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[1] From: Alan Liu <ayliu@english.ucsb.edu>
Subject: Call for Papers: MLA Committee on Information Technology's two panels at MLA 2025 (59)
[2] From: Mathilde Bru <mathilde.bru.20@UCL.AC.UK>
Subject: Data in Historical Linguistics Seminar Series – Seminar Three (23)
[3] From: Marinella Testori <testorimarinella@gmail.com>
Subject: Fwd: DCMI 2024: Call for Participation (249)
[4] From: Vassilis Vagios <vvagios@NTU.EDU.TW>
Subject: From Writing to AI (33)
[5] From: <Centre>, Bústia compartida <dh@upf.edu>
Subject: [Seminar 01/03/2023] First Session of Seminar Series "Premodern Digital Textualities" (47)
[6] From: Gabriel Egan <mail@gabrielegan.com>
Subject: Artificial Intelligence: 'Seize the Opportunities, Avoid the Hazards' (29)
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Date: 2024-02-14 21:03:13+00:00
From: Alan Liu <ayliu@english.ucsb.edu>
Subject: Call for Papers: MLA Committee on Information Technology's two panels at MLA 2025
For the MLA convention in New Orleans in 2025 (Jan. 9-12), the MLA’s
Committee on Information Technology (CIT) is organizing two guaranteed
sessions to help generate ideas related to the convention's Presidential
Theme of "visibility." Abstracts: 300 words or less, by the end of the day
(all time zones): 15 March 2024. Please submit your abstract using this
Google Form: https://bit.ly/3OEMYXP
*Session 1: Alt-Text, Alt-Image: Multimodal Scholarship --*
In this session we’re interested in examining how multimodality can respond
to the presidential theme “visibility.” How can digital technologies in the
humanities move away from or, in enriching ways, accompany sight as the
dominant modality of “enlightened” knowledge? How can digital scholarship
negotiate screen essentialism (as if what is seen on the screen is all
there is) and universalism (as if everyone experiences the world in the
same way)? What becomes “visible” (meaningful, accessible, understandable)
when the emphasis is moved away from sight? How can thinking about the
visible/invisible ignite multiple avenues through (and connections with)
engagement, representation, and action/expression. We’re interested in
presentations that engage with data and information representation beyond
sight/screen (textile, sound, haptic, wearables, etc.) and that explore the
visible and invisible in infrastructures, systems, blackboxing, privacy,
and other issues. Disability studies approaches that connect to MLA 2025’s
Presidential theme of “Visibility” are especially welcome.
*Session 2: Multilingualism and Visibility in Digital Humanities and
Digital Scholarship --*
This session invites proposals to examine the current state of
multilingualism in digital scholarship as a way to address
visibility/invisibility. Digital scholarship has been widely criticized for
being English-centric, technologically biased, and, therefore, culturally
exclusionary. These criticisms emerge from concrete experiences represented
in the lack of awareness of digital scholarship produced in non-Anglophone
countries or by non-Anglophone scholars, and the lack of robust tools for
working in languages other than English. In the last decade, we have
witnessed a surge of initiatives, projects, and events such as Global DH
Symposium, Multilingual DH, Multilingual DH NLP, and the Translation
Toolkit, etc., that have tried to bridge the gaps and address the lack of
access and inclusion. However, there is still work to do and gaps to cover
so we can “see” and consider digital scholarship produced in other
languages and cultural latitudes as meaningful contributions to the field.
In an effort to address these issues, the session aims to discuss questions
such as: what is the state of multilingualism in DH and digital
scholarship? How has the use of LLM and AI impacted multilingualism in
these fields? What contributions does multilingualism bring to render
digital scholarship more “visible” and accessible? How does multilingualism
in digital scholarship continue to address barriers that hinder processes
of collaboration beyond national and linguistic boundaries? We welcome
presentations that discuss multilingualism from diverse perspectives:
theoretical approaches, multilingual projects, the development of tools and
protocols to enhance multilingual digital analysis, etc.
Both CFPs are also posted on the MLA Committee on Information Technology's
blog at:
https://infotech.mla.hcommons.org/2024/cfp-mla-2025-call-for-panelists-from-the-
committee-on-information-technology/.
