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Digital Humanities at the UAB

I Conference of the UAB Digital Humanities Network

For the first time, on 18 and 19 April 2018, the UAB Digital Humanities Network organised a conference to raise awareness of Digital Humanities and to showcase the projects being developed by UAB research groups and centres in this field. With the collaboration of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, the School of Engineering, and the Vice-Rector’s Office for Institutional Relations and Culture, the strong capacities of the UAB in Digital Humanities were presented.

  • Welcome and Inaugural Lecture: “Text as an Image in the Light of Digital Humanities”. Dominique Stutzmann, Institut de Recherche et d’Histoire des Textes (IRHT, Paris)
  • Dissemination, Accessibility, Web and Mobile Applications
    • Neandertals 2.0 - Outreach project on the archaeological site of La Roca dels Bous.Clara Masriera Esquerra, Centre for Archaeological Heritage of Prehistory (CEPAP)
    • Websites of Resources for Translators and Interpreters.Mariana Orozco Jutoran, Department of Translation, Interpreting and East Asian Studies, UAB
    • SIG TIR/FOR: GIS Systematisation of the Roman World.Miquel Àngel Vargas, LIGIT UAB
    • SigArq - Archaeological Geospatial Information System.Pablo Del Fresno, Heritage Management Systems
    • Accessibility to Culture: Museums and Technical Aids for the Visually Impaired.Mònica Molina, TUDISTAR Group, UAB
    • Responsible Research.Nardine Osman, Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (IIIA-CSIC)
  • Databases and Digital Repositories
    • Multilingual Knowledge Bases through Collective Contribution.Anna Aguilar-Amat, Department of Translation, Interpreting and East Asian Studies, UAB · Arnau DB
    • The Digital Corpus of Arnau de Vilanova: A Tool for Research and Dissemination.Sebastià Giralt Soler, Department of Ancient and Mediaeval Studies, UAB
    • The Current Status of TRACES.Magda Alemany and Cristina Riera, Department of Catalan Philology, UAB
    • Digital Management of the Political Poster Collection at the UAB / Preservation Policy at the DDD.Cristina Azorín Millaruelo, UAB Library Service
    • History of Catalonia Database and Other Projects from the History Section of Sibhil·la. Núria Rius Vera and Maribel Cuadrado Benítez, Department of Modern and Contemporary History, UAB
    • Lexicography and Corpus Linguistics in the Field of Digital Humanities.Joan Torruella and Margarita Freixas, Department of Spanish Philology, UAB

 

Lecturers, researchers and students at the 1st Digital Humanities Conference at the UAB, featuring a symbolic image of a human hand and a mechanical one touching, representing the interaction between technology and the humanities.