opening live

We are about to officially open the DH2012 in a few minutes. If you are not able to join us in person, you can follow along at our website. On the agenda: Welcome addresses by Ray Siemens (ADHO), Jan Christoph Meister (local host), Holger Fischer (Vice President, University of Hamburg) and the keynote speech of Claudine Moulin (University of Trier). We are excited!

check our student assistants blog!

” Variables are containers: they are just empty and wait to be filled. It’s like in math class: back to apples and oranges! The participants seem to love the analogies, as we can see by the many tweeds about the workshop. That leaves just one question we’re all excited to find out about: „Mia, can you make pastry?“ „No, but I have a friend who does!“, says Mia, speaking like a programmer.“  -  View the DH2012 through the eyes of our students assistants who are now busy tweeting & blogging DH2012 to the world – check out their latest blogs here!

workshops have started

DH 2012 proceedings have now begun with the first set of workshops under way and about 80 participants who have already picked up their conference bag – and some of them wearing the DH 2012 T-Shirt. Also, all our international and local student assistants have arrived, so our team is now in full force.

dragon boating on the alster

Participants  in today’s day-long ADHO executive committee meeting had to put in an unexpected extra hour of hard work by paddling the local organizers across the Alster lake and then through 25 kms of canals in 3 dragonboats. (They should have known better though: one of Hamburg’s partner cities is Shanghai.) Luckily none of the boats capsized – so for now we can still expect the rest of the DH2012 program to go ahead as planned. Here are some first impressions:

welcome to the first arrivals!

48 hs to go, but some ADHO committee members have already assembled in Hamburg and will meet for a day-long exec meeting tomorrow. Also, our twelve international student assistants have begun to arrive – welcome!  The Hamburg team will be packing conference bags with them tomorrow and brief our guests about the venues, podcasting, blogging, surveys, technical matters etc.. Each international student will partner with one of our Hamburg students, so delegates will be assisted by twelve expert teams throughout the coming week.

Something new APPening @ DH2012?

Yes: our DH 2012 conference app for Android has now also gone live – and “Die Welt”, one of Germany’s leading daily newspapers, has published the first article on next week’s event!

In case you’ve checked your abstract and found an error in it, please bear with us: TEI/XLM/XSLT to HTML is a cool thing. In theory, that is… We’re still busy ironing out some glitches; should you happen to notice something that’s gone wrong please feel free to drop us a line.

4 days to go and 500 on board!

With 4 days to go until the pre-conference workshops and registration now closed @ 500 participants the countdown for DH 2012 has definitely begun. Here’s some updated information:

• we’ve received the Book of Abstracts in print – it’s 579 pages thick, so you better check your luggage allowance…
• all abstracts are now online
• the DH 2012 conference app for iPhone is already available at the App Store; the Android version will follow soon

child care at dh2012

Are you planning to bring your kids to DH 2012? You don’t know who can take care of them while you are attending the conference? We have been busy finding a solution and we have come up with two great possibilities for child care during your stay in Hamburg.

iFormations on the way to Hamburg!

We will host the exhibition iFormations from Canada at DH 2012! We are very excited that we can finally realize this ambitious project by three young Canadian artists and present the work during the conference! So if you need a break from presentations, poster sessions and scientific discussions, have a look at iFormations in the main building west wing.

400+ @DH2012 !

We’ve just crossed another threshhold: DH 2012 has now more than 400 registrations! So we’ve already had to switch the opening plenary to the Ernst-Cassirer Lecture Hall, which can seat 622 digital humanists.

(Next step: the soccer arena with 51.750 capacity?) – Well, the conference team is looking forward to your visit and excited about this tremendous response!