01 // The digital turn in the humanities
In this lecture, you will learn about the history of Digital Humanities, the key projects that have determined the direction of this field and the institutions that enable its development and functioning in the Czech Republic and worldwide. The lecture will also present what the so-called "digital turn" has meant for the humanities and how it has affected research methods and practices.
02 // Digitization and digital data sources
DIgital and digitized data are key materials for research in the Digital Humanities. Much of it comes from digitized text, images, or other materials. This session will offer insight into the digitization process.
03 // Acquiring and cleaning digital data
In this lecture, you will learn both how to extract (scrape) data from digital sources - i.e. mainly websites, databases and social networks - and how to clean it afterwards using some basic techniques.
04 // Metadata
The content and main topic of this lecture is metadata, which is a key element for the proper functioning of databases and subsequent work with data not only in digital form.
05 // Text data
The content of this lecture is quantitative text processing. By the end of it, you should have an understanding of the distant reading method, natural language processing and its applications, corpus linguistics, sources of textual data and corpora, methods of text data mining, tools available for working with corpora, and basic text analysis. It would be beneficial to become familiar with the basic Voyant tools environment prior to the lecture.
06 // Image data
The subject of this lecture is image data. You will learn how computer processing of image data works, its use in cultural heritage, and the research opportunities presented by Cultural Analytics.
07 // Spatial data
This lesson introduces students to the basics of cartography and geoinformatics. It will also include a small hands-on demonstration of working with maps in QGIS software.
08 // Sound data
This lecture covers audio signal processing with a focus on music. You will learn what can be detected in a music signal and how mathematics and programming can be combined with music and end users. The lecture will cover, among others, the following topics:
09// Network Analysis
The main topic of this lecture is network analysis. In this lecture you will learn what the basic elements of networks are, where networks can be found everywhere, and how data for network analysis is created. In a hands-on workshop, you will try your hand at visualizing networks using GraphCommons.
10 // Data visualization
Data visualization is one of the most important areas of data processing. It can be used not only for data presentation, but also in the actual data analysis. This lesson will introduce the main principles of data visualization and the tools that enable it.
11 // Publishing data
In this lecture, you will learn why this is important at all and how it fits into the modern trends of contemporary science. We'll discuss where publication stands in the so-called data lifecycle and why it's important to think about it from the beginning of the creation of specific data.
12 // Data archiving
This talk will introduce the basic principles of data archiving and storage and some of the tools that are used in long-term data protection.