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SUMMARY:Conference “Governing digital infrastructures: exploring a key i
 ssue at the crossroads of digital humanities and open science”
DTSTART:20210928T103000
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DESCRIPTION:Pierre Mounier est ingénieur de recherche à l'École des Hau
 tes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS\, Paris) et fortement impliqué da
 ns le développement de plateformes de recherche en libre accès en tant q
 ue directeur adjoint d'OpenEdition\, coordinateur d'OPERAS\, et co-directe
 ur de DOAB  Il est l'auteur d'un certain nombre d'ouvrages sur les human
 ités numériques et l'édition ouverte. Son dernier ouvrage intitulé Le
 s humanités numériques. Une histoire critique (2018) est disponible en 
 accès libre. Pour plus d'informations\, voir https://pierremounier.net.\n
 The CDH and LHST are happy to welcome Pierre Mounier as a visiting scholar
  for the academic year 2021-2022.\n\nOn 28 September\, Pierre Mounier will
  give an inaugural conference on his current research project. His talk en
 titled “Governing digital infrastructures: exploring a key issue at the 
 crossroads of digital humanities and open science” will be followed by a
  Q&A and discussion with the audience.\n\nThe presentation will be given i
 n French\, with questions possible in English.\n\nThe conference will be s
 treamed on Zoom. Please contact the organiser to get the Zoom link.\n\nAbs
 tract\nThe development of digital technologies as ubiquitous tools for bot
 h computing and communicating represents a challenge for research in the s
 ocial sciences and humanities (SSH). On the computing side\, the digital h
 umanities can be considered as the new set of methods and questions that t
 he humanities adopted to analyze the vast new troves of data generated by 
 digital technologies. On the communication side\, open science is a way fo
 r those disciplines\, amongst others\, to take full advantage of the new o
 pportunities offered by the Internet for sharing\, disseminating\, and con
 necting research. \n\nThe way research in the SSH is reconfigured by digi
 tal technologies under both aspects — digital humanities and open scienc
 e — is rarely considered. My proposition is to explore this question usi
 ng the underpinning concept of “digital infrastructure” as a key to fu
 rther the understanding of what is at stake in this reconfiguration. \n\n
 Most of the current discussions about the role of digital infrastructures 
 to support research in the digital environment revolve around the two inte
 rlinked issues of sustainability and governance. In that perspective\, the
  major question is not only how to grow infrastructures in general in an o
 pen environment\, but more deeply how to design infrastructures that are t
 hemselves open and fit for the specific purpose of supporting research in 
 the SSH. \n \nBecause it comes from other fields of research such as nat
 ural sciences and engineering\, the term “infrastructure” seems\, at f
 irst sight\, to be rather alien to the social sciences and humanities\, al
 though SSH research always relied on libraries\, archives\, and other rese
 arch tools such as indexes\, bibliographies\, etc. Today\, research in SSH
  is supported by platforms\, databases\, software\, standards\, and corpor
 a. What does it mean and what are the consequences of considering them as 
 “infrastructures”\, particularly in the digital and open context? That
  is the main research question I would like to explore during my visiting 
 period at the EPFL College of Humanities. From this point of view\, the ch
 allenge at hand is to renew an old humanistic tradition by devising the ne
 w infrastructures that will eventually underpin contemporary open humaniti
 es.\n 
LOCATION:BC 410 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==BC%20410
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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