Program

Venue: Library of Congress, James Madison Memorial Building

Meeting Room: Montpelier Room (LM 619), 6th Floor

#DARIAHBeyondEurope and Community Notes: General Discussions

Day 1 – Tuesday October 2, 2018 

09:00 – 09:30 | Registration 
09:30 – 10:00 | Welcoming Remarks

  • Mark Sweeney, Principal Deputy Librarian, Library of Congress
  • Kate Zwaard, Director of Digital Strategy, Library of Congress
  • Introducing the workshop: Sally Chambers, Ghent University, DARIAH-DESIR, Abigail Potter, Library of Congress and Meghan Ferriter, Library of Congress

10:00 – 11:15 | Introducing DARIAH and DESIR 

  • DARIAH: Building a Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities, Toma Tasovac (DARIAH-EU Board of Directors)
  • Introducing DESIR, Marco Raciti (DARIAH-EU Coordination Office)

11:15 – 11:45 | Coffee break
11:45 – 12:30 | Opening Keynote: Posting Signs and Filling Potholes on the Information Superhighway: Toward a Research-Ready Scholarly Infrastructure, Jason Rhody, Program Director: Digital Culture, Social Science Research Council (SSRC)

12:30 – 13:30 | Lunch

13:30 – 15:30 | Knowledge Exchange session 1: Digital Newspapers & Text Analysis, facilitated by Abigail Potter, Library of Congress | Community Notes

  • European perspective: Mikko Tolonen, University of Helsinki, Finland and Antoine Doucet, University of La Rochelle, France
  • US perspective: Deborah Thomas, Program Manager, National Digital Newspaper Program, Library of Congress

15:30 – 16:00 | Fresh Air Break
16:00 – 17:00 | Lightning talks facilitated by Abigail Potter
17:00 – 18:00 | Happy Hour: adjourn to a local café to continue discussions (self-paid)

Day 2 – Wednesday October 3, 2018

09:30 – 09:35 | Welcoming Remarks, Sally Chambers, Ghent University
09:35 – 12:30 | Knowledge Exchange session 2: Infrastructural Challenges for Public Humanities, facilitated by Christophe Verbruggen, Ghent University (including coffee @ 11:00) | Community Notes

  • Public Humanities at the Library of Congress: Meghan Ferriter, LC Labs, Library of Congress
  • European perspective: Fien Danniau, Institute of Public History, Ghent University
  • US perspective: Stephen Robertson, Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media

12:30 – 13:30 | Lunch

13:30 – 15:30 | Knowledge Exchange session 3: Using web archives in humanities research, facilitated by Sally Chambers, Ghent University | Community Notes

  • European perspective: How to keep born digital alive: web archiving and digital humanities in the post-history period, Kees Teszelszky, National Library Netherlands
  • US perspective: Library of Congress Web Archiving, Abigail Grotke, Web-archiving Team Lead, Library of Congress
  • International perspective: IIPC – 15 Years of Collaborative Web Archiving, Olga Holownia, International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC)

15:30 – 16:00 | Fresh Air Break
16:00 – 16:30 | DARIAH is more than the sum of its parts: towards the DARIAH Marketplace, Toma Tasovac, DARIAH-EU Board of Directors
16:30 – 17:30 | Walk and Talk Discussion Session, led by Abigail Potter

Day 3 – Thursday October 4, 2018

09:30 – 09:35 | Welcoming Remarks, Abigail Potter, Library of Congress
09:35 – 10:45 | Closing Keynote: Collections as Data: Digital Collections for Emerging Research Methods, Laurie Allen and Stewart Varner
10:45 – 11:00 | Introducing the Cultural Heritage Data Reuse Charter, Sally Chambers, Ghent University
11:00 – 11:30 | Coffee
11:30 – 12:30 | Collections as Data: diving deeper with Laurie Allen and Stewart Varner
12:30 – 13:30 | Lunch
13:30 – 14:00 | Infrastructure, Sustainability, and International Collaboration: Where are we, and where might we go together? facilitated by Toma Tasovac, Sally Chambers, Abigail Potter and Meghan Ferriter
14:00 – 15:00 | Opportunities for collaboration: group work
15:00 – 15:30 | Fresh Air Break
15:30 – 17:00 | Opportunities for collaboration: group work
17:00 – 17:30 | Feedback, Next Steps and Closing Remarks facilitated by Toma Tasovac, Sally Chambers, Abigail Potter and Meghan Ferriter