[ecrea] Call for Abstracts workshop Audiovisual Data and Digital Scholarship

We are very happy to inform you about the call for abstracts for our
second AVinDH workshop which will take place in conjunction with the
Digital Humanities Conference 2016.
Please find a summary of the call below.
The full call text is available online at
https://avindhsig.wordpress.com/workshop-2016-krakowcfp/

We look forward to your submissions,
Kind regards,

Dr. Clara Henderson, /Indiana University, Bloomington, USA/____

Dr. Martijn Kleppe, /National Library of the Netherlands (KB)/____

Dr. Stef Scagliola, /Erasmus University Rotterdam/____

Johan Oomen, /Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision/



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*/AVinDH Workshop @ DH2016____/*

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*“Audiovisual data and digital scholarship:____*

*Towards multimodal literacy”**____*

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*/12 July, 2016 Kraków, Poland/**/____/*

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*Call for Abstracts____*

*Deadline: May 1, 2016____*

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The *Audio Visual material in Digital Humanities*
<https://avindhsig.wordpress.com/> (AVinDH) Special Interest Group of
the *Alliance for Digital Humanities Organizations*
<http://adho.org/> (ADHO) invites abstracts for proposed presentations
for our *full-day workshop* at *DH2016*
<http://dh2016.adho.org/>**in* Kraków, Poland*. The workshop will
address both the challenges of analyzing audiovisual data in digital
humanities scholarship, as well as the challenges of educating
contemporary digital humanists on how to access, analyze, and
disseminate an entire century of information generated with audiovisual
media. Other challenges to be addressed concern issues surrounding
copyright and sustainability and their impact on the dissemination and
long-term access of audiovisual resources.____

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*/Workshop organisers invite scholars to present case studies on the
following topics:/*

  * Implementations of tools for computational analysis of AV content
  * Demonstrations of tools that show how  audiovisual media are suited
    for nonlinear discovery and analysis using multiple modalities
  * Demonstrations of education and training of digital humanists in
    accessing and analyzing audiovisual media
  * Case studies that have successfully dealt with copyright issues
    related to audiovisual media, and that demonstrate convincing
    arguments and strategies
  * Successful arrangements for securing sustainability for the use of
    audiovisual data for scholarly purposes and examples of ways to
    preserve and provide long-term access.

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*/Presentations will be based around three themes:/*

  * Models for training digital humanists in accessing and analyzing
    audiovisual collections
  * Analysis and discovery models for audiovisual materials
  * Copyright and sustainability

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*/Submissions should include the following:/**/____/*

  * General abstract (should not exceed 500 words)
  * Contact info and a short description of research interests of the
    authors
  * A suggestion for the session that suits your presentation best

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To submit a proposal, please send a docx or pdf file to
*(avindhworkshop /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(avindhworkshop /at/ gmail.com)> *before *May
1 2016*. Accepted abstracts will be published on the website of the
AVinDH Special Interest Group.____

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For more information see the AVinDH Workshop website:
https://avindhsig.wordpress.com/workshop-2016-krakowcfp/
<https://avindhsig.wordpress.com/workshop-2016-krakowcfp/>____

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*/This workshop is organised by the following AVinDH members:/**/____/*

Dr. Clara Henderson, /Indiana University, Bloomington, USA/____

Dr. Martijn Kleppe, /National Library of the Netherlands (KB)/____

Dr. Stef Scagliola, /Erasmus University Rotterdam/____

Johan Oomen, /Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision/




*Please note I left the Erasmus University Rotterdam and now work at the
National Library of the Netherlands (KB). This e-mail address will not
actively be monitored after this date. For urgent matters please contact
me at (martijn.kleppe /at/ kb.nl) <mailto:(martijn.kleppe /at/ kb.nl)>*

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*dr. Martijn Kleppe*

W: martijnkleppe.nl <http://www.martijnkleppe.nl/>




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