In late March, DARIAH organised the third DARIAH beyond Europe event
in conjunction with the second annual Humanities, Arts and Culture Data
Summit at the National Library of Australia in Canberra. This landmark
event, which was organised in collaboration with the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) and the Australian Academy of the Humanities (AAH), brought together more than 100 people interested in the future of humanities, arts and cultural research powered by data.
This included experienced and emerging researchers, research support communities, national initiatives such as Trove, the Australian Data Archive (ADA) and Australian Urban Research Infrastructure Network (AURIN), and representatives of the Australian Government. Also present were visiting scholars and representatives from DARIAH who shared their experiences from Europe and their understanding of the rich landscape of data-driven humanities, arts and culture research in Australia.
This three-day event included several panel discussions and presentations on topics such as the sustainability of digital projects, cross-fertilisation of research and knowledge exchange on infrastructures in Australia and Europe.
This 3-day conference will highlight
ongoing work in the European Digital Research Infrastructure for Arts
and Humanities (DARIAH) and how these projects and initiatives could
potentially intersect with DH initiatives in the Australian academic
community.
This is the last DARIAH Beyond Europe dissemination workshop: the first workshop took place at Stanford University in September 2018 and the second workshop in October 2018 at the Library of Congress, Washington DC. The aim of this initiative is to promote DARIAH tools and services, to initiate collaborations, and above all to exchange knowledge and experience in digital scholarship on an international level.
The DARIAH Beyond Europe (DBE) event, held on October 2-4, in Washington was the second of the series of workshops dedicated to international cooperation and knowledge exchange. The workshop, hosted by the Library of Congress (LoC), brought together digital humanists from the US east coast and Europe to exchange ideas and discuss the state of play in the two continents. The event was part of the Horizon 2020 funded project DESIR.
“Research infrastructures and libraries are natural allies in the
business of sharing knowledge,” said DARIAH Director Toma Tasovac. “The
workshop at the Library of Congress was a great opportunity for us not
only to showcase DARIAH and our research infrastructure landscape – a
uniquely European phenomenon – but also to explore possible roads of
cooperation with our American colleagues.”
The event was structured around three knowledge exchange sessions: Digital Newspapers & Text Analysis, Infrastructural Challenges for Public Humanities and Using web archives in humanities research.
Abigail Potter, Senior Innovation Specialist with the Library of
Congress Digital Innovation Lab moderated the first session. From the
European point of view, Mikko Tolonen, Assistant Professor at the
Department of Digital Humanities, University of Helsinki, gave an
overview of the current state of digital newspaper work in Europe, while
Antoine Doucet, Professor of Computer Science at the University of La
Rochelle and Principal Investigator of the ground-breaking Horizon 2020
funded project, NewsEye, which aims
at developing tools and methods for effective exploration of digital
newspapers by means of new technologies. Deborah Thomas, Program Manager
at the LoC, presented the National Digital Newspaper Program, a project
started in 2003 to create and maintain a digital archive of significant
historic newspapers published in the US, which led to the launch of the
website Chronicling America which now contains more than 14 millions
pages online. The first day ended with a series of lightning talks aimed
at showing some projects and initiatives both in the US and Europe.
The second session, chaired by Professor Christophe Verbruggen,
Director of the Ghent Centre for Digital Humanities, was centered around
Public Humanities. Meghan Ferriter, Senior Innovation Specialist at the
Library of Congress, described how the Library enables transformational
experiences by connecting users to its digital collections. This was
complemented by presentations from Fien Danniau of the University of
Ghent and Stephen Robertson of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and
New Media explored the challenges of Public Humanities respectively in
Europe and in the US.
The final knowledge exchange session focused on web archives with an
additional international point of view, as Olga Holownia presented IICP,
the International Internet Preservation Consortium,
which represents organisations form over 45 countries with the aim of
acquiring, preserving and making accessible knowledge and information
from the Internet for future generations. Kees Teszelszky from the
National Library Netherlands gave a short history of web archiving
efforts in Europe and described the difficult situation in terms of
copyright and legal issues and different approaches to overcoming these
challenges. Abigail Grotke, Web Archiving Team Lead at the Library of
Congress gave an overview of the current situation in the US,
characterised by the absence of a legal deposit, and showed what types
of collections are recorded.
