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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
    http://mkgold.net | @mkgold

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    ———- Forwarded message ———
    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-600524393627

    We would appreciate if you could share with your networks.

    Melissa
    ————
    Professor Melissa Terras
    Design Informatics, University of Edinburgh
    @melissaterras

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