Official event website: https://www.helsinki.fi/en/digital-humanities/teaching/digital-humanities-research-seminar

Spring 2024 Schedule

Thursdays at 16:15-18:00 (time in Finland = EEST/EET time zone)

• 25.1. Lily Diaz-Kommonen: Designing VR and Semantic Tools for Social Cohesion using Citizen Curation
• 8.2. Peeter Tinits: Adapting newspaper and bibliographic data for historical research: tools and case studies in Estonia (slides)
• 14.3. Thea Lindquist et al.: Let everything be of use? — Analysing the publication activity of the Fruchtbringende Gesellschaft (1617–1680) through the VD17 library catalogue
• 28.3. Kira Hinderks: Text reuse as a political act: Rhetoric and satire in eighteenth-century British utopian thinking
• 11.4. Ville Vaara: Publishers, Printers and Booksellers in 18th century Britain. Recreating a book trade network from library catalogue data

Place: Metsätalo, Lecture Hall 17 and Zoom (unless otherwise noted)

If you want to participate in-person, come to Metsätalo, Lecture Room 17 unless otherwise noted. You can also take part on Zoom (unless otherwise noted).
Meeting ID: 671 1257 5191
Passcode: 123123.

Updates and possible changes will be noted in due course. The seminar is open. If you want to join our mailing list, need credits, or have any questions about the seminar, write to Mikko Tolonen.

And, as always, all welcome!

Ürituse ametlik veebileht: https://www.kirmus.ee/et/tegevus/uritused/67-kreutzwaldi-paevade-konverents-kilplasest-ja-kratist-tehisintellektini-loodus

19.-20. detsembril toimub Eesti Kirjandusmuuseumis 67. Kreutzwaldi päevade konverents, millega tähistatakse ühtlasi Fr. R. Kreutzwaldi 220. ja Lydia Koidula 180. sünniaastapäeva.

Konverentsil "Kilplasest ja kratist tehisintellektini: loodus, loovus ja tehnoloogia" kutsume esinejaid arutlema teemadel, mis vaatlevad loovuse kanduvust suuliselt tasandilt kirjalikule, loodusliku nihkumist tehislikkuse poole, aga ka tehnoloogiaga seotud ohtude, hirmude ja võimaluste ning tehnoloogiast tulenevate eetikaküsimuste üle nii humanitaarias kui ka teistes valdkondades.

AJAKAVA:

Teisipäev, 19. detsember:

10.00–11.15  Avamine:

Piret Voolaid Eesti Kirjandusmuuseumi aasta 2023

Koostöölepingu allkirjastamine Eesti Kirjandusmuuseumi ja Kõrgema Kunstikooli Pallas vahel

Kõrgema Kunstikooli Pallas näituse “Kilplasest ja kratist tehisintellektini: loodus, loovus ja tehnoloogia” avamine

11.15–12.15 Peaettekanne: Mark Fišel: Väheste ressurssidega soome-ugri keelte keeletehnoloogia: milleks ja kuidas?

12.15–13.15 Lõuna

13.15–14.45 I paneel:

Helen Eenmaa: Personaliseeritud, automatiseeritud, õiglane maailm

Tõnis Parksepp: "Kalevipoja" algupärast ehk mida tehisintellekt (veel) ei mõista

 Marin Laak: Kalevipoja hobune: tehistaibuga uudismaal

14.45–15.00 Kohvipaus

15.00–16.00 II paneel:

Anu Raudsepp: Eestlaste minevikukäsitluse muutused eepose “Kalevipoeg” trükiväljaannetes ja tõlgetes

Sirje Olesk: Kreutzwaldi ja Koidula kirjavahetuse kontekst

16.00–16.30 Ivar Ivaski stipendiumi väljakuulutamine

16.30–16.45 Kohvipaus

16.45–17.25 esitlused:

1. “Armas hiilgav laulik”. Ivar Ivaski ja Marie Underi kirjavahetus 1957–1958. - Litteraria. Eesti kultuuriloo allikmaterjale, vihik 28. Toimetaja Tiina Saluvere, saatesõna Tiina Ann Kirss ja Marin Laak. EKM Teaduskirjastus, 2023. - Esitleb Tiina Ann Kirss

2.”Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwaldi ja Lydia Koidula kirjavahetus 1867–1873” 2., täiendatud ja parandatud trükk 1962. a väljaandest. Toimetanud Mart Lepik (1962), Kanni Labi (2023). - Esitleb Kanni Labi

