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Welcome to DH@TCD

DH@TCD is the monthly newsletter about Digital Humanities at Trinity College Dublin.  It is an initiative of the Trinity Centre for Digital Humanities.  Every month we will bring you details of Centre news and activities, upcoming events, conferences, publications and job postings.  

If you would like to raise awareness among the Trinity College Dublin Digital Humanities community about your research, a new program or grant, upcoming event, open opportunity or other news item you can submit the details here or send an email to the Digital Humanities Project Officer, Dr Michelle Doran, at doranm1@tcd.ie. We look forward to hearing from you!

Best,
The Trinity College Dublin Centre for Digital Humanities Team.
In the Spotlight

Digital Scholarship and Skills Workshop Series

The Trinity Centre for Digital Humanities is pleased to announce the first Digital Scholarship and Skills workshop series will commence in October 2017.  The aim of the workshop series is to provide a welcoming environment for participants to learn and ask questions about new research methodologies utilising digital research tools.  The workshops are part of the Trinity Long Room Hub Telling Our Story workshop series.  The following workshops will take place in October:  

Workshop One: Working with Texts in the Digital Age: Digital Scholarly Editing and TEI

Instructors: Dr Michelle Doran & Dr Georgina Nugent Folan
Date: TBA
Time: 9:00-13:00

*** DUE TO STORM OPHELIA THIS WORKSHOP IS CANCELLED ***
AND WILL BE RESCHEDULED 

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.  Participants will have an opportunity to apply the basic elements of TEI-XML to encode a literary text using the oXygen XML Editor.  The workshop combines lectures and discussion with practical hands-on exercises.  No previous experience with digital text is assumed.

Participants are requested to bring a laptop with the latest version of oXygen XML Editor.  You can download a free 30 day trial of oXygen here.


Workshop Two: Assessing Digital Scholarship

Instructor: Dr Jennifer Edmond & Siobhan Dunne
Date: 23rd October 2017
Time: 9:00-13:00

In this workshop, participants will be encouraged to examine their own scholarly practices and those of others, refining our responses to the fundamental question: “what is scholarship?”  The modes by which the digital disrupts our ability to read certain scholarly objects will be explored in detail, as will the ways in which we can embrace some of the new audiences, values, forms, functions, environments, methods, modes of argumentation, outlets, and validation pathways the digital brings with it.  The session will combine lecture and discussion with a hands-on exercise in evaluating diverse scholarly objects, testing our ability to judge their impact and value, and to promote such objects to our peers.

 

You can register for these workshops on the DH@TCD website.
Centre for Digital Humanities News

Between 4th-7th October 2017, Dr Jennifer Edmond, Trinity College Dublin Centre for Digital Humanities co-director, participated in the Volkswagen Foundation interdisciplinary workshop "Artificial Intelligence and its Impact on Tomorrow's  World" held in Einbeck, Germany. The interdisciplinary workshop brought together researchers from across the engineering and the social sciences, as well as the humanities, for a discussion of issues concerning Artificial Intelligence and its future impact on society.   

On 11th October 2017, Dr. Georgina Nugent Folan, Research Fellow at the Trinity College Dublin Centre for Digital Humanities, presented a paper titled "Digitising Cultural Complexity: Representing Rich Cultural Data in a Big Data Environment" at the Ways of Being in a Digital Age 2017 conference at the University of Liverpool, UK. This paper presented key themes and preliminary findings from the Horizon2020-funded KPLEX project which investigates how approaches to knowledge creation found in the arts and humanities can help reconceptualise the way we speak about and use data, both as citizens and scholars.
DH@TCD Events 

Our Digital World: Who is Serving Whom? On Thursday, 12th October 2017, 6:30-8pm, as part of the Behind the Headlines public lecture series, the Trinity Long Room Hub brought together leading experts from industry and education to discuss the opportunities and challenges we face in a digital society, with a specific focus on the ethical, educational and human impact.  

On 18th October 2017, 11:00am-12:00pm, the DH@TCD team will present their research at a coffee morning at the Trinity Long Room Hub.  As well as giving researchers interested in DH@TCD an opportunity to meet and chat over coffee and cakes, the coffee morning will feature talks from many of the diverse and exciting Digital Humanities projects at Trinity College Dublin.  All are welcome to attend.

The Library of Trinity College HITS programme, which commenced on 25th September, delivered by the Library, and Student Learning and Development (SLD) will feature sessions relating to digital scholarship and research.  For more information on these sessions, see here.

The Trinity Centre of Digital Humanities will welcome Jane Winters, professor of Digital Humanities at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, on Friday, 27th October 2017.  Prof. Winters will present the details of her research in a talk titled 'Historians and Born Digital Big Data: the Challenges of Working with the Archived Web'.  More details to follow.   
CfP, Publications and Job Postings

Submissions are due 11th November 2017 for Digital Cultures, Big Data and Society Symposium 2018 (Humanities Institute, University College Dublin, 15-16 February 2018). This symposium focuses on questions of close and distant reading and the critical functions of digital tools in the humanities.

Submissions are due 30th November 2017 for Joint Programming Initiative Cultural Heritage (JPICH) in Changing Environments call for proposals. The call is designed to support new, research-based ideas and knowledge in response to the rapidly and widely changing context with which heritage and heritage practice is faced. It invites research projects that help cultural heritage to meet societal challenges and contribute to the development of society. The call aims to fund excellent research that is collaborative, transnational, interdisciplinary and innovative. Three broad categories of the changing environments of heritage are addressed in this call:

1.      changing (physical) environments

2.      changing social and economic environments

3.      changing political and cultural environments

Further information of the call is available here.


The Faculty of Arts and Humanities of University of Tartu welcomes applicants for short-term visiting lectureships in digital humanities or any field of quantitative humanities studies.  Closing date for the applications is 15th November 2017.  More information is available here.

This month's issue of ERCIM News Special Theme: Digital Humanities is now available and features contributions relating to four DH@TCD research projects KPLEX, DARIAH ERIC, PARTHENOS and COURAGE. 
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