Workshop
Workshop "Data Structures and Cleaning Textual Data"
The third workshop "Data Structures and Cleaning Textual Data" is aimed at people with a knowledge of Python who want to learn how to cleanse textual data and use JSON, CSV and XML data formats.
Workshop
Workshop “Modeling and processing textual data in Python”.
The second workshop is aimed at people with a basic knowledge of Python who want to learn how to use functions and objects in automatic language processing.
First episode of Skholé season 2 : Automatic manuscript transcription with Alix Chagué
For the first episode of Skholé season 2, Yann Audin and Arilys Jia welcome Alix Chagué.
Workshop
Workshop "Python and its philosophy"
This workshop covers the basics of Python, a highly versatile programming language, and discusses Python's philosophy, as well as the epistemic consequences and ontological presuppositions behind the language and its structures.
Colloquium
Inauguration Day of the Chair of Excellence in Digital Publishing @U de Rouen
Marcello Vitali-Rosati is the holder of the "Digital Publishing" Chair of Excellence, which will be inaugurated at the Université de Rouen Normandie on Wednesday, October 23.
Champ de recherche
Medias
What is a medium? What are the relationships between media? Can the web be considered a medium? The Canada Research Chair is developing an intermedial approach for addressing these questions, all while challenging the traditional definitions of terms such as “media,” “mediation,” etc., in order to avoid adopting an essentialist perspective. One of the key concepts of this line of thought is that of “mediating conjunctures.”
Champ de recherche
Publishing
The web resembles a giant repository of published content. Indeed, everything on the web is published, from blog posts to restaurants on TripAdvisor and apartments on AirBNB. In light of this, it has become essential to reflect on publishing as a way of understanding the architecture of digital space. The Canada Research Chair is working on developing the concept of editorialization in order to better understand this “published” world.
Champ de recherche
Literature
Our culture is deeply affected by digital praxis: the way we perceive space, time, relationships between public and private spheres, our identity and our privacy are undergoing intense structural changes. The entirety of our lives, our worldviews and our values are being altered. Literature has also experienced this metamorphosis in terms of its boundaries, styles and structures, as well as with its cultural, social and political functions. Digital praxis has an impact on both hypermedia literary forms and print literature. The Canada Research Chair is less focused on digital literature itself, and more on literature in the digital era. This perspective involves understanding how our culture is being globally affected through the analysis of recent changes in every aspect of literature in the digital age (for example, the concepts of the author, the literary work, as well as the notions text and fiction).
Champ de recherche
Philosophy
If the advent of the digital, of new technologies and of new media has engendered a wide reflection in all areas of the humanities and social sciences, philosophical reflection seems to have lost some momentum, with some exceptions. The Canada Research Chair in Digital Textualities aims to mobilize the analytical tools, methodologies and concepts of philosophical thought in order to contribute to understandings of contemporary issues.
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The spatial and temporal unity that seems required to be able to speak of a “work” of art—and thus to list the characteristics pertaining to it—is very rare in digital space. Let us take the example of a blog: should we consider it as a work in its totality or should we rather consider each page as a separate work? The question becomes even more complex in the case of site workshops like the <a href=\"http://www.tierslivre.net/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Tiers Livre</em></a> or <a href=\"http://www.desordre.net/\" target=\"_blank\">desordre.net</a> by Philippe de Jonkere, or <a href=\"https://www.liminaire.fr/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Liminaire</em></a> by Pierre Menard, or <em>Petite Racine</em> by Cécile Portier, or the website of Arnaud Maïsetti, to cite just a few examples. 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