Aberdeen Digital Humanities Workshops

Digital Humanities [DH] is at the leading edge of applying computer-based technology in the humanities. It makes use of innovative tools and methods for investigating traditional and new forms of data and media, in addition to pursuing opportunities to interrogate and reflect on the knowledge and insight that ‘the digital’ affords. By its nature, DH is collaborative, encouraging interaction between scholars across the humanities and social sciences, in computer science and maths, in museums, libraries and galleries, and with experts specialising in computing or digital technologies.

At Aberdeen, there are ongoing digitisation projects within Museums & Special Collections (e.g. the Aberdeen Bestiary and the George Washington Wilson Collection), and a range of DH projects concentrated in the Schools of DHPA and LLMVC but also involving other Schools such as Law and NCS. Focusing on the University’s archival holdings, this project sought to further embed DH’s methods and approaches into the institution’s academic practice through the delivery of a series of DH workshops with external speakers/facilitators. The workshops provided a critical introduction to DH, and offered training in research methods and skills to enable researchers at all levels (including PGRs) to create and exploit new practices of digital scholarship.