This is a reminder that we are running a comprehensive 5 day Summer School in Digital Humanities this summer.
It takes place from July 25th-29th, at Oxford University Computing Services and Wolfson College.
The summer school introduces a range of digital research components to researchers, project managers, research assistants, or students working on any kind of project concerned with the creation or management of digital data for the humanities.
Please visit http://digital.humanities.ox.ac.uk/DHSS2011/ for details.
The summer school is a collaboration for Digital.Humanities@Oxford between Oxford University Computing Services (OUCS),Oxford e-Research Centre (OERC), e-Research South, and Wolfson College Digital Research Cluster, under the direction of Sebastian Rahtz and Dr James Cummings at OUCS.
The programme will consist of:
ĦE Two parallel streams of morning practical sessions using the well-equipped It teaching facilities at OUCS
ĦE Two parallel streams of afternoon workshops at Wolfson College concentrating on techniques and best practice ĦE Guest lectures from Digital Humanities experts about their research projects
Our guest plenary speakers for this year include:
David De Roure, Professor of e-Science at OeRC
Jeni Tennison, UK eGov guru
John Coleman, Director of the Phonetics Laboratory
Min Chen, Professor of Visualization at OeRC
Ray Siemens, Canada Research Chair in Humanities Computing and Professor of English at the University of Victoria
Topics include:
ĦE Best practice for digital linguistic corpora
ĦE Building queryable document-based websites
ĦE Creating community collections and digital outreach
ĦE Creating digital texts in XML using the TEI
ĦE Working with maps
ĦE Critical apparatus and digital genetic editions in TEI
ĦE Database design for humanities projects
ĦE Digital Images for the Humanities
ĦE Digital library technologies and best practice
ĦE Getting funding: quality, impact, sustainability.
ĦE Introduction to copyright and open licensing
ĦE Introduction to document/project modelling
ĦE Introduction to XML databases
ĦE Managing Digital Humanities Projects
ĦE Practical RDF modelling and conversion
ĦE Publishing XML files using XSLT
ĦE RDF querying and visualization
ĦE TEI for linking text and facsimiles
ĦE Tools for analyzing linguistic corpora
ĦE Visualization using jQuery
ĦE Working with audio files
Posted by: James Cummings (dhss@oucs.ox.ac.uk).
