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DDHI-2024@JOHD
Special Collection on DATA-DRIVEN HISTORY OF IDEAS of the JOURNAL OF OPEN
HUMANITIES DATA
Guest editors: Arianna Betti & Hein van den Berg
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Important Dates
Abstracts due: 1st June 2024
Full papers due: 1st December, 2024
Call for Papers 2024
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The new field of data-driven history of ideas combines qualitative,
quantitative and computational methods for the study of the origins,
development and spread of ideas from any time and place. It also comes with
two challenging demands that are distinctive in the landscape of
computational humanities. The first is the demand for the adequate
representation and detection of concepts, rather than words; the second is
the need for high-quality, virtually 100% accurate large corpora in many
languages across centuries by both known and virtually unknown authors seen
as carriers of ideas. These two main demands generate in turn further needs
on resources that must be, typically, newly created or substantially
adapted for the field: datasets such as expertly curated sets of
bibliographic metadata, annotation sets and historical gazetteers,
ontologies, and network data; infrastructural facilities for collaborative
environments, and workflows that suit and support the field; ground truths
for the evaluation of models from language technology, and techniques
integrating language models with approaches and tools from data science,
visual analytics, and knowledge representation.
Results produced in the field can be published in the same way as
traditional articles in in-domain journals and books. The resources that
make data-driven enterprises in the history of ideas possible, however,
still lack an apt venue, despite the fact that work on such resources is
key to the field and can be extremely time-consuming. It is with the
intention of creating a home for openly shareable corpora, datasets and
other resources, as well as to support the work of the next generation of
researchers, that we invite submissions to a special collection of the
Journal of Open Humanities Data on Data-Driven History of Ideas.
Submissions for this special collection are welcome that focus on,
facilitate or support the study of philosophical and scientific thought of
any epoch and geographical area, geared in particular towards the origin,
development and spread of ideas.
Submission topics include, but are not limited to
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* Textual data: high-quality, virtually 100% accurate corpora from any
epoch and language
* Ground truths and annotation datasets
* Curated collections of bibliographical metadata and full bibliographies
* Ontologies
* Lexica
* Historical gazetteers
* Collections of (historical):
* Geographic-political data eg political affiliation of cities through the
centuries
* Timeline data of authors, printers, countries
* Complete publishing histories of books
* Unique identifiers
* Network data
* Academic conference data
* Computational tools focused on DDHI:
* Multilingual and multi-layout OCR postcorrection
* Transkribus models
* Applied concept-focused work in computational linguistics, data science,
visual analytics, and knowledge representation (concept-detection,
concept-change)
* Networks and graphs
* Data visualisations for DDHI
Manuscripts will be peer reviewed after editorial consideration, and
accepted papers will be published online on a rolling basis. Please note
that there are Publication Fees
<https://openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/about/submissions/> for accepted
papers. Follow the submission guidelines
<https://openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/about/submissions/> to submit your
manuscript.
The Journal of Open Humanities Data (JOHD)
<https://openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/> is a growing open-access
peer-reviewed academic journal specifically dedicated to publications
describing humanities research objects, software, and methods with high
potential for reuse. These might include curated resources like (annotated)
linguistic corpora, ontologies, and lexicons, as well as databases, maps,
atlases, linked data objects, and other data sets created with qualitative,
quantitative, or computational methods.
JOHD publishes two types of papers:
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Short data papers contain a concise description of a humanities research
object with high reuse potential from research related to the ancient
world. These are short (1000 words) highly structured narratives and must
conform to the data paper template
<https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/ubiquity-partner-network/up/journal/johd/JOHD_data_paper_template_final.docx>.
A data paper does not replace a traditional research article, but rather
complements it.
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Full length research papers discuss and illustrate methods, challenges,
and limitations in the creation, collection, management, access,
processing, or analysis of data in Humanities research related to the
ancient world, including standards and formats. These are intended to be
longer narratives (3000 - 5000 words), which give authors the ability to
contribute to a broader discussion around the study and representation of
the ancient world through data.
JOHD provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that
making research freely available to the public supports a greater global
exchange of knowledge. Authors remain the copyright holders and grant third
parties the right to use, reproduce, and share the article according
to the Creative
Commons <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/> licence agreement.
Authors are encouraged to publish their data in recommended repositories.
Please note that there are Publication Fees
<https://openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/about/submissions/> for accepted
papers, but authors can ask for a waiver if they do not have funding for
the fees.
Submission deadline:
1 June 2024 (abstracts due)
1 December 2024 (full papers due, upon abstract acceptance)
Submissions:
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If you are interested in submitting an article, please submit an abstract
of max. 300 words by June 1, 2024 using this form:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfpHO3RYHTNJRtmJRZ4QHkorN5buq8KnwKzpu1iDO1puGm5oQ/viewform?usp=sf_link
You will be asked to paste the text of the abstract in the form.
Special collection guest editors: Arianna Betti (lead guest editor), Hein
van den Berg
About the Guest Editors:
Arianna Betti is Professor and Chair of Philosophy of Language at the
University of Amsterdam, and leader of the Concepts in Motion group at the
Institute for Logic, Language and Computation. After studying historical
and systematic aspects of ideas such as axiom, truth, and fact (Against
Facts, MIT Press, 2015), they now specialise in data-driven research aimed
at tracing the development of ideas such as these in a strongly
interdisciplinary setting. They have been member of the Young Academy of
the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), of the
Scientific Council of the Italian Research Council (CNR), of the Global
Young Academy (GYA), and recipient of two ERC grants (2008–2013, 2014–2015)
as well as of several major Dutch NWO grants, including a VICI (2017–2024).
Hein van den Berg obtained his PhD at the VU Amsterdam in history and
philosophy of science in 2011, with a prize-winning dissertation on Kant’s
conception of proper science and Kant’s philosophy of biology. After
obtaining a postdoctoral grant from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts
and Sciences (KNAW) for conducting research on the history of biology at
the Technical University Dortmund, he became assistant professor at the
Institute for Logic, Language, and Computation of the University of
Amsterdam in 2016. He does research on the history and philosophy of logic,
biology, and psychiatry. As a member of the Concepts in Motion group since
2011, he has been involved in a large number of computational and
data-driven history of ideas projects.
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