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BAL-ADRIA Summer School on Digital Humanities, 16-22 June 2019, Zadar, Croatia

2019-03-04

The BAL-ADRIA* Summer School on Digital Humanities will be held in the period of 16 to 22 June 2019, in Zadar, Croatia (*Baltic-Adriatic). It is organized by Linnaeus University (LNU) and University of Zadar, in collaboration with DARIAH-EU, Uppsala University, and Data Intensive Sciences and Applications Centre of Excellence at LNU.

This instance of the summer school covers

the theory of digital humanities research methods
the practice of fundamentals of programming for digital humanities.

For more information and to register, please visit http://baladria.unizd.hr

Welcome!

Doktorandkurs i sommar – Designing Human Technology

2019-02-28

Dags att skicka in din anmälan till en spännande doktorandkurs i sommar! Deadline 1/3 2019!

Den tvärvetenskapliga doktorandkursen ”Designing Human Technology”, DHT 7.0, om hur man designar teknik för (och med) människor, äger rum för sjunde året i rad, denna gång i Estland, med Tallinn University som värd, i samarbete med Roskilde Universitet (Danmark) och Trento University (Italien) samt med medverkande seniorforskare från Danmark, Sverige, Finland, Norge, Estland och Italien. Kursen hålls 16-18/6 på en ö i vid estniska västkusten i form av internat under 3 dagar, motsvarar 3,5 ECTS, och brukar vara mycket uppskattad av medverkande doktorander från olika delar av Europa. Ingen kursavgift, samt gratis mat och logi under de tre dagarna tack vare EU-finansiering. Resan till och från Tallinn måste doktoranderna dock hitta egen finansiering för.

Se mer information om kursen på http://dht2019.tlu.ee/

DISA at ICAME 40

2019-01-28

The 40th Annual Conference of the International Computer Archive for Modern and Medieval English (ICAME) will be held at Université de Neuchâtel in Switzerland, June 1 – 5. ICAME is one of the most important ongoing conference series on corpus linguistics, and since this is the 40th installment it is something of an anniversary. The theme this year is “Language in Time, Time in Language”.

This year we are happy to see that we have many of our researchers connected to DISA present to represent us and the research conducted at Linnaeus University.

The conference activities connected to DISA LNU are:

Jukka Tyrkkö will be organizing a workshop called “Big data and the study of language and culture: Parliamentary discourse across time and space” together with Minna Korhonen and Haidee Kruger.
Mikko Laitinen is presenting a paper on variation in indefinite pronouns in historical American English called “Towards the Inevitable Demise of Everybody?” together with Emily Öhman and Tanja Säily.
Magnus Levin and Jenny Ström Herold will present on echoic binomials in an English-German-Swedish perspective as a part of the “Languages in Time, Time in Languages: Phraseological perspectives” workshop.
Mikko Laitinen, Jukka Tyrkkö, Magnus Levin, Alexander Lakaw and Daniel Sundberg will be presenting a paper on the use of American English and British English in the Nordic context through the Nordic Tweet Stream.

For more information about the research within the research group for Data Intensive Digital Humanities, visit their website.

/Diana

PhD course: eHealth – improved data to and from patients, 3 credits

2019-01-02

In April 2019 we will give a new course for PhD-students in eHealth. The course will give an introduction to eHealth and health informatics including benefits and challenges with eHealth, examples of applications in use, register based epidemiology, decision support systems, overview and examples of research within the interdisciplinary field of health informatics.

Teaching in this course will be lectures online (via mymoodle) as well as 2 seminars where students will present and discuss papers from this field of research.

This course will be given in collaboration with the eHealth Institute. We welcome PhD-students from DISA as well as other PhD-students at Linnaeus University who are interested in eHealth and health informatics.

Pace: Half time, distance learning with approximately 2 meetings on campus in Kalmar
Language: English
When: April 2019 (preliminary 1/4 – 28/4)
Contact: If you are interested in this course, please send an e-mail to Tora Hammar, tora.hammar@lnu.se

The eHealth Institute, Department of medicine and optometry, Linnaeus University will be responsible for the course.

