School of Advanced Study’s online training in digital humanities opens door to internet production skills
In the summer and autumn of 2020, Dr Naomi Wells (Institute of Modern Languages Research), Dr Christopher Ohge (Institute of English Studies), Dr Gabriel Bodard (Institute of Classical Studies) and Jonathan Blaney (Institute of Historical Research) ran a series of digital humanities (DH) research training workshops on text encoding and data visualisation. Here, they explain the practicalities for extending digital skills and understanding to researchers.
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The humanities have a ‘reproducibility’ problem
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Concept modelling for dummies
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