The Andrew W. Mellon Digital Humanities Fellows at the University of Rochester are pleased to invite you to attend our DigiTalks conversation, “Why We Need Digital Collections,” on Thursday, February 25, 2021 from 3:00 - 4:30 pm over Zoom. Please RSVP using this form by Wednesday, February 24. The link to the event will be sent out in a reminder email on the 24th.

The featured guest for this talk is Edwin Klijn, Project Manager, at the Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Edwin specializes in electronic publishing, digitalization, web development, automated text recognition, linked data, project management, and the NSB (National Socialist Movement in the Netherlands).

Edwin’s recent projects include: TRIADO, Tribunal Archives as Digital Research Facilities, see https://www.oorlogsbronnen.nl/sites/default/files/20190517_finalreportTRIADOenrichment.pdf; and War Lives (www.warlives.org) winner of GLAMi Awards 2020 in category: Exhibition or Collection Extension: Web.

The DigiTalks series features guest digital humanists in conversation about digital work in academia, public service, and industry.