Events

DH Lab: Building out of the collections

November 2022, 56 minutes

Dr Sofia Samper Carro (Australian National University) talks about a collaboration between the ANU Centre for Digital Humanities Research and School of Archaeology and Anthropology to produce a digital bone library of anatomically accurate 3D models of animal skulls that are being used to support teaching, learning and research, while John Ruciak (Growing Data Foundation) shares details of the Collab Digital Fellowship project, which draws on digital content from cultural institutions and other data sources to reflect on the cultural, historical, scientific, environmental and economic changes to the River Murray over time.

DH Lab: Preserving the digital and recreating the physical past

October 2022, 1 hour

Kimberley Dye and Taryn Ellis (State Library of South Australia) share their work to preserve and make available a collection of 1980s and 90s digital art, while Dr Aaron Humphrey and colleagues Dr Amit Srivastava and Steve Cook (University of Adelaide), discuss their project that creates VR and AR experiences of lost built heritage in Adelaide.

DH Lab: Learning and engaging in gaming and interactive environments

September 2022, 59 minutes

Tamika Glouftsis (University of Adelaide) and Dr Rhett Loban (Macquarie University) discuss gaming and other immersive environments and how they help us think critically about history and learn about culture.

DH Lab: Exploring musical instruments using digital technologies

August 2022, 59 minutes

Professor Aaron Corn (University of Melbourne), Dr Yeonuk Kim (Monash University) and Daniel Bornstein (Grimwade Centre for Cultural Materials Conservation) share their experiences working with traditional instruments from the South Australian Museum collections to create 3D scans, and exploring the relationship between shape and sound. Dr Anthea Skinner (Victorian College of the Arts) and Dr Alon Ilsar (Monash University) discuss their collaboration with professional musicians with disabilities to create instruments that adapt to their needs using 3D printers.

DH Lab: Studying social platforms at large and small scale

August 2022, 56 minutes

Francisco Zanartu and Dr Kim Barbour (University of Adelaide) discuss their research looking at social platforms and behaviours in online space, including testing integrity and privacy in social networks, working with small data and the strategic production of online identity, and the research challenges of working in this space.

DH Lab: New approaches @ University of Adelaide

October 2021, 1 hour 1 minute

Ben Nagy and Associate Professor Lewis Mitchell, University of Adelaide, join Xinyuan Xu, ANU, to discuss their use of computational techniques, including machine learning and AI, to detect patterns in Latin poetry authorship, sentiment on social media and information flow in social networks.

DH Lab: Network analysis and the humanities

September 2021, 1 hour 1 minute

Dr Gareth Pritchard, Associate Professor Martin White (both University of Adelaide) and Associate Professor Jonathan Bollen share their experience using network analysis in history, performance studies and physics, as it helps their analysis and sharing their research.

DH Lab: Text analysis and the humanities

August 2021, 58 minutes

Ashley Dennis-Henderson, Professor Rachel A. Ankeny (University of Adelaide), Professor Michael Haugh and Dr Martin Schweinberger (University of Queensland) discuss their experience with diverse text analysis methods, and introduce the Australian Text Analytics Platform.

DH Lab: Mapping and the humanities

May 2021, 51 minutes

Associate Professor Robert Foster, Dr Skye Krichauff, Jarrod Lange (University of Adelaide), and Dr Bill Pascoe (University of Newcastle), share how they use mapping to enable new insights and visualise their humanities research.