Book of Abstracts - phase 14 - elektroninen.indd - Oulu

Digital Humanities 2008
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A Richness of Research and Knowledge
One of the bad things one may experience in the Programme Committee for a conference under the ADHO
umbrella, is that there are more good submissions than there is room for. As we read through the submissions for
this year’s conference, it became clear that Humanities Computing or Digital Humanities as a fi eld is growing up.
The fi eld is also growing, period. Ten years ago I was also Chair of the Programme Committee for the ALLC/ACH
conference in Debrecen, Hungary. I am happy that there are now so many new names among the submittors. And
there were many very good submissions for papers, panel and paper sessions and posters. The hosting institution, the
University of Oulu, could luckily supply the rooms needed if we were to run up to four parallel sessions. With four
parallel sessions it may seem that there is a larger possibility for a confl ict of interests: one might simultaneously wish
to attend two presentations - or more. But the only way to remove this problem would be to have a single strand
conference with a duration of a couple of weeks. So since this, as usual, is a multiple strand conference, I hope the
Book of Abstracts may be used as a guide for which presentations to listen to and, alternatively, which authors one
might seek out for an informal talk during one of the breaks.
I would like to thank all the members of the PC, and especially the Vice Chair, Claire Warwick, for all their work,
which has made the work on the Programme much easier than it could have been. I would also like to thank both
Sara Schmidt at the University of Illinois and the local administration group at the University of Oulu who have done
a tremendous amount of work in preparing for the conference programme. And last but defi nitely least, my thanks
go to the Local Organizer, Lisa Lena Opas-Hänninen, who has been a great aid in the programme work and who
has done everything I can imagine to help us get the rooms, people and more sorted out. But there are also those
without whom there would be no conference. First, all of you who have prepared submissions, and then all of you
who are attending this conference: thank you very much, and welcome to Oulu!
Espen S. Ore
Chair, International Programme Committee
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