3. Methis 31-32, 25. köide, ingliskeelne kaksiknumber "Translation and Literary Multilingualism".

 Külalistoimetajad Daniele Monticelli, Maris Saagpakk ja Anna Verschik. - Esitleb Maris Saagpakk

4.  “Inimesed muutuvas ajas. Kuuendat põlve õpetaja” EKM Teaduskirjastus 2023. - Esitleb Jaan Ross

5.  " Lükata-tõmmata, hargiga-roobiga" Jaan Rand, Helisalvestusi Eesti Rahvaluule Arhiivist 16. - Esitleb Natali Ponetajev

Kolmapäev, 20. detsember:

10.00–11.00 Peaettekanne: Jaan Aru: Loovus tehisaru ajastul

11.00-11.15 Kohvipaus

11.15 - 13.15 I paneel:

Andres Karjus: Suured keelemudelid tekstianalüütika kontekstis

Kadri Vider: Kuidas me suhtleme tehistaibuga?

Andrus Tins: Tehistaip – kas inspiratsiooni või hirmude allikas? Eesti veebikogukondade lood tehisintellekti teemadel

Vivian Puusepp: Kes on selle teksti autor? Tehisintellekti rollist tekstiloomes lähtuvalt laiendatud vaimu lähenemisest

13.15–14.15 Lõuna

14.15–15.45 II paneel:

Janika Oras, Žanna Pärtlas, Tanel Torn, Mari Kaisel, Hans-Gunter Lock: Seto mitmehäälse laulu digiõppevahendi loomine: lähtekohad ja esmased lahendused

Triinu Pihus: Tehisintellekti võimalused ja väljakutsed hariduses

Olha Petrovich: Artificial Intelligence and Lydia Koidula’s Creativity: Opportunities and Challenges in the Digital Educational Environment

15.45-16.00 Kohvipaus

16.00–17.15 III paneel:

Inna Lisniak: Preservation and transformation of Ukrainian folklore in the conditions of war 2022

Kristi Metste, Riina Raudson: Heinrich Rosenthali perekonnaalbum kui kultuuriloo allikas ja artefakt

Klaus-Amandus Jõgi, Ave Goršič: Kuidas treenida Kreutzwaldi?

KAVA JA TEESID: >>>

Konverentsi kannab üle ka KirmusTV

Info: Ave Goršič,  ave.gorsic@kirmus.ee

Official event website: https://cudan.tlu.ee/conference/

About CUDAN 2023

We invite submissions for the Cultural Data Analytics Conference 2023 / CUDAN 2023, organized by the ERA Chair project for Cultural Data Analytics at Tallinn University, generously funded by the European Commission. Inspired by initial large gatherings of the cultural analytics community, including UCLA/IPAM 2016, and multidisciplinary conferences such as NetSci, IC2S2, or CCS, we aim to bring together researchers, practitioners, and stakeholders using methods of cultural data analytics to understand cultures and cultural production. This particularly includes multidisciplinary combinations of quantification, qualitative inquiry, computational analysis, and visualization to make sense of large cultural datasets, including visual, audiovisual, linguistic, and other genres of socio-cultural materials. The conference is scheduled to happen in Tallinn, Estonia from December 13 to 16, 2023, including a number of leading invited practitioners, peer-reviewed talks, and poster contributions from the community.

Key Dates

Abstracts due: July 24, 2023 (23:59 CET)
Notification of acceptance: September 14, 2023
Conference: December 13-16, 2023
Pre-conference workshops: December 13, 2023
Main conference: December 14-16, 2023

 Winter morning in Tallinn. CC-BY Maximilian Schich

Keynotes confirmed

– Petter Holme, Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland (https://petterhol.me/)
– Béatrice Joyeux-Prunel, Université de Genève, Switzerland (https://www.unige.ch/…)
– Mauro Martino, Visual Artificial Intelligence Lab, IBM Research, Boston, USA (https://www.mamartino.com/)
– Anu Masso, TalTech, Tallinn, Estonia (https://taltech.ee/…)

Call for Abstracts

We invite authors to submit a single-page abstract pdf including a (mandatory) descriptive figure and caption by the 24th of July 2023 via our OpenReview submission system. We accept contributed talks, lightning talks, and posters (please indicate your preference). We strive for an in-person event to maximize community interaction, yet we will offer a limited amount of remote presentation slots. Review is single-blind.