For the Presidential Theme of “Visibility” at the MLA 2025 convention, see
“Visibility”
https://www.mla.org/Events/2025-MLA-Convention/Presidential-Theme-for-
the-2025-Convention
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Date: 2024-02-14 20:35:03+00:00
From: Mathilde Bru <mathilde.bru.20@UCL.AC.UK>
Subject: Data in Historical Linguistics Seminar Series – Seminar Three
The third talk of the Data in Historical Linguistics Seminar Series will
take place remotely on Monday 19th February 2024 at 5pm GMT. María
Isabel Jiménez Martínez (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) will be
presenting on “Verb-nominal collocations in diachrony: From Latin to the
Romance languages.”
Registration for this talk will close at midnight on Friday 16th
February and the link for this can be accessed here:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeQWvjksusM7o1tYrT6xXf1U7MNFiQbrA_a3yFU
KOCto_CEmg/viewform
Participants will receive a Microsoft Teams link via email on the
morning of the talk. The abstract for this talk, and the programme and
registration links for all talks in the series can be found on our
website: https://datainhistoricallinguistics.wordpress.com/programme/
This seminar series is run jointly by King’s College London and
University College London, and is aimed at PhD students and early career
researchers. The purpose of this seminar series is to bring together
researchers working on historical linguistics with a quantitative
approach, and to discuss current avenues of research in this topic. We
hope that these seminars will nurture international collaboration and
establish academic ties among researchers working on similar topics in
this field.
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Date: 2024-02-14 17:21:44+00:00
From: Marinella Testori <testorimarinella@gmail.com>
Subject: Fwd: DCMI 2024: Call for Participation
[Da: DCMI Announce <announce@dublincore.net>]
DCMI 2024: Call for Participation
Metadata Innovation: Trust, Transformation, and Humanity
October 20-23, University of Toronto, Canada
https://www.dublincore.org/conferences/2024/
DCMI 2024, the twenty-second International Conference on Dublin Core and
Metadata Applications, invites researchers, practitioners, and experts
from diverse domains to explore the dynamic landscape of metadata in the
theme of Trust, Transformation, and Humanity. The fast-paced advances in
artificial intelligence (AI) create new research fronts for metadata.
While AI can bring benefits to research, learning, and society at large,
it has also supercharged deepfake contents that are used for nefarious
purposes. Ensuring trustworthy AI and applications is the first line in
responsible metadata research and practice and in fighting the
misinformation, disinformation, and deepfake contents. Metadata is
quickly expanding its role in providing transparent, trustworthy, and
effective representation of data, information, and knowledge in the
transformation from “data about data’’ to data-underpinned knowledge. In
this expansion of metadata roles, we strive to bring innovative metadata
ideas, projects, and practices together to foster and protect humanity.
DCMI 2024 serves as a unique platform for the discussion of “innovative
research and practice” - presenting visions for future metadata
development and solutions to practical metadata problems. Join
researchers, practitioners, and experts from a wide range of sectors in
a collaborative exploration of metadata’s evolving role through your
papers, posters, panel discussions, best practice reports,
designathon/hackathon, workshops, and more.
DCMI 2024 will feature exclusively in-person meetings, with the
exception of workshops, which may be conducted either in-person or
virtually.
Key areas:
==========
Under the conference theme Metadata Innovation: Trust, Transformation,
and Humanity, the DCMI 2024 conference welcomes submissions on the
following topics broadly related to metadata design, deployment, and
best practices (but not limited to):
- Data Integrity and Reliability: Innovative metadata research and
practices that ensure data integrity, accuracy, and reliability.
- Ethics and Metadata: Addressing ethical considerations in
metadata creation and management to build trust.
- Adaptation to Emerging Technologies: Transforming metadata
constructs and systems to enable the full utilization of technologies
in AI, linked data, and knowledge bases.
- Metadata and Data Science: Application of data science theories
and methods in developing linked, intelligent metadata to facilitate
transformation.
- Metadata for the Public Good: The implications and significance
of metadata in trustworthy AI; the role of metadata in supporting the
fight against nefarious deepfakes, misinformation, and
disinformation; open data, open science, and open metadata.
- Cultural and Social Dimensions of Metadata: Digital humanities
and metadata, semantic and computational metadata for cultural
heritage objects, equitable metadata representation for historical
materials, and critical study of metadata theories, practices,
standards, and tools.
- Interoperability and Reusability: Solutions and practices in
creating FAIR metadata, case studies of data reusability fostered by
metadata, and new data structures and models supporting metadata
interoperability.
Submission Guidelines
=====================
- At least one author of an accepted submission must be physically
present at the conference to present the work in person (\with an
exception of the student forum).
- Submissions must follow the guidelines for one of the categories
enumerated below.
- All submissions must be in English.
