CFP> JADH2017: "Creating Data through Collaboration", Kyoto, September 11-12

Dear Colleagues,

Please circulate the following to interested scholars:

JADH2017: "Creating Data through Collaboration"
http://conf2017.jadh.org/

The Japanese Association for Digital Humanities is pleased to announce 
its seventh annual conference, to be held at Doshisha University, Kyoto, 
Japan, September 11-12, 2017.

The conference will feature posters, papers and panels. We invite 
proposals globally on all aspects of digital humanities, and especially 
encourage papers treating topics that deal with practices that aim to 
cross borders, for example, between academic fields, media, languages, 
cultures, organizations, and so on, as related to the field of digital 
humanities.

As creation of research data -- collection, feature extraction, 
annotation, and organization -- is a seminal component of all DH 
projects, means and modes of this data-creation have been handled in 
various ways as digital approaches have evolved. Recently, the focus on 
methods of collaborating in data creation has been renewed with the 
rapid growth of projects that are crowd-sourced on the Web. The 
re-emergence of data creation based on this approach provides a wider 
range of data, as it has the potential to include contributors who are 
not only researchers, but also members of the general public. Such a new 
possibility should be taken due advantage of, especially given the 
difficult situation for the humanities fields in the academy. This year 
we strongly encourage you to submit proposals about methods and problems 
in collaborative approaches for data collection, especially crowd 
sourcing and other forms of public engagement. With this as our 
suggested central focus, we nonetheless welcome papers on a broad range 
of DH topics. For example:

Research issues, including data mining, information design and modeling, 
software studies, and humanities research enabled through the digital 
medium; computer-based research and computer applications in literary, 
linguistic, cultural and historical studies, including electronic 
literature, public humanities, and interdisciplinary aspects of modern 
scholarship. Some examples might include text analysis, corpora, corpus 
linguistics, language processing, language learning, and endangered 
languages; the digital arts, architecture, music, film, theater, new 
media and related areas; the creation and curation of humanities digital 
resources; the role of digital humanities in academic curricula; The 
range of topics covered by Digital Humanities can also be consulted in 
the journal Digital Scholarship in the Humanities 
(http://dsh.oxfordjournals.org/), Oxford University Press.

Abstracts should be of 500-1000 words in length in English, including title.

Please submit abstracts on the open conference system for conference 
below by May 8, 2017.
http://www.jadh.org/confsys/index.php/jadh2017/

Presenters will be notified of acceptance on 31 May 2017.

Type of proposals:

1. Poster presentations: Poster presentations may include 
work-in-progress on any of the topics described above as well as 
demonstrations of computer technology, software and digital projects. A 
separate poster session will open the conference, during which time 
presenters should be on-hand to explain their work, share their ideas 
with other delegates, and answer questions. Posters will also be on 
displayed at various times during the conference, and presenters are 
encouraged to provide material and handouts with more detailed 
information and URLs.

2. Short papers: Short papers are allocated 10 minutes (plus 5 minutes 
for questions) and are suitable for describing work-in-progress and 
reporting on shorter experiments and software and tools in early stages 
of development.

3. Long papers: Long papers are allocated 20 minutes (plus 10 minutes 
for questions) and are intended for presenting substantial unpublished 
research and reporting on significant new digital resources or 
methodologies.

4. Panels: Panels (90 minutes) are comprised of either: (a) Three long 
papers on a joint theme. All abstracts should be submitted together with 
a statement, of approximately 500-1000 words, outlining the session 
topic and its relevance to current directions in the digital humanities; 
or (b) A panel of four to six speakers. The panel organizer should 
submit a 500-1000 words outline of the topic session and its relevance 
to current directions in the digital humanities as well as an indication 
from all speakers of their willingness to participate.

Contact:
Please direct enquires about any aspect of the conference to:
conf2017 [ at ] jadh.org

Program Committee:
•	Paul Arthur (Australian National University, Australia)
•	James Cummings (University of Oxford, UK)
•	J. Stephen Downie (University of Illinois, USA)
•	Øyvind Eide (University of Cologne and University of Passau, Germany)
•	Neil Fraistat (University of Maryland, USA)
•	Makoto Goto (National Institute for Humanities, Japan)
•	Shoichiro Hara (Kyoto University, Japan)
•	Jieh Hsiang (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
•	Asanobu Kitamoto (National Institute of Informatics, Japan) , Chair
•	Maciej Eder (Pedagogical University of Kraków, Poland)
•	A. Charles Muller (University of Tokyo, Japan)
•	Hajime Murai (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
•	Kiyonori Nagasaki (International Institute for Digital Humanities, Japan)
•	John Nerbonne (University of Groningen, Netherlands)
•	Geoffrey Rockwell (University of Alberta, Canada)
•	Susan Schreibman (National University of Ireland Maynooth, Ireland)
•	Masahiro Shimoda (University of Tokyo, Japan)
•	Raymond Siemens (University of Victoria, Canada)
•	Keiko Suzuki (Ritsumeikan University, Japan)
•	Takafumi Suzuki (Toyo University, Japan)
•	Tomoji Tabata (Osaka University, Japan)
•	Toru Tomabechi (International Institute for Digital Humanities, Japan)
•	Kathryn Tomasek (Wheaton College, USA)
•	Christian Wittern (Kyoto University, Japan)
•	Taizo Yamada (University of Tokyo, Japan)



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