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May 5, 2023 at 1:11 pm #138956Matthew K. Gold (he/him)Participant
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Matthew K. Gold, Ph.D.
Director, M.A. Program in Digital Humanities (http://www.gc.cuny.edu/dh) & M.S.
Program in Data Analysis and Visualization (http://www.gc.cuny.edu/datavis)
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Associate Professor of English & Digital Humanities /
Advisor to the Provost for Digital Initiatives, CUNY Graduate Center
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From: Melissa Terras <M.Terras@ed.ac.uk>
Date: Fri, May 5, 2023 at 10:26 AM
Subject: [DHSI] CDCS Seminar – Dr Andrea Kocsis – Uncertainty in
Crowdsourced Digital History Projects – 10th May 4pm, Online
To:Dear Colleagues,
You may be interested in this online seminar from the Edinburgh Centre for
Data, Culture and Society.Dr Andrea Kocsis – Uncertainty in Crowdsourced Digital History Projects:
The Operation War Diary
Wednesday 10th May, 4pm-5.30pm UK time, online.The seminar aims to understand the different types of uncertainty in
crowdsourced digital history projects and how to address them in multiple
stages of crowdsourcing. It looks at the Operation War Diary (OWD) to
differentiate between the occurrences of uncertainty during the project’s
lifespan, from creating the documents through their annotation by
volunteers to their visualisation. History as a discipline acknowledges its
limits within interpreting the sources. These approaches tend to agree that
the interpretation provided by historians – despite making the most effort
to stay true to the primary sources and their context – is a chosen
narrative from the many. We tend to forget this embedded uncertainty when
digital methods come into the picture. Also, digital techniques and
automation tend to imbalance precision (reliability) and accuracy
(validity) by increasing the former at the latter’s expense. The question
becomes more complicated when the digital history project involves
crowdsourcing, as this provides an additional step carrying the
possibilities of human or technical errors. The seminar examines how to
mitigate uncertainty in the case of the OWD project and – by learning from
its lessons – offers recommendations to provide reliable and valid
crowdsourced historical projects.Dr Andrea Kocsis comes from an interdisciplinary and international
background. Before finding her path in digital humanities, she graduated in
Communications, Archaeology, History and Geography and collected these
degrees in Budapest, Prague, and Paris. She received her Mphil and PhD in
Heritage Studies from the University of Cambridge. Her doctoral research
focused on the impact the national WWI commemorations had on the urban
landscape of capital cities, London, Paris and Budapest. She used digital
humanities methods, such as NLP and GIS, during this research. As a
Cambridge – ESRC intern at BT, she took part in distant reading and machine
learning research on misinformation, while at the National Archives, she
was a Research Fellow in Advance Digital Methods working with the
crowdsourced dataset of the Operation War Diary. Currently, she works as an
Assistant Professor in History and Data Science at Northeastern University
London, and she is a Cambridge Digital Humanities Archive of Tomorrow
Research Fellow.Please sign up at
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/uncertainty-in-crowdsourced-digital-history-projects-tickets-600524393627We would appreciate if you could share with your networks.
Melissa
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