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

[Paul Groth]

Hi Albert, all

I’m happy with this strategy. I think in general with special tracks there needs to bit more curation to help make a good conference. Thanks for picking up these issues early.

Regards
Paul

> On 16 Dec 2019, at 21:10, Albert Meroño Peñuela <albert.merono at vu.nl> wrote:
> 
> 
> 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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