digital humanities 2014
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Digital Humanities 2014
Conference hosting proposal initiated by:
Main Organizers
Utrecht Institute of Linguistics/Centre for the Humanities(Utrecht University, Humanities faculty)
Meertens Institute(Institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences: Ethnology & Variation linguistics)
Henriëtte de SwartUU/OTS
Arjan van HessenUU/CLARIN
Hans BennisUvA/Meertens
Rens BodUvA
City:Why Utrecht?
City:Why Utrecht?
International travel• Fast trains to Germany,
France and the UK• Schiphol Amsterdam
Airport (25 minutes) offers direct international connections to Europe, America, Africa and Asia
GermanyBelgium
/France
City:Why Utrecht?
National travel• Good public transport• Medieval City Centre:
everything within walking distance• City bike hire by credit
card• Student-oriented prices
(food, drinks, hotels)
City:Why Utrecht?
• Plenary sessions (St. Johns Church / City Theatre) > 500 seats
• 6 parallel sessions in the Academic building (> 80 seats each)
• > 5 additional parallel sessions in the neighbourhood
• Venue wide WiFi-access (Eduroam & Guest-access)
• Fully AV-equipped
• Numerous restaurants in different categories within walking distance)
City:Why Utrecht?
City:Why Utrecht?
University:Why Utrecht?
University:Why Utrecht?
Humanities Digital Humanities
Science
Cultural Heritage
Industry
University:Why Utrecht?
Humanities Digital Humanities
Maaike BleekerTheatre, UU
Rosi BraidottiCentre for Humanities, UU
Karina van DalenLiterature, Huygens Institute
José van DijckMedia studies, UvA
Louis GrijpMusic, Meertens
Joep LeerssenLiterature, UvA
Marc van OostendorpLinguistics, Meertens
Joost RaessensDigital Games & Plays, UU
Herman RoodenburgEthnology, Meertens
Jan Luiten van SantenHistory, UU
Sally WyattVirtual Knowledge Studio, KNAW
Local Scientific Support
University:Why Utrecht?
Local Institutional Support
Prof. dr. B. van der ZwaanRector of the University
Prof. dr. W. van den AkkerDean of the Humanities
Prof. dr. J. OdijkDirector of CLARIN.NL
Drs. S. KrauwerDirector of the CLARIN-ERIC
2014:Why Utrecht?
2014:Why Utrecht?
Digital materials: software, images, objectsNew Media Group of the Department of Media and Culture Studies
Digitizing musicMeertens Institute (KNAW) & Information Science (UU)
Open archives and open accessUtrecht University Library and e-humanities
Digital CitizenshipUU
Digital Games and PlayGATE project and ERC Project Charting the Digital
Digital Literacy, with the focus group Changing Literacies of the Culture & Identities
The Scholar on-lineOGC
2014:Why Utrecht?
CLARIAH:2015 - ????, €25M
CLARIN:2009 – 2015, € 9.1M
Many Projects, Programmes and DH-Initiatives started since 2010, will become mature and are ready for exposure
KNAW initiative: Tighter collaboration of the 4 Humanity Institutes(Huygens ING, Meertens, NIOD, IISG)
± 10 full professors in DH
NederLab: 2013 – 2016, €3.4M
Our goals for DH2014Scientific:At least as good as Hamburg DH2012
Users:Increase the number of actively involved, non-academic users (CH-institutions, broadcast companies, publishers, educational institutions, government, game factories, contact centres, service industry, etc.
Makers/vendors:SME’s working in the field of DH academic start-upsBeating the 500 !!
Digital Humanities 2014
Utrecht, why not?
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