UNE Digital Humanities Network (UNE eHumNet)

About the network

The Digital Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Research Network (eHASS-RN) seeks to bring together scholars and teachers in order to progress research and pedagogy using digital technologies. Its aim is firstly to engage critically with current and emerging approaches and methods using digital technologies on both disciplinary and metadisciplinary fronts. It provides a forum for collaborative research engagement and for investigating how digital technologies are transforming traditional and creative-practice forms of scholarly endeavour and teaching at UNE. Finally, it aims to consolidate digital scholarship in Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at UNE into a coherent entity for further engagement and collaboration beyond UNE.

Membership of the network is open to all interested current and future staff at UNE. The network consists of more than twenty UNE academic staff with affiliations with Australian National University, La Trobe University, The University of Queensland, The University of Sydney and Western Sydney University.

Network Steering Committee

Network Activities

The centrepiece for network activities is the eHumanities Lab series. The eHumanities Lab features visiting and resident researchers exploring and demonstrating current trends, tools and projects in eHumanities. In 2019/2020, the network hosted the following visitors and workshops:

  • 12 September 2019 - A/Prof. Denis Collins, Dr Stoessel and Dr Scott Bolland, “Using Supervised Computer Learning for Automatically Encoding Early 17th-century Roman Music Prints: Challenges, Algorithms and the Future of Artificial Intelligence in Music Research.”
  • 30 October 2019 - A/Prof. Rachel Hendery, Workshop Social Network Analysis using Gephi
  • 6 November 2019 - A/Prof. Francesco Borghesi, “The Pico della Mirandola’s Virtual Library Project.”
  • 8 November 2019 - Dr Stephen Doherty, UNSW, “Inquiring into the Corpus of Empire: Computational Approaches to the Analysis of Psycholinguistic Markers in Historical Texts.”
  • 12 February 2020 - Prof. Amanda Kenny, “Digital storytelling as an arts-based research method.”
  • 19 February 2020 - Dr Terhi Nurmikko-Fuller, Workshop on Linked Data and Digital Humanities
Projects

Projects associated with this network:

Resources

https://www.une.edu.au/research/digital-research-support

https://www.une.edu.au/research/digital-research-support/eresearch-committee

The Canons Database

http://www.canons.org.au

Introduction The Canon Database

"This research tool was developed by Dr Denis Collins, University of Queensland, and Dr Jason Stoessel, University of New England, as part of an Australian Research Council Discovery Project (DP150102135) “Canonic techniques and musical change, c.1330–c.1530" from 2015 to 2018. Our goal has been to collect and classify every canon that survived in musical sources as late as 1530. Canon is defined here in the broadest sense as a polyphonic structure that results from one or more voices or parts being combined using strict repetition or systematic transformation. The next phase of research consists of expanding the database to include later repertoires. As part of a second ARC Discovery Project from 2018 to 2021 (DP180100680) "The Art and Science of Canon in the Music of Early 17th-Century Rome", the database will classify all canons associated with composers active in Rome during the period c.1580 to c.1650."