This workshop aims to explore the digital collection of laws of the Official Compilation (Recueil Officiel des lois fédérales) from 1947 to 1998. Unlike most literary texts, legal texts are deeply nested and interlinked: they require a specific approach, but their systematic structure also facilitates the extraction of numeric and categorical data, such as dates […]
Initially designed for statistical analysis, R has become a reference tool for research in human and social sciences as well as in life or hard sciences. Thanks to a system of libraries which carry additional functionalities, the use of R has become frequent in digital humanities: data processing, analysis and visualisation, network analysis, natural language […]
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On its last day, the Summer School will host a so-called “datasprint”–a hackathon based on data. What is a hackathon, you ask? A hackathon is originally a gathering of developers organized by team around project bearers with the objective of producing a prototype application in a few hours. In our case, the datasprint will be […]
Today, historians are increasingly confronted with questions about the use of primary sources. How does one deal with historical primary sources in the Digital Age? What peculiarities present sources, which have been digitized, or which originated in digital form–so-called “born-digital” sources? How do we read them? How do we interpret them? How can they be […]
