Wednesday, 15 August, 1pm in Locke 611A Dr Christopher Thomson (English & Digital Humanities) Chris will introduce web scraping, an approach to collecting research data and automating research tasks. First we’ll briefly consider types of data that may interest us, and ask when web scraping may be the right approach… Read More »Digital Methods and Tools Seminar Series #3 – Introduction to Web Scraping
Join UC Coms and the UC Arts Digital Lab today for the second in the Digital Methods and Tools seminar series: Analysing large amounts of text using a concordance.
Join us for a DH Meetup run in collaboration with UC Library on the fundamentals of using open data and open tools for research. This session will be led by Anton Angelo, UC Library’s Research Data Coordinator. When: Thursday 16th August, 3-5pm Where: Room 388, Puaka-James Hight Library, University of Canterbury… Read More »Digital Humanities Meetup: Open Tools + Open Data
Join us for an introductory workshop on data visualisation in R Studio, with Vica Papp (NZILBB). All welcome. When: Thursday 28 June, 3-5 pm Where: Room 388, Puaka-James Hight
On Tuesday the UC Arts Digital Lab, main office of the CEISMIC earthquake digital archive, hosted Hon Clare Curran, the current Minister of Broadcasting, Communications, and Digital Media, and Minister of Government Digital Services. The Minister was welcomed to campus by Vice Chancellor Rod Carr and Pro-Vice Chancellor of Arts… Read More »Minister of Broadcasting, Communications, and Digital Media visits the Lab
The UC Arts Digital Lab is excited to announce the launch of a new and improved UC QuakeStudies earthquake research repository. QuakeStudies, the University of Canterbury’s major contribution to the CEISMIC Canterbury Earthquakes Digital Archive, contains photographs, documents, videos, audio recordings, media articles, and other material relating to the 2010/2011… Read More »A New Look for UC QuakeStudies
Last Friday, staff and students involved in the Canterbury Roll project, along with a team from Nottingham Trent University here to do a scientific analysis on the Roll, met for a symposium to discuss progress so far and our next steps. We had some great presentations from the various people… Read More »The Canterbury Roll Symposium
At the National Digital Forum in Wellington last month, Jennifer, along with Jonathan Hunt from Catalyst IT, gave a presentation on progress with migrating QuakeStudies to the new Islandora platform:
Chris Thomson, with Joanna Szczepanski from the Canterbury Museum, gave a presentation to NDF2017 last week, describing the Macdonald Dictionary Crowdsourcing project, a recent collaboration between the Lab and the Museum. Watch their presentation:
