Presentations – Page 3 – Japanese Visual Media Graph

4. September 20233. September 2023

Poster presentation at GrapHNR 2023

The last event we participated in before our summer break end of July was GrapHNR 2023: Graphs and Networks in the fourth dimension – time and temporality as categories of connectedness, which was a joint conference of the Historical Network Research community and Graphs & Networks in the Humanities. And it proved to be a real summer firework display of amazing research as well as wonderful software projects, with a very international and highly engaged line-up of speakers and guests.

The whole four-day program can be found here. Due to the length of the program, we will only concentrate on highlighting some of the main points from the opening and closing keynote presentations here, which were both very inspiring and an absolute treat. Our own poster presentation by Magnus Pfeffer and Tobias Malmsheimer on the JVMG frontend can be found at the end of this blogpost.

17. July 2023

Presenting at the Ontologies for Narrative and Fiction workshop

The first week of July we were in Groningen to join Federico Pianzola and the GOLEM team at the University of Groningen for a hybrid workshop on Ontologies for Narrative and Fiction (in cooperation with the Center for Language and Cognition, the Center for Digital Humanities, and the Jantina Tammes School of Digital Society, Technology and AI). This workshop was a very special event bringing together an amazing spectrum of expertise and experience with modelling themes, genres, narratives and characters in fiction using an array of approaches from BFO, CIDOC-CRM/FRBRoo/LRMoo, the Wikibase data model, Schema.org, custom bottom-up models and so on, as well as with exploring the potential interoperability of these models. All the presentation slides are now available on the workshop’s page.

20. June 2023

Presenting at Mechademia Kyoto 2023: Aftermath

The Mechademia conference series (in association with the Mechademia journal) is definitely one of the most important English language annual events for researchers working on anime, manga, otaku culture and related topics. Last year our former project member Luca Bruno presented at the Mechademia US conference (see his report here), and the year before that we introduced the JVMG project at the online Mechademia Kyoto conference (you can read our report here). This year’s conference, titled Mechademia Kyoto 2023: Aftermath, was held once again in Kyoto, hosted by the Kyoto International Manga Museum and Kyoto Seika University, between May 27-29, and it was a huge success with not only the program packed full of presentations on all aspects of the field but also the rooms overflowing with record visitor numbers.

4. May 202313. May 2023

Presence at upcoming conferences and events, 2023 May-July

Members of the JVMG team will be presenting at or attending the following upcoming conferences, workshops and other events:

24. January 2023

Introduction to Digital Humanities for Japanese Studies with the Japanese Visual Media Graph project at Stockholm University

We are happy to report that last week we had the opportunity to introduce the JVMG project as part of Professor Jaqueline Berndt’s BA Thesis Course at the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Stockholm University.

6. December 2022

Introducing the JVMG project at the Graduate School of Manga, Kyoto Seika University

We are very happy to report that on the last Friday of November we had the opportunity to introduce the JVMG project at the Graduate School of Manga, Kyoto Seika University.

13. October 2022

Presenting at DCMI 2022

Last week we participated in the twentieth International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, DCMI 2022 – Metadata Innovation: Inclusivity, Intelligence, and Interoperability, which was held virtually this year.

16. September 202220. December 2022

Presenting at ELAG 2022

After two years of Corona we had the chance to visit ELAG in person. ELAG 2022 was held at the National Library of Latvia in Riga, which is a very impressive Library. ELAG is known for being a forum for exchanging knowledge about new library and archive technologies, as well as connecting people working in libraries.

8. September 20228. September 2022

Workshop on Digital Humanities, Linked Open Data and Games Research at Stuttgart Media University

On the 15th of August we held a small one-day workshop on the topics of digital humanities, linked open data and games research at Stuttgart Media University with colleagues from Leipzig University as well as a researcher from France starting work at Ritsumeikan University. The four presentations and the ensuing discussions revolved around some of the core interests of the JVMG project, but also offered interesting perspectives on potential future directions for expanding the project.

7. September 2022

Presenting at the 18. Deutschsprachigen Japanologentag

The three-day 18. Deutschsprachiger Japanologentag (18th German Language Japanese Studies Day) organized by the Institut für Modernes Japan at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf was held online at the end of August. We are happy to report that the JVMG project was represented with two different presentations at this central triennial German language conference on Japanese Studies. Digital humanities and open science in Japanese Studies were both major topics at the conference, and it was great to see so many excellent projects and initiatives.