Get a research boost by joining CEDHAR's one-day workshop featuring Dr Brian Ballsun-Stanton (from Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia) who will take us through interactive workshop on how to write and do research with AI.  Brian has an MA from RIT, and PhD in Philosophy of Data and has for the last two years been teaching how to teach with AI, write papers and do research with GAI.

Bring along questions, issues and frustrations from working with your historical corpora, unfinished drafts or books.

List of topics for 13 August

• Why is it good to be a digital humanist today
• How do historians work with big datasets & corpora?
  • Identify rhetoric and register;  pull quotes out of a document;  
  • When are RAGs not appropriate?
  • Setting up local vs non-local archive (make sure you have the anthropic)
• How do we write papers more effectively and well?
  • Prompting for effective scaffolding (ideation and outlining) 
  • Prompting for copy-editing 
  • Thoughts on how to use “agentic” (they’re not) tools. 
  • If time remains: how to transcribe your audio notes
  • How to get the meanest possible critique of a grant application?
• Talk about choices between models. When do I reach for each model?
  • Training is not chatting
  • How to build a grimoire
• Interrogating GenAI (Collaborating with the Humanities Lab)

Programme for 14 August (we have booked Brian for an extra day should there be interest, details TBA during workshop)

Overflow or elaboration of topics from 13 August plus project consultation and development.