Workshops

Digital Humanities Winter School

Date: Monday 27 January 2025 - Friday 31 January 2025
Location: Huizinga building (on campus)
Room: 0.09 (Digital Lab)

Would you like to learn more about how you can use digital tools to help you with your research? Come to the Digital Humanities Winter School! During this week we will offer various workshops on digital tools that can assist with your research. See below for the full programme.

The workshops will be given daily during the Winter School from 10:00 - 13:00 (3 hours, with a break) in the Digital Lab (Huizinga room 0.09, part of the Humanities Hub). Unfortunately you can only join in person: there is no online possibility. All workshops are free of cost to participants.

Please don't forget to bring your laptop. Lecturers will let you know if you will need to download any (free) software about a week before the workshop.

Coffee/tea/water will be available, but please bring a mug.

Programme

Workshop: Quarto Publishing email lucdh@hum.leidenuniv.nl to join the WAITING LIST
Lecturer: Yann Ryan, Leiden University

Quarto is an open-source publishing system which allows you to create and publish presentations, websites, LaTeX documents, and books. It can include dynamic content such as tables and visualisations from code notebooks, using a variety of languages such as R and Python. For academics, Quarto is particularly useful as a method for creating websites (for example a personal site or for taught courses) and to write articles with integrated reproducible code. In this course, we’ll go over the basics of setting up Quarto for use with R or Python, and you'll learn how to work with several Quarto output types, such as a Quarto book and a LaTeX document.

Workshop: ATLAS.ti demystified: Getting started with the basics of qualitative coding - email lucdh@hum.leidenuniv.nl to join the WAITING LIST
Lecturer: Corine Gerritsen, Leiden University

In this workshop, you will learn the basics of qualitative coding using the ATLAS.ti. This software is a tool that researchers can use in their analysis of text or audio-visual material, and aids in the recognition of relationships and patterns in a dataset. The workshop explains the basic functions of ATLAS.ti, provides you with some do's and don'ts for the process of tagging and demonstrates how you can construct your very own codebok. This type of methodology can be applied to various fields and types of sources. There is no requirement for prior knowledge, as we warmly invite anyone interested to get acquainted with ATLAS.ti.

Workshop: Digital Mapping Workshop for the Humanities with QGIS - FULL
Lecturer: Matthew Sung, Leiden University

Maps are great visualisation tools. If you are working with data collected from multiple locations, maps can be used to visualise the distribution of information in space, and thus infer patterns related to, e.g. diffusion processes and diachronic changes. The workshop aims to cover several basic mapping techniques through an introduction to QGIS, a free, opensource mapping software, with hands on exercises. The techniques covered in the workshop will be general and applicable to various disciplines.

Workshop: Working with Handwritten Text Recognition - FULL
Lecturer: Gerhard de Kok, Huygens ING-KNAW

Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) has revolutionized research for many scholars, enabling computers to accurately transcribe (historical) handwritten documents. This workshop offers an in-depth introduction to HTR and its potential applications in your research. Participants will explore two leading platforms, Transkribus and Loghi, for training and utilizing HTR models. Together, we will create our own training dataset and train a custom HTR model using the Transkribus web application. Additionally, we will discuss effective ways to manage and make use of your transcriptions for further research.

Digital Humanities Pilot Project Symposium

To close out the Winter School, we will hold the Digital Humanities Pilot Project Symposium on Friday 31 January from 13:30 - 18:00 in Huizinga room 0.06. During this symposium, the recepients of the 2024 Small Grants for Research Projects will talk about how they incorporated digital humanities into their research.

Interested? More information can be found in the event item for the symposium.

Registration

Please register for each individual workshop you would like to attend via the registration form (accessed via the button below). You can also use the form to register for the Pilot Project symposium. Due to limited space available, please let us know if your plans change and you need to cancel.

Once you have registered you will have a place unless the form is showing as full, or you are emailed that the workshop is full. Teachers will email out any further info on requirements about a week before the workshop. That is, if you need to download any software onto the laptop that you bring to the workshop.

Our HTR and QGIS Workshops are FULL. Email lucdh@hum.leidenuniv.nl to join a WAITING LIST for Quarto or ATLAS.ti. Please let us know if you need to cancel a registration so we can give your place to someone else.