DARIAH is delighted to announce the details of the upcoming Friday Frontiers Spring 2024 series! Registration is now open for all the sessions in this series.
The Friday Frontiers webinars run in two series, twice a year: Spring and Autumn/Winter. The webinars offer an insight into the broad scope of innovative work that is carried out within the Digital Arts and Humanities in Europe and beyond, while also offering introductions to new methodologies and opening up discussion around ethical, societal and sometimes moral issues within the practice of research in Digital Humanities itself.
The schedule for talks is below.
8th March 2024
Title: Diamond publication and Open Science at University of Liège
Speaker: Dr. Bernard Pochet, University of Liége, Belgium
Time: 10.30am GMT / 11.30am CET / 12.30pm EET
Register: https://dariah.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUocuihqTguE9Kh_IICPRP88pAJdf7QuMoU
Description:
This presentation will trace the evolution of Open Science at the University of Liège in the early 2000s, focusing on Open Access and the implementation of a Diamant Open Access journal publishing platform (PoPuPS) and an institutional repository (ORBi). The concept has evolved over time to take into account other principles of Open Science, culminating with the publication of an Open Science roadmap for the University of Liège. This presentation will explain how our concerns fit into the European framework, and the role of the library in driving developments and progress.
5th April 2024
Title: Historical Farm and People Registry in Iceland – Turning static list entries into network nodes.
Speaker: Pétur Húni Björnsson, University of Reykjavík
Time: 10.30am IST / 11.30am CEST / 12.30pm EEST
Register: https://dariah.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0qf-ihrz8tGdBqzpnXSJb37xpSjpkOny14
Description:
The aim of developing the Historical Farm and People Registry is to create a reliable infrastructure for research involving data on people and places in Iceland from 1703 to 1920. This has been done by (a) establishing a reliable historical farm registry, (b) mapping census data onto the farm registry, and (c) connecting people between censuses, and thereby transforming the static lists of the censuses into an interconnected network of nodes. This presentation will outline the aim and scope of the project, explain the development process and problems encountered on the way, and demonstrate a use case for the ‘final’ product.
3rd May 2024
Title: Trialling Witchcraft: Adapting public history to new heritage settings
Speakers: Dr Andrew Sneddon & Dr Victoria McCollum, University of Ulster
Time: 10.30am IST / 11.30am CEST / 12.30pm EEST
Register: https://dariah.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwtcumqqzksHNCBCGVPvanbQsN9rvn61vcT
Description:
This talk will discuss the ongoing “The Islandmagee Witchcraft 1711 Digital and Creative Project” directed by Dr Andrew Sneddon (History) and Dr Victoria McCollum (Cinematic Arts) of Ulster University (Project website: w1711.org). This interdisciplinary project aims to take the last trial in Ireland under a witch act to new audiences using creative and digital technologies by producing: a new graphic novel; a video game; a bespoke animation; an interactive website; a play; a musical score and a Virtual Reality application. The talk will cover the challenges of this type of public history that deals with traumatic events in places with contested pasts, and how these can be overcome and hidden histories used to discuss wider issues of gender violence, othering, poverty and exclusion. Finally, we will cover how we adapted the project to a heritage setting in 2023 for a major exhibition, “Reimagining the Islandmagee Witches: an exhibition”.
All these webinars are free to attend, but registration is essential.
