Today, the movies are made in 3D, these are viewed through special glasses and the experience is magical. It feels like you are in the movie and you can almost feel the characters of the movie. Kids start using computer at a very early age and after he gets to know it, he usually gets addicted by it. Gone are the days when kids used to play monopoly or ludo, computer games have taken over now, the graphics of these games are getting better and better every day. But these games are also presenting some negative aspects of technology. The games that are being made today are so aggressive that it is influencing the kids in a negative way and also these games are so addictive that child forgets to do his homework. In future it would be hard to find an occupation without computers.  Almost every home has a computer these days. Even some cars are run by computers now and all the aspects of the cars are now computerized. Today people maintain their household budget through computers.

Internet has become very powerful these days. You can find everything on internet, from books, music, movies, news, magazines and sports etc.  Banking has become advanced; people can do everything through computers and internet while staying in the comfort of their home. They can pay their bills, transfer money, buy stuff or even they can order a pizza.

These days almost every business is run through computers in one way or another. All the database is accessible through a click of a button. It is very easy to find information about other databases. With the advancement in computer, the criminal minded people have also benefited. Cyber-crime and hacking has become a major problem. Every year millions of dollars are spent to fix the bugs caused by hacker. Porn industry has become a very a major problem for people. Credit card theft and identity theft has become a serious issue. Privacy of the people is at risk with the use of social networking sites like twitter and Facebook.

Extended deadline for submissions of title and abstract: 1st March 2005 (200-250 words)
Deadline for submissions of full papers: 1st May 2005 (6-8 pages A4)

Panel and paper proposals are now being invited for the XVIth international conference of the Association for History and Computing. The conference will be held in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 14-17th September 2005.

All accepted full papers will be denver martial arts published in the conference proceedings, which will be available at the conference. A selection of the proceedings will be considered for publication in international journals after the conference.

Summary papers, PowerPoint demonstrations, etc. will only be available on the conference web site. There will be a number of poster sessions for demonstrations of software and other applications.

Proposals may be made for either complete sessions or for individual papers.

Suggested formats for full panels include three 20-minute papers or a round table format. Other innovative format proposals will be considered. Proposals for complete panels should also include a chair. A panel may include a formal comment or question and response with the audience. All proposals must include a title and an abstract for each paper, along with a brief vita for each participant. Please be sure to indicate which member of the panel will serve as the contact person for future correspondence. Please include the name, address, telephone number, and e-mail address for each participant.

All paper proposals are subject to peer review prior to being accepted.
Conference themes

The XVIth Conference of the international AHC aims to bring together specialists from three broad streams:
Scholars using computers in historical and related studies (history of art, archaeology, literary studies, etc.)
Information and computing scientists working in the domain of cultural heritage and the humanities

Professionals working in cultural heritage institutes (archives, libraries, museums) who use ICT to preserve and give access to their collections
The subject matter of the conference is primarily oriented at methodological issues and not restricted to one particular domain within history 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.

A Portugese historical GIS
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L. Silveira Sigma

I would dare to say that so far the most important contribution of computers to historical research is the availability of an increasing amount of information: no one ignores today the bibliographic databases, the digital libraries and archives of different sorts at our disposal in a user-friendly environment.
Computers also allow us to process greater amounts of historical information than before, mainly through the use of databases. But if I would have to suggest a field where computer applications may change historical research, increasing historian’s ability to question the past, I would point out to Geographic Information Systems. History is about time and space and GIS open up new possibilities of relating these two fundamental dimensions. A deeper collaboration between historians and geographers is also expected to follow from the use this technology.
In my presentation I will address these general problems and I will present the work we have been doing with several research groups since 1993 applying GIS to Portuguese History. Most of our effort has been devoted to the production of a detailed cartography of parish and municipal limits, and we have recently been able to cover the period of 1801 to 1911; but we have also used the system to study the evolution of the Portuguese State and population in the beginning of the nineteenth century; finally, through the website Atlas  we also tried new ways of publishing cartography and census data.

Developing a historical GIS for Ireland
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P. Ell

In the mid 1990s the Database of Irish Historical Statistics was created at the Queen’s University, Belfast. This is one of the largest quantitative resources on Irish history holding data from the census, poor law and sources through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Database led directly to the publication of an atlas “Mapping the Great Irish Famine” that gave a spatial perspective on the causes and impacts of the Famine in the mid-1840s. At the time the Database was created, however, no attempt was made to build a comprehensive GIS of the changing administrative units of Ireland. This paper reviews plans for creating such a system based on using townlands, a tiny and very stable administrative unit of which there were 60,000 in Ireland. These will be time-enabled and look-up tables created to allow them to be aggregated to create Ireland’s larger administrative units, particularly baronies and poor law unions. These can then be linked back to the Database. This paper describes the way that the system is being created and describes its potential.

