I thought that some CNI-announce readers would be interested in this
workshop.

Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI
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Call for workshop papers: Computational Archival Science: digital
records in the age of big data.

The workshop will be held on Wednesday, December 13, 2017 in Boston,
MA, USA, in conjunction with the 2017 IEEE International Conference on
Big Data (IEEE BigData 2017).

See call for papers at:
http://dcicblog.umd.edu/cas/ieee_big_data_2017_cas-workshop/

***** Submission Deadline: October 10, 2017 *****

The large-scale digitization of analog archives, the emerging diverse
forms of digital records and systems, and new ways of engaging with
archival material using technology, are resulting in disruptions to
traditional archival theories and practices. Increasing quantities of
‘big archival data’ present challenges for the practitioners and
researchers who work with archival material, but also offer enhanced
possibilities for use and scholarly exploration through the application
of computational methods and tools.
 
This workshop will explore this conjunction of emerging methods and
technologies around digital records and big data with archival theory
and practice, and will examine new forms of records generation and
historical, social, scientific, and cultural research engagement with
archival institutions. We aim to identify and evaluate current trends,
requirements, and potential in these areas, to examine the new
questions that they can provoke, and to help determine possible
research agendas for the evolution of computational archival science in
the coming  years, as well as addressing the questions and concerns
scholarship is raising about the interpretation of ‘big data’ and the
uses to which it is put.

Full papers, of up to 10 pages, should be submitted via the online
submission system at
https://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2017/bigdata17/scripts/ws_submit.php. We
also encourage submission of short papers (up to 6 pages) reporting
work in progress. The submission deadline is October 10, 2017. All
papers accepted will be included in the proceedings published by the
IEEE Computer Society Press.

The workshop builds on a number of recent developments in Computational
Archival Science (see: http://dcicblog.umd.edu/cas/), and in particular
on the 1st Computational Archival Science workshop at IEEE Big Data
2016 (see:
http://dcicblog.umd.edu/cas/ieee_big_data_2016_cas-workshop/), which
attracted a range of professionals and researchers, both from the DC
area and internationally.

For more information, see the full workshop Call for Papers at
http://dcicblog.umd.edu/cas/ieee_big_data_2017_cas-workshop/