DATeCH 2017 Deadline Extension

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Call for papers

Göttingen, 1-2 June, 2017

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transformation and exploitation of historical documents in digital form.

Important dates


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   *13 January 2017 - Abstract submission deadline*
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   *20 January 2017 - Paper submission deadline*
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   28 February 2017 - Decision notification
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   31 March 2017 - Camera-ready papers due
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   1-2 June 2017 - Conference


Target audience

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


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


Topics

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


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


Venue

The conference will take place in the Niedersächsische Staats- und
Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen, Historical Building, in the framework of
the Digitisation Days <http://ddays.digitisation.eu/> (1-2 June, 2017).

Programme committee

The programme committee is chaired by Apostolos Antonacopoulos (Salford
University, UK) and Marco Büchler (Georg August University Göttingen,
Germany) and integrated by:


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   Alicia Fornés, Computer Vision Center, Universitat Autònoma de
   Barcelona, Spain
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   Aly Conteh,  LDS Church History Library, Salt Lake City, USA
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   Basilis Gatos, Demokritos National Center for Scientific Research, Greece
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   Claire Clivaz, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne, Switzerland
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   Clemens Neudecker, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer
   Kulturbesitz, Germany
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   Dirk Roorda, Data Archiving and Networked Services, Amsterdam, The
   Netherlands
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   Elena Gonzalez-Blanco García, UNED, Madrid, Spain
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   Enrique Vidal, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
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   Eric Lease Morgan, University of Notre Dame, USA
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   Geoffrey Rockwell, University of Alberta, Canada
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   Gimena del Rio Riande, CONICET, Argentina
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   Günter Mühlberger, Universität Innsbruck, Austria
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   Jim Salmons, FactMiners, USA
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   Joan Andreu Sánchez, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain

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Klaus Schulz, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München, Germany
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Kristoffer L. Nielbo, Interacting Minds Centre, School of Culture and
Society, Aarhus University, Denmark
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Laura Mandell, Texas A&M University, USA
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Laurent Romary, Inria & DARIAH, France and Germany
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Lou Burnard, Lou Burnard consulting, UK
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Mike Kestemont, University of Antwerp, Belgium
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Neil Fitzgerald, The British Library, UK
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Rafael C. Carrasco (DLSI & Impact Centre of Competence, Universidad de
Alicante), Spain
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Simone Marinai, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy
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Stefan Gradmann, KU Leuven, Belgium
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Stefan Pletschacher, University of Salford, UK
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Stoyan Mihov, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria
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Thierry Paquet, Université de Rouen, France
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Tomasz Parkoła, Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center, Poland


Submission

The following criteria will be applied to all papers submitted to DATeCH
2017 (http://ddays.digitisation.eu/datech-2017/submissions/):


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   Authors are invited to submit full papers of up to 6 pages in length.
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   Only original material will be accepted.
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   All submissions will be peer reviewed and accepted papers will be
   published in the conference proceedings, indexed in a major digital library.
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   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 visit http://ddays.digitisation.eu/d
atech-2017/ or send an email to [email protected].


DATeCH 2017 is supported by:

The Impact Centre of Competence


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and organised by:

the Göttingen State and University Library and the University of Göttingen

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*Isabel Martínez Sempere*

Succeed Project Technical Manager
*[email protected] <[email protected]>*
*Universidad de Alicante*
Phone: +34-96-590-3400 ext. 3317
            +34 636 132 125

<http://www.succeed-project.eu/>



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