The focus of this event is to engage academia, industry, cultural institutions and public bodies to identify the key research challenges in digital humanities, and to further build the academic-industry partnerships that will enable adoption of digital humanities skills, technologies and tools. This focus will extend to the innovative use of digital humanities technologies in the public sector demonstrating social benefit, such as the digitisation of the Irish census and the use of open linked public data.

Presentation

The focus of this event is to engage academia, industry, cultural institutions and public bodies to identify the key research challenges in digital humanities, and to further build the academic-industry partnerships that will enable adoption of digital humanities skills, technologies and tools. This focus will extend to the innovative use of digital humanities technologies in the public sector demonstrating social benefit, such as the digitisation of the Irish census and the use of open linked public data.
 
This is the first in a series of workshops targeting the industry-academic interface for identifying and realising the opportunities of the digital humanities. The event is jointly organised by the two major digital humanities national infrastructures (the DRI and the DHO), and the largest semantic web research Institute (DERI), together with a large-scale European digital infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities (DARIAH).
During the three days, participants will expand their skills through a series of workshops lead by subject matter experts, in the areas of data visualisation and in the application of linked data to leverage the semantic web for scholarly humanities research. This workshop will combine a day of hands-on practical application with master classes and lectures and a day long symposium drawing together academic and industry practitioners.

Programme

Day 1: Tuesday 23rd October 2012

Venue: Croke Park Stadium, Dublin
Hogan Suite, 5th Floor

09:00 - 09:30: Registration, Refreshments, Demonstrations
09:30 - 10:00: Opening

• Luke Drury, President, Royal Irish Academy
• Sandra Collins, Director Digital Repository of Ireland
• Natalie Harrower, Manager of Education & Outreach, Digital Repository of Ireland

10:00 - 11:30

Panel 1: The Importance of Digital Humanities
Why is Digital Humanities important and relevant? What are the challenges? What are the benefits being realized?

Chair: Sandra Collins, Director Digital Repository of Ireland

• Curtis Wong, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research
• Fiona Ross, Director National Library of Ireland
• John Keating, Associate Director An Foras Feasa, NUI Maynooth
• Hans Walter Gabler, Emeritus Professor Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Germany
• William Kilbride, Executive Director Digital Preservation Coalition UK

11:30 - 12:00: Refreshments & Demonstrations

12:00 - 13:00
Launch and Address - Minister Sean Sherlock, TD
Mr. Sean Sherlock, TD, Minister of State, Department of Enterprise, Jobs & Innovation and Department of Education & Skills with responsibility for Research & Innovation will launch two documents of national interest:

• DRI National Report on Digital Archiving in Ireland
• National Open Access Statement, prepared by the National Steering Committee on Open Access Policy.

DRI Report Presentation by:

• Aileen O’Carroll, Digital Repository of Ireland Policy Manager
• Sharon Webb, Digital Repository of Ireland Requirements Analyst

13:00 - 14:00: Lunch & Demonstrations

14:00 - 15:30

Panel 2: Case Studies in Action
Organisations that are showcasing Digital Humanities; Novel approaches

Chair: Shawn Day, DHO Project Manager, Royal Irish Academy

• Múirne Laffan, Managing Director RTÉ Digital
• Jon Purday, Senior Communications Advisor Europeana
• Stuart Jeffrey, Deputy Director Archaeological Data Service UK
• Hans Jansen, Deputy Director General National Library of the Netherlands

15:30 - 16:00: Refreshments & Demonstrations

16:00 - 17:30

Panel 3: Partnerships Achieving More
Academic-Public-Industry partnerships achieving more; Large-scale digital goals and challenges

Chair: Natalie Harrower, Manager of Education & Outreach, Digital Repository of Ireland

• Catriona Crowe, Head Special Projects, National Archives of Ireland
• Peter Doorn, Director Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS), Netherlands
• Clifford Lynch, Director Coalition for Networked Information
• John Cox, University Librarian, NUIG
• Ashok Popat, Research Scientist, Google

17:30 - 18:00: Closing Remarks
Tom Boland, Chief Executive, The Higher Education Authority (HEA)

18:00 - 19:00: Wine Reception

Day 2: Wednesday 24th October 2012

Venue: Royal Irish Academy, Dublin

09:00 - 09:30: Registration & Refreshments

09:30 - 09:45: Welcome and Introduction to Day 2

• Laura Mahoney, Acting Director, Royal Irish Academy
• Shawn Day, Digital Humanities Observatory
• Natalie Harrower, Education & Outreach Manager, Digital Repository of Ireland

