Category Archives: Session Proposal
Merging space and time in Google Earth and Temporal Earth
History and archaeology are intimately connected with questions of what happened “where” and “when”, but traditional paper-based representations (eg. maps and timelines) are quite restrictive in what they can represent. I’m interested in sharing skills and ideas with others on … Continue reading
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Load my laptop
I mentioned in my Bootcamp session outline that if people wanted to play along it would be good to have a web server stack installed. This sounds much scarier than it is is, and it really gives you the opportunity … Continue reading
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Proposal to develop PhD Coursework in Digital Methods
I understand that in the medium-term future all students undertaking a PhD through the Arts Faculty will be required to complete coursework in addition to their thesis. Calls have been made for suggestions for suitable courses. My proposed session aims … Continue reading
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Fun with Trove Newspapers
The NLA’s Trove Newspapers database is a magnificent resource for digital history, but it’s currently not very easy to do detailed analysis of content. I’ve been working on a few tools which make this easier and I’d be interested in … Continue reading
ADB Mining
I’d like to propose a session that aims to produce (or failing that, define) a tool that will take in an Australian historical text and locate within this text all the mentions of people named in the Australia Dictionary of … Continue reading
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Mapping concepts in time and space
I am interested in how to develop a tool that would be able to map the major concepts of a discipline and then to be able to link these concepts across disciplines. Â The trick is to be able to map … Continue reading
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