[H-verkko] CFP: Workshop: Research and Education in Urban History in the Age of Digital Libraries - Dresden, Germany - 30-31 March 2017

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Workshop: Research and Education in Urban History in the Age of Digital
Libraries - Dresden, Germany - 30-31 March 2017
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Workshop: Research and Education in Urban History in the Age of Digital
Libraries
March 30-31, 2017, Saxon State and University Library Dresden (SLUB), Dresden,
Germany

CALL FOR PAPERS
Submission deadline for extended abstracts (1500-1700 words): January
15th 2017

Workshop information: http://www.visualhumanities.org/cfp2017

Abstract Submission: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=uhdl2017

We kindly invite you to submit a contribution to the workshop entitled
“Research and education in urban history in the age of digital libraries”.

The workshop will take place in Dresden, Germany on March 30-31, 2017.

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION

Urban history, drawing on architectural heritage and cultural history, is one of
the key areas in digital humanities. Regarding to that research interest,
digital libraries play an important role, especially for visual media like
photographs, paintings, or drawings, but also for physical and virtual models.
Due to the wide field of possible research, different approaches, methods and
technologies have emerged – and are still emerging. 

For a long time funding priorities for digital cultural heritage in
general—and digital supported research on urban history in the EU and in
Germany in particular—focused primarily on technological aspects. These
included cost minimization, the ease of use of software tools for creating
digital 3D reconstructions and specific cases of application. One focus has been
on digital research environments for the digital humanities. While DARIAH and
CLARIN develop and operate virtual research environments for humanities
scholars, especially for text-related research approaches, projects like DC-NET
or ERA-NET focus on e-infrastructures for preserving cultural heritage. ARIADNE
and associated projects are dedicated to supporting archaeological information
management on a European level. Complementing these, the EUROPEANA virtual
library and its sub-projects are dedicated digital repositories for digital
cultural heritage assets in Europe, which collect and aggregate resources from
museums, libraries, and archives.

Regarding the role of digital libraries and repositories as main facilitators,
previous funding programs have not sufficiently considered the fact that
digitally supported urban history research is conducted and applied in complex
socio-technical arrangements. Against this background, a paradigm shift has
taken place in funding politics since 2010. Besides a further development of
technical infrastructures like research environments and digital repositories,
human resources, transnational knowledge exchange and cooperation, social and
economic impacts, valorization and dissemination are increasingly important
objects of funding. Basically, an evaluation of the FP5-7 research funding
programs stated that “foster the dissemination, transfer and take-up of
program results” would be seen—in these programs—as an underrepresented
issue.[1] The Horizon 2020 work program aims for “an understanding of
Europe's intellectual basis,” the use of “new technologies […] as they
enable new and richer interpretations of our common European culture while
contributing to sustainable economic growth,”[2] and the development of
innovative research infrastructures to foster research, education, and
publication of “knowledge-based resources such as collections [or] archives
[…]” to a European audience.[3] In this changing context, the question
arises as to how research and education of urban history can be supported by
digital libraries. The purpose of the workshop is to concentrate on the area of
tension between the fields of culture, technologies and education. We aim to
discuss crucial challenges for further research and encourage debate. We would
like to invite contributions on theoretical and methodological issues,
application scenarios and projects, as well as novel approaches and tools. This
includes the following five areas:

1. Research on architectural and urban cultural heritage

Do computing methods lead to new and ground-breaking research questions,
approaches, or insights into architectural and urban cultural heritage research?
This general question has been primarily addressed in terms of research
contexts, research objects, or phases in the research process. In most cases the
use of ICT simply extends non-digital possibilities, without much change to the
pre-digital approaches and research questions. Nevertheless, digitalization has
dramatically altered research qualities, quantities and workflows. We welcome
contributions on: 

relevant data for architectural and urban history in digital archives and image
repositories
the effects of the use of digital archives and image repositories on scientific
work
concepts and projects for networking and cooperation
possible scientific questions regarding objects, spaces, content or historical
events

2.  Technical access

During the last few years various new technological opportunities have arisen
from big data, semantic web technologies, and the exponential growth in data
accessible via digital libraries such as EUROPEANA. The immense effort invested
in digitization and rapid changes in technologies and formats has greatly
increased the importance of sustainability in recent years. Long-term data
storage, availability of models and the interoperability of data formats are
major challenges to existing digital infrastructures. Moreover, novel approaches
as the photogrammetric reconstruction of historical buildings from image
databases allow a contextualization and intuitive access to data. We welcome
contributions on:

requirements for storing and documenting written sources, images and related
meta data
possibilities for storing digital sources derived from spatial databases
3D databases as a tool to support urban historical research
Remote sensing approaches to support contextualization and intuitive access to
data
Linked and semantic data related to urban historical research
difficulties encountered in computational modeling, approaches and possible
solutions
the influence of knowledge of HCI on the design of historic models