In the spirit of multidisciplinary abstract conferences and idea conferences, we encourage submissions which aim to present entirely novel work, and also recently published contributions which would benefit from broader multidisciplinary discussion. In the latter case, please make sure to cite the original publication venue.

SUBMIT HERE: https://openreview.net/group?id=CUDAN.tlu.ee/2023/Conference

Conference scope

Cultures and cultural production are multifaceted phenomena, which, like other complex systems, cannot be fully understood from the perspective of a single specific discipline. This is why the core mission of cultural data analytics is to join forces and make headway across disciplines and domains of expertise. Feeding into this mission, we welcome both multidisciplinary submissions, and contributions from specific disciplines, which aim to benefit from discussion in a multidisciplinary forum.

We encourage discussion towards a deeper understanding of cultures and cultural production including aspects, methods, and intersections of the following fields:
– cultural analytics, culturomics, and socio-cultural data science;
– digital humanities and computational humanities;
– cultural evolution, including experimental and observational approaches;
– cultural complexity science, network science, computational social science, and social physics;
– computational linguistics, quantitative aesthetics, critical computer vision, and machine learning;
– art history, cultural history, cultural semiotics, film studies, musicology, and urbanism;
– artistic research, algorithmic curation, and AI art (including aspects of cultural data analysis);
– creative industries research, media economics, and policy studies;
– data journalism, data science, and information visualization.

Contributions ideally address at least one of the following subject domains (in line with state-of-the-art conceptual reference models for cultural data):
– material aspects, including artworks, architecture, texts, images, sound, film, digital media, databases, and other forms of tangible cultural heritage;
– conceptual aspects, including cultural practices, rituals, theories, policies, data models, narratives, imagined communities, and other forms of intangible cultural heritage;
– social aspects, including human behaviour, human mobility, social networks, and social media;
– temporal aspects, from slow historical processes to turbulence in today’s economy of attention;
– spatial aspects of historical topography, cultural geography, and urban dynamics;
– event aspects, which combine the above aspects in cultural co-production, event series, tourism, etc.;
– network aspects of socio-cultural interaction, including the inherent ecology of complex networks as documented in the structure and dynamics of large cultural knowledge graphs or blockchains associated with the crypto-art-market, for example.

Conference program

The CUDAN 2023 main conference programme (December 14-16, 2023) will include six keynotes covering the spectrum of relevant disciplines, a lightning talk session in the plenary, parallel sessions, and a poster section. The latter will run throughout the whole conference in the coffee and lunch area that is collocated with the plenum. The conference will close with a best poster and best paper award ceremony.

The pre-conference day (December 13, 2023) will feature introductory workshops by CUDAN senior fellows, covering aspects of cultural data analysis and visualization using Python, R, Tableau, and the Collection Space Navigator.

Before and after the main conference, we will offer sightseeing tours, including the medieval Tallinn old town and Christmas market (among many reasons to visit Estonia).

We are further planning a meet the publisher’s session and other opportunities for relevant stakeholders, including exhibition booths.

If you or your institution/company is interested in participation, please contact us via email to cudan@tlu.ee, ideally before September 14, 2023.

Registration & Accommodation

As we are fully funded through the European Commission, there will be no conference fee for accepted participants, with the exception of the conference dinner. Accepted participants are required to register and confirm their attendance. Information regarding accommodation (including reduced rate hotels) and a form to order VISA support letters will be announced on the conference website (https://cudan.tlu.ee/conference/).

Organizers

Organizing chair

Maximilian Schich, CUDAN ERA Chair holder

Advising chair

Lev Manovich, Cultural Analytics Lab, City University of New York, US

Organizing committee

Andres Karjus, CUDAN Senior Fellow (computational linguistics)
Ksenia Mukhina, CUDAN Senior Fellow (computer science)
Mila Oiva, CUDAN Senior Fellow (cultural history)
Mikhail Tamm, CUDAN Senior Fellow (social physics)
Sandra Kaljumäe, CUDAN Project coordinator
Sirli Peda, Tallinn University Conference Center
Sirli Taniloo, Tallinn University Conference Center

