Making the Most of Digital Humanities Techniques for Tibetan Studies: An introduction and practical guide

Daniel Wojahn & Rachael Griffiths

Friday 1 December, 9:00-15:00
Seminar Room 2, Wolfson College

We currently have 6 registrations and there are still 5-6 places available. So, if you are interested in attending, please make sure to register at https://bit.ly/thsc2023-signup by 17 November. Participation is free of charge.

We are looking forward to seeing you all at the workshop!

(blue star) Overview

Workshop date

1 December 2023, 9am–3pm

Room

Seminar Room 2, Wolfson College

Goals

Manage research data, Network and text analysis basics, OCR w/ Tesseract CLI

Facilitators

Daniel Wojahn and Rachael Griffiths

Resources

Coffee, Tea, and snacks will be kindly provided by the Tibetan & Himalayan Studies Centre

Pre-workshop tasks
  • Please bring your laptop (fully charged preferably)
  • Download the following installing packages (there is no need to install them yet):

AntConc

Obsidian

Gephi

MS Excel or OpenOffice

  • Register for accounts at (if haven’t already):

BDRC

The Internet Archive

Google Drive

Transkribus

 

(blue star) Agenda

Time

Exercise

9:00-9:45

Walkthrough of BUDA/Keyword & full-text search on Archive.org

10:00-10:45

Corpus analysis and concordance with AntConc

11:00-12:00

Image2text with Tesseract and Transkribus

Lunch break

13:00-13:45

Manage your research data with Obsidian

14:00-15:00

Introduction to social network analysis & general Q&A