An Foras Feasa Digitisation Workshop

"Digitisation in a Day"

Wednesday 3rd February

John G. Keating, Aja Teehan, Damien Gallagher

Description

This one day workshop, available to HSIS members and organised in conjunction with the HSIS annual conference, will provide an opportunity for participants to become involved in the digitisation of a 20th century guestbook and work with a team experienced in digital humanities and design methodologies, theories and practice.

Prospective participants should apply to An Foras Feasa by Monday 1st February with a brief overview of why they are interested in attending the workshop. This overview should detail institutional affiliation and role, their own area of research, experience to date, and what they hope to gain from attending. Any queries regarding the workshop or the attendance should be directed by email to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

The day’s activities will result in the creation of an on-line, interactive, digital edition of the guestbook. Participants will work in teams, engaging in hands-on digital imaging with high-resolution imaging equipment, project and software requirements analysis, data modeling for humanities research, XML encoding, software design and implementation. The various components that are created will be ingested into a Fedora repository and made available online for the participants.

In addition to the practical component, the workshop will be framed within the theories and methodologies developed by An Foras Feasa; these are specifically tailored to aid in the engineering of human usable documents. An example of the type of digital document to be created can be found at An Foras Feasa’s archive (http://archives.forasfeasa.ie).

 Target Audience

The workshop will be of interest to Early Career Researchers, Project Managers, and Digital Humanities Specialists involved, or planning to be involved, in the creation of digital humanities artefacts. An overview of the entire process will be invaluable to early career researchers who are considering committing to a digital humanities project, providing them with the opportunity to participate in the entire process, from start to finish, and to gain an understanding of the planning, work-flow and resources that are required to deliver a digital artefact. Project managers and supervisors who are considering projects in this area, or who will be coming into contact with researchers in the field, may also be interested in attending. For those participants who have a deep understanding of one part of the process, for instance text encoding, this will provide them with an appreciation of the other, necessary, phases in the development, and demonstrate the interdependencies that exist between those phases.