MISSION STATEMENT
CENDARI (Collaborative European Digital Archive Infrastructure) is a research collaboration aimed at integrating digital archives and resources for research on medieval and modern European history.
The project brings information and computer scientists together with leading historians and existing historical research infrastructures (archives, libraries and other digital projects) to improve the conditions for historical scholarship in Europe through active reflection of and considered response to the impact of the digital age on scholarly and archival practice.
CENDARI is a 4-year, European Commission-funded project led by Trinity College Dublin, in partnership with 13 institutions across 7 countries, to facilitate access to archives and resources in Europe for the benefit of researchers everywhere.
BENEFITS TO SCHOLARS
Much of CENDARI’s work will be invisible to scholars: in the networking of archives and supporting of standards for the description of research objects. But the culmination of the project will be an ‘enquiry environment,’ a research infrastructure for scholars that combines wide visibility across the collections of physically dispersed archives of Europe with cutting edge tools for the interrogation of that data, such as multilingual searches, custom visualisations, shared research and collaboration spaces and personalised virtual environments.
MEET THE TEAM
Trinity College Dublin (Ireland)
Trinity Long Room Hub
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| Dr Jennifer Edmond has broad experience as a technology implementation advisor for the arts and humanities, and has led the development and implementation of the strategy for Digital Humanities at Trinity. She manages a number of large scale funding grants as part of her role as Director of Strategic Project for the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences in Trinity College Dublin. |
| Prof. John Horne is Professor of Modern European History and was the first Director of the TCD Centre for War Studies. He is a member of the Executive Board of the Historial del la Grande Guerre and serves on the Advisory Boards of the Mémorial de Verdun and the National World War One Museum in Kansas City. His works on the First World War are widely published in English and in translation. |
| Prof. Alan Kramer is Professor of European History and Fellow of Trinity College Dublin. In recent years his research has been devoted to Europe in the era of the First World War, focusing on the analysis of violence, the relationship between armed forces and non-combatants, war crimes, and prisoners of war, mainly in Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy. Current projects include the International History of Concentration Camps; 1914-1918 Online: International Encyclopedia of World War I (with O. Janz, Berlin, and partners in 12 countries); economic warfare and blockades in the First World War. |
| Dr Owen Conlan is a Research Lecturer with the Knowledge and Data Engineering Group (KDEG) in TCD. Owen´s primary research is in investigating the practical application of learning theory to Adaptive Hypermedia Systems (AHS) towards the production of pedagogically sound personalised learning experiences. His research interests also include strategies for adaptation, visualisation of adaptation and applying adaptive techniques to the area of ubiquitous computing. His main research topics are the adaptive runtime assembly of learning concepts and content based on learner preferences and the adaptive rendering of content based on the context in which the learning occurs. Owen has been involved in several successful collaborative research projects including the European Commission funded EASEL (2000 – 2003), iClass (2004-2008) and ELEKTRA (2006-2008) projects; the Irish HEA funded M-Zones (2002-2006) project and the Enterprise Ireland funded ADAPT (2005–2007) project and CENDARI (2012- ). |
| Ms. Deirdre Byrne is the Project Officer for CENDARI. |
| Ms. Catherine O’Brien is the Communications Officer for the project. |
Freie Universität Berlin (Germany)
Friedrich Meinecke Institute
| Professor Oliver Janz is Professor of Modern European History at FUB and has been Visiting Professor at Rome, Trento and Berne. He has widely published on the history of religion, nationalism, the middles classes, family and gender and on the First World War in Germany and Italy. He is member of various national and international advisory boards, president of the German section of the Italian Risorgimento Institute in Rome and general editor of ‘1914-1918-online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War’. |
| Dr Anna Bohn has broad experience as a researcher and project coordinator in Digital Humanities and as a Lecturer of Film History and Slavic Studies. She is currently coordinator and Senior Researcher for the CENDARI Archival Infrastructure (investigation and description of archives) at the Friedrich Meinecke Institute for Modern History at FUB. She is author of a Handbook in two volumes on Film as Cultural Heritage (Boehlau 2012) and member of the Editorial Board of the Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television. |
| Dr Aleksandra Pawliczek is Senior Researcher in Digital Humanities at the Friedrich Meinecke Institute for Modern History at FUB. She is a trained archivist and historian and published on History of Science and Jewish Studies. She worked for the Secret State Archives Prussian Cultural Heritage and the Federal Commissioner for the Stasi Records of the former German Democratic Republic. She is currently coordinator and researcher for the CENDARI Archival Infrastructure. |
King’s College London (UK)
Centre for e-Research
