1st CETAPS Meeting on Digital Humanities

The CETAPS Digital Laboratory is organising a two-day meeting on Digital Humanities at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto to be held on the 29th and 30th of October 2024. By bringing representatives of two well-established digital humanities centres to Porto, we aim to promote a joint discussion about the opportunities and challenges that the field faces and share best practices

Invitees
Each representative will facilitate a workshop on topics of their expertise and participate in a roundtable. We are happy to announce that we have secured of Federico Boschetti (CNR-ILC and Venice Centre for Digital and Public Humanities) and Nils Geißler (Cologne Center for eHumanities).*

*Unfortunately, Mark Algee-Hewitt had to cancel his participation due to personal reasons.

Programme

Day 1, October 29
Morning
– 08h00 – Reception
– 08h30 – Welcoming and opening session
– 08h45 – Presentation of each centre
– 10h00 – Coffee-break
– 10h30 – Group discussion: Opportunities and challenges for the Digital Humanities
– 13h00 – Lunch
Afternoon
– 14h00 – Reception of participants
– 14h30 – Workshop by Nils Geißler: An Approach to Linked Open Data: From Wikidata to Authority Files Data
– 16h30 – Closing
(Social dinner)

Day 2, October 30
Morning
– 8h00 – Reception
– 8h30 – Workshop by the Digital Lab and the JRAAS: Looking from a distance: An approach to text analysis with R
– 10h30 – Coffee-break
– 11h00 – Workshop by Federico Boschetti: Shared visions – Marco Polo’s travels from Medieval collective imagination to contemporary computer-assisted imagery
– 13h00 – Lunch
Afternoon
– 15h00 – Roundtable: The digital humanities – A common ground for experimentation
– 16h30 – Closing session
(Post-event drink)

1st CETAPS Meeting on Digital Humanities