DARIAH-BE Kick-off

On Friday 27 November 2015, the first DARIAH-BE meeting together with the launch of the Research Community Digital Humanities Flanders took place at the University of Antwerp. The aim of this meeting, which was attended by almost 40 participants from 15 institutions, was to bring together colleagues from across Belgium to find out more about what DARIAH, the Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities, is and to participate.

The programme of the day is available, as well as the presentations:

• Towards DARIAH-BE and launching Digital Humanities Research Community - Dirk Van Hulle, Antwerp University

• Introducing DARIAH - Sally Chambers, Ghent Centre for Digital Humanities

• DARIAH-EU: getting involved - Henk Harmsen, DARIAH-EU Chief Integration Officer

• Research Infrastructure for Heritage Sciences - Hilde De Clerq, Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage

• Digital Humanities in a scientific museum context - Hendrik Hameeuw & Chris Vastenhoud, KU Leuven & Royal Museums of Art and History

• MADDLAIN: Modernising Digital Access to collections - Jill Hungenaert, MADDLAIN project

• Cultural Antropology and History at the Royal Museum for Central Africa - Patricia Mergen, Royal Museum for Central Africa

• International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) - Dries Moreels, Ghent University

• DARIAH Teach: developing open source DH training materials - Toma Tasovac, Trinity College Dublin 

• Digital Humanities Research Community Flanders and DH Benelux - Mike Kestemont, Antwerp University

• Masters in Digital Humanities at KU Leuven - Barbara Bordalejo, KU Leuven

• Digital Scholarly Editions Initial Training Network (DiXiT) - Dirk Van Hulle & Aodhan Kelly, Antwerp University & University of Cambridge

• European Holocaust Research Infrastructure and Open History - Veerle Vanden Daelen, Antwerp University

• Trismegistos Networks: an introduction - Yanne Broux, KU Leuven

• Ramses: an annotated corpus of Late Egyptian Texts - Stéphane Polis, University of Liège

• DIANE: Digital Infrastructure for the Analysis of National Movements in Europe - Nel de Mûelenaere, Antwerp University 

• Mapping European Digital Literature - Giovanna Di Rosario, University of Barcelona