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    General

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    Welcome to the LNU Digital Humanities Initiative Billboard!

    DigitalH

     dh@lnu.se  |   website  |   facebook  |   twitter 

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    Topic 1

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    Extended Papers of the International Symposium on Digital Humanities (DH 2016)

    Extended papers of the Digital Humanities International Symposium, held in Växjö on 7-8 November 2016, are available at, http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2021.

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    Digital Humanities Seminar Series

    The Digital Humanities (DH) Seminar Series is aimed at providing a forum for relevant DH discussion in the region and beyond, inspiring collaboration with wider audiences about the emerging field of DH field and University’s DH Initiative, thus both strengthening the DH Initiative’s established network, as well as creating a space for collaboration between universities and cross-sectoral partners at national and international levels.

    • 19 November 2015, Visual Analysis of multivariate data from different science domains - from biochemistry to social sciences: Ilir Jusufi
    • 19 November 2015, Mobile digital storytelling as means for influencing Technology Enhanced Learning sustainability in teacher practices: Aris Alissandrakis, Susanna Nordmark
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    Programming for Digital Humanities

    Our first course, Programing for Digital Humanities, towards the full Master in Digital Humanities is now open for applications.

    Course is given in an international distance mode in autumn semester and can be taken by anyone with a Bachelor of Arts degree. It is given at no charge to all EU citizens. Application deadline is 15 April.

    The aim of this course is to introduce and discuss fundamental concepts and techniques related to programming in the field of digital humanities. In this course, you will acquire knowledge and practical experience that will allow you to use programming as a powerful means of expression in the humanities and the arts. The knowledge and skills gained in this course will enable you how to apply and utilize different programming techniques to analyze and interpret subject matter in the field of humanities in novel ways.

    Please read more about the course at the following link, https://lnu.se/en/course/programming-for-digital-humanities/vaxjo-distance-part-time-autumn/.

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    Workshop on Digital Humanities education, 14 March 2017 at the 2nd DHN Conference, Gothenburg University

    Timetable

    9.10 - 9.30 Marianne Ping Huang: Digital Humanities education in DARIAH-EU

    9.30 - 9.50 Jenny Bergenmar: Master in Digital Humanities at the University of Gothenburg

    9.50 - 10.10 Annika Rockenberger: Digital Humanities education in Norway

    10.10 - 10.30 Mikko Tolonen: Digital Humanities education at the University of Helsinki

    10:30 - 11.00 COFFEE BREAK

    11.00 - 11.20 Fabian Schwabe: Stressing the Subjects -- Digital Humanities at the University of Tübingen

    11.20 - 11.40 Coppélie Cocq: Digital Humanities Education at Humlab, Umeå University

    11.40 - 12.00 Mats Dahlström: Master's course on Cultural Heritage digitization at the Swedish School of Library and Information Science

    12.00 - 12.20 Koraljka Golub: Digital Humanities education at Linnaeus University

    12.20 - 13.00 Discussion and conclusions

    For more information on the DHN-conference, please see http://dhn2017.eu/

    Organizers

    Jenny Bergenmar, Department of Literature, History of Ideas and Religion University of Gothenburg, Sweden jenny.bergenmar@lir.gu.se
    Koraljka Golub (primary contact), Department of Cultural Sciences Linnaeus University, Sweden koraljka.golub@lnu.se
    Isto Huvila, Department of Archival Science, Library & Information Science, and Museum & Heritage Studies Uppsala University, Sweden isto.huvila@abm.uu.se
    Marcelo Milrad, Department of Media Technology Linnaeus University, Sweden marcelo.milrad@lnu.se
    Mikko Tolonen, Helsinki Collegium of Advanced Studies University of Helsinki mikko.tolonen@helsinki.fi 
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    Digital Humanities Symposium -- Summary of Twitter Activity

    Purpose This is a brief summary and outcomes of the twitter activity that took place during the Digital Humanities symposium1 in early November 2016 at Växjö, Sweden.

    In order to stimulate discussion about Digital Humanities (DH), we asked2 the participants of the symposium to choose between four options of what a suitable definition of DH could be.

    Technical details We were able to use the existing server implementation from our PEAR 4 VXO deploy- ment3, monitoring for any tweets that included the Linnæus University (LNU) Digital Humanities twitter account (@DigHum LNU) and any of the following hashtags: #DHoverlap, #DHapplication, #DHtools, and #DHother.

    Although we prepared one, we chose not to release a dedicated Augmented Reality (AR) app, but to focus on the twitter activity. Instead we showed the live AR visualization on a large screen at the room where the symposium took place, using a webcam and a desktop version of the app on an iOS laptop.

