Programme

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Thursday (6th September 2018)
09:30 - 11:30
Registration
11:30 - 13:00
Introductions and Plenary 1
Chair: Michael Pidd

Lessons from the Digital Panopticon

University of Sheffield

13:00 - 14:00
Lunch
Bar
14:00 - 15:30
Session 1
Chair: Michael Pidd
Session 2
Chair: Katherine Rogers
Session 3
Chair: Jamie McLaughlin

Who wrote the Jack the Ripper letters? A stylometric analysis

University of Manchester

Digital Text Analysis of Herman Melville’s Marginalia in Shakespeare

Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London

Mapping Museums and Managing Patchy Data

Birkbeck College

Exploring Contagion and Migration in European Cultural Memory via Text Mining

Abundance and Access: Early Modern Letters in Contemporary and Digital Archives

University of Exeter

City through empires. Toruń (Poland) in ontology of historical geographic information system from 10th to 20th century

Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences

The history of a database and the digital afterlife of books

Bath Spa University

Recovering narratives: reading through the digital library

Edinburgh Napier University

Revisiting Historical Literacy: the Potential of Digital Humanities Approaches

15:30 - 16:00
Tea Break
Bar
16:00 - 17:30
Session 4
Chair: Michael Pidd
Session 5
Chair: Katherine Rogers
Session 6
Chair: George Ionita

Modelling Eighteenth-Century Epistolarity: Unsupervised Classification of the Voltaire Correspondence

How to be a fake girl in the Chinese speaking world

University of Manchester

DH Websites and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

University of Sheffield

Visualizing Literary Style: The Case of Milton, Bunyan, and the Bible

University of Alberta

Digital Art History Projects

University of St Andrews

Classification of digital objects in scientific philosophy

University for Applied Studies Cologne

Developing the Oxford English Dictionary as a toolkit for DH research

Oxford University Press

Non-Linear Timelines: Modelling Time in Speculative Fiction

Cologne Center for eHumanities

Digital Humanities: Project Funding versus Continuity of Research. Some Remarks on the Problem from the Polish Perspective

Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences

17:40 - 18:10
Presentation by Gale, a Cengage company — Accessing Digital Humanities With Gale
Chair: Michael Pidd

Accessing Digital Humanities With Gale

Gale, a Cengage company

18:10
Drinks Reception - Courtesy of Gale, a Cengage company
Bar
Friday (7th September 2018)
09:30 - 11:00
Session 7
Chair: Jamie McLaughlin
Session 8
Chair: Katherine Rogers
Session 9
Chair: Michael Pidd

Semi-automatic Multilevel annotation of vagueness in historical texts

University of Hamburg

Challenging interactions: on what Digital Humanities and Modern Languages can learn from each other

King’s College London

Adjusting scholarly edition to the digital environment - the problem of annotations

Institute of Literary Research, Polish Academy of Sciences

The Emergence of Titling in the Nineteenth-Century French Art World: A Quantitative Analysis

Birkbeck College

Business as Usual? Reflections on University English in the Age of Digitality

Loughborough University

Natural Language Generation: Negotiating Text Production in our Digital Humanity

Loughborough University

How language technology can assist legal scholarly research

University of Strathclyde, Glasgow

Linguistic and Cultural Hegemony in the Digital Humanities

University College London

Between the Lines. A Digital Critique of Literary Representation

Radboud University Nijmegen

11:00 - 11:30
Tea break
Bar
11:30 - 13:00
Session 10 — Discursive ways with historical language data
Chair: George Ionita
Session 11 — Digital dialogues at the BSR: Accessing Italian Cultural Heritage
Chair: Jamie McLaughlin
Session 12
Chair: Michael Pidd

Finding meaning through linguistic probability in 60,000 early modern English texts: Innovations from the Linguistic DNA project

University of Sheffield

Digital imaging, imagining and imitation of historic interiors

King's College London

A Corpus Linguistic Study of “Models” and “Modelling”: intellectual and technical challenges

King's Digital Lab

A distant history of Libraries: “Is this the librarye that thou haddest chosen”?

University of Sheffield

The Archaeology of Portus Massive Open Online Course

University of Southampton

User Experience in scholar editions. Case study of New Panorama of Polish Literature (Nplp.pl and Tei.nplp.pl)

Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Fuzzy Dating and Ambiguous Courting: Accounting for varying metadata precision in historical semantic development

University of Glasgow

Creating a Digital Portal: repositioning the BSR’s Digital Collections

Crowdsourcing at the British Library: lessons learnt and future directions

The British Library

Eye-tracking architecture: using digital eye-tracking technology to investigate the viewing of baroque architecture in Rome.

British School at Rome

13:00 - 14:00
Lunch
Bar
14:00 - 15:30
Session 13
Chair: Michael Pidd
Session 14 — Archivo Storico Ricordi: Bringing 200 years of music online
Chair: Katherine Rogers
Session 15
Chair: Jamie McLaughlin

Modeling linked cultural events: design and application

University of Amsterdam

The letters of Casa Ricordi as a hub to explore a large and varied historical heritage

Archivo Storico Ricordi, Milan

On the use of DOT/GraphViz diagrams for the representation of artefacts with complex stratigraphy and biography

University of Lincoln

Bernoulli-Euler Online: Presentation of early modern mathematical Correspondence on the Web

Digital Humanities Lab, University of Basel

Transforming a paper legacy into a live database

Archivo Storico Ricordi, Milan

The problem of literary space: Using word embeddings with GIS software to explore spatial imaginaries

University of Edinburgh

What Academics Express About Their Sense of Self on social media? A computational linguistic analysis

Centre for Digital Humanities, University College London

Re-modelling legacy datasets: how to retrofit a data model

University of Sheffield

Quantifying the phenomenon of immersion in virtual environments

University of California, Los Angeles

Tooling up for scholarly editing

University of Sheffield

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

Infrastructure or Interstructure? Supporting the digitality of the Humanities, at scale and in the long tail

Trinity College Dublin

19:00
Conference Dinner
Saturday (8th September 2018)
10:00 - 11:30
Session 16
Chair: George Ionita
Session 17
Chair: Michael Pidd
Session 18
Chair: Katherine Rogers

What do we write about in the Digital Humanities? A comparative study of Chinese and English publications

Using data ontology to understand the relational dynamics of film audiences

University of Glasgow

Trends in digital humanities: insights from digital resources for the study of papyri

Institute of Classical Studies

The conceptual foundations of the idea of government in the modern British eighteenth century: A distributional concept analysis

University of Cambridge

Hospital Ships, HGIS, and the Interconnectivity of British Naval Medicine in the Napoleonic War

University of Oxford

Tracing the History of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts: the “Mapping Manuscript Migrations” Project

University of Oxford

A Question of Style: corpus building and stylistic analysis of the Edinburgh Review and Quarterly Review, 1814-1820

Open University

“A Lordship of the Feete [and] likewise of the Eye”: Using 3D-GIS to recreate ‘promenades’ and ‘prospects’ within English designed landscapes, c.1550-1660

University of East Anglia

How do catalogues make history?

The National Archives, Kew

11:30 - 12:00
Tea Break
Bar
12:00 - 13:30
Plenary 3
Chair: Michael Pidd

Archival variants in the ‘age of experience’

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

13:30 - 14:30
Lunch
Bar
14:30 - 15:00
Conference closes