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The Royal Library, The National Museum and The Danish Agency for Culture invite YOU to participate in Denmark’ s first cultural heritage hackathon.

Starts Friday 5th of October @ 13.00

Ends Saturday 6th of October @ 18.00

The Royal Library of Denmark, Den Sorte Diamant – Kulturarvssalen Søren Kierkegaards Plads 1, København

#hack4dk date and venue: The Royal Library, The National Museum and The Danish Agency for Culture invite YOU to participate in Denmark’s first cultural heritage hackathon.

What’s in it for you? A chance to play with open cultural data such as maps, aerial photos, listed buildings, films and artworks and spend some fun hours with fellow developers. There will be free food and drinks and a cool afterparty somewhere in town.

What’s in it for us? We want to show the value of open, free and accessible data with cool prototypes and educate the cultural world about the power of APIs, webservices and mashups.

Developers! hack4dk.tumblr.com

lanyrd.com/2012/hack4dk

read more OR twitter.com/hack4dk

cfp: Digital data – lost, found, and made at Copenhagen University 16 October 2012

http://ccc.ku.dk/calendar/2012/found_and_made/

Communication on the internet and in other digital media is continuously recording itself – these data are there to be found. They include meta-data – data about data – that carry much information beyond the actual messages that are ‘sent’ and ‘received.’ Meta-data situate these messages in relation to their contexts – the source of information, its connections with other items of information, their trajectories across sites and servers, and the local users of the information, who, perhaps, add their own meta-data. At the same time, various other kinds of data must be made in order to account for the place of digital media in social interaction on a global scale. The resulting challenges to research are as massive as the amounts of data involved – what is referred to in both academia and industry as big data.

This seminar brings key contributors to the first decade of internet research to the Copenhagen Centre for Communication and Computing in order to address these challenges in an interdisciplinary dialogue. Each presentation is followed by Q&A, and the seminar concludes with a panel debate and plenary discussion.

The seminar is open and free – no registration is required. For further information, please contact Kasper Rasmussen <kasper.r>

Time: 2012-10-16 9:45 to 16:30
Place: University of Copenhagen, Southern Campus, Room 24.4.01
Organizer: Centre for Communication and Computing

“Visualizing the Digital Humanities” at DeIC conference, 12-13 November 2012

My talk:  Visualizing the Digital Humanities (http://www.deic.dk/drupal/program_mandag?q=node/156)

Titel: Visualizing the Digital Humanities
Taler: Project Manager Erik Champion, Digital Humanities Lab
Om præsentation: What is or are the Digital Humanities, especially in relation to Denmark and the Nordic World?
Do we mean the digitalization of text, or does it encompass other forms of data and research?
How is visualization involved, and what sort of data and computing resources are required?
In this talk we aim to answer the three questions from the point of view of the new DIGHUMLAB.dk consortium, comparing and contrasting with other similar centers and institutes.

Note to self, just two months to prepare!

*DeIC is the merger of Forskningsnettet (Danish Research Network) and Danish Center for Scientific Computing (DCSC)

Thanks to all those who attended the DIGHUMLAB launch

On Monday 10 September 2012 we had our official launch and I would like to thank all who attended and the invited speakers and it appeared yesterday and today on the Aarhus University website.

Would like to have more time for questions and answers session, but the delay was probably caused by the audience networking over good coffee, which is just further proof of the need for a more collaborative and communal organization to help promote and disseminare digital humanities!

There will be two new PhD positions advertised soon, and Aalborg may also be introducing new possibilities so keep eyes tuned to the dighumlab.dk website.

PHOTO: Professor Patrik Svensson Director of HUMlab, Umeå University, Sweden, discussing interactive media and virtual worlds.
UPDATE: The University article and photo is here: http://www.au.dk/om/nyheder/nyhed/artikel/millionsatsning-paa-nyt-digitalt-laboratorium/ (DANISH) ORhttp://dighumlab.dk/index.php?id=2155&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=120&cHash=64e8312ce6f3871a51329b63375352aa

CAADRIA 2013 Final Call for Papers – Extended deadline: September 9

CAADRIA 2013 Open Systems – Final Call for Papers

Abstract due September 9, 2012

Open Systems

The 18th International Conference of the Association of Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA)

