Digital Parliamentary Data in Action (DIPADA 2022)

Workshop co-located with the 6th Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries Conference (DHNB 2022), Online
March 15, 2022, Uppsala, Sweden

Call for Papers and Participation

Recent years have seen the emergence of new digital parliamentary datasets that highlight multi-disciplinary opportunities and challenges in research. These new datasets have enabled researchers to engage in novel ways in exploring and studying parliamentary culture, media and politics, polemics and consensus, and other areas where parliamentary debates function as a lens on societal and cultural matters. At the same time, ongoing research projects have highlighted the limitations of these “first-generation” datasets in their scope, structure, and usability. This has led to demands on improvements regarding OCR-quality, metadata, markup processes, and transforming national datasets into uniform advanced data structures, such as Parla-CLARIN and Linked Data.

The accessibility of parliamentary data is a democratic issue and raises questions about how such datasets can be used to empower citizen participation and enhance the transparency of political work and decision making. Hence, curation and research of parliamentary records, as well as the development of new tools and user interfaces relevant for the parliamentary data are embedded in critical societal discussions, and bear consequences from both scholarly and citizen perspectives.

These developments have led to enhanced opportunities and challenges for research and development. The workshop therefore draws together scholars across different disciplines to explore and showcase results and ongoing work on creating, publishing, and using digital parliamentary data in Digital Humanities research and applications. The aim is to foster interaction between the scholars in the humanities, social sciences, and computational sciences.

More datails about the workshop can be found on page

http://dhnb.eu/conferences/dhnb2022/workshops/dipada/

Important Dates

January 13: Deadline for submitting the papers
February 15: Notification of acceptance (peer-review results)
March 8: Submission of final revised papers, taking into account reviewers’ comments
March 15: The workshop takes place

Workshop Organizing Committee

Matti La Mela matti.lamela@abm.uu.se, Uppsala University and University of Helsinki (HELDIG)
Fredrik Norén, fredrik.noren@umu.se, Umeå University
Eero Hyvönen, eero.hyvonen@aalto.fi, Aalto University and University of Helsinki (HELDIG)

Workshop Programme Committee

Eero Hyvönen, Aalto University and University of Helsinki (HELDIG), chair
Kaspar Beelen, The Alan Turing Institute
Kimmo Elo, University of Turku
Tomaž Erjavec, Jozef Stefan Institut
Darja Fišer, University of Ljubljana
Jo Guldi, Southern Methodist University
Laura Hollink, CWI Amsterdam
Pasi Ihalainen, University of Jyväskylä
Matti La Mela, Uppsala University and University of Helsinki (HELDIG)
Måns Magnusson, Uppsala University
Bruno Martins, University of Lisbon
Costanza Navarretta, University of Copenhagen
Fredrik Norén, Umeå University
Jouni Tuominen, University of Helsinki

Program

To be announced later

Registration

At least one author of each paper needs to register to the DHNB 2022 conference

http://dhnb.eu/conferences/dhnb2022/

in order to participate in the workshop. The workshop is open for all conference participants.