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Downie to deliver colloquium keynote, DH Month talk

Stephen Downie
J. Stephen Downie, Professor, Executive Associate Dean, Associate Dean for Research, and Co-Director of the HathiTrust Research Center

J. Stephen Downie, professor and associate dean for research, will deliver the opening keynote address at an international colloquium titled, “Scholarly Networks and the Emerging Platforms for Humanities Research & Publication.”

The colloquium is hosted jointly by the Virtual Humanities Lab in the Department of Italian Studies at Brown University, the Center for Digital Scholarship in the Brown University Library, and DARIAH-Italy (Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and the Humanities) and will be held at the John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library at Brown University April 16-18. The event will draw an international audience of scholars to “explore the new types of scholarly output produced when scholars use digital methods to collaborate on, annotate and visualize traditional materials.”

Downie’s talk, “The HathiTrust Research Center: Bringing you 4.7 billion pages of analytic opportunities!” will take place at 5:30 p.m. ET on Thursday, April 16. It is free and open to the public. Follow along on Twitter with #NetColloquium.

Later this month Downie will speak as part of the Digital Humanities Month event series sponsored by Tri-Co DH, a digital humanities collaborative between Bryn Mawr College, Haverford College, and Swarthmore College. Downie’s talk, “HathiTrust Research Center: Your analytic gateway to the HathiTrust Digital Library’s 4.5 billion pages,” will be held on April 22 at Swarthmore.

In addition to his roles at GSLIS, Downie is the Illinois codirector of the HathiTrust Research Center and an affiliate of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. He is an active participant in the digital libraries and digital humanities research domains. He is best known for helping to establish an vibrant music information retrieval research community. Since 2005, he has directed the annual Music Information Retrieval Evaluation eXchange (MIREX). He also was a founder of the International Society Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR) and its first president.

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