Digital Humanities at the Sourasky Central Library

The field of Digital Humanities has evolved, and in some cases, even redefining, traditional research of various subjects, resources, and methodologies using scientific techniques and tools. This research field combines traditional humanities and social sciences queries and research methods with digital tools

 

Opening Hours Our Mission
At the Sourasky Central Library we offer support and resources for Tel Aviv University researchers and students who wish to use computer-based technologies to answer research questions related to the humanities and arts.

 

Opening Hours Guiding Rules

  • Providing guidance, tutorials, and seminars to develop DH skills for conducting research and teaching.

  • Preferring Open Source software tools, making research products easily accessible, and preserving the data after the research has been completed (or financial resources have run out).

  • Providing support and advice in writing research proposals that include the use of digital tools, from the stage of writing the proposal to the implementation stage.

  • Focusing on four major tools: Converting images to text (OCR), Spatial analysis (GIS), Distant Reading (DR), Content Management Systems (CMS).

 

Opening Hours Our Services for the Tel-Aviv University Community

  • OCR Services are offered via a designated online form (The service is only provided to the Tel-Aviv University students and staff members) and will be fulfilled within our work schedule.

  • Practical workshops are given on useful tools covering various aspects of the DH field. We publish (occasionally) workshops, that are open to the Tel-Aviv University Community. In addition, a customized workshop can be request for a specific class.

  • Personal guidance for the Tel-Aviv University Community – "One on one" 1-hour session. When needed, a second 1-hour guidance session can be requested (both sessions are free of charge). If an additional (3rd, 4th, etc.) session is needed – each additional one would cost Academic staff members 300 NIS.

Whisper is an Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) system by OpenAI.

The system has been trained on 680,000 hours of multilingual and multitask supervised data collected from the web – including Hebrew.
The system is available free of charge and has no limits on the duration of video/audio files it is requested to transcribe. In addition, it offers an embedded “Machine translation” to English.
The Digital Humanities staff conducts practical Whisper workshops, in which tutorials are being made using Google Colab.

•    Click here to access Tutorials and Github Code (in Hebrew)


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