On the second day of our workshop we opened our day’s discussion with a round of lightning talks in which participants were invited to comment or pose questions on their mapping and visualisation methodologies as well as to broader theoretical questions related to their use in the study of history. Some participants expanded on points
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One of the questions raised earlier on mentioned the following emerging issue: the DH part of a project should become an integral part of the coherent narrative of the larger work (article, dissertation, PhD thesis, etc.). The problem surrounding this is linked to time (e.g. how to convince that taking two months to build up a database will
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Some things to think about if you want to make a map or visualisation: 1. Why do you want to make a visualisation? Do you intend to make a specific argument with it? Do you intend to make a heuristic tool to explore a large collection of materials? 2. Is the data in your sources
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“The time has come, the walrus said, to talk of many things . . .” Our discussion focused particularly on a defense of the value of visualisation, bearing in mind the very legitimate questions and concerns regarding it which have been raised over the course of the conference, together with an awareness of the responsibilities which
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Komplexitätssteigerung on the hermeneutics of Big Data A manifesto for the small in Big Data and Digital Humanities – in questions (mainly) Why do Data have to big Big? What is the benefit of being big? And when does big become big? Where does big data start? Can small data be beautiful? How to
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Our first open discussion during the first day of the workshop, following a round of lightning talks by the workshop participants, raised a series of great questions which we hope to follow up on Tuesday. Among these were the following: As historians, to what degree should we set aside time to acquire the skills and knowledge in
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On Tuesday afternoon Hans will be giving us an introduction to QGIS. For information on downloading and installing QGIS please see: QGIS Downloads For Mac OS X users, please download and run the installer for the GDAL Complete, the Matplotlib Python module (other python modules there are optional), and QGIS, which can all be downloaded
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For participants of the 14:30 Three.js Layer workshop, who want to code along, the following instructions should ensure that everything is working correctly: 1. Download and install a local web server on your laptop, for example XAMPP 2. Go to the following link and download the zip-folder to your harddrive. 3. Extract the zip-folder
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The 14:30 workshop on Monday on VennMaker will give participants the opportunity to follow along on their own laptop. For VennMaker to work, you will need to ensure your laptop has an updated version of Java. For Mac OS X users, you can find more information about this here: OS X Java Control Panel Windows
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TIC-Collaborative, Transnational Intellectual Cooperation in the long 19th century The overall aim of our contribution is to evaluate the digital checks and balances of collaborative research in the study of transnational connections in the field of social reform in the long 19th century. Between 1815 and 1914 new trans-organizational milieus consisting of journals and conferences
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