digital archives and databases as a source of mutual knowledge
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Digital Archives and Databases as a Source of Mutual Knowledge
Academic Symposium
rome, 5-6 may 2016
Dear Madam, dear Sir,
You have been invited to the EqUIP ‘Digital Archives and Databases as a Source of
Mutual Knowledge’ Academic Symposium that will be held in Rome, Italy, on 5-6
May 2016.
We are looking forward to your participation and hope that you will fully benefit
from this opportunity to meet colleagues from Europe and India and help shape the
future of the EU-India cooperation in Social Sciences and Humanities.
To help you prepare your trip to Rome and participation in the symposium, this
information package contains more details both on logistics arrangements (hotels,
venue, directions from the airport etc.) and on the symposium objectives and
expected results.
For inquiries and information you can contact your local organisers:
Ms Margot Bezzi: [email protected]
Ms Aurelie Pachkoff-Singh: [email protected]
Tel.: +39 06 489 39993
www.equipproject.eu
Twitter: @Equipproject
#Equipproject
Welcome to Rome!
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GENERAL INFORMATION
Venue
LOGISTICS
The symposium will be held at:
Grand Hotel Palatino,
Via Cavour 213/M - 00184 Roma
Tel: +39 06 4814927
Registration will be open from 9.00 to 9.30 on 5th May 2016.
The symposium will held be in English.
Coffee breaks and lunches will be offered during the conference. All participants are also invited for a networking dinner on 5th May at 19.00 at Hotel Diana, Via Principe Amedeo, 4.
Travel and accommodation costs will only be covered by APRE on behalf of the EqUIP project and in accordance with European Commission FP7 rules and regulations and following the reimbursement rules sent to you by email.
Programme 5 may
Plenary session
9.00 – 9.30 Registration and welcome coffee
9.30 – 9.40 Welcome words • Margot Bezzi, EqIP project Responsible, APRE
9.40-9.50 Introduction to Equip • Dr Nafees Meah, UKRC India office director
9.50-10.10 Digital Humanities for Social and Cultural Innovation Symposium convener:
• Professor Riccardo Pozzo, Head of Department Social Science and Humanities, Cultural Herita-ge, National Research Council of Italy
10.10-10.20 Symposium objectives and organization • Aurélie Pachkoff-Singh, APRE
Introductions to the topics by the Indian and European co-chairs
10.20-10.40 Topic 1: Research and technological infrastructures supporting facilitated access and sharing in SSHSupporting EU-India collaboration in digital humanities through online repositories, mutual access and sharing, including open science processes.
• Professor Sukhdeo Thorat, Chairman, Indian Council for Social Science Research, India (tbc) • Professor Matthew Woollard, Director UK Data Archive and the UK Data Service, University of
Essex, UK
10.40-11.00 Topic 2: Digitizing1 (Multi)Cultural Heritage Defining standards, models and tools for the digital representation, curation and valorisation of cultural artefacts and objects in a multicultural perspective/context (including oral history sources and ethnographies, census and other survey data, archaeological data, music, and data derived from written or spoken language.
• Dr Catherine Eagleton, Head of Asian and African Collections, British Library, UK • Dr. Jagdish Arora, Director of Information and Library Network (INFLIBNET) Centre, India
11.00-11.30 Coffee break and networking
11.30-11.50 Topic 3: New Digital Research Methods for Social sciences and Humanities in a digitalised worldDeveloping new digitally-based methods, protocols and tools to advance the interpretation of digital material and cultural heritage
• Dr Vania Virgili, Expert in research infrastructures for social sciences and humanities, Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics, Italy
• Dr Sanjay Garg, Deputy Director, National Archives of India, India (tbc)
Resources, capacities and gaps
11.50-12.10 Selected examples in India and Europe:ICSSR Data Service: a national level data repository service for the social sciences
• Professor Sukhdeo Thorat, Chairman, Indian Council for Social Science Research, IndiaDARIAH: Pan-European Digital Research Infrastructure for Arts and Humanities
• Dr Fabio Ciotti, DARIAH (Digital Research Infrastructure for Arts and Humanities), Head of Virtual Competency Centre (VCC), Italy
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Programme 6 may
Plenary session
9.00-9.05 Second day welcome • Aurélie Pachkoff-Singh, APRE
Parallel sessions
9.05-10.00 Widening our perspectives: Opportunities and challenges of greater digitalisation for SSH researchWhat are the opportunities and challenges presented through greater digitisation for social science and humanities research? Which are the main barriers to a holistic approach to digital archives?Interactive discussion moderated by EqUIP partners
10.00-10.30 Conclusion of group discussions and key outcomesSummary of discussions and agreement on key outcomes to be presented to the plenary
10.30-10.45 Coffee break
Plenary session
11.00-11.45 Inputs and reporting from different groups
11.45-12.15 Final discussion
12.15-12.30 Closing remarks Professor Riccardo Pozzo, Head of Department Social Science and Humanities, Cultural Heritage, National Research Council of Italy
12.30 Lunch
Parallel sessions
12.10-12.20 Tour de table in each group
12.20-13.30 Taking a picture of the current situation: existing resources, capacities and gaps.What are the research and/or infrastructure capacities in Europe and India related to your specific topic (1, 2 or 3)? What are the gaps and complementarities?All participants will be asked to give a 1 minute ‘pitch’. It will be followed by a group discussion moderated by the topics co-chairs.
13.30-14.30 Lunch
Parallel sessions
14.30-17.00 Identification of research priorities.What are the future priorities for EU-India research funder and researcher collaboration in this area – ensuring research excellence (this means where collaborations between researchers in India and Europe add value and don’t duplicate national activities)?Moderated discussion based on participant’s input prior to the symposium.
19.30 Dinner at Hotel Diana, Via Principe Amedeo, 4_________1 Digitization is defined as the material process of converting individual analogue streams of information into digital bits. In contrast, we refer to digitalization as the way in which many domains of social and economic life are ridefined around digital communication and infrastructures.
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Background information
What is the EqUIP Platform?Europe and India have strong historical links, but its research collaboration relationships are relatively new. The EU-India Platform for the Social Sciences and Humanities (EqUIP) brings together research funding and support organisations in Europe and India in order to develop a stronger strategic partnership for multi-lateral research collaboration in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities. EqUIP key objectives are:
• To provide a more coherent overview of the current scope of collaborative activity between Europe and India in the Social Sciences and Humanities
• to provide the foundations for enhanced inter-agency cooperation between research funding agencies in India and Europe in the social sciences and humanities
• To Develop best practice approaches and identify challenges for research cooperation betwe-en Europe and India in the Social Sciences and Humanities
• To identify, opportunities and priorities for future research collaboration between Europe and India in the Social Sciences and Humanities
• To establish networks of pan-European and Indian researchers in the social sciences and humanities conducting excellent research addressing cutting edge research questions.
