Topic: Digital tools
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Using Digital Tools to Generate Subtitles for a Radio Play
Learn moreThis entry briefly describes how we generated English subtitles (using digital tools) for the binaural radio play "Glanz und Elend der Kunstkopf-Stereophonie" we produced in 2017.
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Oral History under scrutiny in München
Learn moreIn Munich, from 19 to 21 September 2018, a group of speech technologists, social scientists, linguists, computer scientists, oral historians and information scientists convened to explore the integration of digital tools in the workflow of scholars who work with interviews.
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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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Belgium World War II. New online access to information about the Occupation 1940-1944
Learn moreOn 27 September 2017, a new website was launched by CegeSoma (the Belgian Centre for Historical Research and Documentation on War and Contemporary Society): Belgium World WarII. A virtual platform on Belgium and its population during WWII.
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Digital Media and Technology in the classroom and beyond
Learn moreDigital Media and Technology has transformed how we teach, learn and present. In a transferable skills training of the doctoral school here at university, Robert Reuter introduced us to new media and tools that can enhance teaching and learning. Based on the eight learning events defined by Leclercq and Poumay at the university of Liège,…
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The retrieval of the digital orphan “L’Histoire de Luxembourg”
Learn moreThis is a story about how a lesson on Digital Source Criticism for bachelor students of history who had to sort out how Youtube works, led to the retrieval of a series of animations on the History of Luxembourg. Thanks to the company Kiwi Media, the ‘digital orphans’ have found a new stage on Youtube.
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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.