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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 »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 »August 2024
DH 2024: Reinvention and Responsibility
DH 2024 is the annual conference of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations. The Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media is excited to welcome you online and in person at our Arlington, VA campus, in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., from August 6-9, 2024 for DH 2024: Reinvention & Responsibility. …
Find out more »October 2024
CLARIN Annual Conference 2024
The CLARIN Conference 2024 will be a face-to-face event that will be fully accessible virtually. The conference will take place in Barcelona, Spain. The event will be hosted and organised by CLARIN ERIC in collaboration with CLARIAH-ES and the Basque Center for Language Technology (HiTZ).…
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