“Only connect …” First ASSE International Conference on British and American Studies Hosted by the Department of Foreign Languages, Faculty of Humanities, University of Vlora, Albania 11-13 June 2011

http://www.assenglish.org/onlyconnect/

Deadline for proposals: 31 March 2011

“Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer. Only connect, and the beast and the monk, robbed of the isolation that is life to either, will die.”

What are the issues that researchers in the Humanities face when compiling data, and how can technology help or hinder? The workshop will look at the ways in which humanities researchers build, maintain, and preserve databases, along with the processes currently in place to support such activities. It will consider what tools could be developed to support the creation and use of research data, how data from different sources might be linked, and, where relevant, the role that public or private cloud services might play.