DIMITO – Field names and GIS
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D. Zeldenrust

The end of 2004 saw the start of Relevant Life Cover a brand new project at the Meertens Institute. Its name was Dimito, short for the DIgitization of rural MIcroTOponyms. Rural microtoponyms is the collective term for the names of small entities in both natural and man-made landscape. The first category covers all sorts free iPhone of rugged features, such as moors, natural forests and marshes, as well as streams, lakes etcetera. The second covers cultivated landscape and includes individual parcels as well as arable land, grazing land and man-made forests. This collection of rural microtoponyms is the largest onomastic collection at Meertens. Often, the phenomenon is designated by the word ‘field name’, but this paper will use the word ‘microtoponym’.
For thirty years, the Meertens Institute has been gathering data on the plethora of microtoponyms in the Netherlands. This unique material comes mainly on handwritten cards which state the name, the origin of the name, the location and the soil composition and use. The collection contains an estimated 200,000 microtoponyms and over 1,700 topographical maps – mostly from the Kadaster (Dutch Land Registry Office) – upon which the microtoponyms are marked. These maps are referred to as ‘field name maps’ in the archives of the Meertens Instituut. This term will also be used in this paper.
This collection of microtoponyms is not only an excellent source of information for onomasticians inside and outside the Meertens Instituut, it is also a focus of interest for, amongst others, historians, historical geographers Bankruptcy and archaeologists, partly because most of the names relate to parcels of land that have been swallowed up by land consolidation or urban expansion. If the microtoponyms could be digitized with the aid of a geographic information system (GIS) this would facilitate and open up new avenues of research in various disciplines.
Dimito is a pilot project. The key objective is to explore the potential for digitization on the basis of a small sample from the available material. The first part of this paper describes the cards and the field name maps. The second addresses the question of digitization. The third reviews the new opportunities offered by the digital database. The paper ends by answering the question that prompted the pilot in the first place: is it useful and feasible to digitize the entire collection?

EDITOR: Scholarly Denver Divorce Lawyer Annotation of Text Editions
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P. Boot

Annotation is one of the ‘scholarly primitives’ that John Unsworth discussed in his influential paper on the common methods of humanities scholars. The EDITOR program, under development at the Constantijn Huygens Instituut (in cooperation with NIWI-KNAW) is an annotation tool for scholarly users of electronic editions. It will allow researchers to describe, comment on, categorize and link text fragments of any sort. If the researcher chooses to do so, the annotations can be made accessible to other users of the electronic edition. Communication of research findings on texts can thus be presented from that very text. A choice of display facilities will allow high-level or detailed views of annotation data using text, diagrams and other visualisation aids.
One of the characteristic features of the modern scholarly edition of literary, cultural of historical text is the distinction between a source format (probably XML) and (multiple) presentation formats (probably HTML). Usually, annotation tools annotate web pages. These tools are unsuitable for scholarly use, as web pages are only transitory representations of the scholarly objects that need annotation. EDITOR will, we believe, be unique in that it will allow annotation of the XML source of the edition while showing the annotations in the edition’s presentation format.
The conference paper will discuss, at a conceptual level, EDITOR’s theoretical background, its requirements, and the architectural decisions that have been made in its development. The program’s potential will be shown in an application on an edition of 17th century emblem books at the Emblem Project Utrecht.

Editing and Exploratory Analysis of Medieval Documents
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A. Ivanovs & A. Varfolomeyev

The paper deals with the problem of application of computer technologies for editing vast complexes of medieval historical records in order to prepare qualitative printed and, at the same time, electronic documentary publications. A printed edition should meet the requirements of modern archaeography; an electronic one should provide a researcher, besides an adequate screen display of documents, with tools for analysing, interpreting, and searching for historical source information. Since XML technologies give an opportunity to create full-text databases as well as to make appropriate XSLT-queries using a certain mark-up language, these technologies can be successfully used for preparing electronic and printed versions of documentary editions.

The paper presents the results of the case study of the applicability of XML technologies to editing and analysing a medieval documentary complex “Moscowitica – Ruthenica”. Formerly, this collection of documents (the late 12th – the early 18th centuries) was a department of the Historical Archives of Riga (Latvia); at present the auto insurance quotes documents of this complex are included into different record groups of the Latvian State Historical Archives, nevertheless they constitute the natural complex of historical sources, which should be published and studied as the whole.

In the paper the attention is focused on the mark-up of document texts based upon TEI system, as well as on the realization of standard queries and construction of search interfaces for users.

Layers and Dimensions
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M. Perstling

A large amount of interesting historical sources have never been critically edited due to the complexity of their internal structure and the difficulty to represent and to process them. Furthermore, an edition of a multi-layered and multidimensional source in a traditional printed form – in most of all cases – cannot satisfy the historian’s expectations. As an alternative we propose an elaborated method of digitally editing, especially designed for the processing and disseminating of complex and not linear sources: it offers a large gain of information compared to a classical, typographically oriented edition. The added value can be found in coming over the linearity of a printed edition: hyper media in its genuine sense as well as advanced database techniques are needed to handle the different layers of the source. In this way content and form of the source can be strictly separated and the potential user should be able to distinguish between the source itself and the editor’s knowledge about it.

The example of the “Steirisch-landesfürstliche Marchfutterurbar” of 1414/1426, a tax book of the Late Middle Ages, will demonstrate how a digital edition of a complex and multi-layered source could look like. The CrossFit Denver whole edition is based on a method called “integrated computer-assisted editing”, by applying international standards like XML-based models and data. The goal of editing sources like these is mainly retrieving particular information and not simply (linearly) reading. This process must be facilitated for the user by offering different ways to access the source at a multidimensional level.

