Conference at the University of Hamburg, Germany

http://beta.teuchos.uni-hamburg.de/IT-Workshop

Over the last few years a lot of effort went into collecting digital data relating to historical objects (manuscript digitisations, critical editions, watermark collections), and into making these available to specific scientific communities as well as to a broader public. Despite targeted standardisation actions, one of the major problems encountered was the heterogeneity of data to be modelled. This heterogeneity often steers researchers to local solutions which, in the longer term, are an obstacle to the integration of different repositories. Other prevalent
problems include the imposssibility of applying OCR software to hand-written texts and the difficulty of applying language technology methods and tools that are usually developed with modern languages in mind. The present workshop aims at discussing these problems and presenting solutions, and at bringing together researchers from different areas of the Digital Humanities.

We are looking for original contributions describing completed work in one of the following areas:
- models for heterogeneous data in repositories
- semantic based information retrieval
- text technology for historical languages
- visualisation of heterogeneous data
- image processing for accessing textual data in manuscripts
- standards for data collection
- digital edition
- user scenarios

Submissions should exceed 10 A4 pages
- Please follow the llncs formatting-style. Formatting templates for Word and TEX are given below.
- Submission should be ANONYMOUS. Please pay attention when converting to PDF that Author'S name are not saved into the file. Please avoid to make excesive self citation.
- Only PDF files are accepted.
- Submissions should be sent no later than 28th juni 2009 (GMT+1) via our conference management system

Any registration and announcement of a possible submission before this date will help us in setting up the review process. Accepted papers will be published in a conference Volume.

Important Dates
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- Papers due to 28th June 2009
- Notification of acceptance 30th July 2009
- Final papers due 23rd August 2009
- Workshop – 8th-9th October 2009

Programme Committee
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Christian Brockmann (University of Hamburg)
Gregory Crane (Tufts University Arts, Sciences and Engineering)
Dieter Harlfinger (University of Hamburg)
Walther v. Hahn (University of Hamburg)
Fotis Jannidis (University of Würzburg)
Steven Krauwer (University of Utrecht)
Anke Lüdeling (Humbodt University, Berlin)
Bernd Neumann (University of Hamburg)
Stelios Piperidis (ILSP, Athenns)

Organisation Committee
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Daniel Deckers (University of Hamburg)
Lutz Koch (University of Hamburg)
Cristina Vertan (University of Hamburg)