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Number Made Audible, Made Digital: An introduction to digital musicology

Coming up in our Digital Research Seminar Series: a talk by Dr. Francis Yapp, Lecturer in Music. It is often said that music is the last of the arts to adopt new stylistic trends. In a similar vein, the discipline of musicology has been relatively late in adopting digital methodologies.… Read More »Number Made Audible, Made Digital: An introduction to digital musicology

Parsing Parliament: Parliament’s proceedings as speech, text and data

The next talk in our digital research seminar series is by Political Science PhD candidate Geoff Ford. Geoff will discuss construction of a corpus of New Zealand Parliamentary Debates, what can be learned from the corpus about Parliament’s proceedings, and how political parties are using Parliament. He will discuss and illustrate… Read More »Parsing Parliament: Parliament’s proceedings as speech, text and data

Print Past. Digital Present. Predictable Future? Where will digital technology take the college of arts in the 21st century?

Next week’s digital research seminar is being given by our Head of School, Professor Paul Millar. Paul will discuss his involvement in Digital Humanities activities going back to the early 1990s, and outline the often unpredictable trajectory of some of the projects he has been involved with. He will argue… Read More »Print Past. Digital Present. Predictable Future? Where will digital technology take the college of arts in the 21st century?

Using Omeka Collections for Teaching and Research: Case Studies from Art History

Our next upcoming seminar will describe two Omeka projects, developed by the Art History Department and supported by Digital Humanities. Barbara Garrie will describe her use of Omeka for teaching, and Richard Bullen will provide an overview of his Omeka research archive, which supports his Marsden funded project ‘China, Art,… Read More »Using Omeka Collections for Teaching and Research: Case Studies from Art History

From Acetate Disc to Annotated Digital Archive: Tracking Sound Changes Through The History of NZ English

We are delighted to announce that at our next seminar Professor Jen Hay (New Zealand Institute for Language, Brain and Behavior), winner of the 2015 University of Canterbury Research Medal, will give a talk about the LaBB-Cat software created at UC for managing and researching large annotated collections of transcribed… Read More »From Acetate Disc to Annotated Digital Archive: Tracking Sound Changes Through The History of NZ English

Access, Description and Digital Presence / Steampunk Aestheticism

Next week’s seminar is in two parts. In part one, Dr Joanna Cobley (History, UC), Caroline Sydall (Macmillan Brown Library), and Melissa McMullan (UC Arts Intern) outline a project to arrange, describe and assess the Macmillan Brown Library’s Theatre & Concert Programme Ephemera Collection. In part two, Joanna will describe… Read More »Access, Description and Digital Presence / Steampunk Aestheticism

Digital Classics: Of Human-Computing and Machine-Learning

For our second seminar, Dr Thomas Köentges, Assistant Professor of Digital Humanities at Leipzig University will present a paper on his current project, ArXetype, which employs a combination of machine learning and citizen science to digitise and better understand the entire corpus of Latin and Ancient Greek literature.