[OpenGLAM] DATeCH 2019 Abstract Submission deadline extension - 20 Jan. 2019

Wed Jan 9 08:00:57 UTC 2019

Dear colleagues,

I would like to inform you that the DATeCH Programme Chairs have decided to
extend the deadline for abstract submission until *January 20th*, so
abstracts are submitted together with the full papers. Please note that
full paper abstracts won't be extended. For more information, please visit
http://datech.digitisation.eu.

All the best,
Isabel

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Dear colleagues,

We are delighted to draw your attention to our Call for Papers for
DATeCH 2019, which will take place from 8-10 May 2019 at the Royal
Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts in the heart of
Brussels, Belgium.

The International DATeCH (Digital Access to Textual Cultural Heritage)
conference brings together researchers and practitioners seeking
innovative approaches for the creation, transformation and
exploitation of historical documents in digital form. This
interdisciplinary conference, takes place at the intersection of
computer science, (digital) humanities, and cultural heritage studies.
The DATeCH 2019 is jointly organised by IMPACT Centre of Competence,
Instituut voor de Nederlandse Taal, DARIAH-BE and CLARIN-Flanders.

For full details of the Call for Papers are available on the DATeCH
2019 website: http://datech.digitisation.eu/submission/

The deadlines for submission are:

*Abstract submission deadline: 09 January 2019, 23:59 CET
*Full Paper submission deadline: 20 January 2019, 23:59 CET

We look forward to welcoming you to Brussels!

With all best wishes,

Apostolos Antonacopoulos, Salford University, UK
Marco Büchler, Leibniz Institute of European History (IEG), Germany
Sally Chambers, Ghent Centre for Digital Humanities, Belgium / DARIAH-BE
Isabel Martínez, IMPACT Centre of Competence

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Call for Papers: DATECH 2019: Digital Access to Textual Cultural
Heritage, Brussels, 8-10 May 2019

The International DATeCH (Digital Access to Textual Cultural Heritage)
conference brings together researchers and practitioners seeking
innovative approaches for the creation, transformation and
exploitation of historical documents in digital form. This
interdisciplinary conference, takes place at the intersection of
computer science, (digital) humanities, and cultural heritage studies.

*** Venue ***

The 3rd edition of DATeCH will take place at the Royal Flemish Academy
of Belgium for Science and the Arts in the heart of Brussels, Belgium:
http://datech.digitisation.eu/venue/

*** Important dates ***

*Abstract submission deadline: *20 January 2019, 23:59 CET
**Full Paper submission deadline: *20 January 2019, 23:59 CET *
*Decision notification: 20 February 2019
*Camera-ready papers due: 25 March 2019
*Conference: 8-10 May 2019

*** Topics ***

Topics of interest are all those related to the practical and
scientific goals listed above, such as:

*OCR and/or HTR  technology and tools for minority and historical
languages, including dialects.
*Methods and tools for post-correction of OCR and/or HTR results.
*Document layout analysis, document understanding.
*Automated quality control for mass OCR and/or HTR data.
*Innovative access methods for historical texts and corpora.
*Natural language processing of ancient languages (e.g. Latin, Greek,
Arabic, Coptic ...).
*Visualisation techniques and interfaces for search and research in
digital humanities.
*Publication and retrieval on e-books and mobile devices.
*Crowdsourcing techniques for collecting and annotating data in
digital humanities.
*Enrichment of and metadata production for historical texts and corpora.
*Data created with mobile devices.
*Data presentation and exploration on mobile devices.
*Ontological and linked data based contextualisation of digitised and
born-digital scholarly data resources.

*** Submission ***

The following criteria will be applied to all papers submitted to
DATeCH 2019, see: http://datech.digitisation.eu/submission/

*Authors are invited to submit abstracts of 500 words.
*Followed by full papers of up to 6 pages in length.
*Only original material will be accepted.
*All submissions will be double-blind peer reviewed and accepted
papers will be published in the conference proceedings, indexed in a
major digital library.
*The authors of the best contributions will be invited to prepare an
extended version for a collective publication of selected papers in an
indexed journal (an additional reviewing process will be applied).

