[CODATA-international] DPASSH 2024: CALL FOR PROPOSALS NOW OPEN

[Asha CODATA]

*DPASSH 2024: CALL FOR PROPOSALS NOW OPEN*
We are pleased to announce that the Digital Repository of Ireland’s
biennial conference, Digital Preservation for the Arts, Social Sciences &
Humanities (DPASSH) <https://dpassh.org/>, will be co-hosted by the
University of Limerick and the Hunt Museum in Limerick, Ireland on 27-28th
June 2024. We invite papers, lightning talks and posters on the theme
of *Collections
as Data / Data as Collections*.

https://dpassh.org/call-for-papers-2024/

*What is ‘Collections as Data’? *
‘Collections as Data’ comes from the idea that digital information about
collections (including, but not limited to: metadata records, digital
files, software, code and other digital documentation) can serve as data
for computationally-driven research enquiries. The Collections as Data
movement encompasses a range of approaches to facilitating collection reuse
in activities such as “text mining, computer vision, machine learning,
artificial intelligence, data visualization, mapping, image analysis, audio
analysis and network analysis… While the specifics of how to develop,
provide access to, and support the use of collections-as-data will vary,
any digital materials can be potentially made available as data that are
amenable to computational reuse.” (Vancouver Statement on Collections as
Data <https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8342171>).

Resources are emerging to guide cultural heritage professionals in this
work. The DRI recently published a set of recommendations
<https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7897244> for improving the interoperability
and reuse of memory collections as data for the WorldFAIR Project, a
European funded initiative aimed at improving global cooperation of FAIR
(findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable) data policy and
practice. The International GLAM Labs Community produced a checklist for
publishing collections as data <https://doi.org/10.1108/GKMC-06-2023-0195>,
which informed the draft workflow for producing collections as data
<https://marketplace.sshopencloud.eu/workflow/I3JvP6> now available in
the Social Sciences and Humanities Open Cloud Marketplace (SSHOC). At the
same time, a Europeana Working Group has released a template for Datasheets
for Digital Cultural Heritage Datasets
<https://openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/articles/10.5334/johd.124> and a
workflow was developed to assess the quality of data generated from GLAM
collections using Jupyter Notebooks <https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.24835>.
But much work is still needed to support the responsible sharing, reuse and
preservation of collections as data.

*What is ‘Data as Collections’?*
With the reciprocal concept of ‘Data as Collections’ we aim to draw into
focus the preservation implications for the data produced, shared, reused
and re-deposited as part of the research process. Should collections be
stored, managed and preserved differently from the processed or analysed
datasets that support research projects and papers? Is it time to consider
a FAIR+ environment (FAIR + Time: Preservation for a Designated Community
<https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5797776>) for collections *and *research,
spotlighting the critical role of preservation and considering a broader
commitment to the ethical management of collections as called for in the CARE
principles <https://www.gida-global.org/care>? We also invite
considerations of the social and environmental impact of preserving not
just the collections, but the data outputs that emerge from these resources.

We encourage submissions that cover a wide range of issues, including but
not limited to:

   - Challenges and opportunities in providing cultural collections as data;
   - Providing access and licences for the reuse of collections stewarded
   by memory institutions;
   - Standards for structuring and citing cultural collections as data;
   - New modes of representing cultural objects, including 3D images;
   - Examples of computational use of collections, using reproducible tools
   such as Jupyter Notebooks;
   - Collaboration between (digital) humanities and social sciences
   researchers, computer and data scientists and collections professionals;
   - Preserving and sustaining data about collections;
   - Role of cultural heritage data in the Open Science data ecosystem;
   - or other related topics.

Submissions can be made through the DPASSH website until *21 March 2024*:
https://dpassh.org/call-for-papers-2024/.

Thanks,
Asha

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Asha Law | Program Assistant, CODATA | http://www.codata.org

E-Mail: asha at codata.org
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