Searching Digital: methods, tools, and standards of research in digital humanities – Session 2
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Session title: Approaches in Object-based DH Research, Reconstruction and Visualisation
Session trainer: Dr. Kateřina Horníčková, Researcher / DH Projects Coordinator, Institute of Applied Informatics, University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice (Czech Republic)
This session addresses the processes and procedures of visualisation and reconstruction of cultural heritage (CH). CH data and objects visualisations are among the most dynamic fields of DH, and probably the most rewarding in terms of public attention and involvement.
This training will deal with the reconstruction of lost cultural heritage sites, focusing on digital tools, as well as challenges on methodological and resource levels, and using the rich examples of the trainer’s recent digital projects (e.g. Visions of Community). How are the reconstructions objects developed to fit museum representations and archaeological data visualisation? What are the best visual resources and DH platforms available for hosting images? What are the potentials and challenges of crowd sources in this reconstruction?
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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