Dr Silke Schwandt from Bielefeld University will lead an informal discussion of getting involved in collaborative digital humanities projects and integrating new text analysis methods in research. Schwandt will talk about her experience as a humanist involved in a large multi-year digital humanities project to make richly accessible the largest single body of medieval texts, and she worked to teach the computer how to recognise and ‘understand’ medieval Latin, in which most words have a very large number of forms. Her own research work used this database to analyse the political concept of Virtue in the central middle ages. She’ll start off by talking about her experiences.
Lunch will be served; if you hope to make it, or need more information, contact Gary Shaw.
Wednesday, February 10th at noon in Usdan 108.