28 May 2025 ON-SITE
Évora
Europe/Lisbon timezone

Meeting Program

Timezone: WEST - Western European Summer Time = GMT+1

Venue: University of Évora, Colégio do Espírito Santo

Theatre 131

Date: 28 May 2025
 

Digital Humanities - Innovation with Advanced Computing

09:00-09:10: Welcome and Opening Remarks

Session: Digital Innovation in Tourism

09:10-09:40: (Keynote talk) - Nikolaos Stylos, University of Bristol, UK. "Decision-Making in a Human-Agentic AI Organizational Socialization context: The case of Tourism"

09:45-10:10: (Invited talk) - Francisco Dias, Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, Portugal. "Optimising resources and enhancing the experience for more sustainable tourism"

10:15-10:30: (Contributed Talk) -  Rosália Guerreiro, ISCTE - Lisbon University Institute, Portugal. "Lisbon What the Tourist Should See: A Geo-Spatial Literary Guide to Fernando Pessoa’s Lisbon Using ArcGIS StoryMap" 

10:35-11:00: (Invited talk) - Jaime Serra, University of Évora, Portugal. "Data-Driven Monitoring of Regional Sustainable Destinations: A Case Study of the PISTA Digital Platform"

11:05 - 11:20 Coffee Break

Session: Computational Models in Heritage

11:20-11:50: (Keynote talk) - Anna Foka, Uppsala University, Sweden. "AI for Heritage: Challenges and Opportunities"

11:55-12:10: (Contributed talk) - Ivo Santos, University of Évora, Portugal. "Extracting Information from Grey Literature in Portuguese Archaeology: Project Progress and Prototype Development"

12:15-12:40: (Invited talk) - Vera Moitinho de Almeida, University of Porto, Portugal. "CODA - Centre for Digital Culture and Innovation"

12:50 - 14:30 Lunch Break

Session: Computational Models for Text Recognition and Reuse 

14:30-15:00: (Keynote talk) - Sarah Savant / Peter Verkinderen, The Ag​a Khan University​ (International), UK. "Modeling Text Reuse: New Explorations of Paraphrase and Translation in Historical Arabic Books"

15:05-15:30: (Invited talk) - Mathew Barber, The Ag​a Khan University​ (International), UK. "Arabic Handwritten Text Recognition: Machine Learning and the Future Study of Arabic-Script Manuscripts"

15:35-15:50: (Contributed talk) - Helena Cameron / Fernanda Olival, Polytechnic Institute of Portalegre / University of Évora, Portugal. "History in the face of Digital Humanities: constraints and challenges"

15:55 - 16:20 (Invited talk) - José Luis Losada, Universität Basel & Swiss National Data and Service Center for the Humanities, Switzerland. "Modelling Data for Long-Term Archiving in the Swiss DaSCH Service Platform (DSP)"

16:25 - 16:30 Short break

Meeting Closing

16:30 - 17:00 (Keynote talk) Pedro Ferré, University of Algarve & HPC Chair, "Meeting Summary and Closing Remarks"

17:00 Farewell