News archive for Digital Lab

Taina bucher lectures while gesturing at her powerpoint slide displaying two algoritmically created portrait 'photographs'

Recap: talks and workshop “how to do research on algorithms when you’re not a programmer” (12.11.2019)

Last week, we ended our semester with a full-day event on approaches to research algorithms without going into the code. Experts Ysabel Gerrard and Taina Bucher each gave a lecture and, in the workshop afterwards, participants discussed their ideas and obstacles on the ways in which they research algorithms.

Lars Johnson with powerpoint showing an N-gram in the background

Recap: Workshop on Mining Nasjonalbiblioteket (05.11.2019)

Last week, special guest Lars Johnsen gave a workshop for the DHNetwork on how to use data the National Library of Norway as a source for computational analysis. The varied groups of participants from the humanities, social sciences and university library learned to use different tools to analyze textual data in Jupyter Notebooks.

Charless Ess lectures while gesturing to his powerpoint on Ethical pluralism and cross-cultural awareness.

Recap: Talks and Workshop on Internet Research Ethics (05.11.2019)

In a well-attended afternoon, Charles Ess and Eva Payne gave talks about the state of the art of research ethics followed by a closed workshop session for students and researchers using social media data in their projects.

Recap: Databases in Search of Researchers (10.09.2019)

The start-of-semester event of the DHNetwork was well attended by a wide variety of students and staff across disciplines in the humanities faculty. Seven project leaders of databases and archives gave a lightning talk and were afterwards available for more in-depth questions.

Computational Science in the 18th Century (02.09.2019)

Computational science presentation

group of attendants at mesaninen, listening to the introduction of the event

Recap: Lightning Presentations of PhD Projects (13.06.2019)

A festive end-of-term event concluded the first semester of the DHNetwork. PhD students from various fields and departments in the humanities presented their use of digital methods.

People around a table with laptops, including Alois Pichler explaining what XML is, powerpoint in the center with XML definition.

Recap: Workshop Digital Editions with XML (24.05.2019)

We had a full house on Tuesay at the DHNetwork’s second workshop, in which Alois Pichler and Max Hadersbeck introduced XML as a tool for digital editions.

Portraits of the speakers Hannah Gillow-Kloster, Arnulf Christian Mattes and Daniel Apollon

Recap: Digital Editions Lightning Lunch (09.05.2019)

During this lunch meeting, people listened to three lightning presentations on different approaches and concerns regarding critical digital editions, followed by a lively discussion.

Portrait of Elizabeth Losh (left) and Aristea Fotopoulou

Recap: Reading Circle and Double Lecture on Feminism and Data (05.04.2019)

In a well-attended double lecture session, Elizabeth Losh gave an overview of her new edited volume on about intersectional feminism and digital humanities and Aristea Fotopoulou introduced the background of her book project about feminist data studies.

Image of the interior of the Arts and Humanties Library

Recap: Opening Event DHNetwork (01.03.2019)

Thirty people attended the DHNetwork opening event at the Arts and Humanities Library. It was very encouraging to see so many people from different departments interested in advancing Digital Humanities at UiB.