Tom Brughmans, Author at Digital Humanities

Hestia2 in Stanford: complex data visualisation

Tom Brughmans — Wed, 23 Oct 2013 09:59:44 +0000

Remember the Hestia2 event we organised in Southampton in July with The Connected Past? Time for more of that! The Hestia project is pleased to announce its second community event, which will take place at Stanford University on 4-5 November 2013. The two-day workshop, hosted by Stanford’s Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis, will tackle the issue of visualizing complex …

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PGR coffee morning

Tom Brughmans — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 11:34:50 +0000

We welcome all Humanities PGR students to our first PGR digital research coffee morning Join your fellow Humanities PGRs to discuss everything related to digital research (issues, questions, possible benefits, practical help, brainstorming) in a one-hour morning session fuelled by coffee and cakes! When? Wednesday 13 March 2013, 10-11AM. Where? Room 1085 (film editing suite, with card access), Building 65, Avenue …

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York Heritage Seminar Series: Description, Dialogue or Debate? Examining the role of narrative in the visualisation of archaeology

Tom Brughmans — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 12:13:14 +0000

Date: 26.02.2013 Time: 5.30pm Speaker: John Swogger (Archaeological illustrator) Location: Room 3043 building 65a (avenue campus) Tuesday 26 February we will be live-streaming another York Heritage Seminar, this time by the archaeological illustrator John Swogger who will talk about “Description, Dialogue or Debate? Examining the role of narrative in the visualisation of archaeology”. The seminar will take place at 5:30pm …

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sotonDH small grants: A Connected Island? Citation Network Analysis

Tom Brughmans — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 08:30:44 +0000

By Tom Brughmans and Iza Romanowska This third blogpost about the Connected Island project will introduce our method for analysing publications and their citations. We will briefly discuss how citation network analysis works and the issues surrounding its applications. Finally, we will look at the very first results of this project: an analysis of publications about the Middle and Lower …

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A Hitchhiker’s Guide to Complexity

Tom Brughmans — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 17:48:49 +0000

The following event might be of interest to SotonDH members: The next seminar of the CS4: Complex Systems Simulation Seminar Series 2012/13 will take place 30th January. Rachel Armstrong from the University of Greenwhich will give the talk “A Hitchhiker’s Guide to Complexity”, 4-5pm, B53/4025, Highfield Campus. Details of Rachel’s talk can be found here. As a teaser you can …

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sotonDH small grants: ‘A Connected Island?’: measuring academic influence

Tom Brughmans — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 16:46:51 +0000

This second blog post about the Connect Island project, funded by a sotonDH small award, discusses the relative influence of Central European Palaeolithic researchers using the H-index measure. Figure 1: H-index scores of Central European Palaeolithic researchers (left) versus Iron Age (right) researchers. It has been claimed that Central European archaeologists specializing in Stone Age studies are quite well-known in …

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sotonDH small grant: Introducing ‘A Connected Island?’: how the Iron Curtain affected Archaeologists

Tom Brughmans — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 09:09:50 +0000

After the Second World War the Iron Curtain sliced through the very centre of Europe forming a very real divide in both political and daily lives. In the second half of the 20th century the Soviet regime introduced a new structure to the academic institutions to countries like Poland, Hungary and former Czechoslovakia, including restrictions on contacts with the Western …

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Visiting fellowships in Computational Humanities in the Netherlands

Tom Brughmans — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 08:05:17 +0000

The following funding opportunity might be of interest to SotonDH members: Visiting fellowships in Computational Humanities, based at the eHumanities Group, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). Applications for 2013 now open! These visiting fellowships are intended to enable scholars working in computational humanities to conduct research and to participate in the academic life of the eHumanities Group …

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Digital Classicist Seminar Berlin launched

Tom Brughmans — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 14:12:53 +0000

Our colleagues at the German Archaeological Institute and the Excellence Cluster TOPOI have just launched the Digital Classicist Seminar Berlin. Find the official call for papers here: =============================================== Digital Classicist Seminar Berlin 2012/2013: Call for Papers =============================================== We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the newly established Digital Classicist Seminar Berlin, which will run for the first …

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2012 Social Networks Data Reveals Decline of Many

Tom Brughmans — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 12:58:30 +0000

Since 2008 ignitesocialmedia.com has been collecting stats on a very wide range of online social networks. Now for the fifth time they published their annual report, making available a wealth of valuable data. The 2012 report reveals that the Online Social Networks market seems to become increasingly saturated, with a few giants dominating the market whilst the vast majority sees …

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SotonDH @ Digital Humanities 2012 in Hamburg

Tom Brughmans — Sun, 22 Jul 2012 10:31:43 +0000

This year’s Digital Humanities conference ended this weekend and it was a great success. The entire event was perfectly organised by the University of Hamburg. They even anticipated rain by providing DH-branded umbrellas. There was a record number of delegates, presentations were of high quality and the social events were a reflection of its host city’s image as a party …

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Connected Past videos online now

Tom Brughmans — Sat, 26 May 2012 07:37:06 +0000

Two months ago members of SotonDH organised a conference about networks in archaeology and history, called The Connected Past. The event was great (or at least that is how we experienced it). But if you were not able to be there you will be happy to know that the recorded talks are now available online. The recorded talks are illustrative …

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The Connected Past: people, networks and complexity in archaeology and history

Tom Brughmans — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 21:27:46 +0000

A two-day collaborative, multi-disciplinary symposium The University of Southampton 24-25 March 2012 Sponsored by Archaeopress, The Classical Association, the Archaeological Computing Research Group, Oxford University Press, the University of Southampton USRG Complexity in Real-world Contexts, the University of Southampton Web Science DTC and the University of Southampton Faculty of Humanities Conference objectives: To provide a forum for the presentation and debate of multidisciplinary network-based research …

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