Training & events
Discover upcoming workshops and events, learn more about past events, and access event recordings and recaps.
UPCOMING EVENTS
eResearch Australasia 2026
26 - 30 October 2026
Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG)
LDaCA is contributing to 8 sessions at eResearch Australasia 2026
RO-Crate Clinic Drop-in
2pm AEST
Online via Zoom
The RO-Crate community run a weekly drop-in call in Australia. For further information contact Peter Sefton.
EVENT RECORDINGS
The Collaborative Power of a Research Data Commons: LDaCA case studies
27 August 2026, 2 to 3 pm AEST
Online
HASS researchers are invited to explore the benefits of a research data commons through 4 case studies from the Language Data Commons of Australia (LDaCA), emphasising the importance of people.
Language Data Commons of Australia - HASS & Indigenous Research Data Commons Symposium 2025
12 November 2025
UTS
This presentation on LDaCA was delivered at the 2025 Symposium of the ARDC HASS and Indigenous Research Data Commons, held at UTS on Gadigal Land, Sydney, 12 November 2025. Learn more about the Language Data Commons of Australia.
Showcase of Language Data Infrastructure - Language Data Commons of Australia
11 November 2025
UTS
This presentation on LDaCA tools was delivered at the 2025 Symposium of the ARDC HASS and Indigenous Research Data Commons, held at UTS on Gadigal Land, Sydney, 11 November 2025. Learn more about the Language Data Commons of Australia.
WEBINAR
The ParlaMint corpora of European parliamentary proceedings
28 August 2025
In this webinar, CLARIN colleagues Tomaž Erjavec and Matyáš Kopp presented the ParlaMint corpora, a collection of 29 European parliamentary datasets covering national and regional proceedings from 2015–2022 and containing over one billion words.
PANEL
IPrA2025: The Pragmatics of Indigenous Languages
22 June 2025, 15:45pm – 16:45pm
The University of Queensland
The Pragmatics of Indigenous Languages panel showcased efforts by researchers and practitioners who are working with communities on the use of Indigenous languages in the Australian context, as well as to discuss the complex issues such work inevitably raises.
Indigenous Data Governance Masterclass
3 February 2025
State Library of Queensland
The ARDC Indigenous Data Governance Masterclass equipped custodians of Indigenous data and researchers in any discipline with the knowledge and tools to ethically manage Indigenous data, respecting the cultural protocols and sovereignty of Indigenous communities. It built the capacity of participants to engage with Indigenous data, fostering a culturally sensitive and informed approach to data-driven projects.
PAST EVENTS
Working With Text Workshops: From Interview Transcripts to 125 years of Hansard
29 September 2026 - 30 September 2026
The University of Sydney
Free hands-on workshops at the University of Sydney for researchers who work with text. No coding needed.
Understanding Society Through Data: A Cross-Infrastructure Showcase
Wednesday 16 September 2026, 12pm - 1pm
Global Change Institute, St Lucia
The ARDC Indigenous Data Governance Masterclass equipped participants with the knowledge and tools to ethically manage Indigenous data, respecting the cultural protocols and sovereignty of Indigenous communities.
The Collaborative Power of a Research Data Commons: LDaCA case studies
27 August 2026, 2 to 3 pm AEST
Online
HASS researchers are invited to explore the benefits of a research data commons through 4 case studies from the Language Data Commons of Australia (LDaCA), emphasising the importance of people.
WORKSHOP
Sustainable Data for Humanities Researchers
Monday 17 August 2026 , 9am – 4pm AEST
Room M01+M02, Mezzanine Level, Melbourne Connect
Research data is valuable and fundamental to creating knowledge. This workshop introduced basic data management practices to help keep data useful and sustainable, guided by the FAIR and CARE principles.
Research Bazaar Queensland 2026
23 – 25 June 2026
QUT Kelvin Grove Campus
LDaCA presented four workshops at ResBaz 2026, introducing researchers to practical computational approaches for working with large, complex and messy text datasets, from parliamentary records and survey data to qualitative transcripts.
