Lectures

Every day after the close of the workshops a lecture directed not only at the participants of the Summer School, but also at other academics and students will be given. These lectures will revolve around topics like

• the impact of the technological development on the Humanities and their dealing with contents and artefacts,
• the relationship between the Humanities, Computer science and Engineering,
• the creation of European networks in order to be able to face the needs of young scholars for inter- and trans-disciplinary qualifications

Ray Siemens: "Exploring the Future of the Book, in Electronic Form"

Raymond Siemens is Canada Research Chair in Humanities Computing and Professor of English at the University of Victoria with cross appointment in Computer Science. Ray is also Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Computing in the Humanities at King's College London, Visiting Research Professor at Sheffield Hallam University and, in 2010, he is Visiting Research Professor in Digital Humanities at Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto. He has edited several Renaissance texts.He is also the founding editor of the electronic scholarly journal Early Modern Literary Studies. Among his numerous publications we find, for example: Blackwell's Companion to Digital Humanities (with Susan Schreibman and John Unsworth), Blackwell's Companion to Digital Literary Studies (with Susan Schreibman) and Mind Technologies: Humanities Computing and the Canadian Academic Community (with David Moorman). In 2009, he received the U Victoria Humanities Award for Research Excellence. Ray Siemens is also the director of the Digital Humanities Summer Institute and the English speaking president of the Society for Digital Humanities / Société pour l'étude des médias interactifs (SDH/SEMI). In his teaching he focuses on computational approaches to literary criticism and the modelling of knowledge in Digital Humanities.

Marco Büchler: "eAQUA"

Since 2006 Marco Büchler is working at the Natural Language Processing Group of the Leipzig University. Since 2008 he is technically coordinating the eHumanities project eAQUA. His main research interests are both in statistical analysis and building of semantic association graphs. Besides research on historical text reuse and knowledge transfer, deeper research interests are in the field of Forensic Linguistics with a special scope of authorship attribution.

Lynne Siemens: "Understanding Academic Research Teams: Implications of Multi-Country, Multi-Language, and Multi-Culture Team Membership"

Lynne Siemens is Assistant Professor in Entrepreneurship and Public Administration at the Faculty of Business of the University of Victoria. Part of her research is devoted to research teams in Digital Humanities. See for example: "It's a team if you use 'reply all': An Exploration of Research Teams in Digital Humanities Environ­ments”, Digital Humanities 2008, Oulu (Finland), "The Balance between On-line and In-person Interactions: Methods for the Development of Digital Humanities Collaboration", Society of Digital Humanities / Société pour l'étude des médias interactifs, Vancouver, British Columbia (Canada), "Creating and Developing Research Teams: Key Questions", Mount Royal College Research Professional Development Workshop, Calgary, Alberta (Canada) and "The Potential of Management Tools to Aid Research Team Development", Models of Partnership in Digital Research, Sheffield Hallam University (UK). Her research project “Understanding Digital Humanities Research Teams: Implications of Multi-Country, Multi-Language, and Multi-Culture Team Membership” has just been granted funding by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada / Conseil de recherches en sciences humaines du Canada. In the framework of this project an international and multilingual research group (Canada, UK, USA, Germany / English, French, German) will identify the effective work patterns and intra-team relationships in interdisciplinary teams, particularly within the Digital Humanities in Canada and on the international level and describe the support and preparation required for a more effective implementation of integrated research platforms for national and international research networks.

Nicoletta Calzolari: "Language Resources in the e-science paradigm"

Nicoletta Calzolari is Director of Research at the Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale of the CNR in Pisa, Italy, and former Director of the Institute (2003-08). She received an Honorary Doctorate in Philosophy from the University of Copenhagen in 2007. She has promoted internationally the fields of Language Resources and Standardisation and the need for new language resources infrastructures. Additional research fields: human language technology, lexical semantics, corpus linguistics, knowledge acquisition, integration and representation. She has coordinated a large number of international and national projects, currently coordinating the EC FLaReNet Network. She is member of ICCL, chair of the Scientific Board of CLARIN, convenor of the ISO Lexicon WG, former vice-president of ELRA, former member of the ACL Exec, and member of many International Committees and Advisory Boards. She has been General Chair of LREC (since 2004) and of COLING-ACL-2006, and invited speaker, member of program committees, organiser for numerous international conferences and workshops, as well as member of journal editorial/advisory boards. She is Co-editor-in-chief, with Nancy Ide, of the Journal Language Resources and Evaluation, Springer.

