Searching Digital: methods, tools, and standards of research in digital humanities – Session 3
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21. 06. 2021, 10:00 am-4 pm
Session title: Separating the Wheat from the Chaff: On the Use and Usefulness of Digital Humanities in History and Beyond
Session trainer: Dr. Mihailo Popović, Project Leader TIB Balkans, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Institute for Medieval Research - Division of Byzantine Research, Vienna (Austria)
In this session, we are combining “traditional” historical research based on different kinds of primary sources and their interpretation with tools deriving from DH used in the research of a historical space. How can source-based data be implemented in databases in order to query them critically and pose new scholarly questions? How can this approach enrich other fields of study? And, crucially, how do we move from admiring screenshots of colourful content of frontends, nodes and networks in time and space towards using DH as a tool that enhances new research questions?
Using the examples of projects Maps of Power: Historical Atlas of Places, Borderzones and Migration Dynamics in Byzantinum (Dig-TIB) and Digitales Geoportal der Geschichte der Orthodoxen in Österreich (a continuation of the initiative A Digital Geoportal of the History of the Serbs in Vienna (1741-1918)) we shall discuss how to combine “traditional” historical research based on different kinds of sources and their interpretation with tools deriving from DH.
More about the series
Searching Digital: methods, tools, and standards of research in digital humanities: online workshops organised by the Centre for the Study of the Balkans, Department of History, Goldsmiths University of London
June 9, June 16, and June 21
The Goldsmiths’ Centre for the Study of the Balkans in collaboration with the Department of History of Art, Birkbeck University of London, and supported by the CHASE Doctoral Training Partnership is organising a series of focused trainings in specialised digital skills, procedures and standards that are currently considered to be among the essential ones applied in the research of the humanities in any historical context or space.
The field of Digital Humanities (DH) is among the fastest growing fields of scholarship, opening up wide opportunities for a ground-breaking research of an interdisciplinary character and global outreach. However, the practical implementation of this field often shows substantial gaps, among which certainly a variation of scholars’ knowledge about digital tools, methodologies and standards.
This series of trainings opens the ground for discussing some new specialised tools, resources and standards needed for an efficient and creative research in the highly sought fields of digital humanities. How to digitise, store and restore, manipulate, and interpret the knowledge of the past? What are the technical, ethical and interpretative challenges involved in this? How to best use your practical knowledge in digital cataloguing, archiving, mapping and analysing diverse types of historical primary sources?
The series’ six training sessions graft upon the experience of international scholars who contributed to the development of efficient digital solutions to the challenges of their field. Using the examples of their own expertise in early-modern and modern history, politics, film studies and preservation, heritage and library/archival collections, the trainers will direct the applicants to develop efficient tools and solutions to their own research questions in any field of humanities.
The series consists of six full-day sessions that will be held in June and September 2021. The June workshops will be held online. The mode of training in September will depend on the actual situation with the covid-19 pandemic and will be confirmed by the end of June 2021.
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