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Digital Methods and Tools Seminar Series #5: Digital Methods in Practice

Wednesday, 12 September, 1pm in Locke 611A Dr Geoff Ford (UC Arts Digital Lab) In previous sessions in the “Digital Methods and Tools Seminar Series” we have talked about collecting textual data from the web, analysing texts using corpus methods and visualising data. In this session Geoff will draw some… Read More »Digital Methods and Tools Seminar Series #5: Digital Methods in Practice

Digital Information System for the History of Astral Sciences (DISHAS)

Digital Humanities Meetups welcomes guest speaker Dr Anuj Misra from the Observatoire de Paris. Details of the talk below. When: 6th September, 3-4pm Where: Poutama Room 388, Puaka-James Hight Library, UC Canterbury. Abstract: With increasing collections of historical sources becoming accessible to different scholars from different areas of expertise, the… Read More »Digital Information System for the History of Astral Sciences (DISHAS)

Digital Methods and Tools Seminar Series #4 – Analysing Twitter Datasets with NVivo

Wednesday, 22 August, 1pm in Locke 611A Kerry Gilmore (Subject Librarian, UC Library) NVivo can assist with qualitative data analysis. This session introduces using NVivo to import, code and analyse datasets. The session will cover capturing and importing social media data through NCapture and importing from other sources (e.g. .xls or .txt),… Read More »Digital Methods and Tools Seminar Series #4 – Analysing Twitter Datasets with NVivo

Digital Methods and Tools Seminar Series #3 – Introduction to Web Scraping

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

Minister of Broadcasting, Communications, and Digital Media visits the Lab

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

A New Look for UC QuakeStudies

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