A new pilot workshop, the first Digital Humanities Library Lab, ran on 3 March 2017. This engaging and informative cross-discipline event offered a dozen researchers the chance to explore and discuss new tools and digital text collections from The University of Manchester Library, inspiring the development of future Digital Humanities computational research methods.
The afternoon comprised of three activities.
- Spelling and printing variations when searching Jisc Historical Texts
- Visualising themes in longform scholarly outputs using the JSTOR Topicgraph tool
- A UK-first, beginning to use an API to access previously unavailable content from Adam Matthew Digital’s Mass Observation
The workshop instructions are available online for all to view, and the Library is looking to run a similar event again in May. What would you like to see covered next? Please get in touch with DH@Manchester or the Library’s DH Project Officer Phil Reed directly, or leave a comment below.
Support and seedcorn funding for Faculty of Humanities researchers
The Digital Humanities Project Call 2016-2017 has just been announced. This year DH@Manchester are focusing on developing new projects in two specific areas:
- innovative projects driving out of the Library’s extensive electronic collections
- cutting-edge research which can be developed in partnership with colleagues in the School of Computer Science (including text mining, linked data, image processing, and data visualization).
The closing date is Wednesday, 22 March 2017. View the Project Call page for more information.
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[…] of innovative research using computational methods. This three-hour session followed on from a previous event I ran in March and concludes a short run of events that form part […]
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