Kia ora Koutou, As we mark the 10th anniversary of the 6.3 magnitude earthquake that devastated Ōtautahi Christchurch, we remember those who were lost, and send our deepest aroha to those who have suffered. Nine years ago on this day the Christchurch Press published an ‘In Memoriam Special Feature’ telling the… Read More »Remembering 22 February 2011
Arts Digital Lab Seminar Learning Lessons from Disasters:Is there any point in creating post-disaster digital archives? Paul Millar, Jennifer Middendorf “United Nations: Earth on course to become ‘uninhabitable hell for millions‘” – Stuff, 13/10/20 “150 million people estimated to be impacted by climate disasters by 2030” – Stuff, 20/9/19 The… Read More »Arts Digital Lab Seminar: Learning Lessons from Disasters: Is there any point in creating post-disaster digital archives?
Arts Digital Lab Seminar Unrolling a Sanskrit Scroll Sahana Cidambi, Aditya Jha, Clemency Montelle One of the more unusual, and thus noteworthy, acquisitions of the University of Canterbury library in their South Asian collections is an 18th century Sanskrit astrological scroll that is between 6 and 7 meters long. This… Read More »Arts Digital Lab Seminar: Unrolling a Sanskrit Scroll
The talk that Jennifer Middendorf and Samuel Hope presented at the National Digital Forum in Wellington in November, titled “Human ethics challenges in digital community story-telling”, is now available to view on YouTube. In the talk, Samuel and Jennifer discuss some of the ethical challenges faced by the Understanding Place… Read More »National Digital Forum 2019 presentation: Human ethics challenges in digital community story-telling
What new forms of storytelling are possible when we use computers to generate and curate narratives? From the strict causal logic of plots and conflict models and the dreamlike free-association found in fairytales and modernist fiction to the endless possibilities of dramatic events emerging from large scale social simulations, this… Read More »Narrative Systems and Simulated Storyworlds
Do you need permission to film a mural? Who owns the copyright for Popper’s passport photo? How do you get a photo into Wikipedia? Is museum taxidermy art, and can you legally photograph it? What is copyfraud? New Zealand Wikipedian at Large Dr Mike Dickison will talk about how we… Read More »From Popper to Ruby Jones: image copyrights in the age of Wikipedia
If you’ve ever wanted to know how Wikipedia works and how to edit it, come along to this practical workshop organised by the NZ Wikipedian at Large, Dr Mike Dickison. There’ll be a one-hour talk and tutorial to begin, followed by an afternoon of hands-on editing. Bring a laptop. Date:… Read More »Workshop: Hands-on Wikipedia
Did you hear about the young farmer from Dannevirke who got his name added to a Wikipedia list of mythical Japanese monsters, and it ended up appearing in a board game? Stories like this make it seem like Wikipedia’s easy to vandalise; how much can we trust it? How do… Read More »How To Vandalise Wikipedia – a talk by NZ Wikipedian at Large,17 May 2019
When: Thursday, 15th November, 3-4pm Where: Spark Place, Community Level 1, Tūranga Join us for a seminar on Red Zone Stories, an app developed by the UC Arts Digital Lab to record and share community stories about past and possible future spaces in the Residential Red Zone. In this session… Read More »Digital Humanities Meetup: Red Zone Stories
When: 3-5pm, 11th October Where: Poutama Room 388, Puaka-James Hight Library, University of Canterbury Dr Ben Adams (UC Geography) “A massive amount of geographic (spatial) and historical (temporal) information exists in document collections online and in libraries. Because these datasets are often too large to annotate by hand, computational tools are required.… Read More »Digital Humanities Meetup: Methods for Parsing Spatial and Temporal Data
