Digital Humanities events

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27 January 2022	12:30	Digital Humanities Lab Workshop: Managing Humanities Data Introduction to managing Humanities data: best practices for new PGRs and staff. This workshop is designed to help you collect and manage humanities data in standardized, logical and above all helpful ways, especially at the start of a new project. Staff and postgraduates welcome. Online only, sign up required. Full details	Add event
28 January 2022	9:30	Digital Humanities Lab Workshop: Introduction to Digital Editing The workshop is intended for staff and postgraduates who are interested in learning digital editing skills (undergraduates are also welcome to apply, but will be placed on a reserve list and contacted shortly before the event if places become available). We will provide hands-on experience of the basics of TEI (Text Encoding Initiative) XML, a standard that is widely used to encode primary source texts for critical editions and digital text resources. No prior experience is necessary. Online only, sign up required. Full details	Add event
4 February 2022	13:30	Digital Humanities Lab Workshop: Working with Text I: Cleaning and Curating Messy Data with Regex Learn how to use pattern-matching ‘regular expressions’ - essentially advanced find and replace techniques - and unlock vast amounts of textual data for your research. This workshop will show you how to clean and curate messy textual data in word processing applications, giving you the skills to structure, sort and analyse data in a familiar environment. This will offer you an incredibly efficient and powerful way to extract the information contained in large amounts of prose and transform it into handy tables or spreadsheets that can be much more easily analysed. Online only, sign up required. Full details	Add event
8 February 2022	15:30	Digital Humanities Lab Workshop: How To Write A Data Management Plan The aim of these workshops is to demystify the Data Management Plan and give you the skills to approach this area of your bid with confidence. Though each bid and DMP is unique, there are common elements and a degree of formula that can be learned, so most DMPs do not need to be written entirely from scratch. We would encourage any academic in HUMS to attend a workshop, even if you do not have an AHRC bid in progress, as they cover transferable content on best practices when working with data. Online only, sign up required. Full details	Add event
9 February 2022	15:30	DH Seminar: Disaster-proof Digital Humanities: The Bunker as an Infrastructure of Data Preparedness Digital Humanities Lab seminar series. Alexander R.E. Taylor (University of Exeter): "Disaster-proof Digital Humanities: The Bunker as an Infrastructure of Data Preparedness". Location: online or hybrid if restrictions allow. Full details	Add event
15 February 2022	13:00	Digital Humanities Lab Workshop: Working with Text II: Cleaning and Curating Messy Data with OpenRefine Based around the Library Carpentry tools, this workshop introduces the OpenRefine tool for cleaning and manipulating humanities data. We will look at how OpenRefine is different to more standard spreadsheet approaches, and will look at some of the tools that allow you to standardise and work with narrative, unstructured or messy data. We will also look at working with library and archive catalogue records with sample data from Exeter’s Special Collections. Online only, sign up required. Full details	Add event
22 February 2022	13:30	Digital Humanities Lab Workshop: Photography Basics This course aims to teach the basics of using a Digital SLR camera – the settings you can use to control the camera and how they will affect the photos you take. For anyone interested in learning one of the photography-based techniques we cover, including photogrammetry and reflectance transformation imaging (RTI), or wanting to get better photos when visiting archives, this course provides a grounding in the principles of photography and will aid understanding of those courses. Location: in person only (Digital Humanities Lab Seminar Room 1). Sign up required. Full details	Add event
23 February 2022	15:30	DH Seminar: Hidden Cities and Digital Public History Digital Humanities Lab seminar series. Fabrizio Nevola (University of Exeter): "Hidden Cities and Digital Public History". Location: online or hybrid if restrictions allow. Full details	Add event
2 March 2022	15:30	DH Seminar: [Title tbc] Digital Humanities Lab seminar series. Howard Hotson (University of Oxford): [Title tbc]. Location: online or hybrid if restrictions allow. Full details	Add event
8 March 2022	13:30	Digital Humanities Lab Workshop: Photogrammetry I Photogrammetry is a photography-based technique used to produce 3D digital models of physical objects. This workshop will look at the principles of producing models using photogrammetry and practical considerations for approaching a project. We will then (weather permitting) head out onto campus with cameras to choose subjects and take photos of them, before returning to the DH Lab to work through the process of turning the photos into a 3D model. Location: in person only (Digital Humanities Lab Seminar Room 1). Sign up required. Full details	Add event
9 March 2022	15:30	DH Seminar: Living with Machines: Analysing Digital Heritage at Scale Digital Humanities Lab seminar series. Federico Nanni, Kaspar Beelen, Mariona Coll Ardanuy (Alan Turing Institute): "Living with Machines: Analysing Digital Heritage at Scale". Location: online or hybrid if restrictions allow. Full details	Add event
15 March 2022	15:30	Digital Humanities Lab Workshop: Airborne LiDAR Processing for Archaeological Purposes Introduction to Airborne LiDAR processing for archaeological purposes using free and open-source software and open data. Guest trainer: Joao Fonte. Location: Digital Humanities Lab Seminar Room 1. Sign up required. Full details	Add event
22 March 2022	13:30	Digital Humanities Lab Workshop: Archival Photography Archives are not ideal places to take photographs, with low light, sensitivity to noise and flashlight, and often no means of supporting a camera or your subject effectively. This course will guide you through the pitfalls and problems, and provide advice on taking sharp, clear photographs of your primary sources, without annoying your archivist. An understanding of the principles of photography (for example through the Photography Basics Workshop) is useful but not essential. Location: in person only (Digital Humanities Lab Seminar Room 1). Sign up required. Full details	Add event
23 March 2022	9:30	Digital Humanities Lab Workshop: Beyond the Keyword Search: Mining Digitised Newspapers Across Collections Beyond the Keyword Search: Mining Digitised Newspapers Across Collections. Guest trainer: Melodee Beals. Online only. Sign up required. Full details	Add event
23 March 2022	15:30	DH Seminar: Data-Driven Hermeneutics: Historical Judgement in Digital History Digital Humanities Lab seminar series. Melodee Beals (Loughborough University): "Data-Driven Hermeneutics: Historical Judgement in Digital History". Location: online or hybrid if restrictions allow. Full details	Add event
24 March 2022	13:00	Digital Humanities Lab Workshop: Digital Preservation and Data Sustainability One of the challenges of creating digital data of any kind is making sure it survives in the long term. This session will talk about some of the risks to your data, and how to mitigate against them. It will also look briefly into depositing data with sustainable repositories, how to prepare sustainable data from the outset, and how data can persist in various forms to allow reuse and encourage reproducibility. Online only, sign up required. Full details	Add event