Workshops
Previous Workshops
Collaboration and Challenges in Digital Scholarly Editing
Digital Humanities Australasia (DHA) 2012, March 27, 2012, ANU
Led by: Professor Paul Eggert (Australian Defence Force Academy, University of New South Wales), Professor Peter Robinson (University of Saskatchewan, Canada), Dr Desmond Schmidt (Queensland University of Technology), Professor Jane Hunter (University of Queensland)
This workshop offers an introduction to some recent developments in what has now been two decades of efforts to create a sustaining digital environment and tools for the building of scholarly editions of literary, biblical and other works. Aims have evolved over the years but they include: providing archives of the documentary tradition of variant versions of works in textual and visual form, producing and displaying collations of the textual variation, and facilitating ongoing collaborative interpretation of the stored texts and images. The two presenters will report on alternative solutions that have been emerging: Desmond Schmidt, on 'XML-free Digital Editions' and Peter Robinson on 'Collaborative Models for Textual Editing'. Paul Eggert will introduce the workshop with some historical background and, after the coffee break, invite the two speakers to comment on one another's proposals, including the issue of the advantages and disadvantages for digital editions of TEI encoding.
Computing for Citizen Science Workshop
A sub-event of the 7th IEEE International Conference
Chair: Prof. Jane Hunter
8 December 2011, Stockholm, Sweden
Citizen science projects are programs of scientific work in which volunteers with little or no scientific training contribute and/or process data for scientific research. The number and variety of citizen science projects worldwide is on the rise as a result of the Internet, affordable smart mobile devices and social media. Online communities of volunteers are now contributing data to projects that range from astronomy to bird watching and air quality.
Digital technologies enable citizen science projects to harness collective intelligence and apply it to a particular scientific problem whilst also enhancing interactions between scientists and enthusiasts. Although there exists a wide range of citizen science projects globally, with many overlapping and common IT-related issues and challenges, there have been little or no prior workshops that have focussed on the sharing of technologies, approaches and ideas across citizen science projects.
The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers, designers and implementers of software tools that are being developed for citizen science projects and to focus on solutions for overcoming the specific IT issues and challenges associated with citizen science projects.
For detailed information please visit the Workshop website at http://itee.uq.edu.au/~eresearch/workshops/compcitsci2011/index.html.
Joint Workshop on Knowledge Evolution and Ontology Dynamics (EvoDyn)
Co-located with the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) 2011
23-27 October 2011, Bonn, Germany
Website: http://www.ontologydynamics.org/od/index.php/evodyn2011
EvoDyn builds on the success of the previous editions of the Ontology Dynamics workshop formerly known as IWOD (organised as a part of the ESWC'07, ISWC'08, ISWC'09 and ISWC'10 conferences). EvoDyn continues in the tradition of IWOD in being the core annual event to discuss advances in the broad area of ontology dynamics, and to track recent work directly or indirectly related to the problem of evolving ontologies. This year, however, the scope of the workshop is broadened by a special focus on the knowledge evolution. As ontologies are formal representations of knowledge, the study of their dynamics is an inherent part of investigating the knowledge evolution phenomena, yet it is only one of many relevant aspects this workshop aims to cover in an integral manner.
In particular, the workshop focuses on analysis of trends and change in formal descriptions (i.e., ontologies), but also in associated raw sources of knowledge (scientific publications, unstructured or semi-structured web content, traditional data stores, e-mail or on-line discussion threads, etc.). We are especially interested in research targeted on various states of knowledge evolution, such as (a) conflicts, (b) consolidation, (c) discovery, (d) paradigm shifts, and (e) breakthroughs. One crucial objective of better understanding these different states may be to study directly the underlying causes and dynamics needed to generate discoveries and breakthroughs. We will only be able to facilitate and possibly also generate such desirable situations if we can understand the process of how knowledge evolves. The process of how knowledge in a field grows and changes, crystallizes, and fractures are all areas of interest of this workshop. The same holds for related novel applied technologies, such as:
- Tools for tracking the progress of knowledge from latent ideas, through hypotheses to well-supported facts and/or claims;
- Methods for identifying what are the crucial fulcrum-points where a particular field may blossom or fail;
- Methodologies and supporting tools for identification and reinforcement of emerging promising trends in various academic and/or industrial domains;
- Platforms facilitating interconnection and cross-fertilization of related endeavors in isolated disciplines.
Contact Dr Tudor Groza if you require further information.
