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 June 1, 2027.

(4) The special issue will be published on the J-Stage website in March, 2028. Preprint will be published on the IPSJ Journal in March, 2028.

(5) The Editorial Committee of This Special Issue
Editor in-Chief: Gen TSUCHIYAMA (Ochanomizu Univ.)
Editorial Board Member: Yuta HASHIMOTO (National Museum of Japanese History), Tomoaki TSUTSUMI (Univ. of Tsukuba)
Editorial Committee Members: Ikki OHMUKAI (The Univ. of Tokyo), Chifumi NISHIOKA (Kyoto Univ.), Asanobu KITAMOTO (National Institute of Informatics), 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), Kiyonori NAGASAKI (International Institute for Digital Humanities), So MIYAGAWA (Univ. of Tsukuba), Atsushi MATSUMURA (Univ. of Tsukuba), Shinsuke MORI (Kyoto Univ.), Hajime MURAI (Future Univ. Hakodate), Asako SOGA (Ryukoku Univ.), Yuzuki TSUKAGOSHI (The Univ. of Tokyo), Taizo YAMADA (The Univ. of Tokyo) , Akihito KITADAI (J. F. Oberlin Univ.)