While we were teaching The Recurated Museum, a course on museums as digital spaces, the COVID-19 pandemic forced us to practice what we preach and transition from physical to virtual museums as well as from in-class to remote teaching. We were expected to put our digital skills to the test. Thrown into the deep We … Continued
On 20 February 2020, professor emerita Nelly Oudshoorn presented “How users and non-users still matter. New themes in Science, Technology and Society research on user-technology relations”. In the first part of the lecture professor Oudshoorn started by explaining why we should study users, and how users matter. Secondly, and most importantly, the presentation talked about … Continued
Speaker: Professor Emerita Nelly Oudshoorn 20 February 2020 | 14:00 – 15:30 | C²DH Lounge, MSH, 4th Floor Nelly Oudshoorn is Professor Emerita of Technology Dynamics and Health Care at the University of Twente, the Netherlands. Her research addresses the co-construction of technologies and users, with a particular focus on medical technologies. … Continued
Did you ever record music with a phonograph? Well, we gave it a go during the skills training on Experimental Media Ethnography (4 – 5 July 2018) conducted by Prof. Dr. Andreas Fickers, Prof. Dr. Kristen Haring, Dr. Jessica Mesmanand Dr. Stefan Krebs. We experimented with the phonograph as a form of media ethnography. Simulating the learning-by-doing teaching … Continued
From 11 to 14 May 2018 we had a DTU skills training on Geographical Information Systems (GIS) Analysis, Mapping and Cartography with dr. Catherine Jones. We were trained on how to attach a historical to a modern map and how to add labels to the map. Afterwards, I practiced my new skills by attaching an historical … Continued
From 16 to 17 November 2017 we had a DTU skills training on Introduction to Programming with Python, organised by dr. Folgert Karsdorp. After the workshop we built a small program to create concordance tables based on a file containing a lists of terms that was related to Eva’s research about the exchange of psychiatric … Continued
From 16 to 17 November 2017 we had a DTU skills training on Database Structures, organised by Prof. Dr. Martin Theobald and Dr. Robert C. Kahlert. Afterwards we experimented with Katya’s corpus of 80 digitised autobiographies by Australian Aboriginal authors. Our report explains how we approached the material based on what we learned during the … Continued
From 30 to 31 October 2017 we had a DTU skills training on Digital Source Criticism, organised by Prof. Dr. Andreas Fickers, Dr. Stefania Scagliola, and Andy O’Dwyer. In this report we reflect on the lecture, exercises and demonstration of several digitisation tools. Dealing with meta-sources in the age of big data (Lecture Prof. Andreas … Continued
DTU PhD researcher Sytze Van Herck published an article entitled “Visualizing Gender Balance in Conferences“. The paper appeared in the fifth number of the journal Umanistica Digitale, containing a selection of papers given at the AIUCD2017 Conference (12-18 January 2017, Sapienza University, Rome). Abstract “Data visualization is a powerful tool for digital scholarship yet not … Continued
Mass digitisation and born digital sources have changed the work of historians, archivists and museologists. Many historians spend less time in the archives, instead photographing or scanning sources on short research visits. In other cases archivists and museologists create online repositories to make sources more accessible. But what happens to all the photographs researchers make? … Continued