[okfn-discuss] Fwd: CFP: Visualizing the Past: Tools and Techniques for Understanding Historical Processes

[Jonathan Gray]

Thought this might be of interest...

J.


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U.S. National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Funded Workshop
Visualizing the Past: Tools and Techniques for Understanding
Historical Processes
20-21 February 2009
University of Richmond, Virginia, USA

CALL FOR PAPERS: The digital revolution has made massive amounts of
historical and social science data available to scholars in electronic
formats, and this phenomenon is opening new possibilities for
exploring the human past. The ability to plot historical processes
embedded in these datasets using mapping and visualization tools holds
remarkable promise for providing scholars new insights into old
questions. Yet significant obstacles currently prevent scholars from
sharing their geospatial data with one another, and thus from full
taking advantage of the potential of visualization techniques. To
address this, scholars and practitioners from multiple disciplines
(geography, history, geographic information science, computer science,
graphic arts, etc.) are invited to submit proposals for presentations
at a two-day workshop (funded by the National Endowment for the
Humanities) that will focus on two main issues:

1. How can we harness emerging cyberinfrastructure tools and
interoperability standards to visualize, analyze, and better
understand historical events and processes as they spread out across
both time and space?

2. How can user-friendly tools or web sites be created to allow
scholars and researchers to animate spatial and temporal data housed
on different systems across the Internet?

We seek 2-3 page proposals for 20-30 minute presentations that
describe ongoing projects, address these questions, and outline a view
for future research and experimentation. We invite proposals from all
backgrounds, and relevant topics might include: historical GIS
applications, cartographic animation, analyzing and visualizing
temporal data, service oriented architecture, web-mapping and
interoperability standards, data and metadata standards, open-source
and commercial applications. The workshop will center on intense
discussions among 10-20 participants in roundtable format. The first
day will be devoted to individual presentations; the second day to
discussions about the workshop's main questions, and describing what
should be the future of this work. Travel scholarships will be
available to invited participants.

For more information or to submit your proposals, contact the
conference organizers at:
    Andrew J. Torget, University of Richmond, atorget at richmond.edu, 804-484-1636
    James W. Wilson, James Madison University, wilsonjw at jmu.edu, 540-568-2757
    Or visit the project website at: http://dsl.richmond.edu/workshop/

Proposals are due December 15, 2008 via email to the conference
organizers, and invitations for participation will be sent out by
December 31, 2008. Funding provided by NEH Digital Humanities Level I
Start-Up Grant, Funding for accepted papers is not restricted to USA
residents.


James W. Wilson
Assistant Professor of Geographic Science
James Madison University

Andrew J. Torget
Director of the Digital Scholarship Lab
University of Richmond


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James W. Wilson, PhD
Assistant Professor of Geographic Science
Dept. of Integrated Science and Technology
MSC 4302
James Madison University
Harrisonburg, VA 22807
540-568-2757 (p)		wilsonjw at jmu.edu
540-568-8741 (f)		http://www.gs.jmu.edu