//Diana

Call for papers: ACM Transactions on Data Science

2018-11-19

Data Science relies on the massive volumes of diverse data generated from all forms of human activity and interaction with the environment to make decisions and to solve problems. Traditional methods for managing and processing data have been scaled to address its growth, but new approaches are required to deal with these heterogeneous, high velocity, very large data sources of varying quality, coverage, and semantics. There are challenges at every stage. Addressing these challenges requires innovations in a wide range of computing sub-disciplines, from computer architecture to human computer interaction, and from data analytics to recommendations. ACM Transactions on Data Science (TDS) will serve as the premier forum for describing and advancing the state of the art on this important topic.

Scope

The scope of the TDS includes cross-disciplinary innovative research ideas, algorithms, systems, theory and applications for data science. Papers that address challenges at every stage, from acquisition on, through data cleaning, transformation, representation, integration, indexing, modeling, analysis, visualization, and interpretation while retaining privacy, fairness, provenance, transparency, and provision of social benefit, within the context of big data, fall within the scope of the journal.

The objective of the journal is to provide a forum for cross-cutting research results that contribute to data science. Papers that address core technologies without clear evidence that they propose multi/cross-disciplinary technologies and approaches designed for management and processing of large volumes of data, and for data-driven decision making will be out of scope of this journal.

Editor-in-Chief
Beng Chin Ooi, National University of Singapore

Senior Associate Editors
Mike Franklin, University of Chicago
H.V. Jagadish, University of Michigan
Hong Mei, Beijing Institute of Technology and Peking University
Renée J. Miller, University of Toronto
Jeannette M. Wing, Columbia University

For further information or to submit your manuscript.

Call for Presentations – The 4th Big Data Conference

2018-10-17

Welcome to our 4th annual Big Data Conference at Linnaeus University hosted by the Linnaeus University Centre for Data Intensive Sciences and Applications (DISA) in Växjö, November 29-30, 2018. Detailed information on the conference can be found on the following web page.

For the session on research results of LNUC DISA, we invite submissions from DISA researchers to present their academically outstanding, previously published work at the Big Data Conference 2018. Submission deadline: Nov 12, 2018

Acceptance requirements:
(i) The underlying paper has been published in an excellent journal or conference proceedings not longer than two years before the conference.
(ii) The topic of the work is clearly related to data-intensive sciences and applications.
(iii) At least one of the co-authors is a DISA researcher.
(iv) At least one of the co-authors registers for the conference and attends the conference to give a presentation about the paper.

Note, that the paper will not be part of any proceedings or similar. As the planned session has only a restricted number of slots, we have to select according to a number of criteria, such as scientific quality, fitting into the DISA research aims, topical diversity (for example, not all talks on visualization or computational social sciences), etc. Therefore, we ask the submitters to carefully choose those papers and submit only one or maximal two papers of their work.

Information on these papers should be submitted via email to Diana Unander (diana.unander@lnu.se) containing: list of co-authors (DISA researcher(s) should be marked), title, abstract and venue/journal where the papers originally appeared together with a link where the paper can be downloaded. The deadline is November 12, 2018. We expect to notify about the acceptance at Nov 16, 2018.

In case of questions, please contact Andreas Kerren (andreas.kerren@lnu.se).

//Andreas Kerren

Call for Poster Submissions for The 4th Big Data Conference at Linnaeus University Växjö

2018-10-16

The 4th Big Data Conference at Linnaeus University Växjö, November 29-30, 2018

Poster submission deadline: November 16, 2018

Welcome to our 4th annual Big Data Conference at Linnaeus University hosted by the Linnaeus University Centre for Data Intensive Sciences and Applications (DISA). Detailed information on the conference can be found on the following web page.

For the poster sessions during lunch at the first conference day, we invite poster submissions coming from DISA researchers and their PhD students. We ask for posters on research done/related within/to the DISA research groups (e.g., unpublished work, posters already presented at other conferences, etc.).

Note that the posters will not be part of any proceedings or similar, and that it is required that somebody will be at each poster during the poster session of the conference to take questions. It will also be possible to demo stuff nearby to the poster (should be mentioned in the poster submission).