Collaboration on Medieval Charters
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B. Burkard

In recent years the creation of massive bodies of digital data in the cultural heritage domain has become cheaper almost month by month, as digital photography is mor eand more replacing analog photography. While the creation of ÿ at least facsimile oriented ÿ corpora of digital documents has therefore become increasingly simple, the creation of access information has remained as expensive and time consuming as ever. This is true for the simple librarians definition of metadata as bibliographic information as well as various stages best led tv of editorial work, as e.g. literal transcriptions, which can be interpreted as high end metadata for the electric cigarette improvement of the accessibility of document collections.

As the creation of metadata in any imaginable definition requires human effort and will continue to do so for quite some time, there is no solution in sight for the foreseeable future. This could lead to the less than satisfactory vision, that we will encounter more and more digital resources which are barely accessible as they lack appropriate data to provide for search mechanisms and similar. It could also lead to the equally unsatisfactory situation that the potential of digitization equipment is not used, as projects are reluctant to make material available without proper descriptions.

Almost from the beginning of the creation of modern digital systems for cultural herutag einformation, it has been argued, that this problem can be overcome, if we re-define the traditional roles of the parties interested in the handling of such materials: If the users of digital documents can actively contribute notes and other information they extract from the documents while using them for their own purposes could make information available, which the holding institutions paintball equipment ÿ libraries, archives, museums ÿ can than use in their web systems to support access to the collections, the situation described initially could be much improved.

The author has produced a system which shall support exactly such a working process. That system, hiwhc can be demonstrated as a fully functionla prototype, provides a full set of editorial tools to provide for a collaborative working environment to create metadata up to full transcriptions for a system of medieval charters, which have been made available by a group of archives and virility ex libraries.

The presentation will describe briefly, what functionality is offered and focus on the interrelationship between technicla and roganization issues for institutions holding such material.

Computer Science and the Dutch Cultural Heritage
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P. Doorenbosch

Public and researchers (in the humanities) seem to be highly interested in huge amounts of cultural and historical data on the Internet. Custodians of the cultural heritage collections are currently digitizing their collections on a relatively large scale, to fulfill this need. Contemporary history, art and culture become born digitally in growing amounts. The objects in cultural heritage (primary sources) are mostly rather limited in its semantic accessibility (poor metadata); relations between the objects are seldom known at least not described in a formal way. The meaning of most objects is ambiguous, hidden, amorphous and period-dependent. The days, in which a heritage institute had only analogue collections, the custodian could pretend he was the only person capable of guiding visitors through it. In the digital world his role has become more and more obsolete. His human intellect and his personal way of approaching things are definitely no more sufficient to satisfy the needs of his audience. Beside that, his authority has vanished. In heritage world there is not only a lot of data, they are interesting and important above that: for quality of live and for a better understanding of our society and the humane existence. The great challenge for the heritage sector will be: how can information science add value to a better interaction between the digital past and the user, and how can the heritage world involve computer science in its problems.
The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, together with computer science institutions and memory institutions, has established a research program to connect computer science and digitized cultural heritage. It is called CATCH (Continuous Access to Cultural Heritage). The program will run for six years. It has started with six core projects in three research-lines:
interoperability through metadata
knowledge enrichment through semantic annotations
personalization trough navigation
Besides these six projects, a call for an other four projects is published, and we hope to gain funding for an other call somewhere in autumn.

In my presentation, I will give an outline of the CATCH program and its first six core projects. I will place the program in relation to an other big project in the Netherlands, MultimediaN (Multimedia Netherlands). Multimedian deals with different application fields. Besides the heritage sector, these are the public security, the media, and the cross sector area. Where Catch is demand-driven – questions from the memory sector are at the base of the program – MultimediaN is technology-driven, with the heritage sector as one of its application fields. In both programs there will be a tension between the scientific purpose of the knowledge institutions and the demand for applicable results in the heritage sector.

In addition to this I will give a short overview of some areas, where computer science could add to solutions for ‘problems’ office computer chairs in the digital heritage.

The Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Science and its digital resources
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M. Schnoepf

The Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Science (BBAW) is a 300
years old institution for research in the humanities, but as well in
the natural sciences. The academy gives home to more than 30 projects,
some of which are conducted since the 19th century. It’s library
holdings cover more than 700000 books and some 100 periodica, mostly
literature from international academies or literature from the members
of the academy itself. Since some years the computer changed the
working situation of the scientists and as well the projects of the
academy as well. In January 2005 the academy started to publish every
month a new digital project. In my talk I want to give an overview of
some of the projects of the academy and discuss the problems that arise
with the resistance against computer based work within the humanities.
The electronic services of the library of the academy will be a focus I
want to concentrate on and thus come to the question of the
relationship between scientists, librarians, and the computer.

Family structure in Denmark 1801
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H.J. Marker

The Danish census of 1801 is fully machine readable and coding and
standardisation work on the data set is still ongoing. With a dataset of
about a million records you need to be sensible in your choice of strategy
if you actually want to achieve anything. Coding of Sex, marital status, and
age was carried on very soon after the completion of the data entry in 2001.
Presently the household status is coded for all inhabitants and thus the
household composition comes as a spinoff from this. Coding of occupations is
still ongoing.

