Topic: Digital tools
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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…
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Impressions from DH2017 – Different Facets of Access in Digital Humanities
Learn moreThe annual conference of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) took place on 8-11 August 2017 in Montréal (Canada) on the campus of McGill University, and was co-organised by McGill University and the Université de Montréal. This blog entry will draw a few impressions from the attended presentations.
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DHBenelux 2017 – Infrastructures everywhere
Learn moreLast week I was at the fourth DHBenelux conference held in Utrecht, the Netherlands. With over 200 participants attending two days of almost a 100 presentations, demos, and posters, this conference has become an interesting snapshot of the state of digital humanities in the Benelux.
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The “The Quest for Questions in Digital History” at DH Benelux 2017
Learn moreThe fourth DHBenelux Conference was hosted by Utrecht University (the Netherlands) from 3 to 5 July 2017. Dr Florentina Armaselu presented a paper co-authored with Dr Elena Danescu, entitled "The Quest for Questions in Digital History: A Comparative View on Werner- and Delors Report on Economic and Monetary Union".
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Digital history between critical thinking and charismatic ideology
Learn moreDigital history provides new opportunities, but the use of digital tools should not blind historians to the existing challenges. An uncritical belief in the power of digital tools would be wrong, as much as an outright dismissive stance.
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Catching Speech in Arezzo: A Clarin workshop for developing a transcription-chain for Oral History
Learn moreThe challenge of this workshop on 'transcription and technology’, which took place from 10 to 12 May in Arezzo, consisted in turning recorded human speech into a textual representation that is as close as possible to what has been uttered.
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Tinkering with black boxes and the need for a critical mindset
Learn moreFrom 20th to 24th February, a winter school on “Skills in digital humanities” was organised at the University of Luxembourg, where the participants were introduced to the software Nodegoat and the development of databases. It was a possibility of tinkering with a digital tool that was completely new to me. In the following, I will…
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histograph, a tool for the exploration of multimedia archives
Learn morehistograph helps institutions reveal the manifold relations between their digital collections of texts, images, audio and video documents.
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I need a research tool to…
Learn moreA whole range of digital tools exists nowadays to help historians in their daily work, but how to choose the “perfect” one for your needs? Should you lose time searching for the holy Grail, or take the risk to try out and study tools that, in the end, might not fit your needs?
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Teaching Digital Public History: taking future historians outside the Ivory Tower
Learn moreMembers of the C²DH are preparing a course in Digital Public History for Bachelor students at the University of Luxembourg and they reflect on ways to get them involved with the topic.