POSTPONED: Digital Humanities Workshop: Web scraping: Getting started with WGet
PLEASE NOTE: THIS EVENT IS POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE. This is a measure to restrict the spread of covid-19. We hope to reschedule in due course - you can stay updated by joining the digital humanities mailing list, just email digitalhumanities@exeter.ac.uk. Thank you for your understanding. *** Sign up required. Starting with an introduction to scripting on your computer’s command line interface, you'll learn how to write short scripts that automate the bulk downloading of web pages. At the conclusion of the workshop, you will get support in trying to scrape a website of your choice. In the same workshop, you'll learn about The Programming Historian, an online journal that publishes novice-friendly, peer-reviewed tutorials that help humanists learn a wide range of digital tools, and on whose lessons this workshop is based.
| A Digital Humanities workshop | |
|---|---|
| Date | 20 March 2020 |
| Time | 11:30 to 13:30 |
| Place | Digital Humanities Laboratory Seminar Room 1 |
| Provider | Digital Humanities |
| Organizer | University of Exeter Digital Humanities Lab |
Event details
Details and sign up on Eventbrite.
The workshop is designed for anybody who is interested in working with web data, regardless of your level of experience. It's also a great foundational workshop for humanities researchers who are intrigued by digital methods, but not sure where to begin.
With this primer on the command line interface and The Programming Historian, you'll also be well-placed to begin independent study in digital methods, and to acquire other skills useful for your research.
Location:
Digital Humanities Laboratory
