Hot Source! Targeted Digital Skills Development, from Artefact to Analytics

热源！有针对性的数字技能发展，从Artefact到分析“将为西南地区的区域和国家数字技能培训中心奠定基础，完全满足艺术与人文（A&H）研究人员和相关部门的职业要求。该试点项目是在澳大利亚人权委员会于2021年设立的iDAH计划的背景下进行的，该计划致力于建立三到五个国家中心，以开发和嵌入整个艺术和人文用户社区使用数字化工具和方法。虽然获得数字技能的正式和非正式机会已经存在多年，但很明显，结构性问题，包括英国教育中STEMM和HASS学科的持续渠道化，以及学术生涯的许多竞争需求，大大减少了吸收。因此，该计划的成功将需要与A&H研究人员进行实质性接触，以确定将提供最大时间和财务投资回报的技能和交付模式。如果数字技能要在A&H研究人员中变得足够普遍，让他们被理解为21世纪世纪扫盲的核心组成部分，而不是利基专业，这将是至关重要的。埃克塞特大学自2017年创建价值120万英镑的数字人文实验室以来，一直是将数字方法应用于A&H研究的国际领导者。基于这项投资以及我们为A&H研究人员和学生开发和提供技能培训的丰富经验，该项目的目标是：1。澄清西南部A&H研究人员的需求前景。特别是，我们将确定哪些技能A&H研究人员认为是他们工作中最重要的，以及什么样的交付格式可以最好地与学术生涯的复杂需求相结合。2.开发和提供四个新的培训课程，作为一个更广泛的方案的核心，重点是数字化和分析主要来源材料，但也是一个机制，试验和完善不同的交付模式。这些课程将涵盖一系列专业知识水平，并与广泛的学科相关。其中两个项目将侧重于从模拟材料制作数字文本的方法，包括捕获和呈现人类可读的实物资源2D、2.5D和/或3D可视化，以及使用OCR和HTR方法从图像中提取文本。另外两个将使研究人员能够更好地利用数字文本，包括数据集创建，清理和管理问题，并向参与者介绍使用Python对文本进行编程分析。3.与课程参与者密切合作，建立更广泛的技能计划，并在西南地区建立一个具有数字能力的A&H研究从业者社区。这将包括那些对FE，文化部门和公众的A&H研究有专业或个人兴趣的人。试点的好处将扩大到多个利益攸关方群体。最直接的是，它将为80名研究人员提供关键的数字技能，这些技能将在与主要来源合作时扩展他们的能力。我们将与该网络合作，以促进各大学和其他研究机构在实践中更广泛的变化。反过来，这些机构将受益于埃克塞特在专门知识和设施方面的重大事先投资，以提供可能无法负担的培训。这将使整个更广泛的西南地区的艺术与人文部门受益于提高认识，并在方法，使他们能够充分利用数字资源和工具的不断扩大的阵列提供给21世纪世纪艺术与人文研究人员的能力。

'Hot Source! Targeted Digital Skills Development, from Artefact to Analytics' will lay the groundwork for a regional and national centre for digital skills training in the Southwest that fully meets the occupational requirements of Arts & Humanities (A&H) researchers and associated sectors. This pilot project takes place in the context of the iDAH programme, set up by the AHRC in 2021, and committed to establishing three to five national centres to develop and embed the use of digital tools and methods across the arts and humanities user community. While formal and informal opportunities to acquire digital skills have been available for many years, it is clear that structural issues, including the persistent canalization of STEMM and HASS disciplines within UK education, and the many competing demands of academic careers, have significantly reduced uptake. The success of the programme will consequently require substantive engagement with A&H researchers to determine both the skills and delivery modes that will provide the maximum return on time and financial investment. This will be essential if digital skills are to become sufficiently common among A&H researchers for them to be understood as a core component of 21st century literacy, rather than a niche specialism. The University of Exeter has a been an international leader in applying digital methods to A&H research since the creation of its £1.2M Digital Humanities Lab in 2017. Building on this investment and our extensive experience of developing and delivering skills training to A&H researchers and students, the project's objectives are to: 1. Clarify the requirements landscape for A&H researchers in the Southwest. In particular we will establish which skills A&H researchers see as most essential for their work, and what kinds of delivery formats can best be integrated with the complex demands of an academic career. 2. Develop and deliver four new training courses as both the core of a wider programme focussed on the digitization and analysis of primary source materials, but also a mechanism for trialling and refining varying modes of delivery. These courses will span a range of levels of expertise and have relevance to a broad array of disciplines. Two of them will focus on methods for producing digital texts from analogue materials, including capturing and presenting human-readable 2D, 2.5D and/or 3D visualizations of physical resources and extracting text from images using OCR and HTR-based approaches. The other two will allow researchers to make enhanced use of digital texts, including issues of dataset creation, cleaning and management and introduce participants to programmatic analysis of texts using Python. 3. Engage closely with course participants in the establishment of a wider skills programme, and a community of digitally-capable A&H research practitioners in the Southwest. This will include those with a professional or personal interest in A&H research in FE, the cultural sector and the general public. The benefits of the pilot will extend to multiple stakeholder groups. Most directly, it will provide 80 researchers with key digital skills that will expand their capabilities when working with primary sources. We will work together with this network to catalyse broader changes in practice across universities and other research organisations. Those institutions in turn will benefit from Exeter's significant prior investment in expertise and facilities to provide training that may be unaffordable to provide otherwise. This will allow Arts & Humanities departments across the broader Southwest to benefit from increasing awareness of, and capability in, methods that allow them to make best use of the ever-expanding array of digital sources and tools available to the 21st century arts & humanities researcher.