Topic: Digital methods
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“Contemporary history in the digital era” study day (Lausanne, 4 July 2018): Challenges facing history in the digital age, a new “allure of the archives”?
Learn moreThe aim of the “Contemporary history in the digital era – sources, methodologies and criticism” day (Lausanne, 4 July 2018), the result of a partnership between the Universities of Lausanne and Luxembourg, the infoclio.ch website and the International Association of Contemporary History of Europe (IACHE), was to encourage collective reflection on the role of technological…
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DHBenelux 2018 – Integrating Digital Humanities
Learn moreThe theme of this year's annual DHBenelux conference was "Integrating Digital Humanities". Max Kemman provides a review of the conference, and how the discussions focused on the integration of the practices of scholars and librarians.
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A museum at your fingertips? Some thoughts on 3D tours of museums
Learn moreMore and more cultural institutions create virtual tours that allow visitors to explore the collections at home instead of actually visiting the institutions. In this blog post, I would like to provide some reflections on virtual tours, their usefulness and their limits.
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Digitising the analogue
Learn moreSome time ago it suddenly hit us that it has been a while since we read an academic book or article in a physical format. This for the simple reason that we can retrace digital information much quicker — i.e. annotating a PDF, extracting highlighted text automatically with ZotFile or quickly looking up a specific…
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Senta que lá vem a história: #memorecord for a historiography closer to life
Learn moreCan digital public history help us to reach a historiography that is closer to life?
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Third edition of the winter school in digital history
Learn moreFrom 19 to 23 February 2018, the C²DH welcomed students in the first year of their master’s degree in history for the third edition of the winter school in digital history. This year, the winter school focused on the creation of a digital archival collection from scratch.
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Google Maps as a tool for researchers? The example of the debates on the national museum in Luxembourg
Learn moreSome time ago, I was wondering whether I could use Google Maps as a tool for my research on the history of the National History and Art Museum in Luxembourg, to adopt a distant reading approach, with the aim to gain new insights. I did it and, in the following blog post, I look back…
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Digital approaches towards serial publications (18th–20th centuries)
Learn moreIn this post, I want to reflect on some of the presentations I was attending during the workshop organised by the Ghent Centre for Digital Humanities.
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FCSH Digital Humanities Summer School: Research Methods & Problem-Solving
Learn moreThe aim of this summer school, organized by the Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, was to provide answers to specific needs and challenges emerging from projects conducted by researchers working in the field of history, archeology and literature. The basic idea of the organizers was to render a…