Welcome Remarks
CLIR's president, Charles Henry, will address the sold-out crowd, welcoming everyone to Atlanta and the 2014 DLF Forum. DLF Advisory Committee members, Sarah Shreeves, Jennifer Vinopal, and Max Marmor will provide program updates and news.
Opening Keynote: Bethany Nowviskie
Computing humanist/humane computationalist since 1996. Director of the
Scholars’ Lab and Department of Digital Research & Scholarship at the
University of Virginia Library and Special Advisor to the Provost, for the advancement of digital humanities research at UVa. Distinguished Presidential Fellow at
CLIR, the Council on Library and Information Resources. Immediate past president of the
Association for Computers and the Humanities and outgoing chair of both the UVa
General Faculty Council and the
Modern Language Association‘s Committee on Information Technology. Recent projects include
Neatline, the
Praxis Program and
Praxis Network,
#Alt-Academy, and the
Scholarly Communication Institute. Named one of “Ten Tech Innovators” for 2013 by the
Chronicle of Higher Education, which pretty much summed it up:
“Bethany Nowviskie likes to build things.” Mother of two; tinkerer; not that kind of doctor.
