DHC 2014

Programme

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Thursday (4th September 2014)

09:30 - 11:30

Registration Reception Chair: Clare Mills

11:30 - 13:00

Introductions and Plenary 1 High Tor 2 Chair: Jackie Labbe
Visualizing Humanities Data, Big and Small Laura Mandell Texas A & M University

13:00 - 14:00

Lunch Bar

14:00 - 15:30

Session 1 — Digital Worlds High Tor 2 Chair: Katherine Rogers	Session 2 — If I Build It Will They Come? High Tor 3 Chair: Michael Pidd	Session 3 — Cancelled
Virtual Worlds and WebGL: Integrating 3D Content into the Wider Humanities Web Jamie McLaughlin University of Sheffield	“If I Can’t Find It, I Can’t Use It.” Some Practical Solutions to Ensure Your Digital Resources Are Easy to Discover Paola Marchionni Jisc
Study of the History of China’s Industrial Corridors Using Digital Technology Jian Xu, Jian Kang University of Sheffield	The Medieval Electronic Scholarly Alliance (MESA) as a Resource for Medieval Studies Communities Dot Porter University of Pennsylvania
Dragon Archivist Required: Evaluating the Suitability of a Role Playing Game for Literature Modding Erik Champion Curtin University	Libraries, Data, and DH: Creating and Operationalizing a Library Unit to Meet the Collaborative Needs of Scholars Michael Rodriguez Michigan State University

15:30 - 16:00

Tea Break Bar

16:00 - 17:30

Jisc and National Library of Wales Plenary High Tor 2 Chair: Lorna Hughes
Strategic Directions for Digital Content Paola Marchionni, Julie Allinson, Marilyn Deegan, Simon James, Dot Porter

18:00

Drinks Reception Bar

Friday (5th September 2014)

09:30 - 11:00

Session 4 — AHRC Digital Transformations Theme Roundtable High Tor 2 Chair: Andrew Prescott	Session 5 — TEI Friday High Tor 3 Chair: Katherine Rogers	Session 6 — Participation High Tor 4 Chair: Michael Pidd
Visualising and Analysing Data Jamie McLaughlin, Andrew Prescott, Tobias Blanke, Jon Rogers, Marilyn Deegan AHRC	Creating Processing Models for Scholarly Digital Editions James Cummings, Magdalena Turska University of Oxford	3D Modelling of Islamic Metalwork: Processes and Potentials John Hindmarch, Lindsay MacDonald, Melissa Terras, Stuart Robson, Alexandra Gerstein UCL
	Remediating Giacomo Leopardi’s Zibaldone: Harvesting Semantic Networks in the Fragmentary Research Notebook Silvia Stoyanova Trier Center for Digital Humanities	Crowdsourcing Full-text Manuscript Transcription: Beyond MediaWiki Victoria Van Hyning University of Oxford
	Electrifying Intoxicants: Building a Database of Alcohol, Nicotine, Caffeine, and Opium in Early Modern England James Brown University of Sheffield	Tap with Jazzy Swing and Romantic Rubato: An Interactive Demonstration of Expressive Timing in Music Renee Timmers, Amy V. Beeston University of Sheffield

11:00 - 11:30

Tea Break Bar

11:30 - 13:00

Session 7 — Social Network Analysis High Tor 2 Chair: Michael Pidd	Session 8 — Interface Design for Users High Tor 3 Chair: Jamie McLaughlin	Session 9 — Linking Challenging Data High Tor 4 Chair: Katherine Rogers
Use of Social Network Analysis to Explore the People of Medieval Scotland Cornell Jackson, Matthew Hammond King’s College London	Participating in Search Design: Users as Designers Keira Borrill University of Sheffield	Methods for Mining Messy Real World Data: Co-reference Identification Using Fuzzy Logic Stephen Brown, Simon Coupland, David Croft De Montfort University, Leicester
Mapping Memory Landscapes in Nodegoat, the Case of the Indonesian Killings of 1965–66 Pim van Bree, Geert Kessels LAB1100	Building a New Historical Texts Service Scott Gibbens Jisc	Identifying the Irish in Textual Records in the Absence of Direct Evidence Adam Crymble King’s College London
Mapping Implicit Processes: Extracting Social Networks from Digital Corpora M. H. Beals Sheffield Hallam University	Cymru1914.org: Understanding Use and Impact of a First World War Digital Archive Lorna Hughes, Paul McCann, Owain Roberts National Library of Wales	From Napoleon Conquests to the Big Brother Sabotage: Harmonization of the Dutch Historical Censuses in the Semantic Web Albert Meroño-Peñuela, Ashkan Ashkpour VU University Amsterdam

