centerNet is an international network of digital humanities centers formed for cooperative and collaborative action to benefit digital humanities and allied fields in general, and centers as humanities cyberinfrastructure in particular. It developed from a meeting hosted by the U.S. National Endowment for the Humanities and the University of Maryland, College Park, April 12-13, 2007 in Washington, D.C., and is a response to the American Council of Learned Societies report on Cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities and Social Sciences, published in 2006. Since its inception in April 2007, centerNet has added over 200 members from about 100 centers in 19 countries. Regional centerNet affiliates have been established in Asia Pacific, Europe, North America, and the U.K. and Ireland, each with a steering committee. In 2009, centerNet became a founding member with DARIAH, CLARIN, PROJECT BAMBOO, and ADHO of CHAIN: the Coalition of Humanities and Arts Infrastructures and Networks. In June 2010, centerNet formally affiliated with the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI) in order to pursue an ambitious agenda of initiatives on matters of mutual interest. Together, the two organizations hope to foster disciplinary innovation and transformation in the humanities.
If you think your center is a digital humanities center, in whole or in part, then we’d be glad to have you join the network. We leave the definition of “digital humanities” up to you, but we intend to be inclusive, and we know that there will be cross-over into the social sciences, media studies, digital arts, and other related areas. This might include humanities centers with a strong interest in or focus on digital platforms. One caveat—a “center” should be larger than a single project, and it should have some history or promise of persistence.
Asia Pacific Steering Committee
Byoung-il Choi,
Visiting Professor of Philosophy, Duksung Women’s University, Korea
Jieh Hsiang, (Chair)
Distinguished Professor in Computer Science, Director, Research Center for Digital Humanities, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Jane Hunter,
Professorial Research Fellow & Leader of the eResearch Lab, School of ITEE, University of Queensland, Australia
Mitsuyuki Inaba, (Secretary)
Professor, College of Policy Science & Graduate School of Policy Science, Project Leader, Web technology group, Digital Humanities Center for Japanese Arts and Culture, Ritsumeikan University, Japan
Feicheng Ma,
Professor and Director, Center for Studies of Information Resources, Wuhan University, China
Europe Steering Committee
Marin Dacos
Professor of History, Director, Centre for Open Electronic Publishing, France
Andrea Bozzi
Professor Linguistics, Director, Institute for Computational Linguistics of the Italian National Centre for Research, Italy
Jan Christoph Meister
Professor of Modern German Literature, University of Hamburg, Germany
Patrik Svenson
Senior Lecturer in Humanities and Information Technology, Director, HUMlab, Umea University, Sweden
Peter Wittenburg
Head, Technical Group, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
North American Steering Committee
Susan Brown
Director, Orlando Project, Project Leader, Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory, Professor, School of English and Theatre Studies
Dan Cohen
Director, Center for History and New Media, Associate Professor of History, George Mason University
Michael Eberle-Sinatra
Associate Professor of English, University of Montreal, Julia Flanders, Director, Women Writers Project, Brown University
Neil Fraistat
Director, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities, Professor of English, University of Maryland College Park
Bethany Nowviskie
Director of Digital Research & Scholarship at the University of Virginia Library and Associate Director of the Scholarly Communication Institute
Dean Rehberger
Director, MATRIX, Michigan State University
Geoffrey Rockwell
Professor of Philosophy, University of Alberta
John Unsworth
Dean of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
Raymond G. Siemens
Director, Digital Humanities Summer Institute, Professor of English, University of Victoria, British Columbia Stefan Sinclair
Assistant Professor, Multimedia, McMaster University
Katherine Walter
Co-Director, Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, Professor of Libraries, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
UK and Ireland Steering Committee
Daisy Abbot
Digital Design Studio, Glasgow School of Art and Design, Scotland
Ann Gow
Acting Director, Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute, University of Glasgow, Scotland
Catherine Hardman
Collection Development Manager , Archeology Data Service , University of York, England
Lorna Hughes
Deputy Director, Center for e-Research, King’s College London, England
Michael Pidd
Technology Development Manager, Humanities Research Institute, Sheffield University, England
Andrew Prescott
Director of Research, Humanities Advanced Technology & Information Institute, University of Glasgow, Scotland
David Robey
Arts and Humanities Consultant, Oxford e-Research Centre, Oxford University, England
Melissa Terras
Senior Lecturer in Electronic Communication and Deputy Director, Centre for Digital Humanities, University College London, England
Martin Wynne
Head, Oxford Text Archive, Liaison to Oxford e-Research Centre, Oxford University, England
Affiliates|Partners
ADHO – Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations
centerNet is an international network of digital humanities centers formed for cooperative and collaborative action to benefit digital humanities and allied fields in general, and centers as humanities cyberinfrastructure in particular. It developed from a meeting hosted by the U.S. National Endowment for the Humanities and the University of Maryland, College Park, April 12-13, 2007 in Washington, D.C., and is a response to the American Council of Learned Societies report on Cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities and Social Sciences, published in 2006. Since its inception in April 2007, centerNet has added over 200 members from about 100 centers in 19 countries. Regional centerNet affiliates have been established in Asia Pacific, Europe, North America, and the U.K. and Ireland, each with a steering committee. In 2009, centerNet became a founding member with DARIAH, CLARIN, PROJECT BAMBOO, and ADHO of CHAIN: the Coalition of Humanities and Arts Infrastructures and Networks. In June 2010, centerNet formally affiliated with the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI) in order to pursue an ambitious agenda of initiatives on matters of mutual interest. Together, the two organizations hope to foster disciplinary innovation and transformation in the humanities.