09:45 - 11:15

Panel 1: Intellectual Property, Licensing, Copyright
What you can and can not do with data

Chair: Seathrún Ó Tuairisg, NUIG PI for the Digital Repository of Ireland

Mary Muldowney, Founding Member of the Oral History Network of Ireland
Gary Davis, Deputy Data Protection Commissioner
Eoin O’Dell, Chair Copyright Review Committee
Andrea Martin, Irish Media & Entertainment law specialist
Rónán Mac Con Iomaire Leascheannaire RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta

11:15 - 11:45: Refreshments

11:45 - 13:15

Panel 2: Semantic Web and Linked Data for Digital Humanities
Why would you use linked data?

Chair: Jodi Schneider, DERI, NUI Galway

Stefan Decker, Director DERI, NUI Galway
Silver Oliver, Senior Data Architect, BBC
Michael Smethurst, Information Architect, BBC
David De Roure, Director and Professor of e-Research in the Oxford e-Research Centre
Anders Söderbäck, Stockholm University Library

13:15 - 14:00: Lunch

14:00 - 15:15

Panel 3: Digital Humanities Skillset
Digital Humanities skills transfer; Industry perspective; Learning resources and skills assessment

Chair: Sharon Webb, Digital Repository of Ireland Requirements Analyst

Susan Schreibman, Long Room Hub TCD
Marie Wallace, Social Analytics Strategist IBM
Catherine Bruen, Manager National Digital Learning Resources (NDLR)
Aja Teehan, Technology Officer An Foras Feasa, NUI Maynooth

15:15 - 15:45: Refreshments

15:45 - 17:00

Panel 4: Expressing the Value and Impact of Digital Humanities Research
Chair: Luke Drury, President, Royal Irish Academy

Simon Tanner, Deputy Head, Department of Digital Humanities, King’s College London
Nicholas Canny, Emeritus Professor NUIG & Ex-President RIA
Jennifer Edmond, Director of Strategic Projects, Faculty of Arts Humanities and Social Sciences, TCD
Eucharia Meehan, Director Irish Research Council

17:00 - 17:15: Closing Remarks, Findings and Discussion of Digital Humanities Challenges & Opportunities

Sandra Collins, Director, Digital Repository of Ireland

17:30 - 19:00: Wine Reception

Day 3: Thursday 25th October 2012

Venue: An Foras Feasa, NUI Maynooth

09:00 - 10:00: Registration & Refreshments

10:00 - 10:15: Welcome and Introduction to Day 3

John Keating, Associate Director An Foras Feasa, NUI Maynooth
Shawn Day, Project Manager Digital Humanities Observatory

10:15 - 13:00: Hands-on Skills Workshops
Workshop options (see descriptions)

• Data Modelling with John Keating and Aja Teehan (An Foras Feasa, National University of Ireland Maynooth)
• Data Visualisation for Digital Humanists with Orla Murphy (University College Cork) and Shawn Day (DHO, Royal Irish Academy)
• Linked Data in the Digital Humanities with Jodi Schneider, Dr. Michael Hausenblas, Prof. Stefan Decker and Nuno Lopes (Digital Enterprise Research Institute, National University of Ireland Galway)

Note: there will be a break from

11.30 – 11.45 for refreshments

13:00 - 13:45: Lunch

13:45 - 16:30: Hands-on Skills Workshops
Workshop options (see descriptions)

Note: these are a repeat of the morning workshops.

• Data Modelling with John Keating and Aja Teehan (An Foras Feasa, National University of Ireland Maynooth)
• Data Visualisation for Digital Humanists with Orla Murphy (University College Cork) and Shawn Day (DHO, Royal Irish Academy)
• Linked Data in the Digital Humanities with Jodi Schneider, Dr. Michael Hausenblas, Prof. Stefan Decker, and Nuno Lopes (Digital Enterprise Research Institute, National University of Ireland Galway)

Note: there will be a break from

15:00 – 15:15 for refreshments 

The workshop is jointly organised by

• Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI)
• Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI)
• Digital Humanities Observatory (DHO)
• Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities (DARIAH-EU) 

We gratefully acknowledge our generous sponsors:

• Science Foundation Ireland (SFI)
• The Higher Education Authority (HEA)
• The Royal Irish Academy (RIA)
• National University of Ireland, Maynooth (NUIM)
• National University of Ireland, Galway (NUIG)
• Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI)
• Digital Humanities Observatory (DHO)