Household size and composition in the early 19th century Denmark has been
the topic of some debate. In the 1980ies it seemed important to revise the
common perception that families were much larger in the past. Many
households were quite small single family households. The present enquiry
will show that nevertheless a substantial number of households were not only
rather big they also had a very complicated structure. The modern family
with your children, my children and our children certainly had many
counterparts 200 years ago. Then it usually was death not divource that
broke families, but the outcome was very similar.

Making a national census coding system internationally comparable
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M. Erikstad & T. Andersen

The 1801, 1865, 1875 and 1900 censuses for Norway have been digitized and standardized with encoding systems based on categories employed by Statistics Norway for the contemporary or later aggregates. When incorporating this material into internationally comparative standards within the framework of the NAPP project, a number of supplementary codes had to be implemented, for instance an international version for the coding of birthplaces and a contextualized version of the HISCO system for coding occupations. The paper will discuss experiences relating to how this translation process can be done in a rational way.

HISCLASS: A Historical International Social Class Scheme
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M. van Leeuwen & I. Maas

Occupational titles are first coded into HISCO and then grouped in 12 social classes
based on skill level; wether they are manual or not; hierarchy and economic sector.
The regrouping is done on the basis of strict, formal criteria based on systematic job
descritions (with some documented exceptions as deemed necesssary by an
international team of testers consisting of scholars working in the field of occupational
titles in the past).

Computerized visual analysis of paintings
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I. Berezhnoy & E. Postma & J. van den Herik

The paper provides insights into our efforts to develop techniques for the analysis of visual art. The AUTHENTIC project aims at creating a collection of software tools to support art experts in their assessments of the authenticity of paintings. We describe our progress on the automatic analysis of two visual features of the paintings of Vincent van Gogh: colour and texture. The colour-analysis technique is shown to confirm the generally known increase in the use of complementary colours accompanying Van Gogh’s move to France. The texture-analysis technique reveals two main clusters of brushstroke shapes in a single painting. These qualifying results lead us to conclude that the use of advanced digital analysis techniques will change the way in which the authentication of visual art is performed.

Visual Object Detection for the Cultural Heritage
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N. Bergboer & E. Postma & J. van den Herik

The increasing availability of digital historical visual data opens up new opportunities for cultural-heritage research. For instance, modern artificial-intelligence techniques enable historians to search diabetic foot treatment for visual objects, such as persons and other figurative entities, in large historical image databases. Specialised techniques may offer the ability to detect automatically particular objects from a given class of objects. This paper presents our work on the development of accurate object-detection techniques that rely on contextual cues. We provide insight into the results of our technique and discuss how cultural-heritage researchers can benefit from intelligent object-detection techniques. From these results we may conclude that in the years to come, cultural-heritage research will DUI Attorney change its research approaches significantly.

Topics for sessions and papers:

Data access, retrieval and presentation: Data bases in historical/humanities research; Data mining, data harvesting and data syndication; Digital data archives & longevity of digital heritage; Personalisation and presentation of heritage information; Virtual libraries and virtual collaboratories in the humanities

Enriching data: Digital source editions; Knowledge enrichment and encoding methods; Metadata standards and semantic interoperability for access to cultural heritage

Images & multimedia: Image analysis and visual culture; Content based and other image retrieval methods; Digital photo/image/video collections; Digital museums

Geographical Information Systems: GIS Applications in the humanities and historical studies; GIS methods and techniques; GIS for access to heritage information

Qualitative & Quantitative data analysis: Advanced statistics in historical research; Models and simulations; Exploratory analysis and visualisation techniques

Digitisation of heritage information: Large digitisation projects of historical sources; Optical Bins character and document recognition for historical materials; Handwriting recognition and script analysis tools

Text analysis and retrieval: Applications of text analysis in the humanities; Methodological issues of text mining and text analysis; Digital text archives

Theoretical, methodological and eductational issues: e-Science, e-Humanities and e-History; Historiography of humanities computing; Educational issues
Programme AHC 2005
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Wednesday, September 14

11.00 – 13.30  Registration – Location: Felix Meritis
13.30 – 15.00  Welcome – Keynote – Location: Concertzaal

Welcome:  Peter Doorn
Keynote:  Eric Postma

15.00 – 15.30  Coffee Break

15.30 – 17.00  Parallel Sessions 1

1. GIS I – Building a Historical GIS I – Location: Concertzaal
Chair: Ian Gegory

L. Silveira Sigma  A Portugese historical GIS.
P. Ell  Developing a historical GIS for Ireland.
D. Zeldenrust  DIMITO – Field names and GIS.

2. Electronic Textual Editing – Location: Shaffyzaal
Chair: Karina van Dalen

P. Boot  EDITOR: Scholarly Annotation of Text Editions.
A. Ivanovs &
A. Varfolomeyev  Editing and Exploratory Analysis of Medieval Documents
by Means of XML Technologies.
M. Perstling  Layers and Dimensions.

