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DH

Digital Humanities (DH) is a scholarly discipline that deals with the use of computational methods in the study of the humanities

Resources

  • Photogrammetry 3D Digitisation

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    This resource is an introduction to the photogrammetry technique to capture visual data about cultural heritage assets and produce associated 3D models.
    Authors
    • Karina Rodriguez Echavarria
    • Myrsini Samaroudi
    • Nicola Schiavottiello
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  • Digitisation with 360 Degrees Photography

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    This resource is an introduction to 360 degrees panorama photography. It explores different types of panoramic representations and examples of 360 degree panoramas in the cultural heritage domain. Practical advice and step by step guidance on how to capture data and process them is also included in order to produce and publish 360 degrees panorama images.
    Authors
    • Karina Rodriguez Echavarria
    • Nicola Schiavottiello
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  • Introduction to Cultural Heritage Data

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    This course provides the essential knowledge and skills to understand and efficiently use Cultural Heritage data. Guided by Prof. Lorena, a persona created for the course, participants explore the significance of CH data, its types, and formats. They learn to identify sources for data acquisition and apply techniques to enhance data quality. The course also covers methods for organizing CH data, introduces key metadata standards, and examines current trends and technologies in the field.
  • From Digital Culture to Digital Heritage

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    With the evolution of the digital world, the term ‘digital culture’ has emerged. How does digital culture tie into the idea of heritage, and how does digital heritage emerge? This video lecture discusses the meaning of 'culture' in a historical and digital context, offering an introduction to 'digital culture' and how this is intertwined with digital heritage.
  • Use of vocabularies for metadata curation and quality assessment in Social Sciences and Humanities

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    This event, organised in the framework of the TRIPLE project, provided insights into the use of “topical vocabularies” and their use in metadata curation and quality assessment in the Social Sciences and Humanities (in the EOSC context). The sessions introduces learners to have a better understanding of the interoperability challenges faced within/by the SSH branch of the EOSC, and be familiar with some initiatives related to metadata curation and enrichment in the SSH.
  • Building and Linking Humanities' Digital Spatial Infrastructures

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    This workshop, focussing on "Spatial data medieval to modern", is the first of a series of workshops from the NOS-HS project "Linking, Building, and Sustaining Humanities Digital Spatial Infrastructures for Research in the Nordic Countries". The main aims of this workshop were to define key concepts (spatial infrastructures, Linked Open Data, metadata, ontology), outline major challenges in the field, and to provide an opportunity to share experiences of addressing the issues in individual and national projects across the Nordic countries.
    Authors
    • Alexandra Petrulevich
    • Sara Ellis-Nilsson
    • Peder Gammeltoft
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  • Dublin in the Archives: Digital collections exploring the city and county

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    This webinar is a lively discussion of archival collections containing rich material relating to Dublin, ranging from 'ghost signs' that illustrate the hidden history of Dublin's commercial past, historical collections on key events in our shared history like the 1916 Rising, community-based films that showcase the contemporary social history of the city, photographs that provide insight into the fascinating heritage of communities like the Dublin Port docklands, and much more.
  • Mixed Reality for CoDesign, Sustainable Urban Reactivation in Historic Cities

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    Learn how community-building projects can engage local stakeholders, pull insights from diverse perspectives, and influence urban redevelopment authorities. Hear state-of-the-art theories and approaches to sustainable heritage, with reflections from experienced architects, academics, and urban thinkers. Identify critical issues of urban gentrification, place-making, and the pressures faced by historic urban neighbourhoods in Southern Europe. See state-of-the-art technologies deployed for rapid 3D reconstruction, documentation, and urban co-design with non-experts. We specifically explore augmented reality as a possible solution to scalable public outreach.
    Authors
    • Carlos Smaniotto
    • Georgios Artopoulos
    • Fabio Montagnino
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  • The Time Machine Project

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    Iason Jongepier from the University of Antwerp and Melvin Wevers from the University of Amsterdam explore the Time Machine Project and how local Time Machine instances can help us expand our understanding of the social, environmental and economic history of the city.
  • Sharing the Experience: Workflows for the Digital Humanities

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    In December 2019, the University of Neuchâtel hosted a second Swiss DARIAH workshop. For this event, young scholars were invited to present their research in depth and to discuss together methodological, data management and research workflow issues.
    Authors
    • Marc Aberle
    • Francesco Beretta
    • Helena Bermúdez Sabel
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  • DARIAH-DE Publikator Tutorial

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    This tutorial explains the fundamentals of the DARIAH-DE Publikator, a tool which allows you to prepare, manage, and finally import your collections into the DARIAH-DE Repository using your favourite internet browser. The Repository provides the ability to store research data and enrich them with metadata. Through the use of persistent identifiers, a permanent machine-readable reference is ensured and findable via a generic search. The tutorial contains guides for users as well as technical documentation.