FAVeR Events
Building Victorian Digital Humanities
ZoomContext Global demand for digital research is exponentially increasing. As part of this growth, the HASS fields have become actively engaged in digital research and curation. Motivation Despite this however, Humanities brings out a particular set of challenges. For example, in fields such as architecture, dance and heritage, data is often non-numerical and unstructured, yet … Continue reading
Introducing La Trobe’s Online Research Notebook
ZoomGetting stuck into a new project? Discover the advantages of the Online Research Notebook for recording, organising and storing your research. The Notebook enables the digitisation of research from its inception - whether capturing ideas for a literary tome, designing an experiment or acquiring and linking research data. Powered by LabArchives, it can replace your paper research … Continue reading
Working Group meeting – Advancing the Professionalisation of the eResearch Workforce
ZoomEach month the Working Group gathers to further the idea of creating a white paper that clarifies the roles within the eResearch workforce. This paper will include the following: Scope and categorisation of eResearch roles. List of roles, including high-level position descriptions for each role. Career paths, as links between roles. You can read more on the Project Page. … Continue reading
Working Group Meeting – Advancing the professionalisation of our eResearch workforce
ZoomEach month the Working Group gathers to further the idea of creating a white paper that clarifies the roles within the eResearch workforce. This paper will include the following: Scope and categorisation of eResearch roles. List of roles, including high-level position descriptions for each role. Career paths, as links between roles. You can read more on the Project Page. … Continue reading
Working Group Meeting – Advancing the professionalisation of our eResearch workforce
ZoomEach month the Working Group gathers to further the idea of creating a white paper that clarifies the roles within the eResearch workforce. This paper will include the following: Scope and categorisation of eResearch roles. List of roles, including high-level position descriptions for each role. Career paths, as links between roles. You can read more on the Project Page. If … Continue reading
Showcasing Approaches to Digital Humanities for Researchers
ZoomOne of the barriers to the use of digital tools in humanities, arts and social sciences (HASS) research, is an understanding of what technologies or digital approaches are available, the types of questions one could address using various digital tools and from where one can source the help and training to get started. This informal … Continue reading
Introduction to High Performance Computing (HPC)
Description This introductory course in High Performance Computing will provide an overview of a cluster, Linux command-line and how to write Slurm scripts so you can submit a simple batch or parallel job Course Level: Intermediate Prerequisites: Prior Unix command line experience is mandatory for this workshop. This can be achieved by attending a Data Fluency 'Introduction to … Continue reading
Introduction to R (2x half-day workshops)
ZoomThis workshop introduces the basics of working with data using the R language. R provides many ways to query, explore, and visualize data, make models from data, and perform statistical tests. By using a computer language, R can do a greater range of things than can be done with a spreadsheet or a point and click statistics … Continue reading
Open Source Science with Git and GitHub
Zoomgit is software for version control (keeping track of the change history of a file or set of files) and collaboration (allowing multiple authors to edit the same file). It is the global standard in academia, government, and industry for managing software code. It allows you to keep a complete history of changes to your code … Continue reading