When & Where

27.04.2023 | 14:00 - 15:00

Online

Description

Who is it for? Students, researchers, research managers, research support staff and policy officers, who are interested in this topic.

What’s it about? This webinar tackles two aspects of UNESCO's open science definition: "make multilingual scientific knowledge openly available, accessible and reusable for everyone" and "increase scientific collaborations” (UNESCO (2021) Recommendation on Open Science) with a focus on digital humanities. There will be two talks:

Shaping the digital transformation critically: the »Ada Lovelace Center for Digital Humanities« at Freie Universität Berlin (Dr. Dennis Mischke, Freie Universität Berlin, University Library)

The digital transformation of the humanities is no short-lived trend. Through ubiquitous access to knowledge, through networked and increasingly digitized archives, through disruptive innovations in artificial intelligence, and through new technologies for processing and storing ever-growing amounts of data, research in the humanities is undergoing intense changes. Next to the development of trustworthy and appropriate digital infrastructures, the active and critical design of this transformation in research and teaching requires the creation of open spaces of encounter between at times radically different research cultures. The "Ada Lovelace Center for Digital Humanities (ADA)" is set out to establish an interdisciplinary culture of collaboration in the humanities. The talk presents the concept and the formats of the ADA.

"Disrupting Digital Monolingualism": Enabling Multiligual Research and Infrastructures (Dr. Cosima Wagner, Freie Universität Berlin, University Library)

Although multilinguality is a constitutive factor of research, teaching, learning and working in academic institutions, academic knowledge infrastructures can fall short on supporting more than the use of the English language and Latin scripts. Under the motto "Disrupting Digital Monolingualism" (King's College 2020) more and more digital humanists and librarians are collaborating in order to address this Anglophone hegemony as a cause for cultural and technological/digital asymmetries as well as a barrier to global scholarly exchange in general (e.g., lack of visibility/accessibility of and access to research or sources in non-Anglophone languages and non-Latin scripts). The talk aims at raising awareness of multilinguality issues and research infrastructures with a special focus on Digital Humanities and non-Latin scripts. With the example of the "Multilingual DH Lab" in the ADA it introduces stakeholders and networks within & beyond FUB. Thus, the talk also strives to instigate a discussion on multilinguality within the Una.Resin network.

For more information: 

Join the webinar on Microsoft Teams or contact Hideko Matsuo.