Digital Approaches to Research in Humanities and Social Sciences
Join us to discuss the successes and frustrations of your digital research!
Info about event
Time
Location
1485-226
Organizer
This workshop will serve as a forum for reflection on the glories and challenges of building digital collaborations, embedding best digital practice in individual research, maintaining digital infrastructures, and coping with the possibilities and constraints of the digital medium.
A series of internal and external speakers will discuss personal experiences as well as international trends.
This workshop is open to anyone with interest in digital research.
Program:
Morning Session 1 - “Research standards and collaboration”
9:15 - 9:30 - Welcome & Icebreaker activity
9:30 - 9:55 Trust but verify: implications of the reproducibility crisis on technology and practice in HASS disciplines Shawn Ross
9:55 - 10:20 Lessons learned from Data Analysis projects in Natural Language Processing with Japanese and Security Studies data -- Shell Scripts, Jupyter Notebooks, and the value of doctests Brian Ballsun-Stanton
10:20 - 10:45 Epigraphy.info and the Distributed Text Services. Collaboration with standards Pietro Liuzzo
10:45-11:00 Coffee Break
Morning Session 2 - “Digital research”
11:00 - 11:25 Raising the dead; technical implications Katrine Frøkjær Baunvig
11:25 - 11:50 DISSINET experiences and challenges in transforming history into spatial and network data Tomáš Hampejs and Adam Mertel
11:50 - 12:15 Some challenges to coordinated, collaborative, and cross-cultural ethnographic work Benjamin Purzycki
12:15 - 12:40 Social media data triangulation - The Danish HPV controversy as an example Marie Louise Tørring
12:40 - 13:30 - Lunch
Afternoon Session - "Social Dynamics in the Ancient Mediterranean research group showcase"
13:30 - 13:45 Petrified voices: the evolution of the Graeco-Roman epigraphic production in space and time Petra Heřmánková
13:45 - 14:00 Social dynamics in the ancient Mediterranean and the cultural evolution of moralizing religions: a text-mining approach Vojtěch Kaše
14:00 - 14:15 Analysis with graph representation of complex networks in R: the case of Group of Twenty countries Antonio Rivero Ostoic
14:15 - 14:30 Small data - Big Challenges: the goals and mission of the SDAM project Adela Sobotkova
14:30 - 15:00 - Coffee break
15:00 - 16:00 “Discuss your digital endeavours & eResearch speed dating!” social activity
16:00 End of Workshop
Organizers:
Adéla Sobotkova, Antonio Rivero Ostoic, Vojtech Kase and Petra Hermankova. Funding provided by CEDHAR.