Brill Appoints Program Director Digital Humanities

Leiden (NL) / Boston (USA) / Singapore (SG) - 27 October 2016

Effective 1 November 2016 Mr. Marti Huetink, Publishing Director of the History program at Brill, will begin coordinating all business development activities of the company in the area of Digital Humanities. Next to his title of Publishing Director, Mr. Huetink will carry the title of Program Director Digital Humanities.

Brill has identified a number of core technologies which are likely to have a deep impact on research activities in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Spatial software and GIS, pattern and image recognition, semantic technologies and statistical analysis to name a few, will impact research strategies in various fields and therefore the form and nature of publications resulting from those research activities. Publications will show new features and will come with new user interfaces. The addition of data, software and multi-media are believed to influence the publication culture in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Publications will have to comply with user demands and FAIR principles. Brill is determined to play a leading role in the innovation of publishing in the fields it covers and actively reaches out to partners in the endeavor.

For more information about Brill's Digital Humanities program, please contact Marti Huetink at huetink@brill.com.

About Brill
Founded in 1683 in Leiden, the Netherlands, Brill is a leading international academic publisher in 20 main subject areas, including Middle East and Islamic Studies, Asian Studies, Classical Studies, History, Biblical and Religious Studies, Language & Linguistics, Biology, and International Law. With offices in Leiden and Boston and a representative office in Singapore, Brill today publishes over 250 journals and around 1000 new books and reference works each year, available in both print and electronic form. Brill also markets a large number of primary source research collections and databases. The company's key customers are academic and research institutions, libraries, and scholars. Brill is a publicly traded company listed on Euronext Amsterdam NV. For more information, visit www.brill.com.

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