[open-humanities] Fwd: Conf: High Throughput Humanities at ECCS2010 (programme and abstracts)

Tue Jul 20 21:11:23 UTC 2010

Dear Jonathan,

I am forwarding you question to our speakers and committee members, as I 
can only speak for myself.

The question of open data (as in opendefinition.org) is not within the 
focus of the High Throughput Humanities symposium, as we are interested 
in good results driven by quality data, regardless of data provenance.

However in general, I think your proposed working group on open 
resources in digital humanties within Open Knowledge Foundation is a 
great idea, and I totally subscribe to the desire that ideally data 
should be as open as possible, without violating personal rights, such 
as privacy.

Best regards,
Maximilian Schich

Dr. Maximilian Schich
CCNR, Northeastern University
http://www.schich.info

Am 20.07.10 14:21, schrieb Jonathan Gray:
> This looks very interesting. Anyone planning on going?
>
> Maximilian: we're setting up a working group on open resources in the
> digital humanities (open as in opendefinition.org). Any ideas for
> people participating in the 'High Throughput Humanities' conference
> that we should invite?
>
> All the best,
>
> Jonathan
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Dear Antiquisters,
>
> We are happy to present programme and abstracts for:
>
> High Throughput Humanities
>
> A satellite meeting at the European Conference on Complex Systems 2010
> organized by Maximilian Schich, Sune Lehmann, Riley Crane, and Gourab Ghoshal
>
> Lisbon University Institute ISCTE in Lisbon, Portugal
> Wednesday, September 15, 2010
>
> Website:http://hth.eccs2010.eu
> Book of Abstracts:http://hth.eccs2010.eu/HTH2010-abstracts.pdf
> Video introduction:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4RLQ2KC-cU
>
>
> Abstract:
> The High Throughput Humanities satellite event at ECCS'10 establishes
> a forum for high throughput approaches in the humanities and social
> sciences, within the framework of complex systems science. The
> symposium aims to go beyond massive data aquisition and to present
> results beyond what can be manually achieved by a single person or a
> small group. Bringing together scientists, researchers, and
> practitioners from relevant fields, the event will stimulate and
> facilitate discussion, spark collaboration, as well as connect
> approaches, methods, and ideas.
>
> The main goal of the event is to present novel results based on
> analyses of Big Data (see NATURE special issue 2009), focusing on
> emergent complex properties and dynamics, which allow for new
> insights, applications, and services.
>
> With the advent of the 21st century, increasing amounts of data from
> the domain of qualitative humanities and social science research have
> become available for quantitative analysis. Private enterprises
> (Google Books and Earth, Youtube, Flickr, Twitter, Freebase, IMDb,
> among others) as well as public and non-profit institutions
> (Europeana, Wikipedia, DBPedia, Project Gutenberg, WordNet, Perseus,
> etc) are in the process of collecting, digitizing, and structuring
> vast amounts of information, and creating technologies, applications,
> and services (Linked Open Data, Open Calais, Amazon's Mechanical Turk,
> ReCaptcha, ManyEyes, etc), which are transforming the way we do
> research.
>
> Utilizing a complex systems approach to harness these data, the
> contributors of this event aim to make headway into the territory of
> traditional humanities and social sciences, understanding history,
> arts, literature, and society on a global-, meso- and granular level,
> using computational methods to go beyond the limitations of the
> traditional researcher.
>
>
> Programme:
> In addition to a number of keynotes and invited speakers the programme
> includes a number of TED style contributions in relation to High