- All submissions must be made via the Submission System,
https://go.dublincore.org/dcmi-2024/submission-portal
- Submissions must be a single Portable Document Format (PDF) along
with the document’s source.
- The source file should be Microsoft Word (.doc or .docx), or LaTeX
files in a single compressed zip file (.zip).
- Authors are required to include their ORCID in their submissions.
Templates
=========
- All submissions must use the official DCPapers template for DCMI
conference proceedings.
- Templates for both Microsoft Word and LaTeX are available in the
DCPapers template repository. Template files can be downloaded from
https://github.com/dcmi/dcpapers-templates/releases/latest
- Any modification to the template, including but not limited to
adjustments in margins, typeface sizes, line spacing, paragraphs, and
list definitions, is discouraged.
- Users of Microsoft Word are required to install the Libertinus font
family on their computer. The DOCX template contains detailed
installation instructions.
- Users familiar with LaTeX should prefer the LaTeX template.
- An Overleaf template is available at
https://go.dublincore.org/dcmi-2024/overleaf-template
- Please use GitHub issues exclusively for inquiries and reporting
template-related issues at
https://github.com/dcmi/dcpapers-templates/issues
- Detailed formatting guidelines are included in both the DOCX and
LaTeX templates.
- Authors are required to add their ORCID in the submission as
indicated in the templates.
Submission categories
=====================
Note:
- The open-access conference proceedings are indexed by Scopus, DBLP,
Google Scholar, Semantic Scholar, and ACM. Online proceedings will be
available before the start of the conference.
- Presentation slides, poster slide images, and student forum extended
abstracts will be published on the DCMI website.
Full papers
===========
Full papers either describe innovative work in detail or provide
critical, well-referenced overviews of key developments or good
practices.
- 8-10 pages, single-spaced, plus references
Short papers
============
Short papers are narrower in scope than full papers and may be either a
description of work in progress, or a project report that concisely
describes a specific model, application, or activity.
- 4-5 pages, single-spaced, plus references
Panels
======
Panel sessions are organized by experts in a specific area of metadata.
Each panel serves as a focused exchange regarding the latest research
and/or best practice in the area.
- 1-2 page abstract with panelists’ bios of 100-150 words each
Workshops
==========
Workshops engage participants in active work to address one or more
well-defined problems or issues. The style of workshops may vary
depending on the organizers, and may include
presentation/discussion-based or problem-solving-based activities.
- 3-4 hours (half-day) or 6-8 hours (full-day)
- 1-2 pages of descriptions
- Objectives
- Format (In-person or Virtual)
- Names of organizers
- Event plan (Agenda or Activities)
- Descriptions will be included in the online Proceedings
- Conference registration is required (Full registration or one-day
registration).
Project reports
===============
Project reports are for the presentation, demonstration, and evaluation
of work-in-progress related to metadata best practices.
- 2-page abstract, single-spaced, plus references
Posters
=======
Posters are for the presentation of projects, research under
development, or late-breaking results.
- 2-page abstract, single-spaced, plus references
Tutorials
=========
Tutorials introduce specific topics of current interest in metadata
practice, optionally including hands-on practice. Proposals for
tutorials must include:
- 2-3 page proposal including:
- Title of tutorial and topic to be covered (2-3 paragraphs)
- Target audience and expected learning outcomes
- Tutorial style: lecture, demonstration, hands-on practice, etc.
- Any prior knowledge required (e.g., RDF, programming languages)
- Whether participants must (or should) bring laptops or install
software beforehand
- Presenter bios (100-150 words each)
Student Forum
=============
The student forum aims at providing an opportunity for master’s and
doctoral students to share their experiences and exchange ideas of best
practices, research in progress, and findings in areas related to
metadata innovation.
- Less than 1500 words plus references
- All presenters at the student forum will receive free registration
for the conference
- All presenters participating in the Student Forum will automatically
qualify for the Student Forum Award competition. Winners will be
chosen by the Student Forum Committee, and they will receive prizes
of $300 for first place and $200 for second place to assist with
travel expenses.