EqUIP symposiaThe symposia events to be held over the coming year will play an important part in achieving the last two of these objectives. Through an initial scoping exercise supported by selected experts, EqUIP has already identified five broad areas of research themes1 that would benefit from an EU-India perspective/ collaboration of interest to the EqUIP funding partners. These areas are:
• Inequalities, Growth and Place/Space
• Social Transformations, Cultural Expressions, Cross-Cultural Connections and Dialogue
• Digital Archives and Databases as a Source of Mutual Knowledge
• Sustainable Prosperity, Wellbeing and Innovation
• Power Structures, Conflict Resolution and Social Justice
Six symposia – one for each thematic area and a summary one - will be organised, to further explore and inform development of these themes through consultation with invited academic experts from each country involved in the platform. Discussions and recommendations agreed at each symposium will be captured in a ‘Reflection paper’ with the aim of guiding future international research collaboration initiatives.
1 http://equipproject.eu/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/EqUIP-Executive-Summary-of-the-Scoping-Report.pdf
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Digital Archives and Databases as a Source of Mutual Knowledge
The pervasiveness of digital technologies has led to transformation of processes in all sectors, including research. The cornerstone of this thematic area is enabling researchers to access and utilise the data they want to in order to carry out excellent research. This requires the political will to make data available, the appropriate technology to archive, curate, and store them in a repository that is easily accessible, and the capacity and capability of researchers to be able to use the data they hold. Data repositories should be established in such a way as to enable open access where appropriate, guarantee the retention of local knowledge and preservation of language.This Symposium will explore the topic of Digital Archives and Databases as a Source of Mutual Knowledge. The following issues were raised in initial scoping this theme for further exploration:
• How creating nodal digital centres for archives and ensure (open) access to data sources for Indian and EU researchers? Creating both a general centre that provides open access to researchers and an online repository of available databases to which open access is ensured (including enabling mutual data sharing and access between archives in the EU and in India)
• How digitizing different supports, languages and data? Digitalisation/Digitisation2 and preservation should include, but not be limited to: manuscripts and documents (printed and written material), oral history sources and ethnographies, census and other survey data, archaeological data, data derived from language (including written and sound), and music.
• How preserving digitised content? Accessibility and durability of digitised content (e-resour-ces) is vital in order to safeguard for use by future generations of researchers.
• How research methods and methodologies will change, and which are needs and chal-lenges? Cross-cutting issues related to the development of new tools, methodologies and strategies for research, including the use and storage of new forms of data (open data, and big data, such as administrative data held by governments, business data, transport and tra-vel data, data generated by mobile phones, GPS location technologies, internet interactions, sensors etc.) shall be explored, to ensure that researchers have the capacity and capability to utilise data in the ways they would like to.
2 Digitalisation refers to the ways in which areas of our lives are being restructured around digital communication and ‘new’ media.
Digitisation refers to the process of converting something from analogue (incl. image, video, text, sound), into digital formats.
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Priorities flagged by EqUIP partners as relevant to this theme are:
• Historiography and Historical Methods
• Historical Databases and Oral History Archives
• Archives and Digital Humanities
• Information Infrastructures on Social Sciences and Humanities
• Storing, curating and making available ‘new’ data (e.g. administrative data, business data, ‘born digital’ data)
• Equitable access to data
This initial scoping suggests that a dual focus for discussions is needed both around the development of infrastructure – data and digitization- and the use of these resources by the research communities.
Aim of the Symposium The overarching aim of the Digital Archives and Databases as a Source of Mutual Knowledge symposium is to provide recommendations to EqUIP partners about priority areas for future joint India-EU research activities. The workshop aims to further explore the issues identified through scoping with infrastructure funders and academics, allowing for focussed sector and cross-sector discussion and networking. Discussions will aim to give the EqUIP platform full and nuanced view of the following aspects:
• What are the future priorities for EU-India research funder and researcher collaboration in this area – ensuring research excellence (this means where collaborations between resear-chers in India and Europe add value and don’t duplicate national activities)?
• What are the research and infrastructure capacities?
• What are the opportunities and challenges connected to digitalisation for social science and humanities research? Which are the main barriers to a holistic approach to digital archives?
• What are the main factors to consider relating to the different geographic areas (e.g. India and Europe)?
The symposium will be organised around the development of infrastructure – data and digitization- and the use of these resources by the research communities. More detailed information on the symposium programme is be circulated in due time.We expect a very dynamic event based on inclusive small group discussions among participants. The Symposium offers an excellent networking opportunity between leading researchers across Europe and India and a key event for influencing a strategic research agenda for Indo-European research collaboration in the social sciences and humanities. All participants should be willing to share their views, drivers, approaches and experiences at the symposium, and must be able to commit to attend the full period of the symposium to contribute to recommendations to the platform.
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Frequently asked questions
What are the symposium main objectives?
• To discuss and identify opportunities and priorities for future research collaboration between Euro-pe and India in the Social Sciences and Humanities.
• To establish networks of pan-European and Indian researchers in the social sciences and humanities conducting excellent research addressing cutting edge research questions.
What kind of results are expected at the end of the Symposium?
• A full and nuanced view of research and infrastructure capacities, opportunities and challenges connected to digitalisation/digitisation for social science and humanities research, and the identifi-cation of the main barriers to digital archives in the EU and India.
• Clear recommendations for EqUIP partners and funders on which future priority areas shall be pursued for future joint India-EU research activities and collaboration in this area.
What are participant supposed to do?
• Participants are experts from different fields that are relevant for the Symposium. They will be divi-ded into breakout groups and invited to share their experiences, inputs and views on their specific topic of discussion.
Who are the chairs?
• Chairs have been chosen amongst distinguished experts to lead the discussion from the scientific point of view.
• For each session, joint chairs from India and Europe will lead the discussion
Who are the facilitators?
• Facilitators are representatives from EqUIP partners’ countries. They will support chairs during ses-sions, coordinate activities with them and make sure the proposed aims of the Symposium are met.
What is expected from participants before the event?
• Participants are invited to specify which discussion group they would like to join.
• Participants should identify in advance some topic(s) for discussion: one/two sentences will be sufficient to feed the discussion and should be sent to the organisers.
How is the symposium organised?
• In order to sustain interactive discussions and provide networking opportunities for participants, the agenda will include both plenary and parallel sessions.
• All participants are invited to join a networking dinner on 5th May and networking lunches on 5th and 6th May.
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Parallel sessions methodology
Discussion 1: Taking a picture of the current situation: existing resources, capacities and gaps
During this first group session, the participants will be asked to each give a one-minute statement on the research and/or infrastructure capacities in Europe and India related to your specific topic (1, 2 or 3) and what are the gaps and complementarities. A general discussion moderated by the European and Indian chairs for each topic will follow.
Discussion 2: Identification of research priorities
Prior to the symposium, participants are asked to submit in advance research priorities to be discussed during the event. The organisers will gather a brief outline for each research priority (title + 1 or 2 sentences).
All the symposium participants will receive a list of all the research priorities to be discussed.
During the second group discussion, the European and Indian co-chairs will present an overview of all research priorities to the group. The group members will then be invited to give a short oral presentation (max. 5 minutes) on the selected priorities they submitted. Each presentation shall briefly focus on:
• A description of the research priority
• The rationale for the research priority and why it is important
• The main actors in Europe and India
• Existing or emerging cooperation
• Why this is a common challenge and which are the opportunities
• Main barriers/challenges
After the presentations, the chairs will summarize the research priorities. The experts will discuss priorities and, wherever possible, assess whether they can be combined together into a sole one. A final selection of maximum five priorities will be done for each group, which will be discussed during the final plenary session.
Discussion 3: Widening our perspectives: Opportunities and challenges of greater digitalisation for SSH research
During the last group discussion, the participants will be asked to discuss the opportunities and challenges presented through greater digitization for social science and humanities research, and the main barriers to a holistic approach to digital archives. The discussion will be moderated by EqUIP partners in collaboration with the European and Indian chairs, using a simple version of the Disney method. The participants will successively assume the roles of ‘dreamers’, ‘spoilers’ and ‘realists’. They will first discuss the ideal future of greater digitalization for SSH research in the Indo-European context. They will then identify all the challenges and difficulties preventing this ideal situation to happen. During the final stage, they will combine the two first steps and go further to design a realistic approach of the best possible results while taking into account the existing challenges.
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List of participantsFirst Name Last name Organisation Country email ID
Jagdish Arora INFLIBNET Centre India [email protected]
Sandra Ataíde Lobo CHAM - Portuguese Centre for Global History
Portugal [email protected]
Margot Bezzi APRE Italy [email protected]
Sudhanshu Bhushan National University of Educational Planning and Administration (NUEPA)
India [email protected]
Francesca Cantone Federico II Napoli University Italy [email protected]
Arun Kumar Chakraborty RRRLF, Kolkata - National Mission on Libraries
India [email protected]
Upendra Chaudhury ICSSR India [email protected]
Fabio Ciotti University of Roma Tor Vergata Italy [email protected]
Louise Corti UK Data Archive - University of Essex United King-dom
Shefali Sushil Dash National Informatics Centre India [email protected]
Emiliano Degl‘Innocenti University of Florence Italy [email protected]
Catherine Eagleton British Library United King-dom
Tomaž Erjavec Dept. of Knowledge Technologies, Jožef Stefan Institute
Slovenia [email protected]
Ilaria Fava Italian National Research Council Italy [email protected]
Raman Ganguly Vienna University Computer Center Austria [email protected]
Sanjay Garg National Archives of India India [email protected]
K.S James Population Research Centre, Institute for Social and Economic Change
India [email protected]
Valerie Johnson The National Archives United King-dom
Manija Kamal ESRC United King-dom
Ajay Khare School of Planning and Architecture India [email protected]
Mahesh Madhukar ICSSR India [email protected]
Jyoti Ranjan Majumdar M/O Statistics & Programme Imple-mentation
India [email protected]
David Martin University of Southampton United King-dom
Reena Marwah ICSSR India [email protected]
Nafees Meah Research Council UK India [email protected]
AGK Menon INTACH Delhi Chapter India [email protected]
Usha Munshi Indian Institute of Public Adminis-tration
India [email protected]
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First Name Last name Organisation Country email ID
Appasamy Murugaiyan Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes France [email protected]
Jussi Nuorteva The National Archives of Finland Finland [email protected]
Aurélie Pachkoff-Singh APRE Italy [email protected]
Marco Passarotti Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Italy [email protected]
Vijay Poonacha Thambanda
Kannad University India [email protected]
Riccardo Pozzo Department Social Science and Hu-manities, Cultural Heritage, National Research Council of Italy
Italy
Andrew Prescott University of Glasgow United King-dom
Archana Saad Akthar Aga Khan Trust for culture India [email protected]
Massimi-liano
Saccone Italian National Research Council Italy [email protected]
Babu Sebastian State Institute of Education Tech-nology
India [email protected]
Nishant Shah Leuphana University India [email protected]
Peter Stockinger Communication et Formation Inter-culturelles, INALCO
France [email protected]
Gregor Strle ZRC SAZU Research Centre of the Slo-venian Academy of Sciences and Arts
Slovenia [email protected]
Manfred Thaller Cologne University Germany [email protected]
Sukhadeo Thorat ICSSR India [email protected]
Vania Virgili Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics
Italy [email protected]
Jerca Vodušek Starič MIZS - external expert Slovenia [email protected]
Martin Warnke University of Lüneburg Germany [email protected]
Alison Weir ESRC United King-dom
Tamara West University of Birmingham United King-dom
Matthew Woollard University of Essex - the UK Data Service
United King-dom
Gonçalo Zagalo FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Portugal [email protected]
Xenia Zeiler University of Helsinki Finland [email protected]
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First Name Last name Organisation Country email ID
Appasamy Murugaiyan Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes France [email protected]
Jussi Nuorteva The National Archives of Finland Finland [email protected]
Aurélie Pachkoff-Singh APRE Italy [email protected]
Marco Passarotti Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Italy [email protected]
Vijay Poonacha Thambanda
Kannad University India [email protected]
Riccardo Pozzo Department Social Science and Hu-manities, Cultural Heritage, National Research Council of Italy
Italy
Andrew Prescott University of Glasgow United King-dom
Archana Saad Akthar Aga Khan Trust for culture India [email protected]
Massimi-liano
Saccone Italian National Research Council Italy [email protected]
Babu Sebastian State Institute of Education Tech-nology
India [email protected]
Nishant Shah Leuphana University India [email protected]
Peter Stockinger Communication et Formation Inter-culturelles, INALCO
France [email protected]
Gregor Strle ZRC SAZU Research Centre of the Slo-venian Academy of Sciences and Arts
Slovenia [email protected]
Manfred Thaller Cologne University Germany [email protected]
Sukhadeo Thorat ICSSR India [email protected]
Vania Virgili Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics
Italy [email protected]
Jerca Vodušek Starič MIZS - external expert Slovenia [email protected]
Martin Warnke University of Lüneburg Germany [email protected]
Alison Weir ESRC United King-dom
Tamara West University of Birmingham United King-dom
Matthew Woollard University of Essex - the UK Data Service
United King-dom
Gonçalo Zagalo FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Portugal [email protected]
Xenia Zeiler University of Helsinki Finland [email protected]
Participants bionotes
Jagdish Arora
Dr. Jagdish Arora, is the Director of Information and Library Network (INFLIBNET) Centre from August, 2007 onwards. Prior to his present assignment, Dr. Arora has worked as the Librarian and Deputy Librarian at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi from Sept. 2003 to August 2007 and from March 1991 to June 2002 respectively. He was also the National Coordinator of the INDEST-AICTE Consortium since its inception in 2002. He was Librarian at IIT Bombay from June, 2002 to August, 2003 and was Documentation Officer at the National Institute of Immunology, Delhi (1983 - 1991) and Asstt. Documentation Officer, ICRISAT, Patancheru, A.P. (1980 - 1983).His current research interests includes consortia-based subscription to e-resources, digital libraries, digitization of old and fragile documents and their storage, database-driven Web interfaces and
Web-based library services, Web-based learning and education, access management technologies, scientometric analysis, etc.”
Sandra Ataíde Lobo
Sandra Ataíde Lobo (Pangim, 1963), Researcher in Theory and History of Ideas, CHAM – Portuguese Centre for Global History/ FCSH/UNL (Lisbon), [email protected] my PhD I work extensively on Goan periodicals published in Goa, British India and Portugal (19th-20th Centuries). As a member of the Free Seminary of History of Ideas (CHAM), I participate in a project about 20th Century Portuguese magazines. Member of ‘Thinking Goa: a singular library in the Portuguese language’. Founding member of the International Group of Studies of Colonial Periodical Press of the Portuguese Empire. Published several related articles.
Margot Bezzi
After graduating in Media Studies and Communication Science at the University of Bologna, she focused her professional experience on the impact and implications of Internet and new technologies on societal organization and challenges. Before joining APRE, she worked for three years as project and policy officer at the DG CONNECT of the European Commission following projects in the area of ICT for societal challenges. In particular she dealt with e-Inclusion, e-Health, Ambient Assisted Living, and Digital Social Innovation. Her previous assignments include missions with United Nations in Chile and Egypt, and experience in the private sector on web and ICT consultancy. In APRE, she is now involved in international cooperation for research projects in the fields of SSH and of ICT policy.
Sudhanshu Bhushan
My experience in the related field - digital archives and data bases - has been from the perspective of higher education policy. The policy focus is on increasing access to higher education institutions. Another policy focus is on improving research infrastructure which consists of access to research materials as well as developing digital archives. I have been associated with these projects directly or indirectly.
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Francesca Cantone
Francesca Cantone, graduated with honors in classics, PhD in integrated conservation of the cultural and environmental heritage, has been working on the interaction between cultural heritage and new technologies for more than fifteen years. She carried on academic teaching and research activities both nationally and internationally, lately in Federico II Napoli University, l’Orientale Napoli University, and the Italian Research Council. Her research focuses on standards of representation of cultural data, archaeological data management, tridimentional reconstruction of archaeological artifacts and monuments in virtual and augmented reality applications, web and virtual museums, study the cultural landscape through GIS methodologies, documentation of archaeological excavations, smart cultural heritage, social network analysis and archaeology,
e-learning methodologies and techniques for archaeology and cultural heritage. The territory of deeper experimentation is Southern Italy. Her scientific research is published in national and international journals, meeting proceedings, monographies and obtained several international awards for research.
Arun Kumar Chakraborty
Upendra Chaudhury
Fabio Ciotti
Fabio Ciotti is Assistant Professor at the University of Roma Tor Vergata, where he teaches Digital Literary Studies and Theory of Literature. His scientific and research work covers various aspects and themes of Digital Humanities and Literary Studies, both from the theoretical and the practical point of view.He is President of the Associazione per l’Informatica Umanistica e la Cultura Digitale (AIUCD, the Italian Digital Humanities Association), member of the EADH (European Association of Digital Humanities) Executive Board and of the ADHO Steering Committee. He is co-head of the VCC 4 of the European infrastructure DARIAH.
Louise Corti
Louise Corti is an Associate Director at the UK Data Archive, since 2000, and currently leads the UK Data Service functional areas of Collections Development and Producer Relations. She works closely with data producers from all sectors to ensure that high quality data are created and acquired. Louise’s research activities are focused on methods for sharing and reusing social research data and she has directed a number of research awards relating to data support, management and sharing. She was instrumental in helping operationalise the ESRC’s Research Data Policy from 1995 and extending this to fully accommodate qualitative data. Louise publishes and edits regularly in books and journals on aspects of data sharing and reuse of data.
Shefali Sushil Dash
Dr. (Mrs.) Shefali Sushil Dash has a Doctorate in Physics and has thirty years of experience in planning and implementation of e-Governance programmes, Informatics Development Services & Setting up of computer communication infrastructure in the Rural Areas. She has been instrumental in preparing eGovernance Plans for various state governments in India as well as for Government of Lao Peoples Democratic Republic. She has set up IndMED and MedIND, the bibliographic and full text repositories of articles published in Indian medical journals respectively. She has also contributed significantly towards setting up of the social science data repository for the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR), Government of India. She is currently associated in the implementation of various eGovernance programmes of the Election
Commission of India, department of Electronics & Information Technology, etc. She is a recipient of many national and international awards on eGovernance including Dataquest e-Gov Champion.
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Catherine Eagleton
Dr Catherine Eagleton is Head of Asian and African Collections at the British Library. At the Library she leads the team of curators who are responsible for collections from and relating to Asia and Africa, including collections from South Asia that are among the most important and wide-ranging in the world outside the subcontinent. She and the curatorial team are working on a number of major digitisation and digital scholarship initiatives to make these collections more accessible to researchers everywhere, working in partnership with institutions in the UK and India. She is also actively involved in a crowdsourcing project (www.LibCrowds.com) and is a member of the project board for the British Library Labs project, which aims to encourage innovative uses to be made of the British Library‘s digital and digitised content. Her academic research interests include
the history of the Indian Ocean, and particularly the East African coast and the islands of Zanzibar and Mauritius.
Tomaž Erjavec
Tomaž Erjavec is a senior researcher at the Dept. of Knowledge Technologies, Jožef Stefan Institute in Ljubljana, Slovenia. His research interests include the development of language processing tools, methods and resources and the field of digital humanities. He taught at several universities and has been involved in a number of projects, e.g. in EU IMPACT, aimed at improving access to historical texts and national projects that have built digital libraries of text critical editions. He is a member of ISO/TC 37/SC 4 “Language resource management” and the national coordinator of the Slovenian node of the CLARIN research infrastructure, devoted to enabling easy access to language and linguistic data to humanities and social sciences scholars.
Ilaria Fava
Ilaria Fava graduated in Library and Information Science in 2010. Since 2007, she started to get involved in National initiatives and international projects on Open Access infrastructures and policies. Since 2010, she curates the annual issue of Facts and figures on Open Access in Italy, a short report on the state of the art of OA in this country. She currently works at the National Research Council of Italy, and she is interested in Open Science related issues as means of collaboration improvement.
Raman Ganguly
Raman Ganguly specialised in the topic of research data management from a technical perspective and he is the technical project manager for e-Infrastructures Austria. He started to career as a software developer in 1997. In 2008 he graduated at the University for Applied Science in St. Pölten in Media Engineering. Since 2011 he is the head of the department Software Design and Development at the Vienna University Computer Center and is responsible for the technical development of digital archiving and creating concepts for management and preservation of digital objects.
Sanjay Garg
Dr. Sanjay Garg is an eminent researcher with extensive research experience in history of South Asia, with specialization on economic and monetary history, currency and coinage, architecture and archival studies. He has been serving the National Archives of India since February 1988 and is at present its senior-most officer - Deputy Director of Archives. From March 2011 to Dec 2014, Dr Garg served as the head of the Research Division of the SAARC Cultural Centre, Sri Lanka, and was engaged in bringing out publications, commissioning research projects, and organizing conferences on various cultural themes pertaining to South Asia. He is interested in creating digital resources for cultural heritage and had planned and developed the first-ever cultural portal for South Asia – www.saarcculture.org/cultural-portal/ and the first-ever search portal of the
National Archives of India - www.abhilekh-patal.in.
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K.S James
K S James is currently the Acting Director and professor at the Population Research Centre, Institute for Social and Economic Change (ISEC), Bengaluru. He has worked extensively on demographic changes with focus on population and development and ageing issues. His areas of interest include demographic and health transition, ageing issues and data system. He has involved in a large scale research project on assessing quality of data funded by UNFPA. He has been a visiting fellow at the Harvard Centre for Population and Development, Harvard University, USA, International Institute for Applied System Analysis (IIASA), Austria, London School of Economics, UK, and INED, Paris, University of Groningen, The Netherlands.
Valerie Johnson
Dr Valerie Johnson is Director of Research and Collections at The National Archives, where she is responsible for supporting and co-ordinating innovative research, conservation and cataloguing programmes. Valerie is also responsible for The National Archives’ active support for archives. As a qualified archivist and historian, she has published on the challenges of digital archives, and how the shift to digitisation and born-digital records /data is dramatically changing what we keep, how we preserve it, and how we present it, as well as how digital is changing research questions and methodologies.
Manija Kamal
Manija Kamal is a Policy Manager for International Strategy at the Economic and Social research Council (ESRC), the UK‘s largest organisation for funding research on economic and social issues. Prior to joining ESRC, Manija was a research fellow at the University of Warwick (UK) and University of Ottawa (Canada). Her research interests focus on civil society organisations and global governance.
Ajay Khare
Professor (Dr.) Ajay Khare, Founder-Director of School of Planning and Architecture, Bhopal, now Dean, Academic Affairs, is a well-known scholar in the field of Architecture and remained a Fulbright Fellow at the United States of America and Charles Wallace Fellow at United Kingdom. He was the first Indian recipient of Berkeley Teaching Fellowship. He is author of a widely acclaimed book ‘Temple Architecture of Eastern India’ published in 2005. He edits an international journal called ‘SPANDREL’ as Chief Editor published by SPA Press. A keen researcher, Ajay is currently involved in AHRC-UK funded project,- ‘Mapping the Layers of History in Ajmer-Pushkar’, with Cardiff University, Wales.Professor Ajay Khare serves on many National committees and Missions including member of
Planning commission working group on Technical education for twelfth plan of India. He is a member of National Executive Committee of International Council of Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS India).
Mahesh Madhukar
Mr Mahesh Prasad Madhukar is associated with the ICSSR since 1991 and is currently working as Assistant Director. He is in-charge of the International Collaboration Division and is responsible for managing the bilateral relations and implementing activities of the MoUs with counterpart organizations in other countries. This includes building enhancing capacities for research on Asia. He is also coordinating the EqUIP Programme since its inception.
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Jyoti Ranjan Majumdar
Shri Jyoti Ranjan Majumdar completed his M.Sc. in Statistics from the Kolkata University, India.Performed as Research Officer while posted at CINI-Child in Need Institute (Kolkata, India) for more than ten years at all the Stages (i.e Planning, Designing, Execution, Electronic Data Processing, Statistical Analysis, Report Writing and Publishing) of the various large-scale multi-centric & multi-disciplinary Research Project-Studies mainly on the ‘Health & Nutrition of Mother and Children below 6-years in relation to the Socio-Economic Constraints’ conducted by the various National / International famous Institutes like CINI-Child in Need Institute, UNICEF, WHO, ICMR-Indian Council of Medical Research, NFI-Nutrition Foundation of India, NIN-National Institute of Nutrition (Hyderabad, India) , ORG-Operations Research Group (Baroda, India) , AIIMS-All India
Institute of Medical Sciences, AIIH&PH (All India Institute of Hygiene & Public Health), CMC-Christian Medical College (Vellore and Ludhiana in India), NIPCCD-National Institute of Public Co-Operation & Child Development, India etc. Currently holding the post of Joint Director in the Computer Centre, Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation, Government of India, have been performing (since 1992) the tasks of Electronic Data Processing / Analysis / Documentation / Web-enabled Archiving & Data Dissemination of Large Scale Socio-Economic Survey / Census Data using the Latest EDP technologies / Software Packages / Languages.Besides above, regularly Imparting training to the National / International Statistical Personnel or Social-Scientists or Research associates on the best international standard practices of EDP (Electronic Data Processing) of Big-Database and the techniques of web-enabled Micro/Meta Data Archiving & their Dissemination in an international standard format to the global users.
David Martin
David Martin is a Professor of Geography at the University of Southampton. His principal research areas are in geographical information science, particularly applied to census design and population modelling, and policy matters concerning data generation and access. He is a Member of the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and co-director of three major ESRC centres - the UK Data Service, National Centre for Research Methds and Administrative Data Research Centre for England.
Reena Marwah
Dr. Reena Marwah, M. Phil; PhD (International Business), Associate Professor, Delhi University and Consultant, ICSSR for EqUIP. She has participated as a Team member in a Government of India funded two stage research project from 2011-2013 on the documentation of manuscripts related to Uzbekistan and its neigbouring countries in the libraries of Aligarh, Rampur, Patna Hyderabad, Kolkata and Delhi. As a consultant of the World Bank, UN Women and other organisations, have been extensively involved in empirical surveys involving collection, tabulation and analysis of qualitative data. She has been a key team member of Oral history projects on China Studies in India and South Asia since 2009. She is the founding editor of a bi-annual Journal of Asian Studies titled Millennial Asia, published by Sage Publishers. Her research interests include development
issues of gender, globalization and poverty in addition to bilateral and multilateral relations of Asian countries. She has several publications to her credit.
