Ranke.2 - Teaching platform on digital source criticism

1 June 2016 to 30 November 2019

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Digital Hermeneutics in History: Theory and Practice

22 February 2019

written by :
Florentina Armaselu, Estelle Bunout

Digital Hermeneutics in History: Theory and Practice

On 25-26 October 2018, the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH) organised the two day conference and workshop Digital Hermeneutics in History: Theory and Practice, on occasion of the official launch of the Ranke.2 teaching platform for Digital Source Criticism.
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Integrating the digital into the academic curriculum of history - How to engage your audience

13 February 2019

written by :
Stefania Scagliola

Integrating the digital into the academic curriculum of history - How to engage your audience

After launching the Ranke.2 teaching platform on digital source criticism in autumn 2018, I assumed that its appearance and form – short colourful animations and easy-to-digest chunks of information – would soon catch the attention of lecturers and encourage them to use it in their courses. But a recent meeting with colleagues made me realise that personal contact and hands-on experience with the material are key to making my target audience realise that the resource offers something they may need.
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Oral History under scrutiny in München

15 October 2018

written by :
Stefania Scagliola

Oral History under scrutiny in München

In Munich, from 19 to 21 September 2018, a group of speech technologists, social scientists, linguists, computer scientists, oral historians and information scientists convened to explore the integration of digital tools in the workflow of scholars who work with interviews.
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To Google or not to Google; Have a look at Ranke.2!

8 October 2018

written by :
Stefania Scagliola

To Google or not to Google; Have a look at Ranke.2!

Ranke.2 is a teaching platform that offers lessons on how to critically assess and work with digital historical sources.
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Digital Hermeneutics in History: Theory and Practice

27 August 2018

Digital Hermeneutics in History: Theory and Practice

The Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH) is organising a two day conference and workshop on occasion of the official launch of the Ranke.2 project, its teaching platform for Digital Source Criticism.
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Digital orphan l’Histoire de Luxembourg

18 September 2017

written by :
Stefania Scagliola

The retrieval of the digital orphan "L’Histoire de Luxembourg"

This is a story about how a lesson on Digital Source Criticism for bachelor students of history who had to sort out how Youtube works, led to the retrieval of a series of animations on the History of Luxembourg. Thanks to the company Kiwi Media, the ‘digital orphans’ have found a new stage on Youtube.
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9 May 2017

written by :
Stefania Scagliola

Digital Source Criticism in the 21st century: reconsidering Ranke’s principles in the digital age

During the workshop on digital source criticism that was held at the Humboldt University in Berlin on 23 June 2016, interesting reflections on the “digital turn” aroused.
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How to get them hooked! An alternative approach to a Digital Humanities Workshop

8 May 2017

written by :
Stefania Scagliola

How to get them hooked! An alternative approach to a Digital Humanities Workshop

The challenge of leading a workshop with the goal of bringing scholars together and teach them how to apply a number of basic digital tools on a dataset of military memoires.