UiT Digital Humanities Conference 2017

30 November – 1 December 2017
UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø

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Preliminary Program

 

Thursday 30 November

12:15-14:15 Session 1: Digital Humanities – The Big Picture
(UB Auditorium, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Campus Breivika)
CHAIR: Marie-Theres Federhofer, UiT The Arctic University of Norway

  • Øyvind Eide, University of Cologne, Germany: DH in Germany and beyond
  • Stefan Gelfgren, Umeå: Presentation of HumLab, Umeå University, Sweden
  • Hanne Siri Sund, NTNU, Norway: Presentation of DARIAH
  • Koenraad De Smedt, University of Bergen, Norway: Presentation of CLARINO
14:15-14:30 Coffee break
14:30-15:30 Session 2a: Digital Humanities – Projects and Prospects
(UB Auditorium, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Campus Breivika)
CHAIR: Per Pippin Aspaas, UiT The Arctic University of Norway

  • Gunnar Thorvaldsen, UiT The Arctic University of Norway: The Norwegian Historical Data Centre as a national infrastructure
  • Eero Hyvönen, Aalto University and University of Helsinki, Helsinki Centre for Digital Humanities (HELDIG), Finland: WarSampo – Finnish World War II on the Semantic Web
15:30-15:45 Coffee break
15:45-17:15 Session 2b: Digital Humanities – Projects and Prospects
(UB Auditorium, UiT, Campus Breivika)
CHAIR: Per Pippin Aspaas, UiT

  • Chiara Argese & Trond Trosterud (UiT): Presentation of digital language teaching resources for minority languages at UiT, Norway (cf. http://giellatekno.uit.no/index.eng.html)
  • Jon Marius Aareskjold (UiT): Digital Tools in Music Technology education
  • Glauco Mantegari, Milan, Italy: Digital tools for Digital Humanists – Information design and data visualization
19:00- Dinner for invited guests (details TBA)

 

Friday 1 December

09:00-10:30 Session 3a: Scholarly Editing – Today and Tomorrow
(UB Auditorium, UiT, Campus Breivika)
CHAIR: Annika Rockenberger, University of Oslo, Norway

  • Welcome speech by Anne Husebekk, rector, UiT The Arctic University of Norway
  • Anne Baillot, Université du Maine, France: The digital scholarly edition – what , why , where to?
  • Rune Kyrkjebø, University of Bergen, Norway: Presentation of The Wittgenstein Archives
10:30-10:45 Coffee break
10:45-12:15 Session 3b: Scholarly Editing – Today and Tomorrow
(UB Auditorium, UiT, Campus Breivika)
CHAIR: Annika Rockenberger, University of Oslo, Norway

  • Ellen Wiger, National Library of Norway: Presentation of Bokselskapet.no
  • Nina Evensen, University of Oslo, Norway: What comes after a project is over? Henrik Ibsen’s Skrifter
  • Øyvind Eide, University of Cologne, Germany, Per P. Aspaas & Philipp Conzett, UiT The Arctic University of Norway: The correspondence of Just Qvigstad, 1.0 and 2.0 – the ongoing story of a digital edition

Closing

12:30-13:30 Lunch for invited guests (details TBA)

The conference is hosted by The Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences and Education and The University Libary at UiT The Arctic University of Norway.

Organizers: Per Pippin Aspaas & Philipp Conzett (University Library UiT)