Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 38, No. 455.
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[1] From: Hakob Barseghyan <hakob.barseghyan@UTORONTO.CA>
Subject: CFA: Sustainable Databases in the Humanities (73)
[2] From: FRANCESCO STELLA <francesco.stella@unisi.it>
Subject: Digital Heritage 2025, Siena (6)
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Date: 2025-04-12 09:16:54+00:00
From: Hakob Barseghyan <hakob.barseghyan@UTORONTO.CA>
Subject: CFA: Sustainable Databases in the Humanities
Sustainable Databases in the Humanities: Call for Abstracts
Dates: June 2-3, 2025
Location: Online via Zoom
Submission Deadline: April 14, 2025
As digital humanities continue to grow, the creation, maintenance, and
accessibility of databases are becoming critical to scholarly practice.
However, databases in the humanities face a unique set of challenges:
* How can we represent the complexity and ambiguity of humanities data
in digital forms?
* What strategies help build sustainable communities of practice to
maintain and develop databases in new directions?
* How can we ensure long-term sustainability for humanities databases?
* Should there be specialized funding programs for databases in the
humanities?
* How do we document and re-use data and software components effectively?
* How do we balance the needs of diverse user communities?
* Who should be able access these databases and in what ways?
Inspired by initiatives like the Data/Culture project, this conference
aims to bring together scholars from diverse humanities disciplines to
critically explore the opportunities and obstacles of database creation
and use in the humanities.
Topics of Interest
We invite papers on topics including but not limited to:
* Designing databases that reflect the epistemic and methodological
diversity of the humanities.
* Case studies of databases in areas such as literature, history,
philosophy, arts, archaeology, or cultural studies.
* Practical challenges in maintaining, scaling, or archiving
humanities databases.
* Ethical issues in data collection and representation (e.g.,
indigenous data sovereignty, privacy).
* Interdisciplinary collaborations and tensions in database projects.
* Methods for populating databases with data from scholarly publications.
* Methods for documenting and re-using data and software components.
* Building sustainable communities of practice around databases and
digital tools.
* The potential role of research software engineer networks in
advancing the arts and humanities.
* Strategies for teaching database literacy in the humanities.
* Reflections on how databases transform traditional humanities
scholarship.
* Relationships between databases and other approaches employed in the
humanities (e.g., case studies).
Keynotes
Ruth Ahnert (Queen Mary University of London)
Pieter Francois (University of Oxford)
Rasmus Larsen (University of Toronto)
Ruth Mostern (University of Pittsburgh)
Conference Website
https://scientoconference.com/sdh-2025/
<https://scientoconference.com/sdh-2025/>
Submission Guidelines
Please submit an abstract of approximately 300-500 words following this
link <https://forms.gle/KhFkqUDhcnGWhRs19> by April 14, 2025.
Communication of acceptance will be in late April 2025.
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Date: 2025-04-11 10:08:05+00:00
From: FRANCESCO STELLA <francesco.stella@unisi.it>
Subject: Digital Heritage 2025, Siena
Please note the updated deadlines for submitting proposals of posters,
papers, workshops, expos and trade shows for the Digital Heritage 2025
(Siena, 8-13 September) https://digitalheritage2025.unisi.it/.
Best
Francesco
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