** apologies for cross posting ** Special Session Artificial Intelligence and Digital Heritage: Challenges and Opportunities - ARTIDIGH 2020 22 - 24 February, 2020 - Valletta, Malta Within the 12th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - ICAART 2020 http://www.icaart.org/ARTIDIGH.aspx SCOPE With the help of artificial intelligence-powered services and tools the heritage sector is working towards the next level of access to and (re)use of digitized collections. In recent years libraries, archives and museums have started to apply machine learning and advanced knowledge bases to contextually enrich digitized objects, audio-visual content and texts and to make these retrievable in novel ways. In doing so institutions aim to increase the impact of their collections among a growing and diversifying audience. This special session welcomes papers that reflect upon, discuss and present the technical and societal challenges (e.g. labour to produce labeled datasets, heterogeneity of data, bias in training sets) digital heritage professionals and researchers are facing when trying to capitalise on the transformative power of artificial intelligence in the context of digital archive, image, and audio/visual collections. Next to position papers, we are also looking for papers in which project consortia discuss their approach and present first results. Topics include, but are not limited to: - Bias and digital collections - Dealing with uncertainty, quality issues and collection gaps - Multimodal collection access - Geographic/spatial enrichment and access - New ways of accessing collections such as associative and serendipitous search - Network Analysis - Natural Language Processing for the Heritage Domain - Trend and change analysis - Automatic collection provenance enrichment - Reflections on the influence of AI on the heritage domain IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission: November 22, 2019 Author Notification: December 15, 2019 Camera Ready and Registration: January 17, 2020 SPECIAL SESSION PROGRAM COMMITTEE Chris Dijkshoorn, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Netherlands Mark Gillings, University of Leicester, United Kingdom Eero Hyvönen, University of Helsinki, Finland Marinos Ioannides, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus Lise Jaillant, Loughborough University, United Kingdom Koray Karaca, University of Twente, Netherlands Oliviero Stock, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy Antal van den Bosch, KNAW Meertens Institute, Netherlands Charles van den Heuvel, 1) Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands 2) University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Marco Wiering, University of Groningen, Netherlands Katherine Wolstencroft, Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Sciences (LIACS), Netherlands Gerben Zaagsma, University of Luxemburg, Luxembourg REVIEW PROCESS All reviews are based on submissions of full papers (not abstracts) following a double-blind process. All papers are subject to plagiarism analysis using a software tool prior to review. All regular papers are reviewed by at least two reviewers, but usually by three or more, and rated considering their: Relevance, Originality, Technical Quality, Significance and Presentation; The reviewers are also asked to answer a group of questions that may help the authors to improve the paper, should it be accepted, namely: Abstract and Introduction are adequate?, Needs more experimental results?, Needs comparative evaluation?, Improve critical discussion?, Figures are Adequate?, Conclusions/Future Work are convincing?, References are up-to-date and appropriate?, Paper formatting needs adjustment?, Improve English? Finally, the reviewers can provide some free text observations which was given to the authors and also some free text private observations, made available only to the program chair. Conflicting reviews may require assignment of a new reviewer. In the end the program chairs decide. The author has a period for rebuttal, which triggers a workflow involving the chairs and the reviewers if necessary. All rebuttals are answered but decisions are final. Position papers follow a similar process but the criteria used for classification are slightly different in order to account for the nature of these papers, i.e. speculative ideas and/or ongoing work not yet fully validated. Authors can submit their work in the form of a Regular Paper, representing completed and validated research, or as a Position Paper, portraying work in progress or an arguable opinion about an issue. Regular Papers Submission: It is recommended that Regular Papers are submitted for review with around 8 to 10 pages, with the appropriate font size and page format, including references, tables, graphs, images and appendices. Submissions with less than 4 pages or more than 13 pages will be automatically rejected. Position Papers Submission: Position Papers should be submitted for review with around 6 or 7 pages, with the appropriate font size and page format, including references, tables, graphs, images and appendices. Submissions with less than 4 pages or more than 9 pages will be automatically rejected. For more information on ICAART and submission please visit: http://www.icaart.org/ARTIDIGH.aspx Hope to see you in Valetta in Februari 2020! Andreas Weber Marieke van Erp Maarten Heerlien -- Digital Humanities Lab / dhlab.nl<http://dhlab.nl/> KNAW Humanities Cluster / huc.knaw.nl<http://huc.knaw.nl/> http://www.mariekevanerp.com<http://www.mariekevanerp.com/>