CFP 2nd International Workshop on Computational History and Data-Driven
Humanities
http://kdeg.scss.tcd.ie/2nd-international-workshop-computational-history-and-data-driven-humanities
This workshop is an IFIP Joint Event supported by the IFIP Working Group
12.7 on Social Semantics and Collective Intelligence
(http://www.ifip.org/bulletin/bulltcs/memtc12.htm#wg127). Funded by the
Irish Research Council New Foundations scheme.
Scope:
This workshop focuses on the challenges and opportunities of data-driven
humanities and seeks to bring together world-leading scientists and
scholars at the forefront of this emerging field, at the interface
between computer science, social science, humanities and mathematics.
As historical knowledge becomes increasingly available in forms that
computers can process, this data becomes amenable to large-scale
computational analysis and interpretation. what are the impacts for
humanities, social sciences, computer science and complex systems?
Perhaps mathematical analysis of the dynamic, evolutionary patterns
observed in the data helps us to better understand the past and can even
produce empirically-grounded predictions about the future.
We seek
* computer scientists and digital humanities experts to introduce
technologies and tools they have applied in order to extract knowledge
from historical records in a form that can be processed by computers
without losing its meaningfulness.
* scientists working at the forefront of mathematical and theoretical
analysis of historical data, to describe what is possible with current
tools.
* Keynote speaker:
Prof. Harvey Whitehouse, University of Oxford, UK - Understanding Social
Complexity through Data
*Important dates:
Full Paper submission due: 31 March 2016
Acceptance Notification: 30 April 2016
Camera ready deadline: 13 May 2016
Date of the workshop: 25th May 2016
* Topics of interest:
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Ontologies and linked data vocabularies for historical data
- Data curation for research in the humanities and social sciences
- Data visualisation for the humanities and social sciences
- Constructing big data for research in the humanities
- Text- and data-mining of historical and archival material.
- data-driven transdisciplinary research
- data-driven historical macrosociology
- data-driven cultural and social evolution
- data-driven economic history/cliometrics
- mathematical modeling of long-term social processes
- construction and analysis of historical datasets
*Highlights:
All accepted papers will be published by Springer and made available
through IFIP Digital Library, one of the world's largest scientific
libraries. Proceedings will be submitted for indexing by Google Scholar,
ISI, EICompendex, Scopus and many more. Accepted papers after
presentation and extension may be invited to be published in a special
issue of Cliodynamics: The Journal of Quantitative History and Cultural
Evolution (e-ISSN: 2373-7530) and indexed by Scopus.
* Organizing committee:
Dr. Bojan Bozic (co-chair), KDEG, TCD
Dr. Gavin Mendel-Gleason (co-chair), KDEG, TCD
Dr. Christophe Debruyne (co-chair), ADAPT/KDEG, TCD
* Steering committee:
Prof. Declan O'Sullivan (general chair), ADAPT/KDEG, TCD
Prof. Peter Turchin, UConn, USA
Dr. Kevin Feeney, ADAPT/KDEG, TCD
Dr. Rob Brennan, ADAPT/KDEG, TCD
* Program Committee
Prof. Arkadiusz Marciniak, AMU Poznan, Poland
Dr. Daniel Hoyer, University of Hertfordshire, UK
Dr. Daniel Mullins, University of Hertfordshire, UK
Prof. Douglas R. White, University of California, USA
Prof. Enrico Spolaore, University of Exeter, UK
Prof. Harvey Whitehouse, University of Oxford, UK
Prof. Peter N. Peregrine, Lawrence University, USA
Prof. Peter Turchin, University of Connecticut, USA
Dr. Pieter Francois, University of Hertfordshire, UK
Dr. Thomas E. Currie, University of Exeter, UK
Dr. Jodi Schneider, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Prof. Ian Milligan, University of Waterloo, Canada
Dr. Justin Tonra, NUI Galway, Ireland
Dr. Georgeta Bordea, NUI Galway, Ireland
Dr. Brian Davis, NUI Galway, Ireland
Dr. Marieke van Erp, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Dr. Leif Isaksen, University of Southampton, UK
Dr. Aidan Kane, NUI Galway, Ireland
Dr. Antske Fokkens, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Dr. Sharon Webb, University of Sussex, UK
Dr. Serge ter Braake, ‎University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Isa Maks, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Dr. Paul Buitelaar, NUI Galway, Ireland
Dimitris Kontokostas, Univeristy of Leipzig, Germany
Dr. Monika Solanki, University of Oxford, UK