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Round 1 — November 15-18, 2009 — Charlottesville, VA

• Track 1: StewardshipLibrary, museum, GIS and digital humanities center professionalsRich geospatial content and open, flexible access in support of humanities scholarship
• Track 2: SoftwareWeb developers, designers, systems administrators, and information scientistsSpatially enabling web projects and building service-oriented GIS infrastructure

Round 2 — May 25-28, 2010 — Charlottesville, VA

• Track 3: ScholarshipHumanities scholars and advanced graduate studentsSpace and place in next-generation digital humanities scholarship

Through the generosity of the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Scholars' Lab will host a three-track Institute for Enabling Geospatial Scholarship at the University of Virginia Library in November 2009 and May 2010. This Institute will bring scholars, cultural heritage professionals, and software developers together to support and develop geospatial projects and methods in the digital humanities. The NEH's Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities program will support travel (up to $800) and lodging for 40 attendees as well as Institute faculty members. Tuition is free. The Scholars' Lab will provide $40,000 in funding for short-term scholar- and developer-in-residencies in humanities GIS to complement the Institute.

The Scholars' Lab also will develop and host an online information clearinghouse and fund visiting fellows in an effort to promote ongoing scholarly engagement, software development, and information sharing by Institute attendees around the theme of Enabling Geospatial Scholarship.

Questions? Contact us.

Institute Faculty

Bethany Nowviskie

Institute DirectorBethany Nowviskie is the Director for Digital Research & Scholarship at the University of Virginia Library and Associate Director of the Scholarly Communication Institute (SCI).

Joseph Gilbert

Director, Software TrackJoseph Gilbert is the Head of the Scholars' Lab at the University of Virginia Library.

Julie Sweetkind-Singer

Director, Stewardship TrackJulie Sweetkind-Singer is Head Librarian and GIS & Map Librarian at the Branner Earth Sciences Library & Map Collections, Stanford University. She is also the Program Director for the National Geospatial Data Archive.

Anne Knowles

Director, Scholarship TrackAnne Kelly Knowles is Associate Professor of Geography at Middlebury College and editor of Placing History: How Maps, Spatial Data, and GIS are Changing Historical Scholarship. Her recent work includes Holocaust historical GIS analysis.

Schuyler Erle

Schuyler Erle is a software developer and co-founder of EntropyFree. Erle is a lead developer of the OpenLayers and OpenStreetMap projects as well as a founding member of the OSGeo Foundation.

David Germano

David Germano is Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Director of the Tibetan and Himalayan Library (THL), and Director of SHANTI at the University of Virginia.

Sean Gillies

Sean Gillies is a programmer for the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University and Chief Engineer of the Pleiades Project. He has a strong background in open-source GIS and web development.

Christopher Gist

Christopher Gist is a GIS Specialist for the Scholars' Lab at the University of Virginia Library.

Wayne Graham

Wayne Graham is Digital Humanities Specialist at the University of Virginia Library's Scholars' Lab.

Josh Greenberg

Josh Greenberg is the Director for Digital Strategy and Scholarship at the New York Public Library.

Martyn Jessop

Martyn Jessop is the Director of Teaching and GIS Project Manager at the Center for Computing in the Humanities (CCH), King's College London.

Kelly Johnston

Kelly Johnston is a GIS Specialist for the Scholars' Lab at the University of Virginia Library.

Matt Knutzen

Matt Knutzen is the Assistant Chief of the Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division at the New York Public Library.

Shekhar Krishnan

Shekhar Krishnan is a doctoral candidate at MIT and co-founder of EntropyFree. He also is active in the Zotero and OpenStreetMap communities.

Todd Presner

Todd Presner is Associate Professor of Germanic Languages, Comparative Literature, and Jewish Studies and Director of the Hypercities project at the University of California Los Angeles.

Benjamin Ray

Benjamin Ray is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia and creator of the Salem Witch Trials project.

Bess Sadler

Bess Sadler is Chief Architect for the Online Environment at the University of Virginia Library. She is also a lead developer of the Blacklight open-source online public access catalog (OPAC) project.

Diana Sinton

Diana Sinton is Assistant Professor of Geography and Director of Spatial Curriculum and Research at the University of Redlands, leader of the LEarNing Spatially (LENS) initiative, and former Director of NITLE's GIS Program.

Adam Soroka

Adam Soroka is a software engineer for the Scholars' Lab, University of Virginia Library.

Andrew Turner

Andrew Turner is the Chief Technical Officer at FortiusOne and a leader of the neogeography movement. His efforts include GeoCommons, Mapufacture, and two books on the geospatial web for O'Reilly.

Madelyn Wessel

Madelyn Wessel, Esq. is Associate General Counsel at the University of Virginia and provides special advisement to the University of Virginia's University Librarian.

Advisory Board 

James Boxall

James Boxall is Director of the GIS Centre and Curator of the Map Collection at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Dan Cohen

Dan Cohen is Associate Professor of History and Director of the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University.

Tom Elliott

Tom Elliott is the Associate Director for Digital Programs and Senior Research Scholar and leader of the Pleiades Project at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University.

Neil Fraistat

Neil Fraistat is Professor of English and Director of MITH, the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities, at the University of Maryland.

Scot French

Scot French is the Director of the Virginia Center for Digital History (VCDH) and Associate Professor of History at the University of Virginia.

Jennifer Green

Jennifer Green is the Spatial and Numeric Data Librarian at the University of Michigan Library.

John Krygier

John Krygier is Associate Professor of Geography at Ohio Wesleyan University and author of the "Making Maps" blog.

Worthy Martin

Worthy Martin is Associate Professor of Computer Science and the Acting Director of IATH, the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, at the University of Virginia.

Martha Sites

Martha Sites is the Associate University Librarian, Production & Technology Services at the University of Virginia Library.

Abby Smith

Abby Smith is Director of the Scholarly Communication Institute, contributor to the National Digital Information Infrastructure & Preservation Program (NDIIPP) and member of the Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation & Access.