Digital Day of Ideas 2019: Workshops

Attendees at the Digital Day of Ideas 2019 are invited to register for an afternoon workshop.

** Please select one workshop per booking - workshops will run at the same time **

** Don't forget to sign up for the full day's main event **

13:00 - 15:00 | Wednesday 29 May | Various locations

Workshops will take place at various locations in the Business School and Main Library. Exact locations will be advised in the week prior to the event.

The lightning talks session will take place in the Business School auditorium.

Attendees will receive an email during the week prior to the event, advising of downloads or materials required for the workshop of their choice.

For further information, please send an email to cdcs@ed.ac.uk.

If you do not wish to attend a workshop on the day, you will have the option to attend the lightning talks session.

To register for a workshop, please choose from the below list of tickets available.

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTIONS:

Workshop 1: Digital Humanities and Remote-Sensing: Introduction to LiDAR

This workshop presents and introduction and overview to remote-sensing technology, its applications for creative practice, surveying, and analysis, particularly within Digital Humanities based research and practice. The workshop will mostly revolve around LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging), but, will also outline other remote-sensing technologies and their applications. The aim is to create a three-dimensional point-cloud archive which can be used for spatial computation, visualisation and interpretation, which, is relevant for the managing of spatial and temporal archiving, digital heritage, historical research, and creative practice. In order to do this, the workshop will outline some research currently undertaken by the Edinburgh College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences which emphasise on terrestrial LiDAR applications. Yet, the main emphasis of the workshop is to make the participants accustomed to LiDAR for data collection and cleaning data for data storage or analysis.

Workshop 2: Working in 3D with the uCreate Studio

Join staff from the uCreate Studio Makerspace for an introduction to scanning, printing and visualisation in 3D. Explore a range of technologies in the field with tools to for 3D capture, display and manufacture. Find out how they work, review examples of their use and discover the simple tools and technologies you can harness to make use of them in your work.

Workshop 3: Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI): Introduction and hands-on

Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) produces interactive relighting files particularly useful for recording and documentation, analysis, presentation and online dissemination of material culture. RTI fills the gap between 2D and 3D digitization and can be performed using low-cost standard photographic equipment and open access software. This workshop covers the RTI basics, including fundamental concepts, instrumentation, data, acquisition strategies, processing pipelines, viewing software and web publication tools. Learning objectives: 1. Understand the range of questions that currently available RTI methods can investigate and develop efficient strategies for RTI data capture, using the Highlight-RTI method 2. View interactive relighting files 3. Process Highlight-RTI data 4. Publish online RTIs

Workshop 4: Cleaning Your Data with OpenRefine

OpenRefine (formerly Google Refine) is a powerful tool for working with messy data: cleaning it; organizing it and transforming it from one format into another. It is extremely useful for anyone who works regularly with any kind of tabular data. At its most simple, OpenRefine helps you explore your data, identify and easily correct errors and globally reformat columns. For the more advanced users it can be used to extend your data and link it with web services and external data. Most importantly OpenRefine edits are reproducible and you can create a record of your data cleaning steps so you can automatically run them again on a new dataset. This introductory course, using the Data Carpentry lessons, is aimed at complete beginners and will get you familiar with basic concepts of OpenRefine: 1) Get an overview of a dataset 2) Resolve inconsistencies in a dataset 3) Help you split data up into more granular parts 4) Save a set of data cleaning steps to replay on multiple files.

Workshop 5: Basic Text Analysis using R

This workshop will introduce participants to the R programming language, and show how it can be used by social scientists and humanities researchers for basic text analysis (sometimes also called quantitative text analysis, automated content analysis, or text mining). It will cover the basic assumptions behind quantitative text analysis, the pre-processing steps needed prior to the analysis, and various analytical techniques. If time allows, it will also cover ‘keyness analysis’, an useful technique to compare two corpora. The workshop is open to all interested participants. You need no prior knowledge of R (while it would be beneficial if participants had some experience with R, those without any prior experience will still be able to participate effectively).

Workshop 6: Can you just Digitise? Digitising the Collections

Working with Special Collections material can present a number of challenges to the University's digitisation staff. In this session we invite participants to try to work out how they would approach digitising items from the collections. Teams will be assigned a different type of object and asked to consider the issues and approaches that they might take if they were to digitise them. The session will also include a visit to the Library's Digital Imaging Unit in the Centre for Research Collections.