Baltic Summer School of Digital Humanities
July 25, 2022 at 10:56 am
From 26 to 29 July the fourth Baltic Summer School of Digital Humanities will be held, this time with a theme "Essentials of News Data Mining". This year’s programme offers must-have introductory courses for digital humanists and digital social scientists who wish to come to grips with programming, collecting web data, and visualization. The course is co-taught by an international team of researchers and practitioners of digital humanities and digital social sciences.
Everyone will also have the opportunity to listen four open lectures on the Facebook and Youtube channels of National Library of Latvia.
Open lectures:
26 July 09.20-10.50 (EEST)
Marten Düring "Machine Learning to Read Yesterday’s News. How Semantic Enrichments Enhance the Study of Digitised Historical Newspapers"
27 July 09.20.-10.50 (EEST)
Javier Cha "Fine-Tuning the Historian's Macroscope: Data Reuse and Medieval Korean Biographical Records in Neo4j"
27 July 10.50-12.20 (EEST)
Jani Marjanen "Digital History Between Measuring and Interpreting"
28 July 15.20-16.50 (EEST)
Raivis Vilūns "There is No Journalism Without Data Journalism"
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Full programme and info about lectures: http://www.digitalhumanities.lv/bssdh/2022/about/
BSSDH 2022 is organized by joint effort of the National Library of Latvia, Institute of Literature, Folklore and Art (University of Latvia), Faculty of Social Sciences and Faculty of Humanities of the University of Latvia.
It's supported by State Research programme (Nr. VPP-IZM-DH-2020/1-0001)