Programme committee confirmed

James Abello Monedero, Rutgers University, US
Yong-Yeol Ahn, Indiana University, Bloomington, US
Ruth Ahnert, Queen Mary University of London, UK
Sebastian Ahnert, University of Cambridge, UK
Kim Albrecht, Artist, Berlin, DE
Eduardo Altmann, The University of Sydney, AU
Sandra Alvaro, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, ES
Stefano Balietti, Universität Mannheim, DE
Clarisse Bardiot, Université Rennes 2, FR
Maria Christina Binz-Scharf, CUNY City College of NY, US
Chico Q Camargo, University of Exeter, UK
Nicola Carboni, Université de Genève, CH
Damiano Cerrone, Tampere University, FI
Javier Cha, University of Hong Kong, HK
CJ Chen, Nanjing University, CN
Ana Clemente, University of Barcelona, ES
Bronwyn Coate, RMIT University, AU
Michele Coscia, IT-University of Copenhagen, DK
Brian Coxall, Brigham Young University, US
David J. Crandall, Indiana University, US
Christine Cuskley, Newcastle University, UK
Maria-Rita D’Orsogna, University of California, Los Angeles, US
Kate Elswit, University of London, UK
Sara Irina Fabrikant, University of Zurich, CH
Elena Fedorovskaya, Rochester Institute of Technology, US
Jianbo Gao, Beijing Normal University, CN
David Garcia, Universität Konstanz, DE
Bruno Goncalves, Data For Science, Inc., US
Jack Grieve, University of Birmingham, UK
Daria Gritsenko, University of Helsinki, FI
Thilo Gross, HIFMB & Universität Oldenburg, DE
Ryan Heuser, Princeton University, US
Yurij Holovatch, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, UA
Natalie M Houston, University of Massachusetts at Lowell, US
Ana Jofre, SUNY Polytechnic Institute, US
Mauri Kaipainen, Perspicamus, Helsinki, FI
Folgert Karsdorp, Meertens Institute, NL
Lindsay King, Stanford University, US
Harald Klinke, LMU Munich, DE
Ilias Kyriazis, Fachhochschule Potsdam, DE
John Laudun, University of Louisiana at Lafeyette, US
Kristoffer Laigaard Nielbo, Aarhus Universitet, DK
Lik-Hang Lee, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK
Liina Lindström, University of Tartu, EE
Jordi McKenzie, Macquarie University, AU
Stefania Milan, University of Amsterdam, NL David Mimno, Cornell University, Ithaca/NY, US
Daria Morozova, Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales, FR
Cassini Nazir, University of North Texas, US
Maarja Ojamaa, University of Tartu, EE
Giovanni Petri, Northeastern University London, UK
Iyad Rahwan, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, DE
Martin Rosvall, Umeå University, SE
Louis Michael Shekhtman, Northeastern University, Boston, US
André Skupin, San Diego State University, US
Oleg Sobchuk, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, DE
Juan Luis Suárez, University of Western Ontario, CA
Pablo Suarez-Serrato, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, MX
Nina Tahmasebi, Språkbanken (The swedish language bank), SE
Timothy R Tangherlini, University of California, Berkeley, US
Mark Taylor, University of Sheffield, UK
Jer Thorp, New York University, US
Lauren Tilton, University of Richmond, US
Mikko Tolonen, University of Helsinki, FI
Stephen Miles Uzzo, National Museum of Mathematics, US
Melvin Wevers, University of Amsterdam, NL
Hyejin Youn, Northwestern University, Evanston, US

For updated information, please re-check the conference website (https://cudan.tlu.ee/conference/).
In case of questions, please do not hesitate to contact us via email to cudan@tlu.ee.

We’d love to welcome you in Tallinn, Estonia in December 2023!

Official event website: https://2023.computational-humanities-research.org/

DECEMBER 6-8 2023, ÉCOLE POUR L'INFORMATIQUE ET LES TECHNIQUES AVANCÉES, PARIS

REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN

The Computational Humanities Research (CHR) community is an international and interdisciplinary community that supports researchers with an interest in computational approaches to the humanities.

The 2023 edition of the Computational Humanities Research conference will take place on December 6-8, 2023 in Paris at the École pour l’informatique et les techniques avancées. Expect more details about CHR2023 soon!

PRACTICALITIES

Visit our forum for the latest updates and more information about the conference.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

We are very honoured and pleased that Richard McElreath, Olivier Morin, and Roberta Sinatra have agreed to give keynote lectures at CHR2023.

