Special Sub-Topic: Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage

With more cultural heritage and humanities data being published, Digital Humanities is an emerging field bringing together researchers and practitioners from the domains of computer science, cultural heritage, humanities and social science. DH is an interdisciplinary domain where questions about data curation, data cleaning and provenance, data integration and semantics are prevalent. Here, semantic technologies play a crucial role in addressing new and existing research questions of humanities scholars. On the other hand, the heritage and humanities data present new and interesting challenges to those semantic technologies.

This track invites high quality submissions that show how Semantic technologies have been applied to develop and improve humanities and cultural heritage research and practice. We invite both research papers describing novel approaches and insights as well as case studies and industry submissions.

Topics of Interest include but are not limited to:

- Cultural Heritage Ontologies and Vocabularies

- Semantic technologies for Digital Humanities

- Linked Data, Knowledge Graphs and Digital Humanities

- Semantic Search for Humanities and Digital Heritage

- Geo-semantics for Humanities and Digital Heritage

- Natural Language Processing for structured heritage

- Supporting Humanities scholars accessing Semantic data

- Social Semantics for Humanities data

- Semantics for Audio-Visual Data

- Historical Entity reconciliation on the Semantic Web

- Semantics and Hermeneutics

- Semantic Social Networks in Heritage data

- Semantics in Digital Libraries

Author Guidelines and Submission for paper submissions

• The Research and Innovation Track welcomes long and short papers. Long papers should have a maximum length of 15 pages (including references) and short papers of 6 pages (including references).  
• Submissions should follow the guidelines of the Springer LNCS format. Details are available here.
• Abstract submission for all papers is a strict requirement.
• All papers and abstracts have to be submitted electronically via Easychair: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=sem20eu#
• Submissions must be in English.
• Submissions are not anonymous.
• Accepted papers will be published by a well indexed open access publisher.
• To get the paper published in the proceedings at least one author of an accepted paper needs to register for the conference and pay the article processing charge. (We are currently setting up a fund to partially or - at best - completely subsidize the APC of Euro 300.- per paper.)
• The Research and Innovation Track will not accept papers that, at the time of submission, are under review or have already been published in or accepted for publication in a journal or another conference.
• Due to the cancellation of the on-site event, authors of accepted papers are expected to record a video of 5 - 10 minutes in which they present their paper. The video will be published on the conference’s YouTube channel and prominently referenced via the conference website and its social media channels. The video shall be uploaded to Easychair by August 30, 2020 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time).
  

Review and Evaluation Criteria for paper submissions

Each submission will be reviewed by several PC members. The reviewing process is single-blind. Papers submitted to this track will be evaluated according to the following criteria:

• Appropriateness
• Originality, novelty, and innovativeness
• Impact of results
• Soundness of the evaluation
• Proper comparison to related work
• Clarity and quality of writing

We are looking forward to your contribution!

Special Track Chairs:

• Mehwish Alam, FIZ Karlsruhe – Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure
• Albert Meroño Peñuela, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam