centerNet Mourns Death of Lisa Lena Opas-Hänninen

Submitted by jabauer on Thu, 02/28/2013 - 00:00

Prof. Lisa Lena Opas-Hänninen of the University of Oulu and chair of the ALLC: The European Association for Digital Humanities, passed away in Helsinki on Feb. 2, 2013 after a long illness. She is survived by her husband, Prof. Heikki Hänninen of the University of Helsinki, and she will be remembered by generations of digital humanists. Lisa Lena was born in Helsinki in 1957. Her father, who she was always close to, was a career diplomat, which promoted Lisa Lena’s growing up to be a polyglot.

Join the World Fair of DH Centres in Hamburg!

Submitted by admin on Wed, 04/11/2012 - 00:00

centerNet is inviting submissions of short videos to introduce and showcase activities from digital humanities centres around the world. These videos will be premiered as a collection at the centerNET meeting during DH2012 in Hamburg, and compiled on the centerNet website. We hope to see your centre represented at the World Fair of DH Centres!
Basic guidelines:

Jean Bauer Appointed Secretary of centerNet

Submitted by admin on Mon, 03/26/2012 - 00:00

We are delighted to announce the appointment of Jean Bauer as centerNet’s Secretary. Jean is the Digital Humanities Librarian at Brown University and part of the Brown University Library’s Center for Digital Scholarship, where she works with faculty, students, and fellow librarians to design and implement digital systems that showcase and facilitate scholarship in the humanities. Through a combination of formal training and curiosity she is an early American historian, database designer, and photographer. She is finishing her dissertation “Revolution-Mongers: Launching the U.S.

DH Commons Becomes a centerNet Initiative

Submitted by admin on Wed, 01/04/2012 - 00:00

DHCommons (http://www.dhcommons.org) and centerNet (http://digitalhumanities.org/centernet/) are pleased to announce that, as of January 5, 2012, DHCommons will become a sponsored initiative of centerNet. The centerNet Executive Council formally approved this partnership at their meeting in Paris on December 7, 2011. DHCommons and centerNet reached this agreement after six months of discussions, led by Ryan Cordell and Quinn Dombrowski for DHCommons and Neil Fraistat representing centerNet.

centerNet to join ADHO

Submitted by admin on Wed, 08/17/2011 - 00:00

The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organisations (ADHO) and centerNet are very pleased to announce that with effect from 1 January 2012 centerNet is to become a fully fledged ‘Constituent Organisation’ within the ADHO umbrella. The formal agreements were finalised at meetings held in conjunction with the international Digital Humanities 2011 conference, held at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California.

centerNet Welcomes Two New Members

Submitted by admin on Thu, 06/02/2011 - 00:00

Humanities and Critical Code Studies (Haccs) Lab at USC and The CulturePlex Lab at the University of Western Ontario.

centerNet and DLF Announce Formal Alliance

Submitted by admin on Tue, 03/15/2011 - 00:00

CLIR’s Digital Library Federation Affiliates with CenterNet

centerNet and The Council on Library and Information Resources’ Digital Library Federation program are delighted to announce today their formal alliance. Established in 1995, the Digital Library Federation is a community of library practitioners engaged and committed to building and sustaining digital libraries through collaborative effort and establishing best practices. The DLF community includes project managers, code developers, and digital curators.

CHCI and centerNet initiative

Submitted by admin on Tue, 03/01/2011 - 00:00

All–Announcing the first major initiative between CHCI and centerNet: “Humanities (Dot) Net: Currents in the Digital Humanities,” a joint day-long conference at the University of Toronto on June 15. You can find the schedule and speakers here: http://digitalhumanities.org/centernet/the-2011-chci-annual-meeting/. We hope to see many centerNet members in attendance!

New center members

Submitted by admin on Tue, 09/07/2010 - 00:00

This summer centerNet welcomed 13 centers as new members:

Two New Members Join North American Steering Committee

Submitted by admin on Tue, 09/07/2010 - 00:00

We welcome to the North American Steering Committee Susan Brown (University of Guelph), who directs the Orlando Project and is Project Leader of the Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory, and Bethany Nowviskie (University of Virginia), who directs the Scholar’s Lab at the University of Virginia.

Photos from the centerNet Summit

Submitted by admin on Tue, 07/13/2010 - 00:00

Some photos from our recent centerNet summit in London are at:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/44937957@N05/sets/72157624356244303/
and some general London photos are at:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/44937957@N05/sets/72157624356369913/

Report on London centerNet Summit

Submitted by admin on Wed, 07/07/2010 - 00:00

For information on the London centerNet summit, read Geoffrey Rockwell’s full report.

For a French report on the summit, read the TGE-Adonis blog entry.

For an archive of the ~300 tweets related to the summit, established by Jason Rhody, visit the archive of #cnsum tweets.

centerNet @ DH 2010

Submitted by admin on Tue, 07/06/2010 - 00:00

There will be four sessions related to centerNet during DH 2010: three on Friday, June 9, and a general members meeting on Saturday, June 10:

Friday, June 9

9:00: “CHAIN: Coalition of Humanities and Arts Infrastructures and Networks,” to be held in Safra Theatre

11:00 “Teaching/Managing” (Findings from the IMLS Interns grant for DH Centers and ISchools), to be held in S-2.08

2:00 “Understanding the Capacities of Digital Humanities,” to be held in Safra Theatre

Saturday, June 10

Upcoming London meeting

Submitted by admin on Thu, 06/17/2010 - 00:00

An international summit of digital humanities centers and funders will take place at King’s College London, on July 3-4, immediately preceding the Digital Humanities 2010 conference. Made possible in part by funding from the U.S. National Endowment of the Humanities (NEH), this summit aims to facilitate international collaborations among centers and funders from North America, the United Kingdom and Ireland, Continental Europe, and Asia Pacific.

Discussion at the summit will cover a wide range of topics, including the following:

Welcome to the new centernet Site!

Submitted by admin on Thu, 05/20/2010 - 00:00

Some changes have been made to the centerNet, including a searchable directory of centers, and a new way to become a member. Take a look around and contact us if you have any questions.

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