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As we eagerly anticipate the opening of ADHO’s first in-person conference since 2019, we are also looking forward to the first opportunity since then for live conversations about the future of the conference. The COVID-19 pandemic brought about the largest disruption to everyday and academic life that most of us have ever experienced. During this period, we pivoted for DH2020 to an online conference, and deferred the 2021 conference to DH2022, which also had to be held online. We are grateful to all of those who worked to keep us connected by these and other means. The pandemic has created an opportunity for us all to reflect more intensively than in the past on the nature, impacts, and importance of academic conferences.
Yesterday, we published an update on ADHO’s ongoing work to improve the conference. We’ve already made modifications to the conference protocol, composition of the Conference Coordinating Committee, timing for selecting Program Committee chairs, and the Calls for Proposals and for Hosts. Modifications in progress and upcoming include a policy on hybridity, changes to our submission system’s keywords and review process, expanding the code of conduct, expanding our language policy, and leveraging data collection to support equity, diversity, and inclusion. Continue reading here to learn more.
As part of broader proposed changes to the DH conference, we are seeking feedback on a proposal for a new form for DH conference reviews in ConfTool. The evaluation criteria for submissions are a key factor in shaping the reviewing process and, ultimately, the conference programme. We have developed a proposal for a new set of evaluation criteria and the corresponding review questions, as well as for a new way of designing the ConfTool review form. Key changes include more closely connecting the decision on numerical scores and textual comments, for each review question, and a new evaluation criterion that takes a submission’s contribution to the diversity of the programme into account. Please submit your feedback via online survey by July 31, 2023. We thank you in advance for your input. We aim to have new criteria and questions in place for DH2024.
