ALA Annual Meeting, San Francisco
Sunday, June 28, 2015
1:00 – 2:30pm
Hilton San Francisco Union Square, 19 & 20
Conveners
- Heidi Madden, Romanists Discussion Group
- Brian Vetruba, Germanists Discussion Group
- Kristen Totleben, Romanists Discussion Group, incoming convener for 2015/16
Agenda
I. Welcome and Introductions
II. Panel Discussion
- The WESS Germanists and Romance Languages Discussion Groups cordially invite you to: “Digital Humanities Infrastructure, Initiatives, and Tools in France and Germany,” a Panel Discussion.
- Sarah G. Wenzel, Bibliographer for Literatures of Europe & the Americas, University of Chicago.
Sarah will provide an overview of the DH landscape in France. Handout: http://wessweb.info/wessimages/9/98/French_Landscape_of_Digital_Scholarship_Wenzel.pdf - Kathleen Smith, Curator, Germanic Collections and Medieval Studies, Stanford University.
Kathleen will share her experiences working at State and University Library in Göttingen in R&D and DH initiatives/infrastructure in Germany and with Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities DARIAH, TextGrid, Collaborative European Digital Archive Infrastructure (CENDARI), and the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI). - Zach Coble, Digital Scholarship Specialist, New York University
Zach will provide an overview of Digital Research Tools (DiRT), general DH infrastructure and subject specialists as DH collaborators.
- Sarah G. Wenzel, Bibliographer for Literatures of Europe & the Americas, University of Chicago.