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>
>
> *Scottish Network on Digital Cultural Resources Evaluation*
>
>
>
> *CALL FOR PAPERS*
>
> *International Symposium on Evaluating Digital Cultural Resources (EDCR
> 2016)*
>
>
>
> *Glasgow, Kelvin Hall, 12-13 December 2016*
>
>
>
> *Scope and Context*
>
> Digital technologies are affecting all aspects of our lives, reshaping the
> way we communicate, learn, and approach the world around us. In the case of
> cultural institutions, digital applications are used in all key areas of
> operation, from documenting, interpreting and exhibiting the collections to
> communicating with diverse audience groups. The communication of
> collections information in digital form, whether an online catalogue,
> mobile application, museum interactive or social media exchange,
> increasingly affects our cultural encounters and shapes our perception of
> cultural organisations. Although cultural and higher education institutions
> around the world are heavily investing on digitisation and working to make
> their collections available online, we still know very little about who
> uses digital collections, how they interact with the associated data, and
> what the impacts of these digital resources are.
>
> *Organisers*
>
> The symposium is organized by the Scottish Network on Digital Cultural
> Resources Evaluation <https://scotdigich.wordpress.com/about/>
> (ScotDigiCH), which is funded by The Royal Society of Edinburgh. ScotDigiCH
> is co-ordinated by the Humanities Advanced Technology and Information
> Institute (HATII
> <http://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/humanities/research/hatiiresearch/>), at
> the University of Glasgow in collaboration with The Hunterian
> <http://www.gla.ac.uk/hunterian/> at the University of Glasgow, Glasgow
> Life Museums <http://www.glasgowlife.org.uk/museums/>, the Moving Image
> Archive of the National Library of Scotland <http://movingimage.nls.uk/>
> and the Department of Computer and Information Science
> <http://www.strath.ac.uk/science/computerinformationsciences/> at the
> University of Strathclyde.
>
> *Aims and Questions*
>
> The symposium seeks to address this gap by bringing together interested
> parties from a range of disciplines (e.g. computing science, digital
> humanities, museology, social sciences), practices and sectors to set an
> agenda for research and discuss the latest developments on evaluating the
> use of cultural digital resources. The symposium will address:
>
>
>
>
>
>
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> -       Who uses digital cultural resources, where and how
>
> -       Diverse users’ needs and expectations (i.e. from schoolchildren
> and families to students and researchers)
>
> -       Impact and value of digital cultural resources
>
> -       Ways of recording and assessing impact and value
>
> -       Implications for policy and future strategies
>
>
>
> The programme will include a public lecture on the afternoon of the 12th
> December by Dr Mark O’Neill, Director for Policy and Research at Glasgow
> Life.
>
> The symposium will also include an open evening dedicated to exploring the
> digital collections at the new state-of-the-art collections research
> facilities at Kelvin Hall
> <http://www.gla.ac.uk/hunterian/about/thehunterianatkelvinhall/>, one of
> Glasgow’s iconic landmarks (pictured above).
>
> *Important Dates*
>
>   *   Submission deadline: Friday, *7 October 2016*
>
>   *   Notification of acceptance: Monday, 31 October 2016
>
>   *   Symposium dates: Monday and Tuesday, 12 and 13 December 2016, Kelvin
> Hall, Glasgow
>
>
>
> *Themes*
>
> The symposium will appeal to academics and practitioners working in a
> range of disciplines: cultural heritage workers, arts professionals and
> scholars interested in issues relating to digital resources and their
> impact upon preservation, education, engagement and outreach. We invite
> presentations and discussions of both theoretical and practical
> approaches, efforts and trends in this emergent field.
>
> Proposals are invited for 20-minute papers that engage with the main
> themes of the symposium (see also Aims and Questions above):
>
> ·         Models of access to digital collections
>
> ·         Crowdsourcing, co-creation, co-curation in digital cultural
> heritage
>
> ·         Evaluating impact and use of digital cultural resources
> (methodologies, approaches and issues)
>
> ·         Moving from impact to value when assessing digital resources
>
> Proposals might cover the following topics:
>
> ·         Curation of digital collections
>
> ·         Working with communities in digital cultural heritage
>
> ·         Participatory models of work
>
> ·         Methods of evaluating digital resources
>
> ·         User studies
>
> ·         Metrics, webmetrics, infometrics and usage statistics
>
> ·         Crowdsourcing and citizen science in cultural heritage
>
> ·         Assessing impact and value
>
> ·         Social media usage research
>
> Presentations will be 20 minutes in length, followed by time for questions
> and discussion.
>
> A selection of accepted papers will be published as a special issue of a
> peer reviewed journal.
>
>
>
> *How to Submit a Proposal*
>
> Proposals should consist of an extended abstract (approximately *500 to
> 700* *words* excluding references) that explains how the paper relates to
> the key themes of the symposium. Furthermore, each abstract should outline
> the aims, research questions, methods, main findings and underlying work of
> the proposed paper.
>
> Please use the document template available at the symposium web site
> https://scotdigich.wordpress.com/events/symposium/call-for-papers/ and
> follow the instructions for submitting your proposal by *Friday, October
> 7, 2016*.
>
>
>
> *Registration*
>
> Registration to the symposium will be free of charge but participants will
> need to register through Eventbrite
> <https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/international-symposium-on-evaluating-digital-cultural-resources-tickets-27405433389>.
> Please register separately for the public lecture and open evening.
>
>
>
> *Travel Bursaries for Early Career Researchers/Professionals and Students*
>
> A limited number of travel bursaries are available to postgraduate
> students and early-career researchers to facilitate their participation at
> the workshop. For more information please contact scotdig...@gmail.com.
>
>
>
> *Conference Website*
>
> https://scotdigich.wordpress.com/events/symposium/
>
>
>
> Please pass this on to anyone who might be interested in these topics.
>
>
>
> We hope to see you in Glasgow soon!
>
>
>
> With best regards,
>
>
>
> From the EDCR2016 symposium organising committee
>
> Dr Maria Economou
>
> Joint Curator / Lecturer
>
> HATII & The Hunterian, University of Glasgow
>
> maria.econo...@glasgow.ac.uk
>
>
> ____________________________________________________________
>
> Maribel Hidalgo-Urbaneja
>
> PhD Candidate
>
> Humanities Advanced Technologies and Information Institute -HATII-
> University of Glasgow
>
> 11 University Gardens
>
> Glasgow G12 8QH
>
>
>
> Web: m-hidalgo.com
>
> Email: m.hidalgo-urbanej...@research.gla.ac.uk
>
> Twitter: @MaribelHU
>
>
>
>
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