All posters should be designed and finally printed in A0, upright (portrait format); no further layout requirements are provided from our side, but a name of a contact person + email address, or a QR code, or something similar should be provided on the poster to allow people to get in touch with the authors.

A PDF version of the poster plus a short abstract (separate PDF file; maximal half page) should be submitted via email to Diana Unander (diana.unander@lnu.se) by November 16, 2018. We expect to notify about the acceptance eventually together with comments for minor adjustments at November 20, 2018. Please remember that you also need some time after the notification to actually print the poster: The CopyCenter usually needs a couple of days for such tasks.

In case of questions, please contact Andreas Kerren (andreas.kerren@lnu.se).

//Andreas Kerren.

Welcome to a seminar about Common paths in long-term institutional dynamics

2018-10-09

Welcome to a seminar and get the first results from the project: Modelling institutional dynamics in historical commons (MIDI)

When: Thursday October 11, 13:15-14:30
Where: Linnaeus University in K3040 (Växjö)
No registration needed

Authors: Mike Farjam, Tine De Moor, Renè van Weeren, Anders Forsman, Molood Ale Ebrahim Dehkordi, Amineh Ghorbani, Giangiacomo Bravo

Abstract: Commons are governance regimes set-up to coordinate the exploitation of natural or man-made resources shared among different users. Understanding commons is important as the underlying social dilemma situation may lead to resource overuse and ultimately depletion if not appropriately managed. However, long-term processes of rule change in commons institutions are poorly understood. We present a quantitative analysis of 18 European commons across seven centuries offering an unique picture of long-term institutional dynamics. The analysis relies on the database recently built as part of the Common Rules Project. This database includes over 5000 detailed rules defining commons institutions and recording their changes across several centuries. Despite the differences in time and space, we found a shared pattern where an initial, highly-dynamic institutional-definition phase is followed by a relatively long period of stability and a final burst of changes, possibly in an attempt to respond to internal or external factors menacing the survival of the commons. Our findings not only challenge some elements of the current view on institutional dynamics but also provide important insights on the management of natural resources worldwide and how commons being formed today may be expected to evolve.

//Diana

Call for presentations – Digitala veckan

2018-10-05

Submission deadline: Oct 28th, 2018

Welcome to Digitala veckan on November 15-16th in Växjö. Researchers at Linnaeus University with a focus on DISA has been invited to give a special session on Data analytics and what new value the data can give you. Detailed information on the conference can be found on the following web page:

For the special session Data Analytics and what new value the data can give you we invite submissions from DISA researchers (4 in total, 1-2 PhD-students) to present their research findings that can be of interest for an external audience, based on collaborations etc.

Acceptance requirements:
(i) The underlying paper has been published not longer than two years before the conference.
(ii) The topic of the work is clearly related to data-intensive sciences and applications.
(iii) At least one of the authors is a DISA researcher.
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Digital Humanities Day with DARIAH on 30 October 2018

2018-10-02

Welcome to a Digital Humanities Day with Frank Fischer, Associate Professor for Digital Humanities at the Higher School of Economics, Moscow, and co-director of DARIAH-EU. Frank Fischer will talk about his own research on digital perspectives for the study of European Drama as well as DARIAH:s work for the Pan-European Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities.

Programme
10.00-11.00 “Masks and Interfaces – Digital Perspectives for the Study of European Drama” * See abstract below.
11.00-13.00 Lunch
13:00-14.00 “A Social Marketplace for Services – Introduction to DARIAH, the Pan-European Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities”
14.00-14.30 Coffee
14.30-15.30 Discussion

Registration kerstin.broden@lnu.se. Please advise of any food allergies.

Co-organised by the Digital Humanities Initiative and iInstitute

* Abstract: The digital literary studies have offered a lot of new approaches to the study of drama in recent years. New methods like social network analysis, stylometry and other quantitative and statistical approaches are complemented by a rich landscape of literary data in many languages and formats. This talk will recap these developments, oscillating between research and infrastructure, and introduce a platform for the research on European drama.