Invited Talk: Why Digital Humanities
- Starts at
- Wed, Oct 23, 2024, 12:00 EDT
- Finishes at
- Wed, Oct 23, 2024, 13:00 EDT
- Venue
- Auditorium
- Moderator
- Sam Oh
Why Digital Humanities
The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the digital evolution of academia. The rise of digital information technology continues to challenge, innovate, and transform traditional research methodologies in humanities fields.
Sookmyung Women’s University in Korea opened its new Digital Humanities Center in 2022 to promote new uses of data and technology in teaching and research in humanities fields. Sookmyung opened its new Data and Statistical Service Center at the main university library in 2024 to offer data and statistical consulting and other services.
This talk will explore aspects of what is new and what is next in digital humanities, as well as why it matters as we look to the future of teaching, research, and industry.
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Yunkeum Chang
Sookmyung Women's University
Yunkeum Chang is a professor of Library and Information Science at Sookmyung Women’s University in Seoul, Korea. She served as the 20th President of Sookmyung Women’s University, and during her tenure, she created the Digital Humanities Center, which facilitates digital literacy and interdisciplinary collaboration between humanities and data science and technology fields, and the Data and Statistical Service Center, which focuses on data and statistical methodologies for teaching and research. Previously, she also served as President of the Korean Association of Private Universities Presidents and as President of the Seoul Forum of University Presidents. Currently, she is a member of the Executive Committee of the International Association of University Presidents.
She holds a doctorate in Library and Information Science from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, an MLS from Indiana University at Bloomington, and an undergraduate degree from Sookmyung Women’s University.
Moderator
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Sam Oh
Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, Korea
Sam Oh is a distinguished professor for global affairs at Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, Korea, and an affiliate professor at University of Washington iSchool. HIS expertise spans data modeling, metadata design, and ontology design. With funded projects and consultancy for various companies and government sectors, he held leadership roles such as a chair of iSchools, had tenure chairing both TC46/SC9 (Identification & Description) and ISO/IEC JTC1 SC34 (Document Description and Processing Languages). He is the executive director of Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI), the ambassador of iSchools, and chairs TC46/SC4 (Technical Interoperability).
