UC Library is currently working on a project to digitise early modern books. We don’t know exactly what our end product will look like but we do know that we need really high quality images that will allow us to be flexible and innovative. During this project we’ve encountered a dilemma about image capture format choices. It seems the traditional advice to always capture to tiff is being replaced by a move toward capture to raw image formats, in particular .dng. We’ve encountered a choice between a high quality scanner that can only capture to tiff or a perhaps lesser quality camera option that can capture to .dng. We don’t really understand the opportunities and additional functionality that might be offered by the .dng format and would like to explore this further.
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Workshops galore!
We’ve lined up a variety of workshops for THATCamp Canterbury 2014 this Friday.
People interested in learning the art of programming will want to attend an introductory workshop being run by Jonathan Harker from Catalyst IT. Jonathan will introduce the Python programming language, show us how to get started, and suggest a few tricks to help people with their research. We’ll be using the iPython notebook, which runs in your browser. We’ll learn how to get a basic Hello World going, construct loops and if-else statements, then move into fun stuff like reading data from a web source and graphing it.
Anyone interested in more advanced python programming will be able to work through specific issues they might be facing in a separate workshop with Stuart Charters, Senior Lecturer in Applied Computing from Lincoln University.
And people interested in something completely different can jump into a Raspberry PI workshop with Benet Hitchcock from Starlifter Digital. Benet will bring a couple of PIs for people to play with. The University of Canterbury Digital Humanities Programme has two more we can use if people are keen.
None of the workshops are scheduled yet! We’ll suss out what people are keen to do first thing, and tailor them to suit. If you know of anyone who should be coming and isn’t registered, send them here. If you’ve got an idea for a session, share it here.
See you on Friday! Remember, kick-off is at 9.00 am in the Undercroft seminar room at the University of Canterbury.
September 5th, 2014 – mark it in your diary!
The University of Canterbury Digital Humanities Programme, with generous support from the College of Arts and Catalyst IT, will be hosting THATCamp Canterbury on September 5th, 2014!
More details will be posted here as we get things sorted. Meanwhile, read more about the THATCamp movement, browse other THATCamps at thatcamp.org, and follow us on Twitter @THATCampCANT for updates.
