The Penn Libraries and South Asia Studies department present a space for technology orientation. Participants can understand the possibilities and limitations of critical digital humanities tools and will learn Computational Text Analysis (CTA) of content found in manuscripts, inscriptions, maps, and other historical documents. The discussions in these sessions aim to bring together South Asia scholars, digital humanities specialists, data librarians, subject specialists, research software & programming engineers, and manuscript studies curators to engage in conversation about the field of collections as data at large.
The workshop will be held from 9:30am – 5:00pm on October 10th and from 9:30am – 4:00pm on October 11th. The talks are open to the public, may be presented in a hybrid format, and will be recorded for sharing at a later date. See here for more information on the workshop schedule.
In order to participate in this workshop, please apply here. Please note that participants in the hands-on sessions must be prepared to attend both days of the workshop as well as a prior software installation session.