3. Systematization

Both research on urban history from the perspective of humanities and the
development of supporting digital technologies are attracting attention from art
history, digital cultural heritage studies and information sciences. These
multidisciplinary settings present various challenges due to the specific
requirements of interdisciplinary work, such as common languages, project
strategies or critically reflected methods. The widespread impact of digital
humanities has created a high demand for research to be put to practical use.
The applicable techniques, valid strategies, classifications and quality
standards need to be determined. We welcome contributions on:

working techniques and new methods arising from digital archives and image
repositories
cooperation between (art) historians and the technical disciplines
methodologies for digitally supported research and education in urban history
classifications supporting scientific work

4. Education in urban history

Education and support by digital libraries still only plays a minor role in
scholarly discourses on cultural heritage and in particular urban history. There
is still no broad consensus on specific education paradigms or a canon of
didactic settings in digitally supported teaching on urban history, and as yet
no larger studies have been conducted in this area. We welcome contributions
on:

educational scenarios for teaching urban history supported by digital methods
approaches to employing large scale repositories for educational purposes in
cultural history

5. Organizational perspectives

Academic culture and institutionalization are of interest here. Regarding the
organizational development process, some parallel implications may be seen in
the establishment of eLearning which became established as a tool in academic
education nearly a decade ago. The use of digital tools to research and educate
about urban history is currently a highly application-oriented process. A
critically reflective methodological basis is required to anchor digital urban
history in academic culture. We welcome contributions which see the “big
picture” or focus on specific issues:

research institutions, the institutionalization of research and education in
urban history supported by digital libraries
implications for establishing an academic culture
legal frameworks for the use of sources and model

SUBMISSION PROCEDURE

We expect to receive original contributions in one of two formats:

FULL PAPER presenting research outcomes (20 pages)
PROJECT PAPER presenting research approaches, ongoing research or theoretical
perspectives (15 pages)

Please submit an extended abstract of 1500-1700 words in PDF format by
January 15th, 2017 via the electronic upload submission procedure on
the EasyChair website.

Please use the Springer LaTeX2e, Microsoft Word 2003 or Microsoft Word
2007 templates and guidelines for formatting your extended abstract.

Anonymity Guidelines for abstract submission:

Remove author and institutional information from the author list on the title
page.
Remove author information from all paper headers.
Remove clues from the main text that would directly identify any of the authors.

All submissions will be peer reviewed for their originality, validity,
methodology, writing quality and overall contribution to the research fields of
the workshop.

PUBLICATION PLAN

All contributors are invited to submit a full paper to be included into joint
conference proceedings published by an international publisher (further
information follows). All contributed full paper will undergo a second
double-blind peer review to ensure scientific and formal quality.

IMPORTANT DATES

January 15th 2017

February 15th 2017

March 30th -31st 2017

June 30th 2017

August 30th 2017

October 15th 2017

October 31st 2017

November 15th 2017

Early 2018

Abstract submission deadline

Acceptance notification to authors

Workshop

Full paper submission deadline

Draft chapters returned to authors with reviews and editorial comments

Submission of amended chapters to editors

Notification on acceptance (check by editorial/scientific board in case of mayor
amended contributions)

Submission of camera ready-versions

Edited volume in press (information about publisher follows)

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Dr. Kristina Friedrichs (DE) 

Dr. Sander Münster (DE) 

Dr. Florian Niebling (DE)

Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg 

Media Center, TU Dresden 

Human-Computer Interaction, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Prof. Dr. Andreas Georgopoulos (GR) 

Prof. Dr. Isto Huvila (SWE/FIN)

Prof. Fabrizio Apollonio (IT) 

Dr. Marinos Ioannides (CY)

Prof. Dr. Thomas Köhler (DE) 

Dr. Mieke Pfarr-Harfst (DE)

Dr. Piotr Kuroczinski (DE)

Dr. Christina Kamposiori (UK)

Prof. Dr. Markus Wacker (DE)

President of ICOMOS/ISPRS CIPA

Information Studies at the Department of Uppsala University

Università di Bologna – Alma mater studiorum

Digital Heritage Research Laboratory, Cyprus University of Technology

Educational Technologies, TU Dresden

DDU - Digital Design Unit - Digitales Gestalten, TU Darmstadt

Herder-Institut für historische Ostmitteleuropaforschung, Marburg 

Centre for Digital Humanities, Department of Information Studies, University
College London

Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Dresden

SPONSORS

The workshop will be held in English. Registration for the workshop will be free
of charge.

For further information, please do not hesitate to contact Dr. Kristina
Friedrichs or Dr. Sander Münster or visit the official event website. Thank
you for your interest in creating a successful workshop.

On behalf of the organizers

Sander Münster

[1] 1.          European Commission, Survey and outcomes of cultural
heritage research projects supported in the context of EU environmental research
programmes. From 5th to 7th Framework Programme. 2011, Brussels: European
Commision.

[2] 2.          European Commission, HORIZON 2020 WORK PROGRAMME 2014
– 2015. 13. Europe in a changing world – inclusive, innovative and
reflective Societies. 2015, Brussels.

[3] 3.          European Commission, HORIZON 2020 WORK PROGRAMME 2014
– 2015. 4. European research infrastructures (including e-Infrastructures).
2015, Brussels.

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Ilmoitus vanhentuu: 16.1.2017
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