    Participation Figure 1 (left) shows when the relevant tweets were composed. The shaded area indicates when the symposium took place (on November 7 and 8). The red area indicates when a demo/presentation about PEAR took place in the last session of the first day. The letters E and T indicate when information emails and tweets about the activity were sent by the organizers. 

    Figure 1: Twitter activity before & during the symposium (left), and the results (right). 

    Results There have been overall 21 tweets, including 2 re-tweets by @DigHum LNU which are removed for the results – so only 19 tweets from 15 participants were considered. Figure 1 (right) shows the final distribution of opinions.

    The system keeps track of the latest opinion per each participating Twitter account. Two participants tweeted multiple times with the same hashtag (#DHoverlap and #DHtools, three and two times respectively), and another participant tweeted twice with different hashtags indicating a change of mind (#DHovelap ⇒ #DHtools). One participant included two hashtags in one tweet (#DHoverlap, #DHtools) but only the last option was counted; this is a minor technical issue at the moment.

    For any additional questions, comments, or how to deploy and make use of our PEAR frame- work please contact Dr. Aris Alissandrakis [aris.alissandrakislnu.se] at the Department of Media Technology, LNU.

    1 https://lnu.se/en/research/conferences/international- digital- humanities- symposium/
    2 https://lnu.se/en/research/conferences/international- digital- humanities- symposium/twitter/
    3please see Alissandrakis and Reski, PEAR 4 VXO: A Case Study Using an Augmented Reality Framework to Facilitate

    Public Engagement, in the proceedings 

    There have been overall 21 tweets, including 2 re-tweets by @DigHum LNU which are removed for the results – so only 19 tweets from 15 participants were considered. Figure 1 (right) shows the final distribution of opinions.

    The system keeps track of the latest opinion per each participating Twitter account. Two participants tweeted multiple times with the same hashtag (#DHoverlap and #DHtools, three and two times respectively), and another participant tweeted twice with different hashtags indicating a change of mind (#DHovelap ⇒ #DHtools). One participant included two hashtags in one tweet (#DHoverlap, #DHtools) but only the last option was counted; this is a minor technical issue at the moment.

    For any additional questions, comments, or how to deploy and make use of our PEAR frame- work please contact Dr. Aris Alissandrakis [aris.alissandrakislnu.se] at the Department of Media Technology, LNU.

    1 https://lnu.se/en/research/conferences/international- digital- humanities- symposium/
    2 https://lnu.se/en/research/conferences/international- digital- humanities- symposium/twitter/
    3 please see Alissandrakis and Reski, PEAR 4 VXO: A Case Study Using an Augmented Reality Framework to Facilitate Public Engagement, in the book of abstracts

     
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    CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS AND DEMOS (extended deadline!)

    International Digital Humanities Symposium, 7-8 Nov 2016

    Organized by Digital Humanities Initiative at Linnaeus University
    Co-sponsored by Växjö Kommun, Växjö City Library

    Big Data Consortium with funding from Linnaeus Universitet with Region Kronoberg and Regionförbundet i Kalmar län, IEC -- Information Engineering Centre

    Supported by DARIAH-EU

     

    Call for Participation:

    Registration is now open and it's free of charge thanks to our sponsors. Please register by 24th October at: https://dinkurs.se/appliance/?event_id=40566

    Objective and Scope:

    Recent developments in Information and Communication Technologies  (ICT)  and interactive applications are creating new social tools and conditions for people to connect and interact; therefore changing the ways we communicate, socialize and collaborate. These new forms of digital enhanced communication and collaboration have been rapidly adopted and integrated into people’s everyday lives. Understanding the nature and consequences of these new interactions and social transformations is crucial if we want to design and shape a better future where digital technologies become an integral component of our life. One major challenge we have identified is the exploration of the two-way interactions between society and ICT with a focus on the Humanities. This particular orientation has the potential to become a key success factor for the values and competitiveness of many Nordic countries having in mind recent EU and Swedish political discussions in the field of Digital Humanities.

    The 1st International Digital Humanities Symposium will take place in Växjö, Sweden, 7-8 November. The symposium invites and challenges Nordic and  European researchers and practitioners in related disciplines to Digital Humanities (DH) to present, discuss and demonstrate different possibilities, current efforts and upcoming trends in this emergent field.

    The symposium is organized by Digital Humanities Initiative at Linnaeus University and co-sponsored with Växjö Kommun, Växjö City Library, Big Data Consortium with funding from Linnaeus Universitet with Region Kronoberg and Regionförbundet i Kalmar län, IEC -- Information Engineering Centre with a support of DARIAH-EU and Växjö Library.

