All sessions will be conducted in English. No registration is necessary.

Enriching Data, Enhancing Access: A Universität Göttingen--Northwestern University Conversation
Northwestern University Library, Video Theater
10 a.m. -- 3:30 p.m., Monday, September 28, 2009

10:00 - 10:15 a.m.      
Welcome/Begrüßung, Introductions -- Jeff Garrett & Martin Mueller

10:15 - 11:00 a.m.      
Digital Project Development and Management at Uni Göttingen -- Heike Neuroth & Gerhard Lauer

11:00 - 12 noon 
Digital Project Development and Management at Northwestern -- Claire Stewart & Bob Taylor

12 noon - 1:30 p.m.     
Break for Lunch

1:30 - 2:15 p.m.        
TextGrid and Other Projects at Göttingen -- Heike Neuroth & Felix Lohmeier

2:15 - 3:00 p.m.        
Recent Northwestern Projects -- Presented by NU Library and Academic & Research Technologies Staff
Winterton East African Photographs
Northwestern Books
DataStore or MorphAdorner
Philologic/Virtual Modernization

3:00 - 3:30 p.m.        
Wrap-up Discussion and Future Perspectives -- Everyone

About this program: In recent years, the University of Göttingen has emerged as a major German center for digitization projects and humanities computing. We are pleased to be able to host several of their principal researchers and program managers for this meeting at Northwestern.

Heike Neuroth, a geographer by training, is the head of research and development at the State and University Library Göttingen, and she is an ehumanities consultant for the Max Planck Digital Library. She is also the coordinator of the TextGrid Project, a major German project for the curation and analysis of digital texts. Gerhard Lauer is a Professor of German with strong interests in literary theory, 18th century studies, and digital humanities. His most recent book is _Die Rückseite der Haskala. Geschichte einer kleinen Aufklärung (1650-1770)_. Felix Lohmeier is on the staff of the TextGrid project.