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Summer School

Explorations in the Digital Humanities

Case studies & Problem-solving

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Index

ScientificCommittee..........................................................................................................................................................2

ExecutiveCommitee............................................................................................................................2

Venue:......................................................................................................................................................................................2

Dates:........................................................................................................................................................................................2

Concept:..................................................................................................................................................................................2

1.NetworkAnalysis-MartinGrandjean-September6....................................................................3

2.Spatialvisualisationofhistoricalandarchaeologicaldata-LeifIsaksen-September7............3

3.Augmentinghistoricaldata-RichardZijdeman-September8.....................................................3

4.Readinganddataminingmaps-EvangelosLivieratos,ChrysoulaBoutouraandAngelikiTsorlini-September9.........................................................................................................................4

Final conference - “Reloading the Treasure of Human Experiences in a machine learning

perspective: Provenance and Validation Issues in the (digital) Humanities”, Andrea

Nanetti…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….………..4

Workflow:.............................................................................................................................................................................4

Targetaudience:..................................................................................................................................................................5

Howtoapply:........................................................................................................................................................................5

Calendar:.................................................................................................................................................................................5

Workinglanguage:.............................................................................................................................................................5

Thecoststoattendtheworkshopsareasfollow:................................................................................................5

Registrationbyemail:digital.humanities@fcsh.unl.pt......................................................................................5

Partners:.................................................................................................................................................................................6

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ScientificCommitteeAngelo Cattaneo andPauloTeodoro deMatos, CHAM - Centro deHistória d’Aquéme

d’Além-Mar,FCSH/NOVA-UAc

DanielAlvesandPauloAlves-IHC-InstitutodeHistóriaContemporânea,FCSH/NOVA

ExecutiveCommiteeCátiaTeleseMarques-CHAM-CentrodeHistóriad’Aquémed’Além-Mar,FCSH/NOVA-

UAc

FranciscoCebreiro–UniversidadedeSantiagodeCompostela

HelderMendes-CHAM-CentrodeHistóriad’Aquémed’Além-Mar,FCSH/NOVA-UAc

Venue:FaculdadedeCiênciasSociaiseHumanas,UniversidadeNOVAdeLisboa,Portugal

Dates:6-9ofSeptember2016

Concept:TheDigitalHumanitieshavebeenlargelydiscussedandarecurrentlyawell-establishedbranchofknowledgewithspecificdepartmentsandjournals.

Howdoesallthisimpactouron-goingresearchprojects?

This workshop aims at providing concrete answers to specific needs and challengesemerging from projects carried out bymaster and PhD candidates and post-doctoralresearchers.

Aclusterofqualifiedinternationalscholarsandprofessionalshasbeenputtogethertoimprove and transform our research, through theoretical analysis and technologicalresources.

Seminars, as well as training sessions, will be organized in a collaborative andinterdisciplinaryenvironmentto:

- (Re)center theDigitalHumanities inquestions raisedby students, researchers,scholarsandprofessionals.

- Facilitatethechoiceoftechniques;- Shapetheoutcomestroughdigitaltools.- Improveinformationsharing.

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“Tailoredtowhatyouneed”istheprinciplewhichunderliesthisinitiativestructuredinthefollowinginterconnectedsections:

1. NetworkAnalysis-MartinGrandjean-September6Objects, people and ideas are increasingly intertwined in present societies and

observing thesenetworks isnowadaysapowerful tool for interpretationand fornew

knowledgeproduction inmultipledisciplines. Similarly,whenwe look at thepastwe

canstudymoreorlesscomplexsocialnetworks,orlookatcrossingdataaboutpeople,

ideasandeventsasawaytoimproveourknowledgeofthosesocieties.Inrecentyears

humanitiesandsocialscienceshavemadeanincreasinglyextensiveuseofthistypeof

methodological approach. Knowing the methods for construction, analysis and

visualizationofsocialnetworks,implementingthemtospecificresearchquestions,will

betheaimofthisworkshop.

2. Spatialvisualisationofhistoricalandarchaeologicaldata-LeifIsaksen-September7Geography is an essential variable in historical and archaeological interpretation and

georeferenced data visualization can draw attention to patterns in the available

information,leadtothedevelopmentofnewquestions,orimprovethecommunication

of research results. Nowadays there are several techniques and tools used in spatial

datavisualizationanditsapplicationtoresearchintheHumanities.SocialScienceshave

spread to an everwider field of analysis, chronologically and thematically.With this

workshoptheaimistointroduceconcepts,methodsandtoolsforspatialvisualization

andexplorewithconcrete researchquestions thepotentialand the limitationsof this

typeofapproach.

