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:
Please join us as we review highlights from the year and look toward next year. We will have refreshments, so you can enjoy a chat and give us feedback on what topics you’d like to see in future. There will also be a showcase of some of the Arts Digital… Read More »End-of-Year Digital Humanities Meetup Get-Together
If you’re a UC student interested in Digital Humanities, you might like to help us out with the Macdonald Dictionary crowdsourcing project, a feminist public history project being developed by Canterbury Museum and UC. The project is transcribing names from handwritten index cards that document the biographies of European settlers… Read More »Crowdsourcing the Macdonald Dictionary
Last week we attended the Canterbury Westland Regional Digital Forum, held at the Halswell Library. As well as being a valuable forum for discussing regional issues and sharing our latest projects with our colleagues across the sector, the day presented an opportunity for our Digital Projects Specialist, Antoine Landrieu, to… Read More »Canterbury Westland Regional Digital Forum 2017
Are you interested in studying Digital Humanities as part of your honours year in 2018? Come along to our information session to find out more about Digital Humanities, the DIGI honours courses available, and how you can combine Digital Humanities with other Arts subjects. Where: Karl Popper 612 When: 2-3pm,… Read More »Digital Humanities Honours Information Session
You’re invited to our 4th Digital Humanities monthly meetup: “Online Collections & Exhibitions: An Introduction to Omeka”. When: Tuesday 30 May, 3-5 pm Where: Puaka-James Hight Library Building, Room 388 Omeka (https://omeka.org/about/) is a free, open-source web publishing platform for the display of collections and exhibitions. It’s used by libraries,… Read More »Digital Humanities Meetup: Online Collections & Exhibitions
