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CERL Annual Seminar 2019
Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek, Göttingen
Wednesday 9 October 2019
Collections and Networks
Reconstructing the Historical Context of Texts, Publications and Objects with digital methods
8:30 Registration
9:15 Welcome, Kristian Jensen, CERL Chairman and Wolfram Horstmann, SUB Göttingen
Moderator: tbc
9:45 Uwe Sikora, SUB Göttingen, 'Interlinked! The TEI-XML Markup of Maya Hieroglyphic Texts Aided by a Digital Sign Catalogue'
- Abstract: On the IDIOM-Projekt
10:15 Susanne Al-Eryani, SUB Göttingen, 'From the shelf into the world: Baron von Asch and the Göttingen University collections'
- Short Bio: Susanne Al-Eryani studied Social and Cultural Anthropology and Arabic and Enlgish language and literature in Göttingen. Her research focused on Islamic cultures, and she carried out her field research in Yemen on wedding ceremonies and marriage strategies. Since 2016 she has worked as subject librarian for Oriental studies (with focus on the Middle Eastern and North African regions) and Non-European Archaeology at the Göttingen University library. From 2014-2018 she has been involved in the ASCH-Projekt that aimed at the development of a metadata model for the contextualisation of different types of digitised resources. Since 2019 she is team member of the Research and documentation centre for political and religious extremism in Lower Saxony.
Moderator: Marian Lefferts, CERL
11:15 Andreas Walker, 'From domain experts to data scientists. Connecting the Heritage of the Printed Book Database and its users'
11:45 Brian Geiger and Bryan Tarpley, UC Riverside, on ESTC21
12:15 Mikko Tollonen, University of Helsinki, Finland, on analysing large data sets with bibliographical records, such as the Fennica, ESTC and HPB files
Moderator: tbc
13:45 Howard Hotson, 'Reassembling the Republic of Letters: current projects and future prospects'
- Short bio: Howard Hotson is Professor of Early Modern Intellectual History at the University of Oxford. Amongst his central interests is the possibility of rewriting aspects of transnational intellectual and cultural exchange 'from the ground up' by rooting institutions, traditions and ideas in 'intellectual geographies' created by different combinations of physical, economic, social, political, cultural and religious conditions. These interests have drawn him into the social as well as technical problems of devising sustainable digital infrastructure to support large-scale, collaborative research during the next generation. Much of his thinking has been conditioned by directing since 2009 the Mellon-funded research project, Cultures of Knowledge in Oxford, responsible for creating the collaboratively populated union catalogue, Early Modern Letters Online. Between 2014 and 2018 he also chaired the COST Action Reassembling the Republic of Letters, the findings of which have just been published by the Göttingen University Press. He is also currently the PI on the AHRC-funded project, Networking Archives.
14:15 Mathias Göbel, SUB Göttingen, 'Semantic Networks in Structured Text Data'.
- Short bio: Mathias Göbel received his Dipl.-Hdl. (Economics and German) from Göttingen University in 2012. Since 2012 Mathias is preparing the “Genetic-critical and annotated hybrid-edition of Theodor Fontane’s notebooks based on a virtual research environment” at Göttingen State and University Library. He is responsible for the digital workflow, IT infrastructure and the presentation layer (website) of the Theodor Fontane Notizbücher project. Since 2015 Mathias is a member of the DraCor research group (formerly known as DLINA), reworking a larger text corpus of dramatic texts to fit the requirements of a network analysis based on co-occurence of characters on stage. And yes, Mathias is doing some Text Mining as well.
Moderator: tbc
15:30 Bettina Gierke, Herzog August Bibliothek, 'Specialised Information Service book studies, library and information science – A first offering'
- Short bio: Bettina Gierke is coordinating a DFG-funded project at Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel to set up a Specialised Information Service for the topics Studies of the Book, Library and Information Science. Before she took over this exciting task she was head of library at the Museum für Hamburgische Geschichte. Bettina started her career at the Royal Collection Trust in London where she was Collections Information Assistant before being made Curator for Books and Manuscripts. Bettina studied Art History and Classical Archaeology at Kiel University.
- Abstract: In October 2017 the Herzog August Bibliothek in cooperation with the University Library Leipzig started to fill the DFG-funded project Specialised Information Service Book Studies, Library and Information Science (FID BBI) with life. It is our aim to ensure that researchers in these and related fields are provided with the specialised literature they need for their work. The first step to achieve this was the development of a discovery tool which should make the search for literature easier but also more focused. As a basis, we use the open source software VuFind adapted to guidelines set out by the Herzog August Bibliothek. The aim is to develop a perfectly fitting research tool for the FID BBI. It is an ongoing challenge to find a means of filtering different data resources to present clients with a catalogue both selective according to their requirements and comprehensive within those parameters. The subjects of our Specialised Information Service are very wide. The portal offers quick access to literature but can also be used for more complex research questions. Currently we are working on customer-driven acquisition and digitise on demand services, for open and out of print publications.
16:00 Gertjan Filarski; Director Digital Infrastructure at the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences (KNAW) on how the initiatives arising from the COST Action relate to KNAW's ambitious infrastructural plans
16:30 Mia Ridge, British Library, 'Living with Machines: applying data science methods to historical library collections'.
- on the Living with Machines project
17:15 Guided Tour of the Library
Registration: Attendance is free, but please register with secretariat@cerl.org.
Directions: Historisches Gebäude