The Programming Historian Live

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The Programming Historian Live

By James Baker

Date and time

Mon, 19 Oct 2015 10:30 - 18:00 GMT+1

Location

The British Library Conference Centre

96 Euston Road London NW1 2DB United Kingdom

Description

Programming Historian Live will take place on Monday 19 October in the British Library Conference Centre (Bronte room). Based on a selection of the open access, peer reviewed tutorials at The Programming Historian this hands-on workshop will provide introductory software training with a focus on the needs and requirements of the historians. It will be lead by historians and cover tools, software, and computational approaches historians use in their research. The workshop is free to attend and is aimed at postgraduate and early-career historians, though historians of all career stages are welcome to attend.

The provisional schedule will include introductions to:

  • Data Structures (Extensible Markup Language, Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformation)
  • Pattern Matching (Regular Expressions)
  • Corpus Analysis (AntConc, Shell)
  • Web Scrapping (Wget)

Places can be booked on Eventbrite. Please note that attendees will be required to bring their own laptop. Questions and queries should be directed to James Baker.

Programming Historian Live is funded by the Software Sustainability Institute, and is supported by the British Library, the Institute of Historical Research, and The Programming Historian.

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James Baker is a Senior Lecturer in Digital History and Archives at the University of Sussex.

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