**With apologies for cross-posting**
The board of the Göttingen Dialog in Digital Humanities is
pleased to announce the winners of this year’s dialog series
award. The winner will be handed a prize of €500 and
candidates in the second and third position will receive a notable mention.
The winner of the
seminar series of 2015 is the paper:
Automated
Pattern Analysis in Gesture Research: Similarity Measuring
in 3D Motion Capture Models of Communicative Action
by
Daniel Schüller et
al.
in combination with
the presentation given by
Daniel
Schüller, Christian Beecks & Irene Mittelberg
from RWTH Aachen
University, Germany and University of
Alberta, Canada
on 23rd
June
The prize is
awarded on the basis of an evaluation of both the paper and the
quality of the presentation, for which this candidate received
85/100. “It was awesome”, “Valuable for studying the meaning of
gestures”, are comments accompanying the scores, which were
given for content quality,
significance for theory or
practice, level of
innovation and presentation style by
the reviewers of the papers, and by the audience for the
presentations.
The winner is
closely followed by yet another worthy candidate with a paper
entitled Reconstructing a
website’s lost past - Methodological issues concerning the
history of www.unibo.it. The
paper, written and presented by Federico Nanni from the
University of Bologna (and visiting PhD student at the
University of Mannheim), receives a notable mention for its high
standard and originality. Nanni received great praise especially
for his style of presentation; “I enjoyed it!”, “Very cool
style” and “Great presentation” are just some of the immediate
reactions of his audience. This candidate received a score of
81/100.
The second notable
mention is awarded to the paper Visualizing the Results
of Search Queries on Ancient Text Corpora with Tag Pies
by Stephan Jänicke from the University of Leipzig, which
closely followed Nanni’s score with 79/100. Jänicke’s paper was
ranked very high and his presentation followed by comments, such
as “Really original and innovative” and “This would have a broad
appeal.”
Evaluation Method
In order to
identify the winner, the board based its decision on the scores
obtained from the combination of the points awarded by the
reviewers of the submitted papers and the points given by the
audience during the presentations. The final score for each
candidate is the mean of all points summed together from both
the paper and the presentation.
The categories of
evaluation for the paper were: content quality, significance for theory or
practice and level
of innovation. The
categories for the presentations were the same, with the
addition of presentation
style. It is important to note that the familiarity of
the reviewer with the topic presented was taken into great
consideration, lest reviewers be inaccurate in their judgment.
For questions
regarding the evaluation method, please feel free to email us at
gddh(at)gcdh(dot)de
On behalf of the
board of the Göttingen Dialog in Digital Humanities 2015, we
would like to thank each and every participant for making this
seminar series exactly what we wanted it to be - interesting and
inspiring - and for bringing new ideas and DH expertise to
Göttingen. We look forward to the
next series in 2016!
The GDDH Board
Camilla Di Biase-Dyson (Georg August University
Göttingen)
Marco Büchler (Göttingen Centre for Digital Humanities)
Jens Dierkes (Göttingen eResearch Alliance)
Emily Franzini (Göttingen Centre for Digital Humanities)
Greta Franzini (Göttingen Centre for Digital Humanities)
Angelo Mario Del Grosso (ILC-CNR, Pisa, Italy)
Berenike Herrmann (Georg August University Göttingen)
Péter Király (Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliche
Datenverarbeitung mbH Göttingen)
Gabriele Kraft (Göttingen Centre for Digital Humanities)
Bärbel Kröger (Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities)
Martin Langner (Archäologisches Institut Göttingen)
Maria Moritz (Göttingen Centre for Digital Humanities)
Sarah Bowen Savant (Aga Khan University, London, UK)
Oliver Schmitt (Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliche
Datenverarbeitung mbH Göttingen)
Sree Ganesh Thotempudi (Göttingen Centre for Digital Humanities)
Jörg Wettlaufer (Göttingen Centre for Digital Humanities &
Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities)
Ulrike Wuttke (Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities)
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