SADiLaR

"Are they human or are they data?" Digital archives and the creation of humanising stories.

Our “archive fever” has given rise to the creation of digitised archives of non-public records, including prison and medical case files. In the United Kingdom, the Wellcome Collection has digitised the medical case files for several …

Universal Discourse: Towards a multilingual model of discourse relations.

The talk will discuss a research project proposal aiming to create and evaluate the model of Universal Discourse: a unified, multilingual, corpus-based representation of text as a whole, going beyond the meaning of individual sentences to the level …

Is it written to be read? A case of readability in Sesotho.

Over the years, it has been evident that language learners in South African schools struggle with reading at appropriate levels of comprehension and fluency. Despite numerous interventions to improve learners’ reading levels, the texts used in …

isiBheqe: First additional script

Don't miss out on a presentation on isiBheqe scripts, their typology & the speakers' experiences with the isiBheqe soHlamvu writing system. Mark your calendars and make sure to secure your spot for the SADilaR DH Colloquium. Stay tuned for further …

What do we study when we study multilingualism? A bibliometric (-adjacent) analysis of the field.

Globally, multilingualism is the norm rather than the exception, and there is startling diversity in the linguistic and contextual factors that shape it. For several decades now, scholars have voiced concerns about sampling biases in multilingualism …

Data in healthcare: efforts digitisation and digitalisation

This talk will broadly discuss the speaker's experience around data access in the healthcare sector and the importance of collaboration, digitisation and digitalisation in the efforts to improve health outcomes. The discussion will centre around an …

Innovating Historical Scholarship: The Bullinger Digital Project.

This session offers an in-depth exploration of the transformation of Heinrich Bullinger's vast 12,000-letter corpus into a dynamic, fully digital, and multilingual format. We'll delve into the sophisticated digital workflows that navigate challenges …

Network science and the digital humanities: Applications, opportunities, and challenges for interdisciplinary research in a South African context

Join us as we look at Network Science & the DH: Applications, opportunities & challenges for interdisciplinary research in the SA context. Network science has opened up new avenues of research since its inception more than two decades ago, and also …

Plurality and Purpose: Strengthening digital heritage eco-systems in Africa's museum sector

Join us for the DH Colloquium with Chao Tayiana Maina, where we'll dive into exciting discussions on new technologies—don't miss it! Encounters with new technologies often bring opportunities to create new narratives, but they also bear the …

Depp vs Heard: A digital-hermeneutics approach to trust in online culture

There seems to be a surplus of trust and distrust in contemporary media culture. On the one hand, we place great trust in the platforms that govern and structure our online lives. We rely on algorithms to organize our lives and make decisions for us. …