End of June we participated in the Visual Language Conference (VisLang) 2024 organized at Tilburg University by Neil Cohn‘s Visual Language Lab. The conference brought together a truly unique blend of cognitive science, linguistics, AI and comics research and much more, which made it an absolute treat to take part in.
Continue readingReport on the JVMG Manga Metadata Workshop
– A report by Saskia Dreßler –
In the last week of June we held a workshop at Stuttgart Media University on the various questions related to developing a manga metadata framework suited for manga research. We had participating researchers from Europe, Japan and even Latin America, all coming from different areas of the arts, humanities and digital humanities and dealing with the topic of manga from different angles. The aim of the workshop was to examine a range of manga research from the perspective of the type of metadata that would be required to facilitate such work as well as discuss the current state of available metadata frameworks and data for information on manga and its contents.
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Our article on the first steps in our cooperation with the GOLEM project is now available online
The article version of our presentation at FanLIS 2024: Building Bridges II on the first steps in our work together with the GOLEM project written together with Xiaoyan Yang and Federico Pianzola is now available open access in Volume 11 Issue 1 of the Proceedings from the Document Academy: Utilizing Metadata from Heterogeneous Sources within the Framework of the JVMG and GOLEM Projects to Identify Patterns in Anime-based Fandoms on AO3.
Presenting at DH Benelux 2024
Following on from our joint presentation at FanLIS 2024 about our work together with the GOLEM project last week we reunited with our colleagues from the Golem Lab once again – and this time in person – for presenting our work on developing data models for our respective knowledge graphs and aligning them at DH Benelux 2024: Breaking Silos, Connecting Data: Advancing Integration and Collaboration in Digital Humanities in Leuven.
Presenting at FanLIS 2024: Fandom, AI the Immersive and building bridges between research areas
– A report by Saskia Dreßler –
The fourth installment in the FanLIS symposium series (see our reports on the first, second and third events) built a bridge between the subject areas of fan activities and AI as well as the connection between fan studies and information science. The symposium – organized by CityLIS – took place online on May 23rd and the presentations ranged from the application of AI in fan research to the use of data for research. All presentations, talks and the corresponding chat history are now available online. This year’s title was “Building Bridges II”. As Ludi Price, co-organizer of the event, explained in her opening address, AI can be used by fans as well as by researchers to evaluate fan data. In the area of fan documentation we can see the trend that fans are returning to traditional physical documentation, which was also discussed in one of the presentations. In addition to this new topic, another theme was revisited that had already been in the spotlight in 2021: the interaction of fan research, fan information practice and information science. Three years later, new insights can now be drawn, for example in the generation and use of metadata. The presentations were divided into two sections based on these two topic areas.
Continue readingPresence at upcoming events, May-July 2024
We will be reporting on our joint work with the GOLEM project at FanLIS 2024: Building Bridges II, organized by CityLIS, on the 23rd of May, online.
See more upcoming eventsTUC Kaiju-Genre
To tackle the problem of genre consolidation and the potential role of media tropes for merging several, varying databases about Japanese visual media, the following Tiny Use Case is narrowed down to the Kaiju genre. Due to its diverse nature, the Kaiju genre provides a special challenge to evaluate its genre-defining core tropes from a data-analytical perspective. Thus, gained insights can provide a solid base for further studies on other genres. Additionally, because contemporary genre research focuses on tropes as a transmedia concept to understand the notion “genre”, the question whether this method is still viable in times of digital databases has to be raised.
Continue reading “TUC Kaiju-Genre”Exploring and integrating genres in the second phase of the JVMG project
In the second project phase Dr. Martin Hennig (PI) and Christopher Zysik from the University of Tübingen joined the project for the implementation and data-ethical reflection of genres and associated categories, that is to say, to be sensitive of the cultural origins of the categories and terms. The main goal is the integration of comprehensive genre categories, the development of appropriate theoretical models as well as corresponding research questions, that can be answered using the database.
Continue reading “Exploring and integrating genres in the second phase of the JVMG project”Keynote presentations at the Taiwan Association for Animation, Comics and Games, Annual Conference 2024
Two weeks ago on Saturday we had the honor of holding the opening and closing keynote presentations at the Taiwan Association for Animation, Comics and Games, Annual Conference 2024 at the National Chengchi University in Taipei.
Continue readingPublic presentation on the JVMG project organized by PABKOM and KTKK
Last Friday we had the pleasure of introducing the JVMG project in Hungarian to a packed room at the public presentation and discussion organized by the Communication and Media Studies Working Committee of the Pécs Regional Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (PABKOM) together with the Comics Studies Research Center (KTKK) at the University of Pécs. A short report by PABKOM can be found here. We would like to thank Zsolt Szijártó and Gyula Maksa for their kind invitation and hospitality. It was a wonderful opportunity to finally present on the JVMG to a Hungarian audience, and we look forward to potential future collaborations to come out of the many stimulating discussions that took place.
