Conducted by :
Mr. Mark Richardson (Director Sales – EMEA and India)
Mr. Chris Houghton (Head of Academic Partnerships)
Ms. Mickey Mehta

Time and Venue :
10th Dec. 2024
2 PM - 4 PM
LHC 110, IIT Jodhpur

With the explosion in interest in digital humanities, institutions are grappling with questions of infrastructure - technical, data and human. How do you build technical architecture to support DH research? How do you access big data collections to power DH projects? How do you develop DH skills among your researchers? For more than twenty years, Gale's digital archives have powered humanities research around the globe. With innovative platforms, Gale Primary Sources enable discoveries in the richest collection of materials from the world's foremost libraries and archives. This talk will address how Gale has partnered with institutions around the world to build DH infrastructure. Traditionally, this involved access to digital archives and the large data sources which underpin them, but this has evolved to include collaborating to build DH skills capacity and project visibility. We will introduce Gale's innovative text and data mining platform, Gale Digital Scholar Lab, and discuss how ambitious institutions have used it to build DH skills in both research and teaching. The most recent innovation to the Lab has introduced a free expert-review and publication workflow which will provide global recognition and impact to Indian researchers and to DH scholars throughout the Global South.

Conducted by :
Dr. R. Karthick Narayanan (Chief Community and Data Officer)
Siddharth Singh (Co-Founder and CTO)

Time and Venue :
11th Dec. 2024
9 AM - 11 AM
LHC 106, IIT Jodhpur

This two-hour workshop on MATra-Lab offers a combination of demonstration and hands-on sessions to showcase how researchers and students can leverage this AI-enabled platform for managing, processing, archiving, and analyzing large multilingual audiovisual datasets. Developed by UnReaL-TecE LLP, MATra-Lab is a state-of-the-art web-based application designed to streamline transcription, translation, summarization, content analysis, and archiving of multimodal, multilingual, and multiscript data, particularly in Indian languages. The platform supports research in digital humanities, computational social sciences, linguistics, NLP/AI, and allied fields, catering especially to field-based data from ethnographic methods or web-sourced data like social media. Its advanced features include multilingual and multimodal data search, filtering, metadata management, and export of annotations in interoperable formats for long-term preservation. MATra-Lab reduces the resource demands of field data management, saving time, effort, and costs while promoting efficient and collaborative research. Targeted at students, researchers, faculty, and professionals in various fields, the workshop is ideal for those seeking to enhance their skills in AI tools for multimodal data analysis. Attendees will learn how to integrate MATra-Lab into their workflows, making it a vital asset for modern, data-intensive research.

Conducted by :
Dr. Shanmugapriya T (IIT- ISM, Dhanbad)
Jyothi Justin (IIT, Indore)
Barkha Rani Lakra1 (IIT- ISM, Dhanbad)
Simran BhimJyani (IIT- ISM, Dhanbad)

Time and Venue :
11th Dec. 2024
9 AM - 11 AM
LHC 105, IIT Jodhpur

This three-hour in-person QGIS workshop at IIT Jodhpur is designed for beginners in the digital humanities who wish to integrate Geographic Information Systems (GIS) into their research. Using the versatile, open-source QGIS software, participants will gain a foundational understanding of GIS concepts, the QGIS interface, tools, and practical applications. The workshop covers importing, managing, and visualizing spatial data, understanding coordinate systems, designing and exporting maps, and applying GIS techniques to digital humanities case studies. It is structured into three parts: an introduction to GIS and QGIS basics, map creation using plugins and symbology tools, and a hands-on case study with Q&A and feedback. Targeted at researchers, scholars, and postgraduate students, the workshop supports up to 30 participants selected via a Google form. Participants should download QGIS beforehand, with pre-workshop guidance and setup assistance available. The workshop will be held in a computer lab with internet access or using participants’ laptops. A handbook with tutorials, datasets, and learning resources will be provided. By the end, participants will be equipped to manage and present spatial data effectively for digital and spatial humanities projects. Feedback on the proposal and discussion of logistics are welcomed to ensure a productive learning experience.