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SUMMARY:8th Baltic Summer School of Digital Humanities: Cultural Data Analy
 tics and Meaning
DESCRIPTION:Students\, researchers\, and GLAM professionals are invited to 
 enrol in the 8th Baltic Summer School of Digital Humanities: Cultural Data
  Analytics and Meaning\, which will take place on 3–7 August 2026 at the
  National Library of Latvia (NLL).\n\nThis year\, the school is organised 
 as an in-person event\; the participation fee for the full course is EUR 6
 0. The keynote lectures will be accessible for free and streamed on the NL
 L’s Facebook and YouTube channels.\n\nThe Baltic Summer School of Digita
 l Humanities is an international intensive continuing education programme 
 that offers researchers\, educators\, and students in the humanities and s
 ocial sciences\, as well as archive\, library\, and museum professionals\,
  the opportunity to develop a wide range of digital research skills – fr
 om data wrangling and analysis to visualisation.\n\nIn this year’s progr
 amme\, lectures will address the creation of meaning and the interpretatio
 n of cultural and humanities data\, while workshops will focus on the tech
 nical aspects of data preparation\, cleaning\, modelling\, and analysis. T
 wo workshops from last year’s programme – network analysis and working
  with large language models via API – return in updated form\, reflectin
 g their continued importance within the digital humanities toolkit. All se
 ssions are led by experienced practitioners in digital humanities and data
  analysis.\n\nWorkshops: \n\nLars Kjær – Data Cleaning\, Analysis\, an
 d Visualization with OpenRefine and Orange\n Giovanni Pietro Vitali – Ne
 twork Analysis for Humanists\n Valdis Saulespurēns – Using Large Langua
 ge Models in Humanities Research via API\n Anda Baklāne – Data Visualiz
 ation for Public-Facing Research\n\nOpen lectures:\n\nAldis Ērglis – Be
 yond the Canvas: Multimodal Interpretation of Art Masterpieces via Google 
 Nano Banana 2\n Tessa Gengnagel – Computer as Archive\, Computer as Agen
 t: Tracing the Evolution of the Digital Humanities from the 1960s to an Un
 certain Future\n Róbert Péter – Decoding 18th-century British Masonic 
 Print Culture: Press Trends\, Publication Networks\, and Constitutional Au
 thorship Attribution\n Sonja Dorfbauer & Simon Mayer – Structured Data A
 pproaches to Historical Collections: Methods and Insights\n\nBSSDH 2026 is
  organised jointly by the National Library of Latvia\, the Faculty of Huma
 nities of the University of Latvia\, and the Institute of Literature\, Fol
 klore and Art (University of Latvia).\n\nSupporters:\n\nProject “Univers
 ity of Latvia and Institutes in the European Research Area – Excellence 
 in Research and Collaboration” (Project No. 1.1.1.5/3/25/I/011).
LOCATION:National Library of Latvia
URL:https://www.dariah.eu/events/8th-baltic-summer-school-of-digital-humani
 ties-cultural-data-analytics-and-meaning
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