{"id":5756,"date":"2025-04-23T10:49:29","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T08:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/weblearning.co.za\/blog\/?p=5756"},"modified":"2025-04-23T10:49:29","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T08:49:29","slug":"dh-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weblearning.co.za\/blog\/dh-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"DH 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"><em><strong>Please note that I first published this piece about the Digital Humanities conference on Substack in December 2023<\/strong><\/em>. Meant to post it to my blog,<\/span> but I didn&#8217;t. I have also made a few Grammarly corrections. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Introduction<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My first in-person conference since 2020. Yes, it was so good to be back with people (not screens). Appropriately, the DHASA conference theme was &#8220;Digital Humanities for Inclusion&#8221;\u2014the conference aimed to foster growth and collaboration in the digital humanities (DH) field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Keynote Presentations<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The conference offers researchers interested in showcasing their work in the broad field of Digital Humanities a forum to connect with their colleagues, fellow researchers, and peers. I am new to this community and enjoyed keynote addresses by<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Rory du Plessis<\/strong> &#8211; &#8220;A unit of data or a human subject? The inclusion of marginalised voices and humanising stories from digital archives&#8221;.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Alette Schoon<\/strong> &#8211; &#8220;Foregrounding the human in the time of AI: What do we mean by inclusive digital humanities?&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Karabo Maiyane &#8211;<\/strong> &#8220;The responsible use of AI in digital humanities practices.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Open Seeds Panel discussion<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was a member of a panel, along with Henri-Count Evans, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ru.ac.za\/jms\/staff\/aletteschoon\/aletteschoon.html\">Alette Schoon<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/sadilar.org\/en\/researcher-sesotho\/\">Mmasibidi Setaka<\/a>, where we discussed our experiences with <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/openlifesci.org\/\/openseeds\/ols-8\/\" target=\"_blank\">Open Seeds<\/a>, where <a href=\"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0641-3266\">Harini<\/a><span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0641-3266\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0<\/a>had <\/span>mentored.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fac940956-5c30-4979-81ae-a8ca05df9abb_3264x2448.jpeg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fac940956-5c30-4979-81ae-a8ca05df9abb_3264x2448.jpeg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This was a 16-week mentoring and training program based on the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/mozilla.github.io\/leadership-training\/resources\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mozilla Open Leader program<\/a>. It&#8217;s for those interested in running their own open leadership program. The combination of mentorship and cohort meetings has kick-started <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/weblearning.co.za\/umbrella\/\" target=\"_blank\">Open Umbrella<\/a> (https:\/\/weblearning.co.za\/umbrella\/) work. I have wanted to expand on it for years. Open Seeds has helped me to put things into action. By<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>sharing essential knowledge required to create, lead, and sustain an Open Education project.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Connecting different communities, backgrounds, and identities across the globe, where many have freely shared their experiences and expertise.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Empowering me to become a better Open Education ambassador in my community.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Workshops &#8211; Autshumato ITE<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">DHASA is also about empowering participants in open technology. I enjoyed Thursday&#8217;s workshop, where we were introduced to Omegat (https:\/\/omegat.org\/), a free and open-source multi-platform Computer Assisted Translation tool with fuzzy matching, translation memory, keyword search, glossaries, and translation leveraging.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the workshop, we were introduced to computational methods to assist translation activities. By the end of the session, we were able to utilise it as a tool for translating on their laptops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Last Words<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Back home at my desk after an intense and stimulating week. Both exhausted and very pleased. Thanks to all from <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/escalator.sadilar.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Escalator<\/a> (https:\/\/escalator.sadilar.org\/) who made this week possible.<div>Looking forward to seeing the growth of DH across South African universities and attending the next <a href=\"https:\/\/dh2025.digitalhumanities.org.za\/\">DHASA conference in 25<\/a>. Congratulations to NMU for getting the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/humanities.mandela.ac.za\/Digital-Humanities-Hub\" target=\"_blank\">DH ball<\/a> rolling.<\/div><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please note that I first published this piece about the Digital Humanities conference on Substack in December 2023. Meant to post it to my blog, but I didn&#8217;t. I have also made a few Grammarly corrections. Introduction My first in-person conference since 2020. Yes, it was so good to be back with people (not screens). &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/weblearning.co.za\/blog\/dh-2023\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;DH 2023&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-file","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weblearning.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weblearning.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weblearning.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weblearning.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weblearning.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5756"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/weblearning.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5757,"href":"https:\/\/weblearning.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5756\/revisions\/5757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weblearning.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weblearning.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weblearning.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}