DOI: 10.17026/dans-xu8-mj9d
title: XVIth International Conference of the Association for History and Computing, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 14-17th September 2005

description: &lt;p&gt;Archived website of the XVIth International Conference of the Association for History and Computing, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 14-17th September 2005.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;  The XVIth Conference of the international AHC aims to bring together specialists from three broad streams:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; - Scholars, using computers in historical and related studies (history of art, archaeology, literary studies, etc.) &lt;br&gt;- Information and computing scientists, working in the domain of cultural heritage and the humanities&lt;br&gt; - Professionals, working in cultural heritage institutes (archives, libraries, museums) who use ICT to preserve and give access to their collections&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The subject matter of the conference is primarily oriented at methodological issues, and not restricted to one particular domain within historical sciences and the humanities. Preferably, sessions will consist of a mix of these three interest groups and fields. There will be numerous cross links between the streams.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;  Topics for sessions and papers include:&lt;br&gt;- Data access, retrieval and presentation: Data bases in historical/humanities research; &lt;br&gt;- Data mining, data harvesting and data syndication;&lt;br&gt; - Digital data archives & longevity of digital heritage;&lt;br&gt; - Personalization and presentation of heritage information;&lt;br&gt; - Virtual libraries and virtual collaboratories in the humanities; &lt;br&gt;- Enriching data: Digital source editions; Knowledge enrichment and encoding methods;&lt;br&gt; - Metadata standards and semantic interoperability for access to cultural heritage;&lt;br&gt; - Images & multimedia: Image analysis and visual culture;&lt;br&gt; - Content based and other image retrieval methods;&lt;br&gt; - Digital photo/image/video collections; &lt;br&gt;- Digital museums;&lt;br&gt; - Geographical Information Systems: GIS Applications in the humanities and historical studies;&lt;br&gt; - GIS methods and techniques; GIS for access to heritage information;&lt;br&gt;- Qualitative & Quantitative data analysis: Advanced statistics in historical research;&lt;br&gt; - Models and simulations; &lt;br&gt;- Exploratory analysis and visualization techniques&lt;br&gt;- Digitization of heritage information: Large digitization projects of historical sources;&lt;br&gt; - Optical character and document recognition for historical materials;&lt;br&gt; - Handwriting recognition and script analysis tools&lt;br&gt; - Text analysis and retrieval: Applications of text analysis in the humanities;&lt;br&gt; - Methodological issues of text mining and text analysis;&lt;br&gt; - Digital text archives&lt;br&gt; - Theoretical, methodological and educational issues: e-Science, e-Humanities and e-History; &lt;br&gt;- Historiography of humanities computing;&lt;br&gt; - Educational issues&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;  Low Countries Organization Committee:&lt;br&gt; - Onno Boonstra (Humanities computing, University of Nijmegen)&lt;br&gt; - Leen Breure (Computer and Information Science, University of Utrecht)&lt;br&gt; - Peter Doorn (NIWI - Netherlands Institute for Scientific Information Services, Amsterdam)&lt;br&gt;- Jaap van den Herik (Computer Science, Universities of Leiden and Limburg)&lt;br&gt;- Bart de Nil (Amsab - Institute for Social History, Gent, Belgium)&lt;br&gt; - Paula Witkamp (European Commission on Preservation and Access, Amsterdam)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;  Organizing institutions:&lt;br&gt; - Netherlands Institute for Scientific Information Services (NIWI)&lt;br&gt; - Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW)&lt;br&gt; - Vereniging voor Geschiedenis en Informatica (VGI)&lt;br&gt; - The Association for History and Computing (AHC)&lt;br&gt; - Dutch Research School for Information and Knowledge Systems (SIKS)&lt;/p&gt;
description: &lt;p&gt;The content of the website has been saved in three PDF packages with information over the conference and the collections of abstracts and posters.&lt;/p&gt;