If you think your center is a digital humanities center, in whole or in part, then we’d be glad to have you join the network. We leave the definition of “digital humanities” up to you, but we intend to be inclusive, and we know that there will be cross-over into the social sciences, media studies, digital arts, and other related areas. This might include humanities centers with a strong interest in or focus on digital platforms. One caveat—a “center” should be larger than a single project, and it should have some history or promise of persistence.
Asia Pacific Steering Committee
Byoung-il Choi,
Visiting Professor of Philosophy, Duksung Women’s University, Korea
Jieh Hsiang, (Chair)
Distinguished Professor in Computer Science, Director, Research Center for Digital Humanities, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Jane Hunter,
Professorial Research Fellow & Leader of the eResearch Lab, School of ITEE, University of Queensland, Australia
Mitsuyuki Inaba, (Secretary)
Professor, College of Policy Science & Graduate School of Policy Science, Project Leader, Web technology group, Digital Humanities Center for Japanese Arts and Culture, Ritsumeikan University, Japan
Feicheng Ma,
Professor and Director, Center for Studies of Information Resources, Wuhan University, China
Europe Steering Committee
Marin Dacos
Professor of History, Director, Centre for Open Electronic Publishing, France
Andrea Bozzi
Professor Linguistics, Director, Institute for Computational Linguistics of the Italian National Centre for Research, Italy
Jan Christoph Meister
Professor of Modern German Literature, University of Hamburg, Germany
Patrik Svenson
Senior Lecturer in Humanities and Information Technology, Director, HUMlab, Umea University, Sweden
Peter Wittenburg
Head, Technical Group, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
North American Steering Committee
Susan Brown
Director, Orlando Project, Project Leader, Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory, Professor, School of English and Theatre Studies
Dan Cohen
Director, Center for History and New Media, Associate Professor of History, George Mason University
Michael Eberle-Sinatra
Associate Professor of English, University of Montreal, Julia Flanders, Director, Women Writers Project, Brown University
Neil Fraistat
Director, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities, Professor of English, University of Maryland College Park
Bethany Nowviskie
Director of Digital Research & Scholarship at the University of Virginia Library and Associate Director of the Scholarly Communication Institute
Dean Rehberger
Director, MATRIX, Michigan State University
Geoffrey Rockwell
Professor of Philosophy, University of Alberta
John Unsworth
Dean of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
Raymond G. Siemens
Director, Digital Humanities Summer Institute, Professor of English, University of Victoria, British Columbia
Stefan Sinclair
Assistant Professor, Multimedia, McMaster University
Katherine Walter
Co-Director, Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, Professor of Libraries, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
UK and Ireland Steering Committee
Daisy Abbot
Digital Design Studio, Glasgow School of Art and Design, Scotland
Ann Gow
Acting Director, Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute, University of Glasgow, Scotland
Catherine Hardman
Collection Development Manager , Archeology Data Service , University of York, England
Lorna Hughes
Deputy Director, Center for e-Research, King’s College London, England
Michael Pidd
Technology Development Manager, Humanities Research Institute, Sheffield University, England
Andrew Prescott
Director of Research, Humanities Advanced Technology & Information Institute, University of Glasgow, Scotland
David Robey
Arts and Humanities Consultant, Oxford e-Research Centre, Oxford University, England
Melissa Terras
Senior Lecturer in Electronic Communication and Deputy Director, Centre for Digital Humanities, University College London, England
Martin Wynne
Head, Oxford Text Archive, Liaison to Oxford e-Research Centre, Oxford University, England
Affiliates|Partners
ADHO – Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations
arts-humanities.net
CHAIN – Coalition of Humanities and Arts Infrastructures and Networks
CHCI – Consortium of humanities centers and institutes
CLARIN – Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure
DARIAH – Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities
Project Bamboo
TextGrid