Digital/Data Summits 2015

LODLAM Summit
The third international Linked Open Data in Libraries, Archives and Museums (LODLAM) summit will be held in Sydney, Australia, at the State Library of New South Wales on 29-30 June, 2015.

Delegates from around the world working in digital cultural heritage, eScience or eResearch, and the digital humanities come together at the Summit to debate, share their case studies and hack skills and data management methods.

The Summit will be limited to about 100 participants, and limited travel grants will be available . Its sponsors will help to cover the costs of the Summit including attendee meals and support of the LODLAM Challenge awards. It has several sponsorship opportunities available and is actively seeking partners to help support the international collaboration that has grown over the past four years.

For further information see LODLAM Summit

Digital Humanities 2015
The LODLAM Summit is being timed to run in collaboration with the annual international Digital Humanities 2015 conference, also being held in Sydney: 29 June – 3 July, 2015.

DH2015 is hosted by the University of Western Sydney’s Digital Humanities Research Group, a leader in collaborative digital humanities in the Asia-Pacific region. The conference is held in partnership with the State Library of New South Wales and in collaboration with GovHack 2015 and the third International Linked Open Data in Libraries, Archives, and Museums Summit.

This will be the first time that the annual Digital Humanities conference is being held outside of Europe and North America in its 26-year history. The theme of Global Digital Humanities acknowledges the field’s expansion worldwide across disciplines, cultures and languages.

For further information see DH2015 Global Digital Humanities.