews; Humanist www.mccarty.org.uk _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe at: http://dhhumanist.org/Restricted List posts to: humanist(a)dhhumanist.org List info and archives at at: http://dhhumanist.org Listmember interface at: http://dhhumanist.org/Restricted/ Subscribe at: http://dhhumanist.org/membership_form.php -- Fabio Ciotti Department of "Studi letterari, Filosofici e di Storia dell’arte" - University of Roma "Tor Vergata" Chair, European Association for Digital Humanities Chief Editor, "Umanistica Digitale" https://umanisticadigitale.unibo.it/ @Fabio_Ciotti <https://twitter.com/fabio_ciotti> f.ciotti(a)pec.it <https://twitter.com/fabio_ciotti> <https://twitter.com/fabio_ciotti>

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What could be the digital humanities' Hugging Face?
by Kaspar Beelen 16 Feb '21

16 Feb '21

We have a question for the DH community: what are the most sought after computational resources that, if made available, will greatly facilitate and accelerate your research? We would like to understand what are a) the code libraries you dream of using, b) the shared tasks you think are urgently needed. To systematically collect these ideas, we made the following survey: https://forms.gle/VL2Yc82AghB4X5Qg9. We invite anyone doing research in DH to participate, especially those who write (or use) code for their research. The survey takes only up to 10 minutes. We’d very much appreciate your thoughts and feedback. The survey results will be made public, in order for everyone to potentially collaborate on building the resources that could propel digital humanities research in the future. Furthermore, anyone can decide whether to sign their ideas or remain anonymous. You can also re-tweet: https://twitter.com/giovanni1085/status/1361565811933126661. Thank you. Kind regards, Giovanni Colavizza (University of Amsterdam) Kaspar Beelen (The Alan Turing Institute) The Alan Turing Institute is a limited liability company, registered in England with registered number 09512457 with registered offices at British Library, 96 Euston Road, London, England, NW1 2DB. We are also a charity registered in England with charity number 1162533. DISCLAIMER: Although we have taken reasonable precautions to ensure the completeness and accuracy of this e-mail, transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or be incomplete. If you receive a suspicious or unexpected email from us, or purporting to have been sent on our behalf, particularly containing different bank details, please do not reply to the email, click on any links, open any attachments, or comply with any instructions contained within it. Our Transparency Notice found here - https://www.turing.ac.uk/transparency-notice sets out how and why we collect, store, use and share your personal data and it explains your rights and how to raise concerns with us.

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Digital Access, Inclusion, and the Humanities, 23 February 2021
by Naomi Wells 15 Feb '21

15 Feb '21

Digital Access, Inclusion, and the Humanities 23 February 2021, 6.00pm - 7.00pm (GMT) https://sas.ac.uk/events/event/23475 This event is part of 'Open for Discussion’, an annual series of conversations that brings multidisciplinary humanities perspectives to bear on critical social issues – issues with human dimensions frequently overlooked in current policy debates. The focus of this year’s series are those things that the COVID-19 pandemic has made visible, or rather what it has forced us to see more clearly. This conversation will explore the enormous value of digital tools and platforms in enabling, promoting and developing the humanities at a time of crisis, but it will also consider how the humanities can help us to examine the challenges and pitfalls of the digital. Speakers: * Gabriela Baeza Ventura (Associate Professor of Spanish, University of Houston) * Bethany Nowviskie (Dean of Libraries and Professor of English, James Madison University) * Roopika Risam (Associate Professor of Secondary and Higher Education and English at Salem State University) * Anasuya Sengupta (Co-founder and Co-director, Whose Knowledge) This event is free, but booking is required at the following link: https://sas.ac.uk/events/event/23475 #OpenDigitalDiscussion: Over the next week (15-19 February), the Digital Humanities PhD community at the School of Advanced Study will be hosting a daily discussion on Twitter of some of the key issues and themes this event will address. Follow the hashtag to join the discussion and share your own experiences and perspectives on digital access, inclusion and the Humanities. ________________________________ Convened by Naomi Wells (Lecturer in Italian and Spanish with Digital Humanities) and Jane Winters (Professor of Digital Humanities), School of Advanced Study, University of London. Hosted by Michael Hayman, Honorary Professor of the Purpose Economy at the School of Advanced Study. Dr Naomi Wells Lecturer in Italian and Spanish with Digital Humanities Institute of Modern Languages Research School of Advanced Study | University of London Room 238 | Senate House | Malet Street | London WC1E 7HU | UK Email: naomi.wells(a)sas.ac.uk http://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/ https://digitalmodernlanguages.wordpress.com/

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Umanistica Digitale, 10: Call for papers
by Fabio Ciotti 11 Feb '21

