DATeCH International Conference - 2nd Call for papers, Deadline Jan. 7, 2017

We are proud to announce that the DATeCH International Conference and the Digitisation Days will take place on 1-2 June, 2017, in Göttingen. Below, we include the information of the DATeCH call for papers. For further information, please visit http://ddays.digitisation.eu.

Call for papers

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researchers and practitioners looking for innovative approaches for the creation, transformation and exploitation of historical documents in digital form.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

7 January 2017 – Paper submission deadline
28 February 2017 – Decision notification
31 March 2017 – Camera-ready papers due
1-2 June 2017 – Conference

Target audience

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

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

Topics

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

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

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

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

Authors are invited to submit full papers of up to 6 pages in length.
Only original material will be accepted.
All submissions will be peer reviewed and accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, indexed in a major digital library.
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).