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The Digital Humanities Observatory Supporting Digital Humanities in Ireland

The Digital Humanities Observatory Supporting Digital Humanities in Ireland. Ms Dot Porter Metadata Manager, Digital Humanities Observatory 10 March 2009. Digital Humanities Observatory.

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The Digital Humanities Observatory Supporting Digital Humanities in Ireland

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  1. The Digital Humanities ObservatorySupporting Digital Humanities in Ireland Ms Dot Porter Metadata Manager, Digital Humanities Observatory 10 March 2009

  2. Digital Humanities Observatory • Part of the Humanities Serving Irish Society (HSIS) consortium to develop an all-island inter-institutional research infrastructure for the humanities • Defining, promoting and implementing best practices for… • Digitisation • Archival • Curation • Discovery • Presentation • HSIS funded under cycle four of the Programme of Research in Third Level Institutions (PRTLI)

  3. An Foras Feasa National University of Ireland, Maynooth Dublin City University Dundalk Institute of Technology St. Patrick's College The Global Ireland Institute University College Dublin Institute of Technology, Tallaght Queen’s University Belfast Texts, Contexts, Cultures National University of Ireland, Galway Trinity College Dublin University College Cork Unaffiliated HSIS Partners National College of Art and Design Royal Irish Academy University of Ulster University of Limerick Humanities Serving Irish Society Consortium

  4. DHO Staff • Susan Schreibman, Director • Paolo Battino, Web Developer • Don Gourley, IT Manager • Shawn Day, DH Specialist • K Faith Lawrence, DH Specialist • Dot Porter, Metadata Manager • Bruno Voicin, Programmer

  5. Mission Statement The DHO is an all-island digital humanities collaboratory working with Humanities Serving Irish Society (HSIS), national, European, and international partners to further e-scholarship. The DHO is a knowledge resource providing outreach and education on a broad range of digital humanities topics. It provides data management, curation, and discovery services supporting the long-term access to, and greater exploitation of, digital resources in the creation of new models, methodologies, and paradigms for 21st century scholarship.

  6. Road Map • Welcome and Introduction • Project slam • “Introduction to Metadata” • Exercise 1: Describing materials • Lunch • “Metadata in the DHO” • Exercise 2: Mapping metadata • Discussion: Input formats

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