Symposium and Workshops
DH Winter School & DH Pilot Project Symposium
- Date
- Monday 27 January 2025 - Friday 31 January 2025
- Explanation
- Workshops: Mon., Tues, Wed, Thurs. 10:00 - 13:00. Symposium: Fri. 13:30 - 18:00
- Location
- On Campus
- Room
- Digital Lab Huizinga 0.09
DH Winter School and DH Pilot Project Symposium
Workshops: Digital Humanities Winter School 2025
All workshops are free of cost to participants, will be in person, i.e. not online, 3 hours duration with a pause, 10:00 - 13:00, and will be held in the Digital Lab 0.09, Humanities Hub. Please 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.
- Monday, 27 January: Quarto Publishing
- Tuesday, 28 January: ATLAS.ti demystified: Getting started with the basics of qualitative coding
- Wednesday, 29 January: Digital Mapping Workshop for the Humanities with QGIS
- Thursday, 30 January: Working with Handwritten Text Recognition
Symposium: Digital Humanities Pilot Project Symposium 2025
- Friday, 31 January: DH Pilot Project Symposium (13:30 - 17:00 + social drinks)
Location: Huizinga 0.06.
Learn more about applying digital tools & methods from recent research results. A fascinating afternoon of digital research projects and discussion. See 2024 Digital Humanities and AI Research Projects
Workshop Descriptions:
Monday, 27 January (10:00 - 13:00):
Lecturer: Yann Ryan, Leiden University
Workshop: Quarto Publishing
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.
Tuesday, 28 January (10:00 - 13:00):
Lecturer: Corine Gerritsen, Leiden University
Workshop: ATLAS.ti demystified: Getting started with the basics of qualitative coding
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.
Wednesday, 29 January (10:00 - 13:00):
Lecturer: Matthew Sung, Leiden University
Workshop: Digital Mapping Workshop for the Humanities with QGIS
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.
Thursday, 30 January (10:00 - 13:00):
Lecturer: Gerhard de Kok, Huygens ING-KNAW
Workshop: Working with Handwritten Text Recognition
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.
Register here for Workshops and Symposium!
Please register for each individual workshop you would like to attend. 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 your laptop that you bring to the workshop.
DH Winter School & DH Symposium