Columbia University's History Lab recently issued a call for applications for the NEH-funded digital humanities workshop: "Archives as Data: An Institute for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities for Archivists and Historians". Led by Matthew Connelly, Professor of History, and Courtney Chartier, Director of Columbia's Rare Book & Manuscript Library, this program will offer practical training for historians and archivists in processing and analyzing textual data. There are two workshop tracks - one designed for historians, Text as Data, and the other for archivists, Archiving Digital Records. Participants in the Archiving Digital Records workshop will learn how to use new technology to improve the description and arrangement of digital or digitized records, especially PDFs, and provide users with new ways to access them. All participants will come together in seminar-style discussions on the novel challenges posed by doing archival research in the age of "big data". Learn more here: http://history-lab.org/archives-as-data. If you have any questions, reach out to archivesasdata@gmail.com.
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Courtney Chartier
Director, Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Columbia University
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