    Confirmed invited speakers:

    Important Dates:

    • Submission deadline: Friday, 16 September 2016, 29 September 2016 (now extended due to many requests)
    • Notification of acceptance: Friday, 30 September 2016, 10 October 2016
    • Symposium´s dates: Monday and Tuesday, 7 and 8 November 2016

    Proposals are invited for the following categories:

    Presentations (typically 15 minutes plus discussion time, potentially longer if warranted) on work related to the themes of the symposium (see below).
    Interactive Demos on work related to the themes of the symposium (see below).
    Posters on work related to the themes of the symposium (see below).

    • Please email proposals (maximum 1000 words for presentations and 500 words for demos and posters, including aims, research questions, methods, main findings and underlying work, relevance to themes of workshop) to dh@lnu.se.
    • Please use the template available at http://goo.gl/OtPQ5 to submit your contribution.

    The main themes for the symposium are:

    1. Defining Digital Humanities. Digital Humanities are still an emerging field and exploring how the humanities may evolve through their engagement with technology is an important discussion topic.
    2. Cross-sector collaboration in Digital Humanities to address societal challenges. Digital Humanities bear the potential for the academic and public and private sectors to collaborate on interdisciplinary research and innovation to tackle societal challenges.
    3. Combining methodologies and approaches from different disciplines supported by computational tools. Special emphasis should be given to methodological issues of cross-disciplinary collaboration.

    Further timely presentations/demonstrations/posters will be selected from the following topics in the CfP:
    1. Curating online collections of data and information resources
    2. Metadata and interoperability
    3. Data mining large cultural data sets
    4. Application of tools provided by computing (such as Hypertext, Hypermedia, data visualisation, information retrieval, data mining, text categorization, statistics, text mining, digital mapping) in the humanities
    5. Digital publishing
    6. Novel uses and applications of Interactive visualization techniques
    7. GIS (Geographical Information Systems)
    8. Multimedia games
    9. Digital story telling
    10. Social network analysis
    11. Bibliometrics /scientometrics / informetrics.

    Program Committee

    Mats Dahlström, Professor in Digital Humanities, the only Swedish iSchool, The Swedish School of Library and Information Science, University of Borås

    Elisabet Göransson, Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap, Digital tools in the humanities seminar series, Lund University, Sweden; Forskningsprogrammet Ars edendi, Avdelningen för klassiska språk, Stockholm University, Sweden

    Jutta Haider, Information Studies, Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences, Lund university

    Isto Huvila, Department of Archives, Libraries, Museums, Uppsala University, Sweden

    Annemarie Lloyd, Swedish School of Library and Information Science, University of Borås, Sweden

    Maija Paavolainen, University of Helsinki Library, Finland

    Franjo Pehar, University of Zadar, Croatia

    Michael Pidd, Digital Director of HRI Digital at the Humanities Research Institute, University of Sheffield, UK

    Annika Rockenberger, University of Oslo, Norway

    Henriette Roued-Cunliffe, Danish Royal School of Library and Information Science, Denmark

    Nevena Skrbic Alempijevic, University of Zagreb, Croatia

    Kim Tallerås, Oslo and Akershus University College, Norway

    Mikko Tolonen, University of Helsinki, Finland

    Francesca Tomasi, University of Bologna, Italy

    Marijana Tomic, University of Zadar, Croatia

    Johan Åhlfeldt, Centre forTheology and Religious Studies, Lund University, Sweden (see also http://dare.ht.lu.se, http://monastica.ht.lu.se,http://projekt.ht.lu.se).

    On travelling to Sweden from outside the EU

    Please note that symposium´s participants coming from outside the EU and entering into Sweden may be subject to Visa requirements (see http://www.migrationsverket.se/English/Private-individuals/Visiting-Sweden.html).

    Registration

    Registration for the symposium will be free of charge. A complementary symposium dinner will be offered to all participants of the event.

    Registration of participants is open until 24 October 2016, please follow the link: https://dinkurs.se/appliance/?event_id=40566

    We hope to see you here in Växjö, Sweden!

    Best regards,
    The symposium organizing committee

    Koraljka Golub, Associate Professor (primary contact), Department of Library and Information Science, School of Cultural Sciences, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Linnaeus University

    Marcelo Milrad, Professor, Department of Media Technology, Faculty of Technology, Linnaeus University

    Tamara Laketic, Project Assistant, Digital Humanities Initiative, Linnaeus University

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    CALL FOR PARTICIPATION!

    International Digital Humanities Symposium

    7-8 November 2016

    Organized by Digital Humanities Initiative at Linnaeus University

    Co-sponsored by Växjö Kommun, Big Data Consortium with funding from 

    Linnaeus Universitet with Region Kronoberg and Regionförbundet i Kalmar län, IEC -- Information Engineering Centre

    Supported by DARIAH-EU,  Växjö Library

    Call for Participation

    • Registration is now open and it's free of charge, thanks to our sponsors, for those who register at link hereafter before 24 October 2016:https://dinkurs.se/appliance/?event_id=40566
    • Please find information about accommodation and traveling to Växjö in the link below
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    Welcome to new supporters of the Initiative!