> Throughput Humanities. A podium style scientific discussion will
> conclude the day.
>
> 9:00 - 9:15 – Introduction
>
> 9:15 - 10:00 – Alan Mislove:
> Keynote: Leveraging online social networks for large-scale population
> demographics.
>
> 10:00 - 10:30 – coffee-break
>
> 10:30 - 11:00 – Juyong Park:
> Invited talk: The Network of Contemporary Musicians.
>
> 11:00 - 11:30 – Sebastian Ahnert:
> Invited talk: Mapping Flavour Space.
>
> 11:30 - 11:45 – Coco Krumme:
> How Predictable: Mining Consumer Transaction Data to Explore Human
> Economic Trajectories.
>
> 11:45 - 12:00 – Charles Loeffler:
> Urban Migration Patterns from Residential Street Directories.
>
> 12:00 - 12:15 – Michael Szell, Renaud Lambiotte, and Stefan Thurner:
> Multi-relational social dynamics in a large-scale online game society.
>
> 12:15 - 12:30 – Lorenzo Zolesio, Vincenzo De Leo, Alessandro Chessa,
> Gianni Fenu, Michelangelo Puliga, and Luca Secchi:
> Complex Network Analysis on a Cloud Computing Architecture.
>
> 12:30 - 14:00 – lunch, posters and demos
>
> 14:00 - 14:30 – Sang Hoon Lee:
> Invited talk: Googling Social Interactions: Web Search Engine Based
> Social Network Construction.
>
> 14:30 - 15:00 – Alexander Mehler:
> Invited talk: TBD [Linguistic Networks in Large Datasets].
>
> 15:00 - 15:15 – Illes Farkas and Peter Pollner:
> Dynamics of the English Wikipedia.
>
> 15:15 - 15:30 – Almila Akdag Salah, Cheng Gao, Krzysztof Suchecki and
> Andrea Scharnhorst:
> The Need to Categorize: A Comparative Look at Categorization in
> Wikipedia and the Universal Decimal Classification System.
>
> 15:30 - 15:45 – Paul Scheding and Sebastian Cuy:
> Image_grid. The Big Metadata of Arachne. Context, Communication and
> Complexity of Big Data in Archaeology.
>
> 15:45 - 16:00 – Daniel Martin Katz and Michael Bommarito:
> A Mathematical Approach to the Study of the United States Code.
>
> 16:00 - 16:30 – coffee-break
>
> 16:30 - 17:00 – Luis EC Rocha, Fredrik Liljeros, and Petter Holme:
> Invited talk: Networks of Internet mediated prostitution.
>
> 17:00 - 17:30 – Lev Manovich:
> Invited talk: TBD [Image Scatter Plots: Art, Mangas, Time, and Science].
>
> 17:30 - 17:45 – Bosiljka Tadic, Marija Mitrovic and Georgios Paltoglou:
> Collective Emotional Behavior on Blogs: Data-Driven Modeling and
> Theoretical Survey.
>
> 17:45 - 18:00 – Alexy Khrabrov and George Cybenko:
> Mind Economy: Modeling Influence in Communication Networks with Social Capital.
>
> 18:00 - 18:15 – Ben Miller:
> 06.213: Attacks with Knives and Sharp Instruments // Quantitative
> Coding and the Witness to Atrocity.
>
> 18:15 - 18:30 – Final discussion
>
>
> Organizing Committee:
> Maximilian Schich, CCNR Northeastern University, USA.
> Sune Lehmann, IQSS Harvard, USA.
> Riley Crane, MIT Media Lab, USA.
> Gourab Ghoshal, CCNR Northeastern University / DFCI Harvard, USA.
>
>
> Confirmed Programme Committee Members:
> Albert-László Barabási, CCNR Northeastern University, USA.
> Guido Caldarelli, INFM-CNR Rome, Italy.
> Gregory Crane, Tufts University, USA.
> Lars Kai Hansen, Technical University of Denmark.
> Bernardo Huberman, HP Laboratories, USA.
> Martin Kemp, Trinity College, Oxford, UK.
> Roger Malina, Leonardo/ISAST, France.
> Franco Moretti, Stanford University, USA.
> Didier Sornette, ETH Zurich, Switzerland.
>
>
> Links:
> High Throughput Humanitieshttp://hth.eccs2010.eu
> ECCS2010http://www.eccs2010.eu
>
>
> Registration:
> Attendees must register for ECCS'10 – European Conference on Complex
> Systems athttp://www.eccs2010.eu.
>
>
> Contact:
> You can contact us via mail. If you would like to be added to the list
> of interested people, please drop us a mail with the subject "Please
> add me to the High Throughput Humanities list" at
> hth.eccs2010.eu at gmail.com
> Alternatively you can follow schichmax, suneman, or rileycrane on Twitter.
>
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