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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...
Join Knowledge Equity Network, Open Science and Wikimedia for an inspiring session on how commons-based approaches to Open Science can catalyse the impact of climate research, challenge misinformation and enable solutions focussed research for a sustainable future. The webinar will address Creative Commons Licencing and sharing research openly/globally online & the role of Wikimedia in...
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...
The Digital Humanities Research Group have invited Professor Erin A. McCarthy to their next seminar. She will be talking about the STEMMA: Systems of Transmitting Early Modern Manuscript Verse, 1475-1700 project funded by the European Research Council. STEMMA develops and applies a data-driven approach in order to provide the first macro-level view of the circulation of early modern English...
Join Copim and the Knowledge Equity Network for short presentations from expert scholars, librarians and publishers, followed by a panel discussion and audience Q&A Addressing these central questions: how can we incentivise researchers to publish their books OA? How can institutions signal more strongly that publishing openly should be important, and reward those who do...
Staff are invited to join us for the Hamburg-Leeds lecture series, dedicated to the conditions of accessing, researching and representing cultural artefacts in the course of the latest developments in digitalisation. Through their digitisation, cultural artefacts are becoming more visible and accessible to a wider public. Digitisation also brings with it a drive towards standardisation,...
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...
Hosted by the Knowledge Equity Network (KEN) in collaboration with the International Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE). Webinar focussing on digital, distance and flexible learning and societal shifts which can be supported by the HE sector and the impact of societal shifts, such as increasing prevalence and influence of AI.
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...