3. Digitization Strategies I – Location: Teekenzaal
Chair: Henk Wals

B. Burkard  Collaboration on Medieval Charters.
P. Life Insurance Quotes Doorenbosch  Computer Science and the Dutch Cultural Heritage.
M. Schnoepf  The Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Science and its digital resources.

Thursday, September 15

09.00 – 10.30  Parallel Sessions 2

1. Large Cross-Sectional, Nominative Databases in Historical Research
- Location: Concertzaal
Chair: Gunnar Thorvaldsen

H.J. Marker  Family structure in Denmark 1801.
M. Woollard  The North Atlantic Population Project data sets.
M. Erikstad &
T. Andersen  Making a national census coding system internationally comparable.
M. van Leeuwen &
I. Maas  HISCLASS: A Historical International Social Class Scheme.

2. Images & Multimedia – Location: Shaffyzaal
Chair: Jaap van den Herik

I. Berezhnoy &
E. Postma &
J. van den Herik  Computerized visual analysis of paintings.
N. Bergboer &
E. Postma &
J. van den Herik  Visual Object Detection for the Cultural Heritage.
E. van den Broek  Content-Based Artist Identification.
P. Melms  Reconstructing lost spaces. Affordably, that is.

3. Text Analysis and Retrieval I – Location: Teekenzaal
Chair: Henk Harmsen

P. Juola  Language change and Historical inquiry.

10.30 – 11.00  Coffee Break

11.00 – 12.30  Parrallel Sessions 3

1. New Approaches to History and Computing I – Location: Concertzaal
Chair: Manfred Thaller

I. Garskova  MA Programs in Historical Computing: Towards a Standard.
J. Delve &
R. Healey  Using data warehousing for humanities teaching and research.
S. Petty  (Cyber) Race Identities.
T. Weller  A new approach: The arrival of Informational History.

2. GIS II – Spatial History hcg diet Using GIS – Location: Shaffyzaal
Chair: Andreas Kunz

I. Gregory  Creating analytic results from historical GIS.
D. Bodenhamer  Religious studies and historical GIS.
S. Gruber  Migration in Albania.

3. Digitization Projects I – Location: Teekenzaal
Chair: Kees Mandemakers

G. Pieken  Jewish Life in Germany from 1914 to 2004.
N. Floor Clausen  Principles, definitions and methods for digitising Church Records.
L. Robichaud  The Old Montréal Heritage Inventory Database.

12.30 – 13.30  Lunch
13.30 – 15.00  Posters – Location: wow gold Concertzaal
15.00 – 15.30  Coffee Break

15.30 – 17.00  Parallel Sessions 4

1. GIS III – Using GIS for urban history – Location: Kremlinzaal
Chair: Luis Silveira Sigma

H. Laloli  Social segregation in Amsterdam.
D. Alves  The historical parishes of Lisbon.
B. Abrahart  The Cartographic Methods and Mishaps of Henry Mayhew in 1861.

2. Exploring Ontology Building for History and Humanities:
a panel discussion – Location: Concertzaal
Chair: Matthew Woollard

R. Deswarte &
J. Oosthoek  Clio’s Ontology Criteria.
R. Deswarte &
J. Oosthoek  Clio the Difficult Muse.
G. Nagypál  History Ontology building.

3. Qualitative & Quantitative Data Analysis – Location: Shaffyzaal
Chair: Onno Boonstra

H. Berger  Microhistory and quantitative data analysis.
L. Borodkin  Detecting Chaos in Historical Time Series.

18.30 – 19.30  Reception – Location: Townhall Amsterdam

Transport to Townhall by boat.
Boat departs in front of Felix Meritis at 17.30.
Friday, September 16

09.00 – 10.30  Parallel Sessions 5

1. New Approaches to History and Computing II- Location: Concertzaal
Chair: Manfred Thaller

R. Brunnhofer &
I. Kropac  Digital Archives in a car insurance comparison Virtual World.
R. van Horik  Long-term access to digital data archives.
D. Anderson &
R. Healey  Broadening the Scope of Electronic Book Publishing.

2. XML Technologies – Location: Teekenzaal
Chair: Rutger Kramer

T. van den Broek  Backing the Right Horse.
K. Boughida  Cataloguing Cultural Objects (CCO): A New XML Schema.
L. Breure  PROGENETOR.
F. Wiering  Creating an XML vocabulary for encoding lute music.

3. Digitization Projects II – Location: Kremlinzaal
Chair: Patricia Alkhoven

A. Verheusen  National Digital Repository for digitised images.
E. Zlobin &
V. Afiani  Main directions of computerization of scientific working
in the Archive of the Russian Academy of Science.
O. Ohara  Digital Images in the Study of Medieval Documents.

10.30 – 11.00  Coffee Break

11.00 – 12.30  Parrallel Sessions 6

1. Building a historical GIS II – Location: Teekenzaal
Chair: David Bodenhamer

R. Bradshaw  Urban historical GIS.
A. Kunz &
S. Marburg  HGIS Germany: The Dynastic Module.

2. Digitization Strategies II – Location: Concertzaal
Chair: Leen Breure

P. Alkhoven  Digitizing Cultural Heritage Collections.
M. Thaller  Cultural Heritage v. Historical Research.

3. Text Analysis and Retrieval II.
Semantics and Ontologies – Location: Koepelzaal
Chair: Peter Boot

I. Zandhuis  Towards a Genealogical Ontology for the Semantic Web.
F. de Jong  Temporal language models for the disclosure of historical text.
V. Mirzaee  Computational Representation of Semantics in Historical Documents.

