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        Date: 2023-05-17 14:26:47+00:00
        From: clarisse bardiot <clarisse.bardiot@univ-rennes2.fr>
        Subject: CfP - Reimagining Annotation for Multimodal Cultural Heritage - Rennes (France) - February 2024

Call for papers : Reimagining Annotation for Multimodal Cultural Heritage
(7-9/02/2024)
https://reimagining-amch.sciencesconf.org/

Rapid advances in digital technology are constantly expanding the ways in which
we can annotate multimodal documents, be they texts, images, videos, sounds, web
pages or code. Cultural heritage institutions have embarked on ambitious
campaigns to digitize their collections; at the same time, born digital heritage
joins archival collections. The valorisation of digital heritage, especially
audiovisual documents and multimodal corpora, is becoming a major issue for both
cultural institutions and researchers. One of the answers consists of creating
annotation interfaces or automating annotation thanks to computational
techniques, both for close and / or distant viewing analysis.

Reimagining annotation for multimodal cultural heritage makes for an exciting
and stimulating landscape, but also engenders a host of epistemological
questions. How can we engage with and organize the informational hierarchies
that emerge from these methods? What are the affordances and limits of close and
distant reading methods and how can we articulate these two approaches? Faced
with a multiplication of approaches and interfaces, how can we consolidate
research and resources to encourage cumulative, collaborative work to occur?
What becomes of the document’s ontology — notably in the context of time-based
media and the analysis of creative processes — when it integrates a network of
annotations, readings and decompositions?

This conference seeks to interrogate these questions across three primary axes:

Axis 1: Tools. We wish to interrogate the tools available for the annotation of
multimodal data and cultural heritage. What is the state of the art, what tools
are available to researchers? What are the issues developers face when dealing
with multimodal data and especially audiovisual data? How do developers overcome
the friction between powerful computational methods and users?

Axis 2: Methods. We wish to interrogate the methodologies for engaging with
multimodal data and cultural heritage. How has annotation in the digital
humanities developed with the emergence of computational techniques? What are
the new approaches they allow for? How will the field develop from an
epistemological point of view?

Axis 3: Projects. We wish to shine a light on projects that have interrogated
these first two axes in academia and the GLAM sector.

We encourage researchers and cultural professionals from a large number of
fields who work along these axes to contribute: the digital humanities and GLAM
professionals, the performing arts, theater, cinema, music, visual art, history,
video games, conservation and archival professionals, as well as cultural
heritage institutions.

The deadline for abstract submission is currently set to the 15th September 2023
on this website : https://reimagining-amch.sciencesconf.org/

Location

The conference will be hosted at Rennes 2 University and the MSHB (Maison des
Sciences de l’Homme en Bretagne) (Rennes, France). It will be possible to attend
the conference online. Prior to the conference, the participants will have the
possibility to attend a day-long workshop which will be the opportunity to
showcase a new tool based on IIIF for the annotation of multimodal corpora. More
information about the workshop shall be communicated soon.

Publication

All the papers will be recorded before or during the conference and edited with
MemoRekall-IIIF <https://memorekall.com/en/>. They will be published as an open
source multimodal book online for the conference.

[...]

Chairs

Clarisse Bardiot <http://www.clarissebardiot.info/> (Université Rennes 2,
France)
Jacob Hart <https://jacob-hart.com/> (Université Rennes 2, France)

[...]

Best regards

Clarisse Bardiot
<http://www.univ-rennes2.fr/>
Professeur des universités en Études théâtrales
Département des Arts du spectacle
Université Rennes 2
[...]


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