Furthermore, two inspiring keynotes were
given by Jason Rhody (“Posting Signs and Filling Potholes on the
Information Superhighway: Toward a Research-Ready Scholarly
Infrastructure”) and jointly by Laurie Allen and Stewart Varner
(“Collections as Data: Digital Collections for Emerging Research
Methods“). The challenges of creating ‘research-ready infrastructures’
as well as how to provide sustainable access to digital cultural
heritage collections are both at the heart of work undertaken by DARIAH
in Europe, as exemplified by our comparable Heritage Data Reuse Charter.
The workshop was also attended by the Library of Congress’ Director
of Digital Strategy, Kate Zwaard. For Kate “an event like this is
important to the Library of Congress because it allows us to engage in
partnership opportunities with our friends and colleagues at other
institutions. As we have outlined in our recently published Digital Strategy,
we believe that collaborating with other allows our resources to
stretch further, we so can do more together than any of us can do
alone.” This event was an important first step to foster international
cooperation between US and European colleagues as well as a catalyst for
ongoing collaborations in the future.
As part of the DARIAH-DESIR project, a series of workshops will be organised in 2018 and 2019 entitled “DARIAH Beyond Europe”, allowing an exchange of ideas between the DARIAH community and Digital Arts & Humanities projects in the US and Australia. The second of these three-day conferences will be held at the Library of Congress, Washington D.C., USA on October 2-4 2018.
This conference will highlight ongoing work in the European Digital Research Infrastructure for Arts and Humanities (DARIAH) and how these projects and initiatives could potentially intersect with DH initiatives in the North American academic community, particularly on the East Coast. Conference sessions will focus on digital newspapers, digital text analysis, web archives, image collections and annotation.
This is the second of three DARIAH dissemination workshops: the first workshop will take place at Stanford University in September 2018, and the third workshop in March 2019 in Adelaide, Australia. The purposes of the conference are to promote DARIAH tools and services, to initiate collaborations, and above all to exchange knowledge and experience in digital scholarship on an international level.
As part of the DARIAH-DESIR project, a series of workshops will be organised in 2018 and 2019 entitled “DARIAH Beyond Europe”,
allowing an exchange of ideas between the DARIAH community and Digital
Arts & Humanities projects in the US and Australia. The first of
these three-day conferences will be held at Stanford University,
California, USA on September 13-15 2018.
This conference will highlight
ongoing work in the European Digital Research Infrastructure for Arts
and Humanities (DARIAH) and how these projects and initiatives could
potentially intersect with DH initiatives in the North American academic
community, particularly on the West Coast. This is the first of three
DARIAH dissemination workshops: the second will take place at the
Library of Congress in October 2018, and the third in March 2019 in
Adelaide, Australia.
The purposes of the conference are to
promote DARIAH tools and services, to initiate collaborations, and
above all to exchange knowledge and experience in digital scholarship on
an international level.
Conference sessions will focus on image annotation, text analysis, geohumanities, and digital scholarship in music.
Quinn Dombrowski manages the U.C.
Berkeley Research Computing consulting service, and has worked with
humanities scholars who use digital and computational tools and
methodologies since 2004. She holds a Master’s Degree in Slavic
Linguistics from the University of Chicago, and an MLS from the
University of Illinois. Quinn serves on the executive committee for the
Association for Computers and the Humanities. She is the author of the
book Drupal for Humanists, published by Texas A&M Press, which is the first in the Coding for Humanists series, which she co-edits.
Mark Algee-Hewitt is Assistant
Professor of English at Stanford University. His research focuses on
the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in England and Germany and
seeks to combine literary criticism with digital and quantitative
analyses of literary texts. In particular he is interested in the
history of aesthetic theory and the development and transmission of
aesthetic and philosophic concepts during the Enlightenment and Romantic
periods, and in the relationship between aesthetic theory and the
poetry of the long eighteenth century. Mark is Director of the Stanford
Literary Lab.
Ge Wang is a Stanford University
Professor of Music and Computer Science. He is a designer of
instruments, toys, and games; inventor of the ChucK programming
language; and director of the Stanford Laptop Orchestra. Ge was
co-founder of Smule, a Silicon Valley startup that explores music-making
via mobile devices, and designer of Magic Piano and Ocarina, an Apple
Hall of Fame App. Ge is the author of Artful Design: Technology in Search of the Sublime (Stanford University Press, 2018).
Further Information:
Program: please visit the program page for further details.