Nafees Meah
Dr Nafees Meah joined the RCUK India team in October 2012. He was educated as a chemist at the Universities of Manchester, Toronto, London and Cambridge and joined the Chief Scientist’s Group at the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food in 1988. There he managed research programmes on food safety, nutrition and environmental contamination of food. Following that, he was a senior policy maker in the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs working on the environmental impact of food production and on climate change and food security. Before joining the RCUK India, he was head of science at the Department of Energy and Climate Change. He was called to the Bar in 2000 and is a member of Inner Temple. In his current role, he is responsible for delivering RCUK’s vision for a stronger and deeper engagement with
India on research that has impact.
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AGK Menon
A G Krishna Menon is an architect, urban planner and conservation consultant practicing and teaching in Delhi for over 40 years. He co-founded the TVB School of Habitat Studies in New Delhi in 1990. He is actively engaged in research and in 2004 drafted the INTACH Charter for the Conservation of Unprotected Architectural Heritage and Sites in India. He is the Convenor of INTACH’s Delhi Chapter, where, among other projects they are identifying and recording the diverse heritage of the city on a digital platform.
Usha Munshi
Dr. Usha Mujoo Munshi, a Fulbright Scholar is currently with Indian Institute of Public Administration (IIPA). Prior to joining IIPA, she has served at many prestigious organizations. In the area of digital archives a number of initiatives were taken that includes: (i) digital archiving of legacy fellowship records in 1998; creating first journal portal in India by converting all (INSA) institutional journals from print to digital (1930s -) and the portal is available for free, unrestricted and unlimited use by the research and academic community; being part of digital library of India Project and converting all IIPA rare collection and IIPA Publications in digital forms; (iii) creating digital institutional repositories at various institutions; (iv) Edited (alongwith B.B. Chaudhury) book on “Multimedia Information Extraction and Digital Heritage Preservation” brought out by
World Scientific in 2011, which is a detailed & distinctive anthology on various facets of the research issues in the area contributed by the world experts; (v) Nominated member for the Steering Committee of IAP (Inter Academy Panel) and Task Force on Digital Resources - US National Academy of Sciences, USA (2008-2010); Co-Chairman, Expert Committee for defining policies, standards and guidelines for Digital preservation constituted in 2011 for Centre of Excellence in Digital Preservation, C-DAC, Pune - a project of Department of Information Technology, Government of India.
Appasamy Murugaiyan
Appasamy Murugaiyan, EPHE-UMR 7528 Mondes iranien et indien, Paris. I am a linguist with special interest on historical linguistics working mainly on Tamil inscriptions and Classical Tamil texts. My interest on database construction was initially motivated by the linguistic analysis. I was led to broaden my objectives and am working on multidisciplinary database and also digital preservation of monuments like the Tamil Hero-stone inscriptions which are endangered. I contribute to the INFITT (International Forum on Information Technology in Tamil) activities. I was a recipient of a grant by EAP – British Library (2015-2016) for the digital preservation of the manuscripts of the Jaffna Bishop’s House.
Jussi Nuorteva
Dr. Jussi Nuorteva (b. 1954) is Director General of the National Archives of Finland since 2003. He is a former Secretary General of the Research Council for Culture and Society at the Academy of Finland and Board Member of the University of Turku. He has been Chair of the Governmental Committee on Public Information, Board Member of the Finnish Center for Scientific Computing (CSC) and the Research Infrastructure Committee of the Academy of Finland. Dr. Nuorteva is also Board Member of the Finnish Committee for Research Data and the Research Infrastructure Committee of Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (National Bank of Sweden Jubilee Foundation). Dr. Nuorteva is Adjunct Professor of the University of Helsinki and author or editor of over 20 monographs mainly on history of science and culture. Dr. Nuorteva is also member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters.
Aurélie Pachkoff-Singh
Aurélie Pachkoff-Singh is a Senior Project Manager at APRE, Italy, where she is working on different projects related to Science, Technology and Innovation cooperation between Europe and India, Canada and the USA. After a Master Degree in European Project Management, her previous work experiences include working for CNRS International Relations Office as a European Project Manager in charge of International Cooperation projects in Paris and being EURAXESS Links India Country representative in Delhi. She was also CNRS representative to the International Cooperation (INCO) National Contact Point for FP7 (NCP). She has be the managing coordinator
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or manager of several EU-funded multilateral projects with India, Russia, Ukraine, Algeria, South Korea, China, Canada, the United States and Africa.
Marco Passarotti
Marco Passarotti is researcher at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Milan) in the area of computational linguistics. A pupil of one of the pioneers of humanities computing, father Roberto Busa SJ, his main research interests deal with developing and disseminating language resources and NLP tools for Latin. Since 2006, he heads the “”Index Thomisticus”” Treebank project. In 2009, he founded the CIRCSE research centre on computational linguistics at Università Cattolica.Currently, he is Principal Investigator of a FIR-2013 funded project and Coordinator of a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship. He organized and chaired several international scientific events. He co-chairs the series of workshops on ‘Corpus-based Research in the Humanities’ (CRH). He is author of one book and of about seventy papers published in scientific reviews and
proceedings of national and international conferences.
Vijay Poonacha Thambanda
Working as a Professor of History since 1996 in Kannada University, Hampi, Karnataka, India.Worked as a Social Scientist in the Multi- disciplinary Project on Mountain Bio-Diversity of Western Ghats (1996-1999) with the collaboration of Mac Arthur and UNESCO funded Project of French Institute of Pondichery. Worked as a Commonwealth Post-Doctoral Fellow in carrying out research project on Separatist and Anti- Separatist Movements in Coorg of South India in South Asian Studies, St.Antony’s College, University of Oxford, Oxford. Chairperson, Preparation of the Syllabus for the Social Sciences Text Book Committee (V to X Standard), Department of State Education Research Training, Department of Primary and Higher Education, Government of Karnataka (2006- -2010) DSERT, Government of Karnataka, Bangalore Chairperson, Social
Sciences Text Book Preparation Committee (VIII Standard), Text Book Society, Government of Karnataka. 2010 2011 Text Book Society, Department of Primary and Higher Education, Government of Karnataka, Bangalore.
