Events Archive - Digital Humanities https://digitalhumanities.soton.ac.uk/events Digital Humanities Mon, 14 Apr 2014 16:06:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.2 Search And Mining Tools with Linguistic Analysis: domain specific search through statistical language modelling https://digitalhumanities.soton.ac.uk/events/samtla Mon, 11 Mar 2013 20:20:36 +0000 http://blog.soton.ac.uk/digitalhumanities/?post_type=events&p=2648 Dr Dan Levene and Mr Martyn Harris will present ‘Samtla’ which is a collaborative Digital Humanities research project between University of Southampton and Birkbeck University of London. Samtla provides a search facility through statistical language modelling, and document comparison tools to identify both local and global patterns of language use and change over time. Samtla is language-agnostic allowing the tools to …

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]]> What Wikipedia can do for you – Lunch and Workshop https://digitalhumanities.soton.ac.uk/events/what-wikipedia-can-do-for-you-lunch-and-workshop Tue, 05 Mar 2013 15:36:37 +0000 http://blog.soton.ac.uk/digitalhumanities/?post_type=events&p=2641 Event Details 20th March 2013. 12-3.30pm – Digital Humanities Distributed Laboratory, 2nd floor, Avenue Campus Wikipedian in Residence at the British Library Andrew Gray is the Wikipedian in Residence at the British Library, working on an AHRC-funded program to help academics and researchers engage with Wikipedia and its community. A description of the project is available on the British Library blog: http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digital-scholarship/2013/02/wikipedia-and-the-british-library.html Networking …

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]]> sotonDH Narrative Workshop https://digitalhumanities.soton.ac.uk/events/sotondh-narrative-workshop Wed, 27 Feb 2013 22:07:13 +0000 http://blog.soton.ac.uk/digitalhumanities/?post_type=events&p=2626 Timetable: Tea and Coffee from 9:30am Morning presentations 10-12:30 We have the following confirmed short (10 minute) talks: Terhi Nurmikko: Narrative structures and literary borrowing techniques in Assyriology Martyn Harris: Samtla – Domain-Specific Search Through Statistical Language Modelling Paul Rissen: The Web as a Story Medium Matthew Tyler-Jones: National Trust and Visitor Narratives Mark Weal: Chawton House project Dave Millard: …

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]]> Seeing in a New Light – Archaeological Computing Research Group Seminar https://digitalhumanities.soton.ac.uk/events/seeing-in-a-new-light Tue, 23 Oct 2012 11:31:58 +0000 http://digitalhumanities.soton.ac.uk/?p=1207 This Friday is the first ACRG seminar of the term, and we welcome all students and staff to attend. Seeing in a new light: How can polynomial texture mapping help record forensic investigations of cremations? Polynomial texture mapping is an image capture and processing technique used to record and represent details from a surface. It has been utilised in archaeology, …

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]]> Lecture in Tartu: Digital Archaeologies – Imaging, Fieldwork and Simulation of the Ancient World https://digitalhumanities.soton.ac.uk/events/lecture-in-tartu-digital-archaeologies Tue, 18 Sep 2012 20:01:08 +0000 http://digitalhumanities.soton.ac.uk/?p=1133 I have finished writing my talk for tomorrow at the University of Tartu. The abstract is below. I am going to concentrate on the data capture aspects of the Portus Project and the data visualisation components of our work at Catalhoyuk, with some mention of the RCUK PATINA project and the AHRC RTISAD project. Tomorrow will be my last full …

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]]> Lecture in Tallinn: Collaboration and Communication: Digital Humanities Research at sotonDH https://digitalhumanities.soton.ac.uk/events/collaboration-and-communication Sun, 16 Sep 2012 21:35:07 +0000 http://digitalhumanities.soton.ac.uk/?p=1125 I am really looking forward to my lecture at the University of Tallinn tomorrow (see abstract below). I just finished the talk. If all goes to plan I am going to start by introducing our Digital Humanities activities at Southampton, and how they are influenced by the sotonDH hub and by other groups such as the DE USRG and the Web …