    While the members of the LNU´s Digital Humanities Initiative were 32 at the time of the submission of the proposal, others have expressed their interest in joining the network -- and may I express my warmest welcome to them! 

    Linnaeus University - Sweden

    1. Jasmina Maric, Senior lecturer, The Swedish School of Library and Information Science, University of Borås
    2. Arwid Lund, Senior Lecturer, Department of Cultural Sciences, Faculty of Arts and Humanities
    3. Dagmar Brunow, Senior Lecturer, Department of Film and Literature, Faculty of Arts and Humanities
    4. Nico Reski, Doctoral Student, Department of Media Technology, Faculty of Technology
    5. Anders Åberg, Senior Lecturer, Head of Department, Department of Film and Literature, Faculty of Arts and Humanities; Linnaeus University Centre for Intermedial and Multimodal Studies
    6. Nuno Otero, Associate Professor, Department of Media Technology, Faculty of Technology
    7. Christina Rosén, Senior Lecturer, Department of Languages, Faculty of Arts and Humanities
    8. Charlotte Hommerberg, Senior Lecturer, Department of Languages, Faculty of Arts and Humanities; Linnaeus University Centre for Intermedial and Multimodal Studies
    9. Jukka Tyrkkö, Professor, Department of Languages, Faculty of Arts and Humanities
    10. Hans Sternudd, Associate Professor, Pro-Dean, Department of Music and Art, Faculty of Arts and Humanities
    11. David Örbring, Lecturer, Department of Cultural Sciences, Faculty of Arts and Humanities
    12. Jonas Svensson, Professor, Department of Cultural Sciences, Faculty of Arts and Humanities
    13. Åsa Trulsson, Associate Senior Lecturer, Department of Cultural Sciences, Faculty of Arts and Humanities
    14. Ted Gunnarsson, Librarian, The University Library
    15. Sara Ahlryd, Lecturer, Department of Cultural Sciences, Faculty of Arts and Humanities
    16. Magnus Levin, Associate Professor, Department of Languages, Faculty of Arts and Humanities
    17. Anita Mirijamdotter, Professor, Department of Informatics, Faculty of Technology
    18. Mikael Rennemark, Professor, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences
    19. Mikko Laitinen, Professor, Department of Languages, Faculty of Arts and Humanities; Linnaeus University Centre for Data Intensive Sciences and Applications
    20. Cecilia Trenter, Associate Professor, Department of Cultural Sciences, Faculty of Arts and Humanities
    21. Beate Schirrmacher, Senior Lecturer, Department of Film and Literature, Faculty of Arts and Humanities; Linnaeus University Centre for Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies
    22. Johan Höglund, Associate Professor, Department of Languages, Faculty of Arts and Humanities; Linnaeus University Centre for Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies
    23. Peter Forsgren, Professor, Department of Film and Literature, Faculty of Arts and Humanities; Linnaeus University Centre for Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies
    24. Aris Alissandrakis, Senior Lecturer, Department of Media Technology, Faculty of Technology
    25. Vasilis Papageorgiou, Professor, Department of Film and Literature, Faculty of Arts and Humanities
    26. Anette Forsberg, Senior Lecturer, Department of Media and Journalism, Faculty of Arts and Humanities
    27. Fredrik Gröhn, Student, Department of Cultural Sciences, Faculty of Arts and Humanities

    Supporters from other Academic Institutions

    ASIA

    1. Jianbo Gao, Distinguished Professor, Founding Director, Institute of Complexity Science and Big Data Technology, Guangxi University, China

    AUSTRALIA

    1. Deb Verhoven, Faculty of Arts and Education, Deakin University, Australia
    2. Theresa Anderson, University of Technology Sydney, Australia

