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September 2023
PhD Workshop | Beyond Search: Opening Up Audiovisual Content for Humanities Studies
This event is part of the "Narratives From the Long Tail: Transforming Access to Audiovisual Archives" Event Series organised by the consortium of the Swiss National Science Foundation Sinergia Project, a week-long series of events taking place at EPFL, Switzerland from 25th - 29th of September, that focus on exploring the exciting intersection of machine learning, visual analytics, digital museology, and archival science. (2 ECTS provided by EPFL, travel subsidy available) In recent years, audiovisual content, with its growing accessibility,…
Find out more »Life Narrative and the Digital 2023: Interdisciplinary Conference and Workshop
This two-day conference is organised by the Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage, Austrian Academy of Sciences. Digital methods, technologies, and formats have increasingly gained traction in the study of life narratives and biographical data, as well as in the presentation of historical lives. Auto/biographical research and practice are aided significantly by biographical research databases and platforms, biographical online dictionaries, digital editions of historical life documents as well as community- and institutionally driven online archives and web-based collaborative…
Find out more »Mini Seminar | Constellations of Images: ‘The Grande Conversion’ in Cultural Archives
This event is part of the "Narratives From the Long Tail: Transforming Access to Audiovisual Archives" Event Series organised by the consortium of the Swiss National Science Foundation Sinergia Project, a week-long series of events taking place at EPFL, Switzerland from 25th - 29th of September, that focus on exploring the exciting intersection of machine learning, visual analytics, digital museology, and archival science. The digital era has witnessed a significant transformation in the accessibility and availability of cultural content in…
Find out more »Symposium | “New Paradigms for Accessing and Curating Audiovisual Collections”
This event is part of the "Narratives From the Long Tail: Transforming Access to Audiovisual Archives" Event Series organised by the consortium of the Swiss National Science Foundation Sinergia Project, a week-long series of events taking place at EPFL, Switzerland from 25th - 29th of September, that focus on exploring the exciting intersection of machine learning, visual analytics, digital museology, and archival science. In the context of the transformation, accessibility and curation of datafied content require rethinking to unlock meaningfully…
Find out more »October 2023
Friday Frontiers: Stella Wisdom “Curating the Digital Storytelling exhibition at the British Library”
Description: Evolving technologies have changed how writers write, and readers read. Join curator Stella Wisdom for a talk about the British Library’s current Digital Storytelling exhibition. From thought provoking autobiographical hypertexts to data journalism, uncanny ghost stories to weather poetry, steampunk literary adaptation to Elizabethan medical comedy. Stella will discuss a range of born digital works, including interactive narratives that respond to user input, reading experiences personalised by data feeds, and immersive multimedia story worlds developed through audience participation. About…
Find out more »CLARIN Annual Conference 2023
The CLARIN Annual Conference is the main annual event for those working on the construction and operation of CLARIN across Europe, as well as for representatives of the communities of use in the humanities and social sciences. CLARIN2023 is organised for the wider humanities and social sciences communities in order to exchange ideas and experiences within the CLARIN infrastructure. This includes the design, construction and operation of the CLARIN infrastructure, the data, tools and services that it contains or for which there…
Find out more »Connect.Collaborate.Create. Bridging Communities for Participatory Research and Citizen Science 2023
The conference Connect.Collaborate.Create. Bridging Communities for Participatory Research and Citizen Science 2023, will bring together the diverse European communities that create and support participatory research (including its funding) and citizen science. Jointly organized by the European projects COESO and PRO-Ethics, it will focus on the social sciences and humanities as well as on integrating participatory approaches at the research funding stage. On October 19-21, 2023 in Paris, at Aubervilliers, Campus Condorcet, we will welcome researchers, citizen science practitioners, and supporters from all backgrounds, research funding…
Find out more »3rd DARIAH-HR International Conference: Digital Humanities and Heritage
The 3rd Annual DARIAH-HR Digital Humanities and Heritage International Conference will take place from 25-27th October 2023 at SRCE in University of Zagreb/Sveuciliste u Zagrebu and has the theme of "Heritage Matters: Fostering Collaborative Infrastructure”. The conference will endeavour to facilitate collaboration and knowledge sharing among scholars, humanities experts, and professionals specialising in library and information science, archival studies, and museum cultural resource management, and aims to promote the adoption of digital technologies as both a methodological approach and a powerful tool within the…
Find out more »November 2023
Friday Frontiers: Maria Goicoechea De Jorge “New Readers for Old Texts: Sharing the Workflow of a Digitally Enriched Children Literature Edition”
Registration Link: https://dariah.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZckc-yopzwrHdC_5DDNQU–w7j72Fo4hZFa Description: Libraries worldwide are investing a significant portion of their resources in digitising their collections. Digitised formats are immensely valuable for researchers but may seem dry and unappealing to broader audiences, particularly when the original content was intended for children. This talk will present the preliminary research conducted on digitised formats of popular children’s literature found in specialised libraries, focussing on the models provided by two institutions: the British Library’s “Turning the Pages” software and the National Library…
Find out more »December 2023
Friday Frontiers: Nasrine Olson “Bridging Sensory Gaps: Innovations for Inclusivity”
Registration Link: https://dariah.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYpde-urTkvE9TT68rF0Kf_Vxsqa8YapLhl Friday 10.30 GMT / 11.30 CET / 12.30 EET With around 15% of the global population experiencing some form of disability, have we truly considered what ‘inclusion’ and ‘equal opportunity’ means for all? This talk confronts the reality that most spaces, technologies, and innovations are predominantly designed for individuals with all senses and functionalities intact. How would you as a person with deafblindness navigate the world – a world filled with navigation and mobility challenges, inaccessible information, and…
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