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  • DH Benelux 2015

    Hof van Liere Prinsstraat 13, Antwerpen, Belgium

    The DHBenelux conference welcomes contributions and participants from all areas of research and teaching in Digital Humanities. While the conference has a focus on recent advances in Belgium, The Netherlands, and Luxembourg, we do warmly welcome contributions from outside the Benelux. The language of the conference is international English. We hope that we may welcome many scholars to the European scientific meeting platform that DHBenelux will constitute in summer 2015 for the Digital Humanities.

  • Antwerp Spring Academy in DH 2015

    S.D.424 Prinsstraat 13, Antwerpen, Belgium

    Data Visualisation

    This three-day workshop will take place from 10 to 12 June 2015 at the University of Antwerp, Belgium, following the DHBenelux 2015 conference hosted at the same location. It offers the perfect opportunity for the conference’s participants (and other interested scholars) to learn how to visualize their data in interesting new ways.

    The workshop will be taught by the developers of NodeBox, a data visualization tool created by the Experimental Media Research Group (EMRG). EMRG is a cross domain research group associated with the St. Lucas University College of Arts and Design (Antwerp, Belgium). During the works­hop, partici­pants will learn how to cap­ture, prepare, refine and visualize their data; gain insights in the theory of data visualisation; and start to look at data in a dif­ferent way.

    €100

  • Lecture Series: Benno Stein

    S.C.001 Prinsstraat 13, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium

    Applying Heuristic Search Technology for Constrained Paraphrasing.

    To paraphrase means to rewrite content whilst preserving the original meaning. Paraphrasing is important in fields such as text reuse in journalism, anonymising work, and improving the quality of customer-written reviews, among other. Paraphrasing is often considered as an analysis problem – asking the following question: Are these two sentences (paragraphs) paraphrases?

  • DARIAH-BE Kick-off Event

    Hof van Liere Prinsstraat 13, Antwerpen, Belgium

    The DARIAH-BE kick-off meeting was organised in Antwerp (27 November 2015). This event coincided with the launch of this Digital Humanities research community, DHu.F.

  • Lecture Series: Folgert Karsdorp

    S.D.009 Prinsstraat 13, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium

    From Rapacious Wolfs to Independent Women: Cultural Transmission of Little Red Riding Hood.

    In his lecture, Folgert Karsdorp presents new perspectives on the structure and development of story networks. A story network, defined as a non-hierarchical agglomeration of pre-textual relationships, represents a stream of retellings in which retellers modify and adapt retellings in a gradual and accumulative way. I investigate the development of the world’s biggest fairy tale icon: Little Red Riding Hood. No story has been retold, reinterpreted, recontextualized and reconfigured as often as the story about the little girl in red who meets a wolf in the forest. On the basis of a large collection of Dutch retellings of the story, I show that the evolution of its story network is largely determined by two random mechanisms of selection: cultural prominence and temporal attractiveness.

  • Managing Historical Data in MS Access

    Campus Etterbeek (VUB) Boulevard de la Plaine 2, Ixelles, Belgium

    The workshop is a training course full of tips and tricks for collecting and analysing historical data in a Microsoft Access database. This unique workshop will tackle specific database problems concerning historical data: different spellings of proper names, missing data, managing chronology, variations in currency systems etc.

  • Lecture Series: Sabine Lenk and Nele Wynants

    S.D.014 Prinsstraat 13, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium

    A Million Pictures.

    In this double-feature, two researchers present their work on a European project called “A Million Pictures: Magic Lantern Slides Heritage in the Common European History of Learning” – a project that investigates popular visual culture and performativity in the 19th century. Sabine Lenk will go first, presenting her research on ‘Digitizing Magic Lantern Slides: Problems, Challenges, Possibilities’. She will be followed by Nele Wynants, who will present her research on ‘The Legacy of the Lantern. Artistic Reuse of an Old Apparatus’.

  • DH Benelux 2016

    DH Benelux 2016

    Belval Campus Avenue de l'Université 2, Esch-sur-Alzette, Belval, Luxembourg

    This third edition of the annual DH Benelux conference takes place at the City of Science, located in Belval, the new urban district of Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg. The conference rooms are located in the University of Luxembourg’s building Maison du Savoir at Belval Campus. 

  • Antwerp Summer Academy in DH 2016

    S.E.201 Prinsstraat 13, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium

    Demystifying Digitisation: A Hands-On Master Class in Text Digitisation

    This two-day workshop offers the perfect opportunity to become better acquainted with some of the main concerns that need to be addressed at the outset of both mass- and ad hoc digitisation projects. The core of the our programme exists of two half-day workshops on software packages that may help the researcher automate some aspects of the transcription process. The first will deal with ABBYY, still one of the best software packages around for OCRing digitised print materials. Focusing on the software’s possible advantages and pitfalls, this workshop will show the participants how to prepare their documents in order to achieve the best OCR results. The second workshop will introduce Transkribus, a software package that has recently made great advancements in optically recognising characters in handwritten materials. The programme will be completed by four (interactive) sessions on related topics that will be organised around these workshops.

  • The Born Digital Record of the Writing Process: Discussing Concepts of Representation for the Digital Scholarly Edition

    Hof van Liere Prinsstraat 13, Antwerpen, Belgium

    The hands-on workshop will introduce participating archivists, philologists and researchers from the humanities into forensic imaging of hard drives, inspection and analysis of forensic images. Two phases of analysis of the process will be covered during the workshop: a) forensic imaging, triage and preservation of hard drives in the archive and b) philological recovery of textual versions of a writing process from a digital forensic image (mounting, inspection of temporary files, undelete, file carving, drive slack analysis, timeline analysis, grep) and by low-level inspection of files (fast save artifacts, RSID-tags). Depending on participants’ interest other scenarios, e.g. cloud services, can also be addressed. To avoid legal issues, participants will work with forensic images created for this workshop’s training purposes with Christian Moch’s Forensig forensic image generator (Moch 2009, Moch Freiling 2009).