Gale Digital Scholar Lab Training Day
The White Rose Universities of Leeds, Sheffield and York are holding a training day in collaboration with Gale to explore the sources and tools available in the Gale Primary Sources database and the Gale Digital Scholar Lab. This free event will be held at the University of Leeds on Thursday 13 June 2024. In-person attendance is strongly encouraged in order to participate in the workshops; sessions will also be streamed online.
Who: Staff and PGRs at the Universities of Leeds, Sheffield and York interested in archival datasets and text analysis
What: Practical workshops by Gale staff on working with archival datasets, and manipulating your own project data; presentations on research and pedagogy projects using the Gale Digital Scholar Lab tools
When: 13 June 2024, 9:30-4:30 (schedule below)
Where: Helix, University of Leeds; sessions will also be streamed for online attendees
Registration: click here to register (closes: 4 June 2024)
Prior to the event, Gale’s Head of Academic Partnerships, Chris Houghton, is offering an online introduction to the Digital Scholar Lab platform. This session will run twice: 1:30-3pm on Monday 10th and Tuesday 11th June. You can sign up for these sessions as part of registration for the June 13 event.
Following the event, on Friday 14 June, Chris will be available to discuss project ideas and pedagogy questions on a drop-in basis from 10-1.
The event is kindly sponsored by Gale and the University of Leeds Libraries.
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Provisional Schedule:
9:30: arrival, coffee
10:00-11:00: Welcome and overview
11:00-12:30: Workshop 1: Historical Newspapers
12:30-1:30: Lunch (provided)
1:30-2:00: Research spotlight: Training OCR correction-models with British Library Newspapers – Alan Thomas, AI Research Engineer (Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield)
2:00-2:30: Pedagogy spotlight: Teaching Text Analysis with Gale Digital Scholar Lab – Emily Bell, Lecturer in Digital Humanities and Digital Skills, (School of English, University of Leeds)
2:30-3:00: Break
3:00-4:30: Workshop 2 – Working with custom datasets in the Digital Scholar Lab (BYO data or work with dummy data provided)