Pacific Neighborhood Consortium (PNC) 2013 Annual Conference Announcement
It is our pleasure to announce that the 2013 Pacific Neighborhood Consortium (PNC) Annual Conference and Joint Meetings will take place at Clock Tower Centennial Hall, Kyoto University from December 10th to December 12th, 2013. The conference is co-hosted by Center for Integrated Area Studies, Kyoto University, IPSJ SIG Computers and the Humanities, and National Institutes for Humanities, Japan.

General Information
Date December 10-12, 2013 (Tuesday-Thursday)
Venue Clock Tower Centennial Hall, Kyoto University
General Registration Fee $100.00
Main Theme New Paradigms on Humanities Computing ˇV Linking Knowledge of Human Activities

In today's society, in which problems of global resource circulation, personnel interchanges, environmental changes, and large-scale disasters have become increasingly diverse and complex, the knowledge we apply in solving these problems is also diverse and complex. To cultivate a wealthy society, environment, and culture by resolving these global issues, our fragmented knowledge needs to be reorganized in the context of contemporary human activities and dynamics within and among areas.

Simultaneously, research into knowledge processing, such as ontology, the Semantic Web and Linked Open Data (LOD) has become very active in information domains to organize human knowledge. The outcomes from the information domains, in turn, affect domains of the humanities and create new research paradigms such as historical informatics and area informatics. These trends further involve natural sciences dealing with pressing issues of the environment, health, and disasters, and push them to reconstruct new knowledge across academic domains.

In light of these trends, this yearˇ¦s conference will encourage participants to explore the following topics of interest and discover relationships between them. The proposed topics include:

  1. Humanities Computing and Digital Humanities:
  2. 1.1 Archeology
    1.2 History
    1.3 Philosophy
    1.4 Linguistics
    1.5 Area Studies
    1.6 Disaster Management
    1.7 Cultural Heritage
  3. Knowledge Information Processing
  4. Sensibility/Sensitivity (Kansei) Information Processing
  5. Digital Museums
  6. Digital Libraries
  7. Digital Archives
  8. MLA
  9. Resource Sharing
  10. Semantic Web
  11. LOD (Linked Open Data)
  12. Ontology
  13. Records Preservation
  14. Conservation Science
  15. Protecting Cultural Properties
  16. Computer Aided Education
  17. Computer Literacy
  18. Data Mining
  19. Spatiotemporal Information Processing
  20. GIS
  21. Remote Sensing
  22. Digitization
  23. Digital Documentation
  24. Database
  25. Metadata
  26. Information Retrieval
  27. Image Processing
  28. Voice Processing
  29. Color Processing
  30. Visualization
  31. Web Technology
  32. Intellectual Property and Copyright
  33. Security

If any of your researches is related to the aforementioned topics of interest, you are encouraged to share your research and experiences with the conference participants.

More information about the PNC 2013 Annual Conference and Joint Meetings will be updated soon.