# JOCCH — Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage

- **Publisher**: ACM
- **ISSN**: 1556-4673
- **Impact factor**: 2.2
- **Trackers**: 0
- **Canonical page**: https://www.myhuiban.com/journal/583

## Special issues

| Title | Submission deadline |
|---|---|
| Visual Heritage | 2026-03-01 |

## Call for papers

About JOCCH solicits paper submissions with interdisciplinary research that combines computer science innovations with real attention to addressing challenges in the cultural heritage domain. The Cultural Heritage domain spans many distinct sub-disciplines including: Tangible heritage, including material culture, archaeology, built heritage, museum collections, archives, and libraries. Intangible heritage, such as music, crafts, performance, dance, festivals, storytelling, and mythology. Interdisciplinary research in this area includes novel technologies, tools, and approaches for the discovery, conservation, documentation, interpretation and communication of Cultural Heritage. These innovations are mostly underpinned by the wider availability of digitization devices (e.g. photographic cameras, 3D scanners, advanced imaging devices), digital infrastructures, including large scale computing, digital workflows and Artificial Intelligence frameworks, as well as enhanced digital skills amongst practitioners in Cultural Heritage institutions. JOCCH Topics Of special interest to the journals are papers focusing on the following major areas. Within these areas, topics include but are not limited to the following: Infrastructures, Repositories, and Data Management Innovations in architectures, techniques, tools and workflows that underpin the management of Cultural Heritage data including its acquisition, storage, sharing, linking, preservation and disposal/removal. Topics might include: 2D/3D/4D media for CH Metadata, classification schema, ontologies and semantic processing Long term preservation Provenance, copyright and IPR Data spaces for cultural heritage Environmental impact of infrastructures Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence Innovations in techniques, methods, tools and workflows that enable the aggregation and analysis of cultural heritage data, including large-scale datasets, across different modalities including text, media and spatial data. Where AI is deployed, explainability is important so authors should provide an in-depth analysis of the model's characteristics bringing scientific value to the proposal beyond performance measures.. Papers also need to demonstrate the impact these models have on Cultural Heritage practices (e.g. interpretation, conservation) and their potential effect on economic displacement in heritage institutions. Topics might include: Analytic tools and methods Intelligent assistance in monitoring and restoration Simulation and spatial analysis Digital twins Systems Design and Human-Computer Interaction Innovations in methodologies and processes for designing systems, interfaces as well as experiences to underpin cultural heritage processes, as well as to assess their effectiveness. Topics might include: Human-Computer interfaces Interactive/immersive experiences Co-designing Citizen science Design UX / UI Evaluation Graphics and Visualization Technologies Innovations in techniques, methods, tools and workflows that enable the documentation, preservation, interpretation, as well as engagement with graphical representations of visual and material culture. Topics might include: Digital capture (inc. shape and appearance), representation and manipulation Tools for reconstruction and processing of digital representations On-site and remotely sensed data collection Mass digitization Rendering Virtual, Augmented, Mixed, Extended Reality Serious games Sound and Music Computing Innovations in techniques, methods, tools and workflows that underpin documenting, exploring, preserving and experiencing the intangible aspect of sound, including the heritage of musical practices. Topics might include: Preservation and restoration of analog recordings and musical instruments Long-term preservation of audio archives (music and speech) Analyzing, accessing and re-using audio documents Computational Musicology Music Information Retrieval Archaeoacoustics Computational Linguistics Innovations in techniques, methods, tools and workflows that underpin documenting, analyzing and interpreting literary works and texts within cultural heritage collections and archives. Topics might include: Natural language processing Translation Text analysis

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