Category: Article

CFP: Call for Papers on Digital Curation

Archival Science advertised a call for papers for their special issue on “Digital Curation” on the Humanist Listerv

Digital curation involves the selection, maintenance, dissemination, 
preservation and adding value to digital assets. Examples of these 
activities include the development of repositories for digital 
resources, the creation and/or selection of digital assets; creation
and management of metadata; file format identification and management,
 and provision for dissemination and access to digital assets.  Digital
 curation is a multi-disciplinary area, which has the potential to 
yield much of relevance to the archival community.

Suggested topics for papers may include:

  • Theory of digital curation
  • Digital preservation methods
  •  The role of genre in digital curation activities
  • Digital repositories
  • Standards and models for digital curation
  • Data reuse and user requirements for digital curation
  • Models for dissemination of digital assets
  • Cost models and business cases for digital curation
  • Digital curation education and training.

Key Dates:

  • Submission Deadline for completed papers: December 1, 2013
  • 
Review Decisions will be made by: March 1, 2014
  • Final Versions Due: May 1, 2014

CFP: Workshop on Big Humanities

A call for papers has been issued for the Workshop on Big Humanities, held in conjunction with the 2013 IEEE International Conference on Big Data, October 6-9, 2013, in Santa Clara, CA.

From the CFP:

The workshop will address applications of “big data” in the humanities, arts and culture, and the challenges and possibilities that such increased scale brings for scholarship in these areas. …

Topics covered by the workshop include, but are not restricted to, the following:

  • Text- and data-mining of historical and archival material.
  • Social media analysis, including sentiment analysis
  • Cultural analytics
  • Crowd-sourcing and big data
  • Cyber-infrastructures for the humanities
  • Relationship between ‘small data’ and big data
  • NoSQL databases and their application, e.g. document and graph databases
  • Big data and the construction of memory and identity
  • Big data and archival practice
  • Construction of big data
  • Big data in Heritage

Full-length papers are due July 30.

 

CFP: Composing In/With/Through Archives: An Open-Access, Born Digital Edited Collection

The Cultural Heritage Informatics Initiative at Michigan State University invites essays (8000 words) and case studies (3000 words) for a digital, OA edition that will examine, among other topics:

  • How are we theorizing digital archives?
  • How are we drawing from the work of digital archivists as we build our own archives and conduct digital archival research?
  • How do digital archives mediate how we write?
  • How do we differentiate between digital archives/repositories/libraries? Why are these distinctions important?

Abstracts due by April 30.

Assessment and Evaluation of Digital Humanities Work

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION!

DHNow has issued a call for writing on the assessment and evaluation of DH work. As indicated in the call, they are aiming both to expand their Zotero collection of existing publications, policies, and statements, and to provoke the publication of new work in this area. A selection of the latter will be published in the next issue of Journal of Digital Humanities.

The Editors are interested in gathering and soliciting work from the library perspective. Potential areas of inquiry include: How are librarians presenting their DH work to tenure and promotion committees– and how should they? How might the performance of a librarian newly-engaged with DH work be evaluated?

From the call:

1) We will build a bibliography of existing statements and institutional policies in the Digital Humanities Zotero Group Library. Group membership is open and we encourage DHNow readers to add materials and citations to the library.

2) We are soliciting new writing on critical assessment for the full breadth of DH scholarship. Work published online by December 3, 2012 will be considered for inclusion in the Journal of Digital Humanities. See How to Submit Your Work for more information.