In a month’s time, we’ll be hosting the XLab Confab and we really hope you’ll join us! The workshops can be counted towards the Canadian Certificate in Digital Humanities.
And what are the workshops about? We’re glad you asked!
Dr. Ethan Watrall will be taking us through issues around building and sustaining digitization projects that will walk through the major stages of a digitization project – project design, digitization, documentation, preservation, and access:
In this workshop we’ll explore the process of digitizing archaeology and heritage collections. Using three exemplar projects – the archive Malian photography, the archaeological resources cataloging system, and the internment archaeology digital archive – we’ll explore the 5 stages of a collections digitization project: planning, digitization, documentation, preservation, and access. The workshop will focus on practical and thoughtful approaches that privilege openness, ethics, sustainability, and community standards.
Then, current members of the XLab will lead us in workshops related to their research areas, including:
- photogrammetry
- 3d visualization
- Exhibitions with Omeka
- Personal knowledge bases/wikis/simple databases with Obsidian
- Computer vision and scanned documents (train a model to help you find annotations in the margins of historical materials, for instance!)
- Artificial Intelligence and Large Language Models for cultural heritage purposes
If you haven’t already, do register right away so that we can make sure we have enough coffee and snacks – the event is free to attend. More information here.