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Day workshop introducing low-cost multi-spectral imaging of cultural heritage artefacts. No previous experience necessary. Open to N8 Researchers only. The workshop uses case studies from collections to demonstrate how one can deploy multi-spectral imaging technology on a budget of less than £1,000. Attendees will learn how a commonly-available mirrorless RGB camera can be used and...
The Society for Italian Studies in the UK and Ireland (SIS) and the School of Languages, Cultures and Societies invite you to join their conference exploring how the field of Italian Studies has responded to the ‘digital turn’. Please complete your registration by Thursday 15 May 2025.
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...
Mapping has always played an important part in humanities research, but the growth in accessibility of digital mapping technology has changed how humanists use maps, both for research and to tell stories from that research to a range of audiences. This workshop looks at ‘story maps’, that is, maps that tell a story from humanities...
Session looking at how researchers are reimagining open research practices for their own discipline. Event open to all staff and students at the University of Leeds. Lunch provided.
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...