The second Digital Humanities Expo will be held at 2pm on the 6th of October, at Arana College. It is a great chance to discover how digital humanities tools might enhance your research and to meet potential research partners.

Expo Schedule

2:00     Welcome

2:10     Grant Dick – Escaping Prison using Virtual Reality

To aid rehabilitation in a prison environment, we designed a virtual environment in which prisoners could ‘work’ as mechanics, learning language skills at the same time.

2:25     Leigh McKenzie  – Assessing Vulnerability to Sea Level Rise in Greater South D

The greater South Dunedin area has been identified as the most at-risk urban area in New Zealand to sea level rise. A geodatabase was made to map what is located in the highest risk areas and subsequently plan adaptation to suit those who will be most vulnerable.

2:40     Mike Hilton – Drones and Dunes

The co-development of photogrammetric software and drone platforms allows the integration of digital surface models and imagery. We recently used these technologies to monitor the moprhodynamics of foredunes along the South Dunedin shoreline to plan a habitat restoration programme for New Zealand Sea Lions.

2:55     Refreshments

3:25     Craig Boylstein – Analyzing Media: A Study of Discrimination in Sport

Three qualitative types of content analysis are used to interpret meaning from the content of textual data, but differences among these designs influence decisions in constructing codes and implementing coding schemes. Using data from an analysis of media reports on discrimination in football, I highlight strengths and weaknesses among forms of qualitative content analysis.

3:40     Gwynaeth McIntyre – From Stone to Screen: Digitising Ancient Artefacts

This talk presents two digitisation projects. From Stone to Screen based at the University of British Columbia, digitised 5 collections creating three open-access teaching modules which allow students to further engage with the collections.  The second project will digitise the over 1000 Roman coins held at the Otago museum and is in its preliminary scoping phase.

3:55     Allison Brown and Angela Wanhalla – Mining Marsden

Reverend Samuel Marsden was the driving force behind the establishment of the Christian Missionary Society mission to Māori at the Bay of Islands in 1814. This presentation showcases the Marsden Online Archive which offers rich insights into Marsden’s world, his relationships with Māori, as well as Māori engagement with Christianity and literacy.

4:10     Lynn Benson  – Supporting research a million pixels at a time

Transforming the ties that bind – from iron gall to binaries, the Hocken is expanding its digital collections and online presence.

4:20     Otago Digital Humanities Guide Launch – Shiobhan Smith and Alexander Ritchie

Since sharing the beta Otago Digital Humanities guide at last year’s expo, we spoke to people about it, listened to what they said, and made some changes. All the good stuff remains. It’s now time to publicly launch the guide, and invite you to use and share it.