PNC 2013 Annual Conference and Joint Meetings Announcement
Date: December 10-12, 2013 (Tuesday-Thursday)
Venue: Clock Tower Centennial Hall, Kyoto University
General Registration Fee: $100.00
Student Registration Fee: $30.00
Main Theme: New Paradigms on Humanities Computing – Linking Knowledge of Human Activities
Dear PNC Members and Friends,
It is our pleasure to announce that the 2013 Pacific Neighborhood Consortium (PNC) Annual Conference and Joint Meetings will take place at Clock Tower Centennial Hall, Kyoto University from December 10th to December 12th, 2013. The conference is co-hosted by Center for Integrated Area Studies, Kyoto University, IPSJ SIG Computers and the Humanities, and National Institutes for Humanities, Japan.
In today's society, problems of global resource circulation, personnel interchanges, environmental changes, and large-scale disasters have become increasingly diverse and complex, the knowledge we apply in solving these problems is also diverse and complex. To cultivate a wealthy society, environment, and culture by resolving these global issues, our fragmented knowledge needs to be reorganized in the context of contemporary human activities and dynamics within and among areas.
Simultaneously, research into knowledge processing, such as ontology, the Semantic Web and Linked Open Data (LOD) has become very active in information domains to organize human knowledge. The outcomes from the information domains, in turn, affect domains of the humanities and create new research paradigms such as historical informatics and area informatics. These trends further involve natural sciences dealing with pressing issues of the environment, health, and disasters, and push them to reconstruct new knowledge across academic domains.
In light of these trends, this year’s conference will encourage participants to explore the following topics of interest and discover relationships between them. The proposed topics include:
(1) Humanities Computing and Digital Humanities:
1.1 Archeology
1.2 History
1.3 Philosophy
1.4 Linguistics
1.5 Area Studies
1.6 Disaster Management
1.7 Cultural Heritage
(2) Knowledge Information Processing
(3) Sensibility/Sensitivity (Kansei) Information Processing
(4) Digital Museums
(5) Digital Libraries
(6) Digital Archives
(7) MLA
(8) Resource Sharing
(9) Semantic Web
(10) LOD (Linked Open Data)
(11) Ontology
(12) Records Preservation
(13) Conservation Science
(14) Protecting Cultural Properties
(15) Computer Aided Education
(16) Computer Literacy
(17) Data Mining
(18) Spatiotemporal Information Processing
(19) GIS
(20) Remote Sensing
(21) Digitization
(22) Digital Documentation
(23) Database
(24) Metadata
(25) Information Retrieval
(26) Image Processing
(27) Voice Processing
(28) Color Processing
(29) Visualization
(30) Web Technology
(31) Intellectual Property and Copyright
(32) Security
(33) Social Computing
(34) Media Application
(35) Austronesian Dispersal
(36) Biodiversity
If any of your researches is related to the aforementioned topics of interest, you are encouraged to share your research and experiences with the conference participants.
Call for Sessions, Papers, and Posters
Please submit your information to PNC Secretariats from June 1st through PNC online submission system. The deadline for all submissions will be August 1st. We will notify all accepted submitters through e-mail by August 30th. All submission of session, paper and poster received will be reviewed by the Program Review Committee. More information is available at PNC 2013 Website at http://www.pnclink.org/pnc2013/english/index.html.
*For session submission: Participants who wish to submit a session proposal should propose at least 2 speakers. Each session is 90 minutes long. The session organizers may allocate speakers to sessions in need of speakers, or reallocate speakers to different sessions.
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