12.30 – 13.30  Lunch
13.30 – 15.00  Posters – Location: Concertzaal
15.00 – 15.30  Coffee Break

15.30 – 17.00  Parallel car finance Sessions 7

1. Forum discussion: Towards an International Research Agenda
for Historical Information Science financial assistance – Location: Concertzaal
Peter Doorn & Leen Breure & Manfred Taller

2. Networks – Location: Koepelzaal
Chair: Ingo Kropac

T. Burrows  Reinventing the Humanities in a Networked Environment.
A. Scharnhorst  The Virtual Knowledge Studio for the Humanities
and Social Sciences.

3. VGI ICT Innovation Award 2005 – location: Teekenzaal
Onno Boonstra

17.30 – credit card offers 20.30  Conference Dinner (for own expense)
- Location: Kantjil & de Tijger
Saturday, September 17

09.30 – 11.00  Parallel Sessions 8

1. GIS V – Historical atlases and beyond – Location: Zuilenzaal
Chair: Roy Bradshaw

J. Burgess  Mapping the history of a Victorian commercial district.
E. Glavatskaya  Indigenous people in NW Siberia.
R. Lopes  Historical geographic data dissemination.

2. Text Analysis and Retrieval III – Location: Teekenzaal
Chair: Franciska de Jong

J. Broadway  The Early Letters of the Royal Society 1657-1741.

3. Virtual Libraries – Location: Koepelzaal
Chair: Matthew Woollard

M. Schnoepf  Travelling Science.
G. Pieken  The Digital Facsimile.
A. Winsmann  Virtual Libraries and Thematic Gateways in German History.

11.00 – 11.30  Coffee Break

11.30 – 13.00  Parrallel Sessions 9

1. Large Longitudinal, Nominative Databases in Historical Research – Location: Zuilenzaal
Chair: Gunnar Thorvaldsen

S. Fogelvik  Providing the research community with historical demographic data.
K. Mandemakers  The Historical Sample of the Netherlands (HSN).
L. Carlsson  The Demographic Database.

2. Portals & Gateways – Location: Teekenzaal
Chair: René van Horik

M. Kröll  Field Study of German Web-Based Subject
Gateways on Contemporary History.
N. Gorbacheva  Evolution of the ultra-right parties in Russia.

3. Text Analysis and Retrieval IV – Location: Koepelzaal
Chair: Joris van Zundert

R. Hoekstra  Integrating text and structured access to digital historical sources.
M. Heller  Modern Information Retrieval Technology for Historical Documents.
R. Ordelman  Robust audio indexing for Dutch spoken-word collections.

13.00 – 14.00  Lunch and Conference Wrap up – Location: Zuilenzaal
14.00 – 17.00  Post Conference Tour

Low Countries Organisation Committee

Onno Boonstra
Humanities computing, University of Nijmegen

Leen Breure
Computer and Information Science, University of Utrecht

Peter Doorn
NIWI – Netherlands Institute for Scientific Information Services, Amsterdam

Jaap van den Herik
Computer Science, Universities of Leiden and Limburg

Bart de Nil
Amsab – Institute for Social History, Gent, Belgium

Paula Witkamp
European Commission on Preservation and Access, Amsterdam

Secretarial assistance: Florence Meershoek
The International Program Committee will consist of the convenors and referees of the sessions. You are invited to register as a convenor or referee by sending an e-mail to the conference secretariat
Each session / topic will have a convenor and a reviewer; together the convenors and reviewers form the (virtual) program committee
Convenors will make sure their session is filled with three papers (on average). Convenors will either chair their session or propose someone else to chair.
Convenors will either comment the papers in their session or propose someone else to introduce the discussion.
The conference will make use an online paper review system to assist the process of reviewing

Committee members
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Low Countries Organisation Committee

Onno Boonstra
Humanities computing, University of Nijmegen

Leen Breure
Computer and Information Science, University of Utrecht

Peter Doorn
NIWI – Netherlands Institute for Scientific Information Services, Amsterdam

