A call for bursaries has now been posted:

http://dh2014.org/bursaries/

If you are interested in applying, please follow the instructions provided via the link above. Please take good note that the application deadline for bursaries is March 15, 2014.

The bursary awards are to encourage new contributions to scholarship in the digital humanities from our diverse global constituency and to involve new participants in the application of information technology in humanities research. As we continue to grow our organizations in terms of scope, numbers, and geographic dispersion the bursaries are critically important in making it doable for young scholars to meet up with colleagues, young and old, and to get feedback on their work. We will therefore encourage anyone who is able to support the bursaries financially, with any amount, to get in touch with ADHO’s Treasurer, Jarom McDonald, at the email address: [email protected]

For the past few months I have been overseeing the reviewing phase for DH2014. With over 600 submissions, we allocated over 2700 reviews from over 400 different reviewers, culminating in a month long sift-through by the Program Committee as we decided which submissions to accept – and which to sadly reject.

Of the 583 submissions we now have (there were some people who pulled out during the reviewing process, for various reasons) we’re pleased to have accepted
– 8 panels.
– 137 long papers
– 84 short papers
– 120 posters.
This gives an overall acceptance rate of 60%, partly because we accepted more posters this year. The acceptance rates for panels, long papers and short papers in total is just under 50%.

There was quite a lot of bumping up and down going on:
Of the 29 panels: 8 have been accepted as panels, 6 as long papers, 3 as posters, 1 as a workshop, 11 rejected.
Of the 246 long papers: 117 have been accepted as long papers, 13 as short papers, 31 as posters, and 85 rejected.
Of the 197 short papers: 14 have been accepted as long papers, 71 as short, 16 as posters, 96 have been rejected.
Of the 111 posters: 70 were accepted, 41 were rejected.

We’re not quite there yet in whipping the program into shape – the Call for Pre Conference Workshops is still open until February 21st: please do send in your proposals.

It has been a long process to get to this stage – and I’m looking forward to attending DH2014 now. Thanks for all of those who submitted proposals, and in this very competitive year, commiserations to those who were not accepted.

 

 

Registration to the DH2014 is OPEN!

For conference registration, accommodation reservations, social events, and excursions:

http://dh2014.org/registration/

The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) is dedicated to creating a safe, respectful, and collegial conference environment for the benefit of everyone who attends, and for the advancement of research and scholarship in fields supported by our constituent organizations. The ADHO Digital Humanities conference Code of Conduct is available here.

This post is a reminder to all the researchers who have submitted a proposal (long paper, short paper, panel, poster) to the DH2014: the rebuttal period will close on the

8th of January, 11.59pm GMT

Researchers have until this date to submit comments and reactions about the reviewing of their proposals.

Stay tuned on our website: we will announce the opening of the submission period for the workshop and tutorial proposals, that will close on the 21st of February.

From all the DH2014 team: HAPPY NEW YEAR… and see you in July in Lausanne!

Conference and housing registration for DH2014 will be ready next year. Here are the fees in Swiss francs.

• ADHO and affiliated organisations member (early bird**): 300 CHF
• ADHO and affiliated organisations member:   375 CHF
• Non-member: 550 CHF
• ADHO and affiliated organisations student: 100 CHF
• Student non-member: 225 CHF

• Unil and EPFL member: 150 CHF
• Unil and EPFL student: 80 CHF

**Early bird rates will be available until the 1st of April 2014.

Dear DHers,

The submission page for the abstracts for DH2014 has opened. To submit a paper, panel, or poster go the following webpage, login or create a new user account and follow the instructions.  http://www.conftool.pro/dh2014/

For this year, the accepted document formats will be Word (.doc,.docx) and PDF.

In order to smooth the publication process we strongly encourage you to try to use a new writing tool called dhwriter.org. This tool produces special kinds of PDF, called “Review PDF,” that will contain the text of your abstract and also link to a clean TEI-encoded version.

Why should I try DHwriter?

Every year, reformatting the abstracts from their original submission formats (Word, PDF, etc.) into TEI (for publishing the on-line version and the book of abstracts) is a long and tedious process. Previous local organisers all agree that this task is one the most time-consuming of the entire DH Conference “adventure”. In order to make the process smoother, our local team has been actively working since the Nebraska meeting to build a web interface for writing abstracts in a format that would make possible (1) the reviewing process as usual using Conftool, and (2) an exportation in TEI for publishing the proceedings. This tool, completely independent from Conftool, should deal with all the key features you may want to include in an abstract (citations, figures, etc.). It can export in TEI and in a format we call “review PDF” which contains an automatically rendered layout of the abstract and on-line link to check a clean TEI-encoded version.  The first version of this tool is accessible on dhwriter.org. It is far from perfect as it has been developed in just a few weeks. We have made the code open-source and it is already available on GitHub.

