The focus of this event is to engage academia, industry, cultural
institutions and public bodies to identify the key research challenges
in digital humanities, and to further build the academic-industry
partnerships that will enable adoption of digital humanities skills,
technologies and tools. This focus will extend to the innovative use of
digital humanities technologies in the public sector demonstrating
social benefit, such as the digitisation of the Irish census and the use
of open linked public data.
This is the first in a series of workshops targeting the
industry-academic interface for identifying and realising the
opportunities of the digital humanities. The event is jointly organised
by the two major digital humanities national infrastructures (the DRI
and the DHO), and the largest semantic web research Institute (DERI),
together with a large-scale European digital infrastructure for the Arts
and Humanities (DARIAH).
During the three days, participants will expand their skills through a
series of workshops lead by subject matter experts, in the areas of data
visualisation and in the application of linked data to leverage the
semantic web for scholarly humanities research. This workshop will
combine a day of hands-on practical application with master classes and
lectures and a day long symposium drawing together academic and industry
practitioners.