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The fifth annual Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science (DHCS) will be held at Northwestern University on November 21-22, 2010 (Sunday-Monday).

The tag line for this year’s colloquium is “Working with Digital Data: Collaborate, Curate, Analyze, Annotate.” This does not exclude a whole lot. Quality will always trump category, but we will be particularly interested in papers or poster sessions about annotation, scholarly crowdsourcing, and challenges of human/computer interaction. How to create better texts from OCR may be a problem in which new forms of human/computer interaction hold particular promise.

The deadline for submissions is August 31, with notification by September 17. We welcome submissions for

1. Paper presentations (20 minutes)

2. Poster sessions

3. Software demonstrations

Please submit an abstract (no more than 2 pages, please) in either Adobe PDF (preferred) or Word format to dhcs-submissions@listhost.uchicago.edu.

The colloquium now has its own website at http://chicagocolloquium.org/. It is still under construction but the links to past colloquia are a useful guide to the scope and spirit of this event.

For questions about the program contact:
Martin Mueller
Professor of English and Classics
martinmueller@northwestern.edu

For questions about logistics and administrative matters contact:
Nathan Mead
Coordinator, Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science
n-mead2@northwestern.edu