May 15-18, 2013

National University of Singapore

http://www.caadria2013.org

Contemporary challenges require inclusively integrated approaches to designing. Constrained by established modes of practice, such integration is impossible without a radical commitment to openness. In response to this need, CAADRIA 2013 invites contributions that engage with open systems in all aspects of architectural and urban design: open with respect to the scale of the design objectives and the context, from a building component within a building system to a neighbourhood or city within its urban and rural context; open with respect to the domains being considered, from planning to sustainable performance of a building or city; open with respect to the collaboration of disciplines and participants, from ad-hoc brainstorming to a rigorous process of consultation and feedback; open with respect to design methods and techniques, from physical modelling to digital prototyping; open with respect to design models and representations being adopted, from a parametric exploration to an ontological delineation considering Building Information Modelling, Built Environment Modelling or City Information Modelling; open with respect to the tools and applications being adopted, despite interoperability issues, from modelling to simulation and assessment; open with respect to the learning approach being adopted, from informal interaction and sharing to formal design education; open with respect to the open source approach being adopted in research and development, in order to gather community involvement and use.

By focusing on the theme of Open Systems, CAADRIA 2013 aims to explore all these aspects and more, and raise awareness to the need of overstepping disciplinary boundaries and reaching creative communities at all levels of expertise, by pooling resources, knowledge and practices, and integrating them through the adoption of open systems.

CAADRIA 2013 invites submissions of original research papers on topics in computational architectural design research, including but not limited to the following subjects:

· Computational design research and education

· Modes of production

· Digital fabrication and construction

· New design concepts and strategies

· Mass customization

· Collaborative design

· Digital aids to design creativity

· User participation in design

· Generative, parametric and evolutionary design

· Virtual architecture

· Shape studies

· Virtual reality and interactive environments

· Precedence and prototypes

· Ubiquitous and mobile design computing

· Design tool development

· Human-Computer Interaction

· Simulation, prediction, and evaluation

· City modelling

· Practice-based and interdisciplinary computational design research

· Theory, philosophy and methodology of computational design research

CAADRIA 2013 also invites submissions of practice work in the form of a poster + abstract (deadline: December 1, 2012). A special conference session on Open Systems in Practice will be dedicated to these presentations. Accepted submissions will also be included in the conference proceedings.

Young researchers currently involved in postgraduate studies are invited to apply for the Young CAADRIA Award and to submit their research-in-progress to the CAADRIA 2013 Postgraduate Student Consortium.

Important Dates

· Abstract submission deadline: September 9, 2012

· Notification of abstract acceptance: October 1, 2012

· Full paper submission deadline: December 1, 2012

· Presentation submission deadline: December 1, 2012

· Postgraduate Student Consortium submission: December 1, 2012

· Young CAADRIA Award submission: December 1, 2012

· Notification of paper acceptance: January 15, 2013

· Notification of presentations acceptance: January 15, 2013

· Registration deadline: February 1, 2013

· Camera ready paper submission: February 15, 2013

· Camera ready presentation submission: February 15, 2013

CAADRIA 2013 Organising Committee-National University of Singapore

Conference Chair: Tan Beng Kiang

Vice Chair: Patrick Janssen

Rudi Stouffs

Shinya Okuda

Huang Yi Chun

Dorothy Man Mai Ling

Contact: caadria2013

CFP: V!RUS JOURNAL ISSUE #8 : RE:PRE:SENT

The 8th issue of V!RUS journal proposes a reflection on Represent. The word comes from the Latin repraesentare and contains two prefixes. The first is re-, which means ‘backwards’, suggesting a reiteration of something, and the second is prae-, which means ‘ahead’, ‘before then’, and refers to something that would still be to come. The two prefixes are linked to the verb sedere, meaning ‘to seat’, ‘to sit’, designating what is established, defined. From this standpoint, RE:PRE:SENT involves at the same time a gesture related to a pre-existence, to what had or to what has already been (re-), associates it with a look at what is not yet, to what might be (pre-), and transforms the act of definition, of settlement, of permanence (sedere).

The three basic meanings that William of Ockham assigns to represent also help us to anticipate possible approaches to this theme: 1. the mediation itself, as “that through which something is known”; 2. the processes of representing as a possibility to “know something, after whose knowledge another thing is known”; and 3. the status of object that the representation may assume related to the represented object, able to “cause knowledge in the same way as the object causes knowledge”.

