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[1] From: Complexity Explorer <admin@complexityexplorer.org>
Subject: Register now for Intro to Agent-Based Modeling (27)
[2] From: Melissa Terras <M.Terras@ed.ac.uk>
Subject: CDCS Seminar - Dr Andrea Kocsis - Uncertainty in Crowdsourced Digital History Projects - 10th May 4pm, Online (54)
[3] From: Neubert, Anna Maria <aneubert@uni-bielefeld.de>
Subject: CfP: Digital Academy "From Uncertainty to Action: Advancing Research with Digital Data" (23)
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Date: 2023-05-06 06:44:38+00:00
From: Complexity Explorer <admin@complexityexplorer.org>
Subject: Register now for Intro to Agent-Based Modeling
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Date: 2023-05-05 14:15:26+00:00
From: Melissa Terras <M.Terras@ed.ac.uk>
Subject: CDCS Seminar - Dr Andrea Kocsis - Uncertainty in Crowdsourced Digital History Projects - 10th May 4pm, Online
Dear Colleagues,
You may be interested in this online seminar from the Edinburgh Centre for Data,
Culture and Society.
Dr Andrea Kocsis - Uncertainty in Crowdsourced Digital History Projects: The
Operation War Diary
Wednesday 10th May, 4pm-5.30pm UK time, online.
The seminar aims to understand the different types of uncertainty in
crowdsourced digital history projects and how to address them in multiple stages
of crowdsourcing. It looks at the Operation War Diary (OWD) to differentiate
between the occurrences of uncertainty during the project's lifespan, from
creating the documents through their annotation by volunteers to their
visualisation. History as a discipline acknowledges its limits within
interpreting the sources. These approaches tend to agree that the interpretation
provided by historians - despite making the most effort to stay true to the
primary sources and their context - is a chosen narrative from the many. We tend
to forget this embedded uncertainty when digital methods come into the picture.
Also, digital techniques and automation tend to imbalance precision
(reliability) and accuracy (validity) by increasing the former at the latter's
expense. The question becomes more complicated when the digital history project
involves crowdsourcing, as this provides an additional step carrying the
possibilities of human or technical errors. The seminar examines how to mitigate
uncertainty in the case of the OWD project and - by learning from its lessons -
offers recommendations to provide reliable and valid crowdsourced historical
projects.
Dr Andrea Kocsis comes from an interdisciplinary and international background.
Before finding her path in digital humanities, she graduated in Communications,
Archaeology, History and Geography and collected these degrees in Budapest,
Prague, and Paris. She received her Mphil and PhD in Heritage Studies from the
University of Cambridge. Her doctoral research focused on the impact the
national WWI commemorations had on the urban landscape of capital cities,
London, Paris and Budapest. She used digital humanities methods, such as NLP and
GIS, during this research. As a Cambridge – ESRC intern at BT, she took part in
distant reading and machine learning research on misinformation, while at the
National Archives, she was a Research Fellow in Advance Digital Methods working
with the crowdsourced dataset of the Operation War Diary. Currently, she works
as an Assistant Professor in History and Data Science at Northeastern University
London, and she is a Cambridge Digital Humanities Archive of Tomorrow Research
Fellow.
Please sign up at
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/uncertainty-in-crowdsourced-digital-history-
projects-tickets-600524393627
We would appreciate if you could share with your networks.
Melissa
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Professor Melissa Terras
Design Informatics, University of Edinburgh
@melissaterras
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Date: 2023-05-05 08:43:30+00:00
From: Neubert, Anna Maria <aneubert@uni-bielefeld.de>
Subject: CfP: Digital Academy "From Uncertainty to Action: Advancing Research with Digital Data"
Dear Colleagues,
we are pleased to announce the Call for Participation for our 4th virtual
Digital Academy (#DA2023) with the topic "From Uncertainty to Action: Advancing
Research with Digital Data". From 25 to 28 September 2023, we would like to
discuss different approaches to the topic in two formats:
1. An Open Space Day, where experts will report on their research projects
and subsequently discuss aspects of their work with the audience. This part of
the program is open to all who are interested.
2. A three-day workshop, where the participants will get the opportunity to
present and discuss their strategies for dealing with uncertainty within their
own research projects. This workshop particularly aims at advanced Masters
students, PhD students, and postdocs.
We welcome submissions from all disciplines. The whole call and instructions on
submission are available here: https://www.uni-bielefeld.de/fakultaeten/geschich
tswissenschaft/abteilung/arbeitsbereiche/digital-history/digital-academy/.
Best regards from the organizing committee
Silke Schwandt, Christopher Kuhlmann, Anna Maria Neubert, Sophie Spliethoff,
Christian Wachter (all Bielefeld University)
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