    EUROPE

    1. Ramón Reichert, University of Vienna, Department for Theatre, Film and Media Studies, Austria
    2. Dimitar Ilieve, Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, Bulgaria
    3. Dobromir Dobrev, Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, Bulgaria
    4. Nevena Skrbic Alempijevic, Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Croatia
    5. Marijana Tomic, Department of Information Science, University of Zadar, Croatia
    6. Franjo Pehar, Department of Information Science, University of Zadar, Croatia
    7. Kresimir Zauder, Department of Information Science, University of Zadar, Croatia
    8. Marianne Ping Huang, Developer Cultural Creative Collaborations and Digital Humanities, Faculty of Arts, Aarhus University, Denmark
    9. Henriette Roued-Cunliffe, Royal School of Library and Information Science, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
    10. Ylva Grufstedt, Department of Philosophy, History, Culture and Art Studies, University of Helsinki
    11. Petri Paju, Department of Cultural History, University of Turku, Finland
    12. Maija Paavolainen, Faculty of Arts, University of Helsinki, Finland
    13. Mikko Tolonen, Department of Modern Languages, University of Helsinki, Finland
    14. Eetu Mäkelä, Semantic Computing Research Group (SeCo), Aalto University, University of Helsinki, University of Oxford, Finland
    15. Fidelia Ibekwe-Sanjuan, School of Communication & Journalism, Aix-Marseille University, France
    16. Skadi Loist, Faculty of Arts, University of Rostock, Germany
    17. Cathal Hoare, University College Cork, Ireland
    18. Emmanuela Carbé, University of Pavia, Italy
    19. Francesca Tomasi, Department of Philology and Italian studies, University of Bologna, Italy
    20. Thomas Sørlie Hansen, Faculty of Humanities, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
    21. Andreas Bergsland, Music Technology Program, Department of Music, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
    22. Annika Rockenberger, Department of Literature, University of Oslo, Norway
    23. Kim Tallerås, Department of Archivistics, Library and Information Science, University of Oslo and Akershus University College, Norway
    24. Tanja Merčun Kariž, Department of Library and Information Science and Book studies, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
    25. Anna Lund, Associate Professor, Department of Child and Youth Studies, Stockholm University; Faculty Fellow, Center for Cultural Sociology, Yale University (USA), Sweden
    26. Anna Foka, Associate Senior Lecturer, HUMLab, Umeå University, Sweden
    27. Paula Quinon, Department of Philosophy, The Faculties of Humanities and Theology, Lund University, Sweden
    28. Anamaria Dutceac Segesten, European Studies, Center for Language and Literature, Joint Faculties of Humanities and Theology, Lund University, Sweden
    29. Olle Sköld, Library and Information Science, Department of ABM, University of Uppsala, Sweden
    30. Cecilia Lindhé, Centre for Digital Humanities, Gothenburg University, Sweden
    31. Annemaree Lloyd, Swedish School of Library and Information Science, University of Borås, Sweden
    32. Anna Nilsson Hammar, Department of History, Lund University, Sweden
    33. Johan Åhlfeldt, Centre for Theology and Religious Studies, Lund University (see also http://dare.ht.lu.se, http://monastica.ht.lu.se, http://projekt.ht.lu.se/nyckeln), Sweden
    34. Michael Pidd, Digital Director of HRI Digital at the Humanities Research Institute, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom

    NORTH AMERICA 

    1. Timothy Tangherlini, The Scandinavian Section and Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, University of California, Los Angeles, United States of America
    2. Marta M. Deyrup, University Libraries, Seton Hall University, United States of America
    3. Manfred Minimair, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Seton Hall University, United States of America
    4. Paige C. Morgan, Digital Humanities Librarian, University of Miami Libraries, United States of America

    SOUTH AMERICA

    1. João Queiroz, Institute of Arts and Design, Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil
    2. Nicola Wills-Espinosa, Dean at Faculty of Human Ecology, Education and Development, Casa Grande University, Ecuador
    3. María Mercedes Zerega, Vice chancellor at Casa Grande University, Ecuador 

    Public and Private Sector

    EUROPE

    1. Koraljka Kuzman Šlogar, The Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research, Croatia
    2. Kafé de luxe, Represented by Nils Hector, Sweden
    3. Information Engineering Center, Represented by Diana Unander Nordle, Research and collaboration project, Linnaeus University, Sweden
    4. Björn Samuelsson, Culture and Leisure Department, Kalmar Municipality, Sweden
    5. Carolina Jonsson-Malm, Center for Applied Cultural Heritage at Kalmar County Museum, Sweden
    6. DiK, Represented by Bo Westas, Professional association and a trade union for university graduates in the fields of culture and communication, Sweden 
    7. Norton Ozkoray, Communications consultant, Sweden
    8. Peter Hartman, Entrepreneur, Sweden
    9. Gautam Billore, private consultant, Sweden

    NORTH AMERICA

    1. Nicole Saylor, Head of the American Folklife Center Archive at the Library of Congress, United States of America

    Advisors

    AUSTRALIA

    1. Ann McGarth, Director of Australian Centre for Indigenous History, College of Arts & Social Sciences, Australian National University, Australia

    EUROPE

    1. Jane Winters, Professor of Digital Humanities, School of Advanced Study, University of London, United Kingdom
    2. Lorna Hughes, Professor in Digital Humanities, School of Humanities, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
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    Participants

    This is the list of participant at the time of the proposal has been submitted; new are welcome to join the network.

