Schedule

Conference Programme 

Tuesday, 17 January 2017

Pre-conference workshops

8:00 am
– 
9:00 am

Registration
Venue: Arts Building – HUMARGA LABS

9:00 am
– 
9:15am

Welcome and orientation
Prof JC Roux

Venue: Arts Building – HUMARGA LABS

9:30 am
– 
1:30 pm

Workshop #1: Glen Worthey (Stanford University Libraries): What do we talk about when we talk about DH?
Venue: HUMARGA LABS 1

Workshop #2: Pip Willcox (Oxford University): How to create a digital edition: a beginner’s guide to the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI).
Venue: HUMARGA LABS 2

1:30 pm
– 
2:30 pm 

Lunch Break

No lunch provided; restaurants in Ryneveld Street, and Student Centre

2:30 pm
– 
6:30 pm

Workshop #3: Frances Gilles-Webber (Stellenbosch, Freelance): Ways to improve user experience in digital humanities interfaces.
Venue: HUMARGA LABS 1

Workshop #4: Juan Steyn & Anelda van der Walt (North-West University) An open repository for Digital Humanity Resources in Southern Africa.
Venue: HUMARGA LABS 2

 

Wednesday, 18 January 2017

Pre-conference workshops

9:00 am
– 
1:00 pm

Workshop #5: Christoph Meister (Hamburg University) Digital annotation and analysis of literary texts. A hands-on introduction to CATMA (www.catma.de)
Venue: HUMARGA LABS 1

Workshop #6: Roald Eiselen (North-West University): Digital text data and automatic text processing tools for South African languages.
Venue: HUMARGA LABS 2

Thursday, 19  January 2017

Conference Sessions

Themes: 
LT 
= Language / Language technology 
LED = Library and Education 
CS = Computation and Software
MHA = Media, History, Arts
WP = Work in progress
= Posters

8:00 am
– 
8:30 am

Registration
Venue: STIAS foyer

8:30 am
– 
9:00 am

 

Welcome

Prof Justus Roux, President DHASA

Dr M Jokweni, Chief Director National Language Service, Department of Arts and Culture
Venue: STIAS Main Hall

9:00 am
– 
10:00 am

Keynote #1: Prof Paul Arthur (Edith Cowan University, Australia) Future Web: Co-shaping our Identities.
Chair: Justus Roux

 

Refreshments

10:30 am
– 
11:40 am

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Parallel Session 1
Chair: Karen Calteaux

 

Venue: STIAS Main Hall

 

LT20min

Brink, Regina Catharina
(North-West University)

The use of ATLAS.ti in a data analysis of Afrikaans speaking children’s first form-meaning mappings.

 

LT20min

van Niekerk, Tim; Le Du, Bridgitte 
(Dictionary Unit for South African English)

The online adaptation of A Dictionary of South African English on Historical Principles.

 

LT20min

Bosch, Sonja E; Griesel, Marissa

(University of South Africa)

African Wordnets: first steps towards use in the Digital Humanities.

Parallel Session 2
Chair: Langa Khumalo

 

Venue: STIAS Break Away Room

 

 LED10min

Alexander, Josephine Olufunmilayo

(University of South Africa)

Can Digital Approaches Serve as Catalyst for Harvesting Indigenous Knowledge?

 

MHA10min

Steyn, Juan; Fourie, Heniel

(North-West University) -Utilising emerging technologies to design an immersive artistic experience to create awareness about human trafficking.

 

CS: 10min

Tempelhoff, Wilhelm Gustaf; Steyn, Juan

(North-West University)

Creative exploration in literature, place and technology.

LT10min

Janke, Ulrike1; Bosch, Sonja2; Calteaux, Karen3 
(Department of Arts and Culture1; University of South Africa2; Council for Scientific and Industrial Research3)

An introduction of ISO/TC 37: Terminology and other language and content resources. 

 

WP10min

Botha, Lande; Van Zyl, Maryka; Pienaar, Wikus (North-West University)

A stylometric analysis of Joseph Conrad’s writing

 

Questions and discussions (11:40 am – 11:50 am)

12:00 am
– 
1:00 pm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Parallel Session 3
Chair: Justus Roux

 

Venue: STIAS Main Hall

 

LT20min

Viehhauser, Gabriel; Barth, Florian

(University of Stuttgart)

Beyond Toponyms. Conceptualising space in narratives using networks and ontologies.

LT: 20min

van den Berg, Karien

(North-West University)

Validity concerns in Forensic Linguistics: computational developments as means to a greater end.

 

CS: 20min

Virtual Keynote:

Prof Mark Algee-Hewitt (Stanford University)

The Shape of Reading

Venue: STIAS Main Hall

Parallel Session 4
Chair: Ingrid Thomson

 

Venue: STIAS Break Away Room

 

WP20min

du Plessis-Hay, Michèle; Steyn, Juan

(North-West University)

That Hideous Strength (1945): CS Lewis and Charles Williams.

