May 23rd, 2019

14.00 Opening
Dr. Gudrun Wirtz (Bavarian State Library, Munich)
Dr. Alexis Hofmeister (Basle University)

14.15–15.00 Key-Note-Lecture
Old Wine in Digital Bottles? Achievements and Challenges for Textual Oriented Humanities
Gerhard Lauer (Basle University)

15.30–17.30 Panel I
Mapping European History and Politics – a Transnational Endeavor

Wirtualny Sztetl / Virtual Shtetl - A portal dedicated to the heritage of Polish Jewry
Agata Korba (POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Warsaw)

Key Documents of German-Jewish History (Digital Edition)
Sonja Dickow (Institute for the History of German Jews, Hamburg)

Bavarikon: Bavarian Treasuries of Culture and Knowledge
Stephan Kellner (Bavarian State Library, Munich)

17.30–19.30 Panel II
Virtual Thematic Portals as Part of Digital Humanities
Experiences, Chances, Challenges

Dos and Don’ts of Virtual Thematic Portals
Eckhart Arnold, Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Munich

Digital Humanities Virtual Laboratory: IT for All (DHVLab)
Julian Schulz (IT Group for the Humanities, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich)

The German Education Portal and the Portal for Research on History of Education: Beyond Digital Expert Information Services?
Christoph Schindler (DIPF, Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education, Frankfurt)

May 24th, 2019

9.30–11.30 Panel III
Project Management, Workflow and Sustainability of Virtual Thematic Portals

European History Online / Europäische Geschichte Online (EGO)
Joachim Berger (Leibniz Institute for European History, Mainz)

The Example of the Edition EurViews / Worldviews - The World in the Schoolbooks
Kerstin Schwedes (Georg Eckert Institute for International Research on School Books, Braunschweig)

11.30–13.30 Panel IV
What Do Users Expect of Virtual Thematic Portals? Studies, Approaches and Data

The New Portal „History and Cultural Heritage in Eastern Europe”
Stefan Lange und Felix Köther (Herder Institute for Historical Research on Eastern and Central Europe, Marburg)

An Analysis of the Information Demand: The Example of the Expert Information Service Kunst “arthistoricum.net”
Kerstin Albers (Mainz)

Lunch

14.30–15.30 Round-Table-Discussion
Developments and Usage Habits in the Field of Digital Humanities

Alexander Friedman (Saarland University)
Marcin Wodzinski (University of Wroclaw)
Enrico Natale (infoclio, Bern)