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ERZSÉBET TÓTH-CZIFRA (What is data in the humanities)

Erzsébet started her job as Open Science Officer at DARIAH-EU in March 2018. She studied comparative literature studies, cultural studies and linguistics at the University of Szeged (Hungary) as well as at the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest. She received her PhD in Cultural Linguistics summa cum laude in 2018 at Eötvös Loránd University for her corpus study of the evolution of certain Hungarian word-formation schemata. After graduating, she had been teaching linguistics and Hungarian as foreign language at the Eötvös Loránd University as well as at the Fachhochschule Burgenland in Eisenstadt, Austria. In 2016, her commitment to democracy in science led her to join ScienceOpen, a research evaluation and discovery platform, as Content Integration Manager and open science advocate. Her role at DARIAH enables her to merge the 2 main pillars of her professional life: humanities and open science. She is responsible for fostering and implementing open science practices across DARIAH and its cooperating partners and contributes to the design and implementation of open science policy statements, guidelines and service related to the open dissemination of research results in the humanities.

FRANCES MADDEN (PIDs and data citation)

Frances Madden is Research Identifiers Lead at The British Library, overseeing the British Library's contribution to the FREYA project. Her role includes looking at integrating persistent identifiers into the Library's systems and representing the humanities and social sciences sectors within FREYA. Prior to joining the British Library, Frances worked as a research data manager and an archivist at King's College London and Royal Holloway, University of London.

JAVIER DE LA ROSA (Open Research Notebooks)

Javier de la Rosa is a Postdoctoral Researcher at UNED working on Natural Language Processing, where he is part of the POSTDATA Project. He holds a PhD in Hispanic Studies with a specialization in Digital Humanities by the University of Western Ontario, and a Masters in Artificial Intelligence by the University of Seville. Javier has previously worked as a Research Engineer at Stanford University, and as the Technical Lead at the University of Western Ontario CulturePlex Lab. His interests range from NLP applied to historical texts to the analysis of networks of Fine Arts artifacts and the visual culture of the past.