Creating and Exploiting Digital Collections

0930 Opening address and launch of the James Hardiman Library’s Digital Scholarship Enablement Strategy Consultation (Prof. PÌ_l ÌÒ Dochartaigh, Registrar and Deputy President, NUI Galway)

0945 Digital scholarship in the Moore Institute (Prof. Daniel Carey, Director, Moore Institute for the Humanities and Social Studies)

1010 Supporting digital projects in the humanities and social sciences (David Kelly, Research Technologist, Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Research)

1035 The impact of the Abbey Theatre Digital Archive on drama and theatre research and teaching (Dr. Charlotte McIvor, School of Humanities)

1100 Coffee

1130 The evolution of UCD Digital Library (Dr. John Howard, University Librarian and Adjunct Professor, UCD School of Computer Science and Informatics, University College Dublin)

1200 Digital projects and collaborations locally and nationally (DÌ_nall ÌÒ BraonÌÁin, PrÌ_omhfheidhmeannach agus An Dr. Seathr̼n ÌÒ Tuairisg, RiarthÌ_ir Aonaid na TeicneolaÌ_ochta Faisn̩ise, Acadamh na hOllscolaÌ_ochta Gaeilge)

1230 Developing a library infrastructure to enable digital scholarship (Cillian Joy, Digital Library Developer, James Hardiman Library)

1300 Lunch

1400 Creative arts programmes and research at the University of Ulster (Professor Paul Moore, Head, School of Creative Arts and Technologies, University of Ulster)

1430 The Insight Centre for Data Analytics: linked data, semantic web and other research (Prof Stefan Decker, Director, Insight@NUI Galway)

1500 Duanaire: a treasury of digital data for Irish economic history (Dr. Aidan Kane, Lecturer, J.E. Cairnes School of Business and Economics)

1530 Tea

1550 Digital humanities and other programmes at the Huston School of Film and Digital Media (speaker tbc, Huston School of Film and Digital Media)

1610 Where Insight @ NUI Galway meets ‘digital humanities 1610’ WhereNUI Galway meets Insight(Dr. Bahareh Heravi, Group Leader, Digital Humanities and Journalism, Insight@NUI Galway)

1630 Wrap-up: common themes and future possibilities (John Cox, University Librarian)