(Apologies for cross-posting)
Dear colleagues,
We are delighted to announce the full programme for the workshop and round table 'Software in Scholarship, Scholarship in Software', sponsored jointly by Digital Humanities @ Uni Bern and Infoclio.ch, to be held 29-30 January 2015 in Bern.
http://www.dh.unibe.ch/en/2015/01/scholarship-in-software-workshop-and-round...
Any and all are welcome to attend; we ask that you register your attendance with thomas.leibundgut@kps.unibe.ch by 19 January.
Best wishes, Tara Andrews
*‘Expressions’, 29 January 2015: Workshop on Software-based Scholarship*
10:00 – Welcome
10:15 – Opening remarks – Willard McCarty, King’s College London A matter of prepositions: Software *in* scholarship and scholarship *in* software?
10:45 – Panel 1. Assessment and process
- Eugene Lyman, Independent Scholar Scholarly Software and the Enhancement of Critical Scrutiny - Aris Xanthos, Université de Lausanne By scholars, for scholars: a case study on quality assessment of scientific software - Oleksandr Makarenko, National Technical University of Ukraine Mathematical Modeling in Scholarship and their Representation in Software
12:15 – Lunch break
14:00 – Panel 2. Confrontation and collaboration
- James Baker, British Library Removing Black Boxes: Exposing Scholarship to Researchers - Pieter Francois, University of Oxford Connecting Modes of Scholarship through the Library: The genesis of the Sample Generator for Digitized Texts - Jonas Schneider, Universität Zürich Geovisualizing History
15:30 – Coffee break
16:00 – Panel 4: Creation
- Manfred Thaller, Universität Köln Engineering, Science, Art, Scholarship: On implicit assumptions in the software for semantic image databases. - Joris van Zundert, Huygens ING, and Gregor Middell, independent scholar Code and Authorship in the Humanities
17:00 – Closing keynote – David Berry, University of Sussex Softwarization, Archives, and the Digital Humanities
*‘Evaluation’, 30 January 2015: Round table on Peer Review for Digital Scholarly Work*
*Schedule:*
9:00 – Welcome
9:10-10:40 – Position papers (max. 15 min. each)
10:40-11:00 – Coffee Break
11:00-12:30 – Collective Discussion on specific issues
13:00 – Lunch for all roundtable participants
*Participants (in alphabetical order):*
- James Baker, Digital Research Team, British Library – *Stepping back – playing as research* - Claire Clivaz, Laboratoire des cultures et humanités digitales, Université de Lausanne – *Reshapping the peer-review process: heretic remarks in a digital time* - Seth Dembo, Director of Scholarly Communication and Digital Initiatives, American Historical Association – *AHA’s Ad Hoc Committee on Professional Evaluation of Digital Scholarship by Historians* - Ingrid Kissling, Head of the Humanities and Social Sciences division, Swiss National Science Foundation – *Peer review under revision – The digital challenge for funding agencies* - Eugene Lyman, University of Boston – *Publishing digital projects reviews: practical suggestions* - Nicolas Thély, Professor for Digital Humanities, Université de Rennes 2 – *Toward an evaluation grid for Digital Humanities projects* - Philip Steinkrüger, Editor of RIDE (Review Journal for digital editions and ressources); Trinity College Dublin & University of Cologne – *Toward a catalogue of criteria for the review of digital editions* - Sacha Zala, Director of the Swiss Historical Association & director of the Diplomatic Documents of Switzerland – *Some dogmatic postulates for the digital historical sciences*
-- Prof. Tara L Andrews Digital Humanities, Universität Bern http://www.dh.unibe.ch/