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]]> Portus Lecture https://digitalhumanities.soton.ac.uk/events/portus-lecture Mon, 03 Sep 2012 08:46:14 +0000 http://digitalhumanities.soton.ac.uk/?p=1118 You are cordially invited to the lecture "Roman Emperors, Ships and Commerce: inter-disciplinary research at Portus 2011-2012"

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]]> sotonDH workshop: Thinking and working in digital 3D https://digitalhumanities.soton.ac.uk/events/thinking-and-working-in-digital-3d Mon, 14 May 2012 10:44:52 +0000 https://digitalhumanities.soton.ac.uk/?p=1045 This *free* workshop will provide an outline of the possibilities for incorporating digital 3D technologies into your working practice. The workshop will include an introduction to a variety of techniques but it will also help you to consider how these techniques can be practically implemented within your work.  The workshop will cover a range of techniques for the capture, modelling …

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]]> Collaborative working using open research data to create open educational resources for the humanities https://digitalhumanities.soton.ac.uk/events/open-research-data Mon, 14 May 2012 10:40:21 +0000 https://digitalhumanities.soton.ac.uk/?p=1041 This *free* local event is part of the Higher Education Academy Open Education Resources seminar series. The focus of this workshop will be to show the benefits of publishing research data openly, and to show how one set of data collected for a single discipline can be used in different ways to create Open Educational Resources with varied content across …

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]]> Archaeology Seminar: Mapping Medieval and Early Modern Spaces https://digitalhumanities.soton.ac.uk/events/mapping-medieval-and-early-modern-spaces Fri, 04 May 2012 12:56:26 +0000 https://digitalhumanities.soton.ac.uk/?p=1023 The mapping of medieval and early modern landscapes can be informed by archaeology, surveys of standing features, written sources, and historic maps. Each resource can make unique contributions but, of course, is subject to a range of limitations. This paper draws on two completed research projects ‘Mapping the Medieval Urban Landscape: Edward I’s new towns of England and Wales’ (AHRC …

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]]> #PianoHAWK event https://digitalhumanities.soton.ac.uk/events/pianohawk-event Fri, 04 May 2012 12:53:04 +0000 https://digitalhumanities.soton.ac.uk/?p=1020 HAWK is a technology that can be utilised to understand more about how the hands move to complete functional tasks. It can accurately measure, to less than a degree, all the dynamic joint information of the human hand. HAWK is a unique set of algorithms that can receive three-dimensional coordinates of a number of fixed points on the wrist, hand …

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]]> Archaeology Seminar: 3D Imaging for Archaeology using Structured Light Technology: Developments in Systems for Remote Areas, Hostile Environments, and Maritime Archaeology https://digitalhumanities.soton.ac.uk/events/3d-imaging-for-archaeology Thu, 12 Apr 2012 15:13:57 +0000 https://digitalhumanities.soton.ac.uk/?p=892 Christopher Begley (Transylvania University and University of Kentucky Center for Virtual and Visual Environments) will be talking in the Centre for Maritime Archaeology at the Avenue Campus on 3D Imaging for Archaeology using Structured Light Technology: Developments in Systems for Remote Areas, Hostile Environments, and Maritime Archaeology. Recent innovations in structured light scanning has allowed the development of a rugged, …

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]]> Archaeology Seminar: Hearing the Past – The Role of Sound in Digital Heritage Research https://digitalhumanities.soton.ac.uk/events/hearing-the-past Mon, 09 Apr 2012 09:47:10 +0000 https://digitalhumanities.soton.ac.uk/?p=840 Dr Damian Murphy (York Electronics) will be talking in the Archaeological Computing Research Group Lab (Room 3043 B65a) at Avenue Campus on Thursday 3rd May 3-5pm. All welcome. Please RSVP graeme.earl@soton.ac.uk “Hearing the Past – The Role of Sound in Digital Heritage Research” Sound is often considered the poor relation of visual stimuli, yet plays a significant role in conveying information for rapid assimilation …

