Cambridge Digital Humanities course timetable
October 2018
| Fri 12 |
Podcasting: An Introduction
Finished
An introduction to audio recording and editing aimed at students and staff interested in learning how podcasting can help disseminate research. |
| Mon 15 |
The Library as Data
Finished
Discover the rich digital collections of Cambridge University Library and explore the methods and tools that researchers are using to analyse and visualise data. |
| Tue 30 |
This session introduces practical photography skills for those undertaking archival research covering methods of handling and filming sources, digital file storage and transcription strategies, best uses of smartphones, digital cameras and tripods. |
November 2018
| Wed 7 |
Find out how to use blogging in your research. The first of two sessions on research blogging will explore the benefits and limitations of blogging for public engagement. |
| Thu 8 |
This workshop will examine strategies for transforming a variety of sources, from crumbling manuscripts to printed documents and books into digital data covering manual keying, OCR, and cutting-edge handwritten text recognition engines. |
| Mon 12 |
The second of two sessions on research blogging will explore how social media can enable public engagement with your blog, learn how to set up a Twitter chat and explore other methods to get people talking about your research. |
| Wed 21 |
Image big data are increasingly being used to understand the built and natural environment and to observe behaviours within it. Data sources include satellite and airborne imagery, 360 street views, and fixed video or time lapse traffic and CCTV cameras. While some of these sources are newer than others what has been changing are the quality of the images, the geographical coverage, and the potential for assessing changes over time. At the same time improvements in machine learning have made it possible to turn images into quantitative data at scale. In this workshop we will explore the challenges that researchers face when using images at scale to understand environments and behaviours, building on work at Cambridge to estimate cycling levels, using satellite data to estimate motor vehicle volume, and planned data collection in Kenya using 360 cameras. |
December 2018
| Sat 1 |
Film-making for Beginners
Finished
Learn to think visually and communicate using sound and film: participants will be introduced to the language of film, shot types, camera movements, framing, basic rules of camera use, how to tell a story, and editing in the Phoenix Training Suite. |
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Film-making for Beginners
Finished
Learn to think visually and communicate using sound and film: participants will be introduced to the language of film, shot types, camera movements, framing, basic rules of camera use, how to tell a story, and editing in the Phoenix Training Suite. |
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| Sun 2 |
Film-making for Beginners
Finished
Learn to think visually and communicate using sound and film: participants will be introduced to the language of film, shot types, camera movements, framing, basic rules of camera use, how to tell a story, and editing in the Phoenix Training Suite. |
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Film-making for Beginners
Finished
Learn to think visually and communicate using sound and film: participants will be introduced to the language of film, shot types, camera movements, framing, basic rules of camera use, how to tell a story, and editing in the Phoenix Training Suite. |
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| Tue 11 |
This workshop will discuss prospective methods and approaches for critically engaging with the images of people created through Generative Adversarial Networks, using design experiments as provocations to expand debate about notions of ‘realism’ and ‘authenticity’ in an era where human and machine vision are ever more systematically intertwined. |