    Participants

    Leaders

      1. Koraljka Golub, Department of Cultural Sciences, Faculty of Arts and Humanities
      2. Marcelo Milrad, Department of Media Technology, Faculty of Technology

    Linnaeus University partners (including University Library)

      1. Andreas Kerren, Professor, Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Technology
      2. Annelie Ekelin, Senior Lecturer, Department of Media and Journalism, Faculty of Arts and Humanities
      3. Bodil Petersson, Associate Professor, Department of Cultural Sciences, Faculty of Arts and Humanities
      4. Helena Carlsson Juhlin, Section Manager, The University Library
      5. Ilir Jusufi, Senior Lecturer, Department of Media Technology, Faculty of Technology
      6. Ingemar Gunnarsson, Research Strategist, The University Library
      7. Joacim Hansson, Professor, Department of Cultural Sciences, Faculty of Arts and Humanities
      8. Jonas Barck, Administration Leader, The University Library
      9. Jørgen Bruhn, Professor, Department of Film and Literature, Faculty of Arts and Humanities; Linnaeus University Centre for Intermedial and Multimodal Studies
      10. Kristoffer Holt, Senior Lecturer, Department of Media and Journalism, Faculty of Arts and Humanities
      11. Renaud de la Brosse, Professor, Department of Media and Journalism, Faculty of Arts and Humanities
      12. Soniya Billore, Senior Lecturer, Department of Marketing, School of Business and Economics
      13. Susanna Nordmark, Doctoral Student, Teacher Training Office, Board of Teacher Education

    Non-academic partners (Public and Private sector)

    Africa

    1. Tunisia Broadcasting Authority, Tunisia

    Europe

    1. AV-Media, Region Kronoberg (Lennart Axelsson), Sweden
    2. Biblioteksutveckling Blekinge Kronoberg (BiBK) (Maria Lundquist), Sweden
    3. Biblioteksutveckling Blekinge Kronoberg (BiBK) (Weine Sundell), Sweden
    4. Det fria ordets hus (Alexandra Stiernspetz Nylén), Sweden
    5. Kalmar County Museum (Fredrik Gunnarsson), Sweden
    6. Kalmar County Museum (Helena Victor), Sweden
    7. Kulturparken Småland (Håkan Nordmark), Sweden
    8. Smålands Musikarkiv (Mathias Boström), Sweden
    9. Växjö City Library (Robert Bunjaku), Sweden
    10. Växjö Kommun (Daniel Skogberg), Sweden
    11. Växjö Kommun (Fredrik Sandblad), Sweden

    Supporting partners (advisory role)

    Europe

    1. Tatjana Aparac Jelušić, Distinguished Professor, University of Zadar, founder of Joint Master Programme Written heritage in the Digital Environment at the University of Zadar and Osijek, Croatia; co-founder of Libraries in the Digital Age conferences; Founder of the international PhD programme in Information Sciences, together with UCLA and Rutgers, Croatia
    2. Elisabet Göransson, Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap, Digital tools in the humanities seminar series, Lund University; Forskningsprogrammet Ars edendi, Avdelningen för klassiska språk, Stockholm University, Sweden
    3. Isto Huvila, Department of Archives, Libraries, Museums, Uppsala University, Sweden
    4. Jutta Haider, Advisor role till October 2016 due to external factors, Information Studies, Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences, Lund university, Sweden
    5. Mats Dahlström, Professor in Digital Humanities, the only Swedish iSchool, Borås University, Sweden
    6. Stefan Gelfgren, Head of Humanites Lab, Umeå University, Sweden
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    Education plans

    • LNU Digital Humanities Initiative with contributors has submitted a proposal of Master Programme in Digital Humanities to the Linnaeus University on 9th September 2016

    • At the meeting held on 31 March between colleagues from  departments of Computer Science, Cultural Sciences, Languages and Media Technology discussions have progressed towards defining a cross-disciplinary international distance module. The module would comprise several relevant areas, with students being able to choose their own background discipline as an application field in project coursework. The module would ideally be preceded by an programming course for the humanities. 
    • After initial incentive at the FKH´s dean meeting held on 26 January 2016, plans are now underway to offer a pilot module in digital humanities / big data for humanities.

