We'll provide computers, projectors, and Wi-Fi at the venue. To make the presentation process smooth, please upload your slides (PDF and .pptx formats) to the designated cloud storage (instructions will be provided). On-site staff will be available to assist you with any technical needs.
For online participants to access your poster, please upload your poster file (PDF, etc.) to the designated cloud storage (instructions will be provided) by September 12th (Japan time). Physical posters should be ISO A0 size (841mm width x 1189mm height). Remember to take down your poster after the session.
Eduroam is available across campus. If you don't have eduroam access, the UOsaka guest Wi-Fi service is also available. Please fill out a paper form at the venue to get access to the guest Wi-Fi.
At least one presenter per presentation must register for in-person attendance and pay the registration fee. Please complete your payment via ConfTool. The deadline for Regular Registration is September 5th (Japan Time).
Deadline: 11:59 PM, June 27th, 2025 (HAST) / 6:59 PM, June 28th, 2025 (JST)
When preparing the final version of your abstract, please be aware that we will not thoroughly copy-edit it for grammar or spelling. It's crucial that you submit a carefully proofread version. While we will cross-check for typographic and bibliographic consistency, we won't make major changes. The final versions must be uploaded to ConfTool by the submitting author.
Below are important style guidelines to help ensure your abstract is ready for publication in the Book of Abstracts. Following these will resolve many potential issues.
Word Limit: Please adhere to the word limit specified in the Call for Papers. Abstracts exceeding this limit will be returned.
Images: Supply images at 300 dpi and uncompressed whenever possible. Screenshots are typically the only exception and should be provided at the highest possible resolution. Acceptable formats include TIFF, JPEG, and PNG.
Publication: The Book of Abstracts will be published only online.
DHC Format: Conference organizers will only accept submissions in the DHC format. This format is generated by the Convalidator web service, which automatically converts Word and Open Office documents to TEI-compliant validated XML.
To use the Convalidator: Go to https://dhconv.dhii.jp/ and log in with your ConfTool username and password.
You'll be asked to select your input format (Word or OpenOffice). A template will then be generated and downloaded as a Zip, Word, or OpenOffice file. If it's a Zip file, extract it to get the Word or OpenOffice template.
Copy and paste your original abstract into this template. The template provides further guidelines on text formatting.
Upload your abstract to the Convalidator service and start the conversion.
Once converted, the final DHC file is ready to be uploaded to ConfTool: https://www.conftool.net/jadh-2025/. The submitting author must upload the final version to ConfTool.
Mathematical Formulae: For interoperability, please include any mathematical formulae as images.
Quotation Marks & Italics: Use double quotation marks ("") for direct quotes. Restrict italics to indicate titles (e.g., Roman van Walewein). Use bold font for emphasis, but please use it sparingly.
Punctuation: Place periods and commas inside quotation marks.
Headings: In section headings, do not capitalize main words (e.g., Texts used in this study). Do not use a period at the end of a heading.
Figure Captions: Do not use a period at the end of Figure captions.
Style: In principle, bibliographic references should follow a variant of the Harvard bibliographic system, similar to the Digital Scholarship in the Humanities journal: https://academic.oup.com/dsh/pages/general_instructions
Consistency: Consistent bibliographic conventions are vital for a professional publication. We highly recommend using an automatic reference system like Zotero.
Zotero Style: A dedicated style definition for this year's Book of Abstracts is available [here]. Download and double-click the file to install it. Activate this style in Zotero before completing your manuscript. This style definition is written in CSL language, so it can be used with other reference managers.
Removing Field Codes: Before uploading your document to the Convalidator, ensure you remove any field codes from your document (but save your original document first). You can find instructions on how to do this [here].
Manual References: If you prefer to include references manually, carefully read the following instructions and double-check your manuscript for consistency, particularly for missing references.
No Footnotes: Do not use footnotes. Instead, place your references in parentheses, adding a comma between the name and the year (Hoover, 2007). If applicable, page numbers should be preceded by a colon (Pennebaker, 2011: 145). For two co-authors, use "and" (Sinclair and Rockwell, 2014). For more than two authors, shorten using "et al." (Baayen et al., 1996: 125).
Common Publication Types & Examples: Digital Humanities scholars often deal with four main types of publications: (1) a book, (2) an article in a journal, (3) a chapter in a book, (4) an abstract in conference proceedings, (5) thesis / dissertation, and (6) web page / website. Pay special attention to these types in your References section and adjust others accordingly.
Examples:
Pennebaker, J. W. (2011). The Secret Life of Pronouns: What Our Words Say about Us. New York: Bloomsbury Press.
Baayen, H., Halteren, H. van and Tweedie, F. (1996). Outside the cave of shadows: using syntactic annotation to enhance authorship attribution. Literary and Linguistic Computing, 11(3): 121–32.
Hoover, D. (2007). Quantitative analysis and literary studies. In Schreibman, S. and Siemens, R. (eds), A Companion to Digital Literary Studies. Blackwell, pp. 517–33.
Sinclair, S. and Rockwell, G. (2014). Towards an archaeology of text analysis tools. Digital Humanities 2014: Conference Abstracts. Lausanne: EPFL and UNIL, pp. 359–60.
Smith, J. D. (2022). Digital methods for analyzing historical manuscripts (Unpublished doctoral dissertation). University of Osaka, Osaka.
Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO). (2023). About ADHO. Retrieved June 15, 2024, from https://adho.org/about/
Formatting Details: Regardless of the material type, a bibliographic entry begins with bold font, followed by the year in parentheses and a period. The title is then followed by another full stop. In journals, the title and issue are separated by a comma. Pay attention to the difference in page indications for journals versus book chapters. Page ranges are abbreviated to keep at least two digits in the second number when it has two or more digits. Again, using Zotero is highly recommended for uniformity.