Searching Digital: methods, tools, and standards of research in digital humanities – Session 1
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June 9, 2021, 10:00 am-4 pm
Session title: Access to Archives, Digitization, Digital Preservation and the Concept of Record Trustworthiness in a Digital Environment. The Experience of the Blinken Open Society as the Archival Laboratory of Digital Records
Session Trainer: Robert Parnica, Senior Reference Archivist, Open Society Archives (OSA), Budapest (Hungary)
This session will deal with digital archival practice, covering standards and problems in manipulating access to archival information and procedures of digitally preserving and interpreting archival records. How can we know that the digital content is authentic and reliable? How can we recognize that a digital material is trustworthy, i.e. all the necessary procedures and rules were observed and applied during its processing and preservation?
Using the materials of the Blinken collection of the Open Society Archives that keeps invaluable primary evidence about Europe behind the Iron Curtain (1945-1990s), and comparing them to their own materials in answering these questions, students will be guided through practical steps in archivist’s decisions when appraising and arranging data, extracting meta-data and assessing the trustworthiness of tools used in constructing the new knowledge.
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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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