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Digital Humanities China, Spring networking
The long Easter break once again enabled the opportunity for travel, supported by the UCL Global Engagement fund, to build on and extend our UCLDH China networks. Flying to Shanghai always means a visit to CAA, Shanghai Institute of Design and to see what is new there.
Digitising monument records and archaeological archives – the Central Asian Archaeological Landscapes (CAAL) project
UCLDH members Tim Williams and Gai Jorayev were among staff from the Institute of Archaeology who have received a £2.89m grant from Arcadia – a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin – for the Central Asian Archaeological Landscapes (CAAL)
Corpus analysis reveals ‘Routine politeness in American and British English requests’
UCLDH team member, Dr. Rachele De Felice, has had an article published in the Journal of Politeness Research.
Co-authored with M. Lynne Murphy, the article is entitled Routine politeness in American and British English requests: use and non-use of please (Journal of Politeness Research 15(1), 77-100). The article extract explains further:
Reflections on ‘Big Data in Archaeology’
UCLDH team member Andreas Vlachidis gave a talk at the Big Data in Archaeology: Practicalities and Possibilities conference (27-28th March 2019), organised by the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge.
Andreas’ talk was entitled “Reflections on excavating archaeological grey literature: and on the challenges in information extraction”
The conference website explains the aim of the conference:
Ethics and Digital History IHR presentation
UCLDH deputy director Julianne Nyhan gave a presentation at the Institute of Historical Research Digital History Seminar on Ethics and Digital History.
Recent publications on imaging techniques from UCLDH team member Dr Kathryn Piquette
UCLDH team member Dr Kathryn Piquette has had several works published recently, including:
CAFA EAST: Education, Art, Science and Technology
I was reminded recently of my Classics background and about the link between art and technology, how new technological advances would push forward the development of, particularly, the plastic arts. The same is true now and I was delighted to be invited to speak at CAFA, the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, at their International Conference on Education, Art, Science and Technology.
Museum Hackathon: digging into museum data sets.
UCLDH hosted its second hackathon focusing this time on visualising museum data sets. This was organised in partnership with the Media Centre and the Chair of Didactics of Computer Sciences of the TU Dresden.
Riding the Mail Rail 2018
One of the nice things about having working partnerships with other institutions is that you get invited to their events. When the invitation is from the Postal Museum for a Mail Rail event you get to explore their underground museum, enjoy their hospitality but even more importantly, you get to ride on the underground Mail Train (now converted to take passengers rather than mail sacks).
Shanghai Library Forum (SILF 2018)
I was very pleased to be invited back to the Shanghai Library and this time to speak in the Digital Humanities strand of the 9th Shanghai International Library Forum (SILF 2018).
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