ARDC Indigenous Data Governance Masterclass 2026
18 - 19 June 2026
Union House, Adelaide University
The ARDC Indigenous Data Governance Masterclass equipped participants with the knowledge and tools to ethically manage Indigenous data, respecting the cultural protocols and sovereignty of Indigenous communities.
HASS and Indigenous Research Data Commons Summer School 2026
3 – 4 February 2026
Federation University, Ballarat
The Summer School aimed to empower participants with practical knowledge, build digital skills and help inspire new research outcomes within the humanities, arts, social sciences (HASS) and Indigenous fields of study. Over two days, the participants took part in interactive workshops, discussions, mentoring, networking and formal presentations.
WORKSHOP
Get Started with Federal Hansard for Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences Research
11 September 2025, 9:30am–12:30pm AEST
The University of Queensland
This workshop introduced the Australian Federal Parliament’s transcribed proceedings, exploring their research potential, how to get started with different projects, and key considerations and limitations when working with parliamentary data.
WORKSHOP
Sustainable Data for Humanities Researchers
26 August 2025, 9am – 4:30pm AEST
The University of Melbourne
Research data is valuable and fundamental to creating knowledge. This workshop introduced basic data management practices to help keep data useful and sustainable, guided by the FAIR and CARE principles.
WEBINAR
Steven Bird: Language Technology and the Metacrisis
29 May 2025, 3:30 pm AEST
Online
Professor Steven Bird delivered the first webinar in our 2025 series in May. Steven discussed how, despite their manifold benefits, language technologies are contributing to several unfolding crises. These developments — the language crisis, the environmental crisis and the meaning crisis — compound each other in what is being referred to as the metacrisis. How are we to respond, then, as a community of practice who is actively developing still more language technologies?
WORKSHOP
Get started with Hansard for humanities, arts, and social sciences research
20 February 2025
Parliamentary bodies around the world have been publishing transcriptions of their proceedings for decades or even centuries. This workshop aimed to provide a starting point for working with the transcribed proceedings of the Australian Federal Parliament, including evaluating how they might be useful for your research, how to get started for different kinds of projects and cautionary notes on potential limitations.
HASS and Indigenous Research Data Commons Summer School 2025
4 – 6 February 2025
The HASS and Indigenous research data community got together to gain hands-on experience, learn digital skills and network to inspire new research outcomes. The Summer School aimed to empower participants with practical knowledge, build digital skills, and help inspire new research outcomes within the humanities, arts, social sciences (HASS) and Indigenous fields of study.
Indigenous Data Governance Masterclass
3 February 2025
State Library of Queensland
The ARDC Indigenous Data Governance Masterclass equipped custodians of Indigenous data and researchers in any discipline with the knowledge and tools to ethically manage Indigenous data, respecting the cultural protocols and sovereignty of Indigenous communities. It built the capacity of participants to engage with Indigenous data, fostering a culturally sensitive and informed approach to data-driven projects.
Solving 10 research challenges with the ARDC HASS and Indigenous Research Data Commons
28 November 2024
Participants got hands-on with two tools from the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) HASS and Indigenous Research Data Commons, the Crate-O metadata editor and the Trove Data guide, and learnt how other parts of the Research Data Commons help researchers solve another eight research challenges, in a series of five-minute lightning tours.
WORKSHOP
Exploring text using concordances
27 November 2024
Monash University
This workshop introduced participants to tools for building concordances. Participants explored text using concordances, either from data they brought or from data that was provided, and learned how to answer questions with simple and complex concordances.
WORKSHOP
Text analytics with R and LADAL
7 November 2024
ACU Brisbane
This workshop provided an introduction to text analytics with R using the tools and tutorials provided by the Language Technology and Data Analysis Laboratory (LADAL).
WORKSHOP
A glamorous introduction to text analytics for social media (Reddit)
9 & 16 October 2024
This two-part workshop series introduced participants to basic text analytics for research using Reddit data. In the first workshop, we focused on data collection and learned how to collect posts from Reddit. In the second workshop, participants learned to apply a range of text analytic techniques to the Reddit data, using the very sparkly example of the Eurovision Song Contest.
