Overview

Learn digital methods for analyzing library catalog data at this half-day workshop, led by James Baker, Director of Digital Humanities at the University of Southampton. Using data from the Lewis Walpole Library, the workshop will provide instruction in the AntConc text analysis toolkit and approaches from computational linguistics.

The training materials for this workshop were developed collaboratively by the University of Southampton, the Sussex Humanities Lab, the British Library, and Yale University Library.

About the Workshop Leader

James Baker is Director of Digital Humanities at the University of Southampton. He works at the intersection of history, cultural heritage, and digital technologies, and is currently researching histories of knowledge organization in 20th-century Britain. He is a Software Sustainability Institute Fellow, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, a member of the Arts and Humanities Research Council Peer Review College, and a Trustee of the Programming Historian. Prior to joining Southampton, he held the positions of Senior Lecturer in Digital History and Archives at the University of Sussex and Director of the Sussex Humanities Lab, Digital Curator at the British Library, and Postdoctoral Fellow with the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art.

Workshop Details

Time:
Tuesday, January 17, 2023
1-4 p.m. EST

Location:
Franke Family Digital Humanities Laboratory
Sterling Memorial Library
120 High Street, New Haven, CT 06511

Registration

This event is open to all, though registration is required. To register, visit the Eventbrite page for the workshop.

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