 

WP: 20min

Sindana, Daniel; Manamela, Madimetja Jonas

(University of Limpopo)

Orthography-based Language Modelling for Speech Recognition.

WP10min

Mpolomoka, Daniel L.1; Mosha, Martha2

(Zambian Open University1,

University of Namibia2)

Technological literacy of lecturers at the University of Namibia and Zambian Open University.

 

Questions and discussion (1:00 pm – 1:10 pm)

1:10 pm
– 
3:00 pm

 

Extended Lunch and Poster Session – STIAS
Short student communications as from 14:30 in main hall

3:00 pm
– 
3:50 pm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Session 5   STIAS Main Hall
Chair: Juan Steyn

WP10min

Sewchurran, Anusharani; Mdladla, Thulebona 
(University of KwaZulu-Natal)

Investigating the nature of public discourse in the #feesmustfall campaign

 

LT20min

Calteaux, Karen; Titmus, Nina; De Wet, Febe

(Council for Scientific and Industrial Research)

An overview of available speech technology resources developed by the Human Language Technology Research Group of the CSIR Meraka Institute. 

 

LT:  20min

Beukes, Vernita

(Stellenbosch University)

Combining task-based teaching and computer assisted language learning (CALL) in a computer program for international students studying Afrikaans at Stellenbosch University

 

Questions and discussion  (3:50 pm – 4:00 pm)

4:00 pm
– 
4:40 pm

 

 

 

 

Session 6   STIAS Main Hall
Chair: Attie de Lange

 

CS20min

Meihuizen, Elizabeth Maria

(North-West University)

Using an online marking tool in developing and assessing academic literacy. 

CS: 20min

Van Dyk, Tobie1; de Wachter, Lieve2; Verlinde, Serge2

(North-West University1, KULeuven2)

Adequate and appropriate? Matters to consider for the validation of an online writing tool.

 

Questions and discussion (4:40 pm – 4:50 pm)

 

Reception at STIAS   (7:00 pm – 10:30 pm)

Friday, 20 January 2017

9:00 am
– 
10:20 am

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Session 7… STIAS Main Hall.
Chair: Karen Calteaux

 

MHA: 20min

Greyling, Franci

(North-West University)

Digital humanities practice: Site-specific digital literature.

MHA20min

Sewchurran, Anusharani 
(University of KwaZulu-Natal) 

Digital and crucial exclusivities.

 

MHA20min

Maritz, Lindi Helene 
(Greenside Design Center, College of Design)

 The rioting writer: understanding fees must fall as design within Transhumanist South African Academia

 

LT20min

Roux, Justus C
(North West University)

Introducing the South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR)

 

 

Questions and discussion  (10:20 am – 10:30 am)

 

Refreshments

11:00 am
– 
12:00 pm

 

 

 

 

 

Session 8  STIAS Main Hall

Chair: Attie de Lange

 

MHA: 20min

McNulty, Grant 
(University of Cape Town)

The Five Hundred Year Archive: Building a Digital Archive for the Southern African past before colonialism.

 

MHA20min

Escobar Varela, Miguel 

(National University of Singapore)

Contextualization Tools for Digital Archives.

LED20min

Van Deventer, Kirchner; Coetzee, Anneke

(North-West University) – 

Digitising Herman Charles Bosman – An initiative based on special collections projects by the North-West University’s Library Services (Potchefstroom Campus).

 

Questions and discussion (12:00 – 12:10 pm)

 12:10 pm
– 
12:40 pm

 

 

LED20min

Matlhako,M. Mamadi; Ajibade, Patrick

(University of Fort Hare)

Technological Adoption and the Role of Cloud Computing in Digitization, Knowledge Creation and Digital Curation in Africa.

 

LED20min

Carstens, Antenie

(National Library of South Africa)

Digitising photographic collections in the Western Cape, South Africa – Key issues affecting image quality and digital quality management for preservation purposes.

 

Questions and discussion (12:40 – 12:50)

 

Lunch  (1:00 pm – 1:45 pm)

1:45pm
– 
2:30pm

General Meeting of DHASA (All participants welcome)
Venue: STIAS Main Hall

2:30 pm
– 
3:15pm

Session 9: Panel Discussion
Topic: Promoting Digital Humanities: Opportunities and practical considerations.

3:15pm
– 
4:15pm

Session 10: Keynote

Chair: Karen Calteaux

Willcox, Pip

(Bodleian Libraries, Oxford)

Imagining Ada Lovelace: Creative computing and experimental humanities

 

Closure  (4:15 pm – 4:30 pm)