Riccardo Pozzo Riccardo Pozzo received his M.A. at Università di Milano in 1983, his Ph.D. at Universität des Saarlandes in 1988, and his Habilitation at Universität Trier in 1995. In 1996 he went to the U.S. to teach German Philosophy at the School of Philosophy of the Catholic University of America. In 2003 he came back to Italy to take up the Chair of the History of Philosophy at the Università di Verona. From 2009 to 2012 he was the Director of the Institute for the European Intellectual Lexicon and History of Ideas of CNR. Beginning 2013 he is the Director of the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Cultural Heritage of CNR. Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany on ribbon. He was elected a member of the Institut International de Philosophie. He currently serves as member of the H2020 Programme Committee Configuration Research Infrastructures
and of the Scientific Review Group for the Humanities of ESF as well as and chair of the World Congress of Philosophy Beijing 2018 program committee. He has published monographs on the Renaissance (Schwabe, 2012), the Enlightenment (Frommann-Holzboog, 2000), Kant (Akal, 1998; Lang 1989), and Hegel (La Nuova Italia, 1989). He has edited and co-edited the proceedings of the 36th Congresso Italiano di Filosofia (Mimesis, 2009) and recently a miscellany on Kant on the Unconscious (DeGruyter, 2012) as well as volumes on Dilthey and the methodology of the history of ideas (Meiner, 2010; Harrassowitz, 2011; Frommann-Holzboog, 2011), the philosophical academic programs of the German Enlightenment (Frommann-Holzboog 2011), intellectual property (Biblioteca di via Senato, 2005), the impact of Aristotelianism on modern philosophy (CUA-Press 2003), the lecture catalogues of the University of Königsberg (Frommann-Holzboog, 1999), and twentieth-century moral philosophy together with Karl-Otto Apel (Frommann-Holzboog, 1990). He has published in the following journals: Ave Maria Law Review, Archiv für Begriffsgeschichte, American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Giornale critico della filosofia italiana, Hegel-Jahrbuch, History of Science, History of Universities, Intersezioni, Isis, Jahrbuch für Universitätsgeschichte, Journal of the History of Philosophy, Kant-Studien, Medioevo, Philosophical News, Quaestio, Review of Metaphysics, Rivista di storia della filosofia, Studi Kantiani, and Topoi. H-Index not available. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riccardo_Pozzo
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Andrew Prescott
Andrew Prescott is Professor of Digital Humanities at the University of Glasgow and AHRC Theme Leader Fellow for the ‘Digital Transformations’ theme. He trained as a medieval historian and completed a doctorate on archival records of the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381 in England. Having developed a profound interest in archives, he was a Curator of Manuscripts at the British Library from 1979-2000, where he was involved in a number of pioneering digitisation projects, most notably ‘Electronic Beowulf’. Andrew has also worked in libraries and digital humanities units at the University of Sheffield, University of Wales Lampeter and King’s College London. He tweets as @ajprescott and has a blog calledc Digital Riffs: https://medium.com/digital-riffs
Archana Saad Akthar
Archana Saad Akhtar is an Architect with a Masters in New Media Design from National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad (INDIA). In the past she has worked on conservation projects with INTACH, and has been working with the Aga Khan Trust for Culture since 2008 as Senior Programme Officer of Design and Outreach on the Nizamuddin Urban Renewal Initiative (New Delhi) and the Qutb Shahi Heritage Park (Hyderabad). Her responsibilities include effective documentation of the project activities and their outreach through various media like reports, publications, exhibitions and web portals amongst others. She has an active interest in creating meaningful visitor experience using digital technologies at our heritage sites, and is also a recipient of the Charles Wallace Scholarship to the UK during 2013.
Massimiliano Saccone
Massimiliano Saccone is a technologist at Italian National Research Council. For many years he has been involved in research, organizational and technical activities in the fields of library & information sciences, scholarly communication, documentation, digital humanities, digital cultural heritage, Open Science and Open Access. Currently is the project officer of the CNR Department of Social Sciences and Humanities, Cultural Heritage (DSU) and coordinates the research and technical activities of the DSU related to research and digital infrastructures.
Babu Sebastian
DR. Babu Sebastian is the Vice-Chancellor of Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala, India and the ICT advisor of ICSSR, India.He was the Director of the State Institute of Educational Technology, IT @ School project and VICTERS Educational channel, Government of Kerala. He has long eleven years of experience in Digitaizing (Multi) Cultural Heritage and educational Audio, Video and interactive multimedia production. He has developed the open and free learning web portal for the research and study of the students in the state of Kerala, India.DR. Babu Sebastian holds a PhD, Masters in Arts, Masters in Business Administration, Masters in Foreign Trade and Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Applications. He has written five books on
Education, Technology and Digital contest Development.
Nishant Shah
Nishant Shah is a professor of culture and aesthetics of digital media and academic director of The Digital School at the Leuphana University, Lüneburg, Germany. He is the co-founder of The Centre for Internet & Society, Bangalore, India, where he was the Director-Research for 7 years and continues to serve on the governing council. Nishant works closely with the Digital Media and Learning network housed at the University of California, Irvine, USA, and remains invested in global networks around digital humanities, learning practices, and knowledge processes. His current work is at the intersections of digital humanities, social justice and participatory politics, informed by questions of affect, identity, and openness.
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Peter Stockinger
Prof. Dr. Peter Stockinger is full professor in communicati on, culture and language studies, discourse semioti cs, (new) media studies and knowledge modeling and representati on at the Insti tut Nati onal des Langues et Civilisati ons Orientales (INALCO) in Paris, France, where he heads the Intercultural Communicati on School. He is also member of the research lab PLIDAM (Pluralité des Langues et des Identi tés en Didacti ques : Acquisiti on, Médiati ons). His principal research topics recover digital media, digital culture and semioti cs, crosscultural communicati on and organizati onal communicati on, digital (audiovisual) archives, video corpus descripti on, indexing and repurposing; knowledge modeling and organizati on, ontology development. He has created the Audiovisual Research Archives and worked as a coordinator
or scienti fi c partner in more than 15 European R&D projects since 1996. He has published 8 scienti fi c monographs, 10 collecti ve books and more than 80 scienti fi c arti cles in semioti cs, discourse analysis, digital media and knowledge modeling and representati on.
Gregor Strle
Gregor Strle is a research fellow at the Scienti fi c Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts. He is a philosopher working on interdisciplinary topics related to cogniti on and technology, connecti ng areas of cogniti ve sciences, computer sciences, and humaniti es. Some of his research interests include music cogniti on, semanti cs, computati onal analysis and representati on of cultural heritage informati on. Gregor has worked extensively on projects related to the innovati ve use of ICT in cultural heritage.
Manfred Thaller
Manfred Thaller, born 1950. PhD (Modern History) 1975, University of Graz, Austria. 1978 - 1997 research fellow / senior research fellow at the Max-Planck-Insti tut for History, Götti ngen. Research on a general methodology of historical computer science. Since 1995 also professor of «Historical computer Science» at the University of Bergen, Norway. 2000 unti l reti rement 2015 Prof. of Humaniti es Computer Science at the University at Cologne, Germany.Responsible for major digiti zati on and digital preservati on projects 1996 - 2015 in libraries, archives, museums. Member Strategy board of the eHumaniti es initi ati ve of the German Nati onal Ministry of Educati on and Research, 2010 – 2018.
