Digital Humanities Symposium and Project Clinic

Date: 2nd-3rd June 2009
Venue: Brookfield/UCC Library, University College Cork

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Presenters: Mr Shawn Day, Digital Humanities Specialist (DHO), Dr K Faith Lawrence, Digital Humanities Specialist

The DHO, in conjunction with University College Cork, is delighted to offer a two-day digital humanities event. The event will be comprised of a one day symposium on Digital Humanities and a one day project clinic run by Digital Humanities specialists from the DHO.

Contents

• Digital Humanities Symposium - Digital Projects: Doing the Right Thing!
  • Agenda
• Digital Humanities Project Clinic - Introduction to Metadata and Digital Project Management
  • Agenda
• Speaker Biographies

Digital Humanities Symposium - Digital Projects: Doing the Right Thing!

Venue: Lecture Room G05 Brookfield Campus, College Road
Date: 2nd June 2009
Times: 9:00 - 5:00

The symposium will present themes, methods and trends in digital humanities, highlight current research projects and offer participants an opportunity to interact with experts to identify new opportunities.

Attendance is free and open to the public although registration is required. The morning will include lectures by experts in the field of digital humanities and will provide an overview of digital humanities in Ireland as well as looking in more depth at the way that the techniques and methods have been used in projects to support humanities research. The afternoon session will provide the opportunity for delegates to learn more about the projects going on in Cork followed by break out sessions in which the themes and issues raised in the symposium can be discussed, both in terms of scholarly best practice and as perceived by individual researchers.

To register for this event please email c [dot] odoibhlin [at] ucc [dot] ie

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Agenda:

*Please contact c [dot] odoibhlin [at] ucc [dot] ie if you wish to present you project (5min presentations)

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Digital Humanities Project Clinic - Introduction to Metadata and Digital Project Management

Venue: Library Board Room, Boole Library
Date: 3rd June 2009
Times: 9:15 - 5:00

The project clinic, run by Dr K Faith Lawrence and Shawn Day, Digital Humanities Specialists, will provide a more focused look at building community and informing best practice within the digital humanities field. The morning session will involve brief project introductions by attendees and a group discussion of these presentations. This will help build on shared experiences amongst digital humanities project participants. The afternoon session will include lectures and break out sessions and will consider the issues of preservation and standards in DH research.

To register for this event please email c.odoibhlin[at]ucc.ie. Places are limited so prompt registration is advised.

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Speaker Biographies

Shawn Day, Digital Humanities Specialist, Digital Humanities Observatory, Royal Irish Academy

Shawn Day is a Digital Humanities Specialist with the DHO. Shawn is affiliated with the History Department at McMaster University (Canada) where he is completing a PhD specializing in the social and economic circumstances of the nineteenth century retail liquor trade. He applies digital, spatial and social network analysis to the study of the relationships between credit, respectability, and maintaining order in the Victorian community. His most recent articles have examined the social dimensions of the Victorian public mental hospital. Using GIS and statistical modeling tools, these illuminate the significant rural component of the urban asylum and raises new questions surrounding the foreign-born who find themselves confined to the institution.

Shawn is involved in a number of successful and innovative digital humanities projects throughout Canada. Most recently he has worked with large manuscript census databases in the 1871/1891 census project (University of Guelph). He is a team member of the national TAPoR text analysis portal project and the Network for Canadian History and the Environment (NiCHE).

Prior to undertaking the PhD, Shawn spent a number of years in the private technology sector where he founded a number of businesses and served in marketing, research and development management roles.

Crónán Ó Doibhlin, Head of Special Collections, Archives and Repository Stores, University College Cork

Crónán Ó Doibhlin is Head of Special Collections, Archives & Repository Services in UCC Library Service, University College Cork. He is a graduate of the University of Ulster (BA, Irish Studies), and the University of Wales at Aberystwyth (M Phil Library & Information Studies).

In addition, to Special Collections, Archives & Repository Services, Crónán has responsibility for the development of strategies for digitisation, Collection Development Policy and the UCC Institutional Repository.

Crónán also represents UCC Library Service as Chair of the CONUL sub-committees for Collaborative Storage and Collection Management.  His current professional interests include the application of digital technologies to Special Collections and Archives, improving access to collections, strategic financing and fund-raising, and collaboration within the University sector.

Dr K Faith Lawrence, Digital Humanities Specialist, Digital Humanities Observatory, Royal Irish Academy

Faith Lawrence is a digital humanities specialist with the Digital Humanities Observatory. She did her first degree in ancient history with a special interest in comparative mythology. Progressing sideways she completed a masters in archaeological science (computing) before finding herself in a computer science department researching online communities, narrative and the semantic web. Her doctorate looked at emergent semantic and web 2.0 technologies through the case study of online fiction archives and author communities. Her most recent projects include Electronic Visualisation of C19 French literary-scientific texts: Flaubert's Tentation de saint Antoine.

Stephen Yearl, Library Digital Projects Officer, University College Cork

Stephen Yearl is an archivist with a distinctly technical bent: a potentially dangerous combination! He holds an MAS from the University of British Columbia, an MPhil from the University of Cambridge and a BSc from the University of Liverpool. At Liverpool he studied human evolutionary anthropology, writing his thesis on a point of anatomy hotly disputed in 16th Century Italy. Stephen followed this interest in the history of medicine while at Cambridge and remains interested in epistemolog, and knowledge mediation in digital systems.

He has extensive experience with the development and implementation of data structure standards and digital repository architectures both for preservation and dissemination.

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