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This workshop, designed for beginners, is a short ‘taster’ session that aims to showcase the value of Social Network Analysis (SNA) – in which the relationships between individuals and/or groups that interact with each other are examined – with humanities research in mind. It furthermore functions as an introduction to the software package Gephi, which...
Since 2019, 3841 volunteers from around the world helped transcribe 11,416 pages of Sir Humphry Davy’s notebooks and lecture notes, most of which are held in the Royal Institution in London. In this talk, Professor Sharon Ruston will discuss the highs and lows of a crowdsourcing project and reflect upon some of the findings that...
Workshop for staff designed to foster collaboration and the development of interdisciplinary research ideas for external grant applications that address Health Challenges. There are huge opportunities in developing and applying AI techniques to health challenges, ranging from using tools to analyse MRI images, applying physics-inspired machine learning to understand blood flow in the heart, through...
Where is Leeds and what is Leeds? This introduction to mapping session explores these questions through the lenses of digital mapping approaches and techniques to provide participants with a toolkit to carry out their own spatial investigations. During the session we will explore crazy coordinate conundrums, the wacky world of geocoding services, and a selection...
Bringing digital humanities into the classroom is an exciting discipline-specific way to develop research skills and enhance digital literacy within the arts and humanities. This workshop will explore how to use textual analysis and data exploration in your teaching, through the Gale Digital Scholar Lab. You may already be familiar with the Gale online archives...
Staff are warmly invited to a hands-on workshop on computer vision, hosted as part of the School of English 'Digital Horizons in English Studies' seminar series, taking place on 26 February 11am-1pm. Giles Bergel (Senior Researcher in Digital Humanities, University of Oxford): 'How to study books with computer vision: a practical introduction' Computer vision — or the...
This talk by Dr Bethany Rebisz examines the legacies of colonial detention in Kenya and considers the adaptive digital heritage practices used by the Museum of British Colonialism (MBC) to hold space for the individual experiences of survivors. The histories of British atrocities committed in colonial Kenya during its Emergency period have been contested, both...
Doing a research project that requires text and data-mining work? Need to incorporate the use of digital tools and research methodologies in your project? Join Carolyn Beckford, Gale product trainer, in the Digital Creativity and Cultures Hub on Thursday, December 12th from 11:30-2:30pm to get hands-on with the Gale Digital Scholar Lab. Learn how this...
Daniel Scott Snelson is a writer, editor, and archivist working as an Assistant Professor in the Departments of English and Design Media Arts at UCLA, where he serves as faculty for the Digital Humanities, the Laboratory for Environmental Narrative Strategies, and the UCLA Game Lab. His online editorial work can be found on PennSound, Eclipse,...
IIIF (International Image Interoperability Framework) has been taken up as a global standard for viewing and sharing high quality images. It offers a means not only of standardising digital resources (books, archives, art) in libraries, galleries and museums, but also of innovatively and creatively re-purposing these materials for research, teaching and dissemination. This workshop, held...