Submitted by dradek on 25 February, 2009 - 19:54.
Dr
Karina van Dalen-Oskam will be visiting IFA 3-4 March
The Man of Law's Tale Project and the Department of the History of English are delighted to announce a public lecture:
Textual Scholarship and Digital Humanities at the Huygens Instituut
Wednesday, 4 March 2009, 11:30, C1
Topics:
Gathering data
Transcribing and editing text
Annotating a transcription / edition
Publishing an edition
Analysis of additional annotation for special research
Dr Karina van Dalen-Oskam
Head of the Department of ICT & Texts, Huygens Instituut (The Hague)
About the Huygens Instituut:
www.huygensinstituut.knaw.nl
The Huygens Institute is a research institute within the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen; KNAW). It is named after the Dutch poet Constantijn Huygens (1596-1687) and his son, the scientist Christiaan Huygens (1629-1695), alluding to the fact that we carry out research into both the history of literature and the history of science. The Institute was founded in 1992 and is based in the Koninklijke Bibliotheek (Royal Library) in The Hague.
Staff at the Huygens Institute provide access to primary source material, often in the form of text editions, for use as the basis of further analytical and interpretative research.
The rapid development of information technology plays an important role in this research, in that it advances the digital techniques that are used for deciphering and analysing texts.
Although books are viewed as an attractive vehicle for conveying much of the information discovered in the course of research, the Internet is an increasingly important link in the chain of scientific communication. The Institute's work is mainly aimed at an academic audience. However, the Institute also endeavours to encourage interest in Dutch literature and intellectual heritage amongst a wider public.
To achieve its ambitions, the Huygens Institute has brought together more than 30 researchers from very different backgrounds. Latinists, Dutch language specialists, historians, art historians, editors and IT specialists work together on projects, sometimes in teams and sometimes in partnership with domestic and foreign universities or institutes.
