skill training digital source criticism Doctoral Training Unit digital hermeneutics

The skills training is organized by the DHH doctoral training unit and will be led by Prof. Andreas Fickers, Dr. Stefania Scagliola and Andy O’Dwyer. It consists of a two-day program, in which lectures and theoretical discussions are combined with hands-on demonstrations and group experiments. The first day is dedicated to literature and to making sketches and drawings of how the digital affects the nature of a historical source.
The second day the participants are going to digitize various datatypes and reflect on their observations of this process and the differences between data types. The last part of the training consists of a crowdsourcing experiment in which the genealogy of the term Digital Source Criticism is going to be traced and documented.