dbamman · December 14, 2015 21:29
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 A Proposal for Posting Digital Humanities 2013 Extended Abstracts to ArXiv 
 David Bamman 
 @dbamman

 Here's an idea for #DH2013: the official DH long abstract is limited to 1500
 words.  Let's post our abstracts to ArXiv right now and fill them out as we see
 fit until the conference rolls around.  These extended versions can include lots
 more detail, including:

 - implementational details (good/necessary for reproducibility)
 - background/tutorials on the methods (nice for an audience coming from
 different disciplines)

 And really whatever else wouldn't fit in the 1500 words that could be useful for
 someone looking to actually build on your work.  (One drawback I see in short
 abstracts generally is that they contain just enough info to get a basic idea
 across, but not enough information to actually implement something or know why
 it should work.  We might think of this extended abstract as filling in this
 crucial detail, with everything but the kitchen sink thrown in.

 Posting to ArXiv also has the advantage of getting conversations started right
 now -- between now and the conference itself, we can build on the abstracts in
 response to comments, beyond what peer review already has done (e.g., especially
 sections of the text that might be clear from a CS perspective, but not from a
 humanities point of view, and vice versa).

 With that in mind, I've posted our #DH2013 paper to ArXiv:

 David Bamman, Adam Anderson, and Noah Smith, "Inferring Social Rank in an Old
 Assyrian Trade Network," http://arxiv.org/pdf/1303.2873.pdf

 Comments are welcome!

 --

 David Bamman
 Carnegie Mellon University
 School of Computer Science
 Language Technologies Institute 

 5719 Gates-Hillman Complex 
 Pittsburgh, PA 15213 

 twitter: @dbamman  
 http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dbamman/
	A Proposal for Posting Digital Humanities 2013 Extended Abstracts to ArXiv
	David Bamman
	@dbamman

	Here's an idea for #DH2013: the official DH long abstract is limited to 1500
	words. Let's post our abstracts to ArXiv right now and fill them out as we see
	fit until the conference rolls around. These extended versions can include lots
	more detail, including:

	- implementational details (good/necessary for reproducibility)
	- background/tutorials on the methods (nice for an audience coming from
	different disciplines)

	And really whatever else wouldn't fit in the 1500 words that could be useful for
	someone looking to actually build on your work. (One drawback I see in short
	abstracts generally is that they contain just enough info to get a basic idea
	across, but not enough information to actually implement something or know why
	it should work. We might think of this extended abstract as filling in this
	crucial detail, with everything but the kitchen sink thrown in.

	Posting to ArXiv also has the advantage of getting conversations started right
	now -- between now and the conference itself, we can build on the abstracts in
	response to comments, beyond what peer review already has done (e.g., especially
	sections of the text that might be clear from a CS perspective, but not from a
	humanities point of view, and vice versa).

	With that in mind, I've posted our #DH2013 paper to ArXiv:

	David Bamman, Adam Anderson, and Noah Smith, "Inferring Social Rank in an Old
	Assyrian Trade Network," http://arxiv.org/pdf/1303.2873.pdf

	Comments are welcome!

	--

	David Bamman
	Carnegie Mellon University
	School of Computer Science
	Language Technologies Institute

	5719 Gates-Hillman Complex
	Pittsburgh, PA 15213

	twitter: @dbamman
	http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dbamman/