The Digital Humanities Advisory Board of the DM2E project meets on a regular basis to ensure that the research direction and technical developments within the project meet the needs of digital humanities scholars. On 2 October the Board held their fifth meeting, with the following attendees:

• Dirk Wintergrün (Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte)
• Sally Chambers (DARIAH, Göttingen Centre for the Digital Humanities)
• Laurent Romary (INRIA)
• Alois Pichler (University of Bergen)
• Alastair Dunning (The European Library)

At the start of the meeting, Christian Morbidoni (Net7) presented the latest developments of Pundit 2 and its new features, which include an improved usability interface and added flexibility, which now makes it easier to adopt Pundit for specific needs such as user experiments.

Steffen Hennicke (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) then went on to present the user experiments that are currently ongoing with Pundit2 and the new version of Korbo. The first set of experiments focuses more generally on how humanists work with Pundit and Linked Data: students from fields such as Archival Sciences and (Educational) History formulated an original and relevant research question or interest, discussed the ontology in a first workshop and worked with Pundit on annotating specific material, with a second workshop to talk through their results.

The goal of the second set of experiments is to better understand the reasoning process of digital humanists working with Linked Data. Three different users (a philosopher, an art historian and an historian) were asked to formulate an original and relevant research question pertaining to their particular set of research objects and data and to find an answer to this question using a faceted browser containing and visualising their data. During this work they self-document their work and thought process.

Both sets of experiments are still work in progress: the results will be presented at the final meeting of DM2E on 11 December in Pisa, Italy, together with the final results of the DM2E project and those of the winners of the Open Humanities Awards.

Attendance to this event is free and registration will open soon, if you are interested in coming, please save the date and keep an eye out on the DM2E blog.