The Cologne Dialogue on Digital Humanities 2012

Derzeit, am 23. und 24. April 2012,  findet in Köln am Cologne Center for eHumanities ein Dialogmartahon mit hochkarätigen Teilnehmern statt.

Der erste Tag fragt „What are the Digital Humanities?„, der zweite steht unter dem Zeichen „Making the Digital Humanities work: Tools, infrastructures, technology and conceptual work.“

Es werden 7 Kontroversen ausgetragen, die jeweils eine Diskussion anstoßen sollen und von weiteren eingeladenen Experten kommentiert werden.

1. Do the Digital Humanities have an intellectual agenda or do they constitute an infrastructure?
   mit Willard McCarty und Patrick Svensson
2. Are all approaches towards interdisciplinary research between the Humanities and Computer Science meaningfully represented by the current concept of Digital Humanities?
   mit Domenico Fiormonte und Susan Schreibman
3. What is the scope of the Digital Humanities? What is the relationship between individual disciplines served by them?
   mit Jeremy Huggett und Jan Christoph Meister
4. What is the appropriate role of markup?
   mit Espen S. Ore und Desmond Schmidt
5. Big structures or lightweight webs. What is the most sensible technical template for research infrastructures for the Digital Humanities?
   mit Sheila Anderson und Joris J. van Zundert
6. “Digital curation” or “digital preservation” is a topic, which has originated within the world of digital libraries; recently it has been drawn closer and closer to the Digital Humanities. Using its as example: What is the proper balance between conceptual work and technology?
   mit Henry R. Gladney and Hellen Tibbo
7. “Digital Libraries” have started their life as an answer to opportunities created by a specific stage of technical development. Where are they now, between Computer Science and the Digital Humanities?
   mit Edward A. Fox und Hans-Christoph Hobohm

Mehr Information zur Veranstaltung