<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><b style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-weight:normal"><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><div style="display:inline!important"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 18pt;display:inline!important"><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">IEEE Big Data 2018 Conference to include Computational Archival Science Workshop—call for papers issued</span></h2></span></div></span><br></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,31,32);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The organizers of the Computational Archival Science (CAS) Workshop at </span><a href="http://cci.drexel.edu/bigdata/bigdata2018/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(46,138,202);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">IEEE Big Data 2018</span></a><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,31,32);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> have issued a formal call for papers. This is the 3rd workshop at IEEE Big Data addressing CAS, following on from workshops in 2016 and 2017. All papers accepted for workshop will be included in the Workshop Proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society Press, made available at the conference, which takes place Dec. 10 – 13, 2018 in Seattle, USA.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,31,32);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Program chairs of the Computational Archival Science (CAS) Workshop include: Prof. Victoria Lemieux of the </span><a href="https://slais.ubc.ca/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(46,138,202);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">University of British Columbia iSchool</span></a><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,31,32);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">; Prof. Richard Marciano of the Digital Curation Innovation Center (DCIC) at the </span><a href="https://ischool.umd.edu/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(46,138,202);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">University of Maryland iSchool</span></a><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,31,32);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">; and Dr. Mark Hedges of King’s College London.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 18pt"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,31,32);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">“This workshop will explore the conjunction (and its consequences) of emerging methods and technologies around big data with archival practice and new forms of analysis and historical, social, scientific, and cultural research engagement with archives,” says the </span><a href="http://dcicblog.umd.edu/cas/ieee-big-data-2018-3rd-cas-workshop/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(46,138,202);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">workshop CFP</span></a><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,31,32);backgroun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