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Sustainable Data for Humanities Researchers workshop
Summary:
Research data is valuable — we spend time (and often, money) in collecting it, and it is fundamental to creating knowledge. Because of this value, we have a responsibility to ensure that data will continue to be useful, minimally to ourselves but ideally also to others. This workshop will introduce participants to basic ideas of data management, which are oriented to making data sustainable in line with two important sets of principles, FAIR and CARE.
The aims of the workshop are to:
- increase awareness of the importance of sustainable data
- introduce basic principles for managing data sustainably
- demonstrate simple methods which implement those principles
- give participants hands-on experience with tools for data management.
When: 26 August 2025, 9am – 4:30pm AEST
Where: The University of Melbourne
Organisers: Melbourne Data Analytics Platform
Presenters: Simon Musgrave and River Tae Smith
Webinar: The ParlaMint corpora of European parliamentary proceedings
Join us for the second webinar in our 2025 webinar series.
Presenters: Tomaž Erjavec and Matyáš Kopp
Tomaž Erjavec is a member of the Department of Knowledge Technologies of the Institut “Jožef Stefan” (Ljubljana, Slovenia) and of the Fran Ramovš Institute of the Slovenian Language. His research interests include text corpora and other language resources, digital humanities, standardisation of text encoding, language technologies for Slovene, machine learning methods for natural language and computational morphology.
Matyáš Kopp is a member of the Institute for Formal and Applied Linguistics at the Charles University in Prague (Czech Republic). He has worked extensively on compiling and researching datasets based on parliamentary proceedings, and also on technologies for querying treebanks.
Abstract:
This talk will discuss the compilation and dissemination of the ParlaMint corpora, i.e. 29 corpora of European national and regional parliamentary proceedings, covering at least the period from 2015 to 2022, and containing over 1 billion words.
We will describe the background of this CLARIN-funded project and the characteristics of the produced corpora. We then introduce the encoding of the corpora, the corpus compilation pipeline, the use of GitHub and concentrate on the ways in which the corpus is made accessible to potential users.
We will conclude with lessons learnt in the project and our further work on the ParlaMint corpora.
Details: 28 August 2025, 4pm AEST
Where: Online
Get Started with Federal Hansard for Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences Research
Summary:
Parliamentary bodies around the world have been publishing transcriptions of their proceedings for decades or even centuries. These transcriptions enable public scrutiny and transparency of the actions and speech of legislative bodies and elected representatives. Because of their documentation of legislative action and speech, their relatively consistent format and their coverages of long periods of time, they are potentially useful for policy researchers, media and communication scholars, political scientists, linguists, sociologists, historians and many others.
This workshop aimed to provide a starting point for working with these transcribed proceedings, including evaluating how it might (and might not!) be useful for your research, how to get started for different kinds of projects and cautionary notes on potential limitations. We will be using a suite of computational text analysis approaches, with no prior coding experience necessary.
Leaders: Sam Hames and Simon Musgrave
When: 11 September 2025, 9:30am–12:30pm AEST
Organisers: The Centre for Digital Cultures and Societies, The University of Queensland
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When: Weekly, Thursday 2pm AEST
Where: Online via Zoom
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Our 2022 webinar series was a joint initiative with the Language Technology and Data Analysis Laboratory (LADAL) at the School of Languages and Cultures, The University of Queensland.