Sukhadeo Thorat
Sukhadeo Thorat is currently the Chairman of Indian Council of Social Science Research since April 2011. He is Professor Emeritus, Jawaharlal Nehru University, since August 2014, Visiti ng Faculty at Department of Economics, Iowa State University, AMES and Director, Indian Insti tute of Dalit Studies, New Delhi. A Ph D. in Economics from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, Prof Thorat had earlier held the positi on of Chairman, University Grants Commission, Government of India, New Delhi. Several initi ati ves have been taken under his leadership at ICSSR related to digiti zati on of data and development of research and infrastructure capaciti es. He has been honoured with the Padamshree (by Government of India), Vidyalankara, Lifeti me Achievement Award (by Purbanchal Academy of Oriental Studies in associati on with Ministry of HRD, Govt. of
India) . In additi on, he has been honoured by several Universiti es and research insti tuti ons. His areas of Research include Agricultural Development, Rural Poverty, Insti tuti on and Economic Growth, Problems of Marginalized Groups, Economics of Caste System, Caste Discriminati on and Poverty, Human Development, Human Rights Issue, Thoughts of Ambedkar, Slums, Educati on.
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Vania Virgili
Vania Virgili is senior research officer at the National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN) and advisor to the Italian Minister for Culture and Tourism, Hon. Dario Franceschini. She was educated at Sapienza University of Rome, where she received her M.A. (2007) in Sciences for Cultural Heritage and her Ph.D. (2011) in Chemical Sciences with a specialization in materials characterization of cultural heritage. Since 2007, she has been designing and managing European projects on research and development for cultural heritage interpretation and preservation. In 2012, she has turned the focus of her activities on planning and implementing European research infrastructures for Social Sciences, Humanities, and Cultural Heritage. Currently, she heads the Coordination Office of IPERION CH, which is a Horizon 2020 project carried out by a cross-disciplinary consortium
of twenty-three partners from twelve Member States and one from the US. IPERION CH aims at establishing the pan-European Research Platform in Heritage Science (E-RIHS) by integrating world-class national facilities at research centers, universities, and museums. IT coordinator of the Working Group on Technologies for Natural and Cultural Heritage of the IT-US bilateral agreement on science and technologies; Co-head (2014) of the VCC4-Impact, Advocacy and Outreach of the Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities-European Research Infrastructure Consortium (DARIAH-ERIC); visiting professor (Spring Term 2015) at the Department of Materials Science of the University of Maryland where she taught a graduate and an undergraduate course on Archaeometry and Conservation Sciences; visiting researcher (2012) at the Heritage and Cultural Learning Hub of the University of Birmingham; visiting researcher (2010) and Leonardo da Vinci fellow (2004-05) at the Laboratory of the Centre of Research and Restoration of the Museums of France. Her publication record includes cultural heritage related articles in the national newspaper il Sole-24 ore and influential position papers.
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Martin Warnke
Martin Warnke was born in 1955, studied in Berlin and Hamburg, acquired his PhD in theoretical physics in 1984, and then began his affiliation with the University of Lüneburg, where he was head of the computing and media center for many years. He finished his Habilitation at the University of Lüneburg in 2008, becoming an associate professor for digital media/cultural computer science, and was the university’s Director of the Institute for Culture and Aesthetics of Digital Media at the Faculty Culture. He is now Professor at the faculty. He is also a visiting professor in Vienna, Klagenfurt, and Basel and works in the fields of history, digital media, and the digital documentation of complex works of art. He is one of the directors of the DFG funded „Institute for advances Study in Media Cultures of Computer Simulation“ (mecs). He heads the Meta-Image research project, and works with the IFIP and the Gesellschaft für Informatik, as counsellor to the
Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft.
Alison Weir
Alison Weir is a Senior Policy Manager in the Big Data and Resources Team at the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). As part of her role at ESRC she is case officer for the UK Data Service and has previously managed a range of large social science surveys including Understanding Society and the Millennium Cohort Study. As such she has a keen interest in data discoverability and re-use.Tamara West Tamara West works at the Ironbridge International Institute for Cultural Heritage at the University of Birmingham, where her research and teaching interests are in the transmission and enactment of memory, heritage and storytelling, the cultural and creative economies and cross sector collaboration. She has worked on two large research projects that have explored
the role of digital technologies within culture - the EU funded (FP7) project ‘Smart Culture’ which investigated how digital technologies might enable more democratic participation in cultural heritage, and how a quadruple helix model within locally embedded clusters might benefit both cultural heritage projects and also regional economies; and the AHRC funded project ‘Media, Community and the Creative Citizen’ which explored creative participation and citizenship, creative and entrepreneurial networks, and co-creation in the context of a changing media landscape via the production of amongst other things a digital storytelling project.
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Matthew Woollard
Matthew Woollard is Director at the UK Data Archive at the University of Essex and directs the UK Data Service. His PhD (2005) was on the development of occupational classification schemes in the UK from 1690-1930. He has led the History Data Service (2002-2006) and was Associate Director of Digital Preservation and Systems at the UK Data Archive (2006-2010). As Director ensures the effective management, operation and development of the Archive as an umbrella organisation hosting multiple national services relating to the acquisition, curation and dissemination of digital data. He is the UK representative on the ESFRI SCI-SWG and the Vice Chair of the CESSDA Board of Directors.
Gonçalo Zagalo
Gonçalo Zagalo Pereira has a degree and a Master in Philosophy. Before joining FCT, he was doing research in French contemporary philosophy at the Centre for Philosophy of Science of the University of Lisbon (CFCUL). In June 2012 he was hired by the Evaluation Office of FCT, where he was in charge of providing expert advice to the board of directors of FCT in all matters related to evaluation and promoting the necessary proceedings for assessing applications to the several R&D national funding instruments sponsored by FCT. In April 2015, he joined the Department of International Relations, where he manages the Portuguese involvement in several EU initiatives (EU-India Platform for Social Sciences and Humanities, the Trans-Atlantic Platform, OCEANERA-NET).
Xenia Zeiler
Xenia Zeiler is Associate Professor of South Asian Studies at the University of Helsinki, Finland. Her research is situated at the intersection of digital media, religion, and culture in India and the worldwide Indian community. Other research interests include global Hinduism and popular culture. She is author of numerous articles and book chapters on mediatized and digital Hinduism, including the first article on video games and Hinduism, on popular religion in contemporary India, on global Hinduism, and of a monograph on current transformations of Tantric traditions. She is co-founder and co-editor-in-chief of gamevironments. games, religion, and stuff (http://http://www.gamevironments.org/), the first academic journal on video gaming and religion.
This project has received from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration
under grant agreement no 613236