Re: CFP 2nd International Workshop on Computational History and Data-Driven Humanities

On 2016-01-27 12:51, Christophe Debruyne wrote:
> 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.

Sounds great!

> *Submission guidelines
> Submission URL is: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=chdh2016
>
> Submitted papers must be original, unpublished, and not submitted to
> another conference or journal for consideration. Accepted papers will be
> presented at the conference. All submitted papers will be evaluated
> based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of
> expression. All papers will be refereed by 3 members of the PC. All
> submissions must be in English. We solicit short papers describing (i)
> new ideas (5-6 pages) and (ii) longer papers presenting more
> tangible results (max. 10 pages). At least one author of each accepted
> paper must register by the early date indicated on the conference
> website and present the paper. Authors must follow the Springer LNCS
> formatting instructions: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs.
>
> *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.

It sounds like this workshop is encouraging and endorsing the following:

* Store scholarly articles essentially in PDF
* Hand the knowledge over to a 3rd party company

Is that an accurate summary?

-Sarven
http://csarven.ca/#i

Received on Wednesday, 27 January 2016 18:17:11 UTC