3. Augmentinghistoricaldata-RichardZijdeman-September8Currenthistoricalresearchoftencombinesmultipledatasourcesinordertoanswera

research question. In order to do so, raw data sources are first cleaned, shaped in a

particularformatandthencombined.Invariousdisciplinesthisworktakesmoretime

thantheactualcompositionofthepaper.Still,oftentheworkflowperformedisseldom

shared and this work is often repeated making it inefficient. More importantly it

hampersthereproducibilityofresearchresults.ThissessionwillshowhowLinkedData

can tackle both problems. Highlighting tools from the datalegend project

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(http://datalegend.net/)totransformyourdataintolinkedandlinkyourdatatoother

datasetsinanefficientandcoherentway.

4. Readinganddataminingmaps-EvangelosLivieratos,ChrysoulaBoutouraandAngelikiTsorlini-September9Historical mapping is an important source of information for historical and / or

archaeological studies. Old maps can help to improve our knowledge of places and

peopleof thepast. Itsgeoreferencing,readingandsubsequentdataextractionmaybe

performedusingGISorothertools,whichthenallowtheuseofnewinformationlayers

for awide range of research projects.With thisworkshopwewill explore advanced

digitalmethods forreadingandextractionofhistoricalmapsdata inorderto lookfor

thesemethodologiestomeetspecificresearchquestions.

Finalconference(alsoopentothegeneralpublic)

“ReloadingtheTreasureofHumanExperiencesinamachinelearningperspective:

ProvenanceandValidationIssuesinthe(digital)Humanities”

AndreaNanetti

September9-17h30m-19h00m

Workflow:Each workshop will last for 6 hours. In the morning, the tutor of each module will

conductapresentationonthecoreissues(c.1h30m).Then,registeredparticipantsare

invitedtobrieflypresent(5minutes)theirprojects/researchinterests,byidentifying

specificissuesthattheywishtobeaddressedandanalyzed.Theafternoonisintended

for more in depth discussion of each project through the use of digital tools in a

collaborativesetting.

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Targetaudience:Master,PhDandPost-Doctoralresearchers,teachersandprofessionalsdevelopingI&D

research projects in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Librarians and museum

curatorsarealsowelcome.

Howtoapply:Thoseinterestedinattendingtheworkshopsmustsubmitasummaryoftheirongoing

researchdetailing,wheneverpossible, the specific issues that theywish to explore in

thefieldofDigitalHumanities(between500-750words).Thiswillprovidethebasisfor

theworkshops’tutorstooutlineandselectthemostspecificmethodologiesaswellas

digitaltoolstorespondtoparticipants’needs.Eachworkshopwillonlyaccommodatea

maximumof10participants.Candidatesmustapplyforbetweenoneorfourworkshops

andindicatetheirpreference.

Calendar:Deadlineforsubmissionofabstracts:10July

Notificationtoapplicants:15July

Deadlineforpayment:29July

Workinglanguage:English

Thecoststoattendtheworkshopsareasfollow:-Oneworkshop:15€

-Twoworkshops:25€

-Threeworkshops:40€

-Allworkshops:50€

CostforworkshopsincludeslunchinthecanteenofFCSHforthedaysoftheworkshops

selected,andattendancetothefinalconference.Thepromotersaremakinganeffortto

facilitatetheuseoftheNOVAUniversityresidenceatstudent’srates.

Registrationbyemail:[email protected]:

-Institutionalaffiliation:

-Taxidentificationandaddress(forinvoice):

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-Workshop(s)toattend:

Partners:AristotleUniversityofThessaloniki,LaboratoryofCartography&GeographicAnalysis,

Thessaloniki,Greece

Asociación de Demografía Histórica - Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas

(CSIC),Spain

InternationalInstituteofSocialHistory,Netherlands

"Provenance and validation from Humanities to Machine Reading," research project

fundedby2016MicrosoftResearchAsia(PIAndreaNanetti,NTU),Singapore

ProgramadeDoutoramentoemHistoria,XeografíaeHistoriadaArte-Universidadede

SantiagodeCompostela,Spain