> DRHA2007 at Dartington - http://www.dartington.ac.uk/drha07 > > CALL FOR PROPOSALS > > doing digital: using digital resources in the arts and humanities > > 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.
