DigitalHistory@Lund is a platform that aims at promoting digital history and to support the development of new digital history research projects. It is a collaboration between the Section for Media History, and Lund Centre for the History of Knowledge (LUCK) and funded by The Joint Faculties of Humanities and Theology, Lund University, 2021–2022. Sune Bechmann Pedersen and Kajsa Weber are coordinating the platform activites. Mathias Johanssonis research engineer at DigitalHistory@Lund.

The advance of digital technology is having a profound impact on all aspects of the historian’s craft, and DigitalHistory@Lund will be a platform for debating examining and promoting these changes. Digital tools are affecting the collection, organization, interpretation, and presentation of sources as well as the communication of historians with colleagues, students, and the broader public. Digital literacy is thus crucial for today’s historians. New media are also reshaping archives and libraries in unpredictable ways. It is certain, though, that the current politics of digitalization greatly influences future historical research. Critical discussions of cultural heritage and digitization – in close collaboration with archives and libraries – are thus essential to ensure the accessibility and usability of historical collections. 

DigitalHistory@Lund organize several seminars and workshops during spring 2021.  https://projekt.ht.lu.se/digitalhistory

Seminars and workshops

SEMINAR: 10 March, 13.15-15.00 (in Swedish)

Vad gör man med 87 miljoner tecken? Temamodellering av SOU:er 1945–89

Pelle Snickars (Umeå universitet)

(tillsammans med kunskapshistoriska seminariet). Seminarium på ZOOM. Anmälan till kajsa.weber@hist.lu.se

WORKSHOP: 19 March, 13.15-14.00

Introduction to Tropy

Tropy is a free programme tailor-made for historians to organize and make sense of thousands of photographs for research purposes. Tropy helps you organize and annotate pictures of archival documents and other sources. The introduction requires no prior knowledge of the programme. It is taught in English by historian Helle Strandgaard Jensen, Center for Digital History Aarhus.

REGISTRATION ON ZOOM:https://lu-se.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5EoduCopjIqE9A1ahg9G8dtNYNifcTW2MwO

WORKSHOP: 16 April, 13.15-14.00 (in Swedish)

Introduktion till text mining med Voyant

Denna workshop riktar sig till forskare som arbeter med digitalt tillgänglig källmaterial och är nyfikna på hur text mining erbjuder nya metodiska ingånger. Fokus är på Voyant, ett gratis verktyg för grundläggande analys av stora mängder text. Inga förkunskapar krävs. Workshoppen leds av Sune Bechmann Pedersen, Mediehistoria, och undervisningsspråket är svenska.

REGISTRATION ON ZOOM: https://lu-se.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5Epdu6sqDIvE9eQUwmj2ETAw7yxlosmLgKN

SEMINAR: 5 May, 13.15-15.00 (in Swedish)

Att dela visuell forskningsdata

Anna Dahlgren & Karin Hansson (Stockholms universitet)

REGISTRATION ON ZOOM: https://lu-se.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5ApdO6prj4sH9ImLyBQWXW378uj2XUi3nAf

SEMINAR: 18 May, 13.15-15.00

Digital history 1.5: Digitalized history as and between domesticated and paradigmatic science

Mats Fridlund (University of Gothenburg)

REGISTRATION ON ZOOM: https://lu-se.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5Aqd-6prjwjEtd9YRgV0SA0SN403M31Ow5r

WORKSHOP: 28 May, 13.15-14.00 (in Swedish)

Transkribering av handskrivna texter med Transkribus

Jobbar du med äldrehistoriskt material? Behöver du hjälp att transkribera? Då är gratis-verktyget Transkribus något för dig! Denna introduktion hjälper dig igång med automatisk transkribering av handskrivet källmaterial. Inga förkunskapar krävs. Workshoppen leds av Sune Bechmann Pedersen & Mathias Johansson, Mediehistoria, och undervisningsspråket är svenska.

REGITRATION ON ZOOM: https://lu-se.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5Eocuuvpz4vH9amiH8zsnk7EiEH6rCxPe8t