[ORGA-SEMANTiCS-2020-EU] DH special track review criteria

[Albert Meroño Peñuela]

Hi all,

Mehwish and I had a chat today about the reviewing criteria for the Digital
Humanities and Cultural Heritage subtopic call for SEMANTiCS. We expect a
number of these submissions to be more "in-use" kind of papers, where
standard SW tech is just applied to solve a DH problem and proper SW
contributions are rather implicit. We were a bit concerned that the
contributions of these papers might be judged of low novelty in the
research track by reviewers if they only expect a pure contribution to the
state of the art of SW.

We're aware that every research paper that makes it to the proceedings must
meet the same quality criteria. We thought that this shouldn't really be an
issue and we could mitigate it by adopting the following measures:

- Assign papers of the DH track to appropriate reviewers --this is, to PC
members we know have research experience in both DH and SW
- Once assigned, let these reviewers know that the reviewing criteria is
the same for all research submissions, but that DH papers will have an
inherent more "in-use" and possibly less "research" side to be considered

What would you think of this strategy? We thought it was worth discussing
this in the list since the other subtopics might be in a similar situation.

Thanks @Victor for your suggestions
@Tassilo Could Mehwish and I get access in Easychair to the PC member list,
so we can prepare our reviewer pool?

Thanks,
Albert (also on behalf of Mehwish as DH co-chairs)
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