Dear Christian,
Dan, Neil and I were rather thinking of the ADHO lunch-time event. We felt we are somewhat too late to organize a regular panel. Also it seems that right now no one can right now make the commitment to organize and (co-)chair a regular session. I hope we would be able to find speakers who can represent their regions for this short meeting. To clarify: "Chinese DH" means DH work done in the Chinese speaking world independently of subject matter.
all the best
marcus
On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 8:53 PM, Christian Wittern cwittern@gmail.comwrote:
Dear all,
Neil, from Marcus' message I gather he is proposing a session for the regular academic program, similar in some way to the one done by Japanese DH supporters in London 2010. I think that was quite a successful session and can serve as a good model. Albeit the time is short, I would think it would be worth trying to get this submitted for the regular process and keep the possibility of a lunch-time event as plan B for the moment.
As to Marcus' proposal: From the wording it is not clear to me if this is about "DH in China" or "DH about China". I assume it should be the former. The reason I bring this up is again an observation from the Japanese (and also German) experience, where early efforts in DH where driven by people in English or Linguistic departments. So I think strategically, it would be important to be as inclusive as possible and emphasize that all DH efforts in the Chinese speaking world are a target for us.
Just my 2 cents with greetings from Kyoto.
Christian
On 2012-10-30 09:30, Neil Fraistat wrote:
Dear Marcus,
Just to be clear: I am happy to propose to the ADHO SC that we split the business meeting in order to run such a session and am hopeful that they will agree, but it would have to be voted on by the SC first. So it would be a mistake to take this as a given until the SC has agreed.
Best, Neil
On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 6:37 PM, Marcus Bingenheimer < m.bingenheimer@gmail.com <mailto:m.bingenheimer@gmail.**comm.bingenheimer@gmail.com>> wrote:
Dear all, Below a proposal for a GO::DH session at the DH 2013. Ideas? Suggestions? Comments? The application deadline is Thursday so there is not much time left but there is still time for changes. greetings from Philadelphia marcus waiting for the hurricane ============================= ADHO GO:DH Session on “Chinese DH” The newly founded ADHO initiative Global Outreach (GO::DH) aims to facilitate communication between the various ADHO committees and emergent DH groups and activities in countries which are not yet well represented within ADHO. This session proposal is one of GO::DH attempts to raise the visibility of underrepresented communities, in this case, of work done in the Chinese speaking world. Like all cultures, China is faced with the question of how to model its cultural heritage in a digital environment. Comparable only to India in historic range, geographic size, and population, there are various initiatives in China, Hongkong and Taiwan that work on solutions to digitize and distribute their shared cultural heritage. After successful international cooperation yielded the Unicode standard, which resolved the pressing issue of how to represent the logographic writing system in computing, continued dialog on standards and practices in DH is of mutual interest for both ADHO members and the emerging DH centers in China, Hongkong and Taiwan. In East Asia, efforts by Japanese practitioners of DH has already resulted in the foundation of the Japanese Association of Digital Humanities, which joined ADHO last year, an important development in the globalization of the field. In the Chinese speaking world too there is great potential for dialog, synergy and cooperation between DH centers to discuss standards and practices. Communication about shared standards generally improves the chances that the results are interchangeable, avoids duplication of efforts, and increases efficiency. As internationalization and support for developing, regional centers is part of ADHO’s mission, the members of the GO::DH feel it is desirable to organize a roundtable on “Chinese DH” with representatives from China, Taiwan, Hongkong and perhaps Singapore to speak about the situation of DH in their societies and the prospects and potential problems for further collaboration with both within East Asia as well as with ADHO members. Following a discussion on the globaloutlookdh list regarding the possible format for such a roundtable, Neil Fraistat, the current Chair of ADHO, offered to split the ADHO business meeting and use the second 45 min section to a ADHO GO::DH roundtable on “Chinese DH”. We plan to invite at least one representative from China, Hongkong and Taiwan to speak for 10 min to provide the audience with a quick overview of activities, followed by a 15 min roundtable discussion with the speakers and one or two GO::DH members. Possible questions to explore: What are the prospects for further national or regional organization in East Asia? How can we make better use of existing structures to further the globalization of Chinese DH? How viable, e.g., would be a panel in Chinese at the next DH? ADHO GO::DH Session (45 min) 1. DH in China (10min) 2. DH in Hongkong (10min) 3. DH in Taiwan (10min) 4. Roundtable (15min) ==============================**==== ______________________________**_________________ globaloutlookdh-l mailing list globaloutlookdh-l@uleth.ca <mailto:globaloutlookdh-l@**uleth.ca<globaloutlookdh-l@uleth.ca>http://listserv.uleth.ca/**mailman/listinfo/**globaloutlookdh-l<http://listserv.uleth.ca/mailman/listinfo/globaloutlookdh-l>-- Neil Fraistat Professor of English & Director Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) 0301 Hornbake Library University of Maryland 301-405-5896 or 301-314-7111 (fax) http://www.mith.umd.edu/ https://twitter.com/fraistat
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