PANEL
Indigenous Data Governance: A discussion
30 September 2024
The University of Queensland
This event presented 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, and tools and methods for Indigenous Data Governance.
WORKSHOP
Using Hansard & Other Parliamentary Proceedings for Your Research
19 September 2024
The University of Sydney
Parliamentary bodies around the world have been publishing transcriptions of their proceedings for decades or even centuries. This workshop aimed to provide a starting point for working with the transcribed proceedings of the Australian Federal Parliament, including evaluating how they might be useful for your research, how to get started for different kinds of projects and cautionary notes on potential limitations.
WORKSHOP
Data Migration Skills Workshop
3 - 5 September 2024
Australian National University
This workshop aimed to show the application of LDaCA tools to data in a variety of formats to efficiently migrate material to the LDaCA standards.
WORKSHOP
Introduction to Computational Text Analytics
23 - 24 May 2024
The University of Queensland
This workshop introduced the fundamentals of computational text analysis using the Language Technology and Data Analysis Laboratory (LADAL).
WEBINAR
Understanding the social meaning of language variation in Australian English
2 May 2024
Online
Online seminar presented by Professor Catherine Travis (Australian National University).
WORKSHOP
Language Data Commons of Australia – Co-Design Workshops
22 February & 7 March 2024
Online
The Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) invited the research community to 2 open co-design workshops to better understand the challenges around establishing the Language Data Commons of Australia (LDaCA).
HASS and Indigenous Research Data Commons Computational Skills Summer School 2024
3 - 6 February 2024
The University of Queensland
The 2024 HASS and Indigenous Research Data Commons (RDC) Computational Skills Summer School aimed to empower participants with practical knowledge, assist them to build digital skills and help inspire new research outcomes within these research communities. LDaCA led a stream on the governance, management and usage of data, especially Indigenous data.
WORKSHOP
Workshop on community language corpora in Australia
9 - 10 November 2023
ANU
This workshop brought together scholars working with multilingual language corpora from across different disciplines, who presented on language data collected from Australian immigrant communities for different research purposes. The workshop closed with a panel discussion on needs and challenges around managing and archiving community language data in a way that is ethical, legal and culturally sensitive.
WORKSHOP
Workshop on Language Corpora in Australia
3 July 2023
Online
This provided an opportunity to share information about existing language corpora in Australia that have been amassed through decades of work. The workshop resulted in a special issue of the Australian Journal of Linguistics introducing and discussing a selection of these corpora.
WORKSHOP
Australian Text Analytics Platform: New tools for text analysis
19 June 2023
The University of Queensland
The main means of delivery for the Australian Text Analytics Platform (ATAP) is Jupyter notebooks and this half-day workshop began with a brief introduction to notebooks for participants not already familiar with the technology. The main body of the workshop introduced two tools made available by ATAP, and the session ended with a short summary of other tools being developed in recent work.
WEBINAR
Exploring Digital Text Collections with Juxtorpus: A Taster Webinar on the Latest ATAP Text Analysis Tool
25 May 2023
This webinar introduced the latest addition to the suite of Australian Text Analytics Platform (ATAP) text analysis tools — Juxtorpus. Developed to provide a unified framework for managing and exploring text contents and metadata, Juxtorpus offers a Corpus package that enables flexible building, exploration and slicing of your corpus while maintaining its shape.
A hands-on guide to Semantic Tagger for your text data analysis
22 March 2023
This hands-on workshop guided participants in using the Australian Text Analytics Platform (ATAP) Semantic Tagger, adapted from the Semantic Tagger developed by the University Centre for Computer Corpus Research on Language (UCREL) at Lancaster University. This tool uses the Python Multilingual UCREL Semantic Analysis System (PyMUSAS) to tag your text data so that you can extract token level semantic tags from your text.
