Description

GhentCDH invites historians to a one-day workshop on how digital methods can support historical research. The workshop offers introductions to automatic text recognition, data cleaning and enrichment, database design, text analysis, and digital presentation of research results. This is NOT a hands-on workshop where you will learn tools, but an introduction to methodologies and related tools. The goal is for researchers to get a sense of what digital methods can and cannot do in the domain of historical research as to aid in understanding how best to implement said approaches conceptually into research projects.

The workshop is aimed at researchers preparing FWO PhD fellowship applications, but is also open to postdocs, staff, and early-stage PhD students (1st–2nd year) working on research or grant proposals. Individual feedback sessions will be offered to PhD fellowship applicants.

This event will take place in Lokaal 2.12, T2, Campus Ufo.  

Proposed programme 

09:30–09:45 | Welcome & framing  
09:45–10:45 | From sources to machine-readable data  

10:45–11:00 | Break 

11:00–11:45 | Modelling and cleaning data 
12:00–12:30 | Discussion: Translating this into a proposal?

Lunch break 

13:30–14:30 | What kinds of analysis becomes possible?  

14:30–14:45 | Break 

14:45–15:15 | From analysis to dissemination  

15:15–15:45 | Writing clinic: methodological paragraphs  

15:45–17:00 | Individual feedback sessions (optional, bookable)