13:00 - 14:00

Lunch Bar

14:00 - 15:30

Session 10 — AHRC Digital Transformations Theme Roundtable High Tor 2 Chair: Andrew Prescott	Session 11 — Re-Imagining Nineteenth Century Books High Tor 3 Chair: Sharon Howard	Session 12 — Language Analysis High Tor 4 Chair: Michael Pidd
Intellectual Property and Impact Andrew Prescott, Martin Eve, Charlotte Waelde, Simon Tanner AHRC	Digital Humanities 2.0? Exploring Creative Practice in the Transmedia Age Anthony Mandal Cardiff University	Let Erin Remember: Searching for Signs of Mental Decline in Thomas Moore’s Writings Francesca Benatti Open University
	Shakespeare in Bits and Bytes: The Victorian Illustrated Shakespeare Archive Michael John Goodman Cardiff University	Discovering the Unknown Unknowns: What NLP Reveals About Historical Datasets Katherine Rogers University of Sheffield
	Lost Visions: Retrieving the Visual Element of Printed Books From the Nineteenth Century Julia Thomas, Nicola Lloyd, Ian Harvey Cardiff University

15:30 - 16:00

Tea Break Bar

16:00 - 17:30

Plenary 2 High Tor 2 Chair: Michael Pidd
"All Our Yesterdays" : Europeana and the Phenomenology of Photographic Experience through the Framing of Digitization Fred Truyen KU Leuven

19:00

Conference Dinner Inox Dine

Saturday (6th September 2014)

09:30 - 11:00

Session 13 — Pedagogy in DH High Tor 2 Chair: Katherine Rogers	Session 14 — Data Driven High Tor 3 Chair: Michael Pidd	Session 15 — The Ecology of Archives High Tor 4 Chair: Sharon Howard
Students, Building, and Sharing Stephen H. Gregg Bath Spa University	Digitising Experiences of Migration: The Development of Interconnected Letter Collections Emma Moreton, Hilary Nesi, Niall O’Leary Coventry University	The Organisation of Physical Archives and the Challenges this Presents in Creating Digital Resources Ralph Morton Coventry University
Digital Humanities Pedagogy: Integrative Learning and New Ways of Thinking About Studying the Humanities Simon Mahony, Julianne Nyhan, Melissa Terras, Ulrich Tiedau UCL	Visualising Metaphor in English Marc Alexander, Ellen Bramwell University of Glasgow	Corpus Newtonicum: Towards a Digital Knowledge Site of Isaac Newton's Manuscripts Cornelis J. (Kees-Jan) Schilt University of Sussex
	TransVis - Working and Playing with Retranslations Corpora Tom Cheesman Swansea University	Book Ecology and Migrating Collections: The English Lake District and the Pacific Northwest Margaret Linley Simon Fraser University

11:00 - 11:30

Tea Break Bar

11:30 - 13:00

Session 16 — AHRC Digital Transformations Theme Roundtable High Tor 2 Chair: Andrew Prescott	Session 17 — Imaging the Artefact High Tor 3 Chair: Katherine Rogers	Session 18 — Modelling Meaning High Tor 4 Chair: Michael Pidd
Scaling Up the Arts and Humanities Andrew Prescott, Barry Godfrey, Daniel Powell, Andrew Wilson AHRC	Knowledge in Surface Details: Reflectance Transformation Imaging for Studying and Preserving Medieval Manuscripts Bill Endres University of Kentucky	Ontologies and the Humanities: Some Issues Affecting the Design of Digital Infrastructure Toby Burrows King’s College London
	Textiles and Data: Application of Computer Vision to Cross Collection Characterisation of Historic Silk Textiles Julia Galliker University of Birmingham	Developing the Historical Thesaurus Semantic Tagger Scott Piao, Fraser Dallachy, Alistair Baron, Paul Rayson, Marc Alexander Lancaster University
	A Proposed Method for the Digital Description and Analysis of Geometric Ornament Alice Humphrey University of Leeds	Computational Criticism: Using Quantitative Methods for the Interpretation of Poetry Peter Verhaar Leiden University

13:00 - 14:00

Lunch Dining Room

14:00 - 15:30

Plenary 3 High Tor 2 Chair: Michael Pidd
Knowledge Networks in the Humanities Paul Arthur University of Western Sydney

15:30

Close Reception

Programme

Texas A & M University

University of Sheffield

Jisc

University of Sheffield

University of Pennsylvania

Curtin University

Michigan State University

AHRC

University of Oxford

UCL

Trier Center for Digital Humanities

University of Oxford

University of Sheffield

University of Sheffield

King’s College London

University of Sheffield

De Montfort University, Leicester

LAB1100

Jisc

King’s College London

Sheffield Hallam University

National Library of Wales

VU University Amsterdam

AHRC

Cardiff University

Open University

Cardiff University

University of Sheffield

Cardiff University

KU Leuven

Bath Spa University

Coventry University

Coventry University

UCL

University of Glasgow

University of Sussex

Swansea University

Simon Fraser University

AHRC

University of Kentucky

King’s College London

University of Birmingham

Lancaster University

University of Leeds

Leiden University

University of Western Sydney