Resources

• Computer Vision for Digital Humanities

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  18th December 2023 This Winter School module introduces digital humanists to computer vision, combining the theoretical background with practical skills. It is tailored for those new to computer vision, offering a broad understanding of basic concepts to Digital Humanities applications.

• Data and Databases: Data Management and Storage

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  The data you generate in humanities and social science projects may well need longer term storage beyond the scope of your own research project. Medium to long term data storage is vital for allowing other scholars to examine and test your data and models, and ensuring open access to your data is an increasingly prominent issue. This resource will guide you through a thoughtful discussion of Data Management and Storage.

• The 6th Digital History in Sweden Conference: Unboxing Digital Methods, Practices and Public Engagement

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  In the following talks, selected from the 6th Digital History in Sweden Conference, the learner will gain new perspectives on the use of AI and citizen science in digitization and digital history projects. In addition, the learner will gain insight into the creation and care of digital archives applying postcolonial perspectives.

• Git Version Control via Command Line

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  This article introduces the main concepts in Git and basic Git commands that can be used from the command line. Understanding these commands will help you with using Git in a code editor, the Git desktop and other options, like GitHub online.

• Git: VS Code

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  Getting access to the data on GitLab is different on all three operating systems. This post shows how to use the code editor VS Code with its graphical user interface for working collaboratively in Git with Windows, Mac and Linux.

• Evaluation of Digital Heritage Experiences

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  This resource discusses various approaches and methods to evaluate digital or hybrid interactive experiences, which support the interpretation of heritage assets. The resource also aims to support researchers’ and practitioners’ practical understanding of evaluation methods and tools to capture audiences’ engagement with media and explore technology impact.

• Creating Interactive Visualizations with Plotly

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  This lesson demonstrates how to create interactive data visualizations in Python with Plotly’s open-source graphing libraries using materials from the Historical Violence Database.

• Git Collaboration

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  This short course will help learners understand how to work with Git in a collaborative setting such as teamwork or group projects, and how to make use of platforms like GitHub or GitLab to complete that work.

• Transcribing Handwritten Text with Python and Microsoft Azure Computer Vision

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  Tools for machine transcription of handwriting are practical and labour-saving if you need to analyse or present text in digital form. This lesson will explain how to write a Python program to transcribe handwritten documents using Microsoft’s Azure Cognitive Services, a commercially available service that has a cost-free option for low volumes of use.

• Copyright of 3D Data

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  This resource offers an introduction to copyright laws within the UK context when dealing with multidimensional media from repositories, archives and collections from that country.

• Automatic Text Recognition (ATR) - Getting Started

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  Kick off your journey into Automatic Text Recognition (ATR) with our introductory tutorial video. This is the first video of a tutorial series dedicated to extracting full text from scanned images.

• Wikipedia as a source of historical knowledge

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  A lesson on Wikipedia as a born-digital source of history and how to apply digital source criticism to it. The lesson invites historians to adapt their critical approach to Wikipedia as a born-digital source for historical research. More specifically, it suggests ways to apply digital source criticism to Wikipedia’s infrastructure and content and to explore potential uses of Wikipedia for historians. The lesson proposes a short introductory video and a set of five assignments. No specific technical skills are required to complete the assignments.