Call for Papers - Special Issue of "Computer and Humanities"

Journal of Information Processing (JIP) is pleased to announce the call for papers for a special issue of “Computer and Humanities”. This special issue will focus on studies in humanities applying information technology, studies in informatics using materials of humanities, and studies about recording, accumulation, and providing of information resources in humanities. Papers of these studies on the following topics will be welcome.

(Target Topics)
Digital Archive(technology, examples, and theory about recording, conservation and application), Conservation Science, Disaster Prevention of Cultural Assets, Cooperation between MLA (Museum, Library and Archives), Digital Museum, Digitalized Documents, Documentation, Digital Humanities including various studies in humanities (e.g. Archeology, History, Philology, Linguistics), Informatics for Humanities, Spatiotemporal Information, Visualization, Machine Learning, Data Mining, Image/Video/Speech Processing, Color Information Processing, Education using Information Technology, Web Application, Information Retrieval, Metadata, Intellectual Property Right, Copyright.
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Journal of Information Processing (JIP) is currently encouraging more submissions from outside of Japan.
The publication fee of any accepted papers will not be charged if all the authors of the paper belong to institutes outside Japan.
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(1) All papers must be submitted electronically. Please access the following URL and proceed under the submission instructions:

https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ipsj

Once you have submitted your manuscript, you cannot change it.
So, you must submit the final version of your manuscript.
If, by mistake, you submitted a wrong version, please contact the IPSJ secretariat ＜s1m-at-ipsj.or.jp＞ (Replace -at- with @).

In the event you would like to make a submission, you must first create an account on the paper submission Web page. For detailed information, please refer to the manual available from the link “Instructions & Forms” at the top of the submission page.

(2) All papers will be reviewed. The review process will be carried out in the same manner as regular issues. However, you have shorter time than usual (eight weeks) for preparation of your responses to inquiries.

(3) Submission deadline is May 13, 2025.

(4) The special issue will be published on the J-Stage website in February, 2026. Preprint will be published on the IPSJ Journal in February, 2026.

(5) The Editorial Committee of This Special Issue
Editor in-Chief: Chifumi NISHIOKA (Kyoto Univ.)
Editorial Board Member: Akihito KITADAI (J. F. Oberlin Univ.), Yuta HASHIMOTO (National Museum of Japanese History)
Editorial Committee Members: Ikki OHMUKAI (The Univ. of Tokyo), Akihiro KAWASE (Doshisha Univ.), Yuho KITAZAKI (Osaka Univ.), Asanobu KITAMOTO (National Institute of Informatics), Gen TSUCHIYAMA (Ochanomizu Univ.), Kiyonori NAGASAKI (International Institute for Digital Humanities), So MIYAGAWA (Univ. of Tsukuba), Makoto GOTO (National Museum of Japanese History), Nao SHIKANAI (Asia Univ.), Tatsuki SEKINO (International Research Center for Japanese Studies), Tomokazu TAKADA (Nationall Institute for Japanese Language and Liguistics), Tomoaki TSUTSUMI (Univ. of Tsukuba), Shinsuke MORI (Kyoto Univ.), Taiichi HASHIMOTO (RevComm, Inc), Hajime MURAI (Future Univ. Hakodate), Asako SOGA (Ryukoku Univ.), Natsuko YOSHIGA (Osaka Univ.)