     

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    Collaboration on innovation and research

    • The first Swedish university to have joined DARIAH-EU
    • Project listed at EADH (European Association for Digital Humanities)
    • A joint cross-university proposal for a new LNUC has been started with Big Data. While one focus would be on developing algorithms and establishing computational infrastructure needed, another one would be on applications of Big Data; in the latter respect, Digital Humanities is a fruitful field that could surely benefit from the technological expertise on Big Data. In addition, a newsletter on Big Data is now jointly edited by Digital Humanities and Big Data initiators.
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    Pilot projects

    Three groups of pilots

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    Ringsberg/Kristinebergs collaboration

    Marcelo Milrad and Aris Alissandrakis from Media Technology Department at LNU are running a new activity with the Vaxjo kommun (contact person: Jonna Wehlin) regarding the use of AR and novel interaction techniques for public engagement [in particular, ask the public to vote on four different options regarding what to do with the future Ringsberg/Kristinebergs development].

    This content was the demo that Aris showed in the first kickoff:

    * Initially the activity was going to take place during the "digital

    week" (end of April) but instead it will be launched in the end of May (Vårstad weekend) and will be active during the entire summer

    * At the time being, the project is internally and tentatively called PEAR (Augmented Reality for Public Engagement), not sure if we will keep the name :)

    * According to Jonna, there might be a small newspaper article closer to the launch of the project

    * Please note that the technology that was developed for this activity can be easily reused and re purposed for other future projects -- the data that are visualised don't only need to come from participating people, but could also be from websites, sensor values etc.

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    The first Nordic Conference on Digital Humanities, Oslo, 15-17 March 2016

    The first conference on Digital Humanities in Nordic countries was an exciting mind-widening and networking event, numbering over 220 participants from research and infrastructure environments.

    Five parallel sessions were held during most of the conference, on topics ranging from linking cultural heritage in the semantic web (introduced in a keynote by Francesca Tomasi), digitisation, visualisation, media, history, literary studies, musicology, infrastructure, social web, spatial humanities, corpus linguistics, maps, art history, text mining, to education in digital humanities. The book of abstracts is freely available. The keynote on the prospects of Digital Humanities in the Nordic countries by Patrik Svensson is video recorded and from the website.

    What's in it for us at LNU? The LNU´s Digital Humanities Initiative was promoted in the form of leaflets distributed to all the conference participants, as well as discussions with the keynote speakers, representatives of digital humanities units from Oslo, Helsinki, and infrastructures like the Swedish
    National Data Service, Digisam (Swedish secretariat for national coordination of digitisation of cultural heritage), Swedish National Library, the US Library of Congress and a number of others (including my first ever Digital Humanities librarian).

    Many have expressed the support for the cross-sector and cross-disciplinary nature of our initiative and further collaboration is planned. Some have already agreed to take on possible advisory and/or co-participatory roles in our future developments, including in establishment of Master modules / programmes (cf. http://blogs.helsinki.fi/mstolone/2015/08/17/digital-humanities-minor-subject-study-block-25-credits-university-of-helsinki-faculty-of-arts-2015-16/), participation at the workshop at the end of 2016 and related events, as well as potential projects in specific areas of the digital humanities arena.

    Apart from further engagement with major players in the Nordic / international fields, both in teaching/research and infrastructure, concrete action plans are to join the EU network DARIAH (Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities), a European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC) for the Arts and Humanities in e-Science. For LNU this would provide access to several hundreds of scholars and dozens of research facilities in currently 17 European countries. DARIAH provides know-how in digital tools, organises learning opportunities for digital research methods, like workshops and summer schools, and offers training materials for Digital Humanities. The DARIAH community also works together in working groups, with subjects ranging from the assessment of digital tools to the development of standards and the long term accessibility of research materials. Last but not the least, this would prominently position LNU in Sweden as well, being the first Swedish institution to join DARIAH.

    In addition, while the topics like digital story telling, gaming and interactivity are well accepted topics in the world of Digital Humanities, these were lacking at the Nordic conference. Therefore, an opportunity for LNU and its partners stands open and an idea is to suggest a pre-conference at LNU with focus on these topics at LNU to the following year´s Digital Humanities in Nordic Countries, already scheduled to be hosted by Gothenburg University.

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    Digital Humanities Press Release

    Digital Humaniora: Ett nytt och spännande initiativ vid Linnéuniversitetet

    En grupp forskare vid Linnéuniversitetet är nu i full färd med att starta ett nytt initiativ där den digitala tekniken och humaniora möts på nya sätt
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    About the Initiative

    1 Introduction

    1.1 Why we need the initiative on digital humanities

    Recent developments in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and interactive applications are creating new social tools and conditions for people to connect and interact; therefore changing the ways we communicate, socialize and collaborate. These new forms of digital enhanced communication and collaboration have been rapidly adopted and integrated into people’s everyday lives. Understanding the nature and consequences of these new interactions and social transformations is crucial if we want to design and shape a better future where digital technologies become an integral component for enriching our life. One major challenge we have identified is the exploration of the two-way interactions between society and ICT with a focus on the Humanities. This particular orientation has the potential to become a key success factor for the values and competitiveness of the entire Linnaeus region having in mind recent EU and Swedish political discussions in the field of Digital Humanities.

