User:Gimena del Rio Riande

Researcher at the Seminario de Edicion y Crítica Textual (SECRIT-IIBICRIT) of the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET. Buenos Aires, Argentina) and External Professor at LINHD-UNED (Madrid) and the University of Buenos Aires. MA and PhD in Romance Philology (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) with a critical edition of King Dinis of Portugal’s Songbook (Texto y contxto: El Cancionero del rey Don Denis de Portugal: estudio filológico, edición crítica y anotación. Summa cum Laude), her main academic interests deal with Digital Scholarly Edition, the use, and methodologies of scholarly digital tools as “situated practices”, and the interaction of the global and the local in the development of academic disciplines. She has been working since 2013 in creating and working with different DH communities of practice in Latin America and Spain, especially in Argentina, where she organized the first Digital Humanities Conference in 2014 and has been coordinating DH initiatives and events since then. She is, among others, the co-founder of the first Spanish Digital Humanities journal, the Revista de Humanidades Digitales (RHD), vicepresident of the Asociación Argentina de Humanidades Digitales (AAHD) and member of the Board of Directors of FORCE11, Pelagios Commons Committee, vocal at Humanidades Digitales Hispánicas Association, and member the board of editors at Hypothèses/Open Edition, Open Methods-DARIAH, Revista Relaciones (México), Bibliographica (México) and Digital Studies/Le Champ Numérique (Canada). She directs the first Argentinian DH Lab, Humanidades Digitales CAICYT Lab.