This participatory workshop will explore tools for textual analysis and data mining available through the Gale Digital Scholar Lab. You may already be familiar with the Gale online archives – such as Eighteenth-Century Collections Online, the Times Digital Archive or the Archives of Sexuality and Gender, all of which are available through the Brotherton Library....
Join the Open Research team at this in-person event on Tuesday 4th Nov 2025, 10:30am – 1:00pm in Edward Boyle Library, the level 7 conference room (directions: Go through the main entrance on Level 9, through the barriers, turn left towards the double lifts, and take the stairs down to Level 7.) Reproducibility remains one of the most...
Are you planning a research grant proposal involving an IT or digital element? Join us in the Digital Creativity and Cultures Hub, supported by LAHRI, for a discussion of the possibilities for specialist in-house collaboration with Research IT. This session is designed to be introductory, so we will briefly discuss how AHC researchers can work...
Join Dr. Samantha Blickhan for an introduction to online crowdsourcing for Digital Humanities and GLAMs. This one-hour session will include an overview of the Zooniverse Project Builder, with a specific focus on Digital Humanities tools and infrastructure (including new and experimental tools, such as OCR correction), as well as examples of past DH projects and a discussion...
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...
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...
NB: this is a repeat of the session held on 14 May 2024 What: This workshop, designed for beginners, is a ‘taster’ session which aims to demystify the practical process of transcription and markup of archival sources, and the role of these tools in undertaking digitally-informed archival research. The workshop will introduce the practical and...