    1.2 What we mean by digital humanities

    Digital humanities has been attempted to be defined by numerous authors and in many contexts. Here we take the broad viewpoint of it as “a diverse and still emerging field that encompasses the practice of humanities research in and through information technology, and the exploration of how the humanities may evolve through their engagement with technology, media, and computational methods” (Digital Humanities Quarterly Journal). It lies at the intersection of ICT and humanities, which is being continually formulated by scholars and practitioners; it can include but is not limited to topics like big data, data mining, text categorization, metadata, interoperability standards, interactive visualization, GIS (Geographical Information Systems), multimedia games, digital story telling, social network analysis, bibliometrics.

    Furthermore, there is a need for collaborative efforts to understand the challenges and possibilities in digital humanities, which we are trying to address with this cross-discipline and cross-sector application. As “the current landscape is multifaceted and characterized by a range of epistemic traditions and modes of engagement, and while there is a great deal of overlap and common interests, there is also a need of increased shared awareness. It could be argued that a better understanding of the landscape of the digital humanities, epistemic traditions and collaborative possibilities are vital to the further development of the field. A respectful dialogue of visions, agendas, competencies and research interests across much of this landscape can help us meet a range of exciting upcoming challenges” (Svensson 2010). As seen from participants’ various input related to the short- and long-term values for them and activities which they conduct, they all belong to digital humanities; however, the challenge we would like to address with this project is to find the overlap which is the core of the field, what is the whole picture, and how to combine the “lego” pieces for addressing societal and research challenges in a more comprehensive and systematic approach.

    1.3 How we would build digital humanities along cross-sector axes

    The core idea of our proposal at this first phase (12-15 months) is to establish the foundations for the creation of a Digital Humanities initiative at the Linnaeus region, by combining some already existing expertise and resources at LNU and the wider community through input from related public and private sectors, resulting in the establishment of new top-notch research and highly skilled professionals tackling societal challenges, making LNU indeed ”the university where everything is possible”. In a second phase (24-48 months) this Digital Humanities initiative could grow into an even broader area based on data, information, knowledge and their relationship with technology, involving more departments, working on projects relevant to society, and creating more attractive professional courses and inter(national) programmes at master level with various specialisations. Our long-term vision is to create a leading education, development and research regional centre that combines in novel ways already existing expertise from different LNU departments and faculties working in close collaboration and co-creation with people and different organizations (both public and private sector) from the surrounding society. Addressing future societal challenges would be possible by highly skilled professionals whose education has been markedly enhanced by practice-informed education and joint, cross-sector innovation.

    Strategic values to be developed during these efforts refer to uniting and consolidating the expertise we already have to create new constellations for collaboration leading to new knowledge and products (expertise, education, research, public and commercial services relevant for the region, such as a cultural tourism industry perspective), resulting in a return in investment. Our hope is that, based on the planned achievements, an important value for the general public could be a (re)-affirmation of the value of humanities in particular, and academic practices in general. Our long-term strategy is to develop a creative knowledge environment in the spirit of Linnaeus that carries out prominent development and research activities within the field of Digital Humanities both at regional and international scale, serving as a catalyst for driving a societal change with a focus on innovations and sustainable growth. All these lines of action are much aligned with LNU´s strategy as described in the document "A journey into the future: Vision and strategy 2015–2020".

    The full project proposal is available at the link below.

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    Related links

    1. At the ESRI International Users’ conference in San Diego, archaeologists Fredrik Gunnarsson and Nicholas Nilsson recently presented the case study of Sandby borg: http://video.esri.com/watch/5171/kalmar-county-museum. ESRI now supports Kalmar County Museum’s documentation strategy IDA, Instant Field Documentation, with their products that relate to GIS systems. The Sandby borg dig is a case study they follow and will contribute to the development of.
    2. Digital history in Finland roadmap project https://digihistfinlandroadmapblog.wordpress.com/2016/03/10/towards-a-roadmap-for-digital-history-in-finland/
    3. Blog on Helsinki DH activities http://blogs.helsinki.fi/mstolone/
    4. Bodil Petersson was at the DigiKult conference 2016 (Digitalt kulturarv i praktiken), in Göteborg. There lectures are available on the web, at http://www.digikult.se.
    5. Day of DH 2016, 8 April 2016: http://dayofdh2016.linhd.es
    6. 1st International Workshop on Big Data in Digital Cultural Heritage: http://www.digitalmeetsculture.net/article/1st-international-workshop-on-big-data-in-digital-cultural-heritage/