About the Digital Literacy course

The research fields of humanities are going through a digitisation - existing data is being digitised and new objects of research are born digital, for instance web pages and social media.

This opens a series of new opportunities for the research of humanities. The digitisation of enormous amounts of data, texts and pictures raises new research questions. At the same time, the digital development challenges the present research methods and calls for an increase in our digital literacy.

The goal of the Digital Literacy course is to gather researchers from across all the departments of Arts at Aarhus University, and unite a selection of different academic skills for sparring and discussion during the course, hereby increasing the digital literacy of the researchers.

Digital Literacy: Activities 2018-19

Since the beginning of 2018, participants of the Digital Literacy course at the Faculty of Arts, Aarhus University, have taken part in a variety of talks, seminars and workshops. Apart from the opening event, sparring in groups and with support staff has been a part of every event.

February 22^nd

Tobias Blanke, King's College, London: New Contributions of Digital Humanities to Digital Literacy - the King's College London Experience
Koraljka Golub, Linnaeus University: Automatic Subject Indexing and Evaluation: A Case of Swedish Repository
Leon Derczynski, University of Sheffield: Analyzing Social Media

March 22^nd

Introduction by Mads Rosendahl Thomsen and Kristoffer Laigaard Nielbo
Peter Vahlstrup, Aarhus University: SQL Workshop

March 23^rd

Ulrich Have, Aarhus University: Media and Data Retrieval
Dennis Yi Tenen, Columbia University, New York: Things and Time in 19th Century Literature

April 24^th

Melvin Wevers, The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences: Historical Research in the Algorithmic Age
Lene Offergaard, University of Copenhagen: Introduction to Natural Language Technology

May 30^th

Janet Rafner, Aarhus University: Data Visualization and Relationships in Data
Peter Leonard, Yale University Library: Working with Images: Collection, Analysis, Computation

June 20^th:

Tim Tangherlini, University of California, Los Angeles: Semi-Supervised Learning & Expert Systems for the Humanities
Thomas Egense, The Royal Danish Library: Introduction to Word2vec
Per Møldrup-Dalum, The Royal Danish Library: The Cultural Heritage Cluster

August 20^th

Kristoffer Laigaard Nielbo, Aarhus University: Python Course

September 27^th

Jannie Nielsen, Aarhus University: Introduction to LARM.fm - a research infrastructure for studying radio and television material
Niels Brügger, Aarhus University: Digital Humanities and The Archived Web as object of study

October 24^th