We therefore propose that the subject RE:PRE:SENT encompasses diverse temporalities and meanings, fostering transdisciplinary thinking coming from many knowledge areas. Will be welcome theoretical, conceptual and historical reflections, as well as records of performances, experiences and practices of artistic and audio-visual works, including interventions in the areas of architecture, urbanism, design, communication and information technology, whether in concrete, virtual or hybrid spaces, and specific studies on software and digital interfaces and their applications, prioritizing those for social and community use. Likewise, we hope to complexify this reflection with contributions from the social sciences, education, philosophy, psychology and mathematics, among other areas, as well as from studies on public policies and social-environmental sustainability.

We are interested in papers that discuss RE:PRE:SENT from various inputs, such as communication, reading and creation processes, narratives study and implementation, rather using digital platforms mediation, tangible or not, on one hand; processes of approaching distant realities, using representation as a mean to bring closer what is far away – in many ways –, exploring concepts such as multiculturalism and transdisciplinarity, and the potentialities of the so called online social networks in these approaches, as well as the very notion of having as reference thoughts and works produced in cultures geographically or socially distant, on the other hand. Relating the topic to cybernetic studies and of complex thinking, we understand re:pre:sent as an observation process even able to modify the represented object, and as the relationship between representation, the represented object and its observers, constituting parts of a system.

Beyond texts and static images, will be welcome musical pieces and testimonials in audio files, architecture, urbanism and design projects and the critical reflection on their conception, short video and films, slideshows, animations, interviews, considering Nomads.usp interest in exploring possibilities of using digital media for science diffusion.

Contributions will be received through the journal’s website until September 17th, 2012, according to the guidelines for authors, available at www.nomads.usp.br/virus/submissao_submission.php.

cfp: DIGITAL CLASSICIST SEMINAR BERLIN: CALL FOR PAPERS (for October)

http://de.digitalclassicist.org/berlin/cfp

We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the newly established Digital Classicist Seminar Berlin, which will run for the first time in the Winter Term 2012. This initiative, inspired by and connected to London’s Digital Classicist Work in Progress Seminar, is organised in association with the German Archaeological Institute and the Excellence Cluster TOPOI.

We invite submissions on research which employ digital methods, resources or technologies in an innovative way in order to enable increased understanding of the ancient world at large. Abstracts, either in English or in German, of 300-500 words max. (bibliographic references excluded) should be uploaded by midnight MET on September 14, 2012 using the special submission form.

Themes may include digital text, linguistics technology, image processing and visualisation, linked data and semantic web, open access, spatial and network analysis, serious gaming and any other digital or quantitative methods. We welcome seminar proposals addressing the application of these methods to individual projects, and particularly contributions which show how the digital component can lead to crossing disciplinary boundaries and answer new research questions. Seminar content should be of interest both to classicists, ancient historians or archaeologists, as well as information scientists and digital humanists, with an academic research agenda relevant to at least one of these fields.

Seminars will run fortnightly on Tuesday evenings (17:00-18:30) starting in October 2012 in the TOPOI Building Dahlem, hosted by the Excellence Cluster TOPOI. The full programme will be finalised and announced in late September. It is planned to grant an allowance to speakers for travelling and accommodation costs. Further details will be available once the program is finalised.

ICT Expert,required for DIGHUMLAB, Denmark (in Copenhagen)

DIGHUMLAB (http://dighumlab.dk/) is a newly established research infrastructure with the goal of supporting digital humanities and social science research by providing common virtual access to relevant digital and digitised resources for the humanities and the social sciences.

We are looking for a computer scientist, software engineer, or a person with similar qualifications to work for a distributed common secretariat, headed by the project leader (based in Aarhus). Employment will be on a project basis for a 5-year period, and the workplace will be the University of Copenhagen, Centre for Language Technology (www.cst.ku.dk). You will report to the DIGHUMLAB project leader but both you and your personal line manager will be located at the University of Copenhagen. Because of the distributed nature of DIGHUMLAB, you will be required to travel to Odense, Aarhus, and Aalborg, and also to European partners and meetings.

