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April 2024
#FridayFrontiers: “Historical Farm and People Registry in Iceland – Turning static list entries into network nodes”
Speaker: Pétur Húni Björnsson, University of Reykjavík The aim of developing the Historical Farm and People Registry is to create a reliable infrastructure for research involving data on people and places in Iceland from 1703 to 1920. This has been done by (a) establishing a reliable historical farm registry, (b) mapping census data onto the farm registry, and (c) connecting people between censuses, and thereby transforming the static lists of the censuses into an interconnected network of nodes. This presentation…
Find out more »OPERAS Conference 2024
The European Council called in May 2023 for transparent, equitable, and open access to scholarly publications. For European public research and innovation actors, scholarly knowledge is a public good. Publicly funded research and its results should be immediately and openly available without barriers such as subscription fees or paywalls. This is essential in driving knowledge forward, promoting innovation and tackling social issues. OPERAS welcomes this Council Conclusion that fits with our aim to make Open Science a reality for Social…
Find out more »Baltic DH Forum
Digital humanities have become a solid part of the research landscapes in the Baltic countries. Certainly, over the past decades, this transformation has been evident through the vibrant and enthusiastic DH communities, the emergence of new research groups and centers, and the increasing presence of digital humanities courses and programs in higher education. This marks the right time for the digital humanities communities of the three Baltic States to come together, to look at how and in what directions DH…
Find out more »DARIAH-CH Workshop “Creating workflows in the SSH Open Marketplace”
The Social Sciences and Humanities Open Marketplace (SSH Open Marketplace) – marketplace.sshopencloud.eu – is a discovery portal which pools and contextualises resources for Social Sciences and Humanities research communities: tools, services, training materials, datasets, publications and workflows. The SSH Open Marketplace showcases solutions and research practices for every step of the research data life cycle. In doing so, it facilitates discoverability and findability of research services and products that are essential to enable sharing and re-use of workflows and methodologies. Workflows and the DARIAH-CH workshop Workflows are a specific…
Find out more »May 2024
#FridayFrontiers: “Trialling Witchcraft: Adapting Public History to New Heritage Settings”
This talk will discuss the ongoing “The Islandmagee Witchcraft 1711 Digital and Creative Project” directed by Dr Andrew Sneddon (History) and Dr Victoria McCollum (Cinematic Arts) of Ulster University (Project website: w1711.org). This interdisciplinary project aims to take the last trial in Ireland under a witch act to new audiences using creative and digital technologies by producing: a new graphic novel; a video game; a bespoke animation; an interactive website; a play; a musical score and a Virtual Reality application. The…
Find out more »Helsinki Digital Humanities Hackathon 2024 #DHH24
Helsinki Digital Humanities Hackathon #DHH24 will be organised on 15.–24.5.2024 as a CLARIN and DARIAH international summer school. The event will be organised as an in-person hackathon. Participation to #DHH24 is free to all accepted participants. In addition, there will be bursaries for travel and lodging. The Helsinki Digital Humanities Hackathon is a chance to experience an interdisciplinary research project from start to finish within the span of 10 days. For researchers and students from computer science and data science, the hackathon gives the opportunity to test their abstract knowledge against…
Find out more »June 2024
DH Benelux | Breaking Silos, Connecting Data: Advancing Integration and Collaboration in Digital Humanities
The annual DH Benelux Conference serves as a platform for the community of interdisciplinary Digital Humanities researchers to meet, present and discuss their latest research findings and to demonstrate tools and projects. This year’s theme is Breaking Silos, Connecting Data: Advancing Integration and Collaboration in Digital Humanities. The 11th edition of the DH Benelux Conference will take place in Belgium at the Irish College in LeuveN.…
Find out more »BAL-ADRIA 2024: The fifth Baltic-Adriatic Summer School on Digital Humanities
BAL-ADRIA is a collaboration between countries surrounding the Baltic Sea, and countries surrounding the Adriatic Sea, thus connecting Northern and Southern Europe. In a supportive academic environment, we are offering good-sized classes ideal for learning, discussing and getting feedbacks on your ideas and thoughts. The programme is taught by an international team of researchers and practitioners of digital humanities and social sciences and is delivered in a form of lectures, seminars and practical workshops. This year, Bal-Adria is organized for:…
Find out more »DARIAH Annual Event 2024
ROSSIO Infrastructure, the Portuguese node for DARIAH, is enthusiastic to announce that the next DARIAH Annual Event, with the topic Workflows, will take place on June 18th to June 21st, 2024, in Lisbon, Portugal. The event will be hosted by NOVA FCSH, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, at Colégio Almada Negreiros (a well known 20th century Portuguese painter), in Campolide Campus of NOVA FCSH. June 18th will be a day for DARIAH internal meetings, followed by the conference on June 19th to June 21st.…
Find out more »July 2024
Summer School “Computational Language Technologies for Medievalists”
Embark on a five-day journey hosted by the University of Graz: Natural Language Processing (NLP) has emerged as a crucial skill in many Digital Humanities scenarios seeking to unlock the potential of language-based technologies. Due to the particularities of medieval languages (e.g. special characters, historical language levels, scarce training data) medieval studies put particular challenges to the standard NLP methods. This Summer School aims to guide postgraduate and PhD level participants through the conceptual foundations of NLP, offering hands-on exercises tailored to…
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