We have great news for our multilingual DH community! Golnaz Sarkar Farshi has recently released MLNA, a Python package and app for MultiLingual Network Analysis!Here’s the link to MLNA’s official website: https://goli-sf.github.io/MLNA/To help you get started, she has created two detailed video tutorials tailored to different user needs:* For Python Users: To learn how to use… Continue reading Multilingual Network Analysis with Python
Multilingual DH in the UK and Ireland
At the end of September, our colleagues from the Multilingual Digital Humanities in the UK and Ireland Community Interest Group published a survey report about the situation of the field in their countries and their recommendations to address the issues that they highlighted. The report, “Multilingual DH in the UK and Ireland: Summary Report and… Continue reading Multilingual DH in the UK and Ireland
Workflows for multilingual corpus building
As we announced on social media and on DARIAH’s main blog, our workshop in Hamburg at the end of August was particularly fruitful. During this three-day event on Creating, Managing and Archiving Textual Corpora in Under-resourced Languages, we created three main workflows: Building textual corpora for under-resourced Languages Managing textual corpora in under-resourced languages Archiving… Continue reading Workflows for multilingual corpus building
The basics of Bidi
Deborah (Debbie) Anderson (Project lead, Script Encoding Initiative, Dept. of Linguistics, UC Berkeley) is helping in the organisation of a Unicode-hosted event on bidirectional text. “The basics of Bidi” Tuesday, June 25, 2024 at 08:00 AM Pacific Time. Background A number of scripts, such as Arabic and Hebrew, write their letters horizontally on a page or screen,… Continue reading The basics of Bidi
Creating, Managing and Archiving Textual Corpora in Under-resourced Languages
As we announced previously, our Multilingual DH Working Group has won funding from DARIAH together with the DARIAH Research Data Management Working Group to organize a hybrid workshop, entitled “Creating, Managing, and Archiving Textual Corpora in Under-resourced Languages.” This 2,5-day workshop, organized between August 28-30, 2024 at the University of Hamburg and online, will provide… Continue reading Creating, Managing and Archiving Textual Corpora in Under-resourced Languages
DARIAH Multilingual DH WG’s community day
DARIAH Annual Event (June 18-21, 2024) is approaching and our Multilingual DH Working Group’s community day event will take place on June 18 at 4:00-5:30pm (GMT – Lisbon is in the same time zone as London). We plan to hold a community event with the participation and brief presentations of various representatives from DARIAH’s member countries. … Continue reading DARIAH Multilingual DH WG’s community day
CfP Teaching and Learning Resources for Linguistic Minorities
We would like to attract attention to a call for papers about Teaching and Learning Resources for Linguistic Minorities in Europe. The papers will be published in a special issue of the Journal of Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe (JEMIE). If you are interested please check the announcement on JEMIE’s page: https://www.ecmi.de/JEMIE/index.php/journal/announcement/view/7
Alíz Horváth joins OPERAS’ Scientific Advisor Committee
We are pleased to announce that Alíz Horváth, the chair of our DARIAH Multilingual DH Working Group, has joined the Scientific Advisory Committee of OPERAS. This is wonderful news for the multilingual DH community, which she will represent at OPERAS with her international experience, broad expertise, and passion for linguistic diversity. Alíz’s commitment to fostering… Continue reading Alíz Horváth joins OPERAS’ Scientific Advisor Committee
DARIAH WG Funding Call
DARIAH WG Funding Call – Project approved!
Bimonthly Shorts
Our next Bimonthly Short Meeting will take place on Thursday the 25th January 2024 at 6pm CET / 9am PST. Do contact us if you want to join us online on our Big Blue Button platform!