All sessions will take place ONLINE
All times are Toronto times (Eastern Daylight Saving Time).
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Monday, June 2: Day 1
9:00 Welcome & Opening Remarks
9:20 Keynote Address: Ruth Ahnert “Show me the Data”
10:20 Break
10:30 Eugenio Petrovich “SOPHIS: A New Database for Investigating the Social Structure of Philosophy of Science”
11:00 Gregor Bös, Eugenio Petrovich, Sander Verhaegh, Claudia Cristalli, Fons Dewulf, Ties van Gemert, & Nina Ijdens “edhiphy.org: Mention Relations in 20th Century Philosophy”
11:30 Rohini Srihari, Ankitha Sudarshan, Tanvi Ranga, & Lata Pada “From Footwork to Frameworks: Curating a Multimodal Dance Sequence Dataset through AI”
12:00 Lunch Break
13:00 Keynote Address: Rasmus Larsen “Basic Formal Ontology (BFO) as a Sustainable Method for Building Databases: Promises and Challenges for Application in the Humanities”
14:00 Break
14:10 Jamil Ragep & Sally Ragep “Building and Sustaining a Global Resource: The Islamic Scientific Manuscripts Initiative After Thirty Years”
14:40 Sarah Ketchley & Matthew Strupp “Sustainable Access and Metadata-Driven Design: A Digital Humanities Case Study on ‘Golden Age’ Nile Travel and Archaeology”
15:10 Augustine Farinola “Narratives in the Cloud: Ethical and Scalable Approaches to Public Discourse Databases in the Humanities”
15:40 End Day 1
Tuesday, June 3: Day 2
10:20 Welcome & Opening Remarks
10:30 Thijs Ossenkoppele & Arianna Betti “Towards Universal Digital Bibliographies for the History of Philosophy: A Complete Workflow and Two Applications”
11:00 Giovanni Galli “From Simulation to Understanding: The Epistemic Sustainability of Large Language Models for Digital Humanities”
11:30 Christine James “Databases for Humanities Internships: Lessons Learned from Community Service”
12:00 Lunch Break
13:00 Keynote Address: Ruth Mostern “Sustaining Linked Historical Spatial Data: Institutional, Ethical, Semantic, and Environmental Considerations”
14:00 Break
14:10 Talayeh Dehghani Ghotbabadi “A Database for Sustainable Dietary Recommendations for Generation Z in Switzerland”
14:40 Izzy Friesen & Paul Patton “Disciplines in the Scientonomic Ontology: the Case of the Rejection of Alchemy”
15:10 Spenser Borrie & Hakob Barseghyan “Composite Epistemic Elements and Composite Epistemic Stances”
15:40 End Day 2
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