Presentation

The School of Information Sciences (ESI - Morocco),in collaboration with the National School of Chartres (ENC - France), the High School of Management of Geneva (HEG - Switzerland), and the Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences (FLSH) of Mohammed V University of Rabat, is pleased to send you the call for papers for the 1st edition of the international conference “Digital Humanities” (CIHN22), which will be held on November 22-23, 2022 in Rabat. The main debate of this edition will focus on the role that the digital humanities play in the management of cultural heritage, data and information. Methods, devices and perspectives.

The markedly accelerated development of computers and new information and communication technologies has affected all fields, including the human and social sciences. The use of digital tools has become widespread and has led to the emergence of new practices for creating, researching, sharing, using and storing information. The concept of digital humanities refers to these constantly evolving practices and methods and its impact on the humanities and social sciences is increasingly evident. The changes and the stakes are important: epistemological, anthropological, cognitive, sociological. 

This conference proposes to assume a fruitful transdisciplinarity by showing how research work specific to digital sciences can be nourished by questions arising from human and social sciences. This will be an opportunity to discuss the new changes experienced by the humanities and social sciences in contact with digital technology and to assess more particularly its impact, whether positive or negative, on culture and heritage as well as that of data and information.

In particular, this involves presenting the history and context to be taken into account in order to better measure the perspectives that the digital humanities can bring to academic research as well as to the sharing and enhancement of heritage or educational data.

The goal is to question the place of the digital humanities, to try to approach a collective definition and to make a prospective state of the future of these disciplines.

 Conference topics 

• Digital humanities at the service of cultural heritage: management, understanding, promotion
• The impact of digital transformation on archival practices
• Archiving in the digital age: recomposition and redefinition of a disciplinary field
• Archival and ecological costs
• Digital humanities for the benefit of info-documentary services
• Digital tools through the prism of ethical questioning
• Digital humanities and open data
• The link between computer engineering and social sciences and humanities
• History and epistemological issues of digital humanities
• Digital humanities: new definitions, new challenges
• Digital transformation: new professions, new opportunities
• Mediation in the digital humanities
• Production, research and collaborative indexing of information
• Big data, a new pillar for research in the humanities and social sciences
• Digital humanities and artificial intelligence
• Information governance and digital humanities: challenges and perspectives
• The impact of digital transformation on the evolution of the document and the different documentary media

Keynote speakers

• Dr Basma Makhlouf Shabou
  Geneva High School of Management 
  HEG - Switzerland 
• Dr Luciana Duranti
  University of British Colombia 
• UBC- Vancouver - Canada
• Dr Elsa Marguin-Hamon
  National School of Charters 
• ENC - Paris - France
• Dr Mohamed Ben Dahan
  Faculté des lettres et sciences Humaines,
• FLSH - UM5 - Rabat - Maroc