DH-CASE 2014 - Collaborative Annotations in Shared Environments: metadata, tools and techniques in the Digital Humanities

DH-CASE II: Collaborative Annotations in Shared Environments: metadata, tools and techniques in the Digital Humanities, will be held in conjunction with the DocEng 2014 conference.
Digital Humanities is rapidly becoming a central part of humanities research, drawing upon tools and approaches from Computer Science, Information Organization, and Document Engineering to address the challenges of analyzing and annotating the growing number and range of corpora that support humanist scholarship.
From cuneiform tablets, ancient scrolls, and papyri, to contemporary letters, books, and manuscripts, corpora of interest to humanities scholars span the world’s cultures and historic range. More and more documents are being transliterated, digitized, and made available for study with digital tools. Scholarship ranges from translation to interpretation, from syntactic analysis to multi-corpus synthesis of patterns and ideas. Underlying much of humanities scholarship is the activity of annotation. Annotation of the “aboutness” of documents and entities ranges from linguistic markup, to structural and semantic relations, to subjective commentary; annotation of “activity” around documents and entities includes scholarly workflows, analytic processes, and patterns of influence among a community of scholars. Sharable annotations and collaborative environments support scholarly discourse, facilitating traditional practices and enabling new ones.
The focus of this workshop is on the tools and environments that support annotation, broadly defined, including modeling, authoring, analysis, publication and sharing. We will explore shared challenges and differing approaches, seeking to identify emerging best practices, as well as those approaches that may have potential for wider application or influence.