Building a Virtual Humanities Collaboratory
Tuesday, 6 January 2009 to Wednesday, 7 January 2009
Location: CRASSH

Building a Virtual Humanities Collaboratory

Programme

Location : CRASSH Date : 6-7 January 2009

Tuesday 6 January

 

13.30-14.00

Registration


14.15-15.00

Keynote 1

Susan Schreibman (Director, Digital Humanities Observatory, Royal Irish Academy)
The TEI and Semantic Interoperability


15.00-16.30

Panel 1: Collections and Collaborations

Robin Boast (Arch & Anth. Museum, Cambridge University )
Modification, Reuse, and Subversion: Digital Object Collections and the Humanities

Hildegard Diemberger (Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit, Department of Social Anthrpology)
Paul Sumption (Department of Social Anthropology)
Burkhard Quessel (British Library)
Tibetan books and digital dilemmas: issues of standards and digital asset management in a collaborative project

Mark Turin ( Digital Himalaya Project, Cambridge University)
Collaboration, Access, and other Unexpected Consequences: Reflections on Eight years of the Digital Himalaya Project

Chair: Sue Mehrer (University Library, Cambridge University ) 

16.30-17.00

Tea/coffee Break

17.00-18.00

Keynote 2 (virtual presentation)

Chris Mackie (Research in Information Technology, Andrew Mellon Foundation)
Those who do not know history …’:  VREs and eHumanities Infrastructure

18.00-18.30

Reception 

 

Wednesday 7 January

 

9.15 - 10.45

Panel 2: Language, Text, History

Martin Wynne (Oxford text Archive and AHDS, Oxford University)
CLARIN: A Pan-European Research Infrastructure for Language Resources and Technologies

Paolo D’Iorio (Maison Francais d'Oxford/CNRS-MFO/Oxford Internet Institute)
Scholarsource: a New Paradigm for Digital Humanities

Robert Watson (Computer Lab and Centre for Economics and History)
Historians, Computer Scientists and the Digital Revolution: Why Collaboration Matters

Chair: John Coleman (Phonetics Lab, Oxford University)


10.45- 11.15

Tea/coffee Break


11.15-13.00

Panel 3: Digital Arts

Raphael Lyne (Scriptorium, Cambridge University)
From Scriptorium to Collaboratory

Alun Edwards (First World War Poetry Digital Archive,  Oxford University)
Mass Digitisation and Visualizing: The Great War Archive

Ian Cross (Centre for Music and Science, Cambridge University)
Digital Music: Beyond Text?

Rod Rivers (CARET/Cambridge Image Project, Cambridge University)
Cambridge Images Project: A Federated Architecture

Chair: Alan Blackwell (Crucible, Cambridge University)

13.00-14.00

Lunch 

14.00-15.00

Keynote 3

Alan Bowman (P.I., Building a Virtual Research Environment for the Humanities, Oxford University)
Documents, Texts, and Images in a Virtual Research Environment

Chair: Mary Jacobus (CRASSH)

15.00-16.30

Panel 4: Directions for eHumanities Research

Frederique van Till (JISC)
JISC VRE Programme: The Next Phase

Yannick Maignien (TGE-Adonis)
TGE Adonis

Chad Kainz (Bamboo, Chicago)
Bamboo: Defining Infrastructure, Creating a Community

Chair: David Robey (Former Director, AHRC Programme for IT and Research)

16.30-17.00

Tea/coffee Break