On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 6:37 PM, Marcus Bingenheimer <
m.bingenheimer@gmail.com <mailto:
m.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
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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)
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