DH. Opportunities and Risks. Connecting Libraries and Research

Digital Humanities

Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Science (BBAW) - Leibniz Hall 08

Digital Humanities and citizen science - Greetings: President of DARIAH-EU: Laurent Romary (INRIA – DARIAH) - Chair: Mike Mertens (DARIAH-EU)

› The Karjala database – challenges and solutions for digitizing heterogeneous, old genealogical documents for the internet use - Jarmo Saarti (University of Eastern Finland), Satu Soivanen ((Karelian Database project - South-Eastern Finland University of Applied Sciences) and Jari Ropponen (Karelian Database-project - South-Eastern Finland University of Applied Sciences) 09:00-09:30 (30min)

› Direct access, user participation, new services – Some of ETH Library's steps beyond digitisation - Michael Gasser (Library of the ETH Zürich – Switzerland) 09:30-10:00 (30min)

› “Deutsche Biographie” as Historical Biographical Information System - Matthias Reinert (Historical Commission at the Bavarian Academy of Science) and Dirk Scholz (Bavarian State Library) 10:00-10:30 (30min)

Coffee break

Hot Topic Discussion

Sally Chambers (University of Ghent – Belgium) and Lotte Wilms ((KB - National Library of the Netherlands) - LIBER Working Group Digital Humanities

Summaries of the discussions

Lunch and End of the meeting