<nettime-ann> CFP: Digital Resources in the Humanities and Arts 2007

[Craig Bellamy <craig.bellamy@kcl.ac.uk>]

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CALL FOR PROPOSALS

doing digital: using digital resources in the arts and humanities

DRHA07 : Dartington College of Art : 9 - 12  September 2007


Bringing together creators, practitioners, users, distributors,
and custodians of Digital Resources in the Arts and Humanities


Over the last decade the annual Digital Resources for the Humanities
and Arts (DRHA) conferences have constructed an unusual kind of
meeting place: a space in which researchers, curators, and
distributors of digital resources could meet and share perspectives
on their complementary agendas. Last year, that forum was expanded to
include participants from the creative and performing arts, giving
the event a new flavour and a new direction. This year, the
conference aims to explore further major issues at the interface
between  traditional humanities scholarship and the creative arts, by
focussing on their differing or complementary approaches to the
deployment of digital technologies. Can the Arts and the Humanities
share expertise? Are they divided by a common tongue? To what extent
are they developing common technical solutions to different problem
areas? As in previous years, the conference will articulate these
questions by showcasing the very best in current practice across the
widest spectrum of digital applications in the arts and humanities
and by fostering informed but accessible debate amongst professionals.

The Programme Committee for DRHA07 is now soliciting imaginative and
provocative contributions for the conference addressing such topics as:

    * the benefits and the challenges of  using digital resources in
creative work, in teaching and learning, and in scholarship;
    * the challenges and opportunities associated with scale and
sustainability in the digital arena;
    * new insights and new forms of expression arising from the
integration of digital resources in the arts, humanities, and sciences;
    * social and political issues surrounding digital resource
provision in the context of global ICT developments;
    * the implications of "born-digital" resources for curators,
consumers, and performers;
    * training methods and best practice for digital arts and
humanities practitioners.


Other themes include: interactivity and performance; digital media in
time and space; integration and deployment of existing digital
resources in new contexts; policies and strategies for digital
deployment, both commercial and non-commercial; cataloguing and
metadata aspects of resource discovery; digital repositories; Web 2.0
and other new technologies; encoding standards; intellectual property
rights; funding, cost-recovery, and charging mechanisms; digitization
techniques and problems.

Format: The conference will take up three intensive days, comprising
presentation of academic papers and technical reports, performance
and installation events,  software and product demonstrations,
debates and training events.  The atmosphere will be informal, the
discussion energetic. Leading practitioners and representatives of
key funding agencies, such as the the Arts Council, the AHRC, the
JISC, and the AHDS  will be amongst the participants. We hope that
from this occasion a new consensus will emerge based on real life
experience of the application of digital techniques and resources in
the Humanities and Arts.

Timetable: Proposals are now invited for academic papers, themed
panel sessions and reports of work in progress.Your proposal should
be no smaller than 500 words and no longer than 2000; closing date
for proposals is  May 2nd 2007.   All proposals will be reviewed by
an independent panel of reviewers, and notifications of acceptance
will be sent out by 13th June 2007. All accepted proposals will be
included in the Conference preprint volume, and will also be
considered for a post-conference publication.


Cost: The all-in conference rate covering all meals and accomodation
as well as conference registration and proceedings will not exceed
£400. Reduced rates for early registration, and partial rates for one-
day or non-residential attendance will be announced shortly on the
conference website.

Further information: The conference web site at http://
www.dartington.ac.uk/drha07/ will be regularly updated, and includes
full details of the procedure for submitting proposals, the
programme, and registration information. Bookmark it now!




--
Dr Craig Bellamy
Research Associate
ICT Guides, AHDS,
King's College, London
http://ahds.ac.uk/ictguides/
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