[ecrea] Call for Papers: Sound and (moving) images in focus

Call for Papers: Sound and (moving) images in focus

How to integrate audiovisual material in Digital Humanities research?
Workshop at DH2014, 8 July 2014, Lausanne, Switzerland
Introduction

The issue that will be addressed during this workshop is how to overcome 
the contrast between audiovisual material being a steadily increasing 
body of data and the fact that it is relatively poorly represented in 
the field of the Digital Humanities. When considering the available DH 
tools, projects and publications it is clear that sources such as 
television, film, photos and oral history recordings have not yet 
received the same level of attention from scholars as written sources. 
This can be considered as problematic in the light of the expected 
exponential growth in volume of audiovisual sources and of the abundance 
of information for researches contained in this type of data that is 
largely overlooked. One can envision how a single document could satisfy 
the needs of various disciplines if tools would be available to 
identify, retrieve and analyse the various dimensions of a 
video-recording such as language, emotions, speech acts, narrative plots 
and references to people, places and events. This richness not only 
holds the promise of multidisciplinary collaboration between e.g., 
computer sciences, social sciences and the humanities, but also makes 
audiovisual material a potentially valuable playground for the Digital 
Humanities.
Workshop Programme

The workshop aims to bring scholars and computer scientists together to 
discuss the following key questions in four subsequent sessions.

1.   Why are audiovisual data/archives scarcely used within the 
(Digital) Humanities?

2.  What are possible strategies to stimulate the use of audiovisual 
data/archives within the  Digital Humanities?

3.  Which examples of digital tools applied on audiovisual data/archives 
can serve as best practices?

4. What should be the priorities on the  agenda for the future uptake of 
audiovisual data/archives in the Digital Humanities?

The keynotes within the first two sessions will be delivered by Andreas 
Fickers, professor of contemporary and digital history at the University 
of Luxembourg, and Dr. Arjan van Hessen, specialist in speech technology 
and member of the Executive Board of CLARIN-NL. The first will talk 
about the use of audiovisual sources within humanities research, and the 
second will discuss the necessary technical and infrastructural 
provisions for the analysis of these sources. For the third session 
scholars are invited to submit papers and demos that illustrate the 
potential of applying DH approaches to audiovisual data with a focus on 
lessons learned. The final session is dedicated to the assessment and 
evaluation of the findings and aims at formulating a research agenda for 
the future. To disseminate the results of the workshop among a broader 
audience, the initiators intend to propose a special issue on this topic 
to a Digital Humanities journal.
Submission of proposals

For the third session on applications of DH on audiovisual data, the 
workshop organisers invite papers and demos  that deal with experienced 
challenges of integrating AV in DH.

Submissions should include the following:

·       General abstract (should not exceed 800 words)

·       Contact info and a short description of research interests of 
the authors.

·   The committee aims to select a balanced set of abstracts that cover 
the various media (film, television, photography, oral history, digital 
storytelling, recordings of sound and movement) and tools that are 
needed at the various  stages of the research process (exploration, 
annotation, analysis, presentation, curation and preservation).



To submit a proposal, please send an abstract  (docx or pdf)  to 
(avindhworkshop /at/ gmail.com)

Accepted abstracts will be published on the Erasmus Studio website.
Important dates

·       Abstract submissions due: 16 May 2014 23:59 (CET)

·       Acceptance notification: 28 May

·       Workshop: 8 July 2014
Further information

More information about the workshop can be found on 
http://avindh2014.wordpress.com

Please note that registration for the workshop requires registration to 
the full DH2014 conference: full DH Conference.

For further information and questions, contact us via 
(avindhworkshop /at/ gmail.com).

For further dissemination of this call, please use this page or the call 
for papers PDF
Organisers

This workshop is initiated in the context of  the collaboration between  
the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision  and  the Erasmus Studio, 
an interfacultary  institute  at the Erasmus University Rotterdam, that 
promotes and initiates e-research across disciplinary boundaries, with 
an emphasis on multimedia archives.



·       Dr. Stef Scagliola (Erasmus University Rotterdam, Erasmus Studio)

·       Dr. Martijn Kleppe (Erasmus University Rotterdam, Erasmus Studio)

·       Max Kemman MSc (Erasmus University Rotterdam, Erasmus Studio)

·       Dr. Roeland Ordelman (Netherlands Institute for Sound and 
Vision, University of Twente)

·       Prof. Franciska de Jong (Erasmus University Rotterdam, Erasmus 
Studio, University of Twente)









dr. Martijn Kleppe

Onderzoeker Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam

Erasmus School of History, Culture & Communication (ESHCC)

Kamer L2-47

E: (kleppe /at/ eshcc.eur.nl)

T: +31 (0) 10 408 2646

M: +31 (0) 6 24 221048

Skype: martijnkleppe



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