About the Workshop

The last decades have witnessed the emergence of techniques and technologies that created new knowledge and spaces for humankind to evolve culturally. This paved the way for a new discipline, popularly known as “Digital Humanities”, that examines use and application of digital technologies in humanities, the liberal arts, social science scholarship, and beyond. However, while the use of computational tools in social science and humanities work is not very new, the availability of a large body of cultural artifacts after the digital turn, as well as emergence of new kinds of digital objects and embodiments, has opened up several possibilities for social science and humanities research, practice and pedagogy using computational approaches. Very soon, the question of whether something is, or is not, ‘digital’ will be increasingly secondary as many forms of culture become mediated, produced, accessed, distributed or consumed through digital devices and technologies. This workshop aims to capture this emerging moment and focus on one unavoidable aspect of ‘digital’ research in culture, design, and heritage: Big Data. As is commonly understood, the nature of ‘bigness’ in Big Data is not one of size, but because of its nature as networked data. The workshop will address applications of Big Data in digital culture, design, and heritage. It will also highlight the challenges and opportunities that such a large scale multimodal data analytics will bring to the community in these areas. The workshop will bring together researchers from the qualitative and quantitative domains on a common platform and facilitate in answering key interdisciplinary research questions.

Organising Team

Santanu
​Chaudhury

IIT Jodhpur

Mayurakshi
​Chaudhuri

IIT Jodhpur

Ajanta
​Sen

IIT Bombay

Ravi
​Poovaiah

IIT Bombay

Call for Papers

The workshop aims to explore this ‘networking’ of Big Data by focusing on the following key niche areas:
  • Processing and interpreting large datasets
  • Relationships between these datasets, communities, collective discourses, and software resources
  • Representation and visualization of big data in terms of abstraction, immersive user experience, intelligent multimodal interactions, and language
Relevant topics include (but are not restricted to):​
  • Acquisition, Representation, Processing, and Display of Heritage Data
  • AI for Digital Culture and Heritage
  • Big cultural datasets
  • Big data and archival practice
  • Bringing culture alive through AR/VR
  • Multimodal Cultural Data Analytics
  • Digital Cultures – Past and present
  • Digital Epistemologies and Methods
  • Digital Heritage (Preservation, Conservation, Restoration, Recreation)
  • Ethics of Big Data
  • Social media analysis, including sentiment analysis
  • Text- and data-mining of historical and archival material

Important Dates & Instructions

Submission deadline: July 22, 2019
Notification of Paper Acceptance: July 29, 2019
Early Registration Deadline: August 4, 2019
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For Author Instructions, please consult the main conference webpage for workshop papers, at http://bigmm2019.org/index.php/calls-for-submission/author-instructions
For Submissions, please use the following link and select your track as BD-CDH19: The 1st International Workshop on Big Data in Culture, Design and Heritage: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bigmm2019

Program Committee

Ajanta Sen, IIT Bombay
Chiranjoy Chattopadhyay, IIT Jodpur
Dibyadyuti Roy, IIM Indore
Gaurav Bhatnagar, IIT Jodhpur
​Mayurakshi Chaudhuri, IIT Jodhpur
Naimul Mefraz Khan, Ryerson University
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Parichay Patra, IIT Jodhpur
Prasenjeet A. Tribhuvan, IIT Jodhpur
Ravi Poovaiah, IIT Bombay
Santanu Chaudhury, IIT Jodhpur
​Sumit Kalra, IIT Jodhpur

Program Schedule

To be updated soon

For any queries

email
mchaudhuri@iitj.ac.in
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phone
+91 291 280 1407

address

Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur
NH 65, Nagaur Road,
Karwar, Jodhpur - 342037, Rajasthan, India