Jaap van den Herik
Computer Science, Universities of Leiden and Limburg

Bart de Nil
Amsab – Institute for Social History, Gent, Belgium

Paula Witkamp
European Commission on Preservation and Access, Amsterdam

Participants
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Lastname Firstname Institute Town Country Email
Abrahart Robert James University of Nottingham Nottingham United Kingdom
Afiani Vitaly Archive of the Russian Academy of Science Moscow Russia
Ajumanbetova Gulzaada Kyrgyz National University J. Balasagyni  Bishkek Kyrgyz Republic
Alkhoven Patricia  National Library of The Netherlands The Hague The Netherlands
Andersen Trygve IT Consultant Tromsø Noorwegen
Anderson David University of Portsmouth Portsmouth United Kingdom
Arts Martijn  Zappwerk Delft The Netherlands
Baboeram Dew      The Netherlands
Balkestein Marjan  DANS The Hague The Netherlands
Bailly Le Marie-Charlotte  Dutch Institute Rome Rome Italy
Baturbayeva Shaiyrkul  Kyrgyz Russian Slavic University Bishkek Kyrgyz Republic
Bayachorova Batyigul Kyrgyz National University Bishkek Kyrgyzstan
Berezhnoy Igor E. Universiteit Maastricht Maastricht The Netherlands
Bergboer Niek University of Maastricht Maastricht The Netherlands
Berger Heinrich Ludwig Boltzmann Institute Vienna Austria
Bliss  Zoe  United Kingdom Data Archive, University of Essex Colchester United Kingdom  Kingdom
Bodenhamer David School of Sociology and Social Policy Belfast United Kingdom
Bondarenko Dmitry Electronic Archive project  Moscow Russia
Boonstra Onno Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen The Netherlands
Boot Peter  Huygens Instituut The Hague The Netherlands
Borodkin Leonid  Moscow State University Moscow Rusland
Boughida Karim Getty Research Institute Los 100 day loans Angeles USA
Bradshaw Roy University of Nottingham Nottingham United Kingdom Kingdom
Brandsma Renze  University of Amsterdam Amsterdam The Netherlands
Breure Leen University of Utrecht Utrecht The Netherlands
Broadway Jan  University of London London Great Britain Kingdom
Broek van den Egon L. Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam The Netherlands
Broek van den Thijs Utrecht University Utrecht The Netherlands
Brunnhofer Regina University of Graz Graz Austria
Burgess Joanne Université du Québec à Montréal Montréal Canada
Burkard Ben University of Cologne Cologne Germany
Burrows Toby University of Western Australia Crawley Australia
Carlsson Lars Göran Umeå university Umeå Sweden
Chatzigianni Kallia General State Archives of Greece Chalkis Greece
Cheatham Robert Humanities Tennessee Nashville USA
Coster de Anuschka University of Ghent  Ghent Belgium
Cozatl  Roberto  United Kingdom Data Archive, University of Essex Colchester United Kingdom Kingdom
Czmiel Alexander Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Science and Humanities Berlin Germany
Dalen-Oskam van Karina  Huygens Institute The Hague The Netherlands
Delve Janet University of Portsmouth Portsmouth United Kingdom
Derks Sebastiaan  Instituut voor Nederlandse Geschiedenis The Hague The Netherlands
Deswarte Richard  University of East Anglia Norwich United Kingdom
Doorenbosch Paul Koninklijke Bibliotheek The Hague The Netherlands
Doorn Peter DANS The Hague The Netherlands
Dijk van Suzan OGC-Utrecht University Utrecht The Netherlands
Ell Paul School of Sociology and Social Policy Belfast United Kingdom
Erikstad Marianne Norwegian Historical Data Centre Tromsø Noorwegen
Feith Berry NIWI-KNAW Amsterdam The Netherlands
Ferreira Lopes Rui Manuel Franco New University of Lisbon Lisbon Portugal
Floor Clausen Nanna Danish Data Archive Odense Denmark
Fogelvik Stefan Stockholm City Archives Stockholm Sweden
Gagarina Dinara A. Perm State University Perm Russia
Garskova Irina Moscow State University Moscow Russia
Glavatskaya Elena
Gorbacheva  Nadezhda Perm State University Perm Russia
Graaf de Rutger
Gregory Ian Queens University Belfast United Kingdom
Gruber Siegfried University of Graz Graz Austria
Gudmundsson Eirikur National Archives of Iceland Reykjavík Iceland
Gutman Yamit NIWI-KNAW Amsterdam The Netherlands
Haan de J.A. Archis Amersfoort The Netherlands
Haks Donald Institute of The Netherlands History The Hague The Netherlands
Harmsen Henk DANS The Hague The Netherlands
Healey Richard University of Portsmouth Portsmouth Unite Kingdom
Heere Elger Utrecht University Utrecht The Netherlands
Heller Markus   Munich Germany
Henderson Tim  Humanities Tennessee Nashville USA
Herik van den Jaap Universiteit Maastricht Maastricht The Netherlands
Hoekstra Rik Instituut voor Nederlandse Geschiedenis The Hague The Netherlands
Hol Roelof  Nationaal Archief The Hague The Netherlands
Hoogenaar Arjan KNAW Amsterdam The Netherlands
Horik van Rene  DANS The Hague The Netherlands
Hoving Frans  DIVA Amsterdam The Netherlands
Huysman Ineke  Instituut voor Nederlandse Geschiedenis The Hague The Netherlands
Ivanovs Aleksandrs Daugavpils University Daugavpils Latvia
Izmestieva Tamara
Janssen Philip Jost Abtl. Zentrum für Historische Sozialforschung Cologne Germany
