19.481 conferences: Ontology Based Modelling; Digital Philology and Medieval Texts

               Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 19, No. 481.
       Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
                   www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/
                        www.princeton.edu/humanist/
                     Submit to: humanist_at_princeton.edu

   [1] From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk> (73)
         Subject: Ontology Based Modelling in the Humanities, Hamburg,
                 4/06

   [2] From: "Arianna Ciula" <arianna.ciula_at_kcl.ac.uk> (25)
         Subject: Conference DigiMed Arezzo Jan 2006

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         Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2005 07:25:02 +0000
         From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk>
         Subject: Ontology Based Modelling in the Humanities, Hamburg, 4/06

SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS
*** apologize for multiple postings ***

   International Workshop

   "ONTOLOGY BASED MODELLING IN THE HUMANITIES"
(http://www.c-phil.uni-hamburg.de/view/Main/OntologyWorkshop)

   7-9 April 2006, University of Hamburg

In the new area of digitalized information, researchers from the
humanities face a new problem: semantic data organisation. In
contrast with the data processed by natural sciences, the material in
most fields of humanities is mostly unstructured. The structuring of
such data is a complex problem that can be solved only by formal
models and languages from computer science. However the application
of formal models from formal sciences (especially computing) is
itself a scientific problem as humanists have their own scientific
culture not only in the argumentation and meta-theories but also in
their way of communication. With the development of the Semantic Web
the "ontology"-concept became an important "key" for
data-structuring. Some ontologies were developed also in the
Humanities, but there is still no overview of what exists, which
standards are used and how well the current ontologies meet the users
requirements.

The current workshop aims to fill this gap and act also as a
discussion forum We welcome original papers related (but not limited)
to one or more of the following topics:
          * theoretical relevant models for humanities
          * formal prerequisites
          * specific ontologies for different fields in Humanities
          * collaborative tools for ontology manipulation
          * Semantic Web technologies for preserving cultural heritage
          * Semi-automatic ontology extraction
          * Ontology development in multilingual context
          * Practical use of ontologies in Humanities

   Organisers
          * Walther v. Hahn (University of Hamburg)
          * Cristina Vertan (University of Hamburg)

   Invited Speakers:
          * Marin Doerr, (FORTH-ICS, Heraklion, Crete)
          * Nicola Guarino (IST-CNR, Trento, Italy)

   Programme Committee
          * Galia Angelova (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)
          * Wernher Behrendt (Salzburg Research)
          * Richard Deswarte (University of East Anglia)
          * Walther v. Hahn (University of Hamburg)
          * Roberto Poli (University of Trento)
          * Cristina Vertan (University of Hamburg)

   Important Dates:

          * Paper Submission 30th December 2005
          * Notification of acceptance 30th January 2006
          * Camera Ready Papers 28th February 2006

   Submission guidelines
   Submissions should be A4, one-column format and should not exceed
seven pages, including cover page, figures, tables and references.
Times New Roman 12 font is preferred. The first page should contain
the title of the paper, the author's name(s), affiliation, surface
and email address(es), followed by keywords and 10 lines of abstract.
Continue with the first section of your paper.

Papers should be submitted electronically in *PDF* format to
vertaninformatik.uni-hamburg.de .

Each paper will be reviewed by up to three members of the program
committee. Authors of accepted papers will receive guidelines
regarding camera-ready versions

-- 
Dr. Cristina Vertan
Natural Language Systems Division
Computer Science Department
University of Hamburg
Vogt-Koelln-Str. 30
22527 Hamburg GERMANY
Tel. 040 428 83 2519
Fax  040 428 83 2515
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         Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2005 07:30:26 +0000
         From: "Arianna Ciula" <arianna.ciula_at_kcl.ac.uk>
         Subject: Conference DigiMed Arezzo Jan 2006
*Apologies for cross-posting *
Digital Philology and Medieval Texts - 19-21 January 2006 - Arezzo (Italy)
The University of Siena-Arezzo (Dipartimento di Teoria e
Documentazione delle Tradizioni Culturali, Scuola di Dottorato in
Scienze del Testo and CISLAB), the Centre for Computing in the
Humanities, King's College London and the Fondazione Ezio
Franceschini of Florence have organised a forum for medievalists to
discuss the principles and purposes of the critical edition produced
with the support of humanities computing tools, methods and aids. For
the programme e more information please visit the website of the
seminar at
<http://www.unisi.it/tdtc/digimed/>http://www.unisi.it/tdtc/digimed/
The Centre for Computing in the Humanities of King's College London
is offering four bursaries (500 euros for non Italian residents and
of 250 euros for Italian residents) to young scholars interested in
attending the seminar. If you want to apply, please send a request
and your CV to the conference office
(<http://web-linux.unisi.it/tdtc/digimed/htm/office.php>http://web-linux.unisi.it/tdtc/digimed/htm/office.php). 
Registration (free) is required for the workshop only and it needs to
be sent to the conference office.
The seminar is part of the academic programmes of the class of
Computing for the study of the ancient and medieval world
(Informatica per lo studio del mondo antico e medievale), of the PhD
in Textual studies (Scienze del Testo) of the University of Siena and
of the Class on advanced philology of medieval Latin (Corso di
Perfezionamento in Filologia Mediolatina) by SISMEL