EVENTS

The building Digital Humanities symposium explored the conditions in wihch Digital Humanities (DH) can flourish at institutional, inter-institutional, national and supra-national level.

Across the course of  the symposium, we considered issues such as building networks, infrastructures, research and industry collaborations, public engagement and citizen scholarhips, and career paths for individual researchers. DH has presented a set of novel issues and dilemmas for both Humanities scholars and their collaborators, partners and facilitators in venues as diverse as the classroom, the library, industry, IT, government agencies and university research offices.

The symposium took place across a series of thirty sessions spread over a three-week period (6/7 November-25 November), with sessions lasting for ninety minutes to two hours timed for morning and evening in Australia, in order to cater for presenters and audiences around the globe. Panellists for the symposium were selected by invitation by an International Scientific Committee, but all registered participants were able to participate in discussions via a Q and A function.

Further details (including video links to all presentations on the programme) can be found here.

Marian Lefferts organised a session titled Libraries as hubs? The role of libraries in building DH. Speakers included:

• Sally Chambers, KBR, Royal Library of Belgium; DARIAH-EU and Ghent Centre for Digital Humanities.
• Paul Gooding, University of Glasgow.
• Martijn Kleppe, Konklijke Bibliotheek, the National Library of The Netherlands.
• Sara Ames, National Library of Scotland.

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