Digging Round Three Conference

2016 "Round Three" Digging into Data Challenge Conference
January 27 - 28, 2016
Glasgow, UK

Hashtag: #DiDGlasgow

The Conference

This conference brings together the Digging into Data Round 3 Project award holders from all participating countries with additional stakeholders. The aim is to explore respective outcomes and provide an opportunity to collectively analyse impacts and potential for impact. The line up is accompanied by complementary keynote addresses and a policy-focused panels. 

The Showcase

The evening of the 27th brings together a selection of data projects lead by researchers from across the fields of the arts, humanities and social sciences. They will be presenting a showcase of their work and outputs to provoke, inform, and provide an insight into what a wide variety of approaches can bring to data and data driven research. This event is a chance to stimulate creativity, catalyse connections and promote debate within this rapidly evolving area of research. The newly renovated School of Art has been selected to host, with the aim of providing a platform that will engage and stimulate thought over drinks and nibbles.

The Agenda

Chair: Prof Andrew Prescott

 

Day 1 (09:00 – 19:30)

Time

Activity

09:00 – 10:00

Registration, DiD project stands, coffee and networking

10:00 – 10:30

Opening Session:  

  • Chair’s Welcome

  • Digging into Data & T-AP (Brett Bobley, NEH)

10:30 – 11:40

Opening Keynote plus Q&A:  

Enabling good research: a perspective on data (i.e. why availability and accessibility of data, code, algorithms and other research outputs is important)

Neil Chue Hong, Director of the Software Sustainability Institute

11:40 – 12:40

Project Panel A

  1. DiLiPaD

  2. Legal Structures

12:40 – 13:30

Lunch

13:30 – 15:00

Project Panel B

  1. Field Mapping

  2. MIRACLE

  3. Project Arclight

15:00 – 15:20

Coffee

15:20 – 16:20

Project Panel C

  1. DADAISM

  2. Commonplace Cultures

16:20 – 17:20

Panel with Q&A: What would an international e-Infrastructure look like?

Panel Chair: Rachel Bruce, Jisc

Panel Members:

  1. (UK) Simon Hettrick

  2. (NE) Peter Doorn

  3. (UK) Lorna Hughes

Panel members have 5 mins each for provocations, then discussion and Q&A

17:20 – 17:30

Chair’s observations, summing up and orientation for day 2

18:00 – 19:30

Networking reception and showcase (Glasgow School of Art)

 

 

 

 

Day 2 (09:00 – 17:00)

Time

Activity

09:00 – 09:10

Day 2 welcome

09:10 – 10:10

Panel with Q&A: Data-driven research in the Social Sciences and Humanities – increasing research potential through interdisciplinary working

Panel Chair: Professor Tom Crick, Cardiff Metropolitan University

Panel Members:

  1. (UK) Robin Williams

  2. (US) Katherine Coles

  3. (DE) Stefan Bender

Panel members have 5 mins each for provocations, then discussion and Q&A

10:10 – 10:30

Comfort break

10:30 – 11:30

Project Panel D

  1. Automating Chinese Texts

  2. Early Christian Lives

11:30 – 12:30

Project Panel E

  1. COULD Project

  2. Digging into Signs

12:30 – 13:30

Lunch

13:30 – 15:00

Project Panel F

  1. Global Currents

  2. Mining Biodiversity

  3. Trees & Tweets

15:00 – 15:20

Coffee

15:20 – 16:30

Closing Keynote plus Q&A:

Data-driven policy (specifics TBC)

Lucy Kimbell (Cabinet Office Policy Lab & Said Business School)

16:30 – 17:00

Chair’s observations, thanks & close