Digital Humanities 2014

Digital Humanities 2014

Conference hosting proposal initiated by:

Main Organizers

Utrecht Institute of Linguistics/Centre for the Humanities(Utrecht University, Humanities faculty)

Meertens Institute(Institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences: Ethnology & Variation linguistics)

Henriëtte de SwartUU/OTS

Arjan van HessenUU/CLARIN

Hans BennisUvA/Meertens

Rens BodUvA

City:Why Utrecht?

City:Why Utrecht?

International travel• Fast trains to Germany,

France and the UK• Schiphol Amsterdam

Airport (25 minutes) offers direct international connections to Europe, America, Africa and Asia

GermanyBelgium

/France

City:Why Utrecht?

National travel• Good public transport• Medieval City Centre:

everything within walking distance• City bike hire by credit

card• Student-oriented prices

(food, drinks, hotels)

City:Why Utrecht?

• Plenary sessions (St. Johns Church / City Theatre) > 500 seats

• 6 parallel sessions in the Academic building (> 80 seats each)

• > 5 additional parallel sessions in the neighbourhood

• Venue wide WiFi-access (Eduroam & Guest-access)

• Fully AV-equipped

• Numerous restaurants in different categories within walking distance)

City:Why Utrecht?

City:Why Utrecht?

University:Why Utrecht?

University:Why Utrecht?

Humanities Digital Humanities

Science

Cultural Heritage

Industry

University:Why Utrecht?

Humanities Digital Humanities

Maaike BleekerTheatre, UU

Rosi BraidottiCentre for Humanities, UU

Karina van DalenLiterature, Huygens Institute

José van DijckMedia studies, UvA

Louis GrijpMusic, Meertens

Joep LeerssenLiterature, UvA

Marc van OostendorpLinguistics, Meertens

Joost RaessensDigital Games & Plays, UU

Herman RoodenburgEthnology, Meertens

Jan Luiten van SantenHistory, UU

Sally WyattVirtual Knowledge Studio, KNAW

Local Scientific Support

University:Why Utrecht?

Local Institutional Support

Prof. dr. B. van der ZwaanRector of the University

Prof. dr. W. van den AkkerDean of the Humanities

Prof. dr. J. OdijkDirector of CLARIN.NL

Drs. S. KrauwerDirector of the CLARIN-ERIC

2014:Why Utrecht?

2014:Why Utrecht?

Digital materials: software, images, objectsNew Media Group of the Department of Media and Culture Studies

Digitizing musicMeertens Institute (KNAW) & Information Science (UU)

Open archives and open accessUtrecht University Library and e-humanities

Digital CitizenshipUU

Digital Games and PlayGATE project and ERC Project Charting the Digital

Digital Literacy, with the focus group Changing Literacies of the Culture & Identities

The Scholar on-lineOGC

2014:Why Utrecht?

CLARIAH:2015 - ????, €25M

CLARIN:2009 – 2015, € 9.1M

Many Projects, Programmes and DH-Initiatives started since 2010, will become mature and are ready for exposure

KNAW initiative: Tighter collaboration of the 4 Humanity Institutes(Huygens ING, Meertens, NIOD, IISG)  

± 10 full professors in DH

NederLab: 2013 – 2016, €3.4M

Our goals for DH2014Scientific:At least as good as Hamburg DH2012

Users:Increase the number of actively involved, non-academic users (CH-institutions, broadcast companies, publishers, educational institutions, government, game factories, contact centres, service industry, etc.

Makers/vendors:SME’s working in the field of DH academic start-upsBeating the 500 !!

Digital Humanities 2014

Utrecht, why not?