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Biographical Data in a Digital World 2022 (BD 2022) Workshop

Workshop co-located with the Digital Humanities 2022 (DH2022) conference on July 25th.


Einhard (775-840), medieval biographer of Charlemagne.

Call for Papers (Post-Proceedings)

A call for papers is open for the workshop participants to submit full papers on the topics of the workshop. The submissions will be peer reviewed and accepted papers will be included in the workshop proceedings that will be submitted to CEUR-WS.org for open online publication.

We solicit submissions in two forms: long papers (10–15 pages) and short papers (5–9 pages). The layout of the papers should follow the one-column CEURART style whose templates are available in LaTeX/Overleaf, docx and odt formats at http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/. The papers are submitted through OpenReview.

Deadline for submissions is September 21 October 19, 2022 at 23:59 (UTC).

Workshop Program

Monday, 25 July 2022

9:00-9:10 (UTC) Welcome & Introduction

9:10-10:20 Session 1: Network Analysis and Semantic Web

10:30-11:30 Session 2: Finding and Preparing Biographical Data for Research

11:40-12:50 Session 3: Use Cases and Advanced Ways of Working with Biographies

13:00-15:00 Interactive session for exchanging ideas, discussion, open challenges, and sharing resources

Call for Participation

Biographical and prosopographical data are invaluable sources for historical research as they provide us with essential information on thousands of historical figures: from the cultural heroes of a nation to the many thousands of other significant, yet lesser-known figures who were influential in domains such as the arts, politics, humanities, or natural sciences. Their historical life paths can provide crucial context for tangible heritage objects, which have been created, owned, or influenced by historical actors, or which depict or refer to them. The events of individual biographies can further be aggregated into (histories of) larger contextual composites: groups (e.g. guilds, family histories), institutions (e.g. art schools, universities, religious orders, political movements, companies) and regional entities (from cities to whole countries).

Computational analysis of biographies has opened up new and interesting research directions. Individuals share common characteristics that can be identified and used for information retrieval and data analysis, such as date of birth, occupation, social networks and places. Tools and approaches from the digital humanities can be used for both quantitative analyses of such data and for providing leads for more qualitative research questions.

This workshop has two main goals. First, previous events on biographical data and digital humanities have revealed that groups working in this domain have different strengths. Though many groups bring researchers from different domains together, some groups mainly consist of domain experts with a lot of knowledge of history, library studies or literature. Other teams are primarily made up of researchers specialized in automatic analysis, formal modeling or visualization. Bringing these groups together increases insights for both types of groups. Technical experts contribute insights on best practices to deal with typical challenges of the domain. Domain experts on what analyses they need, which potential technological challenges are problematic for their research questions and which are not. Second, there is keen interest in cross-national research on biographical information. Most resources are national resources and though many are open, sharing information also means understanding each other’s data representation, linking related information, etc.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Submissions and Workshop Participation

We solicit submissions for the workshop as abstracts (500-1000 words). The submissions will be peer-reviewed, and the accepted submissions will be presented at the workshop (online). The submitted abstracts will not be published.

A separate call for full papers will be issued after the event for workshop participants, with proceedings that shall be submitted to CEUR-WS.org for online publication.

At least one author of each paper needs to register to the Digital Humanities 2022 conference in order to participate in the workshop. The workshop is organized online and is open for all conference participants.

Contributions can be submitted through EasyChair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bd2022.

Important Dates

Workshop Organizing Committee

Workshop Programme Committee

Registration

At least one author of each paper needs to register to the DH2022 conference in order to participate in the workshop. The workshop is open for all conference participants.

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