With details of this semester’s Digital Humanities Workshop Series, the forthcoming Digital Humanities Seminar Series, new digital collections by the Trinity College Dublin Library and events on the subjects of Intersectional Feminist Approaches to the Practice and Reading of Archives and Using Digital Archives for Academic Research, the February issue Read More …
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DH@TCD December 2020 Newsletter
2020 Highlights
Announcing the New DH@TCD Staff-Postgraduate Seminar Series
DH@TCD is delighted to announce the details on the new DH@TCD Staff Postgraduate Seminar Series (@tcd_dh_ss) for 2021. The Staff-Postgraduate Seminar Series is an initiative of the DH@TCD Postgraduate Student Representatives Cydney Thompson (@cydney_thomps) and Louise Nash (@louise_tcd). It is hoped that they will provide a friendly and supportive environment Read More …
DH@TCD Steering Committee Appoints Two New Postgraduate Student Representatives
The DH@TCD Steering Committee is delighted to announce the appointment of not one but two new DH@TCD Postgraduate Student Representatives. Louise Nash is an M.Phil. student in relaunch Digital Humanities and Culture at Trinity College Dublin. She works in the School for Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies and the School Read More …
DH@TCD November 2020
DSS Workshop Four – Scoping DH Projects, Managing Data and Documenting Work
Instructor: Prof. Jennifer Edmond Date: 28th October 2020 Time: 12:00-15:00 In this workshop, Prof Edmond will be introduce key success factors for planning, delivering and closing a digital project. Participants will learn about best practices in, as well as pragmatic tips and tricks for, such key topics as: building collaborations, Read More …
DSS Workshop Three – Data Visualisation via Geographic Information Systems
Date: 21st October 2020 Time: 12:00-15:00 The ‘spatial turn’ in the humanities in recent years has seen an upswing in the application of tools based on geospatial principles as more humanities scholars turn to software such as GIS to visualise and explore spatial data within their work. QGIS, a free open-source Read More …
DSS Workshop Two – Web technologies: HTML, CSS and PHP
Instructor: Prof. Jennifer Edmond Date: 14th October 2020 Time: 12:00-15:00 One of the most common activities in digital humanities is the presentation of sources, texts, documents or arguments via the world wide web. While there are now many user-friendly content management systems enabling this to be done with little or Read More …
DSS Workshop One – Working with Texts in the Digital Age: Digital Scholarly Editing and TEI
Date: 7th October 2020 Time: 12:00-15:00 This workshop is designed to introduce participants to the theories, practices and methods for encoding digital text in the Humanities. It provides an introduction to markup languages, XML, the infrastructure of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Guidelines, and the encoding of common textual phenomena. Read More …