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]]> Archaeology Seminar: Custom Acquisition and Workflow Integration in Cultural Heritage Applications https://digitalhumanities.soton.ac.uk/events/custom-acquisition-and-workflow-integration Sun, 08 Apr 2012 19:43:27 +0000 https://digitalhumanities.soton.ac.uk/?p=822 Dr Tim Weyrich (UCL Graphics) will be talking in the Archaeological Computing Research Group Lab (Room 3043 B65a) at Avenue Campus on Thursday 26th April 3-5pm. All welcome. Please RSVP graeme.earl@soton.ac.uk “Custom Acquisition and Workflow Integration in Cultural Heritage Applications” Digital acquisition of objects, be it photographic documentation, document scanning or 3-D scanning of objects, is often considered a solved …

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]]> sotonDH Lunch https://digitalhumanities.soton.ac.uk/events/sotondh-lunch Sun, 25 Mar 2012 19:45:31 +0000 https://digitalhumanities.soton.ac.uk/?p=1001 We will be holding a @sotonDH lunch between 1 and 2pm on Wednesday 25th April in room 1097. Come along to talk about future DH projects and teaching.

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]]> CAA2012 Schedule https://digitalhumanities.soton.ac.uk/events/caa2012-schedule Thu, 22 Mar 2012 14:21:16 +0000 https://digitalhumanities.soton.ac.uk/?p=623 Browse the Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology 2012 conference schedule from sched.org. Further details of the conference are available at http://caaconference.org/.

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]]> Ways of Seeing the English Domestic Interior, 1500-1700: the case of decorative textiles https://digitalhumanities.soton.ac.uk/events/ways-of-seeing-the-english-domestic-interior Mon, 19 Mar 2012 13:37:45 +0000 https://digitalhumanities.soton.ac.uk/?p=321 Today was the first workshop in the AHRC “Ways of Seeing the English Domestic Interior” network. This was hosted by the Archaeological Computing Research Group and the department of History at Southampton. The network will use the latest developments in computer science and cognitive science in order to understand how the domestic interior was experienced in early modern England. Lots of …

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]]> South by South Coast – Digital Creative Industries and Digital Humanities https://digitalhumanities.soton.ac.uk/events/digital-creative-industries-and-digital-humanities Tue, 28 Feb 2012 22:17:42 +0000 https://www.dh.soton.ac.uk/?p=20 South by South Coast (#SXSC) is an all-day informal event taking place on 18 May 2012 at the University of Southampton Students Union building. It is aimed at anyone involved in the region’s creative industries, and will include a number of sotonDH staff and students. Come and meet some great people with interests in the creative industries and digital media. …

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]]> Joint seminar series with University of Sussex #SUSHI https://digitalhumanities.soton.ac.uk/events/joint-seminar-with-university-of-sussex Sat, 25 Feb 2012 09:03:12 +0000 https://digitalhumanities.soton.ac.uk/?p=900 Temporality and value at the intersection of arts and technology: advancing theoretical and methodological development Organisers: Dr Lorraine Warren, Dr Lisa Harris, Centre for Strategic Innovation; Professor Sean Cubitt, The Winchester Centre For Global Futures In Art Design & Media

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]]> The Connected Past: people, networks and complexity in archaeology and history https://digitalhumanities.soton.ac.uk/events/the-connected-past Wed, 22 Feb 2012 21:27:46 +0000 https://digitalhumanities.soton.ac.uk/?p=647 A two-day collaborative, multi-disciplinary symposium at the University of Southampton 24-25 March 2012 Sponsored by Archaeopress, The Classical Association, the Archaeological Computing Research Group, Oxford University Press, the University of Southampton USRG Complexity in Real-world Contexts, the University of Southampton Web Science DTC and the University of Southampton Faculty of Humanities Conference objectives: To provide a forum for the presentation and debate of multidisciplinary network-based research and debate the …

