Description
With the support of the Flemish Government the four day conference will be followed by a workshop for (PhD) students on Linked Open Data and Stylometry taught by Dr. Adam Anderson (UC Berkeley) and Dr. Jeroen De Gussem (Ghent University) respectively. It is organised in collaboration with the Doctoral School at Ghent University. The workshop consists of two Transferable Skills 3 hours courses in a hands-on sprint format including coffee breaks and lunch. Students will actively engage with the data and state-of-the-art methodologies after which they will be able to apply the learned methodologies on their own research data. The course will mainly focus on ancient and historical text sources, but all students who wish to implement such methodologies on a text corpora are welcome. Where possible we will give students the opportunity to test the methodologies on their own data.
Teachers
Adam Anderson holds a PhD at Harvard University on the Old Assyrian trade networks. He has successfully implemented computer-based methods to visualise and analyse large corpora such as the intricate familial and economic relations present in the trading village of Karum Kanesh in ancient Anatolia. For almost a decade he has worked at the crossroads of ancient Near Eastern Studies and Computational/Digital Humanities, wherein he is the leading specialist in linked data for cuneiform studies. With a mix of scientific rigor and digital curiosity, he has been a part of many digital based innovations in ancient Near Eastern studies, such as coding cookbooks for network analyses, topic modelling of the Assyriological research history or Linked Open Data systems for all things cuneiform on the FactGrid platform.
Jeroen De Gussem holds an interdisciplinary PhD history/literary studies (UGent, UAntwerpen), in which he studied the use of stylometry to distinguish between various medieval authors, and continued working with stylometry and medieval texts in his junior and senior FWO postdocs. Having researched stylometry intensively, makes him perfect for teaching its methods, furthermore the subject of medieval texts gives him a deep understanding of working with historical texts. Mixing such a complex set of data with modern technologies makes him ideal in teaching how to implement methodologies on other complex and often smaller corpora, which poses a set of challenges not common to the modern written languages.
Registration
The PhD Workshop is open for all PhD students and pre-docs, either in combination with the conference or separately from it, but registration is required. PhD Students enrolled in Flemish Universities can register for free, other (PhD) students pay a fee (€15). Signing up goes through the same registration page as for the main conference: https://www.bab.ugent.be/registration/.