SADiLaR’s role in supporting

Digital Humanities

Rooweither Mabuya

DH-Ignite�18-19 October 2022

Funded by:

Overview

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• SADiLaR’s Role
• What resources are available?
• What workshops are available?
• What tools are available via the Carpentries workshops?

SADiLaR’s Role

• Digitisation Programme

creation of digital text, speech and multi-modal resources related to all official languages of South Africa

• Digital Humanities Programme

building of research capacity by promoting and supporting the use of digital data and methodological approaches within the Humanities and Social Sciences

What resources are available?

Curation, development, distribution, & maintenance of language resources

• Language Resource Index
• Various public and private institutions, both nationally and internationally
• All resources are available for download
• Language Resource Catalogue
• A digital collection of language resources, in various modalities, that are available for download 
• Upload metadata and resources via the repository
• General technologies
• A group of developed and hosted services - corpus searches, automatic linguistic processing and machine translation

Our Latest Resource

• Free access to Spelling Checkers for SA Languages - use with Microsoft Office
• Find out more and download the Spelling Checkers for South African Languages

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What workshops are available?

• SADiLaR facilitates the organisation and presentation of various workshops to support researchers and students in digital humanities
• Workshops and training offered:
• Data analysis and annotation tools
• Digital Humanities
• Corpus creation
• Linguistic text and processing tools

https://www.sadilar.org/index.php/en/proposals-and-workshops/request-a-workshop

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What tools are available via the Carpentries?

• The Carpentries teaches foundational coding and data science skills to researchers worldwide

https://carpentries.org/regions_za/

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Questions?

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