| Prof Sheila Anderson is Professor of e-Research at the Centre for e-Research at King’s College London. She has extensive experience in the theory and practice of data curation and preservation, digital scholarship, and research infrastructures which underpin the processes and practices of research. She has held research grants and published in the areas of information management, digital preservation, digital research repositories, the application of e-Science technologies for arts and humanities research, and the nature and form of research infrastructures for the humanities. Her current research interests include the developing practices and processes of digital scholarship and its impact on the strategies, policies, and services of libraries and archives, most particularly in the emerging area of large humanities research infrastructures. Sheila teaches the theory and concepts of digital asset management on the MA Digital Asset Management. |
| Dr David Stuart is a Research Fellow at the Centre for e-Research at King’s College London. He joined CeRch in January 2011 and is currently working on the CENDARI Project. He is also an Honorary Research Fellow in the Statistical Cybermetrics Research Group at the University of Wolverhampton, where he was previously research fellow in Web 2.0 technologies following the completion of his PhD in 2008 – ‘Web manifestations of knowledge-based innovation systems in the UK’. |
| Dr Mark Hedges is the Director of the Centre for e-Research at King’s College London, and a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Digital Humanities, teaching on a variety of modules in the MA in Digital Asset Management. His original academic background was in mathematics and philosophy, and he gained a Ph.D. in mathematics at University College London, before starting a 17-year career in the software and systems consultancy industry, working on large-scale development projects for industrial and commercial clients. After a brief career break – during which he studied Late Antique and Byzantine Studies – he began his career at King’s as Technical Director of the Arts and Humanities Data Service, working as part of the AHDS Executive that was hosted by the College. |
| Dr Valentina Asciutti is a Research Associate at the Centre for e-Research at King’s College London. She is trained as a classicist, has an MA by research in Classics from Durham University and in 2009 she completed a PhD at King’s College London on Latin verse inscriptions from Roman Britain. While completing her PhD Valentina started to develop an interest and some experience in Digital Humanities. Before joining CeRch Valentina worked as an epigraphy researcher at the Centre for Computing in the Humanities at King’s College London (now Department of Digital Humanities), and was involved in two major digitisation projects: Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica (IRCyr) and Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania (IRT). She has been the primary researcher on the JISC and AHRC funded project www.arts-humanities.net for a couple of years and now collaborates on two EU funded projects: DASISH and CENDARI. |
Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (France)
INRIA
| Prof Laurent Romary is Directeur de Recherche INRIA, France and guest scientist at Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany. He has conducted various research activities on man-machine dialogue, multilingual document management and linguistic engineering. Leading various standardization activities on text encoding (TEI) and language resources (ISO), he has coordinated several national and international projects related to the representation and dissemination of language resources and on man-machine interaction, and in particular coordinated the MLIS/DHYDRO, IST/MIAMM and eContent/Lirics projects. In the recent years, he lead the Scientific Information directorate at CNRS (2005-2006) and established the Max-Planck Digital Library (sept. 2006-dec. 2008). He is currently collaborating with the Humboldt University in Berlin, Institut für Deutsche Sprache und Linguistik, on the modeling and representations of linguistic resources and annotations. He is the director of the European Dariah infrastructure. |
| Dr Jean-Daniel Fekete is a research progessor at INRIA. He received his PhD in Computer Science in 1996 from Universite Paris-Sud. He has worked as a researcher in the Ecole des Mines de Nantes and the University of Maryland, before joining INRIA in 2007. His main research areas are visual analytics, information visualisation and human-computer interaction. Jean-Daniel is Associate Editor of the International Journal of Human-Computer Studies and has been Paper Co-Chair of several IEEE InfoVis conferences. |
| Dr Maud Medves |
| Dr Florian Zipser |
University of Birmingham (UK)
University of Birmingham
| Dr Pierre Purseigle is Senior Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Birmingham. He is a comparative historian of the First World War and has focussed on the experience of the British, French and, to a lesser extent, Belgian populations. He has researched and published on wartime social mobilization, the experience of refugees, pictorial humour, and the historiography of the First World War. He is currently working on the reconstruction and demobilization of belligerent societies after the conflict. He is President of the International Society for First World War Studies and sits on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Historial de la Grande Guerre. |
| Dr Jonathan Gumz |
National Library of the Czech Republic (Czech Republic)
Czech National Library
| Dr Zdenek Uhlir is Deputy Director of Historical and Music Collections and coordinator of the Manuscriptorium digital library. Zdenek’s work with CENDARI concentrates on interdisciplinary methodologies, infrastructure and transnational access, and description of archives. |
Goettingen State and University Library, University of Goettingen (Germany)
Niedersächsische Staats und Universitätsbibliothek Goettingen
| Dr Jens Ludwig |
| Dr Kathleen Smith |
The European Library (Netherlands)
The European Library
| Dr Alastair Dunning joined The Europeana Library in 2012 acting as Programme Manager, co-ordinating the various projects that TEL is involved in. Previously he worked in the UK as Manager of the JISC Digitisation Programme, overseeing the completion of over 70 projects that brought research and cultural heritage to the Internet. Besides interest in the digital humanities and crowdsourcing, Alastair’s professional concerns involve fighting the hydra of non-interoperability, slaying the dragon of digital apathy and uncovering the elixir of sustainability. |
