We are organizing a workshop at the Lorentz center. It will be hosted at June 19–23, 2017 and is titled Visualizing Digital Humanities.
This workshop brings together experts from the fields of Geometric Algorithms, Visual Analytics, the Library Sector, and the field of Digital Humanities, in order to develop state-of-the-art visual techniques for librarians and scholars in the humanities. We will identify and describe new areas of application for researchers working in Visual Analytics and formulate objectives and use cases that will result in visualizations satisfying the needs of librarians and humanities scholars. The workshop has three goals:
At the end of the workshop, we will have identified a set of research problems and objectives guiding future work of the participants, and we will have created a platform for future collaborations.
Libraries provide online access to millions and millions of bibliographic records and digitized texts. Scholars in the field of Digital Humanities analyze these records and texts using computational tools. The field of Visual Analytics provides cutting-edge, interactive visual representations, allowing users to extract meaning from large datasets. Librarians, scholars in Digital Humanities, and researchers working in Visual Analytics would thus profit immensely from mutual collaboration. However, such collaboration is not very common. Librarians and humanities scholars often use basic visualizations that are a far cry from state-of-the-art research solutions in Visual Analytics. In addition, it is not always clear how advanced visualizations can help librarians and scholars in the humanities to solve problems relating to data management and analysis. This workshop will bring together international experts working in these different domains, to identify the challenges faced by librarians and humanities scholars and to identify visual techniques that will allow them to solve these challenges.
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