Digital Humanities Workshop: Digital Approaches, Tools and Techniques in the Humanities

15 - 16 June 2017

This is a past event

This workshop, funded by the Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies, will bring together invited speakers and participants from Britain and beyond who are experts in Digital Humanities (DH) and who will provide an introduction to DH. The workshop is mainly aimed at researchers from the humanities who do not have an in-depth knowledge about DH. It will provide an overview of digital approaches and highlight why digital techniques and tools are useful to the humanities. At the same time, challenges in DH will be discussed.

Programme:

Thursday, 15^th June 2017

13:30–14:15	Registration
14:15–14:30	Welcome
14:30–15:15	Edda Frankot, Anna Havinga, Claire Hawes & William Hepburn (University of Aberdeen): Medieval Aberdeen on the Digital Highway: the transcription of the Aberdeen Council Registers
15:15–15:45	Coffee break
15:45–16:30	Heather Morgan, Pete Stollery, Ed Welch (University of Aberdeen) and Andrew Sage (Andrew Sage Art & Entertainment): Explore, Discover, Exercise: Mapping the City of Aberdeen
16:30–17:15	Justin Colson (University of Essex): Digital Spatial Humanities: Geographic Information Systems in Context
19:00	Workshop dinner

Friday, 16^th June 2017

09:00–09:45	Adam Wyner (University of Aberdeen): DH Textual Interrogation Cycle: Source Text, Question, SPARQL Query, and Interpretation
09:45–10:30	Marc Alexander (University of Glasgow): Slippery Words and Contradictory Noise
10:30–11:00	Coffee break
11:00–11:45	Jonathan Hope (University of Strathclyde): Gappy, crappy, gloomy, and nosey: why you should care about large-scale text analysis in literary studies
11:45–12:30	Koenraad De Smedt (University of Bergen): Using language research infrastructure in CLARIN
12:30–13:00	Closing discussion
13:00–14:00	Lunch

Venue: Craig Suite, Fl. 7, Sir Duncan Rice Library
Contact: Dr Anna Havinga (anna.havinga@abdn.ac.uk)