Course Title: E-Publishing and Digital Scholarly Communication
Course Code: 2010/02
Date: Friday, 19 March 2010
Description: This workshop will offer an insight into current trends, challenges and methodologies in e-publishing and highlight future directions in scholarly communication. Participants will be informed about innovative digital humanities projects currently underway throughout Ireland and will be introduced to the work of the Digital Humanities Observatory (DHO), which serves to support and guide these projects. Kevin Hawkins, University of Michigan, will share his expertise with attendees. He is joined by Dr Susan Schreibman, a leading international digital humanities scholar. They will discuss successful and unsuccessful e-publishing ventures and discuss the implications of both. Claire Warwick will discuss research carried out at UCL DIS on how humanities scholars use digital resources, and talk about what features they need, and what they enjoy or find frustrating about them. She will go on to describe how users can and should be involved in the process of designing digital resources, ideally from the beginning of the project, and look at the lessons we can learn from good practice by the builders of well-used resources.
Audience: Anyone interested in the development and management of projects in e-publishing and digital humanities
Course presenters: Dr Susan Schreibman, Director of the DHO; Kevin Hawkins, Visiting Metadata Manager at the DHO and Electronic Publishing Librarian at the University of Michigan; Dr. Claire Warwick, Director UCL Centre for Digital Humanities Programme and Director Electronic Communication and Publishing UCL Department of Information Studies
Host Library: Royal Irish Academy, Dublin
Capacity: 60
Cost: €100
