Call for Participation

Workshop: Digital Curation in the Human Sciences
ECDL, Corfu, 30 September - 1 October 2009

Do you wish to find out about the leading projects working towards the establishment of the European digital infrastructures for research in the humanities and social science? Are you interested in the conceptual and technical challenges faced by those involved in designing and building these infrastructures? Are you curious how digital curation could help ensure the longevity and future usefulness of scholarly evidence and social research data? Do you want to find out more about the information practices and requirements of humanists and social scientists in the digital age? Do you have an argument, issue or viewpoint relevant to these issues, which you would like to discuss with a growing interdisciplinary community of practice?

The Digital Curation in the Human Sciences workshop aims to act as a focus for a fruitful dialogue among major stakeholders in human science research infrastructures: policy makers and planners of the emerging European digital infrastructures, computer science and information science researchers in the field of digital libraries, e-repository, collections and data managers, practising curators, archivists and librarians, and active researchers from the whole spectrum of the human sciences interested into, or dependent upon, the use of information resources and tools for research. This long overdue meeting of complementary perspectives will, hopefully, act as a catalyst for a convergence of conceptual and technical approaches between different projects, in Europe and beyond, and for an alignment of current efforts with the actual requirements, know-how and expertise of key user communities.

Workshop programme:

Wednesday, 30 September 2009, 14:30 - 18:30

Session 1: Presentation of ESFRI projects for the human sciences (14:30 - 16:00)
Chair: Costis Dallas
- Hilary Beedham, UK Data Archive, University of Essex, United Kingdom - The CESSDA research infrastructure: formalising 30 years' experience
- Martin Wynne, Oxford eResearch Centre, Oxford University, United Kingdom -Preserving Babel: CLARIN and the preservation of language resources
- Peter Doorn, Data Archiving and Networked Service (DANS), The Netherlands - DARIAH: Paving the way for the digital research infrastructure for the arts and humanities in Europe

16:00-16:30: Break

Session 2: Digital curation and supporting research in the human sciences through digital technologies: theoretical and methodological perspectives (16.30 -18.30
Chair: Peter Doorn
Three invited papers introducing pespectives of significant theoretical, methodological or substantive interest on aspects of the overall theme of  the workshop.
- Rob Procter, National Centre for e-Social Science, University of Manchester, United Kindgom
- Seamus Ross, Faculty of Information, University of Toronto, Canada
- Panos Constantopoulos, Digital Curation Unit (DCU) - IMIS, Athens Research Centre & Department of Informatics, Athens University of Economcs and Business, Greece


Thursday, 1 October 2009, 9:00  13:00

Session 3: Digital curation, registries, research repositories and digital libraries (9:00 - 10:30)
Chair: Panos Constantopoulos

- Tobias Blanke, Centre for e-Research, King's College, University of London, United Kingdom: From a collection of tools and services towards a research infrastructure for the arts and humanities
- Rene van Horik, Data Archiving and Networked Service (DANS), The Netherlands: Migration to Intermediate XML for Electronic Data (Mixed)

10:30-11:00: Break

Session 4: Panel discussion on Requirements for digital infrastructures in the human sciences: Views from the field  (11:00-13:00)
Chair: Seamus Ross
Complementary stakeholder and evidence-based perspectives towards understanding scholarly information work and digital research infrastructures in the human sciences will be represented

Additional information on the ECDL 2009 conference may be found at: http://www.ionio.gr/conferences/ecdl2009/