It would help us enormously in the conference organisation if you could prepare your abstract in DHWriter, and then submit it as a Review PDF via Conftool, as it would cut down hours of work involved in preparing the book of abstracts for publication.

How should I use DHwriter to publish in DH2014?

You can think of DHwriter as a simplified version of Google docs. You can insert section, figures, lists, etc.  A word counter indicates how long your text is.

1) Go to dhwriter.org and sign in by clicking on the sign in button

2) Click on “not yet a member”

3) Fill the form and submit

4) You should arrive on a page like this one, and can start writing your abstract

5) Header. To enter the title, authors, summary and other metadata click on the small triangle near :

You should access a form where you can enter the information and the metadata.

To add, an additional author click on the (+) button

6) References To enter a reference click on the [1] icon.

There is a basic mechanism to enter citations in the form you like by simply entering a line of text. An autocompletion system is implemented looking for your reference in an (ever increasing) database of DH references.

Choose or type the citation and click on the save button. It should now appear in the text …

… and at the bottom of your text, in a special window called References

7) Images To enter an image or figure, click on

You can enter the URL of the image or upload it from your computer. You can also enter an title and caption.

A second pop-up window asks you the clarify the copyright status of the image you use.

Click “save” and the image should now be included in your text

8) Exporting in Review PDF. 

Once your abstract is finished you can export it in a format made for the reviewers called “Review PDF”. Just click on the following icon.

The first page of PDF produced includes a simple title page :

At the bottom of the page you’ll find an URL

This URL brings you to an TEI/HTML version of the your article, that displays nicely in a browser. This link will be used to publish your article on the web and in print, if your proposal is accepted.

The second page of PDF includes the abstract itself

Save this “Review PDF” in your computer. This will be the file that will be uploaded to Conftool.

9) Uploading your “Review PDF” file to Conftool

a. Go to http://www.conftool.pro/dh2014/

b. If you already have a login you can use this one. Otherwise you can proceed to create a new one :

 

c. Create your account and go to the Submissions form

d. Click, for instance, on “long paper” and enter the information about your paper and the metadata (please note that you will have to reenter them despite the fact that you entered them in DHwriter)

e. Upload your abstract in the “Review PDF” format

f. You are done !

If you have any problems with this submission tool, or any questions about the process, please contact [email protected]. We would be glad to have any feedback regarding the DH Writer system so that we can improve its functionality.

This blog applauds the special efforts of the MLMC committee, its chair Elisabeth Burr, and all the volunteers who translated the DH2014 call for proposals in 23 languages. It is the first time that so many languages have been supported at the proposal level, featuring many non-Western languages and other languages spoken by only small populations, such as the Romontsch sursilvan, one of the four official languages spoken in Switzerland.

We are very grateful for this “inverted and postive Babel” which makes us sensitive to the possibilities offered by digital culture: to build bridges between various people and to make visible cultures usually considered as minor in canonical historical Western print and academic culture.

Arabic: ألتمكين الرقمي الثقافي; Bulgarian: Дигитално Културно Упълномощаване; Catalan:  Potenciació Cultural Digital; Chinese: 數位文化賦權; English: Digital Cultural Empowerment; French: La montée en puissance de la culture numérique; Friulan: Kültürel Güçlendirme; German: Befähigung und Bewusstheit durch digitale Kultur; Greek: Ψηφιακή Πολιτιστική Ενδυνάμωση; Hebrew: העצמה תרבותית דיגיטלית; Hungarian: A digitális kultúra ereje; Italian; Presa di Coscienza Culturale e Digitale; Japanese: デジタル文化エンパワーメント; Norwegian; title not translated; Persian: توانمند سازی فرهنگی دیجیتال; Polish: Upodmiotowienie Kultury Cyfrowej; Portuguese: title not translated; Romontsch sursilvan: Cumpetenza e qualificaziun ellas scienzas humanas digitalas; Russian; Цифровое культурное применение; Serbian: Дигитално културно оснаживање; Spanish; Empoderamiento cultural digital; Turkish: Kültürel Güçlendirme; Welsh: Ymbweriad Diwylliannol Digidol

… stay tuned! On Monday, you will be able to upload your proposals.

The DH2014 team