Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 38, No. 231.
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[1] From: Diane Jakacki <dkj004@bucknell.edu>
Subject: Bucknell University Digital Scholarship Conversations: Speaker - Josh MacFadyen (56)
[2] From: Ulrike Henny-Krahmer <ulrike.henny-krahmer@uni-rostock.de>
Subject: Hybrid lecture "A Journey to the Río de la Plata: Digital Edition of Ulrich Schmidl's Voyage" (53)
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Date: 2024-11-07 23:41:01+00:00
From: Diane Jakacki <dkj004@bucknell.edu>
Subject: Bucknell University Digital Scholarship Conversations: Speaker - Josh MacFadyen
Bucknell University Digital Scholarship Conversations: Speaker - Josh
MacFadyen
From Big Data to Dirt Research: Mapping Canadian Energy Transitions in
City, Field, and Forest
Joshua MacFadyen, Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in
Geospatial Humanities at the University of Prince Edward Island
November 13, 2024 12pm-1pm
(Add to Google calendar
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kyOW9taGNjZDlzZDdkZXYgdGVzMDIzQGJ1Y2tuZWxsLmVkdQ&tmsrc=tes023%40bucknell.edu>
)
339 Education Space, Bertrand Library, and on Zoom Register to view via Zoom
<https://bucknell.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYuc-uspz4tGNbH0pugHrvLI0JDKHwIV1wi>
From prairie wheat kings to log-waltzing timber drivers, Canadians evoke a
sense of working with the natural world. For most of Canadian history, its
primary sector operated in what economist E. A. Wrigley called the “solar
regime” of energy history, limited by the biomass that plants and animals
could convert from the sun’s energy. The transition from biomass to fossil
fuels was universal, but in Canada it was surprisingly slow, and historians
know relatively little about it. From careful map analysis in historical
Geographic Information Systems (HGIS) to Deep Learning Models in ArcGIS
Pro, we use a range of digital methods to mine data and examine these
transitions in UPEI’s GeoREACH Lab (for Geospatial Research in Atlantic
Canadian History). We use HGIS for everything from automated polygon
recognition to online participatory mapping, and combined with traditional
historical methods such as oral interviews and census data development, our
students have helped to digitize maps and manuscripts with a focus on the
period of Canada’s largest energy transition (circa 1870-1970).
Josh is an Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Geospatial
Humanities at the University of Prince Edward Island. His research focuses
on energy transitions and traditional energy carriers in Canada, and he
leads the GeoREACH lab at UPEI which supports Geospatial Research in
Atlantic Canadian History. His first monograph, Flax Americana: A History
of the Fibre and Oil that Covered a Continent, was published by
McGill-Queens University Press; his most recent monograph is Time Flies: A
History of Prince Edward Island from the Air, a book that examines land use
change on PEI using aerial photographs.
--
Diane Jakacki, Ph.D.
Digital Scholarship Coordinator
Affiliate Faculty in Comparative & Digital Humanities
Bucknell University
diane.jakacki@bucknell.edu
(she/her)
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7836-1223
Executive Board Chair, ADHO
Chair, TEI-C Executive Board
Fulbright Canada Research Chair in Digital Humanities, 2022-3
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Date: 2024-11-07 08:45:32+00:00
From: Ulrike Henny-Krahmer <ulrike.henny-krahmer@uni-rostock.de>
Subject: Hybrid lecture "A Journey to the Río de la Plata: Digital Edition of Ulrich Schmidl's Voyage"
Dear Humanists,
on Monday, November 11, 2024 at 5:15 pm (GMT+1) there will be a hybrid
lecture at the University of Rostock in the lecture series "DH in
Focus", given by our guest researcher from Buenos Aires, Julián Carlos
Spinelli, to which we cordially invite you. You can find the details
about the lecture below and more information here:
https://www.germanistik.uni-rostock.de/en/forschung/digital-
humanities/rosdh/lecture-series/wise-2024-25/n/a-journey-to-the-rio-de-la-plata-
towards-the-creation-of-a-digital-edition-of-ulrich-schmidls-voyage-202267/.
Kind regards,
Ulrike Henny-Krahmer
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A Journey to the Río de la Plata: Towards the Creation of a Digital
Edition of Ulrich Schmidl's Voyage
11.11.2024
Julián Carlos Spinelli (Universidad de Buenos Aires)
Abstract:
Ulric Schmidl was one of the first European explorers to write and
publish the account of his journey in the territories that would later
be part of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata. His travel diary,
first published in German in 1567, not only provided insight into the
indigenous populations of the region, their customs, and their
interactions with European explorers, but also illuminated the internal
conflicts within the conquest expeditions.
The objective of the Digital Humanities Laboratory at CONICET is to
produce a digital tool for the Spanish edition of Schmidl's travels.
This project aims at creating a digital edition under the framework of
minimal computing, using XML-TEI standards for annotation, creating a
controlled vocabulary of the various terminologies present in the text
and developing a georeferenced map of the journey.
In this conference, the current state of the project will be presented,
along with a brief history of its inception, the challenges encountered
during its development, and a broad overview of future activities and
objectives.
Short bio:
Julián Spinelli is a historian who graduated from the University of
Buenos Aires, specializing in Digital Humanities through UCES. He is a
collaborator at the Digital Humanities Laboratory of CONICET, where he
participates in various Digital Humanities projects. Currently, he is
serving as a visiting researcher in the project “Computational
Approaches to Narrative Space in 19th and 20th Century Novels” (CANSpiN)
at the University of Rostock.
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