I. DHLU Symposium 2012 Websites as sources
II. THATCamp Luxembourg/Greater Region

DHLU Symposium 2012 Websites as sources
How should humanities and social sciences approach, use and diffuse publicly available online sources? The Jean Monnet Chair in History of European Integration and its Research Programme ‘Digital Humanities Luxembourg’ — DIHULUX (research unit Identités-Politiques-Sociétés-Espaces [IPSE]), together with the Centre Virtuel de la Connaissance sur l’Europe (CVCE), are pleased to launch the call for papers for the DHLU Symposium 2012. This Symposium follows the DHLU Symposium 2009, also organised in Luxembourg by these two institutions on the topic of ‘Contemporary history in the digital age’.
This second edition aims to examine the use of websites as sources for research in the humanities and social sciences, especially encouraging an analysis of this heuristic question in the field of on European integration studies (EIS). The Symposium will address both methodological aspects and the theoretical and institutional implications of the public dissemination of research results, focusing on digitised and online published sources as well as on websites themselves, which will be analysed as born digital sources. The potential of this innovative research approach will also be explored and emphasised. The Symposium will be structured around the following research clusters, but may also include other related approaches:

1. Holding the mirror
   This first cluster addresses the challenges and potentialities of online archives offering primary sources for research purposes. It will look into the modes of presentation and theoretical-methodological debates concerning uses, approaches and interconnections of such sources.
2. The critical added value
   This cluster focuses on online secondary sources and enhanced publications, with a special emphasis in digital research corpora. It aims at examining ongoing developments in the intertwining modes between available primary sources and resulting secondary sources centred on the priority of critically commenting and enriching contents as a scientific asset.
3. (Self-)reflections and the creative observer
   This cluster will take a step beyond textual sources to examine the unique features of audiovisual sources and hence of new forms of creation and re-creation of historical memories. A special section within this cluster will be dedicated to innovative digital oral history sources and projects.
4. Institutional and dissemination aspects: digital public history
   This cluster will focus on forms of institutionalisation of digital research practices, results and dissemination strategies by means of collaborative projects in the humanities and social sciences targeted towards a wide variety of audiences.
5. Web history and digital history methods for the use of websites as sources
   Web history constitutes a new scientific field centred on the historical study of websites for research purposes, thus paving the way for increasingly interdisciplinary trends in the humanities and social sciences. This session will offer Web historians the opportunity to share their experiences concerning their ongoing results and chosen methods.

The Symposium will be followed by THATCamp Luxembourg/Greater Region, closely linked to the main themes of the Symposium and offering technology and humanities specialists the opportunity to meet and discuss during brainstorming sessions based on the Symposium’s liveliest debates.

The First Meeting of the International Federation for Public History (IFPH) will take place alongside these two events.

For further information, please refer to the:

• DHLU Symposium 2012 website: www.digitalhumanities.lu
• THATCamp Luxembourg/Greater Region website: luxembourg2012.thatcamp.org

“Do not go at this game alone“, was the unmistakable advice given to LIBER libraries at the end of the first LIBER workshop on digital preservation in The Hague in 2010. Since then, the euro crisis and budget cuts have only exacerbated the need to seek partnerships in securing long-term access to your digital collections. But with whom can you partner? How does it work? What are the advantages and disadvantages of various forms of partnering? And how much of the responsibility will always be yours, no matter how much of the actual work you outsource to others?
This workshop will provide an overview of the best-known collaborative initiatives: the stakeholders involved, the basic set-ups, the legal foundations, the business models – and help you analyse which alternatives are best suited for your organisation, your type of collection and your national culture. We will deal with organisational issues, legal issues, financial issues and technical issues that will influence your choices. Critical questions will be asked by experts in the field, and there will be plenty of time to ask your own questions.

Lastly, the workshop will showcase a number of best practices.

You will go home with a keen understanding of the types of collaborative practices available which will enable you to start discussing long-term preservation policies with your management team.

Programme, Registration and other information

Il tema del IV Incontro di Filologia digitale è la ricostruzione del testo critico, tradizionalmente definita come constitutio textus. Per i testi antichi e medievali questa procedura ecdotica presuppone di norma la recensio dei testimoni, che si conclude con l’individuazione di uno stemma codicum. Tuttavia, la recensio in sé non dà indicazioni su che tipo di edizione scegliere, se cartacea o elettronica. Più specificamente, un editore deve decidere in quale misura sia utilizzabile il risultato della recensio e lo stemma che ne deriva come base per la constitutio textus, il che implica una selezione delle varianti e l’attribuzione ad esse (e in ultima analisi ai testimoni che le tramandano) di un diverso peso ecdotico. Tradizionalmente, gli studiosi di testi classici hanno adottato un approccio più ricostruttivo rispetto ai medievisti.

Non è previsto il pagamento di alcuna quota di iscrizione. La partecipazione all’Incontro, che inizierà nel primo pomeriggio di giovedì 13 settembre e si concluderà alla fine della mattina di sabato 15 settembre, è totalmente gratuita.

Per informazioni:

dott. Raffaele Cioffi, e-mail: dphilology@gmail.com

Sito web: www.filologiadigitale.it

An Open Letter to the European Commissioner for Research and Innovation, Maire Geoghegan-Quinn. Lettera aperta: iniziativa a sostegno di una più decisa politica di investimenti da parte dell’Unione Europea nel campo delle scienze socio-economiche e umanistiche, può essere sottoscritta sia da individui che da enti e associazioni: www.eash.eu/openletter2011

For further information write to SSH-letter@net4society.eu

The IRCDL 2012  8th Italian Research Conference on Digital Libraries will be held in Bari on 9-10 February 2012. This year the focus of IRCDL  is on legacy and cultural heritage material.

More information at: http://193.204.187.249/~stefano/IRCDL2012/