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.
Any and all are welcome to attend; we ask that you register your attendance with
by 19 January.
‘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