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Mandarin conversations for Bridge to China 通往中国的桥梁

Thu, 23 May 2013 09:49:13 +0000

// 1) { window.location = "http://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/dh"+stripped_link; } } // ]]> Bridge to China (www.bridgetochina.org.uk) has received an e-Learning Development Grant for Mandarin conversations. Bridge to China is a community-sourced grammar of modern Mandarin running on the UCL Confluence wiki. The conversations will bring it one step closer to being an open source Mandarin course. A recent Digital Linguists’ Network event [...]

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SMKE workshop: Social Media and the Museum

Thu, 16 May 2013 15:55:55 +0000

// 1) { window.location = "http://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/dh"+stripped_link; } } // ]]> Thursday 6th June, 9:30am-5:00pm Room G31, Foster Court As part of the Social Media Knowledge Exchange (SMKE), UCL, together with its project partners, is hosting a one day workshop on 6th June on the theme: Social Media and the Museum. General workshop theme: how social media is changing museum practice and [...]

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The UCL Centre for Digital Humanities contributes to and holds a variety of events.

Recurring events include the Decoding Digital Humanities informal seminars and Digital Excursions. We also run lecture series, including our Painless Introduction talks, which give brief overviews of different Digital Humanities issues and techniques. Our events are primarily advertised right here on this page, which is syndicated in an RSS feed, but also on our DH Blog, on Twitter, and via our newsletter. 

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Digital Linguists' Network: Wikis, languages and crowdsourcing

Start: May 8, 2013 5:15:00 PM
End: May 8, 2013 6:15:00 PM

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This first session of the Digital Linguists' Network (so called because it is at the intersection between digital humanities and languages) will be on wikis, languages and crowdsourcing and will focus on The Norwegian Wiki and Bridge to China.

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Decoding Digital Humanities London

Start: May 8, 2013 6:00:00 PM

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This month's reading: Vinopal J and McCormick M (2013) Supporting Digital Scholarship in Research Libraries: Scalability and Sustainability.

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"The area told as a story. An inquiry into the relationship between verbal and map-based expressions of geographical information"

Start: May 16, 2013 5:30:00 PM
End: May 16, 2013 6:30:00 PM

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A talk by Oyvind Eide, Unit for Digital Documentation, University of Oslo.

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Geographia, Chorographia, and the Prehistory of Modern Geography: Unravelling the Geographike Hyphegesis of Claudius Ptolemy 

Start: May 20, 2013 5:30:00 PM

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Dr Leif Isaksen, University of Southampton

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Digital Excursion: Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis

Start: May 23, 2013 5:30:00 PM
End: May 23, 2013 7:00:00 PM

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The Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) will be hosting this digital excursion, showing off how they use computing and mathematical analysis for mapping and understanding spatial systems. There will be short talks and workshops led by researchers in a variety of areas including the internet of things, networks, virtual cities and literary geographies, and demonstrations of CASA's exhibits "Pigeon Sim" (using an XBox Kinect to "fly around" a virtual London) and "The London Data Table" (showing realtime data feeds from all over the city). This will lead into an informal discussion over drinks, until the event closes.

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