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
  2. Knowledge Information Processing
  3. Sensibility/Sensitivity (Kansei) Information Processing
  4. Digital Museums
  5. Digital Libraries
  6. Digital Archives
  7. MLA
  8. Resource Sharing
  9. Semantic Web
  10. LOD (Linked Open Data)
  11. Ontology
  12. Records Preservation
  13. Conservation Science
  14. Protecting Cultural Properties
  15. Computer Aided Education
  16. Computer Literacy
  17. Data Mining
  18. Spatiotemporal Information Processing
  19. GIS
  20. Remote Sensing
  21. Digitization
  22. Digital Documentation
  23. Database
  24. Metadata
  25. Information Retrieval
  26. Image Processing
  27. Voice Processing
  28. Color Processing
  29. Visualization
  30. Web Technology
  31. Intellectual Property and Copyright
  32. 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.