Programme

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Thursday (8th September 2016)
09:30 - 11:30
Registration
11:30 - 13:00
Introductions and Plenary 1
Chair: Michael Pidd

Culture, memory and democracy: Digital opportunities in the Global South

King’s College London

13:00 - 14:00
Lunch
Bar
14:00 - 15:30
Session 1 — Big Data, Bibliography, and the Early Modern Printed Book
Chair: Katherine Rogers
Session 2
Chair: Jamie McLaughlin
No Session

From Paper to Digital: Designing the Universal Short Title Catalogue

University of St Andrews

Art History ‘behind the scenes’: understanding the production of knowledge in the digital age

New Digital Initiatives: Preserving the World’s Rarest Books

University of St Andrews

We're Not Gonna Take It: Putting the Web at Musician's Service

VU University Amsterdam

Developing New Bibliographic Tools for the Digital Age: Distribution of German Books by Sheets in the Early Modern Print World

University of St Andrews

Windows on Waverley: exploring the effect of variations in the construction of literary social networks

UCD Humanities Institute, Dublin

15:30 - 16:00
Tea Break
Bar
16:00 - 17:00
The Academic Book of the Future
Chair: Michael Pidd

The Academic Book of the Future

King’s College London

17:00
Drinks Reception — Courtesy of The Academic Book of the Future project and the AHRC
Bar
Friday (9th September 2016)
09:30 - 11:00
Session 3 — Text Analytics 1: Between numbers and words
Chair: James O'Sullivan
Session 4
Chair: Jamie McLaughlin
Session 5
Chair: Michael Pidd

How not to read texts: giving context to big data

University of Sheffield

Industrial Memories: Data Analytics as a form of Witnessing

University College Dublin

Using Primary Sources: creating and using e-textbooks in partnership with University libraries and publishers

University of Liverpool

Quantitative analysis and textual interpretation in Caxton

University of Sheffield

Industrial Memories: Methodologies for analysing the Data of the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse Report (Ryan Report)

University College Dublin

Classifying Echoes: Using network modularity to study historical text reuse

University of Tel Aviv

Comparing like with like? Tools for exploring families of corpora

Worldbuilder: a tool for Text-World annotation and visualization

University of Huddersfield

11:00 - 11:30
Tea Break
Bar
11:30 - 13:00
Session 6 — Text Analytics 2: Identifying complex meanings in historical texts
Chair: Michael Pidd
Session 7
Chair: James O'Sullivan
Session 8
Chair: Katherine Rogers

Distributional semantics as a tool for the humanities: Compatible frameworks or unbridgeable gaps?

University of Sheffield

Reflections on the development and implementation of an introductory MOOC for DH methodologies.

On building a critical digital archive: The Hogarth Press and The Modernist Archives Publishing Project (MAPP)

University of Reading

The Utility of Count-based Models for the Digital Humanities

University of Cambridge

Collaborative Digital Humanities training: the CHASE Arts and Humanities in the Digital Age (AHDA) programme

Electrifying Intoxicants: Building a Database of Alcohol, Nicotine, Caffeine, and Opium in Early Modern England

University of Sheffield

Developing an interface for historical sociolinguistics

13:00 - 14:00
Lunch
Bar
14:00 - 15:30
Session 9 — Adding Value: Challenging Practical and Philosophical Assumptions in the Digitisation of Historical Sources
Chair: Michael Pidd
Session 10
Chair: Jamie McLaughlin
Session 11
Chair: Katherine Rogers

Re-Curating and Re-Imagining the Digitised Archive in the Classroom

University of Hertfordshire

Crime and punishment in three dimensions, 1780-1900.

University of Liverpool

A Question of Style: individual voices and corporate identity in the Edinburgh Review, 1814-1820

Open University

Historical TEI: Developing a Portfolio of Common Practice

Loughborough University

Digital visualization of transnationalism: a case study of Hong Kong migrants in Canada during the handover of Hong Kong period

Distorted Projections: Spatial Imaginaries and Desired Trajectories in Christina Stead’s For Love Alone

University of Edinburgh

London Lives Petitions Project: Remixing and Remaking Digital Histories

University of Sheffield

Human Rights 3D: A Social Justice Platform for Historical Recovery, Reconstruction & Reconciliation in Digital Humanities

Hamilton College, Clinton, New York, USA

Chinese Text Project: A Digital Library of Pre-Modern Chinese Literature

Harvard University

15:30 - 16:00
Tea Break
Bar
16:00 - 17:30
Plenary 2
Chair: Michael Pidd

Spiralling: teaching undergraduate digital literary studies

Bath Spa University

19:00
Conference Dinner
Saturday (10th September 2016)
09:30 - 11:00
Session 12
Chair: Michael Pidd
Session 13 — Transforming Musicology
Chair: Jamie McLaughlin
No Session

Text-mining, geo-coding and mapping historic smells

Cambridge University

Early Music & Digital Technology

Goldsmiths, University of London

Visualising Convict Lives

University of Sheffield

Hearing Opera: Wagner and the human response

Invisible Interpretations: Quantitative Text Analysis and Intellectual History

London School of Economics

Semantic Linking and the Workflows of Musicology

Networks of Musicology

Goldsmiths, University of London

Publishing Musicology Digitally

Goldsmiths, University of London

11:00 - 11:30
Tea Break
Bar
11:30 - 13:00
Session 14
Chair: Jamie McLaughlin
Session 15
Chair: James O'Sullivan
No Session

Active Archives: Building a new archival platform for the discovery of hidden narratives

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Innovation and the Digital Humanities: Early lessons from the King’s Digital Laboratory

King’s College London

Lost in the Flood: finding and using digital cultural heritage for research

Digital Curation Unit, Athena Research Centre (DCU)

Reflections on running a collaborative digital humanities center: a libraries-academic partnership to advance DH teaching, research and community building

University of Kansas

“Do you remember the first time?”: Case Studies on digital content reuse in the context of Europeana Cloud

Digital Curation Unit, Athena Research Centre (DCU)

Minimal Editions in Practice: The Digital Anthology of Early English Drama

King’s College London

13:00 - 14:00
Lunch
Bar
14:00 - 15:30
Plenary 3
Chair: Michael Pidd

Clouds

The City University of New York

15:30
Conference close