The ARDC brings you a reprise of two HASS sessions from the Australian eResearch Skilled Workforce Summit that took place in July 2019 at the University of Sydney. Implementing school-based support infrastructure for digital humanities research at UQ. The Language Technology and Data Analysis Laboratory (LADAL)
Michael Haugh, School of Languages and Cultures, University of Queensland
Martin Schweinberger, School of Languages and Cultures, University of Queensland
This presentation introduces the Language Technology and Data Analysis Laboratory (LADAL), and discusses the implications of our experiences to date in establishing it for broader efforts to develop researcher capacity in the digital humanities. The LADAL is school-based support infrastructure for digital humanities researchers. It aims to assist staff and postgraduate students within the UQ School of Languages and Cultures to learn how to use data analytics, digital research tools, and other forms of technology to enhance their existing research programs, as well as offer pathways to new research possibilities. It complements the more generic resources and training in digital humanities methods offered by libraries (e.g. the Digital Scholars Hub at UQ) with the more specialised training/support in particular digital research methods and technologies that are required by researchers working on specific languages and cultures. The LADAL consists of a specialist computing lab for language-based computational and experimental work (the Computational and Experimental Workshop) and an online virtual lab. With respect to web-based materials, the LADAL website ( offers self-guided study materials and hands-on tutorials on topics relating to digital tools, computational methods for data extraction and processing, data visualization, statistical analyses of language data, and provides links to further resources and short descriptions of digital tools relevant for digital HASS research. In addition, the LADAL offers face-to-face consultations and specialized workshops. UQ researchers are encouraged to contact LADAL staff for advice and guidance on matters relating to digital research tools, data visualization, various statistical procedures, and text analytics.
What is this HASS research capability? Less wondering and more Wonderland.
Marco Fahmi, Digital Humanities & Social Sciences, University of Queensland
Marco will be giving a recap and reflections on this interest group that took place at the Australian eResearch Skilled Workforce Summit.
Rather than be left wondering how and where researchers working under the umbrella of HASS do their work, it’s time to have a wide-ranging conversation about assumptions, requirements, expertise, resources, interests and opportunities available to support capability building for HASS researchers keen to explore data, tools and national research infrastructures in their research practice.
How do we as a support community grapple with the wide range of new knowledge and skills across HASS that represent both discrete and interdisciplinary fields of research using markedly different research practices? How do we support researchers already working traditionally and also keen to explore digital research methods as well as those that are increasingly building data and technology driven and intensive practices into their research? Where do we prioritise our efforts, and why? What strategic partnerships do we need to build so that we can collaborate and be resourceful? What options are there for HASS researchers to begin extending their knowledge and skills using data and technologies in the cloud (rather than commence this journey wrestling with the well-known constraints of using their desktops and tackling software management)?
The HASS Research Data Commons project
Alexis Tindall, Australian Research Data Commons
The ARDC is presently engaged by the Department of Education to explore the foundations of a Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS) Research Data Commons. This key piece of work will help inform an upcoming Scoping Study into national research infrastructure investment for the Humanities, Arts and Social Science sector. In this presentation Alexis Tindall will share an overview of the project, including project timelines, and a brief update on the information gathering stage of this project.
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