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Using Hansard & Other Parliamentary Proceedings for Your Research
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 aims 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.
We will include an overview of different proceedings around the world, the variety of different access mechanisms, pre-collected datasets, and different ways you can work with Hansards. Guest presenters from different fields will showcase their research. In the second half of the workshop we will run an interactive session on working with the proceedings of the Australian Federal Parliament.
Leaders: Sam Hames, Simon Musgrave
When: 19 September 2024, 10am—1pm
Where: RD Watt Building (A04), Seminar Room 203, The University of Sydney
Indigenous Data Governance: A discussion
Part of The University of Queensland Research and Innovation Week 2024
The University of Queensland is committed to growing the opportunities for Indigenous people to lead and conduct their own research. One important strand in developing this innovative research culture is ensuring that appropriate governance is in place for Indigenous data.
This event will present a panel of Indigenous researchers, data custodians and data stewards discussing current developments in this field including:
- the importance of Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property concerns
- governance of Indigenous Data Framework for the HASS & Indigenous Research Data Commons
- tools and methods for data governance.
Panellists: Rose Barrowcliffe, Robert McLellan, Lesley Acres. The discussion will be facilitated by Grant Sarra.
When: 4–6pm, 30 September 2024
Where: Anthropology Museum, Michie Building, The University of Queensland (St Lucia Campus)
Recurring Events
RO-Crate Clinic Drop-in
The RO-Crate community run a weekly drop-in call in Australia. For further information contact Peter Sefton.
When: Weekly, Thursday 14:00 AEST
Where: Online via Zoom
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If your university or organisation would like to host a workshop, please contact us.
Webinars
Our 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.
Australian Digital Observatory Online Office Hours
LDaCA has previously run regular online office hours, jointly hosted with the Australian Digital Observatory (ADO). This activity will not continue in 2024, but LDaCA and ADO are developing an alternative model to help Australian researchers working with linguistics, text analytics, digital and computational methods, social media and web archives.
In the meantime, you are welcome to contact us by email at ldaca@uq.edu.au with your technical questions, research problems and rough ideas to get advice and feedback from the combined expertise of our ARDC research infrastructure projects. No question is too small, and even if we don’t know the answer we are likely to be able to point you to someone who does.