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Call for Papers -- Computational Archival Science (CAS) workshop -- now Oct. 27, 2020

  • 1.  Call for Papers -- Computational Archival Science (CAS) workshop -- now Oct. 27, 2020

    Posted Oct 06, 2020 04:12 PM
    Due date for papers updated -- now Tue. October 27, 2020
    IMPORTANT DATES (updated)
    • Oct. 27, 2020: Due date for full workshop papers submission
    • Nov. 3, 2020: Notification of paper acceptance to authors
    • Nov. 10, 2020: Camera-ready of accepted papers
    • Dec. 12, 2020: Workshop
      RESEARCH TOPICS COVERED (not restricted to):
      • Application of analytics to archival material including text-mining, data-mining, sentiment analysis, network analysis.
      • Analytics in support of archival processing, including e-discovery, identification of personal information, appraisal, arrangement and description.
      • Scalable services for archives, including identification, preservation, metadata generation, integrity checking, normalization, reconciliation, linked data, entity extraction, anonymization and reduction.
      • New forms of archives, including Web, social media, audiovisual archives, and blockchain.
      • Cyber-infrastructures for archive-based research and for development and hosting of collections
      • Big data and archival theory and practice
      • Digital curation and preservation
      • Crowd-sourcing and archives
      • Big data and the construction of memory and identity
      • Specific big data technologies (e.g. NoSQL databases) and their applications
      • Corpora and reference collections of big archival data
      • Linked data and archives
      • Big data and provenance
      • Constructing big data research objects from archives
      • Legal and ethical issues in big data archives


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        Richard Marciano
        Professor
        University of Maryland, College Park
        Annapolis MD
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