Workshop on the creation of an international Data for History consortium

École normale supérieure de Lyon, 23-24 November 2017.

Organised by the Pôle histoire numérique (Digital history department) of the LARHRA laboratory.

• 23 November 2017 - Public session, registration required

  • 15:00 Introduction.
    Bernard Hours (Université Jean-Moulin Lyon 3, Director of the Laboratoire de recherche historique Rhône-Alpes)

  • 15:15 The dataforhistory.org project : a proposal.
    Francesco Beretta (CNRS-Université de Lyon, Laboratoire de recherche historique Rhône-Alpes)
    George Bruseker (FORTH-ICS, Center for Cultural Informatics, Heraklion)

  • 16:00 Spotlight presentations of present projects (5 minutes presentations)

    • Golden Agents: Modelling histories of the creative industries of the Dutch Golden Age.
      Charles van den Heuvel (Huygens ING, Amsterdam)
      Veruska Zamborlini (Universiteit van Amsterdam)
    • Interfacing people and modelling economic activities.
      Georg Vogeler (Karl-Franzens Universität Graz, Zentrum für Informationsmodellierung)
    • The PANDORA Ecosystem.
      Jörg Wettlaufer (Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, Göttingen Centre for Digital Humanities)
    • Documenting the Past: extending the CIDOC CRM family to Archaeology (CRMarcheo), Historic Buildings (CRMba) and Historic Places (CRMspace).
      Franco Niccolucci
      Achille Felicetti (Università degli Studi di Firenze, Vast-Lab)
    • APIS: Building the new Austrian Biographical Dictionary.
      Matthias Schlögl (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities)
    • Early Modern Professorial Career Patterns - Methodological research on online databases of academic history.
      Thomas Riechert
      Edgard Marx (Hochschule für Technik, Wirtschaft und Kultur Leipzig, Agile Knowledge Engineering and Semantic Web)
    • IMPRESSO. Media Monitoring of the Past or how to process data from media archives (and deal with digital bias).
      Estelle Bunout (Université du Luxembourg, Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History)
    • histHub – a hub for historical data in Switzerland.
      Pascale Sutter
      Bernhard Ruef (Law Sources Foundation of the Swiss Lawyers Society)
    • Connecting Art Histories. Outline of a future Swiss Art Research Infrastructure.
      Thomas Hänsli (Universität Zürich / ETH Zurich)
    • The Information system on French businessmen (SIPPAF), an application of the symogih.org generic model.
      Pierre Vernus (Université Lumière Lyon 2, Laboratoire de recherche historique Rhône-Alpes)

  • 17:00-18:30 General discussion about the dataforhistory.org proposal.

• 24 November 2017 - by invitation only

  • 09:00-10:30 Activity planning for the next months.

  • 11:00-12:30 Consortium organisation and funding.

Participants at the Data for History workshop - Lyon, 24 November 2017.
(Thomas Hänsli, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)