Consortium of European Research Libraries (UK)
CERL
| Dr Marian Lefferts has been the Executive Manager of the Consortium of European Research Libraries (CERL) since 1998. Before taking up her position at CERL, she worked on the Illustrated Incunabula Short-Title Catalogue (published by Primary Source Media) at the British Library and the International Medieval Bibliographical on CD-ROM (published by Brepols) at the International Medieval Institute in Leeds. Since 2009, she has acted as the Secretary of the LIBER Steering Committee for Heritage Collections and Preservation. On behalf of CERL, she actively participates in the Europeana Libraries project (2011-2012) and the CENDARI project (2012-2015). |
| Dr Thomas Baldwin is the Project Officer for the Consortium of European Research Libraries (CERL). Thomas joined CERL in March 2011, after working at The European Library, the service of the Conference of European National Librarians. At CERL Thomas worked on the Europeana Libraries project (2011-12), specifically concerning business planning, communications and dissemination. For CENDARI (2012-16) he is involved in facilitating the Transnational Access programme (TNA). Thomas continues to work on CERL’s project commitments, whilst also supporting CERL’s services and activities for its library members.Thomas trained as a librarian at University College London, and has a BA degree in History from King’s College, London. |
Mathematical Institute of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (Serbia)
Matematicki Institut Sanu u Beogradu
| Dr Zoran Ognanovic, research professor at MISANU, received PhD in 1999. He is/was the project leader of a number of projects including two digitization projects within the UNESCO in the framework of the Participation Programme. He is the coordinator of the National Center for Digitization, Belgrade. He was the President of the Committee for digitization of the UNESCO commission of Serbia (2006-2010). |
| Dr Zoran Markovic received Ph.D. (in 1979) from University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. He had visiting positions at University of California, Berkeley, University of California Davis, and University of Amsterdam (Institute for Logic, informatics and linguistics). He is a research professor at MISANU and the Director of the Institute. |
University of Stuttgart (Germany)
Universitat Stuttgart
| Prof Gerhard Hirschfeld is Professor of Modern History at the University of Stuttgart and the former Director of the Bibliothek fuer Zeitgeschichte. |
International Society for the Study of Medieval Latin Culture (Italy)
Società Internazionale per lo studio del Medioevo Latino
| Prof Agostino Paravicini Bagliani is an Italian historian, specializing in the history of the papacy, cultural anthropology, and in the history of the body and the relationship between nature and society during the Middle Ages. He received his Ph.D. in Humanities in 1968 and his professorship at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland) in 1978. From 1969 to 1981 he was Scriptor of the Vatican Library, and from 1972 to 1981 Professor of Codicology at the Vatican School of Palaeography, Diplomatics and Archivistics. From 1981 to 2009 he was Full Professor of Medieval History at the University of Lausanne. He teaches at the University of San Raffaele “Vita-Salute” in Cesano Maderno (Milan) and at the Institute of Italian Studies, University of Italian Switzerland (Lugano). From 2005 to 2007 he was President of the Union Académique Internationale (UAI). In 2008 he became President of the Società internazionale per lo studio del Medioevo Latino (SISMEL – Certosa del Galluzzo, FlorenceHe is actually the chair of the IS1005 – COST Action, Medieval Europe – Medieval Cultures and Technological Resources; he is also involved in many other European Digital Infrastructure projects: Collaborative EuropeaN Digital Archive Infrastructure (CENDARI), etc. |
| Dr Emiliano Della Innocente took his degree in Philosophy at the University of Florence and his Ph.D. in Medieval Studies at the Instituto di Studi Umanistici, also in Florence. He has a strong background in the field of digital humanities and is working from the beginning of the 2000′s at SISMEL as Cultural Heritage and digital media expert. He is also adjunct professor of Computing in the Humanities at the University of Florence and teacher for the Master in Digital Humanities and Digital Edition at the University of Siena. He is and was the Project leader of many relevant digitization projects (both for manuscripts and printed books) such as the Digital Plutei Collection or the Digitization of Colonial Archives in Cameroon. |
The University of Cassino (Italy)
Universita degli studi di Cassino
| Prof Franco Santi is Professor of Medieval Latin literature and Collaborator with the National Research Council and member of the Institute of Humanities of Florence. |
Ezio Franceschini Foundation (Italy)
Fondazione Ezio Franceschini
| Prof Lino Leonardi is Full Professor in Romance philology at the University of Siena, after being in charge at the Universities of Florence and Chieti. Vice-director of the European PhD School in Romance Philology at the University of Siena. In 2008 visiting professor at the Ecole Nationale des Chartes in Paris. Fellow of the Accademia della Crusca. Editor of the journal Medioevo romanzo, co-editor of the journal Studi di lessicografia italiana. Editor of the series Archivio Romanzo (Edizioni del Galluzzo); member of the scientific committee of the series Romanische Texte des Mittelalters (Winter Verlag). Member of the équipe «Étude et édition de textes du Moyen Âge» at the University Paris IV-Sorbonne. Member of the board of the Centro Italiano di Studi sul Basso Medioevo – Accademia Tudertina. Director of the Fondazione Ezio Franceschini – Archivio Gianfranco Contini. |
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