[ecrea] CfP: How to integrate audiovisual material in Digital Humanities research?

> Call for Papers: Sound and (moving) images in focus
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> How to integrate audiovisual material in Digital Humanities research?
> Workshop at DH2014, 8 July 2014, Lausanne, Switzerland
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> Introduction
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> 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.
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> Workshop Programme
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> The workshop aims to bring scholars and computer scientists together 
to discuss the following key questions in four subsequent sessions.
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> 1.  Why are audiovisual data/archives scarcely used within the 
(Digital) Humanities?
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> 2.  What are possible strategies to stimulate the use of audiovisual 
data/archives within the  Digital Humanities?
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> 3.  Which examples of digital tools applied on audiovisual 
data/archives can serve as best practices?
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> 4. What should be the priorities on the  agenda for the future uptake 
of audiovisual data/archives in the Digital Humanities?
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> 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.
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> Submission of proposals
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> 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.
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> Submissions should include the following:
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> ·       General abstract (should not exceed 800 words)
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> ·       Contact info and a short description of research interests of 
the authors.
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> ·       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)
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> To submit a proposal, please send an abstract  (docx or pdf)  to 
(avindhworkshop /at/ gmail.com)
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> Accepted abstracts will be published on the Erasmus Studio website.
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> Important dates
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> ·       Abstract submissions due: 16 May 2014 23:59 (CET)
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> ·       Acceptance notification: 28 May
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> ·       Workshop: 8 July 2014
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> Further information
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> More information about the workshop can be found on 
http://avindh2014.wordpress.com
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> Please note that registration for the workshop requires registration 
to the full DH2014 conference: full DH Conference.
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> For further information and questions, contact us via 
(avindhworkshop /at/ gmail.com).
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> For further dissemination of this call, please use this page or the 
call for papers PDF
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> Organisers
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> 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.
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> ·       Dr. Stef Scagliola (Erasmus University Rotterdam, Erasmus Studio)
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> ·       Dr. Martijn Kleppe (Erasmus University Rotterdam, Erasmus Studio)
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> ·       Max Kemman MSc (Erasmus University Rotterdam, Erasmus Studio)
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> ·       Dr. Roeland Ordelman (Netherlands Institute for Sound and 
Vision, University of Twente)
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> ·       Prof. Franciska de Jong (Erasmus University Rotterdam, 
Erasmus Studio, University of Twente)
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