The DCI invites anyone interested to join us for an informal presentation of our ongoing work with the Marshall McLuhan Centenary Fellow in Digital Sustainability, Ian Milligan, on Thursday February 9 from 12-1 in BL 417. We’ll have a few refreshments and are happy to extend the discussion afterwards. Prof. Ian Milligan, PhD student Emily Maemura […]
Monthly Archives: January 2017
Panel Announcement: Studying the Past Through Technology
The Digital Curation Institute is pleased to announce a panel discussion on Thursday, March 2nd at 4pm in Bissell Room 507. All are welcome, and light refreshments will be provided. This panel, “Studying the Past Through Technology: An Interdisciplinary Roundtable,” brings diverse perspectives to bear on the question of how we can study the past […]
Computational Archival Science Workshop (Part 2) – Studying User Perspectives and Archives in Use
The previous post on the Computational Archival Science workshop at IEEE Big Data 2016 focused on the papers that discussed appraisal and arrangement & description. Here I’ll discuss three papers, including our own, that focus on the researchers who use the archives. “Mining and Analysing One Billion Requests to Linguistic Services” by Büchler et al. […]
Computational Archival Science Workshop (Part 1) – Appraisal and Arrangement & Description
Christoph and I had the opportunity to attend the Computational Archival Science workshop at IEEE Big Data 2016 in December and present some of our work with Ian on applying Research Object frameworks to Web Archives Research. I’ll be writing a few posts here to give an overview of the presentations and discussion at the […]
Free Software Carpentry workshop in January!
Do you want to use computational techniques in your research? Want to learn the basics of programming in a supportive, inclusive, and hands-on environment? Want to not spend a dollar? On January 26 and 2007, the Digital Curation Institute in collaboration with Software Carpentry will host a free two-day workshop that will teach basic computing […]