Two tutorials of interest to eHumanities scholars are upcoming, to take place on May 31st in the context of the IEEE DEST conference in Istanbul:

TUTORIAL
     Data Ecosystems: Repositories in Digital Ecosystems
     Lecturers:
          Tobias Blanke - King's College London, UK
           Mark Hedges - King's College London, UK

In this tutorial, Tobias and Mark will present the general model of repository applications and will demonstrate several systems that use these principles to enable exploration of large data sets.  The tutorial will cover the state of the art in this rapidly growing area of research.  Several real world applications will be presented, which take the first steps towards a data ecosystem for research and business.

TUTORIAL
     TextGrid
     Lecturers - Andreas Aschenbrennter, Thorsten Vitt, Marc Wilhelm Küster

This TextGrid tutorial will provide an overview on the infrastructure of the TextGrid ecosystem, followed by a hands-on introduction to the development of new agents, the integration of new data sources and the use and population of service registries.  Not only will this tutorial be relevant to eHumanities researchers but also to other disciplines that want to study the practicalities of the design of a domain-specific digital ecosystem that is still part of a larger ecosystem of ecosystems.

The tutorial is complemented by a special session on the role of Digital Ecosystems in the eHumanities.