Prof. Lorna Hughes
New perspectives, new collaborations: Digital collections and e-infrastructures for research and education
In the last twenty years, libraries, archives, museums and research institutions have created a "digital deluge" of e-content for research and education: complex data that can be used and re-used to advance research and education across the disciplines. Significant new research is emerging that is enabled by digital content and new modes of collaboration and co-operation in the digital sphere. This is supported by the emerging e-infrastructures to support research practices. Drawing upon the experience of the Research Programme in Digital Collections at the National Library of Wales, this presentation will discuss the emergence of digital content, and the e-research tools, methods and collaborations that depend upon its long term access and sustainability. It will address ways that using digital content for advanced research can also increase the value and meaning of digital content. It will also discuss European initiatives to support e-Research, especially DARIAH (the Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities).
Professor Lorna Hughes is the University of Wales Chair in Digital Collections, based in the National Library of Wales. Hughes leads a research programme based around the digital collections of the National Library of Wales, with a particular focus on understanding the use, value and impact of digital resources on research, teaching and public engagement. She is particularly interested in the use of ICT tools and methods for the analysis of large-scale digital collections, and in research collaborations between humanities and scientific disciplines.
Prior to taking up her appointment in January 2011, she worked at King’s College, London, most recently as the Deputy Director of the Centre for e-Research, and the co-Director of the Arts and Humanities e-Science Support Centre (AHeSSC). From 2005- 2008, she was Programme Director for the AHRC ICT Methods Network, a national
initiative to promote and support the use of digital research across the arts and humanities disciplines. She has worked in digital humanities at New York University, Arizona State University, Oxford University, and Glasgow University. She is the author of Digitizing Collections: Strategic Issues for the Information Manager (London: Facet, 2004), the editor of Evaluating & Measuring the Value, Use and Impact of Digital Collections (London: Facet, 2011), and the co-editor of The Virtual Representation of the Past (London: Ashgate, 2007).
She is presently Chair of the European Science Foundation (ESF) Network for Digital Methods in the Arts and Humanities (www.nedimah.eu), and the PI on a JISC-funded mass digitization initiative The Welsh Experience of the First World War (cymruww1.llgc.org.uk).
Zeit: Der Vortrag findet am 4.9.2013 von 9-10 Uhr im Hörsaal H1, OSZ statt
Kontakt: www.wales.ac.uk/en/centreforadvancedwelshcelticstudies/staffpages/lornahughes.aspx