A vital part of conference planning is the solicitation of participation to potential attendees, both those who are existing members of the association and those who might join in order to participate in the conference. The call for papers (CFP) serves as the first element of outreach to participants. It guides potential attendees in understanding…[Read more]

The term ‘distant reading’ resonates across DH: It is played on in book titles (Distant Horizons, Underwood 2019) and adapted to new fields (‘Distant Viewing’, Arnold and Tilton 2019). It spurs alternative formulations (‘Scalable Reading’, Mueller 2012) and is present in mainstream media (“What is Distant Reading?”, Schulz 2011). It is a popular…[Read more]

The “replication crisis” that has been raging in fields like Psychology (Open Science Collaboration 2015) or Medicine (Ioannidis 2005) for years has recently reached the field of Artificial Intelligence (Barber 2019). One of the key conferences in the field, NeurIPS, has reacted by appointing ‘reproducibility chairs’ in their organizing committee.…[Read more]