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]]> Digital Humanities: Where Digital Technology and Music Collide https://digitalhumanities.soton.ac.uk/events/where-digital-technology-and-music-collide Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:33:02 +0000 https://digitalhumanities.soton.ac.uk/?p=445 Come and hear how our music researchers exploit digital technology within performance, musicology and composition. For example, creating interactive systems aiding music rehabilitation for cochlear implant patients. Presenters: Professor Jeanice Brooks, Dr Andrew Pinnock, Dr Richard Polfreman, Dr David Bretherton and Dr Ben Oliver After the presentations visitors will be invited to try out some of the systems for themselves and view the posters. Refreshments will …

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]]> Digital Economy lunch – Leif Isaksen https://digitalhumanities.soton.ac.uk/events/digital-economy-lunch-leif-isaksen Mon, 23 Jan 2012 18:33:43 +0000 https://digitalhumanities.soton.ac.uk/?p=466 Leif Isaksen spoke about the Google Ancient Places and Pelagios projects at the Digital Economy USRG lunch. Leif has just completed his PhD in Electronics and Computer Science at Southampton and started a Research Fellowship focused on Digital Humanities. He will address issues surrounding the use of places as mediators to cross-disciplinary resources, with a focus on the ancient world. …

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]]> SMuRF: Multidisciplinary Research Conference for Early Career Researchers (ECRs) https://digitalhumanities.soton.ac.uk/events/smurf-multidisciplinary-research-conference Thu, 05 Jan 2012 20:55:26 +0000 https://digitalhumanities.soton.ac.uk/?p=525 The first annual Southampton Multidisciplinary Research Forum (SMuRF) seeks to develop the skill sets of those interested in multidisciplinary research while expanding the network of researchers in other fields. Members of sotonDH will be speaking at this SMuRF event and we encourage DH ECRs to attend. Multidisciplinary research is an area of great growth for the University both internally, through the introduction …

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]]> E-Learning Symposium 2012 https://digitalhumanities.soton.ac.uk/events/e-learning-symposium-2012 Mon, 02 Jan 2012 20:50:32 +0000 https://digitalhumanities.soton.ac.uk/?p=522 This popular symposium is a 2-day event which combines practical activities and guidance with inspiring ideas to fuel the imagination! Hear about the latest research and practice in technology-enhanced learning related to LLAS subjects and Higher education generally attend our practical workshops for discussion, guidance and tips on teaching and learning with technology Topics to be covered will include: An …

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]]> MRW12: The Science of Music (H.A.W.K. Demonstration) https://digitalhumanities.soton.ac.uk/events/mrw12-the-science-of-music Sun, 01 Jan 2012 20:51:53 +0000 https://www.dh.soton.ac.uk/?p=168 As part of Multidisciplinary Research Week on 6 February 2012 come and see how the same motion capture that was used to make ‘Lord of the Rings’ is being used to understand the different ways in which musicians use their hands to play the piano. Links: http://www.davidowennorris.com/ H.A.W.K. Professor David Owen Norris Dr Cheryl Metcalf Video clip here: University of Southampton …

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]]> Litmus Project performance https://digitalhumanities.soton.ac.uk/events/litmus-project-performance Fri, 30 Dec 2011 18:51:38 +0000 https://www.dh.soton.ac.uk/?p=106 ‘Litmus Project’ pairs MA and PhD Creative Writing students from Humanities with PhD researchers in Biological Sciences, Electronics and Computer Science, Physics, Chemistry and Engineering. Scientific subjects under the spotlight include complexity modelling and imaging, complexity science, genetic adaptation to rising CO2 levels in plants, the nature of biological individuality, how life on Earth developed from simple physical/chemical systems to …

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