Official event website: https://www.clarin.eu/event/2023/clarin-and-libraries-2023-large-language-models-and-libraries

The workshop builds upon the first CLARIN and Libraries workshop held in the Hague in May 2022 (see here).

This year's workshop will investigate further areas of collaboration between CLARIN-related initiatives and libraries with a special emphasis on building (large) language models in and in cooperation with libraries. The workshop will bring together for the second time a group of people associated with both CLARIN (or other research infrastructures) and libraries. Whereas the first CLARIN and Libraries workshop was particularly concerned with digital content delivery for researchers, the main theme of the second workshop will be large language models and library collections, e.g. technical challenges in building such models and legal implications of model training and use. 

The host, the National Library of Norway (NLN), has since 2005 digitised its entire text collections, amounting at present to a large corpus of 160 billion words for Norwegian and has built large language models for text (BERT, GPT-2, T5) and speech (wav2vec, Whisper) on these collections. There will be keynotes from the National Libraries of Norway and Germany on the technical aspects of building such models in a library setting, as well as a keynote on the legal aspects of building large language models from the Swedish National Library.

Participation in the workshop is by invitation. If you are interested in attending, please contact your national coordinator or clarin@clarin.eu. The venue (National Library of Norway, Henrik Ibsens gate 110, Oslo) is located very close to the train station Nationaltheatret. Descriptions for getting to the venue can be found here. 

Programme

Tuesday 5 December 2023

Wednesday 6 December 2023

Address
National Library of Norway
Henrik Ibsens gate 110
0255 Oslo
Norway

Ürituse ametlik veebileht: https://www.rara.ee/sundmused/digiarhiivinduse-seminar/

Seitsmes digiarhiivinduse seminar toimub Toosikannu puhkekeskuses 02.-03.11.2023.

Esimene päev

11:00-12:00 
Sissejuhatus ja tutvustusring. Asutuse digiarhiivindusega seotud uudised ja projektid.
Moderaator Lauri Leht, RA. 

12:00-13:00
RaRa uus DIGAR, ehk teekond IIIF ja kasutajakogemuse parandamiseni – Greete Veesalu, RaRa. 
Sotsiaalmeedia arhiveerimine Veebiarhiivi – Virgo Hallik, RaRa. 

Lõuna

14:00-15:30 
Õppetunnid keerukatest arendusprojektidest – RA, RaRa, KIRMUS jt.

Kohvipaus

15:45-17:15
Paralleelsessioonid:
Relatsiooniliste andmebaaside arhiveerimise praktiline kogemus. Workshop, Lauri Rätsep, RA.
Üks aasta Digilabori käivitamisest. Esitlus ja arutelu, Urmas Sinisalu, RaRa.

Teine päev

10:00 -11:30 
Arhiveerimiseks kasutatavad arhiivivormingud Eesti mäluasutustes. Arhiivivormingute alane rahvusvaheline koostöö Rahvusarhiivis. Kaido Kivilaan, RA.
Palume kõigil osalevatel asutustel end eelnevalt kurssi viia oma majas kasutatavate vormingutega ning plokis aktiivselt kaasa rääkida.

Kohvipaus

11:45-12:30 
Kokkuvõte ja koostöökohtade arutelu aastaks 2024.
Moderaator Eva-Maria Artus, RaRa.

Registreerimine: Palun registreeru siin

Osavõtutasu on 90 eurot (sh KM), mis ei sisalda transporti.

Kohalejõudmise juhised leiab SIIT.
Vaata täpsemalt Toosikannu kohta SIIT.

Ürituse ametlik veebileht: https://www.rara.ee/sundmused/sailitusalane-seminar-i-sahvrist-serverisse-digitaalne-kultuuriparand-tehisintellekti-ajastul/

Digitaalne kultuuripärand on mäluasutuste kogude lahutamatu osa. Selle säilitamine ja mugavalt kättesaadavaks tegemise eesmärk on võimaldada kasutada varem loodud ainest ühiskonna ja kultuuri edendamiseks. Üha aktuaalsemaks muutub suurte andmekogumite kasutamine ja taaskasutamine ning kasutajakogemuse tõstmine. Suurte sihtide elluviimiseks rakendatakse erinevaid tehnoloogiaid ja AI-lahendusi. Uute ideede, kogemuste ja kompetentside tõstmine on lähiaastatel asutuste ees seisvad proovikivid.  

