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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....
Don’t just show your results, let people play with them! Create responsive web apps where users can toggle variables and uncover new insights in real-time. This workshop will explore visualization with web apps through ‘Vibe Coding’, an approach where you focus on the ideas and logic, letting AI handle the programming and front-end. This session is designed specifically for non-technical scholars and PGR students who work with language, text,...
Back by popular demand, 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...
This Edit-a-thon is a partnership between the University of Rochester and the University of Leeds. Together, we’ll explore the intertwined histories of abolitionism and channel the spirit of transatlantic collaboration to improve Wikipedia’s coverage of Black history, abolitionist networks, and the role of libraries and archives in preserving these stories.
Are you interested in immersive cultural heritage environments? Do you want to translate a physical space into a digital world? Join Yuan Gao and Christopher Birchall from the School of Media and Communications and Simon Popple from DCCH to learn about easy-to-use immersive technologies that can scan entire spaces. Attendees will see how several heritage...
This interactive workshop, with Prof. James Baker (University of Southampton), will examine how those involved in digital research infrastructure, whether researchers themselves, Research Software Engineers, GLAM professionals or others, can take decisions and actions to reduce the environmental impact of their infrastructure. This workshop will take place in person only in Edward Boyle Library, level...
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...
Join Wikimedia and Open Research Adviser Lucy Hinnie alongside us in DCCH, to learn how you can build Wiki into your arts and humanities research. Wiki isn't just Wikipedia: from Wikidata to Wikimedia Commons, Wiki promotes open and reproducible research across disciplines, including the arts and humanities. This session will discuss some of the basics...
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...
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...