Juliane Tatarinov took over the role of DTU coordinator from Tim van der Heijden. After two months on the job, Sytze Van Herck sat down with her for a short interview asking her how she is doing. Juliane, thank you for taking time out of your busy schedule for this interview. Could you please … Continued
DTU PhD researchers Sytze Van Herck and Antonio Fiscarelli published their conference paper entitled “Mind the Gap: Gender and Computer Science Conferences“. The paper appeared in the proceedings of the 13th IFIF TC 9 International Conference on Human Choice and Computers, HCC13 2018, held at the 24th IFIF World Computer Congress, 19-21 September, 2018. Abstract … Continued
Some time ago it suddenly hit us that it has been a while since we read an academic book or article in a physical format. This for the simple reason that we can retrace digital information much quicker — i.e. annotating a PDF, extracting highlighted text automatically with ZotFile or quickly looking up a specific … Continued
In the Hands-On History seminar on the 24th of May by Dr. Ludwig M. Vogl-Bienek and Karin Bienek from the University of Trier we were introduced to the history of the magic lantern. After a brief overview during the lecture, we got to experience a live performance of the magic lantern in our Digital History … Continued
When academics or developers create a website or an application, they usually start from the back end and only then focus on the design or front end. In this blogpost I would like to argue that the design process and user analysis specifically should come first. The methods outlined below were discussed during the workshop … Continued
Digital Media and Technology has transformed how we teach, learn and present. In a transferable skills training of the doctoral school here at university, Robert Reuter introduced us to new media and tools that can enhance teaching and learning. Based on the eight learning events defined by Leclercq and Poumay at the university of Liège, … Continued
In this post, I want to reflect on some of the presentations I was attending during the workshop organised by the Ghent Centre for Digital Humanities. On 11 and 12 September 2017 the Ghent Centre for Digital Humanities organised a conference in the lovely Rubenszaal at the Royal Academies for Sciences and Arts of Belgium in Brussels. … Continued
Last week I attended the Oxford Digital Humanities Summer School and took part in the Linked Open Data workshop. The Summer School started out with TEI courses in 1997, but has now grown to include eight workshop strands for over 250 participants. We got off to a great start in the beautiful museum of natural … Continued
Nearly everyone uses search engines such as Google on a regular basis, and that is no different for researchers at our institution. Powerful as this tool can be, we should be mindful of what lies hidden behind the search bar and what information we receive through these search portals. Search engines are not impartial, nor … Continued
In the 2017 edition of the conference, arts and humanities students and early career researchers, regardless of their technical background, were invited to share their ideas and experiences in their creative and scientific encounters with visualisation as it is deployed in and for research across disciplines. On Friday 19 May 2017, we (Sytze, Eva and Jakub) attended our … Continued