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Digital Humanities 2014. Conference hosting proposal initiated by:. Main Organizers. Utrecht Institute of Linguistics/ Centre for the Humanities (Utrecht University, Humanities faculty).
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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? 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 Germany Belgium/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)
University:Why Utrecht? Science Cultural Heritage Humanities Digital Humanities Industry
University:Why Utrecht? Humanities Digital Humanities Local Scientific Support
University:Why Utrecht? Local Institutional Support
Open archives and open accessUtrecht University Library and e-humanities 2014:Why Utrecht? Digitizing music Meertens Institute (KNAW) & Information Science (UU) The Scholar on-line OGC Digital Citizenship UU Digital Literacy, with the focus group Changing Literacies of the Culture & Identities Digital materials: software, images, objects New Media Group of the Department of Media and Culture Studies Digital Games and Play GATE project and ERC Project Charting the Digital
2014:Why Utrecht? ± 10 full professors in DH CLARIN: 2009 – 2015, € 9.1M CLARIAH: 2015 - ????, €25M NederLab: 2013 – 2016, €3.4M KNAW initiative: Tighter collaboration of the 4 Humanity Institutes(Huygens ING, Meertens, NIOD, IISG) Many Projects, Programmes and DH-Initiatives started since 2010, will become mature and are ready for exposure
Scientific: 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. Beating the 500 !! Our goals for DH2014 Makers/vendors: SME’s working in the field of DH academic start-ups
Digital Humanities 2014 Utrecht, why not?