Kutsume sind kuulama ja kaasa mõtlema, et saaksid osa parimatest kodumaistest ja rahvusvahelistest praktikatest! Kutsu Facebookis ka kolleegid osalema! Päeva juhib Raivo Ruusalepp. 

• Eelregistreerimisega 
• Päeva teine pool ja veebi kaudu liituvate väliskülaliste ettekanded on inglise keeles 
• Sündmust salvestatakse    
• Sissepääs Stalkeri saali on mere ja korstna poolt

Korraldavad: Eesti Rahvusraamatukogu ja Rahvusarhiiv   
Toetavad: Kultuuriministeerium ja Eesti Rahvusraamatukogu 

PÄEVAKAVA

9.30–10.00 Kogunemine ja registreerimine  
10.00–10.10 Avasõnad – Raivo Ruusalepp (Ernst & Young Baltic, digisäilitamise konsultant)  
10.10–10.30 Tulevikukindel andmemajanduse ökosüsteem – Ott Velsberg  (Majandus- ja  Kommunikatsiooniministeerium, riigi andmete valdkonna juht)  
10.35–10.55 Digitaalise kultuuripärandi pikaajaline säilitamine ja toimepidevus ERRis – Jaanus Lillenberg (Eesti Rahvusringhääling, IKT direktor)  
11.00–11.20 Eesti Kirjandusmuusemi infosüsteemide ja andmekogude strateegiline analüüs: võlud ja valud – Olga Ivaškevitš (Eesti Rahvaluule Arhiiv, Eesti Kirjandusmuuseum, vanem digitaalarhivaar) 
11.25–11.40 Uue arhiivi infosüsteemi rakendumine Rahvusarhiivis – Lauri Leht (Rahvusarhiiv, digitaalarhiivi direktor)  
11.45–12.00  Teel uue DIGARi poole – Eva-Maria Artus (Eesti Rahvusraamatukogu, rahvusteavikute säilituskeskuse juhataja)  
12.05–12.25 Kultuuriline elujõulisus ja ebavõrdsus tehisintellekti ajastul – Krister Kruusmaa (Eesti Rahvusraamatukogu, andmeteadlane)
12.30–14.00 Lõuna 
14.00–14.20  Segaduse ja innovatsiooni keerukuses navigeerimine: eetika,  generatiivse tehisintellekti võimalused ja haip – professor Peter Bryant (Sydney Ülikooli ärikool, haridusvaldkonna kaasdekaan) (ENG) 
14.25–14.45 Läti digitaalne raamatukogu: taludest ühise vastutuseni digitaalses ruumis – Karīna Bandere (Läti Rahvusraamatukogu, digitaalarengu osakonna direktor) (ENG) 
14.50–15.10 Kõik juhtus kusagil, digitaalsete kaartide säilitamise väljakutsed digitaalse tuleviku jaoks – Gregor Završnik (Ettevõtte Geoarh asutaja ja tegevjuht) (ENG) 
15.15–15.35  Hollandi Rahvusraamatukogu digitaalkogud suurte keelemudelite ajastul – Steven Claeyssens (Hollandi Rahvusraamatukogu, digitaalkogude kuraator) (ENG) 
15.40–16.00 Soome Rahvusarhiivi digitaalarhiveerimise teenus – Vesa-Matti Ovaska (Soome Rahvusarhiiv, digiarhiveerimise üksuse vanemspetsialist) (ENG)  
16.05–16.15 Lõppsõna 

Official event website: https://data.europa.eu/en/news-events/news/are-you-student-or-academic-sign-workshop-how-use-open-data-your-research

Join our workshop tailored to students and academics to learn how to use open data from data.europa.eu for your research.

On Thursday 19 October from 10.00 to 12.00 CET, data.europa.eu will host its first workshop series on ‘How to use open data for your research’. This series, designed for students and academics is also open to anyone interested. The goal is to showcase the relevance and importance of open data for academic purposes. During this workshop, you will learn how to use open data from our portal for research and get examples from universities that have already embraced open data in their daily operations.

The workshop will start with an introduction by the Publications Office of the EU on open data and data.europa.eu. Following that, a hands-on presentation will be given through the portal, demonstrating how to efficiently search for specific datasets. Furthermore, three esteemed universities -  KU Leuven, University of Amsterdam, and University of Naples L'Orientale  - will present practical examples of how open data can be used to conduct Research.

