Scholarship in Software, Software as Scholarship: From Genesis to Peer Review

Universität Bern, UniS room A201 Download the program as PDF. Workshop Software in Scholarship, Scholarship in Software: 29 January 2015 10:00 – Welcome 10:15 – Opening remarks Prof. WILLARD McCARTY, King’s College London - A matter of prepositions: Software in scholarship and scholarship in software? 10:45 – Panel 1. Assessment and process EUGENE LYMAN, Independent Scholar - Scholarly Software and the Enhancement of Critical Scrutiny ARIS XANTHOS, Université de Lausanne - By scholars, for scholars: a case study on quality assessment of scientific software OLEKSANDR MAKARENKO, National Technical University of Ukraine - Mathematical Modeling in Scholarship and their Representation in Software 12:15 – Lunch break 14:00 – Panel 2. Confrontation and collaboration JAMES BAKER, British Library - Removing Black Boxes: Exposing Scholarship to Researchers PIETER FRANCOIS, University of Oxford - Connecting Modes of Scholarship through the Library: The genesis of the Sample Generator for Digitized Texts JONAS SCHNEIDER, Universität Zürich - Geovisualizing History 15:30 – Coffee break 16:00 – Panel 4: Creation MANFRED THALLER, Universität Köln - Engineering, Science, Art, Scholarship: On implicit assumptions in the software for semantic image databases NIKOLAS CHURIK and BRIAN CLARK, College of the Holy Cross - Composing living scholarship: applying automated acceptance tests to scholarly writing JORIS VAN ZUNDERT, Huygens ING, and Gregor Middell, independent scholar - Code and Authorship in the Humanities 17:00 – Closing keynote DAVIS BERRY, University of Sussex - Softwarization, Archives, and the Digital Humanities Roundtable on Peer Review for Digital Scholarly Work: 30 January 2015 Schedule: 9:00 – Welcome 9h10 - 10h40 : Position papers (max. 15 min. each) 10h40 - 11h: Coffee Break 11h-12h30: Collective Discussion on specific issues 13h - Lunch for all roundtable participants Participants (in alphabetical order): • JAMES BAKER, Digital Research Team, British Library - Stepping back - playing as research • CLAIRE CLIVAZ, Laboratoire des cultures et humanités digitales, Université de Lausanne - Reshapping the peer-review process: heretic remarks in a digital time • SETH DEMBO, Director of Scholarly Communication and Digital Initiatives, American Historical Association - AHA's Ad Hoc Committee on Professional Evaluation of Digital Scholarship by Historians • INGRID KISSLING, Head of the Humanities and Social Sciences division, Swiss National Science Foundation – Peer review under revision – The digital challenge for funding agencies • EUGENE LYMAN, University of Boston – Publishing digital projects reviews: practical suggestions • NICOLAS THÉLY, Professor for Digital Humanities, Université de Rennes 2 – Toward an evaluation grid for Digital Humanities projects • PHILIP STEINKRÜGER, Editor of RIDE (Review Journal for digital editions and ressources); KU Leuven and Institute for Documentology and Digital Editing (IDE) – Toward a catalogue of criteria for the review of digital editions • SACHA ZALA, President of the Swiss Society for History & director of the Diplomatic Documents of Switzerland – Some dogmatic postulates for the digital historical sciences Registration: To register, send a mail to thomas.leibundgut@kps.unibe.ch, with your full name and function, and specifying if you want to attend both the Workshop (29th January) and the Roundtable (30th January) or just the Workshop or the Roundtable.