The colloquium proper is open to interested members of the public; please register by ing by April 13.

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1 The Virtual Humanities Lab in the Department of Italian Studies at Brown University, in collaboration with the Center for Digital Scholarship in the Brown University Library, and DARIAH-Italy (Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and the Humanities), will host an international colloquium entitled, "Scholarly Networks and the Emerging Platforms for Humanities Research & Publication" in the Patrick Ma Digital Scholarship Lab at the John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library from Thursday, April 16 through Saturday, April 18, The three-day colloquium will explore the new types of scholarly output produced when scholars use digital methods to collaborate on, annotate and visualize traditional materials. Stephen Downie, Professor and Associate Dean for Research, Library, and Information Science at the University of Illinois and Co-Director of the HathiTrust Research Center, will deliver the keynote address. His talk, The HathiTrust Research Center: Bringing you 4.7 billion pages of analytic opportunities! will take place on April 16 at 5:30 p.m, and is open to the public. The colloquium proper is open to interested members of the public; please register by ing by April 13. Program Description: In the age of data mining, distant reading, topic modeling and cultural analytics, scholars and researchers increasingly rely upon automated, algorithm-based procedures in order to parse their exponentially growing databases of digitized textual and visual resources. Yet, within this deeply networked and massively interactive environment, it is crucial to preserve the expert logic of primary and secondary sources, textual stability, citations, and other apparatus, which form the heritage and legacy of humanities scholarship. A pure conservation of the documents of the past in their integrity is not sufficient to preserve an active memory of our humanistic heritage. Digital humanists have to re-think the very notion of humanism from the point of view of the new technology and the questions we are facing in our time. This process must begin with the primary sources of the humanist tradition.

2 Digital editions, for example, must now live in the networked environment built within digital library repositories: emerging curatorial and editorial practices and the semantic act of interpretation are increasingly embedded together into the primary sources and such practices are also the conduit for training the next generation of digital humanists. In short, scholarly collaboration must problematize methodology, tools and interpretation at the same time. Humanities researchers increasingly collaborate, in a laboratory mode, on shared platforms and in shared virtual environments, experimenting with open source tools often developed elsewhere, in the annotation and visualization of select corpora of primary sources. In the process, they produce new and yet unidentified typologies of scholarly objects (thoroughly embedded in library repositories) that incorporate curatorial and interpretive practices along with a new, and fully documented, technical instrumentation. This hybrid form of collaborative curation/publication is at the foundation of humanities scholarship in the digital age. Scholars from the U.S., Mexico, the U.K., and Italy are invited to share their ideas, experience, and work-in-progress in an informal setting as we explore these interconnected themes. Schedule of Events (Schedule is subject to change) All meetings will take place in the Patrick Ma Digital Scholarship Lab in the John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library 5:30 p.m. Keynote Address Thursday, April 16 Stephen Downie: "The HathiTrust Research Center: Bringing you 4.7 billion pages of analytic opportunities!" 7 p.m. Welcome reception and dinner Brown Faculty Club, One Magee Street, Providence 9 a.m. Breakfast Friday, April 17 9:30 a.m. Welcome remarks Harriette Hemmasi, Brown University Librarian, and Massimo Riva, Royce Family Professor of Teaching Excellence and Professor and Chair of Italian Studies 10 11:15 a.m. Presentation and Response on Digital Editions / Data Curation / Interpretation Fabio Ciotti presentation: The hermeneutic machine: ontology driven annotation and interpretative cooperation

