Virtual Symposium on Info and Tech in the Arts and Humanities - Student Research Award Prizes up to $500 seeking unpublished research

The Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) Arts & Humanities Special Interest Group (SIG AH) and the Visualization, Images, and Sound Special Interest Group (SIG VIS) are offering a Student Research Award on the topic of Open Humanities. 

 

SIG AH and SIG VIS are seeking previously unpublished research for a Master’s and a PhD Student Research Award. Per the details below, finalists will be invited to introduce their research presentation at the 2017 Virtual Symposium on Information and Technology in the Arts and Humanities (April 18 and 19, 2017) and winners will receive a Student Research Award and cash prize up to $500.

The theme, Open Humanities, invites participation from a variety of theoretical and empirical perspectives on the topic. We encourage graduate-level submissions from a broad range of disciplines including the arts and humanities, library and information science, and computer science. Suggested paper topics include, but are not limited to, past research, case studies, and current projects that use humanities-related open data or open content, or that discuss topics in the following areas:

• Open information retrieval
• Collaborative research methods
• Digital publishing
• Open access
• Data curation and sharing
• Linked data/linked open data
• Social media or Web 2.0
• Open Source technology
• Research assessment

Presentations and slides will be archived with other material from the event in the 2017 Symposium Proceedings and Award-winning student papers may be published in the Combined Proceedings of the Virtual Symposium on Information and Technology in the Arts and Humanities.

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See: http://www.asis.org/SIG/SIGAH/2016/10/23/2017-cfsp/

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Beth St. Jean, Assistant Professor
College of Information Studies - "Maryland's iSchool"
Room 4117K Hornbake Bldg., South Wing
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
(301) 405-6573