Digitisation in a Day
| Course Dates: | Run on demand |
| Course Location: | NUI Maynooth/Onsite |
| Course Duration: | 1 Day |
| Course Coordinator: | Aja Teehan |
Introduction
This one day workshop will provide an opportunity for participants to become involved in the digitisation of a real-world guestbook and work with a team experienced in digital humanities and design methodologies, theories and practice.
The day's activities will result in the creation of an on-line, interactive, digital edition of the guestbook. Participants will work in teams, engaging in hands-on digital imaging with high-resolution imaging equipment, project and software requirements analysis, data modeling for humanities research, XML encoding, software design and implementation. The various components that are created will be ingested into a Fedora repository and made available online for the participants.
In addition to the practical component, the workshop will be framed within the theories and methodologies developed by An Foras Feasa; these are specifically tailored to aid in the engineering of human usable documents. An example of the type of digital document to be created can be found at An Foras Feasa's archive, and screenshots of documents produced in previous workshops are also available below.
Target Audience
The workshop will be of interest to Early Career Researchers, Project Managers, and Digital Humanities Specialists involved, or planning to be involved, in the creation of digital humanities artefacts. An overview of the entire process will be invaluable to early career researchers who are considering committing to a digital humanities project, providing them with the opportunity to participate in the entire process, from start to finish, and to gain an understanding of the planning, work-flow and resources that are required to deliver a digital artefact. Project managers and supervisors who are considering projects in this area, or who will be coming into contact with researchers in the field, may also be interested in attending. For those participants who have a deep understanding of one part of the process, for instance text encoding, this will provide them with an appreciation of the other, necessary, phases in the development, and demonstrate the interdependencies that exist between those phases.
Course Screenshots
Click the images below to see larger screenshots from previous workshops
Further Information
Any queries regarding the workshop or the attendance should be directed by email to aja.teehan@nuim.ie