WORKSHOP
Jefferson Transcript Search Tool
17 March 2023
This workshop, presented by Evelyn Ansell, taught participants how to use a newly developed browser-based Search Tool, designed to be used by researchers unfamiliar with programming. The Search Tool project used programming to explore how to easily search and manipulate transcripts without the need to 'clean' the transcript.
WORKSHOP
Australian Text Analytics Platform tools: Discursis, Juxtorpus, Quotation tool and Semantic tagger
14 March 2023
This workshop was part of the University of Sydney (USyd) Digital Humanities Day 2023. The workshop demonstrated and taught several recently or soon-to-be-released tools from the Australian Text Analytics Platform (ATAP) text analytic tool collection.
HASS Research Data Commons and IRC Computational Skills Summer School
7 & 8 February 2023
Sydney
The Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) through the HASS Research Data Commons and Indigenous Research Capability (HASS RDC and IRC Program) offered a Computational Skills Summer School in Sydney, February 7 and 8, 2023. The Summer School featured skills development workshops to help researchers use the research infrastructure that is being created in the HASS RDC and IRC Program. The projects from the HASS RDC and IRC Program presented workshops on using the tools and platforms.
WORKSHOP
Pre-conference workshop (before the 2022 Conference of the Australian Linguistic Society)
2022
LDaCA and the Australian Text Analytics Platform (ATAP) presented a day of workshop activities to give Australian Linguistic Society (ALS) conference delegates the opportunity to learn more about the work of the two projects.
WEBINAR
Paweł Kamocki: European Union Data Protection initiatives and their consequences for research
3 October 2022
Online
The European Union, with its large population and GDP, is a leading force in regulatory globalisation. This webinar discussed recent developments in legal frameworks affecting research data in Europe. Apart from the General Data Protection Regulation which, since its entry into application in 2018, has become an international standard of personal data protection, the recent introduction of statutory copyright exceptions for Text and Data Mining was also discussed.
WORKSHOP
Geolocating Australian Historical Resources
2 October 2022
This workshop was part of the Australian Society of Archivists 2022 Conference.
Learn how to collect and analyse comments on YouTube videos using the open-source tools Youte and Discursis
21 September 2022
WORKSHOP
Computational Thinking in the Humanities
1 September 2022
Online
The workshop Computational Thinking in the Humanities was a 3-hour online workshop featuring two plenary talks, lightning presentations, as well as a panel discussion. The workshop was co-organised by the Australian Text Analytics Platform, FIN-CLARIAH and its University of Eastern Finland (UEF) representatives, and the Australian Digital Observatory.
WEBINAR
Václav Cvrček: The Czech National Corpus
1 August 2022
Online
This webinar was part of our 2022 series. Václav Cvrček is a linguist who deals with the description of the Czech language, especially with the use of large electronic corpora and quantitative methods. In 2013-2016 he worked as the director of the Czech National Corpus project; since 2016 he has been the deputy director. Recently, he has been focusing on research on textual variability and corpus-based discourse analysis with a focus on online media.
Advance care planning for your research data
21 June 2022 & 8 September 2022, Varies by day and event
WEBINAR
Barbara McGillivray: The Journal of Open Humanities Data
6 June 2022
Online
Barbara McGillivray is a Turing Research Fellow at The Alan Turing Institute and Editor in Chief of the Journal of Open Humanities Data. Since September 2021, she is also a lecturer in Digital Humanities and Cultural Computation at the Department of Digital Humanities of King's College London.
WEBINAR
Keoni Mahelona: A practical approach to Indigenous data sovereignty
4 April 2022
Online
Keoni Mahelona is the Chief Technical Officer of Te Hiku Media, where he is a part of the team developing the Kaitiakitanga Licence. This licence seeks to balance the importance of publicly accessible data with the reality that Indigenous Peoples might not have access to the resources that enable them to benefit from public data.
WORKSHOP
An introduction to Jupyter notebooks for text analysis: Virtual workshop for absolute beginners
24 November 2021, 27 July 2022, 24 August 2022, 22 November 2023, Varies by day and event
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