For further information and to apply online, please visit the following website: http://tiny.cc/tkn2iw

The closing date for applications is 23:59 CET, 9 September 2012.

DIGHUMLAB launch Mon 10 September, 12.00-17.30 Aarhus Denmark

DIGHUMLAB LAUNCH

We are having a launch of DIGHUMLAB, on 10 September. Attendance is free but general public or  student online registration is required as seats are limited.

Details: mandag 10 september 2012: 12.00 – 17.30

Location: Peter Bøgh Andersen Auditorium, Nygaard building, på hjørnet af (corner of) Finlandsgade og Helsingforsgade, Aarhus North.

Aarhus University, 8200 Aarhus Denmark

 TimeEvent
12.00Informal gathering and light food
12.30Rector Lauritz B. Holm-Nielsen & Dean of Arts, Mette Thunø, Aarhus University
12.45Danish Minister for Science, Innovation and Higher Education, Morten Østergaard
13.00DIGHUMLAB 1: Professor Bente Maegaard: Language Tools and CLARIN
13.15DIGHUMLAB 2: Professors Niels Ole Finnemann & Niels Brügger: NetLab
13.30DIGHUMLAB 3: Professor Johannes Wagner: Interaction Labs
13.45Sally Chambers, Secretary General, DARIAH-EU Coordination Office
14.00Steven Krauwer, CLARIN ERIC Executive Director
14.15Coffee break
14.30Professor Patrik Svensson, HUMlab, Umeå University
15.10Professor Lorna Hughes, University of Wales Chair in Digital collections, National Library of Wales
15.50Coffee break
16.00Associate Professor Palmyre Pierroux, InterMedia, University of Oslo
16.30Professor Lily Díaz-Kommonen, Media Lab, Aalto University
17.00Open Floor Discussion and questions
17.30Light refreshments

it will be a very busy August-September

  • Friday 31 August: Flying Billund to Bergamo Italy
  • Sunday 2 September VSMM 2012 conference Milan Italy (Milan Polytechnnic)
  • Monday 3 September: Present 10.50AM for Li Wang, “Chinese Culture Approximated Through Touch” and chair 11.30 session Virtual documentation and 3D repositorieS
  • Wednesday 5 September: Milan to London
  • Thursday 6 September: Digital Humanities Congress Sheffield UK
  • Saturday 8 September at session 18: 9.30 – 11.00 present talk “Research as Infrastructure” then fly Manchester to Copenhagen then train to Aarhus
  • Monday 10 September: DIGHUMLAB Launch, Aarhus University, 12.00-17.30, Nygaard building, corner of Helsingforsgade and Finlandsgade, Aarhus
  • Monday 17 September: Fly from Billund to OslO
  • Tuesday 18 September: Nordunet conference Oslo (just day 1 for me)
  • Wednesday 19 September: Fly from Oslo to Copenhagen and Train to Lund, give opening keynote at 6pm, u21 conference, Lund University
  • Thursday 20 September: u21 conference, then evening train to Copenhagen then to Aarhus
  • Friday 21 September: Deans meeting, Aarhus.

Info viz should be compulsory for researchers!

Gigaom

With the advent of open data and new, powerful methods for analyzing it, we’re learning a lot that could challenge longstanding beliefs on public policy. Politicians, social workers and other civil servants have always had data, of course; they just never had as much and could never do with it what they can today. They should listen to what the computers tell them.

What’s possible

Recent HIV research from Brown University is a great example of what’s possible. Researchers formulated a computer model based on numerous factors relating to drug use, sexual activity and the medical aspects of HIV infection. To ensure it was accurate, they calibrated the model until it could accurately reproduce known HIV infection rates in New York City from 1992 until 2002. They ran the model thousands of times on a supercomputer.

They found that the rate of of HIV infection among New York City injection drug…

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An Exclusive One-Day Lab on Interactive Storytelling and Media Architecture

An Exclusive One-Day Lab on Interactive Storytelling and Media Architecture
Costs:
Participation Fee: 250 € per project incl. VAT (170 € for the workshop and 80 € for one festival accreditation)
Students discount: 150 € per project incl. VAT (110 € for the workshop and 40 € for one student festival accreditation)

APPLY NOW! Deadline: August 16, 2012

  • Are you currently working on a cross media project that is linked to a documentary or animated film?
  • Would you like professional support to strengthen the idea, dramaturgy and structure of your project?
  • Are you looking for creative inspiration, mutual exchange and networking with experienced colleagues from the cross media world?

