This Call for Proposals is available on the workshop web page at:
https://saab.ischool.utexas.edu/pc4ds2017/
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Overview
Humanities scholars have historically used archives that include
restricted or privacy-sensitive collections in order to conduct their
investigations about sensitive topics. The recent developments in
digitization and dissemination technologies present the possibility of
making archival collections broadly available. Furthermore, collections
of new, born-digital documents will be readily available to support and
enhance scholarship. However, such access has also exacerbated threats
to the privacy of individuals named in these records. Examples of such
privacy-sensitive records include mental health institutional records,
prison records, records of the Truth and reconciliation commissions,
Nazi archives, and the Guatemalan national police archives. Access to
paper records is protected by distance, physical barriers, and varying
state and national policies and laws. In some cases, the legal
frameworks for digital records are substantially less clear than those
for physical records. Furthermore, the online availability of such
records has a potential to stigmatize or embarrass the families or
descendants of those named in the records when they bear no
responsibility for the acts or health conditions of the named
individuals, raising ethical issues in providing broad, open access to
these records. In addition to scholars, demographics such as family
members, journalists, social services providers, and policy makers can
all benefit from access to these historical collections.
Topics
We invite scholars and practitioners who work with or are interested in
issues surrounding humanities scholarship supported or enhanced by
digital, privacy-sensitive collection to contribute to and participate
in this workshop. A non-exhaustive list of topics includes:
* Digitization, curation, and preservation of privacy-sensitive
collections
* Theoretical and metadata models
* Policies, workflows, and protections for accessing materials
* Issues in using cloud services for privacy-sensitive materials
storage and scholarship
* Scholarly information behavior and needs
* Models that recognize diverse user needs (for example, aggregate
data, individual information)
* Institutional and political negotiations surrounding access to
privacy-sensitive collections
* Mechanisms and models for data retrieval from handwritten documents
* Privacy-aware digital repository architectures
* Privacy-aware crowdsourcing and transcription methods
* Privacy issues in designing user interfaces and data visualizations
* Privacy mitigation in data analytics and presentation
* Evaluation of existing software, infrastructure, and techniques
* Social justice issues and non-scholarly outcomes of work with
restricted collections
Proposals: formats and submission
All contributions must be written in English.
We encourage you to submit proposals for:
* *full papers (up to 3,000 words, exclusive of references)*:
submissions that report on mature work or stake out a position in an
area of interest
* *work-in-progess papers (up to 1,500 words, exclusive of
references)*: submissions that present early results or a nascent
project
Please submit papers via the workshop's*EasyChair submission
page*:https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pc4ds2017.
Important dates:
* *May 15*: due date for all proposals
* *May 31*: Notification of acceptance
* *June 7*(expected): Early registration date for DH 2017 ends
(workshop participants must register for both the conference and the
workshop)
* *August 1*: Submission of final, camera-ready papers
* *August 7/8*: PC4DS 2017 Workshop
Program Committee (evolving)
Donald Fyson, Département des sciences historiques, Université Laval
Pat Galloway, School of Information, The University of Texas at Austin
Unmil Karadkar, School of Information, The University of Texas at Austin
Organizers
Please contact us in case of questions.
Unmil Karadkar ([log in to unmask]
<mailto:[log in to unmask]>)
School of Information, The University of Texas at Austin
King Davis([log in to unmask]
<mailto:[log in to unmask]>)
School of Information, The University of Texas at Austin
Acknowledgement
The organizers are funded by Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (grant number:
11500653) under the scholarly communications program.
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