3 Fabio Ciotti is an Assistant Professor at the University of Roma Tor Vergata, where he teaches Digital Literary Studies and Theory of Literature. He is a member of the board of DARIAH-Italy and is part of the EU Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and the Humanities Julia Flanders response 11:15 a.m. Break Julia Flanders is the Digital Scholarship Group Director at the Northeastern University Library and Professor of the Practice of English at Northeastern University 11:30 a.m. 12:30 p.m. Presentations and Discussion on Virtual Humanities Lab (VHL) Projects Dino Buzzetti and Ernesto Priani: "The Pico della Mirandola Project and Topic Modeling" Dino Buzzetti is an historian of philosophy and until 2013 has taught medieval philosophy at the University of Bologna. He is a member of the VHL Worldwide Advisory Board. Ernesto Priani Saiso writes and teaches at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). He is a member of the VHL Worldwide Advisory Board. Evelyn Lincoln: "Annotating The Theatre that Was Rome" Evelyn Lincoln is Professor of History of Art and Architecture and Professor of Italian Studies at Brown University. She is on the Brown VHL Advisory Board. Elli Mylonas: Moderator 12:30 2:30 p.m. Lunch Elli Mylonas is Senior Digitial Humanities Librarian and Associate Director of the Center for Digital Scholarship at the Brown University Library. She is on the Brown VHL Advisory Board. 2:30 3:30 p.m. Presentations and Discussion on Virtual Humanities Lab (VHL) Projects Michael Papio: "Proposals for Geospatial Visualizations of Boccaccio's World." Michael Papio is Professor of Italian Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He is a member of the VHL Worldwide Advisory Board.

4 Susanna Allès Torrent: Visualizing tools for the Censorship of Boccaccio's Decameron during the Cinquecento Susanna Allès Torrent is a Lecturer in Spanish in the Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures at Columbia University. Evelyn Lincoln: Moderator 3:30p.m. Break Evelyn Lincoln is Professor of History of Art and Architecture and Professor of Italian Studies at Brown University. She is on the Brown VHL Advisory Board. 3:45 4:45 p.m. Open Discussion Where do we go next? 5p.m. Visit to the Cave John Cayley, Professor of Literary Arts, Brown University 7 p.m. Dinner Offsite (location TBD) 9 a.m. Breakfast Saturday, April 18 Louis Family Restaurant Breakfast, 286 Brook Street, Providence a.m. Presentation and Response on Scholarly Networks / Virtual Platforms Elizabeth Maddock Dillon, "Humanities and the Digital: Collaboration, Curation, and Knowledge Production. Elizabeth Maddock Dillon is a professor of English and co-director of the NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networks at Northeastern University. Massimo Riva response Discussion 11 a.m. Break Massimo Riva, Royce Family Professor of Teaching Excellence and Professor and Chair of Italian Studies

5 11:15 12:30 p.m. Presentations and Discussion on Repositories and Research Infrastructure Andy Land: "Building a technical infrastructure to support the discovery and use of The University of Manchester Library s digital collections Andy Land is Digital Systems Manager at The University of Manchester Library. Andy Ashton and Elli Mylonas: Presentation title TBD Andy Ashton is Associate University Librarian for Digital Technologies at Brown University. Vika Zafrin: Moderator Discussion 12:30 2 p.m. Lunch Vika Zafrin is the Institutional Repository Librarian at Boston University. 2 3 p.m. Presentation and Discussion on Unidentified Scholarly Objects Guyda Armstrong and Marilyn Deegan (via Skype): "The AHRC Academic Book of the Future Project" Discussion 3 p.m. Break Guyda Armstrong is Senior Lecturer in Italian, Academic lead for Digital Humanities at The University of Manchester. Marilyn Deegan is Professor of Digital Humanities and an Honorary Research Fellow at King's College London. 3:15 4 p.m.: Presentations and Discussion John Cayley: Toward a Distributed Gallery John Cayley is Professor of Literary Arts at Brown University. Rosemary Simpson: NuSys: Supporting the scholarly research process from hunch through validation and presentation Rosemary Simpson is an Information Architect for the Department of Computer Science at Brown University.

6 4 5:30 p.m. - Plenary Round Table Discussion on Libraries, Repositories and The Future of Scholarly R&P Stephen Downie, Harriette Hemmasi, and John Unsworth: Panel Massimo Riva: Moderator John Unsworth is Vice Provost, University Librarian, and Chief Information Officer at Brandeis University