{"id":2037,"date":"2020-01-13T11:39:46","date_gmt":"2020-01-13T11:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.tcd.ie\/dh\/?page_id=2037"},"modified":"2020-09-28T17:08:59","modified_gmt":"2020-09-28T16:08:59","slug":"digital-scholarship-and-skills-hilary-2020","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dh.tcd.ie\/index.php\/workshops\/past-workshops\/digital-scholarship-and-skills-hilary-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Scholarship and Skills Workshop Series, Hilary 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"

Understanding the Role of Uncertainty in (Humanities) Research\u00a0<\/span><\/h1>\n

A workshop by the CHIST-ERA funded PROVIDEDH Project Partners \u2014 University of Salamanca and Trinity College Dublin Centre for Digital Humanities<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Date: Wednesday, February 12\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Time: 12:30-15:30<\/p>\n

Uncertainty hardly needs an introduction. It is perhaps the most inherent and the most prevalent property of the knowledge of the world around us.\u00a0 Incompleteness of information, imprecision, approximations made for the sake of simplicity, variability of the described phenomena, contribute all to the fact that we rarely can make categorical statements about the world.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

— Druzdzel, M.J. 1993. Probabilistic reasoning in decision support systems: from <\/span><\/em><\/span><\/span>computation to common sense<\/em>.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

The sources of humanities research are replete with ambiguity and uncertainty. Yet, to date, there is relatively little discourse on the topic of uncertainty from the perspective humanities research. This workshop will introduce participants to the sources of uncertainty as they apply to research in the humanities, together with new visual approaches to uncertainty display.<\/span><\/p>\n

The central challenge of uncertainty representation has increasingly come to the fore in digital humanities research. The new practices of knowledge production characterised and analysed by digital humanities imply uncertainty by their very nature, they are intended to alter our understanding and they almost always occur at the boundaries between different disciplines. This workshop presents the work of the ongoing work of the interdisciplinary <\/span>PROgressive VIsual DEcision-Making in Digital Humanities<\/span><\/i> project (PROVIDEDH), a three-year project funded within the CHIST-ERA call 2016 for the topic \u201cVisual Analytics for Decision Making under Uncertainty \u2013 VADMU.\u201d <\/span>Participants will also have the opportunity to annotate pieces of text in the project\u2019s nascent research environment for analysing and visualising uncertainty in humanities data.<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Using Open Notebooks for Textual Research<\/span><\/h1>\n

A workshop by Javier De La Rosa Perez and Salvador Ros Munoz \u2014 Horizon 2020 funded Poetry Standardization and Linked Open Data Project.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Date: Cancelled\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

*** This workshop cannot be taken for credit ***<\/p>\n

This two-day workshop will introduce participants to the use of \u2019open notebooks\u2019 as a way to implement and document programming routines in the free, open source Python programming language with the objective of learning to perform typical digital humanities tasks such as manipulating text and documents and automating certain tasks.<\/span>\u00a0 In day one participants will learn how to install the <\/span>Jupyter Notebook<\/span><\/a> software, how to run and create Jupyter Notebook files, and contexts where Jupyter Notebooks can be particularly useful. \u00a0 In day two, participants will become familiar with the Python language and be taught to program basic algorithmic procedures.\u00a0 At the end of the two days, participants should feel equipped to tackle a variety of typical problems that arise for digital humanists, such as:<\/span><\/p>\n