Open House: Centre for Digital Humanities and Social Sciences

  • Date: 8 May 2024, 13:15–17:30
  • Location: English Park, Humanities Theatre
  • Type: Conference
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  • Organiser: CDHU
  • Contact person: Clelia LaMonica

Join us at the Humanities Theatre (Engelska Parken) on May 8, from 13:15 to 16.30 (followed by mingle), for the CDHU's annual Open House! Learn more about CDHU's partnerships, skills training, and collaborations with technical services across the university, as well as the diverse range of research projects we support through CDHU’s socio-technical infrastructure of research engineers.

Our open house is the perfect occasion to meet our dedicated research engineers, learn about the cutting-edge work supported by the centre, and discover how we facilitate connecting the Humanities and Social Sciences with innovative technical approaches.

Programme:

I. Introductions

13.15-13.20 Welcome

13.20-13.30 CDHU – A Digital Research Infrastructure

13.30-13.40 Research Data Support: Data management, storage, security, and more

13.45-14.00 UPPMAX: Computing and large-scale storage for projects in Humanities and Social Sciences

14.00-14.15 Coffee break

II. From Pilot to Project

14.15-14.35 African Literary Metdata (Ashleigh Harris)

14.40-15.00 Aesthetic Cognitivism and the Prospects of Criticism (Guy Damman, Elisabeth Schellekens, Marie Dubremetz)

III. Pilot project presentations 2023–2024

15.00-15.15 VKontakte Data Scraping: Understanding audience engagement patterns and content Hyperconnectivity (Dalia Ortiz P., Alexandra Brankova)

15.15-15.30 Automated Procedure for extraction and Collection of Historical Sales Deeds data (Sushruth Badri, Johan Ericsson, Viktor Persarvet)

15.30-17.00 Posters followed by mingle

All are welcome, whether you are passionate about digital humanities and social sciences, or simply curious!

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