Important Dates
===============
Deadlines for submissions:
- Papers (full and short), Panel, and Workshop: April 15th, 2024,
23:59 (AoE)
- Posters, Project Reports, Student Forum, and Tutorials: May 27th,
2024, 23:59 (AoE)
- Best Practices and Talks are by invitation
Notification to authors:
- Paper, Panel, and Workshop: June 17, 2024
- Poster, Project Reports, Student Forum and Tutorials: June 24,
2024
Final copy of papers due: July 8, 2024
For more information, please visit the conference webpage at
https://www.dublincore.org/conferences/2024/
DCMI-2024 Organizing Committee
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Date: 2024-02-14 14:58:52+00:00
From: Vassilis Vagios <vvagios@NTU.EDU.TW>
Subject: From Writing to AI
Dear Colleagues,
"Interface" calls for papers for a conference on the topic: “From the
Invention of Writing to the Emergence of Artificial Intelligence:
Cultural Approaches to Information Technology”
Conference Date: August 28-30, 2024
Conference Place: National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
Abstract Submission Deadline: March 23, 2024
"Interface" would like to thank Trier University (Centre for Advanced
Studies "Poetry in Transition”), Kobe University (Department of European
Literature), University of Bristol (Department of Classics), and Seoul
National University (Institute of Classical Studies) for their kind
support and co-operation in organizing this conference.
Call for Papers
<https://interface.org.tw/index.php/if/pages/view/CallforPapers-
INTERFACEing2024>__
_Instructions for Paper Proposals
<https://interface.org.tw/index.php/if/pages/view/INTERFACEing2024Paper>_(25
mins or less)
Instructions for Panel Proposals
<https://interface.org.tw/index.php/if/pages/view/INTERFACEing2024Panel>(90
or 180 mins, 3-6 speakers)
Interface -Journal of European Languages and Literatures (Home page)
<http://interface.org.tw/>__
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Date: 2024-02-14 10:44:00+00:00
From: <Centre>, Bústia compartida <dh@upf.edu>
Subject: [Seminar 01/03/2023] First Session of Seminar Series "Premodern Digital Textualities"
Dear colleagues,
We are pleased to announce the seminar series "PREMODERN DIGITAL
TEXTUALITIES" organized by the Centre for Digital Humanities at Universitat
Pompeu Fabra together with MSCA research fellow Marija Blašković. The
series will feature three sessions and will explore different aspects of
digital approaches to medieval texts.
The first session will take place on March 1st, at 6pm CET (12pm EST), with
speakers Javier Rodríguez Molina and Marija Blašković. The event will be
open in person and online.
PROGRAMME:
Javier Rodríguez Molina
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
"El corpus Panépica Digital: retos metodológicos de la edición de textos
literarios en TEITOK"
Marija Blašković
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
"From Biases to Charts: The FEMIBer Database"
Register here
<https://upf-edu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMqduCpqz0sHNF2Ou30kBfZ61y393M37mc1>
to connect online.
For more information, check the Centre for Digital Humanities website
<https://www.upf.edu/web/centre-digital-
humanities/home/-/asset_publisher/HzGFHgFLrgZR/content/seminar-series-premodern-
digital-textualities-session-1-of-3/maximized>
.
The following sessions will take place in April and May 2024:
- April 11th: In person only. Workshop on database management, mapping and
social network analysis. Time to be confirmed.
- May: Online. The genre of internet-based scholarship and new ways of
doing research and teaching, with speaker Laura Morreale. Date and time to
be confirmed.
Kind regards,
*Centre for Digital Humanities*
c/ Ramon Trias Fargas, 25-27 | 08005 Barcelona
dh@upf.edu
https://www.upf.edu/web/centre-digital-humanities
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Date: 2024-02-13 07:56:14+00:00
From: Gabriel Egan <mail@gabrielegan.com>
Subject: Artificial Intelligence: 'Seize the Opportunities, Avoid the Hazards'
Dear colleagues.
De Montfort University in Leicester, England,
is running a one-day symposium on the topic
of "Artificial Intelligence: 'Seize the
Opportunities, Avoid the Hazards'". The
website for the event, detailing the programme
for the day, is here:
https://cts.dmu.ac.uk/events/AI
The keynote speaker will be Mariam Kiran of the
Oak Ridge National Laboratory in America, and
other speakers include:
Simi Akintoye; Eerke Boiten; Kinga Bochenska-Colinet;
Rachel Coldicutt; Arina Cirstea; Damian Eke; Rowenna
Fielding; Bev Hancock-Smith; Zara Hooley; Neil McBride;
Joyce Nabende; Bertha Ochieng; George Ogoh; Oluyinka
Oyeniji; Adebowale Owoseni; Chris Stokel-Walker;
Kutoma Wakunuma; Sara Wilford; and Sitira Williams
To assist students wishing to attend the event,
bursaries of 100 GBP are on offer. Details are
on the above website.
Regards
Gabriel Egan
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