*** Submission instruction ***

*The maximum length for abstracts is 500 words (the format can be the
one in the template of item 3 or another format but always including
enough information about the paper).
*The maximum length for the papers is six pages (references, tables
and figures included).
*The following template
https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template shall be used
for the submission of papers.
*Both abstracts and papers need to be submitted via the EasyChair
platform at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=datech2019.

*** Programme Committee ***

The DATeCH Programme Committee is Chaired by Apostolos Antonacopoulos
(Salford University, UK) and Marco Büchler (Leibniz Institute of
European History (IEG), Germany) and includes:

*Alessio Salomoni, University of Pavia, Italy
*Alicia Fornés, Computer Vision Center, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
*Aly Conteh, Church History Library, The Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City, USA
*Amir Zeldes, Georgetown University, USA
*Ann Dooms, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
*Antoine Doucet, University of La Rochelle, France
*Ashok Popat, Google LLC, USA
*Basilis Gatos, Computational Intelligence Laboratory, Institute of
Informatics and Telecommunications, National Center for Scientific
Research “Demokritos”, Greece
*Clemens Neudecker, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer
Kulturbesitz, Germany
*Christy Henshaw, Wellcome Collection, UK
*Elie Dannaoui, University of Balamand, Lebanon
*Eric Lease Morgan, Hesburgh Libraries, University of Notre Dame, USA
*Francesca Frontini, Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, France
*Frédéric Lemmers, Royal Library of Belgium, Brussles, Belgium
*Fredrika Haneborg-Luhr, Lumex AS, Norway
*Geoffrey Rockwell, University of Alberta, Canada
*Gerhard Heyer, Automatic Language Processing Chair, Computer Science
Department, University of Leipzig, Germany
*Gimena del Rio Riande, IIBICRIT, CONICET, Argentina
*Günter Mühlberger, Universität Innsbruck, Austria
*Isabel Galina Russell, Instituto de Investigaciones Bibliográficas,
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexico
*Janneke van der Zwaan, Netherlands eScience Center, The Netherlands
*Jean-Philippe Moreux, Gallica scientific expert, Département de la
Coopération, Bibliothèque nationale de France, France
*Jennifer Edmond, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
*Karina van Dalen Oskam, Huygens ING, The Netherlands
*Klaus Schulz, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München, Germany
*Kristoffer L. Nielbo, Department of History & SDU eScience Center,
University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
*Laurent Romary, Inria, France
*Luis Morgado da Costa, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
*Merisa Martinez, Swedish School of Library and Information Science,
University of Borås, Sweden
*Mikko Tolonen, Department of Digital Humanities, University of
Helsinki, Finland
*Neil Fitzgerald, The British Library, UK
*Puneet Kishor, Independent Open Science Advocate and Consultant,
Berlin, Germany
*Rafael C. Carrasco, DLSI, Universidad de Alicante, Spain
*Sally Chambers, Ghent Centre for Digital Humanities, Ghent University, Belgium
*Simone Marinai, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy
*Sinai Rusinek, OmiLab, The Open University Media and Information Lab,
Israel, The Digital Humanities Program, Haifa University and Science
and Technology program, Bar Ilan University, Israel
*Stefan Pletschacher, University of Salford, UK
*Stoyan Mihov, Institute of Information and Communication
Technologies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria
*Thierry Paquet, Université de Rouen, Normandie, France
*Tomasz Parkoła, Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center, Poland
*Tracy Powell, National Libary of New Zealand, New Zealand.

*** Organisation Committee ***

The DATeCH International Conference is jointly organised by IMPACT
Centre of Competence, Instituut voor de Nederlandse Taal, DARIAH-BE
and CLARIN-Flanders. The organisation committee is composed by:

*Sally Chambers, Ghent Centre for Digital Humanities, Ghent
University/DARIAH-BE.
*Isabel Martínez Sempere, IMPACT Centre of Competence.
*Katrien Depuydt, Instituut voor de Nederlandse Taal.
*Joke Daems, Ghent Centre for Digital Humanities, Ghent University.
*Vincent Vandeghinste, Instituut voor der Nederlandse Taal/CLARIN-VL.

*Isabel Martínez*
MANAGER

IMPACT Centre of Competence <http://www.digitisation.eu/>

Fundación Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes
<http://fundacion.cervantesvirtual.com/>
Email:   *isabel.martinez at digitisation.eu <isabel.martinez at digitisation.eu>*

Phone:  +34 636 132 125
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