Jones Christine University of Essex Colchester United Kingdom
Jong de Franciska Universiteit Twente Enschede The Netherlands
Juola Patrick Duquesne University Pittsburgh USA
Kamza Jacek Adam Mickiewicz University, Ponzan Slupca Poland
Kandaurova Tatyana Nikolaevna Russian Institute for Cultural Research Moscow Russia
Kapekova Gulnar Institute Zhetysu
Kapper Christine  University of Graz Graz Austria
Khudobko Evgeniya
Kornienko Sergey I. Russian Association of History and Computing Perm Russia
Kramer Rutger NIWI-KNAW Amsterdam The Netherlands
Kröll Michael University of Innsbruck Innsbruck Austria
Kropac  Ingo H. University of Graz Graz Austria
Kruif de Jose Utrecht University Utrecht The Netherlands
Kunz Andreas Institute of European History Mainz Germany
Lauzon Gilles Société de Développement de Montréal Montréal Canada
Leeuwen van Marco International Institute for Social History (IISG) Amsterdam The Netherlands
Leeuwen van Tigran
Liberge Leila  DIVA Amsterdam The Netherlands
Maas Ineke Utrecht University Utrecht The Netherlands
Mandemakers Kees International Institute of Social History Amsterdam The Netherlands
Marburg Silke   Dresden Germany
Marker Hans Jørgen  Dansk Data Arkiv Odense Denmark
Mazur Ljudmila assistant professor Ekaterinburg Russia
Melms Peter University of Cologne Cologne Germany
Mirzaee Vanesa UBC Vancouver Canada
Mozhaeva Galina Tomsk State University
Nagypál Gábor  University of Karlsruhe Karlsruhe Germany
Nil de Bart    Gent Belgium
Nispen van Annelies NIWI-KNAW Amsterdam The Netherlands
Nooter Aartjan  Jewish Historical Museum
Ohara Osamu Jikei University  Tokyo Japan
Okrent Nicholas University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia USA
Oosthoek Jan Unversity of Newcastle Newcastle-upon-Tyne United Kingdom Kingdom
Ordelman Roeland University of Twente Enschede The Netherlands
Oskamp Lisbeth  Koninklijke Bibliotheek The Hague The Netherlands
Perstling Matthias P. University of Graz Graz Austria
Petty Sheila University of Regina Regina, Saskatchewan Canada
Pieken Gorch Deutsches Historisches Museum Berlin Germany
Postma  Erik Maastricht University Maastricht The Netherlands
Punzalan Ricardo University of the Philippines Quezon City Philippines
Ribeiro Alves Daniel New University of Lisbon Lisbon Portugal
Robichaud  Leon  Université de Sherbrooke Sherbrooke Canada
Schaaf van der Jetske  DANS The Hague The Netherlands
Scheuermann Leif    Stuttgart Germany
Schnoepf Markus Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanitie Library Berlin Germany
Schreven Luuk NIWI-KNAW Amsterdam The Netherlands
Sesink Laurents KNAW Amsterdam The Netherlands
Shirokova Natalia G.
Silveira Luís Universidade Nova de Lisboa Lisboa Portugal
Stiebral Dagmar DANS The Hague The Netherlands
Thaller Manfred Universität zu Köln Cologne Germany
Thorvaldsen Gunnar University of Tromsø Tromsø Noorwegen
Tjalsma Heiko DANS The Hague The Netherlands
Valetov Timur Y. Moscow State University Moscow Russia
Varfolomeyev Aleksey Petrozavodsk State University Petrozavodsk Russia
Vaughn Borden I.R.    Regina, Saskatchewan Canada
Verheusen Astrid National Library of The Netherlands The Hague The Netherlands
Wals Henk  Huygens Institute The Hague The Netherlands
Weller Toni City University London United Kingdom
Wiering Frans Utrecht University Utrecht The Netherlands
Winsmann Anke  Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Berlin Germany
Witkamp Paula ECPA Amsterdam The Netherlands
Woollard Matthew G. United Kingdom Data Archive, University of Essex Colchester United Kingdom
Wouters Paul KNAW Amsterdam The Netherlands
Zaat Rubrecht National Library of The Netherlands The Hague The Netherlands
Zande van der F.G.M.  Archis Amersfoort The Netherlands
Zandhuis Ivo   Haarlem The Netherlands
Zeldenrust Douwe Meertens Institute Amsterdam The Netherlands
Zundert van Joris Huygens Institute The Hague The Netherlands

Practical Information
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Location

How to get to the Felix Meritis Arts and Sciences Center

Address:
Felix Meritis
Felix Meritis
Keizersgracht 324
1016 EZ Amsterdam
Tel. +31(0)20 626 23 21
Fax +31(0)20 624 93 68

By Public Transport
From Amsterdam International Airport (Schiphol) to Amsterdam Central Station By train: the airport has a train station one level beneath the Arrivals hall. The train to Amsterdam Central Station leaves from platforms 1, 2 or 3.
A link to the Netherlands Railways site.

By taxi: takes about 30 minutes, during the rush hour probably more

From Amsterdam Central Station
Tram number 1, 2 or 5. Tram stop Spui
or tram number 13 or 17. Tram stop Westermarkt

Hotels
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In close consultation with the organization RAI Hotel Service has made a selection of hotels near the XVIth Int. Conference of the Ass. for History and Computing 2005. Therefore you benefit from our intensive contact with many hotels and we can offer you the lowest available rates.
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