Registration for the Baltic Summer School of Digital Humanities is open
Students, researchers, and GLAM professionals are welcome to enrol in the Baltic Summer School of Digital Humanities: Essentials of News Data Mining, which will be held on 26-29 July 2022 at the National Library of Latvia and Online.
The Baltic Summer School of Digital Humanities is an international intensive continuing education programme that provides the opportunity to researchers, educators, and students of humanities and social sciences, as well as archive, library and museum professionals to master various digital research skills, from data wrangling and analysis to visualisation.
In 2022, the school is organised for the fourth time and provides the opportunity to learn the basics of data analysis and visualisation with Python and R programming languages, master web harvesting skills, and learn more about network visualisation. One of the special focuses of this year is the analysis of news data and digitised newspapers in particular. The full programme can be viewed on the website Digital humanities in Latvia.
This year, the school is organised as a hybrid event on-site and remotely; it is possible to apply for individual workshops and lectures. Participation is free of charge. The working language is English.
On July 25, the Latvian audience is invited to join the satellite event Corpus Analysis on the NoSketch Platform. During this workshop, the participants will be introduced to the corpus of Early Latvian Novels and will learn about the possibilities of text exploration offered by the corpus analysis tools.
Registration form for the summer school and the satellite event is available here: http://www.digitalhumanities.lv/bssdh/2022/registration/
The Baltic Summer School of Digital Humanities is organised in cooperation with the National Library of Latvia (LNB), the Institute of Literature, Folklore and Art of the University of Latvia (LU LFMI) and the University of Latvia (LU). Supporters of the programme – project of the national research programme “Digital Resources for Humanities: Integration and Development” (No. VPP-IZM-DH-2020/1-0001).
For more information contact:
Anda Baklāne
National Library of Latvia
Head of Digital Research Services
E-mail: [email protected]
http://www.digitalhumanities.lv/bssdh