Libraries & DH Special Interest Group meeting at DH2024

When: Monday, 5 August 2024, 1:30pm-4:30pm
Where: George Mason University Arlington Campus (the DH2024 venue)
Van Metre Hall, rm 113

and online (please contact gworthey@illinois.edu for information about remote participation)

Program:

1:30pm - 2pm: Business meeting

• Welcome & introductions
• What is the Libraries & Digital Humanities SIG?
• Liaisons with other related organizations
• Choosing a new SIG leadership

2pm - 3pm: Book presentation: The Routledge Companion to Libraries, Archives, and the Digital Humanities (forthcoming in Fall 2024)

• Editors’ introduction (Isabel Galina & Glen Layne-Worthey)
• Individual chapter presentations (including many by our SIG members)

3pm - 4pm: Open Data presentation: HathiTrust Research Center

• “Tools for Open Research and Computation with HathiTrust: Leveraging Intelligent Text Extraction (TORCHLITE)”: an open API for the community – Generously funded by the NEH Office of Digital Humanities
• Outcomes of the May 2024 TORCHLITE Hackathon

4pm - 4:30pm: Future plans and community feedback

• Next steps for the Libraries & DH SIG
• Proposals for the coming year

Formal registration is now closed, but this SIG meeting is free and open to all regardless of DH2024 registration.