The Artes Research team from KU Leuven Libraries Artes and the Faculty of Arts will organize a training on relational databases, given by Tom Gheldof, on Thursday 18 April, from 13h30 to 16h30, in the Colloquium (University Library, Leuven). Everyone is welcome to attend, but you do need to register.

This training is a follow-up session from the relational databases basics training that took place in November 2023. That workshop provided an introduction on how to model information, what a relational database is and how it works, and finally, how to get started creating a relational database (using the Claris FileMaker environment).

Program

The relational databases advanced training session allows participants to further develop their skills. If you participated in the basics training or if you have already started creating a relational database using FileMaker but would like guidance or to learn how to optimize your database, the advanced training might be a good fit for you!

Practicalities

• When : Thursday 18 April, from 13h30 to 16h30
• Where: University Library, Colloquium (Ladeuzeplein 21, 3000 Leuven)
• Price: free
• Registration: Onebutton

On 16 November, CLARIAH-VL and Ghent Centre for Digital Humanities (Ghent University) are hosting a workshop on Nodegoat, the relational database platform. The workshops will be given by the developers of the platform – Lab1100.

Nodegoat is an object oriented relational web-based data management system which also provides network and geospatial visualizations in one platform. Nodegoat has the availability to develop custom data models, and then collaborate on this data and later generate visualizations and export data. In the workshop you will learn how to use Nodegoat for your research.

Program:

The workshop will be held in two parts on the same day: (1) a beginner’s session, and (2) an advanced session (for users who already use Nodegoat or who already have an instance).

10:00-12:00 – Basic Introduction to Nodegoat

14:00-16:00 – Advanced Session on Nodegoat

Practical Details:

• When: Thursday 16 November, from 10:30 to 16:00
• Where: Ghent University (exact location to be confirmed)
• Price: Free
• Registration: Required; See Ghent CDH website (deadline to register is 9/11)

Does your (collaborative) research project involve working with a lot of data? Is your data complex and does it contain different types of entities (persons, places, events, …)? Do you have trouble keeping an overview of the amount of data you are working with? You might be interested in learning more about relational databases!

The Artes Research team from KU Leuven Libraries Artes and the Faculty of Arts will organize a training on relational databases, given by Tom Gheldof, on Thursday 30 November, 09h30-12h30, in the Colloquium (University Library, Leuven). Everyone is welcome to attend, but you do need to register.

Program

The workshop will provide an introduction on how to model information, what a relational database is and how it works, and finally, how to get started creating your own relational database (using the Claris FileMaker environment). The workshop is designed for beginners who are looking to get started with relational databases; in April 2024, an advanced module of the relational database training will take place.

After the session, the Artes Research team is holding one of their monthly digital scholarship drop-in sessions at the Erasmushuis. You are welcome to join us there to start working on your database or to ask us any other questions related to digital scholarship.

Practicalities

• When : Thursday 30 November, from 9h30 to 12h30
• Where: University Library, Colloquium (Ladeuzeplein 21, 3000 Leuven)
• Price: free
• Registration: Onebutton

In this workshop, Pim van Bree and Geert Kessels, the developers at Lab1100, will introduce us to Nodegoat, a web-based data managment, network analysis, and visualization environment. This workshop is for KU Leuven researchers who are interested in using this relational database platform in their research projects or who are already working with this platform and would like to troubleshoot issues or learn how to get the most from Nodegoat.

Target audience: KU Leuven researchers and staff
Date: Tuesday 13 June 2023
Time: 9:00 – 16:00 (lunch provided)
Location: Collaborative Learning Space (M00.E67) in the AGORA Learning Center

The training is free of charge but registration is required. To see full details about the training and to register, please visit the OneButton event page.

Starting Tuesday 9 February 2021, there will be a monthly series of interesting symposia hosted by the Centre for Early Modern Studies at the University of Limerick. While specifically organized under the guise of Early Modern History, these virtual events will be useful for people across a wide range of skill levels and periods of specialization.

To give some context, the four sessions will cover network analysis, text analysis, databases, and geographic information systems (more commonly called GIS), respectively. Obviously, while those topics are useful specifically to historians, they can also be relevant to people studying literature, or urban development, or indeed someone who is studying protest movements. So I would urge the DH Master’s students of KU Leuven and anyone else interested in these topics to register for these events!

The seminars will be held in English and include a range of scholars and library staff from Ireland, England, the Netherlands, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Switzerland. Click on the link here for more information from the University of Limerick about how to register!

Source: The Digital Humanities Commons blog: Upcoming Event: Digital Approaches to Early Modern History