Staff from An Foras Feasa: Maynooth University's Institute for the Humanities are presenting at the Digital Humanities 2016 conference in Kraków this July.
This is the 28th annual Digital Humanities conference, organized and sponsored by ADHO (the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations), and features researchers from around the world.
The variety of An Foras Feasa's research interests and projects is reflected in the range of papers and workshops being presented.
Konstantinos Papadopoulos is leading a pre-conference workshop on Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) for Cultural Heritage Artefacts which uses low-cost equipment, and free and open-source software to examine artefacts revealing details not identified by traditional photographic methods.
Crowd sourcing and public engagement in the Letters of 1916 project provides the focus for Susan Schreibman, Vinayak Das Gupta, and Neale Rooney's short paper titled Notes from the Transcription Desk: Modes of engagement between the community and the resource of the Letters of 1916.
Vinayak Das Gupta is also presenting a short paper, Materiality and Metadata of Digitised Photographs: A Theoretical Inquiry, based on his PhD research.
The use of computer graphics in historical simulations, in the AFF based project Contested Memories: The Battle of Mount Street Bridge, is examined in The Computer Graphic Simulation of the Battle at Mount Street Bridge. Problems, Perspectives and Challenges presented by Susan Schreibman, Konstantinos Papadopoulos, John Buckley and Brian Hughes.
While #dariahTeach: online teaching, MOOCs and beyond (presented by Susan Schreibman, Claire Clivaz, Agiatis Benardou, Matej Durco, Marianne Huang, Eliza Papaki, Stef Scagliola, Toma Tasovac, and Tanja Wissik) explores non-traditional pedagogical approaches to Digital Humanities.