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OpenLearnWare @ HDSM

The OpenLearnWare channel of TU Darmstadt is a part of a global initiative that seeks to support the open access and open exchange of teaching and learning materials. HDSM is delighted to participate in this initiative. Though our presence on OpenLearnWare we are making lectures available on a range of topics related to data, digital humanities and digital history. 

HDSM material is currently organised as three lecture series that present interdisciplinary content situated at the intersection of the Humanities and Computer Science.

The ‘Collections as Data’ series presents work at the intersection of critical heritage studies and digital humanities. Here we publish lectures that explore how technology can be used to bring together the historical collections held by museums, galleries, libraries and archives. Exploring how this work is changing ideas and understandings of heritage and reflecting on the conceptual, ethical and technical difficulties of involving technology in this space are key concerns these talks.

The ‘Multimodal Digital Humanities’ presents a series of lectures by international scholars who reflect on oral history and how we are engaging with oral history in the digital age. In this seminar we think though what a so-called ‘Multimodal Oral History’ might entail – an Oral History where the digital is active rather than passive; where Digital Oral History modalities are positioned as analytical categories of inquiry and also as sites of data-driven analysis; where reflexivity is a core aspect of digitally-mediated research; and as an endeavour that nevertheless remains attuned to Oral History as a subjective and intersubjective meaning-making process, situated in space, time, culture and technology (The publication that accompanies this series is available open access too: Hannah K Smyth, Julianne Nyhan, Andrew Flinn, ‘Exploring the possibilities of Thomson’s fourth paradigm transformation—The case for a multimodal approach to digital oral history?’, Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, fqac094, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqac094)

The Digital Methods in the Humanities series introduces viewers to core methods of digital humanities and digitally-augmented historical research. Lectures, often featuring international scholars, reflect on the contexts, affordances and limitations of these methods for Humanities sources. At the time of writing, topics covered include Network Analysis, Data in the Humanities and Working with Digital Newspaper Corpora.

These resources are useful for people who wish to dive into the realm of digital humanities, digital history, humanities data studies, oral history and collections as data.

We will continue to expand this channel with upcoming videos – so watch this space!


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