[csaa-forum] Lecture: Digital Humanities as Public Engagement

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CMII warmly invites you to the forthcoming seminar:



Digital Humanities as Public Engagement: Building Digital Links between Heritage and the Crowd



Presented by international Digital Humanities expert Professor Melissa Terras




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Date:          Thursday 30 October

Time:          11.30 am-1.00 pm

Location:    Burwood Corporate Centre
                  Room North 1
                  Level 2 Building BC
                  Deakin University
                  Melbourne Burwood Campus
                  221 Burwood Highway
                  Burwood 3125

RSVP:        Friday 24 October
                  Dr Alwyn Davidson<mailto:alwyn.davidson at deakin.edu.au?subject=Digital%20Humanities%20as%20Public%20Engagement>

                  Please specify any dietary requirements.



Melissa Terras<http://cmii.cmail1.com/t/r-l-clubtt-itoqhjuk-s/> is Director of UCL Centre for Digital Humanities and Professor of Digital Humanities in UCL's Department of Information Studies. With a background in Classical Art History, English Literature, and Computing Science, Melissa is a leader in the Digital Humanities. She is currently serving on the Board of Curators of the University of Oxford Libraries, and the Board of the National Library of Scotland. Her research focuses on the use of computational techniques to enable research in the arts and humanities that would otherwise be impossible.

Abstract:
The traditional model of online heritage, and digital humanities, projects results in fairly static websites that supply digitised content, and perhaps analysis tools, to encourage study in some area of the humanities. However, there are now opportunities that can be easily taken to use digital media to reach and engage with a wider audience. This opens up Digital Humanities in a different way, allowing us to enter into a dialogue with users, and understand the use and users of digitised content. In this talk, three projects from UCL Centre for Digital Humanities will be featured, describing how different areas of public engagement have contributed to our research. TheTranscribe Bentham project uses crowd sourcing to aid in the transcription of historical manuscripts.  QRator allows visitors to museums to engage with curators, and debates on museum collections, display, and ethics. Textal allows us to study how text analysis is carried out by a large online audience. These three different approaches demonstrate a shift in Digital Humanities, away from the static online edition, to a participatory environment. What ramifications does this have for research, and for those undertaking Digital Humanities?








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