DATeCH 2014 Call for papers

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Call for papers

Madrid 19-20 May, 2014

The DATeCH international conferenceï¿œbrings together researchers and practitioners looking for innovative approaches for the creation, transformation and exploitation of historical documents in digital form.

Important dates

  • 7 January 2014 - Paper submission deadline
  • 28 February 2014 - Decision notification
  • 31 March 2014 - Camera-ready papers due
  • 19-20 May 2014 - Conference

Target audience

The workshop aims to foster interdisciplinary work and linking together participants engaged in the following areas:

  • Text digitization and OCR.
  • Digital humanities.
  • Image and document analysis.
  • Digital libraries and library science.
  • Applied computational linguistics.
  • Crowdsourcing.
  • Interfaces and human-computer interaction.

Topics

Topics of interest are all those related to the practical and scientific goals listed above, such as:

  • OCR technology and tools for minority and historical languages.
  • Methods and tools for post-correction of OCR results.
  • Automated quality control for mass OCR data.
  • Innovative access methods for historical texts and corpora.
  • Natural language processing of ancient languages (Latin, Greek).
  • Visualization techniques and interfaces for search and research in digital humanities.
  • Publication and retrieval on e-books and mobile devices.
  • Crowdsourcing techniques for collecting and annotating data in digital humanities.
  • Enrichment of and metadata production for historical texts and corpora.
  • Data created with mobile devices.
  • Data presentation and exploration on mobile devices.
  • Ontological and linked data based contextualization of digitized and born digital scholarly data resources.

Venue

The conference will take place in the Biblioteca Nacional de Espaᅵa (Madrid), in the framework of theᅵDigitisation Daysᅵ(19-20 May, 2014) organised by the Succeed Support Action.

Programme committee

The programme committee is chaired by Apostolos Antonacopoulos (Salford University) and Klaus U. Schulz (Ludwig-Maximilians Universitï¿œt) and integrated by:

  • Aly Conteh, The British Library
  • Basilis Gatos, Demokritos National Center for Scientific Research
  • Bruce Robertson, Mount Allison University
  • Christoph Ringlstetter, Ludwig-Maximilians Universitï¿œt
  • Christopher Blackwell, Furman University
  • Claudine Moulin, Universitï¿œt Trier
  • David Doermann, University of Maryland
  • Enrique Vidal, Universitat Politï¿œcnica de Valï¿œncia
  • Franï¿œois Bry, Ludwig-Maximilians Universitï¿œt
  • Gregory Crane, Universitï¿œt Leipzig
  • Gï¿œnter Mï¿œhlberger, Universitï¿œt Innsbruck
  • Joan Andreu Sï¿œnchez, Universitat Politï¿œcnica de Valï¿œncia
  • Laura Mandell, Texas A&M University
  • Lou Burnard, TEI Board
  • Malte Rehbein, Universitï¿œt Passau
  • Marco Bï¿œchler, Gï¿œttingen Centre for Digital Humanities
  • Martin Mï¿œller, Northwestern University
  • Neel Smith, College of Holy Cross
  • Rose Holley, National Archives of Australia
  • Simone Marinai, Universitï¿œ degli Studi di Firenze
  • Stefan Gradmann, Humboldt-Universitï¿œt zu Berlin
  • Stoyan Mihov, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
  • Thierry Paquet, Universitï¿œ de Rouen
  • Tomaz Erjavec, Institut Joï¿œef Stefan

Submission

The following criteria will be applied to all communications submitted to DATeCH 2014 (http://datech2014.info/submissions):

  • Only original material will be accepted.
  • All communications will be peer reviewed and published in the proceedings of the conference.
  • The authors of the best contributions will be invited to prepare an extended version for a collective publication of selected papers in an indexed journal (an additional reviewing process will be applied).

Contact

For additional information, please visitï¿œwww.datech2014.infoï¿œorï¿œsend an email toï¿œdat...@digitisation.eu


DATeCH 2014 is supported by:ᅵ








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Marco Bï¿œCHLER
Georg-August-Universitï¿œt Gï¿œttingen
Gï¿œttingen Centre for Digital Humanities (GCDH)
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