Virtual Research Infrastructures in the (Digital) Humanities

The first panel discussion which is open to the public will be devoted to the question: “Which directions have to be taken if Virtual Research Infrastructures are to serve the (Digital) Humanities”? The reason why this question is being asked is that in discussions around Virtual Research Infrastructures, when it comes to the Humanities, “for the Humanities” in the sense of “Computer Science develops virtual research infrastructures for the Humanities” would seem to be more central than “Humanities” in the sense of “Virtual Humanities Research Infrastructures” and thus the collaboration on an equal level of the Humanities and Computer Science. The panel discussion aims at the initiation of a reflection on these two different perspectives and their implications.

Elisabeth Burr (Chair for French, Francophone and Italian Linguistics, University of Leipzig)

Volker Boehlke (research associate, Natural Language Processing Group, University of Leipzig and technical head of the CLARIN-D team)

Gerhard Lauer (Chair for German studies at the University of Göttingen. Head of the Göttingen Centre for Digital Humanities)

Julianne Nyhan (Lecturer in Digital Information Studies UCL; representing the ESF Research Infrastructures in the Humanities Working Group): "Research Infrastructures in the Digital Humanities"

Christof Schöch (research associate, Chair for Computerphilology, University of Würzburg and project DARIAH-DE)

Ray Siemens (Canada Research Chair in Humanities Computing and Distinguished Professor in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Victoria): “What’s in a Name? Humanities Computing, eHumanities, Computational Humanities, and Digital Humanities in the Content of Research Cyberinfrastructure”

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