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
Wednesday, October 3rd, 1pm in Locke 611A Dr Ben Adams (Geography) and Dr Jonathan Dunn (Linguistics) Dr Ben Adams from Geography and Dr Jonathan Dunn from Linguistics are presenting on “Geospatial Corpora” as part of the COMS and UC Arts Digital Lab “Digital Methods and Tools Seminar Series”. Ben will present his… Read More »Digital Methods and Tools Seminar Series #7: Geospatial Corpora
Wednesday, 19 September, 1pm in Locke 611A Dr Wan Chi Leung (Media & Communication) Social network analysis (SNA) refers to structural research that examines the ties linking social actors. It adds a dimension or set of factors that can explain human behaviours, viewing individuals as actors embedded in thick webs of… Read More »Digital Methods and Tools Seminar Series #6: Network Analysis
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 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)
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
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
