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SUMMARY:Friday Frontiers Webinar: Multilingual DH and Its Users: A UX-based
  Community Exploration
DESCRIPTION:Friday 11th April\, 10.30am IST / 11.30am CEST / 12.30pm EEST 
 \n\nSpeakers:  Aliz Horvath (Central European University\, Vienna)\, Cos
 ima Wagner (Freie Universität Berlin University Library)\, David Joseph W
 risley (NYU Abu Dhabi).\n\nRegistration: https://dariah.zoom.us/meeting/r
 egister/d5S7eXaBT5y9azoRUJe-Qg \n\nAbstract\n\nAlthough research and teac
 hing in most (digital) humanities disciplines are largely multilingual\, o
 ur institutional infrastructures still often fall short in accommodating o
 ur scholarly linguistic and geo-cultural diversity. Having studied the res
 ource gap of knowledge infrastructures and its implications for advancing 
 multilingual digital research\, in this talk we argue that there is a spec
 ific role to be played by the digital humanist\, first in drawing attentio
 n to the realities of our larger DH community\, and second in lobbying for
  the design of workflows which assume multilinguality (and multiscriptual 
 and multidirectional characteristics).  A wider conversation is urgently 
 needed amongst global DH practitioners and knowledge infrastructure design
 ers/managers about these issues. Drawing on methods in the UX community\, 
 we have developed six data-driven user personas from the DH community (a g
 raduate student\, a professor\, a librarian\, an academic technology speci
 alist\, etc.) The talk will address needs and challenges of multilingual D
 H practitioners\, through highlighting their broader relevance to the fiel
 d\, and staging a performative component using fictional (but revelatory) 
 interviews with the personas. This double mode of the talk demonstrates ho
 w the theoretical implications can be translated to individual knowledge a
 ctors and ultimately lobbies for more linguistic and geocultural diversity
 .\n\nAbout the speakers\n\nAlíz Horváth has a PhD in East Asian Languag
 es and Civilizations from the University of Chicago (2019) and currently w
 orks as assistant professor of East Asian history and Digital Humanities a
 t Central European University (Vienna\, Austria). She is interested in the
  mechanisms of transnational flows within and beyond East Asia (with a foc
 us on Japan\, China\, and Korea). She is also an avid advocate of linguist
 ic diversity in digital humanities and has published multiple articles on 
 language inclusivity in DH and on challenges and potential points for coll
 aboration in digital East Asian studies. She recently co-guest edited a sp
 ecial issue on East Asian studies and DH for the International Journal of
  Digital Humanities with Hilde De Weerdt. Beside regularly presenting her
  work at major international conferences and serving as peer reviewer for 
 multiple journals in East Asian studies and digital humanities\, she is al
 so co-founder and chair of the DARIAH Multilingual DH Working Group\, memb
 er of the Core Editorial Team for the DARIAH sustained project\, OpenMetho
 ds\, member of the editorial board for Asia Pacific Perspectives\, a topi
 c editor of the Asian and Asian Diaspora studies section of Reviews in DH
 \, member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of OPERAS\, member of the S
 cientific Committee of the overlay journal Transformations\, and former c
 ontributor to the pioneering NEH-funded project\, New Languages for NLP\,
  organized by Princeton.\n\nCosima Wagner is a research librarian at Frei
 e Universität Berlin University Library (Germany)\, with a background in 
 Japanese Studies\, History and Library & Information Science. After ten ye
 ars as faculty member (research fellow\, assistant professor) at the insti
 tute for Japanese Studies of Goethe-University / Frankfurt she is since 20
 13 serving as liaison to the East Asian Studies faculty at Freie Universit
 ät Berlin with a special focus on Digital Humanities\, Research Data Mana
 gement and Open Science. Her research interests include a Science & Techno
 logy Studies approach to knowledge infrastructure management\, multilingua
 lism and non-Latin scripts in the digital space\, Area Studies librariansh
 ip as well as critical algorithm studies. She is co-convenor of the Multil
 ingual DH working group within the DH association of the German-speaking a
 reas (DHd).\n\nDavid Joseph Wrisley is Professor of Digital Humanities at
  NYU Abu Dhabi (UAE). His research interests include comparative approache
 s to medieval literature in European languages and Arabic\, digital spatia
 l approaches to corpora\, neural methods for handwritten text recognition 
 across writing systems and open knowledge community building in the Middle
  East where he has lived and researched since 2002. He co-organized two RT
 L (right to left) conferences at the Digital Humanities Summer Institute a
 nd also co-founded two digital humanities training events in the Middle Ea
 st\, in Beirut in 2015 and in Abu Dhabi in 2020.
LOCATION:Online
URL:https://www.dariah.eu/events/friday-frontiers-webinar-multilingual-dh-a
 nd-its-users-a-ux-based-community-exploration
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