These universities offer three distinct perspectives on using open data in research. The KU Leuven Research Repository provides access to open research data through their database, providing valuable resources to students. The University of Amsterdam offers  a practical example of how linked open data can drive research and the UniOR NLP Research Group of the University of Naples L'Orientale will showcase a real-life example of exploiting open data for applications.

Following the informative university presentations, a short practical assignment will be given to help put the learnings into practice. To wrap up the practical assignment, you will have the opportunity to share your insights and ask your questions during the Q&A session.

Do you want to improve your digital skills and learn about the relevance of open data for academic purposes with real-life examples? Click here to register for the workshop.

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Official event website: https://cji.uniri.hr/en/hr/konferencija/clarc2023/

The Center for Language Research at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Rijeka, Croatia is organizing the international scientific conference CLARC 2023 (cji.uniri.hr/clarc2023) entitled "Language and Language Data". You are invited to participate by presenting a scientific paper and/or organizing a panel on a relevant topic (extended deadline until July 31). We welcome high-quality presentations on empirical, theoretical, and methodological issues in science related to the theme of "Language and Language Data".

CLARC2023 will cover various topics in the fields of language technology and linguistics. Participants will have the opportunity to engage in panels and lectures that encompass areas such as computational linguistics and natural language processing, corpus linguistics, phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, sociolinguistics, pragmalinguistics, discourse analysis, language acquisition, psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, language and cultural studies, language data from legal and economic perspectives, language and tourism, as well as medicine and public health.

The conference will feature inspiring keynote speakers, including Maja Miličević Petrović from the University of Bologna, Marko Tadić from the University of Zagreb, Tony Veale from University College Dublin (UCD), and Nikola Ljubešić from the Jožef Stefan Institute.

Additionally, various events will be organized, such as a panel section on transforming language and linguistics studies with the results of the UPSKILLS project (Upgrading the Skills of Linguistics and Language Students), a round table on career transitions from linguistics to data science, and a round table on linguistics and large language models. Participants will also have the opportunity to attend the co-occurring event RIKON 2023, the largest fantasy convention in Croatia with a rich tradition.

Please read the details about submissions, the deadline for abstracts and full papers, as well as information about registration fees on the official website of CLARC 2023: https://cji.uniri.hr/clarc2023

We look forward to your valuable presence at this conference, which brings together experts in the fields of language technology and linguistics.

Official event website: http://www.digitalhumanities.lv/bssdh/2023

When: 25 July - 28 July 2023
Where: Riga, National Library of Latvia and Online
Language: English
Duration: 4 days
Credits: 3 ECTS
Fee: 30 EUR*

Welcome to the annual Baltic Summer School of Digital Humanities (BSSDH 2023)!

This year’s programme offers must-have introductory courses for digital humanists and digital social scientists who wish to come to grips with programming with Python, collecting web data, and network visualization. For the first time, an advanced Python class is also available. The course is co-taught by an international team of researchers and practitioners of digital humanities and digital social sciences coming from Latvia, Finland, Sweden, and Poland. As always, this will be a great opportunity to meet colleagues and mentors from other countries and explore different perspectives!

The programme includes workshops and lectures in:

• programming with Python (basic and advanced tracks)
• discourse analysis
• digital literary studies
• collecting web data
• network visualisation
• food computing
• reading studies
• DH infrastructures

PARTICIPANTS

The Baltic Summer School of Digital Humanities is aimed at students and researchers of humanities and social sciences, library, and archives professionals. There are no prerequisites for participation, as the course does not require any background in DH computing. The working language of the summer school is English. After successful completion of the summer course, students will be awarded 3 ECTS by the University of Latvia.

REGISTRATION FEE*
30 EUR includes: Full access to all lectures and workshops, onsite or online. Food and drinks during lunch and coffee breaks for onsite students. Access is free of charge for assistants of workshops and other volunteers. Contact dh@lnb.lv to apply!

REGISTRATION FORM
https://reg.lnb.lv

SUPPORTERS
State Research programme
Nr. VPP-IZM-DH-2020/1-0002

ORGANIZERS
BSSDH 2023 is organized by a joint effort of the National Library of Latvia, Institute of Literature, Folklore and Art (University of Latvia), Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Latvia.

CONTACT US
Coordinator Anda Baklāne
anda.baklane@lnb.lv
dh@lnb.lv
+371 29 143 299