Paolo Rocchi: "The Advance of Computer Technologies and the Analog / Digital Dualism"

Paolo Rocchi is a docent and a researcher of IBM. Since the seventies he has regularly held professional courses for his company, especially in the area of software analysis with the use of structured and object-oriented techniques.

Rocchi devoted himself to scientific research in parallel to educational tasks. In the beginning he developed advanced software applications in the linguistic field and conducted inquiries on computational linguistic with prof. R. Busa. In the late seventies, Rocchi started investigations upon the foundations of computer science which absorbed much of his time and suggested a number of solutions in various directions. In fact the theoretical foundations of informatics deals with the principles of hardware and software and in addition cross several disciplines. Currently Rocchi is working on a broad spectrum of applied and theoretical topics; among the most recent strands of research one can quote: design methods in software engineering, the unified calculus of redundancy, the information relativity, the calculus of Boltzmann-like entropy, the dualist interpretation of the probability and the deductive teaching of informatics.
Rocchi is serving different journals, scientific associations and congress organizations as chair, reviewer etc. He is also a founder member of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence. Rocchi authored various books in Italian and in English wrote “Technology+Culture = Software” (2000); “The Structural Theory of Probability” (2003); “The Logic of Analog and Digital Machines” (in printing). Rocchi received three prizes from IBM and had an entry in various editions of “Who's Who in the World”

Manfred Thaller: "Cultural Heritage Collaboratories: The Case of Medieval Charters"

Manfred Thaller holds the Chair of Historisch-Kulturwissenschaftliche Informationsverarbeitung (Computer Science for the Humanities) at the University of Cologne, Germany. At the centre of his research interests presently are: the Theory of a Computer Science for the Humanities; Non relational data models; Relationship between Markup Languages and DBMS. Among the retrospective digitalisation projects directed by Manfred we find projects like the Digital Manuscript Library Cologne (CEEC), in the framework of which the medieval codices of the Erzbischöfliche Diözesan- und Dombibliothek Köln (DDB) are being digitized, or the Digital Library of the Max-Planck-Institut for European Legal History, which brings together the results of various digitalisation projects. Lately he has not only founded the Cologne Centre for e-Humanities, but has also initiated a „Discussion forum on Curricula in e-Humanities / Digital Humanities“, whose aim it is to define first of all a basic profile for degree programs situated between the Humanities and Information Science and to develop on this basis degree programs which in principle are comparable with each other.

Hans-Jörg Bibiko: "Behind the WALS: The World Atlas of Language Structures (WALS) - Technology in the Linguistics"

Hans-Jörg Bibiko has been working since 2004 as computer scientist and programmer focused on applied natural sciences and mathematics in the linguistics and knowledge visualization at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (MPI EVA). He is working on topics in the areas of database conception and administration, general Unicode data processing, text parsing and conversion, digital cartography, creative software development for "computer-aided" linguistics, and issues about long-term "archiving" of digital data. He is involved in several projects like "The World Atlas of Language Structures (WALS)", "The Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures (APiCS)", "The Automated Similarity Judgment Program (ASJP)" and others as well as in Japanese-German online dictionaries and character lexica and open-source projects. His background lies in technical cybernetics, computer sciences, electronic and sound engineering, and languages.

Jean Anderson: "Digital Resources and their Re-use"

Jean Anderson is a Resource Development Officer at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK. She works with the School of English and Scottish Language and Literature and the Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute. She lectures in Literary and Linguistic Computing and in general Humanities Computing and supports the creation of digital resources for humanities research.

Jean Anderson was co-director of the Scottish Corpus of Texts and Speech project (http://www.scottishcorpus.ac.uk/), and is now Principal Investigator for ENROLLER (http://www.gla.ac.uk/enroller/), a JISC-funded humanities and e-Science collaboration to create an enhanced repository of linguistic resources for research in English and Scots.