Keynote from John Simpson (from ISED)
February 12, 2024, 12:00-1:00 pm EST
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Presented by: John Simpson
Duration: 60 minutes
Description: This 60 minute keynote presentation will be divided into three, roughly equal, parts. The first will share how the Humanities and Social Sciences National Support Team with the Digital Research Alliance of Canada began, key challenges that were faced, and approaches taken to overcoming them. Skipping the present state, the second part will suggest directions that support for Digital Humanities and Social Sciences should consider as it moves to the future. The third section will be open to questions from the audience on the topic of supporting Digital Humanities and Social Sciences in either the past (then) or the future (then). Questions about the present (now) will also be welcome.
Biography
John Simpson is the Senior Advisor on Digital Research Infrastructure Strategy for Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada. Immediately prior to this role he was the Senior Director of Strategic Initiatives for Compute Canada. Immediately prior to this role — and a principal reason for this keynote — he was Compute Canada’s Humanities and Social Sciences Specialist and the inaugural lead for the Humanities and Social Sciences National Support team. He came to these roles following postdoctoral fellowships with INKE and Text Mining and Visualization for Digital Literary History, U Alberta. He’s also served as an Instructor in the Philosophy Department, a Programmer with the Old Bailey Project at U Alberta, and was the inaugural instructor for the Digital Humanities Summer Institute’s course on coding. Dr. Simpson holds a Ph.D. Philosophy (2010), University of Alberta. He has authored or co-authored “The Changing Culture of Humanities Scholarship: Iteration, Recursion, and Versions in Scholarly Collaboration Environments” (2014), “From XML to RDF in the Orlando Project” (2013), “Building Ontologies in Theory and Practice” (2013), “Getting LODed with Orlando: Linked Open Data and the Orlando Project” (2013), and “The Key to All Ontologies?: The Long Now of Linked Data” (2013).