programme july 18
DH2012 has started! Please note some minor changes to the Wednesday programme: The presentation of N. Sharma in Long Paper Session LP 02 (09:00-09:30) was cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances. The session will start at 09:30 with the presentation ‘Citygram One: Visualizing Urban Acoustic Ecology’ as scheduled. The second presentation in LP 04 by C. Welger-Barboza is cancelled as well, the paper of J. Bradley moves up to 11:30. In the evening, we are looking forward to welcoming Steve Crossan, Google Europe, at the reception for his talk.
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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!
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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!
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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.
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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:
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