The DOK Leipzig Net Lab 2012 offers an intense day of individual support for your cross media project, with an in-depth look at interactive storytelling and media architecture.
Media professionals and cross media creatives are invited to apply with their multi-platform projects linked to documentary and/or animated film. Six projects will be selected from all applications and the head producer and up to two team members will be invited to participate.
The DOK Leipzig Net Lab provides concrete support for cross-media projects in the development, production or post-production stage. International cross media experts will talk about their experiences, share knowledge and provide engaged mentoring and individual advice for each project.

Our goal is to help you to discover fresh and creative ways of interactive storytelling, strengthen your project’s non-linear dramaturgy and develop a suitable media architecture. We want you to join forces with media professionals from across different disciplines for to draw the very best out of your ideas.
The one-day networking lab will provide a mix of group work, in-depth analysis and individual meetings.

Application Deadline: August 16, 2012 (applications are required in English language!)
Please find the online application form here:

upcoming CFPs

START*DUE*CONFERENCETHEMELOCATION
15-nov-1220-jul-12media architecture biennaleMedia architecture Biennale 2012Aarhus Denmark
08-nov-1231-jul-12Digital engagement in archaeologyDigital Engagement in Archaeology ConferenceLondon UK
14-okt-1213-aug-12Nordic CHIMaking sense through design WORKSHOPSCopenhagen DK
15-maj-1301-sep-12CAADRIACAADRIASingapore
17-apr-1315-sep-12Crafting the futureCrafting the future-designer´s practice knowledgeGothenburg Sweden
28-jan-1315-sep-12LMMGSLearning in museums through mobile games and storiesVercors, French Alps
13-nov-1217-sep-12ambient gamingSecond International Workshop on Ambient Gaming (AmGam’12) AND AESTHETICS (13)Pisa Italy
27-apr-1319-sep-12CHI2013Paris France
14-maj-1310-dec-12FDG 2012Foundations of Digital GamesCrete
02-sep-1308-jan-13interact 2013designing for diversityCapetown South Africa
01-jul-1301-feb-13CAADFUTURES2013Global Design & Local MaterializationShanghai China
11-dec-12?Cultural heritage onlineCULTURAL HERITAGE on line – Trusted Digital Repositories & Trusted ProfessionalsFlorence italy
26-mar-13?CAA2013Across Time and Space:Computer Applications in Archeology (sessions and workshops)Perth Australia
?Digital Humanities 2013University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA (2013)Nebraska USA

“Best in Heritage” Conference @ Dubrovnik, Croatia, 27 – 29 September 2012

I am interested and impressed by the idea, an annual conference based around awards to heritage projects that have already won awards, a sort of "best of the best".The programme is here http://www.thebestinheritage.com/conference/programme/
I am still a little sketchy on their critieria but their instructions to the speakers gives some clues
http://thebestinheritage.com/conference/presenters-instruction/

  1. Describe your institution
  2. What was the history of the project: rationale, objectives, aims?
  3. Who conceived the idea? Where the support came from? In what forms?
  4. What was professional and social philosophy of your project? Is your project relevant for the national and community development? Does it help quality of living?
  5. What was the particular quality or innovation that deserved to be awarded?
  6. Do you consider your project being different from the others of the sort or better than them?
  7. How did your project work regarding human resources? Who was engaged and what were the experiences?
  8. What were the difficulties? Was anything easy?
  9. How would you do it next time?
  10. What are the experiences you would never repeat?
  11. How do you define professional excellence?
  12. Would you have any piece of advice for all who will enter some similar experience?

Please note:

Your presentation will make part of more than 130 hours of multimedia, highly interactive collection of the Excellence Club project presentations, at our web site and on DVD.

To stimulate quality of presentations and the attention of our participants we offer a prize for the best formal presentation.The winner, as voted by the audience present in Dubrovnik, is offered to present the project at The Best in Heritage Excellence Club, EXPONATEC fair (Cologne,Germany) at the invitation of Koelnmesse, comprising travel (any European destination), and board and lodging expenses.