Virtual Symposium on Information & Technology in the Arts & Humanities

The Symposium schedule and speaker details are now available.

Presented by the Special Interest Group for Arts and Humanities (SIG-AH) and the Special Interest Group for Visualization, Images, & Sound (SIG-VIS) of the Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T).

Wednesday, April 22, 2015: 1-415pm ET/10-115pm PT
Thursday, April 23, 2015: 130-445pm ET/1030am-145pm PT

SIG-AH and SIG-VIS are pleased to announce a joint Symposium exploring the influence of information and technology in the arts and humanities.

The Symposium will bring together professional speakers and finalists from our student research paper competition to examine a variety of topics. Themes include:

  • eHumanities/arts and humanities eScience
  • Digital reference and eResearch discovery platforms
  • Text/data mining and the use of large-scale corpora
  • Scholarly communications and digital publishing
  • Data visualization
  • The role of information technology in managing images and audiovisual resources
  • The use of images and audiovisual resources in information practices
  • Digital Humanities
  • Technology implementation projects
  • Research assessment and altmetrics
The Symposium schedule and speaker details are now available.

This Symposium is being held via Collaborate and is open and free to all. If you plan to join us, or if you would like updates before the event, please let us know by filling out this RSVP form. 

You can access both days of the Symposium by using the following attendee URL:  http://bit.ly/ASISTCollab

We look forward to seeing you there!

Information about joining ASIS&T and our SIGs is available on the ASIS&T website.

If you have any questions, please email Jeremy McLaughlin at Jeremy.mclaughlin {at} sjsu.edu