Researchers in the Humanities have embraced digital technologies for decades and are continuing to do so in increasing numbers. Two workshops at earlier IEEE eScience conferences, along with numerous other events, have given interesting insights into these activities. However, advances in the digital humanities have been rather fragmented, and have been tailored to specific research questions and methodologies. In an attempt to connect the digital islands that have thus emerged, this event will focus on applications and infrastructures for re-usability, integration and interoperability of research data for e-Humanities, addressing such
issues as the interoperability of existing tools to enable more complex workflows, and shared virtual research environments for typical work environments of Humanities scholars.

A multiplicity of large initiatives have already started addressing the these issues, among them ANDS in Australia (http://ands.org.au/), Project Bamboo in the USA (http://projectbamboo.org/), as well as the ESFRI-projects CLARIN (http://www.clarin.eu/) and DARIAH (http://www.dariah.eu/) in Europe, to name but a few. All these initiatives are facing the huge problem of fragmentation and
heterogeneity in research in the Humanities, which has repercussions on formats and encodings for datasets, the ways of analyzing phenomena and the traditions of scholarly discourse. Not surprisingly these initiatives in particular try to get a deeper understanding of layers of abstractions required which might address the goal of harmonization on the one hand, without ignoring the specificities of the various Humanities disciplines on the other hand.

This e-Humanities track aims to showcase projects that contribute to e-Humanities, whether by providing integrated and interoperable infrastructures, or by offering new types of applications making use of such infrastructures and connecting the digital islands. At the same time this track aims to trigger critical discussion and to move us forward in our goal to establish an international e-Humanities debate.

Submission of papers is invited from all stakeholders: humanities researchers, technologists, as well as cultural heritage institutions and e-Humanities/e-Infrastructure researchers.

Submission
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Papers submitted for presentation on the workshop should report original research that has not been published elsewhere. The submission guidelines can be found at the official conference web-site: http://www.oerc.ox.ac.uk/ieee/call-for-papers.

Acceptance and Publication
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All papers submitted for presentation in the workshop will be reviewed. At least one author of each accepted submission must attend the workshop. Accepted papers will be published in pre-conference proceedings published by IEEE. Selected excellent work may be eligible for additional post-conference publication as extended papers in selected journals, such as FGCS. The organizers of the e-Humanities track are negotiating with publishers to take care that all accepted
papers will be published in a suitable journal.

Important dates
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Deadline for submission of papers: Friday, 31st July 2009
Notification of Acceptance: Tuesday 1st September 2009
Final submission of camera-ready papers: Friday 18th September 2009
Conference and Workshop: 9-11 December 2009

Organizers
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Chad Kainz Bamboo, Univ. Chicago
Heike Neuroth DARIAH, SUB Göttingen
Peter Wittenburg CLARIN, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen
Martin Wynne CLARIN, Oxford Text Archive

PC
Jost Gippert, Gerhard Lauer, Fotis Iannides, Erhard Hinrichs, Heike
Neuroth, Andreas Aschenbrenner, Claus Zinn, Gerhard Heyer, Peter
Wittenburg (Germany), Paul Doorenbosch, Peter Doorn, Marc Kemps-Snijders
(Netherlands), Nuria Bel (Spain), Nicoletta Calzolari (Italy), Chad
Kainz, Sue Ellen Wright, Helen Dry, Neil Fraistaat (USA), Stelios
Piperidis (Greece), Sheila Anderson, Tobias Blanke, Martin Wynne (UK),
Bente Maegaard (Denmark), Marko Tadic (Croatia), Tamas Varadi (Hungary),
Gerhard Budin (Austria), Bruna Franchetto (Brazil), Sven Strömquist
(Sweden), Key-Sun Choi (Korea), Sadaoki Furui (Japan), Laurent Romary
(France), Chu Ren Huang (China), Linda Barwick, Steven Bird (Australia),
Susan Schreibman (Ireland)