11 Feb '21

Dear Colleagues, Umanistica Digitale the journal of AIUCD (Italian DH Association) accepts submissions for number 10, to be published in Summer 2021. UD accepts original scientific articles (5-10.000 words), book or project reviews and event reports (1-3.500 words) in Italian and English on any subject and sub-field of Digital Humanities. The works must be submitted to the journal OJS website by February 28th, 2021. Details on format, style guides and editorial policy at https://umanisticadigitale.unibo.it/about/submissions FC -- Fabio Ciotti Department of "Studi letterari, Filosofici e di Storia dell’arte" - University of Roma "Tor Vergata" Chair, European Association for Digital Humanities Chief Editor, "Umanistica Digitale" https://umanisticadigitale.unibo.it/ @Fabio_Ciotti <https://twitter.com/fabio_ciotti> f.ciotti(a)pec.it <https://twitter.com/fabio_ciotti> <https://twitter.com/fabio_ciotti>

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Digital Humanities - Theorie und Methodik "Data Literacy and Digital Humanities"
by Ulrike Fußbahn 11 Feb '21

11 Feb '21

Dear all, we like to reinvite you to the lecture “IMAGES AS DATA” held by CAROL CHIODO (HARVARD UNIVERSITY LIBRARY, CAMBRIDGE, USA) and LAUREN TILTON (UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND, USA). The lecture will take place on Tuesday February 16th, 2020 from 5:15pm to 6:45pm (GMT +1) via Zoom. If you would like to attend this lecture, please sign up by using the following link: https://fdhl.info/theorie-und-methodik/ An abstract of the lecture and a short bio of Carol Chiodo and Lauren Tiltoncan be found in the calendar of events (https://fdhl.info/veranstaltungen/) of the Forum Digital Humanities Leipzig. This lecture takes place within the context of the lecture series: DIGITAL HUMANITIES – THEORIE UND METHODIK “DATA LITERACY AND DIGITAL HUMANITIES” The digital universe is growing very fast and the amount of information contained in data is exploding. The mining of these data has ethical, social, and political consequences. In order to think through these consequences a new kind of literacy is needed, which could also be called ‘data literacy’ if we define it according to Chantel Ridsdale as “the ability to collect, manage, evaluate, and apply data in a critical manner”. BUT HOW SHOULD WE TEACH DATA LITERACY IN THE HUMANITIES? The Digital Humanities are characterized by a cross-disciplinary and collaborative nature, by project orientation, hands-on practices and the use of cultural heritage data, and by the aim to integrate and create domain-specific knowledge with computational methods and tools while reflecting their application and use critically. As such Digital Humanities would seem to offer everything that students need to become not only literate in their specific Humanities field, but to acquire at the same time data literacy and skills like problem solving, computational and critical thinking. As the data which play a role in Digital Humanities are themselves multiform and comprise among other types visual, audio, geospatial, temporal, and statistical data, we can even say that by studying Digital Humanities students become meta- or transliterate and thus able to employ their knowledge, competencies and skills in very diverse social and professional domains. In order to support the claim that doing Digital Humanities involves becoming (meta- / trans-) data literate and to illustrate the acquisition of data literacy in diverse Humanities-specific courses offered at different levels of university education, we have brought together an international group of specialists. PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME (see also https://fdhl.info/theorie-und-methodik/[1]) * 8 DECEMBER 2020 Alex Bia (Universidad Miguel Hernández, Elche, Spain): “Data science and digital humanities: a feasible merge?” * 22 DECEMBER 2020 Diane Jakacki (Bucknell University, Lewisburg, USA): "Theory and Praxis: REED London, Data Literacy, and Research-Based Learning" * 19 JANUARY 2021 David Wrisley (NYU Abu Dhabi, UAE): “Data Transliteracy: Creativity and Cooperation across Knowledge Cultures” * 2 FEBRUARY 2021 Denis Arnold / Bernhard Fisseni (Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache, Mannheim, Germany): “(Digital) Research Data and Metadata” * 16 FEBRUARY 2021 Carol Chiodo (Harvard University Library, Cambridge, USA) / Lauren Tilton (University of Richmond, USA): “Images as Data” The lectures (including ample time for discussions) will be given virtually via Zoom EVERY OTHER TUESDAY FROM 5:15PM TO 6:45PM (Berlin Time). The series starts on 8 December 2020. Interested participants are kindly asked to register here[2] AT THE LATEST by the Sunday before each event so that access data can be sent to them. The number of places is limited. The lecture series on “Data Literacy and Digital Humanities” is an integral part of the lecture series “Digital Humanities – Theorie und Methodik”, which was founded in the winter term 2014/15 by Elisabeth Burr with the aim to fill the term “Digital Humanities” with meaning by presenting the broader scholarly public with theoretical and methodological questions which play a role in Digital Humanities. Elisabeth Burr Professor emeritus of French, Francophone and Italian Linguistics Founder of the European Summer University in Digital Humanities Chair of the PC of EADH 2020-2021 President of the European Association for Digital Humanities (EADH) President of the Constituent Organizations Board of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) Universität Leipzig Beethovenstr. 15 D-04107 Leipzig https://home.uni-leipzig.de/burr/ Links: ------ [1] https://fdhl.info/theorie-und-methodik [2] https://fdhl.info/theorie-und-methodik/

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