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Proceedings from the fifth FanLIS Symposium are now available open access online

We are pleased to announce that the proceedings of the FanLIS Symposium are now available online. This year’s symposium, held in May, marked its fifth anniversary and therefore featured a broad range of topics intended to reflect the diversity of research conducted in recent years. Further information on the individual presentations can be found in the blog post covering the event.

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Mechademia issue “Methodologies” now available open access online

We are very happy to report that the latest issue of Mechademia (Vol. 17, No. 2, Summer 2025) – the premier English language journal on anime and manga studies and related fields – titled Methodologies and edited by Jaqueline Berndt is now available open access online. The issue contains an article by Martin Roth and Zoltan Kacsuk, Introducing Metadata Analytics: Harnessing the Power of Data from Online Fan Communities for Research on Japanese Popular Visual Media, which explains in detail the methodological underpinnings of the type of research the JVMG project aims to further.

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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.

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Our article on the legal integration of the JVMG knowledge graph is now available online

The article version of our presentation at POSSP 2021: Putting Open Social Scholarship Into Practice on the legal integration of the JVMG knowledge graph written together with Dr Simone Schroff is now available open access in the 4th issue of Pop! Public. Open. Participatory.: Harmonizing Open Licenses among Online Databases of Enthusiast Communities: Challenges for the Legal Integration of Databases in the Japanese Visual Media Graph Project.

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Presence at upcoming conferences and other events, 2022 April – June

Here are the upcoming events that members of our team will be attending:

PCA/ACA 2022, April 13-16, online
The Popular Culture Association (formally the Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association) hosts the largest conference in the US on the field. We are presenting a paper that started from one of the tiny use cases.

DeDeCo 2022, April 22-24, Dresden
DeDeCo is a national convention for fans of Japanese visual media. While the convention focusses mainly on fan activities like cosplay competitions and the opportunity to shop for rare media and imported goods, it also has panels and workshops for discussion and exchange of ideas. We are invited to present our research project and will be present in the Friday afternoon and Saturday morning sessions.

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Presence at upcoming conferences and workshops, 2021 December – 2022 March

As we’ve already written in our previous blogpost on our planned participation in events, we will be at DADH 2021 and ICADL 2021 in the upcoming two weeks:

We are also happy to report that we will be presenting our work on the legal integration of the JVMG database in two weeks time at POSSP 2021, for which registration is free and available at the conference website:

  • POSSP 2021 : Putting Open Social Scholarship Into Practice: An Implementing New Knowledge Environments (INKE) Partnership & Canadian-Australian Partnership for Open Scholarship (CAPOS) Online Event, December 8-9 North America time / December 9-10 Australasia time, 2021 (https://inke.ca/putting-open-social-scholarship-into-practice/)

In early February next year, although we will not be presenting our work, we are excited for the opportunity to attend GNH 2022, featuring the conference theme “Knowledge Graphs and Reasoning – Promises, Potentials, and Pitfalls.” We look forward to the opportunity to learn about similar projects, and get in touch with the many people working on knowledge graphs in the humanities:

Then in March we will be presenting the JVMG project in German at DHd in Potsdam, which will be an excellent opportunity to continue the stimulating discussions we began with members of the the two working groups Graphen & Netzwerke and Digitales Publizieren at the Pimp your publication: Potenzielle Einsatzszenarien von Graphentechnologien im digitalen Publizieren workshop in April of this year (see our blogpost on the event):

  • DHd 2022 : Jahrestagung des Verbands »Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum« , 7–11 March 2022, Potsdam (https://www.dhd2022.de/)
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Presence at upcoming conferences and workshops

We will be introducing our latest results at the following upcoming conferences and workshops. If you are interested in talking with a team member about our project, please feel free to contact us.